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V1LM).'jU)VA.(!K The AiDVANCE. WILSON AD Yi .1 "" mllED, EVEUY. TUE SDAY AT VYii.soN. -BY- sdJ Praprieton EaTXSCF JLBTXSTl. ,'ptIOS LUTE3 IN ADVANCE 00 ilni' V. r : ..'." 1 0 uix Monln - .. i.n at'n l ur rauuvi - - "LET AL.lt THE ENDS.TII01T AUTI'ST AT, BE Til IT COUHTHr'8, THY GOD'S, AND TRUTHS." ET.rYJ ltu-r f.our risk ;;,FIl.K-l-.,ft.ro ftreot. minding. In tfce Old Poat VOLUME 17.-- ed on tip to and as P neared T t tvci t TmrnxnT) ea on up BIL-Ij iUUT Q JUAUA AixLuithe door I Bald hello" with is jitter rsrr to It lXTOX, GEORGIA. swore he was going to wnip him. He approached with hos tile demonstrations, but I the drummer stepred back and WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, DECEMBER: 22, 1887. CARISTMAS TREE. NUMBER-47 9a!aaV.O Inmon Tajwa Mwm. 1 Bfata " Um T I", ml in tit ics of The Old Town. Ill, Experience in Getting riim: The Di fferent Places Jle l i sited onHhe Trip. great emphasis. I don't think I ever felt more relieved than I did just then to hear the wel come voice of a man saying, tones, and laying his hand upon "What you do - want and who 1 his heart, said : "My frent, you are you," "I am Bill Arp," said should not strike ime. 'Bevare 1, "and I want to stay all night, how you excitejme. I have I said it like I meant business heart disease very pad and: am and I did. I would lave slaved liable to drop down dead any if I had been ordered off with a moment if. you excite me. i My shotgun. But! found a kind physician tell me dot de Blight- welcome ana a sroOd ; bed. ana est shock to my system win cautioned him in supplicating 3iEMORIES CALLED VP TO THE MIND OF DICKENS, The Different Presents Recall to . . . . tlis Fancy tlie Measures init tie Indulaeil in at Wffereni Ages. I , I had a call to Irwinton. I honored tho call and i t honored irit for those are gqpd people there. It is not so large a town as Chicago, but it has no an archy, and everything looks calm and serene. It is one of those old-fashioned towns that is off the railroad, and they don't care it it is, so they have the' courthouse and the jail and can hear the sheriff call, twice a .year. I like such places. I like their "otium cum dig," though they don't dig alarmingly much. ,'L" like the open .welcome of .their store piazzas where the lawyers and doctors and preach tr meet to discuss affairs, pub lic and private, and tell anecr dotes and whittle on leoft pine and hold down the' chairs that used to have split bottoms, biit now have rawhide with all the hair worn off except f the sub . urbsl I like the slow and meas ured dignity with which thesjj lopls come and go and move about the town. There is no- ' body tired when night comes. NoDody stoop shouldered from overwork. Nobody's shoes worn out at the toes. When thOr merchant wants I to go to dinner he can shut up and go and lose notrade by, it, for the kind .hearted customers; will -wait till he comes back. The lawyer can go . fishing1 and the doctor attend to his farm. The jail door stands open all the year round and the sheriff has a hungry look for lack of busi ness. This must be the place where the poet lived when he wrote ''Man wants little here below." There is neither fash ion nor folly here, but there is good, h Micst, old fashioned so- ciety and good old 'fashioned schools and lots of .children, all' born in lawful wedlock and from whom may come preach ers and judges and; senators, and maybe a governor or presi dent who knows?? Georgia has never had a president ana it will be her time before long. Great men move to cities, but they are not born and raised there. Cities breed shrewdness. The country and the unpretend ing towns give leisure for re flection, and in leisure there is wisdom. '. 1 There is one thing ! about Ir winton that is peculiar, A stranger can't slip up on the town in the night. I tried. It. .They wrote me to get off at McEntires, and so !l got off about midnight and looked around'for light, but there was my feelings beat thanksgiving day a long ways, if or I don't like any. such dogone business of a dark night - whether the dog be gone 6r notTi The morn ing brought light and a good breakfast and a friend from Ir winton who was expecting me on the morning train. Sandersville is a nice town, a lively prosperous town, an old town with a fresh new boom on. The people - have beautiful homes and Hhe front yards abound with flowers and ever greens.. The stores are filled with goods and lair women go in . and out and spend their money free. It is a lovely sight to see arlovely woman go into a lovely dry goods -store . with a well filled purse. But when she is buying on tier ? husband's credit and he is living on a strain it is not quite, so lovely. Sandersville has railroads and can come and got when she pleases. I think she is a little jealous of Tennille, but still they -pass and repass. One has the great Central railroad and the other the courthouse, and so are pretty equally balanced. Sandersville boasts; of. her an tiquity and the noble men who have lived and died there, and ol some who still live. ' Uncle Evan Howell used to live there, and I met members of his ar tillery company who- fought and bled with him in the frozen mountains of West Virginia and make me to fall, down fdead, and den you feel so pad, so very pad about dot eh ?" -i This plea, and his agonizing lock, so alarmed the man that he refrained and took his satis faction in language. - I Last year, this drummer -was indicted for indulging in a pleasant little game of poker in his room at the hotel. He went home and wrote-the solicitor one of the most . touching and pathetic letters that ever was penned. He plead for mercy and forgiveness, for the sake of his dear little darling wife the trusting, innocent, angel who would be utterly heartbroken, were she to hear of his misfor tune. The solicitor said i he never read a more affecting letter, and so he wrote him back some kind words and good advice, and lots of sympathy and told him to send ten dol lars and the case should j. be stricken, part for the sake; of that little angel wife. Of course he sent the money, and the case was dismissed, and not - long after' the solicitor learned that he did not have any wife at all nor ever had. "Ah he is smart," said he, "and as clever as he is smart. Everybody in this coun try knows him and everybody likes him' J Well, Dublin is a pretty wet town, but it is a good town for business, and is growing rapid ly. It is. the terminus of the I have been looking on, this of they confirmed the sufferings I Wriflrhtville and Dublin rail- and perils of that awful cam- road a new road that is doing paign-tnat 1 nave so oiten neara Evan relate and was a little shaky about until now. "It must be so," said 1,1 "it must be so, for out of the-i mouths of many witnesses is the truth es tablished." . That solitary otter that they slipped up on and killed on that ice-bound island when they had consumed their last ration and - had eaten the strings out of their shoes, was really a fact an4 otter and saved their lives",, and ihey otter they otte. It Wok a wonderful amount of alimentary silica to survive that expedition, but they did, and there is some sand left yet. - At Dublin I found court in session . and a hotel full of drummers and other guests.' I never mingled wish a livelier set. They told yarns and fwapp ed lies and exchanged wit until near midnight. One 'of the guests was artificially hilarious and sarcastic, and asked a He brew, drummer what business he Was a runnin'. 1 "My frent," said he, "I am de sheneral wonders for that region. Bill A nr. SLATES! OP DEBT. : Oai that Our Farmers Could, to lievei from it ' HU makes as feel Bee a strong, able up bound under a sad when we bodied man lien and mort- uo light. I expected a hack or agent for de great North Ameri a. mati uoy, or 1 uougnt mere was a hotel with the lamp burn ing in tho hall, but there was nothing but darkness, utter darkness, and that- darkness was cold, very cold. I saw a man moving off and hailed him. "Vhere is the hotel, my friend?" said I. "There ain't none about here," said he. "Where do folks atop who get off here ?" said I. "They don't git off tho night train," said he, "and if they do they take it afoot to Irwinton like I'm ywine to do" and he started off. " II old pn my friend," said I, '.'don't somebddy live about here ?".-Yes,'' said he, ' the depot agent lives away up yander on that hill, but he won't take any body in ypu needn't go there." "Has he got a biting dog?" said I. "I think he has," f aid he, and away he went. I saw the shadowy road and the dim outline of a house, and seizing my grip sacki I started up the steep ascent;, ' but not with alacrity ; nor was I alto gether calm and serene. I was thinking about that dog a big yaller stump tail dog and the nearer I got, the more I thought : about that dog. I stopped and listened. Then I creeped cau tiously towards the front gate and listened again. There was a tree cloeo by a small tree with limbs low down, - and I ttood by that tree, for I "felt like it was a friend. Soon I Hjiied another tree, a little near , er, and I made for it' with alac rity, and reconoitered again. I lave not climbed a tree in ten years, but T felt like I hadn't lost the lick. I stood tnere waning Ior lLat dog and won dering where he would bite me una, but he didn't come nor maiie any caninn shm T Tront my kuife open as a last resort, "J"! bea P lively. I ;;ftr. mJ rat as an experi ment, but Ht U nn, AX T clotou,; were h gh-high as a staircase 7,r V"!" a basement i a ouuueu 1 eaid ''hello" not loud, but loud enough for a dog if there was one. T iwu mm to come buleimr every moment-bulging dowS those steps, or from under that bouse, and I kept fast hold of imu bo as 10 pun myself P in emergency but still there was no sound. noW o with faith and desperation I made for the steps and ascend- can Epitaph and Burial assoei ation. I am canvassing dis country for members and .vill take anypody who : is liable to die some time or udder. Yen a man shoins our komp'ny his pones vill not pleach upon de hills nor moulder in de valleys. Our komp'ny perries all dere dead and writes dere epitaphs. Ve keeps epitaphs on hand shoost like ve keeps coffins. Yen you die we perry you low In de ground vere de dogs can not scratch you up nor de doc tors exhume you for a skeleton. If A. T Stuart had pelong to our kompany it would, have saved his wife twenty-five thousand dollars. Nc madder vere you die veddei on de Shimborazo mountains or in de dark valley 01 . Jenosapnat ve perry you. And den we writes such pooti f ul epitaphs dat make you feel as goot after you pe dead. : A nav Known men to read over our list of epitaphs and den go off and commit suicide shoost to get one of dem on dere tomb stone. Say, my frent, shall I put your name down? it is only one dollar." 1 1 1 The next morning the hilari ous gentlemen came down to breakfast with the usual reac tion.' His subdued appearance excited the drummer's pro- fouudest sympathy. "Goot morning my - frent," said he, "you does not seem so veil dis morning as you vas last night. It is de vet wedder I tink. Dis is a very vet town and de damp ness does not agree wit you. venyou voKe up dis morning vas de room going round and round ?" s The victim smiled a sicklv smile and nodded assent. "Veil my frent," said the drummer, ' "dat vas. all imagination de room vas not going round and round at all dis house is solid very solid. I vas vet myself one time and know shoost how it is, and so I tell you it vas not going round and round. Vas you ever so vet before like you vas last night ?" , The kind, loving sympathy of the drummer was irresistible. It was impossible to smother our rislbles, but the poor vic tim couldn't stand it. He left me room xor some iresn air or some more wet ' and we lost him. ' This same drummer managed somehow to offend a man about town, end the man gage, toiling on, year after year, like a galley slave at the oar, toil ing againbt overwhelming odd, when be should know, as others do, that there is do possible chance for him to get his head above water. A easy were it for a men to ford the Atlantic Ocean with a ' mill stone tied around his neck, as tor a man once down, c nee overwhelmed with an old debt, to recover from his embsrrassme nt by cultivating the poor soil of Auson county so long as he bays 8uppl.es at time prices. We can see the evil, jbut we cannot poibt the remedy. fWe only know there is no chance! for the poor farmer. We can only, tell him what we would do were we in his place, We would surrender all and go to work for wages nntil we could get enough ahead to bay a few acres of land, aud cultivate! one crop, witboat asking for help. This may no ba a remedy, it may loot suit every man's case, but it is what we would do, aDd we would come out solid." Wadosboro Intel ligencer. - THE P Put the Convi JBLIC EOADS- cts to Work pn Them. The prisoners at the work house are doing good work on the county roads. If the work is properly managed, the roads iu Durham county will be as level and solid as plank road, iu ten years. Durham isecorder. And so it ought to bo in every coauty in the-State, If the con victs were put on our public roads, the taxpayers would in some inea sure be compensated for the money they spend in keeping up the sys tem, and we would have better roads. Suppose the 1200 convicts were divided into squads of fifty tbis would give that number to 21 ooauties. Fifty convicts at work under proper management in a county ought to improve the roads greatly in a year. The taxpayers and thiukmg men of the State are beginning to look into .this import ant matter. Progressive Farmer. evenins. at a merry company children assembled round that pret ty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The' tree was planted in thejniddle of a great round table, and towered high above their headi. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers ; and every wuere 6paikled aud glittered witi bright objects. There were rosy-cheeked dolls, hiding behind the green leaves; there were real watches (with movable haudd, at least, aud an endless capacity of beiDg wound up) dangling irom innumerable twigs -, there were French polished tables, chairs, bedsteads, ward robes, eight day clocks, and various other articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made, in tin, at Wol verhampton) perched amoug the boughs, as u in preparation ior some fairy house-keeping ; there were jolly, broad-faced little ben, much more agreeable in anpearauce than many real men and no won der, ior their heads took off, and snowed them to be full of sugar plums; there were fiddles and drums ; there were tambourines, books, work-boxes,, painl-boxes, sweetmeat-boxes, peep-show-boxes, alt kinds of boxes ; there were trin kets for the elder girls far brighter thau any grown up gold and jewels; there were baskets and pincush ions in all devices ; there were guns, swords; and banners ; there were witches standing iu enchant ed rings pf pasteboard, to tell for tunes; there were teetotums. huin miug-tops, needle-cases, pen-wipers, smelling-bottles, conversation- cards, bouquet-holders ; real fruit, made artificially dazziing witn goiu leaf, imitation apples, pears and walnuts, crammed with surprises; in short as a pretty child, before me, delightedly whispered to an other pretty child, her bosom friend, . "Tbere was everything and more." This motly collection of odd objects clustering on the tree like magic fruit, aud flashing back the bright looks directed towards it from every side some of the diamond-eyes admiring it were hardly on a level with the table, and a few were languishing in tim id wonder on the bosoms of pretty mothers, aunts, and nurses made a lively realization of the fancies of childhood; and set me thinking bow all the trees that grow aud all the things that come into existence on the earth, have their wild adorn ments at that well-remembered time. Being now at home again, and alone, the only person In the house awake, my thoughts are drawn back, by a fascination which I - do not care to resist, to my own clnld.-. hood, I begin to consider, what do we all remember best upon the branches of the Christmas Treu of our own young Christmas daye, by which we climbed to real life. Straight, in the muddle of the room, cramped in th freedom of its growth by no encircling walls or socn reached ceiling, a shadowy tree arises; and, lookiag up into the dreamy brigbtnecs of it.s top for I observe, in this tree the sin gular Drooertv that it appears to grow dowuward toward the earth I look into my youngest Christmas recollections! ' All toys at first, I find. Up yon der among the green holly and red berries, is the Tumbler with his" hands iu his pockets, who wouldn't ho down, but whenever he was put unon the floor, persisted in rolling his fat body about, nntil he rolled himself still, and brought those lobster-eyes of his to bear npon me when I affected to laugh very mucnr but m my heart of hearts was ex tremely doubtful of him. Close be- ide him is that internal enuu-box. out of which there sprang" a de- inoniacal Counsellor in a black gown, with an obnoxious head of bair. and a red cloth mouth, wide Ditto Tor "Wilson. We have time and again spoken or what was needed in our icity; now we win venture to suggest a few things- that we think are not needed. We do not need any more storehouses; we do not need any more dwelling nouses; nor de we believe that we need any more merchants.. It does seem to us that any surplus money any of our citizens have might be spent to bet ter advantages in many other ,ways than in these things we suggest that are not wanted. Guldsboro Aigus. :x It Would Be Fearful If Edison perfects his phono graph the young men of the com ing generation won't dare to go courting Sunday night for fear that one of the instruments may be con cealed in the parlor. It would be difficult to overcome the evidence of (he phonograph in a breach of promise case. Boston Post. ! , Th9 Tariff EerneL St. John, although a Prohibition ist, struck the true Democratic chord when he asked : Why is there a high tariff, on the ; black smith's hammer and free trade for his mnscle f Burlington Gazette. open, who was not to be endured on any terms, bntconld not be put away eitter; tor he used Buddeuiy, in a highly magnified state-.', to fly out of Mammoth Snuffboxes iu dreams, when least expected. Nof- ia the frog with cobblers wax on his tail, far off; for there ' was no knowing where he wouldn't jump; and when he flew over the - candle, and came npon one's hand with that spotted backred on a green ground he was horrible. The card-board lady in a blue-silk skirt, who was stood up against the can dlestick to dance, and whom 1 see on the same branch, was milder, and was beautiful ; but I can't say as much for the larger card-board bo hnng against the wall and pulled by a string ; there was a sinister expression in that nose of his; and when ho got bis legs round his neck (which he very often did), ho was ghastly, and not a creature to be aloue with. When did that dreadful Mask first Icok at me T Who put it on. and why was 1 so frightened that the sight of it is an era in ny life f It is not a hideous visage in itself; it is even meant to ba - droll ; why then were its stolid ieatures so in tolerable f Surely not because it bid the wearer's face. An 1 pron wonld have done as much ; and though I 6bould ' have preferred even the apron away, it would not have bee absolutely insupportable, like the mask? Was it the immov ability of the mask? The doll's face was immovable, but I was not afraid of her. Perhaps that fixed and set change coming over a real face, infused into my quickend heart some remote suggestion a'ad dread of the nnirersal change that is to come on every face, and make it still t NothiDg reconciled me to it. mo arummeia irom wuom pro ceeded a melancholy chirping on tie turning of; a handle; no regi ment of soldier", with a nute band, taken out of a box, and fitted, one by one upon a stiff and lazy little set of lazy-tongs ; no old woman, made of wires aud a brown-paper composition, cutting np a pie for two small children ; could give me a permanent comfort, for a long time. Nor was it any satisfaction to be shown tte Mask, and see that it was made vt paper, or to have it locked up and be assured that no one wore it. The mere recollection of that fixed face, the mere knowl edge of its existence anywhere, Whs suthcieut to awake me in the night all perspiration and horror, with, "Oh I kuw it's coming! Oh the mask r I never wondered what the dear old donkey ,,U the panniers there he is! was made of, then His hide was real to the touch, 1 recollect. And the great black horse with round red spots all over him the horse that 1 could eveu get upon I never wondered what what had brought him to that strauge condition, or thought that such a horse was not commonly peen at Newmarket. The four horses of no color, next to him, that went iuto tbe wagou of cheese, and oouM be taken out and stabled un der the piano, appear to have bits of fnr-tippet for. their tails, and other bits for taeir ma nee, aud to stand on pegs instead of legs, but it was uot so whea they were brought home for a Christmas pres ent. They jwere all right, then ; neither was tueir harness uncere moniously nailed into their chests, &s appears to be the case now. Tbe tinkling works of the music-cart, I did find out, to pe made of qnil, toothpicks and wire ; and I always thought that little tumbler In bis shirt-sleeves, perpetually swarming up one side of a wooden frame, and coming down,, head-foremost, on the other, rather a weak-minded person though good naturcd ; but the Jacob's Ladder, next him, made' of little squares of red wood, that went flapping aud clattering over odo another, each developing a different picture, and tbe whole en livened by small bells, was a mighty tnarvt! and a reat delight. Ah ! The Doll's house! -of which I was uot proprietor, but where I visited. 1 don't admire the Houses of Parliament half eo much as that stone-fronted mansion with red glass windows, and door-steps, and a real balcony greener than 1 ev er see now, except at watering places ; and "even they afford but a poor imitation. And though it did open all at once, the entire houe front (which was a' blow, I admit, as cancelling tbe fiction of a stair case), it was but to shut it up again and I coold believe. Even open, there were three distinct rooms in it ; a sitting room and bedroom, el egantly furnished, and, best of all, a Kitchen, with uncommonly soft fire-irons, a plentiful assortment of diminutive utensils oh, the warm ing pan ! and a tin man-cook in profile, who was always going to fry two fish. What Barmecide jus tice have l done to the noble feasts wherein tho set of woodeu platters figured, each with its ou peculiar delicacy, as a ham or turkey, glued tight on to it, and garnished with something green, which 1 recollect as moss ! ' Could all tbe Temper ance Societies of these latter days, united, give me fucu a tea-drinking as 1 have had through the means of yonder little set of blue crockery, which really would hold liquid (it ran out of the small woodeu catuk. I recollect, aud tasted of matches), aud which made tea, nectar. And if the two legs of tho ineffectual lit tle sngar tongs did tumble over on another, and want purpose, like Punch's hands, what does it mat ter! And if I did ouce shriek out. as a poisoned child, aud strike the fashionable company with' conster nation, by reason of having drunk a little teaspoon, inadvertently dis eoW'ed id too hot tea, 1 was never the worse for it, except by a pow der ! Upon the naxt branches of the tree, lower down, hard by the green roller and miniature gnrdening tools, how thick the books begin to hang. Thin books, in themselves, at first, but inauy of them, and with dcliciou.sly smooth covers of bright red or green. What fat black letters to begtu with ! "A was an archer, aud shot at a frog." Of course he was. lie was an apple-pie also, and there he is ! lie was a good many things in his time, was A, aid so were most of his Iriends, except X, who had so little versatility, that I never knew him to get beyond Xerxes or Xan tippe like Y, who was always con fined to a Yacht or a Yew-tree; and Z, coudemned forever to-be a Ze bra or a Zany. But. now, the very tree itself changes, aud becomes a beau-stalk. the marvellous bean stalk up which Jack climbed to the Giant's house ! And now, those dreadfully interesting, double-head ed gianrs, wun their-duos over their shoulders, begin to (stride along the boughs in a perfect throng, dragging knights and la dies home 101 dinner by the'hair of their, heaas. Aud Jack'-how . no ble, with his sword of sharpness, and bis shoes of swiftness ! Again those old meditations come upon me as I gaze up at him; and I de bate within myself whether there was more than one Jack (which I am loath to believe possible), or only one geuuiue original Jack, who achieved all the recorded ex ploits. Good for Christmas time ia tbe ruddy color of the cloak, in which the tree making a forest of itself for-her to trip through, with her basket Little - lted ltiding-IIood comes to me one Christmas Eve to give me information of the cruelty and treachery of that dissembling Wolf who ate he,r grandmother, without makiug auy impression on his appetite, and then ate her, af ter making that ferocious joke about bis teeth. She was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Hiding-Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. But, it was not to be; and there was nothing for it bat to look out the Woir in the Noah's Ark theie, aud put him late in the procession on the table, as a monster who wts to oe degraded. Oh tbe wonderful Noah's At k! It was not found sea. worthy when put in a washing tub, and tbe animals weie crammed in at the roof, and needed to have their legs well shaken down before they could be got in, even there and then, teu to one but they be gan to tumble out at the door, which was but imperfectly fasten ed with a wire latch -but what was that agaiost it! Consider the no ble fly. a size or two smaller thau the elephant; the lady-bird, the but terfly all triumphs of art! Con sider the goose, whose feet were eo small, and w Lose balance was so indifferent, that he usually tum bled forward, and knocked down all the animal creation. Consider Noah and his family, like Idiotic tobacco-moppets ; and how the leopard ttuck to warm little Bnger; aud how the tails of the larger ani mals used gradually to resolve themsehes into frayed bits of string! IIuh! Again a forest, and somebody up tu a tree not llobin Hood, not Vuleutine, uot tbe Yel low Dwarf (I have pa&scd him and all .nother Buuch'a wondcrp, with out mention) but an Eastern King with a glittering cimcter and tur ban. By Allah! two Eastern Kings, for I nee another, looking orer his shoulder ! Down npon the grass at the tree's foot, lies the fall length of a coal-black Giant, stretch ed asleep, with bis uead in a lady's lap; and near them in a glass box, fastened with four locks of shining steel, iu which he keep the lady prisoner when he is awake. I eee the four keys at hia girdle now. The lady makes, signs to the two kiugs in tbe tree, who softly de scend, it is the scttiog-ia of tbe bright Arabian Nights. Oh, now all common things be come uncommon aud enchanted to me ! All lamps are wondet rul ; all rings are talismans. Common flower-pots are full of treasure, with a little earth scattered on the top; trees are for AIL Bba to hide in ; beefsteaks are to throw down Into the Valley of diamonds, that tbe precious etones may stick to them, aud be carried by the eagles to their nests, whence the traders, with loud cries, will scare them. Tarts are made, accordiug to tbe recipe of the Vizier's son of Bosso rab, who turned ps-ry-eook after he was set down in his drawers at the gate of Dainaecua ; cobblers aieall Mastayhas, and in the habit of sewing up people cut into four pieces, to whom they are taken bliudfold. Any iron ring let into stone is the entrance to a cave, which only waits for the magician, and tbe lit tle fire, and Hie necromancy, that will make the-earth shake. All the dates imported ome Irom the same tree as that unlucky date, with whose shell the merchant knocked out the eye of tbe genie's invisible son. All olives are or tbe stock of that fresh fruit, concerning which the Commander of the Faithful overheard tbe boy conduct the fie titious trial of tie fraudulent olive merchant; all apples are aklu to tbe apple purchased (with two oth ers) from the Saltan's gardner for three sequins, and which the tall black nave Btcle from the child. All dogs are associated with the dog, really a transformed man, wbo jumped upon the baker' counter; and put his paw on tbe piece of bad money. All rice recalls the rice which the awful lady, wbo waa a ghoul, could only peck by grains, because of her nightly feast in the burial-place. My very rocking horse there bo is, with his nostrils turned completely inside out, indic ative of Blood ! bhould have a peg in his neck, by virtue thereof to fly away with me, as tbe woodeu horse did with the Prince of Persia, ia the sight of bis father's Court. tfEWS OF A WEEK. W11AT JS 1IAPPESISO -V 1UE WORLD ARO VXD US, fctu4 far Uaiuvvt A conrfntel report of 1A ntr a gathered from A columns of our eontemporarU. Stat nnl -.VaffofwiZ. Raleigh expects to have an elec tric fire alarm. - Patrtdgea are reported very nu merous arouna rayettevtll. A bill to redaoe letter postage to one cent has been proposed. A little negro boy was drowned near Winston, a few day sice. - A negro cut down a tree In Ala mance county and was killed by it. Tbe Asheville Advance is now on evening instead of a morning daily. E. T. McRae is now editor or the Maxton Union. We wish him sac-cess. rr . . n . t new Doiej a 1 arcoro u drawing Northern visitor. The people from tte colder sections of oorcoantry will find fewer plea. aoter places In which to peoi meir winters man l aror.ro. v e ace it stated in tbe Fsyelte Tllle News that Mr. J. IL Benton will soon begin the publication of a newspaper at Donn, on the Short Uot. That thriving new town si-1 readj Las a good paper ia tbe Sign- ooaru. L.uxaoeui ui is 10 bare a nw aemi-wetkly newspaper, to be edl td byT. B. Berry, at f 1.00 per year. That town will then bare lour cewspapers. The Star aor- gesta that tbey probably meet tbe uemana. The Wilmington Eur bow pno liahes aa evening edition for lbs purpose of Beetle? the Carolina Csotral trains, the ecbedale on that road hating changed Tbe proba bilities are that the Messenger will ao iiKewtse. Umiogtoa bas two good daibes. Tbe Elizabeth "City Economist says James Bight a little boy was bot ia the thigh by some careless deer banters. That paper also ays little Clyde UarreH, son of Mr. J as. Harrell bad his foot and ilgTst lee erashe at tha mill nfuMiu. Kalelg bot con receipts srs larrer eell. so that it was taken off. mis year np to date than they were last. Three penitentlnrv birds return ed bo-ae to Johnson soanty in one week. Charlotte Is said central poiDt for Charlotte. to be a sort of j tramps. Poor THE 7AX2'S BESTS. Tha "Way to Gat Hid -of Taea Is to Diversify Cr:p'. We hear much about the Indebt edness of the farmers oi this coun try. The total of the farmers' in debtedness is put at two bilion dollars. This is truly a large amount. We cannot comprehend i It is more than tho national debt. But the value of our farm products every year 13 four bilion dollars. That is, every year we produce twice our total indebted ness, bucu oeiog tue case, our condition is uot desperate by long odds. Why, if we were to be very saving foroulyone year cut down our living expense.- a little and save ' fully all we produced the gain would be all we owe. Tbe farm ers of this country do a big busi ness ; they own much property ; compared with their business and property, their indebtenness is small. Nevertheless, we are ia debt too often and too much. Some go in debt for fertilizers, some for land, some for luxuries of living. Our indebtedness ought to be much less than two bilion dollars. We ought to be creditors ; yet there are twenty farmers belonging to the debtor class to every farmer belonging to the creditor class. Debt is a very bad thing. Few thiugs should make a niau more sad than to pat a mortgage upon bis home. Farmers are often scold ed for their readiness to pat their signature to papers ; and we must confess that wo are too ready to put our names to papers that are tbe evidence of debt. Southern Cultivator. Noel Hopkins has been sentenced to bo hang at Oxford on the 23rd of next month. The city conncil of Greensboro, have agreed to contract for twelve electric lights. -Eight convicts escajxd from the county stockades at Chorlotte sev eral nights ago. Mr. a W. Westbrook, well known in Wilson, has moved from Fayelte ville to Durham. The Greensboro Craftsman Knight of Labor paper has tem porarily suspended. . Mr. Richard Caldwell, speaker of the Virginia House of Bepresenta tives, is a native "Tarheel." A negro was arretted in Baletgb last week for selling whiskey con trary to the prohibition law. . I. F. G Gilford Esq., wbo lives near Aurora, Beaufort county, lot a barn bv fire valued at tCOO. Tbe Salvation Army bas been in Kinston and the Free Piss ssys iney are accomplishing good woik. Tbe Darham Tobacco Plant tajt over 1,00q bands are at work on the Durham Lynchbarg Kail-road. The Asberille Citizen ssys a bog was Ktued near mat place that flat ted 519 net and was only 28 months ! Old. Tbe Agricultural Department at Washington have the thanks of tbe AnriscE lor a report of tbe yield oTcrops per acre. Dr. Giles Christian, of Montgom ery county, committed suicide a few days ago, we see fiona tie Charlotte Hornet. Belva Lock wood will lecture tn In Bale'gb in February, we set It stated. She is a Washinrtoa law yer, and ran for President in 1SS4. Craven county will vote on tbe 2Cth pn tbe proposition of sabscrib tag ? 60,000 towards building a rail road Irom New Beine to Wilming ton. . .The information possenied by our State Superintendent of Public Instruction shows an increase in the namber of children at school in the State. The Uittsboro Home says a col ored preacher sold a lood of cotton at that place, along with the wag on and horses, and skipped with his wife's daughter. The Messrs. Fries, of Winston, the Daily states, shipped a lot of goods to China a short while since. We aro pleased to see oar home enterprises prosper so. lt Dr. Basil Manly, one of tbe professors in the Baptist Thhologi- cal Seminary at Louisville, Ivywas probably seriously assailed by foot pads, in the suburbs ot that city. .We see from last week's Fayett- villa Observer that the Cumberland county jail is without an inmate. That speaks well for tbe law-abiding people of that good old eounty. A negro was knocked on tbe bead at Gaston ia and robbed of 15. We defy anybody to rob many white saeo tossy nothing of ne groes, of that amoant around here. Two thieves attempted to eater tbe bosse and steal from Mr. T. O. Bryan, near Greenville. They were discovered and fired upon, bnt not captured, we see from the Beflector. . . John Sullivan, tbe Boston slog- rer, commaes bis Brutal tonr in Ireland. The most deosnt people Siver tbe waters" appear to take I considerable interest In this whisky- swilling boxer. Tbe wsy to become popular and noticed is to be a box er or base ball player. Charles Crilteudeo, a professions! gambler, was shot a. I killed at Greensboro, by arevrttier name4 Morgan. Tber bad Uen gambling in a bar room under ibe 11c Ad 00. ana came np 10 toe Mdewaik qaar relingT Crittenden shot at Morgan brut and lb Utter then shot bim Hirer lioif-t, Copt. Hajwr-ol CUik, e ace ft out I he Taiboro Southerner, bas res-ipneJ bn poailioa on tbe W. & W. B. 1L. to use tbe position as agent at Tarboro of tbe Hamil ton Uailroad anj Lamber Company. He wss on of tbe tnont genial. cever men 111 the etDplojuent of the U'umlugtoa & Welaon Bail roaj Cviopaoy. Ys Uh blto sao vss ia bis new eronlormtnt. We e from the Charlotte Chron icle Hat a bg cotton factory is soou to be established in that place. The iuduatml dcvrlopmeat of tbs Sute U great, aud we tops to see it continue autil svery frabric, al. most, ibat ia worn by oar people la made in our own borders, liters ia no reason why North Carolina eboold not become a great tnaoo- Uctaribg Bute as well as a great agricultural 6U!r, We rejoice to see msnufactarea established at oar doors. The Weldoa News tells of tbe pe culiar manner in which a borae was killed. It says, Satordsy night was very dark, and Mr. J. B. B!to and Eugene Davis were traveling in opposite directions on tbe same road, a few miles from Scotland neck, wten the horses collided. Tbe than of the vehicle In which Mr. Davis was riding struck Mr. Bishop's horse in tbe cnct and pen cilled so deeply that tw animal was almost instantly iCL It encourages people rocnetimes to see what other people ia tbe same line of boslneM bare dosel It Is for that purpose tbat we so often reproduce what tbe farmers of dif ferent sections have accomplished Tbe Saaford Enterprise says Jobn T. Glass and wife, near Tempting, nfade with one male, this year, 10 bales of cotton, 23 bbls of corts 42 bushels of wLetf, 15 buihelsof peas and 62 gallons cf syrup. Wbo can beat tbat farming. Go rraVtorkittf-ti, UnillarlMMaiMm 1 b rvr; mn.mm Ljr t IV Wii ta Wl r4 tin. A"4 f"r tV.UrMv ttt U-.4, ui.. 1 Wko nun th Krm rt 0a A !tt to mrm. L l l ti. ! h vt J h rx.1 H munnt tntuM wr.it. ? www l.. Aaasr.any 9 hjtT ClntnjM Ww ar r.: r rtnt, HwM lb fuTT to-r-L:! .,. HtJiTT Iwoucfcta lb. ;r p au Mr-rf i..n, irwKj.kn, f t4 i. r u.-n ,.'- r out. y pm T.. L1 ,t.t Uftei um twrt aa CUiaM U Ki "P tmr-i," Mmr . 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IT-rm.i4 t4 foinra I.:uh I JdfnMMkff 6,Vtll!, flat) tot fc-l lav.) ufw Unrbt c arbuaa tmr ' if I A Dakota newtpaprr printed tbe following a of an editorial column t Item of nets we .tnicb that oar wife is traiMin on Walnut alreet, and a or business we will al' that she says we may o board with bertfwe hi . box to bold tbe wlntei - aoa ooDiioae to carry tbe household. Of cour- carry tbs water, as l bat muscle ; bat the coal If -geriog as. This ia not i a dan, yet we feel calU say that if we bad tbe vs oa sobacrinUuas we c that box asd tins be . (jaarters for lbs winter, subscribers aboald rail tear of daalb by alarvaii lag will be obviated."' ', I 'i 1 I Ccr liberie: 3: . Belter keep yoor Lead contiouea tbe conduct Lansing train as be p&.w a coach and saw aa oil bis bead throat cut. It was slowly drawn i . owner tarsed to a man beblad aod aked: A : does it do to pot BT bet ' Too might knock so a. egrspb poles down. Ob, that's It 1 WtlU '.f so mlgkty 'fraid of a Itv keep my bead Id. Tbs on tbe railroads since tl went Into elects D Pi . v . . 'v i ; It Ozri.tr :tt:t By reading doae'y Saptrtnlendeol'a rrjfni foand tbat the white po behind the colored t average attendance, at this la-conUnncd it ts predict the reach. Lai Ichsoge. i. ZtlsSbane. .v mm . 4 . Fit Foot Pad Poor Jim's dead. Second Foot Pad So 1 beard shot through tbe heart by a gcot be t tied to rob. Yen, sir. It's sn oatrage; a bloody outrage. These ere perlice men ought to be court martialed. Wbatfert - For not enforcing the law against carrj in' cocccaled weapons. Oma ha World- John Kicbols, It arpe - tbe Republican's in W. Tbat is where be belot called independenoa it - tence. BaJeigh News ZsA en a Ti : What U tbs IUpal.U in tbe Senate t Bidd: ! not a very large one be sudcicnt when tb oot paired with John I Florida Times Union, 1 Ensi ca tla liitrx. Kdiiors ore in bsd loak. Seven girls horsewhipped an Indiana edi tor cf the Kanaaa Cay (Mo.) Times, was aassulted from tbe rear by one Ed. Ortigan, knocked down and beaten, aud robbed of bis pistol. At hew Iberia, Louisiana, J. B. Lawton, editor of tbe Enterprise, was shot ia tbe eoeat. A alsxieaa editor bas aince been cat it jail. A hot time nil round for ye men of the Fabers. Wilmington Star. Trs Cnis 's.z. President ClevtlanJ i praise of bis bittereat mies for the exbibiti coarage ia bit message 'I age ia admired no wl earth more than it is 1 1 : Butes. Aogasta Gaa .'. . ! A 4..3 awl Uostcr cf Hit Cxa Zzzzs. Coogress has open oesa. Oawlth the dan be uncon fined. -Ntw ( ynne. "tier face to fair, aa flnh It seemed not. Rut Heavenly portrait of brtirht anfrel'a hue. Clear aa the akjr. without a blame or blot, Throiik'h irtxxlljr mnjturo of complexion due. And In ber check Uw Termld rud did how. This is the poet's description of a woman whose physical system was iu a perfectly sound and healthy state, with every function acting properly, and Is the enviable condi tion of its fair patrons produced by Dr. Pierce's Favorite P.-inscription.' Any drusgist. 1 The value of the taxible prop erty in the State, durtn y - year, bas Increased about 3,0;) ;,ojj. If the property all over the State was equitably assessed the tax could be largely reduced. We note with pleasure that Col. R. B. Crecy, -editor o: the Eliza beth City Economist bas been elected president of the Elizabeth City Fair. Tbe stockholders could not have done better. We see from the Charlotte Ilor- I net that a large party of emigrants took tbe tram at th?t place for Arkansas, tbe other day. They will, in all probability find tbat "there la no place like borne." Ml O. O. Hinton, a drummer. eloped with Miss Mamie Cowell, of W ashington, and l bey were mar ried at tbe Merchants Hotel, tn tbat place. The old folk need not ob ject, for it does uot stop the young folks. - Tbis elopiog 'business is becom ing quite popular. Tbe Catbam Becord says a young man in that city by tbe name of Calvin De- rerne, eloped on last banday night with tbe C ft een-y ear-old daughter of Mr. Jobn Thomas. A note was left by Dezerne stating tbat tbey were gomg to Moore county to be married. A bnsband wbo bad incurred tbe anger of bis wife, a terrlblo virago, seeks refuge under tbe bed. "Come out of tbat, you brigand, yoa rascal. Macon At- you assassin;" screamed bis gentle '"ITv' .) companion. "No, madam," be re- M.TTrt n plied calmly. -I won't cooie cat. Meoa (Ga.) 1 I. am golsg shall do as bouse F PlohibitlOBtat The Watetloa. was a wll Telegraph. to show I please yoa that 1 la my ' own A Greeiy rri Cartel ta 2a a FLriia. Washington Irving in bis early youth bad a longing to. go to sea and be a pirate. lie determined to make tbe attempt, bnt wisely deci tied to prepare himself for it by pre liminary experiences, lie began by eating salt pork. That ma le bim sick. lie then slep for a nitht or so on baed boards. Tbat ms'le bim sore. UwastDoagh. lie bid no more desire to go away. Chica go Uerald. Ti.9 Trers TLra ef ti.i Tear. Sunset Cox Is supposed to know a great deal about Tarcey, bat be can't teach this coauty an; thing at thia sea.va of the year. An xniaat indastm: a p. o wither It, nor cujponi auJ.' i: ti. finite rapacity. jL'biL, BecrJ, Drm. a -aCl V BWU-KM aa I m. a " '" . ab h-j ius nj;ni!er V glad rv yoa ia Ra-',V BcbmJ sV last. Is tbii ,our"Y-.'! Sunday fV L' 5 How do yoaJike It f Ob, I gae&slki-n stan V it ; after tbe Christmas tm. eBBaawaaaaaaaaaaaaaiBaaaai " Ea Irs"t 2a It 7cu Lrcx. Did yoa ever see a doctor kki a bananas peel cH the s-.Jewalk. r tell an acqaaiotaoce that le w sitting in a drangLL Sornr'.o JcarnaL 0 tl