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WILSON ADVANCE. PUBLISHED, UVEEY FKIDAY AT W ILSON NORTH CABOLINA. BY . ' JOSEPHL'S DANIELS, - Editor and Proprietor FTPS XT- U .Y. . . A WILSON ADVANCE. i he Wilbon Advance. : -I ; i : ' ' ' ' - r " One Inch, One Iniuwtion ,... , flTo 1 1 - l , . , , - 1 " 11 One Mt-iH. , V'mi SUBSCRIPTS liATES.IN ADVANCE Ont: Year. - 8 00 gix MoDths - . 1 00 rP"Monoy fn be sent by Money Order or Ki ir istorod Letter at our risk. OKFiCK-Tarboro Street, in tho Old Post OHice Huihlin. - - NEWS OlA WEEK ET A THE ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE TUT COUNTRY'S, TUT GOD'S, AND TRUTHS Liberal Discount will bs made for iArmr VOLtljrE 13.-- WILSON, NORTH CAKOLINA, FEBRUARY 1.. 1884. -NUMBER 51 Advertisement and tot Contracts by the Vear Cash must accompany all Advertisements anlees good reference is (riven. I- - inree nnth. on " Six Mouths .. g itt " . " One Yr.. .. . uo? OATH KKEI) FROM ALL PARTS OK THE WORLD. tENCM LIANGS GLEANlNuS Love isliki; t be measles; all the worse when it comes late in life. If the Norfolk & Charleston Rail road is built it will cross the river at Palmyra. Mr. Sam. C. Smith has resigned his position as local editor of the Snow.IliH ''Telegraph.'' Kev. J. W. Laiinour, a former rector, has lieeu called to St. Ste phens' parish, Goldsboro. In Shanghai, China, wives cost $300. In this country wives, like likerty and freedom, are free. , D J. B. Wood, a veteran jour nalist of New York city, was fouud drowned in North River Monday. A deputy collector of the tilth district, North Carolina, announces the capture of live illicit distiller ies. Lieut. V- W- Jeffreys has been elected captain of the Edgecombe Guards, to succeed Capt. Orren Williams. A Wilson jiirl has alreadyscored a leap year victory. She proposed to her young man that he propose, and he proposed. Duke & Co., of Durham, intend to build a factory equal in size tb the mammoth establishment of the Black well Tobacco Co. . Edward Brown, formerly of Goldsboro, committed suicide in Smithfield Friday, by taking laud anum, after a heavy drunk. A runaway couple last week in Massachusetts tied the girl's father, took his horse and sleigh and were married before he could get himself untied. Men of intellect stand by their ideas; dissipated men fall by their rye dears; and men with extrava gant wives are ruined ly their high dears. A thief entered Mrs. Gen. Fen tier's house in Tarboro Sunday night, says the "Southerner," and stole a watch belonging to Miss Williams. ' Congressman Mackey, of South Carolina, died in Washington, D. (!., Monday morning ; both Houses adjourned as a mark of respect to Lis memory. Mrs. Letitia Morehead Walker has given 11,000 to build a bath house at theOxf'ord Orphan Asylum, as a memorial to. her son, John Morehead Walker. V Sir Alexander Cooper, t lie En glish gian;, advertised in Chicago for a wife He only had SJ00 appli cations. And yet women do not "wish to -marry." '-Oh, no.'. i "No," said the Chicago editor of Lis rival, "I don't think he was drunk when he wrote that editori al ; when a mail's drunk he speaks the truth. Boston "Post." Rev. J. N. Stalling, editor of the "Caucasian," has been elected Principal of the Waynesville High School. He is now Principal of the Clinton Collegiate Institute. Mrs. Julia A. Moore, better known as "the Sweet Singer of Michigan," has given np poetryaud gone into the grist mill business. 'Everything points to a prosperous vear in this country. (, The phosphate deposits discov ered in Duplin county, Dr. Dab ney's analysis shows when crushed and treated with sulphuric acid will bring at the current market price $20.20 per ton. An Atlanta painter named. John T. Smith, proved to be a very heart less fellow. He deserted his wife while she was dying of a lingering disease and ran away with a Miss Belle Edwards. Mr. J. J. Maekey, of the firm of Hackney & Mackey, editors and proprietors of the Durham "Re corder." has sold his interest to Mr. Hackney, who is now sole proprie tor of that excellent? papei If you love me tell me so : Wait not till the winter hours Heap with snow drifts all the flowers ; . Till the tide of life runs low If you love ine tell me so! A western paper says: 4Sam Weldom was shot last night in the rotunda by Harry Parsons." About the worst place a man can lie shot, nexf to the heart, is in the rotunda.'' It invariably proves fa tal, f A medical writer says that the girls are so constructed that they cannot jump. If he is a, respecta ble young man, let him propose matrimony to one of the girls, arid he'll soon see her jump at the of fer. ' " The Atlantic North Carolina Railroad is advertised for sale at public auction by the sheriff of Carteret covnty, on .Monday next, to satisfy an execution in the case el' Ellen Mason against the Rail road Company, v Old Fred Douglass has married again, and this time he took a white wile. - Uer uamo is Helen M. Pitts. She is 33 and old Fred is seventy mid, That is lovely. The old in- rrttf.M Ollcrlit t.x l . i . . --a-" lo uave slue, to mis own color, about which he raves so oiten. In ""'"eiiiiusrou t ic improve ments of CabinsviUe the Statesville "Lauduiark" says, "Drl J. F. Long has painted his house, Mr. J. W. Parker proposes to paiut his in the Bpnng, and the Mayor thinks of white-washing his barn and hen house when the weather breaks CabinsviUe is risiug as fast as a town can rise." At this rate of im provement Durham, Winston Kin ston and Wilson -ayVelljook .to meir laureis, Chas. N. Vance, sou of the Sena? tor, has been appointed secretary of Senator Vest's committee at a salary of $2,200. The huge vertical boiler of the New Berne Gas Works exploded at 7 o'clock Monday evening, with terrific violence, going through the roof of the building and tailing within thirty feet of its original po sition.. The engineer escaped inju ry. Robert Shaw Wilkins, of. Gra a bright mulatto years old and a hamville, S. C, about nineteen graduate of the Avery Institute of Charleston, has been appointed to a cadetship at West Point by Congressman Mackey. Talmage is happy. He has out done Beecuer. His congregation is the largest in the United States, It numbers 3,045 persons. Fourteen years ago it did not exceed two dozen. The growth has been due to Talmage. His pulpit eccentrici tv attracted tho people. Mr. W. F. Askew, of W. F. As kew & Sou., Raleigh, from whom we buy all our paper, has gone to New England to purchase machin ery suitable for making and pre paring wood pulp tor the manufac ture of paper at tho Falls of Neuse. He has heretofore been using pulp imported from Norway. Th.e steamer "City of Columbus" which sailed from Boston for Sa vannah on Thursday of last week, went n-shore on Friday at Devil's Bridge and ninety seven lives were lost. The New York "Times" says that the captain is responsible for the loss of life and property. Mr. Abbey and five others have bought boxes, at a cost of $350 each, for the Opera Festival in Cin cinnati. In many places in North Carolina a good mill seat could be bought for less than 350, "where the waters hav4 been holding a free musical festival for nearly six thou sand years. "Madame, you've destroyed $5 worth of merchandise," angrily re marked a dude to a lady, as she seated herself in a chair in which he had deposited a new Derby hat, "Serves you right," she replied, slowly rising from the ruiu ; "you had no business to buy a 85 hac for a 50 cent head." - .i An exchange says that there is not an editor or printer in the lu natic asylum. This is certainly re markable, for there never was a set oi men that had more to make them go crazy than printers and editors. No money half the time and living on air the other half, is enough to land auy man in the lunatic asy lum. A dlrand street (New York) dy er has placed the following lines over the desk in his shop : I am dyeing to live, And living to dye ; The longer I live The better I dye : The more I dye The better I live. Abel Eckard, of Hickory town ship, Catawba county, married a widow, Mrs. Wagner, who : had a grown son. The sou then married, and soon afterwards Eckard and the young wife eloped, leaving mother husbandless and the sou wifeless. This from the Newton "Enterprise," which states that both mother and son will apply for divorces at the ; next term of Ca tawba Superior Court. In the United States in three months there were, ten more sui cides bymarried men than by bach elors.: But probably there were more of the former. Among wo men there were two more wives than maidsjwho took their own life. There: were twenty -two widowers who voluntarily shuttled off, whilst there were but six widows. The widows are less despondent than widowers. Thev still have a chance. Beaufort "Telephone :" We are informed by Marshal P. Green that the N. C. Oil and Guano Company, of which ho is a member, have caught and manipulated 9,500,000 menhaden since they established themselves in Carteret county, Their freights northward have amounted to over 81,100, and they have on hand at present about 250 tons of scran. This Is the largest catch made by any sailing gear on the Atlantic coast. 1 A keen-witted, facetious member of the last North Carolina egisia ture, torn that honorable body, m a discussion upon the tariff, that they had better drop the subject, "for." said he. locnlarly. "most ol you wouldn't know the tariff if you were to meet him in the road? But the time is come when every voter-should inform himself upou the subject, so thafr he may cast his vofe intelligently. Ashvuie "Ad vance.'' I Fredrick Douglass" marriage with a white woman involves a le gal question, an old law of the Dis trict, prohibiting the intermarriage of the two races, and Mr. Douglass, after securing legal advice, decided to take the consequences. Several other marriasres of this kind have taken place there, and no prosecu tion "followed, the chances are that none will ensue in "this case unless the parents of the bride should try to have the marriage annulled. Bait, "Day." The Matrimonial Market. Our matn'imonial editor reports as follows : Remarks Tho Leap Year prom ises a rich harvest for old bachel ors. Wo quote: Market firm and ac tive. All offers readily taken. Marriage licenses and ministers' services growing in demand. Girls positive and uudeclining. Young men unsteady and going without a better bid. IGold Leaf." ' A sprig sweetheart of. pine sent to your signifies, "I pine for thee. " The answer, is, a ipine knot.5' A box of tar pills signifies, " I sti:;k to thee." Spirits turpen tine signifies ."you dry up," or get up aud git." POLITICAL POINTS -:o:- W II AT TU E POLITICIANS ARE TALKING ABOUT. THE POLITICAL CALDRON. . iuassacnusetts man informs a "Chronicle'' reporter that the down Easters would all vote for our Jarvis lor Vice President. The Philadelphia "Press" nomi nates Ben Butler for Governor of Utah. The "Press" doubtless thinks this will be the oulv effectu al way to dispose of the irrepressi- uie Benjamin. The Washina-ton "Post"savs.Mr. a. H. Busbee, of North Carolina, who has been Clerk to the Senate Committee on the improvement of the river front, finding that he could not attend to the duties of that position on account of profes sional engagements, has tendered his resignation. Mr. Busbee is a leading lawyer and prominent Dem ocrat of North Carolina, and was an elector for the State at large at the iast Presidential election. He is counsel for Mr. Skinner in his contested election case, a'nd for the State of North Carolina in several matters pending before Congress, Handy Mr. Payne. oenator-eiect l"ayne has given himself a mild Presidential boom among the dodging Democrats. He can blow hot from one side of his mouth and cold from the other; cry good Lord and good devil with equal unction, lavors a tariff for revenue and also for protection : is devoted to reform, but ag'in its ap plication. Mr. i'ayne would be a capital candidate to stretch out the line of Democratic blunders toward the crack of doom. Mx. i The Gilmer Boom Increasetli. The Gilmer boom is still increas ing, it is not the work ot politi cians nor of the selfishness of an aspirant for office. It is the voice of the people who have recognized in Judge Gilmer the qualities fitting him lor the office ot Governor. And the people are not the less ea ger for his nomination because they kuow he doesn't want the office. That is one of the best reconlmen- dations. We are tired of men who have been all their lives reaching out after an office. Kinston "Free Press." ' ongress and the mormons That some effective method of dealing with the Mormon question is needed no one will deny. The evil of polygamy is growing rapidly vear bv year and unless hrmfy and promptly suppressed will soon have become established as a custom sanctioned by the laws and practi ces of a sovereign State. Converts to Mormohism are being recruited by the thousand among the more ignorant classes in the various Eu ropean States. The little cloud no bigger than a man's hand at first, is spreading not only over one Territory, but over half a dozen It should be allowed to spread no further. v There is very little-force in the argument that laws for the suppres sion of polygamy interfere with the exercise of a religion. Polygamy is a crime against an existing law, not a religion. That law is defied by the Mormons. The Government has but one thing to do, and that is to execute the law. Under the present Territorial Government this eaunot be done, because tne niacin nery for executing the law is m the hands of the violators of the law. - If there is any possible method of taking the legal machinery out of the hands of those who defy the law and placing it in the hands of those who will execute it, it should be done. Mr. xilden's Will. The New York "World" recently put all of Its esteemed contempora ries in that city to blush by pub lishing its exclusive information as to the disposition Mr. Tilden has made ol his Gramercy park proper ty by will, it is now generally be lieved, however, that the "World" knew nothing whatever as to the contents of Mr. Tilden's will, and that tho article which it published and which puported to be a synop sis of a portion of it, was wholly imaginary, the product ol the dis ordered brain of one of its imported St. Louis editors. From a gentle- m, who doubtless knows as much about Mr. Tilden's inner life as the "World" does, and who has had iust as good opportunities to read Mr. Tilden's last will and testament as the "World's" informant has had, and probably better, the "Fost" is enabled to give tne loiiowing ex clusive and highly interesting in formation to the public : FEOM ME. TILDEN'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. To my venerable friend Charles Anderson Dana, the brilliant, though erratic editor of the New York "Sun," I bequeath my large black mastiff dog, "Excitable," also my two oil paintings entitled, re spectively, "The Republican Party Must Go," and "Turn the .Radicals Out." I also give and bequeath to the said Charles Anderson Dana my life size chromoof Hon. William Steele Hollman, of Indiana. To my longhaired, robust aud always enthusiastic friend, Mr. Hen ry Watterson, editor oi the Louis ville "Courier-journal," l give and bequeath my black and white hull, "Restless," also one and a half acres of my pasture at Yonkers, be ing the same pasture over which he says he recently saw me 'marching with martial tread.' To Rutherford Burchard Hayes, of Fremont, Ohio, I give and be queath my volume entitled "The Statue of Fraud," also my helio- thrope likeness of The Forty Thieves." To the said Rutherford Burchard Haves I give and be queath my Brazillian parrot, "Eliza Fmkstoii," anu my volume entitled "The Receiver as Bad as the Thief." I also give and bequeath to the said JS&JSS. passages from it each day in the same pious spirit with which he en tered upon his de facto term as President of the United States. Furthermore, desiring to do all else that I ought to make the remaining days of the said Hayes peaceful and happy, I do hereby absolve him from the payment of the 200, 000 or any part thereof", which he appropriated between March 4th, 1877 and March 4th, 1881, the same being the amount of salary due me as President de jure of the United States. To my somewhat billious friend, the Hon. Thomas Andrew Hend ricks, I give and bequeath all my rigut, title and interest to tne "oiu M l 11 .1 11 ticket," so-called, leaving him tree to do with it whatsoever may to him seem best. I also give and be queath to the said Hendricks my volume entitled "Three Days in Cincinnati; Or How I' Cut Off My Own Head." CODICILS.) To Rutherford Burchard Hayes I donate the sum of f 60 which 1 re quest that he invest in a ten years' subscription to the New York To Charles Anderson Dana I do nate a copy of the tariff plank used in the construction of the political platform upon which I stood iu 1876 and won a great victory the first won by a Democratic presidential candidate in twenty years. To Samuel Jackson Kandall 1 give and bequeath my illustrated work entitled "Every Tub Must Stand on Its Own Bottom," to the said Randall I freely grant my bbssing. Boston "Post." A Bear Steals a Child. Henrv Flynn, of Inkship, Cal., let his 3-year-old daughter ride up on a horse that he was tatting to the pasture, and when she bad rid den about forty rods from home he lifted" her off the horse and told her to run home. On returning he found that the child had not reach ed home. Going to the spot where he last saw her, he saw bear tracks in the sand. Search was made all night in the forest for the lost child. In the morning, as the searchers were passing a swampy spot where the undergrowth was thick, they heard her voice. They called to the little girl and told her to come out of the bushes. She replied that the bear would not let her. The men then crept through the brush, T-and when near the. spot heard a splash in the water, which the child said was the bear. They found her standing1 upon a log extending about half way across a swamp, The bear nad undertaken to cross the swamp on the log, and being pursued, left the child and got away as rapidly as possible. She had received some scratches about the face arms 'and legs, and her clothes were almost torn from her body : but the bear had not bitten her to hurt ner, only the marks ol his teeth being found on her back, where he had taken hold of her clothes to carry her. The child says the bear would put her down occa sionally to rest, and would put his nose up to her lace, whereupon she would slap him, and the bear would hang his head by her side, and purr and rub against her like a cat. The men asked if she was cold in the night, and she i told them the old bear lay beside her, put his "arms" around her. and kept her warm though she did not like his long hair. A Complete Tragedy. What may be termed a complete tragedy is that reported from Grif fin. Ga. A boy of sixteen, return ing from a gunning expedition, sends his fowling piece home and stops a short distance from his fath cr's house to engage m conversa tion with a girl. Suddenly a pistol shot is heard, the girl is seen to fall, and immediately therealter the boy puts the pistol to his head and fires. The girl dies instantly. The boy is taken home and lingers probably ; an hour, but is uncon scions to the last. Now, what prompted the double murder ! The neighbors declare , themselves una ble to say or even to surmise, Whether the young man quarrelled with the girl and shot her on tne impulse of the moment, and with swift, reflection killed himself to avoid the consequences of his rash act ; or whether, as seems equally probable, he was playing witn tne pistol,, shot her accidentally, and filled with anguish shot himself on seeing what he had done, will prob ably never be known. The tragedy is complete the Iwok is closed. The Apprentice. An old negro and his son called on the editor of a newspaper. "I wants my son ter work in yer office, sah." "What can he do?" "Oh, at fust he kaint do nuthin' but edick yerf paper, but arter awhile, when he learns mo' sense, he ken black yer boots an7 sweep deflo'." Eloped With Another Man. A young man named Perry, of this county, came into the city yes terday, to obtain a license to mar ry a girl living on the Wake Forest road. On Tuesday he had secured the services of a preacher, to tie the knot, the preacher being Rev Charles . n arris, .ferry was on his way to the office of the Regis ter of deeds, to get the desired li cense, wnen witnin a square ol the office he was met by a friend. who had iidden post-haste into the citv to inform him that the girl had proved false and bad on Wednes day evening eloped with and mar ried another man. xlaleigh "News Observer." " Whiskey is your greatest en emy." But," said Jones, "doesnt the Bible say, Mr. ireacuer, that we are to love our enemies!" "Ob, yes; but it doesn't say that we are to swallow them." ABOUT FARMING. WHAT THE FARMERS ARE DOING AND TALKING ABOUT. PICKED UP NOTES. The Warrenton "Gazette" says Mr. Peter King, of Hawtree, has been offered, and refused it, $1,00P cash for hU crop of tobacco made from seveu acres. But there is no money in farming, is there! V How a Farm Was Earned. A young mau, says the Cincin nati "Times," was very anxious to secure a piece of property which was for sale on very advantageoas terms. He went to confer with a friend who was a banker, and to inquire whether. it would be pru dent to borrow the requisite- sum and pay it in regular installments, thinking that he should be able to manage all but the first installment. He was advised to borrow from the bank a sum large enough to cover the first payment, lay it strictly aside, and then go ahead, "But," said his friend, "you must spend literally nothing. You must live off your place. You must make a box and drop in it all the money on receive." The young man and :b Wife went bravely - to work to follow his advice. If it was neces sary to dine on a head of boiled cabbage and salt they did so and never grumbled. Every payment was promptly met. The egg money, and the butter money, and the corn and wheat money all went into the payment box, and at a specified time the place was theirs. There was an invisible wealth about such hard-earned possessions that com mon observers knew nothing of On the day of the last payment the young man presented himseii be fore his friend with a smiling lace and with the money in his hand. There ware no rags to be seen, but his clothing was well covered with darns from head to foot. "Yoa see I have followed your advise," he said, casting a glance over himself, "and my wire looks worse than I do. But I have earned the farm, and now I know how to earn an other." The Thorough Farmer. The work of the fanner should be thorough work. It is the only kind that pays. The farmer must chalk out a definite plan, and he must follow it up with thorough, systematic work. Every move he makes, every turn that he takes, should be done with a vim and res olution that leaves less to do in that particular place. Half work or work half done, requires constant patching and mending till the man does at last, what he should have done at first, and calls up resolution enongh to do the job in a thorough manner. Thorough I work is economical work. ; It saves in time toil, pa tience, results and respectability. It brings no blush to the cheek ol farmers ; it permits no loss by the ravages of stock ; it takes a larger crop from the same area ; it brings more comforts! to the household ; it maintains a sweeter peace m the family circle. The thorough far mer will make greater progress than the sloven, careless one, for he will not have to go over the work the second time in order to com plete it. The thorough farmer keeps abreast with the seasons. He nev er talks of being behindhand. He is a saving farmer, There is no chance for the little leaks that have ruined so many men. He is al ways anticipating the outburst of the waters. He finds i use for ev erything. He improves on the old adage, "Make every edge cut that will cut, and those that won't cut, bruise," but he so sharpens every edge that it was es uo time in bruising. He burus no daylight in the bouse, he works by day and sleeps by night, yet he has time for all needed recreation of body and mind. The thorough farmer owes few debts, he keeps sleek horses and stock, he knows the value of a stitch in time. He is not only a thorough farmer, but a thorough gentleman. His note never goes to protest, nor are his bags of wheat, or his bales of cotton mark ed "second-class." Such are the results of thoroughness. Does it not pay to be thorough! How OTnch Tobacco Pays. The Warrenton "Gazette,'' (wuicu, oy tne way, is mucn im proved of late) says, "Mr. Jonas Williams sold tobacco from one acre of land that netted him, after paying all warehouse charges, one hundred and forty dollars. There are no better lands in the State than those in Fork township (or cleverer people), and they are finely adapted to corn, wheat, oats, clover and tobacco. We have begged our people for years to quit the all cot ton system, and if they had oniy done so, Warren would have been to-day the equal, if not ahead of any county in the State. But it is yet by no means too late to recover our lost ground. Let us all begin the new year with new and better resolutions, work as we never worked belore, cut oft every useless expense, practice a rigid economy, cultivate more .thoroughly, make more manure en the farm, give more attention to onr stock, stop our lands from washing away, and diversify our crops, and we will be prosperous:" Brother GardnuY Observations. "Dar am seVral things dat doan' look 'zactly right to me," said Broth er Gardner as he rubbed his bald head with one hand and opened the meeting with the other. "It doan' look 'zactly right to see oue man wuth ten mfllyun dol lars an' anoder wuth only ten cents (applause by Samuel Shin ;) but yit lfiwns de ten miiiyun dollar man I wouldn't keer whedder it looked right or not. (Sudden end applause 0 "It doan' look 'zactly right fur one man to own a great foundery, while anoder man am obleged to work fur $2 a day ("Hear, hear !' from Judge Cadaver;) but if I was de $ 2 a day man I wouldn't frow myself out of a job to spite de own er or to please a demagog. (The Judge subsides.) "It doan' look 'zactly right to see one man hold offis all de time, while anoder man has to shove a jack plane for a libin' (great rustle in Pickle Smith's corner;) but he who shoves de jack-plane hasderespeck of de community an' keeps outer jail. (Rustle dies away.) i' "It doan' look 'zactly right to see fo'ty lawyers rush to defend a crim inal who has stolen money in his pockets, while de offender who am moneyless am left to dig his way frew a ten-foot wall wid an old knife-blade (grins on a dozen faces;) but if I was a lawyer I should aim my money any odder way except by sawin' wood. De public doan' look for any partickler display of conscience on de part of lawyers, an' darfore sutler no disappoint ments. (Grins no longer observa ble.) "It doan' look 'zackly right for one man to have a big brick house an' anodder man a rough bo'dsban try; but 'long 'bout tax time de man in de shanty kin sit on de fence an' chuckle over de fack dat he haint rich. "It doan' look 'zackly right to see one man go pushin' an' swellin' an' crowdin' everybody else off de sidewalk to let de publick know daOe am a king bee ; but such men have to carry de anxiety of bein' in debt to - de tailor an' of dodgin'de grocer, an' of subscribing f 25 to build a church widout a hope of bein' able to pay ten cents on de dollar. "In fack, my friends, dar am heaps an' heaps o' things dat doan' look zactly right to us at 1 fust glance; but when ye come to figger it up an' divide an' subtract, we've all got a heap to be thankful fur an' to encourage us to git up airly in de mawnin'. A man kin brace his legs an' lay back like a mule, an' kick away at de hull world, an' hate everybody an' be hated in re turn, or he can pick Up sartin crumbs o' consolashun, crowd inter a seat in de back eend of de wagin, an' take a heap o' comfort, knowin' dat somebody is wuss off dan him self. Let us accumulate 'to biz- ness. A Study of Husbands. We hear much about the art of winning a husband. Let us take a step further, and make a study of keeping a husband. If he is worth winning he is worth keeping. This is a wicked world, and man is dread fully mortal. Let us take him just as he is, not as he is very weak. The wife must spend the first two years in discovering these weaknes ses, count them on her fingers and learn them by heart. The fingers of both hands will not be too many, Then let her study np these weak nesses, with a mesh for every one, and the secret is hers. Is he fond of good dinners ? Let her tighten the mesh around him with fragrant coffee, light bread and good things generally, and reach his heart through nis stomach. Is he fond of flattery about his books! Let her study the dictiouary for sweet words, if her supply gives ou. Does he like to hear her talk about his intellect? Let her pour over the encyclopedia to give variety to the dear of her admiration. Flatte ry is a good thing to study up at all hazzards, in all its delicate shades, but it must be skillfully done. The harpy who may try to coax him away will not do it absurdly. Is he fond of beauty ! Here's the rub- let her be bright and tidy; that is half the victory. Then let her bang her hair metaphorically and keep up with the times. A husband who sees his wife look like other people is not going to consider her "broken down." Though it is a common sneer that a woman has admitted that her sex considers more, mar rying, the tastes oi ner irienas tnan her own, yet it must lie considered that a man looks at his wife with the same eyes that other people do. Is he fond of literary matters! Listen to him1 with wide open eyes when he tells of them. A man does not so much care for a literary wife if she only will be lite rary enough to appreciate him. If she has literary inclinations keep them1 to herself. Men have to be big and great to their Wives. That's the reason why a helpless little wo- an can marry three times to a sen sible, self-reliant woman's none. Cultivate helplessness. Is he curl C -VI. 4-U U ,n n f.nnnn., you can always keep him if you have a secret aud keep it carefully. Is he jealous! Then, woman, this is not'for you : cease torturing that fretted heart which wants vou for its own. and teach him confidence Is he uglv in temper, and fault finding ! Give him a dose of his medicine, skillfully done. Is he de ceitful 1 Pity him for his weakness; treat him as one born with a physi cal- defect, but put your wits to work it is a bad case. It is well not to be too tame. Excellent Hay-Fever. : Mr. Garrett Vine, late of Michi gan, who owns a farm at Havelock, in this county, dropped in to see us yesterday. "Well, I calculate it this way," he said : "in Michi gan we make about two tons to the acre, and sell it from eight to ten douiars per ton. it gener ally sells here at $20 to $2per ton; but suppose we get only f 15, ana only a ton and a half to the acre. The cost of making it will not ex ceed $3.00, which will leave about $18 per acre net profit, and after getting off the hay we have a good pasture for cattle." New Berne "Journal.'' Josh Billings says: "It iz highly important, that when a mau makes up his mind to bekum a raskal, he should examine hizself, and see if be amr better constructed for a iphooL" . ' - to "".RAY OF SUNSHINE. - :o: ' A FATHER TELLS SWEET BABIES. WHEREIN ABOUT BABIES DON T ANNOY. The following is going the rounds, written by an editor who thinks he is smart, very likely : "A baby can wear out a dollar pair of shoes in twenty-four hours. It can keep its father busy advertising in the news papers for a nurse. It can occupy both sides of the largest sized bed manufactured simultaneously. It can make the author of its being's wash Dift loot up to 95 a week; and not De leeung at an well. It can crowd to suffocation the smoking car of a railroad train with indig nant passengers between two sta tions, cause its father to be insult ed by every second-class boarding house keeper in the city who 'never takes children It can make an old bachelor in the room adjoining use language that, if utteied in the street, would get him in the peni tentiary for two years. It can, in a few minutes, drive a man franti cally from his house and cause him to seek the companionship of a loco motive blowing off steam." it is cowardly to abuse a person who cannot talk back, and the man who thus abuses the baby, a poor little thing that is not responsible for coming to earth to annoy fools, is nt for treason, or jumping board bill. A baby never annoyed any person with a soul, unless there was something the matter with it, tor which a grown person was re sponsible. It - is true, a baby can wear out a pair of kid shoes in tweu ty-four hours, but if the proprietor of the baby does not like to stand the expense he can,; buy cheaper shoes that will last a year. It can keep the father busy advertising tornnrses, if the father is a fool, but if he dislikes to advertise for nurses he can nurse the baby him self, or he needn't have any baby, If the kicking father does not like to pay wash bills he can wash the clothes himself. The baby is not to blame because second-class boarding houses do not want the children around, aud the boarding houses are not to be blamed either. The father of a baby should have a home before he does a baby, and then he will not be insulted. But the last sentence of the abovo item is what , makes u hot. "A baby can in a few minutes drive a man frantically from "his home,'? etc. No "man" could be driven from his home by his baby. A person who could be driven from home franti cally by the crying of his own baby is a cowardly jackass, and a baby ought to be ashamed of such a fath er. Such a "man" is a thing; A man would stay at home and I help seek the cause of the baby's peev ishness and correct it. The MSun" does not believe the writer of the above article ever had a baby, but if he did, he is a no account sort of a journalistic dude, without a soul. It the man has a baby, what a pre cious reading the article will be to him some day when he comes home and is met at the door by his pale- faced, frightened wile, who, with tears in her eyes, says : 'Go for a doctor at once ; the - baby, I fear, is dying." The cold chills will creep up his back, and his hair will feel as though it is turning grey; as he starts for the doctor he' will feel as though his legs never acted so slow ly, and he will pray to his God that the lite ot the abused little one may be spared till he gets back ; aud be will think of the cruel words he has written about babies, and wonder if the doctor will be at home. He is "driven frantically from home". , but not to seek the "coinpan ionship of a locomotive blowing off steam." He is after the doctor to save the life of the baby that wears out a pair of kid shoes In a day, and he would buy all the kid shoes in the world if baby would live. He gives the doctor a lively race back to the house, and he is not thinking about a $5 wash bill. The father who writes such stuff about babies hurries to las home wonder mg if the little treasure is alive oi dead ; and the coward dares not go into the room and face the little sufferer. Men may find fault with the trouble of raising babies, and think they are smart, but when they have stood by. the bedside of one of tneir owu, and watched its last breathing and seen ' the little lifego out, and felt that tugging at the heart that can never be describ ed by mortal tongue or pen, and have followed the little one to the grave aud heard the cold, cruel clay rattle upon the coffin and go home to the deserted house and see baby's playthings everywhere, through tears, they will never again talk funny about a. baby being a nuisance. The smart Aleck who wrote the above could never have witnessed the baby's smile of wel come to papa when he came home, or felt little fat arms around his neck, and looked into little eyes that are heaven's windows, or seen the hearty laugh that shows sharp little new teeth coming through the sweet red gums, or had the lit tle one to get astraddle of his foot for a ride, or seen the faces at the window as he came up the street from a day of toil. Had the writer of the above ' experienced these pleasures he would have written differently and said : "A baby is a ray of human sunshine sent to earth to brighten the pathway of people who have souls.'' No, the writer of the above is a man without a heart, whose idea of bliss is a second-class boarding house where ba bies are not wanted, and whose death-bed will be In a hospital, his attendants charitable people, his mourners will be those who can get a free hack ride to the graveyard, and his monument should be a piece of soapstone engraved. "Here lies the remains of a star idiot, who, natrag. rjaDies, nated . everythiug that was good, and to didn't die a moment too soon, and, thanks be to God, he didn't leave any poster ity." .., How to Choose a Gopd Husband. The caption is very suggestive to our lady readers since this is leap yfar, when it falls, to their pleasant lot to do tho courting, and the choice of a good husband is a mat ter that ought to be treated in the soberest possible manner, for on it hangs a world of joy or of sorrow. w hen you see a man of modest, respectful, retiring manners, not given to pride or vanity, or to flat tery, he will make a good husband; ior ne win be the same to his wile after marriage that he was before. When you see a man of frugal, industrious habits, no "fortune hun ter," but who would take a wife for the value of herself, and not for the sake of her wealth, that man will make a good husband; for his af fectiou will not decrease, neither will he bring himself nor his partner to poverty and want. . When you see a youug man who is using his best endeavors to raise himself from obscurity to credit, character and influence, by his owu merits, marry him ; lie is worth having, and will make a good hus band. . , When you see a youug man whose manners are of the most boisterous and disgusting kind, with brass enough to carry him anywhere, and vanity enough to make him think every one inferior t o himself, don't marry him, for he will not make a good husband. w hen you see a youug man de pending solely on his reputation and standing in society, upon the wealth of his father and other rela tions, don't marry him, for he will never be success as a husband, When you see a young man one- half the time adorning his person, or riding through the streets iu buggies, who leaves his debts un paid, he will in every respect make a bad husband. , When vou see a young man who is never engaged in any affrays or quarrels by day, or follies bv night, who does not keep low company, gamble or break the Sabbath, or use protaue language, but whose face is regularly seen at church, wnere ho ought to be, he will cer tainly make a good husband. Never make money an object of marriage ; if you do so depend upon it as a balance for the riches, you will get a bad husband. When you see a young man who is attentive aud kind to his ' sisters or agedjmother, who is not asham ed to be seen in the streets with the woman who gave him birth and nursed him, and who will attend to all her wants with filial love, affec tion and tenderness, he will cer tainly make a most excellent hus band. Lastly! always examine into the character, conduct and motives ; and when you find these good in a young man, then yon may be sure he will make a good husband. "Zi on's Watchman." Hard on His Mother-in-Law. A Chatham county incident : Mr. Jones was moving some cotton and Jack picked up a suspicious looking ackage aud handed it to him. Un wrapping it carefully he tliscovered tha$ it was a box of pills without abei or mark of any kind to give any intimation ot their character. As he was about to throw them away, Jack asked for them, "Why Jack, ain't you afraid to take pills that you know nothing about! They may be poisoned and kill yon." "Well sir, I thought I would give some to Aunt Jiunie first." Aunt Jinnie is his mother-in-law ! A Yoracions Appetite. . man named William Davis in 1858 or '5!) eat 64 eggs and drank a pint ot whiskey on a public occa sion at Harper's X Roads, in this county, and before going to bed that night he eat three mackerel and drank a pot of coffee. Hq bad made a wager with some friends that he could eat 5 dozen eggs and he not ouly cat them but 4 more, and then jumped up and knocked his feet together and called on them to bring him some more eggs He is now a prosperous farmer in Moore county. Chatham "Record." The Stingiest Han. It is told ot a certain man in oue of the central counties of this State who had a fine clover lot, that . he always sprinkled flour on his bees as they left the hive, so that he could distinguish them from his neighbor's when they were feeding i on his clover. Then he would take a little pauuie, anu going turougu ..... . .-I -i f ti i his clover lot would kill all the bees but his own. He said he c.mlduot afford to raise clover for his neigh bor's bees to feed urton. Methodist "Advance." An Awful Story of Snffering. A Bloomington, Indiana special savs: A uttie over a year ago j as Adams, a fanner laborer, married a very young wife and set up -house keeping iu an old cabin on Clear Creek, eight miles South of here. Yesterdav a stranger passing tne Adams cabin had his attention drawn to it bv the sound of moan- ine- within. He opened the door and found James Adams, benumb ed and helpless with cold, lying on the naked floor beside a tireless stove. In the bed near by, under a heap of rags, lay the child-mother, frozen to death. On her breast, wrapped in rags was a living infant The babe, less than a week old, and the father were cared for by kind neighbors. Mr. Adams, when able to speak, said he was sick and un able to move when the child was born, and so could not send for help. The neighbors, deeply mortified that suffering should exist undiscov ered in their midst, are doing all in their power for the babe and its father. ... f "And now I am coming to the point," said a Dakota school teach er as he slowly sat down in a chair where the vengeful' bent pin was larking. The next instant he was going from the point with a veloci ty he had never before acquired.' . r BILL ARP TALKS ON THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK OF THIS Y'EAli. ABOUT THE TARIFF. I wasi'uminating over the com ing contest for the next . President. There won't be a fight 1 reckon, but , the contest is going to be very bit ter and the quality of lies aud slan der most amazing. Both si lep are getting ready now laying - in stock. Our side will do the best they can I reckon, but they have neither the capital nor the experience of them fellers already in office. Our lie factories and slander mills are ou a limited scale and have been de claring such poor dividends for the past twenty years that we have sorter lost confidence in the busi ness. When we do make anything them other fellers swindle us out of it, and I reckon they will do it ful rumpus going on about Mr. Car Iise's election, and the way ho lias fixed up his committees. Well, I never could see any difference about Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Randall making a President, l eant see , what the tariff committee has got to do with it. If Mr. Carlisle put free trade men oh the committee what does that amount to if the majority of Congress are opposed . to free trade. I know that these committees have great influence if they arc'able men aud good men, but if they are just schemers rtnd politicians their reporls don't have much weight, arid Congress won't be bound and gagged by them. When did the Speaker get to be a man of such consequence and such power! How does it bapien that a , committee is such a big thing, that the whole country is afraid of it! Ain't Congress a bigger thing than a committee! Can thirteen men control 300! If a majority of members believe that protection is right can't they piss a law to that effect! Of course they can and so don't ace what all the preliminary fuss is about. The people are go ing to have something to say about . all these great questions, and the people will speak through the press , and the press will be heard. One thing is certain. The Dem- ocracy can't unite ou a free trade policy, neither can the Republican party unite on a protection tariff. There are too many conflicting in terests at stake among the manu- : facturers and their laborers on the one hand and the consumers on t he other. There are lots of mills idle now, and lots of laborers out of em ployment, and lots more working . at reduced wages. There are mil- lons of capital invested, and tcere are millions of women and children concerned, and it won't do for a party to make a blunder in this business. Let the Democracy go slow. There is no room in that platform for a free trade plank. Let them favor a tariff reform and whit tle down some things as low as they will bear and put np some things, but do not. iug for the sake of party. The wants and necessi ties of tluv humble people, of . this aud are of greater moment, than t any party. We can't whip them fellers on auy tarift issue. We can't unite the south upon it much less the - northern democracy. Times are changing, capital is com ing sou in every uay ro oe invesieu in manufactures that need protec tion and can't live without' it, and we want it to come. Let it come, our iron and coal aud t iintcr ami cotton and climate, are now loonr- mg up into view. Our-mills are mj-.king money while theirs . np north are languishing., They have just fouud it out, but hardly lelievc it and cveu accuse us of making false reports of dividends and profits. Things are working all right down here now and maylie we had better let things alone awhile. The prosperity of the south is of more consequence to us than the election of a President. I want the Democracy to succeed and turn ont them fellers, and I want it bad, but when Mrs. Arp asks me what a Democratic Pre.sideut is go ing to do for me or for her and the children, I'm sorter bothered, to ex plain. It takes too long. We don't want but one plauk in onr platform and that is we want them fellers to step down and out, Ite caose they have stole enough. That Is platform sufficient and it is alj tholetter, because i is the truth. Truth is powerful and will prevail. Troth crushed to earth will rise again. It has been a powerful long time rising and prevailing, I know, but we live in bope. Hoik springs eternal in the human breast. Hope has been springing for twentv-five long years in the Democratic breast and is springing still, though I don't think the spring is as Itold and strong as it nsed to lie. Ho Accounting for Taste. On Monday evening John Ar nold, a white man aud a widower, left the north-western part of Dur ham county, taking with him ne gro woman named Hawkins John-, son. They took the eleven o'clock train here Monday night and bad for their destination Sherman, Texas. When they reach that point we have no doubt he will attempt to pass his bride off as a Creole. No accounting for taste. They were both raised fn Dntchville township, Granville connty. Dur ham "Plant." An Mnlshed Poem, London "Society" says : "A mor al poetess bad begun a 1 poem on ' the degeneracy of man God made man in his own Image ; bat b anil hum- aflA 'WAS itftmnplWl fl. leave it. A degenerate man came in and took the liberty of helping her forward a little: . - Would protabty have remained : but she-
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