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' h-v'.J:..:.v.r.. :: - , . ... f ..Q--- j v. ' i " 1 11 r 11 , i $ WILSON ADVAiNCH; i ' j '4 .riiUsuED, EveuyThubs',dyat Wilson North: Oaholina. : -BY I : I i C. C. DANIELS, Editors aJ frojiritlfln WILSON ADVA SiTnsruirTibjs Uatesih Advance "LET AL.L. THE EMDS TIIOO AIM'ST AT, BE TD COUNTRY'S, TUT GOD'S, AMD TKUTIIS'. ......X One Veftr. ...... I- , too 10 Oaw Ib.Ot Inmrruai... m HE " IBBW ADVANCE. y - : . : : 1 ! ! I 1 -V- , 1 Ch Mont 1 -1 rWMortey can no num. u j jv"w -YrXJ Lotuir t our risk, .v ..,...Tirloro Street, la the Old Post. ,,,H, unilJuitf. I, VOLUME 17.-- tTT.T. A "R P'R TRTTTCT? and Drought me material, and JUDGE JAMES E. SHEPHERD. jJXUiJ niter awnllA t.h vatar Viniran tr ww r Ml V MWfcWH WW rise on ine, and got higher till The Durham Tobacco Plant Sug- it wen( over the dam. IS BUDGET OF COMMON SENSE, A Utile Vain Humbles the Most stiiS'-Xerked of the ttaee. it was WIT AND uen a&out noon, and the hot sun was blistering down, and tne coia spring water was chill ing me upy and I begun to feel age and infirmity ; so' I took a bath myself, and put on dry clothes ard retired to rest from my labors. That evening I gests '.Him for a Supreme Judge. i Court WILSON, NORTH CABOLINA, NOVEMBER 10, 1887. LOCKED BRACELET. NUMBER--!!. :o:- The Plant baa no favontg in the ordinary acceptation of that word. but .always tries to recognize and applaud merit. Judge Shepherd has just completed a two. weekb' : term of court in Durham, and the -HE CONSTANCY OF THEIR DEVOTION. 'All the wo "Id's a stage,' as Mr". Shakespeare says, and all the men and women merely travelers! It is a mighty big ri-tage, or, course in- fact, an omnibus, ; for it carries, us all, and we are traveling atorig and cettina in and gettihgut all along the V ie, r id ever ari anon stopping by the wayside 10 nurse our sick aiiiti uury . our dead. There M nothing else that nuts c 1 the brakes as we move down the bit? road on the journey of life, btckness and death are a veto upon all pro gress, and "uponi plans', and schemes, and hopes; and ambi tion, and fame, arid fashion, and folly We sulfer awhile and stop awhile, Dut if we don't die we get in the stage again and move on with the crowd Sickness knocks np a man and humbles him quicker than any thing else- Just let the pitiles angel of pain come along sud denly and seize him by some vital part and twist him around a time or two and shake him up and he will know better what the word terture means when he reads it in a book. I thought J was a strong man and tough, and so the angel had had no terrors for me. I've had the toothache aud inasnea my listened to the shouts of happy P11 desires to say .that his bear- cniiaren as tneys frolicked in m8.UUJUUUItl3a-' u, i""'f" practice all bear witness to the fact that he is ail excuent judge one of the best on the bench. He po- At Last They are Joined in the ' l ast Sweet Emhrace'.of a. Sleep , That Knows no Waking, the pool, and I rejoiced, for it always mates me happy to see tnem nappy. The next day I dident get up well, and as I was a knockin' around in ' my garden, a hoi din' np my back, shore enough, without any warnin,' the nnfeelin' angel of pain come along suddenly and snapped me up by the left kid ney like he wanted to wrestle, and took all underholt, and he spun me around with snch a jerk I almost lost any breath with agony and he pummeled me and humped me all the way to the house,' and threw me on the bed while I hollered. I was quite a big girl, uearly 12 years old, when my father decided to retire from businesa in sstw sesses, according to our ideas, the York, and settle down foi the rest exact qualifications for a Supreme court judge and the Plant knows no gentleman in the State, whoae elevation to the ; Supreme , court bench would be greeted with" more genuine satisfaction by the bar. The writer, before mounting the tripod, had the honor to practice before Judge Shepherd and can say without reservation that he is a most excellent lawyer, patient, painstaking, industrious, courteous", careful and clear. It will . be re membered that at the next election an amendment to the Constitution What in the world is the matt-1 increasing the number of Supreme V unir mv I court judges to five will be ivoted wife. Mrs. Arp. says she to me. aPn and the children : all gathered round and thought I was snake bit. 'I've got a tumble pain round here sasy 1 : 'turrible, tumble. Oh, Lordy !' They filled up the stove in a hnrry, and brought water ; and ' they gave me camphor, and pare goric, and one thing or another ; but I got worse, and groaned and grunted amazingly, for I tell you I was a sufferin'. "I expected it I I .expected it !' pays Airs. Arp, as j she moved round lively. 'I just knew some trouble would come from all that dam business of yesterday.' got how and that at the same time two genMenien will be put before the people for the places to be filled if the amendment is adopted. . Why not nominate Judge James E. Shepherd for one of the places T Many people m Durham would gladly second the nomination. Durham Tobacco Plant. i The Advance knows the above to be true. There is no better Judge on the bench than Judge Shepherd. The people of Basfern Carolina would hail the elevation of Judge Shephefd to the Supreme Court Bench with unusual) pleas ure. ' -Freight Bates. "Why, papa," I said, "what a pretty bracelet! Yau ought to have given it to me years ago," He smiled, as he said : "It will not come off, dear. Ypu must bury it with me." A K,.f i.a ; r. J"-viixiwiiiitii,u she opened the lit- r r " r V s Utte"lJ me to my bide, say- js fyrty-ttve years, Myrtle, l;, ttt51i o rnurh'ir a n rl ornt. around lively with a greens 7'7mu " f tQ,. it roaa lout of orderT don't know over I Wot the sting of it and --for every thing they give me f n i rmmhrrt thfi inke. But come up before it I waB down ; thfire are some thines without "f" DW . - . anv n,V t.h.t won't It mne aQ(1 t water and pain- yo i forget 'em, ana wnen, tney come and go they i leave you humbled and hacked and meek as a lamb with his legs tied. They take away your pride, and your brag and your starch and stikening. They strip you of flowers and.frills'a-nd, thread lace.and jewelry and " leave a poor mortal like a dependent beggar for the charity Of nealtn, good health. - 'If 'I was only well again,' the poor, victim fihs. Oh, if I was: only well again.' I ' . When a man gets along to my age he lorgets that he is ofi the down grade ; that he la ' like a second-hand wagon patched up and painted and sold at auction to the highest bidder. It will run mighty well oh a smooth road .aid a light load and a careful driver, but it won't do to lock wheel with another, or run into a gully, or over stumps, or up td the . hubs in the' low grounds. A man is very much iiikjj a. wagon, anyhow, for his shoulders and .hips are: the axle-trees and his I arms and leys are the ) wheels aud tho wagon-body is his body and the coupling-pole is his, spine and the hounds are his! kidneys--his reins, as the Scriptures call 'em and they brace up every thing and hold ud the tongue and the coupling-pole, and if the hounds are neak and rick ety the hind wheelsi don't track with the fore wheels, and the whole concern moves along with a hitch and a jerk and a double wabble, 'lie tryeth the men,' killer, and morphine, and mag num bonum and everything in the house, but nothing: would stick, and at last the pain just ors are making a survey from Scot SAILE0ADSI1TPITT.. Railroad Talk in That Good Old County. " j. A. Pitt county correspondent writes the Wilmington Messenger as tallows : 1 . ' The people of 1 Pitt are again hopeful that a railroad will be built tO Greenville. A party of sufvey- reins of the children of for that was the test of a man. If the kidneys were sound and well ordered the man was right before the Lord, for in them were supposed to be centered the affections and passions and emotions of a man. Those bid time philosophers attached a good deal of importance to the kidneys, but I thought it was a superstition of their ignorance, , and I, never -cared, much about my kidneys, t in fact, I didn't care whether I had any kidneys or not, for 1 was a thinking what Judge Underwood told me a long time ago about tne spleen, which he said only was put there to make men splen etic and cross, and keep 'em from getting overjoyful in this 'subloonary world, j I thought that maybe the kidneys were like, the liver of a rnan over in California, which was crushed (out oi him in a mine some fifty years ago, wbjen he was '.about fifty years old, but he 1 " ' f G " 1 v, uuu Jie is a hundred year's old and pot a hair turned grey, nor a Winkle come, nor his eyes nun, uur ui3.ieeiu uuiue jout, and 1 he keeps well and Vound and plumb and actice, Vnd goes to balls, and never has an ache or a pain, and it's all hecause his liver Is gone. Jes.so. ' ' . ;. I Well, you see T , ed to build a dam branch down in lelt as suddenly as it came on, ana 1 went to sleep, liut my system was. all out of order, the machinery wouldent work no where. . The cold sweat poured from me all night, . and I dreamed I was away off in a wet prairie, lying down in the cold grass, hiding from a herd of buffaloes, and )l woke up with a shaking ague and had to have my night-clothes changed and dried off like a race horse. The morning brought another attack still worse than the first, but the good DryKirkpatrick came in time and put me on morphine and ' spirits of nitre, a hot bath; and shortened up: the time, and- told me my trouble was in the kidneys, and what was going on, and when he left me I was easy and meek aud i humble, and,; could look around upon wife and children like nobody was a sinner but me. When I yas awake I could look up at the old whitewash that was peeling off from the ceiling and s e all sorts of pic tures I never saw before. They took shapes innumerable, for there were monkeys, and cam els, and bears and buzzards, land tnrtlesj and big- injuns, and little Frenchmtn, and old witches, and anacondas and other menagerie animals all out of shape, and funny and fantas tic ; and while I was asleep I dreamed ridiculous dreams, and the quinine that 'was in me made me to hear waterfalls and mill-dams, and once I imagined the dam I had I built had grown and swelled until Ni agara was but a circumstance compared to it. But alas, there is no rest for the picked, for although I had escaped for a day -and night, and was bank ing upon bright hopes and re turning i health, the unfeeling land Neck in the direction of Green ville. The road ia already located to Hobgood's fork in Martin coun ty. Some think the intention is to run a road -to Washington i via ItoberBonville, and thence to New berne. , ! .4 A party has bought large timber options in t itt, and It is said that it is contemplated to build ,. a rail road from Jamesville on the Roan oke to Greenville. 1 It is doubtful whether either will be built, but it is certain tLat a railroad will be built from Hamilton on the ; Roan oke to Tarboro. It is already grad ed within nix miles of Tarboro, and tne cars running more than thir teen miles from Hamilton. . The principal object of the road is to tarry iogs to flitches large ssw mill of his life in his native village, Mill ville. He had left there while quite a young man not thirty and re lumed" an pld one,, over seventy, but possessing large wealth. . We had a number of servants, a housekeeper, Mrs, Shippeu, aud my' governess, Miss Colton. During a ramble through the vil lage, I slipped upon a 6mall rolling stone and sprained my ankle badly. I lay sobbing with pain, faint and unable to rise, when a sweet; low voice, very near me sa'd : "Are you hurt, dea.T' and I saw leaning over a gate 1 ear me a wo man, whose face caused me a sick shnddereven in the muNt of my pain. She was otd, for she wore a cap over bands of gray hair, and yet her eyes;were large and bright. But her whole face was drawn, lined and puckered by fire scars, many livid, many blood red. It was like a hideous mask, but I had been taught courtesy, and" I quietly said: "1 have hurt- my Toot and can't got up.", In a moment tie gate and came mg: Dou't try to get up, but pat your arms round my neck and I will lift you into the house." She carried me to a sofa into a tiny parlor, removed my boot and bathed my swollen ankle. "Jennie shall 'go for a doctor," she said, "and I will tell her tost jp and let your mama know where you are. You must tell me your name, tor 1 go out so seldom 1 do not know the little girls.'' uMy name is Myrtle Cresson,and I live in the white house at the foot of this street," I said ; "but I have no mama, only papa and Miss Col ton, my governesB." "Myrtle Cresson!' she said in a low voice, lingering over the name. 'Then your papa is Henry Cresson, who has not been here longl" "Yes, ma'am! j We used to live in New York until last summer." She looked at me earnestly, even lovingly, and presently said: "And was yonr mamma named "Oh. no; I was christened Myrtle for an old friead of papa's.'? So began my acquaintance with Misa. Smith, tLe dearest best friend of my life, whose terrible face be came to me as pleasant to look upon as if it had been beautiful, af ter I loved it. For tw weary weeks I lay helpless in her cottage, papa coming every day to see me, but did I feel all the romance of youth stirred by - the pitiful story, but I knew that my dear old friend was gradually failing in health, and would probably soon be Called tway from earth. . She was not confined to the house, but she had so .e pal monary disease, and every change of atmosphere took something from her strength. " I visited her more frequently than ever, striving to repay some of the care she had lavished upon my girlhood, but all through the summer she faded visibly. It was in October thavthe quiet, happy routine of my life was brok en. My dear father, vho had nev er uroppeu no active Habits, was thrown from his horse aud danger ously injured. Oay after day he lay upon his bed, suffering intense ly, and I would not leave him. Mrs Shippeu nursed him, but I would not let any one take my piace beside him, snooting his pil low, oatuing 111s levered - utu s and face, and, when lie could listen. reading to him or talking with him. All my love was intend nd by the thought that 1 might lose him. the only parent I could remember, and 1 was jealous of every word he sioke to others. it was in one of the Ipng night watches, when he was fee from pain, but wakeful, that J noticed in some resiiess movement a narrow TbeFoor Defenseless Negro in The Hands of the Whites. Where ia John Sherman ? A telegram from Pickens couuty, S. C, gives the particulars of an other Southern outrage. Now. let John Sherman foam and abuse the way the negroe are treated by the white people of the South. The telegram says r A few nights since, a itegro fami ly living on the plantation or Geo. W. Cox, locked their sick child in their cabiu and wsnt olf to a re vival meeting, about two miles dis taut. During their absense the cabin eaaght on (ire and the tlamea were discovered by Mrs.S.llie Cox, I Durham. wnure iiusoami wan absent rrom homo. Mrs. Cox knew that the WHAT IS HAPPENING IS THE WORLD AROUND US. A cotlened report of the nttrs tu, VtUhrel from tte column of our contemjtoraries. Stale and National. Hickory has a canning factory. Work will soOn be began on the new railroad from 'l'nl. The coital stock orihe ill lie ?VjO,OO0, of which dress aroaud it. Her husband fortunatelv arrived mon the uronA band of. gold upon his arm, about J and rescued her from the flames. child was locked up, , without summoning any asM.stunc', she procured an ax, -broke open tho door, rushed into the burning cabi. in, picked n; tho helpless aud al most suffocated child and ran out with it. Bat a she reached the threshold a part of tho burning wall fwll upon her and knocked her dowu. She held close to the child. however, and shielded it from the holding a couatitutiona! conveu- nre oy wrapiunz a nart of heriuon. lue call was lor TLe peanut croo bas boon great ly damaged by wet weather, it U reported. The circus is billed for Raleigh and other poiuts. Wonder if it will come this way. Ric hmond Pearson U to build an 880,000 dwelling bouse at Ashe vile, wo see it stated. Delaware voted on the question halfway between the wrist and el bow. The brave woniau saved the child. out incurred sucu severe burns she is not exacted to live. An endowment of ?13,000 ban has been raised to endow a Luthu rian College, the newspapers say. The Raleigh News-Observer le ports partridges more plentiful in that section than for maoy years. A 6ilk factory is to be establifihrd at Wades boro, through the efforts The ibopIe of North Carolina are of 6tate Immigration Agent. Jolin . ... .1 m V r ... very deeply lutercsteu in tho sub-1 J- amen and none more so than those of Charlotte. -l . . . ' I v rLAj 1'iui u LO a j ui aiuiv v .uc iW oracceu ana iu compaa- every railroad town in the Stat?. 7 u ,wyMU a"u l,JO i"rowu Here is one instance, taken from into the river. It was put upon ,he Newberue Journal. A mer- vi tt m "i.;uuc uauiwia, my m- cbaut Gf Newberue received from -mm, rnu,iv9 01 cteruat oon- ,,m v. n . a fw ilavo crrt MAUvy. 1 nau OOUgnC tU6 tWO lor llftrrel ofmmnn olac nirwj fl. 1 at Hamilton, but largequantities of torbidding lessons until 1 could ruu freight are already beiug carried about again. to Hamilton, thence shipped by . My self-appointed nnrse was all steamers to Ralfcimore and Norfoik. kindness., fine was m 11 cited cir- The merchants at Robersonville, a station on the Williamston and Tarboro road, are hauling their cot ton to Ha-nilton and ship by the boats. The freight on a bale of cotton from Robersonville to Nor folk is $1. 80 by tho railroad, and only about 90 cts from ' Hamilton. Some of the large farmers ! in the iiorthern part of Pitt are hauling tlieir cotton across the railroad at Robersonville to Hamilton and ship from the latter place because the freight is so much cheaper than it 1.4 by the railroad. The Winter is Coming. angel came along: again, and seeing me recovering from the fight, began on me with a sec ond assault, and beat tip my left kidney again till it was al! in a. jelly and as sore and sensi tive as a carbunclei While he was beating me I seemed to hear him say, You .didn't know you had kidneys,! did you ? How many do yon think you have now ?' 'About a dozen,' said I ; 'eight or ten anyhow, and they are as big and as heavy as Bhot bags.? The fact is that my left side was so sore and I was eo nervous that it al most gave me a spasm to think of anybody touching me there with a stick. Bub i the torture all of a sudden left me, as sud denly as it came, and the breath, good and free, coula get way once more. But nofw I think I am all safe, and Jlichard is himself again. Good nursing and the doctor's skill and pa tience has got the wagon in m. 11 Jii f i a . r had promis ""1," nrrnqq thn I k-UAUIVi win uinn.o tueuua wmi ...mn, my Kianeys ana treaty on A couple ot negroes applied to 'Sqnire Araier to be, married last Monday. They bad a license, but had no money with which ;to pay ihe 'squire He at first refused to unite them. They insisted they had no money. They begged hard and long, and proclaimed j loudly their love for each other. The tender hearted 'squire finally buc combed and married them j in the following style : 1 "William Martin, do' you love this woman, and do you take her to be your lawful and wedded wife?" Answer: "Yes, boss." Amanda Best, do you love this man, aud do you take him' to be your lawful and wedded husband!" Answerett by a grunt. ! i "Then by the authority vested in me by the laws of the State of Ken tucky I pronounce you husband and wife, and may the Lord ! bless you and keep yon from freezing this winter, as you have nothing to lire on but love." -.1 It 100k about tweenty seconds. Richmond (Ky.) Climax. Who Shall it Be?'. An interesting question now is, who is to be chairman of our Dem ocratic State Executive Committee! And it is a ery important ques tion. We need a man like John S. Barbour. The leader of a great campaign ought to be a man of nerve and skill and prudence. Any sort of a man won't do. . A great deal depends upon the answer to the above question. Ashe boro Courier. . . : - i enmstances, owning her little cot tage and having a small income, but everything about her proved that she was forced to practice strict economy. She seldom left her home, excepting for a walk af ter dusk, shrinking from displaying her poor, disfigured face to curious eyes. But I was always a welcome vis itor. And one day we had talked of love and lovers, when' I asked her if sho had ever loved. r "Yes, Mi . tie," 6he said, gently. 'I loved once, and my love never wandered from his first affection.: In time the devotion of youth calm ed down to a quiet friendship ; but to-day if the man I loved needed my life I would give it to him. We were young when we were engaged my lover twenty-five, I about eighteen. I was not call Smith then, for, I lived with my step-father, and the people around us gave me his name. My lover was ambi tions, fretting against tho tedious routine of village life, and finally persuaded his father to allow him to go to New York, where a rela tive offered him a situation in his business. "Still he was faithful to me, writ ing often and holding by his en gagement. Twice he came home ty make a visit, and we bad hours of happiness, for our love was strong and trne. But one night, when only my step-father and my self were in our cottage, it caught fire, the flames gaining great head way before we awakened. - I woke first, and in trying to save my step father, was very terribly "burned. For weeks ' I lay unconscious and helpless, and when I was restored to comparative ' health my step father had been dead nearly a month, and I wore this hideous face and had my left arm burned till it Was shrunken and useless for life. Then I wrote to my dear love and freed him, and before he could receive the letter I was on my way a gift of bethothal, and when mine was clasped and locked I took the tiny kej to fasten the one claspeJ upon Myrtle's arm. My dear little love j now sweet tier lace was as she looked np at me, promising to wear my girt till death." "Did she die, papa !" I asked. "No, darling. Circumstances sep arated us, aud I never saw her after that day. I lived a lonely life tor ner sake, for many long years, bur I loved your mother, and she knew the story of my locked brace lets when she married me. Yet, auer sue uiea, 1 tried once again to find Myrtle Carpenter, but 111 vain. She must be old, perhaps has been dead for years. 1 know nothing of her." I examined the bracelet with all lrl's interest. It was a baud of gold, chased iu a pretty design, wuu u:e woru "uonstaucy" upon a scion surrounded by leaves aud it rn 1 m - w uowers. xue tiny Kcy-uole was delicately chased, and heid tine clasp firmly. While I was looking at the pret ty device, papa fell asleep, and I, weary with watching, dozed, too, in my ciiair. liut the wakin? was the beginning of long days of fear. aud each one touk from us the hope we bad cherished of my father s re covery. It was tho eighth day of such wareiuug, wnen every bope was gone, aud we only looked for the end, when Miss Smith came into tne room just before the night watch. . "I have been here every day,' she said, in a low voice, '-but I would not have you called dorn siairs. j.o-nignc you must let me share your watch'" "You you know '' I said. "1 know, dear, that probably b' lure morning mere win ue a re leased spirit, and the peaceful end of all suffering for you, dear father. The doctor tells me tb?ro will be no more pain." "W ill he be conscious? Oh," I cneo, -ue uas not Known me tor a week. Will he speak to mo to night t" Mlariirxr txn n-ifuwit fll - Tt freight on which was $1.33 per bar rel. Tho freight on the same from Baltimore, nearly three times the distance, would have been twentv cents per barrel. This is what ham pers our North Caroliua industries and prevents them lroxi expanding ana arawing trade. So tar b Charlotte is concerned a great deal ol cotton has been vithdrawn from our market oa this .account. The ran road receipts are not near so large now as they were some years ago. Wbereiu is the temedy f It is witi tho people. They must unite aud look to their interests in encouraging those of other pla.1 to bring the prospective railroads to Gbarloito. Charlotte Chronicle. Jennie Lind, the Sweedish Night ingale, is dead. She was a wonder- lul singer and did great good with uer money. The Greensboro Patriot am a is.. 000 pounds of dried berries were shipped from thaLplacj in one day by one firm. Durham is to have a court bomte in keeping with that progressive place. The corner stone U to be laid this month.. m. o. aierwortu, a seaman. I was dtowned, while on the lookout, . , ;,7 near Pamlico Po:-it ShoaU. ravh tl. 1 ' . The Carolina Central railroad line is being overhauled from end to end. Statesville, it Reenia, M to have a new cotton factory, aa a joint Hock company is now ix-ing formed to secure the establishment ol that enterprise company wi S -o.OOO was raist-d la a preliminary canvas. The Progressive Farmer sayn the rejortoi Agriculture of tbe Stale for tho year has been issued, and sbowi a very good average. TLe gnH 3 arc as follows as to Av erage production : Cotton. bQ 12: corn 0t 3 S, tobacco ,32 11: nrtt potatoes 0t. . lion. S. W. Barringer, Coniuii. eiou Tor orth Carolina, ba rc qnested Mr. B. Cameron to aid biin in procariug facts, eto to bo pnb- ui.ieu 13 ui-.toncal volume of Ibe p-eat eon'-titu-onal centennial or! oration at Philadelphia on the ICth 01 laj-t fceptemlier. tioie into uh body, and went out 01 iiixirs. x ;ia lamer runir mi and followed his son, dt-claong that he would kill him: but direr tlr Mopped and cailcu to bis non to help him saying "you have killed me."' The son asnisted him to the houMs and then made bis escape. Tbe Da ly New is the Dime of another paic published at Wil mington. Its editors are J. O. Hall a:rd Robert Kennedrt' Th paper is ii!:i. There are n(Jw four daily neweparvers public bed la that city hi yet tl.erc U probabljr room for mjre We wi-h the entire lot o; them sncot-j. I Mr. Walter Lewti io has one of the greAif.vio3noMti- - a the world. Iti.a ye.'.ow dominw: .e fowl, two year uM. wcibit., about six juu!, ilh t cainnl horns. I'j'h Lor:, tx'e td alxveeye on b-..t:. of ::.. !,.;,!, an.laj hq fXti-( l- rt;irt of a rA.n-4 horns. l)uli.'.:: 11-! r. We M-e 1; ht'vrd that Ihcre- are UJ.ooj Uieml ri of the Knight of L.aor ia N. r.ii Caiolina. If tbey fed to ditxiM.-il aid have the mern- lu-r fullv cciiimttitl to i.'itical s tbey touM injare He Deno- e Hmt, " Oo Jtmt 1., 1 A4 tMacxMiDta will -w r,t takA4 for exjolrmt . 1 1 "51 9. ..-.,..-. 1Z-. Tlie Republican otczus. 1 al elections are in'l.tT their vilification of JeHrtO Mr. Davis is Louurvd Southern ieople b-cau--e spotless pcTstm J character . caOM) be repretw utfd t! e.r t the struggle w hich.tcrta:sa' pily for all conven ed quarter of a century ao. vis divl nut make the fcU was tbe people 1: j ncc ' undertook to do kx 1Li i States, ms widely ax ma as with tne concurrence i f t! ardent Unionists aod V!cl; of the North, decl.ae-l U either a victim .r a ra itrj Davis. 11c Is row a tusn, lse -our.-ic i rc. and w ho bas only a jn;t ,t evt in bis tonntry. Would it not U? mr" not to fy chivalrous in ih ic editors to permit tins old age to end in prate 1:.:' to use its expincg d;ijs ! tbe Cresof ncxtingni:'! al bate for the hake vf g few Ttrtfl from Ibe ijacrar: untbiniogl New o:z Washington Gazette. icpaity 1.0 lutle their vote wou',.i il.nvwt turn the balanca snd There are 125 acres in the Tokay I h-avo the white unu'e party out. iueya.ru. at t avettevi le. The T.v t He was a Lawyer. In tit-, supreme Court of one of the Western counties of the State recently, an action was leing tried to set aside a deed made by a de ceased grantor, uon tho ground that he was lusanu at the time be executed the deed. The widow of the deceased, a very intelligent and modest lady, was a witness. She testi tied to tho fact that her husband in his latter years h.-came a monomaniac upon the Rti!jn:t of religiou, ttought of and talked of nothing else; be believed that it was bis his duty to give away all bis property and live by lailu, Daring the examination the was asked by the attorney if her hus band was religions in his younger days. She very earnestly and emphatically answered : "Oh ! no, uot at ail. Ho was a lawyer !oncord Times. ineyard, at Favctteville. Tho To kay is a well kept vineyard we cau testify, for we've visited ir. Rev. Chas. S. Farris is no longer connected with the Biblical Record er. Brother Baily is alorle, but he is amply able to row bis own boat. The News Observer says that Mr. Crabtree captured a large tur tle on the top of a fodder stack, washed there by the reccut freshet. The valuation of proerty in Geor gia in 1861 was ?(J72,(O0,(K)0. The war came and went, and the valua tion bad falleu Ui l'Jl,00i.U00 in 18C5. Mr. E. G. II art til, the energetic and enterprising .Secretary jof the N. C. Te..cb' i Assembly, is ar ranges to have all the State 8u pt'iiDU tvU'i.: of Public Instruction of the Su'wt-m States to hold a meeting da-nig Ihu tsrssion of the Assembly at Morehead City next sunimir, ij s the Piogre&Mre Far mer. The Fa.vtt'.cvilic Observer under stands that parties have bought land near Wade'i- with the inten tioa of working a tra k farm. It is surprising with the facilities offered by the AtUutic Coast Line, that more atU-n! ion Las tioLlrati naul rwyt . ..... I 1110 oyster uwlf tbe co.ut of to this industry alt alongthe line ui ilc rouu e;wcen r ayeiievine and i.fon. the fc!ate are rapidly beins taken up. Why should not North Caroli na be a great oyster raiding tatet Wm. Garrett, a farmer of Orange county, Tell aud died shortly after wards, alter be bad driven bis load of tobacco up to a warehou in Durham. The Snow Hill Ilnterpr;e nays an attempt was made to break in the stables or Mr. Jno. W. p.Ioant Tbe purpose was, of course, to steal the ho e. The State Fertilizer IntiMctcr re ports that there Is now more hoeas eu KT.-iizcrs in ;uc atate loan er before at this mrason. This U Bigu of pios-crity In-yund question. Some counties do no, c- ton of fertiliser save that j-;.4'red at borne. est or Bantom not oue hjndied tons are tso!J, z 1 in some of the castetn counties noue Is ever so!J, observes the Wilmington Mrs songeT. ni Ye, yes, the Dcaj-rai hasoommttUsl wine t-m may commit tLer: be: tl. oever systematical v, ' t and with ma u ; :..r rampk-d tbe cca-l.tuti i i under tbeir fe-t, tsJis.'.'t jberlies of the pvr;-l. a ng the twere icl'.v : Tby have not practnv .! corruption nor ro-ruI ' for party snprctnr.cr. TLc never tUAn a Va: .s-i-r warded goveroLt-at XI VowiDgon theia f.t oUIoes. Tbey have n- c r a tcred govern ricct it :i l tbe jx-ople, but al ays 1 aloas regard to tbc:r r.-; bappine. Now that U are beglpvlnS to tla.a Nor I ma as one 01 iui-ii next election LervoUns cM tie history of tUal ::. remember weJl tn-ir ev.J wherever tbev liave.U-ld :: of power. Salisbury Vuli V. . u .s a:-.:. From tbe day wttn Le into office- Sir. Ovi-!lJ U opular with the bulk of '.. party. 1 Lis aba '.... fint- determination to act i.u i j I judgment, bis feaili-sti. complete imtuuniiy fro-i . caj-tured the hearts of t'.i- racy and rrveU'd it to u r.i trusty ifpreNCuU'ite of Dr? ic opinion and i.:jo;-:j c of act km. The re bt ur ktinclive feeling 0! cJif.J Lim, and f rpct ei?ead bis manly iddrjH-tideticA , ai freling baa oonlittued l' gui in di'lb and In k'.ic'.lj Ot leans SUtef Dem. s. r 1 . t 1 TheElcrlTruth. An Ancient Citizen,! thicket and .makei a bathini? Peace with-the angel, and the tjooI for the chiiniin . r, D . treaty Is that I am to build no few days ago,T weit at it with more dams during, life, if I a will ana got my timbers across ana my Doards nailed on. manung up ine stream, to a rock bottom, and then I put on pome old boots and old clothes ! and went to chinkin' up the feaks with turf and gravel and ivillow bhish and sand baes. have Jto. wade in the water to do - ' Bin. Aep. Tbe New York Graphic has been sold to a syndicate add will contin ue to be published in the interest Capitai- of the Democratic nartv. na as last . as I stopped one J Uts of New York and Philadelphia o.k another broke but : but I made the purchase. FrantA.Barr, ducts of the Old North State to be Another native of North Carolina comes to the front from jMonroe county, Ind. His name is Riley Smith, He is 7 feet 6 J .inches tall, and wears a No. 1 7 shoe that will bold a quarter of a peck of corn. Once a year be orders a pair o and have very broad heeisi They arei 16 inches long. He was born in this State, went to Ind. ana in 160, is Torty-nve years old, is mar ried and is tbe father . of two chil dren. Verily are none of the pro- to Baltimore to my graudmothe.'s, where I lived twenty years. But when she died, and left me money enough for my simple wants, I came back to my old home, bearing my true .name, and few here know I was born in Millville. That is my love story, Mrytle, a simple one enough, but like many another, a a record of life long pain, hidden under daily duty." "But.'? I asked, "your lovei t What became of hi mT" "He became wealthy and" mar ried well. I hope most sincerely that his life has been bappy as well as prosperous." " , "Did you ever see him again!" ('I have seen him, but we met as strangers.''- 7 - . It was a sad story, and I, loving her as I did, thought her lover to be pitied for . ber self-sacrifice. What mattered a scarred face when there was so noble a heart beneath thenraskf And, if her left hand was weak, her right hand was rea- you must rest now, and let me watch." "I cannot rest," I said, "and you ought to be nursed yourself." For looking into her face, I was shocked to see bow dreadfully she had changed in the trying time that I bad been shut 'up in my father's room. "To-morrow I will ret," sho said, geutly. "But you will need your Btrength. i If you .will lie down here, upon the sofa, I promise to call you if your father wakes or moves." "You promise! " 'Yes, dear, if there is any change.' So, unconscious of how unfit I was to bear added sorrow, I lay dowu aud tdept souudly in sheer exhaustion. When I wakened it was dawn, anu tne gray ngnc was creeping in to tne room, x Tightened at my long sleep, 1 hastened to the bed side. juy iainer was ueaa, and ujon his lips rested the sweetest smile I had ever seen there. Close beside him, her head a little thrown back upou the easy-cbair, was my dear old frieud, sleeping that last, long sleep that knows no waking, while thrown across my father's breast was her arm, bared to the elbow, ana gleaming upon it tne compan ion to nis locked bracelet. The uomiuee for Governor must have more recommendations tl an a full pocket or a glib tongue. He must have ability, character, aud a vigorous constitution, with enough personal magnetism and prudence to attract men to him. He must not be one who proposes to use the party to reward bis little iliqne of sycophauts. We shall need the best aud ablest man we can get. Our candidate must expect to work himself, and work effectively. He must not rely upon the labor of others. But let ns be patient. There is plenty of time. Zealots and Rat-heads may ruin their friends and ruiu the party besides. Put on brakes; you are going too fast. Rockingham Rocket.. A Touching t:ry. The New York Commercial gives a toucuing narrative tnac snows the woi sc of men 6t 111 have tender spots in their hearts and that the milk of human kindness bas not all soured or dried np. A prisoner at Newark, iu jail for murder, was found to grow weaker daily. It was discovered at last that be was starving himself to provide f ol for bis wife and children, who had no other means of snpoort. On learning the fact the warden dou- b'ed tbe ratios, and took rurtrcr ! steps to keep tbe family of the pris oner from utter destitution. We do uot believe that any man is en tirely bad that he iias no good 8 park that may uot be kindled. Per School P-crpces. "What is "Woman's Worth?" asked a fair damsel of a crusty old bachelor. He did not know, so she said: "W.O. man" (double you, O man), liut a . woman feels worth little if disease bas invaded ber system and is daily sapping ber strength. For all female weakness es, Dr. R. V. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" stands unrivaled. It cures the complaint and builds up the system. Send 10 cents in stamps for pampnlet to World's Dispensary -Medical Association, UG3 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y. " The cost of punislng and repress ing the crime that whiskey pro duces falls upou the State. Ihe support of the paupers which it makes, does tbe same, luen why uot give to thestateTevenne which arises from the whiskey traffic. It is not just for the national govern ment to get the profits while the state and counties foot the bill. Clinton Caucasian. John Hodely, a silk weaver, liv- in Hebron. Conn shot and killed his wife and then set fire to the house. His two children were burn ed to death. Bill Williams, a negro, shot and killed Mr. Luke RukscII, who, with apossee of citizen, had gone toar rest btm at bis home in Craven county, for cotton stealing. WU lianis escaped. In tbe month of October there were no less than nine steamships destroyed altogether or partly go, in American iwrts, that were load ed with cotton. A tournament and ball will be given at Rocky Mount on tbe 10th Friday week -we see it ktateL ll-en thing that tends to draw a crowd will help tbe Fair. Tbe man who escaped from tbe officers at Four Oaks, on tbe Short Cat, was recaptured, says the Sraitbfield Herald. His leg was bit when fired at by tbe officers. Mr. W. U. Wichard,of Pactolas township, Pitt county, we see from the Greenvtlle Reflector, recently captured and killed a wild bog on big j place, which weighed 171 pounds Tbe last issue of tbe Green vtUa Reflector has a timely article on bad rords. Tbe need for better roads all over North Carolina mast be apparent to tLe most superficial observer. Jose Guttereiz, major domo of Loaquade ranch, in San Pedro Co., N. Mr was killed by cowboys, and a party often armed Mexicans have gone to tbe scene of the murder to investigate." A young man by tbe name of James Finger attempted suicide while under arre.st at Durham. He shot himself with a pistol , abd will probably die. He is wauted at Lynchburg, Va. A Man who bad b . drink for twenty years c.:r. . w-lf ol the apiH-i:: LT'rej - j beverage eoajpoM-d of a liev. Jn 11. 1 oy, D. Ii , bas ac- j of ground quH4 '-l 1 Cfpu s rii 11 ii.eiworai;Boi lueiol flWir. lie piT a (-1. B-iM-ipIes chu'vh in Norfolk, Ya. Mmonfal of it in a Ii't. Dr. toy )-. veil known in forked fast and worked hard, J of tn Philadelphia Times, is to be laughed at. Raleigh News-Obser- j d ai waya for kindly deeds hd the children waited on me the editor.. 1 ver. 1 went home saddened. Not only Stanly Dixon, while at his w.ik near his borne seven or eight miles from Washington, says the Gazette, had his leg broken iu two places by the fall of a log which bo was caw ing from a tree. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellet." Positively Popular: Trovoke Praise; Prove Priceless; Peculiarly Prompt; Perceptibly Potent; Pro ducing Profit; Precluding Pimples and Pustules; Promoting Purity and Peace; Purchase Pi ice Petty. Pharmacists Patronizing Pierce Procure Plenty. Halifax Superior Court convenes at Halifax Monday. Diptheria is reported as Incom ing epidemic at Warrensburg, N.Y. Several schools are closed, as is also tbe Empire Spirit Company's Mill, many of tbe operatives being afllicted with tbe dread disease. Tbe ulinton Caucasian sacs Judge Boy kin lias been on the bench now one year and eleven moDtns, ana 10 mat time nas pre sided over the trial of thirty-two persons lor capital oiienceg and sentenced eleven to be banged. . The Washington Gazetts nays a colored Itoy by the name of Wm. Grist, while hauling op cotton from the fie'd on the Jar m of Mr. l.liisoo. near town, was kicked and almost killed instantly by a runaway mule, M" f 1 afternoon. oy I-. veil known In irii-ious and educational circles la North Carolina and La aVit of fncuda. i He i a mlite T..r Heel, a n.an ofi br.ni.inry a:.d !-'.'.n aUalainmU. About t o years ajM 1 e e aw red tbe Kpiscopfd r'larcti, but bas now re turned to J.U &nl lve. Raleigh State Chronicle. The G"M."ioro Argus says: Tbe Ciold-loioFur-jitarc Manufacturing Company is in eirnrt. Tbis is an induMn1 llt.it j;on.Nt-s big things for Go'ds'wro, g it i, to ome ex ttt, tL beginning of a manufac turing Interest that we firmly be lieve is to spring up in our midst.'" We hope t'.ie furniture dealers all over North Carolina will patronize tL-rn liberally. Let us all do what we can to ba;! l np home raaaafao- toric. LD. Tbe Baleigh Visitor says II. C B.i-.'..()f Lill.ngtop. Harnett coc sty, exbib:!l f-rirne of bis eeHebrated cotton, the "-.-ed of wbK-b be bas re- fus-d r bastil for, fa oar of' fir this tuorixug. Our cotton situ pier iMpifi.ed lu be out, bat those who b.jve handled a. good deal of tbe &upic, h.ir it is some of tbe best tbey have ever seen. Baily Is a col ored man ud a magi-trate in bis township, and is held in high es teem Ly lie Lite ieojJe of U coauty. What evi-:y ton needs Is rail road comiH-ti'ion. The Ciiatlotte Chronicle fays Charlotte fs the most important railroad centre in tbe State, Lt coqrate limits are pierced by n railmails. But unfortunately for CisrloUe, all of these mx roads arc ander practical ly oue rcatiiruient and the tcvn is completely battle! op. Three new roads are now proposed. First, Ja the .Roanoke & Southern, from Roanoke City, Va., via. Mockvil!c to Charlotte. Second, is tbe branch lite of C". Company from Lancas ter 10 CliarUiltc, and the third is a road Ioiti Ci"luue to San ford. drank itdo0 wUeuevrr Ihiracame on vio! tilli. 1 ITccctccTT Ac" Tbe higher tbe Lt. ger the' IkiniIo, the L- girL . Tbe Chariot le Cbr..clv Wm. N. Me roe, of I';im( buaght Notue dyiiainittt i r t ' a few weks ago, an l L.rn oands left over parked ii 1 and put it la bu rbop. . of days ago, wli'.e 1: 1 ; r-tiop wi:n another xav. t .. Uoa was ral'.l to wrr, i- .l : j in box, and on 11.;;.'- ered it was tbe b'H tj.,i ! dyo smite in it. lal.. i ger be told Lis cc-apa:.: - i r and be did tbe naue : : .:j were uot more tlaa o.e I feet from tbe Lo; 'u n a explosion occurred, bio .g thing ia tbe abopl t rs'.;; u Tbe fcbop was i'.lf;s'; a'.l kinds of touls, tr. l a . : mvdd work and ir.cotc,.:" Hons were destroy cl. piccef f tinir-er ee tLi . hundred yards by I be iTbo Oxford TorrLlij Kj-nks of tbe progresrix t ! which tbe paper s p:.l Oxford bas tbe tx-st br;;Li market ia ibe llc.t-! r'ut 2jeaflobao Im:'.w.- , i marurnotb lo!:icn .' war b.is a fcolid li.uik, j iuiw in projw-ctlve , Las a C Military oompany; boe 1 another mhmi to be conjj two or three more likely to in tbe near futon-. La four es for white and two for c- lo pie; bas a market bou-c a: 1 house ia ooarx of rt-t has a Meam Soaring 0.1".; I planing mills, and a I.trg- s lilind factory to l? f-'-:ule bas ffHir newspajtt n. The Tarboro Southerner gives the following account of a runaway in that placd: Rev. J. A. Leslie sustaiDel a inot serious and pain ful accident, lie and Mr. George B. Wright were ia a baggy going hunting. Toe dog jumping tut made Mr. Lcblie lose bis balarce and be. foil and frightened the horse wLich ran away, breaking boggy aod harness into bits. Mr. Lcrdie-J foot was cangbt and tbe bones above bis r.nkle ere b..lly broken and crusbtd. Mr. Wng,bt, though thrown, sustained no iniarr. The bo-se was cut la may places and when brought back to tUs place was in a perfect tremor. The Ahbville CilL:i gr f. .Homing particulars cl a family trsgedy fa Mai;.-. . lfiuicl Harvey was n'ah Lied by bis toa Jost ; i. ATS that tbe part.es a.l Hie same room. Tbe e.Jtr . b d be-a engaged fa a i t rd with bis wifedariLg t. noon, wbicb was r-T:cf ' tbey weLt to bed. lie i n bad goie to Lis own I!, i by the uoise f the co-.l-a gle. ros,ajlng be wo u'.J m . It Mil kiDger, WiLt to bi 1 U-U . ule, plan ge J a 1 1. 1 U J j i