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WILSON; ADVANCE HEDi '''VERY . rrr.nT nobtw n.vi ' at JOSEPHCS DlMELS. . EdiUr and Pr,prifW - v Hire Wttlso-w a : imMiTSar---- J 7 1 .V- " SUBSCRIPTS liATKs IN takcb nne Year.. Six Months 2 W) 1 00 85g.StreCt ia'-Q Post NEWS 01' A WEEK KOM ALL PARTS WORLD. GLEAN ixvs ; Heyal has been i- teudent ot S.i . ..i- "vrui.T lUO Oiliest nl' dead. He was has beeu elei- ff.'of rhila.l.l 'd iVesirleiii of v last V,.,.k ,;,S w llMue at l.'n: ii man who i.iiys ie in piojuii V00 llw." ei t, of Freiimiit. Jo deliver a M;i the fraternity of the Sfcautonsbiir-j: 'i-etioii on 24th inst. tiliieago boast- of y4 years oi.i, who iw George VVashingioir; more we hear of Geor we jet siioeKe.i. y ; We regret r learn tliiit nost-olBee at Coutciilin;!, the in (jlreene eouuty, has heeii diseon ynued. .The ofti:e is smlly need fd an.l we trust will Mm he re- f. ,LI:.l.. 1 fsiaunxiieu. X gentleman who recently trav eled through Stokes count f tells the Winston "Leader"' that lie saw a man 12 years old. lim'ing eorn in a Held, following the 1 1 of liis son siged 7t. The-Raleigh & (lii.-i.ui and Richmond & Danville lailroads have donated one tliousaud dol lars to the State. Kxp'i-iit ion. Who will say now that 1 01 jirr.ttions have no souls ! A woman in Canada has been craiiteil a divorce -because her has band yoke.l her iifi with a steer. Now, why doesn't slie sue the min ister or squire who yoked lier up with the other brute ? Charles Dudley Warner, the well-known author and writer for the "Oeutnry," will take his summer vacation on l.orserbick through tliA lovely mountain re gion, of w iVi1 - ! V-Jfit. s?. Sunrenip Court Judge, Noah S)Wa.vne, LJj. I)., died 4n Washington on Sunday, llu 'was born in Culpepper eouuty, Va., in 1804. He resigned in lssl (n account of advancing years. ' The District Conference of the Wilmington District will be held ' at Goshen church, in Simpson eouuty, beginning on Wednesday. July 23d, instead of Thursday; the 24tli, aa heretoloie uii'ioauceil. Lawson Wright, an old "negro blacksmith in Oxlord whs going home drunk and fell in -a ditch, and broke his neck. In other words, as the .Milton Chronicle" wavs, "he drank till he hroke bis neck."' The Asheville "Citizen'" says Mr. Daniel Sedfonl found a inby ; in Clay which he sold for . l.ri. It next koIiI for s.S.imKI, then for f6,(Mi, and a lapidary bought it, and after working upon n sold it. for ??1s,oimi. " ' Kev. A. L. Mendenhair I'egan a series of meetings in the liaptist Church at Warsaw on the loth lust. There were 40 penitents on Monday night, and on Tuesday .several made a profession ot faith f and united with the .church. It is said that lilaine is sure to clear $S(M),(MMi from his liistorv. and that he will spend the bulk of this if necessary-to ..forward his election. He will then havtj a' mil lion or two left, and he has 'strong supporters who are very wealthy. After all, Mr. Maine s reputa tion for shrewdness w ill not sutler by the campaign even if lu-Ishould not lie elected, for in anv liise his canvass will boom his iio.Ac. His publisher estimates .that 'he will make 400,000 as his share of the protits. A historian can stand a campaign for such a reward. '""-Audrew Stroupe, son of Moses Stronpe, of ("Jaston county, was hauling a cord binder home from l the raiboa.l station, Thursday of last week, when his. team ran away. He had the lines tied around his waist and being thrown tioin the wagon he was dragged . to death. iSo says the Charlotte . "Observer." , MVe, l ,lu' huU' daughter of Jlr. vu K. Smith, of Shelhv, went out with him to feed his pigs, awonliiig t the "Aurora," and climbing upon the fence she fell backward on her head and broke ucr neck. Fdlin she nulled the top rail of the 1 - i once with her, and "uK'"g on her bodv brohO one of her ribs. Greenslmro -Workman": Last luesday evening a lii, ten-year-old daughter of Ueniv Rotbrock, who lives two miles r,;,ui Thomas !', took her litu,. brother that ue was nursing , ., schooi i,0use near by, and attempted to crawl in 7 t,,e dnw. The sash came down poil 1H k sh0-Wils wuu.i some tinn barging dead. in the evening, A funny wedding occurred -Manchester, England, last we. iwo ineiKentur...! .1... ,i.....i. f in eck. meiKeiitered tii lnirch car- r.Mng bundles, vili(., tllCV jdaced oi'on a tabl.; .., ro,lf.'0f the altar, "eii the shawls nre removed, the contents l.., i. be the milgets, "General jte," and Mis Millie Edwards. TlTev were the" narried aci-ordi,, il Presbvtenan .W" 'Both ol T' .1. ,w them togeiM" "umu not til an truMle-bed. dinary cnnu- X JlATlIr.l.KJ) - .MM . . . - Til i . . 4 Li - ( Y AyMr. I-I'aiii elAV! Sul"'riD I '.Umiw.Mi-i.i.H I f .iyisI'i S'liitii,. I EpimT1 1 ,sl,t, i.s I ' MI- h- ' J-o.vle l tea sei"' y f I Shite irv' I : i -Dr.Y ' Bittin l lui nbi--. wbdV ' elect. I tff - Wake FoiY-r Volk-i I -Jr- deelintd. f 'i Ice s. Ji ;,' per 1W Ilw.,"1 11 jf olbs., pays n?t J" i than lie who biVH ( . , lr. W. J. (iV1 la.,.' has I been invite.r l sonic addi ess befoiY 1 .. I... 1' '"-TV... VOLUME 14.- in Duplin county, Matthew Moore. Bcnajau timeiiugiu, r,. T Piifol'tl. " llll.tm oauuiiu uiiu -' 1 'f . . ,ir:it: 1 I . ..I imam ncio riecLeu li. V. liraii.v, jr., was re-eiertea Co. Sujt. 1 uUlic instrucuou. , t'ouiit.v levicu iH'uts on noli -?100 worth of property. TIn- "Kccoider" says that Mr, ' ill. ..Al. Milt""- "iMJY OI uannini county, ioiiiiu n quaiiiii. oi money ' ;,li(iiit tin1 lionao on a farm bought iv hi"' last wner. "The exact I anioiint is no. known, but is eon , ... Mil. estimated at Iroin 9,'00 i t" l,o(Mj, and consisteit ot gol.l, 1 : ,. .....I trw.iF.nlxK.L-s Tln j i:,d belonged (o an old man jiamed , Co, who moved there from Indi ana and lived aloue and it is thought he ."bad bid the money be fore hi death. bowel "Citizen:" "Kate Field is very ! angry at Felt, a Mormon cider, and has said 'so in round j terms. Now we presume Felt feels las mad as Kate Field, and if Kate I feels that Felt feels this way, We i niur-t, all feel that Kate Field, ! should give Felt a fair field to j show how he feels iu the matter I an I in this way the public may arrive at the cause ot the ill-feeling between Felt and Kate Field, and decide who has the right to feel the most aggrieved in the I'i. ld Felr. feeling." The Marion "Lamp Post" has information that the Hallew cor. r, in Lenoir,' occupied bv Mr. Jth a hotel, Dr. J. c. Xewland witiiftstoek or goods, and by two newspftTteXJJffiees, the "Topic" and Chronicleere le Ntroyed by' life last Sunday iioru- ing. the fire originating in Ue kitchen of the hotel. There was no i nsurance ou any of the prop erty'. The "Topic" had not long ago put in a new power press. We sympathize with it iu its misfortune. The "Chronicle" material had just been moved to Lenoir and was burned just after the first number of the paper was issued. An Editor's Pleasant Life. There are but few people who arc aware of the pleasant life a newspaper. man leads. His path way is strewn with the brightest of dowers, and Upon a downy couch he reposes. His daily life is one continued round of unalloy ed happiness. This is why so in Any young men aspire to be come editors. There is no end to the fun there is iu the business, as will be learn ed by reading the following of an Eastern editor, whose style of writ ing was calculated to arouse peo ple to deeds of gore. Befog.. him self not much on his muscle, he found it necessary to keep a fight ing editor, and he had a speaking tube connected with the jeeler's room, to call him when danger required. One day a gentleman, whom the editor had referred to as "cross eyed dromedary," came in to re quest u ' correction, ' and as the. fighting editor was out he didn't respond to the signal of distress; and, while the editor aud his visi tor were on the .floor under his desk, the former agreed to correct his mistake, and the irate man left., l'retty soon a gentleman from the rural districts came in to give the editor a big squash and get a notice, and about that time the fighting editor returned, and the "debit" told him that the boss wanted help. 'life- man of war was quick to respond, and dashing into the chiefs room, and seeing the latter in somewhat; dis ordered conditio)', the result of his previous visiroi, ne rnoiignr cue countryman was the cause of it and clinched him; and, after staving up some furniture, ran the victim across the street to where an empty hearse was standing iu front of an undertaker's shop. Tu to the vehicle he jammed the farm er and shut the door. The commo tion he had created scared the horses attached to the hearse, and they started off on a dead run. People soon noticed the runaway and ran alter it, and were shocked at In holding t he hearse collide with a post "d become a complete wreck, and their horror at seeing a human liody. precipitated to the sidewalk was only eqnaled by their amazement hit", seeing it spring nimbly to 'its feet and take off across the country, yelling "Mur der!" Tlney thought it was an attempt to burv a man alive, aud nart of them went and srofc the un dertaker to lynch him, w hile the rest pursued the farmer, who was found hntiug in a swamp. And after lie was brought In it. took three hours to get matters explain ed, and then the farmer went be fore a justice ot the peace and made afliuavit that he hoped to be strucK o ngnruiug it tie ever entered a newspaper office again How to Stop Dogs Sheep. from Killing The writer of a letter tothe New York "Sun" says: I have read much about slieep killing. I sugJ gest a very simple remedy. My country is a great sheep country from the size -of a Spitz dog. except shepherds dogs and bunting dogs accompanied by their masters, are by law coiniielled to carry a club fastened by a string around their necks. A dog so provided is as good a watch 'dog -.but in hunting for slieep he cannot run fast enough toi-mii mem, nor can lie jump any lence. All dogs without flub are shot by any officer, and the owner, when louud is fined. Such an ordinance or law if eufow ed, will prevent sheen killing bv dogs V C. "Farmer." For constitutional or scrofulous catarrh, and for consumption in duced by the scrofulous taint, Ayei's ' Sarsaparilla is the true remedy. It has cured numberless cases. It will stop the nauseous catarrhal discharges, and remove the sickening odor of the breath, which are indications of scrofu lous origin. BILL A HP S TALK ro: the Harvest a great les son of LIFE. THE HARVEST REGUX. The harvest as neguu. The 'har vest sun is shining by day and the nioon by night. Our Hurt oats that were sowed in March have come in ahead of the wheat, and are now fiillitig before the cradle blade. It is a charming scene. The good old fashioned way is not a ba'd way after all. 1'xe got a reaper, and shall use it in (he low grounds on the wheat, but the everlasting rains this spring made too many little ruts and furrows on the up land, and the cradles are oetter. The machine jolts and bumps around so that lialph could hardly keep his seat. Hut the oats are good. I have never seen a better upland ciop. Carl and Jessie fol low along iu the wake of the cra dlers and lie. up-their, little bun dles, and. when they get tired of that they pile them jnto dozens and set them up intoshocks, and are proud of their work. What a pity it is that we can't all make play of our work. How fond the children are of trying to do grown . folks work. Curl wants a little cra dle to reap with, and thinks he could do it splendid,, but it most kills him to take a bucket of water to the field. .Tnatsore on bis foot xrhere he snagged it on a nail jfurts awful bad then, and ho limps all the xvay to the spring and back, but he can trot to the dewberry patch or the mulberry tree as live ly and gay as a colt in the mead ow. Groxvn folks are that, xvay too. I've known some mighty nice girls to get tired and most broke doxvn cleaning up thfc house, and cook ing, and sewing, and the like, but they could wake up to the music that night and dance till the roos ter crowed for morning. We can all do what, xve waut to do, aud w e go at it with alacrity. It is easier to go to a picnic than it is to church. Rut labor and toil lias a sxveet reward. We will never reap ii we do not sow. The harvest that is now-. at hand is one of the great lessons of life, for our life is like a held and our years like the acres, and our mouths .and weeks an.l days and miuutes are the roods and rods and yards and feet which subdivide the whole. Some portions are well sown and tended and some are not, but a good man will make an average crop. We may fail here and fail there, and have our little sins and weakness es, but at tne last a man must be measured by his average crop. Character is not made or lost in a day or a week, but it takes-a life and we can never write a true epi taph until the life is closed and we write it on the tomb. Hut a few davs ago the, fields were beautiful ly- greeu, and the grain I tent its proud head ; gracefully before the gentle breeze and seemed con scious of its life and health and consequence. It -,rcmiiided me ot man in his prune moving to and fro upou the earth acquiring wealth or fame or pleasure, a.inl ill unmindful of the reaper. Rut. soon he ripens and must fall and make, way for another ci op. If the proud head has borne fruit, golden fruit, it is well, and his-mission iu life is accomplished, but if clogged and tangled aud orrupte.1 with cheat and cotdib' and smut and rust and brambles the crop is a failure and ought to have been cut down while it was green I had worked hard all the morn ing helping Mrs. Arp take up 'her carpets for the summer. The hay anl dust that was uudcr had to be swept up ever so gently yes. gently that was the word she. used "gently, now, William; vou are raising the dust, aud it will be all over the house. Don't be in such a hurry, gently." 1 got it all up alter a fashion and pur out ot the window in the wheelbarrow-, and put the carpets on the feuce re dy for beating, and then I took her long handled broom and 'swept the walls, and the ceiling, and the corners, and behind the picturs, and then our chunk of a darkey brought .water and "washed up the floors, and the giils worked on the bedsteads with kerosene and turpentine and corrosive (sublimate and rat poison and damnation powder, and I dont know -what all, and this morning when niy wife was making up her bed and lifted up the comer of the mattress she discovered One of the biggest fat test ones you exer saw, and her heart sank down within her and she reclined on a chair in dispaii . I was sorry for her, I xvas, lor the pesky, varmints ale her eternal horror, and if I was rich I would biAkl her a bran new ; house ami fill it with bran new furniture, all made of china xvood or camphor wood. 1 care nothing about these silent preambulators myself, and it has been hinted to me on more, than one occasion that it is be cause I am tough and old and alii gatorish, which I reckon is so. though I do know some women who .ire no spring chickens them selves. But I d suffer from the varmints anyhow,' and have iu sleep broken, for 'sometimes I have-' to get up in the night and search for them, and when found I as sume a theatrical attitude and ex claim in the beautiful language of Mr. Shaksixeare: "How now" Vc secret, dark and midnight li'is' What is it ye dof" Well, I took Mrs. Arp down in the low land wheat this evenin'', where it is thick ai'd srreen ..!.! tall, and I explained to 'her all j abont wheat being first in the boot jaud then in the milk and then in I the dough, and as we walked along ; in a water furrow I said that it rerauuieu me oi the old son" of "Coming Through the Itve "' that I would change it a liitlean.l sav: rt.t,Uleet 8 bdy COUliUfr through And klf a Wr, wouMent U be 'LET JILL THE ENDS THOU AlM'ST AT, BE THY COUVruVS. .-WILSON, 'NORTH' CAROLINA,. JUNE 20. 1884. And she smiled aud said the rye of the poet wa) not a field but a rocky branch named Rye, and the lassie was wading through it when her lover met her on the rocks and kissed her. So th.at knocked all the ioetry out of the situation, and I said no more on the subject, but I've seen the day when that wheat field would have been as good a place for the business as a branch, and if anything better. While we sauntered along old Bob White was whistling to his loving mate, aud we talked over the days of our childhood, when we used to follow the reapers in the field and get the partridge eggs from the nests, and have, a big frolic over them when they were boiled, and how we caught the young rabbits iu their nest, aud how ex-erything was so fresh and bright and rosy, and now how serious and earnest everything bad .become. Such is life and we cannot help it, and I dont want to help it. No matter how old or how poor, there is some happiness for us all if xve will find it. The trouble with most of us is we search : for it too far away away off yonder soinexvhere xvhen it is right near ns. Yes, within our reach, if we will only see it. "Carpe diem," says . the poet "enjoy the day." Enjoy to day and every day as it comes, and dont let old father time cheat us mt of a moment. Bill AR1V A Large Fish Story. Fishermen have not acquired a national reputation for veracity. Iu fact it is customary to deduct somewhat .-from -'the sum total of their exploits. Walter Steele, in the Raleigh Register, tells the following good oue concerning John Axvays a noted fisherman near Lake Wac camaxv. A x certain clergyman named Duffrey, , who lived about 80 niiles from the lake, had visi ted it on a fishing expedition, and xvhen he returned he gave quite a readable acconut of his proxvess as a fisher, it chanced that Aways was one of his auditors, and as soon as the clergyman made a pause in his somewhat roseate description, John chimed in say ing that he lived near the lake and knew all -...about the subject. The clergyman asked, among oth er tl.'ings : "Are there any large trout in the lake. Mr. Aways." "Large trout did you sayi Why, stranger, xvhar do you live f" "1 live in Stoningliam." "And do yon kuow Sam McGe thaii?" (Old Sam once lived on the banks of the lake, where he was well knoxni. He had re moved years before to vicinity of Stoningliam.) v "I bax'e seen him but. have little acquaintance-with him." "Walt, I sax-ed his life oust." "You did? Hoxv did that hap-, pen f" i "Has ye ever been at the Big Creek, just above where it runs in the. lake." "Yes 1 was there yesterday." "Wall, it happened this way. Brother George and me, we beared that there was some famous big blacktish in thar, t hat xvas a break ing tolk's hooks and lines; so xve xvas in Wilmington and got the blacksmith I'elley to make us a hook 'bout the size of your fiuger, and we iKHigbt from Dawson some plow lines and a bar or two of lead lor a sinker. We got some dry tupelo gum roots for corks and as xve had just killed a mutton, we took some of that for bait. A'ter xve got thar, xve cut a black-gum sapliu' for a pole, an.l cut some forks to hold it up. Alwut a hun dred yards from the mouth we flung the hook in and I staid thar a xvatchiif while brother George xvent, i'tmler up to McGethau's house. A'rter a little xvhile I see a nibble, an 'txvaut' long before the cork xvent under. 1 just let him have it long enough to git it full in his mouth, when I got hold of the pole and fotch it full up when the hook stuck. I tugged and tugged, but couldn't budge ic. I hollored to brother George to come, to me, for I had ketched the great-grand-daddy ot all the blacktish. When he 'come and cotch hold wi' me, it began to give a little, and a'ter a while as we backed out on the shore, it come to the top of-the water with its mouth open. And I swar, I seed .two big toes sticking out, and by 'em lkuoxvetL.it was Sam McGe ban. We drug the fish out as quick as we could, and I told brother George to git out his knife, for old Sam was in a bad fix. He ripped the fish open, and shore enough out came old Sam a-smilin' and saying he was much obleeged to ns, ibr lie xvas pretty near gone. He told us he slipped off a log about a hour before, and some- thin"' sxvalloxxed him. Says I, Iirotlier George, old bain's mighiy ..w..l bait, spose xve try him !!" n'f" So xve hooked him on, I and in an hour or so we had j ketched two cart loads of the big 'est blacktish aud trout yon ever 1 seed. I Now, strauger, ttidn 't 1 I save his life?'' An Ice Bound Candidate. A large block of ice contain iug in its centre a picture of the Repub lican nominee Blaine, was on exhi bition at Kaufman's corner yester day and attracted considerable attention. "The block came from the new ice factory and the. artis tic effect xvas the work of Mr. Chas. Adauis, the only first-class hotel clerk in the U. S., who doesn't wear a diamond in his shirt bosom. The picture was placed in the wa ter in the pan before it was frozen, .and when the solid block was drawn out, Mx. Blaine's features beamed through their icy environ ment in a suggestive manner. The bovs say he will be in a fighter place than that before next Novem ber. The effect of the portrait in the block of ice was striking and called forth uiany jokes at the ex pense of the iR bound nomiuee. Charlotte "UEtperver. TILDEN'S LETTER. DECLINING THE PRESIDEN TIAL NOMINATION. A STATEMAN'S LETTER. New Yoek, June 11. The fol lowing paper has been given the. associated press : Xew Yoek, June 10, 1884. Daniel Manning, chairman democratic State Committke of New York : iu mv letter of June 18th. 1880, addressed to the delegates from the State of New York to the Democratic National conveution, I said: "Having iiorne noxv faithfully my full share of labor and care, in the public service, ami wearing the marks of its burdens, I desire nothing so much as an hon orable discharge. I wish to lay dowu the honors and toils of even a quasi partv leadership, and to seek the repose of private life. In re nouncing, the renomitiation for the Presidency I do so with no doubt in my mind as to the vote of the State of New York or of the United States, but because 1 believe that it is a renunciation of re-election to the Presideucy. To those who think my renominatioii and re-elec tiou indispensable to the effectual vindication of the right of the peo ple to elect their rulers, violated in any person, I have accorded as long a reserve of my decision as possi ble, but cannot overcome my re pugnance to enter into a newr en gagement xvhich involves future yeais of ceaseless toil. The digni ty of the Presidential office is above merely personal ambition, but it creates in me uo illusion. Its val ue is a great power for good to the country, I said four years ago in accepting the nomination. Know ing as I do, therefore, from fresh experience, how great the difference is between gliding through an olli cial routine and the working of re form systems and policies, it is im possible for me to contemplate what needs to be done iu the Federal ad ministration without ah auxious sense of the difficulties of the un dertaking. If summoned by the suffrages of my countrymen to at tempt this work, 1 shall with God's help try to be an efficient instru ment of their will. Such work of renovation after many y ears : of misrule, such reform of systems and policies, to xvhich I onld cheerful ly have sacrificed all that remained to me of health and life is uoxv, 1 fear, beyoud my strength." My purpose to withdraw from further public service and the grounds of it, were at the time well kuoxvn to you and to others, aud "when, at Cincinnati, though respecting my wishes yourself, you communicated to roe an appeal from many valued friends to relinquish that purpose, 1 reiterated my determination un conditionally. In the four years which have since elapsed nothing has occurred te weaken, but every thing to strengthen, the considera tions which induced my withdraw al from public life. To all who have addressed me on the subject my intention has beeu frankly c.rat muiiicated. Several of my most confidential friends under the. sanc tion tli.eir own names have publicly stated my determination to tie irre versible. That 1' have : oeca ion noxv to consider the - question is an event for which I have no responsi bility. 'The appeal made to me by the Democratic- masses, xvith appa rent uuanimity, to serve them once more, is entitled to most deiereii tial consideration and would in spire a disposition to do anything desired of .me, if it xvere consistent with my judgment of duty. I be lieve that there is no instrumental ity in human society so potential in its influence upon mankind for eood or evil as the .governmental 'machinery for administering justice and for making and executing the laws. Not all the eleemosynary in stitutions or objects of private be nevolence to'which philanthropists may devote their lives are so fiuit ful"in benefit ' as the rescue and preservation of this machinery from rovisions that make it an in strument o'f conspiracy, fraud and crime against the most sacred rights and interests of the people. For iifty years, as a private citizen never contemplating official care, I have devoted at least as much thought and effort to the duty of influencing the right action of gov ernmental institutions of my coun try, as to all other objects. I have never accepted official service ex cept for a brief jieriod, for a special purpose, and only when the inva sion seemed to require from me that sacrifice of private preferences to public welfare. I undertook the State administration of New York because' it was supposed that in that xvay only could the executive power be arrayed on the side of reforms to which, as a private citi zen, I had given three years of my life. I accepted the nomination for the Presidency in 1876 liecause of a general conviction that my can didacy would best-present the issue of reform which a Democratic ma jority of the people desired to hax'e worked ont iu the Federal govern ment as it had been iu that of the State of New York. I believed that I had strength enough then to ren; ovate the. administration of the government of the United. States, aud at the close of my term to hand over the great trust to a' successor f.iifliriit tt i 1.44 ,2iiii44 tk4ilii- Tli.viKil. anxious to seek the repose -of pri - vat life. I nevertheless acted uixm the idea that every power is a trust ; and involves a duty. Iu reply to! theaddress of the committee com- j municating my nomination, I de- j pictetl the difficulties of the under- j taking,"and my feelings in eugag- j ing iu it were those of a stUdier I enter'uig battle, but I did not xDtb- bold the entire consecration ofim.v powers to the pnblic services. Twenty years of continuous mal- administration under the demorat- izing influence ot intestine war anTf of bad finance have mlected the THY GOD'S. AND TBUTIISV wiiole government system of the United States with cancerous groxvth, false constructions and corrupt practices, and iowerful classes have acquired pecuniary in terests in official abuses and the moral standard of the jieople has been impaired.' To 'redress-these events is a work of great difficulty and labor and caunot be accom plished without the most energet ic, t fiieient and personal action on the part of the chief executive of the republic. The canvass and admin istration which it is desired that 1 should undertake would- embrace a IMM'iod of nearly live years. Nor can I admit any abuse to their bur dens. Three years of cxerieiice in the endeavor to ielorm the mon archical government of the city of New York aud txvo years of expe rience in renovating the a.bninis t rat ion of the laws of New York have made me familiar xxitb the requirements of . such a work.. At present the considerations which induced my action in 1880 haxe be come imperative. 1 ought not to assume a task xvhich I have not the physical strength to carry through. To reform the administration of the Federal government, to', realine my own ideal, and to fulfill the just expectations of the jieople xvoulc indeed warrant (as they could alone compensate) the sacrifices which the undertaking would involve. But in my condition of advancing years and declining strength I feel no assnrance of my ability to ac complish these objects. I am therefore constrained to say defi nitely that I cannot noxv assume the labors of the administration or of the canvass. Undervaluing in no wise that best gift that heaven, occasion and power sometimes be stow upon a mere individual to communicate an impulse for good; grateful beyond all words to my fellow-countrymen who would as sign such a beneficent function to me, I am consoled by the reflection that neither the Democratic party nor the Republican for "whose fu ture that, party is the best guaran tee is now, or ever can be,'lcpen dent upon any one man for their successful progress in the path of noble destiny. Having given to their welfare, w'hatevcr health and strength I possessed, or coitl.i bor row from the future, and having reached the term of my capacity tor such labors as their xvelfaie now demands, I but submit to the will of God in deeming my public career forever closed. Samuel J. Tilden. Keeping A Cow. t;I can remember," said Henry Ward lieecher, "when I icceived an ?ld cow in payment of a bad debt. It. was a very bad debt and I came to consider it a bad pay ment. She xvas a thin cow, but the former owner said she was better than she looked, being a cross !e- txveeii a Jersey and the Durham. She looks as if .she might have 1 teen a cross between an old hair trunk and an abandoned hoop skirt. I kept t he brute three days, and no one, except pcihaps Lieu tenant Atxvell, could exer appreci ate the suffering I endured ie that time. The first . night she broke through the. fence, .and reduced to a pulp all the underclothing be longing to my next door neighbor. She put her horns through iny bath tub, and ate'iipall my gera niums. .Mic was to give three gallons ol milk - a day, but she seemed to -be short just 'then, and never had that lo spare.' while we kept her. The si m day she walked into the kitchen, i upset a pan of bu.ter and a tub oi lard. Then she fell down a xvcll. ami xvhen 1 got her out, ;it a cost of ", she took the colic, xvhooping cough or something, and kept us awake all night. Not a green thing Xvas left in my garden ; niy neighbor's peach trees and tin' rope on which his Hiideixvare grew were as bare of fruit as a single tret- aud he did not have a twig of shrubbery left. My neighbor came over to see me, an.l said : "Noxv I don't desire any quarrel, but xvant you to keep your coxv out of my shrubbery." "And 1 xvant you, niy friend,' said 1, "lo keep voiir shrubbery out of mv cow: it spoils the taste of the milk." "Ever afterwards there was a coolness between us, and my neighbor's wife ceased to patron ize our house xvhen she wanted to borrow a cupful of yeast jiowder." Breeders ''Journal.' Gen. Lee Declined to Sell His Fame. Gen. Lee, savs a Washington let ter to the "Sun," at the close of the war, received innumerable offers to engage in commercial enterprises. Insurance companies, .railroads and many I.uge corporations at the South were auxious to pay him any salary he might demand solely for the use of his name, without any labor on his pari, or the incurring of any resjionsibility whatever. A committee of Englishmen, with the Duke of Sutherland and Mr. Ceres ford Hope at the head, offered him iu fee-a splendid estate in one of the midland couuties of England, i coupled with a guarantee ot an in come of i;."i,0b() a year as long as he lived. He gratefully declined all of these offers, and accepted the Presidency of Washington and Lee Unixersitx at a salary of 3,000 a year. Here he earned his living as j the hardest worker iu a hard work ; iug faculty iu training the youth of 1 the country up to the very hour of ; the paralytic stroke xvhich imme.li j ately preceded his death, ; Gen. Lee left three sons. They, i t .k. . r.tinii-nil mum nlirs (.ffl killli- llar' kind, and likewise declined ! ihem. Txvb of these sons are noxv prosperous planters in Virginia. The third succeeded his father in the Presideucy of Washington and Lee University, and has tilled the position with credit for the ..last thirteen years, The true American spirit shines in Gen. -Lee's example, the spirit which prompted Washington and his Generals when they retired from the public service enriched only with the recollection of their gveat achievements, and scorning tvvmake mercnanuise.cn then: tame. POLITICAL POINTS. -:o:- WIIAT THE POLITICIANS ARB TALKING ABOUT. THE POLITICAL. CALUROX. Seaker Carlisle recently wrote to a frieud in Kentucky: "Although the delegation from Missouri, Texas ami Michigan, and many friends from other States have manifested a disposition to present niy name to the Chicago Democratic nation al convention, I have never per mitted myself to iudulgf, in the hope that the nomination would go South of the slave line. The pub lic mind in the North is still sen sitive upon quest ious connected with the late war, and our friends will doubtless think it unadvisablo to fake a candidate from the South, at least, so long as the. Republicans continue to take both of theirs from the North.' How I r mi ne nt People Ke eoived BlaineN Noininntioii. Mr. Blaiue himself was at home iu Augusta Maine, when he re ceived the news of his nomination. He was very composed' and saidr "the. nomination has come to me xvithout an effort on mv part to get it." President Arthur took his defeat very philosophically." He had a pri vate wire running into the executive mansion and received the news of of every ballot as soon as it was announced iu the convention hall. The child ballot foreshadowed his defeat, and without waiting for the fourth and last he went into lunch eon with some friends who were with him. Immediately upou the receipt of the news of . Blaine's nomination, he telegraphed him : "As the candidate of the Repub lican party you .will have my ear nest and cordial support." Senator Logan telegraphed the Plumed Knight : "1 most heartily congratulate you on your nomination. You will be elected." John Sherman said: "I shall support the ticket heart ily, lama Republican, and shall support the nominee of the party, of course.'' ' Senator. Ilawley announced himself as satisfied. He said: "I think we shall elect the Republican ticket. The campaign will bei fierce and hot." , Senator Edmunds said the man ner of the nomination xvas such as to "furnish very- strong reason for hope of the success of the par ty." ' " i -, - Secretary Lincoln xvas disap pointed that he got neither place on the ticket. j Senators Lamar, Brown and George, Democrats, expressed the opinion that the nomination xras a strong one. In many places throughout the country cannon xvere fired, build ings decorated and speeches made endorsing the nomination. Iu many other places w here demon stint ions might have beeu expected, there were none. In New York there xvas no display aud the "Herald"' says the news xvas "dke a xvet blanket..' ' It likexvise caused tlisapiK)intiuent in Boston. Carl Schurz, the German leader iu this conn try, says ho xvill not support the ticket. George Wiu. Curtis, editor of ' Harper's Weekly," does not try to conceal his disgust but has not vet indicated his course. - A. B.-Ola Hi ii & Co., the -great New Yoik merchants, thorough Republicans, announce their pur pose not to vote for Blaiue. F.' B. Thurber, t he great' grocery merchant of Nexv York, another Republican, takes similar ground. This is the stand w hich the great body of the New York business men, and also th"'se of Boston, take. Rev.; Henry Ward Beecher is indignant over the nomination of Blaine. He says from what ho kuoxvs about him he. wouldu't vote fo Blaine for any public office in the United States. He further says that if the Democrats nomiu ate Gov. Cleveland he will vote for him xvith pleasure that if the Re publicans cannot electa deceut President a Democrat should be chosen. The Massachusetts Reform Club had a dinner at the Parker House, Boston, Saturday afternoon. Owing to the fact that the Republican party has just put iu nomination for President a candidate who is obnoxious to most of the members ot the club, the attendance was unusuailv large, and the discus sion upon the advisability of the choice was verv animated. A let ter was read from Charles Francis Adams. Jry denouncing the ticket The following resolution was nuan imously adopted: "The Massachusetts Reform Clnb regard the nomination of Messrs. Blaine and Logan by the Repub lican party as a distinct and un qualified . repudiation of all its professions of refoim and as an iusuli to the . tronscieuee of the count rv and that the members ot the club will under no circumstan ces stiptMJit them. It was voted that the iii.leeulent voters throughout the country he requested to joiu with them in active and immediate efforts to secure the iiominatioii by the Democratic partv of such men as can command their support, and that fading such nominations ot independent men, without distiiic I Don of party, a convention be called at the earliest practicable day to nominate candidates iu fall sympathy with the reform senti ment of the country Ex Senator Plait, of New York, ("lie Too"V savs both Grant and ConkUng will support Blaine cor disilly. Neither oftbem, baa bow- ever, sjoken for himself, j'. r.rrfnr c.BulT teiascratie oavenlln. The Democrats of Greene county met in mas convention on Satux- J . I -ij Liben OWTxint wiu be ml far Um --number 20i2rrsrs3saS- day, June 7th, pursuant to call of the county executive committee, and were called to order by John W. Blount Esq., chairman, who, after a short and pointed speech, called Hou. J. P. Speieut to the chair, aud appointed Henry C. temporary Pool secretarr of the organization. On taking the chair, Mr. Speight ' addressed the convention for a few ! minntes, urgiug harmony in ouri ranKs, anu predicting victory in Greene county, provided we make a long pull, a : strong pull and a pull altogether. In the course of bis remarks he paid a glowing aud j merited tribute to Gov. Vance. A call of the townships showed that all were represented. Ob motion of Dr. E. U. Horua day, the temporary organization was made permanent. On motion of John W. Blount, a committee consisting of one member from each township, was apiointed to recommend delegates to the State and District conven tions, as follows: Geo. W. Sugg, Benj. Waters, Y. T. Ormaud, R. E. Best, John R. Dixon, Wm. May and W. M. Carraway. - , The committee, through its chairman, Geo. W. Sugg, recom mended the following delegates and alternates to the convention: STATE CONVENTION. DELEGATES. R. E. Best, W. E. Best, T. E, Hooker, Y. T. Ormaud Ed. A. Rasberry, E. A. Darden, John It. Dixon. alternates. A. J. Edmund son, "W. P. Aswelt, Dr. T. HI. Jor dan, F. T. Carr, A. R. Hinsou, W. H. Dening, Dow Lassiter. DISTRICT CONVENTION. Thomas Harvey,, Robt. Tayl r, jr., Haywood Edmnndson, jr., Joshua Sugg, Walter Mew born, Calvin Stevens, Joseph Turnage, Frank Grant, W. T. Hart. John Coward, Jas. G. Wbrthington, John R. Dixon, B. W. Edwards, B. F. Moore, S. T. Joues, II. C. Ciinim, ueo. is. vjwens. On motion of A. D. Sugg, Esq. the report of the committee was adopted. s Ou motion ol W. M. Carraway, Esq., the chairman and secretary were - added to tne list oi ueie gates. Dr. Horuaday ottered the fol lowing motion: That the delegates to the State convention be in structed to use every honorable effort to secure the nomination of Oapt. W. A. Darden for State Auditor, aud to vote lor him in the convention so long as there shall be a hope of his nomination. , This motion was supported by Pr. Hornaday in a few eulogistie remarks on Capt. Dardeu's charac ter, services and merits, and xvas seconded bv Messrs. John R. Dixou and John W. Blount in short but vigorous speeches, all of which drew applause from the convention and the motion was unanimously- adopted. On motion oi xjoi. rseaman. the delegates to the District con vention were instructed to vote for Hou. J. P. Slight for candid ate for Congress. On motion ol F. T. Carr, Esq., tiie "Telegraph"' was requested to publish the proceedings of this convention, and the Goldsboro "Messenger," New lierne "Jour nal." Kinston "Free Tress," and Wilson Advance and ''Mirror" are request etl to copy. Ou motiou. ttiauks ot the con vention were tendered the chair man and secretary and was then declared adjourned. J. P. Speight, Ch'm. Henry 0. Pool, Sec'y. Peas The Basis Of Good Farming. At no time siuce the jxar has the fieldpea been lielow a remunerative price in the market and yet it has been little raised tor sale, it nas seldom leen below one dollar a bushel and jet corn with xvhich It ha lieen raised an a secondary. crop haa generally been about one- halt the price of peas in tne mark et. Farmers are not lools ami yet they strangely look at things through a glass darkly relating to the profits of the dulerent ps. It he most productive, the most ile- able, the most fertilizing an. thc most easily cultivated of all it he old-fashioned field crops. Exfcpt oatmeal, ias furnish more nutn tive matter lor man than any other article of food. They J ield more jiouiids to the acre tTfiul coru, wheat, oats, barley ant as . much as tieans. They are of the clover family aud keep up the lertility of the soil more than clover or than any other field crop. The productiveness of land will lie sustained tutermiuably if cultivated in ieas. Why then are field eas not more generally cnltivated ns a sale crop!. It is one of the uiisolx'ed mysteries of agri culture. As a field crop, not as an auxiliary to corn, the crop is easily prepared for market and pays twice as much as corn and is less fluctu ating in price. Now is the time to plant the field pea. Get good seed. Pot the ground in good order and cultivate well and farmers will find their profit raising peas. The meed of merit for promoting personal aesthetics is due to J. C. Ayer & Co., whose incomparable Hair Vigor is a universal beaut' fier of the hair. Harmless, effec tive, agreeable, it bas taken rank among the indispensable articles of the toilet. To scanty locks it gives luxuriance; and withered hair it clothes with the hue of youth. - Nothing fails like nature. Tbe londs of tbe EastTenu & Va. R. R. a year ago stood at 70 cents. Last week a block of $10,000 worth belonging to Geo. I. Seney were sold at . public auction at 7 cents! This illustrates the villainy of wall street speculations. The railronoV itself, Is in far better condition to day than ever before, yet its bootL are almost worthless. , - ,- . A meeting of estate agents and lmmigratio agents will, be held at Kaleigb 24tb. 57 vane One Inch. On ItiWrtioo " O, Monti Thro MonUu., -. : -140? i niy goog lytcrcnco w rtw. . - COTTON PLANTER. READY FOR WORK OJt THI3 YEAR'S COTTON CROP. MASON'S INVENTION. .While the young cotton plants tbrouybont the vast cot ton wgioo or tlie Soth are h.KtiUjf up wards and statisticians are fignriuir 2KjS,e,MV!l.,w iortke c4 or 1884, -public interest iu the kuc-t-ess of the Mason cotton harvester is steadily ou the increase. The Mason cotton harvester was tested last year very thoroughly in a field ofcottou which was planted by the cotton harvester company, near its workshops at Sumter. From tbe bcgtnniug to the end of the cotton seasou Mr. Mason worked' earlv and.late to make the machine as lerfect; as jtoasible, aud the com pa ny which owns the patents expend ed money freely iu supplying the shops with the latest and het imt chiiiery. The result of the test made last seasou satisfied the com paiiy that the problem which bad so loug been deemed impossible of solution had at last lieen practical, ly solved. All that remained to be don was to simplify and cheapeu the cost of manufacturing the ma. chinos. The machine even upon the very first trial proved wonder, fully successful, gathering the opeu bolls without injury to the plants or to the unopened bolls or blooms, and with almost incredible rapidity. The principle of the machiue was demonstrated to be the true solu tion of tbe problem that bas puz zled so many beads. All that re mained was to apply the principle iu , tbe best 'possible way.' Since the disappearance ' of the cotton from the fields last winter, Mr. Ma sou bas made many improvements in the harvester. The machiue baa been made smaller and lighter, and yet affords more space for the oie ration'oftbe machinery, lit its present form it is capable of doing even more rapid and satisfactory work than it did last year. The construction of the machinery which operates the picking stems and gives to theni the cculiar tripple movement,' which renders possible the selection of the eii cotton without injurv to the unma tured bolls, and th delivery or it into tbe receptneleconstrueted for. tbe purpose, is marvellously simple and jierfect. The friction bas been reduced to tbe minimum, and the 136 picking stems which are placed in each machine can be lubricated by touring the oil into a siugte brass oil cup at the top of tbe shutt. Numerous other modifications have been made in the construction of the machine which, it is Udleved, will greatly improve it. But wheth er al( the changes which have been made will prove to be improve- incuts ; cau only tie finally deter mined by practical tests In. the cot ton field. ,' A special machine for the luxuri ant cotton of Texas, Mississippi and. Louisiana is being made wh will contain two pair of picking cyhn tiers iustead of the siugle pair, which will be used iu the smaller cottou of the -Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. The Texs uia- chines, however cau be, used equal ly well UMn smaller cotton where the rows are not less than three leet aud a half apart. Mr. Mason- was asked : if be felt sure t he machine would Ike a sue cess. "I have no doubt in the world," be said, "that the machine will do all that I have ever claimed for it. It is simply a matter, of time. As a general thiug it is amusing to me to hear the positive assertions of people that the ma chine will not work. - Tbe more iui Kssible the construction of a cot ton picking machine is conceded to lie, the greater will be tbe triumph of accoinplisbiug it. But it does irritate me to have peop'e make statements about the machiue which would justify the inference that I am lacking even iu common sense. For instance, when the ma chine was on exhibition at the fair iu Charleston, I think I heard a dozen (eople say that the shafts were so high that there was not a horse in tbe country which could pull in them without using stilts, it waTTvery evident that they thought I bad actually gone ro work and constructed a machine, which it bas takeu me years to per fect, without ever measuring a horse to see bow high tbe shafts ought to be. Tbe fact Is that tbe shaft were rather lower than they should have been, because my exjierimenU were all made with a small sized horse. Assertions coneeming otb r portions oi the machine were equally imsitive and equally ridicu lous. I was surprised to find bow much better informed the public was about the machine than 1 was myself. In The Shade. II on. K. C. Payne, City Alderman, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, writes; 1 bave been a great sufferer with rheumatism for years, and have tried every known remedy, in cluding galvanic batteries and Turkish Baths. Finally I tried St. Jacobs Oil. tbe great pain cure and vpU sav it save we instantaneous relief. - It puts other remedies in tbe shade. Officers of tbe Royal fit U ft f 41 elected at I be meeting in rjiuuuriu vhj . W. Blount, or Wilson,. Grand nigh Priest: Isaac Patterson, of New bern. Dep. Grand High Priest . ,.ff i. .... n. James C. Mauds, of Wilmington, , Grand King; J. W. Albertson, Graud Scribe; Wm. . 8impaMt.l7r Raleigb, Grand Treasurer, D. Wi Bain, or uaieign. uuu j Rev. U. r uregorj, ui v , Grand Cbaplaio. The . uoiasooro .. .uvj vntn hse made an excellent officer and he Is t andpopnlareanoioaie.' -to be nominated. , j- X' ail I Archil if ( r -r i. A A " f I i I .
The Wilson Advance (Wilson, N.C.)
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