North Carolina Newspapers

1 wFlson ADVANU 'll'VEllY -I'lJlDA AT PUBLISHED, Wilson NoETiiCAROLia JOSHPBCS DANIELS. Efc and Prfcrietor TJV . Bites ot Asykbixstxq, -:o: Ope Inch, On, luUt IOXliATKS IS ADVANCE "LET ALk HE ENDS THOU AIBI'STAT, BE TOY COUKTTRY'S, TIIY GOD'S, AXD TISUTIIS .lit 200 1 00 t.i One Year Six Months ty-Moncy can l'"1 ',!fk Keiristere.1 Letter at our risk. Money Ordr or Lltwtkl I)tefnt)nt m - . '. . o Ketrist' VOLUME 14.-- W1LS0N, NORM CAROLINA, APRIL 25. 1884. -NUMBER 12 ( (FfifK - Tartxno Ofliue ISuiidiiW. I. ir-snra iftrTT rN TV 'hrv r; A irv T."T" a ; TvFfiir73 I - 1 NEWS Or A WEEK :iKI)KUOMALLPABTS - . . . r TV GATI1! VEXVi LI. i.VGS- GLEAXlXaS Raleigh h:is f:uiwn newspa jiers. ' . -There were more lyncliiugs in United States last J ear than ral executions. . -Durham county " lwopn- ..mm ri I. :i . i.')0D to make ao"'u uin Staff Kx.ihishi""- II. X'Ai I ' -"u? " -;j.i- hunt v. W is gore" w uciiia last Uiy by hisJepej Curry, agent it tlio pea- inl, will attcnu me meeting eacbers luaauiuqua at ijlle ia Juiie. Keade, oue of Eug- relists, died last est worti was "Put i Tlare." and Mechanic" LBennett declines i tue carpet for Summation. re becoming killed- him- ise bis being-'out of i the Roanoke bar- works at Wilhamston burstei at 1U ciock laoL vveuuets- diiy, killing one man and wounding two. ( V fcervor" siHiii in lull St I cnurch. mi tlie "Ncws-Ob-ti i i Arp will lecture ' , ii aid of the Eden- iiOilLst Episcopal A military :oi)iaiiy lias Ikhmi orgiHiizcd in GrepuvUle'. with Mr. A.N. l.'yan ciiptain. Ir was de cided to -tll . it tlm liieenville (J minis. i The n.itiiiiiul i ;iiiiiil;-,tii con- veiitioii will meet ."rd. Trie natioua, vlMition will meet aly Sth. . jn Oliicago dune 1 i )emoeratiu ctn -in the same city Straw I Monies fare so called from a custom loiig n iri ire ali iit in En- gland, of ii ihliA n stringing the lieui.s on many string travvs. :iiitt selling so Itiija pi'imv. 1 he dreens! iio.'Tatriot" sav Joe Turner imtiiir a speech in the liiiiirt jwuse i sne.n necy eio cim.nee a-; to ini'lt the iudge smd cause the inry t shed tears An unusual thing significant of the negro's llove of home was the iniuguig oil a colored man s corjise all the wlay from Chicago to ... i.. . Eilentoti, at a ujo.st of ts150.i'l The 'cw lOik "limes' savs of Mr. Hell'ord of Colorado, Hint it is a pity that man wilh such voice for drivi hig mnles .should bi spfiiiliiig hi.s inie in Congress Dr. DalJ.tey, Stute Chenust, has returiiei 1 lro.n jSew Orleans, having seeurt d space at the World's Kxposition l; JNorth Carolina. Hie Stati- will then-. laiake a suin-il) show lluiner, of Kentuckv, lia-i introilufed a. bill in the House to tax incomes above -3,000 three per eeut., oi all over 10.0:), live p.-r cent., r all over lO0,0d i ten per cent, i - The Wilmington "Star" says fi colored boy in Pender count cut his foot v itli an axe and put axlo grease on the wound. The grease permeated his system and caused his death, j Mr. W. T. Black well, the rich original Dirham Hull, has 42 hous es under contract, and the Durham "lieporter' says this, is but the be ginning of what he expects to build this stunner. And now a man in Kinston whose na ne is Mr. C. Bailey has patented a combined baby-carriage, radle, chair and crib. He is in the proier part of the world to make a thriving thiug of it. Eighty years ago North Carolina-had as many representatives in Congress as New'Vork. North Carolina now has nine, or one less than she bad in 1800, whil; New York lias thirty four. There '-is 'much suffering (ir bread in Marion county. S. O. The Tee Dee '-Index" reports hundreds as Iwing 'without :i sufficiency of b:va I, whilst actual starvation in s mie instances have begun. A self-constituted philosopher s.iv., Lf men kuew what women think they would be tweuty limes more audacious. If women knew what men think they would 'be twenty times more coquettish. It may not be generally known tliat Horace Gre ly was married at I'ittsltoro in this State. The bride was a New Eugland school teacher who had come South .to pursue her avoeation. This was about fifty years ago. Charles Pearsall, a young man in New Yoffc, finished recently the task of eatiug three hundred eggs in live days. He won a wager of twenty fire dollars, and now claims to he" the champion egg eater of New York. , The latest use of paper is in 1 he . manufacture of carpets. A Connecticut man is reported to have taken out patents for process es by which beautiful and substan tial carpets can be made of paper at very low prices. The Iudiana Democrats in Con gress and employed at the capitol are jubilant over the returns of the spring elections in that Stare. Mr. Dalton, Postmaster of the House, says the retnrns show that the Democrats have increased ,r their majority of two years ago, which was 17,000; that they have carried counties hitherto Eepublican, and tUat the Democratic -party iajn Jbuch better fighting frim than their The Wadesboro ''Intelligencer" says, we connsel every young man to never chew or smoke tobacco, but -we also connsel every old man in uiis region -to grow all. of the weed he can for somebody else's . boys to chew and smoke. ; Capt. J. Ii. Thigpen, one of Kdgecombe's live and progressive farmers, offers to, be one of 10, 13 or 20 to furnish -.the necessary amount to have lidgecombe repre sented at the State Exposition. North Carolina hath need of many more such men. - A Kentiickian in Mexico tells how he taught a Mexican girl how to kiss United States fashioD. ,Jhe next time she saw him she told him she wished she had- been born in the United States, hi-ili-vico instead of imprinting the kiss otfvC the lips the lover kisses the feet ol h.s adored one. The marriage ceremony was performed between a dead inau and a live woman in Maine last week. The reason was that the lady, as the widow of the dead man might draw the pension from the govern ment which he had been receiving. For sharp tricks commend ns to a Maine yankec. The intelligent and trustworthy Washington correspondent of the Baltimore "Sun" says it is consid ered certain among politicians in Washington .that if Mr. Tihteu will consent to allow his name to go be fore the national Democratic con vention, no other mail will be thought of in connection with the nomination for the presidency. The Kentucky legislature is considering a bill to make it a pen itentiary ollense lo keep a gamb ling house. The pi" changes the ollense Irom a misdemeanor .with a fine, to a "felony." It looks like a long step fov -Kentucky to' take, and there are many States which can well take note of the discus sion. : The "Ciiizen"says Maj. E. W. Henidon, pf Asiieville, who is at present in New YV.rk city, Jiad his pocket piefked on the iUh fust., of 1.013, while in one of the museum rooms in Central 'Park. The ma jor at om:e discovered hjs loss, gave the alarm, tin doors were closed, he pointed out the thief to a toliceiuan, had him arrested and secured the money. Mrs. lloger Atkinson was knocked down and dragged into the. middle of the street in Wash ington by a would-be robber last Saturday evening. Uer assailant was a negro man, who has not yet been identified by the detectives who were promptly put on his track. -She is the widow of Bishop Atkinson's brother, and a lineal descendent of the distinguished Geoj ge Mason, of Gunston. The Philadelphia papers pub lish t he affidavits of George Gilles pie and liobert Hughes, animal keepers, of Liverpool, who swear that, the alleged ' white elephant of Adam Forepaugh is a common In dia. i ele hant, artificially colored with Paris white. The men allege that they were employed to color the animal, and that -they gave him several coats. A veterinary sur geon lias also made an affidavit that the coloring will probably cause t: e erepliaut's death. Tlie Mountain Island cotton factory, situated in Gaston county, feu or twelve miles from Charlotte, has been sold by the Messrs. Tate to Mr. Wni. J. Hooper, of Balti more, for 125,000. The property is valuable and splendidly located, and "we think," says the Charlotte "Home and Democrat," "both the sellers and purchasers have done well. It will not be long before many other capitalists from the States north of us will come into this section and make investments. All are cordially welcomed." Thomas Davis, age fourteen, of Spartanburg county, S. C, be gan digging a cave in the bank of Tiger river several days . ago, to make a place of safety from cy clones. His parents did not know it. He was missed. He had told some children of his' intention and a clew was thus obtained.. Upon searching along the banks of the river it was fonnd that the cave had fallen in - and that the boy had been cruslicd beyond recogni tion. ; Hundreds of similar pits and caves are being made through out the country in which the recent cyclones did such great damage. Bedlam broke loose in the lie puhlican county convention for Mecklenburg county, held at Char lotte last, Saturday to appoint' dele gates to. the State and district con ventions.. Postmaster Jenkins and Dr. Nonnent led the opposing fac tions. The convention cursed and threatened for five ho-irs and at one stage of the proceedings the police had to bo called in. The Norment crowd finally got control of thexHinvention and the Jenkins crowd withdrew and issued a call for another convention. J. W. Gordon, colored, the route agent on the Charlotte and Statesville liail road, a Norment man, was chair man of the meeting and was chaig ed by the Jenkinsites with partiali ty in his rulings It was a nice mess as it was served up in the 'Charlotte.. '"Observer" 'of. Sunday last. i Rev. 1). A. Long, A. M., late of Graham, now the President of Antioch College. Ohio, was dan er-j ously injured in a terrible railroad disaster on the Dayton & Rich mond branch of the I'anhandle railro;vl route at the crossing of the Miama river in Ohio, April llth. Some fiend wrecked the train and caused it to "go down the embankments into the river. Quite a number were hnrt and two or three killed or left in a dying con dition.. The Cincinnati ''Commer cial Gazette" of April 12th says: "Of the passengers the most seri ously' injured was Dr. ). A. Long, President of Antioch College, Yel low Springs. He went" down in the passenger eoacu, and was badly jammed between seats, sustaining internal bruises of the bowels and lett lung. Dis case is regarded as critical by iho attending physi cians." f.-.-v POLITICAL POINTS -;o: - I WHAT THE POLITICIANS AliE TALKING ABOUT. THE POLITICAL CALDRON The papers report, that Sergeant at-arms Canuaday is becoming very unpopular among the republi cans in Washington. ! Tliey Wiiiit OtlifP. At a itrA.r.j. meeting of the colored e c-.-.-,..,-;i!i Mi. Arffo home) the ' lWlowing resolutions were unanimously avrt'tfd; WrHEEEAS, We have lieen coprt ed and nscd in times of lieed, like election times, to be ignoiied in the hour of prosperity, after; the cam paign had been waged, the ballots cast and the -election won am!. Wuereas, Viewing with su preme abhorrence the manifest Iii difference of the national Republi can party, towards us for the past eight years : ' Be jt Resolved, That we shall henceforth supiort no party, be it Republican, Liberal, or what not, unless said party pledge itself to protect -us at the ballot box and give us a fair representation in the political ofiices. M:te !!ino'r;ttie ionium t-. Raleigh, April 10, Pursuant to the call of the cen tral executive committee, the State executive committee of the Demo cratic, party met this day. At noon the chairman, Capt. Octavins Coke called tin;, committee to order. The following ''members were found to he. present. Messrs. K. II. Battle, George Jl. Snow and J. J. jLitehfovd, of the central executive committee.' First district Harry Skinner,' of Pitt. 'Second district A. J. Galloway, of W;t vue. Third district II. B. Short, Jr., of Columbus. Fourth " district 1. S. Battle, of Nash. Fifth -district A. E. Henderson, of Caswell; M. S. Robins, of Ran dolph. Sixth district I. I). Shaw.,' of Richmond; Wr. J. Yates, of Meck lenburg. Seventh district W. B. Glenn, of Forsyth. Eighth district Jordan Stone, proxy for R. 31. Furinan, of Bun combe. Mr. K. H. Smith, of Halifax, rej resented as 'proxy S. J. Peiiihcrton, of the sixth district. Mr. E. R. Stamps represented Mr. Charles M. Busbee of the central commit tee and Mr. John D. Stanford, of the third district. Lt. Gov. J. L. Robinson,- of Macon, and Maj. S. M. Finger, of Catawba, being in the city, were invited to seats in the meeting. The appointments made by the central committee, of Harry Skin ner of the first district and John D. Standford of the third district, to fill the vacancies were ratified and confirmed by the committee. At this stage of the proceedings t he chairman, Capt. Coke, called Mr. W. J. Yates to the chair, and in an appropriate sjeech tendered his resignation as chairman of this committee and then retired. Mr. W. B. Glenn offered the fol lowing rosolution, which was unan imously adopted : Resolved, That this committee duly and highly appreciate the able, honest and efiiJent services of the lion. Octavius Coke, chair man of the State executive com mittee, and his resignation as such chairman be not accepted; that they fully recognize the 'fact, that lie has made efforts for the party which heve been successful, and that his personal sacrifices for the party have been such as to entitle him to the gratitude of the Demo cratic party of the State. Messrs. Glenn and Battle were appointed -to wait on ('apt. Coke and inform him of the action of the committee. Capt. Cokej returning, urged the committee to accept his resignation, giving, the reasons that" influenced him, -and statin that he was ready and willing to am in any ami an legitimate ways the objects of the committee. The committee then accepted the res ignation. Mr. It. 11. Battle was unanimous. IV elected to fill the vacancy and asMimed the duties of the chair. On niotiou, Wednesday, the 23th day of June, was fixed for the meeting of the State convention, and Raleigh designated as the place of holding the same. The. following resolutions, offered by Mr. Galloway , of Wayne, were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That individually and as a coimnittee we heartily approve the plank in the platform of the Democratic party advocat ing the abolition of the internal revenue sy stem of the general gov ernment as onerous and oppress ive to the people of the State. Resolved, That the policy of the party in this State on' this question has been repeatedly de clared both in its platform and in numerous memorials from Deuio- cratic legislators, addressed to the Congress of the United States, and the position of the Democratic par,tv m tins regard is too well known to admit, of doubt or mis construction. Resolved, That we heartily commend the earnest and faithful efforts of our Democratic repre sentatives from this State to secure a speedy repeal of the taxes im posed by this oppressive system. Resolved, That the people of Nortn Carolina are too enlightened to be deceived by the pretended claim of the coalition and Republi can parties of this State to desire a repeal of this systdm. They as serted in their platform and niain tauied upon the canvass two years ago the jnstice of continuing said system, aid their " sadden , an nouncement, an opposite policy is on ot tue vaiiuuv ami the position of the Dem- ... i: .1i 1 justice or. ocratic nuestiot larty upon tins great The. rlsitrnation of Col. L. D. Stephealm, of Wake, as a mem ber of tie central executive com mittee. Iwiis tendered. It was ac- cepteij md li. G. Dunn, r.sq, was i fill the vacancy. chosen The I by MrJ llowing rcsoution, offered ,V. B. Glenn, was auopteu. Res lved, That it be recom- 111 All l' J to the conventions xuai i when Ley meet to send delegates State convention, they- also. to t app, nt delegates to attend a con- nal convention ot tue ui- trictlj as beldAt tin now constituted to ue i " .1 . .lrjifk ie same time auu "-- wijtufthc State conventien, for the piifse of organization in the conessional districts, and also to elect delegates from said districts to the national convention. It was understood and announ ced ibat the congressional conven tions alluded ttLin the above reso lution, are solely for" tejurpose of organization and electin gates to the national Democratic convention, and not for nomina ting candidates for Congress. - R. H- Battle, Chairman J. J. LiTCHFOKD, Secretary. "Drawing Trade." A merchant in town wants a clerk. What for? Has he. more business than he and his partner and-the bright bov, reared up in his store, can attend to? Oh! no. They three could do twice as much business as he has; hide d the one clerk could do it "all. and would be glad of the opportunity, if Ins wages were cor resiKMidiiigly increased. What then does lie -want another clerk for? To "draw trade from the countr." He keeps his former clerk on small .:' wajres, and casts about in his mind for a lad in the country who is popular, has a good addre.v-., and is extensively con nected. He is not long in finding one. The young man, allured V by the prospect of living in town and "seeins thinsrs" and wearing good clothes every day, readily accept a small salary ana moves to town What conies of this! Some things ill ways; some ot her tilings, frequent !v. A promising boy is taken from the held, his plow is stopped lorcver: i producer ol corn, cotton, wheat oats "fruit. "milk, noul try. and nil ither kinds of farm products, is drawn to town to stay. The most active Sunday school scholar, who has done most to keep his class together and to. encourage the superintendent' and pastor, is drawn off and leaves the little cluirc! in the country weak and disconrag ed. lie auus notmnsr to tue volume of trade in town that is lessened by whatever amoiiut v would have produced on the farm. He simply "draws ' trade away : from some other house in the same or neighboring town, to the house with which he is connected. The competing, house must now s.'ek to recover the lost trade byr getting some other young man from the same country neigh Itorhood. Thus the result is, two, three, or four young men are drawn from the fields where then-, labors were productive and remunerative,' to town where their labor adds not a c nt's value to anything. The whole business of the town could have been done as well, probably better, without them. Now of the things which frequently happen, we may mention as the saddest, of all, the bright, promising boy is ruined, lie is there, to draw trade; competition is sharp, and to suc ceed, he is tempted to hold out false inducements to his customers, to discredit tin; competing house, to become "hale fellow well met" with men from his neighborhood, whose example is poison, to invite them to places of 'amusement and worse places. He has no prom inence, in the rChurch, thinks him self of no impoitance to the town church, assumes to be slighted by the pastor, distrusts the simple heart religion of his boyhood, and goes headlong to the devil, lf his course be not so downward and short, in forty nine cases out of fifty, he becomes at least only a tolerable merchant, his life being more of a failure than a success. "Draw ing trade' has drawn him from a useliil and peaceful vocation into the perils and (roubles of an tin profitable life. Ex. "Bimeby Dey Ketches Ter." In the "Tarboro Southerner" we fiud the following: "A dusky individual of the bucolic persuasion came in fro i Coneto the other day, wearing a lugubrious vjsage '"What's the matter, uncle?" enquir ed a "Southerner'' reporter. "I wants ter borry some money, boss." "Want to buy a mule, eh?" que ried the reporter eyeing the an imated mass of esseons matter between the shafts of his shadowy vehicle, by country dubbed with the nomenclature of cart. "No, sah! I wonts to make er crop dis year." Why; don't you get a merchant to run you on a crop niortagagef "Run, run! Mortgage! Te l ver how 'tis, boss: Dey runs you an1 bimebv dey ketches yer Den ver's down sho' miff. 'Twon't do. boss." We drew the moral: "Bimebv tley ketches yer." A Kovel Feature at Commencements. n. H. Williams, Principal of La Grange Collegiate Institute, writes to the "Chronicle"; "We will have a somewhat novel and I think in teresting feature at our commence ment. Younsr ladies of the school will have a public debate they have a literary society of their own but they will read their arguments.- This gives them the op portunity to show their skill and attainments without the unnatural strain on their modesty which any thing like speech-making causes. We have a public library at the Institute which is gradually gi-owng. I find it almost impossi ble tolo full teaching work with out a library?' " ' . . a recogii: tleW-VSt; ARP'S TALK. :o:- ABOUT HIS VISIT TO ABBE VILLE AND THE MOUNTAINS. WHAT HE THINKS OF US. Hail, gentle sprinsr! I've star ted to sing that song several times ate, and it bails sure enough just before I get ready. Thfe poet says, "ethereal mildness come!" but it is all ethereal wildness this vernal season. There is nothing settled yet- Last week I thought tue winter was over, and so I ven. tured out.amoung the mountains ot iNortn Carolina for a little pleas- uie- nun recreation. A f.. t in- Charlotte I travlftl railroad that runs, or walks, or IKikea along from Charlotte to lesvi'ie. xuis rnsul is 42 miles six hours Ion ig, and has been enreieh"" registered as a fceeniid-elass nnnTtaf ri iTT ill TVarwvIa ' . ... u. It has no switches or sidetrJRka and but one locomotive, and always carries its freight before and its passengers behind, ' and never shows a red flag in front or a lan tern in the rear. It shuns the day aud runs at night, leaving Char lotte at 8 p. in. and arrives at the other end at 2 p. m. We stopped one hour and a quarter at one sta tion to unload guano and at the other stations according, and it was jerk and bump, and bump and jerk nearly all the time, so that a man eouldent sleep if h6 wanted to. I wonder what syndicate that road belongs to! Well, after all, I reckon they do the best they can, and it is lietter than the old way of staging it at four miles an hour and being erowde I on your seat by day and by night. This road is a near cut, and is one side of a trian gle, but a traveler can go round by Salisbury for a dollar more and lose no time and unload no guano. Alter we boarded the- Western North Carolina, we steamed along in good style, and by sunrise found we were rising higher and higher among the mountains. The eye feasted upon the beauty and gran deur of the far off ranges, aud as we rose . higher aud drew nearer to them, we became, transfixed with solemn wonder and admira tion. Afterwhile we reached the breakfast house at Round Kuob, and had a delicions morning meal, ami saw the . fountain that plays 270 feet high the highest, in the world the water that goes; up aud never conies down but vanishes into mist or freezes into ice. This house is solitary aud stuck on to the cliffs, and is. two stoiies high on one side and a good many more On the other. The mountain peaks close it up, as it were, in this ro mantic gorge where the sun does- nt rise until next day and gets lown before dinner. On leaving the breakfast bouse we began the serpentine ascent' of the highest ridge- of all, and winding around ind around and crossing; frighttu I avines, and boring through sever al tunnels we gained two miles in distance by traveling eleven. At one point we saw four tracks below us that we had iust come oer, aud they looked like little parallels Irawn on a series of terraces. The ast tunnel was 1,800 feet long, and when we emerged from that we were on the other side ot the range ind could almost see over iuto the lap of Asheville. The engineering of this rad was a masterpiece of science, and the engineer a master of his profession. It is euough to say of aiiv man that he surveyed mill located this road, indeed it seems impossible lor unman ieei to i . f have found sufficient looting upon these steep down cliffs and slopes to have ever dragged a cuain or planted a tripod. But the work is done, and seems to be well done, and "now they are filling all the trestle crossings with earth, and ('.raining off the sluices and water wavs that briner. their torrents down with a mighty rush The opening of this wonderful thorough faie has brought two le ns together that have been as far apart as if an ocean had rolled between. Tennessee and North Carolina have been introduced to each other and shaken hands, not across a bloody chasm, but over tiie peaceful crest of mountains that reached a peaceful sky. I had heard-of Asuville tor many years as a far off village among the hills, liu'tr now it seems to me a new fouurLland, and has all of a sudden put on her beantiful garments au come tortn as a onue. incj ieu " . . .i i .i m i j. .11 me that the summers are always cool in this land of the sky, and reckon t int is so. I know that the d;iv I crossed the mountain was " ...i . l .. ,i warm auu iau ai nuuie, .uu iu folks thought spring, had surely come, but the mountains over there were covered with snow, and eonhl have broken from the cliffs that were but a foot or so from the car windows icicles a yard long iindi.is lanre at their base as the wrist of a man. On arriving at Asheville 1 found the temperature more pleasan and the fruit trees all in bloom and saw the gardeners at work and the spring seemed fully as far advanced as I had felt it at my home in north Georgia. But I saw hardly any sign ot farming going on. indeed. I dident find out to mv satisfaction where the ieopl of that section did farm, for the whole country seemed as mono tains upon moutitains mouutain without valleys. Even the irencii Uroad aud the Swannanoa rivers had to struggle hard to get in and harder to get ont, and there was little or no bottom land to border these beautiful streams. I did see a little long, narrow ribbon of land in one place on the bank . of the French Broad, and the eager set tlers grabbed it and built a town noon it and called it Marshall and made it" a county seat ana put up a court house and a jail. This rib bon is just wide enough for the railroad and one street and one row of houses a half mile long. Uhoira. There was one little bench of bind up on the. side of the bluff, aud so! by blasting out on one side and wallmg up on the other they did find room enough- to build a church and it looked right proud up there and was a witness that the people remembered their maker aud gave Him the best they had. This is the town and this the place where they say iiegged shoes were first invent ed, and it came about because the towu shoemaker dideut have room enough to pull the waxed ends out their lull length without hitting his elbows against the mountain on one side or the other and so he in vented pegs that he could strike up and down erpeiidicular and have plenty of room. Asheville is the county.; seat of Buncombe, the county that loug years ago sent a man to the legis lature and he made a speech huff a day long, and everybody but the speaker and the clerk left the hall and after while the speaker called his attention to the vacant seat and he said he didn't care for that for he came there to represent Bun combe and he was speaking for Buncombe and should continue to speak for Buncombe until he got through. Well, they have some of cKe'ls'lime sort of folks left in Bun combe yetT Ylks w h o are proud of thttir rmi-ii .n.Tl "vl"1''- ri per ; mid mountains and cliniare7--isKjrd lots of them talk in Asheville airi' - . . " . ..ii.. u - - - -. - i it wouident be exactly sale for a stranger to go there aud .-nolle' school butter" in their presence. They say that after dame nature got through making mountains and avines and had piled them all around in grand profusion she had a few hundred acres '.Of choice earth left and a big lot of delightful cli mate and a couple of beautiful riv ers that she had 'saved for the last aud so she quit working because she was tired and threw these treasures down light' where Ashe ville is, and thev are there vet. That is what Judge Aston told me nd my opinion is he believes it. Asheville is a growing, thriving town with a whiter'. 'population' '.of ,000 souls and about twice that number in the summertime. Thev iave several hotels and abuut live inudrcd first class board in .houses. In fact, almost every house m the town is opened wide for boarders when the time comes, and even then they can hardly lodge all who ipph. Lnteilainiug travelers in search of health and pleasure is the principal business and they know iowfto do it. I never 'domiciled hi a cleaner house or had better fare and attention than' I found at the Swannanoa hotel. The town has oubled its population and tbribled its business in three years. I t ;: ,v has an opera house and a puli:c library and a club room and a brass band, an art gallery 4md a dozen or inore-. large tooacco " warehouses where the farmers bring in their. cat tobacco and have it auctioned off to the highest bidder every morning, no private sales are made. I saw tobacco in the ieat soul at eighty four cents ajinund and five hundred pounds were made n an icre, and made on the steep iriin- aiu slopes-.-that our .people would hiiik utterly worthless for cultiva tion. King cotton nas no subiecxs u t hat couutry, A Buncombe man will swear that lunc,:iube makes the finest tobacco in the world. A Haywood mau will swear the same of Haywood; and so of all the oth er comities m t hat tobacco region. Well I like Asheville and her hospi table contented people. I like the mind and charming scenery that everywhere meets and satisfies the eye aud the asp'rvng loiigiii soul that tlnu'st for peace, and beauty. I was told tnat from Jtnnvuntd No vember the toil rest from the north and the seaboard throng that re gion aud the raihoad has provided open canopy cars that give tu travelers a lull view ot every changing panorama. Artists with their sketch book and photo graphers with their new lightning cameras may be seen jerched upon the culls and peaks along the hue and so the world is furnished' with views of this land of. the sky in minature. I want to go there- next summer in the leafy month of June or when the leaves begin to turn, anil I want to take Mrs. Arp along with me and let her feast, herself upon something outside of the chimney corner, something not so sweet or so sacred as the old fami ly room and hearthstone, but still more sublime and charming tor a season. Bill Arp. He Wanted To Be Appointed As A "Census.". One of the queerest applications for position that has leeii made is the request of an -Oregon citizen, to the effect that he be .ap;v iiited iis "ceiisus." The Congressman looked through the list of all t!;e offices in the gift of a inemter of Congress, and conld not find any office by that name. lie incpured of all the other members of Con gress if they had had applications for the position of a "census." They ail denied that they had ever been applied to to fill that office'. He finally wrote to the applicant and asked him what his applica tion meant. The man answered that he had been reading that the last census embraced fifteen thous and women- and he thought he would like to be a census. The Congressman decided if there were any such position as that in his gift, he would resign his position and take it himself. Peck's "Sun." "Here's Your Male." Mary aud Alfred Chadwick, of Detroit, are a sweet-scented couple. Each applied for divorce. Tlie hus band showed that bis wife wasn't "loyal;" but she turned the tables by proving that he used to harness her to a plow with a steer, and thus plough their market-garden. He proved that it was common among Michigander, truckers to roke then- women with a steer or mule for saeh purposes. The court decided that Mary might go'-freV, aud hunt np anotuer unver. ABOUT FARMING. WHAT THE FARMERS ARE DOING AND TALKING ABOUT PICKED UP NOTES- A well "m formed writer "Mobile Register" says: ; in "I the be- heve as tumly as 1 do in my own existence, that if the cotton States will plant more land in corn and oats, raise hogs and mules, as be fore the war, they will, iij five years be independent of bauks -and city j merchants; their lauds will be worth 100 per cent; more than now, aud all of the industrial mterestsor the couutry will prosper as they have not siuee 1805." The Jones county, '.farmers are using this season a large amount of kainit, says the New Berne "Jour nal." You may approach Trenton on any voad that leads there and you will be "certain to meet some farmer with a load of kainit. Just enquire of-him what kind of crop i he is going to use it on. and nine times out of. ten he will; tell yon cotton, that there is no mouey in U-ii and meat ; and he will inform vouShat fimes are very hard ; that pork "eiuendoiisly'high in Tren ton, ou ttfc."i : o is corn ; that he had' to buy iMth pork and corn; that cotton was sVlrtw a V" llst .m ti..t if tVk all he made to square up for hisXrt'bzer and his farm supplies, butl ve'u" be ex pected to do better. 'v ' . Triangular Fari?!1""?- We have often thought thai001 The I land , i . . . I i - , feeds the stock lock, i lie slock icons u laud. Any deviation from this process may lie attended with tem porary benefit but i a persistent deviation from this triangular rule m "farming must result in failure in the end. If either side of that triangle is wanting there is a serious defect in the system".. If by imper fect tillage, bad plowing, bad hoeing, bad drainage, the land is not allow ejl to feed the crop,- failure results immediately . If the crop does not feed the stock from the scaieity of it, owing to its scanty . feed by the laud, the. stock must 'perish. If the stock does not feed the land with manure, because it has perished for want of food the laud will be come more and more impoverished until finally it will come to nothing for want of food. Now what is the sequel lesson to this proposition- of triangular far ming in which there must bo no missing liukf It is this. Stock raising is the basis of all successful agriculture. . In Belvidere, where the shrewd Quakers live, it is an agricultural axiom that corn Sold in the hbape of a oeel cattle lieast -always pays one dollar a bushel and a margin of pork. Prosperous farming is assured when grain goes off of the farm on the hoof. Gilt-edge farming, extra-prosperous . farming follows the investment of surplus capital iu the grain of noodle fanners who will sell their grain and seud it away on the hoof after feeding the land. E. City Economist, v SoiiiC Joiv inciiiff oiiipurisoii. in l-'uvor of a Slock'Law. An improved stock or uo rencc law should be in force .not only in Greene, but in every county in. the State. ::'' - ' There are so many arguments m favor of the system that one hardly knows uuou which to write. But laving all others aside, if you will permit ine I will give some statis tics and - comparisons, which, .if viewed from the 'standpoint of economy alone should cause it to be universally adopted. According to the last census there are iu North Carolina 157,(500 farm.- and G,.r00,000 acres of improved land, an average of about 42 acres to each f'4rin. supposing the "im proved land" to mean tliat which is in cultivation. The cost of building' and repairing fences in the State for the census year was s2.000.000, au average of '12.70 o e.ii li farm, or 30 cents per acre of , . cultivated land. , " Take the county .of Mecklenburg, As I understand it. it is under the operations of the 110 fence law. Iu this county there .arc, 2,045 farms and 140,24:. acres of improved land, an average of ;." acres to each farm. . The cost of building , and repairing j fences -for the census year was; ;,21, an average of 2.35 per farm, or 4 cents per acre of culti vated land. For the purpose ol conqiarisou, I will take the counties of Granville and Edgecombe, as they are nearer t ue size of Mecklenburg and prac tice the old system of fencing the crops. Granville had 2864 farms and l.:0,r27 acres improved land, being an average of 52 acres to each farm. The, cost of fencing was ., 407, an average of about 420 per farm, or 38 cents jicr acre of culti vated land. ' . Edgecoiulie had 1,&00 I arms ar.d 1.'G,015 ju-res improved landman average of 72 acres to each farm. The fencing cost 833,00., very near ly -20 ier farm, or 28 cents jer acre Vf cnlttvated land. - r:.L-e Greene couutv. which was under the old system in the census year. It had 1079 farms ami 75, 0l2 acres improved land, an aver age of 70 acres to each farm. The cost of fencing was 17,829, an av erage of $10.52 per farm, or 24 cents per icre of cultivated la nil. Of course the reader will under stand that the cost to large farms is much .more -than smaller ones, but the average cost per acre will determine the cost to each farm, either small or large. Now let Mecklenburg be taken as a sample and the no-fence law. in operation in every county, through out the State, let us compare re sults : The cost per acre for fencing iu Mecklenburg is 4 cents ; the av erage cost in the State ia 30 cents per acre, making a total of f 1,000, 000. Under the new system if at 4 cents per acre it would only be f 260,000, an annual saving or 11,- 700,000; the interest ou which at 6 per cent would amount to tlO-t,- 400, uearly half enough to keep up .11 it . l CI. . . an iue iencing in me state. Greene county, instead of pay ing out 17,829, would only pay $3,027, which would be au anunal saving of f 15,792. ; These comparisons, it seems to me, are sufficient" to convince the most bitter opponents of the new system of its utility, practicability aud economy. R. W. Best in Snow Hill ''Telegraph." Trouble &t Himilton. Hamilton and vicinity are In a fearful state of excitement. About two weeks ago a man claiming to be au Iudiau doctor, announced that he would give an entertainment to the colored people at Hamilton, Posters to that effect were freely distributed. .- Accordingly, when the time came, he had quite a considerable audience of colored people. Out side of the building iu which the entertainment was to take place several white peoi.le gathered thiukiug they would see a magic- lantern sort of an aflair. When the crowd was assembled the Indl an doctor. arose, "and instead of an entertainment, made, as severs persons present said, the bitterest speech they had ever heard, lie urged the- colored people to stand together, to unite, and to visit ven geance on those who opposed them The whites on the ontside, who kuew that so far as their country was concerned the colored man had nothing to complain of, and .that such talk was only calculated bring trouble to all. so expressed themselvet-. A burly negro, who n 'Drticuin uori ucvu Dbaiiuucu near . kivntinnfll la 1 litA fitnti An AjI the door, made his appearance with N.nllrtoi 5n his hand, and nahl that n(white man should come in ; if be did e would shoot him down. This produ great excitement. A pis tol wasi'e an tue gaftrd nished baek'into V10 house screaming that he was shoi Mhnrw This terrified the In dian doctor, etorte-Ui ibvady heard his speech condemned by the peo ple on the outside, lie wilted and left. The congregation had no de sire to remain longer, so that in a shorter time tbon it takes to tell it, the house was empty. But the medicine man, alias In dian doctor, did not leave. He continued his ministrations in a quiet manner, giving the same ad vice, until several of the citizens resolved that they would .put a stop to his machinations. In a short while the physician of the red man was seen departing. The next day, which was Saturday, the negroes could be seen gathered on the streets of the town iu groups, talk ing and acting in a manner that could excite only the gravest ap prehensions. Suuday it was evident, that ex citement among the negroes wat still at fever heat in every direc tion. They could be seen gathered iu groups, earnestly talking. Mon day followed with the burning of Spring Green church, the setting fire to Mr. Tim Ward's dwelling aud the attempting to fire several houses in the town of Hamilton. The. white people in that section firmly believe that the burnings and attempted ones alb arose bom ihe causes heretofore detailed. They, one and all, deprecate a race conflict or anythiug that tends to it, bnt excitement is running now so high that only a spark is needed to give the worst passions of all an outlet, - , We advise the fieople to be pru dent, that they should be tardy rather than hasty in doing any thing that will" precipitate matters. We do this liecause it is our duty; our race is the superior. More is to be expected of us than of them, the tools of designing .scoundrels. We hoje that by a prudent and discreet forbearance.' any trouble may lie avoided . Let the people be just and fear not. If, however, for bearance ceases to bo a virtue the white man will not submit to the rule of the Ethiopian. Tarboio "Southerner." To The Public. THE OXFORD OBPHAN ; ASYLUM. Official notice having beeu re ceived from Mr. J. II. Mills of bis declination of the Superihtendency of the Oxford Orphan Asylnm, to which be had been elected by the Grand Lodge of Masons and again by the Directors of the Asylum, B. F. Dixon, M. D., -ot King's .Moun tain, Cleveland county, has been elected Superintendent, and is here by commended to the confidence and support of the people of the State, as is in every way qualified to continue the work, which, under the management of Mr. Mills, has won so warm a place in the hearts of our eople. There are now one hundred and forty orphans in the Asylum, and there is an unusual large number of applications for ad mission on file. - We therefore feel warranted in calling upon all Churches, the Ma sonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows, and all benevolent societies and up on all ! benevolent individuals to make contributions in money, cloth ing, provisions, &c, for the support of this great aud noble charity. As about half or the children ana all the teachers in the Institution are females, we especially comwend this work to the ladles 01 tne ziw, and suggest that committees 01 la dles be appointed by the ChurcLr or in snch other manner as may be convenient, to solicit funds and to visit the Anylum, in order that they may have the opportunity ol inspecting it J""1 examining iU management, v R. Bingham, THOS. S. Kexak, J. S.CABB, - 11. H. Mujrsoif, ' H. T. Babctsoh,. - a tt; a. Williams, r J: ' Directors Orphan Asylum, Oxford, AprU 1st, 1884. j - A TRAOdC AFFAlii A BOMANT1C AfPAIS Wrm a iivAuiu SEQUEL LOVE AND MURDEB. Morgan ton. X. c April 10tb. Urj In a quarrel near bear to-day i. tween Mr. and Mrs. aw. i.j the wife, m her passion. uart l out a statement which ban caused X her husbaud's arrest for murder committed seventeen ., v. the victim oeiug ex-Fedwsl w.ldier. ' jjapu itaipina Ltviusstoiie, aaid t.rt be from New York. , The develop. inents disclose a romantic affair' F v with a tragic sequel. During the 1 ? war apc Wvingston was confined s. in the Confederate prison in Salis." V A bury. He was good looking ami t A 1 mtelhgent, and was' seen by Miss r Rose Austin, the pretty daogjter f of one of the officers of the Guunbv jx uie mne lie was convalescent - ? ' from a nneie fever, au woman V heart pitied him. h g ive him t some delicacies and the n-ult whh f that be formed a friendship fur li-r V which rijieued iuto a love that was" -returned. She dared not speak to " , her father, bnt, managed to effect i the captain's escape. Refine he ' left for the Feleral lines lie her a ring, and proraiseii T$t after the war was o r and clu her as his bride. - f 7- After the war was over Miss Austin waited anxiously for her lover. She wrote to New Yorky, . but could hear nothing of htm, aiiif gave him up for dead. ' She hml . declined several advantageous of fers in the meantime. Among her most persistent suitors was Charles ' Bird, lie was the favored oue, but , ' . , she could not bring herself to " y agree to marry him. In 1RG7 Cap- k ' tain Livingston visited Salihbury . and lost no time iu finding ins promised bride. Bird was tohl that 'Livingston was her betrothed, . and seemed to Hcqniesee. ; The ' ' ? Captain was not in well-to-do cir - cuulalMyi'S'1 theref.u-e the wed- ding could uoriL4!lco Al onc Suddenly LivingstoTihi4L3li1' and Miss Austiu was wndetou " heve ho had deserted her. Altout a year afterward she married Bird. -To-day, alter quarreling with her husband, Mrs. Bird gave infor mation to the effect that Bird and two companions had murdered Livingston, and,1 with the aid of a colored boy, buried the body iu n grave near by. -The negro wasst once taken into custody, and cor roborated Mrs. Bird's theory. All of the parties were arrested thi, evening, and are now iu jair'f WilkeslKuo. The arrest has causen v intense exciteineutJis. the princi ples are prominent peop1l--44y, Bird is about 3.1 years of age; and j very handsome. -,. - 7 ' A Horrible Crime. The Maiidcrons charge tlhit south ern criminals of means and social standing esca)e punishment is not I strengthened by the fact that t !- t Supreme Court of Georgia hiy? ... aflirined the sentence of Mleatli against Alfred Iiiinan, of Manuel county, who was convicted of Die ' murder of his wife about H.vrnr ago. When Mr. and Mrs. 1 11 man Weie married about twenty live years ago, they were Isith wealthy stmt lielonged to that class of southern society which fonnib JXr ftm pleasure at the 'springs. The Iuh band contracted habits of din-dpr tion from which his fortune miffe) ed, and soon the once proud coup tWund themselves fond jS'-, hiiiuhlcr quarters. At If wh lumau's means were'thoroug! dissipated he attempted o ina similar work of his wife's fori 11; Under advice of fiieudu she refit to place her legacy ill danger.; T, aroused her liusbandV bitter hate, and he. plunged more des atcly than ever Into dissipati and subjected his wife to cruel 1 soiial treatment. Mrs. Innianc fully ItMiked after the planta and depositi'd her money wft country dealer six miles di from her home. One even! the close of the cotton e;wui,, year ago, Mrs. Iiimau mMinied i. horse with several hundred dollar ou her person. '. She did not retni 1 home that night, and scarchln; parties were dispatcheil to loo'nfoi her. aud on the midside hrr '- less Isxly was found, two ded her bead, from which a oolofl flowel. Near by .1 lightwonui - 1 1 s.i. i.i...tt was IOUUU covereu w nu uio"' hair. Tbe husband was susM of the crime, arrested, eonriJ and sentenoiMl to death. Belal of Inman came to bis aid Hiid lw made every effort to save him but all without avail. lie will snftei the jenalty the law demands lr the ; ; crime be ban committed as woniJ f in a similar case the humblest tit i- sen of Georgia, j '-..r Remarkable Delta m larnn to: Several days ago in Bear Grass township, Martfn county, there m as a remarkable and strange deajr 3Ir. Jonas Rawls, a genOenim about fifty five or sixty years od, had an invalid wife to whom he i was very devoted, It seems he has ; rnr vparn exnressed a desire and ( prayed that when she diedhe might die at the tame time.' Tbe day of her death he was in the field at work she not appearing wontf thaii usual, when be went to work f denlv she-was taken very ui iloneoftbe-childrenran. ti the kl and told her father thai limth was dying; be went to tue uof ' time to see her die, knelt h thebed as his family snppo' prs. t Suddenly wten hhc Jjj f.iotui. Nd tbe catytthei'as'he'j lio noise in his thro him on the bed and 1 again but died in ; Wife and husband v. tied in the same grav A "V- J - -J'