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THE WEEKLY LINCOLN PROG-RBSS. Site hxttiUx t(fQtc$$. J. T. DeLANEj J"0 ProP 8- LINCOLNTOn N. C : SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1879. Conscious guilt will help a man more than anything else to argue against the Bible and to prove that there is no truth in religion. Many of U3 know that the words of Hazlitt are true : The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it. " Not the First Tictim. The child of Edith Freeman is not the first victim of Second Adventist fanaticism. During the Miller ex citement in New Haven thirty years ago, a man who believed himself called upon to sacrifice, killed a woman, with the usual assurance that she woald bo raised in three davs. The ev woman was u willing victim. The act, with prayers and incantations, was performed in the. presence of wit nesses. The murderer was pronounced insane, confined, and the tragedy put an end to a religious frenzy that had possessed the people for many months. Washington Post. Fraternal Devotion. On last Friday evening, Ambrose Williams and his younger brother went squirrel hunting, and while they wero out a fearful, heavy rain fell, and the boj'rt did not get back. Dark came upon them before Ihey could reach home ; they were wending their way homeward and in crossing a branch above Mr. Morgan's house, about one half mile from this place, one fell from a little bridge across the branch in the field, constructed for tvagons to cross the ditch, and the body went whirl ing away through the darkness, down the stream. The other brother hol loed pitifully, and his alarm reached Mr. Morgan, who went immediately in the direction of the aUirm, but the uoiso soon ceased the younger boy having jumped into the water to Beareh for his companion, and was himself drowned. Ashville Journal. Antics of a Dead Man in a New York Hospital. On Thursday evening a middle aged man, having the appearance of a tramp, was found wandering about tho streets of New York in the vicini ty of Bellevue Hospital. He present ed a haggard appearance, and seemed to suffer great pain. He was taken by a police officer to the- hospital, where he gave his name as John Goodman, stating that he had no resi dence or occupation. No connected account of his condition could be gathered from him, but it was. sup posed from his symptoms that he had taken poison. no expired shortly after midnight in terrible agony, hav ing previously been treated by three of the resident physicians. "What oc curred afterward is best told in the language of Edward McAllister, the night orderly in charge of the ward. "When ho died," said he, "I took a card with his name on to the office, and returned with a shroud, and com menced washing him. lie sat right up in bed all of a sudden, and looked me square in the face. Ho then put up his hands and struck me a stun ning blow under tho left ear. I was paralized with amazement and ran for tho doctor." The physicians returned and applied a galvanic battery, and again pronounced life extinct, to the great relief of tho excited orderly. The sum of forty dollars in green backs was found sewed up in the in ner vest worn by the deceased. An autopsy will be held to deterraino the cause of his death. Post mortem movements of tho muscles are not un- frequent, but are not usually as strongly developed as in this case. A story is told to Rufus Choate, whose handwriting resembled hierog lyphics. During a hot political con test some rash indivial threatened to challenge his vote. "You had better not," broke in a "mutual," "for if you do he will produce a.specimen of his penmanship and then challenge your own vote on the ground that you can not read." It is not at all -complimentary to your wife to remark that she is your 'treasure, and then read the verse of j Scripture which commands you to lay up your treasure in heaven in a tone of voice which convjneosher that you : would like to do it. A Wayward Daughter. PiTTSBURO.'a., May 1C. , The little to wo of Beaver which is one of the suburbs of Pittsburg, is in a terrible state of excitement. One of the prettiest, wealthiest, test known and really accomplished young lad i en of the town left her father's house and deliberately married a negro,' who is as ugly and ignorant as he is black. For some lime past Miss Annie Mason had given her parents a great deal of trouble - by her reckless, wayward conduct, but being an only daughter she was spoiled by indulgence. Her father is United States storekeeper in Indiana county, but lives in Beaver and is "wealthy. Her uncle is ex Chief Justice Daniel Agncw, of the Supreme Court, and the family is really one of the best in this part of the State. Mrs. George Jones, lately Miss Annie Mason, is twenty years old, is symmetrically formed and is a brunette with large eyes and an ex ceedingly pretty face. She had a quavrel with her parents on Wednes day night, and early -csterJay morn ing she left her home and met George Jones, a coarse, illiterate, negro coal digger, by an appointment which she bad made by some unknown means during the night. At five o'clock in the morning Jones and another negro accompanied by- Miss Mason, went to Rochester, which is about a mile from Beaver, and hurried to the house of a colored clergyman, who married Jones to Miss Mason in the presence of a couple of white men who were called in to act as witnesses. The couple then took the next, train back to Beaver, where Jones hired a room in a small ljouse, which has only three rooms in it, two of which were already occupied by negro families. Tho reckless girl sent home for her trunk, piano and some of the ornaments from her room, and this was the first intimation her mother had of the marriage. Her mother tried to persuade her daugh ter to return to. her home but she re fused. Her father is not at home and knows nothing as yet of the affair. It is not known how Miss Mason be came acquainted with Jones, orKvhcre she ever met him. Threats are openly made by 'the young men of Beaver of tarring and feathering Jones and driving him out ofthe.town, but up to the present time nothing has been done, and Mr. and Mrs. Jones are living in their squalid, foul aired, tiny room, while tho wayward girl's mother is lying at her elegant home crazy with brain fever brought on by Annie's conduct. Picture of a Modest Girl. I believe I promised a pen picture of a modest girl, or at least . if I did not, somo of the members will make me believe so. I wonder if they (mod est girls) arc so very scarce. I hope not, however. Modesty and virtu re arc twin sisters ; without both we cannot have cither. Shall only at tempt to sketch her lightly, believing that all will quicky catch the idea. Politeness is first cousin to the modest girl, she never leaves this cousin at home or abroad ; kindness also comes from the same family ; where any question is being discussed and her opinion is asked, she gives it hesi tatingly not doubtfully, and if not ac cepted, never allows herself to utter a contradiction but calmy and quietly withdraws from the discussion, but her opinion is not lost or defeated by so doing, on theu contrary it almost always carries weight and effect. .Her wardrobe is chosen for quality accord ing to her financial circumstances ; the colors are selected with care, suitable to each other and favorable to her complexion (you may call this late, so it is "modest taste") ; the stj'lc must, of course, be as near the popular fashion as she dare approach, but nev er quite up to tho height ; when out calling or shopping she dresses with neatness and care; if walking, she neither moves too fat or slow, but glides along with a natural and grace ful step which is very becoming, recognizing her friends by a polite bow or welcome grasp of tho hand "but no scenes ;" she never votes her self on a committee of arrangements, but invariably acts (if chosen as she assuredly will be) assisting in the pro gramme by suggestions and willing hands, causing things to move serenely and joyfully. I love to hear her musi cal, cherry, ringing laugh; affectation is foreign to her; every act is nature itself. When she tells you anything, give her credence, for she is afraid of an untruth; her very acts and ways arc so unobtrusive that they form a shield of protection, keeping -her from' harm or insult. Shb is, as a rule, generous and charitable, and some times suffers from that fact. She acts upon the Golden Rule, vDo ; unto others as yoo would have othors to do unto you :" in brcavement or affection the emotions are quiet but deep. The good qna!ities;of otnndest girl can bo enumerated to almost' any length. She is one of tbVm.ost noblo .adorn ments of Society, and truly an object of love a nd ad mi rat iv Jfrg. Fritz. Communicated. LETTER IE0M A HOBTHEBIT- MAN. LixcxiLirroN Township, - JncoIri CouhtyNi J. -Editors Progress': "I am a Northcrn'man, a native of Pennsylvania. I have recently ar rived in 3-onr midst on a friendly visit to kin folks of this county who bear my familynamc, and who with my self have come down from a Ion; -line of ancestry, many of whom, figured prominently in the history of the country from our national independ. enco to the present time. About 1774 a '-Committee of Safety" was elected, consisting of twenty-five per sons: and among them .Robert Black- burn Ksq.', (who had emigrated "'from Pennsylvania' to North Carolina when a Young man). was elected in Jtowan county. Ilobcrt Blackburn," a grand son of the above Robert, now eighty- two years of age and a. resident of this: township, will, with the third genera tion soon pass away. A rcviow of the history of these three generations will carry one back through a period of about one hun dred and twentv-fivo years in which the' have been identified with the interest of their native Slate; and during this period also, what histori cal recollections cluster around the history of the "Old North State" and of the nation. But, Mr. Editor, 1 am really digressing from what I intended to say when I commenced this article. During the last few weeks I have traveled over a considerable portion of the South, an J here, as elsewhere have frequently been interrogated -in regard to the social, political, corn- met tial and industrial relations now existing between the two sections of our country the Xorth and South, and also, as to the treatment I have received at the' hands of the Southern people.. I am a Republican and have been brought into contact with the people of this and other portions of North", Carolina, and 1 have yet to learn of the first insinuation ofnnkind- ness toward me on account of my rpt1tU;alerK-otrt,Vmkti birth, TIm aspect of t he people seems n: Jlei one of fraternity a?id extreme, friohdjiness to men of honor from the North.. For all the Southern people 1 ..entertain the most kindly feeling-and hope that the war memories and prejudices witl vcrj soon be buried forever, '-and. that fraternal relations may be promoted ly both sections withtbeir 'fellow citizensNorth and South. My observation and exporienxro is that the traditional hospialiljy s characteristic of ffie Southern - fjph, still lives. I 'served in the TJiiion army duriiiglfcAvarJ yet I have-been kindly a rid gen'Hem a hly recei red i i nd entertained by - the bravo men: who served in the ConfetleratcTaftoy.: Soldiers in war but cittfcens in peace'. May tho bonds of fraternal feeling unite us in one common brotherhood, cemented bv an unwavering devotion to the Stars and Stripes, the one flag, and one common conntrj. In regard to tho destiny, of the colored race in the South, it seems" to me that statesmen, guided by common sense and the principles of political economv, should not longer be ''puzzled" over this problem. It re quires capital and labor to build up a countr, and the more essential ele ment is good labor. It was the labor of the negroes that made the Southern States so powerful in their' peculiar products. Since they were set free I am informed, they hare still proved themselves to' be equal to, Jf- not the best laborers in the South. The presence of tho negro race is no good cause to prevent emigration into the Southern States. - If the nativo Southerner finds that the negro is the best and the cheapest laborer, and a profitable tenant, so will the capitalist whor settles South. If the negro can, by honest labor, make a living and save money to buy a home, as many seem to rbc doing, much more can the white man who emigrates South, depending oti patient labor. So far as this problem con cerns the social relations of the negro race to the whites, nature and educa tion have long ago removed the diffi culty, whilst the constitution has fixed, for all time, wo trust, their political relation. I . . J As a rule, the two races of the South will have 'seperale churches and schools, and this from tho choice of both races, just as Catholics choose to have thoir schools free from control of Protestants, and Jews separate from (xentiles. In like mariner,, in termar- riago will control itself. It is 6eldom that Jews atid"" Gen tiles intermarry ; and there is. a strong influence brought to ' bear to prevent intermarriage between Catholics and Protestants---all the result of race peculiaritcs and the force of education and custom. " : llero are" millions of acres of agri cultural, mineral and timber lands 'awaiting development, excelent water power to be utilized ; and with 3-otir health climate and all that is neces sary to a comfortable home life abundant and within reach, combined with the transportation facilities that arc being extended throughout the State, and" tho educational and re ligious privileges that arc being built up and the "system of internal imprecv ments that are being developed, I believe the people of Carolina earnest ly desire and will cordially welcome Northern capital and immigration to aid,. them in developing these vast resQurcos of their State. - Very Respectfully, W. I). Blackburn. FREEMAN'S FAITH. Touching: Letter from His Wife. Natick, Mass., May 17, 1879. The following letter ha-t been receiv ed by a.sistcr-in-Iaw of Mrs. Freeman since the latter went to jail, which shows that she believed as implicitly in God's command for the sacrifice of the child as the father did : Barnstable, May 10, 1879. Dear Sisters We have received your letters. 1 had looked for one for a long time. I never thought it woidd find us here. Am glad to know you are well. We are in need of nothing. but we thank you for your kind thoughts for our comfort. I have no donbt.you suffer for in. 1 cannot tell you how it all came to he. You know how dearly we lo h lovud our precious little one. We have tried for more than a j'ear to live entirely de voted to God and to the good of olh ers. We ' had given up dress, the desire for mowy, and everything that was not pure in purpose. You would hardly have believed it was Charlie. He never was profane; had not drank since I knew him, and was one of the best of husbands and fathers. But now he commenced a life of prayer and faith in God, and I with him." lie read his Bible evciy spare moment, and his whole life was sp'Uil in Christian, earnest work for good ; and his whole aim, not neglecting other duties, Was to win souls to Christ and seek himself eternal life. One trial of our faith came after another, and God blessed us very much the moxv t we trusted him. By and by there came a week and more of great and new trials. Charlie did not sleep, nor eat scarcely, for iearly two weeks. During this lime of painful trial he felt that (rod required hrni to have the faith of Abraham. You know what that was in, regard to Isaac. He could not ge t a w a y ffr 1 n ft, Th e m 0 re he tried the more it came home to him. A t last he said to the Lord he would be willing to bear tho test. He thought that would be all that God would ask. I1 hat seemed to end it for the day. That night it came to him more pow erfully, lie could not help it. Oh!" God alone knows how I suffered ; but having such great faith in God to be lieve be would slop him just as he did Abraham that it was only a trial of faith knowing, as I did, Charlie's life and love, his fear to disobey God and that he bad-Abraham's faith, I could not hinder him.. But -neither of us thought God would suffer her to be touched any more than that the day would fail to come. We thought God would sec our faith and give us some token of acceptance. W believed God would thunder from Sinai before any harm should come to our darling. But when -1 fonnd my prrcious Edic gone, oh, Father, how 1 felt! But comfort seemed to come again. Abraham believed God would raise Isaac and so wo felt that it was God's plain to take her so as to raise her from the dead and thus show his mighty power and love. Wo did be lieve HcTvouId do this in order to show the wOrld that the God of Abraham, of Isaac and Jacob still lives, and so wake up the frozen church of God toitsdnties, tho Church so married to the world that there is searcely any difference between the two. We believed this was to be and that Edie woald yet go with Charlie to'preach the gospel of the kingdom. What a power she would be ; what glory to His cause ! Elijah, Elisha, Christ and the Apostles raised tho dead, and why should not God do it now as-then ? We believed he would. But the time has so far passed and we are hero. God knows we are innocent of any crime. Charlie still thinks God is going to manifest His power and glory and himself be justified in the eyes of the world. God grant it may be so ! Oh, you cannot know my sorrow! It almost breaks my heart. Mr dear. Dear Edic ! Charlie is innocent. Oh, he is, of any crime, but I am" afraid it was mistaken faith in 1 God. j Dear Lord f help us in our need. IIaTtie. A Cure for-Hydrophobia. Parkersburo, West Va., May 5. A colored inmate of the country poorhousc, about twenty-one years of age, has betrayed sj mptoms of hydro phobia for several year. At the age of nine years he was bitten in the hand hv ii dog;-whteb was afterward - killed on suspicion that it was mad. kIh the course of time the colored man, who is also a cripple in both tegs, became an inmate of the poorhousc. r At times he seemed to be in sound health and wiili nn impaired mental faculties, per. a; for several days. Then suddenly he would feel an itching sensation in the palm of the right hand, which would rapidly ascend the right arm affecting the mesial and cutaneous nerves, until the whole of tho right side would be affected. Usually he would inform his keepers, who would confine him to his cell, a strong room from which it was impossible for him to escape. lie would soon begin to froth at the mouth, growl, whine, bark and snap at a 113' thing- in his reach, occasional!' tearing his own flesh with his teath and nails. During these rabid spells his C3'es would turn in l?s head -he would display the ferocity of a wild beast upon tho approach of an one, and would 'become frantic at the sight of water. These strange actions had been of regular occurence until one morning, a short time ago, awak ing from a deep sleep of pbysfcial ex haustion, for nnfortnnate man called Mr. Joseph Cok, the superinteiidnnt, to his cell, and told h'im that he hud seen a man in a dream, who informed him that if he woald gather a cert a" n weed which he said grew. on a certain part of the farm(descringa spot where he said he had never bvenrand even I he identical spot on which the weed grew), he would recover entire!' from his disease. Mr. Cook ridiculed the idea as the emanation of a diseased mind, caused by an effect ion of the nervous system, but the colored man strenuously adhered to the belief that it would curt him. At length, to get rid of his importunities, he was taken in a wagon to a point near the spot indicated and lifted up. He crawled directly to the place, which wasox-ac tly as he described it. There he found a small clump of weeds, which he de clared to be the weed which he saw in his divam. He pulled -it up and masticated leaver and stalk, as he was taken to his rou.ii in the poor-house. Some eight or t err. days have elapsed, and the spasms and rabid fits which had been" .f :il most daily occurence, have ahoget It er censed, and he declares himself en tirely recovered. Ilis physicians say there is no doubt that he was afflict ed with hydrophobia, and that his euro is apparently genuine. They have tried in vain to ascertain the name of the weed, but as there was only a solitary clump of if, and the negro ate tl.o whole of that, the chances are that this cure vi:l remain a mystery in 'materia rnedica. Still theso 'medical gentle- try men have one basis of hope in the fact that a minute fragment of chick weed (Genera Siilfari(i) wasfound in the wagon just after the negro was lifted out on his return. Neic York Sun. The Evolution Bible. The preparation of the new Bible, which is to be inspired by sweet rea sonableness has not made much ad vance yet. We lay before our readers the improved version of the first chap ter of the Book of Genesis, 1. There never was a beginning. The Eternal, without us that makcth for righteous ness, took no notice whatever of any thing. 2. And Cosmos was homogen eous and undifferentiated, and some how or another evolution began and molecules appeared. 3. And mole cule ovolved protoplasm, and rythmic thrills arose, and then there was light. 4. And a spirit of energy was devel oped and formed the plastic cell whence arose the primordial germ. 5 And the primordial germ became pro togene, and protogeno somehow sharped eozoon, then was the dawn of life. 6. And the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its own kind, whose seed Is in itself, developed according to its own fancy. And the Eternal, without us that makcth ; for righteousness, neith er knew nor cared anything about it. 7. The cattle after bis kind, , the beast of the earth after his kind, and every creeping thing became evolved by heterogeneous segregation and co n co m i t a n t d issipat io n of mot ion . 8. So that by survival of t he fittest there evolved the simiads from the jelly fLih, and tho simiads differentiated themselves into the authronomoro'hie primordial .types. 9. And in due tin, One lost his tail and became trnvn, and behold he was tho most cunning of .,n animals; and lo ! the fast men killed the slow men, and it was ordained to- be so in every age. 10. And in piD. cess of time, by natural selection survival of the fittest, Matbew Arno'd Ilerbct Spencer and Charles I)arw n 1 L I I I . apncareu, anu ocnoiu it was VCTv "ood. London Freeman. A Kentucky girl and her lover h;vl vainly tried for four years to elope to gether: They were Thomas 0 en and Miss Kate Sanfnrd, of Millborn. A fewjiights ago .Miss Kate bravely jumped out of a window. She broke one of tbe small boe near the ankle, but Tom got away with her, and she was held on her feet while the nar-" riago ceremony was performed by a s mpalhizing clergyman. Scientific men have wrestled with a great ..problem, and come to the tun clusiotv that the sun will cease to shine, will become a black cinder, in just 17 . 000,000 years. Now, then, the Sec ond Advent ?sts I rave their date fixed for them, and can begin to get realy any time. Xot many days aio. boys, a little , fcilow choked himself to death while eating peanuts. last Thursdav, iriih "'! Kittic Boy Ian," of Clyde, Ohio, died" from the effects of too much iojh. jumping. She jumped the rope li'O times without stopping. COM M ERC IAL. JJn col 11 ton Market. ("Corrected by 1. I. Ilinsmi. Friday, May ..0, lS7t. We quote selling prire from wagons : Flour, Faniily,.i ....3 05 3 10 Extra, Corn, Pens,.. Oti X j liuttor. Chickens,. - Kjrus. Salt A in eri ranr Yarn per bururh Sheeting Bacon Hams S-ho-u biers, Sides, Pork, - Lard, Tallow, Bees 'ax.... Apples Dried, Apples (riven, Pea dies Dried, HI ac k he rri es iiri Mesil, .Wheat.- Potatoes- Sweet, Irish Bef. Hides Green, Drv (Kirr (to (iorf. 00 sr i: sfa. in ..1 ( - TO-' lift 7 Jo a a (Hi a () 4 a o 4 a 70 a JM a 1 ) (Hi aOOO On a ! . "1 ,"2 it a 5 ;i-2 J. H. Marsh, M.muf.etMre-v wf MAPLE, OAK, A.") WAIATT CAIN' Id" SvlSAr PARLOR CHAIRS, hocking chairs', childrkxs' ciiaius, CAMP an.) JvTORE STOOLS Highest Uo.skws n warded this Manufac tory at the- State Fair. Kepairini; done on short notice. mh 1(-I v ijtjy' xiik ux:st. AM AtJKNT FOR Til K CKLKIHJAT KD I Ejurekn Amtnoniated Bor.e Snpcr Phosphate of iimo, and also the Arid Phosphate of Lime, Manufactured hy the Atl.mtie and Virginia Fertilizing (.,n" pany, near Orient Long I.-land.. Tliis is II standard Fertilizer and is recnnuneml--ed by Southern trot ton planters as the best Fertiliser in use. 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