North Carolina Newspapers

rrnT vTrr-rr ri " A TwilsoI advance. H E VILSOy;,A,Piy(3E'., t 55 ' 3 i ' ' " : " " : : - ' ' ' ' . iM- h.One Portion.. "LET ULTUE E"nS T,IOU AIM'ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY'S, TUT GODS, AHD TRUTHS' -j V : - V'?S5ii-2 4 : - : : ", - ! 1- ,th. -T; !!!! Ir " -. ' : ' . - vr-JZZTZZIZu.r W Old Post week all parts ORLD. OLBANltroS ring, a prominent ' w. dead. itfJiard, son of Rev. fledged on, a ran I'esend, of Kalei fr.i' ;.i i., 7 "",r,Su! tt r. - "-iu. ni I'-ii-.i-i. CkB "urauc circles, ii "ram :i n.i .1 nli an S - rpv u"BHIS8Ipt IS -ine people in New worst. Crop in .nd as been badlvd.,.....,! p snap. 1 to be made a perma" W fish hatchery. P will . l. ..... nuuitlj UW Son county, says 8 a JDOrtwaorp, i -o n, Texas, fen, ts about widow with ; .... . r indignation ' in ira Philadelphia B8" has employed ?d reporters. tans, of Concord, liator Ransom's the place tem- Fab. H Busbee, uro ?? tin that , preach- I , sermon ond dav ,5olet a. orse, lie lit wno had been rang ila? ' beauty to' Ml w j tho in- Fkisa IL tod that eard 'ill slated that brouiclel has a ne who isJ correspond book i eeper and ol teiunn; every a pinufo awl every JooK-keeJimrwill make I dollars a bushel in nnty. win w . . r. l 1 1 -,41111 Kntlierford leement address J r a : ft -4;nty years- I J-Mr.Jas I f linn co r ..., iia JHv " i it.i e in i ii i'iiii ii u - -..fi i n.A ruav ximi-. iiv . i- IL--BD i'"x 1 I l thre an u. f; " . i. ; . ..! in larke '' onnutv alone there arc one 1 iulrel drvorce eases. 1 f Georgia A ps' not 'bwearefalit will limraie Connecticut or Illinois. aial to Just after the late store a man aimroached the depot sigt fit at 1 en- Hanfonl. Mftore county, nnired. "How alwmt that i cycle hat has leen killing people lot" A Baptist preacher in North i Carolina carries Ins opiiosi on to ' vHt.la to far that lie will allow ivi mViiila to f ill him "M . rouires them to address an as ."Bill." i.: Wari en too honors heV litors. Mi Brother iFpote luw leen re lected I i .nlt..:fnLvrO.k I iif..rirki T'lui1 t and I Kl II If . I IU1 IjIICI .s, B'otuerl Hicks is Mayor of tho editor town. It's good, to iH5 ai there. I Th destruction of the cheuii- cal worjes of Powers &Weid htman, of Philadelphia, the largest manu- fiiAtnrers of dilinme in thisc buntry, has advanced he price ot tlfimrag 40c ier ounct fti-finsbfro "Workman f" That ereat curiosity- m the way U a can with ftiernt. leis, ears, z ooi--"i 2 talla, is to lip seen here to fay- it thing ever s m i. .r I i ne lore. , .-Hon. G F. Pierce, Jr,solici- fiir-ffenerai the Sparta (4a.) cir- cuit, and a s Pioree. of th ot Kishop Gf)rge F. M. E. ChurcH South, died ilonda liwt. He one of tie most premising men it (leor- . - - . , . f r It ii ' p.' ' "JjOOK oeiore yon iieap,v is tuc I nafo o( a leap year societAiof okl I nils, aud'the members go around ' flpldelasses in their hands. gefutinizing every male, ialividual tkat comes within a half mile of them. t . .' -'V' f -r e 1 J I. I :: f in uiTCusmiiu iue nive en- slble wayj of doing thing;; ..to be t A "rtian was wi'in.1 fc iri eitic . "i , iv.v bond to keep soue; twelvemonths; irtsJO"3 ftfii i i.is texmrities : re to tarn him ov to tlh- sheriff 0rpayS200. y U ; -Whiskey, pistols and i conple a.. ir..i: - ;0fiueniji inauisoii county had, a jjjjjjisionllast Saturday nigtt, near Vanut)Creek, in which th, pistols kc:HM ot victorious. Tto men xrere uot, one dangorously Ashe ville "Advance." ' ., Blind Tom, it is-said," Us been swindled out of 4O,0oo, bjiiig for- nier niauagoi ne lsuotyortha dime alter an uis piayiir. His mother lives m a hovel, rhis is i bailed S uiwu statements ,in the V 1fgtO" rt05l- L -Tlp Kernersvill sav8 1 t.at f ieport was m ( , ,iaton bust hatnraay ma" iue . a e f John I jaM. living about '2 nii.os fnm town iiad attempted to take the life of Ur bnsband by cutting ls th,oat i.t6 pucther knife. J' be . Goldsboro ''Bullejn' is f; ear old. Its editor, jn re- f lg the year, facetioniy re !i js, "This isiue 'carts's us caghi one year. Twelve ;lonths !Ve started the "Bulletin with- a dollar, and we can s:. that 1 end of the time found al,ut in ftx. But we fhavt Caue li-tlll - i iui. j VOLUME14.- Wilmington contibnted l77to the cyclone sufferers. Well done! -The "Church Messenger" and "Ilerald," organs of the Episcopal church in N. C. and S. C will not be consolidated as was reported. Wilmington has had a cow hiding affair. Two sisters, one of whom had a, grievance against a sergeaui of police, took matters in to their own hands and gave the offender something to think about. They nearly wore him out. Mr. JJeury Watterson, editor of the Lonisville "Courier Journal," will deliver tho Annual Address at the next Commencement of llutli eiford College in June, and Rev.,J. IJ. Hawthorne, 1). I)., of liichmond, VTa., will preach the sermon. The Mtl Airy, Surry county, "News" is informed jf a little negro in Wythe county, Va., who has such a fashion of sucking all the cows he encounters that the peo - pie have .found it necessary to mnz zlo him as folks do a calf which thoy-are trying to weau. A down country exchange says "editors and doctors are living on thin air mixed with a little saw dust and sweetened with a right sin art of last year's old granulated sugar "I will pay you when I sell my cotton." A cup of it makes a fellow shiver these cold mornings." '-Ulow your Hon" Billy Smith tells, the "Chronicle" that he is "out of politics" just as the jilted young man escnews courting toe damsel and tiat a Republican Governor wil' be elected in North Carolina if t.ie straight onts pre vail and the lilerals aie relegated to back steals. Commenting on the failure, of the Greenslwro Daily "Patriot," the Lenoir 'Topic" sensibty remarks: "We have all heard how inexpe dient it was to try to run a non pareil paper ih pica town and now brother Hussey is, doubtless con vinced of the folly of publishing a daily journal in a weekly town." The "News-Observer" says Conductor Druminond last evening said that as the Ualeigh & Gaston train was just beyond Wake Forest comiug here, some person' threw a large .stone which struck a panel between two windows. Had it struck four inches on either side of tho spot it hit, it would have gone through a window and injured per haps fatally, a passenger. Maj. J. F. Stansill, in Rowan county, was forced to shoot and kill in self-defence-one Mdes Lyerly, a desperate negro, who was' advanc ing upon him alter having hurled' a stone at him. Maj. Hall also fired and shot one Chal Cowan through the arm. The Majors were pro tecting a negro 1 family while the husband fiad gone for a -warrant to arrest Miles. . The Goldsboro "Messenger" says-: Another instant of stoneing passenger trains at this place' oc curred here last Friday night. While t he eleven o'clock train from theSoiph was passing the old fair grounds a stone was thrown through one of tho windows of the second class car with such force as to carry broken glass clear across the car. A passenger in the seat opposite the broken window had shattered glass hurled in his face, but fortunately with not sufficient force to inflict any cut or injury."' There is ono estimable gentle man whose menus can never say, with truth, that his "heart is in the right place.'' Whatever they may say about bis legs being twisty or his bead being lost they can never add that common make-weight that "after all, his heart is in' the right place." The lact is, his heart is under his right arm, and other vital apparatus is found where his heart ought to be. He is Major Pecker, of the United States army, and the discovery was made only two or three years ago. A Hew Kind of Doctor. We learn that near Seabord, in Northampton' county, lives a man who has the faculty of curing warts and all kinds of sores and ulcers by a touch of the hand or lingers. Mr. Parker, for this is his name, is a quiet gentleman, living on a farm which be cultivates, and discovered his power some years ago, but has never paraded it. There are many instances in Northampton of his cures, lie never cuarges any fee for his work. Weldon "News." Why Marriages are Declining. A. T. Stewart has sold twenty shawl, this season worth $3,000 each, and one worth ?i,000. One woman ran up a bin tor 20,U00 at his store in a couple of mouths, At the lecent Charity ball m this city a lady paid ten thousand dol lars tor diamonds to snine in on the occasion. Ex. U bosh. Marriages are declin ing because young men are cowards :because they are etteminate. They are not willing to marry a o-ood sensible woman aud then go to work to make a living. "'They' want to make a fortune first then niarrv. Thev fail in making the fortune, do uof itmrry, aud accom plish but little in the world. Poor young men are not willing to make sacrifices, to deny themselves luxu ries, aud therefore there are fewer marriages. It's not because of the extravagance of the woman. Its because" of the pride of men ami women, and the pride of the young has the most to do with the falling off. Was he Strictly . Sober? ;Tbo "Register" says Mr. Lum Cliue, of Cabarrus swapped horses rvmrtfiril. and did not start home until after nightfall. Fiuding it pitchy dark and his horse not know ing the -way, be made up bis mind to stop at acquaintance's and rode into the yard. His friend was dig ging a well, horse aiut rider went to the bottom. His calbug lor help brought the family out, who succeeded in bringing them again to terra firm, worsted by a few bruises and aVoodwetti POLITICAL POINTS -:o:- WHAT TH II POLITICIANS ARE ; TALKING ABOUT. THE FOLI Tit AL. CALVIIOX Chairman Randall says that none of the contingent fund of the Situ ate shall be used to pay Senators' private secretaries. Good. Let him stick to it! . Murat Halstead, editor of the Chicago "Tribune," thinks Sher man and Payne will be the oppos ing nominees for President. He thinks Sherman can carry Ohio. The Asheville "Citizen" says jMott's organ, the Statesville I "American," is his property from paste pot to editor. This is rough ' . . . i ; t . . r nii i . - x vii i-iiiwi jjiiiiUiim, nut none too rough'. Judge Thurman says he neither expects nor desires the nomination and does not wish to be considered in connection with it. lie says his public life is ended and "his thoughts are on other things." W ise bid man I Senator Pendleton declines to employ a clerk at the public ex pense. He says when ho was elect ed he knew what his duty and his salary were to be, and he proposes to light it out on that line to the end of his term. The "Chronicle" says, '-There is no mistaking the drift of the Dem ocratic preparatory action for the campaign. It is to dodge the tariff issue, or . to compromise with the protectionists. 'Anything to win' this has never yet won." An "Eastern Democrat" nomi nated Dr. Kemp P. Battle for Gov enor. lie thinks he is the man above all others. We think, with due deference to the "Eastern Democrat," that Mr. Battle ought to stay where he is President of the University. The Kentucky legislature will in vestigate the charge that Joe Black burn used money resorted to bri bery to obtain his election to the U. S. Senate. Resolutions to that effect have been, passed. That is right. If he is giiilty he is not fit to sit in the Senate A New Berne correspondent of the "News Observer" puts up Alfred M. Scales, of Gnilford, for Governor and Clement Manly, of Craven, for Lieutenant Governor. This cor respondent says of Mr. Manly, which we endorse as true, that "he is a young, vigorous man of bril liant intellect, honorable, high minded and honest, Popular with the masses and competent for any position in the gift -of his fellow cit izens." A letter in Greensboro "North State," dated at Greensboro, pro poses the following State ticket for the Liberals and Republicans: Governor, Chas. Price: Supreme Judge, Chas. C. Clark; Treasurer, tne present Adjutant-General, John ston Jones, of Buncombe ; Secreta ry, Tyre York, of Wilkes; Audi tor, Jas. M. Leach, Jr.; .Attorney General, 1 1 ugh Murray; Sup't-I n struction, Frank D. Winston. Senator Wade Hampton says that in the Democratic National Convention a caucus of the dele gates from New "York, New Jersey, Connecticut. Ohio, Indiana,: and California 'should be allowed to say what man would bo most likely to carry the greatest number of them for the Democracy, and that the Convention would do well to take that man as its candidate for Presi dent, wherever he may come from. Mr. II. thinks that Mr. Bayard could carry the doubtful States. It was Mr. Flannagan,ofFlauna- gan's Mills, Texas, who gave the 'grand old party" away at the Chicago convention of 1S80-'which nominated Garfield, by demanding in a stentorian, voice to know "What are we here for except the offices f" It is now given out that Mr. Flannagan, of Flannagan's Mills, Texas, is again packing his grip sack with reference to another national Republican convention. ind that the grand old party, ' re- lnemberiug how he brought confu sion upon their councils four years ago. are trying to devise wavs and means to suppress him. It is curious how closely the solid North" matches the "solid South" so much . talked of. Six teen Southern States make up the solid south and sixteen Northern states make up the solid North, the six remaining Northern States be ing the real debatable ground. The sixteen southern States counted as the solid South .vast 153 electoral votes ; the sixteen northern States which form the solid Northeast 153 electoral votes. There remain six debatable or so-called doubtful States California with 8 votes; In diana, with 15;! Nevada, with 3: New Jersey, with 9: New York. with 35, and Ohio, with 23. Southern oncressmen on the Internal Revenue. The' Washington correspondent of the Boston "Advertiser' who is usually well posted, thinks there may be a modification of the ma chinery for collecting the internal revenue taxes. Some of the Con gressmen from vanons Southern States have made arguments before the ways and means committee relative to the internal revenue laws. Several of them favored the abolition -of the entire internal rev enue system, others advocated sim ply the repeal of the tobacco taxes and the tax on fruit brandy, and some said they would 1k satisfied with a modification aud reform of the existing system of collecting the internal taxes. The burden of their talk" was not so much oppo sition to the internal taxes as it was to the alleged harsh and in quisitorial methods practiced in some oT the out of the way dis tricts of the South by agents pf the government. They 'lid not object AVILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH 11 1884. so much to the taxes as to the ad ministrative abuses which they as serted have grown up in the col lection of the taxes. While it is well known that a majority of the committee, says this correspondent, is not in favor Of abolishing the in ternal taxes, the committee may be disposed to modify the existing laws relating to the machinery ol collection. From what the "Tri bune" says of Judge Bennett's speech before the committee, we gather that be made a hit. "News Observer." . IHr. Tildeii find the Presidency. Mr. Chas. A. Dana, of the New York "Sun," who is considered to be one of Hon. Samuel J. Tilden's confidential friends, says "it is sur prising how the people all over the country are insisting upon the old ticket," Mr. Dana says "this feel ing has been much strengthened by the rumpus about the tariff," and that "everybody fe- Is that if Mr. Tilden could be nominated the tar iff business would be pushed by such a nomination into the obscuri ty proper co theoretical abstrac tions," Indeed, .as the case now stands, r.othiug seems to Mr. Dana more probable "than that the Dem ocratic convention, will nominate Mr. Ti'.den and wait for his reply before proceeding any further." In this connection, the declaration of Mr. John Kelly, on Thursday last, becomes of interest, which was to the effect that Tammany Hall will cordially support the nominee of the Democratic national conven tion. He thinks New York should have the candidate, in which event he is confident the: State will be Democratic, and that Tamniauy II all does not care who the man may be, Tilden, Hewitt. Flowers, or anybody else. The Suicide oi Warren DaYis. Henderson ville, N. C, March S. A few days since a brief telegram appeared from San Antonio, Texas, announcing the. suicide of Warren Dawkins, alias J. W. Walker, in the Vaudeville Theatre of that city. It is learned that the suicide was Warren Davis, recently a postal clerk in this town and son of one of the most prominent citizens in this section. In December bust a loco motive was stolen from the station of the Ashville and Spartanburg Railroad at this place. A posse of citizens, with a detective, com menced a pursuit, and at Saluda, 10 -miles from Hendersonville, it was ascertained that the thief had stopped at the tank to fill the boiler, butjon the approach of em ployes of the road suddenly turned on steam and plunged down a steep grade, perhaps the steeliest in the United tuates, being 367 feet in three mile. He reached the bottom of the grade in safety, and aban doning the eugine coolly proceeded to return to Hendersonville. Here he remained until a reward of 'yOO was offered for his apprehension. Fearing arrest and having cause to believe he Was suspected, he left town, and passing through Atlanta went to Nashville, Tenn. At Nash ville, he met a young man by the name of Reynolds. With Reynolds ho went to San Antonio. Texas. Reynolds wrote to Detective Bryson in Hendersonville, offering to surrender Davis if he would in sure mm the reward, liryson tele graphed to the San Antonio Chief of Police to see Reynolds and secure Davis. During the enter tainment at Vaudeville Theatre Davis saw the Chief of Police enter the building with Reynolds. Sat isfied th alt he was betrayed, and determined to die before being car ried back to North Carolina, he drew his pistol and blew his brains out. His act caused great excite ment in the theatre. Davis was a bright, handsome lad of 18 years of age, and much lik-sd here. His mother who idolized him, for he was an only son, was . terribly shocked, and is in a critical condi tion. It is impossible to assign a cause tor ins mad ireak, but it is suspected that whiskey was at the bottom. Distributing the Snrplns. .j WIIAT MAJOR BINGHAM SAID TO THE "STATE CHKONICLE" Major Robert Bingham was in Raleigh this week, aud when asked about his address before the school superintendent at Washington and about the Willis bill and national aid to education, he said: 'I am in favor of it. There is a clear precedent jn the management that has been made bv the General Government of public lands for edu cational purposes. We are burden ed with a dangerous ignorance the greater part of it thrust into our citizenship by the General Gov ernment. And, although we spend as much for public education in pro portion to our taxable wealth as any ot the Northern States, see what a slow fight we must make against it! "I told them that I spoke simply the plain troth. The 'educators iu- the North do not know our condi tion. "North Carolina would receive the first year, under the libs bill, about 600,000 every cent of it, mind you, to be managed, Pot by the United States, but by the State Government, ami to spend not in bricks but iii brains. Wonder if He "Swore a Swear." TM.n ((tsni'in-icoilatt-t" mnii flint. T.iii A 111- o .1 1 I " - -1. ....... ...... -- coin county has held within her bo:- j ders in many days was Mr. Henkel, j of Lowesville, . A correspondent ot the "Press" says lie had taken off his shoes aud socks to go to bed but concluded to give the fire a jmrting pun. h, and as he did so a coal popiMMl out, lodged U'tween two of his toes and stuck there. ne lionped about like mad and hasn't been able to . wear but one shoe si nee. " 1 Take Ayer's Sarsaparilla in the spring of the year to piirify the blood invigorate system, excite the liver to action, and restore the healthy tone and vigor of the whole physical mechanism. ON MIRACLES? -:o:- C AIT. H URRICANE JONES' LU CID EXPLANATION. IN THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. There was a great deal of pleas ant gossip about old Captain "Hur ricane" Jones, of the Pacific Ocean, peace to bis ashes ! Two or three of us present had known him; 1 particularly well, for I had made four sea voyages with him. He was a very remarkable mau. He was born m a ship; he picked up what little education be had among his shipmates ; he began life in the forecastle, and climbed grade by grade to tho captaincy, More than fifty years of his sixty-five were spent at sea. He had sailed all oceans, seen all lauds, and borrow ed a tint from all climates. When a man has been fifty years at sea, he necessarily knows nothing of men, nothing of the world but its surface, nothiug of the world's learning but its ABC, and that blurred and distorted by the unfo cused lenses of an untrained mind. Such" a man is only a gray and bearded child. That is what old Hurricane. Jones' was simply an i u nocen t,. lovable old infant. W hen his spirit was in repose, he was as sweet aud gentle as a girl; when his wrath was up, he wasNa hurri cane that made his nickname seem tamely descriptive. He was for midable in a fight, for he was of powerful build and dauntless cour age, lie was frescoed from head to heel with pictures and mottoes tattooed in red and blue India ink. I was with him the voyage when he got his last vacant space tattoo ed. This. vacant space was around his left ankle. During three days he stumped about tne snip wuu ms ankle bare and swollen, and this legend gleamed red and angry out from a clouding of India ink : "Virtue, is" its own, R'd." (There was a lack of room) He was deep ly and sincerely pious, and swore like a fish-woman. He considered swearing blameless, because sailors would not understand an order mi illumined by it. He was a pro found Biblical scholar that is, he thought he was: He believed eve rything in the Bible, but he had his own methods of arriving at his be liefs. He was of the "advanced'" school of thinkers, and applied na tural laws to the interpretation of all miracles, somewhat on the .plan of the people who make the six days of creation six geological epochs, and so forth. Without Ik;-v ing aware of it, ho was a rather so-, vere satire on modern scientific re ligionisrs. Such a man as I have been describing is rabidly loud of disquisition andj argument; one knows that without being told it. One trip the captain had a cler gyman on board, but did not know he was a clergyman, since the pas senger list did not betray the fact. He took a great liking to this Rev. Mr. Peters, and talked with him a great deal; told him yn ins, gave him toothsome scraps of personal hist or. , and wove a glittering streak of profanity through his garrulous fabric that was refreshing to a spirit weary of the dull neutralities ot undecorated speech. One day the captain said, "Peters, do you ever read the Bible ?" "Well- yes." "I judge it ain't often, by the way you say it. Now yon tackle it in dead earnest once, aud you'll find it'll pay. Don't you get discourag ed, but hang light on. Fir.-t you won't understand it; but by and by things will - begin to clear up, and then you wouldn't lay it down to eat. "Yes, I have heard that said." "And it's so, too. There ain't a book that begins with it. It lays over 'em all, Peters. There's some pretty -tough things in it, there ain't any getting round that; but you stick to them and think them out, and when once you et ou the in side, everything's plain as day." "The miracles, too, captain y "Yes, sir! the miracles, too. Eve ry one of them. Now, there's that busbies - with the prophets of Baal; like enough they stumped you !" "Well, 1 don't know but" "Own up, uow ; it stumped you. Well, 1 don't wonder. You hadn't had any experience in ravelingsuch things out, and naturally it was too many for you. Would you like to have me explain that thing to you. anil show you how to get at tne meat of these things?" "Indeed 1 would captain, if you don't mind." Then the captain proceeded as follows: "I'll do it with pleasure. First you see, I read aud read, and thought aud thought, till I got to understand what sort of people they weie in old Bible times, and then after that it was all clear and easy. Now this was the way I put It up "concerning Isaac (this is tho captain's own mistake) and thepre phets of Baal. There was some mighty smart men . mongst the public characters of that ancient day, and Isaac was one of them. Isaac had his failings, plenty of them, too; it ain't for me to apolo gize for Isaac; he played it on the prophets of Baal, and like enough he was justifiable, considering the odds that was against him. No ; all I say is, 't wa'n't any miracle, and that I'll show you so s't you , can see it yourself. "WmI, times had . been getting rougher and rougher for prophets that is, prophets of Isaac's denom ination. There was four hundred and flftv prophets of Baal in the community, and only one Presby terian that is, if Iiaac was a Pres byterian, which 1 reckon he was, but it don't sav. Naturally, the f prophets ot Baal took all the trade, l Isaac was preCKv low spirited. I reckon; bnt he wis a good deal of a man, and no doubt he went a pbopbesyiug aroum letting on to lie doing a laud -office business, but t wa'n't any ue ; he couldu't run any opposition to amotyit to au v thing. By and by things got des perate with him; he sets his head to work and thinks it out, and then what does he do ! Why, he begins to throw out hints that the other part ies are this and that and t'other, rnothing very definite, may be, but just kind of undermming their rep utation in a quiet f;ay. This made talk, of course, and finally got to the king, The king asked Isaac what he meant by bis talk. Says Isaac, 'O, nothing particular ; only can they pray down fire from heav en on an altar ? That's the idea.' So the king was a good deal dis turbed, and he went to the jiroph ets of Baal, aud they said, pretty airy, that if he had an alter ready, they were ready ; and they iutima ted he better get it insured, too. "So uext morning all the children of Israel and their parents aud the other - people gathered themselves together. Well, here was. that great .crowd of prophets of Baal packed together on one side,' ami Isaac walking up and down on the other, putting up his job. When time was called, Isaac let ou to lie comfortable and indifferent; told the other team to take the first in nmgs. So they went at it, the whole four hundred and fifty, pray ing around the altar, very hopeful. and doing their level best. They prayed an hour--two hours three hours and so on, plumb till noon. It wa'n't any use ; they hadn't took a trick. Of course they felt, kind of ashamed before all those people, and well they might. Now what would a magnanimous man dof Keep cool, wouldn't he ? Of course. What did Isaac do ? Ha graveled the prophets of Baal every way he could thiuk of. Says he, 'You don't speak -up loudnough ; your god's asleep, like enough, or may be he's taking a walk; you want to holler, you know,' or words to that effect; I don't recollect the ex act language. Mind, I dou't apol ogize for Isaac he had his faults. "Well, the prophets of Baal pray ed along the best they knew how all the afternoon, and never raised a spark. At last, about sundown, they were all tuckered .."out, and owned up aud quit. "What does Isaac do now ? He steps up and says to some friends of his, there, 'Pour four barrels of water i on the altar!' Everybody was astonished ; for the other side had prayed! a; it dry, you know, and got whitewashed. They pour ed it on. . Says he, "1 leave on four more barrels ' Then he says, 'Heave ou four more.' Twelve barrels, you sec, altogether. The water ran all over the altar, aud all down the sides, and filled up a trench around it that would hold a couple of hogs heads 'measures,' it says; I reckon it means abut a hogshead. Some of-the people were going to put on their things ami go, for they allow ed lie' was crazy. They didn't know Isaac. Isaac knelt down and liegan. to pray ; he strung along, and strung along, about the heathen in distant lands, and about the sis ter churches, and about the state of the country at large, and about those that's in authority in the gov ernment, and all the usual program me, you know, till everybody had got lired and gone to thinking about something else, and then, all of a sudden, when no I tody was no: t icing, he outs with, a match and rakes it on the under side of his leg and puff! up the whole, thing blazes like a house afire-! Twelve barrels of water t J'ctrolcmn, sir petro leum ! that's what i't was !". "Petroleum, captain f" 'Yes, sir; the country was full of it. Isaac knew all almut that. You read the Bible. Don't you worry about the tsmgh places. They ain't tough when youeuuie to think them out and throw light on them. There ain't a thing in the. Bible but what is true; all you want is to go pray fully to work and cipher out how 't was done." . A Serious Charge. "The Asheville "Citizen" distinct ly charges that Mr. John T. Patrick, State. Commissioner' of Immigra-. tion, is aliasing his authority by working in the interest of one par ticular section of the State (the Pi o Dee section) to the disadvantage of the balance 'of the State. As he is a State officer the "Citizen" holds that it is his business to represent tie whole State impartially, and calls on the. Agricultural Depart ment to look into his conduct. It alleges that he withholds informa tion which people desire concern ing the western part of the State, if he does not misrepresent it. Diversification. Mr. T. E. Beainan. living a short distance from Whitakers, in Edge combe county, planted one and one fourth acres "in peanuts last year. From this he made 170 worth of peanuts, retained twenty five bush els, anil has now on hand a large quantity of pea vine hay. He says that lie nas oeen ieeuiug iuo uaj 10 his cows since it was gathered and his cows doubled their quantity of milk oh it. He also states that his neighbor, W.T. Taylor, will plant oOO acres in ieaiiuts ou his three plantations in Nash, Wilson and Edgecombe counties, this season. His threshing. machine can thresh out three hundred bushels a day for which he charges 10c a bushel A Case of True LoYe. After ail, the article called love, is a funny thing and is often as un accountable as the decision of a jury. It is strange how, or why, two people will liecome indescriba bly attached 'to each other, prefer the company of" each other to all the world liesides, and yet le able to give no real reason for it. Some times fate tarns against them, and years of anguish an-, taken to settle the contest. The lovers generally win, however. As an instjnee: 'Probably the longest lovers' quarrel on record came to an end the other day in Bradford, Connect icut, when Miss Jennie Durand and James O. Smith were married. They quarreled in and did not meet "Again for thirtv-eight years. The groom is 80 and the bride 77.M V. '. ABOUT FARMING. ;q; WHAT! THE FARMERS ARE DOING AND TALKING ABOUT. PICKED UP NOTES- It is stated' that Maj. V. W. Rol lins, of Yancey county, has cleared $28,000 on his tobacco crop this year, but we guess that this in an amiable western fable. ; The Shelby "Aurora" says "that thirty of Shelby's most pwiuineut businessmen have fomiedj .com pany to plant a few acres in tobac co, to show Cleveland county. farm ers what tobacco will do. The Ire- dell acreage, the "Landmark" says, will be larger than ever before. ' Beecher says that the only way to exterminate the Canadian thistle is to plant it for a crop and propose to make money out of it. Then worms will gnaw it, bugs will bite it, beetles willlioie it, aphides will suck it, birds will peck it. beat will scorch it, rains will drown it, and mildew aud blight cover it. .The Statesville "L nfnaik"notes as one of the liest signs of future prosperity in Iredell "the sub divi sion of farms, which is constantly going on. . Two lots ot'Iand in the county which were formerly owned by two men, are now owned by for ty . or fif ty. Our laud owners are taking in their horns. The old sys tem of scratching over three or four hundred acres of land, getting noth ing offer it, is played out. The people are cultivating it better;" The Pittslniro "Home" uote facts to encourage tobacco planting in Chatham. Me. W. F. Stroud sold the tobacco off six acres for 11,800, while the cotton he gathered off twenty acres he sold for ouly 400. He says he received ,40o for the tobacco 'that grew on 4,000 hills planted in an acre, which he repared with special care. This crop grew last year. Mr. J. W. At water, of Rialto, sold in Durham last week l,;i00 jnmuds of tobacco at au average of.3 1 J cents per pound . The best quality of his tobacco sold for 82 cents a pound. The Fence I.siu. The fence law of North Carolina is a great injustice to, and burden some tax on the farmer, who is forced to keep 'up extensive lines, no matter whether he is a stock owner oi- not.- The law as it stands to-day, makes him a tribute payer to other men as the tariff does. In order to build and keep up his fence lines, he is compelled to own wood land upon which there is a considerable run annually extorted from him iu the way of taxes and interest on capital invested. Large nlanters must own extensive con tiguous wooded lands. It is not ! practicable to enclose these lands, f as that, would make his biinhn i greater than he could liear. -Ad-i joining him a stock raiser may live, upon one or two acres of land, sul ficient to build upon, and graze his Hocks ami herds with impunity upon that of his neighlvor, , who by" the laws of this grand old Com monwealth is not only to fence this man's stock, (oil t of his premises) but is actually forced to graze them for him. Is this just i Is tlii equitable! Is theie a shadow of fairness in its r ayetteville "Sun." Relating lo Sheen. The Statesville,"Laiidmark" says, "Mr- John Diinlap, of ' Bethany township, exhibited in this office a a few days ago a fleece ot-wool which he had pulled at random out of the back not the side of a sheep on his father's place, which fleece measured 12 inches. The sheep is an average one of a lot, and Mr. Dunlap thinks it will clip S ifcuuds of wool. It is a cross of the; Cotswold and Southdown. The 'gentleman ' referred- to has very good success in sheep husbandry. Dogs are scarce in, his .neighbor hood and no sheep have been killed by these pests in his vicinity for a number of years,' though there is no telling" what night they may take the trail and. kill all the sheep in the township, lie believ-s ;us we do, that but for the fear of the dogs our farmers would raise sheep very much more largely t hail they do,, ami would find them very profi table. They cost .nothing except aliout two mouths feeding iu a year; there is always a ready market lot their wool; the meat" is the In-st and most healthful meat we have, and all of the mutton not consumed on the farm can be sold with" very little difficulty. Interview with a Peanni. AN F. F. V. DESCRIBE HIS CHAR ACTER, HAH1TS ASD ASSOCIATIONS. Only a jieanut. True, -ir ; but I want to call your attention to the lact that there is a vast difference in peanuts, said the ie.innt to the reiort r. Do you suppose for an instant tha' I would associate with one of those little miserable scrag gy Fourth of July and cattle show leaiints which comes from Tennes see and sell for five cents a quart ? No, sir. A quart of ns will cost you from fifteen to twenty cents, ac cording to the idea of the dealer of j what his pronts ought io ne. i was raised in old Virginia, and .1 am prond to say that I belong to a fain ilv that has no superior in the world. We are all fat, healthy, wellcoudi tioned individuals and cveryliody likes ns. You would scarcely 1 lieve ir. but there are five hundred bushels of u brought into ( Boston every week, taking an average lor the year round. That means 2. 400.000 bushels of jieamits, almost a pint for evey man, woman and child in the city. But the fact is, only about half that quantity are eaten by Bostonians. The other half go round into country towns to be gobbled . up by the insatiable populace. We are 'nothiug in this world but a large liean v. itu a shell around ns, aud giow on a root in At. .....1 ICa a-a '.I- ni .11 Mnn alar in a raw state, but we hare the j- NUMBER 0 advantage of keeping pretty well ! preserved nntil the time comes to ' Ik it-U lii . t. tt.s.- .1....'. 1. .1 ! mi-ji won I iiiikl ns UOW 1 ouiii tney are ready to sell ns. That is tho reason why you can no long- i er find ns in stores as you used to. ! The Italian peddler, w'ith his little j roaster and his cheap prices has cut the regular dealer out entirely. So we have come to be Bohemians, and if anybody attempt s to eat a ! bag of us in a horse car or theatre, i folks laugh. If they kuew morel aiMHittis they would not laugh. If they knew how many farmers. had made a fortune off of us in Virginia they might he more respectful We are much more profitable than cotton or tobacco, and folks eat all t hey'get of us. You may not think ve are a necessity, hut facts show ot he. wise. During war times, when they couldn't send us up North from the Southern States, thev sent away to Africa and Spain for .... 4 I it , v",r . u,, Sn cousins were ! ' U lor hile. but we ! demonstrated our superiority by j running them out of the market in a jiffy after the war closed. Who j do you supKse is our chief rival in com mereef You would never guess it. The peach. Just as soon as IM-aches come we fall away; the public estimation, and while the peach is in the height of its favor there is scarcely any show for us at all, but the moment the jieach dis appears the children begin to cry for us again. And, between you and I, it is the girls and boys, who know a good thing wheu they see Us, who are our admirers. Coun trymen on a spree are also said to be partial to us, but that is a bbel I think. The liest way to have some fun-with us is to guess how many of us it takes to fill a quart measure and then buy a quart ami see how ignorant you are about the oinmoiiesr things." A Cure for Drunkenness. ... 1 : There is a pr sscription in use iu England lor the cure ordrunkcuuexs by which thousands are said to have lieen enabled to recover them selves. The rceeipe came into no toriety by the efforts of Mr. John Vine Hall, commander of the Great Eastern steamship. He had fallen in such habitual 'drunkenness that his most earnest efforts to reclaim himself proved unavailing. At last he 'sought the advice :.f an eminent physician, which he fol lowed faithfully for several month.-, and at the end of that time he had lo-t all desire for liquor, although he had for many years been lcdc iptive by a most debasing, appetite. The receipt which he .-afterward pub lished, and by which so many other drunkards have been assisted to reform, is as - follows: Sulphate' of iron,. 20 grains; magnesia, 4i grains; peppermint, 44 drams; spirits of nutmeg, 4 drams. Dose, one ta- blespoonful twice a day. The Word "Brindle Tall." The phrase "Brindle Tail'' come into popufir dispute. has We see that Mr. -George Lea dnblied it o to Mayor Johnston oi Danville, with the die tail." men, t he Raleigh. prefix adjective of "brin Well, ladies and geiitle. Hon. Joe Turner, of the -'Sentinel,'5 iiiaiiufiict iired that won:, lie s a poor mini now. And when he did his heaviest writ ing the north was too much engag ed with its ".carpet baggers to at tend to his word. Hut Joe's the boy that got oil I hat term. "Brindle Tail!"- .Milton 'Chronicle." Power of the Press. The danger of Imying :v loy an amateur priming press is well il lus -rated iu Hie story of a'lad, who, a shoit tune ago, ..overheard his mother and eldest sister talking a';out the young, lady's approach ing marriage and who they should invite. Th mother insisted that the Mel'aihici: tribe should not be invited, while the marriageable daughter was positive she did not want old Mr. Wilkinson. j So it was finally settled that ull I friends ot the family should receive an invitation (of course they would bring flowers the mother said -with the exception of the MeFaddcn tribe and Mr. Wilkinson. The boy, who was the happy o.- sessor of an amateur printing press, and imagined he had the head of a I.Vnjamiii Franklin, thought this was the time for him to gel his work in. Ik listeueii'-to the con versation of his mother aud sister with more than ordinary attention. Then he went down into the cellar, to iiis mammoth printing establish ment ami was not seen about the house for the remainder of the day. The next' morning the neighbors weie surprised' to see the goats licking oil' the paste ou the follow ing "poster" which adorned every fence and "bill Imard for blocks around : Miss Susah Brown announces that she will marry Mr. James Travers at the church next Thursday at 7:3' sharp. All the Fri-nds of the Family with the Exception of the McFadden tribe ami old Mr. .Wilkinson arc invited. ( Vuni' early and bri ng lots of flowers. The wedding was o.stMned. -The Ika sent off . to a boarding school,-and the printing press and types weie s"M for old junk. Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow." The Raleigh I 'In oilicie'- sa s, -III the little-hack 'room of the old J'lciich-roofcd hoii-e on Cabarrus street, lictwei t .Blount and Person.' n lieuro baby w as born oh Tuesday. In. the same, room alnint eighty years ao an urchin was liorn. who by energy and accident, chiefly the latter, liecaini; President of the I'nited States.) The' extraordinary popuJafitj of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is the natural result of its use bv intelli gent iUople for over forty year. Jt h:is f indisputably proven itself the very Ix-si know specific for all colds, cpughs, and pulmoiurv com- , unlcst gooa K.ft.n.ot, rtvpn LEA PTE I? RTftHTS! 1 1 ff A 11 -Ivlllll 1 0 HOW A GllJL Till El) TO MAKE a man map.uv iikii. ATTEMPTED Ml 'UDKK. We are disused to concede woman ll the rights an. I pm ile lo ies uiitt leap year, under the delusion which prevails, affords her. But it is iuqKUtant we opine that the ex tent of these privileges should le cleaily defined. Nothing is (m,iv firmly settled than that tlu-i do pot go lieyond ,i,e point of pVo(. sal. Hence, when a woman, nle'r declaring to a man that his love is necessary to her -.existence pi-,,. -' ceeds (o force him into inutriinouv, she manifestly transcends the nn thority vested iu her lor the ear. These reflections are suggested b the violent action of a girl at Elkton, Pa-, which is thus ties- rib ed in certain public prims: Finlev Small was a resident of Elkton anil Iniarded with a family n uued .For dan. Elizalieth Gallon a." , aged" 1!, has worked as a servant in family for several en is. Last w eek Mrs. Jordan's father-died ami the lamilyall went to the funeral, leaving Small and the servant in charge of the house. As fhe fun--" era! was in a distant village the '; Jordans were obliged to remain away oer night. At the supKT table Friday - night the Galloway girl suddenly remarked to Small that she wanted .to . get married,! and asked hint it he would marry J licr. He laughed, and said he wnsT not iu need Of a w ife just yet. She replied that she wanted a husband ' and that he must marry her. Small made response that it required two to make a bargain of that kind. Small thought at first that the girl was joking, but piesently lienunc aware that she was in earnest, and when he positively refused to he. her husband, she became extremely 'in gry, and declaring that "if he did not marry her he w ould never niar rv any other woman." she arose from the table and left the room. Small retired to lied about M: 'M o'clock.' lie soon fell asleep, tap was awakened some t:ne in the night by a bright light shining in his eyes. It came from a l.iotp which was held by the (i,.Icmvv girl, who was standing by Small's bedside. - The lamp wan held above her head in her left hand. In her right hand she grasped a huge butcher knife, w hich she held as if about to strike.; Small sprang up and caught the girl by the wrist; and tried to take the knife from her. She. declared that she- had come lo kill him ticcaiisc lie hail re fused to in.urv her. In the jtrut-' gle that ensued the lamp fell to the floor; but fortunately went out without igniting the oil. Small dragged the girl to Die door of Ins , room and succeeded in getting her out, but he had not lieciirtMe" tt'r sccuie the knife. There was no lock ou the door and as the girl took up a positiiin on tlx- iiUule and dei hired that she wold I wait until became out and t hen kill n i ill, Sm ill was obliged to hold the door all the rest of the night When da, light .'appeared.'" tie servant h-ft her p tsl and Wen! dow n stairs. Small then ilr.-MH' I huji self anil stole away fioni ihe hoii-te. The girl w as taken intoeii -tody and w as found to lie insane, and it is believed that .the disapoinl ment in love is, the Cause of her derange ment.' Of course the case of the girl i a sad one, and that Small inn-! Im more or less 'stony. hearted to have resisted her iipieal, we. admit, itut that the passion oi the aforesaid" carried with ittheiight to demand, at the point of the bu!chei--l, uife. the hand with all the worldly go l of the last 'mentioned, ne . fail to perceive and hence our desire in the interest of that niiiiieiniK stud this year unprotected class the bache lors that the metes and ImmiiiiN within which women must leMiain themselves, even under Ihe snhver- sioii of taw now obtaining, in iy bi sharply defined. , A Surprise In the Court Hons;. A very unpleasant im-.deid oc-enrn-d in theeoi.rt hou-e Wcilne day alternooii. A 3ung loan bv the name of Nathan Deal ,i; en trial for stealing an axe.v The .pit y returned a verdict of -:iot guilly." The Judge after requiring .ihe de fendaut to give bail for hi ap pearance to answer tin; i h uge" of perjury, turned to' the jury and in a very angry tone ordered them our of the jury Ikix and told them t " home and not come back-ng'i-iii. Now whether the verdict of ihe ju ry wan corrector not, the con bict of Judge Shipp was very mimind and uncalled for. The jury wa-n composed of wnne of the licSt citi zens of the county and we fee! cer tain they were satisfied that they , were rendering a verdict iu accord- r ance w ith the testimony. . A new jury wa summoned I hiirsd.iy -morning, and the people- generally reel very : indignant ovei the insult to twelve ot oifr most renertcd cit- ' jZ4.,,s. Newton 'Enterprise." The Richest Man in America. Mr. Vaudcibilt faid to a refiorter in New Vork the other day: -l lie heve I am the richest man in th world. In England th" Duke of Westminster is said to be worth ?2o,00().o00, but it is mostly iu lands and ho.nscs. It, d '-. not yield him 2. Kr cent. A "year from now ; I Khali be worth imre than 200,000.000 and w ill have tn in-, come of-fiper cent. on that f.niomit.?.. He owns 130,.H40 shares of railw dock, valued at ir.SS.'.VMKlO, bo railway bomb amouut to $26,8.17.1 120. he holds ?VVW in govern1 ment and a trille ot . ?,000 ,!HM in other secniitie- the aggregate ' wealth of this Mida being .'!. 332.413. And the snow ball roll- on. .-...:-.. -: ::. c i ALrvL . K -