North Carolina Newspapers

I?. 7 )N ADVANCE. id. Every Friday at Noktit Gauolina. BY WIELS, Editor ail Proprietor noN Kates in Advance ....... z no - l ou an be sent dv Money order or tetter at our risk. I . ' boro Street, in' the Old Post nir. ' I "0i? A WEEK :j: fcED KKOM ALL PARTS V- THE 'WOULD, .i.isas-a ika six as L'lsrli vs to nave an ice lac- wvnship in Edge- "2!)7 dogs and only e Southern Baptist Conven in session at Baltimore. egaies are present. Monroe, Ga., Jesse linnn I killed Ins father. Cause l liey were courting the rue, Ten n., lias a law a. line 01 not less man, lian tfaO on any person i a saloon on Sunday. Pago Esq., of the ide,1 will deliver; the close ol hlls- Heiiderson, May d a catalogue shows an en- s. Sevent v ifcfc-by the - iad, D. D., will d Sermon at une the Kth. urney will deliver the Address. Tle Snow Hill 'Telejrranh" says that Mr. Lawrence Morrell will shortly start a iiewsaer at (jrtfiiville.. He bus talent and will mate- a good paper. It takes more-religion, check, Uish fulness. -brass, cuss-words, pa tunee and money to run a country irwspaier than it does to conduct j national election. The Bepuhlican District C'on rention at Lauiinburg split up in a row. Two sets of delegates go to Chicago. Verily the republican party is not a happy family. -The University Normal School begins June lT.th and will close July J 7th. Supt. Totnlinsoii will be assisted by Prof, E. V. DeGratI and other distinguished teachers. The Shelby "Aurora" says, We demand the repeal of t he 3.00 tax upon) the Clod-given rite.' of mar riagei. We will support - no man who flavors $3.(10 tax on niatriino- .v. line county justices are rcqmr 'ed1y law to meet the first Monday in Jjune to levy taxes and elect comity commissioners, Supt. of Pub lic schools, and a finance commit tee. The commencement exercises of Warsaw High School will take phii'0 May 14th and lath. Uev. Dr. l'ritehard will leliver the annual aiMress. We n-turn thanks for an invitation. A letter from Dr. Eugene Oris ' sum was published in last week's Cluirlotte "Democrat'' wherein he writes: "Under .no -circumstances would I accept -a nomination for any political ofliee. The Washington correspond cut of the Goldslxiro "Messenger" ys Gen. Cliugnian will be an in tlepeudeut candidate lor 'Congress in the mountain district, relying upon Keimblican votes. " In Martin county, on 22d of April, Mr. S. 11. Harrell, dropjied dead while ploughing in his field, lie had heart disease, and it is supposed a sudden attack came j... .... n in i ii It i in with siliove result. I An excursion party of tilt ecu editors, representing the. leading papers iu New England, 'arrived -at Asheville Tuesday, j They were Kreatly delighted with the country and the magnificent scenery along the way. There is an old lady near l'ay etteville, says the "Sun," who bas never struck a Inciter match, lint still sticks to the old plan of cover ing up a chunk when she retires at uight, so as to have tire the not . nioiiiiug. Al'ew'days ago the Inxly of Thos. 1'ate was found near Averasboro. Harnett county. It is supposed tbat Mr. Pate died of heart disease. Uu was a man of -prominence in bis section, and formerly 'resided' in iojdsloro. Franklinfon Week I v:" AVe lieard ol" a man in Wake who raised 4,000 pounds of lint cotton on one acre of land. The same gentleman killed one hundred and iifty par tridges one day with a single barrel shot. gun.. In the First District the Kepuli lieans have sent two white men J. B. Hill and E. A. White, as del;. egates to the National convention'' Eli Sutton (col) kicks and threat ens to rim a negro for elector, and congressman from the district. Pittsboro '-Record:" A white I man in Pear Creek township.! named Bryant Hilliard, . in a par ! oxysin of anger, struck his three-! iunths-old infant so violent a blow 1 on the head that it is expected to! die. lie is now hiding out to I evade arrest. Oar thanks are due for an in vitation to attend the commence ment exercises ofMorrisvilIe Colle giate Institute, May 1 1th and l.'ith. The annual address will be deliver ed b Maj Ilobt. Bingham. Our oung friend and former school mate, Mr. Silas E. Warren, "is Prin cipal of this successful school. What's iuanaiue? Listen to this tale and you'll find out. Con gressman O'Hara has informed the New Berne "Journal" that he can't it an appropriation to deejen and cleau out Moccasin Kiver be cause on the maps which the ap propriation committee consults it i.s called simply Gontentnea Creek. This, therefore, is a name ill ap plied, seeing it gives no content at all. Te i s a J Vt hi 1 V X ) iHE VOLUME 14.-- II. Mc. Smith known piano and Esq., the well f organ man of ; Charlotte, committed suicide last , week by shooting himself, through !' the bead with a pistol. - '.j Mrs. ' I). Hill, of Pittsboro. j says the " "Beeord," has a hen that is said to be thirty years, old i and still lays eggs, but they have j n shell like other hen-eggs, being covered with a thin skinlike sub stance. Col. Thos. S. Long, of,(Jataw ba Station, who is fat enough to le healthy, but who has been in very . bad health for nun c than a year past", attempted, one day last week, to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a knife, but did not quite succeed. .Mr. Flannigan, of l-'lannigan's Mills, Texas, who . demanded to Know in the 'convention which Jiomiiiated Garliehl, "what are we here for except the ofliee ?" has put all opposition under his feet and secured, an .elect ion; 'as dele gate to the national Ilepnblican convention this year. Within a radius of less than thirty miles of . High Point, N. ('., there are at least thirteen 'cotton factories, two woolen factories and fourteen mines, all in lull operation. To these add a large number of to bacco factories, sash and blind fac tories, spoke and handle, anil one-J factory t It:; iiiiislie.'H shuttles ready lor the loom. Stanly county mules don't wttil t, et .acquainted- with their owners' before going to work -n thcih. The Alberin.ule ''Observer" says "Mr. -Jacob Sides had just swapped lor! a mule, and going into the stable the beast began kicking him, breaking his jaw bone and nose and knocking out a parcel of teet h for him'. We are in receipt of a pamph let called "the North Carolina Ex position."' It explains, in a busi nesslike Mianner, the object of the Exposition, and contains many val uable NUrrestion-; for those who are interested in the proposed Exposi tion, and where is there a North Carolinian who does not feel senti ments of pride in its success? (lea. W. (1. 1wis, 'Engineer of the lJo.-ird of Agriculture, has been made Agent, and Engineer of the Hoard of Education. Ex. Although we cannot imagine what duties would be required of an Agent .and Engineer of the Hoard of Education we rise to ask Iibw tUjit board lias managed to exist this long wit hout such an of ficer. ' The Negro And The Mnle. You '-begin to fiolice the union that exists ' between-the negro and the mule, the ! two inseparables. He it the cart, with one, the truck with two, or the wagon with three, it is all. one, on the 1mx is a negro invariably. You shall not see .in the streets of a city a dozen ve hicles bearing burdens and drawn by mail's that the motive power, so far as the whip -goes, is not a negro. It would be an interesting study, this connection f the ninle with the negro. This inseparability oi the most defile of the races of nien with the most stubborn and obsti nate of brutes :s.-: 'mystery which no fellow has ever yet found out. Probably it. is that the gentleness id' the one may be balanced by the ugliness, of the 'other. A mule will kick th; head off. a white man but he never so abuses a negro. With mules a negro may 'safely-, rush in v here white men fear to tread. And there is another similarity be tween them, ' You can never tell from 'appearance 'the age of either negro or mule. -The mule is porn wit Ir an old expression, which neycr changes, and when' I he -Southern nciio has attained a certain nuin ber of years he never grows older. The only ditl'eience is negroes do die, and mules do not. naturally. No one ever 'saw a dead mule ex cept from accident, and seldom then, for a mule will live ami do well after a railroad express traiii I has gone over hiin. ' . Anvhow;the mules are all driven by negroes, and they evidently love. eh other. After the war every n: ro wanted forty -.acres of land aiu o!'l It oi " mile. If he could have '.but invariably chose the mule ' he. had' anv use Tor him Fair Folk At The Fair. Thjere is now a lady in the State.) able 1o command from two to thieej dollars a day in ofliee work as a i shortj-hiind w riter aud'typ'e writer: : and tjiere are several young North j Carolbia ladies at. North, witholli- i ces, inhich they earn fair livings.1 copying 71lie type-w. iter. S.'.eci- -mens of this tork in both branches 1 should be shownSJiml if practicable ! one of the rypc-wV:4eis should be; shown in operation bv, seine ladv ; skilled in Hie use. " -s. ! There is a lady :n Halifax eNnnty , skilled in taxidermy, w ho has f.ipw many line specimens of her w oik fiyj this and--other, "directions. Such1 moik oui(i maKe an interesting exhibit. " -A lady in an eastern town of the State has. it is said, a jniving industry in pickling and canning shrimps. Another makes capital yeast for sale. in quantify, and still another is a specialist in -"-Botany.' There are dozens of others, adepts in various pursuits. Ami nil of these ladies should show their li-m diwork, to encourage others jn sim lar pursuits, for .nleasure- or for profit. ' ' Shall the bed quilts, the embroid eries, the fancy work generally the preserves, the pickles, bread, cake, wines, &c.i &c. be shown f By all means. Bring all of them. Last, but far from leing least, the ladies "themselves should turn out in lull force, to grace the o'ca- sion with their .-presence,' and ft may -ire aieiy saui mat they will (institute the brightest jewels Nbrth CaroHna can exhibit. "W. Primros?." Ii ADS IN COUNCIL. MOW MOTT TELLE!) 1I1S PLl' PETS HOW THEY DANCED. A CON TIN l.'AL WKANtiLE. The ltC;uhlican Liberal Coalition Jtc., party, met' in Kaleigh last Thursday. At :i : So p. m Loss Mott called the convention to order. Pat Winston did the first declaim ing. He said, ''With (Jod's aid and that of of our brctliren, the liberals, i know that victory is assured."' (JTIara was the next orator After him Win. A. Guthrie, Judge Y. A. Moore, Dr. 1L M. Normeiit, a negro named Ifcicliardson, E. U. Haywood 'Jr., Ike Young, and (1. W. Stanton orated and 'prophesied victory. . StanttTn is represented to have Said that his heart overflowed wit li grat itude w hen he compared this con vention with all previous ones held in the State. , Lott W. Humphrey was made permanent chairman, ami Jno. C. Daney (col.) secret a.b '. THK :iSFKRKNOK OOMM.ITTKK. - J. : 10. 'O'Hara 'offered resolutions raising a committee-' of fit teen as a committee of conference with the liberals -assembled in massjmeeting.' The resolution recited that the lib erals are dissatistied Democrats who are seeking information as to what, course 'to pursue in t he cam paign, and to .make arrangements looking to an arrangement between the two parties. Tin chairman was 'added to the Committee. A reso lution ottered by (Jen, JS."' II, Man ning, of New Hanover, flint the committee be instructed to insist upon putting a"- liepuhlican at the head ot the State, ticket, for Gover nor. This .speech raised a perfect storm of howls and cheers. .Man ning .wouldn't' be snowed under, and said the Republican's, demand ed a voice in this matter, and would not be sat islied with aught else than a straighten! 1I t he head of the ticket, cd-. flint a siraigliout wwuld get luanv more piiblican at lie declar Re.pul)lica!i votes t han any liberal. Judge Moore s.iid tl'ie resolution raising I .he comini' tee on conference provided 'tor a. confer ence not as to candidates but on po'iiitsof policy.: Eiciiai (lon, col ored, aniid a scene of great uproar, made an attack .upon the chair., who got hotter and hotter, while hisses were heard in all pails of t lie hall. Patrick II. Winston urged that the resolution of instruction was an in sult to the . (romiivitt.ee.- The com mittee was then appointed as fol lows: V. (I Pool. .las. E. O'Hara, E. P. Towel s, M. A. Bledsoe. P. 1 1. Winston, Jr., S. II. Mannin-. T. N. Cooper, W. S.'Pearsu'n,- J. II. Can non, James II. Harris, J. S. Leary, S. A. Blouni.'W. A. Moore. The instruction resolution t iieii came up again, Air.-Winston saying that the comiiiii tee should go to the liberals a ud quiet iy 'confer 'with them. E.-'!l. Siilfon, . (ro'ored,-- de- nounced the to table ii. resolution, The ve.i:- moved ajid some liavs ludi- were deinandi.'d. and crous scenes, hicii betrayed the ignorance of parliamentary- law of the chairman - as weii as (tie con vention. --The resolution was tabled by an oveiAvhebning vote. .Secretary Harris lead a comma-, nication from the mass meet ing of the Liberals signed by-('ol. Yilliam Johnson, announcing that a com mittee of conference had been rais ed by that meeting, and suggesting that a similar '' commit lee be raised by the .Republican party nice! ii and confer. ! Sl'KCIMKN llATIANdt F.8. James H. Harris " niade a set speech, in which he. arraigned the Democratic, parly.- He was a can di late for a position to slay Demo crats from the sea-coast-; to' the mountains. .---He 'made a savage at tack upon the "Democratic party, saying it was"i party which, won its vict(ries by fraud, bv 'violence, by murder. At t his stajre of the proceedings.- a white man ilelegate. sprang upon the pla! form, and "This is old Jim Goodwin, of Halifax," began a real, ohl-fashioned harangue. He -opposed', the "conference" i.dea aniid great cheers. He favored a straightont Republican-', ticket. He didn't like any such business. If the convention reports for York, said he. and you don't like the ie port, vote it down and go for l)ockery or I'us.-.eil. (Great cheersj He ''didn't want anything but straight Republicanism in his." he yelled. '-Halifax wduld'nt.have any song in this damned thing." Dl'.LECATKS T nit"A( i, i. After much wrangling and main nominations' and w indv sneeches the following were elected dele , , , gates Jo the National Convention: J. J. Mott. W. S. Docket v. O'Hara, and Harris. Alternates. J. F. nellen, G. O. Wilcox. Win. rington, and Jas. 11. Young. Ar- G RANT AND LINCOLN. The convention 'met again Fri ay. Ihe lollowing resolution was oilxied: "Uesolved. iliar.-tJie dele gateV to Chicago be itistrticied to cast nieir votes lor i". S. Grant. for PresideXjL n -lvobert T. Lincoln for Vice-president." (Tremendous cheers). : A0 10,11 to table the resolution wasISoiiee made. Mr. P. II. Winston, ''asVi lie friend of Gen. Grant," asked .'tClv otTerer of the resolution to withdraVy it. A scene of verv ?reat eoiifiisNn en sued right here. The resolnti n bv an overwhelming vote was t-iahled, amidst great cheers. The Arthur men wer ruling the day, evid'Mtly, Winston iRMiig an exponent ot the Arthur element. The contention was, in fact, as a delegate d(fclarel, an Arthur convention. NOT VERY nARMON VOX Chairman Jinmidirevi- said some A delegates appearea to think re was "something wrong." belief was false. Members the chair by themselves, this, the ciiairuian fairly St'u a in.l'.ged Sa swel , i I ItlK I'd WILSON LET ALL TIIE ESDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE Till COUSTKT'S, W1LS0N, NORTH CAROLINA, MAY 0. 1884. with rage. He was quietly worried by; Jim Goodwin, the white dele gate from Halifax, who was full of whiskey and very obstreperous. A motion was made to eject Goodwin from the hall. But a sergeant at arms was appointed to look after Goodwin, who then cooled down. One delegate shouted out, ''It's the revenue men nominating York !" A negr delegate called out, "I don't owe my allegiance to any revenue ollicer !"'. J. S. Leary, col., appealed lor good order and har mony. He made a motion that the chairman apj oint a committe of l.r to report on platform, and that the committee consider as to the incor poration into their report of the platform of the Liberal party. SO LIBERALISM IN TIIEIRN. Georges W. Price ottered the fol lowing resolution.: Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention to nominate a true and t ried Ilepnblican ; t hat none other be received as the choice of this convention. Dr. Normeiit in sisted that the amendment was not in older; but the chair ruled that it was. Dr. Normeiit first appealed froih the decision of the chair, but w ithdrew it. George W. Price said he repre sented his constituents when he stated that they would not be sat isfied with any one save a Bepub- licau at f ie head of the ticket. If a Liberal were out at fhe head of the ticket his people would not vote for iii.ui. He wished to put. himself and his constituents, the Bepubli cans ot New Hanover, upon record in this mat ter. lie asked where w as Daniel L, Russell, and the oth er Republicans who had worked for their party, that the party should go outside of itself and choose a Democrat for the head of its ticket. -'Another resolution was offered by delegate Helton, from Yadkin, that the Liberals be given the sec ond place on the ticket and that all the other places be left vacant. He wanted things fixed so that the two parties could come together. If these mat ters are not settled satis factorily the -Republicans -will lose the day. Dr. Norinent wanted to know if the committee's . -.report was not equivalent to a nomination. The 'chair said yes, but that other nom inations could he made. One delegate ' got up and nomi nated P. II. Winston, of : Forsyth, for Governor. j Delegate Candler, of Buncombe, said hi would speak for Buncombe, and did so to the amusement ol his auditors. He said delegates drank too much w hiskey- and talked too much. He said his people, wanted a real Republican, and no Liberal, at the head of the ticket. Let York be again sent to Congress. He wanted the right weapon; to light that powerful enemy, the Demo cratic -party, - no such slender reed as York. Dockery. was his choice, THE STATE TICKET. The following ticket was pro-' posed, having been agreed upon by .' the Conference. Committee-:. Governor, Tyre York ; Lieutenant Covernor. . W. A. Guthrie.; Secre tary of State, George W. Stan ton; AMorney. -."General. Charles A. Cook; Judge Supreme Court, D L. Russell; Auditor, W. G. Cand ler; Superintendent of -public in struction. Solomon Pool; Treas urer, Washington Duke. .After 'declinations by. the best part of the ticket the following were nominated': 'Governor, Tyre York, of Wilkes ; lieutenant gov ernor, W. T. Faircloth, of Wayne ; Secretary of S:te, Geo. W. Stan ton: '''-auditor, F. M. Lawson, of -Madison; treasurer, Washington Duke, of Durham; superintendent of public instruction, Francis D. Winston, ol" Bertie; attorney, gen eral, C: A. Cook, of Warren. W. R. Trull, of Madison, and W. A. Moore of Chowan, Were chosen eleetois. THK PLATFORM. The platform adopted resolves that President Arthur's adminis tration has ''been statesmanlike: tnat I tie liiair euucat iona! out is a good thing; favors a protective tariff'; that the internal revenue ought to be abolished; that, the ceunty government system ought to be repealed ; opposes the South Carolina election law. THE LIBERALS. The Liberal Convention, a side show of the Radical circus, also met in Raleigh at the same time. Twenty live' delegates were on hand, and met in the Court House. Col. Win.' Johnson wns-perinanent chairman. T. P. Devereaux Was I elected chairman of the executive j committee. The farce of uomina j ting the ticket nominated by the J republicans was gone through and .j after passing-a-set of resolutions, jthe handiwork of a 'demagogue. 1...., r -!. o .....1 ! - , ; i renins concern ueparieu ior rneir several homes. . : A Love Story. In courtship, (according to re port o1' those who have been there) two is a ''plenty," and three is "one too inany. ' That is what is the matter with'--Millie" Christine, the North Carolina Two Headed Girl. She gets a salary of (!00 a week, and, "although slightly .'"Oil Color," is much sought after by enterpris ing Yankees who consider her sala ry of one hundred dollars per day a set-off for even a -double set of bangs. But Millie refused all. of fers until recently when she fell in love with' the boss hostler of the j circus, and not only cast loving eyes (lour of them) at liim but also loving notes telling-hiin that he was the idol of her soul ("Twin souls with but a single thought") and that if he would accept her hands (how many we don't know), she would raise him from tlu? stable to the iky-parlor, iu short order. The fellow deserves to f remain along with olher cattle alis tlavs for he made fun, and nia public, of the girls double-hep1 iP yeac offer. She ough1 cow-bide the calf. Her ofWT. appears to have leen sineer"! oiuy. ! i l r w . . FOR GOVERNOR. the LIFE AND SE11V1CE OF MB. U. JONES. UMBRELLAS FOR ALL. Mr. Jones was born in North Carolina. It would be invidious to fix upon any particular locality as worthy-of enjoying the sole honor of being the birth place of this emi nent citizen, and so it is stated gen erally that Mr. Jones was . ' BORN IN THE WHOLE STATE, and every village and hamlet is at iinerry ro nie its claim ler immor tality on this-head. This Uas -been the course uniformly pursued in re gard to another eminent citizen, Andrew Jackson, and its pursuit has furnished opportunities for elaborate articles to literary editors, and for philosophic observations in regard to the best authority as to w here a man is bom and his pater nity by the less cultured but more practical press. Mr. Jones' parents were charac terized by those twin virtues, pov erty and honesty, which always bedeck the parents of truly great persons of what gender soever. The parents of other great men Mr. Jones has frequently observed, with a soft tone in his voice and slight contraction of his eye the parents of other great men may have been as honest but none were poorer than mine. To fix the exact date of the birth of the subject; of this sketch would require calculation too abstruse perhaps for a newspaper article, but enough is known to justify the assertion that Mr. Jones is of suffi cient age and discretion to know, in the language of the slang of these degenerate days, a thing or two, or as others express it, WHAT O'CLOCK IT' IS.' llis earlier days were not dill'ei ent from the early days of other boys of uiiich about the saijie age and condition. The t ones i at his home were of that, particularly llinty structure which the senior Jones called hard, and Mrs. Jones had occasion to remark fiequcntly ou their great inferiority to other days she had experienced. The sun . TANNED THE TENDER SKIN of young Jones much as it did that of the companions of his youth, and where the sun left off' ;ts work the school master took it up. It would not be hazardous, or even perilous, for, that matter, to say that our young hero spent about as -much time away from school as his aver age fellow, and that the education he got by the legendary torchlight was of that sedimentary character which may be characterized as! t he dreenings of the traditional mid night lamp. On leaving school young Jones ; qunhlieat ions for office -.prescribed did not repair; to the collegiate i by la w and the constitution, with walks as did many of his wealthier 1 but his knowledge or -consent, Jmt neighbors but he repaired the walks of his native village, which were much in need of it about I hat time, in consideration of indiscreet and promiscuous liberties which he had taken with the peace and dig nity of fhe corporation through too frequent and strong potations and evil companionship. It was while learning this great lesson of discipline and control of one's self by others, that young Jones -resolved to devote himself to his great life work. He chose a profession, that to the casual and careless observation of men of the world a. ml the affluent nfight ap pear humble, but to the philosophic and moral was an exalted one. Young Jones observed the great scriptural truth that rain fell upon the .just and t he unjust with pain ful impartiality, and that the only protection to those exposed to its pitiless pelting was THE UMBRELLA. Closer investigation proved to his shrewd and ample mind that umbrellas were nearly all broken, or, at best, out of sorts ; that t here were comparatively few sound um brellas. This was true, not only of domestic umbrellas, bu also of t hat class of umbrellas which might be called umbrellas about town, which gadded about and, like candidates, were always in the hands of their friends. Why shall not I conse crate my life to the repair of utn brellas? asked this courageous and self-devoted man. To ask a ques tion with Jones was to answer it. lie saw no convenient reason why he should not, ond so ho took the' step which henceforth Aas to make him go up and down the world very much like the object of his de votion. Here it may be pt-rmissii ble to say, this is the class of men now needed at the helm of State. Men of devotion, men not ashamed to follow an honest calling, and t carry to its full success whatever may be undertaken. , i -1 ,i . : .. i .,...1 uen i lie locsm ui wai Mxiimeu i youug Jones' martial' soul swelled' within him and he longed for the j bivouac and imminent breech. His ! soul was rent as with an agony for the fray, similar to that which rent most of the fire-eaters of that day. But he reasoned within himself and said, there is more fire than rain in war, and there are fewer umbrellas than heads to be mended; I will sacrifice myself and stay at home, and he staid. During the pitiless four years which followed, this he roic man, lull ot synipatny lor ins j straggling country, braved his way j against adverse circumstances full j of hope. Mouth after month and day after day he saw the nauilter i of umbrellas growing smaller aud i smaller. Secretly in his heart he I boited to see the day when he could j not see an umbrella and when he ! could fay aside this peaceful shield i and shoulder his musket ; but again j he was "doomed to bitter disajv ! Irointment. Jnst as the umbrellas i became extinct, and the blockade i pi eluded the introduction of oth ers just as he was taking a rest A THY CiOD'S, AXD TRUTHS' before laying aside his umbrella for his rifle, peace was declared and the hojie of gain and the course of trade, brought cargoes of other um brellas to his native State. Al though THEY WERE BRAND NEW, and before Mr. Jones could accus tom himself to the changed -condition of affairs and reconcile his feel ing to seeinc not onl v. the ballot but umbrellas in the hands of tl.e I newly enfranchised colored citizens, j the services of this eminent mender ! of umbrellas were called into requi-! i. i ... i.- :.. i-.-n sition and he found himself in full i practice of his profession. During the dark days w Inch tried men's souls and the ku klux, this j tireless pilgrim went from house to ' house strengthening the stall' and j binding up the broken ribs of urn-! brellas. When the halcyon days of Democracy returned anl ict'y. again crchcd iijnu niir b.uiiieis, this disinterested man was found pursuing the one object of his life.' the protection of his pwpb' against t the descending .showers. i Mr. Jones is the friend of the poor man. He devotes the trained powers oi an active miml to the re pair of an old-fash io:ied gingham family umbrella with the same painstaking skill that he devotes to the ropped silk sun-shade of the opulent. His ideal in life is KljUAL UM1SUKLLAS. I"U AI.I-, and to this equalization of the means of protection against ;:ie elements his great powers arc com mit ted. An unalterable opposition to the Internal Bevenue is a fixed and pet principle with him. Believing in a certain degree of moisture as conducive to the most robust health, he believes that this great physical and political end can be best ob tained by the total exclusion of water and the regular introduction of copious quantities of bee spirits into the system. Mr. Jones leads in this great reform. In his enthu siasm he has thrown himself into the breach and those best acquaint ed with him declare their belief that he has not allowed water to touch his person for years, and that his system .is never free from the ef fects of sperits. Mr. Jones is not a candidate lor anything in the strict sense of ; worn, out on tne principle flint it is not judicious to t hrow aw ay a good I thing w hen offered, he might be i forced to yield to the ".wishes of his iron partial admirers. If elected lie I would discharge the duties of the j ofliee to the best of his abilities, I Mr. Jones has been eminently suc iCessful in his business, and if a man (attains eminent success in . r.ny i walk of life, and his walks" have. Ik'cii many, is it not natural to sup ; pose that he would be successful in j guiding the ship of State:' Napo I Icon said. "If I could write my country's lyrics, I'd care iu1 w ho might make their laws,'" and Jones j says so I . ; .IKN1) JIV . PEffPLFS I'M HI? ELLAS j l care not who'niakes their laws. T!i:s poor tribute has been paid in citizen w lie has the necessary. in it will be recognized lit I i- of i he prodigality of expression and penu ry of truth - which have -characterized some advertisements'. An Old-Fasuioned Elopement. j A yiUNC I.AOV WHO- STOLE ".A WAV ! IN IIEtt STOCKING KKET AT Mill- N KVIIT THE MA I." li I A ( J K IN THIS ; CiTv. I An excursion I rein ( iiarlottes ! ville, "a., to Alexandria yesterday brought with it a f rim-lo..king young man named Win. A. G reav er, aged i: i ye.us, and a handsome young lady of !(!, nnnied Bertie .1. ButleV. both of whom hailed from Staunton, Ya. This pair look the steamer at Alexandria for this city, reaching the wharf about 1 oVloek. They went to the. Biggs house, taking on the fifth Hour. The groom at once procured a marriage license, and made hasty arrange ments for a wedding. .Uev. French S. I'vans, ol the M. 1'. church, was caiieu away irom ms oesu mine dead-letter office to perform.' the ceremony. About .2:"u o'clock the groom with the minister and a rej resentalive of the '-Star", entered the room at the Biggs house where the knot was tied. A certificate was procured .and filled out, ami the young couple were driven to the wharf, taking'- the i o'clock j boat, ami expecting to reach home ! at 11: K at night. It appears that! the lady is the oldest . of a family j of children, and her father, . the principle of n .seminary, objected ! to the voung man on account, of his j employment on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. Having previously removed lie trousseau to Mr. Greaver's house, she walked in her stocking feet down stairs at midnight Wednesday, and.'' made her escape from beneath the pa rental roof undetected. She joined her love:, who was waiting for her with his gripsack and excursion tickets, and soon they were speed ing away. "Washington Star." Why the General Left Home. Thomas. Jeffeison was sitting in the lawn in front of Monticcllo one evening when he espied a solitary horseman coming up the road f rom Charlottesville. As he. approached, the sage of Albemarle recognized him as General Washintou. He j 1 went forward and greeted' the old hero -warmly, and remarked that : he was surprised to see him. ) i "Yes, Tom, I thought you'd Ik;; surprised: but I have come to you to stay. "You II lie as welcome sis the sun shine, George; but what has occur ed to make you leave Mt. Vernon?"' inquired Mr. Jefferson.. "Martha has learned 'Sweet Vio lets,'" said the Father of his Coun- tr.v. : ' "Is it true t hat when a wild ginise's mate dies it never takes another!" asked a young widow. "Yes, but dou't worry about that. The rea son it act that way is because it is a goose." " DVANCE BILL A HP'S TALK. :o: ON NASBY. EMIGRATION, FARMERS, NIGGERS, &C. , SOUND SENSIBLE VIEWS. ' - . ''.'.' - , , ,A, ,rlen,' S0'7S Blade, and marks me t he Toledo Nasby's last de liverance on the south. My friend is very inad about, it and uses lan guage. Well, it -is aggravating to have one of them 'fellers to come down here and be toaded and ! toasted by 'bur people, and then go back home and write a passe! of lies just to please his newspaper and the folks who read it. But I ; iton't -think we ought to take on faliout. such things. They do us no : harm. Ict .'em have jail Ihe emi ! grants If they want them. Nasby ! sas that "the south don't get emi grants because land owners don't work as a matter of coursed The i small farmer wont work because manual lalxir Irom tune iinineinori ! al has been doiw by negroes only, and lias been considered disrepu i -table-in a while man.. These emi- grants will not go to any country ; where lalnir is considered a tlegra- dation. They w ill not go to a coun ttry where he who plows, sows or ( reaps is counted as nothing better i than a -"(I d nigger." All t his has I to be clianged befo e northern men i or .foreigners will go sou, h warl. 1 dont know, Nasby. I -dont know I whether he is a knave or a fool, and J I dont care. According to my pe i culiar views on emigration he has i en doiie ' t lie south nor me any harm, but nevertheless the lie is all the same,-and it! .emigrants -'and northern men have been kept away from us because they lteliev ed t hat our farineis dident work, and that labor was disreputable at the south, tliey must have been told so by just such plausible, scrib blers as Nasby. 1 walked ten miles last. Thursday in plowed ground j dropping corn,' with a lame back I and the jerking rheumatism in my shoulder, and when I got. done I was all in a sweat of perspiration, and my neck "bone "was in a twist from-looking oneway so long; but I never felt more respectable in my life than w hen I set (low n to iny turnip' greens and fried eggs for dinner. 1 have no idea that Nasby ever experienced or enjoyed such respectahility iu his life, - and he j oiightent to pretend to be' familiar w ith such a subject. 1 can say em phatically that labor is of all things the most respectable thing among our people. We have several able bodied individuals down here who dent like to Avork,- but, it is net be catse they dent respect it. It'js because they are too lazy. They lack the inclination. 1 reckon there are some-of the same sort everywhere, and they will resort to most any '.respectable- dodge to keep from if, even to writing lies for newspapers. .The farmers of the south are hor -laborers. Nine tenths of them woik with their hands and work every day. and work hard. Tiiev are the lyne and inew ol the land. Three fourt hs of the men who fought our battles in the late war were working farmers, and t heir sons are workingnow, and there is not, . a considerate father . ur the j south who would not rather his uaugmer woum man v one oi uiem than to wed the average young law yer, or doctor, or clerk of our towns and cities. I confess that my curiosity is excited to know wiiether Nasby inherited that idea honestly from his family almanac, or w hot her he made it up w it h in il ic aforethought, or whetlier he go! it fnnn some other fool and like a fool believed it. 1 Ilut even if there was a found i- tion for th( slander. I want to know w ho tells it to the foreigner's away over in Germany, for -Nasby savs that; one ship that he was on 1as .soring had L.WIO of them all hooked for Kansas and Nebraska He says there was a ruihoad presi dent abe nd, and he ''pointed to the emigrants with pride -and said these are inv wealth. They will buy our company's lands and trav el over our company's -road ami raise grain .'for us to carry, and so will -their children. I led like I had a mortgage on them. That 'accounts foi.it.'- The. railroad-' companies of the west have their paid agents and bureaus all over the-.old couiiti and at Castle G irden. ami the pressure is put ujmhi the poor, ignoihiit foreigners and they go west. Our people just do nothing and let them go, and that is all there is iiMf or a I tout it. It may !e that, they have a horror 'of the nigger, and dont want to mix w ith him or come iu contact or competition w ith him. but ft is not because they believe that labor is not respectable at the south. 1 dout believe a won I of-.that., and Nasby dont believe it either, for he I savs in tla same letter that if; : every Ik d,v in Chattanooga waster ' wake up (b'-ail i the morning the ' ; city's growth would not stop. A ! j new jMijailai ioii would come riht j iu and take then places and go to i work. His letter-is full of praise ! for the ' laborers of .-Chattanooga and the industry and thrift of the people. Nasby has reyaniished the old fossillifojous idea that the north had of ns before the war, that we all owned niggers , anil made them work and dident do any Work ourselves. But the truth was not one man in twenty five owned a nigger, and the masses of our population had to work oi starve. 1 here., "was a small slave , JjoMiI arist0(.nu.y and fhey didn't york with their bands no more than the money 'aristocracy- of the north worked. Bich folks dont do manual labor anywhere, but 'the war broke up this aristocracy and leveled them down and the. hard working men came to the front and took the lead in everything. The rich folks couldent stand adversity like the jroor. They retired from the tnrf and .common stock took the track and have kept it. This is the logic of eveuts, the swing of the peudulum. NUMBER 14 But there are some folks dowu south who dout care a cent wheth er emigrants come here or not. If they want to come we say eouie, and if they dont want to we sav iro somewhere else. We are sorter like an independent family that moves j into a new settlement.' ll the na- bors call they are welcome and kindly treated. If they dont call nolrody cries about it. -'in fact, we dout waut them to ome by the ship load, 1,'tOO at a time, l'dont want any 1,300 to settle down by me. We just want thein to come along slow and get acquainted and fall into line. We want the pick of the northern people and we are getting them. We want those who are not afraid of us and dont be lieve we are barbarous. We had enough of the scum and the buz zards just after the war, and that experience put us in the cautions state; we dont want auy thiecs nor tramps nor earjHH-baggers nor slanderers of our people. We want to maintain our identity as a south ern people, ioor and proud and contented with our land and our homes; we will lH'ople this country fast enough if let alone. Why, I see that Dr. Talmage has got alarmed and preached a sermon not long ago in which he said "this thing of encouraging immigration lias gone too far; we are niiKrting communism ami infidelity ami an archy and dynamite that will he heard of in due time.'" Sometimes I think that Provi dence has a special regard for our peoVde and is saving us from this invasion of promiscuous nuigra tion. The negro suits us mighty well And it tbey keep the foreign ers awviy it is all right. 1 dout want t swap. It is aVmrioiis thing to me what folks warn; with such a dense popu lation, en course we waut enough to Ive socialx and have schools and churches, bit there is a limit to its propriety, ail I wouldent move away just, bees; use a man had come within five miles of me, neither do I want to live i;i the same house with another family. I would rather see our farn ers have a hun dred acres apiece than ten or a thousand. 1 dont want a nabor so near that his felks uin eee and hear all that goes on at '.my house, and I dont want him so far off that he cant hoar my horn when I blow it. We want a reasonable latitude and longitude. In short we want more, of nature and happiness than we do of art and money. So we are content for Mr. Nasby and his sort to stay at home, lor he is t(o old iu his habits to be converted to our ways and the 'truth now, and he might disturb the public peace and tranquility. Nasby's disease has become chrome and he cant lw cured. He liegu'u his slanders soon all er the war in a series of letters dated from "Oonfederat Cross X Beads," and he has kept it up pretty well ever since. He was born hating us 1 reckon and .cant help it. I think we are doiug pret ty well down south- and we want the foreigners and the northern people to understand that if they (ome her they are welcome and if they dont come they are welcome. As Colie says' "its all ootionarv w ith me.' ':As Cube savs when he dent cue what happens '-its all op tional y with me." Bill A hp. The Boy And His Mother. A young fellow writes as follows: "What do veil think of a voung lady while in t he company ; of a dode masher remarking of an old st.hoolmate of tiers, "that he is a good lioy, but tied to his old moth er s apron strings, and is of no good on earth." Will not the boy come out a head if he, suprorts and (tares for the mother ?" Come out a head?." Well of course he w ill. A girl who would make such a re mark is not worthy to blacken -the shoes of a hoy who is kind to his mother. Such a girl has got no more heart iu -her than a turnip. It is such girls as this one that we hear of playing t he piano while her mother is mending her stockings, or washing her white clothes. It is such a girl that tells her mother to mind her own .business, when the old lady advises her net to stay out more than two or three hours after midnight with a dude. The meanest men iu the world are those who have allowed themselves to drift away from their; mothers ami forget all about them. The best and bravest men in the world are those w ho have never lieen sO proud as when doing something pleasant for the kind old mother. The most heartless thing in the world is for a ersoii to make such a rcmaik as tbat quoted aliove alxmt a young man -who -is proud of his mot her, and loves her so that a tear in her eye is like a drop of melted lead on his heart. No Ixiy need ever be ashamed to lie called his mother's lwy. and no jx-rsoii with a soul to save will make tri fling remarks On so sacred a mat- i ter as t he love of a son lor a good mother. 's Sun. ! ; -Ti:- debating clubs all about in j the woods are going ahead of our! 1 iM.lita-iaus. Up in Danbiiry, for I. instance, (so the "Post brings word; t the Banbury Literary Society has ! got hold on the query: -Is the plan ; of working the public roads by fax- . ; i.. .!.. i.k..,.l.f i anon oesuaoie. , ! iur man who owns no I- !.,. ...Ar,, i walks a hog path fo contribute a nnudi to working the roads as the one who owns teams?" That's a happy blending of literary exerci.se and push of ideas. A Strange Death. A w orkman iy, lhe name of Car- ter in the suburbs of the city, a few days ago accMletitauy innicieu a r small cm on one m um uun .v.. a ockct knife, The wound, which at the time ill. L lit. li""- - trivial, soon became inflamed and was considered very the hand and arm began u swen. extending up to the shoulder and , intn the Uxlv. oroducintr death in about thirty six hours after the wound was .received. Ashevilie 'Advance." j WILSON ADVANCE Rates of Adtkuhswo. On Inch. One luerUon " One ilonthJ:,; Thre Montha. "ue icar, i"oo,nu wm be made tat L-Aarti-UHu a coot, bru,!I Cash must .. . ' , un.e. Tooq j. ABOUT FARMING: WHAT THE KAKMKHs oi 1)0lG AND TALKING ABOUT PICKED CP NOTES. AVarrentoiL"(i.i7.ette": Mr. John C. Pritchard tells us : that he tobacco cut, cured, stilH.,i sold last year by the 2lith .lav .f August, at 5T.U.0U 'p,.r hundred.- . And yet some sav ihev can't n.i.. tobacco liecsuse it takes so l.n.r ' make and market it. The most money to he derived from sheep keeping is hv riisiuK mutton ami wool together. A lamb that will briug ?." returns even times us much profit as one iair can do; and seven 20-uiouth old wethers that bring ?f u to 'm will pay twice as well as a eow or steer at that price, excluding the value ol the wool. As regards in ut ton, there can be noeainiietitioii agaiiiMt the farmers, as there is with beef, for inuiton is essetiti illy a bum product. A himtr (H Ihe ft'eure Symtrmy' Theie is no one iu-t that could be passed by the general assembly of this State that would U' of uiore be ue tit t it veopla than one effect ing a change in the present feuee system. Stop! Think! Iiouk about you! If the no-fence law had lieen in force throughout Cumber land, Johuston, llaruett, UoImwoii and Pender counties the loss there to-day from forest fires would be. comparatively small. We have for some time taken strong ground iu favor of a change in North Caroli na's fence system, and we are firm ly of the opinion that no great hound lorwanl in iter agriculture -can In lioed for until a cluiuge iu this respect is efl'ected. l'avette ville "Sun." Ohio I'arinrn, Mr. Bonn Piatt has for several years lived quietly on a farm in the richest agricultural region of Ohio, lie has not forgotten his Imhits of observation' since retiring from journalism, as he following talk with a "Herald" reiiorter sufficient ly indicates. "Hut farmers have prosH'red?" "Only in omf way. We have gamed through the incieased value of our laud, but this in ream tells against us 111 the end. Iu my local ity, for example, laud was Itought from the government eighty yearn ago at $1.L'5 per acre. It is now taxed 'from fflfi to 10t)." , "No farmer l Ohio can lietter himself now by 'irtoving figTTof West. Now, in my ueightiorliood, counting the value of the farm, Ihe eosr of lalior and that of lenciun and farm implements, and the cost and keeping of work horses, no man can raise w heat at less than fl a bushel. It is seldom we gel, 1. This year we sold at ninety cent. 1 speak of w heat, liecaiise it is our main staple." THK KAKMKU'M UAKDLoT. "but those farmers rvlubit in their improvement evidence" of prosperity!" "TtcH, and if, lor xivty ye.u? man will work from before da.hht' until alter night, work in all ea sons like a mule making himself, in addition, a hard task m ister to Ids family eating what he can't : sell and wearing next to nothing, he will ltcfore he dies, lie able to build a barn at a cost ol'.uy 9$ X and a frame house at twice that amount. Why, the. fencing alone is gelling to Ire av greater burden than he can bear. If the farmers 'of Ohio, under the present regnl'v' t ions, were called upon lo reouiifi the fences t hey have t hey would lie bankrupted. It could hot lie done, and yet these fences must Ihj re built every ten years.'' "To what do you refer when you seak of present, regulation?" T II K T A R I K I ' AND THK KAUMKK. "I mean the moiioMily given hnu iK'rmen and dealers in iron by the j geverinneiit. Every year tindier gels scarcer, afid, of course more 1 valuable. Barlx;d wire, the only article to replace, wood, is held by a r iiioik.iioIv made by the goveiiuneiit. . 1 1 is so arranged t hat, a farmer-shall buy all he needs to buy under pro tee! ion and sell under free tryier All I wear, all I use in my I'hincim, from a tin pan irintint.'hUfwt-A no bv law b twice, it-a vab while 1 liiv nrodiicts sold at home m abroad liave the price fixed l com petition in "Europe. This is IftV trade to me. Talk of paiirer l;dor. Why, my wheat, for example, at LiveilMKiI, where I am foiced tonell. if I sell at all, comeH iu eonipetifioii with that of the Baltic, where a la 'fiorer work for 1 a .vear and goatskin coat; or with ihe wheat of Egypt, where the man lalnns lor a bare sulrsisteiice. That; i our system, ami it is unjust to the in dustry of our country." I The Industry of a north Ctrolini Town. A correspondent of the Norfolk 'Virginian, writing from Wilming ton. .U, says: oi..nolia. located in Duplin Wilmiue .r .OIlllIV. On Uie line tr.n.tWeldon Baihoad, forty-eigbt ! miles from this city, ha one in idustrr which leads neaiiv every other in the state s. faras thf proti U are: ,l(erned. TL w is i raising or tuire-rose bullis for the j Northern market, ami w conducted ' bv Mr. Thomas Bivenbark, who t hV six acres under cultivation, i lie has a readv sale for all that lie j can raise, ami the prontsre enor- nious. ii s i-i...r... .--.- r , . tnlie. rose bulbs win yield more profit than five acre of cot . The expense of cultivatioa w , iv . . . . ; light ascoiupared with cotton, ana . it costs less 10 naneai, w When Mr. Buskin says that a couple should court seven years, he fails to state who should pay for the kerosene. r - . it .? X ,