North Carolina Newspapers

WILSON ADVANCE. : j . Published Every Friday. At Wilson, North Carolina, ' UY I The Wilson AiivA wnR. WILSON ADVANCE. UAlkS or' ' AIiVlhi ItlMi. JOSEPIIIS lUMELS. - Editor ! and Proprietor I :o:- Snis'cuiPTios Kates in Advance One Vi.-ar... Six Months 2 00 1 00 ff!TMom-y catl m wnt by .Money (-Mar or llesristerwt Letter at .our risk, i XCWS OF A WEEK (I VTIIKKKlj I'KOM AT OF Till: WOlt L-PAKTS I I E I i I:, T 1 1 K1J E,. K VERY WHERE I : V CILIA a .S-1 i EE A XIXO s Cov. Stevens,:' of Georgia, is .se rioiisly ill. The number of acres of land in tin- SI ale. is 20VS7,GO. heifer postage will he reduced to i ho rents IH'M. on the first of October An t llV.it to place the Mexican veterans on the pension ill the Senate. Senator Vance delivert brated lecture on the ' list failed d his cele 'Scattered Nation," in New York Monday night. Senator David Davis resigned as President of the Senate last Satur day, and Senator Edmunds 'was elected.. The deaf, dumb, blind, jdioti:- and .insane have nearly? quatlruplel in the last; twenfv liver years in this country." J lev-: X. II. Cobb has beeu elected . President of J tin son. Baptist Fe male College, .of - Hentlcrsonville, North Carolina. Col. Vj. 11. Lile of Wadesboro, is'dead. lie at one. time edited the ihirwiidii. :niil is wj-ll known throughout the State. Col. Tom Kcough has! been ap pointed V. S. Marshal ibjr the Wes tern District of this State. This -appointment was uncollected. We regret to notice, that our .voung friend John W, Harrison, druggist at Macon, has tailed. We t rust . lie will soon pull through. Ex Gov. Long, of Massachusetts, whose gubernatorial tei'm expired upon the accession of Pen. Butler, is a North Carolinian by descent. Mrs. Mary Austin, of Washing ton, (la., died recently, been the mother of fort She had four chil dren, including six sets (j)f triplets. ( ioldsboro can boast ofc the larg est, bale of col ton on record. It only weighs 1107 pounds, and live men can manage to handle it. In Wilmington the' white schools received .!)(' tt and tlje colored, .i;,ll! of the school tax. And the 'whites pay at least two thirds of the tax. . Thirty -live Ways of popping the Question" is the title of a work published lately in . England. The examples are taken Iroin love scenes in novels- In Siberia -the price eight dogs. The price'-' uf a wife is of dogs not Ix'ing given, it still remains doubt ful wh t!ier Siberian wives are cheap or nut. j We acknowledge w th tlianks the receipt otj "ITand-book of North Carolina published by M. MeGe hee, Com. otj Agriculture. It is a valuable book. Said Artemus Ward: "I don't drink now. I've given all that up. I used to drink once; but when 1 did I never allowed business to intcrtere with it." '' It is said that Nori h Carolina and Virginia will lie so manipulated in '.St as to give the Republicans control. Let 'em 'manipulate," It'll not be the first time. 'l have no wealth," she said : "I can give you only mJ hand 'and Tn-art ." And then he t lought that if her heart was as big Us her hand, she was indeed wealthy1. The Legislature of North Caro Ima -is .composed of TtO Senators and 120 members ."of the House. I heir pay is 4 per day, Tor GO days, and amounts to 42,800 Kussians .must have a great pre - Uleetiou for pies. It is! stated that Cm- C.-u ie, ...i.,.i onn oa.v Cza tor lice tlistrilmti. ms At , . i,- his corona- tiou at Mom-ow, in May I lie New i"iK rotate seniue r.,, , . ""'-'"v l'.isseu u a third -reauing , V 1,11 leiegrapu . reie - I'1""" .imi i -ivi vne U'ntt companies! to lay their wires on the ground. Xewlork pays rT.O'MOOO a year tor its religion and -.000. 000 for "drinks, which goes tj show thati New York is having more fun in j uws worm man ic wiie in the next They have had a mad dog excite ment in Polk county tliat did ,uore t"r tin- benefit of sheep Raising than all tlie legislators that; ever .met in Noah Caroliiia Killed manvdo.rs .... ' , '!.. J.O me uiemoryofMiss Marthii aGriii5 fellC WU.S SO Yf.fr iii iT-ifl,;,. She cracked t he shell of herearthly kiii, And hatched hcrslf a cherubim." A certain bachelor oi" the town ofKiuston is responsible for the statement that there are 124 mar riHgeable gills in town, and only i "bout thirty young ffieu. He has counted them and knows i I'Ull- 1UUU VOLUME 1-3.- McAdoo has sold hisfreneh plate glass that cost him 31,000 to James Gordon Bennett, of the New York "Herald'' who will present it to Patti as the biggest thing in this country. Mr. W. A. Nash, of.Chatham county, has the largest egg that we have ever seen. It weighs exactly three quarters of a pound, and measured twelve inches lengthwise and nine inches around. The Ten n'essee Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the sale of obscene literature and 1 classes as such literature the "Police Gazette" and "Police News." The penalty is not over 100 nor less than $25.. When a man dies suddenly "with out the aid of a physician," the coro ner must be called in. If a man dies regularly after being treated by a doctor, everybody knows why he died, anil the. coroner's inquest is not necessary. On Tuesday evening, Cth hist., while officiating at a marriage at I'eru, 111., Rev. George F. Bronson, paster of the Congregational Church of La Salle; fell dead at the feet of the couple, just as he pronounced them husband and wife. Gov. Cameron has added to ..his popularity among the negroes, by appointing two of Ithem -"on the School Board of Richmond, Va. which directs and controls the in struction of 'the children of the white people- of that city. A miller in Peru, Iud., fell asleep in is mill, and bent forward' till his hair got caught in some machinery and was yanked out ; and of course itrawakened him, and his first be wildered exclamation was "Dum it, wife, what's the matter njow f . A gentleman entered a Ports mouth, X. II., drug store and asked for the "dark possibility of "bright ideas." The clerk looked non plussed and said he hadn't . it in stock. The customer then explain ed that he want ed a bottle of ink A man Called out to. Iris creditor - - "Get out, you ornithorhyncus!" The man departed meekly. "Who's that f inquired a friend of tlie speaker. "An ornithorhyncus." ."How's that F "Well, Webster defines him -as a 'beast' with a bill." Washington "Gazette:" We know a lain, honest . farmer in -Beau-Tort 'county. ."who has loaned this season more than -2,000. He is one of those who raises his own supplies, and whose expenses never exceed his income. That's nothing, Wilson is full of just such farmers. '-' - i We will agree with the Wilson Sithuja when it says that Randolph At .Shot well is dearer to the people of North Carolina than thirteen Tom j anises, if he is Governor. We want to see him in Jarvis' place. We think the people .of pastern Carolina have had enoiigh of .tar vis. Col. Wharton.- J. Green, presi dent of the Society of ex Conleder ates, issues a short address relative to iVinoving the remains of Col. McLeod Turner from Georgia , to Raleigh, and urges the members to attend the funeral Ion the 9th of March. In that strange and fascinating book, "The Gypsies," by Charles G. Leland, of Philadelphia, the com mon slang word "mash" now' used, we regret to say, by young ladies, is thus explained: "Mashing A word of Gypsy origin '(mashayo), meaning fascination by the eye or takiiur in." - . The Augusta Chronicle and Con stitutionalist says; "The word "tariff" is derived, from Tarifa, a seaport of Spain, about twenty miles from Gibraltar, where the Moors, during their supremacy in Spain, levied contributions accord ing to a certain cule, on vessels en tering the Mediteranean." The following persons from North Carolina were created JLD's u' the recent Commencement of the Haiti- more college . oi i nysieians ana Surgeons; Xeedham F. Boddie, i Wm. H. Bagwell. M. L. ('arpening. i Peter 11. Hatch, Thomas B. Love- lace, Neil 31. McLean, U m. E. 1'owv ell, Everett v. ctiey, mis ?. es- taland W. P. Craven. Mrs. Sarah Wood, aged 121 veai's ,i;.i .,njr,..i i., n.- u.nri.1 iti iiuuu u, viiii iv.vv:utt She ; lhtv ioeiarrttion of Independence was signed, and her husband fought i at rue oaiue oi ivu g s .Mountain. fri ,.i "..m.i , HVe.M0' ve.rs in llnf.n-.l ,'.i for fiftv vears a member of the Baptist Church. The Kaleigh " News-Observer " savs the defeat of the railroad com- mission bill will be regretted. No donb', of it. By a careful estimate there were 394 candidates lor com - missioners and 4S3 candidates fox " rlT "fi, victory into a Bepublican Water-1 ov?r -worked hens for eggs an ia-jF"'-loo. ' - j vention like this is a boon to everv I Hickory ''Press" savs, that with ! le,,1;l,e fowl m t,,e xrntty. The the assistance of a crippled mule j -reat need of ie worlil for centu and one bov 3 months a farmer of 1 ries Bas a latent esfc Iredell county made . last season 1 We have Pateut stabIes and Pent eleven bales of cotton, averaging le,k for our catle our horses, our 440 pounds each, three hundred 1 m"les ur sheeP5 we. bave patent bushels of corn, thirty-eight bush- for our canaries; we have els of wheat, two wagon loads of Pent collars for our cats, and oats and sixty gallons of sorgum laP robe and sleeping cots fof onr molasses. poodle dogs, but until the happy THAT BAD BOY. PA AND THE OLD TOM CAT HAVE A' PITCHED FIGHT. PA GOT THE WORST Oil IT. THE nor IXDEI'EXDEXT. s4' What's your mother going to do with that three yards of court plaster I saw her buy this morn ing !" asked the grocery man of the bad boy. "O, I guess she is going to patch pa up so he'll jholtl water. Pa's tern-,-er got him -into the worst muss you ever see last night. You see pa wants me to do all the workaround the house. The other day he bought a loaxl of kindling wood and told trie to carry it into the basement. I have not been educated up to kind ling wood, andi I didn't do it. . When supper time ctyne, and pa found that I had not carried in the kind ling wood, he had a hot box, and he told me if that wood was not in when he came back from the lodge he would warm my jaek6t. I knew when pa came home he would search for me. So. I slept in the back hall on a cot. But I didn't want -pa to have all his trouble for nothing, so I borrowed an old torn cat that my. chum's old maid aunt owns, and put the cat in my bed. The cat isn't afraid of anything, and can whip a !New Foundland dog quicker than you could put sand in a barrel of suggar. Well, about 11 o'clock I heard pa tumbling over the kindling wood, ana knew by the remark he made, as the wood slid around under him, that there was going to be a cat fight real quick, lie come up'to ma's room and sound ed ma as to whether Henery had retired to his virtuous couch. Pa is awful sarcastic when he tries to be. I could hear him take off his clothes, aifd hear him say as he picked up a trunk strap, "I guess I will go up to his room and watch the smile on his face, as he dreams of angels. I yearn, to press him to my achii.g bosom." I thought to myself, mebbe yen won't yearn so much directly, He came up stairs, and I could hear him breatliing hard. I looked out around, the corner and could see he just had on his shirt and pants, and his suspenders were hanging down and his bald head shone like a cal cium light j ust before it explodes. Pa went in my room and up to the bed, and I could hear him say : "Come out here and bring in that kindling wood, or I'll start a fire on your base burner with this strap." And then there was a yowling such as I never heard before, ana pa said, "Helen Blazes:" and the furniture in my room begau to fall aronud and break. (), my ! I think pa took the torn cat right by the neck, tho way he 'does- me, and that left all the cat's feet free to get in their work. Pa's shirt was no protection ar all in a cat fight, and the cat just walked all around pa's stomach, and pa yelled .'police' and 'fife,' and 'turn on the hose,' and he called ma and the cat yowled. If pa had had presence of mind enough to have dropped the cat, or rolled it up in the niattrassit would have been all right,- but a man always gels rattled in time of danger and he held on to the cat and started down the stairs yelling murder, and he met ma coming up. I guess ma's night cap, or something, frightened the cat some more, cause he stabbed ina on the nightshirt wih onehiud feet, and ma said 'mercy on us,' and she went back, and pa stumbled on a liand-sled that was on the stair, ami they all fell down, and the cat got away and went down in the coal bin and yowled all night. Pa. j ami ma went -into their room, and i l guess they anointed themselves with vaseline, and Pond's extract, j ami I went and ot into my bed cause it was cold in the hall, and the cat had warmed my bed as well as it had warmed pa. It was all I could do to goto sleep, with pa and ma talking all night, and this morn ing I came down the back stars and haven't been to breakfast, cause I .don't wan't to see pa when he is vexed. I have passed the kind- hyg wood period in a liov'slife. and (have arrived at the coal period. I ; -, , T . , : i I carry in coal. bur. I draw the at kiudling-wood.'" A Yalnable Iuyention. An ingenious Carroll countv 1 1,1a l,as invented a patent hen's ' nesr. Never within the scope of 1 our memory has an act beeu so j opportune, 'just in the midst of 1 1t when there is such a strain on LET 4"- T"E EXDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY'S, THY GOD'S, AND TRUTHS'" WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH 9. 1883. t hought of the Carroll county man was practically realized, the poor disconsolate, neglected hen had to fctoop to the menial pursuit of mak ing her own nest. Few people have ever fully appreciated the hard ships of the hen. It's no easy thing to. lay an egg every day with a special annual egg for the country editor to lie about in hi local col umns. It's bad enough'-"to ask the hens to lay eggs; but its nothing less than 'outrage to require the selfsame hens to make- their own nests. Thauks thento the inven tion m addition to obviating the necessity of making the lady chick en get up at sunrise in order to get her nest fixed in proper time, will greatly promote the capabilities ot the hen. The time- formerly spent in nest-makiiig can be applied to egg-laying, so that we may uot on ly expect the egg-laying matinees but evening performances as well is occasional morning rehearsals. There is a posibility too of eggs get ting cheaper. We have not seen the invention, but suppose it is a folding appar atus in mahogany and maroon plush combining a cozy nest for the eggs and a roomy wardrobe for the hen's winter clothes. It should al so have a bell-punch attached to ring for every egg deposited', so that the hen cannot get ahead of the owner. Eggs frequeutly disap pear and it would be well to take all possible precautions. It might also be a good idea to fix on a gas stove to cook the eggs as fast as they are laid. It would do much to establish public confidence in omelets and take away an un pleasant spring chickenish look from certain restaurant dishes. We fear only one danger In this new contrivance. Thej hen has long been a plodding domestic. This sudden elevation to luxury may upset her mind. It generally does. She might aspire after real ostrich feathers and other finery, and neglect her household duties of egg-laying. At any rate it might make her so 'dainty that she would lay small eggs without the special edition for the 'country editor. Such a change would be deplorable, very deplora ble. - The chickens of this country should hold a general conference, to which of course the hens would go as lay delegates, and pass reso lutions of heartfelt respect for the Carroll county man. He is evi dently a chicken-hearted person, althought it is hoped that he is not henpecked. Ever person who has a hen should buy one of these patent hen's nests. If the hen owning public will not purchase them vol untarily Congress ought to pass a law making such purchase obligato ry, for "Of all the sa l words of tons vies or pen The saddest are these A nestless hen." ; . j To be Pardoned Because of Ms Dogs. A gentleman of this city who has just returned from a visit to Plymouth, N. C, says that there is in jail at tlrat place a colored man who has been confined there for eighteen months for having been engaged in a threatened riot some time ago, to suppress which, it will be remembered . the State troops were called out. The particulars of the affair have gone out of the public mind. The colored prisoner referred to, previous to his incar ceration, devoted much of time to coon hunting, and owned two coon dogs which were so strongly devo ted to their master that they never left him even during his trial, ex cept when driven away. This at tachment became so evident in these creature's persistent efforts to cling to their master, that it be came a matter of general remark and public admiration in the place and the dogs were finally looked upon with kindness by all. They are of the mongrel species. When the prisoner was finally locked up in his cell tor his term, his two dog took their position on the outside of the prison, building, and have remained day after day for eighteen months unmolested. This faithful devotion of the dogs has attracted such admiration from the people of riyniouth that a kennel has been built for them. At night they wander away for something to eatj ! but the coming day finds them at i t heir post. An effort is making to induce the Governor of the State to : pardon the man, and w ill probadly . be successful, as it is said the Gov j ernor's wife, on a recent visit to i the place, was so struck with this evidence of canine?affection for the prisonor that she actually shed tears.; Richmoud correspondence of the Petersburg,. (Va.) Jkp Out in Ohio, the sheriffs seem to be made out of very unsuspecting material. One of these officials, having a criminal in charge,, allow ed him to go into a hotel to talk to his wife and seemed much cha grined when his charge failed to re turn. This is the first instance of an Ohio office-hoIer letting go cf anything that he had bis paws on. IS IT PROTECTION? WHAT A WOKKINTJ MAN HAS TO SAY ABOUT HIGH TARIFF. HE DOES NOT LIKE IT. TO THE WASHIXGTOXrOST To THE EDITOR OP THE POST: - Your recent publication of the pro tective parable which I sent you has given rise to much discussion and to one occurrence at least which I think ought to be generally made known. As you have so many things to occupy your time you may not remember all the points, and I think it my duty to reproduce them. Every one will see that the interview sets forth just whatouglit to have been ex pected, that you need not certify to its accuracy. It is not long since that three plainly dressed men ; entered the editorial rooms of the Post. The taller of the three, straightening himself up, as a man is very apt to do when he has something very weighty to communicate, said: "We have come to talk to yo u about important business. This gentleman on my right is Mr. Jones, a laborer in a woolen mill ; Mr. Smith, on my left is a laborer in a cotton factory, and I (my name is Wilson) am in a knit-goods factory. Now, to come right to the point. We laborers get, some Ume to read on Sundays, and we saw in your paper of Saturday a parable. Every body knows that the parables in the Testament are true. We are told that the man who wrote this one was a long while in Congress and must know all about these things. Besides, we knew that if it had not.been true you would not have printed it in the Post, for, as the Post is printed right here at' the Capital, it could not afford to print anything that was not true. j "Now, sir. we see in that parable that under the laws of Congress the farmers and mechanics of the country are taxed to raise money to pa- us factory laborers two dol lars a day. I need,-not tell you that we do not get that nor hall of it. Why, you have printed this in your paper of last Monday, your self. From what you have printed there you will see that the woolen laborers get in a year only 293, the cotton men only 240 and - .we knit-sroods men only get $232. You will see that after you even ttirow out all the Sundays and holidays, we do not get eighty cents aday. Now 'thu point is, who gets the balance of our pay, being over a dollar a day for each of us! "But I want to tell you further after reading this parable we deter mined to do something, . and we have this morning been to see some of the men on the Avenue who sells the goods we made to the peo ple, and we told them what we had read in the Post, and that we had co in e to get our money to makeup our two dollars a day. What do you think they said to- us! They one and all declared that they did not have a bit of money for us They said as how that they had to pay all the entire price which the tariff put on the goods to the owners of the manufacturing estab lishments of whom they bought, Did they teH the truth about this matter, or are they trying to cheat us out of our rights! Just tell us the plain truth." The editor of the Post who had been listening attentively said, hi reply. "Ofe, I have no doubt but that they told you the truth, and that , in buying their goods they have to pay the manufacturers the high prices which the tariff causes. In fact, the owners of the factories are constantly asking Congress to keep np a high tariff so that they can get money enough to pay high wages to the workmen thev em ploy." "Then," said Mr. Wilson, with great apparent indignation,' "these men who employ us must be dis honest men, for they pretend that they are paying us as much as they can afford to. Now what are we to do! If a man were to pay me money to give to yon would I not be bound to pay the, money to you! As this is a free country must there not be some way for a man to get justice! It's of no use for us to go to our employers and ask for more money, for we have tried that again and again. In fact, they have of late been cutting down our wasres. We have made strikes for higher wages, but it does no good, for as they have a hundred dollars where we have one, they can hold on longer than we can, and they always compel us to return to work to keep our wives and children from starving to death. In I God's name what are we to do to get justice ! I will tell yon. We have determined to go right np to Con gress and tell them that the money they have had collected for nsis kept back by orir employers. Will they not immediately order it to be paid to us! This is a free country there must, be some way for men to get their rights. Tell me, will Congress do this right off! We wish to know for we are poor men and . cannot afford to stay here more than one week. " At this moment an interested listener remarked: "Pardon me but my own opinion is that you could not get what you desire even if you staid till the end of the session." "Is this so!" exclaimed Mr. Wil son. 'Why when we elected these men they told us they would carry out the wishes of the people and do every thing they could for.us. If now they intend to break their words, what are we to think! Why can this be so!" The interested listener quietly answered. "You must know that many of these members of Con gress' are owners or stockholders in the manufacturing companies, and others owe their elections to the support of capitalists. Even those who have no interest iu the mills do not wish to offend the wealthy men whose opposition might defeat them. Agaiu, I ought candidly to say to you that at pres ent many of the leading men in Congress are trying to make politi cal capital for the next Presidenti al race. They are now more anx ious to carry the next elections, so as to get the control of the offices, than anything else: Iu fact, the great parties are fighting each other more or less, on political issues, and it will be useless fox you to attempt what you propose." "Well," said Mr. Wilson, "if we cannot get our rights from this Congress, we will try this plan.--First let me tell you, that up in Massachusetts where we live, since 1860 wages have advanced thirty- one cent, while the i cost of living has increased forty-one per cent. This present high tariff has hurt onr living ten percent. I remem-. ber enough to prove that this is true. Now I will tell you what we can do. They tax the poor lariners of the country, who are only get ting fifty cents a day, on the pre tense that tliy intend to give us'i the money, when in fact they are keeping it for themselves. Now this is as great an . outrage on the farmers as it is on us. We can join these farmers and by all pulling together we can stop this whole rascally business. We will deter-, mine not to stand this thing any longer. We will just make a party of the people and turn out all these politicians and have justice done all around. We have heard lately some talk about a Washington party, which means, they say, that just like they did iu Washington's time, they are to elect good men and tell them to go for their eoun try and do justice to all the people. We are not enemies of the rich, but we do not wish them to be too greedy." T. L. Clingman. Washington, Feb. 2d. WMt an Energetic Woman Did. A Boston woman, the daughter of a once wealthy man, being re duced to the necessity of providing for her own wants, resolved to manufacture pickles and preserves for the market. She told her friends and they promised to be come customers. She found no' dificulty In selling all that she could make with her own hands.. The next year she enlarged the busi ness, and the third she expanded it- still further, condiments having by $his time acquired a reputation in' the market. Now she is making a net profit of about $16,000. ii year. Fatal Accident. One of those fearful and fata accidents occurred at the railroad at about 2 o'clock this afternoon, J in which' Mr. Bissett, an engineer , on the W. & W. Railroad, lost his j life. He had been at work uion j his engine'in the round house dur- j ing the forenoon and had started across the yard to go to his dinner, it-i. l.n -,.f nnnn tliA t'.icf trfU'lr fin . Vufe r lilSZl h the southern side of the yard- which . . . 4. ,i . he reached just as engine and ten-j . e - fl- Bnntu i der was backing from the south! side of the shed, he stood still, ap. parentiy watching a train which was at the time going down the hill, ; and although the car coupler on the tender shouted to him be seem- i ed, not to hear the warning and in a moment he was struck by t lie i rear end of the tenIer which j knocketl him flat upon the track, and engine and tender both passed over him, leaving him a, mangled j corpse where he fell. Both of his legs, his back and peck were brok- j tje is the lv? atl(1 tlje cLjirt4 feeding. 3Iost of the nonr en under the terrible weight Wil-; U)(1 soul; au1 that . after ishment alministered returns mington Retievc . ' body. V Ixavitt, the attending physician, You may say what you please, ; j beijeVe that there is no religion; says it b doubtful whether the ba but there is luck in horse shoes. A i that natural religion is the only, ; jjve Mrs. Thomi8on i -tin man nailed one up on the lencenoc long since, and a week afterward' j his wife, who used to wear out the furniture on him, eloped with a friend to whom he was owing $10, so ha got rid of two encumbrances at once. i TO THE FARMERS. :o: , HOMINY THE IN COTTON. HOGS AND SUB PLUS TO THE RAISEBS OF COTTON. HEAD IT AS1) HE ELECT. All the cotton factors of St. Louis have united in the following circular in the hope of influencing the growth of food products in the South the coming season : St. Louis, Mo., February 2 tv 1SS3. To tho Merchants,." Farmers, and Tenants of the Cotton -Belt: The South is now on the'eve ofjfnanting another crop, and alter an experi ence of seventeen years it seems advisable that some change should be made iu her manner' of farming, and we call your careful attention to the following facts, which are offered with the sincere hope that the people will give t,hem proper consideration.- Your section possesses the finest farming lands and the most salu brious climate in the world, and should be to-day liitancially inde pendent; instead of having to bor row oh a crop before it is .made, should have her corn-bins and lar dejrs filled before commencing, a crop. - " --' ' Compare your-situation with tlie farmers of the North and West. -They by systematic '; labor . are growing richer each year, while yon with patient, toil and close economy are neither so thriving , nor pros perous as you should be. ' : There is a cause for these trou- ;.bles,'and we, as cotton men, whose interest is closely identified with .yours, believe we are- in a position to note many of the e vils that exist, and offer, without presuming, the following suggestions ! 1. The credit system, as at pres ent in vogue throughout the South, is disastrous to the planters and tenants, forcing them to - pay ex travagant juices for supplies, iud causing their crops to be forced in to market with such rapidity and in such quantities as to break prices almost invariably below cost of production. 2. After, noting, for years the effect of large "crops of cotton, wo find that the over-production of tit's staple is the kev-note to the situation, and we strongly advise all parties interested in the pros perity' of the South to discourage, the planting of a large, acreage this year, and devote their labors' first to the raising of grain, cattle and hogs; and give the balance of their time to the culture of cotton. , This policy will. . bring . good re sults in many ways; for .instance, many small farmers, and large ones also, are so heavily in debt when their cotton is ready, for sale that they arc compelled, to let it go. even though the price is below its intrin sic worth; while, if they had sup plies at home, produced, and not Ixiught on credit, tbey could afford toTiold their cotton until t hey felt justified in selling. The price of cotton to day is f ul ly 15 per cent, below the average of the past live years, while, on the other hand, corn is X5 per cent, and provisions oO per cent, above the average. Thus are you losers both wavs. ': - ... With the. production of enough provisions on each farm, cotton would become a surplus, and soon the incubus of debt would be lifted from your pcophyand each ye.'B' would, ijecord rapid . strides iu wealth. 1 tlW1-!lCl 1 1 1-1 llT 1 1 ( 1 1 1 1 1 1 ff I'llttAII and increased production of bread meat and other necessaries will 4 bring about a mote, prosperous con - , ,mion f affairs for tho south," and instead of sheriff sales to satisfy the mortgages that the poor la borers must-now give, we would see grinding poverty banished forever, and plenty, would' pour in upon you. We ask that tin- merchants and . planters of each State, by callin; 1 convention, -or in some practical m:"", agitate thisjuction until ' -. . V .. n the influence is felt throughout the , , 1 entire cotton belt. ". . - Toe Unbeliever's Creed. . I !Iieve that there i no Oo.l, but that matt-er is G.hI. aud Cl is matter; ami that it is no marier i-lir.tl.ii. tl..r. 1.- -mv ItOiI or int. ,1 -11 , . I believe that the world was not :lut" , , , , made and that the world made irsein that it had no be-inning, and that it will last forever world without end. . - T believ that man is beast; that I-death thete is neither soul , nor j an(i that all religion is unnatural. I believe not in Moses; I believe in the first philosophy: I believe not in the evangelists; I believe i n Chnbb,Comns, Toland, Mmdlanl, Morgan, Mandevde. oolston, Hobbs, Shaftesbury; I believe in -NUMBER 7 Lord Bolingbroke; I believe not in St. Paul. . I believe not in revelatiouj I be lieve in tradition; I believe m the Talmud; I believe in the Koran; I believo not in the Bible; I believe in Socrates; I believe in Confucius; I Iwlievo in Sanconiatbau; I believe in Mohammed; I believe not in Christ- j , , - , Lastly, I believo in all unbelief. The abovet was written about a hundred years ago. Would it not, mutatis mutandis, suit many at the present day! Can any . one tell who the author is (or was)! II. M. B. Protecting Dogs. The dog law in Indiana creates a fund out of which losses. cT sheep killed by dogs are 'regularly paid, and besides that contributes $100, a year to the school fund. Dogs in the South are above the law. They are under the speial care and protection of tho State Ijegislature Wilmington Review. What Men Need Wives Fori It is not to sweepjbo house, and make the beds, and darn the socks, cook the meals, chiefly that a man wants a wife. If this is all he wants hired servants can do it cheaper thau a wife. If this is all wheu a young man calls to see a ady send him into the pantry to taste Jthe bread and cakes she has made, setid him to inspect the needlework and bed making; or put a broom in her hands and send him to witness its use-.-'Such things are important, and the wise young man will quietly look after them. But what the true man most wants of a wife is her com panionship, sympathy and love. The way of life has many dreary places in it, and man needs a companion to go with him. A man is sometimes overtaken by misfortunes; ho meets with failure and defeat; trials and temptations beset him; and -he needs one to standby him and , sympathize. He has some stern battles to fight with poverty, with enemies, and with sin,-'and he needs a woman that, while be puts his arms around her leels that he has something to fight for, will help him fight; who put her lips to his ear and whisper words of counsel, and her hand to his heart and impart new inspira tions. , All through life,; through storms and sunshine, conflict and victory, through adverse and favor- able winds, ;a man needs a wom an's love. The heart yearns for it. A sister's and a. mother's love will hardly supply the needs. Yet many seek for nothing further than success in housework. Justly enough, half of these get nothing more. The other half, surprised above measure, obtain more thau they sought. Their wives surprise them by liearing a nobler .1 idea pf r aniage, ami disclosing a treasury of courage, sympathy and 4ove. From Our Home Paper. How to Handle a Liar. Tho only way to deal with a liar is to beat him at his own game.--That is, of course, unless he is the editor of a pious newspaper. What started this item was read ing, about aji j American who had been to Europe, and whd was telling a friend, who knew he was a liar, about his trip across the At lantic, and how, on the 25th of Urn month -they encounted a swarm oi I locnsis, ana uie luraww vtu'rcu every stich of the canvass off tho. sh ip." The ristener looked thrught ful a moment, and then said, hesi tatingly: "Yes I guess we met the swarm of locusts the next day, "the 1 1? ! I I) . E very locusts had on a I pair of canvass pants.'. The first Inr went around the corner' and , kicked liimseil. i eilcHfyun- . t 1 A Wonderlnl Curiosity. Trenton, New Jersey, is excited .ver something entirely new in tho curiosity line, which is nothing more nor less than a double-tongu- ed baby. It is a daughter of James I hompson, ana weigns lour ' : pounds. It. is thus described oy a rerorter of the Philadelphia Tunes: - j As it cried the little mouth open ed and two separate tongues, one over the othe were -exposed-Neither one. is well developed The lower one seems to be split par tially in the middle. In addition to the tongues thers is a double row of lower gums. These, too: are lUrt i clearlv dist ngn shable. The ffiftit ' ""J " . ... ; serious malformation was yet to be ' seen, Ioking to. the : roof of the mouth It Was found that there was : no nalate. This interferes with the through tbe4 nasal organs. Dr. 1 plinedto the same opinion. r An immense bed of phosphates h discovered in Brunswick oa ,ine of the Carolina ;. railroadi abont levefc miies t from Wilmington. Onelnuh, rne lnsrrtion fi t ' " Threw MonThi "!'!'..!!"., '."."."'."' P ' & pi' ! .. fix Months..... w On lr u Literal Dlaoounta will U ma.l fur Urvvr AilTertlMmeaU uJ for ContrmvU by ths Yir Csh must tceominnr ill AJvprtinrmi-nu ualea rood reference Is riven. COMING TO N. Y. -:0:- Dll. DEEMS ON THE PEOPLE WnO COME TO THE CITY. SOME YEliY SAD CASKS. DO XOT CO ME TO THE CITV. Amoug the hundreds of young . men who visit our office from time . to time for advice and assistance there are many sad cases. Among thes are those w ho come to flic city on false representations, exm-ctiiig to step into business at 0111 avd rise with great rapidity. They have the traveling1 agents of New - York houses, and those gentleman seem so jaunty and brijrht ami free from care, so full of knowledge of many worldly things, ami so acqtlaint ed with "Vanderbilt" and "Stewart" and "Astoi ' t hat l he simple young man in the country has seen "alt eity life in dreams that lay in the color of the rose. Ho does Hot kuow that thorns quick witted young men are putting nil they have inj their clothes, that in the city they live in obscure- qmir. ters, or if they have a little room ina great hoU-1, that they have U work for their "huses" iidhose hotels in labors often'jnore humiii atiug thau waiting on ' the ta'ble, , and more labofious than" carrying baggage, -""'j ' '.'. ,j ; Sometimes there is. sheer decep tion. We have had several case from the 78011 (if - where women, a men, have been brought to Ne v York ly. glowing description of the openings here and the demand for workers by those who know Is lter. They have sold out (heir little utock at home and surrendered their po, ' sitions to try their fortunes in the great city. They had barely enough to bring them to New York and landing almost penniless, and not having learned the small econ omies of a new place, they were soon absolutely destitute and spirit less, and funds had to 1m obtained to return them to their homes. . A few days ago we had "such a one in hand. The young man was. a printer. Ho had a place at home in which he could make a subsist ence. A young friend in this cifj wrote him a glowing letter, describ ing the advantages of New York, the demand for workmen, the high pay, and all that kind of thing; ; together with promises of doing everything for him if he would enme on. He sold what he had, and cam'. He presented himself at the office where his friend was working at a ease. It was a startling appari tion to that friend. He did not think his correspondent would have taken his letter senou-lvf "It wan a joke!" he said. He ' received barely wages enough to keep him self from starvation. He .-could not help his friend. After t hat friend had suffered much in flesh aud spirit, a passage w as seriii cd fjur him on a stcauier, and he was sent back. The fact is there. U no pi ice like a great city in which to nchicvi- a great suee,es,but unless a man ha some : money or much br.un ami peat tact the city will enish him to death. The vast city i at 11 act ive. People flock from all quar ters. There are ten applicants for every phwe. There are at l-,at l.'ijOOO adults in New York Im tweeu whom and starvation there-, intervenes' only t he helping hand of 'public and private charity. These" jieopl, can afford to work lor al most nothing. There are Iy here whose parents inu-;t .support them, and are willing that they shall work for a dollar a wc-k lat ti er than do nothing. Strang -is must comieic f lu in. Advei tise that you want a clerk fur l a week, and the dice w ill be com pelled, to gn'ard your door from the that Jijll come, sweeping -Hp at the hour. jAdvertisM for a loy, amj men will come iu .platoon." some. tirn.s gray headed. There Is room enough . York for men who can hold a man mast come prepared iu New it. but to hoM his js)sition a long time W ItlllMlt help, j A great city is a great soil to man'who has so iiiiich sap. that" he can live on his sap ' through a long drought. But it h a dreadful place to drudge in. Men woi k for years and do not rise an inch, and then if hard time" C4Hn and thev are thrown out there nothingfor them- If you can get the u-.eif a blind mule aud two acres of land, do not come to New York, Do not come without money to fuiug voti and carry you borne, ami keep. you "td yon go home. If then you have a trade or profession, you may suc ceed. It is no joke to 1 thrown penniless on a vast city, Through the good ageucies or st friend who knew them both well. Mr. John W. Mayo, a prosierous young business mau of . Washing ton, N. C, and MLss Jennie Peiitz, "of Baltimore, have been in A iendly correspondence for some months past. Last Tuesday evening they met for the first time in Baltiwor " and were formally introduced. On c,i a vr afternoon thev were mar- -:A ani it in tr, bet hoiwd will livv together ever nereac-