North Carolina Newspapers

WILSON ADVANCE. 1 v I ' " I ' " '-- ' Published Every Friday at ; Wilson, North Carolina, j -BY- JOStPHLS: ll.VMlLS. - Editor and Proprietor j :o:- Subscription Hates in Advance One Year.! i f JJJ SU Months - j 1 00 rVMonef tun s sent by Money uruer or rcMoiiej can Ix; scut iy .1 IteiriHterfM Letter at mr rink. NEWS or A WEEK v (; vtiii:kkj FROM all farts OF Till: WOULD. 1 1 1 : 1 1 F, T I 1 K 1 1 1 K VERY wnEiii: I'l: v a Li. i V 1 1 s - v, r, ea n is a s Congress will adjourn tomorrow (SiitunLiy). ; j ' There are now -10 students at (Ik; lnivcisity. ' ; j .. Tin' Sampson Light Infancy have ordered their uniforms, j L ! i ; !- Dr. D -cms w ill lecture in Wil miiigtou March l.'Uli, n."TiillQS." Tin- Taiboto ' Southerner will be sold at public auction March 19th. Halifax Superior -Court, March iiOtli. Judge I'l lib s wi 'Neither, member of 1 preside. the Civil from the Service South. imission is The Gazelle says !i;.Ut 30 bushels rice have been marketed ington. iii Wasli ; in Ghar- Dr. Talmage will lectin ( lotte on -the Oth. of March cm the Bright -Swle of Things- I i i Any person in Pennsylvania over sixteen may be rind for using the name; ol (lod in vuin.- . i A colored woman 'mffmlell coun ty was turned out-of the chinch for putting a button in the contri tion box.; 1 - ! Miss Mary Belle Bartley, who lias just j become a brie ton, Virginia, is thirteen ten montjis old. An u n nun ricd man in siied his! own mother. e in sran- vears and Maine has 1 Ins is a case where a fellow has is mother- in-law and never had a wife. A man in Georgia made 9,000 last vear lroni 100 acres of water melons. J This year TOO acres, in seven counties, will be planted with the vine.! . I -. . I' ! Another curiosity in Martin, in the person of a little onocvt; its black as win'', while the other girl who has the,, raven s is a perfect blue. Doriuan I. Eaton, of New York Ino. M. (Jrcgory. of Illinois, and L. D. Thorn is, of Ohio, jhave been nominated for Civil ServiceCom- missioners. A. lady in (lrensoro; who was in the incipient stages of consump tion, has been cured by kerosene oil and sugar, is entirely restored. the use of ler health Kentucky still j retain the! pro vision that 'Xo'-person, while he continues toexerci.se the functions of a clergyman, priest or teacher of any religions persuasion, society or sect, shall! be eligible to the General . Assembly.'' 'i ' I It was Dr. John Toddi who said of married couples" 'fsome are swed together, and some arei only basted," and the same may be said with equal truth of church mem bers, j ; The l islf definition of the bicycle is that '-It is a slender, graceful ma 'Chine, comioseil of two wheels, the larger of which is turned by ; two cranks, operated by a third sitting ; :tbove them." j ; '('.ongressman Scales agress With Gen. Haneock that the tariff is only a local issue. There isl hardly a tree trader in iublie life but 'has some little industry at home which lie thinkf must have protection. That is bijshiess. j j The champion tish story of the period is that of a country edi tor who left bis sealskin' overcoat, containing 10,000 -. worth of dia inonds, on a chair in a hotel at rprntu'ia, Mas., and didn't find it uirain. . ; T j Whasliington's birth day was a legal hyliday and yet neither Co.a gress nor the State Legislature ob served it.! What is the use to sot aside a day as a legal holiday if the Legislators do not observe it! Vur voiing ladies have died at Lexiii-tonj Ky., from fevvr pro .dueed by mm- exertion at the roller skatin-rmii in that city. How so ciety would have howled if they had been 1K1(W to imo . t hemlBceU over the washtuh. In l.all..iiiiiv.rs,.ator in Ctdor .do the DevP received one vote. Al theivj are inany p0Oj,ie itl that cominonwealtlLwho lH.iieve tliathis .Nitame majesty wo.,1,1 have made a better representative than either o th Hnihoua.re senators who Ht.e.r seats by the free use of money . j Tli roughj Senator Ransom the du ty o,i cigarettes has been f,Xt,i '-ents instead of 75 ' cents-as i'-povtedby the committee; on fi nan. e. This reduction is very imj IkOI't-.lTlt - l . .. ' ' , - ....... , fM)rrn , jnoiina. and V ffiuia. r- Wale iri) tii.itt here was to hh-A been w.mi- j.. ot n lami .eck recently, but the groom could not marry both ladies'! as he Promised, i The ladies not wishing Jbuded "flections, ; each declined. The fascinating, young man has let to escape it is said, the vindi cative ire of male relative' .1 I i Iti VOLUME 13.-- A brute named Hanson at Pitts-f bur-, Ta, shot bis sweet-heart, m. .... i : ... . T . . i . , . 1 ... .i . i i ,iu ismip iin; Jim. aim int-ii Kiiieu himself.' She will recover. She is but fourteen. ''Her parents refused him when Jia w:iiitel to inarrv tier. XashviUe, Tenii., has j)roduced the premium female fiend. Her. son was dying of consumption and tired of waiting for his death she tried to suffocate him by burning feathers in his room. She was a confirmed drunkard. Idaho is relatively stronger in Mormonism than is Utah, there be ing ten Mor;nou representatives in ts Legislature one of whom is a liishop in the .Church, and fully one-third of the C5,00o inhabitants are abherentt of the Mormon, faith. Jim Kobbiuson forcibly remarks in every pajiej w e pick up we sety that "She wore a wreath of-loses.V We wish that Derry Pavi'ff Kain Pillcr would suggest that she changed her costume. A wreath of roses is pretty .thin clothing. Senator Hoar is reported to have said that "Beck rests his mind while .talking," and the Senator from Kentucky is credited with the statement that "Hoar reminds me of that sterile tract of ground in Vir ginia which John Randolph said was poor by nature and exhausted cultivation. I - Mr. W.'lX McAdoo, of Greens boro, wanted a plate of glass 23x32 inches., but in making the order wrote "feet." His order was filled. The glass was shipped in a vessel from France to .Norfolk. It is too ai-ge to come by railroad. The question is "How to get it to Greensboro." It cost 3.100. s an evidence ot the fact that China is progressing, it is given out that Mr. Yung Wing,, w ho gradua ted years ago at Y'ale College, has been appointed taotai of the c'tv of Shanghai. Taotai is the short for Chief Magistrate. Mr. Wing is a Christian with a Christian wife, though he preserves his heathen name. Says the Xetcx and . Observer. Apropos to the value of our tim ber, Dr. Council mentioned that he saw a man nay one of neighbors. in Watuga county, forty miles from any railroad, One hundred dollars cash down for a single tree, and it was not a very big tree either. Without doult we have the finest maple and walnut in America, not to speak of other woods. The Messenger says we see that Mr. John R. Smith has introduced a bill providing for working the public roads in Wayne county by taxation. We suggest that the caption to the bill should rea.d "a bill provided-Tor working the public roads out of the scanty rents on lands owned, by widows and or phans, and to exempt the negroes from, working the roads." The editor of a newspaper that has adopted phonetic spelling in a measure, received ji from anold siibscrber ; postal-card n the eoun try, which read as tblhvs "I hev tuk yer paper Tur leveu yeres, but if you kant spel enny better than yu hev bin doin fur the las tu months you may jes stoppit." An old German couple, man and wife, living in Baltimore, were pressed for rent and deliberately took laudanum and thus ended the duns forever. They , came from Richmond, Va., and failing to find work in despair took their own lives. They wrote a letter to the Coroner which showed they fairly educated. were Gov. Bate, of Tennessee', recom mends the appointment of a coin, petent colored man as assistant superintendent of public instruc tion for the State-,' his duties to be confined to the colored race. Many colored men have, already called on the Governor and thanked him for the suggestion. I How would such a system work iu Xorth Caro lina 1 Senator Blair's bill for assisting public education in the Southdocs not create a permanent school fund but proposes to expend for the first year 1",000,000, to be distributed on the basis of illiteracy; for the second year 14,000,000, and 1,000.' 000 less each; year for ten years, when the distribution ceases. In ten years" the expenditure reach 103,000,000. would An old lellow named Hides up in Troy, New York, was told by "Clair voyant,'' Mrs.; Dr. Mann, that the. spirits had ordered him to inarrv i her. Being -a strong spiritualist, and having found a valuable miner- hi spring under the direction of spirits, he consented and was mar ried, ha viug first made a deed to his bride of the property, worth 25,000. He has since sued to have the marriage declared void and the deed cancelled, on the ground that he had been imposed upon ami has got a judment in his favor. What fools we mortals lie ! t. . , -..'., , t- Capt. A. Oaksmith had notice . - a,: i set t eu on mo uuiaais in i ne -uni- land Construction t'omp auv and the Midland XT. C. ..'Railroad Com pany xtn yesterday that a motion will be made by plaintiff, Oaksmith ou the Gth of March, at Wilson, before Judge McKoy, to require the production of the contract be tween W. J. Best and the Midland Company for inspection, - and also the books and accounts of the Com pany, aud that a motion will be made for a Receiver to take charge of the Midland Railway Company. flTTn T A W-Hf A KV R'S ' UUIt Jj ii V 1U A1Y.CJ JIO t j 1 j '( .A ' ., (DISCUSSION Ob THE CA1 lu EE A 11 & YADKIN VALLEY R. R. M R. DORTCH OX FREE PASSES THE ST A TUIIEDISTJIICTED. Legislative proceedings are not wholly devoid of interest. Occa sionally we find in the debates brilliant flashes of wit and elo quence. The Catawba . member wanted to amend the mechanic's lei n law iy adding physicians. He said : "That thfe physicians had been writing to him for relief, atul he ;ould see none for them, unless they took a lein on the patient and he wanted it to be a male pa tient at that. We append a sample of Senato rial eloquence. Discussing the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley E. E. Mr. Payne said : "The demands of the west are just and reasonable. I recall the names of Heath, the great jurist, and of Oordon, the soilder and pa triot. North Carolina is called up on to honor, aid and improve the laud of their nativity. Beneath the sod of western 2sorth Carolina, as in sacred crypts, repose the ashes of men whose virtue and pa triotic deeds of- valor make us feel proud that, we, too, are men, not withstanding the corruptions that degrade our race. Rich in mineral wealth ''and in resources, lofty in patriotism and true nobility of soul, ready at all times to respond to the calls of the State, 2forth Carolina aud in aiding in developing her in terests, will be just, and do honor and credit to her own great names.'" A SPIRIT OF INDUSTRY. 1 An interesting feature iu the pro ceedings of the Legislature is the number of bills introduced incor porating manufacturing and min ing companies, which is taken as a proof that the spirit of industry is not asleep, and is .not deterred by threats of panic and tight money. Two cotton manufacturing and a half dozen miuiu'g companies were chartered last week. . ABOUT FREE PASSES. Mr. Dortch has introduced a bill in the Senate making it unlawful for any railroad, steamboat com pany etc., to give to the Governor or any State officer, Judicial officers or members of the legislature, or de legates to political conventibns free passes, the act to take effect the 1st June, 1SS3. We trust our law-makers will pass no such bill. We regard it as an intimation that our public officials could be bribed by a paltry free pass. There is plenty of necessary legislation demanding the atten tion of our legislators without any attempt to iutefere with a man's private affairs. INSANE ASYLUM APPROPRIATIONS. There was onite :in animated dis- j cussing in the House over the above ! named bill. Some of the legisla tors openly charged Dr. Grissom w ith extravagrnce in the manage ment of the Raleigh Insane Asylum and the "separate items of the ex penditures for the past year were severely critized. It was charged against Dr. Grissom that he bought all the drugs and whiskey used at the Asylum from Tescud Lee & Co. of which firm he is a member. There was, on the part of the mem bers a laudable disposition to do away with all the "retLtape-ism"' about the Asylums and have them managed economically. The fol lowing appropriations were made. Raleigh Asylum, 58,000, Morgan- ton Asylum, 40,000, and Golds boro Asylum, 20,000. SCRAPS AND COMMENTS. The legislature very properly ta bled a bill for the support of the State Guard. We need no soldiers or military trappings iu this peace ful age. Bill to incorporate the town of Princeville;in Edgecombe. Mr. Gray ainended leaving the act just to the vote of the people. Adopted. Bill ? passed its thin reading. j A GEOGRAPHY OF TIIE STATE. i There is a bill before the House j relative to a geography of sorth f ,-,lu""i,? LU puonsuea oy air. I'eter M. JIale. The bill provides that if the geography when pub lished is acceptable to the State Board of Education, and the price agreed on between them and Mr. i-Hale, that then the board .shall dN rect it to W used in the common j S(hools ofNorth Carolina. redist'ricting the state. The Legislature wil make eight Democratic Congressional districts as follows : First District Beaufort, Cam den, Chowan, Carteret, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Mar- tin, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pitt, Tvr ., . . ' ' irell ami Washington. Second Bertie, Craven, Edge combe. Green, Halifax, Lenoir, Northampton, Vance, - Warren and Wilson. Third Onslow, Tender, Duplin, Sampson, Bladen, Wayue, Cum berland, Harnett and Moore. Fourth Napb, Franklin, Wake, Durham, Orange, Chatham, Ala mance and Johnston. : Fifth Gi-anville, Person, Cas well, Rockingham, Stokes, Guil ford, Surry and Forsyth. Wilson "LET ALL THE ESDS THOU AWI'ST AT, BE TIIF 'COUNTRY'S, WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH 2. 1883'. Sixth New Hanover, Brunswick, Comn lb Eichl non(LAnson Uriion i r Stanly, Cabarrus, Robeson and Mecklenburg. Seventh-Montgomery, Randolph, Davidson, Rowan, Davie, Iredell, Catawba and Yadkin. Eight -Wilkes, Alexander, Ashe, Watauga, Alleghany, Caldwell, Burke, Cleaveland, Gaston and Lincoln. 1 Xinth Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon, Swain, Jackson, Haywood, Transylvania, Henderson, Polk, Rutherford, Buncombe, McDowell, Madison, Yancey and Mitchell. This is the bill as reported favora bly by the sub committee, and will be adopted by the Legislature. , The following will be the majori ties. 1st District Democratic, 428 2nd. District Eepublican, 10,000 3rd. District Democratic, 999 4th. District Democratic, 809 5th. District Democratic, 1,118 Gth District Democratic, 1,313 7th District Democratic, 1,400 8th Districtt Democratic, 15,00 9th District Democratic, 1,082 THE CODE. A bill providing for the publish ing and distribution of the code was introduced and passed its third reading in the Senate. The code will be in two volumes, and as ma ny as ten thousand copies each be. published. It may be stereotyped, and the printing done either in or out of the State, as the committee sees best. Nearly a thousand bills have been introduced in the House. A Sad Case of Desertion. The Statesville "Landmark" says, "In the early part of December last Burette Lytton, a young man of Fallstown township, was married to Miss Delia Hoover, a pretty, at tractive girl of the same township, only 16 years of age. Lytton ren ted laud of Mr. M. W. White, of Davidson township, and he aud his wife had just gotton aud com fortably settled in there new home when, last week Lytton borrowed a buggy, hitched his horse to it and went off on a debauch. His horse ran away with him, just below Troutman's, and wrecked the bug gy, and leaving this vehicle on the roadside the young man came to Statesville last Saturday and offer ed the horse, for which he had but recently given $70, for half this sum. II finally sold it to a gentle man here, for 25 and boarded the train the same afternuon, announc ing his purpose to go to Texas. He- has not since been heard of, and his young wife, who has re turned to her father's house, is in consolable. She was devotedly at tatched to him and is inexpressibly grieved by this manifest at ion of his perfidy. She says they had lived together in great happiness and that Lytton had never spoken an unkind word to her or given any evidence whatever of dissatisfac tiou in his married lite, lie wras known to have had an attachment before his marriage for a woman of the neighborhood who had recently goneprobably with her parents, to Texas, and it is guessed that Lytton has gone on to join her. Kindness in the Guise of Cruelty. Kindness in the guise of cruelty was shown in a uovel way by a Montana stage driver on WedneS' day ot last week. The stage was on its way from Deer Lodge to Missoula and was passing over the Flint Creek Hills. So intense was the cold that the only passengers, a w oman and her little child, were in danger of freezing to death. The mother's heart was so worked upon by the condition of her child that she placed around the babe all her wraps. The driver saw that drowi ness,'the first stage of freezing, had fallen upon the wretched worn an. He put his coat around her, but the blood seemed to be stanc ing still. Then he grew very harsh seized the woman, dragged her from the coach, and left her by the roadside. "Oh, my baby," the mother cried. The driver cracket his whip. The stage flew over the snow, with the woman running after. The race was kept up for nearly two miles,'when the. driver took the mother in and again wrap ped his coat around her. By clever ruse he had saved her life Dogs as a Projection to Sheep. ' Mr. Jim Norwood, of old Orange is at the Yarboro. I said to him "you are a great sheep man and keep hounds." "Yes," he said, "I have a pack of twelve hounds and they are protection to my sheep. Let a dog come within a mile of my place just near enough to scent him and he won't go there again. And if find a hog track in my corn-field all I have to do is to point the track to my dogs and' say sick him, and if the hog is half a mile off down in the bushes, no difference, they get him. Why, I've got SO game hens now at home on a low roost nothing to do but reach up and take them, but I know they are safe, my dogs are there." Mr. Norwood has sixty sheep, cottswold and south down; he sells his lambs at ten dollars a piece. Correspondence o the Greensboro "Patriot." J..W. SHACKLEF0RD ADDRESSES BY OUR SENA TORS, RANSOM AND VANCE. RANSOM'S ORNATE ADDRESS CHRISTIAN STATES3IAX. We regret that we have not the pace to publish in full the eloquent - addresses of Senators Ransom and ance in the Senate on the 17th inst., in memory of the late John W. Shackelford. - . f i In the course ot a very eloquent and ornate address Senator Ean som said : "Mr. Shackelford was not a brilliant man. He was never he "observed ot all observers." But he possessed in a very large measure the qualities that make great and good men. He had ex cellent common sense. He was a good judge of.the relation of means to ends. He was decidedly and eminently a practical! man. He saw things as they were in their true and real light. No illusions, no phantoms, no chimeras, no mira- ges deceived his clear sight and sense. His moral qualities were always in the ascendant. Honor, fidelity, truth, courage and con science were ever with him and of turn. He believed 1 in j what was true. He loved what was honora ble. He practiced what was iust. No man ever more f0thfully fol- owed his convictions of right. He scorned, as he was free from, all ar tifices. He moved on straight lines from point to point, and in all things and at all times bore him self directly and erectly Evasion, equivocation, found not one parti- le of favor in his upright nature. To these strong qualities he united the high sentiments of generosity, magnanimity, and sympathy for his fellowman. I He was happy when he saw oth ers happy, and always deeply af fected by human suffering.' As an illustration of this fact I know the Senate will pardon me for an allu sion to the last incident of his manly life. Iu those extreme mo ments when the shadows of death were hovering over mortal inteUi- gence and the light of reason was struggling in that transient eclipse which so often precedes the passage from wprld to world, the ruling pas sion of his noble nature asserted itself, aud the last words which he spoke revealed the goodness of his leart. "That noor womian's home must be saved. I musi help her." A desolate widow had appealed to him to save her home and this was his answer from the very gates of death. No nobler words ever passed the lips of man. 'j1 Woman !" her "home !" "help" for her ! There is embodied all that lis noblest, dearest and best. By the side of these words how poorj are "tete d" armeef "I am the state," and the other famous expressions attribu ted to the illustrious when dying ! Mr. Shackelford was a patriot in every sense of that greati and beau tiful wrord. His country was al ways before his eyes,, and always uppermost in his heart. For its T welfare and honor no sacrifice was too dear. In all things his country was first ; her liberties, ;her insti tutions, her history, her destiny her very physical characteristics everything of his country was most dear to him. He esteemed it the greatest of honor to serve his country. The just reputation of being the faithful representative and benefactor of his jieople was the iewel which he -sought. He looked upon that country as a young and noble lover would behold the loveliest of virgins, and think and feel it the highest .and best duty and fortune to be constantly faith ful and to secure her confidence and affection only by deser injgthem. No man in all the South was more devoted to her fortunes ; but when hostilities ceased jno man sooner or more generously buried all sentiments of sectibual enmity In his earnest, practical.! hopeful. manly breast there was no place for revenges, no room lor bitter memories, no time for hopeless re pinings. lie desired to do some thing for the present and future and not look back . in despair on the troubled past. He permitted nothing to embarrass his 'devoted purppse to restore and preserve the peace, honor and happiness of his entire country. He loved jwith his whole soul the South; but he knew there was no conflict betwjeen that devotion and his to the Union. His attachment to his State, his dis trict, his country, his fcown j people, was so sincere and honest and in tense that it made him love and honor the same virtue in others. More than all, infinitely more than all, Mr. President, Mr, Shackel ford was a Christian. We cannot penetrate the heart or head and know their mysteries. I know not by what process of reason, in what form of conviction, or through what impulse his faith came, but that . -1 1 . ' -.-. 1 Ahyance. THY GOD'S, AD TKITIIS' faith was in him, and as clear to: him as the daily light of heaven; came to his physical eye and pave! mm Knowledge of all things around him. It is not for ihe to speak of these great truths the immortal! ife, the perfect law, the Supreme! Ruler. When I consider-the infinite: norance and dar kness of my State1 beside the wisdom and light which' governs and blesses the universe,! the past, the present, the future, it; would be audacious and pitiful- presumtion for me to speculate;! with deepest humility I should take! the law as the most helpless - child takes the law from the best of pa- rents. I, who cannot continue my ife for a moment; whose reasou' maybe dethroned in an instant; who cannot see into the future fori one second of time,j4who cannot? comprehend the origin or nature of my own being ; I, the merest atom' in the inconceivable creation, who may pass away in the twinkling of j an eye, presume to "scan the Al-! mighty, the Eternal, the Maker of all things !" Mr. Sackelford was a! Christian, sincere, practical,- ier-j vent. He had a Christian's 'cbur-J age, a Christian's charity, a Christ ian's grace. He was not bigotedj nor intolerant, nor critical. His piety was liberal, just, beneficent ; it shone in his daily life, in his kind words and kinder deeds, his regard, his compassion for and his duty to his fellowman. Like a HoYel. the story a "prominent citi zen" TOLD BY AN ATLANTA REPORTER. "In anti-war times there lived in Meriwether county a don't-care sort of a negro named Jack Wilson who could neither read nor write. Ie had gained his freedom in some way or other, and gained his livelihood by acting as a sort of director general to famous horses iu his neighborhood. Jack became tttached to a servant girl who was owned by a man named Gates,! one of the wealthiest men in Geor gia, who owned thousands of acres of laud, and with his family lived in lordy style. The servant girl was a bright mulatt o, and Jack was a shade darker. They made a match of it, and were married under the order of things that ex isted under in war time. At the same time Jack, had a slave-time wife in Virginia, but she was as black as coal. When the war closed aud the slaves were declar ed free Jack took his Georgia wife to be his partner fUrough life, and by living with her for a stated eriod she became his wMfe accord- mg to law. As soon as he was married Jack showed a sudden spirit of industry that astonished everybody. His careless habits were thrown aside and he went to work with a will. The wealthy Gates, his master, died, and the brood acres fell to the possession of the heirs. Jack still worked on the place, and was saving and care ful. The Gates family had lost everything except their land. Hundreds of slaves were freed by the new order of things, and the vast aud princely fortune was gone The heirs could not adapt them selves to the situation. Finally pressed, they sold 50 acres of lam! to Jack; then they wanted more money, and Jack stood their seen nty at the LaGrange bank, and when they were unable to pay he would take up the notes at bank and trade for a piece of the Gates plantation. He worked with vengeance and all his family worked. Old man Jack became a" noted and honored citizen of the county. He was industrious and prospered. In the meantime his old master's children continued to sell him parts of the old home Steads. Finally he owned it all and was rich. . Three years ago he decided that it was his duty to pro vide for his old Virginia wife, so he sent for her, and she with her chil dren, came to him. She was given a house ou the plantation, and is well provided for. Jack owns now the magnificent place of about 1,500 acres in three miles of White Sulphur Springs, in Meriwether county. He is CO years old and his children are settled around him and all contented and happy and industrious, ne owns 15 or 16 mnles, and is noted for keeping the best stock in the county. His cred it at the LaGrange bank is good, and he can borrow all the money he wants on his simple note of hand." "How much is he worth!" "I should say about 30,000 and every cent of it has leen made since the war. It is a remarkable story of how a slave succeeds his master in the ownership of a vast landed estate." I The Press. Mighties of the mighty means On which the arm of progress leans, Man's noblest mission to advance, His woes assauge, his weal encance, His rights enforce, hu wrongs re dress, Mightiest of the mighty, is the press. Responded to by W. H. Bernard by letter. THAT BAft BOY. :0: HE BECOMES A DRUGGIST AND DISHES UP MEDICINE. COMPOUND PRESCRIPTIONS. It'll r HE ItESKlXED. "Well, what are you loafing ..- i - -" . i around here for!" says the grocery-. man to the bad boy, one morning this week "It's after nine o'clock and I should think you would want to be down at the drug store.' How- do you know but there will be somebody dying for a dose of pills" "Oh. dam the drug store, I've got sick of thai business and I have dissolved - with the' drugger. I've resigned. The policy of the .store did not meet w ith my approval, and I hove stepped out and am waiting for them to come and ten der me a lietter position at an in creased salary," said the boy, as he threw a cigar stub into ' a barrel of prunes, and lit a fresh one. , " : "Resigned, eh!" said the grocery man as he fished out the cigar stub and charged the's father with two pounds of piuneSi "Don't you anil the boss agree!" "Not exactly. I gave an old lady some gin when she asked for cam phor and water, and she made, a show of herself. I thought I would fool her, but she. knew mighty well what it was, and she drank . about half a pint of gin, and got , to tip ping over bottles and kegs of paint, and when the drug, man came In with his wife; the old woman threw her arms around his neck and call' ed him her darling,J and when he pushed her away anjd told her she was drunk, she picked up a bottle of citrate of magnesia and pointed it at him, and the'poik came out like a pistol and ho thought he was shot, and his wile-"fainted away, and the police came; and took the old refrigerator away', and the drug man told me to face the door, and when I wasn't looking he kicked me four times, and 1 landed in the street, and he said , if I came in sight of the store again he would dll me dead. Shis is way 1 resign ed. 1 tell you, thev w ill. send for ine again. They never will run that store without m'e.V ' , llI guess they will worry along without," said the; grocery man. "How does your pa! take your te mg fired out! 1 should think would break him all up." j think pa rather likes it At first he thought he had a soft snap with me iu the drug store, cause, he got to drinking again like a fish and he ;has. gone back Oreille jiurch entirely, but after I had put a few things in his brandy he concluded it was -cheaper to buy it and he now paironiziug a barrel house down by the river. One day 1 put castile soap in a drink of drandv and pa leaned over the back fence more thau'au" hour with his fin srer down hif throat. The man that collects" the ashes from the ally asked pa if he had lost any thing, and.pa said he was only 'sur going off.' I doift know what that is. When pa v felt letter lie came in and waute a little whisky to take the taste oi t of his mouth and I' gave. him some with about 'a teaspoonful of pulverized' alum 'in it. s' ' "Well, sir, you'd a died. Pa's mouth and jthroat Was so puckered up that he couldn't talk. 1 don't think that drug man will make anything by firing t?e out, because I shall turn all the trade I can con trol to another stqre. Why, sir, sometimes there were - eight and nine girls in that stre all to wonct on account of my iH'iiig, there. The come to have .lie put extracts' .on their handkerchiefs and to" eat gum drops. He-will lose all that trade now. My girl that -went j hack on me for the elegraph mes senger ltoy, she came with the rest of the girls, but hq found I. could lie haughty as a co4k, I got even with 'her though I pretended T wasn't mad, and wlieu she wanted me to put some iert:umery on her handkerchief I said all right, aud I put on a little geranium and ' white rose, and then 1 got (some tincture of assafety and sprinkl.-H it on her cloak and dress when she went out, That is about the worst smelling stuff that ever was, and I wa-s glad that she went out and met j the telegraph boy- ou the corner. ! "They went off together, but he ieame back pretty soon, about the Ihomesickest boy you ever saw, and ;he told my chumOfe would neve go with that girl agajn Itecause' she ismel'ed like spoiled oysters or sewer gas. Her folks noticed it, too land made her wash net feet, and Soak herself, and her brother told my chum it didn't do her any good, khe smelled-liked a glue factorj , and toy chum, the darned ;fbol, told her brother it was me, ho perfumed her, and he hit me in f the eye with a frozen fish down by; the fish store and that's what makes my eye black, but 1 know how to cure a black eye. I haven't been in a drng store, eight days and not -NUMBER C know how to cure a black eye. And I guess I learned that girl i never to go back on a boy 'cause he. smells like a goat." "Well, what was it about your leaving the wrong medicine at houses! The policeman of -this ward told me you came pretty near killing several people by leaving the wrong medicine." The way of it was this. There were about a dozen different kinds medieine to leaveat different places and I was in a hurry to go to the roller skating rink, so I got .my chum to help me, and we just took the number-of the houses, and when we rung the bell we would hand out the first package we would come lo, and I understand there was a great deal of compaiut. One old maid, who ordered'powder for her face, her ticket drew some worm lozenges, and she kicked awfully, and a widder woman who was going to be married, she order ed a celluloid comb and brush, and she got a nursing bottle and a noz- zel, and toothing ring, and she made quite a fuss, but the woman who was weaning the ..-baby, and wanted the nursing bottle, she got the comb and brush, and some- blue pills, and she never got mad at all. It makes a great deal of difference I notice, whether a person gets a better thing than they order or not. ' "But the drug business is too lively for me. I have got to have a quiet place, and I guess I will be a cash boy in a store. Pa says he thinks I was cut out for a bunko steerer, and I may look for that kind of a job. Pa " he is a terror since he got to drinking again. He came homo the other day whn the minister was calling on ma, and just cause the minister was sitting on the sofa with ma, and had his hand ou her shoulder, where she said the pain was when therheuma tizcame on, pa was mad and told the minister he would kick his liv er clear arouud on the other side if he caught him here again, and ma felt awful bad about it. After the minister had gone away she told pa had no feeling at all, aud pa said he had enough feeling for one family, and ho didn't want no sky sharp to help him. He said he could cure all the rheumatiz there was around his house, and then he went down and didn't get home till breakfast time Ma says she thinks I am responsi ble for pa falling into bad habits again, and now I am going to cure him. You watch , me and see if I don't have pa in church inside of a week praying and singing, and going home with the choir singers, just as pious as ever. Iam. going to get a boy who writes, ft woman's hand to write to pa, and but I mustn't . give it away. But you just watch pa, that's all. Well, I must go and cut some wmxl. lt,s coming down a good deal, lroiii a drug clerk to rawing wood, but I will get on top yet, and dont you forget it. Horrible! Horrible! Horrible! The little town of Davidson Col lege, lor some honfs on Monday, fairlv throbbed with excitement itver a message brought from the country in great haste announcing that a woman named , Brown, liv ing iu the place, had been killed by her little son. Not until Dr. Ilolt, a pnysieiau 01 iu jii.-c, services were called for iu great haste, had returned to the village from the woman's bedside, did the feeling at all subside. It apjtears that Mrs. Brown, the wife of James Brown living on the farm' of Mr. J. G. Hood, near David son College, allowed herself to lie seized with a fit of passion grow in'rr out of domestic, matters and by the instigation of the devil or some ot ipp evi Klillll, rusn". ...... - , I. r--. itl. fill tilt IHTHOll .Ot her little daughter, aged 14. years. She tied a strip of cloth around her little girl's neck and swore she was going to strangle to death her own offspring. The . inhuman mother bv , tiers intent work well nigh accomplished her most wicked iiudertakrng when her little sni ; who was sick and bed ou the second floor of the house, hearing his sister gasping for life, went down and pleaded with his mother to desisf from the foul and unnatur al deed she had sworn to pene trate. The hell of rage within the woman could not hear the voice of her son, and the boy saw it. Be tween the inhumanity of his uiftt It er and the innocnee. of hi ister the boy could not hesitate; and see. ing his sister almost in a death struggle, be took Ap a chair and with one heavy bjow, sent her would be murderer to the floor, de prived of consciousness. She-re. maiued breathless for a while, and unconscious, for sometime, bat when Dr. Holt left the house she was conscious, yet Buffering froiu a serious but notrdangerous wound just above the eye. Herr Most is coming South. Ills communistic, agrarian ideas won't take in this section. "Forty acres and a mule" was the knell of agra nanism in the South. - WILSON ADVANCE. Rates of a i v v. i: r i sin u Om?InA, One Ituortkni .. .,t im no atonin .m ' J.hT. Mn-----.-".'r-J'.'..l' I ... . 2 fix ,M On Vear lvw Liberal Discount will l Advertisements and for Contnu-U ly tho V. ar tmsn must eoomrOT alt A.lTfrti..m. i.t. unless eooa reference Is triwn. WILL THEY FIGHT J INSULTING CARDS TO THE PUBLIC REGULAR RIPPK1JS. AN EDITOR GETS -VY RATI IV a-. Eitnir is .v.vi.vj T. The editor of the ElizaWfh ,-ity "Falcon" and Senator -Poole, of : tho.. second district, are now 'en gaged in such a war of worth that a fight seems to W imminent. The two cards which follow fallv e' plain themselves. . .SENATORS POOL'S K,Y. --"Raleigh, N.C., I'.b, s. iss.5. To the People ok K stV.i:.x North Carolina :-The contempt tiblo .little upstart who edits ihe " Falcon " 41 dirty blackmailing-' sheet, published at Eli. tU'th Cii. has taken occasion to make a bitter IHTsoual attack upon me through the columns of his paper On ac count of the position taken by in self, and iu fact by the whole (Jen eral Assembly of North Carolina, in regard to" the change of the name of the Elizabeth City and Norfolk Railroad. During the last campaign (hi same brainless fool, who has m .-h fit to make i such a scuirilnns and! disgraceful attack upon the Gener al Assembly of North Carolina, called iiM)ii some of the Democrats of the First Congressional District to render him financial assistance, or he would be compelled -.to Nell out or suspend the publication of his.papeE. I among others '"'contri buted toflji fund to keep his mis erable sheet alive, not because 1 thought the paper had any politi cal influence, or that the editor had brains euough to manage- a cam paign 'palter, but because I feared that if it passed into the hands of the Republicans, and sonic one was placed in charge who did have brains and ability, that it' would ! detrimental to the welfare of the Democratic party. In the last issue (Monday, Feb., 5tli,) of this slanderous little sheet. I think beyond doubt, to the mind of every resjicctable and intelligent person in Eastern Xojrth Carolina, (who condescends to read hi pa per,) that, although he may have the ability to manage the .editorial department of a respectable, new piper, he can play the part o(a blackguard, liar and slanderer. I regret the necessity of publish ing this card in reply to the idiotic ravings of the "crank" who writes, for the Falcon, but it is sonn'timy necessary to kick at the cowardly dogs4hat bark at our heels. Respectfully, &., Tjiko. W. PouLi:. Editor Vaihhian's liKpi.v. The person who bv hii' Occii pa nev degrades the high office rf State Senator from the second North Ca rolina district and relied s discredit upon the. intelligent constituency, which he so abl.V misrepresents Theodore Poole, of the c it.v of Martin, has issued a c titl in which my character is violent iy,nuiccctn lv and unjustly assaulted. In 11 wild, villaniitus attempt to cast odium DlHtii inc. he has oei turned tin- filth pots of his wrath, cover ing himself with a mass of feted cor ruption, and liecoming a stench in the nostrils of reputable (eope. 1 most emphatically decline to befoul myself by contact with so disreputable a character. When one. of God's creat ures- 1m conies fallen, his moral jv -teiii mi peiine ated with the- venom o! natural and cultivated de.iavit,.i t M-arn the title ol'a would be as-.;ss:ii of character, we should l'"k ii"" l'11" uioie in pity than anger; ta'lier with contempt than viii.licl i vet e-s. 1 will not insult yoi.r !ii.tel!g u-e .... or outrage your w m- ,i oe( eu and propriety by farther ic iciice fo a creature who has only the i.utu and semblance of a 'man. 1 .The jteoplc of Kliz.ilx th 'jiy, white and colored, Dciium i .its aud Republicans, representatives ot Hie business and social interests of the community, exMuents of its moral ity, its manhood, its niteUiuei-.ee; in a public meeting presided over v Mr. C. WGramh, a distinguished member of the Repot beau pa.tv. thus -unanimously cxpies-d ti.-ni selves: "ResolVEP, That we denounce the outrages -and uu wan anted at tack made by TIic.mIoi.- W . Pool upon Frank K. Vauti.U!, I'-q-editor of "The Falcon." "Resolved, That in the. quiiion of this meeting Mr. Vaiigha i is a gentleman of integrity, honor andj truthfulness'" Very Rescci fully. Frank E. V.m oiian. , - T Boss Farmer. ; Henry Pearce of I-'raiiklm mu. ty in thecnq.of f v- had ;H .: in cotton which l led I.iut forty bags averaging 45) pomel-: twenty five acre Jn -'bat tun.e.l him out four hundred bushels t lorry-fire acres in com made him two hundred and twenty- u-t bushels and twenty acretf'iu oate.s iu.mii him twenty largo stack-. I K i -tied his own meat and sold nine lmn ; dred pound of butter to Raleigh gilt ebge made from Jersey cattle during thtear lie used, no guano at all except what he made at home at a cost of eleven i dollars a ton ami that money 1 spent for the chemica's to make it. A French chemist says he can -resuscitate a human body alter it has beeu frozen solid for sis minths. If he can make the thing wrarkv it will become fashionable for euiiers . f :r in rwtromlter and be EOireezw m - -thawed out in March.