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WILSON, X. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 25, 1881.
The. Wilson advance.
TViLKONyFiiiDAY, November 2o, 1831
POETRY.
THE TWO GATES.
A pilt'rim'oncp (so runs an aneii-nt talc),
olil worn, and iqx'nt, crfpt down ashalowerl rain;
r.',f-i'.li'T hand rom-mountain blak and hih;
hill v. a ilii- Rii'ty and dark the sky;
'I he ii:t;l ;ls rugged, and hi feet wsrc bare;
Hi f.rulfd r lirfk was s-ani-d by nam and cam;
),(, iiH;nyevi'siiioTi th errounn vfrcast,
A ml i-vry step seemed fefbler than th last.
""lie taller ended where a naked rock
' (.ln-er irom earth to heaven a." if to mock
Mi.-jiihrrim who had crept that loilibme way;
j;ut while bin dim and -Wtary eyes e.iy
To fitifl. :m oiitlet.in th mount tin id.
A -itideroit sculptured brazen door ne npied.
Al'I totteiinc toward it with fat-f:ti!ing breath,
Atj .e the porta? read, "The Gate or Death."
could not May lii" feet, that led thereto:
It yielded liis lunch; and p'isiuc through,
He i n me ir.trt.i world all br jrht and fair; .
l(!;i- v-re the heavens, and balmy was the air;
Ami. hi. the Mood of youth wa in hi veins.
An.: lie was clad in robe, that held no tains
itiiViit!.' pllirriinae. Amazed, he turned:
liflioUt' :i Kllen iloor behind him burned
In ih:U fair Minlicht, and his wonderine eyeg.
V.w lustreful and clear as thoyt new vkies,
1 re from the mists of ape. tf care, and of strife,
Ah..e the purtal read, "Tuie Gate or Lire."
S. S. CoXANT, in Harper's Magazine.
Ikmin MUM-
TIIK MIMSTEU'S STORY.
I was travelling in Montana. I was
there on business, and did not know a
soul in' the town J. stopped at on Satur
day night, meaning to make Sunday a
day of rest, as was my duty.
it was a poor little place at which I
put up, and the fare would have
'di-gunted an epicure, but I had been
politely treated and kindly enteitain
ed, and I was sitting on the horse
block outside the door, asking myself
if 1 should offer to preach to the house
hold of - drovers,, miners and stage
drivers on the next morning, they
"would consider it a polite attention, or
take it in the light of a liberty, and
rather inelining to the latter idea, for
the language ofthe men playing cards
at the dirty little table, as well as of
those bargaining for a colt in the road
beyond, did not soeiii to indicate the
dissemination ofthe - gospel in that
neighborhood.
1 w as sitting, as I said, thinking
'.upon this subject, with a prudent re
membrance, of the plentitudeof bowie
knives and pistols in the neighbor
hood, nnd the free use that I knew
was made of them, when 'suddenly a
big hand was brought down upon my
shoulder, and a clear voice cried out,
merrily:
"Hello, preacher! JIow are Yout"
- And turning, I saw a big man, dress
ed in buckskin, handsome, ruddy, and
with" both pistol and knife at his belt,
holding out his hand to me.
1 put mine into it, and received a
trip that proved its strength.
"I itin very well,'.' said I.. "And I
suppose I speak to an old friend; but
1 cannot recall--"
'Of course not. Why, likely you
never noticed ; me," said the new
comer. "I heard you preach a year
r two ago at . 1 la i n't forgot your
sermon, nor you, neither. Going to
preach to-morrow?"
"I should like to," said I; "but. I
'don't know whether"
"Not another word," cried my
friend. "Preach at my place. I'll
have an audience for vou. Room
there for the whoi.e town. They all
know me. Remember, ten, sharp, at
Walker's place that's my name. I'll
depend on you, "parson."
. " Vou may," said I; and after a little
more talk about the weather, politics,
etc., Mr. Walker Strode away.
I confess I was curious to see where
1 was to preach, and as it grew darker
I walked down into the village. A
great many little drinking-places
seemed to be open, but I saw nothing
like a public hall.
In one place, larger than the rest, a
dance w as going on. The dancing was
like the sailor's, "strong if not hand
soimV' and calico was the prevailing
costume ofthe girls and women. Most
of them Were strong and w ell-grown,
'and they had flowers in their hair and
at their belts, but there were at least
ten men to one woman.
Whatever there was of the wild . or
disorderly in the place seemed to cul
minate here, ami over the door was a
hoard ' on which w ere painted the
words, "Lincoln House," so I suposed
that it was a hotel. As for the place
hi w hich I was to hold forth on the
morrow , that was as great a mystery
to me as ever.
1 returned to mine inn, slept sound
ly all night, and was awakened the
next morning by the ringing of a great
111, and a cry hi which I heard my
""n name.
llising and going to tho window, I
sw-, making hip" way slowly along the
street, a boy of pome fourteen years
UM who swung to jind fro the bell
that had aroused me, and constantly
repeated these .Words:
"Know everybody: This morning
at ten -o'clock, Itcverend Mr
will preach at Walker'- Lincoln House.
Know everyboby at ien o'clock."
. At the tavern where I had seen the
dance the ." night before! It
was a strange place enough, but it was
plain that I was called upon to preach
there. I ate my breakfast and made
haste to dress myself that I might be
in time, but early as I was, I found the
great rooih crammer! full when I ar
rived some were seated, some stand
ing. At the head of the room, Mr.
Walker, in his buckskin -suit, and
armed as on the previous day, perched
upon his counter or bar.
"Make way there," he called.
"That's the preacher."
And I was pulled, pushed and poked
as politely as possible, and in the
most frindly manner, to the head of
the room, where stood a chair and a
table, and upon the latter a Bible,
hymn-book and a glass of water.
Mr. Walker, in his character of host,
shook'. hands with me, and mentioned
that he Was glad to see me. Then I
began by giving out a hymn. r
I think everybody sung. It was
evident that Montana expected every
man to do his duty in that respect and
whether every one" prayed or not,
proper reverenee yas shown to the
prayer. Afterward I preached, and
never had I more satisfaction in the
effect of a sermon,. Not a w hisper
disturbed the silence. The few women
present nqyer even turned their heads.
As the sermon came to its conclusion
Mr. Walker defended from his coun
ter, and addressing me with great po
liteness, said: !
"Mr. ' , is the preaching through?
Are you 'quite done?"
"Not quite," said I.
"Stop a bit, then," said he, and
beckoned to another . buckskin-clad
giant, who stepped forward and lis
tened to his w hisper. 4 The next min
ute the two were walking down the
room ottering their hats to the con
gregation. j
Meanwhile I gaj'eout the hymn.
. As the singing ended one of the
hats was placed before me.
"That's for you, Mr. Preacher," said
Mr. Walker, "and . we're obligejl to
you into the bargain." I
I closed the services with pjayer.
The congregation departed, most of
the men shaking hands with me before
thev went.
The collection Was a larger one than
is usual in. New. York churches; and I
was asked to dinner by Mr. Walker.
On the whole, in the course of my
long and varied experience I have nev
er had more satisfaction from than the
one I preached that by-gone Sunday
in the Joutana ball-room..
A Curious Clock
A curious clock belongs to a native
prince of Upper India, and is jealously
guarded as the rarest treasure of his
luxurious palace J In front of the
clock's disc was a gong, swung upon
poles, and near it was a pile of artifi
cial human limbs. The pile was made
up of the full number of parts of
twelve perfect bodies, but all lay
heaped 'together in seeming confusion.
Whenever the hands bf the clock in
dicated the hour one, out from the
pile crawled just the number of parts
needed to form the frame of-one man,
part joining itself to part with a quicK
metalic click; when completed the
figure sprang up, seized a mallet, and,
walking to the gong, struck one blow
that sent, the sound pealing through
every room and corridor of that state
ly palace. This done, he returned to
the pile and fell to pieces again. When
two o'clock came, two men arose and
did likewise; aud so through all the
hours, the number of figures being the
same as the number ofthe hour, till at
noon and midnight the entire heap
sprang up, and, marching to the gong
struck one after another each his blow,
aiRpthen fell to pieces.
He Wanted a 0,uiet Life.
A nervous looking man went into a
store the. other day and sat down for
half an hour or so, when a clerk asked
if there was anything she could do for
him. He said no, he didn't want any
thing. She went away and he sat
there half an hour longer, when the
proprietor went to him and aked if
he wanted to'.' be shown any thing.
"No," said the nervous man, "I just
wanted to set arojund. My physician
has recommended perfect quiet for
me, and says above all I must avoid
being in crowds.' Noticing that you
did not advertise in the newspapers, I
thought that this would be as quiet a
place as I could find, so I just dropped
in for a few hours of isolation." The
merchant picked up a bolt of paper
cambric to brain him, but the man
went out. lie said all he wanted was
a quret life.
Ohl What a Man!
A letter from Wooster, Ohio, to the
Cincinnati Enquirer my,:
"A sensational and highly amusing
story is going the rounds In this com
munity of a ludicrous episode, in
which a young Methodist minister was
victimized into the role of a leading
character. Owing to the high social
standing of the parties concerned we
suppress the names, the general out
lines ofthe funny occurrence being as
follows:
"Two sprightly and' 'very beautiful
young ladies have been visiting a la
dy cousin living in the country, not
far from Wooster.
These three young
misses are of that age which turns ev-
erything into fun and merriment, and j
were constantly playing practical !
jokes upon each other. All three oc-;
:.! ; 1 . i a l
mpieu uiuo u. on uio grounu noor,
that which in country parlance is
termed 'the best room.'
"The two visiting young ladies on a
particular evening went to a party in
the neighborhood. About an hour af
ter thoy had left, the aforesaid young
Methodist minister called and craved
a night's lodging, which was, of course
granted, and as ministers always have
tho best of everything, the reverend
was assigned to the 'best room.'
The young lady who had not gone
to the party was entrusted with the
duty of sitting up for the absent ones
and informing them ofthe change of
rooms. She took up her post in the
parlor, and as the night was sultry,
overtook her, and she departed on an
excursion to the land of dreams.
"About half-past eleven o'clock the
sprightly cousins returned, and as it
was late they concluded not to disturb
the household, so they quietly stole
into their room through a low open
window. By the dim light ofthe
moon-beams, as they struggled
through the curtains, the young la
dies were enabled to descry the out
lines of their coasin, as they supposed,
ensconced in the middle of the bed.
They saw also a pair of boots. The
thought flashed across their minds
that their cousin had set the boots in
the room to give thorn a good scare.
They put their heads together and de
cided to turn the
ables on her. Si"
lently they disrobed, and stealthily as
cats took up their
side of the bed.
positions on
At a given
each
signal
they both jumped into bed, one on
each side of the unconscious divine,
laughing and screaming, 'Oh, what a
man!' giving tho poor, bewildered
minister such a promiscuous hugging
and tussling as few persons are able to
brag of in a lifetime. Thfe noise of
the proceeding awakened the sleeping
sentinel in the parlor and the old lady,
who was sleeping in an adjoining
room, and they rushed to the scene,
explaining the situation. There was
ane prolonged, consolidated scream,
and a dash of muslin through the door,
and all was over.
"The best of the joke was that the
minister took it all in earnest, and
would listen to no excuse or apology,
butsolemnlv folded his official robes j
about him and silently stole away.'
A A vol Celebration.
We had the pleasure of attending,
on last Thursday night, a most.novel
celebration. Of late years it has be
come quite common among the mar
ried folks to celebrate certain anniver-
saries of' their marriages, known as
"wooden," "tin" and "silver" we l
ding. One of our village " maidens,
Miss Kate Hanks, having arrived at
th At period of an unmarried lady's
life I when her age becomes "uncer
tain," determined upon the original
idea of celebrating her becoming an
"old maid." A large party of her
friends j assembled to celebrate the
event,! and their many beautiful pres
ents expressed their high apprecia
tion of their spinster friend; and in
turn they were treated to asupper that
would have brought smiles to a stoic's
face. The table was loaded with the
g)d things that showed what a good . but tm tar heel came (lown Avith
housekeeper some man had missed in , hiK bayonet and demanded the coun
not securing such a prize. The whole tersign. The fellow handed out two
entertainment was most enjoyable. , or three oul countersigns, but they
Much amusement was derived from a j wouul not do anti tnen he showed
most humorous lecture, delivered by, fight an(l said to the tar heal be-durned
the hostess, to the young ladies, upon j if he wouldn't pass anyway. Then
the dangers of married life. We fear j hmveii tne m the old tar State,
it may have such an effect as to ma- j The sentinei throwing down his gun
terially reduce the number of mar-;j to shuck his coat, saying as he
riage licenses to be issued in this com- : duI so: x won't shoot you nor I
munity. Chatham lleeord. j wont stick ye, but you ainter passin'
j here without me to whip!" and at him
A veracious exchange1 narrates that ! he went with his fists doubled, and in
Richard Grant White fainted when a j his shirt sleeves, and the stranger re
friend w h?se grammar he was correct-! tired in good order. Some of the
ing told him of an Ohio girl whose ; Danville Grays witnessed the whole
companion asked her at a party, 'Shall j thing, and regret that they didn't find
cl-in A-niir annlo fnr vou. tvo.
OrilU wu " w
your
I thank you,' she replied, I have one
already skun.'
A necrro. after eazing at seme Chi-
jnese, shook his head and solemnly
' said: "If de white folks am so dark out
I tlar, I wonder what's de color ob de
I black folksI?l
LOVE SOSG.
"Tell me, gentle traveller, thou
Who hast wandered tar and wide,
Seen the sweetest roses blow
And the brightest rivers glide? ,
Say, of all thy eyes have seen,
Which the fairest land has been?
"Lady, shall I tell thee where
Nature seems most blest and fair
Far above all climes beside?
'Tis where those we love abide,
And that little spot is blessed ' '
Which the loved one's foot has
pressed."
An Obstinate Bride.
The other night a young man from
northern Arkansas and a young lady
from the southern part of the State,
Inet at a hotel in this city and were
married. After the ceremony the
young man went out and sat in front
. ...v.
0r the hotel, while the wife went un
o the room assigned as the bridal
chamber.
"This thing of gittin' married is a
life-time business," he said address
ing a man who had just been divorced
from his wife. I recken you have
found it so," he added, turniag to a
single man. "'Wal, ; I reckon I'll go
up. Dinged if I don't sorter hate to
go up thar, too. But I never was
afeered of a man, an I don't see why
I should be afeered of a woman."
He went up and rapped at the door.
"Who's there, demanded the girl.
"It's me."
"Who'a me?"
"Don't you recognize my talk, hon-
ey?" I,;
"No, I don't."
"It's your own Wide awake and
livin' husband. Let me in."
"Go away from that door; you shan't
come in here. I ain't got acquainted
with you yet."
"Say, let me in. Thein fellers down
stairs air laughin' at me. Open the
door, fur I'm sleepy," and he yawned
like a man waiting for a night train.
"Thought you said that you were
wide awake."
"I was a while a go, but I'm pow
erful sleepy now. Say, aint you going
to open this door?"
"No, I aint."
"Why did you marry me?"
"Cause I wanted to." !
"Wal, why don't you let me in?"
"'Cause I don't want to."
"All right, old gal; I'll shell out for
homo an' leave you to pay the hotel
bill. I never seed the woman that
j could pull the wool over my eyes."
The latch clicked, and the door
i opened. The hotel bill had frighten-
ed her. "It won't do for a woman to
buck again' me lemmetell you, fur I
was raised at the cross roads an' went
to mill early." Little Rock Dally Ar
kansas. '
A Kiss.
A kiss is the yisible s:.gn and token
of an inner sentiment which no words
can express. The eyes and the tongue
do a gooddeal-of appreciable work in
love-making, but the meeting of the
lips is the sign and seal, the chrism,
so to speak, which transforms the
earthly into the divine. Love without
a kiss woujd be like the harp without
a hand, the rainbow, without its hue;
the brook without its babble; the
landscape without its colprs; the tea
rose sweetest flower for scent that
j blows without its variations; poetry
j without rhythm; spring without sun-
light; a garden without foliage or mar
riage without love. The young woman
whose ideals teach her to recoil, from
a kiss cheats the lover "of the joys of
loving and does not deserve the de
votion of a manlyT heart.
A Tar.Ueel on P0st.
It was a North Carolinian at last
who weeded the row at Yorktown.
There he stood as sentry in his butter
nut clothing, with orders to let no one
pass without giving the countersign.
One fellow approached and souirht to
: oui iuc name oi uie ur iieci semi.
Who was he? RiedstULe Timts.
The Sunday Argus, Louisville (Ky.)
observes: A Woodbury (N. J.) paper
mentions the cure of wife of Mrs. Jos.
H. Mills, of that place, by St. Jacobs
Oil. She had rheumatism.
THE NEWS IN A NUT-SHELL!
Hay is brought to North Carolina
from Nova Scotia; shame on us!-
Both the Cumberland fair at Fayette
ville and the Sampson Fair last week
are said to have been very successful;
The office of the Register of Deeds
of Chatham county was broken into a
few nights ago, but nothing stolen.
The Governor elect off Virginia,
Cameron, is elected for four years,
with a salary of S",000, and the use of
an elegantly lurnishea mansion
few days ago, died .last rriday
Two men and three women were
drowned by a collision on Lake Erie,
Friday night. Three men were
killed at Ripley, Maine, by drinking
rum and aconite which, had been
mixed for horse medicine,- A lit
tle boy, four years old, was caught in
the throat by a bull-dog a few days
ago and killed.- J. A. Poorman
and two children were poisoned last
Tuesday by eating cakes mixed with
arsenic'by mistake for baking powder.
Dr. Blacknall, at Raleigh has a
cabbage on exhibition weighing 22
pounds; Some cabbage, that! Mr.
W. H.Langley, ofToisnot, made this
year over an average of one bale of
cotton on twelve acres or land
A drunken man named Harper, while
walking across the bridge at Weldon,
fell off a few days ago, a distance of
thirty-five or forty feet, without sus
taining any serious injury. This is
one Instance of whiskey doing good,
and about the only one we ever read
of. Doc. Dawson, in practicing
for the Tarboro tournament (which
did not come off ) was very badly in
jured, and a fight, in which two men
were badly injured, was the result of
a tournament in another part or the
State. When will our people beeoma
sufficiently civilized to leave otf this
"pole-punching?" The. deer are
dying in Richmond county; 2o dead
ones have been found. A distil
ler's convention is in session in Chica
go. It i3 said that every few minutes
the members step out "to see a fel
low." They have signed an agree
ment to reduce production. The
miners are on a strike in West Virgin
ia. The militia .have been ordered
out. One man was killed and an
other seriously injured by a rail-road
accident near San Antonio, TexKs, on
Fridav. The French propose
a complete separation of church and
. . , A .1. tUn
sst;iro a wise move, w u trusi, t mi
it may be successful.
ic of small-pox prevails
Wyoming territory.
iaUons of the National
An epidem-
at Dayton,
New regu
Board of
importation
Health, to prevent the
of contagious diseases,
have been ap-
Droved bv President Arthur
-Levi
Sparks, a negro rape-fiend, was hung
at Columbus, Georgia, Friday.
Track-laying on the Georgia Pacific
Railroad has begun. The Gar
field Memorial Hospital Fund
amounts to 580,000. A meeting
of Representative Israelites was neld
in Richmond, Va., in behalf of Jew
ish refugees in Russia. John Dunn
notifies the British that he is a candi
date for the throne of Zululand; That
looks like business. . Madame Ru
mor says that State Treasurer Worth
hn tho "bee" in his bonnet. He
u'.inrstn ho (rdVf'nor. A lot of
Greensboro hunters slaughtered GS
squirrels besides much other game.
A man named Blanton was acci-
dentlv killed by the falling of a tree.
New Corn is selling at 60 a bushel
at Elizaberh City. A man named
Welles threatened Jay Gould's life.
Iff h hofrn sent to the Grand Jury.
I "The- way of the transgresser is hard."
It is now quite likely man me u
famer wishes he had let Well(es)
enough alone. - Brick Pomeroy,
the veteran newspaper man has,
busted again. The cholera is play
ing havoc with chickens in Wake.
A rich vein of gold ore has been dis
covered near High Point in this State,
worth S-S000 per ton. Small-pox
is said to be an epidemic in Richmond,
Va.Kvervbody in the city ought to be
vaccinated. A post-office clerx: at
Baltimore has been convicted of steal
ing letters.- The turnip crop plant
ed all over the South anti West is very
jarge. The State University rail
road is completed to New Hope.
Judge. Folger has assumed the duties
of Secretary of the Treasury. At
torney General MacVeagh's resigna
tion has been accepted. Solictor Uen
eral Phillips, of this State isinchargo.
There were .r0,000 voters in Phila
delphia who did- not vote on election
day. Doubtless the,e comprised the
best men in the city, whose duty it
was to vote in accordance with their
principles. A reform is needed that
will cause all men to vote. In
New Haven, the Republicans open
lv paid $10 a piece for votes. , oters
are rather dear up in the nut-meg
State. The Conference, now in
,on at iwnam V-
stum of dividing the Inference.
n TliiThari Will UlSCUSS Uic
que
?.7 ili ...n,.l,n W.
1 nere are now 1 0 K1 V'"., 1
000 members in .this"feiae"-na.
ThesawmilK nee mills," and ma
1 -h i Mi. itys in New Berne, are nu
running Tx'v and nTght, and the can -
I ning establishment aud plate factory
1 ..'i.-,..f t.i vo.i tr their utmost capa"! -
tv. Rome is to nave a
Fair in 1881;we will all go to the 'c
nal City." The Irish in Awe
have sent S-.SA'i to the Natu
Jvome IS to nave ,l " lyA
eier-
nca
ationa!
1 .ami Iatrue. Tne j--..pjbi.'j
Cadet Whitaker, of "ear" notorictv,is ?rM iU-u V,4 ew is?.-evereu mmi
manager for a concert. j A little the arm; People who work around
boy who was kicked in the abdomen j prlJls and mi 'ht A0,1 more Clire
by a plavmate at Stapleton, L. I., a f"1;" Col. . L. Hill's gin house
at Atlanta continues to boom. I he j character was held by Dawes and the
North Carolina editors contemplate ballance of them have tHen quite ir
makin" a trip in a body about the , rejroachable. - ' KUpatrick, with
firt nf iwemher. iney arc um-
ing a National Tariff Convention m
t h Wfvtri, which is thought tole a pret
ty huge swindle.- Uuiteau asserts great rrauds at llenaerson, he oeing
"that others have profited by his pa- j jn New Jersey at the time of their al
triotic (leed." Wonder how President j legl commission. Two stearn
rthur feels about it? Ctuiteau says : ships sunk near Halifax, N. H., last
the "Stalwarts" ought to reward him
a thev, lid the Louisiana thieves. W dl
thev? Mr. Jos. 1). Morris of
Moore countv, sustained a very serious
injury by his horse throwing him.
People ought to be more careful and
less of these kind of accidents would
0,.ur The recent rains have
hh! )
i uicuiimi it enn ow ueeusuv navi
gated. German immigrants have
purchased l.(KJO acres of lantl in Hen-
derson county, in this state. "Thrice '
welcome let them be." Since the
buildingoftherallroad real estate inOx
ford has increased in value 60 per cent.
Mr. Haywood Boney, at a saw
mill in Lenoir county, while sawing a
log, his right hand came in contact
with the saw, and was severed from
the arm. Becoming unconcious his
left hand also came in contact with the
in lsupnn county, logetner with a
- A it a . a m ...
quantity of cotton. Also Mr. D. W.
Middleton's gin near Ijiurinburg, on
same day. How much carefulness is
required by workmen in gins!
Liberty Dortch, of Nash County is the
oldest colored man in the world; Age
120. die has a remarkable memory,
with faculties of . unimpaired vigor
and excellent general health. There
is an old man in Jackson County who
has lived in the same dwelling house
for a long time, and has been a resi
dent of Huncomtxi then Macon, and
now Jackson. He has livod under all
the Presidents, and was eontemjorary
with George Washington. Hf says he
can walk thirty miles r.ny day be
tween breakfast and supper.- Sena
tor Anthony, of Rhode Island, ha
been continuously in the Senate for
twenty-two years. The farmers
of Durham county have planted, a
much larger wheat crop this fall than
they have for many years. The
cisterns in Wilmington are drying up
in consequence of the scarcity of rain.
Operatives in England have"struck."
Tne fever of "striking" seems to lc on
us. The King of Ashante,' Africa,
recently had 200 young women slaugh
tered to get their blood for the mortar
to be used in a public building. Amer
ican women ought to be thankful that
they don't live in the territory of this
bloody King. Mrs. Geo. H.
suicide by throwing herself into a
well at Greensboro last week; mental
aberation was the cause. The negroes
fired upon unarmed white men at Ma
rion, Miss., on election day. Won
der if Northern nigger-lovers will
mention this .occurrence! Tho
Star-route thieves have been turned
out of court by a pliant Judge of the
District of Columbia. Such is justice!
If the offenders had not been leading
members of the Republican party
their doom would have been sea' e l.
There are 1,382 students at Harr
vard. An Arkansas train robber,
only 2:1 years old, has died of a broken
heart. Henri Watterson, (the
Great Disciple of Samuel J. Tilden)
who once ran for Congress, predicts
thatGifcau will get a short term in
an Insane Asylum, and will then run
for Congress. A high official of
the United States said Ije "would
rather undertake to carry a glass case
full of stuffed birds up Broadway at
3 o'clock in the afternoon than to take
charge again, for a single day, of the
deceudents of Baron Stueben." And
now these decendents arc mad and
this remark will result in diplomatic
correspondencei Such is life! Wil
mington at last has splendid water
works. Hurrah for our chief city!
Judge Tourgee has written a new
novel called "John Fax." In it no
mention is made' of politics" or vthp
colored people How the Judge c(uld
slight the colored man and brother so
is a mystery. . A new cotton fac
tory is building at Mt. : Airy.
In Minnesota women are eligible to
the office of County Suierintndent of
schools. John Bumgarner, of Ca
tawba county, was "fooling" with a
gun when it went off inflicting a wound
in his hand.- ' The town of Man-
zauilla,on the isthmu-,was completely
destroyed by a storm on October 25th.
Preaching in first-class city
churches pays well; Rev. Dr. Dix and
Dr. Deems get 12, ) ) ) ear-h, and fine
house. The Christiancy divorce
case drags its slow length along.7
A special term of Northampton court
has been ordered for the 0th of Jan
uary. : .When Guiteau was being
earried back to prison last Saturday a
mounted hor.eman, name Jones rode
by the van and fired at Gmtoau,light-
ly grazing his wrist.- -Michael
-Edelbut -a German, committed sui
cide Sunday morning in Richmondt
because of his wife's infidelity. The
Conference of the Christian Churh
was i i Mission at Catawba Churc h,
twelve .miles from Raleigh, la-t week.
North Carolina has 112 siecieH of
woods and lb) of mineral. - I'atti,
the world-renowned -prima dona is
singing in New. York; tickets $10 each.
-The Greenville Exprt says that
Mr. Jack Cherry has caught ."2 coons
and 17 opossums m far thisseajn
O. R. Smith, of Durham, has the best
cotton picker, among ten, at
, A Jrj
the At-
lama jMr-.u. ;j
1 Commerce savs that there is no doubt
! hut thiit thereare diamonds in North
,
wnmun. k'- ".' .
1 New York employ about 1,400 coach-
t men to drive hacks and coupes. -It
; is surmised that Dr. Deems Ls to bo
j ouerwi ine viiuiiv;vmrsijp til me c iii-
ver-itv or New orfc. Oakes
Ames' sens have given the town
where he resided a fine town hall as a
f meaioriai 01 ineir iamer. waKe Ames
rnarnw a cmiian iaay, ana wno 1-
minister to Cnili, w rejorted dead
again, lie is tne man wno tesnnei
-veek, involving damages of $loo,ooi).
The ational Grange of Patrtns
of Husbandry held their session a few
day ago- The family of Mrs.
Garfield is well settled in their winter
home at Cleveland.-- The amount
claimrHl in the suit against Adelina
Patti is 32,25.
WIT AND HUMOR.
The Evansville Argus says:
week we got a letter in whirl the wri
ter, m a sort of prelude, begins, -J take
njypenfn hand.' We are glad he
old us this. If ho had nV we might
havo thought that ho had fastened hhv
pon firmly in his old cider-prtTnhd
then sawed the paper back -m' forth
over the point to make . his i hiero
glyphics. There's nothing like being
particular about these little thing."
A Yankee who had never paid more",
than a shilling to see an exhibition,
went to a New York theatre to see 'the
"Forty Thieves." The ticket seller
charged him three shillings for a tick
et. Passing the pasteboard back be
quietly remarked: "Keep It, mister, I
don't want to see the other thirty
nine," and out ho marched. -
"Does it paiii you?" the sympathet
ic man asked of him who had satupon
a hornet's nest. "Pain ine!". ex
claimed the victim. "O, no! of coure
not! It's a delightful neusutioii. I
advise you to try it." But the sym
pathetic" man "rather guessetl he'd
rather not."
A public singer who was intolerably
affected in his stylo, was utterly "ta
ken down" when he appeared in Dub
lin, by an auditor who cried out at
him: "Come out from behind your
nose, you sni veller, and sing your song
like a man.' . ;
"My dear," said a playful iiusland
to his matter-of-fact wife, "what do
you think of badinage as a definition
of wit?" "What do I think of it?" sho
responded. "Well, I wontler, if wit
is bad in age, what must it be in
youth?" y
A gentleman of Rochester saw ai
advertisement that a cure for dyspep
sia might bo had by sending a xstage
stamp to the advertiser. He sent hw
tamp and the answer was, "Dijc in
your garden, and It w hiskey aloue,"
"Am dose bells ringing for fire?'
asked old Undo C'easar of young Tibe
rus. "No, uncle," answered young
Tibe, "(ley 's got plenty oh fire alreiuly,L
an' now de bells am ringin' for water.'
The new settlers in Texas will find
plenty of elbow room, if nothing else.
One of them writes that he has the
"Rio Grande lor a bath-tub, and all
Mexico for a back yard."
When a man tells a story that he
thinks is funny, and 'nobody laughs,
why does his face naturally fall? Be
cause it is pulled down by the force of
gravity. Do you see?
"O yes," said old Uncle Peebles,
who was describing a comedy he had
seen the night before "()' yes, it was
funny enough to make a donkey
laugh. I laughed till I cried." j
In shaking of a defeated candidate
a .wag said: "After all, hi
carried off the greatest prize." "What ,
was it?" Inquired a friend., "It was a
"surprise," said the wag. ' '
There is said to be a man in Boston
who is so fervidly "prohibitory" that
j he won't let his children have any
i thing to do with music, becaueo thero
j are bars in it.
What is the resemblance between
kind words aud the baldhesd? Kind
words can never die, and the bald heft I
can never dye,either.
-No wonder that man is sometimes a
"brick," seeing that he is a son 'f clay.
THE GREAT
row -
Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago
Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout,
Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and
; Sprains, Burns and Scalds,
General Bodily Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Hecdccho, Frosted' feci
and Ears, and all ether Pains
end Aches.
No Preparation on rtb eqtuds St. JaCom On. t
aaf, sir, mitupla tsiA eAtay Extery! tttutdj. ,
A lr:l nrtjlli but th compTMlTly trsStnm mm&mf
cf 30 !(, tni crtry one ufftr.r mah. psia.
cad btrt) rhaap al pocitire proof f lu eUSaa.
IHraccfcma In Eleven Ikagumft.
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