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NEWS OF A WEEK
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CATHKKEI FUOJL ALL PARTS
or Till: AYORLD.
n-:s vi li, ixas- a lea yixos
Blaine has the gout.
Edgecombe has 'a Medical socie
ty.
The new law taxes Skating liinks
uo.
40" failures iii the South last
week. '
Kaleigh is to have two now daily
papers. ;
The Kinston! Rifles have reor
ganized. There, are f',000 acres of land in
Wilson county.
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Rev. Eather Pa all will lecture
in'VVilmingtoii soon.
Lenoir fanners arc planting less
cotton this year than usual.
The railroads are going to build
a .r(),000 depot at Charlotte. .
.J. A. dray has lieeu elected Pres
ident of tl.VC Vm& Y. V. It. It.
Mr. C. C. Lanier, a prominent
business man of Taiboro, is dead.
Mr. .las. I), Jenkins, Supt. of
Public -Schools in Edgecomlie, has
resigned.
Ed. Oldham's Winston i'Senti
nel" is a'niodei of typography and
is well edited.
All the Easter eggs in the West
appear to have hatched out Dem
ocrat ic roosters.
There are worse tilings than a
scolding wile but we have forgot
ten wliat they are. ,
Gen. YV. 11. Cox and bride have
sailed for Europe w here, they w ill
spend their honeymoon.
'.',;. The "Star" says ! that Geo. E.
.Badger was the greatest man yet
bom in North Carolina. .
Some men are born rich, some
have riches thrust upon them and
some become newspaper editors.
Wake county votes on the prop
osition to give $lOO,(.f0O to the AVil-
liainston and Raleigfi railroad May
7th.
Octavius Coke, J. S. Carr, W. L.
Saunders, A. M. Scales, J. J." Davis
and L. L. Polk are named for Gov
ernor. . . " '
The Toisnot people will .vote
'May 7th., as to whether they wish
to 1h taxed to keep up the Graded
school.
It,' is said", that the' Uniyersalists
believe in eternal bliss, but that
the genuine Calvanist believes in
eternal blister.
The public fence in Greene coun
tv. under the stock law. cost the
count-v about 84.00. The length
f it is nearly 73 miles.
A Louisville woman, a convert of
"Mountain Evangelist" Barnes,
has named one baby after him, and
the other "Jesus ("hiist." '
General Grant has lieeu elected
President of a rifle assticiation.
General Grant's ambition ought to
be' satisfied by this time.-
Mr. Geo. P. Hart, a talented and
promising young lawyer, has as
sumed editorial control ". of the
Rocky Mount "-'Reporter."
A Texas, editor, eats ink - rollers
when his country produce . runs
out. He is not the only Texas
editor who lias a -patent inside.
V si Vfii-Ofi lnwitiikv in .in i o-r
. - - " " " P
of the New York "News" utinmit
ted suicide April 4th. -Had health
and insomnia were the causes.
Work has commenced on the new
Goldslxa o Methodist church. It will
cost 1,000 and will be one of the
handsomest churches in the state
!
Always return good for evil. A
Missouri edito-i; hearing that a 'de
linquent subscriber .was about to
be, sent him a new patent tire e.s
cape. j . -: -
Judge IMc'i has conscientious
scruples about traveling on Sun
day, and of.cu does not arrive at
Ids court until iTiiesilay on that ac
rutni,'. ' .
Russian Revolutionists are de
' tci mined that the Czar shall noMe
eiow ned. Dynamite factories have
been discovered in Moscow and
i lie lust woman ever executed
h'. hanging iu Yennout, is Mrs.
Meaker, whirwas hung on Monday
id Windsor, At., for the murder of
her daughter.
They tell of ji woman who simply
l(Mks at tiMd. and her hunger is
appeased. sile would make a
splendid wife for a HWV wlitor iu
these diys of lujrb prices.
The President invited all the
members of his Cabinet to join him
in his trip to Florid except Attor
ney General Brewster, who is left
out -because, o ! his weakness for the
a dent. This looks like reform in
one of the ways much needed. '
The Wilson ' Advance:
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VOLUME 13.--
Damages foir 4,750 have been
awarded against the Richmond &
Danville Railroad for killing a ne
gro boy who went to sleep on the
railroad track.
The Tarboro Sout herner is very
near right when it says that it is the
lack of business system with our
farmers and not the production of
cotton that keeps them poor, j
Mrs. Ella K. Trader, who, spent
i
$1 00,000 of her own money in ant
ing the wounded soldiers during
the war, . now live in poverty in
Ashevilte, X- C. This should not
be.
Hurrah for President Arthur!
He has susended Judge Cqngen
of Montana, because ot drunken
ness and gambling. He is a brother
of Senator Conger of Michigan and
a big Republican. '
The Ferry-IIubliell struggle
seems to have broken down the
Republican party in Michigan. In
the election last Tuesday the two
Democratic judges of the Supreme
Court were chosen.
Mr.' James Kclton, of Sparta, iu
Edgecombe county, was hurt In a
railroad accident on the Cincinnati
Southern railroad last Friday
morn,ing. J. C. Roberts of Cherry
Lane, North Carolina was also
hurt.
That naughty man, ilussey, of
the Greensboro "Patriot says:
"A Guiiford schoolmaster kissed
the girls as -a punishment, and'' lie
fore the term , was out he had
women. .-of forty-five joining the
school.
" The mother of Oscar W'ilde has
a long poem on Ireland" in the Bos
ton "Pilot." Her conclusion is
that the Irish people driven Iran
tic, "will take their stand in a
mightier land, beyond the broad
Atlantic."
Dr. Pritchatd, in a letter to the
'N'ews-Observer," says that North
Carolina has a much better climate
than Louisville, Ivy., and that the
people on the Atlantic slope are
better and more religious than in
the Mississippi valley. -
The' l!th annual Fair of the
Sampson county Agricultural So
ciety will lie held Dec. 5th, Cth, 7th
and 8th. Capt C. Patrick will be
the chief marshal. The officers
are making every effort that the
Fair shall be a grand success.
The "News-Observer" Tias pub
lished in book form the "proceed
ings of the Legislature." The book
is bound in good style and is now-
ready for delivery. The price is
L. "The book also contains
sketches of every member andoffi
cer of the Legislature.
Hon. Kemp P. Battle states that
the University Normal School will
begin June 21st., and continue -live
weeks. The utmost care is given
to the selection of teachers, and
only those of marked ability-will be
chosen The names of the teachers
will soon be announced.
Mention is made of a new kind
of hoVse shoe, composed of three
thicknesses of cowhide compressed
into a steel mould and subjectc
to chemical preparation. U is
said to last longer than the com
mon shoe, weighs' only 'one-fourth
as much, requires no corks, and is
very elastic.
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r linn ( in. 1 1 v ( tnz iw in, nil
we learn that a man giving his
name as Thomas Hill, a native of
(Josport England, now a resident
of Sw ift ('reek, Craven county, at
tempted suicide, near that place on
Monday, the 10th of March, by cut
ting his throat. He was still alive
at last accounts
A bridge near Thomaston Ga.
gave way, and y negro, t vo mules
and a wagon w ere precipitated into
the ravive below. The wagon fell
oil top, but was wrecked utterly,
while the 'mules and the. negro,
wh'en fished up from beneath the
debris, were not seriously iujnred'
The mule and the negro are per
haps the only absolutely indestruct
ible substances in nature.
Kufus Choate once chided his
clerk for not charging a client a
heavier fee for certain service. "I
took every cent the man had," was
the meek answer. "Young man,"
said Choate, running his hand
through his snaky locks, "you did
the 'best you. could under the cir
cumstances and your conduct in
the matter has been strictly pro
fessional.." Justice Scully of Chicago is a
genial, good natured administrator
of the law as he finds it "according
to statoe," but he had a set-back
last week which made him think
that everything in this world was
vanity, and that all flesh was blue
ghts. A -West Side carpenter w ho
had been working on Randolph
street suddenly appeared before
the Justice, for a writ, stating that
he had finished a job worth S and
that the man only paid him 1,")0,
and when he kicked, the man told
him to go the Devil, "so," he con
tinued, "I thought I'd come, around
and see you about it." Then there
was a teinjiorary expansion of
sileu.ee iu the court I'oom, during
which one could have heard a gum
THAT BAD BOY.
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II IS -PA "jETS RELIGION. ILE
GOES TO SUNDAY SCHOOL.
A X TS IX I'A 'S L I VER VA D.
"Well, that beats the devil" said
the grocery man, as he stood in
front of his grocery and saw the
bad boy coming along, on the way
home from Sundaj- school, with a
clean shirt on, and a testament
and some dime novels under his
arm. "What has got into you,
and what has come over your Pa.
You haven't converted him have
your ' -
"No, Pa has not got religion
enough to hurt yet, but he has got
the symtoms. He has joined the
church on prowbation, and is try
ing to le good so he can get iu the
church for keeps. He said it was
liell living the way he did, and he
has, got me to promise to go to
Sunday school. l ie said if I - didn't
he .would maul me so mv skin
wouldn't hold water. You see, Ma
Said Pa had got to be oii trial for
six months before he coul.l get in
church, and if he could get along
without, sw earing and doing anjT
thiiig bad, he was all right, and
we must try him and see if we
could cause him to swear. She
said 'she thought a person, when
they was on a prowbation, ought
to be a martyr, try and overcome
all teintatioiis to do evil, and if Pa
could go through six months of our
home lite, and not cuss the hinges
oil' the door, he was sure of a glori
ous immortality beyond the grave.
She said it w ouldn't be wroug for
me to continue to play innocent
jokes on Pa, and if he took it all
right lie was a Christian, but if he
got a hot box, and flew aro' nd
mad, he w-as better out of church
than in it. There he comes now,"'
said the boy as he got behind a
sign, "and he is pretty hot for a
Christian.. He is looking for me.
You had ought to have seeu him in
church this morning'. You see, I
commenced the exerc.ses at home
after breakfast by putting a piece
of ice in eace of Pa's boots, and
when he pulled on the boots he
yelled that-his.' feet were on fire,
and we told him that it was noth
ing but symtoms of gout, so he the
left the ic . in his boots to melt
and he said the morning that he.felt
as though he had sweat his boots
full. But that" was not the worst.
Yon know, Pa wears a liver-pad.
Well, on Saturday my chum and
me was out on the lake shore and
wefound a nest of ants, these lit
tle red ants, -and I got a pop bottle
half full of the ants and took them
home. This morning, when Pa
was dressing for church 1 saw his
liver-pad on a chair, and noticed
a hole in it, and I thought what a
good place it would be for the ants.
I don't know what ' possessed me,
but I took the liver-pad into my
room, and opened the bottle, and
put the hole ove,r the mouth of
the bottle and 1 guess the ants
thought theje was something to eat
in the , liver-pad, cau.se they all
went into it. and tley crawled
around in the brand and condition
powders inside of it, and I took it
back to pa, and he put it on under
his shirt, and dressed himself, and
wew vnt to church. Pa squirmed a
little when the minister was pray
ing and r guess some of the ants
nao come out to vu;w- the land
scapes er. When we got up to
sing the hymn Pa kept kicking, as
though he was nervous, and he felt
down Ins neck and '.. looked sort of
wild, the way he did when he had
the jim-jams. When we sat down
l a eouidirt keep still, audi like
ro.iKio wiien 1 saw some of the
ants ecuW out of his shirt bosom
and go racing aroundhis white vest
Pa tried to look pious, and resigned,
but he couldn't keep his leg still
and lu sweat nior'u a pail full
When the minister. prouehed about
-rue worm that .never dieth," Pa
reached into his vest and scratched
ins mis, ana he looked as though
he would give ten dollars if the
minister would get through. Ma
looked at pa as though' she would
bite his head off, but pa he squirm
ed, and acted as though his soul
was on lire. Say, does- ants bite
oi just crawl around:- Well, when
the minister said amen, and praved
the second round, and then said
brother who was a missionary to
the heathen would like to make a
few remarks about the missionaries
in Bengal, and take up collection
Patold Ma they would have toexeuse
him, and he lit out for home, slap
pmg himself on the legs and on
the arms -Mid on the back, and he
acted crazy. Ma and me went
home, alter the heathen got
through, and found Pa in Ins bed
room, w ith part of. Iiis. clothes off,
and fh'e liver-pad w as on the floor,
and Pa was stamping on it with
his boots, and talking afful.
"What is the matter," says Ma.
"Don't your reHgion agree with
von!"
'Reliirion In? dashed," says Pa.
"LET ALL. THE ESDS THOU AIH'ST AT, BE TRY COUNTRY'S,
WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, APEIL 13. 1883.
would give ten dollars to know how
a pint of red ants got into my
liver-pad. Religion is one thing,
and a million ants walking all over
a man, playing tag is another. I
didn't know the liver-pad was
loaded. How in Gehenna did they
get in there!" and pa 6Cowled at
Ma as though he would kill Her.
"Don't swear dear," says Jia, as
she through down her hymn book,
and took off her bonnet. "Y'ou
should be patient. Remember Job
was patient, and he was afflicted
with sore boils." .
"I don't care," says pa, as he
chased the ants out of his drawers,"
"Job never had ants in his liver
pad. If be had he would have
swore the shingles off a barn.
Here you," says pa, speaking to nie,
"you head off them ants running
under the bureau. If the truth was
known I believe you would be re
sponsible for this outrage." And
Pa looked at me kind of of hard.
"O, pa," says 1, with tears m my
eyes, "Do you think your little Sun-,
day school boy would catch ants in
a pop bottle on the lake shore, and
bring them home, and put them in
the hole of your liver-pad just be
fore you put it on to go to church?
You are too bad " And"I shed
some tears. I can shed tears now
any time I want to, but it didn't
do any good this time- Pa knew
it was me, and while he was look
ing for the shawl trap I weut to
Sunday school, and now I guess he
is after me, and 1 will go and take
a walk down to Bay View."
The boy moved off as his pa
turned the corner, a:d the groc
ery man said, "Well, that boy beats
all that I ever saw. If he was
mine I would give him away."
Tax on Liquo? dealers.
The following circular has been
sent out by our State Treasurer, ex
plaining the new law as to taxes on
liquor-dealers:
The following are the provisions
in brief with a construction of sec
tion thirty-four, Schedule B , of "An
Act to Raise Revenue:"
Every person, company or firm,
for selling spirituous, vinous or
malt liquors, or medicated bitters,
is taxed as follows:
1st. For selling in quantities less
than a quart, twenty dollars for
each quarter.
2d. For selling in quantities of
one quart and less than five gallous
twelve dollars and fifty cents for
each quarter.
3d. For selling in quantities of five
gallons or more, fifty dollars for
each quarter.
4th. For selling malt liquor exclu
sively, live dollars for each quarter.
The taxes are to be paid quarter
in advance on' the first days of
January, April, July, and OctolK r
and the licenses are to be issued as
on those dates.
Licenses heretofore granted to
persons to retail liquors which ex-
ire during a quarter, can be re
newed to operate until the first day
of the succeeding quarter, on pay
ing the proportionate amount of tax;
uid this rule will apply to all new
icenses obtained before the expir
ation!' a quarter, under any of the
four paragraphs of section thirty
foifr of the present law.
All druggists dealing in liquors
ire required to coiuorm to me
ibove law, except only in cases
where liquor is used in comjMiund-
ing medicines.
A Fiendish Deed.
A stransre tale comes from Scot
land Neck full of horror ifi true.
AYe give it as we heard it on toe
streets: A short time since Mrs.
Bell died suddenly and was buried
by her husbaud. Suspicions' were
aroused as to the cause of her
death and parties weut to the grave
to exhume its remains that an ex
amination might be had. Bell met
them at the grave with a shot gun
and threatened to shoot them if
they attempted to open the grave.
The crowd went !off and got rein
forcements, returned, took Bell's
gun and dug up the corpse. The
neck had been broken. Bell was
arrested and lodged in the county
jail. It is said that he killed his
wife because she would not sign a
deed. He lold her to sign and upon
Wiier refusal he became so enraged
that he assaulted her with the re
sult above stated. Bell has lived in
this section many years and is
known sis "preacher" Bell. He was
formerly a member of the Primitive
Baptist Church and we believe did
preach for a season, but he has loug
since ceased to be a member ofthis
church from which he was expelled
for his misconduct. Southerner.
"James Henry AYilliam, ain't it a
mystery to you how they set tjpe!
You git the paper and the type iz
changed every week," said a green
looking youth, who was standing
near Dr. AYeyer's drug store last Fri
day evening, as he tacked his pants
in his boots and gave his susjieu-i
ders another hitch. "Lor, no,"
boy," answered his companion,
"Pze seen them in Goldsboro, and
they set type jes' like sowing cot
tonseed." Kinston "Free Press.
A VERY SAD CASE
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THE SAD RESULTS. OF A LOV
HE'S PERFIDY.
DEPRIVED OF REASOX.
To morrow the doors of t he Penn
sylvania State Lunatic Asylum
will open to admit a young lady
whose intellect has been dethron'
edby the perfidy of a recreant
bridegroom. The name of the de
mented girl is Anna Peterson, a
member of one of the most promi
nent families of Harbor Creek,
near Erie. Miss Peterson Ls nine
teen years old, and has been most
liberally endowed by nature with a
handsome form and a sweet dispo
sition. About a year ago a young
man named P. Dullea paid her
marked attentions, and in due
time she promised to wed him.
Dullea is possessed of considerable
property, and the match was gen
erally considered a most happy
one-
The 7th of March was set for the
wedding day, and many friends
and relatives were invited to be
present at the ceremony. The
bridegroom wad very zealous in
making preparations, and left
nothing undone that would add
eclat to the affair. The eventful
day arrived at last, and Anna Pe
terson arrayed herself in herjbridal
robes. The morning train brought
many friends, who assembled in the
handsomely-decorated Peterson
pallors as the. hour drew nigh.
The marriage was to be solemnized
at noon. At ten minute to .12 the
bridegroom had not arrived. The
minister was in waiting to per
form the ceremony and in an up
per room the bride sat among her
elegantly attired bridesmaids
Just before noon a stranger rang
the bell and, handing the servant
a letter addressed to Miss Peter
sou, hurried away.
This excited considerable Suspi
cion, and not without foreboding of
evil did Mr. Peterson deliver the
missive to his daughter. She tore
it open hurriedly, glanced over its
contents, and then, with an ago
nized shriek, fell into a swoon.
The fatal letter was picked up and
read to the guests. It was a curt,
heartless epistle. .
"My Dear Mi Peterson: Cir
cumstances over which I have no
control compel me to forego the
honor of wedding you to day. This
morning I was informed of ,the
great necessity for my " presence
elsewhere. ' At some future time,
if all goes well, I nuty see you, and
then, if our feeliugs for each other
are unaltered, our relations can be
considered the same as though this
little hitch in our arrangements
had never happened. Y'ours truly,
P. Dullea.
"P. S. lam going to travel."
Restoratives were applied, and
the deserted bride regained consci
ousness. When she came out of
the faint she astonished her friends
by quietly readjusting her wreath
of orange flowers, and taking the
hand of au aged neighbor, address
ing him by her false lover's name,and
announced herself ready to repeat
the words that should make her
his wife. Then it flashed on the
minds of all those present that the
shock had deprived her of her reas
on. They led her away, like poor
Ophelia, smiling and chatting jn an
artless way that was heartrending
to see and hear. The house of re
joicing was changed to one of sor
row. During the night Miss Peterson
was attacted with paroxysms, suc
ceeded by periods of insensibility.
ner parents are prostrated by the
weight of sorrow. Nothing furth
er has been heard of Dullea, and
the com unity is wild with excite,
ment over his perfidious action,
Vhila. I'timm.
The capacity of tjioroughbred
horses for jumping is wonderful,
says the Charlotte "Journal." The
most extraordinary leap we ever
saw was the one made by General
Robert Ransom's mare "Fanny,"
when the Yanks surprised his
brigade below Kinston, N. C. He
put her across a gap where a rail
road culvert had been torn up
at full speed, and the distance, af
terwards measured, according to
our recollection, was over twenty-
five feet.
Business is Business.
AVben the President reached
YYeldon on his journey southward
he was forcibly reminded that
under the new order of things
''business is business" - in North
Carolina. The conductor who took
charge of the train at the point
mentioned, as the representative of
the AYilmington and AYeldon Rail
road, when he reached the Presi
dent's Car proceeded to "strictly
husiness" bv demanding fares. Of
course there was astonishment and
a suggestion that there must be
some mistake. The conductor, "an
old gray-headed, gray-be ardeH
TRY COD'S, AXD TRUTHS
man," counted seats for eighteen
persons and said that he must coP,
lect 47.50 from somebody, and not
until BelfLeld, further on, was
reached and telegram explanatory
was handed him would he abate
one jot or title of his demand. -"News
Observer."
Belfield is not on the W. & AY.
R. R. AYe presume it was the con
ductor on the Petersburg and AYel.
don Road who demanded fares.
The affair did not occur in North
Carolina, because Belfield ' happens
to be in. Virginia. AVith these cor
rections the almve paragraph may
le correct. Ed.
Bully for Tiiat Girl.
CUAELOTTK, N. C., March 30,
C. A. Kennelly w as a suitor for the
hand of Miss Margaret Caldwell.
Her parents forbade the atten
tion. The couple decided upon a
runaway. Kennelly drove to her
house this morning. They wei-e be
trayed, when Kennedy reached the
front gate and got out of the buggy
two men fell on himand badly beat
him. He managed to get into the
buggy and drove away. Miss Cald
well had witnessed the assault trom
her window, and as soon as hor
lover left she ran out the back door
fled a cross the field, and jneeting
him at the cross roads, got in the
buggy, and the lover, despite his
severe wounds, drove her to the
Biddle Institute, where they were
married. "
. The Queen of Home..
Honor the dear old mother-
Time has scattered snowy flakes on
her brows, plowed deep furrows on
her cheeks, but is she not sweet and
beautiful now!. The lips are thiu
and shrunken, but those are the lips
which have kissed many .a hot tear
from the childish cheeks, and they
arethe sweetest lips in the world?
the eye is dim, yet it glows with the
soft radiance that can never fade
Ah, yes, she is a dear old mother
The sands of life are nearly run
out, but, feeble as she is, she will
go further and reach down lower
for you than any other person on
earth. You cannot enter a prison
whose bars can keep her out! You
cannot mount a scaffold too high
for her to reach that she may kiss
and bless you in evidence of her
deathless love when the world shall
despise and forsake you; when it
leaves you by the wayside to per
isy unnoticed, the dear old mother
will gather you in her arms and
carry you home and tell you of all
your virtues until you almost for
get your soul i.' disfigured by vices.
Love her tenderly, and cheer the
declining years with holy devotion.
Fastidious Punctuality, .
"Dr. Deems, of the Church of the
Strangers, has' quite a reputation
for fastidious punctuality. lie
was to make the prayer at the un
veiling of the statue of Franklin in
Printing House Square. His watch
lost time. The cars were obstruct
ed. He reached the. Astor House
just in time to see that, he had a
minute and a half to meet his en
gagement. The roads were blocked
by crowds gathered fo witness the;
unveiling. The. Din-tor worked
his way through Nassau street to
the corner of Spruce. In the mean
time, .'all the other gentlemen who;
were to take part in the exercises
had assembled in t he room from
which they were to proceed to the
ground. It wanted but a few min
utes to twelve when one of them
i 1: AVe areull herebut Dr. 1 )eeins.''
Horace Greely said: "He lives up i
town. Givo hi in ten minutes."
i
"Yes, gentlemen," added Dr.
Prime, ot the Obxerrer, "give him
ten minutes, and if. he is not, here
then, send for the coroner, for you
may be sure t he Doe-tor is dead."
At that moment the City Hall
clock pointed to twelve : and Dr.
Deems opened the door-"
The Texas "Sittings' tells of a
preacher who got a little mixed in
his quotations, and said: Bred -
derin, Barkis is willing but de flesh
am weak." This is, probably the
same clerical gentleman who' said
in one of his .sermons, "Consider
the lilies of the field, they toil not
neither do they spin, yet Solomon
in all his glory was obliged to hau1
his shirt off over his head because
it didn't lace up in front."
A Great philosopher says in one
of his letters: "I have told you of
the Spauiard w ho ' always put on
his spectacles when he was lont
to eat cherries, that they Snight
look the bigger and ruor. tempting.
Iu like manner I make the most of
my enjoyments, and though I do not
cast my cares away, I pack them iii
a little compass, so that I can car
ry them as conveniently as I can
for myself, and let them never
ann.iv others.
Sam Cox savs he once heard
this toast from - a colored orator:
"Here's to Gen. Butler whoi
though he has a white skin, bless
God, has a black heart." There
was no sarcastic or disresiectful
meaning liehind his words.
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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
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"A LIVE CHURCH AND AYHAT
i rnvsjTiTiTi. it'!
II Iii 14TII AXXll'ERSAlir.
Tjie Brooklyn Tabernacle was
filled yesterday morning with iu
customary large gathering of wor
shippers, hiany, no doubt; being
drawn there by the announcement
that the liev. Dr. Talmage would
preach his '"oyrteenth anniversary
senuon. He took his text' from
the Second chapter of Revelations,
a part of the eighteenth verse:
"Un'to the angel of the church in
Smyrna w rite these things saith the
first and the last." ,
Smyrna was a great .ancient city.
It was bounded on t hive sides by
mountains. It was the great cen
treofthe leviathan trade. In that
brilliant ami prosperous city a
christian church was established.
After a while it was rocked down
by an earthquake, .then it was re
built, then it was destroyed by a
conflagration which swept down' the
entire city. The church was again
rebuilt.. The fact was, that the
church had in it. -a livingactive,
christian principle."-" On this the
fourteenth anniversary of my pas
torate iu this place 1 look into the
friendly faces of this great audi
ence, tlhiusunds of hearts are in
sympathy' with the work that I have
tried to do iu this place. I propose
to set forth w hat I-consider to be
the characteristics of
' . A LIVK CUl'UCH.
In the first Jace, I remark that
a live church is prompt in its finan
cial engagements.' Every religious'
institution has monetary relations.
The Bank of England ought to
be no more faithful in the dis
charge of its obligations than a
good church of Jesus Christ.
IT a church standing in any 'com
munity fails to pay its debts, it be
conies au injury to the place where
it stands instead of a blessing. All
religious institutions ought, to be
an example to the world .for faith
fulness in the discharge of mone
tary obligations. There are a thou
sand things that prayer will not do.
Prayer will not paint a church,
prayer will not .purchase a minis
ter's coal, nor support institutions
of religion. A' prayer .. ever goes
heaven-high unless it gees pocket
deep. I had in my w estern church a
man favorable iu worldly -'circumstances,
who was given to pro
longed prayer for h.is pastor,--until
his prayer Uc;,m a nuisance,- for j
it was a prayer without ceasing. A
prayer in which he. asked that .the
pastor might be blessed financially,
while he the petitioner never gave j yet time enough in the future for
a cent towards his salary. Such i the f ull development of the princi-
. supplications as thai amount to! phv and services of your favorite
nothing. A member of a congre-! candidate and as he is now a
gation meeting his obligations j young mail, ho can afford to wait
within the church of Chi ist is able j several years longer. -to
Ineet- them outside. I speak j The course of t he republican par-
w it ji no cuib irrassmcut this morn
ing, because this church of God,' id
though it has come in other years
through darkness and storm and;
trouble is standing today in a
larger place, and ourJeinKiral pros- j
perjticsgo right besi.le our spirit uat
prosperities.. Thanks first to 'God
ami secondly to the generosity and1
promptness d the' people. - I might
at this point say that there are.
i.iaiiy churches of Jesus Christ' iu
this land that are utterly failing in
this respect. 'There if re a great i have degenerated to almost entire
ina,ny id" the ministers of religion ly a party of negroes,
half starved to death. Let the Democratic party fake
Mr. Talmage went on to say that ! w aniing froni the suicidal course of
although ids wants were provided ; the negro prty. '
lbgVith great munificence,, the I notice a little paragraph in
average salary, to-day, of the min-j TllK ADVANCE of March 30th., sis
isters in the United States was a j follows:; "Nobody-ever heard of au
little less than six hundred dollars,
and when it is considered that
some iif the salaries are very large,
it will tie readily seen to what great
straits some of God noblest scrv-
; ants art
j j
j
rcduecd.
LATE COMKKS.
A live church will also lny punc-, t pay for him about i.100,00 in cash
tuiil iu its attendance. If in such a j as security to his 'bond sw guardian'
church the servii-es lK-gius at half-; for' his brother-in-law, and he h:is
Iast ten o'clock iu the morning, the j never paid me back one cent of it.
people will not come at a quarter . Another printer by the name of
of eleven. If iu such .i church the j T. B. (iariier, iu ;JH70, obtained
services .'begin at half -past seven j lH.f0 from me under falsi- pre
o'clock in 'thC; evening, the H-ipIe: tenses. He pretemleil to me that
wil not come at a quarter of eight J he had made arrangement for
The fact is some jieople are always publishing immediately a pajier to
late. They were born late, ami I j. be called the Turl-oro Prcs?, and he
supjMise, they will die late, f Laugh j 'wanted the money to pay the
teir. It is a' I'toor. iuspiralion to a I freight iu the tyjH' to Tarlioro.
christian minister when, in pre- I let him have the money and have
litninary exercises, half the people not seen Garner or the money since,
seated in their. pews. are looking I know not and I presume it mat
around to see the other half come
in. The very first word of the in
vocation should lie as important as
anything else that may occur after.
I know- there is a difTerem-e in
time-pieces, but alive church goes
by -railroad time. After remark
ing that a live church has fine sing
ing, not alone by the choir, but
that the whole audience took part
therein, and that alive church has
a flourishing Sunday school,. Mr.
Talmage sjmke of the architecture
of a live chimh . which lie said
NUMBER 12
should be commodious and appro
ate.-' .'-'-. ' -'"
TALMAGE'S THEATRE.
A log cabin may do iu a place
where people live in log cabins, but
in cities,-where people have com
modious and beautiful apartments,
a church that is not commodious
and is not beautiful is a moral nui
sance, it is an insult to dod and an
insult to man. So we Raid years
ago, - AYe shall have a large church
and have it amphetheatrie in shajH4;
the seats shall rise above, each
other, and when the minister of the
goseI stands up to preach he will
be able to look every man full in the
face, ami the acoustic shall be
perfect." But when we tersisted
in this style of architecture, oh, the
scorn ami the caricature. Some of
you remember it. They said it
-would be a hippodrome. They said
w ould lie a holy circus. They called
it Talmage's theatre. But the
building once completed, I never
saw a man t iat diQ not Jike it.
Perfect in acoustics, erfect in ull
its arrangements, a great family
circle, as every church. ought to I,
the pulpit only the fireplace, all the
fanuly gathered around the fire
place. The sermon was brought
to a clow by Mr. Talmage saying
that in looking over his fourteen
years pastorate he had not one com
plaint to make, that he had had it
too easy, he thanked God that he
ever came to Brooklyn and. had
come to know his audience, few of
w hom .were' present,, now that were
present when he preached his inau
gural sermon. - B. N.
Letter From Ex-5o?ernor Brogden.
Brogden's Mill Wayne Co., N. C.
April 6th, 1KS.J.
JosEPiirs Daniels, Esy.'
Editor' AVilson Advanck.
Dkar Sill : I notice your call
on delinquent subscribers to pay
up. That is iK'ifectly right, and I
cheerfully heed your request le
cause an Editor ought not to bo
expected to publish a iicwspaMr
for nothing, and those who sub-
L scribe for it and read it 'ought in
justice and honor to le willing to
pay for it when called on todr go.
I like the size of the print ofTllK
Advance, lecause it is large and
plain and easy to read, and I like
generally its political course. There
was one article, however, in the
isMie of March Kith, in regard to
Hie next nomination of a candi
date for Governor of North Car-
Iina, which I am not '"at present
'prepared to iudorse. We have yet j
older if not .1 letter soldiers iu this '
State, w ho have seen more service j
and who carry with them the i
prestige -ot past political victories.
'fhey are honest, capable and faith
ful, a.td have worked manfully to
win the day for the right cause in
many popular battles. There is
ty in this State in discarding t ieir
bcst men for ollice,has helped to
destroy their party.. As kooii as
an.v honest republican- has become
piomiueiit in theiriarty, the w hoh'
sw ;li rn of Republican office seekers,
-white and colored, have made war
on him to kill him off and get him
out of the way for some of the rest
, of the hungry .kwarm. They have
pursued this course till they have
git alMiut all the respectable white
j-Republicans out of
the way anil
absconding editor. The reason may
lie o'.ivious, but the. fact is never
t heless t rue."
I cannot agree with that statement.
Eight or ten years ago printer by
the name of J. L. Garrett, who pre
tended to publish a paper awhile
in Goldsitoro, causetl me ti have
ters not which is the most of a ras
cal, Garrett or Garner, ami if they
were both out of the State it would
I think be "giiMl i iddaiKM' of bail
rubbish." .
A'ours truly, j '.
C. H. Brogdex.
A great many iierson.s use the ex.
pressiou "them molasses," and the
! Evening Artsitor is led to believe
that if .common school were not in
f existence,: folks would say "them
' water" aiiif"thse vinegar."
WILSON ADVANCE.
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THE METROPOLIS.
IN
i'hTER COOPER'S Itlrlll,
ED1TOK A'1I.siN APV S I' :j
In the death of her gre it p:n.,;!i
thropist, Peter CiHiper, New Yoik
has sustained a 'wvtw liws Ab
thiHigh he died full of year .a1..t l
homirs ami had livisl tar"U-oiii
v- uie'imi f iti. iii, , (MH
help regivttiiig".ihat a bte so pn-ci
ous to the com in a u it oudd m:
have Ihm'ii spared a l.ttie hmei.
Born in 1711 near wli.a is ll0w
CHnties tilip he had seen l'ic smail
colonial town assun; -1 1. pi,.),,.,
lions of a great eii, .not !( ,nu
the mctro'H.li, ut I he new YA'oild'.
Full tif love for the ,ec ..f his
nativity he was ter.liir to .k.
vance her inteieM and f.,..ut te
her prosKrity. The gre.it ci p ..t i.f
his life was spent in lu-r si-m ii
not as a politician, bur is i u .te
and faithful utizen who waswil.ug
to makeauy sacrifice lor i-he t it.v
oF his birth, lie is said to haw A-
pClideil in Coo-m i- Cniou alone iuei
two millions of thill us. .Mil
his life was one of iiutiii.ig iu
ergy and all his numerous baijiv..s
ventures wonderfully sncce fn! ;tl.
left but a small fort n in- bciiiu.l in.::.
No charitable suIimi iptlou Iwh
i -. . . i
complete without the . u.imf i-h
Peter (5iHM'r. .Truly if .iu ty
covei-eth a multitude of mm,' he
shall stand U'loiv the llu o.ie ol
his creator "with clean ImihU." He
w as iu the hlght-st sensi a " w a d
holding his in asters pioictt in
trust.". He gave as fivelv a l.e
received. It is said thai he p it
seventy-five ilollats in his tun-kef
every morning to Im leo .ed t'i
charitable purposes during the
day. The highest honors ar I
ing paid to his mcnioiy. Tlie ciiy
i-jri-oveicd with flags at hjdl-mjst
and the Legislature, civ il ainlcruu
innl eonrtn. luiaul nf iiMitim-mi .hi,i
other civic mid tmlii-i-il IumIIku
adiourned out of lesneot to him.
In what bright contrast hisJile
fitamls couiptired with t fiat- or
Stewanl or of A'amlerbilt.
They lived for themselves In- tor
iithrrs. They hoarded up millions
tolM dissipated by their sucies-toi s,
he laid up treasure "where the.vis
ciinnot break iu and steal," Of
con rs yiin have read if that culmi
nation of s-l.cKbh isiii, the Yaiuler
bilt e,ressbn!I. ; Siieii ;n exhibition
of Miobbishnes is as eminent ly
.li.,tM...i.-l.t i. ..I ll... '.. i. I I. a
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family us the biiildju ql ('no cr
Cniou was iif tie character nf
Peter 1'oojkt. To s;m-iuI a j'fOii.Oiio
in advertising iiiies l iches is us u
sistenl with tin' one ns U.e expen
diture of i? 2,000,001 1 for a public
biiililing.ifh the other. '
New York merchants ate com. :
1.11 itii ii tr fli'il l.ii' uiinin IKUKM i,i
.llu'l- I lie "txilli, III ki'.-iiis tit h i v i"
Imcii kniK-keil out" of Southern
rade. The ciuiimiciI decline
in the price-iif i-utton proti.i!l i-,v
plains this depiision.
Pedi'Striaiiism has b.-cn mi cei d
ed in the-uflii-t ions i.f thv jM-oph?
North by pugilism. 1 Hippose yi.ti
saw an account ol'th lu.i'gn ticeiil)
reception tendered StiHvaii by
tin- ".Ithens of America.'
Had Kin-h an expres-doo .f ap-iiv-iatiou
iif a vulg r, b ii al
prise tighter in cm red in a Soiith-
l'lll-i:il, i ii.: iiii.-i .'i i in-; iiiiii ti
the Universe would have held up
their bauds in holy horror.
politics are iu rather a ini:it
presi'tit' North. Tin frcci r,ilci -i and
protectionists in the Dentin i atop-arty
anil half liri-i-d- and t;d
warts in the Republican paitv aie
iloing a great deaL-of noi ipi n
relling. I .think, howi-M-r, -rh..!
I H' fore the liext Pieidcufi il eU'e.
tion on the accotiutio.t tin- ag-n-ss
ivi'liess of the AYesti-in arm South ern
freetraders all the projection
ists w ill lie weeded oat o! Ctcf leiti
ocratie party, ami the sfalwatU
will ha'.ewalloweil the half biceiU.
'The title of emigration ' i Mill
KMiritij inu .ew ioik a tut iiis(ia.
of flowing toward J In- f-rtde Sun'l'i-
rolls towards Ihe pr.iries ..! tin
West, i see by tlie celisiiM lejiort
that N. C. has a smaller fotvigu
Imrii piiinlatnm than any nlln-:
State. ill the Cniou. Such i rmi
a ih-Kirable state Tif afhiii s. N'oi lh
Carolina should "fie lepri-MMited Su
New York by a Coninisio!-r o,
Agriculture.
Mr. -AYilkerKOii'K arti'-Ie on the
negm are exciiinga great neai i
ailverse criti-isiu. Some i oo.:"
able writers shimld m-ihI us onn
articles supi tort ing hi views.'
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Vew'Yfim-' N. Y Ann! Cth. V.!
The Tarlioro Southern'? tells how
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laXcn MIC v.'ii. . in Mij;iuium
Let other Sherrifl take 'not :..
Iist week, it says, Mr. Dorscii,
Supt., owneil a nuinlM-r d lalMirers,
li vsn crnulini? l!ai!n:ut xivt-Miie
about A'oung Mr. Bryan
took out pajK-rs of giriiishiiicnt,
and out of the 1H0, TA went to
the snpfHrt-t of the Slate -tiid I'ouu
Pf. There was wailing ami gnash
ing of teeth among t uedusky ddiu
quents but tho deputy Uke the law
wan inexirabl. '
drop.
HO I IU HIV IV(,U .1 vj 1 V . '.U.