North Carolina Newspapers

ai ii win i 1 1 K ii i i -rrr -r-- - ! .--. . ADVAL N.UBLISHEU, ISVEEY FBIDAY A wirsox HORTH GABOLINA. : ' ' -BY JSSIPBri DUIE15, - MUr.niPnpwi ; SUB?CHnTIO" ltATKS IN ADVANfl "lUOUil. UYAIIUXIJ 'r W . , f A ' MY1LS0N t V ii . mk , MBn - m . a f n n. . y y avl u v vrrv ' ' I : : - ' . ' " " " : 1 ' ' 1 ' L ' - ' One In. h n ' -- .;- " ; '-' .'""' . 1 . . ! - ; -Ton " LCT ALL THE EKDS TIIOIT AIN'ST AT. BE TDT COHKTRV Tiir in. i " Thrro Mon"- tto A 7 One f . . tux jntna rr- ioncy can 1 .-nt "T Money uroe: ra jvtcr si our run, r nc-Tmrbor.) .ice Butklliur. Street, In the Old font NEWS 01' A WEEK OATHKKED FltOM ALL PABTS OK 'W1M WORLD., . Pf?JVCJ-"-VGS- QLKjbi lXtiS V-The fcpiscopal State Couveu- will he held in Oxford May if uarolina exhibited at hpl specimens of different i Kfale igh "Chronicle" la six It 18 a live. bouncing. will U uihe circuses this j-ountmg tb Repulilican inTeution , ;e, Tariff Reform Club pea at .Tarboro, N. C, sana members. Tenn., woman 100 is married a niau 40 Tli is is leap year Las a curfew Vare prohibited istreets after i6uilc3 with )witn me. 'net with an pt one soon introtluced Yfeduce ios-J.-lalf.That, Jnd ,wa rust I ''1 I ' come Wof(U As of tbe Fay- v or ettevaieNayi'Ve inherits his father's abiUtj w will soon take high rank afiMCaWe editor. ' Tbe KockliiKliiH" "Spirit'' says V that several of the citizens residing in that vicinity have dug pits Into w,whicli they carl betiik t heiM'Ives II ill Cut4 ffVUIIL III HHPIIU- .v.l"" - I Oneer wav sime iieoide have of iiug., A concert fas given in neord last week fottlie Durnose of jaising money to Udld a stable toi he Presbyterhm iiarsonage lot. -X-Tlie colored jH'ople ap. "out" rith Secretary Liinutu btHMiise he lliletl to rescind to a call to ap- Uxiit a colored minister iroin Ma- riland reirimental chaiilain in the Htiny -----, 1 A Baltimore widow xi.si)iied boy of eighteen herself because a i! wtnild not uiarr Jierv- The joor . 1 . n. spanked httti aud put him in the cellar. . Hivrincrtield man wrote to - A setts, to inquire if the-law win; iierrait him to marry a cousin. T nvi nor mjhii-u ol Aiassncuu mid The leolv was : ffhe law is willin', if the cousin is." Maine farmers are selling Irish potatoes at thirty cents a bushel and Florida strawberry growers are getting one dollar and twenty-live cents a quart for their berries. Come South, young iiiuu; come South. A Miunesota editor calls a rival journalist "a sizzle-sonled, iusinu atin- whiffet." A cyclone of cul tnp haa evidently swept through tliit section of the country ; or. pel haps it is only a . tornauo o tbught. f. The i Taiborn "Southerner" ; ivn. Mavor J. M. Mayo, thinks he 'as discovered gold on his planta ion ia Hash, not far iioiii Whit a iers. If it is true, every farmer within Aft miles of him will iro to pi-ospectiag. V . One of Brignam Young's son is a poit, two have died drunkards. - an two or his (laiiguters nave mar riecJ the same man. We are told thafc the sjns of the fathers shall be vialt abon the childriMi. This looks something like it. -f-The statement that Blind Tom hai been swiudled by his manager aid that his mother was living in a hojfel in Georgia, is pronounced false. He has everything he de sires and his mother is well pro vided for, so it is stated. f-Josh Miiigs says: "There is iy fcuvSiuAt a hen that looks fike visoX i fl; u,v dou't kivckle & nlflcn unil aiv..r thev have Ian f .dieir egg "Suwf, pholks are alwuz llrggyamiy:ktiek1iiys what they . ; ire gouas wrdo bee-fore nana." Thf ptroposition, which the t "North .0aro.iilia Teacher" had the " bi)nor rWsti make, to have a North CaroUma Chautauqua this summer at Waynesville has been received wiu lavor y teactiers ami the prss in man iiarts of the State. jf Ed. Ea.vand W. A. Anderson, 'rereuue officers, who recently killed three ine in Mitchell county, have surrendered and are in jail at AsliflvilhL State reward a-rr0,i rfor thejr. capture amouuts soo , nd the private rewards to too. Hiram Jacobs, the oldest citi zen of Sturgis, Mich., had tin- iVei exierienee ot lieing buried a few days ago in a coffiu niiwle of wood frm a walnut treo of his own planting. The tree was planted uK)ii his retnm from tlie Black Hawk war m 1832. The tender hearted "Reporter" of Durham suggeits. "that the leg islature of North Carolina should enact a law preventing the catch ing of such small fish as has loen sold in this place recently.'' Yes. yes. Make it illegal tor small fish to bite, says the "Chronicle." A tornado similar to the one we experienced last month, though less severe of course, descended to the earth at a oiut near Guuters ville, Ala., Weduesday night, and after moving six miles along the ground, left it again. During its stay terrestrial,, however, it sue ceeded in blowing thirty houses to : tom& killing several people and . f ; ; , 1 : '- ; L " " " Iiao vir" - -? VOLUME 14.-- The infidel lioast that the Bible is losing its hold on the age, is strikingly contradicted by the tact that the American Bible Society has been unable of late to supply the demand for it, though making seven complete Ittbles and Testa ments in every minute of working time. High license laws seem to lie having the desired effect in Ne braska. Since their adoption, the cities of Omaha and Lincoln have lost half their saloons, while the decrease in the smaller towns is said to be still greater. It costs $l,000Tor a license in cities and $500 in villages. - .-Edison, the inventor, indulges in the following prediction : "As to the changes which will lie effected by electricity within fifty years in the city of New York, I would- say that I believe electricity will propel the cars of the street and elevated railroads, light the city within and without its buildings, furuish power for all purposes, work telephone and burglar alarms, deliver the op era, convey parcels, detect and sig nal fires, operate fire eugines and possibly displace animal locomotion for vehicles' ; The "Farmer & Mechanic" says, "You recollect the killing of the negro Droomgoole, in . Wai reiiton, by Jesse Macon, of the noted Na thaniel Macon family. It wan deemed as certain as fate that he would gel airJcastthe, 8 years in prison, which at about the same hour last week was imposed on Tom Crittenden for a similar kill ing, lint Macon had good defen sive counsel ; Chasr A. Cook was one of t hem, find imblic sympathy ran with the family. The jury le turued a verdict of "not guilty," after au hour's deliberation. .Judge Avery presided. It was proved that the negro was making threats," A Horrible Explosion. One Hundred and Fifty Men Killed in a Virginia Coal Mine. Lynchburg, Va., March 13. In lligence has just rached hero of terrible explosion in the coal mine of the Southwest Virginia Im provement Company, at Pocahon tas. Tazewell county. Va.1. which occurred this morning at V o'clock. 'articulars concerning the accident re very meagre nothing has been learned as to how it occurred ; but over one hunurea men are known to have leen killed. These mines are worked by a joint stock compa- composed; mostly ol Northern iipitalists. Further intelligence from Pocahontas represents the work of destruction at ttd' coal mine -horrVfcUv ailit 'complete. There were 150 men in the mine at the time of the explosion, not one of whom is believed to have es caped. Vhose who were not killed out right by the terrible force of the exjloston most likely died. from attr damp. The cause of the ex plosion is not yet definitely ascer tailed, as the entrances to the nite are all lull of bad air ; but thebresnmption is that one of the niniirs struck a llssuie filled with gas. Several parties ventured into the sine this morning,. ..but could not Vng endure the foul atmos phere A number of bodies' were iliseoWed horribly mangled : some of theh with heads torn from the trunk and others with limbs all gone, resenting an appalling spec tacle. Ye work of destruction was not conned entirely to the interior of the lines, but houses 200 or 300 leet reipved from the muies were overtuned and in several instances entireli demolished. The large ventilafr of the Southwestern lui provemlt Company was blown to atoms, Ad the mines cannot lie en-ti-red mil another is constructed for the ii e of 'freeing the at- mospher f the suliocating fumes. This woil s now progressing speeil- ily. Lail lorces are engageu on of the mines construct- the outsil ing coffil and .perfecting Other ts tor the interment. of ners, the most of whom arraugenl the dead are foreiglrs. Hovel Soil Tlie novl suit brought against, the Richnftd & Danville Railroad Company b J. M. Turrentlne for $200,000 daiages for the' loss of his voice, wliielhe claims was lost by having to livel while a mail agent between Oprlotte and Kiclimond, in an impr iprly heated car, was decided in -Jharlotte by a jury on Tuesday. lie jury decided that the cold ca vas a partial cause of the loss o plaintiff's voice, and awarded bus 82,500 damages. It is mightv seldom that a iurv shows any love oj'a railroad in this coun try. The next day judge Mcliae decided tkat the jury had so ex pressed their venlict as really to awai d Tune itine no damage. The case will go lo tiif Supreme Court. Law Concerning Pnblic School Houses. The Charlotte -Home-Democrat" calls attention to the public school law requirhig committeemen to take a dee' in fee simple for all sites on whi. v ;l ,mbik, school houst, is to be eiU j; n,at said deed shall be proo,.u,i, recorded and fil ed with UK t at V treasurer: Ti, county trer . r is pioiribiTed from paying for ..-i .U,, or reah.illf, any house u, s if is 0 laiul deed ed to the ci. ,ittee and their suc cessor,in,Ri,., Most of the school sues pure. a, ,1 lleforo. i8fi0 . North OanlBV Werc lost because no deeds we.i taken, or if taken, were iievern-coHled and lost. The attention of county school officers i ,.uieu i a tins requirement of the iaw. - Ajer s Hiir Vigor stimulates the hair cells tDhealthy act-ion, and pro motes a vtg'tous growth.Itcontains all that casfe supplied to make the natural bail wutifu .vmi abuudaut; keeps the i iMp free rroU, dandruff, prevents taejair from becoming drv and harsh,Mi makea it flexible and glossy. i . POLITICAL POINTS -:o:- WHAT THE POLITICIANS ARE TALKING AIJOUT. THE POLITICAL t'ALUltOX The Laurinbnrg "Exchange" fa vors Col. A. M. Watldell for Gov ernor. The tariff issue is not half so alarming to the Democrats of Penn sylvania as some people let on. It frightens only the politicians who run awav from it. Phil. "Record." Ind. ' Mr. Tilden used to have a happy knack of letter writing. A word or two from him on the praaeut sit uation would attract the attention of some twenty-five million readers. . Chicago "Herald." The Boston. "Post" says that the Maine Democrats are for Tilden on a revenue reform platform, but that, as much as they admire the Sage of Gre3rstone, they couldn't swallow him on a tariff-straddle platform. According to the -Washington correspondent of the Hartford "Timfcs," Senator Fair, of Nevada, oilers to spend $500,000 to help elect Mr. Bayard if the Democrats will nominate him. Fair says its a lie. Cleveland, March 12. Inter views with fifty leading Democrats of Northern Ohio during the past few days show that twenty-nine out of fifty favor Henry B. Payne for President. Hancock is second choice, with Randall third, and Mc Donald, Bayard.Thurman, llolman, English and Flower in the order named. N. Y. "Sun." The Louisiana sugar planters are in revolt against the Democrats lie cause they favor principle and look to the interest of the whole coun try. It they kick they will only succeed in being handed over to the Republicans. If there is any of the States that should hate the Republican party it- is that State whose Legislature was throttled by Grant's bayonet's and whoso votes were stolf n in 187G by John Sher man am) his tribe of tricksters. Ilr was Well Qualified. A long-legged, shuck-headed chap with his breeches stuck in his stock ing legs, eutered Bob Walker's drug store and enquired : "Mr. have you got any woolly-bully r' "JNo, sir." "Strange!" mused the tramp, rumi nating on one leg, "its the allfired est dose for a man who is bursting over for an office, and I need a little to calm down my rising ambish uns!" "What ofiico do you want?" "Oh I've got the reg'lar shakes for anything! I'm all in a jerk to run for clerk. And I wouldn't keer if I could lie sheriff.! And I've sort of nmhishiiu'er to be a commissioner, while it's a tramp's human nature to run lor the Legislator." "Well what's your claims on the people V "Mister, let me shake theso old shoes aud roll down my pant legs ; thar's two scars on that leg and one on that here hold my coat please here's an anchor and a ship on that arm (I can swim eight miles down stream) and thar's a, bullet. hole right under it, and thar's an other scar on that arm, and all of 'em got under Uncle Rob Lee Mis ter, . ain't I qualified t" Milton "Chronicle." ' An Interview with Tilden. " J ' The Atlanta (Ga.) "Constitution" publishes a long "interview ot Mr. Tilden by its own staff correspond ent, Mr. Clark. Tilden emphatical ly, says he will not run. Either Payne or lloadley is his "residuary legatee." He thinks Randall an admirable man. lie says he could not stand the physical effort neces sary in case of his election. He is descrilied as feeble somewhat, but as far better oil" than he has - been d scriled. He talks iu a whisper, Ins hand tremmes, tmt his eye is clear. He walked, as many men of his advanced age walk, with some show ot teebieness. lie says his doctors are positive. "that his vital orgaus are perfectly sound." Here are his words , and let his name be dropped from among pos sible candidates : "I'will not allow the use of my name. I know that. I reformed the politics of New York ten years ago. I was more able then than now; It would be a herculean task to un dertake to reform matters now of t he General Government. After 20Jyears of misrule and bad man agement corruption has lieeome fix- i l . . j . eu, ami uie uiosi igorous euorts j will be necessary to eradicate it. I don't fee! that my condition would allow me to cope wiih itl In my letter four years ago I stated why I would not allow the use of my name. It was discredited, The same reasons I now urge; they have become stronger, for I am four years older and am more infirm now than then. I would urge that the idea be discontinued, for it is not right that I should undertake to do that which I am physically unable to do." Pen Portrait or a Sleepy con gressman. A Washington City correspond ent of the Washington, (N. C.) "Gazette," writes: "The Charlotte "Observer" is unwilling to believe the extract below applies to a Norttt Caroliuiau. It is true, however, and the subject is Mr. T.G. Skinner of your district. The author is Jas. R. Randall, the brilliant and versa tile poet and journalist : "During the large. part of Mr. Hatch's tiresome discourse, occa sionally enlivened by campaign an ecdotes, there was one happy Con- gressman. itnmK ue muieu iwui 24orth Caroliua. He was stretched on a-sofa, in view of the House and galleries, sound svsleep, dreaming, no doubt, of the peanut crop, or the murmnrof the wiuds in the piles, or the crash of the snrf at Morelfcad City, or bis home uestleu amouthe hills, where; wife and chit Iren thought of ?m and prayed 1 j WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH 21. 1884. there might be an adjourDineut by next July. For him tlie plero pneu monia of New Jersey was an idle fancy. For him Hatch's hoarse ha rangue was a waste of raw material, and its droning monotone made drowsiness supreme for the blissful slumberer. Calmly, sweetly, pro foundly did he recline in the amis of Oblivion, until John S. Wise be gan to shout and storm. That dis cordant note broke the spell, shiv ered the vision of rejose and sum moned the sleeper to face wide-eyed the wicked, turbulent world. He rose to his feet almost resent fully, but soon gathered himself to gether and plunged into the throng that clustered around the combat ants on the floor, wondering, no doubt, how pleuro-pneunionia hail leen converted into est V lrginia s anatomy. Cox's pillar of gas and John S. Wise's Red Sea of 'B hid, lago, b-lud!'" The only thing Mr. Randall made a mistake about, was the probable subject of Mr. Skininr's "dreams." Making Love to a Medical Student. Miss Mary Flynn was studying medicine and beiugcouvte.dat the same time. Mr. .William Budd was attending to the latter part of the business. One evening, while thev were sitting together in the front parlor, Mr. Budd was thinking how he should manage to propose. Miss Flynn was explaining certain phys iological facts to him. "Do you know," she said, "that thousands of people are actually ignorant that they smell with their olfactory peduncle?'' J "Millions ol 'em." replied Mr. Budd. , "And aunt Mary wouldn't -be lieve me when I told her she couldn't wink without a sphincter muscle." " "How unreasonable!" "Why, a person cannot even kiss without a sphincter." "Indeed!" "I know it is so." "May I try if I can?" "Oh! Mr. Budd, it is too bad ol you to make light of such a sub ject." Mr. Budd seized her hand and kissed it. -She permitted it to re main jn his grasp. "I didn't notice," he said, "wheth er a a wuat do vou call UT a sphincter helped me then or not. Let me try again." , Then he tried again, and while he held her hand she explained to him about the muscles of that por tion of the human bod v. "It is remarkable how much you know about such things " said Mr. Budd "really wonderful. Now, for example, what is the bone at the back of the head called?" "Why.1 the occipital bone, of course." "And what are the names or the muscles of the arm?" "The spiralis and infra-spiralis among others." "Well, lTow, let me' show -.you what I mean. When I plit.my infra-spiralis around your waist so, is it your occipital bone that rests iion my shoulder blade, in this way!" "My back hair, primarily, but the occipital bone, of course, after wards. But, oh! Mr. Budd, sup pose pa should come in and see us?" "Let him come. Who cares!'.' said Mr. Budd Inddlv. 1 think tin and I'll exercise a sphincter take a kiss." 'Mr. Budd, how car you f" said Miss Flynn, after he had performed the feat. "Dou't call me Mr. Rudd; call me Willie," he said, drawing her closer. "Vou accept me, don't you! I know you do, darling.' "Willie," whispered Miss Flynn, faintly. "What, dirling?" "I can hear your heart beating." "It beats only for 3-011, my angel." And it sounds to me out of order. The ventricular contraction is not uniform." "Small wonder for that when it's buisting for jo-." "You must put Yourself under treatment for it. I will give you some medicine." "It's your own property, darling, do what you please with it. But somehow the sphincter operation is the one that strikes me most favor ably. Let ine see how it works again." But why proceed I The old, old story was told again, and the old, old performance of the muscles of Mr. Budd's mouth was enacted again. And about eight years later Mr. Budd was wishing that Mary would catch some fatal dis ease among her patients, and Mary was thlnkiug that the best possible ns6 Willie could lie put to, would be as a subject for the dissecting ta ble. Spartan Mothers. The latest development of prec ocions iuiqnity comes from Oil City, where a few vigorous mothers. armed only with maternal recti tude and the corrective shingle, have broken up a band of- adoles scent cowboys. These youngsters held meetings, took the oath and pleged themselves to poison their mothers and start on tht bloody road of-pillage and rapine. Un fortunately for t he future chronicler of gore, the aforementioned shingle fell like a thunderbolt into the camp. The fiendish captain was spanked into penitence in three minutes, and his gang are now booliooing on bread and water. Those were Spartan mothers. Gifellim" te"Cale7- We are Pd'ormed by . one of our county oPleials that the water in a certain 11, ill pond in Sampson dried up last summer. -The mill is run by an over shot wheel. The terrapins in the hc.id of the pond followed the water as it receded toward the mill, and finally into the race. As they fell over the wheel they filleil the" buckets and pat it in motion. There were so many of them that they kept the -mill running a fort night. lidjonaucashiD.' 4Appropriately enonghrw savs a stranger visiting New York. "Maid en Lane opens into' Courtland street." ' - BILL ARP S TALK. :o:- FAEMING IN GEORGIA AHEAD OF OHIO. HOW TO MAKE FARMING PAY. Don Pi itt talks mighty sad about Ohio farming. He is a good farmer and a smart man, aud I thought was happy, but he says he is not. He has been farming in a rich valley for six years and says it don't pay him nor anyone else, and that if Ohio farmers had to rebuild all their fences iu one year it would baukrupt the whole concern. He declares that there is no pursuit that, has so little profit as farming, and he does not believe there is any profit at all except in the increased value of the land that used to be five dollars and is now from eighty to one hundred all (caused by an immigration demand. ; Well, -that "is bad, very bad Farming is in a very high state of perfection in Ohio, and if they can't make money there it looks like it can't be made anywhere. Maybe that is the reason why it takes so many offices to do the people of Ohio. But my opinion is that Mr. Piatt has got the dyspepsia or has got behind-and is annoyed with some of these darn'd little just debts. Maybe his family are ex travagant, or he has a house with too many rooms and his city kin folks quarter n him, and uncle him, and cous'n him, and flatter him, and consume his supplies, and he has to supplement his pan try with a lot of eauned goods from' the market. Something is rTie mat ter. He says that'faruiiug has no protection, that his wheat has to be sold in Europe and, there it comes into competition with wheat from t he Baltic, where alalwrer works for eighteen dollars a year and a goat skin coat; or wheat from Egypt where a man works for something to eat and goes without clothes. And so he wants protection ou wheat or to abolish protection on manufactures. Well, I've been iu- ninating over this a long time. We can't have protection 011 wheat, or corn, or cotton, lor nobodv im ports any to this country or wants to do it. They have got none to import. There is no competition at home with our grain, and we can't force England to put a duty on the Baltic grain. So thei;e is nothing in his idea of protection. It. can't be did. Now, as to abolishing pro tection on our manufactures, of course we can dothatlf Then Ame rican lalor will drop down to the European price of fifty cents a day or to the Baltic price, or t he Egyp tian price, and our laborers couldn't live at it, for Mr. Piatt don't want his wheat, or his flour, or his corn to couie down a cent, forhe is com plaining right now that it is too cheap and don't pay to raise it. ell, it wouldn't come down for the foreign demand for all our surplus would be just the same, as it i now. and that would keep the price up. The, Lord knows that our mechan ics are poor enough now, and can hardly live. Their average wages are a dollar a day, and mat allows nothing for sickness or doctors' bills or lost tune or any 01 tlie luxuries of life. I don't, want to see the dav that a man with a wile and t wo or three or four little children, shall have to work for half a dollar a day, uutess that halt a dollar, will buy as much of the actual necessa ries of life as a dollar does now as much meat and bread and cloth ing. 1 think that onr farmers are do ing about as well as any other class of poor folksjjiu fact, better than the laborers who work 111 the mills and furnaces. 1 would rather risk farm ing for a living than to work in a shop. I would rather make a bare living and have a home of my own, and time of my own, and have plenty of-latitude, aud good air and water, than to be peiiued up and bound up. If I have got to squeeze along 1 would rather squeeze in the country. But I know mighty well what is the matter with some farmers, and they are the better class of farmers. They live too fast, they live beyond their income. Their families want too much, and keep the poor fellow on a strain. He gets behind and has no money to make improve ments. He can't hold his cotton or his wheat a month. It has to go whether the price is a fair one or not. I know a family that lived 011 a good farm and made good crops, but thev were always cramped and in debt" and laid it on farming ; but one year the farm was turned over to one of the lmys and he hired his help and made a thousand dollars clear money on a hundred acres I and had a right good time besides. You see the boy hail no latniiy to supiHtrt. no running to town every other day for something, no kin to entertain, no visiting to Atlanta, or to the springs. The farm will-pay if it is not sponged on for more than ir will bear. A farm is just like Cobe's gun. He said he could have shot a big hawk this morning, but the hawk was a little too far off, and he. was afraid of straining his (run. I asked him one day why he didn't plow deeper, and he said he was afraid of straining the land. And so it wonjr, do to strain the farm with all sort of expenses that don't belong to if. But I thonghfthat Ohio farmers had altolished fences, but it. seems not. Of coursi, there has to be some fences ou every farm, but I know we would get rid of fully half if wo had a stoA;k law. But I am getting reconciled now and don't care much about it. Barled wiro has got down to about six and a half cents a pound, and a pound is alout twenty feet and so wire is about as chea p as lumber, aud with three plank aiul two wires we can make a right; cheap fence. Four plauk and two wires make a splen did fence. JJut I believe that the new mode of hedging with Osage orange is beMer than anything, and much cueapeiiStii&iongrrtn. Jiyl nabors have been up to Tennessee to see the hedges, and now they are being introduced all over the coun try. The company warrants a good hedge in three years, and will wait that long for a third of the money and two years for a . third, and if the hedge is not doing as guaran teed you needn't pay at all. So we think that it is fair and we are try ing it. I know one man who has ordered four miles. A hedge that will take up only two feet of the ground, and will keep out pigs aud cattle aud mules and will get ripe iu three years, aud last fifty years and cost but three cents a roil each way to prune it, is a big thing for the farmers.. We are going to try it any how. and as old Billy Baugh used to say, we will all know by waiting. On the whole, I don't thiuk we are as bad off as Don Piatt says Ohio is. If onr farms don't make us any to speak of they give us homes and firewood, and enough to eat and wear, and we raise hogs and chickens and ducks, and have fresh eggs and can fry 'em on both sides and loose in the iuiddle,which Jndge Underwood says is one of the luxuries of this life. There are no beggars or tramps perusing this country. We are notich enough for white folks to steal from us and it don't take much to satisfy the niggers. They generally steal so little that we don't miss it, aud so we set it down to charity and go along. Southern Methodist Growth. INTERESTING " HOW THAT GUESSING. FIGURES SHOWING CHURCH IS PRO The general minutes of the Meth odist Episcopal Church, South, for reveal some interesting facts illustrative ot the rapid growth of that church. During the past cal endar year its membership has ' in creased 26,940, and now numbers 001,248. This growth is at the rate of 3.07 per cent, per annum. This is a gain upon the iKpulation of the Southern States, the rate of which is 2 90 percent. er annum com pound. The gain iu the number of Snuday School scholars is equally as decided 2b,o08. For the cause of missions the gain in the amount of contributions is 10,881.32 the total amount collected being $227,- C40.38. , The amount collected for worn-out. traveling (preachers and the widows and orphans of deceas ed preachers was 37Llot.07 a vain of ."5,7I3.2o. L In this connection;', it may prove interesting to note the wonderlnl growth of Methodism in the South. It is a well authenticated fact that Methodism has flourished and pros pered better 111 the "South thau in any other part of this country. When the Methodist' Episcopal church in America was organized 100 years ago an event that will be appropriately celebrated this year throughout the bounds of the church three-fourths of the members were to lie found in tin southern states. V lule tins pro portion has not been maintained, it i" line that the largest part ol the iiiciii'm rsiiip of the various branch es of American Methodism is to be found in the South. In 18C6,jnst after the close of the late war, the memleiship of tiie M. E. Church, Sout h, was ;'00,- 0'io. The statistics whicx we give tor lS.s.i show that it has nearly doubled its membership. If the number of members that was given to the colored Methodist Episcopal church in America when it was or ganized by the Southern church in 1.S70 is taken into the account, it will he shown that that church has doubled its meniliership during the past eighteen years;. This is a re niiirkable showing. Wanted a Divorce. ,1 A few days ago, says the Ken tueky State 'Journal," a middle aged countryman walked into the office of a prominent Newport at torney and took a seat, when the lollowing conversation took place "I called iu to see about gettiu' ; divorce from my wife." "Ah, what seems to be the diffi culty!" . "Well, me and Jinny are always ouarrelin, and think it would be liettei if she would go back to her folks and I stay where I am. She ken take the three children with "Ou what grounds do yon want a divorce." "Well, you see it's jist tins way; Jinny's the most skeerest woman of tramps ye ever seen, and so when :e 2To upstairs to bed she wants ine to look under t he led for a man whea l know ther am t 110 man there. So you see that rues- me ii nd I get mad, and then she gets mad, and then there's a fuss, and don't have no iteace aud can't ge no sleen. and I'm a hard working man." "You can't get a divorce on those grounds, sir "I can't!" "No sir." "Well, then, I know what I'll do. I'll go home and siiw the legs off the bed close up. so a man can't git 1111 dcr. If I had thought id' that sooner I iniirht hev saved all this time coinin' in here " What the Tariff Is. There is an old soldier living 111 Orange who takes periodical spell of wild insanity, dresses up .'m his old 11 ni form and wanders about the country making sieeche3 to every two or three he may find about some cross roads store. Recently he took the tariff as his subject for enlightenment. He told the peo ple there was a mighty fuss made over it and not one man iu a hun dred knew 'anything. 'about it or. saw a man that did. Why, he said it was nothing to make such a mighty ado about, "I know all alRMt it, live seen it, and it's a darned little bit'er thing, no big ger'n a flying squirrel!'- This old soldier mav have been a little off usHonlf he T isnV tetter on tbe tariff totay than canditlato forth l7ia - 1 I-? tf.i.5Sii'5-.r.:er--:.:; DB but we -question informed the avernw lature wi .'jj' -ronitJ HOWliEPROPOSED. -:o:- HE POPPED THE QUESTION ON A STREET CAR. SHE WHISPERED "YES." The bleak and uninviting interior of a street car, with the theruioine ter twenty degrees below thej freez ing point, was the seene of a proinv sal of marriage last evening! The lour was half past 9, the car was one of the amber, hued chariots of the Thhteenth aud Fifteenth stieets line, aud the interested par ties a trim built, pret ty girl of about nineteen summers, with lark eyes mil rosy cheeks, aud a young man of two or three and twenty, array-"; ed iu a double-breasted overcoat with a sealskin collar, a Fedoro hat mid a large diamond scarf pin, that. t the young man was not a hotel clerk, was probably paste. To the most easual observer these cooers ; were . evidently wnat is known in the language of love- as 'spoons," and the eyes of both fair- beamed with attectionate glances. of the first watdr. They were en-. scoued in one of the corners farth est from the-back platform and-ii- posite to them aattthe only '.other. ecupant oi the car, a humble re porter, who dozed a doze as the car sjed along past the glimmering street lamps and rattled across the tracks oi intersecting railways. It was bound north. Piue, Spruce, Locust aud Walnut streets were passed m rapid succession until the flashing glare of the electric light on Chestnut street awoke the sleep ing scrib , but his awakening, was not noticed by the lovers opiosite. "Are you cold, Amelia T 7 came in gentle tones across the car. "Yes, Charley," was the hall- whispered reply. . And Charley snuggled up close, and took Aine- ia's hand in his. He then glanced at her in a low mg way, lODKeu across at me re porter, who was apparently sisleep, noticed that the conductor was entirely occupied-111 keeping his feet warm, and, after giving one or two coughs, said, wirh a smile : "Do you recollect what I told vou the tii8t time 1 met you, Ame lia?" "No, Charley. What?" . "Why, that I had ' never been in ove, aud thatf it would lie a cold day when I'd ask a -girl I o marry me." "Oh, yes ; but why do you ask ?" "Well, this is a very cold day, Amelia, isn't it ?" "Yes, Clwrley, but why J" and he blushed as she glanced up at him, and as his face drew nearer hers. . ' "Well, will you V There was silence for a moment, but for the jingle, jingle of the bells anil 1 he slmniiiitr of I he con dtiKtor's .Vet upon the icy platform. Then she slipped her hand into' his, blushed even rosier than tielore, and whispered "Yes." "Bless you, my children, ex claimed the delighted reiwirter. and as the lovers'half start el up, abash ed at the unexjiecled discovery" l their secret, the scribe shot out ol the doorway and hurried a way. Ex.- Wlal Lie Did. . A Candidate's Stobv of An Ad venture. I I once had an example of how well it Is to tell the truth, said a geutlemau who was once a prom inent candidate lor governor o Arkansas. Some time '.ago 1 was travelling on horseback through n very lonely art of the country. I was never a very brave man, and 1 was uot in the least' surprised upon discovering that 1 was scared. Everi rustle of t he leaves, every sudden cry of a bird startled inc. I couldn't think of any thing but robbers and desperadoes, and shud dered as I lemembereda man, who, years ago, had - been found 111 the woods murdered iu cold blood. Every feature of the ghastly-: face came up, and I turned sick when the gaping wound in his throat came up with, start ling verisiuiili-! tude. :" . . I While thus rellectiiig, a turn of t the lonely road, winding arotiud'a thickly wooded hill, brought me j almost face to face with two men who seemed to be standing for me. f Their horses were hi l died., . to a J neighboring vine-, mid the sugges- j tive manner in which they looked j at the animal 1 was riibug ' 'sent a j thrill like a streak of" ice water up my back. I saw at once that they j were desperate men, aim leit mat they would not hesitate to kill me. Flight was out of the question, for auy such move on my part would, I waseonviiieili j rovecertain death. For the first time in mv life 1 ri , ) play the Dully, and, as- ; , 1 "' hat I fancied wasan . n- ,1 expression, I said, solved to suniing w eoneerue "Good morning "How are vou!" thev Going fu !" replied. 'I don't know that it your bnisness," I replied. i? any of ! don't want any trouble with have decided 'to- lead a you, lor l better' life. Never again do I want it said that I shed the blood id's human lMmg." "A bad niau, I reckon," said one of the desicradocs. ; "At one time I could not have denied such an accusatiou; but, as I fell yon, I have resolved never to kill another man. ' I hope that yon will not molest me." "Hold on, pardner!" . - "I've got no time to talk. "But bold on! What's your name!" "I'm Bill Postoo, the outlaw and aud the man of" whom you oave often heard. I have killed men for less than' this, and I dou't want yoa rp cause a breaking of my re solve.1?, . "Dojas you like about your re- solve.f sah! the UlW of the des- rradfes. -l don't kiow who you i are, hu91 know that .yoa e not I Eill Tc t'-" r -" --NUJfBElt 7 "Because I am Bill Boston, and this is my brother." . "Oh, Lord!" I supplicated; "have mercy on me!" "Climb oil' ' that horse, Cap: 1 reckon we'd better hang you right here." I begged, but saw no mercy in their eyes; I prayed but heard no answer. - "I'll teach you how to go around the country committing depreda tions and laying them on me! Fine man you are! Stole this horse, 1 reckon. John, get that rope off my. saddle.' We'll swing him up right here." "Oh, my kind friends! I have committed no depredations. I am .....i;.li.. i'.... f, -,..(.. .... ..r t laiiiiniaiv iu uuHiuui oi kansas, and am on my way to meet an appointment at h place of dis cussion. You wouldn't, hang a Governor, would you? .Just thiuk of what Mu would lose!" "Who is 011r opponent!". I "Colonel Blacket." ; "What sort of a fello is he?" "He's a bad man." ' "Are vou well acquainted with him!" ' "I uever saw himy.hiit know that he's a had man." "He's a much Itetter man than you are, or at least will soon .ex hibit more capacity for executive duties thaii you can possibly show. In short, he'll be-the liveliest man pretty soon." f Thev put the rope around 111 v neck. I prayed in vain ; I asked the Lord to forgive my sins, and closed my eyes, every moment ex pecting to lie drawn up." - "If I let you go, will you promise never again to use my name!" "I swear I won't. Let mo live and I'll be -a better man. I'll do anything lor you, and when Vin elected Governor I'll pardon you "All right; you may go this time. 1 ake oil the rope, John;" 1 mounted my horse and rode away, with tearfnl thankfulness and a determination -'.never to tell another lie. Next day when I reached the place of discussion a large crowd had gathered.' W'heu 1 appioaehed the people were shouting with laughter. Great Al exander! Some One was relating mv experience. Shoyin iny way forward I recognized in the speaker the tall man who had accused ine ol taking Ins name, lie -was my opponenu 1 could not face the crowd, and left as rapidly as possi ble. The wnole thing was a joke i the election I was defeated by an overwhelming-majority.' Lucky Joe Wilson's Escape. HE 1-SUOl'K.ssFULLY FEIGNS DEATH AND IS CAUKIED OUT OF PKISON IN A COFFIN. liENOiii, N. C, March o --One of tlie most adroit escaiies known' in criminal history was effected to-day bv Lucky Joe .Wilson, the chief of a gang of desperadoes, who have in lested this State. Wilson was af ter ni,iiii- limit's, caught aud wi fenced to ten years in the penitcn- i.HV. On Tuesday his counsel obtained an appeal to the Supreme Court. Early this morning the warden of tlie j til entered hi. ceil ind found Lucky Joe lying on his maltic s, which was covered will M od. a. was the prisoner's tdfirt aud mouth. His eyes were wide open nd stai intr. his ia'ws talieu, and his ii nibs cold Help "was summoned, and the body was carried from the ceil 11110 an 0111 uouse, tain out ior 1 . .1 1 . : .1 . . burial, aud placed iu a plain colli h The mot her and sister of Wilson stood by the coffin and In wailed liis untiinelv end. At dusk thi evening, when every one had left the aiiaitincnt, save his sister, sho was horrified io see the corpse risi from the collin, put. his hauild omin ouslv on his lips and holt from the room, .tflie screamed and fiintei The ruse was not discovered until an hour afterward and Lucky Jo had succeeded in eluding all pur suit. A visit to his cell, showed how artfully the eseaie had been plan ned. Wilson had killed a chicken and saturated himself with the blood. Then 'ripping open the mattress, he concealed the chicken in it. He had craied in a lot of snow and ice from the cell window and kept his hands and feet well fiozen in it, and when he hean footsteps in the corridor he threw the snow into a bucket. Therefore, w hen t he jailor entered, he found W i son's feet and hands so cold as to leave no doubt of his death. Julian S. Carr. I A few weeks since Col. Alspangh j of Winston, proposed to endow Trinity Vdlcge. and w. one 01. one j hundred to give Sl.oOO. Mr. J. S, I Carr, of Durham, heart ily seconded the pr iKsition, but agiees to be t one of twenty who will give o,000 1 each for tlie tuiriMise, He recently I subscrilied :0 a year to the sup port ot the Ep scopal Ohaicl 111 ' , ,, ', ' . 1 . . 'Diuiim. He has also made a - ..m . tU, towI1 of ,,' lot j j.r tlu ,,,,'5, Episcopal Chaicl lleie we feel tempted to ictieat recent conversation. ' Why are on newspaper men always puffing Jnle Carr." was asked. "We do not 'puff him. ! We simply make mention of things that he-has done, enterprises he has started, or sli.iretl. mid nionev that 'j h-'s D-iven to worthv objects." i'Ve: but sum use he"itocS all this just to got his in tlie pa pers?? "Well, my fiieu!lu man wno talt cu is wi mir to w rt am ten irises, and lt to Ilium up ur Stat'i that i ie kimi i . -11 we want! A the iu in Wlio win give ."i,Oo to ,,. .'.college :,, to another; I phans; hniidi hundreds to it lit Is to the or-s- to the schools; i ..u-!f oirifi hundreds to th churches, etc., that is the kit of man the Sf ale neexis: liieroiare imjto ui i-"o - 1 " m . 1 are ezres 01 ricucr men tlian .laitn s.carr aim tno priss is- mieCitv auxiou to give theit nnlimitea for Hfioil f s 7 im " 1"al' ,M ' T titj' an 1 enterprise, f . ortbo lre?s ....'t foster j ' WMe tor t. ' Advrti uicitt.t 1, . f, tl'Mltn.j.L- .. C-h wi-st . --"Jintre.r AaraniMaw AKOUT FARMING. :o:- UMKBS AUk' . 1 AI.KINO ABOUT. PICKED CP Noxk Tlirt T'.ilo.. t? .... imil -OUUIIY 11 (Mill Mr. W. T.Taylor. hn !i ..7 nut farm hImm one utile ii.jm t0U urn, llllisrit'tl IliiCSUlUg 111! largn crop one day last week n 1 ....... . . . u .Mrmeii lyou lillsheli of T,Aa ...... I e sold his entire iop u, ttr Irothers, of Wlutaki rs'lof lwI - per bushel, delivered at lie deiTot Ul UMMIUl, air. l .lVliiP L?kf "X ltt lit lonct- ,,im i ltl iw vmt tt onihuii L;.i . kL . k : 1 U iltlll 1I1IIT Lllllll III . ' w miiiri . uiiiix. iv in. uaiug uiein ibreshiMl .mi Kee In fiinibei iuhU. Mr. Wm. Wean yss last ve.ir sol.l " "Mil I over ;U0 worth of straitied l,..iu.v it Ikiltimore ind other nmi. ..1- lnsides what 14 leubed lioin tl' sale of wax atnj th'h.iiev sold ui nome markets. 1 yji .' .Mmst-vt ii eu 111,11 oiu,.; small li:irl-iil' l.. ...1 .1... 1. ... j .. time, an hour r two only, wax re quired daily, during the' honey mn. son, which lasts about t hree inotuhs so 111:11 ins regn ar Iiiik in. - not interfeied with, aud t It at iv ilK the attention ho gave , his busy lit t ie friends not only . . . . . I , ins poi'Kct, but was a sotiriV or to reat pleasure and recreation him. Fayctteville"Obseivi.i-" I'lll I'orker. Col. I. A. Sugg, of Greenville. writes as follows to the Turin tro "Southerner:" Mr. Editok. Iu '"your, last issue vou noticed that soin.' fi r CdgiH'otnbe fanner-'- mid Htnck- growers had killed some iMirkers that weighed at 21 months old .VM IMinnds, ainl 0110 at at 17 mouilis that weighed aOO ouunils. Mr. Eilitor, ' us-everybody knows. I am a very miMlest 111111. desire simply to say for the Item-lit ol those lartncrs who me makitig stock-raising a pleasant profit, t hat lasr year 1 sold to Col. .1. II. Snitn. Iers, of Avon Farm, a tlmrniiL'h bred Poland China pig, 13 weeks ohl, that weighed grass, 141 pounds. and to yr. II. .AI. Mickey, of Sura toga, Wilson county, a pig ol the same litter 11 weeks oi l, wety 1 IS pounds. 1 had iii iirr of stack that I was selling at i ble rates 0 cents per pmiii I ... 1. .... r... . .1 -uui. iiiiioi uiu;iiiii v ine e killed almut !:!." head Mini I nine. Mil. baunders lias Lfi his fine pig Jiiniho, the State-iiuVa fin una iuutiieiKi Her s.-ecnncti ot hogshiji. 1 killed one of the saint lock nt 17 months old that Weigh- ei 41'li jstiinds, nn.d but. for feiir nl' holera I should have kept him one mouth longer, and I realb think he would have tipM-d over .".On, but I buy no corn to feed m I ogs. Atlvic- to :i Voting I'ltniier. young niau just married and with small means wants 10 know how tosfart right in farming. This is iiiiMisiii uton us a rat In r s li ons t.tsK. We, of cuur..e, kinor nolliing of his halnls ol indnsiiT, liis love of l.-ilinr or Ii k 1 1 lilict lions for I le business he seeks Above all, we do not know wi -t kind of a wile he has M-le.-leil, a., I very, very much dejieiiils iq o. thh, lor if he h is i-hoseii iiu ii ih he has made an :i 1 1.1 10,1, nr. p;ii ilile misstep. W'e will, however lay down some general principles winch may do others, if iml linn, smus giMid : .'.-.! 1. -Buy none but the Ik- ; land. Ten acres of Hie Itcsl is belter th;ii 1 whole section of pinir l.nnl. 2. Ivi-ep clear oi weeds. :J. Do nothing slip ImmI. well aud cultivate tlio.oiighly 4. Do everything -in the Plow light sen son. 5. Pnstnre gfMMl implements and takt- good care of I hem. C. Itaise none but good aiiiimil. 7. Keep sf ricf account ot iinomc and expenses. A. Keep' out of debt and Hear ol security notes. 0. b'ise early and quit cailv in the evening, so that you m.iy h.ie the chores done before tin of night. 1.0. Have nothing to do traveling agents mid' slii'lbug dlers. Ileal wilh those win; ha lix-al habitation and a 11.1 me. 1 1. Live pcacc:il.l. iih wife - If von i-.niiiot. coav her go to Kamseatka and you to trail a until vou veiitiwte yof 1 . fections 12. Live at m-ii ViL'V "" neighltois, even if " have ,u make all the iiee7'ii and sub mit to all the wrong.) l.'J Take good p:ier and ku yourself iiosil as to mai kils. i,i- s. iiteratnre and politics. 14. Study to Know jour dntv to voi.rself. iour I'.im'iU f le our countrv and your God. FoIlw these things aii-l iUy will naturally h ad you into all tin' duties of a good farmer, a ooI cd i.en and a prosperous and h.tpp .nan. me Latest In Art. It is difticnlt to keep pace wilh the tide or art which is sweeping over these days of refined civiliza tion. -We have noticed the kiimI 111 v nil the shuttle, the, cat tail Oil the'lHaiine, the sun-llowcr on the Turkish towel and lis- jncdia-val monstrosity In lieatcn bras , but tha. , latest agony has escnK"l in . until 1 now. This is the decree that jor traits of the family must ! p.imli d n.. th., tiest fathilv china. The he-.Ml 1 V chalcs fill I lid e a 1 of the household mflst grace the ; roast IsH-r dish, the mother smiles Iwnigulv from the iiread plate, waile the children are distributed aroiiud on the teacups aud au- ; CITS. . ' : '.-'-- Wlwn thft llood iIoaJei! with -iiiiptirithC an moves ulnggishly iu the veins, an alterative ist-.?!. asthts'eondififwiol jheital Jfutd ( cannot Lust mug wiukwh, iu- resnlts.-Tbere Jjnth'" tlian Aycr's,' ' Iwft: in' ' - - - 1 v... c.j '" 1 V . Y