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.Vilhon Nobth Carolina.
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WttTS DANIELS, Miter aid Prater
OBSCRIPTION IiATKS IN ADVANCE
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1 NEWS Of A WEEK
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rENCILLINGS GLEANINGS.
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WILSON, NORTH-CAROLIXA, NOVEMBER 21. 1884.
NUMBER. 42
linj.u. Trenl...., ! P JJjJ, ARP'S TALK.
U routs per oilsli-
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HE FEELS GOOD, Til EN SAD
AND THEN GOOD AGAIN.
Corn is sell
lones county, at
el. eezs 14 cents ier dozen, and
street potatoes " rents er nustiei,
and a democrat lias beeu elected to
the House. This .surely is a land
of pure delight. . - !
The Orange. Presbytery w;is in
session in Raleisrh last week. Mr.
H. 1. Pell, at one time a Professor
at Chapel Hill, was licensed to
preach and was ordained. He is a
yonng man of marked ability and
will . wiu distinction.
ABOITT THE ELECTION NEWS.
If,.
Democrats are uow settling
down aud republicans are settling
up.
The biggest prohibition vote
was the vote to prohibit James G.
Blaine. -
Charlotte lias a large furniture
factory. We need more such in
dustries. There weto "G2 separate arti
cles on exhibit at the Weldon fair
last week.
Ill one township in Transylvania
county uot a single republican vote
was counted.
The clerks in the Washington
government ofiiees are said to be
in great tribulation.
The Legislature Senate and
House, will lie couiposed ot' 138
Democrats and :2 republicans.
Catawba is the banner of the
country of this State. It went
Democratic by l,i.".'i majority.
And now to the republican
party: Pare thee well, and if for
ever; still forever faie thee well.
President-elect Cleveland will
be forty-eight years old on March
18 fourteen days after his inaugu
ration. The Republicans are so mad
at the Pro'iibitionists that many
of them have taken to drink unit of
pure spite.
The "Parmer & Mechanic"
says, ''Tyre ho was; Tired he is;
Retired he continueth from now
everlasting. Amen!''
Mr. Chas. Rouutree's house in
Pitt was burned by fire last week.
No one was home and nothing was
saved. No insurance.
The North Carolina Annual
Conference of the Methodist Prot
estantfehurch, convenes in Hickory
Grove, i . C, Nov. Sfith. 1884.
The prow of Logan's ship has
been smashed ou the Schylla of
New York, while the stern has been
lost in the Cbarybydis of Illinois.
Touching inscription on a
tombstone; "Here lies my mother-7n'-irw.
She always desired my
happiness. Her death proved
this."
The Davis House in Weldon
has beeu sold to the three railroads
which have a terminus at that
lint. They will manage it in the
future.
The democrats, they say, have
appointed an investigating com
mittee iu Texas, to find a republi
can. They arc "mighty scarce" in
that country.
Frank I hu d Tins decided to
contest the election of Romeis in
the Toledo, Ohio, district. He says
he now feels satisfied that he was
legally elected.
Mr. E. .1. Hale, editor of the
Payetteville "Observer," lias been
presented with a handsome cane
by the democrats of Fayetleville.
He deserved it.
Poor. St. John is in trouble as genial a
nfain. In a 'recent soeeeh lie said: and the life
"To get drunk is folly," but the
bibulous compositor put it- ."To"
get drunk is jolly."
The question now agitating
the people of JIaleigh is, "What
hnll wo do with tho State Exposi
tion building?" 2,.TiH) has beeu
ofl'ered for it as it stands.
. The L Roanoke News" tells of a
lady in IJalil'ax who rode atbne in
a.buggy "fifty miles after her son so
he could vote. She Is patriotic
and deserves much piai.se.
The democrats now sing,
"Ring out tfie old,
Ring iu the new,
Ring out the false,
Ring in the true,"
Tho marrying business, with
everything else, seems to have been
almost paralyzed during the politi
cal campaign, judging from our ex
changes. It will no doubt bright
en up now.
Five American negro mission
aries will sail from New Yoik to
Africa on Saturday. This is the
way that slavery is to work out in
the loug ruu for that great far off
good, result.
The "World" says that it has
official authority for the statement
that Mr. Vanderbilt did not give a
dollar to the Democratic committee,
aud it adds that he did not vote
for Cleveland.
Prof. Charles
giiiian, has been
of the Wake Forest College, with a
salary of ,0 )o. Prof. Taylor is a
scholarly, w iking Baptist and a
minister of the go.sjH-1, and will no
doubt fill the place well.
A New York State Senator, a
personal friend of Governor Cleve
land, who came from Albany Sat
urday morning, says Cleveland had
directed his clerks to destroy, with
out showing them to him, all letters
making applications lor oflice.
The following additional names
have been suggested in connection
with the Speakership's!' the House:
Capt. Syd Alexander, S. McD.
Tate, Johnston Jones, Col." Ja's. I),
nienn, Capt. li. P. Waring and
others, and still there is room.
It is reM)iied that Mr. Blaine
has asked Mr. Cleveland for the!
use of Hie 1'. S. Steamer "Talla-
it u carious how a man can fool
E. Tavlor. a Vir i himself. Two or three days before
looted President'' the" election I had made up my
became reconcile! to le-
inind and
feat, for 1 had been reading both
sides pretty close and had given it
up. So I mustered up all my phi
losophy aud imagined I was pre
pared for anything. Hut I waseut,
I was fooling myself, 1 wouldent
go to Atlanta Tuesday to see "The
Constitution's" jaek-o-my lantern,
1 went to town aud voted and
came back home early for 1 didont
want to stay and hear bail new.
Next morning I went out on the
big road to fix a broken gate and
1 thought may lie somebody would
come a long and tell nie the news
without my asking, but nobody
came-but' a darkey and he tlulent
know anything. 1 went to the j
house and ruminated ami tried to ;
le calm and serene but I couldent i
f down on the ground until I know
. more than I do now. I'm sorry for
: nahor Mini ford for thev sav he has
a fit every morning because Cleve
land is elected and another in the
evening Iteean.se he aint, and Gen
eral Young is in a bad fix, too, and
nobody knows when lie will lie
rewly to "join the chnrch. j
But there is no sense in mourn-1
ing and cavorting over olitics. !
If Maine is elected Pm goiug to
make the best of it and be like the
feller who swam around old Noah's
ark and asked to be let in and
when old Noah shook his head he
swam fT to a floating log and
straddled it and said he dident
believe there was going to be
much of a shower no how. Roland
told me to-day that politics dident
bother him much in time of peace,
but he heard that Dob Toombs
said there would be another revo
lution before long and he reckoned
they would let a poor man tight a
littie when it did come. That's so.
They will let a poor mau fight.
Bnx ABP.
Later Bill Arp wrote the above
oner a week ago. Now that the
oflieiar returns show Cleveland's
election there would lie no occa
sion lor . his. despondency. Ho
would be alwavs cheerful En.
THE BAPTISTS.
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THIS LARGE DENOMINATION
IN CONVENTION. ,
Diabolical Conduct.
bit
riv-
aud
coal
poosa" to convoy him up Salt
er. Mr. Cleveland consented,
added tho 'assurance that all
barges should be-kep; out of the
way.
Halifax county elects Jas. M.
Mullen to the Senate, and Andrew
Burtonand David Bell to the House.
Thev are all democrats'. The "milk
iu the eoooanut" is that the radicals
liuld and
two the democrats slip
the
tween the
pod in.
Bvron savs matrimony is
only thing that does not improre
with experience. The rolls of Yas
sar Female College show that
matrimony is not helped by educa
tion. Out of I'.oO girl graduates
only IIS are married. Their strong
minds scoff at housekeeping.
Rockingham "Rocket:" For
a bad year we consider what wo
give below as pretty good: Mr.
W. C. 'olo planted live acres of
uplaud iu corn, from which he
gathered one hundred and fifty
bushels. From the same unmber
of acres in cot tonhe gathered 8,
484 pounds lint, or l,0.0f pqundVto
the acre.
The vote for Sr. John, the Pro
hibition candidate, in New York
outside the city foots up 21,011.
Ben Butler, who cost tho Blaine
managers .4(0,000, only polled 1.'?,
3111) votes in the same territory.
The average republican politician
can now be heard cursing St. John
a distance of two miles these clear
frosty mornings.
Mr. Blaine, after finishing the
second volume of his "Twenty
Years In Congress,' may continue
his literary labors by writing a
sequel m which he can tell how he
did not get the Presidency. Such
a wnrJc would give prominence, to
Rev. Bnrchard, Whitelaw Reed,
W. W. Phelps, Ben
Dehnouico dinner.
-Mr. Blaine's position on the
liquor question was anticipated by
the late Artemus Waul: "If your
people is temperance" tell 'em I
never in my life tok a drop of
anything stronger than water: but
if. on the contrary! thev takes
their tod reg'lar, sav .Mr. : Ward is
toller as we ever see,
i'nd sole of the social
bord
--In tin' Democratic procession
at Washington City was an im
mense rooster with, the legend:
"This immense ' rooster hvs not
orowed for twenty four years." He
was a Dominica in color, and was
resting victoriously on a lloat
drawn with ropes by about fifty
men, and ever anon during the
march wires were pulled anil hej
flapped his wings in token of vie-!
tory.." . "' I -I .' ;
A Terrible Outrage. '
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and kept looking down the
road for somebody to eonie and i
break the uews'aud 1 was afraid
somebody would come, and the
news would lie bad. I've been to
the dentists afore now to have an :
aching tooth pulled and was glad
) to find the door locked and the
! dentist gone. So 1 waited another
J hour for somebody to come from
town and then went off to the field
; to work. About noon a man camo
j along in a buggy and "nailed mo
' with a hurrah lor Cleveland and
! he hurried on before I could ask
j him the news. But it sounded fa
vorable and hoped me up 'some.
At two o'clock another man came
; by and said Cleveland was elected,
but I wasent satisfied and so I
dident cut up nor evolute, but by
and by when I got my' mail and
read "Yietory" in great big letters
at the head of the column I was
overwhelmed with a thankful and
a joyful surprise. There, was not
a soul at home but me and the dog
and the cat and in as much as
they couldent understand anv
gymnastics I just kept my seat
placidly by the fire aud felt, good
all over all by myself as I read the
crowing and the chuckling and
the rejoicing that filled the col
umns of "The Constitution." 1 was
just thinking about going over to
tell the iiewH to nabor Mnn ford
for he said that if Cleveland was
elected he knowed he would have
a fit and I wanted to see what
kind of a fit it would be. General
Young told me that the first thing
he would do would be to indulge
for a day or two in some artificial
elation and then subside, then re
form and join the church, for re
form was the watchword of the
party and we -ought to reform out
of gratitude. -.
But it does look like the good
things of this life, don't last long.
I had . 'lit, rejoiced very long before
I got to feeling sorrv for the other
Butler and the i side. Sorry for some clever men
who were in office and would
to step down and out. I was
sorry for Mr. Blaine. The
book says we must rejoice
those that rejoice and weep
those that weep and rwas hying
my best to do 1hUi. I don't caie
so much about; tho. men but it
hurts me to see their wives and
children disappoiTited'aud distress-
The-"Farmer & Mechanic" .says.
Wealthy democrats wonld do well
to remember that Capt. J. B. Lind
sey of Lilesville, Anson county,
has just boon bnrned Out of bouse,
home, and nearly all his posses
sions, in revenge for his devotion
to democratic principles. As Reg
istrar he had to reject a'nnniber of
negro jailbirds, am; they swore to
get even. 1 he same night they
saturated his house with kerosene
and applied the match. Only the
noise of a falling chimney saved
the lives of i the family, who es
caped in their night clotues.
We knew Capt. Lindsey as a
fellow prisoner in Fort Delaware
at the close of the war, and have
always heard him commended as
a m au and good democrat. Such
a man. iu such a case, should have
help whether he seeks it or not.
Tne Model Wife.
I W II Oil 11 lTSB ANDS 1.6 YK M OEE
TlIAX TltKlU ClUAUS AND
Houses.
WHAT THEY SAID AND DID.
The Baptist State Convention
was in session tn Raleigh -last
weeic. us ueiegates were" nresnt
t. 4s. j a . r
iue urb ua.y, ami cue utimoer
increased " daily. Mr. J C Scar-
l. ' - ' T .
wiuuEu ..was iiuaiumousiv ra.
elected President. , The . Vice
Presidents 'elected are: 1 C
Dockery, l.T A Richardson,' ft 1
Thomas. Recording Secretaries
N B Broughton and N L Shaw.
Corresponding Secretary John E
Rav. .Treasurer Fabiiw H Briggs
Auditor W F Jones.
The " various committees Were
appointed, Mr G W Blount, of
Wilson, lieing a niemlw of an Im
portant coininittee-The resolu
tion of Rev. Dr. Hufham that the
Convention elect seven Trustees
of Wake" Forest ' College provoked
considerable discrission. A num
ber favored allowing the Trustees
to elect the seven new ones, and
insisted that the Convention ought
not to elect them. Dr. HnfhanVs
resolution was finally adopted.
Only one niiuisfer it was an
nounced, had died during the
year.. j
A plan for securing systematic j
beneficence was adopted."
Rev. R. Yaijdeventer offered a '
resolution favoring the building of!
a Baptist, church at Nagrs Head, i
and the resolution was unanimous- j
ly adopted. j
A Fine Financial Repokt.
Mr. IS. F. Montague, Treasurer
of the Association" made the fol
lowing report, covering the fiscal
year ending Nov. 5, 18S4, which
shows the total amount of money
subscribed for the various objects
mentioned:
Wake Forest Endowment 8 310 61
357 41
279 73
4 803 86
2 '.121 24
4 297 65
120H0
home by a telegram ' announcing
the rery serious illness of hia son.
with diphtheria, and the conven
tion was then led In a most sincere
and earnest prayer lor the. afflicted
boy, by Rev.. J. D. Hufham. . .
!- The report on Sunday school
board was read and. adopted ap,
j oiDtIng the following mem! .era:
J. S. Alien, T. If. Briggs,: Jr;J,
j M. Broughton, J. C. Birdsong, S,
ill. Fleming, C. S. Varris, W. R.
Gwaltuey, J. M. Heck, ; VL N.
Jones, J. C. Marconi, L. L. Polk,
W. J. Peele, T. E. Skiuner,;J.C.
Scarborough, W.'G. Upcburch.B.
P. Williamson, II. C. Powell. A.
IK Hunter.
Vble and interesting mis&iduarv
Kev.
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HOW ASP WHAT OLD-TIME
STATESMlvN ATE.
SOME RECOLLECTIONS.
Scripture, and history, aud poe
try vie with one another in sound
ing the praise of the model wife.
Tho man who is blessed with a
companiou worthy the name of a
mode; wife can snap his fingers in
the faces of all the old bachelors that
ever breathed and give them points
in every exalted pleasure that
makes life worth liviug. There is
no danger of his applying for a
divorce.
Ifnfortunately for the married
men of this generation, the model
wives are most all dead. The
struggle for existence was too
uinch for them. The ceaseless,
silent self-sacrifice needed to bnild
a model domestic character could
only be met aud borne as long as
there was a living appreciation of
the personal laws of dutv that
underlie all sorts of ideal existeuce.
The men ' who appreciated model
wives, aiiiT were in return willing
to be model husbands, were so few
,' that the good wives that is, the
iimdei wives grew discouraged
I and took to their graves or some
congenial occupation.
The few model wives that are left
j are cherished lijr their husbands bo
i yond even - their cigars or their
model .wife of the
clerk or business
ooiiiu turn man has some 'appreciation of the
I could and i ten t housand little laliors. nettv
m ado me : cares and annovanees that her
Orphan Asylum
Church Extension
Sunday Schools
Missions
State Missions
Home Missions, (Southern
Baptist Con vention )
1 42230
Total
The churches
missions; the
money that roes
pays
largest
20 522 70
tor foreign
amount of
through the
have ,
ve ry
good
with!
with '
Saturday night Mr. J. It. Spain,
vlio lives near Greenville, was
captured ou the road-side while
returning home, stripped by sev
eral persons and cruelly .whipped,,
cut and scratched with a knife. It
is supposed that this cowardly at
tack was made upon Mr. Spain
with the belief that he had money
upon his person, of which he might
lie robbed. Fortunately, however,
ed. w lien a srooU man is in oflice i horses. The
and needs it for the support of his ; workinirmau.
iamuy i oon r iniuic l
him ont, 1 don't think
that is one thing that-
1 1 ko i, rover leveiand. lor they husband has to go through each
say that when he was first elected j day in his worshop or office. She
governor of New York he never I considers that such worrving cares
turned ont but one man. . Well, j are a part of the duties by which
that may do in New York but it1 her husband makes a livinir for
j wont do at Washington. .'The 'ras- himself, for her and for the children.
cals must all go and t here are lots if there are any. Ami when the
i of them. Mr. Cleveland will bo. I husband comes home from his work
doing enough for thoin to pardon!
tnem out ot tne. penitentiary when
they get there. Reform is what
the nation wants. The tariff is a
little thing compared with it.
But while I ruminated on these
things and was feeling comfortable
and. complacent over iny own gen
erous feelings towards a fallen foe,
a feller came along with the news
that New York had goiie for Blaine
aud so I just collapsed and wilted
and felt as humble and helpless as
a dead nigger. 1 lost all my phi
losophy, in half a minute and felt
like a dident have : friend in the
world. Mrs. Arp-':V awav off in
Old Man Beck's View of It.
Mrs, Nancy Gould, of Portland,
Maine, died last week. She be-
Diptheria has broken out in
Chicago. The health commissioner
declares that it is epidemic in the
city. One family is reported as j
having lost six children out ot sev
n in two weeks.
iiu n-.-coo i mi u i ciyuv re
cent Cleveland's has attracted as
-No re:ent
?ept Clevelaud s has
much attention all over the coun
try as Mand S's
reduction Of hei
record to 2:WM. It is made anoth
er historic era" in racing.
From norths to south
Shut is . the mouth
t Of ev'ry campaign speaker;
Bnt in Ins place,
Witli brazen face,
Appears the oflice seeker.
The oldest voter in the United
he had left what inoiiev he had in
the hands. of Mr. George Tucker, ; Ranie and the girls were "in town J !,u
at wliose store. he had beei during j alui the children were at school, i
the evening, (lur mast igilant ; The dog come creeping in to the)
ami efiicieut deputy sheriff, R. W. fire aud I kicked him out and then
King, arrested three negroes mis-? x got sorry for him and called him ;
pectedof perpetrating the outrage.! u.lck again. When the children I
Greeneville "Standard." (.ame home I dident indulge in my i
usual loving greetings no? ak who j
Was head anl how they got along!
but 1 moped around and lHked
solemn until Jessie said. "Papa,
Well, 1 don't know j you are sick aint you :
of the new Ad-' jiy ana oy naoor jreeinan iro:-.
1 knew lie would come if ,
was elected for he' is. sorter'
on that side of the fence and I ;
never join issue with him in an i
unpleasant way alionl it, for 1-e is1
a good nalior and that b.oats poli
tics and ho has. just as much right
to his opinion as I have to mine.:
But I knew that if he found out
Blaine was elected he would come
down to jubilate a little and see
what I had to say about it. So I
never let on but brightened up
and made out like it w as just what
1 expected and it dident nuk any
difference v'ithey tu hi or to. me.
I never save him any chance to
was homo-sick
tired, perhaps cross, ami huugiy
and out of sorts, she is always
ready to meet him with soino quiet
and gent le good cheer. Her own
person is attractive and restful to
hint. She always has some pleas
ant scheme in mind to him and to
make herself indispensable and a
nt joy.
model wife does not see how
poor silly or ociting things
n say to her tired husband,
has anything to ask she
.until he is rested and fed.
She invites pleasant people to her
home, nor to show how . many rich
things 'she has: but to make her
band's home hours pass cheer
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mm. erne Knows mat u sue is
halt a woman no other can displace
her in her husband s affections
She is always more attractive in
her manners to her husband than
iu tuner. men. Mie is tne genius
of the household. But, unfortun
ately, most of them are dead.
const;
The
many
she c;
If she
waits
Treasurer's hands for any purpose.
During the year the churches
connected with the Convention
have added to their numbers about
9,000 members, and have sent $",
889,17. The Missionaries under
appointment of the Board have
collected on their fields 7,89,17.
Thirty-three churches have been
built at a cost of $ 26,400. -..'
Reidsville was selected as the
place for the meeting next year,
when Rev. J. M. McManaway of
Wilson will preach the introduc
tory sermon. '
The most important work done
by the Convention was the exten
sion of the work of State missions.
Six years ago the Baptist had nine
State missionaries. Last year they
had sixty-four, and spent about
88,000 on the work. For the next
year they have pledged 12,000
for this work, and propose to in
crease the numlter of missionaries.
This unprecedented increase of this
work enables the denomination to
reach everv portion of the State.
The committee ou the recom
mendation of the trustees of Wake
Forest college reports the follow
ing names: J. II. Brewer, Ira T.
Bland, C. S. Wooten. J. B. Hol-
mau, II. A. Brown and J. D.
Roberts.
Rev. Columbus Durham, for the
committee on Baptist orphans'
home, submitted a ieport recom
mendating a special committee of
nine members to inquire into the
expediency of the enterprise. If
the matter is deemed practical the
committee is to solicit contribu
tions for this object, and when suf
ficient means are realized the or
phans' home is to bo -established.
The establishment of the or
phans' home was favored by a
good many members of the. con
vention. Remarks upon the ques
tion was offered by Rev. A. G.
McManaway, doubting the pro
priety of establishing the enter
prise at present while the various
boards of the convention were in
such need of all the funds that the
denomination could raise, lie then
offered a substitute to the resolu
tion, as before offered, to the effect
that the committee is to enquire
into tho matter of an orphanage
and the expense attending it, to
report at the next session of
the convention.
Opiiosition to the enterprise was
expressed by Rev. F. W. Eason,
W. H. Pace ana otners.
The matter ' was favored in
! addresses wers delivered bvl
Dr. Tupper of Richmond and Kev.
W . J. David, who has been 'en
gaged in missionary work in
Guiuea. '
The discussion of the subject
ot educatiou by Prof. Chas. E.
Taylor and Prof. Poteat, of Wake
Forest was of great ! profit." ' "Rev.
R. T. Vann also talked earnestly
on this important subject. He
awakeued intense enthusiasm on
the subject. !
The "Biblical Recordor", was j
commended- in string terms. The
editor of the advance takes
pleasure in bearing testimony as
to its exelleuce. Rosorotious of
thanks Arc were adopted, and' the
Convention adjourned.
The above is a partial report of
what the large and harmonious i
Convention of Baptists did in
Raleigh. It is condensed from the
Raleigh dailes. Ed.)
Notes -Ynd Comments.
In Hyde county there is not; a
single Baptist preacher. This is
noteworthy because the Baptists
have gone into almost every cor
ner of the State. -
In Greene and Edgecombe there
are but one Baptist preacher in
each county.
There are o6,000 attendants of
Baptist Sunday Schools In the
State.
Rev. Mr. Hufham spoke of tne
appropriation made by the Stat
in the early days to the Episcopal
church, and asked : "Where is it?
Where are they? Money alone Is
important. The little contributions
from . the masses of the - people,
these God blesses and the work is
extended."
The "Chronicle" says. The best
financial management over done
in a church in North Carolina is
shown by the way the Convention
goes about making its balance
sheet meet. Much of the progress
of the church is due to this excel
lent management of temporal af
fairs. It the matter should ever
again be hinted at iu politics, give
us a Baptist Treasurer, alter
Treasurer elect Bain dies.
Vanderbilt to toe President Elect.
.Albany, 3. r., Nov. 9. Yester
day the following letter .was re
ceived by the Governor from Wm.
H. Vanderbilt:
NEW Yokk, Nov. 7, 1884.
To the Hon. Grover Cleveland-
My Dear Sir : I congratulate you
and the people of the whole coun
try Uion your election to the Presi
dency of the United States-, You
owe your election, In my opinion,
to the fact that the people believed
you to be an honest man and not
to any particular efforts made by
any faction of either ithe democrat
it! or republican parties. .
Tho independent men who care
more for good government than for
parties or individuals have made
you l heir choice because they were
convinced that your administration
would not be for the benefit of any
political organization or favored
persons, but for the interest of the
whole people. '
This is just the result which is
most desired. We have reached
the time wheu party amounts to
little. The country is above nil
and wants an honest government,
by honest men. The belief that we
will find it in you has led to your
election.
' Yours, very truly,
I W. H. Vanderbilt.
! iff
How Republican Speakers Help Tne
Democrats. -
"I, want to tell you, continued
the superannuated . restaurateur,
of Henry Clajv Perhaps you never
beard of what an eater he was.
WelL. I can say that I knew Mr.
Clay great many years, because I
waited on him.' both at the Nation
al hotel and at Hancock's restau
rant, ( as well as at a good many.
Other places. Mr. Clay was a
great lover of broiled oysters and
Baked pumpkins. He was the
: most singular man I ever saw
about his eating. . People said he
wanted to bo eccentric for effect.
Perhaps you don't know that Mr.
Clay used to oat butter on his wa
termelons! Yell, sir, he did. I
recollect very avow that on a certain
day, when there was a great many
famous men at the table, including
Mr. Corwiu, Mr. Calhoun, General
Taylor and General Cary, of Michi
gan. Mr. Clay had his watermelon
set onlj before him. After having
the melon sliced, he said: "Now,
gentleman,", you have before you
the most magnificent product of
the vegetable kingdom; uow, here
is tho most, magnificent product of
the animal kingdom butter!"
Then he proceeded to butter a
slice of melon, and he put the but
ter oh thick, and I can tell you
that he did not 6top at one slice.
In fact,1". I may say that he never
did stop at four or five slices of but
tered watermelon every time they
put watermelon ou the table. But
I can say . that none of the other
gentlemen ever followed his ad
vice. ...One Of Mr. Clay's friends, a
Kentucky Colonel, tried it once,'
but joaoagbt to see him lay the
watermelon down real quick. No,
sir, I never see nobody else 'cept
Mr. Clay Uke to buttered water
melon. .. "
Somehow or other all these great
men had the.ir !, peculiarities about
what they wanted to eat. There
was Mr. Calhoun, who always had
his. 'possnm and sweet jiotatoes
when he. could get them. He used
to say to me : "Now, Steve, you get
me a nice fat 'possum, cook it the
day after it is killed, parboil it first,
then put it in a hot oven, with boil
ed yam potatoes laid around it in
the oven and then let it slowly
brown, If you can get a coon,
i Steve, j ou make a plenty of coon
gravy, very Drown, and pour it over
the 'possum. And don't you fail
to have the'possnm well flavored
with pepper, salt and sago." Well,
sir, you jast ought to see Mr. Cal-
t he White House f aid that he bod
cooked for five Presidents, butt hat
Mr. Harrison could . eat more than
all of them pat together. .Why,
sir, be could eat two whole - white
head cabbages and pork to corres
pond, with corn-cakes and molasses, j
at one time. ' The - story at -that i
time was that when be - wan in the j
army he always eat double rations,
and the commissary did not charge ,
I him extra for it. While . he . was
fighting in the army his ; favorite
dish was. raw pork and hard-tack,
and the other officers used' to set
around and watch htm get away
with it.
"Who was the smallest eater .1
ever - saw? Well, I've known a
good many small enters, bat I be
lieve that Mr. Jeff Davis was about
the smallest I ever saw. t lie . was
always so thin you could almost see
through him, and they used to say
it was because ho did not eat
enough. I waited on him at
Welcker's before he was Secretary
of War. -it must have been about
'37 or maybe about forty years ago.
He looked sickly and pale, and
seemed to eat because he was
obliged to. lie drank tea instead
of coffee, but. be never drunk more
than halt a cap. About
throe niouthfnls of toast finished
his breakfast. For dinner he had
half a plate of soup, a thin slice of
roast beef, which he hardly tasted,
and a glass of claret. ' He read pa
pers nearly all the tltne'be wns sit
ting at the table, find never noticed
anybody unless be was spoken to.
I have often seen bitt get upfront
the table without touching &uj
thing. They say he used to make
it up on brandy just before he went
to bed, bnt I didn't know anything
about that. We waiters wondered
how he could live, bnt he seemed
healthy. One day I 'handed him a
bill of fare and asked him . if be
wouldn't hare some of. the oynter
MR. HENRY CLAY.
:o
HOW THIS GREAT STATES
MAX TOOK DEFEAT.
HE SAID NOT A WORD.
Senator Beck, to an interviwer in
Washington:
nne.itlied 3.000 to he. used in the ! about the Policv
navment of the public debt. She mini-station.1 I should out Thurinan ! ped in
onolit tn linv frivpn ir to some de. ! at the head of the "State Denart-1 Blaine
serving charity. uient, with McDonald as Attorney
I General, McCIellau as Secretary;
1 of VA ar, and Reagan '(Postmaster-:
; General, and leave the rest of the
Cabinet open. Now, von-- may
guess at the policy." '.."Hut the
.Independents?" "I suppose Cleve
land will tix. them all right. A
New York man nrist go at the:
head ol the . treasury.'' "Will;
Bavard be in the Cabinet?" ""1
i think not. I don't bebeve he would
! leave the Senate lor it."
The Best Remedy.
One of the jokes Sheriff Harper
tells with considerable gusto is
this: "I have a friend who lives in
Snow Hill township who has not
voted for several years ; just before
Fred Lof'tin made bis speech in
Snow Hill, I approached this friend
of mine and asked him if ho could
not help me some this year ; that I
was elected last time by only six
majority, snd that they were fighj
ing me so hard this year. I was hf.,
coming frightened. He Said, "No,
1 can't help you. I have promised
myself never to vote any more and
1 shan't do it." "Well," says I,
houn sit down to a dish ot 'pos
sum with coon gravy. He wasn't
a big man, but he was mighty thin,
and there was plenty ot room about
his vest. He would make that
possum very sick before he got
through with it. nc used to say
that it reminded him of old South
Carolina to eat 'possum, and that's
the reason he liked it so well.
Many .a time he's told me about go
ing ont 'possum hunting at night.
with colored boys and dogs and an
axe, treeing the "possum, cutting
the tree down and roasting the
'possum before a lor fire. Mr. Cal
houn's neighbors down there used
to send him boxes ot persimmons
and ' these he would distribute
aroonrr his friends here as one of
the greatest products of South Car
olina. Of course, Mr. Calhoun had
all the old Southern habits. He
wanted his eoffeo in the morning
before ho got ont ol bed. l-or
breakfast he wanted hot corn bread
or biscuits and the breast ot a
chicken. He wouldn't eat anj of h
er part of the chicken. For dinner
he didn't care much for auy thing
except soup or fish. It was at
uigUC that he wanted his 'possum
or any extra dish he might lancy
Senator Benton, of Missouri, was
a mighty innny man about his eat
ing, continued ; Uncle Steve. "!
was at the National hotel for along
time while he boarded there, and 1
can say that he was about as fussy
a man as you ever saw. He could
talk mor6 aud pay his waiters less
tban any congressman I ever wait
ed on. "in the morning he would
sar to me : 'Steve, you black rascal,
bring' me ft Missouri cocktail.' That
would mean whiskey straight, two
drinks in one. Ho would call for
pretty much everything on the bill
"of fare, but he didn't touch much
oftt.1 Whatdo you snppose was
his favorite dish! Bacon ami mo-
patties. He said he would, but
when I got back ho was , gone,
though there was a two dollar and
a hall gold piece on the empty
plate. , .
President Johnson was another'
curious eater; I did net ; know
much about hi m when he was Pres
ident, but about twenty-years be
fore, when be first came to; Con
gress, he boarded i. at the Nat ional
awhile and I waited on him.,-1 He,
was au old-fashioned healthy eater.:
and bis table manners made a '0od
many people laugh. He never got
over the ways , he was ,used to in
the 4ackwood8 of Tennessee. He
had a way of smelling everything
before he tasted It, and sometime
he would sniff so yon ooold 'hear"
him clear across the tabled lie' al
ways need a red handkerchief to
wipe his month j be wouldn't t bay e
a napkin. He always drank about
five glasses of water while, he .was
eating, and people laughed a,t him
lor using bis knife instead .. or nisi
fork. Ho was a great buttermilk
drinker, and never put a glass
down till it was empty! He had
the broadest upper lip- you ever
saw, and when he put the glass
down you could see a broad white
streak almost two inches wide un
der his nose. Sometimes be wiped
it on aud sometimes he didn't, and
then he would scowl around at ev
erybody, to see what thoy were
laughing at.
"Oh, if I had the time," con
cluded the ancient purveyor of vi
ands, "I could tell you a great
deal about the table-manners, of
some famous men. 1 knowed Mr.
James Buchanan forty years ago
Roast oysters and sherry was . his
failing. Mr. Albert O.', JJrown, ol
Mississippi, was a great gallant at
the table. He generally camo into
the dining-room with ladies.
Sometimes he hail on a dress-coat
and kid doves, and the crloves he
wonld pnll off and hand to the 1
waiter after he sat down. He
generally sat at the . table two or
three hours, eat fancy dishes and
drank light wines. Sam Houston,
of Texas, never went to breakfast
until he had taken four cocktails.
He often gave the waiters 91 al
most every day, but he always
dropped it on the floor, so thsy
wonld have to pick it op."
' The following iuterestiug Inci
dent was related ? juany years ago
by Mrs. Robert Todd, of Kentucky,
the step mother of Mrs. Abtahoxn .
Lincoln, and has never before been
printed, according to the St. Louis
"Globe s? !
' Tho Todds aud Clays were ol- .
ways, on Intimate terms, and in .
1S44 were living near each other in
Lexington, Ky. Henry Clay and
James K- Polk were then, rival
candidates for the Presidency, the
raancev as were generally sup
poses, being strongly m favor of
the great whig lendej. As It
tnr&ed :out, however, the contort
was much closer than had beeu an
ticipated, and finally advices from .
two or. i other States snowed that the result
aingeuupon tne vote or New York.
There was no-telegraph in those
days, and new had to come by the
slow f coarse of mails. The New'
York mall was due in Lexington
about 10 o'clock in the evening of
a Certain day;. ud it was known
would tell the story of a victory or
defeat. As it happened, a young
lady relative of Mr. Clay was to be
married on the same evening, And
insisted npon his presence, though,
under the circumstances he would
much . rather have remaiued at
home. Mr. and Mrs. Todd attend
ed tins memorable wedding party,
which was not largo, and composed
almost exclusively of the laroilv
connections and intimate friends-'
all ardent whigs, and of course ,
deeply interested in the pending
pouiicat event."
As the hoar for tho arrival of the
mail approached, Mrs. Todd saw
two or tpree gentlemen quietly
leave the room; aud knowing their
errsnd watched, eagerly . lor their
return. When they came in she
knew, by the expression of each
countenance that New York - had
gone Democratic. The bearers of
the bad tidings consulted together
u moment iu a corner and then
one of them advanced to Mr. Cluv.
who was standing in the center of .
a group, and handed him a paper.
Mrs. Todd, aware of what it con.
tained. fastened her evesuiHin him.
He opened the paper, and us he
read tho paragraph which sounded. .
fha taatti I-1, n 1 1 1. 1 r. .,!: .......
and life-long ambition, she saw 'a
distinct ' blue shade begin t the '
roots of bis hair, and pass slowly
over bis fhee like a cloud, end-then
disappear, t Without saying a word
npon the subject which must have 1
monopolized all his thoughts, be
laid down the paper, and, turning
to a table, filled a glass with wine,
and, raising it to his lips with a
pleasant smile, said: "1 irlnk to
the health and happiness of all as
sembled here." , Sotting down tho
glass, he resumed the conversation
as If nothing bad occurred, und
was, as usual, the life and light of
the company. -But Mrs. Todd said
that as soon as the contente of the
paper were known "a wet blanket v
fell npon everybody,, and in half an
TRror all the guests had departed
wfth heavy r hearts feeling that
gallant 'Harry of the Went' bad
fought his last Presidential battle
A Wonderful Tobacco C!re.
lasses, a sure as you are boru! He
wouinnave of course, of the sore, bnt the flesh
fried crisp, with the gravy at the i . . . , n:-
Pitfsboro "Home :' Mr. J. Q
Bryant tells ns of a cure effected
by tobacco. He had been troubled
for several days with a very sore
and painful finger, and had slept
but little for several nights. Hav
ing read in the "Home'' of the. re
markable cures made by tobacco
he determined to. try it. Ob San
day night he wrapped up his finger
well wjth a wet tobacco leaf. Soon
the pain was gone and he bad a
good night's rest, and on Monday
he showed ns the finger and pro
nounced it well. It showed signs,
bottom. Then he wonld iour a
i looked natural, the
..... i ..i ,' gone down, and all
, ,.... . iw.. . K
. . I 1. . - awn J
von. wueu uu nui lumuxu muio
"Enquirer"' asks, what will jae
vent the blood from settling unler
the eyes and causing them to be
come black - The lest
cau iiud laid
.ui., I.,- iMiiiiti in iiiirt ti uuu
verse of the twenty-fifth chapter
of Matthew, and reads thus: "Agree
with thine adversary quickly, while
tliou art in the way with linn."
speeches by Rev, W. R. Gwaltney
and Dr. H, U. r iemmg. : ; the Democratic ticbet straignt,ana
The matter was embodied in a i he voted."' Snow Hill 'Telegraph.'-'
resolution offered by Dr. Chas. E. - ; I .
Taylor, lavonng tne organization
: ,. v, l .,1 t ,.r
; ' I r '."'f I wasn't anything left bat the dish
i u s six eVu,J --''rj-r:..:,.. That's the reason Mr. Benton had
my friend came, to me and said that
he was going to register niid vote
swelling bad
effects of the
gone.
and lost the prize forever.
An Offering of Beard. .
The Philadelphia "Times" tells
a good story of a tall, broad shoal
dered man, of fifty-five who walked
into a barber shop on Saturday
ami seated himself in u chair.
"nair cat, sir?" said the barber.
The old man, who had ltcen busy
with his beard, exposed it to the
astonished gaze of the shop. It
reached tally three inches below
his knees when it was uncoiled. I
want this beard taken off-clean.
"For twenty four years no razor
has touched my face It was. in
I860. I was as spruce a young
chap as ever kicked tip his heels at
a Lancaster county wedding and
everybody knew yonng Joe Bars
tow in those part. "Ore uight I
made a speech at a meeting In the
old . Turnpike Tavern. 1 I had a
week's growth of stubble on my
face, and before I had sioken a
dozen wocd- some lout sang out,
Go get a shave.'; Everybody
langhed as they looked at tne.
'Get a nhavef-s-iyn I; no razor
touches my face until I see a dem
ocratic President in the White
House.'
"I have kept my word. Take it
off and roll It carefully in a piece
of paper, barbev, for I am going to
send President Cleveland a chain
made ont of it.'
of a committee to look after the
orphans, promising the co-opera-
remedy we j tion of all Baptist in this matter.
Before the resolution was adopt
ed, however, a very spirited siteecu : (ev
upon the 'matter was made by Bev. i was given
. ' A I A. ll I -. 1 .k A
The legroes' Alarm.
his meals mostly in bis room. He
did not want people to know that
he was so fond of bacon and molas
ses.
There's President Harrison, who
died so quick after he got into the
White House. They all say mat
! he died from excitement, nervous
nro&tration and all that. Bnt the
uown in nie ikioks j
in part ol the lillU
l'l-.i- uini-n tViA plwtinn of "1p-a
i..a wn .ni.iATArl nmKahk i man who waited on him said that
. . .. . r . t. i: . II-
eu lefore the assurance of It ne uiw iroui wf uiu; u umun.
yesterday), many ue- i nau ocea in ibc one nu..
few davs when he told the waiter
Jaj ConM's Politics.
"It was the custom," said Gould
in 1873, "when men received nom
inations, to come to me for contri
butions, and I made them, and
considered them good paying in
vestments. In a Bepublican dis
trict I was a strong Bepublican.
In a Democratic district I was
democratic And iu doubtful
districts I was doubtful.
But in politics I was an Erie
J. D. Hufham, Ueelanng mat tne j groes ua.e ;"7wn(rU frnm in,i,,nft toeet Railroad roan every time
i Thev iear mev wm uaiu uv iumio t -
and I slaves. "Miss .Alary," said a little aim bp u " x :,7 i
.-Loitisburg "Times:" It is with'
regret we learn of the loss of Mr?
II, D. Egerton. His large dwelling"
ialtont four miles from Lonisburg
I was destroy'! by fire, on Thursday,
'together with a large port ion of its
i contents. Ho thinks that it caught
; from a spark, as" when he discov-
k Terriftle Experience.
i
vijave you ver suffered from,
extreme thirst. -Colonel?"
"Yes," the kcutuckian. replied.
(jow over me, nt i was uomcsiek - ofrpni,P,ine vears oco
all the same, I can t war to ne llU. expedition for the
ed away up yonder and then have ,,ftri,riin,t "nd vr.n mav Mieve
it or not, gentlemen, for three days
I hadn't a rhinsr to drink exept a
States has been discovered at last, ered almost the entire
His name is Jeremiah Austin, his
age is 101 and be resides at South
roof
Coventry, Conn.. His first vote
was cast for Thomas Jefferson and
his last for Grover Cleveland.
was in
a blaze. Loss obout iS'VW; insur
ance 1,."00. Mr- Egerton and his
wife were both away from home,
nobody being in the house except
his mother and children.
all the props Knocked from under.
I don't mind coming down ou a
snu.ng scaie out u nuns me ro, lK,ltIe of fm.itnre polish."
fall so far aud so heavy of a siuL ! 1 .... . ,.
Baptists would have the orphan-
aire in suite of all opposition
the convention might as well pre-;
pare for it.
Pending the discussion the con- j
vention adjourned. j
At the next session Rev. R. R. !
OverUy reported that an organiza-
Allot Tkat Sort of Car
rju On.
negro nurse ro nor lasr nignt, wu-ii "V - rnslrts'l
.will de cnllered people "long to de That was Mr. Harrison's home in jCOflian I
white iolks agin! Pap iaid dey Indiana, and hw order meant cab-
wonld. And he heerd so at pray'r i bage, pickled iork. tresn roast iorK, ( .. .
meetinr ; peas, encumbers and sweet pota-j- ; While Mr. Webb, the lively auc-
The children and the old people i toes, with coin meal fritters for. tioneer, was going from one county
Arui th nftpp. ot the race nave verv ireciv expre-saesen. iuav
HUH w." . : . 5 - . . . I. -; ,r V-K.- l,o,1 o Unn. fait
An ii a. i h as v April e :o t f cmi i itiu ik r u n ii-u l un uiui r. w i"ui ' t sir. v ruaici umi
i r nn, ,nn unrt wnnipn amonir tnem s nim. air. -rvcr m u iui .
noon.
nim Raotlst Orphans7 Ilome,T i ons men ana women union- trow
den.
Kow hero if is again, another
paper and the same old "Victory"'
at the mast head and both sides
claiming it. Bnt my faith is now
shaken and - I'm going to stay
"No water to le had T
"Yes. there was plenty of water,
but when a mau is eudnring the
agonies of burning thirst he is not
apt to pay much attention to per
sonal cleanliness .
i Ultu.
..iik 1, frtllnir mr oflirent : Hon . , pvalont v nave laikeu mucu auuuu nei,
crhmncrh Prpsidont : I A little wav from Raleigh an old I these d-d ofSc
Rev. Geo. W. Greene, Secretary. I darkov e.-en went to see one of the you, that dinner
and Rev. Colnmbus Durham, Treas-, sons of his deceased old master and be aever saw a
ronnest was made that : sanl : . lers ler long ler you mat uiuuer.
UOI
on a day that exhibit to another to-day, selling
with the tobacco, with a whooping, yell-
or three hundred
and he said : 'Harrison, if following him, a fioliceman, who
Strang Storj.
A very strange and distressing
story - is sent to the New York -44
WorKF frbm Albany. I r is to the
effect that twenty odd rears ago a
yonng man of wealthy parents ran
away with a young girl and went
to Iowa. In a year or two the
young wife tired of her husband
snd eloped with another fellow,
taking her only child, a daughter.
The daughter afterwards fled be
cause she was ill-treated. She was
fourteen. : On the train she met a
gentleman mnch elder than herself.
The friendship ripened afterwards -Into
love, and at serenteen she
married him. They haveonechild.
It is now revealed to them that the
father is married ignorantly and
Innocently to his daughter. Thev
are said to be in the dpepest dis
tress. ,
New- Orleans
crot' Tbc North
"Times-Deiuo-
Carollna .flsh-
-e seekers don't kill happened to be on the outsit, and he most iSSit i
er win!' Well, sir, I not knowing what was going on, JJJJ MhSS vSSSiSSi
v well minute alter msbed iu and gathered Mr. Webb JJ ' rfSati i t A
f7 ;iti,. K, llr wrinir -Vl hail ib? dd fOUT times OS much
urer.
He had indigestion. ; by the collar, saying, - You had
' headache and awimmuig in tbe i better come with me, sir ; we can t
head, and they say that his mind ' allow any such carrying on as this
the ' wasnt riirht till he died. It inicbt ; in the buiWing." Only a few
all the members of the convention ; and not tor nobody eie ot de
become members oi.tnis organ iza-. ny. j
a.- . .& i :kw nnninRiiui iiu . un i n m
The president teuderlv and feel-1 methods of .the reimblicans in j have been something else but I vords of explanation was nceessa-
Inzly stated that Rev. X. B. Cobb, managing the negro vote these iO believe that it was mac uiuner mat j ry to mate mo ine cueapew mkhi
lof HtekoryV had been moned,year8t4:hroniere.'- caused his deaths Tbeoldeookat ing peace officer yon ever mw.
food fish and employed three time
as many persons as they did in
.870. and yet sooth of Albemarle
sound they are. practically unde
veloped on account: of the lack of
shipping and refrigerating conve-
1 nlencea. , ' '
i