North Carolina Newspapers

WILSOA ADVANCE, Published, Evany Friday at Wilso-v Nosra Gashlina. -BY, JOSEPilLS 'SWiUK - Edikr and Proprietor -:o:- SuKsciiiHi xo:; Kates in Advance (me Year .... Six Months 2 00 .. 1 00 rf-.Toncy --an ! sent by Money Order or Ut..sicrtM Letter at our risk. Ornce T arboro Street, . in tho Old Post UlLccJluiMiii. XCW;vOr A WEEK GATH'-V.KI) )M ALL PARTS Ml- THE WOULD. PiSACi . ' AOS- OLEANINuS Loutsbui ha 4 a shuttle black factory. Tarboro ha bought two cbemi- cal tin- engines. Mr. J. W. Whitaker is to start a daily i r hi Durham. ;j Tin' fl 1 !sbro "Bulletin" is agi tating a fair for Wa nc county. M vssac.hu t-.tts Indies, meet ins at social calls, talk pol tics almost ex clusively. Hon. Wli.utoii J. Greene and daughters a'ie visiting Judge David Davis in IUin - Attorney Gsi ina; a eoilecrio.i li-ial Kenan is inak ol portraits of his tn edeee- or-. i: that OfllCe. Texan marriage- notice: "No Cirds. no eke, no flowers, no regrets, nobody s business." There is a oov r in Canada seven- fe -n years out wno is seven leer high." lie. weighs 200 pounds. Before promising a worn m to love on!v iier,i!ie j-aould hav seen them all or should ee only her. . 'FatherColuni'iia."' a new paier just .-t-ir.-id in New York, booms Beit iiiiili-r for tin Presidency. i:l T. Aiiiritton a id T. C, Woo te, i, tale 1; ed young lawyers of Snow II ill, have formed a p:trt nersljip. The Win-ton "Seiitinu!," a live, progressive newspaper, has just, en tered r.u ii-ai twe-ity eighth volume Ti IS IS 1 Aii Year and young la will havo husband. dies who -desire to m-arr.v an opnoitunity to win a Confucius tells us '.'Woman is the master piece." Certainly"-she. js but not always a peat: -fill mas ter.. For sale, a piano -by a young lady with r.wewoo I legs; address E. W., this office Kankakee (111.) "Ga zette." . . ' Over ?,Oj0,0GO was dispensed for eliai ia'U purposes last year hv the va'i us societies in New York. Geo. M. Can, of Duplin, has at cepted it -position as traveling cor respondent tif the Goldshoro "Me setiger." Uncle Sam advertises: "Wanted A skilhil divorce lawyer, to fake a contract tor a wholesale . lob out in Utah." i' Rev. X. B. Cobb has accepted a call to tlie Baptist church at Hick ory." lie has relatives and friend in Wilson. Oldham- is lhe name of iiostollice- in Forsyth. It is a new named of the for Edward A. Oldham, 'Sentinel." Mr. limey, mine host" of the charge the Yai borough, will have of Lhe'Atlaufro ilo:cl at Morehead next summer. Ve arc glii'l to note the coiitin ued siiteess of I he Louisbni g "Times," wh.c'.i lias just entered on its thirteenth Volume. The ji.vtv .is.'-e-sitK'ut'of real and persona! ;.io;a'ity in Ntn!i Carolina., gives th total, a : t?2oO,3oi .74- an' iuereaM-'oi" 2,Vo.-,tiM. The Mouse . Committee will re port favorably on tho bill for the relief of Kitz .John Porter which passed the Seaate last session. "Oh, lovei loA e, love! v Lte is hkf a dizziness 1' witii; ler ;i poor Inxly tioabjat his busines.s." A Tut kaiio girl w.-st-rts t sin get about as. n.ii. !i satistaction from ki.-.-i'.ig thioii-h a teledun.e ;is -l;t. does Jiiiui taking soup with a fork. The Mt. Airy 'News", says Ai.s. --, Adams, t-elou'd, .st.i died and killea fail Waimh, also eo'oifd, in l)o!- son, Surry eouuty,' Christmas iii"!:t. The t .irjsoro "t aide" ! las sus- peijded ami Mr. J. ('harles, the .pcblishei , has accepted a position as-iorcuiau on the l'trtsmouth '.'En tei irise.5 Messis.Thos.il. Battle and Jas. Not fleet, f t T iboro, haved formed a partnership, .-ami, their suingle ..will now read Battle--& Nortieet, at tomey.s-.it-Iaw. An Pudiaha famdy that uses black -tea b'-an-e they are iii luourn.ng arc jvrobably as sincere moanur.s- as though they wore crape on their hats. " All! remaiketl rogg, as ne gazed b ish.ulSy at tlie ballet girls, 'now I umlei stand the full signiti- canee oi t lie passage : 'lhe Hotly is more than raiment.' " A mi.-io;!;;ry- tells a story of n Zulu eh it 1 w h embraced Christian ity at oii -e w!: it told it meant only one Avite. The tawny gentleman -was in hearch of peace. Boss cooks get "in the city of New York from .2,ooU to 3,000 a year, with board, wine and sometimes -.tailor's bdl paid. The lord of the ! uie is no slouch in Gotham. . 'Pin rltteil to royalty," said th last vhuuTt of the Pelaware whip- 'lag post marks i u reenguijr . i as he pointed to the his back. "Dini't you he priii! s uf whales!'' pcrswa v ho was sent to prison for ha i is i o wives excused hini- Sfcli by :l.V;;i!r rh'.ir. ulii'ii lm h wl one she lougUt. him. and w'ueu he had two r.h.-. fimsht each other. The -; Washing: 01. eonespondent of the "Nev.-s Ooserver" savs: "1 understand that with the 'aid of Judge I.iirgee, Col. Ed. Graham Haywood, of Kaieigh, is meetitia with considerable succcBS iu practic ing law in New. York. I once heard the lonuersay that the latter could buildup ai'O,O0O practice in tU metropolis. volume 13.-- A lad of sixteen in Pennsylvania ran away with a lass of fourteen and married. They did no: stand in awe of parents and cared noth ing for the embarrassments of iron makers. It is not worth while to think too much aoout being good. Doing the best we know minute by min ute, hour by hour, we insensibly grow to goodness as fruit grows to ripeness. - The Beaufort "Telephone" adver tises, "A kiss in the dark" admis sion 2,1 cents. The difficulty about kissing in the dark in a promiscuous assembly is that you might kiss the wrong girl. - It is reported that 330,400 immi grants from foreign eouurries came to the United States during the year. 1885, of whom 27 camo to North-Carolina. More went to every other State. Mr. Geo. N. Ives, of Beaufort, says the "Journal,77 shipped -262 illons of Oysters the day befoie Christmas. This was the largest shipment from one depot -ever made in North Carolina. j A witty exchange sayW that there are two institutions in this coun try that are bigger than the United States government ; one is the the Mormon church! and the Louisiana State lotteiv. other Shelby is well supplied- with preachers,' only twelve, one lor each hundred inhabitants. ' There are seveu Baptists, five Methodists and oncj Presbyteritu minister. Of this imbiber three are colored. ' "Swelled head" is a new disease just discovered among cattle in Chicago yards. "Its prevalence, among mankind," says a contem porary, "has long been known, but has never been considered danger ous." The Ingersolt infidels are trying to swear without' using the name of the Deity, as profane men who believe in a God are apt to swear. They say, "So help me Bob!" This is quite a compliment to Mr. In gersoll. j tuia v ueeier, m a recent poem, says,: "I love with a love that burn like Tiate." Y'ou won't do for. us Ella. We want to be loved with a love that will keep nice and quiet at home when we. are . too ; busy to attend o it. The Tarhoro f 'Southerner" an nounces that, on Tuesdav, January loth, there will be a meeting of the Confederate soldiers of I2dgecom.be to form an organization, the object of which will be, the honoring of the cause that is lost. Another one of those heart-rend mg tales oi an unloaded pistol go ing off and killing a young lady comes to ns from Louisiana. The joung gentleman playfully pointed the weapon at his friend Miss Ste venson aud shot her dead. usan Autnouy sas tnere are 1,000 women racticing medicine in knglaud, and that, so tar as she has been able to learn, "thev kill as large a proortion of their patients, anil receive as exhoibitant fees for so doing, as male practitioners.7 A Mr. Backus, of Chicago, failed and tiien made money and paid off his debts. The most strikiiigrhiug about- In in is th-it he is said "not to beinsane.'l Mr. Backus ought to have a statue. He has done won derfully well for a man of his name. Missouri has .started :i new in dustry that will hardly --'extend, to North Carolina. Psfo husbands exchanged wives with each other after coolly considering the matter for several days. At last accounts the exchange was satisfactory on both sides. i In Kentucky a plowman became enamored of a milkmaid on a aeigh lx ring farm. IBs addresses we-e lejected; and the .'.disappointed swain, full of melancholy and re venge,.' procured a ropewent to the farm, and tied all the cows tails together, Sunday was observed., in the Methodist Episcopal churches throughout the United States, irre spectaeof divisions, as the cen tennial anniversary of the first American General Conference, which was held iu Baltimore Janu ary Gtli, 1784. Tho-Post master General has is sued a decree (decrees under the :frthurian reign are uow in order that clerks in the Postofiice Depart ment who buy lottery tickets are to be discharged. The Postofiice Department- has goue into the great reform business. The "Times" says John Hamp ton; a white boy aged about ten years, and a little negro boy aged 8 vears, we tit out. in the" woods iiear Shady Grove, Davie count3', chop ping, when Hampton felled a tree upon the little negro, mashing his head flat. He died almost instant ly. The Postmaster General is pre paring a bill which it is proposed to have introduced in Con- gress, to exclude newspapers publishing lottery advertisements from pound rates. This bill is in accordance with the Postmaster tienerat's recommendation in his annual report. Frank Barnum, son o! the found er of Karnum's Hotel, Baltimore has forfeited 80,000 by becoming a Catholic priest. Such were the conditions of the will that he could not inherit if he joined any society of the Catholic church, or . took or ders in it. He made the sacrifice for his religion. .-Twenty-five years ago a young man named Jerome. A. Fillmore, of Pennsylvania, entered the service of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad as a brakemau on a coal train at $25 a month sal ary. Last week Mr. Fillmote ar rived in Chicago with his family in a special car as general superin tendent of the Central and South ern Pacific Railway system, and everywhere recognized and ad mitted as one of the finest railway managerain the United States. His salary is 815,000 a year. POLITICAL POINTS :o:- WHAT Til H POLITICIANS ARE , TALKING ABOUT. THE POLITICAL CALDRON. Ex-President Grant bitterly op poses the movement for the renom- ination of Arthur. Mr. Randall expects all the ap propriatiou bills will be passed b. April loth, so 'Congress can adjourn on May 1st. The admirers of Mr. Richard F. Beirue, Editor of the I!icbmond, Va., "ifate," want him to run for Governor but he is not old enough. Senator Pendleton, of 'Ohio, is said to be very indignant because Mr. Vest, of Missouri, has taken it tor granted that he will not be re elected aud has spoken for his seat in the Senate, The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia "ltecord"; says Itansom, of North Carolina, is one of the three haudsome men in the Seuate, the other two being Haw- ley, ot Connecticut, and Butler, ot South Carolina. Mr. Fab. II. Busbee, of Kaleigh, has been appointed clerk to Sen i ror Ransom's committee on the Po- tomas flats, ami it is stated that Mr. J. 15. Husscy, of the Goeensbo- ro "patriot,' will oe appointed clerk to Congressman Scales' com mittee on printing. Now Senator Vance has formula ted a revenue bill.' . His idea is to turn out the present crowd of reve nue officers and replace them with an agent in eaca countv, whose busine -s it will be to issue license tnd sell stamps to the distillers of whiskey and brandy. After having been retired from tne secretaryship ot the United States Senate, as he wa, just be fore the holidays began, to make room for a Republican, Mr. F. E. Sholier, of North Carolina, was pre sented with a handsome silver ser vice by his fellow employees Ex-Congr ssman Dezendorf and other leaders of the straight-oni Virginia Republicans are corres ponding with reference to the best time for calling a State Convention to arrange the plans of the party iu that State for the- future, and elect delegates to the next national Republican convention. Senator Vance recommends: that Revenue Reform Clubs be formed in the State genera'ly. A (good idea. The first things for the teachers in the political school to do is to learn political economy. They must do this before they caA instruct or else, it wtH be blinl guides leading the blind. It is be cause of this ignorance that so many thousands have fallen into the slough of Protection. Congressman Phil. Thompson, of Kentucky, is to meet with vigorous opposition in his canvass for a re noinin ition. His opponents are al ready in the field preparing for the race. One ol them is Judge Dur ham, who has been in Congress, but is said to have been defeated for re-election oecause it was told of him that he washed his feet ill a china hand bowl in a cloak room of the House of Representatives. He wants to be "vindicated." The belief strengthens in politi cal circles in AVashiiigton that con tingencies are possible in the Ohio senatorial contest which inav re sult in the election of Judge. Thtir- man. But whether this occurs or not, it is known that friends of Mr. 'll.-.-n... ..-ill II.1V llU 11. lilt.. C rn::Z r,.l;.: ; Ci' his name be- the nomination for Presiden j, and as they think now with much pros pect of success. Tue M.:Don ild boom has petered out, as it ought, and really there is no man in the West who 15-mies anywhere near possessing the qualifications of Judge Thunn .11. Senator Butler, of S. C, who has a bill belore the Senate to abolish the internal tax, bas been inter viewed by the Charleston "News aud Courier." He gives his rea sons for repealing the internal rev enue laws. He. professes to have 10 objection to the whiskey rax, mt his main object is to get rid of he Revenue Bureau. Keep the ax but change the manner of col- T i , .tf, -...J ll eciing. , nere is w nai oeuaior mit er savs: "Mv principal object, however, is to get rid of the inter nal reveuue bureau, with its army of informers and blackmailers. Whiskey can be taxed without the existence of 'he internal revenue bureau. So far as I am personally coucerned, you may put , a tax ol 10 a gallon on whiskey, but you van do this without the bureau. This is the institution I am after.7. R. "How would vou collect the taxes!" "Throusrh the custom officers. This force would have to be in creased somewhat, bat the army of spies who have been dragooning the southern people, ham ing and bedeviling, blackmailing and har rassiug some of our most reputable merchants Who sell a cigar or a plug of tobacea, ought to go. 1 have no ersonal objection to the tax on whiskey. Put it as high as you please, but collect It i-throngh the customs department of the treasury. This would, of com se, involve some increase of offieials in this department, as I have said, but the abolition of the internal reve nue bureau dispenses with a host of .-hangers-on, barnacles, whose principal business in the south is to "round up" and train witnesses for political iiroseeutio'ns, of which we have had some experience recently in this State." Wonld II Ftiltlae . Kill?..' Our next candidate for Governor should be a man of strong phisique, that Le may undergo the fatigue of a prowacted canvass : of means snf- ficentl ti defray the expenses of the camp! gn, it seems to be demonstra- 1 LSOIN LET ALL Tnn ESDS Tnoll AIM'ST AX, BE THY COUNTRY'S, - : r -9- WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 11. 1884. ted that the Democrats do not re-; spond liberally for such purposes, . and a .willingness to spend it; of rrvwwl onnoa I n IVwmi f inn anrl orvj.1 i and a good orator. Would not Capt. Octavus Coke, the present Chairman of our State Executive Committee, fill the bill! But no matter who is our next candidate, we cannot wiu the fight without a far better organization than we have had for the last several years. Warren ton "Gazette." , i Woman Dismembered for Reieal ing the Secrets ol the Church. One crime, which was committed here only a short time ago, I must describe. Mrs. Maxwell came to Salt Lake City with her husband in 1869. Two years afterward her husband took another wife, and one year subsequent he was sealed to a third. Mrs. Maxwell had two sous, aged respectively fourteen and six teen 'years... Their father urged them to go through the Endow ment House aud become Mormons, bound by all oaths of the church. . Mrs. Maxwell objected, and iu or der to prevail over her sons she told them the secrets of the Endow ment House. The penalty for re vealing these secrets is dismem berment of the body, cutting ol the' throat aud tearing out of the tongue. Mr. Maxwell overheard his wife, being in an adjoining room, and forthwith he informed the elders, who sent for the unfor tunate woman aud her two son. They were taken into what is called the "dark pit," a blood atoniag room niider Brighaui Young'shoase. The woman was then stripped of allhercIothiDg, and then tied on her back to a large table. Six' mem bers of the priesthood then in formed their damnable crime; thy first cut off their victim's tongue, and tiien cut her throat, aftur which her legs anil arms were sev ered. The sons were compelled to stand by and witness this dreadful slaughter of their mother. They were theu released and given twen ty four hours to get out of the ter ritory, which w as theu an im possi bility. The sons went directly to the house of a friend to whom they related the butchery of their moth er, and getting a package of pro visions they started, but on the following morning they were both dead they had met the Datiites. One other case similar to the above occurred about live years ago in tho City Hall. These aro truths, and the lady to whom the sons told their story is willing to make affi davir to the facts if she can be gu aranteed Immunity from Morinon vengeance. Salt Lake letter to St. Louis "Republican." "Glorious Painted Mornings." As an ornate, graceful and pol ished writer commend us to brother Blount, of the "Mirror." He stands without a rival iu his sphere of em bellishing and making beautiful every subject he discusses. But be even excelled himself a few weeks ago in describing "these glo tious painted mornings." .Listen : "Ye, who feast with, hungry ad miration upon the beauties of at-f, and grow big with rapture o'er the pencilings of Angelo; Dante, Ru bens and Titian, arise to-morrow niorniug at 5 o'clock and behold that Deity-wrought and heaven stretched panorama of glory which is to be seen across the Easteru sky. It is a scene so opulent with" the splendor of he ivenly glory that language cannot describe it. It must be seen to be appreciated in all its awe and wonder -and sublim ity. When we looked at it first, we sav stretched across the East a high rugged, cloud-built hill, adown whose j igged sides a thousand rip pling streams of various colors flowed m one grand and rapt aud harmony-woven union, while - w a fissure through that hill would creep aud lead the way to fliHid after flood of radiancu whose fountain alone could be the g'ory -pavilioned home of God. And as we stood iu spell-bound awe and rapture the transformation began, and angels, it seemed, God-seut they must have been, began to shift the magnificent scenery of the skies and revealed glories after glories in such quick and thrill succession that even an atheist would have trembled with awe aud felt that God Himself was there and that gloriously crimsoned dawu was but a reflection from the rose ate robe he wore." j Two Ways of Looking at Things. Two boys went to hunt grapes One was happy because they found grapes. The other was unhappy because the grapes had seeds them. Two men being convalescent were asked how they w:ere. One said, "I am better to-day.'' The other, "I was worse yesterday." YV hen it rams one man says "This will make mud." Anotherj "This will lay the dust." Two children looking through colored glasses ; one said, "The world is blue." And the other said, "It is bright." "Two boys eating their dinner; i one said, "I would rather ! something other than this.' have The other said, "This is better than nothing." A servant thinks a man's house is principally kitchen. A guest, that it is principally parlor. "I am sorry that I live," says one man. -'I am sorrv that I must the," says another." "I am glad," says one, "that it is no worse." "I am sorry," says an other, "that j is 1.0 better." One man spoils a good repast by thinking of a better repast o an other. Another one enjoys a poor repast by contrasting it with none at all. One man . is thankful for bless ings. Another is morose for his misfortunes. . One man thinks he is entitled to a better world and is dissatisfied liecause he hasn't got- it. Another thinks he is not justly entitled to any, and is satisfied with this- One man makes up his accounts from his wants. Another from his assets. - ABOUT. FARMING. -:o: WHAT THE FARMERS ARE DOING AND TALKING ABOUT PICKED UP XOTES. There is a talk of a party of Frenct men buying a tract of land iu Richmond or Montgomery coun ty to settle a colony of silk-growers and wine makers. The grape is at home there, and the mulberry will thrive. Skillful management ar.d a little patience would make the land fat with wine and give it garments of silk. : ' ; ' fun lVeKuildfVnce? The Auditor's report is" out and shows the average valuation of 1 and in this State to be only 3.11 per acre. In Graham county it is only 37 cents. In Guilford 4.54. Now it requires 4,000 rails to fence a twelve acre field. The rails and labor are low at two cents each y $80. The twelve acres are val ued at 853. Who can affoid to plit rails and fence such lands! Greensboro "Patriot." Do Not i:migrulp. Would it not be well to pay more attention to devising means for keeping our own people from emi grating to other States ! We may be losing a better class of citizens by emigration than by immigration. This country is destined under an improved system ot culture and a more General education, to become 1 great,one. Our best enorts t here fore, should be put to keep our own people here to help dereIop it. I town t Rock Holtmu. The Raleigh "Visitor" says : It is now generally well understooil and admitted that North Carolina and the whole South has been suf fering from the credit- system, which has kept us from one to three years behind. But our necessities are bringing us down now to a sort of rock bottom, which will be the best in the end. A great many will go under beiore they can reach such a basis, and suffering is bound to ensue from any radical change. But we say North Carolina is on the edge of a boom because she has discovered her true cotulit ion and' is making strenuous efforts to bet ter it. , , 1 Improve the 7Pni-m. If the farmer improves his farm he improves his financial condition. The more valuable he makes it," the more his capital stock is increased, the larger will be his returns and when he dies th larger will be the patrimony he leaves his family. Fix up the old home then. Clean out the fence corners. Destroy the noxious weeds. Grub out the ha zel and thistle. Burn out tae stumps. Clean off the logs and stones. ,. Make a paradise on tjarth of your farm, for are you not to live on it wnite you remain on earth, and will not your family live on it when you lie in yonder grave yard! Plant, out young orchards so tha" your lamdy mav enjoy the good fruit that you had the fore sight and energy to jnovide for them. Boy vi .13; tlic S'as rra I see boys sometimes, says Gov. Geo. D. Robinson, of Massachu setts, going away from the old homestead, perhaps not. attracted by the hard labor of tho farnx and drawn away, if maybe, by the in ducements of-greater places; and when they make a good work of life, when they adorn, and imjnove, and benefit those that are certainly working out just as much God's )urj)Ose as if they had remained; doing t,he harder work of the farm. But if there is one thing that brings the deepest grief to anybody's heart it is to see those young men, when thev have gone awav fiom the roof tree of home depart from those principles instilled into them by their loving parents. Is then; a more deplorable state than the ruin of so- many young men who have forgotten the best and greatest of life purity in any walk that they may le called upon to enter? So, whatever may be our differences of occupation, of belief, of political as sociation, one thing for all to cher ish is the keeping up this home life. As I take it that, proud as you are of this exhibition,! vou are prouder of your men and women, aye, and children, into whose hon est and clean , faces it is always a delight to look. The lessons of this, agricultural fair are not lost. Fol low up what you see here and on the grounds outside. Make it the one thought of this day to take care of the home, keep it, save it, and if our boys and our girls go away, keep the old place warm, green and beautiful, so that they shall want to come back, and that there shall be no dearer place on earth than the one that gave them birth, or had its delights of the home circle. Muchly Married. A Northampton, Mass., widow, young, good looking and lively, had many admirers, but she was so im 'partial that w hen, just about a year from her husband's death, she gave public invitations to her wedding, t no one could tell whether the fa- vorite one was a certain widower. a bachelor or one ot two voting men, and to keep the secret, she declare 1 she would be married in a -r i. : 11 -.1 1 . . xir ' taa strychnine for the purpose of miuis er; too, entered into the spir- ,.ateuing an egg-sncking dog, and j "Is Mr. McJessup at home V in it ot the affair, and to mystify the ( nfterwards been carelessly sold, j quired a man of a servant who had people stil more the br.de entered , Ml.. RIarsIl ,iad but a few weeIa ; nswered the bell. "Ah I sir," re the barn a.oue at one door and the married to u Morranton lady, replied the maid, "he is dead and 6,.".. ... ....... ..v.. ..v, 01 least two hundred present. The ceremony proceeded in darkness, and at its close the crowd broke for the bride and carried her home in triumph iu a chair. But here be gan the trouble. The widower, the bachelor and tlie two young men each swore that he he'd the widow's plump hand ud was married to her, and the c owd could not de cide, the minister didn't know and A D VANCE. THY r.OD'S, AKD TRUTHS' " : - the widow was puzzled, for all claimed to be engaged, and though the widower was her cheice he might have been jolted aside; in deed, he acknowledged that ".some body tried to choke ' him in the dark. The four men fought, but that didn't settle it. The guests ducked two of them in the brook, bat still no light. Finally the wid ower compromised with the others by giving them $100 each, and reigned as her lord. The affair has never lieen explained." One of the young men is married, but still de clares that he was married to wid ow Dodsworth in the bam. The other also protests that he is her lawful husband. The bachelor is d ad, but maintained to the end, 'I married her 1 ought to have her." , . V Th Bed of an Eastern Prince. Sometime lat year there was a wooden bedstead ; manufactured which was intended for the use of the King of Siam: It was fourteen feet wide and and divided into three parts, the center part being raised about eighteen inches. This piece of furniture, leiug of such unusual dimensions, caused a. slight sensation among all those who were permitted to examine it. But the bedstead made in Paris lately for an Indian Prince would draw thousands to see it if exhibit ed in New York, even if tancy jirice were charged for admission. The bedstead is partly made of real silver, and cost many thousands of dollars. At each coi ner stands a beautiful nude female figure, (life size,) holding a delicately con structed fan. Each figure, it is sai I, wears a wig of real hair. This is to be regularly "dressed" by the court barber once a week. On the great potentate, getting into bed, the weight of his body sets certain machinery in motion, the effect of which is to cause the silver maid ens to gently fan the sleeper. If the figures at the foot of the bed are required to exert themselves in a lite manner, this can be ac complished by the aid of a clock iiku aparaius. Moreover, should the dusky owner of the bed wish toibe lulled to slumber by tho dul cet sounds of soft musie, this can be done by touching a spring. The bottom of the bed contains a large musical box which is so arranged that the tunes can be loud or soft as desired. rjHon? Courting- is Done in Idaho. Capturing a bride in Idaho is an achievement described by a writer 011 Indian customs in contempor ary This iu tho manner in which the courtiu g is done: In the first place it must be. liorue in mind that the young squaws are more fleet of foot than thobucks. Now, when a buck fancies a squaw, he -provides himself with lariat, as he would if he intended to lasso an animal. When the squaw sees her admirer approaching the behaves aTter her fashion, in .the manner of other young ladies. She runs and the buck runs after her. - If she does net wish to be caught, she quickens her pace and is soon beyond reach of the rope. If, on the contrary, she does not object, the noose slips. easily over her head and the prize is won. After all, the essence of courtship does not vary much from that of civilized society; it is "only the manner that differs. How He Was Appointed. They do comical business with fioine style in Rich moudcouuly. A Justice of the Peace recently wrot the following- notification : " "Mr - : Honored Sir; I have the pleasure of herewith enclosing your apioiutnieut to the lucrative office of road overseer. Thank God vou are at last in the line of piomotion 'The paths ol glory leads but to the grave," but the. paths cf the j.ublic road leads to Rockingham Remember that large results often come from small beginnings. The la mented uarneiti was once overseer 1 of the road.- Abraham Lincoln commenced life as a railsjditter, and died the death of martyr. While. I can't -hold out all these brilliant prospects. t oii, I can only advise you to emulate "their virtues and 'shun their follies. This office comes to you like the Presi dential chair "to George Washing ton, uusougiit, the office in both cases seeking the man,, not the raau the office. Another similarity sug gests itself to my mind ; neither of you could tell a lie. Y'ou will pro ceed to summons the bar ds living tin l he line of your road, giving them three day's notice to appear at some convenient place with tools for the business. None will be al lowed to bih'g a turpentine hack or a 'shoe awl. but must,- come with axes, hoes and spades. 1 In working the roads, like death and taxes, none are exemjit, except from' over age, and the pi iiice as well as the beggar in list come or send a hand. I am, very rrulv, your obedient ser vant, ; J(AY) P(EE)." "Poisoned Eggs. The Charlotte "Observer" states that Mr. J. C. .Marsh, a young law yer of Beaver Dam, .Union comity, was fatally poisoned last Sunday morning, by eating for breakfast eggs which had strychnine in them. Miss Mamie Peterson, of Morgan ton, and Messrs. James Boylin and Reese Blair, of Monroe, breakfasted witu -ir. .uarsu at ins nouse, and ! were also poisoned but recovered. ! The eggs had been bought from a ! neighboring store, and the belief is! that they had beeu inoculated with ; iUlss iHnespie. 1 1 Receipt Against Melancholy. I once gave a lady two and twen- tj receipts against mslancholv: one 1 was a ciieenui nre : anoiner to re - member all pleasant thins s said to! her; another, to keep a box of Su gar plums on the chimney place and a kettle simmering on the bob. Sidney Smith. -,-t- BUCHANAN'S LOVE. :o:- AN EARLY ROMANCE OF JAS. BUCHANAN'S LIFE. IT VUAHOED.1I1S LIFE. When a young lawyer in Lancas ter, Penu., he was eugagetl to be married to a youug lady, to whom he was devotedly attached. The biographer has gtven'jus in a brief, but deeply interesting sketch, the history of this sad episode. A "lov er's quarrel," originating iu the gossip of Village girls, separated them. Trifles are causes in the philosophy; of life, as in nature, which sometimes produce coimil sions, catastrophes. Young girls of the past generation iu a country town were marvelously like young girts ot the preceding and ot the present generation. - The gossip of thoughtless children, scarce grown to womanhood, produced effects which they little imagine. The lov ers were parted. I Thit separation would have beeu only temporary, perhaps, but for her sudden death. In a very touching and eloquent letter he begged to be allowed to see his dead love. In this he said : "My prospects are all cut off,, and I feel that my happiness will be buri ed with her in the grave. It is now no time for explanation, .' but the time will come when vou will discover that she, as well as 1, has been much abused. God forgive the authors of it !, My feelings of resentment againstthem, whoever they may be, are buried in the dust- I have now one request to make, and, :for the love of God and of your dear dejarted daught er, whom 1 loved inhuitely more than any other human being could love, deny me not. Afford me the melancholly pleasure ot seeing the body before its interment." Perhaps to the ' unsentimental reader this is but a trifling incident in a human life. But, after all, the mighty forces which move humanity are the forces which come from the affections rather than from the cool intellect. Men haye died, and worms have eaten them, antl this for love. He . who endeavors "to measure the soul to analyze the moral and intellectual part of man or woman, and who ridicules what we call sentiment, leaves out the most important element iu the whole subject of consideration. When in later years Mr. Buchauan became a public man, political -'antagonists, according to the accet ed; American style of political cam paigns, raked out of the history of liis youth this incident, misrepre sented and falsified it. The old politician, who knew better than any man in America how to meet and repby to all the ilttacks and ac cusations, true or false, of oppo nents, never allowed the solemn sa credness of this memory to be tai nished by any allusion to it on his part. . Once he told a trusted f'rU'iid that there were among his papers letters and relics which, wheu he was dead, would, if necessary, set this, history truly before all who were interested. It ' would ; seem that before his decease he came to the conclusion that the story of bis love belonged alone to himself and her, and it mattered little what was said here when he and she should talk it over where there are 110 gos sips or scandal-mongers. His ex-" ecntors found a sealed piickage en dorsed with directions to burn it unopened, and they obeyed the di rections. I The course of true love, says our biographer, in terms of very simple eloquence, "ran in this case pure, and unbroken in the , heart of the survivor through a long ami varied life. It became a grief that could not be spoken of, to which only the most distant allusion could be made ; a sacretl, unceasing sorrow, buried deep in the breast of a man who was formed lor domestic joys; hidden beneath manners that wro most engaging, beneath stroug so cial tendencies, and a chivalrous old-fashioned deference to women of all ages, aud all dimes. His pe culiar aud reverential demeanor to ward the sex, never varied by rank or station or individual attractions, was doubtless in-a large degree cansed by trie tender., memory of what he had found or fancied iu her whom he had lost in his early days by such a cruelfate." The immediate effect of this sor row was to change the course of his life. He had previously determined not to enter political life. He now sought excitement aud associations with men, and accepted a nomina tion and was elected i.to Congress. The village gossips w ho parted Hie lovers aro irspouMoie lor a vast deal that has occurred in the histo- ry of the United States. William C'. Prime in "Haer's Magazine' for Jannary. An Idyl of Love. With one mad jump A great big lump Sprang np into his wizzen A longing thrill His soul did fill' As he wished that she was his'u. She also gazed Iu manner dazed, ! He heait with love did bnrn nne ti cneeriui give Her right to live - If he was only ber'n. ; . Won't DiSlUTb Him. was buried dav before vesterday, "Dead, is he er, well, then I won't disturb him." Sequel of a Curious Elopement. 1 A dispatch from Lexington, Ga ptvpr thi hmiiiaI of the. enrions - 1 elopement of Joseph L. Stewart j with his yonng niece. After get- ! ting married the couple went to the groom's mother's boose in Jackson --NUMBER' 48 couuty, where they were traced by the young lady's father and a friend. YV hen thev reached the house the newly wedded couple had already retired. Mr. Stewart, father of the bride, was pursuaded to make no disturbance and allowed the friend who had accompanied him to act as mediator. Tho latter went to the nuptial chamber and called Joseph Stewart out aud explained to him the hen jonsness of the offense com mitted ia contracting marriage with his own niece, aud that there was a penalty of from one to two years in t he penitentiary attached to such a crime. He told him he must at once give up tho girl to her father and consent to a dissolution of the marriage, for there was no country in the civilized world in which they could live together as man and wife. He finally consented, and the bride accompanied her father home. Steps have been taken to have the marriage dissolved. Plantation Philosophy. Natur' tries to take kere o' ebe iythihg. She oben gins de grass hopper leigs -wid saws on 'em. In all natur' do lub ti' de m udder isde strongest. De he bird flies roun' while de she one takes keer 'o de ues'. , j j De Brines' man ain't de Pes' pat tern fur tie young. De green apple is de hardes', but it ain't half so good for de stomick. It ain't al'ers tho crookedest man what gets hint de quickes'. De uatridge is tie easiest bird to shoot, 'case he flies de straightes'. . De man what is quickes in body is ginerally de slowes' in mine. De cauoc ken turn quicker den de steamboat, but it can't tote nigh so much. It hurts a man wuss ter tell him o' a fault kin'ly den it does rough ly, fur if yer tells him kin'ly he kaint say uuthin', but if yer tells him in a rough way he ken fight yer and get satisfaction. Dar is-suin hope fur de uuedycat ed man, but de natral bo'n fool is past de reach o' human ter improve. De wise man recognizes his lack o' edycat ion, but de fool neber does. Ignorance ebcr has been full o' boast. ' - Unlucky Days. j Prospective brides may be inter ested to learn that there a iff) thirty twt days in the year on which it is unlucky to marry, according to the authority f a manuscript lated in the fifteenth century. These dys are January 1, 2, 4, 7, 10, l." ; Feb ruary 0, 7, 18 ; March 1, C, 8 ; April 0, 11 ; May 5, C, 7; June 7,15; Ju ly o, i;t ; August 1.1, 10 ; September 6,7 ; October 0; November 15 16; December 15, 16, 17. Consequently January is the worst month aud October is the best in the year for marriage, according to the super stition of the past. Any day is a lucky day if the parties start out in life with true aims and purposes. Any day is unlucky when they are unequally yoked. Why She Was Indignant. A Denver tailor, anxious to get the views of the press of that city on tin; subject, wrote to the differ ent editors asking : "What tlo you think 'of knee breeches! Would you object to appearing In them! One rejily, filled with bitter indig nation, lie uiswvered, owed its ven omous jiirit to the fact that thev liter was a woman. ) It was from Mrs.' Carrie M. Churchill, edi tress of the 'Queeu Bee," who gave him a piece of her mind about "six columns long. Burglars' Again. Montlay night last burglars broke a large plate glass wiudow in the clothing stoiv of Messrs. IS. D. Lat 1 1 & Brt., Charlotte, entered and stole a large quantity ol goods The same night the residence of Dr. R. M. Nonnent was invaded and a trunk robbed of 81,100. The next. day a m gro was arrested, six miles from Charlotte, dressed up iu a suit of the-stolen .goods. I h from the "Observer." . Cold Weather. A cold blizzard is reported from the West. Jannary ;iti, says the dispatchs, was the coldest day seen in ten years. The mercury de seended to is degrees below zero; o trains have been run on some of the ', roads. 1 11 Chicago plate glass windows' were broken by the intense cold. ; The Infinity of Silence. "What is the infinity o" silence?" asked a jihilosojiher of a married man. I don't know, but I shoul think it would be what a man had to sav to his wife when she caught ,jn rv ! ng to kiss the hired girl. 1 A Cleveland woman recently ; tried holding a baby as collateral ; secaiitv for a Iniard bill, and when the 1110; .a r failed to pay the bill n fued to irive the child uji. and the ; owner of the property had. to- feek .courts of law and get a writ ol ' habran corpus. To the male mind the idea of finding any kind of se curity in holding a baby is incon- ceivable. Whiskey leads men and women a devil's dance. Under an over turned wagon, which had leen driven over an embankment inJer- ' sey City, a man aud woman were found Friday morning frozen to death. They had been intoxicated ' aud were Unable to extricate them selves from the snow. The horse, which had taken no liquor, sur vived. ; At a Gaston county wedding last ' week a young gallant wa hitro ' duced to a you ng lady, and the; re sult, the Ga-stonia "Gazette" re : ports, was love at first sight. Tiey went riding through the pleasant night air, and though the yonng , gallant's arm went to waste, the time did not. When the loke ! reached the point of consnmation. ; the young lady, it was discovered, was a beardless youth, whom the gallant bad known without love all the days of his life. - . WILSON ADVANCE. 13 vrr.s ok Advebtising. One In-!i.On Insertion " " One Month " - Three MonUts fl.W .1 60 . S rnx ouh 01 Uberti Inxi:-..; wiu bo made for Larger AdrertiattncMts ul for Contracts by the Year Cash must aocon lMi y all Advertisements unlcsi rood reforoneo 1 itlren. ROMANTIC. -:o: THE ROMANTIC CAREER OF BISHOP WARREN'S BRIDE. A MILLION A I HI Ess. Last week the marriage of Mrs. Elizabeth S. lbff to Bishojt Henry W. Warreu, ol Atlanta, t.a ren ders the foilowing details of l lie bride very interesting. About the year I860, a young, prepossessing, modest and determined girl alight ed from the coach in Denver one morning. She was, perhaps, 21 years of age, antl it was evident to those who met her 011 the occasion of her advent in that then rather Y'ociferous town, under the moun tain shadows, that she had gone west with the .intention f growing up with the country, as she evinc ed a remarkable decree of indepen dence, softened, however, by strong womanly qualities, which soon es tablished her high in the esteem 01'. -all with Ahom she came iu contact. She at onoe made her mission known by canvassing the business portion of the city for ah ligible location iu which to eu a store. and finally succeeded in securing a ri room previously occupied by the ' Adams Express Company, in -the building owned by the proprietor of the "Rocky Mountain News," and uext door to the ''News" publication office, in Larimer street. The ad venturesome youug lady had gone out from Chicago as the agent of the Singer Machine Company, mid, among total strangers, and with but her own shrewdness and strong stamina to back her, jirojiosed to win her support. It apjM'ais that when a mcre infaut lu, w ith sev eral brothers and sisters, had been left without parents, Relatives had brought (he children up in some obscure town ia Illinois; and when arrived at mature years, the girl had struck out for herself in Chicago, by securing a ositioii as instructor in the Singer lotliec iu that citv. Her duties were to fol low uj local ugents and teach piyj chasers of machines how to operate them. -."Finally the company deci ded to establish the Denver agency, and she applied for and was given the place, not .without muhc mis- , giving on the part' of the :;, puny ; but, as she had displayed rem lika ble busiuess tact, they, were satis fied to at least let her make the id tempt. How well she suceeedtid 111 the new and trying field is well ki.own to every old citizen ol Den ver, aud, in fact, to nearly every One who lived in northern Colorado at that time. With euergetio men in rival establishments to contend with, to open new stores and ap point local agents in remote towns, there being then not a rod of rail way in tho territory; to keep her own seueral business going, and at the same time maintain a reputa tion in a locality where theu it was difficult for a single woman, with out family suppoil, to do mi, these all tried her to the utmost, but she rose siqierior to : 1 1 1 the petty and great obstacles, and w is soon re spected far antl wide, as if was con ceded she had the riuht m .11 m her, and that, of all things,' 'Viis t he 0110 great factor in winning Miet-e in those days in Colorado'. Among the foremost if imt the foremost cattle raisers in Wyom ing in those days was Mr. 1 W. Illff. His herds were numbered by hundreds of thousand-., mid his ranges in Wyoming and l oiorado were widespread. By some cliaucrt he being a widower at the lime he met the young sewing maeliine agent 011 one of his vi-iis 10 Den ver. Courtship followed, and it was not long !efor- sewing ma- chines wete abandoned for family cares. She became- Mrs. 1 1 1 11' and Cheyiinue liecauio her home for a short time. Now the wile of a mil liotvaire, and removed from the '-eares and vexations ol a iumeK life, and at tiest a hard struggle fir sujiport, Mrs. Iliff displayed 111 a supremo degree those high woman ly qualities which had. tinder form er trials, brought her so -inn.-' fully through. Iu 170 when" I.'. S. .Marshal Shaffenlinr. ol Denver, was sent to prison for ii leuiarities in office, Mr. and Mr.-. Ibfl b night his palatial home and icheiveil to Denver. Here, mmmi attenvard, Mr. Hill' died, leaving Ins ein iie and vast cattle iuteiesis folds widow and his two sous, minor, iu.-toad of laying aside thee new cares by disposing of her herds, .Mis. Hill ai once assumed these fresh and great re)0!isibilities, and. iiecanie one of the leading cattle dealers iu the United States. From the moment she assumed charge of t hi- trust fortune has followed every venture she has made, aud her income h is steadily rolled in at the rate tit from $100,000 to 300,i 0a a year It quite naturally followed t hat Jie should be sought in marriage le ad venturers and others but she has up to the present steadfastly ;adher ed to ber determination fo remain single rather than Ijecome uuitcd to some one who sought her money rather than herself..- It is r In presumed, therefore, that the good . Bishop of Atlauta, who has now made her Mrs Warreu, has conven ed her. that a consort, rot richer, was his sole purpose. Since her widowhood Mrs. HilTs interest to the Methodist denomination grew very strong, and she had repeated ly expiessed a determination to her intimate friends to devote .a large portion of her wealth at the end to the chnrch cause. - A sugar-liiped fellow went the house of Mr. Euos T. Blair, to of High Point, the "Eriterprse" re ports, and representing himself to be the son of Mr. Wheeler, of the firm of Wheeler & Wilson, he took advantage of the good : .lady's re gard for ber sewiug machine to get board and bed for a time aud to borrow a horse, which he sold in Wiuston for $70- It is a shrewd scoundrel that has the audacity to make his game win a n sewing machine man. ,1 I