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v VI 1 IE 1 A ll 1 LSOB ADVANCE. Published, Bveey Friday at WfLSow North Carolina. . BY - MMUS mm, - IliUrirflfipi&r -:o:- rtption Bates in advance One f&r . 200 Six loath , 100 PTUdfaer can be sent by Money Order or utnwed Letter at our risk. Ory frTarix.ro Street, in the Old Po NEWS Of A WEEK -:o GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS ov Tin: WORLD. scift.t( i n a S- G LEA SI SOS killed near Shelby lining- I male w:t last I'J '-'r 'lenient Norman, i nm e flee Is of a cat till k. tli Carolina Fruit Fair Hit' I( tiOltl.M""" , i . i ...... . on I .Inly. -iiiotle "Democrat is years old. As it ;i'.ws better. ; tliirt. I J grn"s oli -..1 .. i . i . i.v i. ' lof.luly. The ";"' i i..;..i. w i'i ii .i i i-ii in. Wd by U m h1i.pu nlulosopher says, i4ncwrmmy:ii'""fs"KU f.j lo-r three d " it pIC-IHC. 1 1 -i i.... ...... a cntv two churches jfg June ... 4 ill l!ll.L'll li in use and six I' other now iiijirtM-cHs it -onst riic- lion. I t...i..i.mivs -'a lit '' . iu.iii.-v irettiK w always -i..m... .' , . ' t-.;i Yini nevr tr t ;tv niui li; as you want." , liMl trill in Uutherl'onl IcolllltV lat'H K It'll lino a in " MilniK bi-e-wax an.l was iu iumI to ilfa'h. II neiTo woman in -15rtM last iVrwk killeii a noitjlilior's cliiltl ly liit(iiiK it on the head with a I ijlit - IKMl KUIK. 1'rof. VV. (!. Ioiil, of JoneslMiro Female School, has l!n lei'leil liini'iiiitelithMit of (ho liivi iislioro tli'll SrliiHil. -A l.iirliiitftoii has a diary ilt'volnt entirely to nolmtf down t.hi' vkiis of her liuanx. hhe rails it her t'liiirt docket lfev. A. T. Zorn has iesi'med as in iiii iii.il of Salem Female. Aeatle- mv- Rev. Dr. Kondthaler has liecn tileeted his sncivssor. In Dakota the farmers are pJou intr lv steam at a eost. of less tban 91. ii acre. The motor is ii very hro.id-wheeleil traelion engine The Snow Hill "Telot(.aih": Mr. John Miirphey raised on ln i.irin near this plaei;, this year 145 .J Imaliels of w heat on 7 acres of land. An excliatiije has an artich uitit1ed.:-,v.iWli.v iteoiilt are poor." rue oniv lea.wu fre know IS lieeause ihev have no I humey. ; r It is said that Mr. T. M. Argo will le nominatel for Congress iy the Bepublicans of the l'tnirth District. He will be pnt up only to lie defeated. Mr. John D. Davis has been appointed C'lerk of the Superior Court of Carteret county to till ont the unexpired term of Mr. U. W. Chadwick, deeeasetl. When two young ladies kiss each other they fulfill a gospel injunction. They are doing ulito each older what they would that men should do unto them. The present w heat crop of the tUniteil States, regardless of that part of last, year's crop now on hand, is about eleven bushels to every huinuu lieing in this country. Au old farmer who wrote to au editer asked how to net rid of moles, and received this reply : 'Plow them out," answered back : "Can't do it. It'sou my gal's nose.' A bouse in New York has lieen erected jnst fifteen stories high. This is, perhaps, the tallest house V-tR J.. United States, and will V aceomcMate quite a brigade, in comfort. A learnetl doctor, referring to tight lacing, avers that it is positive benefit, inasmuch as it kills all the foolish girls and leaves all the wise ones to grow up to lie women. Duo old fellow in . stokes sa vs the comity will uot lie fairly rep resented at the State---Exposition unless some large, fatpossuins and rattlesnakes are on exhibition Bring 'em in. The Salisbury ' Examiner" thinks Donald Haiti an ugly man Me was uot nominated for hi: -"R-fiod looks, but he is a handsome enough man to be elected by fifteen thousand majority. A farmer of Warren county pays that he milked from his cows last month nine-, huudred -quarts of milk. . That" his milk, butter, eggs and fresh meats paid his fa i ily expenses. Farmers, Sties a pin uere. President fjondon,of the North Carolina Press Association, thinks that it may lie takeu for granted that the Press Association w meet this year in Raleigh during the reposition. Most likely the day will be October 8. Tyre York said to the editor of the Goldsboro ''Messenger, "The move you do for the d d negro the less grateful they are." As Tyre has never done anything lor the Africau, they of course will Vote for him to a man. Mr. Eugene llarrell wears watch charm since his return from :ll . . i. : - . . waviwsvme. nit? inscription on Lerbicu tells the story of the appre . ciation of his work: "E. G 'HaiTell, Chautauqua, 1884, from Pittsboro and Scotland Neck Ladies." Tlie HillsUro "Olwerver says: In the last few months the dogs in Fairfield se tiou, five miles north west of HlllsjbtM-o, have destroyed more than one hundred fiue, healt hy lambs. We bear of oue farmer who lost as inauy as sixty. The that twrtion of the determined to lull around there unless Strel; A l n I. Hi 1 f i iy -r HfJ I 30tl.H...Jl . ( ii .I.. k urn I .If 'I 4 I .:. Ai I I I I IV . 1 lit 11 1 i I liners in rstxy have I dog seen V t us owner. ,. The ifesoN ABAKdi; 1 VOLUME H. Ja couple whom a quarrel sep arated fifteen years ago, but who wreriever divorced, were reunited It ; Monahan, Tex., recently, and went off on a second honey-moon The husband and wife were aged 70 and 60 years respectively . A dash, a crash, 'twas awful rash, but the roller skates upset her. a slir a rip she cut her lip, but the next time she'll do better. A slide she tried; the skates were snide; they proved to be a fetter. N .more she'll soar the nuk all o'er because her ma won't let her. Charlotte is to have a new weekly paper, the first issue of which" will appear this week. The III lw. nnrna.l 'Itlil new paper win edited by Rev. Wm. R. Atkinson, principal of the Charlotte emaie institute, and is to oe caneii rue i'South Atlantic Presbyterlau." The Raleigh "Farmer and Me hanic" says, ex-Gov. W. W. IIol len predicts that Scales and Sted 1 .., ufnio r... inniwi man win sweep nwiE majority; and that the civil rights lihink of the ltepuoiican piaiiunu will have a good deal to do with the piling up of this majority. A Washington painter is paint inj,' ft portrait of Gov. Vance for au Fjiigftshman, who. out of gratitude to Jiuncombc for restoring his health, will present the counterpart of liuncoiube's illustrious son to be preserved at Asheville among her archives of gravity. The Wilmington "Star" learns that Jake Stokes, a colored man of rather bad reputation, living in the upper part of Duplin, near the Sampson county line, about seven miles from Magnolia, beat his wife and child to death some days ago, and is now in jail for the terrible crime.. A negro iii Washington county, Ya., recently,, killed his child be cause it stole a ginger cake from the cupboard. A few years ago a man in Chesterfield murdered his grandson, a 'boy of about 14, be cause he ate a cake his grand mother had put away for.-company. That was a fearful accident reported near Lynchburg, Va. Forty passengers in two sleepers were preciptated into the James river, and although the cars sank all were saved through the ven tilators. The conductor. William King, behaved with great courage although badly injured. AH the Presidents siuce Lin coln have worn full beards, except President Arthur, whose whiskers have the English sideboard cut. The fashion, therefore, is chang ing. IJlaine wears a full beard; Tilden and Bayard are each clean shaven and Cleveland wears only moustache. No full bearded mau can come next. A Miss Hamilton, a maiden ady who lives near Catawba Sta tion, came to her death very sud denly. She had been sitting on the porch, in the evening, and re marking that she felt cool, got up and went into the house. She . sat down on the side of a bed and had no sooner done so than she instantly died. - i A New York court has settled the vexed question us to whether a boarder has a right to go to bed with his boots on, in favor of the iHianlei. The court uo doubt took into consideration what the board er had to sutler when trv.iug to masticate the spring chicken, aud decided the case according to the principle ol general average. The services of the colored man to the Republican party have beeu rewarded m New York' by the appointment of one of that class to the important position of i residential elector. This is as near 'as one of the race ever gets to hold an office bv the favor of Northern Republicans, and looking at the prospect thronsrh strictly impartial spectacles, this is not . a c- a so near but that it is far. Concerning the religious be hefsof the Democratic nominees the "Chronicle" says that Mr. Scales is a devout Presbyterian; Mr, bteadman au Episcopalian; Mr. Laiue a Methodist. Sccretarv of the Methodist Conference; -"Roberts au Episcopalian; Mr. Finger a Luth eran;-Mr. Merrlinou is a Methodist in sentimour, as Mr. annuers is au Episcopalian. Mr. Davidson's creed is unknown. All counties proposing to make exhibits, at the State Exposition are earnestly requested to make application for space before July isi, ana conuttes which do not apply before that will have to take such space as may then be left, oii.... : . v.iniriHors oi couutv . exhibits are requested to exclude from their county exhibits all displays that are personal in their character, the Wilmington "Review" says that last Sunday week three children of Bill Fennell, colored nuo mes at Tar .Landing on the ae ! car river, went out for waik, and when a short distance from home, the two eldest, aged een aud five respectively, and both girls, deliberately, murdered the other child, who was but three years old, by knocking it on the uead with a lightwood knot vuer ii was killed they threw the oouy m the river. The excuse they onerea lor the murder was that their mother gave the youngest one the most bread and they thought that if she was out of the way they would get a larger allow auce. He Had leyer Liied With Her. A J - euti oE Robert Ha . th fa nous Euglisu preacher, once asked "".regarding a lady of their ac Muaniiance: "Will she make gooo i wile for me!" "Well " replied uii, i can hardly say 1 nev er uy-wi wrtli her !" Here Mr. Hall loucued the real test of happiness u married life. It is one thing to see ladies on "dress" occasions aud wuen every effort is being made to Please them ; it is quite another thing to see them am id f h rat-im! and often conflicting circumstances of household life. THE CANDIDATES. -:o ALFRED MOORE SCALES OUR NEXT GOVERNOR. LIEUT. GOVERNOR STEDMAN. Alfred Moore Scales was born at the old homestead of his lather. Dr. Robert Scales, six miles southeast of Reidsville, in Rockingham coun ty, on NoveinWr 2G, 1827, and is a little over fifty-six years of age. He is descended from a family numer ous and distinguished throughout the Piedmont section, and remark able for virtue, honesty, and devo tion to religion. After a prepar atory training at the neighborhood schools and the Caldwell Institute at Greensboro, he entered the Uni versity of North Carolina, complet ing the course in that institution up to the senior class half advanced. On leaving the University he taught a free school in his native county. At the close of the first session his salary was largely in creased, but he declined it to ac cept a subscription school in the same vicinity at a still greater com pensation. This school he taught one year, aud then accepted a posi tion as prolessor of Latin in the Caldwell Institute at Hillsboro, where he remained twelve months. He then studied law under Judge William H. Battle at Chapel Hill, and obtained County Court license in 18o2 at Raleigh, having defray ed the expenses of his law educa tion from bis earnings as a teacher, ana never costing his father a dot- ar after he left college in 1846.. He was elected County Solicitor; and also, in 1852 he was elected to the lower house of the General Assem bly from Rockingham, and again returned in 1850. He was the Democratic candidate for Congress n ia;4 against .ruryear, and was defeated by a majority of only 366, although the District had been laid off as a Whig district with one thousand to twelve hundred majori ty. In the campaign of lSo'2 Pur- year was opposed by George 1) Boyd, Esq., one of the ablest, best known and most deservedly popu lar Democrats of that section, and was elected by a majority 385. It will be seen that Scales, then quite a young man, reduced this majority to 3C6. In 1857 he obtained Supe rior Court license at Morganton, and during the same year was again a candidate for Congress against Puryear,, defeating him on the Know-nothing issue, by a ma jonty of 72;i. in 1N8, this issue having passed out of politics, Scales was defeated in this Whig district by General Leach by a majority of having received the Whig vote. He con tinued to prosecute his profession up to the war, and achieved di tinction and success. General Scales was not a Secessionist per se m 1861. He was a candidate tor the State Convention called by the legislature in February of that year, and the positiou he then took in the campaign was, not that the Convention should be called to car ry the State out of the Union, but, that as so many States had at that time seceded, North Carolina should call a convention s t o be in a condition where she could be heard, first, for the Union and her rights under it, ahdifthis failed, then she wouhWm in a position to prepare for war; and if war should come, which he leareu inevitable, then the State should unite her fortunes with those of her Southern sisters. Governor Renl, who ran lor the Convention on tlie same ticket with General Scales, was in Washington during the canvass as one of the commissioners from the State to settle the difficulties with out war, and he held the same im- sition that General scales main tained. Convention failed in the State, but the opposing candidates, Judge Settle and Dr. Broduax, were elected. Quickly followed Liucoln'g proclamation, and all men, with great unanimity,' were for Convention aud Secession. The very state of affairs predicted by General Scales during the Couven tion campaign had come to pass, and the people pressed him to again become a candidate for the Convention. His reply "was: "No; my place is in the army. Governor Reid and Dr. Brodnax should be elected, and Settle and I go to the army." And they both volunteered, raised companies, and joined the Thirteenth North Carolina Regi ment. His life as a soldier is no less brilliant than his career as a states man has been Jionorable to him self and beneficial to the couutry. He succeeded Pender by election as Colonel of the Thirteenth North Carolina Regiment, aud in the skirmishes at YOrklown, in the battle of Williamsburg, and in the rights around Richmond up Mal vern Hill. From over-exertion at Malvern Hill he was taken violent ly ill and lay for weeks at the point of death. This prevented his par ticipation in the Maryland cam- .' Tf . I .'.,.. 1. . 1-1 . ill, ". . Paill. Xie W3 K ' ICUn HUOUUIg, and in Jackson's dank movement at Chancellorsville, where he was shot through the thigh," but pur sued the flying enemy until he was admonished by a brother officer that the fatigue and loss of blood might cost him his life. In the history of the whole war there is not fonud a brighter, example of true heroism and noble daring than was displayed by the Thirteenth Regiment in this engagement. General Pender came down the line in the hottest of ths fight and nxoressed himself as filled with ad miration at its bearing. After the battle, Gen. Pender ordered the officers of his brigade to appear at his tent at a given honr to criticise, instruct, and correct whatever he had seen amiss in the fight. When he came t the officers of the Thir teenth Regiment he aid to them': "I have nothing to say to yon but to bold jou all up an models in du ty, courage and daring," and with "LET ALL TOE ENDS TUOC AIJI'ST AT, BE THY COVNTUV'S, TUT OOD S, AMD TBBTH'." I j WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, JULY 11. 1884. .Wxf fee . i - , . ... ALFRED MOORE SCALES this he dismissed tlieui. .-In his re port of the sanie battle,' General Pender says : "Col. Scales, of the Thirteenth North iJarolinft Regi ment was wounded, and thus I was deprived of as gallant a man as is to be founa in the service Oft account of his. wound CoL Scales t was sent home the day after the battle, and while there recovering from its effects, he was made Brigadier-General. General Garland, of Virginia, who was in command of the lriarade. which embraced Scales' regiment, in his report of the battle of Cold Harbor, savs: "Colonel Scales, of the Thirteenth North Carolina Regiment, was con spicuous for his line bearing. Seiz ing the-colors ot his regiment at a critical moment at Cold Harbor and advancing to the front, he called upon the Thirteenth .to stand to them, thus restoring confidence and keeping his men ,in position." : In the first day's fight at Gettysburg, General Scales was seriously wounded by a shell just before the Confederates reached Seminary Ridge; aud from that time on he was engaged in all the battles of the army of Northern Virginia up to the end of the war, except iu the final struggle of Appomatox, at which time he was on sick fur lough. After the war he resumed the practice of his profession as a part ner of his brother, the late Colonel Junius I. Scales, as gallant, chival rous, amiable, generous, aud gifted a man as ever adorned the Bar of any Slate. While General Scales was under the common "ban" of all our leaders, his patient bearing and conservative course, illustrated by counsel and example, did much to inspire confidence and hope among the people of hi District. His dis abilities having been removed, he was nominated for the Forty-fourth Congress in 1874, aud defeated Win. F. Henderson by a majority of 1,620. In the campaign of 1872, Judge Settle had lost the' district by a very small majority in favor of General Leach. - In 1876, Gen Scales was renominated and de feated James E. Boyd by a majori ty of 2,245. nis majority over A. W. Tourgee in 1878 was 2,646, and over Thos. B. Keogh in 1880 was 1,1)34.' In the last campaign his majority over Col. Winston was 2,601, Capt. Ball having received 180 votes. It is well understood in State politics that the Fifth district is the pivotal district. The maxim was uttered by a speaker at the caucus preceding the nomination ol Judge Bennett, that "as goes the Fifth district so goes, the State." General Scales is a powerful politi cal factor in this district. . In the "tidal wave'' of 1876 Governor Vance carried the district by 1,186 majority, aud the .same year the majority of Scales was 2,245, or about one-sixth of Vance's entire majority in the State. Governor Jarvis beat Judge Buxton in this district in 1880 by 1,177 majority; in the same campaign Scales re ceived a majority ol 2,646, although be had Keogu, Cooper, aud the whole revenue service to fight, in their special, desperate effort to defeat him. It will be seen that his majority that year was more than one-third of that given Gov. Jarvis in the entire State. In the last campaign, when the Filth dis trict saved the State and gave Judge Bennett a majority of 2,130, Scales had a majority of 2,601, or six times the official majority of Judge Bennett in the State. These victories he has won despite the fact that his district embraced the strongest and most respectable Re publican stronghold, and that he has had in every campaign to over come the influence of the Marshal, Collector, Register of Bankruptcy, officials of the United States Courts and their subordinates. Besides, his district contains a large number of white Republicans who were consistent Union men, and several of the counties have a large negro population. ' - His career m Congress has been during the troublous times subse- nuent to the war, when the Demo cratic party secured important and beneficial legislation for the coun try. In the Forty-fourth Congress, by a refusal to make appropriations lor the Army in the states, the Democrats compelled Hayes to withdraw a standing army" from the Southern States and left them free from military rule, aud thus restored the government of the people. If the party had done nothiug else, this ought" to immor talize it. ' They stopped a farther contraction of the enrrency by sus Iending a retirement of the United States legal tender notes, and brought relief to a country stagge- -ing under a load of debt wit h an insufficient currency to pay with aud carry on business. Tbey re duced the expenses of the govern ment $40,000,000, remouetized sil ver, and brought . down the tax on tobacco from twenty-four cents to eight cents per pound, and reduced the interest; on the Government bonds to three per cent., thus say ing millions to the government. General Scales was active in aid ing to accomplish all this and oth er - beneficial legislation. In the ten years be has been in Congress, he has, on the stump, at home, and in the House of Representatives, been a most active and ardent sup CHARLES STEDMAN. porter of the abolition ot the Inter nal Revenue system. Whenever an opportunity presented, he has always struck at it. There is not a session during that time the rec ords of which will not show by his votes aud amendments, (not to mention original bills, first, to aliol ish, and if that could not be accom plished, then to reduce 'and modify it as far as possible,) that he, has not used the most strenuous efforts to rid the people of this odious sys tem. In person, General Scales is in vigorous health and handsome ap pearance. As a debater, he is quick, bold, effective, eloquent, and has a rich, mellow voice. By ac tive experience he is thoroughly in formed on all political qustions of the day, and his most inveterate political enemies cannot ntter aught against his personal or political in tegrity. His conservatism in poli tics and integrity of character are the prominent characteristics of the man. He commenced his po litical career with such men as Da vid S. Reid, George D. Uoyd, and Daniel W. Courts as his exemplars and compeers, and imbibed and has illustrated the creed, that the Democratic party is a party of the people, aud devoted to the protec tion of their rights and liberties. A consistent 'member of the IVcsby terian church, ; lie' is one of the few men whose lives declare the fact that there is no incompatibility in being a pious man and a successful lawyer and ioliticiau. General Scales did not himself seek the nomination for Governor. His name was presented to the con vention by his constituents of the Fifth district aud his numerous friends throughout the State, and nominated, he will accept the peo ple's standard and bear it to victo ry. In his own language when ac cepting his last nomination for Congress against Winston, he is "too old a soldier to fear an army led by a deserter." LI EUTEN ANT-GO VEItNOK. CHARLES M. STEDMAN. Charles M. Stedtnan, now a prac ticing lawyer in the city of Wil mington, was bom in the county of Chatham in -1841. His father, Nathan A. Stednian, Sr., is yet living, a resident of Fayet teville, aud is yet an active man of busi ness, though he has attained near ly his four-score years. In his for mer county, air. steaman, ar., was for many years a public functionary, and was widely known throughout the State. Iu the animated and stirring contests ol the olden times, when polities were national and the issue was the supremacy of the Wrhig or Democratic party, Nathan A. Stedman was a tower of strength to the Whig party. His influence iu his own county was potential. A devoted admirer ot Henry Clay and au ardent advocate of his American system, and on terms of the most intimate and confidential personal friendship with such great leaders as Badger, Morehead, Hugh Waddell, Charles Manly and re ward J. Hale, he was looked to to hold the balance in his county where public sentiment was closely divided, where the conflict was al ways waged fiercely and where the result was always doubtful. And more than once the watchword was, alter the battle had been fought and the smoke was clearing on, "Wait tul you hear from Chat ham;" and the political complexion of the legislature hinged on the single popularity of Nathan A, Stedman. It was from this affectionate tie of friendship aud fraternity be tween Governor Manly and his father that the subject of this sketch derived his name Charles Manly Stedman. Thus it was that Charles Sted man was brought when a youth in to contact with the most, distin guished meu of the State, was ena bled to see the majesty of great minds and to catch inspiration to be like them. At an early age his father sent him to be taught iu English and the classics at a preparatory school kept by the Rev. Daniel McGilva ry, a man who has since devoted his life to spread the gospel in Ihe lands that sit iu darkness, and whose career as a missionary has adorned the pages of christian en terprise. About the year 1852, Mr. Sted man, Sr., removed with his family to Fayetteville, and young Stedman passed his boyhood iu that ancient and celebrated town among the classic scenes of Cross Creek. It was here, thus advantageously placed, that young Stedman pass ed his youth, still fitting himself for college at the Donaldson Acad emy, under the tuition of the Revs. George McNeil and Daniel John son. In 1857, at sixteen years of age, be entered at the University and proceeding through the regular term of four years he graduated in the memorable year 1861, being ad mitted to deliver his senior speech and receive his diploma, though he did not attend commencement ex ercises. A we have said, he had been brought up a Whig; from - his cra dle, all the influence and exainpla, as well as of association, bad im- M. bued him with a love of the "Un ion, of the Fathers," and of the con stitution of that union, and with mournful eye he saw the fabric falling to-pieces, and with sorrow ing ear he beard the elemental quake shaking to the foundations the edifice he had been taught to admire. But the die was cast, the Rubi con was crossed. Lincoln had call ed for North Carolina troops to in vade a sister State, and her Gover nor had refused the call, and North Carolina, though to the core a Un ion State, had yielded to the stress of blood-tie,' and kin-tie, and had passed her ordinance-id"' secession, and was clothing herself in armor. preparing for the thrice noble part her sons were destined to liertoiio. Young Stedman was among the foremost ot the college vouth to i ;atch the enthusiasm, and keenlv i alive to the demands of patriotic duties, he hastened to Fayetteville and enrolled his name in the ranks j of the Fayetteville Independent l Light Infantry Company, then com manded by Major Wright Huske aud about to volunteer its services for the field. Iu this noble company the young collegian, uow transformed into a "private in the ranks," soon found himself at home among congenial associates. Almost immediately the company was enrolled in the State volui teeis and was assigned to the first regiment under the command of D. H. Hill, then Col ojiel, and afterwards Lieuteuant General of the Confederate army. and was with his regiment moved to the scene of conflict in the Pe ninsula of Virginia. A our voung volunteer was iu at tbe beginning, being at Bethel, so he remained in to the close of the war receiv ing freouent wounds in the hard fought battles whose scars be yet carries, a token of honorable ser vice from Bethel Chapel the out set along the glorious, but bloody and ineffectual route of the Wil derness, Spottsylvabia C. H., and through the trenches ot Petersburg in all the exposure, peril, priva tion and endurance of that world wide renowned siege, this young volunteer liore his part. , As the last gun was -fired at Ap pomatox, where the survivors of a lost cause only less immortal than their comrades who had laid down their lives in its defence, in that they had not passed through the gates of fame to immortality, Chas. Stedman, now advanced for merit to be Major of the Forty-Fourth Regiment of Nor; h Carolina Vol unteers, was present, and from be ginning to close his is t.,e register, common enough, but no less glori ous, of a brave, self-sacrilic.ug, faithful soldier' and patriot, ever present where duty required him to lie, and always doing what duty exacted. At the close of the war Major Stedman returned to what was left of home the common lot of all his fellows ruin and poverty. But he was nude of too stern stuff for idleness and want. In 1865 he set up a school at I'itts boro, wherein he taught tin-'young idea how to shoot,' not muskets, but nouns, verbs and adjectives, and right there in this lalxirious and responsible occupation he be gun ti series of successes that fall only short of the romantic in their actuality. While thus engaged, he renewed the study of law under the late Robert. Strange and Hen. John Manning which he hail liegnn at Chapel Hill under Judge Battle and S. F. PhilliiR in I860, but which had lieeii interrupted by the war; and in 1866 he obtained his license to practice in the courts of the State. Iu the same year he married Miss Kate Wright, a daughter of the late Joshua G. Wright, of Wilmington.'. In 1867, Major Stedman remov ed to Wilmington, a poor boy, one may say, with a meagre purse and no herald to help his way, with no friend and scarce even an acquaint ance. His future then depended only on an active and bold nature disciplined by hardship and enured to privation, which embodied in itself a very considerable aggre gate of common sense and self-reliance; and as they always will, these qualities soon told with the people. He went at once into full prac tice, which he continues 'to this time. Perhaps he enjoys to-day as large a practice as any lawyer in the State. The late Isaac B. Graiuger, who was himself a man of gifted attri butes, of rare aud extraordinary energy, iower and ability, at once discerned Stedman's financial and general business qualities, and drew towards him, and they be came associated in important busi ness enterprises. Grainger created the Bank of New Hanover, and at his death Studman succeded him as President; and during his terms of office, which continued until he declined a re-election in 1883, he maintained the bank's high char acter, increased her business, ad vanced her stock, preserved her dividends aiid established her in the confidence of the people; and all this was done while associating a lilieral and accommodating poli cy with a strict and judicious busi ness management. Major Stedman has never filled political office, and was never a candidate before the people. Major Stedman is a man of mid dle age, of remarkably fine pres ence and address, of strong and vigorous physique, aud of such imposing apttearance and bearing that he would attract attention in any assembly. lie is a man of positive opinions, who does not mince words in tbe expression of them. He is a Dem ocrat by nature and by couviction, and an earnest and decided one, bnt strictly conservative, and liber al to his opponents, being a thor ough advocate of free thought and rree speech. No man has more devoted friends, and deservedly so, Jbx a generous nature, a genial social disposition, and a free-hearted lib erality are snre to beget such. It is no vain utterance of undue praise to say that his chief and crowning characteristic is his char ity to the obscure children of pov erty aud misfortune. Many and many a time and oft he feeds the hungry aud clothes those who are unclad, and goes his way in quiet ; and there are instances ou which are unwritten, of., these unuarrated deeds and there good results, which would illumiuate a volume if they were told, j To the cause of education be is a large contributor, aud there are boys and young meu who this day owe to his opeu purse strings, the opportunities they have enjoyed at schools and college. In a few words, he is a born and bred ' friend and advocate of the people. 11 is father was so before him, and besides his inheritance of this nature, his long experience of 1 ri vat ions, sintering, exiHisure and endurance, in daily association with the H'ople, has warmed bis heart toward humanity, and neith er time i'or success has cooled or alienated these 'sympathies. Of such a man his State ami people may well lie pi bud. He has proven his loyalty to both through all the tests by which loyalty cau be tried, and having by hard work and steady sobriety and diligent business habits, reached ths front rank of his pro fession, aud having ivated its re ward in a well-earned competence, standing, as he does, w ell assured in the respect and confidence qf the public, who know him with a record but faintly written iu these lines, we claim for him that his life and character afford to the young and rising generation a shining example of the' worth and value ot a U9etuL -well-spent life, and commend him to his country men as one worthy to be cherished. How A Story Grows. A farmer once was told that his turnip field had been roblied, and that the robltery had leeu commit ted by a poor, inoffensive man. of the name of Palmer, who, many of the people of the village said,i had takeiinway a wagon load ofjtui nips. ( Farmer Brown, much exas asperated by the loss of his turnips determined to prosecute poor Pal mer w)ith all the severity of the law. With this intention he went to Mows Sauders, the washerwo man, wh( had been busy -hi spread ing the report, to know the whole truth; but. Molly denied ever hav ing said anything about a wagon load of turnips. It was but a cart load that Palmer hail taken, and Dame Uodsou, the huckster, had told her so over and over again. The farmer, hearing, this, went to Dame Hudson, who said that Mol ly Sanders was always making things, worse than they really were; that Palmer had taken only a wheelbarrow full of turnips, and that she had her account from Jenkins, the tailor, who stoutly denied the account altogether; he had only told Dame Hodsou that Palmer, had pulled up several tur nips, but how many he could not tell, for lie did not see himself, but was told by Tom Slack, the plow man. Wondering where this would end, Farmer Biowu -next ques tioned Tom Slack, who in his turn, declared that he had never said a word about seeing Palmer pull up several turnips; he only said he had heaid say that Palmer had pulled up a turnip, and t hat. Barnes the barber, was the person who had told him about it. The farmer, almost out of patience a.t this ac count, hurried off to Barnes, the burlier, who wondered much that people should find pleasure in spreading idle tales which had no truth in tlnm! He assured the farmer all he had said aUiut the matter whih he took otl lhe lieard of Tom Slack, was that for all he knew, Palmer was as likely to pull up a turnip as his neighbors. Senator Yance Longs For Adjourn ment. Senator Vance U' reported by Mr. Randall, correspondent of Au gusta (Ga) "Chrouicle and Consti tutionalist," as saying: I long for adjournment. I want to go fishing. The campaign is about to burst over my State and the twin try, but I'll go fishing once if I die for it. I want to get back to old North Carolina. 1 want to wake up iu the tnoriiiug and see the pine trees, and I want to smell them when I go to lied,. as their perfume floats into the window and makes me dream that I was a child again. Yea, verily, I want to go out. into our old fields once more and sec a nigger plowing a one-eyed mule, with a coffee sack for a plow-line. That sight would lie more agreea ble to me than a vision of Arabv the Blest or Baruum's circus. I am like the servant qf the Sorcerer: iu the Black Crook 'I want to goi home! I want to go home!" A Lesson. A young woman of. Chicago, in order to get rid of a few freckles, fed herself on arsenic The freck les fled, but so did her health, and she bt'CHtne a prey to disease caused by arsenical poisoning. In her despair she took au extra large dose of the complexion-improving compound, and formed the subject of a coroner's inquest and a ver dict of suicide. Of course these facts contain a wholesome lesson against female vanity, bnt. such lessons are all about us, and seem to receive bnt little attention from the frivolous women who are daily resorting to this and similar de viee to procure an evanescent beauty' instead of trying cleanli ness and exercise, which bring health and loveliness together. Almost every ierson bas some form of scrofulous poison latent in his veins. Wheu this develops in scrofulous sores, ulcers, or erup tlons, or takes the form of rheuma tism, or organic diseases, the suf fering that ensus is terrible beyond description. Hence the gratitude of those who discover, as thousands yearly do, that Ayer's SarsapariUa will thoroughly - eradicate this evil from the system. - ' NUMBER 2 o BILL ARP'S TALK. :o:- HOW THE WEATHER! INTER FERED WITH FARM WORK. TURESIIING: WHEAT. Our harvesting is over and f ho i - A. 1 t traveling iiirasn uas oeen along and for tour days has been spas raoaicauy raining its - wheels on our premises. One good day would have done the work but wheu they got fairly begun the white capped clouds would rise and then the rolling rumbling thunder shook the air aud soon the big drops of rain gave warning to quit and so we had to wait until everything dried off and it was this way every day. But ft is all over now and I am glad of it for I am tired. 1 thought I had an easy berlh to keep the tally sheet, and so I planed off a white pine board and ruled some lines and got all read.v for figures, but 1 soon found out it was easiest to count by sacks, and as bands were scarce t hev very kindly put me at holding the sacks open to put the wheat in from the half bushel measure, and when the sack had a bushel and a half meas ured in 1 had to lift it away aud get au empty one quick lor the next measure, aud the first thing I knew they were rolling out two bushels a minute, aud the second tbiug I knew I was all in a sweat of perspiration, for I tell von a hundred liounds of wheat may be light enough at first but it' keeps getting heavier and heavier and; the ends of my fingers kept on getting sorer and sorer, but I uev er let on . nor surrendered, lor everybody else bad a hard time too, except the boss. It was nabor Freeman's thrash and he knows how to run one aud he knows how to take care of himself in the bar- gain. His good wife thinks he is working awful hard and exhaust ing himself every day, and looks away off dreamily and exclaims, "poor man !" How credulous these good women are and how easy it is to fool 'cm. I've watched nabor Freeman for four days as he ier- ambulated around and all I've ever seen huu do was to oil the ma chinery occasionally and holler at the dbikies and cut some w hang leather to sow up a broken band. When he gets hungry he mounts bis horse aud goes to breakfast or to diuner, but the rest of us had to take it any way and sometimes hot at all. Playing boss is a popular avocation iu this subloonary world. I like lo play lioss. All the while folks like it, and that's the reason the darkies all call us boss. Some times I go out to the field, under great pressure of business, to reg ulate things and keep things go ing, and Mrs. Arp thinks I am working mighty hard and is sorry for me, but she don't know that ! am lying down iu the shade or up iu a mulberry tree, or picking dew berries and so when 1 get most home you ought to see how tired I can look, and how weakly I can walk, and how laiiguishiugly I recline ou the sofa iu the hall. "Carl, go right to the spring and bring your papa some fresh water. Jessie, get a fan ami cool your papa off." "Well, there's is nothing like it. It is just splendid, but nalvor Free man can lieat'iue at that game. It rained on us yesterday a little nothing to hurt, and he got his hickory shirt wet and went home and made nut like it was honest perspiration, and he wtis mighty nigh dead. I am taking lessons from him, I am. Wejl, I have handled over 300 sacks of grain, say thirty thousand jiounds. That is to say, I have dragged cut off a little ways from the thrash and set em , up, and I swelled around among the family and talked about "30,000 pounds!" Just thiuk of if a man of my age and infirmity handling 30,000 jHiunds. Aud now I can rest on my laurels and play hero. Rowland lifted it all from the ground and put it in the wag on and hauled it away to the crib aud lifted it out again, but Row land don't cure, liowland would do it ever.v day all the year round and keep lively, but I'm not that sort of a man. But Rowland is proud just now. He has made a brag crop, eighteen bushels of wheat to the acre is enough to make a. poor man pioud. We are all proud this time, and vainly imagine we done it aud it is ail our doings. But perhaps we may do the same way next year and not make over half its much. There was a harvest frolic in the uaborbood last night; a gathering of the young and some of tbe old and we had a right good time, with music and song ami social greetings. The young people kept it up lively until a late hour and some curious imngs were said ou the sly I reckon, for I overheard a youth remark, "Oh, Miss Mollie Ann, I vc b?eu pray in' a heap of late 1 prayed for wisdom from above to choose me a wife and bring me to her, and bring her to me. and for seven nights hand ron nin I've dreamed of yon, Mian Mol lie Ann, aud it does look like I've been pin ted this way, and now If you only win nave me l ueiieve the good Lord will bless ns, and my ma bas got 64 turkeys a com in' ou. ana sue win kui em an, ana we will have the biggest in far you ever beam oi in mis sinsirucK country." Well, Miss Mollie Ann laughed amazin and I heard ber say : "Oh, Jack, go long.and hush your fool ishness! W hat you going to live on after all tbe turkeys, are gone that's what I want to know!" ' Well, there is something in that. If tbe in far was the last day of grace sixty -four turkeys would be splendid, bat as a general thing there are a lew more days to come, and married folks do get hungry sometimes awful bungryr It's ail veil enough for rich folks to marry when tbey want to, for tbey can WILSON ADVANC Rates ob Adyebtisoq. ' tn Inch. One IiiMrttoo. i " " tlm Month II w ... a i " st Montb One Year.. j Libera) Picciiunu 1U be made for Lanrcr ; A.lvi'rtiw-uM i.ii' tnj for Contracts by the Year Cash mtMi s..-in iiiy all AdTertlsemeota unlea trtKkl ivlcnaoe it flven. have a turkey every day in the year, but poor folks had better go slow and consider. I've Wen noticing ot late that a good many children are runuiug away and getting married and it looks mighty bad it does for there was no excuse for it. They were the children of kind, well-to-do parents and my opiniou is that idle ness is at the - bottom of all this kind of eonduct. The chil dren have had nothing to do. I've noticed that children who have work to tit regular work don't make -fools' of themselves. Ben Franklin said that idleness was the parent of all vice. It is very hard to make a child work if tlie father is rich, but if the parent Will liegin eaily the child can Ik trained to a habit of woik and will like it. Well, riches have troubles just like poverty and there is not much to boot anyway. Bill akp. P. S. That man' with the inquir ing mind who wants to know .where the Florida folks get their milk to raise their calves on, I thought he knew that it was con doused milk or 1 would have men tioned it. B. A. He Will Be Heard From. Three years, ago Mr. .1. M. Downum of Concord went' to Trinity College a poor hoy. Part of tbe time he acted as Janitor in order to pay his tuition. At the receut Commencement he was t he most highly honored man iu that institution, Itoing the chief marshal and winning the scholarship medal which is awarded to that student who gets the highest grade during tbe year. This is only another ex n in pie of what pluck and ee verauce can do, and should inspire aud nerve more of our youug men to strive for an education.- Ah boro "Courier." Two Pretty Fools. Two pretty young girls, of Mount Vernon, N. Y., one aged 17 ami the other 18, mode the acquaint ance of two fashionably -dressed men without the formality of au introduction, and after knowing(f) them four days married Ihe ras cals. As the sequel of the silly ro mauce the two uewly-madtt bride grooms have lieen arrested for fel ony, and the wretched brides have Ih'cii roused from t heir jmmh- little dream with a terrible slunk. The moral of the story points itself, aud the gill who runs-may read it. Every Inch A Man. Senator Boutwell once cat a slur on Senator Bayard, and got this reply which Mr. Bayard's friends have uow caused to be pub lished: ; ..- "I will simply say that eveiy drop of blood iu my body comes from men and women who since this Government was established never harbored a thought or did au act unfaithful or utiputiiotic. No man can assert the contrary. The! Senator dare not do so. lie knws us well as I that the man ho says I ever did an act or uttered a word un faithful to the -.integrity of my country's Government has lied in his throat." The appearance of Robert Tombs, the great fire eater of Ihe Stall h, as a delegate in the District Metho- dist conference at Harmony Grove, Ga., marks a new era in his life. Gen. Toombs is now . seven ty-four years of age. He stoops considera bly ami lias an infirm walk, which denotes his weakness. He has lost much flesh wii bin the past few years. His eyes are weak, a ciila ract growing over one oi them, which causes considerable Mutter ing. In his home at Washington he 's always surrounded by some of his grandchildren, in whose compa ny he takes great delight. They feel that he has but a few days more to live, and do everything in their power to render fits declining years com lortable. When he pass es away a great man indeed, will have fallen ami an honest oue. Rev. Thos. ('an ick, of Oievn-' Vtlle, says the "Reflector," has a cow from which he gets four gal lons of strained milk every day, besides allowing the call to have all it wants. To most children the, bare sug gestion of a dose of castor oil is nauseating. Why not, then, when physic is necessary for the little ones, use Ayer's Cathartic I'iIIhJ They combine every essential ami valuable principle of a cathartic medicine, and lieing sugar coated are easily taken. Chicago Democrats ask for Cleve land, but then Illinois will In- cer tain to go for the man. who looks like Buffalo Bill and slaughter the Queen's English. The latest from Tilden is that be is reconsidering the matter aud may be willing to lludu loop-bole in bis letter through which he can escape into the field of the candi dates so as to be one of them at Chicago.' This is what the meet ing of Democrats iu New York city last week meant, as we learn' from the New York "Star." - Enolish Tbade Masks. Mr. Edward Waters, Patent ami Trade marks office, 87 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia, write: "One of my household suffered with : toothache and rheumatism and af ter frying unmerotw other remedies without relief; tried St Jacobs OiL It was rubbed on the t-beek and plnggeiUnvtbe tooth, and well rub bed injftr rheumatism. Is both " cases ttcore was immediate, and complete, and in neither case . baa tile pain returned." Tbe report oft the , assignee of Grant & Ward shows the liabilities of tbe firm to be oyer sixteen mil-, lions, 'sad the actual assets less tban a hundred thousand dollars. f. . v.
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