North Carolina Newspapers

W1LS0.N ADVANCE. rrpi-isnED, EtxetThitbsdatit BT 1 7 "1 ,0 id Inch, One 'Inwrtlon... 1 ' i " One Month i Turee Monthi....... " bix Mouths... 1 " One Year.. .1 1 .. 2 f 0 - 6 00 , 8 00 ..15 00 Liberal DlsoounU will be made for LanrerJ Auveruiemeuutaa ror vjoatrtrcu oy toe x emr A FORTUNE TELLER, -:o:- THE LITTLE SPIDER FORE TELLS HER GOOD FOR T UNE J . The Fat lent Woman at Last Re ctives her Money and sheuses ' it to Promote the Happiness of Those Around her. "LET ALL THE EKDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE THY COUMltrs, TIIY GOD'S, AND TRUTHS. Eucsckiptios HATxanr adtascx woe Tear. 'That's once, now twice. Oh! do hold perfectly still, Mrs. Harmon. r I am awful clad Now you'll be rich. Once is a little money, two is a good deal, bat threo i a for tune.' I. dou't know what it is all about, Margery, but if there is a fortune couiiug to either of. us I shall be very -glad'. , . Oh, it was a' money uiner Don't you know what they are! Thry are little black spiders and they pin'dowu. Irian the, ceiling Tud if the touch you once and then draw up again, that means some money, and twice is more, and three is a fortune, and -now you will surely be rich.' v -i '1 hope jou are a prophet, Mar gery, bat 1 won't run into any great extravagance, until the for tune is here. Yes, I will, too: we VOLUME 17.-- lMAvhe vonr fortune will come. and opened her letters.) J One came trom a weekly news- paper, and encioseu a cnecK ior tive hundred dollars for a serial story which she had written. .4 She heaved a sigh of satistac'ion and then opened the otlwr, which she now saw bore the name of I a London lawyer, and drew forth the enclosure, which! was as follows j. 'Mes IIaemon Madam If you are the! granddaughter of Mrs. Marion Whittle sy Crawford, and cau larnisni tne uocumentery proofs in proper 6rder,you will in herit thjs entire fortune of yourlate (presumably) grandmothr, Mrs. Wbittlesy, of Whittleside Manor, valuiug about eight hundred thous and pounds sterling. AWaiting your reply,' I am, madam, yours re spectfully, Jonas Eveeet.! With! this was a slip of paper, cut fronvsouie newspaper, contain ing uotice of the death and fuueral WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, APRIL 28, 1887. Six Moo Lb. ft I NUMBER 13. tw Mnnrr b rot by Mourf Orirr o -Kerutrrvd Lmrt at our ra. ofilrs. Whittlesy, grandmother. With iga.nt Mrs. Harmon's - will have jam with our tea to-dav Now, I will get our lunch ready.' Aud Mrs. LLuiuou rose from the) table, whicli was covered with! piles of manuscript' md drew a light stand cloe to Slargay, who was a helpless iu valid, though a Kweet dispoaitioued and cheerful oue. Margary was an. orphan. aud her old grandmother supported! n r oy selling auu oauuy at a little stand tuat ue nad ouut in a disuied alley-way, betwetn twd houses, in North Eighth Street, in PuiladeIphia; and there sat through summer s beat ii n winters cold knitmg industriously, when she had no customers. Every body liked the cheery old woman, and she made a decen living for herself aud this unfortu nate little sufferer. . She left her home in a large tenement house early in the' morning, and she ' had beeu obliged to leave the suffering child aloue all day, but to mak time pass away more pleasantly, all the toys she had sold bad pass ed at least two days in the hand ol the little invalid, and then thev were sold to other children, But one dav Mrs. -Harmon, who was a widow, and lived in this dreary tenement house also, hap pened to hear of the lonely, child text door, auu forthwith sue haul zZc-t5e gr'ndmor.Vrro'ret tit tle Margery pass her long days! with her Only too glad was the promise! given, and now for a long time the little girl had been carried in there mornings and night. The grandmother always provided a bowl of soup or some other nour iabing food, which she ate at noon with her kind friend. ( Mrs. Harmon was a woman of great refinement. She had beeb the petted idol of her' family, brit she had offended ; her widowed mother by her marriage with Les ter llomon, who was a strug I gling artist, while Marion Whit , tlesy Crawford was the' heiress to f great expectations from a wealthy graudmotlier iu England. The youug bride s mother, it was true, was not on friendly terms with , her mother in England; but that did not alter the fact that all the grandmother's wealth would one day belong, to her : and her prid revolted at a marriage so unequal to her daughter's expectation but the young couple had been happy with the two loyely children who came to bless them. I Then Mrs. Harmon's mother died suddenly, and soon after that an epidemic took her two childreu, and the grief at the loss of these, developed a pulmonary trouble in her husband, and in 'one short year, Mariou had lain ber last lov ed one beneath the sod. -j She was a woman of talent, and thought that she would be able to earn a living lor herself by her i pen, but found it hard for a begSri- ner, anos'ie uati taken one room a tecling laKin to anger the hardhearted old woman who withheld even bread from her during ife to leave such a fortune at ,deat?(i, Mrs. Harmon sa with tbe oppu letter in her hand, while Margery looked ou in silence, whieu suddenly a sharp kuock roused them both. ! Mrs. ilariuon went to the door, and, opening it. louiid a mau neith er old iuor young, with a keen, sharp look on his face. " - Mis. Harmon r rt., Yes, Wu .t is your b'.isiuess, sir V (. 'I called in reference to a patent wh:h kou took out a couple iof j ears ago, tor rendering, oanK notes ulnpossible to counterfeit.7 't 'Wallf iu, sir, and be seated,' said Mis. Harmon, and? she took her seat, opposite him, lookiug him fully in the eyes, and she waited for him to apeak. He tidzetted a little, doping that she would prove like the most of women and talk herself, thus giv- iug him the advaut age. f Fiually he said : - t 'I am told that you sent to the -bank, asking them to , ex- r.Qifial ppsulence. no norses nor carriages, and scarcely changed j her way of living. - She was think- j ine... ?. She had lived niany years among the poor. She knew' how much they suffered Sha had experi enced their kindness when her wealthy friends ol other days had turned a cold shoulder to her and her ailing husband, in their days of dire need, and she knew now by experience that luxury is mere hahif and that, when one has a shelter from the elements, aud food enough to eat, tie rest is nothing, and she had discovered that .the truest :and purest happiness on eartlv is to bring joy to a suffering heart, and she determined that since her own loved ODes had died from the want of help, and she knew how bitter it was to see them fade and die, she would devote this fortune to the relef vLtHse, who had just '"such need' as hers had been, and the rent of her life should be passed in tryiug to do good with this money. But she had learned that . indis criminate living was worse thau nothing, so she maile herselt a little more lrieudly - among, the people where she lived. When a'motber's wail -rung out over her head, hers was the baud taat suiootned tue path for the por pareuts, who lothed thej waxen Jorm la its dainty shroud, who gave the under taker his instructions, and paid the biM. She it was who received the. newly bnru into luer empty", hands BILL ARPS LETTER.! . . ; :o: LETTER IN THE FHILOS- lOPHER'S BEST VEIN. A Lot of Thinas That He Longs for.Profe&8or. Sanford's Stem finding Arithmetic too Much for Him. Tired of Playing Hian and is Going Fishing. 1 want some chickens that ami heart j and and help. She it was wap pets laid iu papers aud boow and who mrui provided comforts the halls, s to hed lvjd thick car- aud who sent every room, each family after another, each' cheaper than the other, uutil she now occupied this third storv back room, am nvi the poorest people of the city. ' She had sold one. after anotiier of her posessions until almost noth ing remained, and she was,as yet, scarcely able to earn her support, by ' writing, though shiwas far more capable than man a woman who is receiving a good salary for less work than she did. i She was not old, nor yet was "she amine your invention with a view to buying the sole right of you. Am I right V 'You! are. Have you come from them !' . i 'Well, yes. They told me fjto come up and see you, and, in short, make vou an offer. His keen glance had taken in the surroundings of this .dwelling, and he thought she must be almost ion the verge of starvation, aud the go ver n ied h i m s ilf accord in gly , llow much di a they commission you to offer V 'Well, madam, the patent is not, ot as great Importance as you prob j ably fetpposjo.' tjtV.l, l'.1l orectuns'i are willing to give you two hundred dollars for the eutire right.' You cau tell them that they can have it for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, no less,, 1 am thoroughly, posted on the subject, and know' that it is worth five times as much.' 'But, madam, that is preposter ous 1' I ! '.. ": 'Very well. sir. Please tell your principals that I withdraw my offer to them.' ! , . ? j And she rose, arid thus; made? it uecesdary for him to rise also. 'Is that your last word, madam 1 'It is my lowest, my only price You have until noon to-morrow to decide. I leave for England 'the day after.', i 'Very wen,' madam : I win ;ie- port, aud if, as I fear, they will pot accept, I will let you knpw bv le ter. ' If they do, I will come myself Good day. With that he went out, more completely puzzied thau he iiad ever been in his life. I When he was gone Mrs. Har mon turned to Margery, and said : 'Well, my dear, your 'spider jwas a prophet; and we are rich indeed, even without the banker's mojney, for uiy grandmother is dead, abd I shall have all heri mbney, buti no one but! ourselves must know of this, except grandmother, of course. Sow,! we will have the best doctors, who may be able to cure you of this pain, and will have a nice little dinner for grandma here when; she comes home. But I must go jour", pet, do you think you can keep house here for me V . Yes, of course.' And soon Mis. Harmon, clad in her faded mourning, went. out and to tbo bank, where she cashed hr check. i Then she made a few visits to different places and was home in less than three hours, aud soon there came two doctors, skillful in the treatment of diseases suqh as Margery's, and( they pronounced het case one that with immediate with a bright Upp, and many! oth er little comforts which gave the husbands a reason to stay at home nights r and to her they were in debted for the'" sweet faced young lady, who came there and took a room, and gathered all the -little children, and taught ttem pretty work and lessons at the same time, and her foresight and care estab lished iu the basement a sort of general store, where all things needful could J)e bought of the best quality at the very lowest prices, and where a quarter of a pound of butter cost no more than if it had been bought by the pouud, and where exact weight was given. And the man and woman in charge of this store would take their pay in baskets or in knitted work, and not only furnish the splints to make tbe baskets, but teach :hose who wished to learn free, hov to make them. ' , Little by little prvsperfty and so briety, and above aliVindustry be gan to show Here, aa ft from beiug one of the poorest wlaces in the city, tbe bouse was f(oked upon as modeu-odrrtfeffiiid!oid i'r&ea the rent in conseqileuce. Then, somehow, the house changed owners, and the sewage was at tended to, and it ws reuovated by degress, andthe reut restored to its tormer price, two large 'rooms were turned into one, and seats were put in, and this was. a free Kin tergai den school all the we.k, and Saturday evening there was a free concert, at which the childreu sang, and some good singers also took part as well-as -elocutionists, aud the fatHersand mothers joined in going regularly, and the saloon on the corner had so lew customers that it finally was moved away. More and more ot these abodes of th poor changed bands, and peade-aud prosperity bgan to take the place of druukeii brawls and jbut none ever ng plain (Mrs. good fortuue, auksgving, and this household, phoolroorn. ir a large bale live dollar bill flannel uuder- young, but sorrow had destroyed care and proper surgical treatment tue most oi tne urauty -sue once had pdsessed ; but life held for be.r nothing now, but ,ttie love ot this poor little creature1 who was suffer- ing all the agonies of hip disease. bo she drew up tbe little stand, 1 saying: ' j We will have our lunch ow, dear, and we will dissipate .to jthe extent of a pot of jam. Here 'is. your soup, and here is our tea, and bread aud butter, for I must con fess that U don't like dry bread even with jam. 'What would you like to have when our fortune comes! Tell me, hall it be a brown stone house or f a wax doIH A carriage and four, or a canary bird in a golSdefn cagt-t' ,r 'You may laugh if you like, but grandmother says that it always cornea true, so now!, pouted Mar gery, f All risihti dear, whatever comes you shall share it.' " f ", At this moment came 'the shrill whistle of the postman in the lower i hall, and a stout pair of lungs bawled out : ' , T wo letters for Mrs. Harmon, one registered. Bring, pen and ink 1' and then he began to dance and make eyes at a young woman to pass the time, until Mrs. Har mon came down vJU'h' her pen and ink, signed, her receipt and took rue tetters up-stairs. I - tohe smiled at Margery, saying: could be cured iu a lew mouths. and they wished her to be sent to New York to a hospital tori just such cases, where she could be treated aud cared for in the; best mauner. 1 That evening there was rejoicing among tbe three over their nice nine tunner and tu the morning a carriage came, into which IMar jery and her grandmother went. no one kuew where, for the 'child was taken down so quicklyi and the carriage drove off" before, any one recovered enough from i their astonishment to find out where. At twelve o'clock thesharp-eved mau returned, and said that the directors had decided to "accept her offer, and they made arrangements for a meeting, the next day to sign the transfer, and so it came about that in three'days this woman who called it dissipation to eat; both jam and butter on her bread was now independent. The papers that she sent to London proved enough to establish her claims, and she did not have to cross the ocean to re ceive her heritage, as she had expected- to do. - ' j; Margery's grandmother, came back and went about her; woic;k as usual, and Mrs. Harmon remained in the same little room. She re deemed such things as -were ie deemable ot her old possessions. and fitted up her Toora a little more comfortably, but she grm destitution, dreamed of connect Harmou with their when it came on T1j their ouknowu benefactor, through the Kiutergarden teachers, "invited all the members ojt to a dinner in the i Just before dinnt was rolled in, and lrom it came for each woman a ..roll of flannel, a warm shawl aud a Each man got two shirts, and two pairs drawer, and three pairs thick woolen socks,- and each child had three pairs of stock ing a woolen cloak according to its size,, aud a ,coinplete outfit of under jlannels. Then dinner was announced. Just as dinner was served, one woman remarked that Mrs. Har mou had had nothing, ami another said that the teachers always seem ed to lbok at her for approbation, and iu' a short time there 'was ar buzz of curiosity among them, when the door opened, and ia bonhded Margery, now the picture of bloom ing health. She sprang to Mrs. Harmou's side, and with tears1 and siuiles, she cried : See, I am well now, and it is she who has done it. She is an angel. She is rich and-you1 all know how good, but I know better than any ot you. It was all the money spin ner, and he has spun us all good luck. But she is an augel.' ! 'So sheis,' said men: and women alike, between their tears of joy. and thankfulness. ' She staid on with her poor, and they said of her in hushed voices, 'She is a saint;' but her Mends. of youth, rich frieuds who were cold in her days of sorrow, said ; 'She is Dot quite right iu her mind. So rich, and yet to live amoug those horrid creatures. She is mad!' 'Delays Are Dangerous.' If you aire pale, emaciated, have a hacking coueru. with nisrht- sweats, spitting of blood and short ness ot breath, you have no time to lose. Do not; hesitate too long "till you are past cure ; for, taken in its early stages, consumption cau be cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's 'Golden Medical Discov ery,' as thousands can testify. By druggists. . - 'Woman and Her Diseases.' is the title of an interesting illus trated treatise "(1G0 pages) sent, post-paid, for 10 cents in stamps. Address World's Dispensary Medi- boagl; PijrrlsociatinafHiiiiiQ, N. "Y. : J woii't scratch up the flower seed ia the front yard, nor wal low In the fresh made beds, nor fly over in the garden "nor take catch their young, nor set two in a nest. I want a dog that wont bark half the night, and wil stay at home and know an honest man from a thief, and won't track mud through the hall nor shake his fleas around. I want a cow that can be turn ed On the, grass and will hive sense enough to let the deute rougmus alone, as Cobe calls it. I want some beds that don't have to be made up, and some dishes that don't have to be washed, some lamps that don't haVe to be filled, and a book case that the children can't get out! of order. I want hats and bonnets that will hang them selves up and stay there until they are needed, and some school books and slates and pencils-that won't hide and scatter around. I want a piand that won't have to be tuned every time Mr. Freyer comes around-one that practice makes perfect and .neither moths nor rust doth corrupt. ? I want a knife and a pencil that the lit tle chaps will give back to me when they borrow, and some ink that' will stay on the table, and some pins that will stay on they table, and a towel that won't show the marks of half washed hands. 1 want a cook ing stove that draws well and bakes well all the time and a cook that don't quit when she gets ready and never gets sick or has a misery somewhere, or takes the pouts, and will scour the kitchen floor without being told, and will give the dog some of the scraps from the ta ble. ! I want children and grand children around me who . don't know how to cry and hardly ever get mad, and ! don't tell tales and are as smart as the books they have to study or if they are not that smart, then I want books made easy. Pro fessor Sanfordeays his arithme tic has no key but is a stem winder. Well, if it has no key it oughtent to have any lock. 1 have to work till ten o'clock every night helping my : chaps to prize it open," but we gener ally! succeed and I reckon it is all the better that way I do hate to have to surrender to these children. It is a confes sion! of judgment when I can't do a sum or parse a sentence or translate their Latin. When 1 get all tangled up in figures or in algebra and can't untangle I say! 'Well children, these mod ern books are all new to me. We don't figure now just exact ly like we used to. I studied SmHey's arithmetic,. which had the single rule of three and the double rule of three that did most every sum in the world. And I studied Murray's gram mar; and Day's aleebra, but now adays they have got new books and; short cuts and stem wind ers and all sorts of readers and eclectics and dialectics and epi lectics and other complicated machines that I don't exactly understand.' And so I get out of it without losing very much parental prestige. But the fact is, I have forgotten about as much as I know perhaps more andUtill have to keep passing away. About all the Latin I carej to remember now is, 'otium cuiri dignitate,' and want plen ty of that. . I am going fishing to-morrow and stay all day. I will rig up a big wagon and take the children along and a basket of lunch and we will fish and frolic and gather flow ers and eat and talk and laugh and get dirty all day long. The signs are all right, for the dog wooid is in bloom and the vind is in the south and it is the dark of the moon, and I think I see myself just jerking the big bream from under the log. carl knows every hole in the creek and he can catch more fisn tnan I can and don't try half as hard. Jessie wants to pick flowers, and I've promised her she may wade in the branch, but her mother don't know it. Jessie comes to me and Carl goes to his: mother for favors. What a pitr it is that grown folks can't be i children once or twice in awhile and wade in the branch too'. The next time Judge Bleckley goes to Screamer mountain to be a boy again and go barefooted and make hicko rv whistles and chestnut fifes and catch spring lizzards and crawfish and climb trees for birds' eggs, and make black ants fight, and run ground squir rels to their holes and dig an gelica and kill snakes and rock hornets' nests and fight yaller jackets, I'm going with him. I'm tired of playing man all j-the year long without a recess. "veort of hypocritical life. I envy the children. The scrip- tares say 'unless ye be as one of these little ones, je shall not get to heaven.' S3; it's .time to begin, ind therefore I'm going a fishing. That's a good scrip tural occupation anyhow, for one of the disciples said, I go a fishing,' and the other replied, 'I go with thee .also.' They were just human fke the rest of us. I wonder if they had any hooks and poles like we have. Going a fishing and com ing from fishing aie two things, very different things. They are no kin. We fix up our hooks and lines atid split bul lets and rob every empty bottle and jug. of its corlfr, and dig the back yard all to pieces for bait, aqd make greati"r'ieI:aon3 aglne theiijii arerjust waiting Tor us, Un ve can see the pole bending with.abigone darting around, aad that's pret ty much all there-is of it im agination. But i$i3 ' the most hopeful thing in he world. We swear off and swr off, but in a week or so wefWant to try it .i . rjttUMlJN HUNT PEOPLE. bT ilw which h,m u pcivruw nyiJeurauce air. Mitchell was short and thick set. He had a ruddy face, keen gray eyes. Hia manners were some what brusque, Scotchman-lik, bat he was true and noble-beated, aa bis countrymen generally are. OSc HoMdltLC. oavm-uues OF 1HE LIVES OF O UR PROMINENT 2fEN ITTITTTn rm a - I HjWE UJ! 21 VVlEK. -tioUlBboro U to hare a faniL tare icTry. ice people or Uiat town are waking op to the oeoe sity of ?tab!ubitz man u fact ones . in their midst. Let oar town do likewise. i mm w u jir js HAPPENISa .V 1UE WORLD AROUND US. " nai iney nave done in the past ' U draw the gaze of the world upon them. How they look and act, . Will la U Forced Dnerslfy? 'WHETIIEtt WE WILL OR SOT SEC ESSITY REQUIRES US TO DI- f VERSIFY OUR CROPS. A condensed report of the ncu-$ a gathered from the col Anns of our contemporaries. State and National, again. We most; always hang one or two, and sometimes get a big on8 on th edge of the bank and he get: away. Right there the diction try, is at fault, for there is no word in it that fits the case thiit expresses the inexpressible goneness of the occasion. It rikes a feller sick at the storolch. But I have gotten to be rec onciled to most anything now and don't take oft like I used to. My business now is to comfort others and help them to be happy and I btlieve that pays the best after all. Blessed is he who expects uttle, for he shall not be disappointed. 'Man wants butlittle here below, .Nor wauts that little long.' I don't say ihat, but Poet Yountr said it in his solemn night-thoughts. And then Gold smith copied ard used it in his ballad of the Hermit. But Sid ney Smith was if a lively turn ot mind, and said : 'Man wants but H tie here below, As beef, -eal, mutton, pork aud veuison show. And next ca:ie John Quincy Adams, who set down on it and wrote : j 'Man wauts hatittle here below, Jsor wants that jttle long, 'Tis not with m exactly so, Tho 'tis so iii t' song.' -1 mm " Railroad King otytfiB 'ortnust. ALEXANDER MITCHELL, OP W AUK EE, DECEA3ED. MIL- inore tUan l fl-t, oui 1 uou i want it bad Wyjugh' to make a hog of inysaj nor break the tenth commSslment. I always admired the liappy way in which Daniel Webster used some lines frq.n Dryden when he said he wka thankful that 'if he could not raise a mortal to the skies' he had no desire 'to bring an angel down.' But still I love to go a fishing, whether I catch theTn or not. It is a good time to ruminate. The business is so typical of life. Its hopes and disappoint ments. Happiness is just ahead ol us all we think, and we lay our plans and fix our hooks and dig our bait and drop our lines in some inviting hole, and by and by the hook gets hung un der a root and we worry over it awhile and pull and the line breaks. 1 Or perhaps we hang something that bites slow and cautious and we haul up a little dirty old terrapin. . Or again we hang a lively fellow and he runs round and round and we brace ourself for a trout and haul up a slickery squirming old eel. But nevertheless, I am going a fishing. i Bill Arp! Tbe death of Alexander Mitch-' ell in New York on April 19, has created a profound sensation par ticularly so in the 2orthwfMt. He was tne wealthiest man of Wiscon sin, worth it appears, twenty-flve million dollars more or less; Presi dent aud a heavy owner in the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul llailway Company ; President and nearlv the sole owner of the Wis- cousin Marine and Fire Insurance Company's Bank, one of tbe heav iest banking institutions in tbe Northwest ; and the owner of the Chamber of Commerce Building, and of millions of dollar's worth of other property in the city of Mil waukee. The man posesbing this enor mous wealth and power began life in Scotland nearly seventy years ago. U'S father was a farmer in El- low, Aberdeenshire. After study ing at the parish school Mitchell spent two years in a law office at Aberdeen. Later be wan -flerk in hoau at P-rhd. The JJay Thej Look Jones. atLn c 1 in A Jones county correspondent of the New Berne Jourual puts it iu this waj'f "Why is it that some farmers are so surprised at their failures in farming, Vhen some of them con sidder that on a one-horse farm a fine Cincinnatti buggy is an indis pensable necessity! When I see a farmer loaded Oown with heavy ihortgages for cepmercial fertiliz ers, and a fine tv buggy to ride in on Sundays, with a fine beaver bat on his bead (purchased on time), I just set that chap down as one who has wasted $5 on a beaver to cover five cents wortb .of brains. Sujii a chap is always on a failure don't need a pbreuolegist to acquaint us of the fact, eithe. rYet he is sure to complain of bad luck an Tb.id crops." The same feneiblo remarks will apply to some of our acquaint ances iu more comities than Jones. The trouble with our farmers is that they exercise to little judge ment ; work to little aud buy too much. Is Consumption Incurable ? Head the following: Mr. 0. II. Morris, Newark, Ark , says : 'Was down with Abcess of Lungs, aud friends aud physicians pronounced me -an Incurable Consumptive. Began taking Dr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption, am now on my third bottle, and able to oversee the work on my farm. It id the finest medicine ever made.' Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio, says : 'Had it not been for Dr. Kin-g:s New Discovery for Con sumption I would have died of Lung Trouble?. Was given up by doctors. Am now in. best of health.' Try it. Sample liottles free-at A. W. Rowland's Drug Store. The Fayettiville cotton seed oil mills Lave shut down for waut of seed, we see from an exchange. & . bank! n ir lfl lOoJ fl'tamu tor viiiA-troantrr, aud went to Milwaukee, where be took charge as Secretary, of tbe Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insur ance Company, which bad been organized by George Smith, of Chicago. , also a native of Aber deenshire, who knew him there and induced him to come toj America. It was the era of Western wildcat banks, but the banking business which the insurance company un der Mr. Mitchell's management was authorized' to conduct, was carried on iu accordance with sound principals, and stood the severiest pressure without weaken ing. More than a million dollars of certificates bearing only the signatures of George Smith, Presi dent, aud Alexander Mitchell were out at one time, but they were al ways paid in gold on presentation, and it has been Mr. Mitchell's claim that if any are still in circulation thev can be redeemed in coin at tbe Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company's Bank, which was organized ini862. Mr. Mitch ell's atteutiou was given to rail roading early in his career. In 1838, before be had been in the countiy nine years, and when he was only thirty-one years old, be became a director, in tbe Milwau kee and Waukesha road. He fast became idenified with different roads in the State, untill in 1864 he was elected President of : the Milwaukee and St. Paul road, the foundation of the present system of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul which has five thousand miles of track and is noted as be ing oue of the best managed and couducted systems not alone of tbe Northwest but of,- tbe United States. In 1869, there being some interests in the Chicago and North western road which were identical with those of the St. Panl, Mr. Mitchell became President also of the tiirst named and acted for both lines as such until the summer o 1870, when tbe interests having been seperated, he resigned from the Northwestern system and de voted hi.niilf eulirely to the St. Paul. i In politics Mr. Mitchell was a Democrat. Originady be was a Whig. Then he Joined the He publicans in electing Mr. Lincoln aud prosscuting the war. He af terward joined the Democrats ia support ot President Johnson. Mr. Mitchell went to Congress in 1870, and again in 1872, bat declined reelection. He was one ot the delegate who nominated Mr. Til den, aud was a most ardent eur- porter of that statesman. His po litical views were moderate and conserative. The ' deceased was married in 1811 to Martha Reed, daughter of Setb Heed, a pioneer ot Milwaukee. He had one son, John L. Mitchell now forty-four years pf age. Mr Mitchell was a man of captivating social qualities within the circle of his intimate friends. He never forgot tne iacc mat ne was a otebmao. In 1859 be . became the first President or the Milwau kee St. Andrew's Society, whose anunal picnica nd gam es are still held in the grove on his farm tn the Sigbth Ward' orMilwaukee His residence is one of ibe finest in the West, and the grounds sur rounding it are the most beautiful in the country outside of the State of New York. He had been spend ing sometime on the beautiful plantation in Florada owned by him and Mrs. Mitchell, when seized The Raleigh Progressive Farm er contains a strong forcible edi torial which we heartily endorse. on divernyfying crops. The farm ers or rsorth Carolina may refuse to diversyfy for a short while but they will be forced to it whether they will or not In the not far ais- t$jxt fatare. The editorial referred to reads as lollows: A readjust ment "rmtp , , t , , J r inevitable under the changes now going on in tbe production of tbe staple crops of tbe world. Tbe fertile fields of Texas and Louisiana are brought in competition with India and Egypt, in the markets of Great Britain and Europe. The enlarged production of cotton in those countries, under the stimulus of governmental protection and en couraeement, and at a minimum cost of labor, threat, as to force the producer in the South to find new markets. The rapidly increas ing acreage devoted to wheat in In dia and liussia, and tbe steady growth in tbe cattle trade in South America, all tend,to curtail tbe consumption of ami demand for American products in foreign mar kets. Meantime, it is a question in in dus trial economy which the people of our State should yonder most seriously, whether we can afford with meagre average yield per acre of cotton to contend against those States .further Souih which are so much bdtter adapted to its production. Will not a condiliou of thing arise in tbe near future ftom the sharp and active competition re tween the most productive tac tions of our con try and these new rivals which will lorce u to aban don tbe effort to make uicnej on cotton and turn our a"tenti,-u to diversified industries! It h no disparagement to say that our State is not adapted peculiarly to the growth of any one crop, but it is her glory, rather, that sue pro duces all the staple crop in fair aoandance. l he sooner we come to recognize the admirable adapta bility of oar State to a general system of diversified firming and industry, the sooner we will begin that steady grow tli and substan tt 1 progT w h Ir bwcaUf otn tch ) Washington lias an ice facto pa- There are foar Methodist pers in North Carolina. Concord has been eniavinr th delights of a mad dog scare. The Duttum ooarbone. It is wimaiea, win cost f 25,000. meets at rvyetterille next year. Cancerous Ksau'ts. Theft was committed at three residences in Smith field on one night. A Wisconsin school-teacher broke tbe neckol a scholar ehaklug him violently. Senator Ransom will deliver the annual address before Horn er's school, Oxford. . Raleigh baa been visited with a 6tnke Our capital will not be behind other places. Dr. Deems preached at ' Faion Sunday before last. We win be would visit thia place. Elizabeth City has a Mechan ic' and Laborers Association with a membership of forty. A would be black avisher of a white lady was atrtj'- ( up to a tree, near Madiaon, K,. A lot of valuable turpentine timber has been destroyed by fire u-nr tbe town of RK-kin2htrn. -Rer.Thos. Dixon, of Golds- Iv.r-s ha acwptM the cll to the Second Baptist church of Raleigh. Trinity Cnleze already ba an endowment of tl3, (ft7 says tbe RilciU Christian Ad vocate. Tbe Albermarle Observer &an tl.C mct horn tbe am all graiu crop of that section is not at all en com aging. r -The Salvation Army has made an attack onor New Derne. Forty of tbe devil's ' soldier have been brought down. We see from tbe Favettevllle Obrver that Mr. 11 J. Ldey is ad- uiox to ins already large cotloa aula near that place.; r. r t. nr vi..iA. .r it,. ri address at tbe Oak Bidge Insti ll le cojunenoeipent. Near;Oglethorpe, Ga., D?c 2, '86. Qentlexex : This is to certify that for years I had Buffered with cancerous knodes on my face, and I feared they would turn mto mag. lignant cancers. About a year ago 1 began to use Swift's Specific At that time I was in general bad health. Alter using about one dozen and a half bottles of S. S, S., tbe cancerous knodes passed away, were dissolved, and my general health rapidly improved. 1 am TO years of age. Your medeeioe has a splendid reputation among ray neighbors, and there are plenty cures hereabouts to vouch ( for tbe efficacy of S. S. S. in all ailments arising from blood disorders ot whatever kind. Tbistian Waters. Come ad See. Gentlemen : Having used your remedy, S. S. S., for rheumatism. and having been relieved, I feel it but a dutv to the afflicted fo make this unsolicited statemeut, ! and recommend all who are suffering with rheumatism to try S. S.S.And if any in the city waut to kno more about bwilt's bpeciuc as a rheumatic cure, let them call on me at my house, 619, 1st Avenue) New York. Andrew Tierxey. Dec 17, 188G. . I Treatise on Blood and Fkm Diseases mailed free. The Swift's Specific Co Drawer, 3 Atlanta, Ga. lilting for Tttir Son's Ketnm. Sorrow was weighing on tho hearts of two' gray-haired old people. Silas was their idol. Through tbe long four years they bad beard no tiding. Every night and morning of this tediom- wait ing, tbe old man, after bis usual formal petitions (which embraced the whole human race, and theu the heathen wbotn he always an nexed separately), prayed oot for mally, nor in the liible phrases, but in his own homely dialect : in words not chosen but coming di- wvaIIo fVsm kia Imtrf fit at li t ai oati their son, should be (returned to them. Now, since tbe return of their son's comrades each night and morning the old, couple rose from their knees with tears glisten ing in their faded eyes and trick ling down their withered cheek; rose and went to the window ia tbe morning, or opened tbe door at night, to see if their prayer bad been suddenly answered. .The old man had lately taken to nleeping down stairs in the front room, 'So I kin bear the boy 'fore be gets to the door, an' open it fur him he said. Frequently duriug the night, which is so long to old people, the poor father would go to the door and look out ; and if the noise ol opening and abutting happened to awaken bis wife, she would call down to him ia ber shrill little voice, Is that you, Sam t' To which the invariable reply was, Yes. Sally ; I was je a look in' ef I could see auytbin' of the boy ; but there ain't nathiaV G. F. Preston, in The American magazine. The Franlinton News pub'ishes an essay 'by -tm"eJltors sweet heart.' Nex Tbe editorial force of the Dur ham Recorder has been increased by the addition of Mr. Maxwell Gorman, recently of tbe Plant. Charlotte has a negro preacher who imagines that he Is tricked and has gone crazr ia oonseqaence thereof. Tbe poor superstitious fool. Rev. F. L. Eeid, of Rafeigb, will preach the commencement ser mon at Trinity College. nd Hon. A. M. Waddell will del...r tbe ad- dress. Hon. A. M. Waddell will de liver tbe address at tbe unveiling o.'the monument to the Confederate dead at Smitbfield, on the 10th of May. Tbe Fayettevllle Observer congratulate that town on tbe fact that while other places are ex cited over municipal contests all is serene there The liquor ftellers of Pine Lev el, Johnson county, srs tbe Selma News, bave voluntarily quit basi- nes and now there H not a saloon in that place. The Smitbfield Herald says 54 wits btolen from tbe residence of Mr. W. A. Sanders, while all the members of tbe family were away from home The Norfolk Ledger says tbe Albemarle and Pantego Railroad Company was organized Tuesday at the office of tbe John L. Roper Lumber Company. Tbe Cumberland county Fair will be held at Fayettevllle tbic year on tbe 9tb, 10th and 11th of November. We enjoyed the Fair last year very much. -Hie Mlmingtoa Kevlew says t.- . , i. - tt.,. iue uunvr ou tun airitiorr 1 cii.il. exploded on tUe 19th. Tbe fireman w& killed outright- sod several others were Injured. A battle was foogbt ia Duller county. Mo- between two sberiflV posses wbo mistook each other fr the outlaws they, were trying to arrest ; two men were wounded. Miss Robecca Ozden, eighteen years old, took ber own life at Pre coma Station, near Alexandria, a She had had a lore affair, aud. crowing desperate killed bersrlf with a shot gun. Tbe 1 rankuntoo vtetkiy sajs a successful attempt, at robbery was made ia Mr. J. Caadell's this week. They broke one of the laree plate glass windows ia tbe lroat of th'e store. -The Washington correspond ent of tbe Goldsboro Me&Kenger writes that tbe clerk of tbe House of Repiesentatives has received n official notice that O Uara will cou test tbe seat of Mr. Simmons. Tbe Elizabeth City EcouomUt says a sad occurrence iook place on tbe Bay Line steamer Carolina Friday morning. 31 r. Root. Gate- wood, of that city, aged 25 yiars. fhot himself through tbe head,' dy ing in a short time thereafter. We see lr. m the Wa esboro Messenger that freights have been reduced on the Carolina Central Railroad. We know of another road or two in tbe State that might reduce freight rates wttbait mate rially damaging tbe shippers along tee hue of the road. Mr. Mark Cherry, a member of the last Legislature from Pitt county, tells te Reflector that Is believes CoL Thomas M. Holt will be the next cube relational caadi- date, bat he behevea Stead man roold make a most excellent Gov ernor. This sounds fanny from a daily published in an aristocratic citv. The Charlotte Chronicle aays: 'It is Said that one or two of the doc tors took away souvenirs of their visit to Charlotte in tbebape of a well defined case of itch. Thrv shook hands too freely wlththe lys. We see it stated that the Slatevii:e Laudmaik has deter fTUinHke a decided at an advert m menu, sod wiU. if neou. awry, test tbe cae ia tbe highest court of the land. It is said that other parties will join to the de fence of the Invasion of the 'free dom of the press. Tbe Fisherman and Fanaer has been shown by Dr. W. J. Leary cn Monday a tierfeclly shap ed and colored marble, such as the bo3s ordinarily play with and c&il a common, found within a solid lump of coal which was to a lot of coal purchased of Mr. J. M. Woo', who deals extensively iu tbe article and obtains Lis supply from the coal regioua of Pennsylvania. The Selma News says. that town bas a chair factory. It aays tbe originator of this eotcrptUe it Mr. S. T. Pierce, wbo la negotiating fur an engine and machinery to i u n t be fact ory. Tb is e a terpr ise la ia its Infancy, but will soon assume larger projortioos. Tbey are cow turning out first class work, and are sbippiDg chairs to ReiJsvil'.e, Goidoboro and other points. Tbe "Newbeni Journal, in editorially mentioning a meeUsg which was held in that city Thurs day afternoon, for tbe purpose of organizing the Eat Carolina Land aud Railwaj Company, after enumerating the advantages which will accrue to that portion ol North Carolina by its construction, sajs that it will be tbe beginning of a new coat line of railway lrom Norfolk to tbe South. Tbe IVadesboro Messes ger ays the postmaster at that place root'ived a letter from Mr. G. W. McM aster, a batiki r of Wiuneabo ro, S, C, asking the came of a KOod man at Wadehboro to .press . forward tbe building of a ra.lroaa . from W snJ.kbm to Vlnn1om, tj A Ui(UUiiirK, 1't.m be the connecting iiuic ia a u'l. trunk lioe from Norfolk to .New 0.:ai.s. J Tbe Wilmington Star says per son interested In the prrjectfcf uullJiDg a railroad from WUming. ton to Wrigbtsville are pusLlog tbe matter, and there is now little doubt of the completion of the road before another season. Tbe Star .was shown a letter from parlies with wUoia negotiations bad bea peodiog, expressing a willingness to fulfill their eoutract and, con struct the road at aa early .date. ' The Charlotte Chronicle aays : Sear l'olktou, Peter Manns, color ed, after having deaoed out a well, was being drawn to tbe surface, when tbe rope parted and Le was precipitated t tbe bottom of the well. The unfortunate man was supposed to be killed, and so effort was made to get him out until tbe fallowing day, when tbe horrible diwovery was made that Le was still alive. Death ensued la a few minutes afier he was taken froja the well. -Wo see from the Raleigh News Observer that Altorbej General Davidson- explained before tbe Stte Roard of Agriculture that tbe license tax on the sale of fertU rem n tbe State differs from other like taxes, ia that it is a tax levied for police puriwes ; tat Is to say, for the protection of taa farmers of the State from spurious articles. It ill lie collected until tbe law au thorizing it is reversed by the Su preme Court of the Slate. The following from the G recti- boro Nes will be read wifu- inter est by many of our readers who knew Mr. Reed : On Sunday oi;tt. about a quarter past 9 o'clock, Mr.' Lew Rtk), wbo irMJes on Church street, two doors north of Rev. Dr. Smith's, LoUted a window and reached out to close the blioda, and, as he did so, someone from the sidewalk, about thirty steps distant, tired at him, the ball of a 38 calibre pistol entereJ the in- dow Mil Joit below blm. We see from an exchange that indent of tbe University at ChaiHrl Hill, by tbe name of Wade, bas been brcusht before tbe au thorities for stealing. Watches, jewelry sod clothing, be'ongicg to tbe prcfeur and smueuU, were found ia Lis possession. It sp- tars tbt the stealing bas been going on for over twelve mot lis Ind bad been attributed to the se ctor who were employed as ser vants bv the university student. Wade when on trial confessed asd delivered op tbe roods with about one hundred and nny dollars ia money which be Lad stolen. lie paid Ibe amount of Lis bond and left for Trxa, Lis old borne ia xig the recovered stolen grtods was a cold watch belonging to Mr. S. A. WooJard, of Wilson. Yes I shall break tbe engage ment, she said, folding ber arcs and looking defiant : lt is n-al'y too much trouble to co&rerse with him : he's as daf as a lot. and talks bke Le bad a moullfuL muti. . LieMues, toe way ne uaKs and pits is disgusting. Doul break tbe engagement for that ; tell bita to take Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. It will cure him com pletely. WelL I'M tell him. I do Late to break it x, tor in all otlf r reopects he's qo:te too ct-? fir f-r.n if -nr- 1 ! ' it'' r V! r if f