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vr i.i.r.M.s a i.r.A .via os
ltah-igh ki . nr. rooms.
'JUS students attended the I'lli
yersil-vjthis veai'.-' -; - - -That!
new. j ;i i M-r. - t '-Corset.'
Irlld.
ndv to show signs til
Durham, is.
iby iirt'ii'M'tal.
ibev I, i:l:i-'kir.itl.
hatching L.T.0 egg'
The telegraph. lint between Ilali
an.jl Scotland " Neck i' 'im
L'p In
hiis cost
sii'j.oiiti.
now
the
Slar Route
. - incut
t.l ial
old V
A n h
.Opened at
-Kip
! ol'lh ' . has been
Nazareth tin- -first one
in i In-Holy Laud,
Tiii- jstate Dental Association
meets al MojchcaiL City on the
l'JIh ol'.liine ncr
- Lev. Dr. Samm-l Lander, ol'
South ( iiiolin a. is named lor l'res;
iili-ut otil'i im! ( 'ollege.
'I In- Southern TiMcgraph Coinpa
li "s v i ! es -w ill soon reach Wcldoii
ln ing arrived it Margaret tsville
soinet Hii'r since. ;
11 n;evcr too late to lo good
ami therefore" two people in III ad-en
ollll!,i aied 71 a1'"! '' years
h.e lil-t U"! marr-uil. -
' ' "
Lev. li'. i i-ius li.i." been invited
to elivcr I he- baccalaureate sci'
iui.it tlni. i ar at 1 In Yandcibilt
Uiiiveisit.v. ol' N'ashj i,le,T.i.nv
Tin- (ici.cral Assembly of tin
Presbyterian ( 'Inn ch.'in the, 1 " nit 1
Slates, xv ill nnifih; in Lexington,
K.v., on ire lTtli d.uv of May iss:',.
F.laboj-afe preparation- nv be
'illU ; made I'ol the Musical- 'olivell
t ion of Virginia and :Noith 'arnli
lia. to hij In-ld at Petersburg May
-'M h. ' I
.....!...., I I...,!.- -.1 Miieiiiii. ( ). .!
,. IIMtlWll.il IK. til -
tiie State natWial hank ''(' llafeigh,
X. ('., aijd a national hank -t 'NVw
heriv. S'i i'.. have women presi
dents: j
Lew is. , prtnerpal ol
it; has been appoint-
I'ted Bean, a young Iowa farmer,
desired a wile, hut (Ml not take? a
I'ajiey to the girls ofliis neghbor-
h 1. He aspired to something
different, ami wrote to an Indian
agent in Dakota, inquiring whether
a reasonahle good-looking squaw
could be obtained. An exchange of
letters and photographs ensued,
and he is to be married, to the
daughter of a Sioux chief.
J
A cubic inch of gold is worth
1M:' a cubic foot, s.'JG 2,30S ; a cu
bic yard, --'.,7!7,7(i2. This is val
uing it atj?lS, an mnce. At the
commencement of the Christian era
there was in the wrld ??427,000,000
in gold. This has. diminished to
:,7,(00,(.oo at the time America
was discovered, when it began" to
increase. Xuiv the aniount of gold
in use is estiinateil to Ik' o",000,-
000.(1(10.
A-new uiNciitiou for building pur-
j poses'is called "terra eotta lumber. '
' It is a' kind of brick so soft that Ht
can be sawed and worked with
edged tools as readily as wood and
nails can 1e driven into it and will
hold as well as in wood. Its makers
'claim that it lias tenacity and re
sist aiiec lo strains greater than -oak
lumber.-. It is made from a kind
of clay faiud in abundajice in New
.lcrsey and elsewhere, is as cheap
as luick ami has many other ad
vantages as a lire-proof budding
material.
Asr.ii.f.i.
GOOD FARMING.
WHAT. AX lMstv AiiA-
BAMA FAKMER DID.
ahead or run MAX.
Last February . we jmblished
from the Southern Cultirator the
"Furman fonnular," by the use of
which Mr. Furman of Georgia, pro
duced wonderful results. We
inanj: farmei-s will use the
combination on their land
lr. li. II.
lviliston 'o!le;
cd lect niyr on IMiYsioTogy.
next session ol'lhe !.Ti!i-l-inal
Si ho.il. .
The Ncwi
open .bine
at
it v
the
'N br
oil Nonii i! School will
L'lith. l'lol'.:. ;. ('. lCng-
lish will he Sni.l-.. and I'rol'. M. v.
S. Nohhyif I lie ilmi'nulon (iradetl
School, will assist.
I!!. All AlAA.M'K;
Tie- la'aviest rainfall that has
visited this section in thirty or
forty ears fell on Sunday night,
the Ji'ud., and the Ireshet which
followei! was the, greatest and most
destructive known to the oldest cit
izens. Co!. .1. F. .lones" mill was
coiisiderahly daniaged liy washing
away hUsaw mill and playing havoc
with his dam and foby that runs
his col ion factory, and also the
eotin! hridge all of which was on
Sandy Creek jaf" Laurel about ten
miles liMiii here in Franklin, and in
tire s line county, the. bridge at San
dy Creek Church was carried away
and t wo oi hers, viz: .Lick tiupton's
and I '. is-.', add Drakes' bridge in
this-county, Ijeading from Nashville
to Hansom's bridge was swept
awav I'Y the tlood besides other-
w-ise.-caasing grear. tesiruciion to
the fanners 1 washing aw ay thou-
sainls upon thousands of pannels of
t'UC.
Alter a lour hour's ride through
(he conn; v. via Ued Oak, vour cor
respomleii was landed at the Falls
of Tar Iii'r on Sunday hist, where
had 'gathri'd about one thousand
people., of Na-di and' Mdguc'ombe
upon atlendJine(v.or the Union Meet
link of the Primitive Baptists,
noticed that the tanners., on tin
road were making ''unusually slow
learn
same
this year, and we hope to hear of
large crops being gathered by the
use of this compost', liy the re
questbt one our of most intelligent
and successful tarmers, wao appie
ciatesthe great advantages of read
ing of the experiences of those en
gaged in similar pursuits, besides
niustrating what the Southern
farmer can do by intensive farm
ings publish the following taken
from the same journal:
"On a high hill, about a half
mile from the city limits of Troy,
Tike county,-is- the residence of
J. F. Hill, a cosy frame building,
with necessary farm houses in ex
cellent repair' without much to
attract particular attention,
except the tidy appearance of, the
yard and house and comfortable
surroundings and the large nuui
her ot mounds and heaps which
which greets the eye. 1 hese are
the potato hills and compost heaps,
and it is the latter to which we
desire to call particular attention.
a well as the results they have
iccomplished.
This farm, under-Mr. IIiIIts ex-
celleiit management has Income
the nearest to a model farm of any
in this section, and for several
years lias produced the largest
crops gathered from the same
acreage of any farm in Alabama.
The yield of 64 bales, r.OO pounds
average, from fifty acres, is the
largest made iu the State, if not in
the South, from the same acreage;
and his hill compost land even ex
ceeded that in ratio of production,
being 41 bales front thirty acres.
The land is -what is known as
"sandy with clay foundation." Last
year his crop from eighty acres,
cultivated by two mules, was as
follows:
50 acre.s cotton, 04 bales,
at 50, SsV-'UU
30 acres oats, !)00 bushels
at 50 cents . 450 0i
8 acres sweet potatoes,
'2.000 bushels at 40
cents, S00 00
10 acres corn, l'-O bushels
A
the
l a Mi
sa s
negro', in Ciieen cojint.N . sa.vs
l'reif Cress." is .very much- iu
r.of the "ho I'ern.e"' law because
-w hen a poor negro steals
,e l.o lilt him
a fioir now lie don't ii
over t he Ueliee.""
The Columbus jibt.) F.nquicr
sensibly ''suggests to the Solltli -in
young m: it who- is proud of his
family thai he -should try to do
sonic! hing to make his family
pimld ol hiiii. , ' '
'I'hcie i, s.l s the 1 ;.i-t oil ' 1 Iciah I?
a good di- il of tihies- in tlie selec
tion 'of Mi . '. ai i as tlie orator tor
Ncs York al I lie (ijieiiiiig of- the
big biii!. . lie c in suspend a
s. iiii-u. . in t in- air buig. r t ban any
ol her iii.ui :i Anii i ii a."
h'ia'ii 1 1 :ii ib.
-New s" l;!ial .. !..,.
of I lie bed cil lllll'i ,
1'i'i'nss, .elgiil
! lie bt'd chain!)
chamber women to
toi in to bed." Thi- unj'hi
rible slate of alfaii ui ! i
lii.iee. j ,
A iiei S. .iit'Ii. Wales
has t'lis iadeirisemelit:
A cultured gentleman.
'liilaileipliia
'lo:;r ladies
f ei one a
"oluiiaMt ladies ol
. and iwthe be.l
U (bleel! N'ic-
s a ilol--ie.
lo.aI
tlearual
Wanted
capable
suits of this crop' that the cost
connnercial fertilizers wasl 425 for
twenty acres and the yield was 1.15
bales of cotton to the acre. The
The cost of fertilizers for the other
forty eight acres was 2G3,20, about
5,4G per acre. The yield of cot
ton wa-s 1.35s haes )er acre. The
cost for commercial fertilizers was
21 per acre.
Mr. Hill experimented on kainit
in one pen of compost, in connec
tion with stable manure, cotton
seed and phosphate almost ident
ical inproKrtiontoFurman's form
ula. He regards top soil from the
forest asbetter and much cheaper.
Iu fact he now uses top soil en
tirely for kainit, and his experi
ments have fully satisfied him that
it is more valuable. He estimates
, the value of muck from branches or
ponds as more valuable than eith
er, and m future, he will use it ex
clusively, if he can get it, in the
top soil.
Mr. Hill regards the value of his
team and four hands in making
compost as equal to a tou of guano
or a bale of cotton per day. The
results of his farm show that he
does not overestimate, their value.
He is now making his compost for
the present year, and will have one
compost to every three acres. He is
making it as follows:
Fifty bnshels muck or top soilJ
bottom; 5 bushels cotton seed, sec
ond layer, 50 pounds phosphate,
third layer, 25 bushels stabhviiia
uure, lith layer; 50 pounds phos
phatc, sixth hvyer; 25 bushels muck
or top soil, seventh layer.
Maintaining the same order as
above until built as high as desired,
remembering that the compost is
of six layers, and that the bottom
and top of the pile should have
fifty bushels of top soil, but, for lay
ers in the middle of the compost
only tweuty-five bushels should be
i used. He will use ten loads ot this
THAT BAD BOY.
INDUCES HIS PA TO JOIN THE
GOOD TEMPLARS.
MAKIXOrillS FA liETTEli.
cuinpost 250 bushels to the acre,
lie estimates the cost per acre at
7,70, and will get better results
than if twice that amount in value
of commercial fertilizers was used.
Theodore Parker on Marriage.
ol milU ,ag g,
preferred!
tiaiotiial'sjt,.
w ill
slitH'p-sk" jl.
i.i is; j u i-i -i inaa
Vet! iea Irons, with !es.
p! aieiency. 1 1.1 lie ad
, . ; .-. nw i he !,,vs
i.v the able ol'hav iiig a
.The 1'epnbiieau Ma vol.
ciniies, n-. went out vesa-rd.iv
and hung himself because the dav
before, he had been b. aU 11 bv a 1 1, -in
oer.u . ii ev t r Kei'nblvau w li
beaten by a 1 e:i'ne r.';t iu j u
lew v ears-lbUow - I hiseaii,i.ie.
..:ue - . . '
ill oe. a ;iap!M il!l!ii!liH;,
I'opulatioii.
O IS '
next
'.! hel e
't our I
A. Louisiana p:anr-r bi a iceeul
ssiie of the New Ol aiaiis -rjeav-l!!'-
very sensibly - savs: "In
os p-r, a piajiler shuitld
what is ot prune uec
iis doiiieslic wants ni.i
;"!, i'aMwhatevel -he likes. ;!v.
S abiui.lan;-,. ,,f ,-orii, he adds. I
1 lo i,e perfectly uneon-
"(oill 'lie no-sii
"I'l.-i I.i pj
l'fu.t ii,.sti
ess'p.r f,.r-
can all'
eel lied
m '." '''f crops. b ,f- I le.v..
failure
no
corn, I shall beeo11o,elfed to sillier."
I his. ge.Hleiua,, .lei larcs that he
'Mtsevervtl,is,g,(.;,!.ai;lI t( ,ljs
Mibs.stence excepfSI1;,;,r .;i4(ltw.
and would iiot Imiv th
-"use them.
hose if he could
pidgicss with th'ieir work mid
scarcely any cot ton had been plant
ed owing to the iinavo:able rainy
seasons, and the cold and backward
sin nig. . I lie present outlook is
anv thing but promisingand flatter
ing to the tillers of the soil.
The select ion ot'.Ioe Daniels, the
brilliant, out hftd and unmarried
editor of I he ADVAXt'K as Chief
Marshal at the next Fair at Rocky
Mount is a good and. wise one, and
w e feel sure he w ill succeed in find
ing a wile, as fiie eves of the women
are upon him.
jWc ought to. .omit this "taffy"
but as vve know 1'lain Tom, to write
only what he wants printed, w
lei if pass tins tune. We nun our
ti ieinlgin I he wish that "lie may sue
ceei in muting a wile. Lie evi
dentlv docs not. know that the
women have resolved not to marry
anv -poor editor, unless t hev can't
get. anv body else. I'd. j
'1 iie fruit crop ot aii kinds excep
pe.ichesis O. K., and bids fair -toi
be a tHxinliful v ield.
One William Ferry , hailing from
the w est a few months ago, after an
absence of. twenty vears, found li is
wife, -whi theught Jiim dead, mar
ried tia n.ii named Spencer Dem
by in Halifax.-'who was persuaded
to leave her second husband and re
turn to her tirst love. Ferry. Now
it turns out that Ferry has a living
wife and three children in Texas,
! and he is missing and has not been
; heard from in several weeks. Won
: der if she thinks now she is married,
and whose wife -she .thinks "that
she am." iS.e. and how she will en
joy her foutjth iioueymobn, and with
w hieh husband . F.y vvhich naiiu
, caii she. a ml ought she to lie eallett?
W hen your girl wants to know
t he -number of your hogs she sim-
pn means tint you ought to plant
more hog ami hominy.
Mr. G. II. XewelL who has ln'en
here with his tent taking the pret
ty faces of our little burg, has mov
ed to Nasln die.
The present mail schedule is any
thing but convenient ;nd satisfac
tory between LouisburL and Xasu
vil'.e, and ii is looped hf all that the
much 'wanted change will soon le
ed'ected and that jwe may get our
local papers .on Saturday and not
I wo days later as it now is.
No deaths or marriajres toreiwt.
Plain Tom.
May 1st, 18S3.
A fine - assortment of guns and
i'istols at .lacobi's Hardware Depot
i Wilmingtou C
at 74 cents,
12 acres field peas,
Total, ;
Premium,
105 00
120 00
!?4,735 OO'
200 00
I.O.'55 00
Total cost of fertilizers, CSS 00
Total' cost of cultivation,
etc., 1,500 00
Total profit, 2,547S0
Thirty acres of oats were re
planted iu potatoes, corn and field
peas, with the results indicated
above. The' fertilizer used 011 the
oats was a compost made as foll
ow s: 20 bushels of cotton seed
and 100 pounds of Ashepoo phos
phate, in alternate layers. The
first layer 011 the ground twjing top
soil from the forest,
cotton seed next and then the
phosphate; then seed layer and
jiho.sphate layer alternately, with
soil from forest , on top, and no
other covering. Of this compost
he used 1,050 pounds to the acre.
The same land was. fertilized the
second jtime before beiug planted
in corn, potatoes and1 peas, with
compost as follows: 2.) bushels top
soil from forest bottom, 5 bushels
cotton seed second layer,' 100
pounds phosphate third layer, 50
bushels top soil from forest fourth-
layer, 25 bushels stable manure fifth-
layer, 50 bushelsTop soil from for
est, top. This compost- stood two
months iu a rail pen uncovered.
It was used on the potato land at
the rate of two 2-horse wagon loads
on the acre. On corn, at the rate
of four loads to five acres, or twen
ty bushels to the acre. The fertil
izer was put only in the hills on
the corn land.
Ills cotton lands were divided
into 30 and t wenty acre lots. On
the twenty acre lot he used one
thousand pounds of Alabama fer
tilizer to the acre competing for a
premium of $200, which was award-
Men and women, says Theodore
Parker, and especially young people
do not know that it takes years to
marry completely two hearts, even
the most loving and well-sorted.
But nature allows no sudden
change. We slope very gradually
from the cradle to the summit of
life. Marriage is gradual a frac
tion of us at a time.
A happy wedlock is a long fall
in" in love. I know young per-
somithink love belongs only to
brown hair and plump, round, crim
son cheeks. So it does for its be
ginning, just as Mount Washington
begins at Boston hay. But the
golden marriage is a part of love
which tlie bridal day knows noth
ing of.
Youth is the tassel and the silk
en Uower of love; age is the. full
corn, ripe and solid in ea''
Beautiful is the morning of love,
with its prophetic crimson, violet,
purple and gold, with its hopes ot
da-s that are to come. Beautiful
also, is the evening of love, w ith its
glad remembrances, and Ls rain
bow side turned toward heaven as
well as earth.
Young people marry their oppo.
site in temper and general charac
ter, anil such a marriage is general
ly a good one. They do it instinct-
icelv. The v'ounar man does not
say, "My black eyes require to be
wed to blue, and my overvehe-
menee requires to be a little niodi
fifid with somewhat of dullness and
reserve." When these opposites
coiiie together to be wed they do
not know it, but each thinks the
other just like himself.
Old people never marry their
opposites; they marj-y their similar
and from , calculation, each of
these two arnwigements is very
proper. In their, long journey,
these opposite will fallout of the
way a great many times, and both
will charm the other back again,
and by-and-by they will agree as
to the place they will go to and
the road they will go by, and. Ih-eomerccoiu-iled.
The man will lc
nobler and larger lor lieing associ
ated with so much humanity un
like himself, and she will be a no
bler woman for having manhood
beside her It hat seeks to correct
her deficiencies and supply her with
what she lacks; if the diversity be
not too great, and there be real pie
ty and love in their hearts to be
gin witii.
The old bridegroom, having a
Don't you think my Pa is show
ing his age a good deal more than
usual!" asked the bad boy of the
grocery man, as ho took a smoked
herring out of a Imix and peeled off
the skin with a broken bladed jack
knife, and split it Open and ripped
off the bone, threw the head at a
cat, and took some . crackers and
began to eat.
"Well, I don't know but he does
look as though he was getting old,"
said the grocery man, as he took a
piece of yellow wrapping paper,
and charged the boy's poor old
father with a dozeu herrings and a
pound of crackers; "But there is no
wouder he is getting old.I'wouldn't
go through, what your father hits,
the last year, for a million dollars
I tell you, boy when your father is
dead, and you get a step father,
and he makes you walk the chalk
mark, you will realize what a
bonanza you have fooled yourself
out of by killing on your laiuer.
The way 1 figure it, your father will
last about six months, and you
ought to treat him right, the little
time he has to live." '
"Well, I am going to," said the
bov, as he picked the herring bones
out of his teeth with a piece of
a match that he sharpened with his
knife- "But I don't believe in bor
rowing trouble about a step-fattier
so lonir before hand. I don't think
ma could get a man to step into
Pa's shoes, as lonr as I lived, not
if she was inlaid with diamontls,
and owned a brewery. There are
brave men, I kuow, that are on the
marrv, but none of them would
want to be brevet father to a cheru
bim like me, except he got pretty
good wages. And then, since Pa was
dissected he is going to lead a dif
ferent life, and I guess I will make
a man of him, if he holds out. We
got him to join the Good Templars
last night."
"No, you don't tell me," said the
grocery man, as he thought that his
trade in cider for mince pies would
be cut off. "So you got him into
the Good Templars, eh!"
"Well, he thinks he has joined
the Good Templars, so it is all the
same. You see my chum and me
have been going to a private gym
nasium, on the west side kept by a
Dutchman, and in a ba;k room- he
has all the tools for getting up mus
cle. There, look at my arm," said
the boy, as he rolled up his sleeve
and showed a muscle about as big
as an oyster. "That is the result of
training at the gymnasium. Before
I took lessons 1 hadn't any more
muscle than you have got. Well,
the dutchman was going to a dance
on the south side the other night,
and he asked mv chum to tend the
gymnasium, and I told Pa if he
would join the Good Templars that
night there wouldn't be many at
the lodge, and he wouldn't be so
embarrassed, and as I was one of
'the officers of the lodge I would
put it to him light, and he said he
would go, so my chum got five
other boys to help us put him
through. So we steered him down
to the gymnasium, and made him
rap on the storm door outside, and
I said who comes there, and lie said
it was a pilgrim who wanted to jine
the sublime order. I asked him if he
had made up his mind to turn from
the ways of the hyena, and adopt
the customs of the truly good, and
he said if he knew his own heart he
had, and then I told him to come
ill out of the snow and take off his
pants. He kicked a little at taking
oil' his pants, because it was cold out
there in the storm door dog house,
but I told him they all had to do it.
The princes, potentates and paupers
all had to come to it. He asked ,
me how it was when we initiated
women, aud I told him women
never took that degree. He pulled
off his pants, and wanted a check
for them, but I told him the Grand
Mogul would hold his clothes, and
then I bliud-folded him, and with a
base ball club I pounded on the
floor as I walked around the gym-
the Mogul said lie would brand the
candidate on the bare back with
the initial letters of our order, 'G. j
T.,' that all might read how a brand j
had been snatched from the burn
ing. You'd a dide to see Pa flinch
when I pulled tip his shit, and got i
ready to brand him.
"My chum got a piece of ice out
of the water cooler, and just as he
clapped it on Pa's back I burned
a piece of horses hoof in the candle
and held it to Pa's nose, and I
guess Pa actually thought it was
his burning skin that : he smelled.
He jumped about six feet aud said,
'Great heavens', what you dewin','
aud then he began to roll over' a
barrel which I had arranged for
him. Pa thought he was goin dowu
cellar, and he hung to the barrel,
but he was ou top half the time.
When Pa and the barrel got through
fighting I was beside him, and I
said, 'Calm y ourself, aud be pre
pared for the ordeal that is to fol
low.' Pa asked how much of this
dum fooling there was, and said he
was sorry he joined. He said he'
could let licker alone without hav
ing the skin all burned of his back.
I told Pa to be brave and not weak
en, and all would Ihv well.' He
wiped the perspiration off his face
on the end of his shirt, and we put
a belt around his body and hitched
it to a tackle, and pulled him up so
his feet were just off the floor, and
then we talked as though we were
away off. aud I told my chum to
look out that Pa. did not hit the gas
fixtures, aud Pa actually thought
he was. being hauled clear up to
the roof. I could see he w as scared
by the complexion of his hands and
feet as they clawed the air. lie
actually sweat so the drops fell on
the floor. Rime-by w e let him down
and he was awfully relieved though
his leet were not more than two
inches from the floor any of the
time. We were just going to slip
Pa down a board with slivers in it
to give him a realizing sense of the
rough road a reformed man has to
travel, and got him straddle of the
board, when the dutchmau
wimc home from the dance, fullern
a goose, and he drove us boys out,
and we left Pa, and the 'dutchmau
said, 'Yot you vas doing here mit
dose boys, you old duffer, and vere
vas your pantsf and Pa pulled off
the handkerchief from his eyes,
and the dutchman said if he didn't
get out in a holy minute he would
kick the stufiing out of him. and Pa
got out. He took his pants and
put them on in the alley, then w e
come to Pa and told him that was
the third time the drunken dutch
man had broke up our Lodge, but
we. should keep ou doing good until
we bad reformed every drunkard
in Milwaukee, and Pa said that was
right, and he wool see ns through if
cost every dollar he had. Then we
took him home, and : when Ma
asked if she couldn't join thcvLodge
too, Pa said, 'Xovv you taku my ad-
COCKING MAIN.
-u:-
TUE BARBAROUS FIGHT END
ED BY THE LAW.
FOUGHT TO THE EX IK
Theretwas renewed interest in
the big main yesterday, the people
being diVided into two .classes; .be
lievers that'- fighting was a harm
less pastime, and people who
thought if brutal in the extreme.
The former resented any interfer
ence with the progress of the match,
while the latter, deprecating - the
fact that! the main was allowed to
go ou aCthe State fairgrounds and
iu sight 'of the capitol, demanded
prompt ana severe legal interfer
ence, mere was no concealment
about the fight, large posters con
taining "the particulars adorning
posts aud wall in many parts of the
cit v for weeks. Oil Thursday the
main began, one tight being had,
won by Halifax, Wednesday,
when there were seven fights, tlie
excitement., began." A warrant
sworn outliefore Justice M. P. Bar
bee, was1 served by deputy sheriff
James Rogers, after two attempts
Sidney B. Holt, of Alamance,
and James A. Falton, of Halifax
the principals, were
ing or about to bo violated in an?
particular building or place, such
magistrate shall immediately issue
and deliver a warrant to any per
son authorized by law to make ar
rests for such offender ox offenders,
authorizing and directing him J to
euter and search such building or
place,, and to arrest any person
there violating any of said laws,
and to bring such persoa before the
nearest "magistrate of competent
jurisdiction, to lie dealt with ae
cording to lav.'
of
The Protest of the Hegroes.
A call for a national convention of
colored men was issued on Satur
day by a. committor of negroes fair
ly entitled to represent the rare,
Among the signers are Frederick
Douglass, the lion. George W. Wd
liams, author of the "History
the Negro race in America," am
Prof. Richard T. Greener. The
fonvention is to lie held in-September.-next
at Washlnctou. The
basis of representation is one dele
gate to every 25,000 of colored pip
ulation, three delegates lor every
State where there are not less than
10,000 negroes, and one delegate
for every other State. By this
plan of apportionment the conven
tion would consist of nearly three
hundred members. j
Here -is the interesting thing
about the proposed convention: It
is intended to be an organ izwl ex-
Liberal DUoounU wlU be ado tor Lanror
AdtorUacmanU and for Contracts by the Yraf
Vata must accompany aU AdrvrtlMment
unless rood referaee U (Ivw.
LET US SMILE.'
-:0
llOW SMILING MAKES A MAX
BETTER.
CX. I FFECTEli SM I L ES.
pression of discontent with the
arrested aud political and social treatment of
aud taken, before Justice Barbee, the colored eope by their fellow
who held them in a00 - bond to j citizens. The signers hold it to Iks
appear lefore him yesterday after- i "an undeniable and lamentable
noon at 5:30 p. 'in: This bond was) fact that thepresent condition 'of
given. All Tuesday there were re-' the race is insecure, and the future
marks almut the attempt of 4be le- still more alarming;" and they bring
gal officers of the Stare and county ; against the white majority five dis
to stopthe match. Many persons ; ttnet and specific charges. We
termed the attempt a signal failure, candense the several complaints: I
and some very harsh terms were 1 1- Negro labor at the South is
,.iWi - - not fairly remunerated. The South-
Yesterday matters' looked pretty
. i era negro is not protected by law
1 111 t he collection of money due him.
mr.t 1 mtf- -r lii.i'.. cr- w li isl ti'l's ttett. I
r. ' . . ! 2. In most par Ls of the country
!... nc.t im H..1 rl.wiivii li.lwti w.is til ' ,
, , - the negro does not have a fair show
be picked up -by the. law. lhe au- . " . 1
1 111 1 ne puoiic scuoois. 1
3. The luigro is not protected iin
his civil rights, notwithstanding
lucked up oy
thorities in charge of the State fair
forbade the use of the grounds. The j
..r-.-l ..(' ciuu'i' itnrs it n ni 1 if-l'ell snlltc ,
, , , . , , , , the laws passed by Congress. j
hundreds. About 2 o'clock Hon.; V . b ,
Thos. Riiffin, Associate, Justice ofj 4. His political rights are ignor-
the Supreme Court, issued a bench Veil. Six and half niilljous of ptio-
vvarrant returnable before hi'm at ; plea re without representation
chambers. This was' placed in tlie ' Congress.
'hands of Sheriff Rogers, who served i -,. The negro does not get his
it. He arrested S. B. Holt, J. A. share of Executive protection and
I'alcon and Gid. Arlington, as prin-; eiicouragenieut.
ciples, and several others as- wit-. V.fturmindetl man, . black or
nesses. About r, o'clock the trial i vv))it(l? wiirdeny that If these alle
coinnieiiced in the Supreme Court ; j,:lti0ns are true it is time for unit
room. ( )nly one wi t ness was ex- e( j , , tiei j ,iirt of the negroes
ainiucd, wjheti Judge Riilliu ilccm-; f.,,;. - thirty-eight States. Thly
: '.l . ..: 1 ...IV...:...... ' ' ' ...
nij; me cwuciicc smin icm, hci.i . ().n :ltoi9t one-eighth of the en-
Falcon and Holt in UislineU l.onust tireDoimlatioriof Ui country. Eoual
A paper called the "Golden
Rule,'' luv-s an article on siuiies
which contains the following :
'The world is suffering for smil
ing faces. The age is tim intense
in the business direction, too sar
castic in its Mlitical tendency, Iimi
aimless in its religious life, too
lieaitless in its literature. The
world heeds more smiles and fewer
frowns, more sunshine and less
lighting. Jt eists nothing to al
low a smile to play rest fully upon
the features when trading or vot
ing, when talking or reading. - It
pays infinitely more than jit eosls
in fneuiLshlp, in finance, in Indiv id ,
ualgrovrth. We can win uior jieo
ple by a wmile than we can frighten
by a frowst, just as the sunshine
grows more trees than the light
ning shatters."
No paragraph ever contained
more truth than the almve. A good
healthy smile, on that roiiics na
turally, without lieing sent for, or
coaxed, one that seems to bubble
up among the dimples like j the
water at the bottom of a spring,
showing pearly teeth like the little
pebbles thrown up by the water of
the spring, a smile that goes rip-'
pling along the face like the h fore
slid water among the daisies and
water erens, on its way to the sea,
is. worth more to the world - thai- a
gold mine. Who is then' ill the
wot Id who has not been made lie!
ter by a smile ! A smile is a legal
tender' anywhere, and a person
who smiles naturally, in as site
from harm as it is xssilile In !e.
Men vvho grovv tired of their homes,
sick of the world, and ready to give
up the battle, can le strengthened
and made ready for ,Jhe tight of
vice, and don t you ever join no
Good Templars. Your system could
not stand fhe racket. Say, I want
you to put some cold cream on my
back.' I think Pa will be a differ-
e-.t man, don't you?"
The grocery man said if he was
that boy's pa for fifteen minutes he
would be different boy, or there
would be a funeral, and the boy
took a handful of soft shelled al
monds and a few layer raisins and
skipped out.
of 61,000 each, and An ington in a i
justified bond of500,.to appear at j
the next term of Wake Superior'
Court. The cises before Jusliee M. B.
Barbee were dismissed.
There were, as we have Istated,
several battles in the main fought
on Wednesday, of these four being
won by Halifax, ami three by Ala
mance. Yesterday t,here . were s
I fights of which Halifax and Ala
fights are guaranteed them by the
Constitution. The laws are suffi
cient for the purpose. If these laws
are systematically ignored oreva!
ed, ami the negroes kept; out of full
citizenship by a conspiracy of whiite
officeholders, it is none tK sihui for
an organized inoVement to secure
just treatment. The -'colored kmi
plhave a millioii and a quarter Of
votes: which they may make
The conclusion of th
..tgliers
A Solution Of The Southern Problem.
ed to llilll. This twentv nerel nnv
too ,..,..i.. . Crunch shorter journey to make,
ton weighed as picked which
ginned out twenty-three bales of
500 pounds average. Ou the thir
ty acre lots he used :v win post
made as follows: 50 bushels top
sod from forest ltottom; 15 bushels
of cotton seed layer: ;iD0 pounds
phosphate third layer; 75 bushels
top soil fourth layer: 75 bushels
stable manure fith layer; 200 pounds
phosphate sixth layer; 75 bushels
top soil, top.
0f the eompost he used, three
hundred bushels per ' acre. The
30 acre lot yielded ".41 bales, 500
pouuds average. r
The reader will notice in the re
must associate himself with one like
himself. A perfect and complete
marriage is, perhaps, as rare as -personal
beauty. Men and women 'are
man ied fractionally now a small
fraction, then a large fraction.
Very few are married totally .and
they" only, 1 think, after some forty
or fifty years of gradual approach
aud excitement. Such a large and
sweet fruit is a complete maniage
that it needs a winter to mellow
and season. But a real happy
marriage ot love and judgement
between a man and a woman is ona
of the tnings so very handsome
that if the sun were, is the Greek
poets fabled, a god,'he might stop
the world in order to least his eyes
with such a spectacle. .
Thefiist and most important
thing needed is a reform of the
abominable credit system that ob
tains here. Of course in . every
progressive country, such as this
ought to be, we cannot get along
without a proper system of credit,
but it would astonish the indus
trious, intelligent peojde of the
North to know how loosely it is
managed in this country. A per
son without property, without char
acter,without industry, and with
out anything except unbounded
lazint'ss, can at the beginning of
the year rent land and mortgage
his pr spc-ctive crop before he has
struck a lick of work, run his 'cred-
ick,"' as he calls it, for supplies,
spend two-thirds of his time in idle
ness and the result is he gener:
ally makes a poor crop, and the
merchant comes out loser at the
end of the yoar.
But this is gradually collecting
itself, and in a few years we w ill
see the tenant system abolished,
m a nee won four each. This gave j tlU f.M js interesting.
with Tues lay's battle, Halifax a to
tal of nine fights against -seven for ,
Alamance. The main was fought i
to the end. The betting all three j
days was? exci'pt ion.-illy heavy, il is;
said, many thousand dollars chang
ing hands on the various events.
It is said that the baekcisof the
Alamance birds lost heavily. The
unless in-i.rcentinTi:iT c!isi. wIiopa
nasium. while the lodge, headed bv i .. . , - ,. , , ..
" " . ' . I the tenant is able to supply lnm-
mvci.uMi, -u , Whiie as a general thing the
till morning.7 l stopix-d iu lront
"According to the signs of the
times, the country is 'on the eve of
a great polit ical revolution, 'aud-' lit
liehoovcs us, as a race, to aiake oiir
interests paraoibunt to those of any
party or sect; that, if is our duty jl.
unite and strike out ;;ome Itoltl poje
cy and line of action vvhih will
bring us nearer to t he estate of full
this
. : ... l ,1- .1...... ..... !
.iii.iir - - . ""i ,itienshi. a.id lwer when
the biggest "s,Hrt-tii.eve:.t-'Raleig u.voIlltioll is OVer. t
ever saw. The display ot birds was . .
. .' . ., ... , , It strikes us that the boIdesfcMil-
MIeio, ii! is ,-vim, . .inn tin-, iiiiii..-i
attention iaid to the matches, the
arrangements U-ing in charge of
veteran sporting men.. '
It should in-said that for many
years cock lighting has lieen jier
initted i iii North Carolina,-' mi law
against it existing on the statute
books until the adoption of the act
of 1881, forbidding cruelty to ani
mals, &c. ia'jy have Im cii fought
icy and most prouiisijig line of ajc
tioii open at this 'iiiM'to the cxdor
ed voters of the United States is io
nit the thongs which have ImjuiiiI
them so long, to the' wheels', of the
Republican party.. The Republi
can party has flattered the negro
and bamboozled him; it lias wept
over him and blundered hiin;ithns
claimed him as its own and swiii-
f died fiim without comnunction; it
in I.undn'dsTof j.laces i the State j ma(,(. us1 f ,iim an(tlllllg l.ii.,
from ycur to year, ami some ol the
aside. :
Negro;s in several of the Staft
are lieginning to find this out,
to act for themselves. If the Wash
ington convention is a reja-'ew-ntsk-
i the lKxly sincere in its purjose and
of the ice-water tank and said
"Grand Worthy Duke, I bring be
fore you a pilgrim who has drank
of the dregs until his stomach won't
hold water, and who desires to
swear off.' The Grand Worthy
Mogul asked me if he was worthy
aud w ell qualified, and I told him
that he had been drunk more or
less since the re union last summer,
which ourht to qualify him. Then
the Grand Mogul made Pa repeat
the most blood-curdling oath, in
which Pa agreed, if he ever drank
another drop, to allow anybody to
pull his toe-uails out with tweez
ers, to have his liver dug out
and fed to dogs, his bead .chopped
off and Lis eyes removed. Then
negro, as a renter, is a failure, if
he can be made to good service
when hired for wages and prompt
ly paid and when the present sys
tem is done away with, and " the
negro comiell to go to work for
some one abre to pay him, our
farms will be kept in good order,
thorough culture adopted,, better
crops made, more stock raised,
and we shall have less "credick'
and more money.
When we can secure a radical
change in the credit sj-steui now
ill vogue we can make money, even
in raising cotton as well as in
numerous other ways; capitalsts
ana mechanics win settle among
ns, politics will take of itself, and
the Southern problem will be solv
ed.
finest cocks ever raised have" been
bred here. They are noted all over
the country.. At the Ceiitennil i Ex
hibition at Philadelphia Mr. Arling
ton's frame cocks : took the highest
i.i t l.l.i .1.., k.l !' W It f
OIIAIT ill mv" .... .... . m . . . ' .- . . i
'-,, , i t, lnneiieudentin its action; it caiulo
W e give -the law under vlnch the j ' . i
, 1 a 2re:tt deal for the ra-e.
arrests were made : j
Sec. chap. 3S, laws 1881, is as I - - j
follows: "Any irson who shall ! A New lsjok styled '-IVrtj- nve
keep, or use, or in anv way IK' con-; avs oi i ojijuuj; mc
nected with ' or. interested in the
management of, or shall receive
money for the admission of any jut
i i i v .!. ;
a young man who. nan iHigi ii,
and committed its xntents to
memory- would, at the critical moment,-
forget the whole forty-five
ways, and blunder along' until the
girl helped him out.
has been published. in tuglaml.
Oh, well, that may do for England,
but you might scatter rthose looks
son to any place kept or used for broa'ih-ast over Aniertca.! and many
the purpose of .lighting-' or baiting
any. bull, Inar, cock, or other crea
ture; and any eTson who shall en-
cou age, aid or assist thetein, or who
shall jiermit or suffer any place to
be so kejt or ush1. shall, 'upon con
viction thereof, be guilty of a mis-,
demeanor." ' j -
See. 11 reads: "Ujion complaint
under oath or affirmation, t any
magistrate authorized to issue war
rants in criminal actions, that the
complainant hae just and reasona
ble canse to suspectftliat any. of the
provisions of law relating to' or. in
any wise affecting animals are be-
The feminine habit ofloolcihgnn
der theled we mean .tlie romored
habit has been proven a -wise one
in oue instance. Miss 3Iaggie Hen
lev, of Randoluh ; county, found
negro uamexl "' Henderson Brower
under the bed;and he was promptly
jaiied, we learn from the Ashboro
Courier.
another day oy a smile; n it emnes
without lnung sent for. .One man,
with a good natured smiie, can
go into a crowd of grumbling,
growling, business men, who think
the, country Is all going to the
dogs, and change the whole- at.
uiosphere in ten seconds. A man
with a good smile can stop a fieht
between angry 'men, when Milice
men would faik The smile of a
good woman, when she c inies ii'mu
a party of gossijiers of her own
Hex, will change the suhjeia in a
moment, ami make them ashamed 1
of thejiiselves. Soiiieliiiies we
think it would pay a city to hire
more smiling faces and less police
men, to keep the peace. With a
hundred good, iiatui.il sin i lei s
walking around, goin into places
w here men were liable to get il .hot
Imix, with a pleasant word w here
it would do the -most' good, (here
would lie very lew r . i M c.nir ,c '
would Im;. necessary for mir Minler
to be able tobick his Mnile wiih '
muscle, so if an. llurnlv peis-.n did
ntit take kb.dlv lofle- siude. and
kii.ked it around under Cie
smiler's ear with a chaii r a biii'
starter, the Hinder could wipe tin
floor witii the wretch. There would
be times when a smile j woidd fai
to do its work, as there ure iiim-M
now when a rondo t ills to iH-coiii-plish
all that it desires to, but take
it mi (he whole the smile "would le
better ttrtn the club or the ievo.
ver. There are some men who are
continually and constitution rlv de.
devoid, of smiles, Who would In
sick it they should aividi-u'allv
smile, and such wien should be com.
jielled to pass two hours a .-day in
the-prcHeiici' of good, single handed
smilers, and learn to be hapj. If
there is nirvthiu'! in the woil.l that
has more power than a smile, when
it is shot off from the riht kind of
a we have' never seen it. Tlie
smile of a girl will draw ,t .voting
man from his mother, and
'ifroin bad ompiiiy. If will
s i teach him to lie a man. and
'"-! 1.".. aitl if fie Lives the I'll I i!o lint li
ilig that would chase the smile
iiwuv. The smile of a mother can
C4ujuer the wayward child, and
compel it ro come into c.iiop to
. spanked or caressed. The smile
of. i teacher can do more' wild a
pupil than a bundle of hael Wush,
A good, old f.i.shioiu!l, natural, nil
affected smile cost not hi ng, wens
out no costly .machinery, but ratLer
oils it, and makes it run Binooth,
audit is a medicine that-we- all
like to take, aud it leaves no bad
tiuste in the mouth. -.Blessed if we
wouldn't like to see one this very
in iu ti to, as Life as it is and sleepy
a we are, as the clocks toll the wee
small hours and tjie compositors
yawn and say this is copy enough
for to-night.
The Visitor" states tfuit the
Rev. F. Ij. Reid, one of the accom
plished editors of fhe Kaleigh
"Christian Advocate,'' ha Iteen
invited to preach the Commence
ment Sermon before Asheville
Female College on Sunday, Jane
10th.