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VOL. V.
L0U1SBUKG, N. C, FRIDAY. APltIL, 7, 1876.
NO. 21.
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Church Directory.
vfnTiiODiST Cnirpcn.-Rev. V. L
Held, Pator. ervicea every &abbujth
it U A M. and 7 . I'. W.
Prayer rneetinjr every Wednesday
At 7 H. .
oramunion service the Second
Sunday in each month at 11 M.
WtewardV i.-;-ting Monday night
after the fccond ubbai.li in eacn
month.
Sabbath .'chool every Sabbath at
flo'cock t M. ri W. Fuller urt.
St. I' ci,s 12ns pai. CnrjRCir.
He-. E. Dolloway.'.' ctor.
S - ices on tl.e lii st ad third Sun
day in each me ith, morning and
afternoo .
Holy ouimind.m inontiny on nrf
ftunda
mi. lav scho, 1 every funday morn'-
big at o'clock
Professional Cards
PAVIS & GOOKE.
ATT'YS ani COUNSELLORS at LAW
LOTJISBURO, F HAN KLIN CO. N.G.
Will attend the Courts of Nash.Frar.k
tin, Granville, Warreo.md WakeOun
es. mIjo tl Snpr-me Court of North
Carolina and the IL 8. Circuit and Dis-j-ir.t
Courts. No 7 -tf
Wintoi oia tlie Kctrent,
V
The buds of tho trees 'begin to
knock at tkeepeningdoor of spring.
A few more dirges of norik wind
and then look out for thCapplc
otch a rds, Tl i a nk 5od that every
winter has its spring ! All up and
down ttie world we trace the analo
gy. The winter of sorrow has a
spring-time of joy Have you not
noticed that alter a time of annoy
ane, exasperation, and hardship,
there always comes a season of
brightness? Do you not realize that
wc would be worth nothing at all
were it not for the fact that wc
were pounded and flailed and up
set again and 'again by God's provi
dence? Are you not able to look
back upon your personal history
and see that a thousand thing
About the twenty iirt of March
there U an equinoctial storm, and
we all say, 'Weil, the winter is
'broken up v. -. Spring will be
hero. And when we sec a soul
borne u.vn with a sense of sin, and
come home to tea with you ?"
"Nancy, don't be foolish."
"Don't be foolish! Who is fool
ish ? Here I was scrubbing, and
baking, and patching, and break
ing ray back, and you were braced
there seems to be a loud storm of I up in a scat beside a young lady.
sorrow over his misdoings, wc say,
'That is thV spring equinox, "The
time of the singing of the birds ha3
almost 'come.'
There is in the country what tney
call the 'blossom week.' It is the
talking about your bonds and mort
gages and yoqr lonely widower
life."
A. Htrtiiigreivs Kug-jjewtioii,
One day recently, during the bal
my weather, a stranger, who had
that morning arrived in New York,
was down looking at the East
Kiver bridge piers, when he s as
approached by. an old beggar with
a broken nose and a bad limp.
"For God's sake, give rac sorae-
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"I wasn't" lie briefly observed,' I thing to buy bread with 1' wailed
4tDanieJf did that girl ride all the
way from Chicago with you?" ask-
VT. H. SPENCER.
ATTORNEY
OFFICE,
On Nah Street, over Hawkins'
JJrick Store,
LOUISBURG N. C.
which you thought were againfct
you, have, positively been your co
adjutors and helpers and sympa
thizes ? It has been so true in our
own case, that when wo have a sea
son of toil and exasperation we are
accustomed in the midst of it to
say, "I wonder what bright thing
is coming next!' After the dark
ness, is the light, and after the
winter, is the spring-time. God.
know jut what is best for us and
we do not The blacksmith can tell
to the instant how long to .1. n the
week when the most of the gardens ed Mrs. Shott, as she toyed with
and orchards are in full bloom. the handle of the milk-jug.
There comes every year Just one '-Did she? Letnme see!" he
such week, ard only one in all the mued, as he helped himself to the
round of the twelve months. And butter.
we wish that this might be the "You know sbeuidj" shouted
"blossom week'- .the time of joy, of his wife,
glorious Chrisihu; promise for 'If she got off at any of the
those who read these columns. So, stations I didn't see her," he ad-
hiiewise, the winter of earth will mitted.
end in the springtime of heaven. . "And thero you sat, and rode.
When we see the privation, the and you paid out the money we
persecution, the trial of all soits, need so much in the house, for pea
it secins to us that no type is so
the lieggar, as lie cought sight of
the stranger's genial face.
In ixsione to his appeal, a shin
plaster of the ; denomination of
twenty-five cents was handed over,
and the stranger tnrncd to the
piers again. Such unlocked for
success astonished the beggar, and.
in five minutes he returned and
said :
"Stranger aill you give mc
which wen look oat on all that u go
iig. on in tho world without a newi.
paper a tuan U shut to a smill room
sod knowi little or nothing of what U
har-pQing outfide of Ltnifelf. In oar
day th tew -papers keep pee witt
history aud record it. A newj
will keep a snsblc man in sympathy
with the world's current hi?iury. It
is an refolding cych-pidia, vuLound
bock forever iuuing and never fcnUhed.
The man who does not take a nwa
paper of torn kind allows his children
to starve for intellectual food.
lire
If he take- if out
T. T. SI ITCH ELL.
JJ. F. HUlLOCK Jit.
iBullock & Mitchell,
AT I'UUNEYS AT LA W,
Frank lint oh, N. O.
Will practice in the courts T the 6tU
iiidicial district.
Prompt attention givn the collec
tion of claims. N-f0-tf
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PETERSBURG Va
a. ltlCUf Eil.
Wiitclimakcr mid Jew
eler,
FIR Watches and Jewelry of thn be
M.iniif:u-tr :uwV ut the Iovet I ices.
All woik iMTHonully uttended to aud war
rantel. . ' '
tl 63 8y-umor 81., Pe4orsMJurg, Y
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Whitelaw & Crowder,
Marble & Stone
"WQ R KS,
Corner Fayettcvllle and Dain Streets,
OPPOSITE THE
YARBOROUGH HOUSE;
Raleigh. N. C.
t" Orders Solicited. a
O O UEIEIl
iron in the
too soon, he iright as w-ll never '
hive put it there, lor it. .will be
hard sis ever and will not submit to
to the stroke of the hammer. If he
keep it in too h-ng it will be malted
and dest roved". Well, do von not
suppose that the Lord knows how
long to keep us in the fire?. Most
certainly; and He takes us out not
an instant too soon, nor leaves us
there not an instant too long, but
oy thr exercise of His infinite wis
t'.oin and goodness. He sees iust
the light minnent to diuige usin.
anil just ilic-riirht moment to lift us
;t. Then, putting us on the anvil
lie nonnds us-into shavies most fit
?V.r tho Al aster's use, What con-
s i -Mi i;n.j i. ro moe ciiiu-oecp in
troipiie --yea, t tliose who are
standiuL so deep down in misfor
tune th u ;he wsive comes clear to
the lower lip, and you sometime inw
agine tint you are going to be sub
merged and drowned out. Though
it may be frozen' January with you.
or snowy February, or gusty M ?r -h,
or fickle April, you are not far off
from shining May. Sometimes
there is a faint intimation of com
fort flashing through your soul.
Do yon know what that is? It is
tho precursor of sunlight. As in
the first dawn of tolerable weather,
alter a hard winter, vou hear a
chirp in the tree-tops; and ou sav,
"What's that?" Somebody says,
"It. is a bird'ts voice,'
Well, then you know that after that
one bird there will come whole
flocks of robins, and finches, and
brown-thrashers, and that before
forcibly and appropriate as the snow
and the frost and the hail and the
tempest. It would take a very
large portfolio to contain the story
of the griefs of your life. Jt has
been a series of misfortunes, of
abuses, of t.rngei'ies, of catastro
phes. Winter of pain; winter of
privition; whiter of toij; winter of
Inn eavctner.t; winter of death.
There is one line of Miowbank all
around our cities thrit never lneits
it is the snow-line of the tombstones
of the dead, Iat, blessed be God !
beyond that snowline there is a
land of foliage and ot watercourses;
the trees in perpetual blossom, and
fruitage; no darkness at all; no sii
at all, no pain" at alj; no death at
all. It is eternal "blossom week.'
--Talntnge in Christum o.t Wotlc.
Twice tho rotir
We 5nd tha following going the
rounds of the pre. Read ponder
and pay cp! Why don't you take
tho papci? they're the lifo of ray de
light except abjut election time, and
money to buy medicine lor rny dying I then I read for jpite. Sabacribc, you
child V cannot l-xe a cent; why should you
'Why, didn't I give you two shil- be afraid? for cah thus spent is
lings only a few minutes ago?' ask- niony lent at iutcrejt.fo'ir fdd paid.
nuts and pop corn and juba-pastc ed the sight-seer, recognizing the 1 Go. then, take the papem, and pay to
and picture papers. Let me see 1 broken nose ami plaintive whine. I day, nor pay delay, aud my word it is
your wallet?'
"My wallet?"
"Yes. sir, your wallet. "
"What for, Nancy?'
"I want to see your wallet."
4,No, it must have been some J inferred, you'll lire until you're gray,
other poor man!' was the reply. I An old neighbor of mine, whito dying
Two nickels were handed over, I of a cough, desired to hear the latest 1 on economy, and preach the Ooapet
A. Fw ItoriMonag Wlxy .
Land Bhoulil lo lm
proyenl. ' '
More can be cultivated with the
same Lands because t;lled with less hard
labor. . '
Briers and shrubs diarpcr. gwaea
Cattle damage the Usl and gnss
lcv, becanae they do not have to traap
to great a pce to fill thcmclvea.
Leas land required.
lscncing.
Leas trotting after cows and horses,
Less work at tle amtt'n's shop.
Fewer whip worn out.
Stnnrer toams.
Moro manure and hncd for it.
A stimulus to actiou.
A protect ioo agaiutt winter'a frost
and summer heats.
A good example to children m aai -neighbors.
Keeps off sherifTs and bumrda..
Stop emigration.
Produce morjey for books, and lis
for reading.
Also, school kooiu and churches.
Prodaccs' time for travel, to lecture '
Produces sociability and bofpitall
and the beggar returned thanks and I news while ho was going off. I took
disappeared. The stranger was I the paper and I read tf some new pills
"It's the same one I always had.' just turning away from the piers in force; be bought a box and ha is
when a band was laid on his arm dead ? no hearty as a borae. I knew
and a voice asked two men a much alike as e'ro you saw
"Mister, for God's sake, give me two plumps; aud no phrenologist could
a little money to buy a crust for my find a difference iu their bumps One th Iro is filled, and the soul is filled
children, who haven't bad a moath- takes the paper and his life is happier .wlb gratitude. $.
lul for three days !' i,an a king', his children can all read If &c radcr will reflect, be w!H Ls-;
"See, here, I gave you money on- and write, and talk of mtn and things, coter that the number of good rcasona
ly a minute ago J' exclaimed the Tho other took no f.aper, and. while WD7 ltc "ncr ahould improve bis
"You left home with twenty-six
dollars, and I know exactly what
the trip cost. Fare to Chicago and
back, seventeen dollars. Hotel bill
two rioIiar-. 111 allow one dollar
more P r incidentals ; now where's
thai six dollars ?"
"I - J" he stamnjercd.
"You what?"
"I met Green down by the depot
and lent him four dollars,"
"Daniel Shott, who U this Green,
and .w here does he live?"
Daniel didn't reply.
Makes a paradise of a barren, plenty
out of poverty, and a blessing out of a
curse. ' ,
The barn is filled, the dairy is fiHed
stranger.
"Ah! sir, it must' have been
some other poor man, sir, and God
bless you, sir 1
A shinplastcr was handed over
after some hesitation and thebeg-
"Danie? Shott, you've lied to me ! gar shed tears and went his way.
Shoit hadn't been out of
Mr
Dot ro t in seven years
other o
Cliica'g
when, the
y, business called him to
Mrs. Shott wanted to go
io-iLr,
ic i.e said that times were
too hard, hy " didn't want to have
she bother of tak;ng e;;ie of her,
and she was compel Vt to slay at
home He lvsfcheJ home in the
evening after an absence of .two
days, aud as he s?it eating his sup
per he said,
'I tell you it was a long ride, and
I am glad-vou didn't go."
''Lonesome, wus it?"' she asked.
"It would have been fearful if I
hadn't had a young lady in the
scat with me."
"What ! a young lady in the scat
with you V
"That is that is you know the
car was crowded," he said,
"And yon offered her half of your
seat?"
You didn't want to take mc along
owing to the h ml limes. You said
I'd lothcr you. If I'd been wilh
you you'd have growled four times
a mile about the bother and ex
pense, anil there you went and
bothered yourself with a young
The stranger had not reached the
Fulton Market when the old man
accoitcd him for the fourth time,
saying:
"Lord keep you forever, and
won't you give mo ten cents to help
bury my wife, who has been dead
strolling through the wood, a tree fell
down and broke his crowo, and killed
him "rcry geoa." Had he been
reading all the news, at borne like hU
neighbor Jim, I'll bet a cent that acci
dent would not have happened him,
for ho who akes the paper, and pays
his bill when due, can lire in peace
with every man, and with xhe printer
too.
land 1 almort Innumerable, Firm an
old Paper 01804. ;
Wouldn't ZMurr-j' it
elintilc
lady and squandered four dollars in the house two days?'
on her, and here I've worn these
old shoes seven months to save ex
pense!" "I wih get you a new pair pretty
soon,' he replied.
"You will, eh?" When?"
"Before the Fourth of July."
"You can squander four dollars
on an unknown girl, and make me
wait tour months for shoes, can
you ?"
"Daniel Shott-"
The milk-pitcher came down on
his bead, she caught him by the
neckrtie, and the oldest boy ran out
of doors and veiled "fire!" Several
4I that-is she sat down there,' ol the neighbors ran over, but Mrs.
rrew red and
he stammered.
Mrs, S butt's ears
her ees snapped,
"And so jt was lonennc, was it ?
the season is over, the heavens will You didn't speak toljcr, j suppose?'
be full of song. And when Ave see said the wife.
one faint intimation of comfort and
of joy in a Christian's soul, we
know that is the forerunner of a
thousand bright and glorious and
singing promises, and that soon the
"Why, I -i spoke once or twice,
of course."
Shott met them at the door, and
said it was only a burning chimney.
When they asked for Mr, Shott she
remarked,
"Mr, Shott doesn't feel a bit well
and is covered up on the lounge,
"Sec here, old man, you can't
fool mc again !' replied the stranger.
I've given yon money three time ai
re ad v.
"Ah! sir, you are niistokbn, sir.'
"But it was a man with a broken
nose, a lame leg and a voice just
like yours.'
"It might be so. There's forty
others just like me in New York !'
After a long look of amazement
the stranger laid his iianu on
the old bcjrjrar's arm and said:
"Well, I cau't contribute over
six shillings more unless i jump my
hotel bill. Suppose yon broken
nozed men haul ofl and let a few of
the deaf and blind and insane have
a chance at me !'
And the beggar did.
ISq Timo to X?eal-
Tliero MU;iit Huvo lloaza
A man in want of a load of wood
visited ooo of the markets to mak? '
a choice. Finding a load . that
suited, he asked the owner if there
was a cord on tho wagon,
I think there Is was the reply.
Do you know that there Is?'
My son William loaded it op,
and he said there was a cord.
Well, vhatdoyou soy? asked
the citizen, " ,
'And my other son, John, help
ed William load it up, and be nUl
thcro was a cord.'
Do yon tay so ?
'And my neighbor came alo'n i
and be said there was a cord.' , ,
I don't believe there Is.'
And ray wife ttood at the gatt
A young man commenced visiting a
young womau, and appeared to be well
pleased. Oqo" craning he called when
it wan quite late, which led the young
lady to inquire where he had been.
'I bad to work to-night.'
What, do you work for a living'
the inquired iu astoni.-hmi.-nt
'Certaiuly,' replied the young man,
'I am a mechanic.'
I dislike the name of a mechanic, as I came away, ami fche said tbera
and the turned up her pretty nose. I was a cord, continued the ffnner.
This was the list time the young I Tbcro may bo thrce-jaa'rtcfV
said the citizen.
And as I came through the toll-,
gate tho keeper aid he'd cat jt If ,
there wasn't a cord and a half.' ,
He did?' . "MZ
'And a policeman stopped ne .
and wanted to know how ranch I
asked fir that cord and thxeew .
tern of beautiful wood .t.
The citizcw tcok it before the ,
load conld swell any rjore, DciroU
Free Press. '
How to Make Mischief. Keep
your eye on your neighbors. Take
care of them. Do not let thMn stir
without watching. They may do
JOB OFFICE.
We have adde to our stock a ph-n
Hd JOB PHESS. with an legaot
election of typ- of the latest Btvlts,
a 1 we are now ptepared to do
. fes woes
IV ueatest ai
P' 7"U Deint
PKK a-inta.
and best manner.
d not fetoil yonr . JOB
tor we will do it iut a--
jll and catap a you, can get it eje-
icro.
TIER UEA.DS,
ENVELOPES,
Nice young lady, I suppose?"
"Well, no, I can't say as she was
"And there you sat and looked
darkness will disappear, and the I yoursweeccst, and I'll bet that you something wrong if you do. To be
chill will be gone, and "the peace I passed yourself off a3 a single man I sure you never knew them to do any.
of God that passctb all understand- 4,I don't know as I did,' he re- J thing very bad, but it may be on your
ing' .will- pervade the soul. plied, as he drank his tea. J account thej have not, perhaps it it
"Weeping may endure for a night, "Did you inform her that yon had not been for your kind care they
were married and had three chih might have disgraced themselves long
drvii ?" she demanded. ago, Then $out relax in your efforts
"I don't remember; bnt I pre- to keep them where they ought to be.
sume :I did." Never ndud your own business that
;You presume you 1 Well, I pre- I will take -care of itself. If you find
sumo you didn't. 1 know just how j any symptons of any one passing out tf
you thought that your faults were you sit up there and pretended to 1 the path of duty, til everjr one else
merely superficial mi perfections; be a rich widower, and tookcaroof what you tee, and be particular to see
iuey wero use. very smau spots on I ner sateneis, anq oougnt pop-corn a great many. It u a gooa way to
a ricb silk, or a broken thread in a 1 and iilustrateI papers for her.'
butjov cometh in the morning.'
So, alter the winter cf sia. t1cre
comes the springtime of pardon.
There was a time when, tkou-ru you
were willing to acfcnovdedge your
self not just right in every re-pct,
man visited the young lady. He is
now a wealthy man, aud has one of th
best women in the country, for a wife.
1 he young Lidy who di.diked the
name of a mechanic is now the wife of
a miserable fool s regular vagrant
about grogshops -and the soft, verdant
silly, mbtcrable girl is obliged to take
in washing in order to support bcrsclf
and children,
Y u dislike the name of a mechanic,
We have encouraged many who pro- I eh? You wl or brr-ther are but well-
fessed they had no tims to read, dressd Ioafqrs. We pity any girl who
Sow we think of it, there have always is so verdant, eo soft, to think less cf a
beeu men of such character, the points young man for being a mechanic -one
of which are easily summed up, of God's noblemen- ibe most dignified
Five time out of ten they are met and honorable personage of heaven's
who have not found time to confer any creatures.
substantial advantage either upon. Beware yonng ladies, bow you treat
their families or upon themselves. young men who work for a living, for
. They frequently spend whole days you may one of these days be menial
in gossippmg, tippling, and swapping 1 to ono ol tnem; rar tetter to ois-
horses, but they ceier have any timo charge the well-fed pauper with all his I jroWISTOETIUnTOSUCSCninS.
. It circulates ia Thirty-two CoasUef
ef Es rra od Middla Itorth Caxclica
asd Sooth kUde Yirgtnis,
fyAatxargaaa vut Lnaui rsu.aa
abcriptJtn Price, in adraaca 3
per year.
Bend for sazpls copy to
lisryrxa Erca, Prcprirt-ts.
7e!doaI. a
1872. 1870;
THE BOAKDXE HEWS," .
PBICK REDUCKD
-Fort ,
The CcntcnnLal Year. -
Jlm IaDtrwosrr 'r:.TTjuxIf
Devoted tm Politics, LI raters Agrl
cullura aad 2fwi,
CircuUtion ltrgt sod dally lacrtuicg.
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to read. - I rings, jewelry, bramaess asd poo
Tliey sometimes lo&e a whole dsy j pesity, and to take to your affection
asking advice of their neighbors, some- th- callonj handed, industrious xne-
times a day picking up the new, the I chanls.
CA.RD3,
fcc.
magnificent fabric. Yon do not
have any such idea of your sin now.
Your heart is beginning to thaw
out The winter is going awav.
The trickling tear is tho precursor
of a mountain torrent of grief over
your transgressions.
Mr. Shott calmly inquired if
there were any more biscuit,
"It's a nice operation your com
ing home and expecting mo to find
hot hiscuit tor you ! Why didn't
you ask if that yonng lady could
inako biscuit J Why didn't .she
circulate such things, though it may
not benefit yourself, or any one partic
ularly. Do keep something a-going
silence i a dn ad ful thing. It isaid
there was ii:uce ia beaven for the
prices current, and the exchange, but
thoe men never have tima to read.
' They have time to fisl, to fiddle, and
to drink too do nothing, but do time
to read ,
Such men generally have uneduca
ted children, unimproved farm, and
unhappy firesides TLey hsve no en
ergy, no spirit cf improvement, no
love of knowledge , they lire unknow-
Thnusandj have bitterly repented
their fully who bare turned their baxks
on honest industry. A few years J-ave
taught tbem a severe lesstm.
"WTien you go to a theatair, where
afouy uihair, wib centrally-pirted
hair, and fiowers io coat eollair, scats
you ia a chair wkitb belongs to an-
othair, who cbmes late in great aogalr
and with ayes of lurid gliir, ea.Is you
WTO M ISO HOriTHLY
LOTTERY
Draws on Uj ZZlh cf each cstk.
By actbority ttbIrcii!atcre. tZZZ9
COO la Caah Prizt, 1 Cfcssce la fi, Tick-
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L deduct etl fresa th pnas alter tia
paco c4 half an hour. Do not let any iagsQd unknown, and often die un
such tiling occur on earth. It would wept and n regretted.
bo too much for this mundane sphere. A Lewrpaper is a window through
intrudair, rush to lb mauagair, and j drawing, F&H paxticulxra arat Irw,
after a gushing swair, he II scalp that I AcJrffa
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