North Carolina Newspapers

WILSON ADVANCE. Published Eveet Friday At Wilson, North Carolina, . -BY- JOSltHl'S DAMELS, Editor and Preprittor Subscription Rates in Advance ..,. 2 00 1 00 be sent by Money Order or One Year... Six Months fW Money can be sent by Hegtstered Letter at our risk, NEWS OF A WEEK GTHEKKD FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE. The . Wilbon A jw ancr ' : ' ' ' ').':. ' . . ' "LET AM. THE E1D TIIOTT AmST w n r rrmr nAirsni. . : i. i ; V . . ' , . " . " - - -, mmma mmm. uuii ami a, 1 Jl 1 UOU'S, AiIf TKlITHS'.'l " 1 ; ! - 1 ; "' i ' i i. - WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 16. 1883. T : NUMBER 4 WILSON ADVANCE. -:o: VOLUME 13.-- One Inch, On Insertion ,.. ime Monlh Three Month " Six Month., 1 One leer Liberal DlaoounU will t 'niJ i - A d TertlaemeD U and for Contracts by the Year uaan must accompany all AdverUaumenu uiueaa i VEXCIL LI SOS - LEA NEXUS Suffolk, Va, had ? 91 0,000 fire on the fith. There is to lie si weekly paper staited at Smithville. In Raleigh's five graded schools there-are 1,601. pupils, white and colored. 2,600 rabbits shipped from Greensboro by one train. ; Just think of it ! A majority of the legislature prize a bull pup higher than thev do a dozen lambs. The Czar of Russia gives official notification of his coronation on the 1.7th of May next. " North Carolina special tax loads are selling in New York for eight and a half cents on the dollar. It. P. Voeghts and Oo's whole sale grocery at Norfolk Va. was burned Wednesday Loss $33,000. California seems to have every thing worth having. A soap mine has been discovered in that State recently. -- Mr. Valentine Stirewalt, of Da vidson College, has been granted a patent on a mosquito annihilatbr and fan combined. The Charlotte "Journal" tells of country butter shipped to that place which turned out to be rolls of meal plated with butter. v ' Mr. Walter F. Pool, of Elizal)eth City, Congressman elect from the first district, who was reported as being very sick is well again. Every dog ought to have his day but the legislature of North Caro lina has decided that we shall have dog days all the year round North Carolinians can get cheap lard, and greasy too, from the Goldsboro cotton seed oil mill, and keep a great deal of State money at home. 1 David Davis, Allan G. Thurman and Dorman U. Eaton how would these gentlemen do for civil ser vice commissioners!" asks the Phil adelphia ZYe.v. "Gone, to the Dogs!" the "Sheep Husbandry" movement in North Carolina, P. S. The sheep . are nightly taking the same course. Farmer and Mechanic. D. M. Sabin goes to the U. S. Senate from Minnesota in place of Windom. Ilis money elected him. Raleigh has new gas works. We had thought that this expenditure might have been dispensed with until after the adjournment of the Legislature. The youngest monarch in Europe is Alfonso, who presides over the destinies of Spain at the age of 25, King William, of Ger many, is CI years his senior. The Oxford "Torchlight" says the election of Gov. Jarvis as Pres ldent 'of Trinity College would make Robinson our Governor from which "Good Lord deliver us." There are a good many very im portant bills before the Legislature, and a wagon load not worth the paper they are written on but they'll help to make up a big book. "Father" Brans. ' The Atlanta "Constitution" tells of a Georgia boy just a little over eight year? old who'last year culti vated with a common goat three quarters of an acre of land and made 233 pounds of lint cotton. And the latest is that President Arthur has met his fate, having been wounded by one of cupid's arrows. The vounsr ladv's nam a w Miss Sack vill West. She is tlie daughter of the British minister. "Old man Flood," the California money-god made his daughter Jen nie a present of $500,000 on New Year's. She took the tide at the Flood, and whenever she does get " "i mo pitisuu tnere win ue a golden flood for some lucky fellow A whale was taken on the sea leach of Dare county, last Wed nesday, that yielded from his head aloni', I2o gallons of oil. lie was evidently pursued by some sea monster and ran upon the beach as a choice of death. Thirty feet long and valued all told at 1.500. Jas. W. Reid, Esq, of Rocking ham, "the silver tongued orator of Ui T:(tv -r-:i. ..i , vuo um x iiLii .LMsirici" win deliver the Literary address at Trinity College commencement next June Courier. TV. i T. .i .... I. .. .1 i : mt ? nolo iicitm mm. xnere is pot a more captivating sjieaker the old North State. -uDuoniniiipeio ien aoout a -woman in Nevada who was at' home alone when a bear broke into .the house and came to the bed where she was asleep. She thought it was her husband, come home drunk, and used up the bear con siueraoiy, not even giving him time to explain. The tear will die i-nis is now whiskey -causes? the nocent to. sutler. ; OUR LAW-MAKERS -:o: BILL IN REGARD TO THE SEDUCTION OF WOMEN. S.. iftARE ADVERTISER " "ViV UillktlUlVO 11UU i-l IX 4. II J Ul l.T diction. The amendment of the THE SOLDIERS' PENSION. It A 11 j HQ AD CO M3IISSIO X. Bill in regard to seduction of women, making seduction on prom ise of marriage punishable with ten years in the penitentiary. Mr. Watson offered as an amend. meut the words "o"t unsullied char acter," before the word "woman.4' Mr. Alexander said that from time immorial the punishment for this crime had been left with next of kin. The case of Simeon and Levi was referred to. Better leave the matter as it is. m- Mr. John M. Robinson, President of various railroads in North Caro lina has written a letter to Col. Win. Johnston : opposing itho" proposed Rail Road Commission. Appropos of the proposed visit to Raleigh by the "Salvation Army" the " Christian Advocate " says : "We want all the salvation we can get but we are not very fond of ar mies. The Southern Exposition will be held at Louisville, Ky., Iteginuing Aug., lst.,1883, and continuing one hundred -days.- Over $250,000 have been subscribed by the people of Louisville. . j "In God we trust'V is left off the new five cent pieces, j We are sup posed to put fflir trust now in Princes merchant, princes, rail road princes, and in other like chil dren of men. j' The Richmond "State" says the negroes are dying out slowly but surely and accounts for it because they are more subject to diseases arising from poverty and filth than the white people." , The New York "Globe,-" edited i i ... Dy coioreu men says "mere is no law in the 'United States vfr- the negro. The whole thing is a beg garly farce." The republican party will please take notice. a young girl was arresteu in ''New York the other day for. being disguised as an old woman, where uiMiu a uewspajMr was mean enough to say that thtMihi woman disguised committee was adopted. Upon motion of Mr. Hill further consid eration of the bill was postponed. A bill to prevent renters of houses from holding over when noti fied byjlandlords to quit the house, passed its third reading in the Sen ate yesterday. Last week, the North Carolina Legislature'charted two'cotton fac tories and six'mining companies. HOW SOME EDITORS ARE TREATED BY PATRONS. A Widow's Damages. HOW A POOR WOMAN EXPECTING $50 POCKETED SIXTY TIMES AS MUCH. Not long'ago a man crossing a railroad track on a mule was struck by a locomotive and killed. The mule was also hur- s,Mr. Watson offered the following ried into eternity. The ? man proviso : Provided that the nncor- wMle sober wag a gentleman, lint Tull ATT rl mntirn r. nnfnjf tt shall not be sufficient to convict. " " t-," "J Mr. Boykin said if the woman rant of tne deepest dye. With- was of unsullied character corrob- out any provocation whatever orating proof should not le re- he used to beat his wife and quired. Mr. Loftin, an amendment : In sert "virtuous" before the word "women." Mr. Caho, an amentmeiit : Pro vided, that the promise of marriage be in writing. Mr. McLean opposed the bill. Let the matter remain as now. As the Romans regarded parricide, so let us regard the crime of seduc tion. Instead of in a statute, let lock her up in the wardrobe, hence when she heard of his death it was not so mnch a case of heavy bereavement as it was of migated affection. As the engineer of the locomotive was clearly to blame for the acci dent it was suggested to the widow that she bring a suit for damages. She resolved to do so I and called at the office of the the punishment be in the breasts railroad company. The proper of the good and true men of the official happened to be in. The land. widow had such a clear case On motion of 'Mr. Boykin, the against the company that it was bill was tabled ; yeas 16, nays. 10. Mr. Evans: Bill to allow justices of the peace the same fees as coun tv commissioners whenever they meet with said commissioners to levy taxes. THE PENSION BILL. The discussion in the House in deemed advisable to comprom ise the matter. "Now, madam," said the offi cial, after the widow had thrown back her veil and siated her businsss, "we are willing to do what is fair in this matter. regard to pensioning soldiers who There is really no occasion to lost limbs in the Confederate Ser- go to law. It is a delicate ques- vice was quite animated. Mj. Tate tion to discuss, so I think, said he had as much sympathy for Without goinginto the merit's as a girl is still at large. . aneioy "Aurora:" ; Most of the time of the legislature has been oc copied by the introduction of bills and resolutions. Manv of these bills are private au.l of no impor tance to the masses, vet thev con suine much time and cost money to the State. ""luiuuu, uuiunu, nas a scan dal. It is all aWut Rev. T. R. Be attie, pastor of the First Presbyte nan ehurch. He and his wife are hot harmonious, and a pretty Miss uuivtu uvea m jie iaunly. As vony Rattle sai)1? uXhen trouble began." A 111' ' i "Chinese American," will soon be published in New York. It will be printed on yellow pa,er with Chi nesecnaracters. Type will not be usea as the number of Chinese char are aoont 60,000. It will be iLuugrapueu. - ' '";-!.:,'v -. the Here are some of the itenis of the a. a t ;n t - taiin nui; vjastor oil pays a duty ol 102 per cent, attar of roses none ; rice, 123 per cent, oil of lergamot none; common window glass SO per cent., cinnamon none- blankets f0 and wool hats 75 percent., pimento and nutmegs none ; spool thread JO and champaign only 43 per cent. How can such a law be i ust ? "Vance," inquired Edmunds the other day, when do you get the time to prepare your tariff speeches! "Oh," replied Vance, "my col league s:ts up till 2 o'clock in the morning writing them, and V de liver them next day." can stand that if Vance can," said Ransom, when Vance's thrust was reported to hini.: X. . Suu. During Lent says the Greensbo ro Patriot, there is neither niairv iug nor feasting, dancing or well, yes, love making, webelive may go on sub rosa, but not with too much ardor. Only two kisses alowed one at meeting, the other on de parting, and these neither too long nor two sweet. A great many other things must be observed. China possesses the longest bridge in the world. It is at La gang, over an arm of the China Sea, and is five niik long, built en tirely of stone, 70 feet high, with roadeway 70 feet wide, and has 300 arches. The parat is a bains trade, and each of the pillars, which are 75 feet apart, Supports a pedes tal ou which is placed a lion 21 feet long, made ; uf one block -of marble. In tearing up the floor a mail car at Wilmington, Delaware, thirty seven letters were found Histed in 1S71. There were several contain ing remittances; one was an order for fresh fish. A gilt edged card was an invitation to attend a ba in 1871, but the person to whom it was addressed was beyond the fas cinations of the dance. Several persons received letters from peo pie whose funerals they had Ion ago attended. A traveller on a German railroac train attempted to eat a lunch while on the journey. While putting piece of bologna sausage in his mouth the "train stopped suddenly, causing his chetk to be badly cut on the edge of lis knife, which he was using. The man sued the com pany 'for damages, but his claim was the Confederate soldier as any one could have. He was one himself and would be covered by the bill but that he wished the House to remember it was a matter of $75, 000. Among others Mr. Sanford said he was in favor of deciding the question now, and was ready to go on record. It was a debt we owed them, and that when they went in we promised to take care of them, and we ought not now to refuse to handed over, the papers signed help them because the flag they and the widow walked out into fought for went down in blood and the street in a bewildered frame defeat. He believed that the peo- 0f mind. As she cashed the pie of his county would be willing dck saia to herself confi to pay this pittance ; ami it there dentially ; "I didn't expect to was a man in Dunlin county who a-of more than Sf0. T reckon of it, I will tender you a check for $3,000 and you will sign a paper releasing the company from any further demands." The widow stared and asked, How much V "I am authorized to pay you $3,000." ; "I accept it," she said, very much agitated. The check was not sustained, hn the ground that it is a breach 1 etiquette to eat with a knife Quid not, he did not want his vote. He was in favor of coming to a vote at once. UA.IL HO A I) COMMISSION. A majority of the .committee on the railroad commission have agreed to report favorably the Boykin bill with certain amendments. The )oykin bill provides for three com missioners, to be elected by the General Assembly, at a salary of $3,0i)0, to be paid out of the State treasury, which will be reimbursed by an assessment, by the auditor upon the gross earnings of the dif ferent railroads. The commission ers elect a clerk and prescribe his duties. His salary is $1,300. The term of office is tour years. The commissioners have the right to superintend, regulate and control railroads and to prevent unjust and unreasonable discrimination. They fix a time schedule for the roads, have the power, and it is their duty to investigate all accidents, etc. and report to the General Assembry. They have a general supervising power over the roads. THE SCHOOL LAW. Mr. Womack, bill amendatory to chapter 200, laws of. 188.1, known as the 'school law, This bill provides that railroad fellow didn't know how old that mule was." From the Savannah Recorder. :o: THE ADVERTISING AGENCY. -"' ' 1) A 1LY O CC Ulllt KNCES. "I would like to have an adver isement inserted." This is a slogan that would resur rect a dead mrtn behind a newspaper counter and the clerk turned as it moved by ah electric current and ejaculated : ' "Yes, sir; want the top of the column, s'pose f" j "No ; I am not particular," said the advertiser. "Want it inside" next to reading editorials ?" "Either page will answer," re plied the other. j "Want a cut of a death's head and marrow bones or a sore leg to make it attractive, or a potrait of the advertiser with long hair and a turn-down shirt collar ?" "Clean type, black ink and white paper are good enough lor me, was the response. "All right; want head line in type an inch longer than Jenkin's ad, in next column, or will you have it upside down oriyour name in crooked letters like forked lighten ing all over it ?" "No, a plain, straightforward ad vertisment in space ' of four inches will answer ray purpose." "Good euougli. What about ten inches of notice free, don't you? Family history ; how your grand father blacked Washington's boots once ; mention of yourself as a mem ber of a circulating library, chur:;h, fire company, co-operative store, base ball club and other important public positions." j The customer said he did notn care lor any notice. .; "Of course," said the clerk, "you want a free paper sent to each mem ber of the firm, one for yourself and the privilege of taking half dozen copies off the counter every week for the next year or two be cause you advertise." . The gentleman expected to pay for his paper and asked the price of the advertisement. ' The delighted clerk figured it ui and then asked : ; "If we send you the bill around in about a year you can tell the boy when to call again, can' you ?" "No, I will pay you now," said the other, taking out a roll of bills The newspaper man's eyes bulged as he said : i "Ah, you want to ; ask tor io per cent, discount and 25 per cent, off tor cash V, i . "I am ready to pay a fair price counties Monday was kept un der the designation of "Collop Monday." Pancake Tuesday was then held as a holliday. ; The pancake bell, rang in the afternoon, not only announced the time for commencing the. frying of pancakes, but pro-' claimed a jubilee for children, apprentices and servants, A writer in an English journal of some sixty years ago thus . de scribes the celebration of the "Miserere" in the Sistine chapel at Rome : "It was an occasion never to be forgotten. The sha dow of evening had cjosed in, and it would have been utter darkness but for the dull, red glare from the hidden lights of tne unseen choristers and which, commingling with the deepening twilight, produced a most mel ancholy gloom. After a deep and very impressive silence the solemn chant began and it seem ed as if never before by anv mortal ear had been heard a strain of such powerf ul, heart rending pathos. . The accordant notes of voices, and one that seemed more than human, ap peared ascending to heaven for pardon to mankind and mercy for a sinful and fallen world. It had nothing of this world about nothing that partook of the ordinary feelings of our. na ture. It was such as disembodied spirits might have used who have just passed the boundaries of death and sought relief from the mysterious weight of woe and the tremblings of mortal agony that theyjiad suffered in their passage j through portals of the grave. It was the music of another sphere than ours ; and never again shall I, in all probability, listen to the Uke until my feet have gone down into the icy river and having come out of the waters shall stand on. that shore where there shall be no disappointment, nor sorrows, nor tears; neither shall we know hunger or thirst any more. The music might, to my protestant ears, have partaken somewhat of the dramatic, but I must confess in all sincerity, that it lifted me nearer heaven than I ever was before ; and LOVE AND MURDER :0:- A MAN SHOOTS HIS WIFE I: WHILE INI Ar JURY ROOM. A PLOT BETWEEN THE TWO. DEATH MET It It A VELY. St. Louis, Feb.5. A career of crime was eudpd here to-day in a once startling and terrible. A prisoner about? to be put on trial lor murder shot himself in the. jury room, having jin instant previous ly put a bullet -through the brain of his wife. When it was knowu that the wretched man! had ended his life, and -At the imaderons ! A JOURNALISTIC ESSAY. While a certain amount of brain (enough to keep out of the fire, for example) is neces sary for the successful conduct of a newspaper, the knowledge of how to use what one has is far more important. A man of very ordinary intellect - and ac quirements, who knows his busi ness is economical, industrious, energetic, enterprising, pains taking and careful of leaks will usually succeed in journalism, while the most brilliant intel lect and profound scholarship will inevitably go down if the practical working of the busi ness is not understood thorough ly, and if the most unremitting attention is not given to every detail of the complex affairs of a newspaper. A man might write an editor SUNDAY READING "WHAT DR. DEEMS HAS TO SAY OF AN ENEMY. machinery of I a trial for murder had been prepared in vain, the law- jers, witnesses and spectators eath ered in the court room poured out! jal eVeFy day elual ln auty into thGi;tssakresofth,,Vr.v,h.1nn,.fUIlIlougul an composition w ed buildiuj: and waited in exiMM ta- the flnest passages of Shakes tion of seeing jthe body, of the, man who had made such terrible exit from the world. But the murder.s life clung to hour after the brain. Shortly him for nearly an bullet entered his thereafter two can readily understand how a; soul, afflicted with the cares of ; life, crushed, bowed down and broken by repeated trials, can! find a solace in a creed that1 touches so closely upon the ten-i derest chords of our humanity." i T That Bad Boy Again. for value regular rates received. and Tell me your there is the A Sword's Story. The tearing down , of an anti quated house- at St. Augustine, Fla., brought to light a rusty sword. To it is attached a story. Eighty years ago, at a grand ball given by the Spanish gentleman who lived in the house, two officers came to high words over the at tentions paid them by a beautiful lady presjnt. They repaired to the street and fought a duel with swords. One man fell dead. The other thr;w away his weapon and fled. A little child who had been a witnes to the encounter picked up the fword and carried it into the house. It was hidden, that at least oiw evidence of the .bloody deed night be concealed. Long, after tie story of the crime had been forgotten the finding of the blood-slained blade calls it anew to mind.-Telephone. money." j A beatific expression spread over the wan face of the worn clerk, and he murmured : j "Stranger, when did you come down, and when do you expect th Apostles along T"-rBoston Com inercial Bulletin: The Lenten Season. The Tramp's Lament. Y'es, the laws are growing harder, Tlipnlieemen nress me sore.' that teachers of public schools shall And I cannot stock my larder Witfi lat chickens as ol yore. not drajw pay for teachers prior to the datie of theiv certificate.- It re-' quires che-superiuteudent in each county to sign all orders which are drawn upon the school fund. The way the law now stands he is re quired to sign only those from teach ers to draw their pay, while the bill introduced requires him to sign or ders to pay for repairing or build: I am vatched, and I'm suspected Wfeff I travel through a town ; Fron) the kitchen's I'm ejected I'itt abused and limited. down. Sooiimy clothes must lw discarded, Thev are spotted o'er with dirt ; But the clothes-lines all are guarded Aid I cannot get a shirt. f : I - - . . t i ing school houses, or for any other unSetr 1 m . iklUX 1U I J LV J.HtV a ........ ...... f I ait driven from the orchard "Tith a dog in hot pursuit. I '.''' I . Yet, the awful day is n earing Vhen some work I'll have to do ; This is what I most am fearingj And what makes me feel so bine. f purpose, when the money is to come from the school fund. It also re quires the county superintendent to take an oath le.fore entering upon the discharge of his, duties, and that he shall keep a book of records of the status of the school fund of each school district, and all orders signed by him, so that he may be able at any time to give a detailed and full account of the school opera tions in his county. Bill to proyide further compen sation for witnesses attending mag istrates courts' was taken up for srvn c iA Dm f 1 rn ft ollrvTT-ol nil WUUUiUHIMUt V Will MAVJ 1 V Ull I ! ,. . , PC witnesses attending magistrates Pfomptly sent to prison for five nrirrs miA dollar wr dav. Thft in- Vtars. The llle Ot a convict soon diciarv committee recommended an bfoke down his mind and body. amendment making it fifty cents sM he died at the end of eighteen ner day. and onlv two witnesses be l aonths. She Rev. George n. Austin was n paid his salary regularly at Madison, Indiana, and in order to rase money he forged the name of a ich member of his church to a chftck. trustiu'r to the man's for- gi'eness for protection for expo siire and punishment; but he was The season oj Lent takes its I name from the time of the year in which its observance is held. The word is Saxon and signifies spring, and is now used to sig nify the spring time fast which always begins so as it may end at Easter, to remind us of the sufferings of Him who was at last glorified at the Resurrec tion. The first dav of this sol emn festival in the Catholic and Episcopal churches was called Ash AVednesday, from the an cient ceremony of blessing ash es on that day, and therewith the priest signed the people on the forehead with the sign of the cross, saying, "Memento, homo, quod pulvis es, et in pul verum reverteris" (Remember, man, that dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return). The ashes used were from the palms consecrated on the previous Eas ter. Many instances of fasting by religious enthusiasts are on record. A Saint Gregory Nazia en assures us that in his time several monks or hermits (he calls themsoUtary) spent twenty days without food or drink, and that he personally knew of one in his diocese whd actually ac complished this wonderful work of abstinence. Paul, the first hermit of which we read, Uved under a palm tree JL or thirty years, his food and clothes be ing given him, the former being raw herbs and pulse, yet he reached the age of 113 years. Hillarian attained 80 years, al though he never ate until after sunset, nor made any change in his fast on account of ill health. Instances of a similar character could be multiplied, but it would be of smaU profit. The day before Ash Wednes day is called Shrove Tuesday, from an old word "shrive," which means to hear or make confession. In the olden time in England, and up to this day, it was styled "Fastern Eve," and Pancake Tuesday. In York shire and some of the midland Well, you are the meanest boy I; ever heard of," said the grocery; man. "But what about your pa's dancing a clog dance in church; Sunday? The minister's hired girl was in here after some cod fish' yesterday morning, and she said the minister said your pa had scan dalized the church tho worst way."j 'O, he'didn't dance in church. He was a little excited that s all. You see, pa chews tobacco, and it is! pretty hard on him to sit alii through the sermon without tak-j ing a chew, and he getsj nervous He always reaches around in hisj pistol pocket when they stand up: to sing the hist time, and feels in! , . . , , . . i nis rooacco oox ami gets out ai chew,aiid puts it in his mouth when! the preacher pronounces the bene-! diction, lie always does that W ell, my chum had a present on Christmas of a music box, just' about as big as pa's tobacco Ikx, and all you have to do is to touch aspring and it plays. "She's a Dai-j sy, She's a Dumpling. ; I Torrowedi it and put it in pa's pistol pocket where he keeps his tobacco lox,! and when the choir got most! through singing pa reached his pocket and began to fumble aroundj for a chew. He touched the spring, and just as everybody bow ed their heads to receive the lene- diction. and it was so still vouj could here a gum drop, the inusiq box began to play, and in the still-j ness it sounded as loud as a church organ. Well, I thought ma would sink. The minister herd it, and looked toward pa, and pa turne red, and the music box kept up "Sne's a Daisy," and the minister looked mad, and said A men." am the people legau to put on their coats, and the minister told tht deacon to hunt up the source o ' that worldly music, and they took pa into the room back of the pulpif and searched him and ma & pa wilj have, to le churched. They kepi the music 1kx, and I have got t4 carry in coal to get money enough to buv mv chum anew music box bodies were borne- out of the jury room to the Morgue one the corpse of the poor creatine w ho, it then began to !be known had con sented beforehand to be ' killed by the husband w'ho was to follow her instantly oat of the World. John C. Parker, the murderer, was a moulder by trade, and. for years had borne an evil reputation. He was arraigued to-day to stand trial for the murder of Michael Paytoh, a baker, whom he had stabbed in a drinking saloon. Nel lie Parker, thej young w ife, whose body now lies Hlrthe Morgue, was aslight,.pretty! and delicate little woman. .'-Though her family is not wealthy, her social position was so much' better than her husband's thatf their marriage about two about two. years ago made quite a local sensation!. Her devotion to the man of her; ' choice, rough and desperate as bje was, was known long before the tragedy of to-day. Ever since Parker's arrest the frail form of the young wife has been constantly seeu about the jail, and the sympathy of all employed about the jail was hers. Every moment that the legulatious -er-mittedshe spent iii his company, often bringing ;her infant with her. The murderer's affections for the devoted little cjreature seemed un bounded, and it was 'noted as his only redeeming feature."' t riiis trial, as nas neen said, was set down for to-day and he was brought into,coiirt with several oth er prisoners. The' court was crowd ed. The young wife, Nellie, was there, her baby boy in her arms. With her were two of Parker's sisters. She seemed ,cahn and even cheerful, and as soon as she could manage it crossed to the barred cage where he was confined, and leaned against it talking to him through the grating.. The attend- Ratks of Advektnino. -....1 ,.nM 4 W ,4 , i N ,.., -..I U I food reference U riven. A.N ENKmV IS NOT PARTIAL. ants made way. for her, and notic ed the affectionate nature of her greeting to bin and the gentleuess with which he ! While thev I, replied to her. were conversing Governor P. Johnson, his attorney rose in the court, and asked per mission to consultwith his client iii tbejury room. Permisson was granted. An officer took the man from the cage'. Nellie, with a smile handed the laughing baby to her sister in law and -walked be side her husband across the comt, the".lawyers, Governor -Johnson and Presley N. Jones leading and the sisters following. The spectators gazed at the lit tle procession, with some interest; biit, save: the jwifc and -.-husband,, no one knew it', was a process to death for (two oi them. Yet such it was. to ije rough, desjerate fellow it Was the way to deliveranc, eventtiirough the grave. But to thelfttle creature by. his si'de it was such, a test of will - iower that it can hardly j be .'.measured. She knew that he was going to kill her; He Couldn't Do It. Two men are walking together -j one a smoker, one an admirer of King James' counter blast. What are yo.u smoking! A cigar can't you see? I mean, how much did it cost? Ten cents. Ten cents? Ah! how long have? yon been smoking! About thirty years. About thirty years? Why, with; the money vou have spent on cigars you could have longht one of the swellest houses on the avenue; here! ." . - " j Don't you smoke! - j If Never. I never have smoked. Then show me j our house. :N fate Shell. . -j peare, and his circulation would be limited to the small propor tion of people in his-communi ty who have taste and time to appreciate such' things if he did not keep the reading and news columns up to the proper stan dard. In the same place a man who sayswhat he has to say briefly and plainly, without of fending decency, and devotes most ofjhis time to getting news keeping down expenses ana keeping up appearances wil succeed. Fine writing and ab stract brains will' not make a newspaper any more than they will make a grocery business, Hard, steady work and close at tention will succeed in both or either. The anxiety to build reputa tions by special writing is the curse of practical journalists. Humor is the most popular thing in newspaper writing, and it has lured many a bright fel low to his mental and financial destruction. It is as inevitable as any operation in mathemaW ics, that the man who underr takes to be funpy every week will in time lose his faculty of exciUng mirth, and be thrown aside like a sucked orange,1 a wreck, with all the life drawn from him by a remorseless pub lic appetite, and abandoned for a new favorite. Who ever heard of the Dan- bury News man, whose anec dotes set the whole country to laughing and ran up his circu lation enormously a few years ago ? AVhere is Spoonpendyke whose chronicles recently filled the columns of every newspa per? Whofcnoweth the tomb even of tlie New York Times funny man at whose quips and quaints conceits we all roared of late ? Where can we find iniliam Nye whoso nastiness made soiite people laugh so up roariously? Even the perennial Bijah and his police court have lost their hold on the pubUc, al though the Detroit Free Press is still fresh, flourishing and popular as lever, because its fim is not its only dependence, There are signs of weakening in the humor of the Texas Sifings. Quotation from tile Chicago Tribune romancer are becoming rare in our exchanges, and Mark Twain in his last public speech gave token of incipient idiocy, while Burdette, the lrince of them ail; has taken to writing rather sloshy sentiment. If we were appointed to a chair of journalism in the Bier ian puddle we would have but one lecture for journaUsts in tendant 'Don't try to be elo quent, don't try to be pathetic, don't try to be funny! say what you've got to say as briefly and strongly as you can to be Intel ligible, and work, you miserable EXEMthS WELL DESCRIBED Remark the uses of an enemy, a brisk, hearty, active enemy: The having one is proof thai yon are ioineloy. tshywiash.v, empty, worthless people, even have enemies. Men who never move neve? ruu against anything-, and when a man is thoroughly dead and utterly buried, nothing ever runs against him. To le rim against, is proof of existence ami I tosition; to run against .something. is proof of motion. , 2 An enemy is, to May the least, not partial to you. He w ill not flatter. He will not exaggerate your virtues. It is " very probable ' that he will slightly magnify ' your faults. The benefit of that is two fold. It permits you to know that you have faults; it makes i.hem vis. ible and so manageable. Of course, if you have a fault, you desire to correct it. Your enemy does for you this valuable work which - yowr frieud cannot perform. - 3. In addition, your enemy kecs you wideawake. He does not let you sleep at your jiost. There ro two that always keep watch namely, the lover and the hater. Your lover watches that you wuty sleep. He keeps off noises, exclude light, adjusts surroundings, that, nothing may disturb you. Your hater watches that you may not sleep. He stirs you up when you are napping. He keeps your fac ulties on the alert. Even when tie does nothing, he will have put. you in such a state of mind that vou cannot tell what he will do next' and his inentle nut rirt must w worth something. 4. He is a detective aiming your friends. - You ueed to . know who ' your friends are, and who are not, . and who -are your enemies. The last of these three will discriminate the other two. When your enemy goes to one who is neither friend nor enemy, and assails you, the in different one will have nothing to say or chime in, not because he in . your enemy, but localise it i.s much easier to assent than to u jhjsc, and socially than to' refute But your friend will take i p cud gels for you ' on the iiiHtnid. lb1 will deny everything and ihhM n proof, and prooving in very hard work. Your friend will call voiir enemy to the proof, and d lho in different irnou, through carehs ness, repeats the assertions -ol Mmr enemy, he is soon made to leel the ineonvenioncM thereof by tlie" zeal your .."friend manifests. Follow our enemy and you win nun our iriends, lor he will have developed them so that they cannot in- mis taken. , . The next bes- thing .to having j hundred'realffr'M'iids, is lo have om-- open enemy. i ; - locked the door whereby they had entered, j Husband and wife sat sue nau agreed w .ub t " j outcasts , iFork morning, noon lie nau the weapon ol iaie unin ; . j 1imi,K, Vmi concealed, .Clinging to her l.us-;i and night, and everywhere you band. Vlesoaireil at heart, but calm?" are needed, from writing lead- oj face, shepasked on with him and : ers to proving galleys or wash- closed upon her as the attendant i ing rollers '; work all tne Time, and in all places ana an ways and every day, and then die suc cessful and happy, leaving be hind you the reputation of a brilliant geniu, and have the most idiotic utterances of your work-be-muddled brain held up in after years as the inspirations of an intellectual giant !' Lite it Down. Has a foolish word Ix-cn rpnken, Or an evil deed lieen ilom-; . . - , Has the heart I wen almost bi.kcnVr For the. friends that now disown! Iiet not coldness or tlie frown Snake thy manhood live it down. Is the stern tradncer sneering. Thrusting innuendo vile; With the world's opinion -vcei ing. Basking iii its fickle xmile? What are tin? gossips with their frown! . . i3nzzing insects live if down. VerJict fairer will lie given In the solier alter- thought: Ciuirity, sweet child of heaven, 4 . Judgement harsh will icf at nought, 1 Then will grieve mercy's frown . Smite tlie slanderer live it-dovii But if man refuses to soften ' For that weakness he m y feel, There is one forgives as often-v -As to him we'etfbose 'to kneel. , Droop not, then, fall should frow n: With auch frienflidiiiv live it down. Edward ). Floyg- dbwn on a ljench together. At thik moment, at was that Parker swiftly drew hps piste! and putting the muzzle against the back of his wife's. hi?ad, )ulled the trigger. The report rang out, and brought all to their feetja-s the young wife tumbled jforward in a heap to the floor dead! before any one could take a st?p toward the murdere r it is with deep feelings of regret Parker had fired again, the bullet) and awe that we record the sad this timet piercing his own braiii- j news of the insanity of W. A. Guth Hi fell beside her not dead,-, but j rie. Esq., of Fa etteville. He was soon to die. I - Consternation was on every face Court officials rushed in and doc, ) - When the missionaries find opened their schools in Syria the. bad to lieg parenU to send their daughters, and to induce them to doit, tioard and teach them free; now parent come with money m their hands and beg them to take their daughter iierfectly willing U pay for both board and Initio-. There are now neven thousand five hundred girls in mission whooN in Syria .A d rota te. ! a man of brilliant intellect and of ! legalability and power; "he is now a raving maniac at the Insane tors were summoued. In foity! Asylum. What a immentary minutes Parker breathed his last. ! upon man's nothiDgnj8, and hj( The tragedy was over. absolute deiendence i tpon God! r i i . I !! i . ' ......... A man may attempt to cat two partridges a day for thirty days id any .Southern town, and if he vouiiU kimself to death, there will I iamIiaM if IllA ..III. be no geaerai mcuuuu ui lucaiwo But let bim start it in New York, and the papers all. over the coun try will devote their columns to recording how he progresses, how often be throws.np, the state of his pulse and soon. If you hanker after notoriety begin your foolish ... in Vow' York. Star. jjc-.-v.-v " k