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Oum Inch. On lolenioa- "I3T ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE Till COlMitV S, THY COD'S, AND TRUTHS' - Three liontkt - Subscription Kates in see HOIIUI. Qua Ynr. L ton . 1UU r"Moiioy can be sent by MonejC der or Iti -it i.sU;rcJ Litter at our riaK. OrKirr-Tarri-.ro Street, Oil.. iln, I. Inf ill? the Post news or A MEK -:o ATHKIMil) FROMAUL PARTS 1 TOE WOfitD. EXCILIiTXG S- -C r3 vGS. si i ics of " i i in -H'ti : ore our ll.ll "tiosil ii.ii J lenioeiats eti en I ion t. ' nill hold H Yd lies of l ir class "Tll hoht ' jii aiKj, I.;irnii t at gthe Exposition. faleigh the i Sell .... i ,.. . its; .,,i nt-r s;i Jii.lf. tf la ; I -li'"1 CP for mini- .in". Yolk. -Tlir "M ('alolllii HI "s ; good lirl'l' ix eals ill M ;i noon saw IV Mi Iv. i take 'charge IIO Institute n .a(ilall'rc 'on next year, lit' i (lllljlll.slll'll scholar. Tin: Grand I-ol f Good Templars of Nort h Carolii in Hickory on Wednes iotli inst- meets ay, tin Maj. W. W. Rollins, a promi nent Kcpuhlicaii of Madison county,, will support Maj. Sti-dinan lor Lieut tiovcrnor. t in- i liii il annual Wheat anil Cattle lair will be held in tin- Fann er's '.van-house, Winston, N. C-, August. 'oi li and -'1st. Tin- convention to nominate count v otlii ers in Sampson wiLl he held at Clinton September 4th, says chairman I',. T. P.ojkin. Prof. Winston's, letters, which have been published in the (iolds bo;.. ' Mes . n-.er," will !e jjivcii to Hie pulling III hook lolin. I'),,- I'lohiliitiomsts have liirtil iaU-il ex-tlov. St. -luhn,ol Kansas, lor I'icsiileiit anil Win. Uaniel, ol Mai.vl.in.l. lor Vnv iTcsiilcnt. I n l level. nitl, Ohio, in I lie town tlcrtioii the lrinocrats nraile a har sain of .'.::: votes. Straws Hhovv whii h way the wiinl blows. lioldsboio will have a lair this Fall. The. contract lor erecting the. bnil-lni'; has been let out, Racing will Ive one ol the specialties of the fair. ' Col. W. II. U. Cowles, of AVilkes. was noiniiniteil lor ( 'on r? lit rue imk'ii n district I'm the a wise nomi- tilth allot. It was nation. Distemper dogs in Raiei pre Hh. ails among the Well, we can atVoid to let : and then huvi icilliou or two die several thousand lo spare. The Philadelphia 'Times' reads the leinoeiatic ticket, alter this fashion. '-For President.. Honest C.overnuient; for Vice President, Historic Justice.". "Oh,, don't propose to me heie, exclaimed a voiing .lady, whose lover was aUoiit. to pour out. bis avow al as. they were riding by a coi P field. " The very eti;n has eais." " I 'here is VelV gelii lul i;ratilica tiou. It'll at the rescue ol the (ireely pai I , . ol tne .A ret ic expedilion. Now lei IIicm' epeilil ions, w hich are pioductivc only of los ol life, lie stopped. A colored doctor al l-'lilield gave a negro woman slr clinine by mistake an. I killed her.: Had he a license to practice from the State Hoard? Such nuisances ought to be suppressed. ''Mar." Kx-Senatoi Pool, an utile man not. in good repute 'in North Caroli na, says it will he another 1S40 that P.lame w ill not get l."i electo ral voles. We hope he' is a bet ter prophet t han he is a man. The portraits of Mr. 'William Daniel, Prohibition .'andidate for Vice-President, represent 'him as winking with bis left eye. Can it be possible that Mr. Irauiel mis took the camera for a soda fouii tain? Perish the thought! Raleigh "Visitor:" "A lew weeks ago the little son of Mr. George White, who lives in St. Mathews township, fell down the stairs and broke Ins aim. After bis arm had gotten entirely well, the little fellow fell down the same pair of steps and broke the other arm." (live him tunc and he will kill hiinsell. In his spcei h before the Lllin berton convention which nominated ilim for Congress last Week. Judge llennett said, as reported by the Charlotte "-Observer." ihat it would have Woken Ins heart if he had not gotten the nomination. The , ii' en instances ol' the case were such that it is. no doubt, the endorse ment that he values ni.ne than the mere honor or I he eino mtients ol Congress. Judge P.eni ell said lie would not be m the field two ears hence. Col. A. M. Waddell. Mi. leniiett's most foriuiilatilc compet itor, made a graceful speech in which he said that henevur expect ed to be a candidate again. One need of the South is prac tically educated young men. One may travel from one end of our iataie io iiie oiuei aim w in scarce ly meet with a native who knows how to operate a cotton factory or build a boiler, or who can repair the simplest sort of machinery. rail . 1 . . . . . . . , xue men iiiai. a man cannot tie a geuueuiau oecause ue is a me chanic, has long since died with all sensible people. A good ma cuiuist or intxiikicwe mean an intelligent one who knmvs hi . : i - 1 V e : . . uusinesi, is prouu u n ami is a gentler Kin, is far more prosperous and independent than the average so cfdle professional man. Let moreoi oiyytflligent young men and boyav Je" jjiit to the machine shops. One Year - Six Months....... - v f 1 I ; - ' .: ,X IP c- ...1.. I ."as w. r" -l TO VOLUME 11 -- WaiueWu' has been or-am- .h ,-,.,., .t i :i man ZCdlSard present - nn: SJf'wK relVrenc to t,ie coW.lay the lU'V ' in KoveiuixT- Tirter llai risou, 1 ciihmi ai ie ,-,,. r..r r,oveiniu in Illinois ha will Ikj elcctcil by ,00o to a 000 majuioo Hi says t aeve earning the hinrl's ctiances for state arc ootj ' i:en. W. iK. "ox, Gonsifss- ,:,. was throvvn rom a bn-gy in int.. a stream near Raleigh last week and received a good wetting ;l,l slight injuries. Il'he had any had record weiiope the ''ducking" washed it all away. The following are the olliccrs of the 2sTorth Carolina State Musical Association: President, W- !' Lane, Goldsboro; vice-rresnu-n., Miss Lefcsie SOHtugate, jiumani; Treasnrer, W. J. Brown,, ; Kale i git; Secretary, C. E, Hart, Raleigh. Mr. Kerr Craig, of Kow an. was nominated for -CongrosR in t he tli disl i i."f . His name has been prom- inenllv nientioned in this connec tion .several 'years, lie will maKc a good ('oiigies.snian. Mr. K. 0- l'nryrar was-noinmateil lor elector. The (laslonia "(lazcttc" has hcaiil of a North ! aroliniaii, who ow lis ..Miiewhere in the neighbor hood of l',000 acres of laud, has money at interest and whose wife not long since - took a .seat upon the head of a nail keg at the bead of the breakfast table. Tiie Washington ''Gazette" savs, ance lias been lo iNag's Head iceenlly. The car "which couveys t he lady passengers and their baggage from the boat to the hotel is drawn by an o. The ox began to paw up -tliis.r,': when Vance said: Willi down your hats, ladies, the sparks are Hying from t he locomotive." i .-.-'' We. have received a neat little pamphlet, containing plans of buildings and rules anil regulations governing l'xhibt,ors of the North (,'arolina Exposition, to be held at Raleigh from Oct. 1st to O. t. 2Kfh, also premium lists ' of the Nortli Carolina Agricultural Society and the Xortli Carolina Industrial Asso ciation. : How he Saved his Bacon. In a town of Westem Pennsyl vania l.'ev: (ieorge WasUiugton Spooncr is well know ' as an . occa sional dispenser of i he i lospel to his coloicd brethren. Of iatc years however, he has had such a repu tation lor intemperance and dis honesty that' lew hearers can be found for his eloquent discourses upon , the joys of heaven. several winters i ago ne was walking along a main street when ins aucnuou was attracted to a wagon near by. It was driven by a farmer who had sold his entire load of pigs, with one exception; and as it was growing late, he was anxious to dispose ot the defunct porker. He readily closed in with Mr. Spooler's offer to purchase it ami asKcit w here it should be di livercil. "Weli. now, you jis go down dat way two sipiars, ami den turn up Huckleberry 'Alley, and de fourth house is mine. I can't go back wid you, 'cause I's winc tin a 'portant ei rand;' but on jis i av de pork en dc table, and wait l ii- till 1 come lo pay you My ol.I gran' lliuihlcr's sick in bed.. You tell her I tole ou in wuii tin nie." The unsiis.eci!ng wagoner drove to the place :,s .h f( ,. Meanw hiie the diiskv. leveieinl hail slipped aero-s ny a - hoi t cut." donned a night cap. and lay in Ik'.I awaiting his arrival. The knock a, the -'door was--" an swered by a feeble "Coine in' iMitenng, he .s;nc suitposetl graiiiuollier. are you?" asked, "Who "... i,uuison nun me to wait here until ht. comes to p;u me for some pork he bought. I'll lay it on the table." i "Well, sah, do look if lie's :i-coni. m . He went fur de doctor fur me. an Isfeclin-mighty bad. Ol.dear! Ohuiel HowI's a-siiir,.,i..-!" hat is thciinatlei with you?" isked the farmer, pit mg the old woman s moans. 'Oh, de doef or ; as I'll git over ;ht touch ol de it. It's iist a li small -pox.'' Out of the door shot n... i. i i.t..V. eti coin II vnian his pork was letV bei.in.i not-' I hat linn, ami ; out of not pausing until he w; the infected loAi.u A few .moments .ni.inui.1 ti.. MMuuuaiu sin;) imv imiu.,,t linviwl 1 1.,, ...v..i. , , . 7 aroe, IMC IMM KIT VI tilt j.I. II. .1-1 - il I lllll ll e f " ' UHI, mall n it -1 pox a mighty good lii... L'eiiev " 11 . .- in a i.iipci s -nia An Earthquake Shock. .. A severe earthcpiake shock was telt throughout the N..rtli Atlantic Males Sunday 2 and :; vi.n a- altci iioiiii. lie :jts greatest ween t-Vt'l i- was mi l.i'ii- Island and ill 'onnectic'u 'n. HI persnlis W iTV M.t... i in on u (lOwn and some ba.iK were r'liigi. houses 1 ci.i..les and bruised, bells locked iiiv0 crockery and gu ware were blok- en I '1 is. .in 1 in i4... i ,A -,f ii ill. told. Con,,.. ,,, ,11;.,t: the shock was not ie!i south ol Wash mg'ton. The e.rlluiuake shock overturned . honnevs, cracked the walls -of a Piesbx ierian SUndav school house, ami broke up a col ored camp meeting. ' Vance At Hew Berne. Fellow citizens! Victory is in the air! The winds whistle it through the pines m our forests. The streams murmur it in their course toward the sea. The ocean roars victory. The sparrows chirp it in the hedges.., and the eagle screams it in the air. Every where are signs of victory and' North Carolina from the "mountains to the seaboard stands tiptoe in ex pectancy of it, and God grant that we may all see it ripen into perfect day. Tremendous applause, cheer ing aud music BILL ARFS TALK. -:o:- IIE IS REMINDED OF WAR TIM K OCCURRENCES. A FRIEND IN NEED. The Georgia railroad. The old reliable. The 'first railroad I ever saw. How fondly memory gties back to my amazement and awe and childish fear when for the first time. I saw the, huge leviathan come steaming down the track breathing tire, and smoke aud making the earth to trimble with its noise. Forty-six years have passed, and I am on this venerable road again, steamiiig away to Carolina. . Ru minating thoughts come free and unbidden, and as we pass Coving ton i am reminded of the time when my good wile and seven chil dren, with one at the breast, were flying from the fow l invader seek ing a refuge somewhere outside of Sherman's fiery belt, and when they arrived there in the" good old town were overtaken by Stone man's raid. The nurse, a good, faithful family servant, was walk ing out with our youngest child, a little black-eyed brunette, and the raiders came clattering down the road and stopped her, and one of the vandals said: "Put. down that child. What you carrying that child fori Don't you know that you are free? 1 : The nurse was amazed and indig nant. "What yer want me to put low n de chile for ; . de chile can't walk." - ' 'Whose child is it!" said the bintc "It's my chile," bugging the lit'tlt breast. "Wlio.se said the nurse, thing to her chile did you reckon it was?" "Well, if it's yours it's a dam strange color," he replied', -and gal loped on. Unprotected and almost ..""un known, -uiy. w ife 'and ' children hid out iinti' the raiders Heft- the vil lage, ami having no traysportatiou tlid not know how tiiey .would ."es cape from the next bi utal hero that came .along..: Hut -about mid night they were aroused with smothered voices at' the window and friendly greet iugs from fauii.l-4 iar laces, for a fiiend in need from Madison had heard of t heir perils on the wings of the wind, anil sent it carriage and a wagon after them, so they were hurried on with bag and baggage and about sunrise ar rived at his hospitable home. A friend in need is a friend indeed. A thousand times have I thought of that' act of disinterested kind ness, and '.wondered at. it, for it was a perilous thing to do in perilous times, when the foul invader was only too 'happy, to capture, good stock, and a horse or a mule was worth nearly his weight in confed erate money. That tine deed of kindness stamped Eugene Harris as a noble, large hearted .man and a friend in need. 1 shall - always love him. ,Iu a few days . I found my lost family at his house, and we thought the raiders., had left the country and felt secure ; but one bright morning theycaihe tearing by and took the town of Madison by storm. Our folks were two miles in the country, and when the yankees rode up and wanted water the good old mother, who was alone, came to the door and salut ed them, and satdr "Certainly, gentlemen, on shall have water. Do you think, there is auv danger of the. yankees coming this wayf They 'laughed and told her they were yankees, and she quietly re marked . "Well, you seem to act. like gentlemen,'' and this pleased them, and they said, "Sonic- ot us are, madam, 1 hope," and thanking her for the water they rode a wa v. Well, some of them were gentle ineiu aiul all such we respect. I refcallcd the tew succeeding davs when Harris and Joel Abbott Hil lups and I and two or three friends hid out the mules and the horses in a ca .ne brake and fed them at night, aud hid ourselves out in a pine thicket in sight of the horses and played cards -n the ground and oat ineloiis.f.antl told stones to pass hwhv -the time, and had signals til peace mid war and distress arrang ed with our wives, so that we could act on ' .-"emergencies.-. I remember how two straggling soldiers found the mules one day ami rode two of them up to the front gate, and Mis. Harris detained them m pleas ant con vernation uutil we could get there, and how F'uiene was furious ly and recklessly' mad and slipping round to f lie back door, got I wo double baiivllc I guns and 'giving me. one ol litem he litshcd Irani i . :illv mi to the robbers aud shov- iuar the muzzle in one's face order ed. him to dismount, ami he just fell nil nnick on the other side, and ilip nexr -one did the s..l.ie, and ! ih.- departed in haste to jiaitsun known. I saw the house and flu i nine thicket from the car window J a we rolled along, and it carried ! bark to i ne limes, til.lt tind hi. n's ..souls and soles, for we wen on the run a god deal, and hardly I knew when to stop Kn. rene Harris. I think of him ami Frank Jones together, lnttl of i heui the. friends ol my youth and mv age.- Two .'noble- men whom time nor trouble nor peril nor novei tv have demoralized from their natural goodness and great ness of heart. Many a t:me have. I laughed silently and all alone oxer the midnight frolic when Eugene rr!ul on a snake iu bis room at stonewall iron works and was bit r V aud thev struck a light and killed the venemous reptile and .ir.SAd Fjisrenpi with whiskey and rnt hin. drunk and his ankle be an to swell and his tongne got loose and he used language much ijiicrnarre and was as wild and frantic as an untamed Uimanche 'Send for Axson, Frank; I love Axson. Oh, my Lordy; I've been thinking for five years 1 would join the church. Axson Knows it wink Jones, did yen kill that WJLSON.-NORTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 15. 1884. snakef Kill him again, the infer nal lieast. When can Axson get here! Do yon reckon I'll diet Give roe some more whisky. Jnst to think of it. I've lived mighty nigh 40 years dodging death and the devil and yankee bullets and all manner of perils, and now at the last have got to die by an in fernal snake. Mash his head again Frank aud give me another drink When can Axson get here, I want to hear him pray once more. Con found the snake." .Well, he was laid up two long months and suffered agony, but he got well ami still lives to brighteu the. laces of his friends. My mind kept wandering along aud got to the Rome encampment where the -boys, tired their blank j cartridges and marched around 1 and had a big frolic in time of! peace and picked up Henry Grady, j aud toated him around on their shoulders, and made much of him, and he treated them to watermel ons, ami ice. cream and soda water, until they let him off and set him down again and then they cheer ed the bov and patted him on the back, and petted him like he was a spoiled child. lie used to lie Rome's boy, anil Athens' boy, but now he is Georgia's boy, and is the best known man in the State, I reckon. All this carried me back 20 years, when .we too had a camp near Rome w hen we had a legion. Just think of it a legion. Legion is a big name, a glorious name. Legions of angeJs; legion of sol tlieis; legions of devils. It is a classic name. Well, we had. a le gion, Yerscr's legion, home guards, fireside defenders. Georgia mcelish, Joe Brown pels anil all sorts of names. Anil we too were in camp and had a battery and some calva ry ,and infant ry, and we just dared the foul invader to come. I re member how I was lieutenant of artillery and one dark rainy night out- guns went off and waked up the legion in terror and alarmed the settlement, and the long roll was beat andthe universal cry was "to arms, to arms," ye brave." George lbirnett and Tom Aver were at the bottom of that devil ment, anil I j-emember how a few days after, half a dozen yankee ivalry were seen away down the road galloping furiously along in their blue clothes about sun down, vnil another alarm was beat and our batte.ry was ordered to charge down to Quinu's-ferry, and we charged and planted our guns upon the bank and waited for the fowl invader to come. But he didn't come, and we soon found out that the yankee horsemen were Jen Johnson and Hill Arp and a lew more of their sort hunting mischief. remember that the legion had 800 righting men and 1200 quartermas ters aud commissaries who were instructed to scour the country in search of forage ami vittels, and they scoured. Eugene Harris and Oliver Slillwell were iu my mess and when old man Lewis came into imp one day hunting for some lost logs, ijcorge liurnett told nun. he hadn't seen 'em, and didn't know uiything about 'em; but all he did know was that Stillwell md Han-is and me, had had spare ibs and backbone, and fresh pork to eat every day for three days. So we were reported to Colonel Yeiser, and liked to have been court-martialed; and old man Lewis believed as long as he lived that we stole his hogs. Well, it was a glorious kind of ir that we engaged in then a splendid war, aud reminds me of the scene when the tug Texas ran ker rode up to a squad of home guards, and drawing a big shooter from I. is boot, exclaimed, "Liav down, inelish, I'm gwine to bust this cap. ' Hill Akp. What North Carolina Pays. How 'much lax ditl North Caroli na pay in imh3 miner tne present High W ar Tan II? It ought to be published to The people if the exact figures can be ascertained. We cannot give the precise figures, but we may approximate them near enough to give our readers an idea of how much the people of N.orth Carolina paid as their part of the tribute money to the manufac turers iu the North. The average duties for some years are placed at a little less than 200 millions. There were 54 millions of people in 1883. Of this number about 1,47",0()0 were iu North Carolina So it is within Itouuds to say that North Carolina must have paid full ."i,l 100,000 of tax to the Feder al Goverumeut and the Northern manufacturer, the latter getting the lion's share. So every year under the present iniquitous War Tariff I he people of North Carolina pay at least five million aouars m tax The Slate, county and municipal taxes are mere bagatelles compared w ith this big Tariff tax. It will be rcinemlered that on Thursday we published an article iroin tin- Puiladelphia "Record." an ludepeii'tent patter mar i rears oiiouuc questions with care and judgment..- that paper showed that eve ry person in the United States paitl :5.7 or would pay that' if the sum was equally distri buted. Each .family .of five pays lS.:io on imports.' A family ol a woikingmau with eight members, amounts to .t. but this was a small matter. It Said: Each head of a family of live persons pays.ii.-. in rue mcreaseu cost of home products by the tariff, in addition to the $18,00 which he puts into the Treasury ror tne support of government taxes on imports. This is a fearful tax to come out of the wages of a laltoring man." If North Carolina paid $ 3,000,000 this would be moie than $3 tax for every man, woman aud child in the State. "Star." "Facts are stubborn things," and sufferers from chills and fever generally find their complaint a very stubborn fact, until they com mence the use of Aver's Ague Cure. That medicine eradicates the noxious poison from the system, and invariably cares even the worst cases. ABOUT K0TI hTl N' !ic kiud of num. "Nothing illi V U 1 1YU U II 1 1 1 . j on, vtt, SWiii,owed, a-a little A BASHFUL MAN'S TROUBLE IN KOURTLNV QUEER EXPERIENCES. - The trouble with a bashful man, when he makes up his mind to go "kourtin," is to devise some suita ble excuse on the Okkasion of his Hist visit. He feels that be kain't 'face the mnsic" right square so, and he generally renders himself rediknlous, by bitting upon some excuse that is so thin and t ran s- parent that nobody will be deceiv jed by it. These excuses are quite I amusing and laughable sometimes. I knew a young man to go to a place last. February and his excuse was that he wanted to get some kollard seed. The seed were promptly furnished him, but he didn't, seem to le in a hurry tit go home and plant them, he liugered around two or three hours, but didn't make uinch headway he didn't get a step beyond kitllard seed and kabbage seed and the way to plant them. He kame back in two weeks and said the kollard seed were no good or something was the matter, that, they had sprouted and he wanted some more. He got them anil stayed a little longer this time and tolled about the storms aud syklones nothing more. lie came the third time after kollard seed ami I he old sa'ul to him; "Look here, sir, 1 want yon to understand that yon get no mitre kollaid seed here: I don't believe you've got sense enough to plant kollard. seed or any other kind ol seed, or even to "bell a buzzard." lie left without saying "good bye'' and has staved at home evei since laughing ami pining and passing sleepless nights trying to study up some pretext for another visit. I knew another feller, last spiing was a year ago, lit koiumence in quiring lor water-melon seed at a certain house and kept it nD at every visit, until finally about the middle of July, he told the old man he wanted some of those mountain sprout seed. This was "the straw that broke the kaniel's back;" the old man couldn't stand it any longer, he turned short off and went to the kitchen ami got a butcher knife and a Hour sack and brought them to jiiui right in the presence of theirl. and said "Look here, voiing man, I'm get ting tired of this dad blasted fool i.shness. Now you take litis knife and sack and go dow n i to my melon patch and knt open water melons until you get seed enough to satisfy you and don't ever you let me hear you say water melon seed again." He took the knile and sack and sloped, but he didn't jo by the water-melon palch, and the next time the old man kills hoys he'll have to buy another butcher knife. flie young man went home en- tirely name diskotiragcd and had his registered en the "old bach kalalogue and will hence . raises' his own water-iuclon elor" forth seed. Okkasioiially vou will find bashful matt; who, by a little help iroin the girl, wilt manage to skul tie through these preliminary steps of kourtship and secure a favora ble answer fiom the girl herself only to meet with a "WaterFoo1, in the final arrangements or,, to use a more" classikfd form of I ex pression, he will eskape scylla only to fall into the jaws of charybdis. Next to popping the question to the girl, the most diffikult aud ter rifying thing a bashful man has to do is to interview the old man on the subject; especially if he hap pens to have a forbidding and fierce expression ol" konnfenanee. Let me tell you altout a ease, knew ii young man to - spend whole winter in trying to bring to a successful issue these "niatriino uial preliminaries;" lor, live level months he diskussed the "weatli er" with as much 'earnestness, if not as much wisdom, as Md Probabilities" himself. To a man of less perseverance the subject would have bekome threadbaie, but he pursued it with all the mi defatigableness of the preacher w ho sets out with the detenu ma tion ol exhausting his subject even if he has to prosecute it to "fifty-thirdly." It seemed that he couldn't get away from the "weat'i- er" and he sometimes thought it would be best for him to quit his matrimonial venture and apply to the "weather department" for a situation. But at length when spring kiiine. with its budding dowers and singing buds, a blight idea struck him. He limited in. an old book on "the Language of flower iiinl found out which one meau't, "I love .Mill.'' He got one of this soi t anil started. When bi got there he didn't fake time to say : Miked It's a pretty day," but he the tlower at her--.she blushed a little but soon rekover ed her presence of mind, and hand ed him one w hich meant '"O. K." and so the the thing was fixed after that, rain or sunshine, foul weather or fair was all the same to them. The all-important thing now was for him to konsult the old man about it., So next morn ing when he saw him get Ins bas ket of korn and start to feed Ins bogs, he thought to himself, "now's my chauce" and followed him 'twas altout a half mile to the hog pen, and the young man thought surely he could get through it by the time he got thsre. So he look ed ahead aud saw a big oak stump on the side of the road and made a mental vow that when he got there, he would "say it" he 'tried bat 'twas no go no artikulate sound eskhped his lips nothing but a wheezy asthmatic, -gnrgling noise, which kansed the old man to look round iu a frighteued sort of way and enquire if anything was the matter the answer came after awhile iu a jerkipg spasmod- terbacker ' juce."' Poor teller I he made several other attempts but with no better success. But when he got to the hog-iteu he rekov eretl his kouitosiiie and talked fluently altout Chester, Berkshire, Polinds, etc, until the old man began to get. pretty restless and started for home. On the way back that chap picked ortt three different stumps as the place where his destiny was to be de cided but the "masheen" wouldn't wo'rk ami i w hen; hl opened j the ; throttle valve the steam would j just blow off with a. kind of a ! "pliizz,'" to it and that v-is all not a,word could lie get out. Hv jthe time they got lo the gale the i old man was getting 'run tv "nerv- imis." thinking he was iu the pres ence of a man in the first stages or ii. tiio-itioina awe li ni mm w rush for the house, but the young ma n grablietl Kim bv tire arm audi p ropimed r go do w ii ? AIh I look his mulberries, , uiultikaulis, silk worms, kokoons nnd various other kiuds of herbacoous plant : for altout h dl an hour uutil the old- inan began to move off towards the house again and then it was that the y ouug ;aiau 1 grew desper ate, ami thinking it would never do, to let this opportunity pass, seized ' the; old feller hyVthB; arm ami koinmcneed to. wheeze - aud putf and foam at the month, in Md frantic efforts to spit out the words that were chokiu him. It was pitiable to-see the look of terror in that oldniaa'ft JAW $ be gazed on what he believed, to be a mailman- ana , witu a spper-HQmaa effort be wrenched bitaseJf loose aud rushed wildly into . the house, falling in a fainting fit just in frout of the steps." 'and as the yonnsr man came walking up slowly in a dazed sort ol way. he saw; the family gathered -around the pros- irate iorm ot tuax)ld . man jwiurutg water on bin I head and as he came up ami was a bunt to inquire what was the matter, the old, man 'iinie too and glared wildly arnnud exclaiming "Hrihg me .my gun Sold 'onian," let me shoot . him don't vou see he's got the J'rabiesw" keep on I say; keep dnm. off." And thus ended his hope of matrimo nial bliss. With feelings of the pfofbttnd est sympathy tor tbis kfass, I am, Philo Sophek Ingersol's Address At His Brother's Grave. My Friends: I am going to do that which the dead often promised he would do for me. I be loved and loving brother, husband, father. friend died where manhood's morn ing almost touches noon, while the hailows still were falling towards the West, He had not passed on life's highway the stone that marks the highest point but being weary for a moment he laid down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless deep that kisses down his eyelids still. While yet in love with life anil raptured with the world, he passed lo silence and pat hetic dust. Yet, alter all it may lie best, just in the happiest, sun niest hour of all the voyage, while eager w inds are kissing every sail to dash against the unseen rock and in an instant hear the billows roar in a sunken ship. For, wheth er in mid-sea or among the break ers of t he farther shore, a wreck must mark at hist the eud of each and all. And every lite, no matter if its every hour is rich "with love and every moment jeweled w ith a joy, will at it close, Oecome a trag edy, as sad and deep anil dark as can be woven of the warp aud woof of mystery and death. This braw' and .tender man in every storm of life was oak and rock, but in the sunshine he was vine and flower. He was the friend of he roic souls. He dim lied the heights aud left all superstitions far below, while on his forehead fell the gold en dawning of a grander day. He loved the beautiful, and was with color, form and music touched to tears. He sided with the weak, and with a w illing baud gave alms; with loyal heart and with the pur est hands he faithfully- discharged all pultjic trusts. He was a worship er of liberty and a lrieud to the op pressed. A thousand times have I heard him quote the words: "For justice all place A temple and all season summer." He Itelieved that happiness was the only good, reason the only torch, just ice the on ly worshipper, humanity the oiily religion, and love 1 he priest. He added to the sum of human joy, aud were every one for wnom In- did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave he would steep to night -tciicath a wilderness of llower-i. . Life is a 'narrow vale between i lie -cold -and ban-en peaks ; two eterniiie. We strive in vain to look beyond the . heights. We'cry aloud, ami I he only answer is the echo of our wailinz cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreply nig dead there comes m word; mil in tiie night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rus-lh- of the wind. He who sleeps heie. when living, mistaking the appioach of death lor the return of health, whispered with his latest Ineai h. "I am Itetler now." Let lis believe, in spite of doubts and dog-! mas and tears and fears that these j dear 'words are true of all the count-; less dead. And now, to you who have been chosen from among the' many men he loved to do the last I sad office for the dead, we give his sacred dust. Speech cannot con tain our love. There was there is no gentler, stronger, manlier man. Younr, old, and middle aged, all experience the wonderful lieueficial effects ix Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Young children suffering from sore eyes, sore ears, scald head, or with any scrofulous or syphilitic taint, may lie made healthy and strong by its use. The greatest pleasnre of life is love; the greatest treasure, eon te tit; the greatest possession, health; the greatest ease, sleep; the great est medicine, a true friend. TYRE YORK. STUMBLING BLOCK IN THE WAY OF PROGRESS. A TRUTHFUL RECORD. To count op the material results accomplished in North Caroliua under Democratic rule is doubtless gratifying to those who bore a baud in briuging about those hap py results. But to men like Dr. York, who were hindrances and stumbliug blocks in almost every line of progress, such a- reckoning must be auythiug but pleasant. - Is it true, however, that Dr. York was a stumbliug block aud an ob stacle to Democractic progress and prosperity? To tins important ques tion we propose to make no an swer numelves, but to let Dr. York's record juiit as he himself titade it, tell the whole story. AOAINST THE WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. In 187C-'77 Dr. York was a mem ber of the senate. On January 24, 1877, the "bill to provide for the apeedy completion of the Western Nortli Carolina Railroad" was tak en up on its second reading. (See Senate Journal 187fi-'7, page 25;.) A proposition was offered to appro priate 140,000 ror the road, and Dr. York moved to amend as fol lows: "Strike out one bundled aud forty thousand dollars and insert ime dollar." One dollar! His amendment was voted down. An hmendment was offered by Senator J, L. Roblsou, allowing the Gover nor to purchase such iron rails and materials as might be- needed each year. Failing in his "one dollar" laoposition, Dr. York moved to limit the amount of expenditure to i30,000 a year. Mr. Trov moved to make the limit tO,000."Dr. York voted against Mr. Troy's amend ment, which, however, was adopt ed, and then hv voted against Mr. Ko bison's proposition as! amended by Mr. Troy. ' Ou this reading Pr, York voted against the hill. On page 304 of tbe same Senate Journal, this bill came np on the third readimg. i Dr. York moved to strike "seveuty thousand and insert thousand" as tbe amount could lie spent to bin- iron, each year.. He their offered a viso, limiting its oteratiou for years. The road could not be out fifty that &c built for 140,000, and conld not be built iu two 5'ears, and yet he ottered the proviso. On the third reading Dr. York again voted squarely agaiust the bill. If Dr. York had controlled the Democratic party the Western North Carolina Railroad would have 8iopied at Old Fort. It would never have crossed the mountains. He would have denied to the peo ple across the Blue Ridge all hope of opening the country to the world. Such was his statesman ship. But his policy did not tii umpu. The Democratic pai ty was not gox'erned by such narrow con ceptious of justice to the west. They appropriated $70,000 annual ly aud carried the work on slowly and practically, and substantially the great road is built. And every cent of that money with the inter est ou it, has been paid back into the State Treasury; and lNi;nuse it has been paid back iuto the State Treasury there are to be no taxes this year. So the work costs us nothing. Now let us see the benefits. The connties that have been directly benefitted by this road are, up to the present, Buncombe, Ua wood, aud Madison. The iron has not yet been laid in other counties, but will be before SepleuiW.r. We make below a comparison of the valua tion of property for taxation in these three counties, "liefore and after" iu 1878, before they had railroad facilities and in 1883, after they had begun to enjoy the bene fits aud advantages of a railroad connection: Counties, 1878 188.J Buncombe, 2,0-'6,5,J4 $4,014,441 Haywood. 71,01k 1,559,8711 Madison, 518,017 1,140,10." Total, $3,2G3,2LH 6,7 14,44.1 The total valuation of property in these three counties in which the railroad is now laid, was, after hundred years w ithout railroad fa cilities, J,263,229. Iu five after they hail a solid hope of geitmga road, the value of property more thau doubled! The railroad has ad ded to the nroiMTty iu these eouu ties .1,S50,ooo. The prospcrity which has attended this growth was predicted by all men all - in.- derstond that raiboad facilities 'would bring this gieat devclop ! ment. I 1 Nine counties of the Slate of North Carolina embracing that tine ' wesfei u legion which is now ;,t ' trading so much attention were ! without railroad facilities. Ashe j was inaccessible and the produce ' raised by the farmers aeioss the mountains found no ready means of traiiHtoi tatiou to the markets ol the world. The splendid timber of i that region was beyond the reach of purchasers. Indeeu, hemmed in I by the mountains, those North Car olinians across tlia Blue Ridge were cutoff most, effectually from the balance of the State.-And yet Ivy his vote, solemnly and publicly re corded, Dr. York declared that these nine counties ought, to re main as they were cut off from all the world! AGAINST THE STATE DEBT SET TLEMENT. The old bonded debt of tbe State was compromised by tbe legisla ture at its session in 1879, at which time Dr. York was a member of tbe House of Representatives. Dr. York voted squarely against the compromise. (See House Journ tl 1879, pages 593 and 602.) ' Tbe plan for tbe exchange of the old North Carolina Railroad Con struction Bonds for new ones wa --NTTMBER 28 perfected by the same Legislature, j and Dr. York voted squarely against tbe arrangement made in ! regard to them also. (See House Journal 1879, page 757.) AGAINST THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Nor did the Department tind fa vor in Dr. York's eyes, for he voted squarely against the bill establishing it. The ttossibilities, probabilities and certainties that lay before it as a belp to the farme , a promoter of the manu facturer, as a devcloiier of our mineral resources, of the phos phates and coal iu particular, a finder of markets for our woods and timbers, &c, &c, had no charm for him. He cared for none of these things; at least he voted against ' tbe Department. See Senate Journal 187G-7, page 580.) AGAINST THE ASYLnMS. The Western North Caroliua Railroad was unable to command Dr. York's vote. The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad was unable to command it. The pro position to settle the State debt was equally powerless to do so, aud so was the Department of Agricnltnre. But these were ma terial measures that made no ap peal to the instincts of common humanity, but only to the more sordid instincts of our nature. What then was Dr. York's record ou measures of humanity The story is a brief one. Dr. York was deaf to the appeals for help to suf fering humanity as he was blind to measures for material progress, aud iu this he regarded neither race nor color nor locality. The bill that resulted in its es tablishment found him AGAINST THE COLORED INSANE ASYLUM AT GOLDSBOUO. It was passed by the Legislature at its session of 187l-'77, and Dr. York, who was then a member of the Seuate, voted against it. (See Senate Journal 1870-'77, pa-es 611 O.lG.) AGAINST THE WESTERN OR MOR- G ANTON ASYLUM Dr. York fought most viciously. aud that too even after si irre.it part of the work had been done towards its erection. On Febrn- iry 20, 1877, the Senate took un the bill to construct the Western Insane Asylum. Dr. York was a member of the Senate and fought the bill iu every way. One of the amendments he promised was to "St i ike out $15,000 for the vear 1877 and 1878" ami insert fc"6 for each year to keen an ; ordinary ltoard roof on the walls for the next two years or until the State can sell tbe same." (See Senate Journal 187G-7, pages 491 492 anil Such complete indifference to the appeals ol suffering humanity was uot to have been expected from practicing physician who must have had constant evidence of the utter inadequacy of the then existing facilities for the care of the insane; certainly he had proof ifthe inadequacy of those facili ties lor the white insane in the western part of the State. But so it was; the appeal of the suffering insane, Jwhether white or black, east or west, was utterly powerless to move him. And equally iKtwerless, too were the poor children of the State. Neither helpless insauitv nor help less childhood could move his bowels of compassion. It is well know n how much has been accom plished iu educational matters in the State, and how great that prog ress is uue to tne establishment ofonr normal schools. Dr. York. however, has constantly voted AGAINST THE FIRST NORMAL SCHOOLS. In 1876-'7 a bill was passed to carry out the plain lequiremeuts of the constitution to establish a white norm. -1 school in connectien with the University of the State, and Jilso to establish one . for tin blacks at Fayetteville. Dr. York opposed1 both these schools, that for the whites ;is. well as that for tbe blacks. (See Senate Journal 187(P7, page 594.) AGAINST ADDITIONAL SCHOOLS. NORMAL 181 au act was passed provid ing among other things, for addi tional normal schools. (See laws 1881, ch. 141.) The fifth section reads as follows: "Sec. 5. That the State Board of Educatiou be directed to estab lish other normal 1 schools than those at Fayetteville and the Uni versity, and that the sum of 2, 000 ter annum is hereby appropri ated for such aehools for white teachers and the sum of 2,000 for such schtxtls for colored ..teach ers, authorized by r),is act in ad ditioii to the appropriation here tofore made for normal schools : Provided, however, that the num ber of schools shall not be less than fou i for each color." To show his otMtsitiou to the establishment of any more Normal Schools in the State, J)r. York, moved to strike out the section making provisions for them. He j failed in Ibis, happily, but contin-.j ued to Hie end fighting the bill in e-eiy way ana men voted square ly against it. (See Senate Journal 18T, pages 375 and 37G.) It is easy to see what slow prog ress would have been made in the cause -of education if noj normal schools had been established, and none would have Iteen established if Dr. York hail controlled the poli cy of the Democratic party. Fort unately for the poor children of the : State, fortunate for the suffering strike at the fountain bead tbe insane or the State, it was, that course of all evU. It is worms that wiser, more beneficieiit, more hu- j La8 destroyed the health of your mane counsels prevailed. child. Give Shriner's Indian Does auy one suppose for a mo- J Vermifuge before it is too late, ment that if Dr. York had Iteen j only 25 cents a bottle. able to control the policy of the; Democratic party that the present 1 prosperity would prevail! .Does: Don't HU the system with qui anv one believe that Dr. York has nine in tbe effort to prevent or really changed for tbe better, and if he has not will it be safe for the people of North Carolina to make him their Chief Magistrate and thus enable bim to shape the poli cy of the Stat and tbe party in tbe future f . Liberal niRcounta woi b mate far Laitar AdTrtisi!HMit. n.i ror Contracts by Um Tmt vsn must uv-.mpan all uniFM irood rvfrrciiec to Itren. POLITICAL POINTS; -:o:- WHAT THE POLITICIANS ARB TALKING ABOUT. THE POLITICAL CALDRON. Who Would Chance! In Octolter, 1867 Hon Kemp P. Battle, then Public Treasurer, re, poited the State debt, principal and interest, at tl5.238,040.50. In November, 1870, ouly- three years later, Treasurer Jeukins rejiorteil the debt to be 3,084, 041.75. ' The Republicans had been in between Messrs. Battle and Jenkina aud in three years had added f 1" 840,001 25 to the debt. In 1870 the Democrats got con trol of the Legislatiue, and whilst the State was in no condition after three years of Republican misrule, to pay any of its debt, they preveuted any increase of the principal. They did reduce taxes, restore, the common schools, und re-commence the con t ruction ol the Western North Caroliua Railroad. By IH76 they had reduced S'ate taxes to 29j cents. In 1877 the Democrats took entire charge of the State. They found the State debt, principal and interest, amounting to t4l,,?88,"10 45, The" prospect of settlement seemed almost hopeless to creditor and debtor. . But the debt has been settled satisfactorily to both parlies interested. The State's six per cent, bonds are selling at 108to $110, and its four per cent, bonds are rapidly approaching par, tbe interest on all being promptly paid. For the first time since 18U9 a North Carolina bond has value, and our good old Treasurer, Dr. Worth, wishes it written ou his tomb-stone long may it be before he has need of one! that he caused to be effected the satisfactory compromise and settlement of the State debt. Under the . system of couuty Government, restored by the Dem- , ocracy iu 1877, the counties are nearly all In good conditiou; their largo indebtedness, the results ot Republican misrule, nearly all paid off; and iu the seven years uot a dollar of taxes has been lost to the State by default of any sheriff. The Western Railroad has lteeu completed to the Tennessee line and has effected its connection with the railroad systems of the country; aud it is making rapid progress to its other terminus at Ducktown. It has , brought into the State! already two million of dollars, and two million more will be used far its completion. In the last year one million of dollars has been brought into the State and expended upon tbe Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad and another million will go to the same road this year. T ' The best equipped and most useful Agricultural Department in the South is another result of seven years of Democratic rule. The system of public schools is thoroughly re-established. The University has been firmly re-established. Normal schools for both races are provided for every section of the State. . Asylums have Iteen equipped. In I8G9 for white and black built and thoroughly the State tax was 80 cents. F'or two years past the State tax has been 25 cents. This year there is uo State tax. lin. l.l ... ilnl..:l. Register." ... ' - ...... - J -- r Kisses. Tiieie's a formal kiss of fashion, And a burning kiss of passion, A father's kiss, ! A mother's kiss, - ! Aud a sister's kiss to move There's a traitor's kiss of gold, Like serpent's clammy fold, A first kiss, A stolen kiss, And the thrilling kiss of love; A meeting kiss, A maiden kiss, A kiss when fond hearts sever, But the saddest kiss On earth is this A kiss to part forever. The Host DifflcDlt Ttst. "How glorious it is U be engag ed in a purely intellectual occupa tion,"' murmured a Boston maiden, gazing rapturously into the admir ing eyes of country editor; "you own mental faculties for tools and the whole universe for a workshop. Now tell me" she added, "what do you find the most difficult thing connected with your noble profes sion!" "Paying the hands," said tbe ed itor. Mk.ssuh. IIourK & Barnik, Managers of the Baltimore, Md., base ball club state, as the opinion of all base ball players and no set of men are more susceptible to sprains, bruises, aches and pains that St Jacob Oil,' the great Ger man remedy is the I text cure ever used, and they jointly acknowlege its merits. cure rever anu .ague, oyer's Ague Cure is a far more potent preventive and remedy, with tbe ! advantage of leaving in tbe body no poisons to proauce aizrmess, deafness, headache, and other dis orders. Tbe proprietors warrant it
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