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I WILSON ADVANCE. WILSON ADVAiNOE. SI in r priti.isuKU, liVKUV Fbiday a Wilson North Carolina. - by JOSEPHUS DANIELS, - Editor ui PnpritUr -:o:- t rnsnarPTioN Bates in ADTAitcx ; iw une i tnr 1UY Six Munthn. - r-.vfoncy ran be sent by Money Oritt at R. giem.-i letter at our n. .irri TirN,ro Htrefct, . ia Ut Old rotl Oiruvlia.lintr. 'MWti l' A WEEK :o: OATH 1 1 ; ED FROM ALL PARTS Of. THE WORLD. 'ENCILLINGS GLEANINGS. Seigel Bros', cigarette factory f -.. ilplllii .burned ;tt Durham Mi'U,,a- bail is plave.l ... Tarl-oro The "Souths -''. del iv l.iinl ilUl i A' has a ( 'lev i composed &' .. . uillM All feet !i-.v New L.-rii- l giior mea-un")- ..lie. a killed m . 'afinilav "nioiiHUtf- . ublicans fi fiif 7Ul iated in. j.g: ku'- Tin I diMfii.-r in. i .v i... .. ;.Vi' '" will teat him' A 'ty- iu6iht co,lun,A ' '".a pletiro i...r,uuu.., i -toi te.l i" V- The KiiiHtou Jia iie 1 to oi gaiitze a IStulue ami club list week hut failed. mall tactions in the party. A hale ol new cotton was sold ..i, Monday of last week in Mont goiueiy, Ala., which was low initi aling, ami it bioiight, Hjjeents. Something new : The discov er of Hie French physician that a wuiei ini'lon contains 'more, uutri uieid tliau a pound of beefsteak. They' have hail the hardest rams in" Lenoir ..since the war.-r Neiise river rose live feet in oue da. roltmi t. u I he low lands ii i iiutftl. (.. n v i ilr I. II rlilv . (iranl lias eoUtracted to 'I'he Ceiiiiu.v" magazine i.iiiili'.s mi Ilit iirim'iial It.ittl.-s ol to ififivt- I In- war, for .H 1,000. w liii li he is The r.apli. is ol North C'art ini.i couteinplalf louiiiliii a l'.ap ti.sl Orphan's Home. The Com mittee: J. II. Milts, R. 1).' Fleming and W. II. C waltne.v . .Mr.l). II. Nicholson has be t'oiut-a inciiiher of t lie law linn of Falcon !t l'owt-ll of Clinton. The pit sent st v le of t he til'lll is Faisoli, 1'owell X. Nicholson. Thi makes a strong linn. Three boys, the oldest but l.", at 1'ietlinoiit, Va., Iitmglit a pint of Wln.ikey anil .Icremiah l'orter died Tr rcPnolo agony and the other two are seriously sick. What an out rage! .. Lenoir County Commissioners bore with a big augur. The Kins ton "Free Press" mentions t4iat they have just, appropriated 13. iiuO to Hit up an iron I n i 1 ; t - in th county. U he Kaleigu Chronicle says: State Immigration' Agent Patrick has 'brought MOO immigrants to Ntitu Carolina during the Jast Hi moWhs, and the most of them by far lro farmers. A Parsee gn 1 has astoi.i.dted lit-t race in nulla i m nisjiiitr a .iiot for hreach of proiuisc of mar riajAe. It is the lirst instance of the kind known in that f Hid and it has created a grcat-scaiMl.il. Carteret count v has hipped tine hundred thousand watt rmel ons to not t hern inaikt ts tins "sea son. lliesc are a t'leat uianv mole than usual, and they are one third larger than those ol last sea son. lion. William li. llymau, i native of Martin county, N. C, uiea near uanip i arapet, Jai., on .Saturday last, aged -70. lie was -Chief .Justice of the State iu 1805 anil servoii loui years, ne was a woi thy man. "Hrick" l'ouiero.v will shortly tiegin the pulilicatiou ol an illus tratt'il paper, "The United States Democrat at New York. The ftabscription price will be .fi.oo year, or nirv cents tor the cam paigu. Miss Julia Jaeksou, "St t Hawaii's" daughter, is at (Mil Point, aud at tracts much attetition in her Coii leaeraie gray ttress. She is described as tjuite pretty, an ex pert swimmer ami a crack shot. It the Mormons nourish twenty tour years to come as they hav Hourisheil during the past twenty four years it is estimated they will numlH'r three millions, anil their l peculiar institution will beestab ' lished "on .i prospeious basis." Mrs. Mary U.ijard Clark Isiitlerinu' severely and has gone VNew York to te-it the elective rem Vdy. W e lioiie this -talented and teisat ile North Carolina poet am , authoress win nave . uianv more "yj tuts given her. I . The card of thanks biiMiu' f has leachctl its lowest depths iu IVeiinttnt when a woman aad her Iiusbaiitl print : can! ' sincerelv'' Ihaiil.ing "ur biothcr and sister autl nephew for tlietr kintiuess in tihariug with ns thfexpeuses of the f l.m lil lit our aired father" There are now 144 orphans at i the Oxford Asylum and Dr. Dixon, : the Superiuteiitlent, has some 70 or more applications. The admin istration of ")r. Dixon gives much satisfaction t the Hoard of Direc tors. There is a falling off in the receipts ot 'nnds, ami it ought not so to lie. v Greensl'oro "Workuiau": A lady, a resident of another State, and not a native of North Carolina, who has travelled over this State, says she baa been to watering places North, and to "the White Sulphur Springs, Va., where she saw fifteen hundred men at a time, but she saw more haudsonie men in North Carolina than sue ever saw before. 'Jentlemen, raise j our hats. hral 1 T1e: ffil)t mmm VOLUME 14." ZTiTiaid. that the energetic TilH.in anthorities of the ntArnriain authorities o.i-ib & Gaston railroad wilt r;M a hranch road from Frank- JL1A1U it Unton to Louisburg, ami have trains running lietween the two towns by the first of December next. "Citizen," 9th: Grover Clevelaud reached Asheville Thursday mom me. and is the guest ol Mayor A--ton. Our mayor, ever on the alert to do a graceful and proier thiu, tendered the distinguished arrjval tl full freedom of the city. We trouKi-atulate Mr. and Mrs. Stike leather. 'l h re-iiuiou Of the ex-Coiifetl ..,.ua at Ifeiaaville on the 14th was largely attended, and a time had. It was estimated 1000 wearers of the gray Addresses were tine that were de- livered by Hon. Ji W.Eeid, Senator Ransom, Genl Scabs, Col. W. F. Beaflley, 0. B. Watson and Col, J. R. Winston. It is said that out in Florida, people spend most of the time hi water I tiring tne muuiuci months leading a sort at aii)!"""- life, as it were, ine oiu. drawback", to the luxury i u water life is that "alligator live m tht- woter.; likewise, ami they are iiiui.ii.il- : -i In . llertfort county Ueury llniiUhron won the atteetious ot Slai kev Abkew's wite, ana mey in away together. Haughion cauaht aud jailed. lie has ought, to receive a hundred Jasnes oui barn back, and the wouian-- well we tlou't know w hat punish ment should be given her. Two iiieii were killed in one day last week, on the ..t." C K. U., both ilruiik. One attempting, to jump across the irat k hi iioni i running tram, and the other was ndulging a J .maudlin" '.snooze on the track. Both killed ly same train, i A prohibitionist plum for temperance lecture, says the 'Southerner." An exchange tells of a negroon the C. C. Road who has been turn ing white ever since he voted the Democratic ticket . If we can get the negroes to believe that by fol lowing the example of this one they can become white, they'll all join ourp'Uty. The effort to do ihis ought lobe worthy of consideration, mil we call chairman Battle's at- ntion to it. The "Southerner" reports that the do-;-; have again ravaged Dr. D. B. 1-atts" sheep told ' How loiiff, O! legislators?" The dog nuisance is a heavy tax on the State and yet there is no prospect of relief. The people do not desire a tax on dogs. And it is not because th ex- do not love the sheep out because they love the cur more. Educate the peoplo to love mutton and hate worthless dog, ana then rebel will come. - .- Warreuton "Gazette'-: The shipment of grapes from Ridgaway and iWarreu Plains is now very heavv, the shipment from Ridge- way alone being about five tons s a day. The fruit nets from six to ten cents .i pound, according, to variety and condition. There are 900 vines per acre and each viDe will average about five l ion nils of gootl fruit. The Dismal Swamp lotterT, with headquarters at Norfolk, has come to giicf. 1 he oilic rt'f the law are alter the inanageis, the agent in tici klcy has been jailed, the Mavor ot Norfolk has seized the wheel and otli.ri paraphernalia, and is looking lor the managers We hope the day Is not tar distant when all these gam tiling concerns will be suiiiia inly dealr with. Uu the z.tu ot las: mouth a daughter of Jesse Splawns. colored, of Rnthertoi'd county, according to the "Banner,'' was tilling a lighted lamp from a two-gallon kerosene can, when the oil exploded. The house was set on tire, 1 he girl rait out all in ttauies, aud died the next day alter sutieriug untold agoii'es. The house and everything in it was cousuu.eiK The burial was at tended bv a treat many colored people at their church n the op posite side of Green rivi i. it being swollen from recent lains. On their return, a boat load ' was cap sized, among them a brother of the deceased, aged 7 or 8' e.ir.s, who was drowned. We take the ioi'u'wing extract from a private letter trout Brattle lmro, Vermont, it being qui.e a significant straw: 'There is quite an anti Blaiuc sentiment in the old Green Mountain State. On Friday evening, after the - Cleveland aud Hendricks nag -"raising, over forty Republicans joined an anri-Blaine club, among whom was Mr. Richard Bradley." a. prominent and influen tial citizen. The .'Cleveland and Llendricks cannon whi.-i, nt its music revei Iterating over the moun tain echoed back the tact powder furnished by Hie Republican post master, Mr, Man .in. Arthur may take his heat! ofi but Cleveland will put it . ou again. John Alex ander Logan ha- not heeded "Mother Logan'.- good. advice., ami must suffer tor In ii:g in bad com pany." J Short Fctrlti u Jaly OratiDD A Western man is . u record making the bt ieU st Foiuth of Juiv oration in history. He had his speech by heart, but the multitude frightened him. Twenty years ago the place npou which yon now stand was a howling wilderness!" he began. Not remembering tfe next sentence, he repeated that oue. There was immen.-e applause Still he forgot. Attempt No. .1 was as follows:. 'Twenty, years ago the place upon which you now stand was a howling wilder nessandand d n me if I don't wish it was now." Do vou wish n lw!iiitii'nl c.i in plexiont Then use Ave's Sarsapii- rilla. It cleanses and' and purities the blood, and thereby removes ucue8. aim. T'"P? . ,lue 8kih, making tt smootn ami uiear, POLTTTCAL POTlVTS ! Democrats w1'0' Prior 10 and 8ub" UlJ-U J'vAL fUlll J ..sequent to the nomination, were -:o: WHAT THE POLITICIANS ARE TALKLNG ABOUT. TUE POLITICAL CALDRON. A New York German Society has declared for Clevelaud. General Johu S. Marmaduke is the Democratic caudidate for Gov. ofMissouri lu the First district Thomas G. Skinner was renominated for Con gress by acclamation. .Major Johu . W. Daniel has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the 6th district in Virginia. Blaine, it is said, will give 8500, 000 personally to the Republican campaign fund. If this is true the underpaid Government employes at Washington ought to he let alone. 1 The German Progressive Union of Connecticut have lesolved to support Clevelaud and Hendricks. This aft is significant as this Un ion has heretofore voted for the Republican nominees. The Democratic Senatorial Con vention at Plymouth ou the 14th nominated P. H. Simmons, of Hyde, and Theodore Poole, of Mar tin, for the Senate Iroiu the seven counties of that district. Mr. Cleveland paid a visit last week to Mr. Tilden at the latter s country home on the Hudson, aud the two had a conference with re gard to the points to be covered in Cleveland's forthcoming letter of acceptance. The Democratic electors are as follows : W. 11. Kitcheu, J. N. Sta ples, Dounell Gilliam, C. W. Me Clammy, B. fl. Buiin, li, B. Glenn, Alfred Rowland, Iticbard Pnryear, t:. 3lcnravcr. ai. u. .justice, xue first disM ict I. as made no selection. "Why Veterans Should Support Blaine" a Republican contemporary starts off' to explain. Why? Be cause he hired a substitute to go to the army for him ami when the rascal was seiit to jail Blaine never even sent a man to do his fight ing Mr. James Black, of. Pennsylva nia, says that tne rrouiomonisi! will poll from 15,000 to 25,000 votes in that State, and not less man 50.000 in New York, two thirds of which will come from the Repuoli can party. Senator Gordon, of Maryland, is Chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee. At its receut meeting he said he would resign if any attempt was made oy tne i gani.atioii to print or circulate charges involving Blaine's private life. That vras tight and decent. Edward Kearney, one of the most, popular of the Tammany lead ers. savs: ''Those. Democrats who are not : for ('lev elpftd and Hen dricks should . cro.-s the link' and loin the iceminiicaiis. Memo " .. ... . .. crat who votes tor lintler is a he publican, as Butler is niuniug sole lv in the inteiest of Blaine. I - - .t The IHirhaiii "Plant" says that 'lion. Josiah lurner has autiotiuc- eed himself a candidate for Con gress. lie only spoke a few mo ments, autl we were unable to learn w here he stood politically, but sup pose he iji against everybody and even tiling," The Xinth District County De niocracv. Association, New York city, have taken steps to fonu "Cleaver" Guards, to carry as wea dous laree woyden cleavers. The motto will he : "We Polked. them." "We Pierced them." "We Buck'd them." "And by the help of God we'll cleave' them.'' Fioiu the manner in which the Northern Republican press has opened its campaign upon Cleve land, it is'evident that Ike Young's advice as to the conduct of a cam paign has been heard and heeded away troin home. "L'.e like hell and stick to it," is the counsel of the geutle Isaac, and his advice is beiug acted upon. Yea, verily. Tif Speakers. An humble suggestion : For op era house audience, Mr. Staples ; for luke-warni or wrong headed or fighting audiences. Mr. Kitchin he'll -dve Vm Hail Coltuuhia! for open-air campaigning; where you want vigor ami a good supply of it, Mi. Coke: for audiences that wish to be charmed, Mr. F 1-: lor all men an'l all places, the hottest man ly lace of Mr. Scai.-s. Clnomcle. Political Humbug. A meeting of twenty-two ju-rons calling themsclve- li i.-li-D. itmcnits. i met last nighr in Bo.inel's Hall.; Newark, N. J . ami ot ganizetl an T.i.-ii Repiibliian Blaiuc citth."; Mr.-. Keller, a p-.-rsou utterly mi-; 'known to the Irish resident- ofi Ni W.trk, was chosen I'l esidelit. ! TI.e others in the club are said to; U- mainly ward politicians and; i heir "heelers." The Irish rest' ,i..t (..rt' at the idea tit such oeo- li- icpie.-eiituig t'.teni. New" Yoik ; 'llerahl,' ln.l. The Ouliook Ciit oiiiaKiuK. The Executive Committee of the National Democratic Committee heltl a ye.-sion iu New York ou Moutlav. Senator Rausom was present. The reports received are of an encouraging character. Cleveland's strength is represented as steadily growing. Both Sena tors Gorman and Jonas say that ti,A nn t look is most favorable. Mr. i Walter Bunn, the clerk of the State Democratic Committee, tells the New York "Herald7 : ; "We have returns from a thou- sand election districts in the State. '. ' lTJ::'t:: tnese irom ur j - "LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIFl'ST AT, BE THY COUNTKT'S, WTLSON, NORTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 22. 1884. opposed to Cleveland are now com ing forward to support the regular Democratic ticket." Maj. Win. A. Smith's Position. Wheu Maj. Wm. A. Smith began his speech at Smith field, before he nan spoken two sentences, the well known Eli Olive arose and going forward, extended his hand, saying: "Major Smith, allow me to welcome you into the Democratic party!" The Smith field Herald says: He favored a reduction of the tariff, the abolition of the Internal Revenue system, and that he fa vored the present system of county government, and was now satisfied that it was the best Tor the people iu them, of both races; though he opposed it when inaugurated and before he had lully seen its work ings. He told the colored people that they were bound to vote for a Democrat this vcar if they, voted for Governor at all, ami that, he would advise them to vote for a true and stainless man, that Gen. Scales who had been his colleague in Congress, was an honest and patriotic statesman. He spoke in high terms of the incorruptible Cleveland; he said his rote for Gen. Cox this year would bot le the first he had fcasrT for thaffc'ailant aud iare vaiari? his comp(lfunt to Hon.-W. R. Cox was it fitting one, aud while he was ' thus eulogizing our beloved Representative, Gen. Cox -himself arrived oii the'Court Sonar. Maj ir Smith' in closing said, 'l Was bound iu iny old kge to crawl over the bg and get to my friends." Hog Cbolett. The ravages of hog cholera in certain sections of this county and Duplin are unprecedented. Clin ton "Caucsasian. Movock, N. C, March 4, 1884. I not ice iu your columns mention made of hard times and of hog cholera. The latter is matter of much concern to us all. I wish to give some experience and knowl edge of my own that may be of use to my fellow men if practically observed. All stock need attention, aud the hog needs more than any other sort. There is not so much m the feeding as in the manner, time and place of feeding. A sameness of iood and sameness ot place win - A . ... cause the best hogs to degenerate or sicken. If people will place their hogs in pastures iu the spring and summer seasons, where tney can have access to green stuff, 8uch as carrot-weed, clover and grass, and change them abont ..every month (if the lot is not more than one or i wo acres it will do,) and refrain from giving them much com, and let them have free ac cess to a throwiug in a little cop peras aud saltpetre ami give them apples, watermelons, squash or vetretables in the swill. 1 will ob ligate myselt to pay for all that die with sickness id any kind. I had sickness in my hogs about teu or nffeeu ye";rrs ago, b!it have not bad' any since. The. conclusion I calne to was that it originated in a sanfeness of place and food right among the hogs by some freak in nature, and was not at all conta gion.-. 1 would recommend the Polaud-ClHua, asTTjelleve them to Ik- the Itest, least liable to disease ami producing the greatest ami best amount of pork and bacon lor the outlay aud attention. This prevention will as well aunlv to fowls. Much has been said as to a remedy to cure, but remedy is a humbug, because when the disease is contracted you would haye" to apply the remedy to every one it you allowed them to remain 4t the place where it was contracted, aud there is no specific remedy known. E. W. Holt, in Kaleigl "Register." Every paper iuthe United States ought occasionally to keep the fact before its readers that burut corn is a certain aud speedy cure for hog cholera. The best way is to make a pile of corn ou the cobs. effectually scorch it, aud the give affected hogs free access to it This remedy w-as discovered by E- E. Docks at the time his distil lery was burned in Fulton county 111.., together with a lot of store corn, which was so much injured as to be uufat tor use, and was hauled out and greedily eaten by the hogs, several of which were dying dailv. After the second day not a siugfe hog was lost, the and the disease entirely disappear ed. The remedy has beeu tried in a number ' of cases and never failed. Baltimore "riun." A Benefactor and a Traitor. The inventive mania is driving folks "plumb" crazy. The man in Duiiglasvdle. Ga., who has in veured a steam road worker mus without anv questions or contro veisy. le put down as a leiiefac tor of the human family, and espe cially of thafpait .of it that resides in Dixie. The plowi and 6crapes in the machine, i is claimed,will do of the work of 50 men at one tenth the cost of hand labor. Ou the other hand, however, the Stokes county mau who invented a qnilt 1 it machine, wherewith oue or two girls all alone can make a quilt in a few hours is a public enemy. Sordid fellow as he is, he has gone to work on the theory that the quilt is the end and aim of quilling; whereas, in truth, tue quilting has from time immemorial been only an excuse for the "frolic." And without country frolics, what would the country bet The best medical authorities 'acknowledge the great value of Ayer's Cathartic Pills,and frequent, lv prescribe their use with the utmost confidence, well knowing that they are the most enectnai ' remedy ever devised for diseases j hv derangements of the BILL ARP'S TALK.!tnir,,TS -4o:- HE PHILOSOPHIZES ON TURE PROSPECTS. FU SPRING-TIME MATTERS. It is good for a man to take com fort from his fellow -man. I had been away from home for ten days and thought that my farming pros pects would be brighter when I re turned and spring be fairly opened and Dame Nature would be mak ing for the hard winter and the freshets and the storms and the L.lil on.l si...? .1... ...... uu mill 111 J 111113 UUL Will" WilSj still unfriendly and the wheat looked about the same and the! spring oats looked bke th. y had been singed by a hot blast and the giouud was baked and cracked ami had a crust upon it, ami the corn land broke up in clods and there were little furrows washed on the slopes by the winter rains and got bigger all the way down, and some of the wheat in the Ivot toms had been covered up by the wash from the hill sides, anil as I went over t he larm and pet.su. d it all I was feeling gloomy over the scene and wondered how a poor tanner was to get along and make living in this siililiin-.t world. By and by I met Rowland, my tenant, and we howd'yd and when began to lament the prospects he said "Well, it don't, look a- sightly as I have seen it some years, but. in hoped up right smartly about crops, for there's some signs that are might good. I've uever seen the wheat stool out Ixttei. It sticks powerful close to tin- ground and has taken gootl root, and my opiniou is vve aie going to have a good wheat year. , I pulled up a bunch or two ami I never saw SUch long roots ami so many of em. The ground has been soft nuderneath and the to ts have gone away down yonder. It aint, the top show that l- the best. Wheat i- sorter like folks, you can't, always ti ll a man bv What's in sight nor by the clothes he wears, nor by seeing him of a Sunday at meeting. The spring oats don't look as likely as I've seen 'em, but they will come out. A little shower of warm rain will send 'em right, along anil 1 think we will have it in a day or two for it's mighty nigh Kaster and mv rheamatix is a jerkin' me a little more than common. A little rain to soften this crust is all that is wanted." "Well, I brightened up from meeting Roland ami it ' day my boys took the disc roller and har row and went, over the ground they broke up last fall and if went through the crust and pulverized everything beautifully, and I hey laid it off aud planted t.ic. com and covered it with a double plow and it was all done so well 1 i. ii encouraged and come to the con clusion that it. is better to take things hopefully like Roland does. 1 he garden is late: vci v late. mr hist ii, lilting got chilled out and we have had to plant over again. never knew English iteas and radishes aud kale t" be killed be fore, and .Mrs. Am savs she never knew the chickens to be as hard to keep out out of the garden, and they eat np every green thing, but she says she never knew them to lay so many eggs and eggs aie a good thing in a family iu the spring of the year, for it is mighty hard to get anything to eat. The turnips were all killed so we can't get greens and the irish potatoes we saved are all in the sprout and the sweet . potatoes are all gone and it is a little too soon to catch nsh and too late for wild game, aud it is nothing but hog meat aud buiscuit three times a day and the like id' that is very monotonous. very, but nevertheless we are luaniiiui. w e nought a lew guin eas .last fall, for iny wife said she always did love to sic the lively things dodging around ami sing ing pot rack . and so one day a minor come along and said our guineas were all he ones, and lie count ten a ue one irom a she one fifty yards off, and so we coin-hid ed to kill 'em and eat 'em and did kill all but five and was telling na bor 1 iceman about how we were fooled in our guineas, anil he said it was all a mistake for he heard 'eiii singing potrack every day and none but the females sung potrack at all. So we quit killing them and sure enough three of them have gone to laying ami I reckon they are females; 1 reckon they are. The turkey hens ate layiug over in the woods and the geese have neatly tilled a hollow log with egg, and everything -eeins to he miiltiplv ing ami replenish ing except pea fowls and we tlou't know when they lay or. whs' re, for this is the til st pair we have had. They keep up a poweii'u! commo tion among the l. tie chickens, and some folks say they will kill 1 hem,' hid my observation is tln-y want to take them away ' lioni the hen anil appropriate them. I have seen them go for the ma:.i-r and drive her off, but I have never seen them hurt a chicken yet. As I -was traveling the other tlaj' 1 saw a wire lence arouna a gartien anil on two sides of" the front yard. It was a wire gauze ou top ofca plank fence and the mau said it was the only way he could keep the fowls out and save his grass aud vegetables. I got some Texas Blue gi ass from Air. Reece in Mar ion. Ala., and planted it. out in rows, and the chickens found it while I was gone and cat it down and I had to t-end lor some more, and I put it away off in the corner of a field and covered it up . with briers and brush and think 1 will save it now. 1 think well of that grass and am going to make a fair experiment with if. Some that sent me was over two feet long and verv tender and delicate. The common blue grass does welt here for pasture but not for hay and we want a grass that will make hay THf GOD'S. AKD TRCTttS' Gentleman" about a man in New t Jersey who said he cut two fries to the acre of the grass that had befen J j cut every year rn the same pieoe of ! crniin.l f.n- suvunli-. vo,iru WUH 1 like these everlasttug - thioes. ' Th. y told me down in Florida that 1 they didn't have to plant sweet ; potatoes there but once autl alter that they would come every jear from the laps. I had an acre of clover iu a kind of basin on "up laml and it w:- t ut eight years in succession, but ihe btooiu age and weeds iook at lat ami I hail to turn it under. My clovvr ou bottom land didn't last so Uintfbut it keeps coining Uack an. I i-. the beat f i iiizei 1 know of! W e have found out t-iaf ihe tm-t w.iy u j seed i.ui.t to . I cr is have the I lan.l .n 11 pieiMted ami no'verized anil harrowed -nototh and then .sow the seed -say six quarts to the! acre and go over it w ith a roller to j The manner of his conversion press the seed lightly in the soil, j was characteristic of the man. The seed should hot be harrowed i Bishop George F. Pierce had been in. Nalior Freeman put in feu j a college-mate of Toombs. Together acres that was in Marco and has a j these two youug studeuts, the one sulendid -tand all over it. j from Wilkes comity, the other But I'm not I working now : t h it from Green the one the petted, is nor ;iuiieUuj,he Jams; feet-: sell willed sou of a substantial geu ting old and lazy and like to boss ; ! tleman, the other the thonghUul bossing suits me; 1 notice that it i child of a laborious Methodist iniii- j. suits most everybody; we all want in ins- something; dominion is the pride of man ; a darkey is proud if he owus a ' possutn dogj and can make him t:ome. and go. when he wants to. A poor- tiiuii is proud if he owns a horse or mule and a scrub cow or some razor back hogs. A thrifts partner is proud if he owns good Bind and fine stock and a top, buggyf and is big Ike in a country! church aud a leader in country politics. And so they keep on going np to railroad presidents and bankers an d facto ry men. They all love money but. they love dominion too, just like the" Centurion was. proad when he said I say nnto this man go and he goetb and to another come and he cometh. And so 1 begin to love to boss anil exercise dotniuiou. I've work ed enough. I am like old man Calder, who was seventy years old when the war broke out and be was such a terrible rebel he swore he was going to join the army and shoot somebody; nd he did! He fought all day hard at the first battle of Mauassas and that flight he was worn out and be went to Dr. Miller and said "Doctor, I want to go home, I've fought, euough." Just so with me and .Mrs. Arp, we've fought enough in the battka of life snd now want rest. BlIX Abp. A Sketch Which Goes Right To The Spot. A youug gentleman of this place who has decided genius as an ar tist, and many of whose sketches of familiar" scenes and events have amused liis most, intimate friends for several years past, has lately produced one which is, unfortu nately iu too many iusfaiu-.. true to life. It is a story iu foipupie tures, atrauged as lollows: s i. -A yonng man leaves his country home to clerk in a town -tore." The vo.jug man and his lai her are driving away from his old homestead iu a waeou. His mother stands beueath the trees in the yard and waves her handker chief alter her hopeful, while his oldti' brother-Minis, ids nldw iu the furrow in the field near the house and waves his hat. Therejwauds the old - house, .with: il inte-ejt d, upper window aiird jyy rnrihtiig up the chimney, while the family dog sits t,u Ins haunches in the public road in trout ot, the house . and watches the lentil as Jt moves away. . ' . " . II. "For six months goes tjl the Sunday school, aud is astonished that the church does not open at 7 a. m." Fleie vwe have a picture ot a church, with our young hero sitting on the steps at 7 o'clock in the morning, waiting impatiently for the church to open and Sunday school to begin. . III. "But six months later finds lo a. m., too soon for him." This ivpresents a room with a lied in 'the middle of the floor. Our hero is .lying in bed, hair' disheveled, mouth open, knees drawn up. lie is snoriug. His pants hang on a peg in the Wall, his shirt on the back of a chair, aud his shoes and socks are lying around loose on the floor. Siindav school is proba bly in progress. but he is enjoy mg himself. IV "At the end of another six inoiill.s with his- (boss') cash, cuts quite a swell and forgets his country home." In this scene, la dies ami gentlemen, we have the .......... ....... ..ii.... ...I...... l.;.. ,....!. ,.p:...i;.i.t.ii4...II nil. .ill ills in. itjiri . . , ii . i - i- j i.. v-...il I.. . !.. i.j I Li.t'i.k ia.1 .nrl hu , ,, i i , ... . I.ii.tlii.r l.l I. .r :l..I uIImi- vrluk.ii the d'g howled, iu a billiard sa lo ai Hi- hat -and cutaway coat j -......- .... ll.u ir ill I ... ......... t-i.rl.l ' " 1 .... .' . i . ,. r;i. irj;i;rii pain ai.nm.s nun hmh .i-jihiv shoes; ia' h is a cigar in his mouth and a cue in his hand ami piine!.iiig the billiard balls. In conception the sketch is a signally h ippy tine, an in execu .. ... .. . ..i w .. iimii .. ..i....- ..I , i.. ,ir; . ... i( .. ... , , ... , ., i .i.r it.i.i .- I., .ir ii'iiiirii. ii ought to Im It wonltl tlo credit to the pages of "Puck." tatesville Laudmark. A Far-Fetched Kiss. "Johnnie," saitl a girl to her ba-liiul company, as they ot-cupied : the remote' ends of the sofa the' other night, "I see that a lady in I New Jersey, 104 years old, lxiasli j of having been kissed by Wash-' ingtou." i "Acs." said Johnnie, "I saw it, too." . "Snpiose you were to become : a great man like w asniugion . "Well." -aid Johnnie. Autl 1 were to live to lie 104 he j years old r "Well," saitl Johnnie. "I couhlu't sav of you what the j i ; old lady saitl of Washington conld II Then he kissed her. GEN. TOOMBS. LpMlvIani?WPa nv a rP at KlX1V?so8i GRLAT ovf t X4ix.niiik. A WONDERFUL MAN. " AUQU3TA, Ga. The appearance of Robert Toombs, the great fire eater of the South, as a delegate in the district Methodist Conference at Harmony Grove, marks a new era, iu his life. It is an era in strange contrast with the stormy career of oue of the most brilliant men America has ever produced and is tbt closing scene in a biog raphy which must soon become a complete volume. ister, pursued-their studies, win uiug acholast ic victories, yet by i differeut methods. With Toombs the auswe.s came instinctively; with Pierce it required ihe burning ot tue midmgut oil. . ioomba was ever uuder the rod of correction, which traddiou tells us required his removal to Princeton; and even' there . his rebellious spirit would brook no dictation. Pierce turned his back upon the frivolities of youth and engaged in the revival services of the little church of which his father, Lovic Pierce, was pas tor. Yet Toomba aud Pierce were the . closest of friends, aud iu the long . career , wL nth sn Ssequently opened to both of them, iu which one drifted intd politics and became thejuaelstrom of one of t he most exciting episodes ' of history, aud the other found pieferiueiit in the char'cb, becoming an houored i.-h-op, ;"the:e uever ceased Tor a mo ment that attachment born of col lege association. Meeting Bishop Pierce oue day about a yeai ago, ltligiou was mentioned. "George.'i-exclaimed". Too tubs, im-petuoualy, J want you to bap tize me. When 1 am dead I do no. vvaut these young meu who drift so naturally into infidelity to claim me as an unbeliever." This determination caused a seu sation throughout the State., it sent astouiuhmeut through that class which laughs at holy things, while it" Useog&C joy to the chris tian; heart.i atpioewtre there was a teu der lebi44Hr -Toombs, such as had not been OH. since the day s wheo he ws the piitte of Georgia manhood.' It was, . tenderness more full ol syuiijatlp thau ever went out to him. before. Wheu the appointed Sunday came it found the old statesman xui rounded bv the neighbors of titty years, among cuen was aw taxtuer, wnose joy at the eve&fW'&mt-totake place found vent! in tears. Ttiwliibs h mselt as affected, and lor once found hesitaatn iu speech wheu Bishop Pierce, taking him by the hand greetetlnt vs a bi other in Christ. TOOMBS' GBEAT ORIEF leading up Ut this profession of . lauiL .tas great bereavement. Fulf llttv , years ifc'fow, the haud som'e Veuh'g chevalier w on the hejut and hand of Mis? Sarah DuBo.se, a! lady diatiugnshed for her aucou.p jhiBeats and family name. Ever alter ' she was' indeed his better balf. : She went With him ou his political missions vvas with him OB-rhW toiu'cf ol observation, aud su.. was his confidential trieud in the fullest meaning of the word iu all his transactions. Wheu he entered Congress she went with him, aud the home life which the pair enjoyed in the quaint little village of Washington, w as main tained iu the greater Washington, which was the scene- of his politi cal tiiumphs. The two grew old together, more like a couple ot con fiding children than like people of the world. They always kept faith with each other. Mrs. Toombs had bee for years h member of the Methodist church. It was Mr, Toombs's habit, when speakrig jocularly, ko claim that lie w as iu consequence , a brother in-law to the church. With increasing ag-? caiue failing health. The fond wife, was kindly, tenderly nursed by her distinguished husband. Wheu they went to their Clarke ville mountain home, in the early spring of a year ago. Mrs. Toombs j tvs tniui: lid idol iti.)e. ...;.. ... i . . .1...... i ucuiu was tue oion kuicu .1. ... . . . i i i ; .. i . sobered Toombs. His thonght' j , 1 f .1 - ... tuiueu lruiu luegiatr iu 1 D otl, aud ' ue inane run peat-e. 1 By the grave ot this noble Christian woman a remarkable fact is suggested .-he hail lieen for rttiy veais the wife of i a man of woiiilettnl magnetism, ot , . 1 "li!a ' ' physique, ol engaging iii iiniHis. iiihi n.iii oi i ins time was sieut in the national capitol where her hnsUamf was surround ed by all the iillureiueufs of flat terv. iill the w iles of th set, all the ... .... - opixirtuiiitles ol his iiiHiineis aud . - . . station. Yet through tt all,. Toombs ! was a lairhtui husbaml. Not even a w lii-pci ha- ver been made which could torn promise li is name. j What , -a coniDieut this is on the I ti.lelitv of the husband and ti.e m- : fluetH-e of t he wife. TUK TOOMHS OK KiKMKK VEABH. Lookiug from the bent figure which stood the other day on Greeti street, though yet bearing traces of former years, one in- istinctively rnfns to the prints 1 which give the shadow of. ToomltH : of 1855. lie was then in the ze- i nith of his ibysical beauty and in tellectual strength. . He bad al I ready won the attention of the re- public; his tiery eloquence had ! made him as hated in the home of abolitionism' as he was. worshipped by his followers in the Sout'j. When he spoke a nation listened. With the impetuosity of Niagara be pre- I cipitated the events which led to -NUMBER 29 the great truggie in which cannon took the iaoe of the ballot. From the .confederate senate and the cabinet or Jefferson Davis he ought a post in the field, esteem ing that 'the place of every man was in the froat. The qualit ies, however, which made him formida ble iu' debate made him weak in the Held. He was toot born to obey. ; General Toombs was not destined to become oue of Mte uiili tary heroes of the age. Thestories of his disobedience of orders aud his refusal to consider himself uu der Arrest are numerous, some of them incredible were they not vouched for. i As if by the irony of fate, the struggle which Toombs had done so much, to bring about was des tined to come to an cud at aU home. It was within a few miles of Toombs's residence that Jeffer son Darts held his last cabinet council, when Colonel Pritchett's Michigan regiment, following up the fleeting chieftain, overtook him in Irwin county. Toombs was informed of the presence of the federal soldiers just in time to seek flight on thai most unromantic creature, the mule . For a few days he fonnd refuge with Colonel E. A. Tare, in the lower part of Elbert county. ' In Colonel Tate's residence there was a life-sized eugraviug of Toombs, aud so great was me resemblance tnat one see ing the picture could uot mistake the man. The colored ieoplo noticed the aaunhuity between the myste rious atrauger aud the picture. The plantation was soon overran with federal spies, who offered large rewards for the fugitive yet though a hundred colored people could lay their hands on him, uot one revealed his hiding-place won derful example of colored fidelity. For some months after his final escape he lived iu Paris. Here it was he made his memorable answer wheu asked how he lived: "I am eating au acre of grouud a day." His expenses were $5 u day. He had sold a quauty of Texas land tor 5 an nere, which explain ed hia uuswer. Ou his return home he lived quietly, but was much annoyed by the visits of the numerous cor respondents. One of the worst of this class was George W. Smalley, now the London corres pondent ol the New York 'Tribune.' The kuklux sensation was at its highest hen Smalley arrived in the village. The correspondent sou fouutl Toombs, who. deter mined to have, a little fun at his expense- . Smalley asked the gen eral about the kuklux. . .-'"Yea, yes," said Toombs, "I'll tell you all about them, but first let us get a safe place." Taking him off some distauce General Toombs itointed out an unsuspecting Jewish merchant, whiH-e physical appearance, was rather against him. "Tuere he is," said Toombs. 'That is the great head of the kuklux klan. My iriend. you niiii-t conic over to my house; it i.- the only place where you" -would be sate Irom his observation. 1 will dot mv oust to get you saieiy oni oi ihe CA)nutry.'' . Scaieil half 'to death, Smality followed the General, and 'enter, ing the mansion' the dooi wasj losed when GeiMtral . Tooinls saitl: j, "Now you are sje. J will see the duel of the klan ami try and get a !.- lor yon out of the coun-tryLr-.i- ' Aleauti me there was no aften ttPBwanttng to make Smalley com fortable, lie was trea led like a prince, ann soon uuderwen.lv a change ' f heart abont Tootn ls. a.ad begvn t regard him as one of the grandest of men. -" Biually a rap was heard at the floor. "Leave it all . to uie," snid the gcueral . '' "This ut to Gyeit Cyclops. 1 will get him -fd give you a pass" The Jew entered in obedience to the General Toomb's "'suQiinbtiK. which had been previously sent him. He watboronghry ignorant of the use which was being made of him, consequently Toomb's talk of him threw: him into con fusion, for he did not understand its motive. This i-onfuston was dulv noted by Smalley, who pnt it dowu as au evidence of the mau's guilt. Finally, 'wheu" the bawil dered Hebrew .departed' without having given any apparent satis factiou, General Toombs turned to Smalley and said: "1 have staked my hanor for your safety. Before daylight 1 will have my closed carnage ready, into which 'you must be placed. As the klan will think-that I am within, it will not be molested, and soon. -you will lie placed at a sale distance." ' Thus Smalley found his exit from the little village of Washing ton, and soon after gave his won derful letter to the public. This versoti of the affair is told by one of General Toombs's closest friends. GENEKAi. TOOMB'S TRUE CD Alt AC- TEE is uot to be judged by his wild talks to some correspondents. He is at home ami in busiues one of the ui st conservative of men. Ilia issaults upon cirpct-bagaeis are not intended for honest men who are seeking the legitimate aptis of , lite. To northern men, iV whom! be recognizes honesty of purpose, i he is as genial and hospitable as they could wish. Pcrhajis there I never was a man in Georgia who was j more vilified than H. l.. Kimball i aud not entirely without reason. When the Kimball House was. erected Geueral Toombs made it hi headqu.iifers when in Atlanta. Being asked abont his choice of it he is said to have answered: "By G , I have right to stop iu tit. The money with which it was bndt was stolen from the treanry jf Georgia, and tnat gives every In trying to drive a drunk and Georgian an interest iff. it."' disorderly negro from his premises When this celebrated house was t r. h. B. Bryan, who live near destroyed by fire, Kimball w i Enfield, hit bim on the side of the called back from Chicago to or head with a board. From the ef ganize for its re-erection. He had ; fed of this blow the negro died before him a hard task in raising sab Sundav. Mr. Bryan has given BCtiptions. Among those upon whom bail. r -:o:- RATS8 OT ADYEKTISIRO. Om Inch. On TawrUM.. ..fl .IU . ra wm MOVU.&.. SU Mootk. Liberal DtNouata wm b m fw Lum AdTcrtlMtnmu und for Ooatntctt 7 tk Tw Ctah nun a.KirpAnj ftil iHwllwiiMf nlM rooQ ixerene ! Uvea. it was necessary that be should call was General Toombs. No sooner had he entered Toomb's door than the doughty old South erner exclaimed: "Kimball, your return to Geor gia is worth more than a hundred thousand dollars. I'm am glad to see you back to stay with us." This compliment fairly took Kimball off his feet, and in relat ing the incident he oonld only say: "1 could only look iu silence at ihe gratul old figure before me." 1 Toombs w as Kteutial factor in the calling of the constitutional convention ttl l77. lie insisted that the constitution of isr wasa nullity: its ratification ouly rested on the bayonet ami it ill became free me ii to live under the badge of shivery. A new convention should he called, even ii did no more than meet and ratify Uie old docntoeut. This would make it the haudiwork of Georgians. In t he convention he was oue of the most prominent actors. When the treasurer of the State expressed doubt about his authority to pay the members of the convention for the number of days over the forty prescribed iu the call for the con vention. General Toombs solved the problem by saying: "I will advance the money out of mv own pocket, and trust the peo , pie of Georgia for its repayment.'' As a consequence be advauoed nearly t.10,000, which was refund ed by the next Legislature. His pride of State i wouderi'ul. One day he sauntered into the su- . preme court room, rather uuder the iu flnence of liquor. An atttor ney was addressiug the : court in terms which seemed to mdic&te that Georgia would not pay her debts. Interrupting him at once, General Toombs said: f May it please the court, Geor gia will pay her debts. If she does not, then I will pay them for her." " " . General Toombs ig now 74 years of age. He . stoopa considerably, and has an infirm walk, which de notes his weakness. He has lost much Hesh within the past few years. His eyes are weak, a cata ract growing over one of them, which causes considerble suffering. In his home at Washington be is always .surrounded by some of bis grandchildren, in whose eonipauy he takes great ' delight. They feel that he has but a few more days to live, ami do everything in their power to iwinlcr his declining years comfortable. When he passes away, a great man will indeed have ft lien and an honest one. A BoDiotic Courtship. Edison's wife is dead. It occur red at Meulo Park, N. Jou the 8th in8t Here is the way his (Kiurtship came about and whs conducted. TTe qmae from the Philswlelphia "Times:" "A few years ago Miss Stillwell was t mplovetl bv Mr. laltsou to wotk- wiiH several other . joung ' women on his ne elicmic.il teh-. gl ipii. One l:i lie w.vs Hand ing behind her chair examining a telegiaphnninstriimeiii. "Mr. Ed ison," remarked Miss Stillwell, suddenly tnruing around. ! catt always tell when vou m.; behind me or near me. How do on nc couiit for tha,-' iiieehauically asked asked Mr. Edison, still absorbed in his work. "I don't know. I sin sure," she quietly answered: ; but I seem to feel wheu you ate near me." "Miss Stillwell. saitl Mr. Edison, turning round now in his turn and looking his interlocutor in the face, 'I've been thitikirig considerably id' you of late ainfatf you are willing to have ine I'd lite to marry you." "ton astonish mc," exclaimed Mis Snllwell. "I I never But lie did and became Mrs. Edison. liSSilg ClStOBS. When a wild young fellow t-tt-mpts to steal a kiss from a Nan tucket girl, she sa.vs; '.'Come, sheer off, or I'll split your main sail with a typhoon." The Boston girls hold still until the) are w 11. kissed, when they flare up ami say, 'I t bink you ought to Ite ashamed. ' When a young chap steal (u kiss from au Alabama girl, she says. "I reckon it's my lime, now," and gives him a box on. the ea that he doesu'f forget in a week. When-a clever fellow steals a kis- irom a Louisiana girl, she smiles, blushes deeply, and says nythiug. New Jersey girls have mote taste aud sense than those of downcast and Alabama. When a man is smart enough to steal the divine luxury from them, they are crfectly at isfted. When a young lady iu Con licctic.il t is saluted with a buss, he tuts ou her Itounet and shawl, and atiswei el h t litis : "1 am atontshetl at thy assurance, Jeib-diah ; for this ind gnit.v I will depart liotu tiiis lace." The gills out West practical Christians as thev :;re -receive a salute with angelic meek ness; they follow the Scrtptnre rtile When siuitteti on the oue cheek, they tnru the other ulso-Ex. In North Carolina well if North Carolina girls ever allow the fel lows to kiss them, it is unknown to any outside parties, and it is there fore impossible to tell how thev act. El). .. - :.. ' 1 ' . . V.:. Aiother lejro Eiodos. A country darkey was jesterday seen passing through the city, and in resjiouse to an inquiry by a po. liceman as to bis hurry, he said : "See here, now, boss, don't yon fool wid me. I'm gwine to Sont Carlinv whar dar. ain't no caii.Ii. whar cites tor Govner what want to send tie poo' niggah to de debbil. Yon be: I dn't stay in tie State whar dat man York is, much let vote for bun for Gnvner." Ex. A A -. ' .. '- V -' 1 lit . - '... . -. . -- - " : - -.,.' " ' v , .' ' : ,v ... ... . - , - II . - ' - ' : n .- - - I ' r tnox'oy maiL .,r . ,y )
The Wilson Advance (Wilson, N.C.)
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Aug. 22, 1884, edition 1
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