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WILSON ady; W1L son NCE jC:- rv.r-,KTET5V.TntfRSDYAT lit--. - J. ii.nniml. W 1 1-3 ' BY- ! C. Si.VMLLS. Eiitrs asl, Propmtots J. c. On'' Six n-. ,-vrlv rates in i advance ..... t 00 ......j... . 1 0 lib- 1 ., .in It' suit ny aiuucj uov at. uir risk, j I ,rc ft root, la the Old Posi -BILL AEP'S LETTER. v rn rs UO W THE CHILD- j;; v r;' CHRISTMAS. A I'i ir .a in licence of the Camp ;.'; Tin Smoked out Un- VisUorsGov. Lar ,:ul his Idiotic' Proposition -it c Miaps !: H Uiirtits Hoecrvcd by Author ri.-lmas is over at last and hi-eplaco now 'LET AL.li THE EWDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE THY COUNTKY'S, THY OOD'S, AM TKUTIIS'." VOLUME 17.-- WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 12, 1888. NUMBER-49 for the horrid business of war enough for them who had no abiding place and were 'liable at any moment to Lave to -'pick up their tents like the Arabs And silently steal away." The prophet Elisha had no more than we had for the Shun amite woman said "let us build for him a little chamber 'and set therein a bed. and a stool, and a table, tfnda candle stick.'' I reckon that was a very fine turnout in that day for it pleas ed the prophet very much so much that he wanted to do some great thing for the wo man, and said, "Thou hast been very earful for me what shall I do for thee ?" I wonder how many prophets would be con tent with such furniture now. Sometimes unwelcome visi tors would stay too long and keep U3 up when we wanted to po to bed. On such occasions, Tip the faithful Tip--would pht an old sack on 'a pole and lay it over the top ot the chim ney and smoke us out. The FUL STORY. tors would abuse our chimney I and be forced to retire. Then 1 1, : Mcn'mud vm hilt the it of the fire crackers. Those vo;iil !?np one ' or tha : grate, every and then just; to :nmn and -hear the inaterna auoester threaten and scold. No mora crackers now for a year, N'o romau candlM nor rockets nor llz m rjL L'J kerosine fireballs t v.r.i . around. The show is ... . Tii.t P1.Tiitinia trflft was ' ' ,., i' -, v-'l ' of its nrettv tent would get full to suffoca i'.m'. 's aud has been removed, tion, and our unwelcome ,visi- It .vas'a pretty tree with its 1 i 1 J..1,-. ! n ii A i fa ArAlin Sloans and its freight of dolls Tip would remove the sack and and toys I and pretty books. Everybody got something nice .'and was happy. I got a nice 'silk" can to cover toy defense loss head and 1,'m happy too i-o it is all right and no loss on oar side. It cost some money for Christmas in its last analy sis in the paternal pocketbook, but it is no losis the happiness is worth the n.oney. ! "Two tigers -hvVt this inorn iti2." I was looking over the leaves ot an old diary jone that I kept daring the war, and that crpa the memorandum made lust twenty-six years ago tUers shot this morning." , It was at Ceaterville, not far from Manasse. General Joe Johns t..ii'o ai-aiy was iu winter quar- there, and the .winter was IN THE IRON MILLS. geIBfew .T ror"OT spent hewing and hacking with his .:0: , . Dlant Kuiie, uever mreaMUR, his watch came agaiu, working at A TOUCHING AND JiEAUTI-1 oue figure for months, and wheD it was tiuished, breaking, it to pieces herhans. iu a fit of disappointment. ,Amorbid, gloomy man, untaught, unled, leit to teea uis soui iu gi-.- ness ana crime, ami uaiu, ynuw"o labory Iwantjou to come down and look at this Wolfe, standing there among the lowest of his kind, ana Ron him iast as he is. that you may judge him justly when you see ttie ! story of this nigut. l want joa i look back, a.4,Ue does every day, at his birth in vice, his starve.l miau cy ; to rememoer tue ueaj he has gropea tUroug;i as iwv,iu man, toe kiow, ueaj )--- constant, hot wor!. So long ago ; he began, that be tuinks eomeuuivs he has wortea mere n i There is no hone that it will ever an,1 Think that God DUt lllto A Well Written Picture of Life in the Iron MiUs.Tlie Strivings of a Divinely Talented Spirit to Escape from a Life of Slavtry. This Story was besrun January oth. Miserable enough she looked ing there, on the ashea thft tfint be all ritrht atrain in a little while.. That, was Tip's secret,, and we never told on him. I do hope they will not have a war In Europe. Ho w pitiless it is for. us to discuss the effect of such a war npon our trade our business, our cotton and wheat and bacon and beef jus! as though the war would be all right If we prospered by it. No account taken of wounds and deaths aud broken hearts and the crushing grief of mothers and1 children made widows and "Two orphans and nothing left but poverty. Surely, surely, tnere is no necessity for nations to go to war any more. But it does look like the devil gets lose 'sometimes and the best of us feel like a little fight ing would be a relief. Now, who can hslp getting mad when a "cold and bitter, one, and- the days .were . lon-g and weary. fri...... i? ' i .j 'i fAmnfnv: from ' rallfid the Timers and i Governor I Larrabee, of Iowa, p.tuifl thrtm wftll. for iells the reporter that all Va-t --.-.' n sf'i 1 (" nnt.5l.Tri ftfl and surDlu3 of sixty millioQ3 in the treasurv. outrht to' be divided Thftv out among tne states inat were .V top.ttIoqq. Thfi not in the rebellion. "Theouth flr-t V, o ttia of Mannassess had is hot entitled to a dollar of it, given tiieiii a taste for fighting said he Oh, my country Here we nave been paying tna .fc Kur.iiiooa-d.id nnf tnension monev for nortnern n ;n, i;0tn nt ail and soldiers for twenty-two years ti,asr ofHr-oM fmnfl it imnoBs- and have never complained ible to restrain them, or keep Our conquerers taxed our cotton i i,i ..iiitorr rtiseinlinft. lust alter . me war They ransacked the naborhood from na thirty million dollars . . i i .!. mUf. Ion that account, and their own ed many outrages" upon the rights of person and property. OiVoue occasion two of . them rested arrest and struck their ; oiliters. and a regular mutiny i'eiued imiiending. inis state u-ith -A,f so thev were over powered aud a cuurtmartial ordur"3 once by General 'loLnston. " Their crime, was oiaiaitted one evening. They .Voce triod next day arid con yict'id and condemned, and the -next morning were shot. Blind- i -i t i i . 1 11 v.. M A ioiuea ana luieeimg, iuey iaueu the minme rifles and the fatxl Lulleta without a mur nvA or a prayer.' Twelve men lired at each, but only six of the guns were loaded, and not a man of the twelve knew wheth er tlw?re was a ball in his gun or not. They are not allowed to know, for the truns are load ed by others so that no one man could say that lie had killed his comrade. , speedy justice that. How unlike '.our-, civil tribunals, where weeks and months and years elapse before even a mur derer is at tlie.end of his rope. What a contrast. These men . were shot, not for a murder or any outrageous crime, but for striking a man. This was p-irt of the war very small pai t and excited only a passing not ice. 'What a blessing is pe'ace. What a -slavery- is war. How. many heartaches there were, for home and kindred during . that long winter when snow and j ' sleet was our daily visitor. Shut up in our little tents it was a constant effort to keep, warm tliat is to keep a healthy" equilibrium, for it was too warm inside asi l too cold without. The beit jwe could do was to scorch one tide and then scorch the otlierl, and ever aud anon go out and tramp around to stir up the blood, ii it we -had com- l'auy, lotfi ol it, tor the soldiers w-re toci'able and letters from home wore, common property, and the hews went round the camp fires as soon as it arrived. 1 never. think of that winter with its Ijoiig lingering days and its lrfck o comforts, but what I am gratet'ul for present liberty and iieacle. and the -endearine :ne. We had a little t twtlve feet . square, s for four. A little built of turf that we l in MLiuares and nicelv iuivriii joints one upon ana a little flrenlace its for andirons and a piece of !au old waon tire for a'u arch.-l With such a chimnev consequential, tents had We had upon the courts have decided it an illegal exaction, and yet they won nav it back. I Notwithstanding the decision of their highes tribunal, we' are about as far off of e-ettins that money back .the French are from getting thoi opolxation bill. . Thpre 13 no greater rascal than - a gov ernment about paying moral obligations. The doctrine is that might makes ight. TFhat does Governor Larrabee keep on hating us for ? He smites us on one cheek and and let him smite us received other, and still he is not happy. ly- like a limp, dirtv rae vet not an unfitting fig nre to crown the scene of hopeless discomfort and veiled crime; more fittin if one looked deeper into the heart of things. at her thwarted woman's form, her colorless life, her stunor that smothered pain and huueer. even more fit to be a typo of her class. Deeper yet if one could look!; was there nothing worth reiwlingk in this we", iaueu thine, half covered with, ashes! no srorv of a soul filled with groping, nassionate- love, heroic unselfish- fw ioalousVT of years of wearv trvinc to please the one hu man beiug whom she loved, to sraiu oue look of real heart-k.nu ness fiom him 1 It anything like this were hidden beaeath the pale. bleared eves, aud diill, washed-out looking face, no one had;ever taken l,ha trouble to read its faint signs: not the ualt-clotuea iurpace-tenuer, Wolfe, certainly. Yet he was kmu tb her : it was his nature to be kind. eveD to the very rats that swarmed iu the cellar : kind to her in just the sane way. She knew that. And it migut oe tnai very knowledge had given to her face its apathy and vacancy 'more than her low, torpid lite. Une sees mat dead- vacant look steal sometimes over the rarest no est of women's faces, in the very midst, it may be. of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess ai me se cret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces and brilliant smite. There was no warmth, no brilliancy, uo summer for this woman : so the -stupor and vaeancv had time to gnaw into her c . ... .11.- Utwi ....... tinntirr iace pej neiuaiij . uuc j it ; so tue gnawing was the. fiercer.- She lay quiet in tne aarK corner, listening, through tue monotonous din and uncertain glare of the works, to the dull plash ot the ram in the far distance, --shrinking back whenever the mauAV olfe hap pened to look towards her. She know, in spite of all his, kindness, that there was that in ner iace ana form which made1 him : loathe the sight of her. She felt by. instinct, although she could not comprehend it, the finer nature of the man, which made him among his fellow workman somethins unique, Bet apart., She knew, tnat-j-down un der all the vileuess and coarseness of his life, there waa a groping pas sion for whatever was beautnui and rmre. that his soul sickened with disgust at her deformity, even when his words were kindest. Through this dull consciousness, which never left her, came like stinsr. the recollections of the dark and lithe figare of the little Irish girl she lett a in tne cei lar. The recollection struck througn even her stupid intellect with a vi vid glow of beauty and of grace, liit- rhia m;iti's HOul a fieiCii. tLUl I-r beauty, to know it. to create it : to be Homethiug he knows not what, other thau he :s. lUore are moments when a passinfjchmvl, the sun glinting oa the purple, this tles, a, kindly smile, a child's face, will rouse nim to a passion oi v uu i when his nature starts up wiUia mad cry of rage against liod, inait, whoever jit is that has forced this vile, slimy life upon him. With all this gropiug, tuis ma.i ues.ii', a great blind intellect stumbling through j wrong, a loving poet's heart, the man was uy naoit oniy a coarse, vulgar laborer, familiar with sights aud words you wouiu blush to name. Be jusf. when I tell you about this nighr, see him as lie is. lie just, not lite man s law, which seizes on one insolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad e.e saw ail "the countless cankeriug days of this man's life, all the countless nights. when, sick with starving, his soul faiuted in him, lwlore it judged, him for this this night, the s.r'.dcnl of-all. I called this uight t'hf. crisis of Lis life.- If it ws, it loie on him unawares. Thee gret turning, days of lite cast no shailnw bi-!oie. slip by uocousciomly. Only a ti i lie, a little turn of 1 h l uddt-r, and thM hip goes to heaven or hell. Wolfe, while DuburAii wntvihed im, daii into the furnace of malt ing iron with his pole, dully thiuk- only how many rl!s the lu;ip would yield. It ws Ute, nearly Stjnday morning; another hour, and tne heavy work would oe done, ronly the furnaces to replenish and cover lor the next aar. x ne workmen were growing more noiy, shouting, as they had to do, to be heard over the deep clamior ot the mills. Suddenly they grew less boisterous, at the far eud, entire ly silent. Something unusual naa hannaned. After a moment, the r , their votas, Kirby f " 'Control t 2Jo." The young man smiled complacently. "But my father brought seven hundred votes to the polls for .his candidate last November. No force-work you understand, only a speech or two, a hint to form themselves into a society, and a bit of red and blue bunting, to make them a fhg. The Invincible Houghs, I believe that is th.ir name. 1 forget the motto : 'Oar country's hope.' I think.-' There was a la ugh. The youug man talking to Kirby sat wit an amused iigut in his cool gray eye, surveying critically the holf-clotbed figures of the puddlers, and the hlotf swing of their brawny mus cles, lie was a Btrauger iu the city, spending a t'uple of months in the borders of a Slave State, to study the institution of the South, a brother-in-law of Kirby 's, Mitchell, lie was an amateur g , muiist, hence his anatomical eye ' a patron, iu ablate way, of the prize-ring; a man who sucked lise essence out of a scieuce or phil osophy iu au indifferent, getitlv taat ly .wav ; who took Kant, Nov alis, Humboldt, for what they were wort'., in his own scales ; accepting all, despising nothing, in heaven, earth, or hell, but ano idead men ; wu'i a tei:uer yielding aud Dril-li.ut- as summer waUr, until his S. If was touched, when u was ice, though brilliant ktill. uch men nre not r ire in the Spates. .s he knocked the ashes from cigir, Wolfe caught with a quick pleasure the cntour of the white ham the blood-glow or red ring he wore. His roicc, too, and that ot Kirby' touched hira like niuic, low, ewu, with chording cadences. A!wut this man Mitchell hung the I'Dpaip ib'A, atiiiosiln-re belonging to tiiO tlioi'oug'.ibred gentleman. WollV, scraping away the siMies bi-MiIe hiin, was cuii.cious of it, dul olviiinee to it with his arti.st seuse, unconscious that .he did so. Tue tain did not cease. Clarke aud the reporter left the mill; the other, comfortably seatd jiear the furuace, lingered, muokiug and talking in a desultory way. (Ireek would not have been niyre unintel ligible to the furnaV-tvuder wh.ise pic8er.ee was soon forgotten' tirely. K rby divw out n-iewspper UiMii his pocket and read , aloud clutching : the peculiar action of a man dying of thirst." They have nmp'e facilities for studying anatomy," Fiieered Kir by, glancing at thj half naked figures. 'Look," continued the Doctor, 4:at this bony wrist, and the strain ed biuews of the iustep ! A work ing woman, the very type of her class." "God forbid I" muttered Mitch ell. Wilt!' onmmoti.UI f - l(Uliuf doe the fellow intend by the Cg ure I 1 cannot catch the meauing." "Ask him," said the other, dry ly. "Thcro lie stands, pointiug to Wolfe, who htood ith a group of men, leaning o;i his a- h-rak. The Docior ln--koied him with the afTab!e Mnile which kind-hearted nuMi put on, when talking to these peep'e. 'Mr. M teht-U h is picked vol out a the man who did this,-. I'm sure I dou't kn why. l'.ut v. hat did you mean y it f "81ie tie hungry." II:w it Esallesthe mrcs:taPe:;'.3 to Idro tha C:li Verier. NEWS OF A WEEK Wolfe's eyes .-.ns-vered Mitchtl'., no, the Doctor. "0;i-h ! Hut what a mistake you have trade, my fine, fellow! Vou have given n hij.ii if starvation to the liodv. It is btng terribly strong, it h is t'ie mad, half-de- sjiairing gestipe of drowning." ollo btaiu;uen uoced ap- pealingly a! MiicLill, who caw the SJUlolthe thing, he knew. But the cool, probing eve were turned on himselt now. .notViing, cruel, relentless, 'Not huiigty for meat the fur nace tender said at last. What then I iiinkey I jeer- ek Kirby, with a co-use l.iuzu. Wolfe was s 1 tit a moment thlnkiug. 1 dunuo." he Kid. wilh a wildcrd look, ,'lt mebbe. Sum-' mat to make her live. 1 think, like you, Whiskev nil do i,iua wav." The young tuiii l.iugt.ed again. Mitcoeli Ua-hed a biok of disgust somewlieie, not at Wolfe. Mav, he broke out impatiently, 'are you blind f Look ai that wo- mau's face ! Il ak , juetuin of God, and s -.' '1 have a right to knr.w.' Good (lo'l, how hungry it is ! wo turn lie aue, tiiuiu, uciuicoo, iu.u, on thf to Hugh as ner oniy irienu : mat I wonder if he would take that sixty millions and not give us a cent.. I want to see him. I wish he would send me his photograph. I would like to have a phrenologist examine his head. There is something wrong about that man. If he was a Christian gentleman or 'a respectable Jew he would say "Oh, well, 'those people down Bouth thought they were right and they are just as patriotic as we are, and they, have suttered enough, and now let us all tote fair and divide. Let us pay that cotton tax out of that money the first thing, and let us begin now to pension their soldiers just like, we pension ours. In fact, we Ought to pay them something for their slaves If we paid for 1iers set free and Gladstone, that great and good man, got three hundred thousand dollars for his and our southern brethren are just as good as Gladstone." That is the way he would talk if he Tiacf a ereatlbitr heart. I tell you there is obligedjto be met in another world - just to make things square if nothing else. Larrabee has got to feel mean sooner or later. I would Tike to hear St. Peter interview him when he knocks at the gate Poor Larrabee. Pitiful. Larra bee. I wouldn't swap places with (T"i be continued.) was the sharo thought,' the bitter thought, that diove into the glazed eyes a nerce ngm oi pain. iuu laugh at it " Are pain and jealousy less savage realities down here in this place I am taking you to tnan in vour own house or; your own heart. your heart, which they clutch at sometimes ! The note is the same, I fancy, bo : the octav high or low. : If von could go into this mill where Deborah lay, ami drag out from the hearts of these men the terrible tragedy of their lives, tak ing it as a symptom of : the disease of their class, lo ghost llorror would terrify you more. A reality of soul starvation, oi Irving death, that meets you every day under the besotted faces oa the street I can paint nothing of this, only give yon the outside outlines of a night, a crisis tin tue me oione man: whatever muddy, depth of soul-history lies beneath you can -r-, a- I UUUI-UIOIUI A COU1Q. . iMigiana r . aonTAina to the eves God has wneu iubv were ;rAtl r,m joys of b 'lent aboi. with co chimney spaded ii laid in L another With l'Oi Wolfe, while Deborah watched him as a spaniel its master, bent over the furnace with his iron pole, unconscious of her scrutiny, only stopping ;o receive orders. Physi cally, isature had promised the mau but litUe. lie had aireaay lo3t the strength and mstiuct vigor of a man, his muscles were thin, his nerves weak, his lace (a meek, woman's lace) haggard, yellow with consumption. In the mill he was known as one of the girl-men : "Molly Wolfe" was his sobriquet. He was never seen in tne cockpit, did not own a terrier, . drank but seldom ; when he did, desperately silence came nearer; the men stop ped their jeers aud diuuktn cho ruses. Deborah, stupidiy lilting up her head, saw the cause of the quiet. A. group ol Uve or six men were slowly approaching, stopping to examine each furnace as taey came, visitors on en came io wi the mills after night : except by growing less coisy, the men took no notice, ol them, lue iuruncc where Wolfe worked was near the bounds of the works; they halted there hot and tired : a walk over one of these great foundeiies is no trifling task. The woman dt awing out of sight, turned over to sleep. WTolf, seeing them stop, suddenly routed from his indifferent ftupor, watched them keenly. He knew some of them : the overseer, Clarke a son of Kirby, one of the mill owners, and a Doctor May oue of the, town-nhvsicians. The other two were strangers. Wolfe came closer. lie seized eagerly every chaucc that brought him iuto con tact with this mysterious class that shone down on him perpetually with the glamour o( auother oider of beiug. What made the differ ence between them! That was the mystery of hi life. He had a vague notion that perhaps to-night he could hud It out. Oue oi the ki rangers sat -down on a pile of brick?, aud beckoned voting K vny to his .side. 'This is hot, with a venge luce. A match, please I lighting Ms cigar. "Liut the wait is wouu tue trouble. If it were not that you must hae heard it yoolten, Kirby, I wonld tell vou that your worts look like Dante's Inferno-'' Kirby laughed. "Yes. Yonder is Farinata him self iu the burning tomb," point ing to some figure in the shimmer ing shadows. "Judging from some of the f ices of your men," s lid the other. ' they bid fair to try the reality of Dante's vision, some day." Young Kirby looked curiously around, as if seeing the faces of bis bands for the first time. "They're bad enough, that's true. A desperate set, 1 fancy. En, Clarke!'- Mime aiticle, which they lis used eagerly. At every sentence, Wolfe listened moie aud more l;eu dumb, hopeless animal, w ith a did- ! r. mole stolid look creeping over his face, glancing now and then at Mitchell, marking acutely every smallest sign of rehnement, then back to himself, seeing as in a mir ror his lilthy body, his more stained soul. Ntvor! He had no wprds for such a thought, hut he kuew now, in ai' the sharpness of the bitter certainty, that between them there was a great gulf never to be pass ed. ever! The b,ell of the mills rang for midnight, buuday morning had dawned, w hatever hidden mes sage lay in the lolling ueiis noateu uat these men unknown. Yet it wastheie. Veiled in the solemn '.i.-l W-..J 2yn7 Ar5i:i all ti3 music usheiing the risen Saviour was a key-note to solve the Uai Kest secrets ot a world, gone wrong,--even this t-ocial riddle which the brain of the grimy puddler grap pled with madly to-night The men liegau to withdraw the metal from tht caldrons. The nulls were deseited on Sundays, escepi. by the hands who fed the fires, aud those, who had no lo.:ging-j aud slept us'ualiy on the ash-heaps. The three rangers .sat still during the next hour. watchiug them covet the furnaces, laughing now aud then at some jest ol Kit by'. ' Do voir know," said Mitchell ' 1 like this view of the work bet ter thau when the glare was fiercest! These heavy shadows and the ami) hitheatre ol smothered nres ue gohstly, uureil. One could fancv. these red smouhlenug light to' bo the half shut eyes ot wild beasts, and the spectral figures their vicmns in the den. Kirb laughed. "You are J'anci ful. Come, let ns get out of the den The nectral figures, as you call tht-m, are :i little too real 'or me ;o l.'.iiCv :i elo.se proximit v in th d.ii ! , iies,--ur.-ai iued, loo." Tt c others roe, buttoiiiug their overcoats, and lighting cigar. 'llaiuii'g still," said Doctor May, 'a:;d hard Wiiere did weloiW ihecoach.-MirtTiell V At the other hide of the woiks. Kirby, what's, that !" M tchei! started back, half fright ened, as sudden'v turning a roi- Oa most lo;ig-iii!ed (arms the yearly ciop is largely dfpeudent ou tle veailv application of manure It is then lore important that the manure Lo evenly distributed; if not, the crop will be not only de ficient, but uiievenues ol ripening, of grain, will make what there is of it harder to haivcst. This is es neuially ti-:ie'f commercial man ures. which, 'winj to t!'0 mall amounts used per acre, c ;ung.t eas ilv tie dist i muted unilormly so a to cover the entire surlaca even with the diill. Ou small field with short bouts.it is generally better done, for at each turn the driller puts in a fre-h supp'y am sees that the tubes ire hoi king all right. If flic bout are. long th larmer puts iu a larger qtu nt if y whicii l more apt to clogthe tuie and csuse them to distribute un evenly. The resnlt is wni in stre..ked aivicaranco of the fiel afr.er the grain is u;, and tills con titiues until harvest. Tdoie tnan half the value of commercial fer tilizers is lost by imperfect distri bution through the diill. Sown broadcast ti.rv aie Hill more un- venlv distributed and have the further disadvantage of not Ix-Iug in contact with the seed. It is this last circumstance that make iLe drilling of commercial tu u.iue;. so widely popular. If the work is well done it give the ".rain a quick, eveu stuit. and soon pu'.s it into position to nuke it own way to a successful croi-.' Cultivator. "res," remarked the St. Paul man to a friend from Chicago as be stood arrayed in bis blanket unit and adjusted a couple of buckskin chest-protectors ; "yes, there is something about the air iu this Northwestern climate which cause a person Dot to notice the cold. It extreme dryness,!' he continued, a he drew on a couple of extra wool en socks, a pair of Scandinavian sheepskin boot and some Alaska overshoe; "It extreme drvnes make a degree of cold, reckoned by the mercury, whiclTou!d be unbearable iu o'.Uer lati'u le. ! simply exhilarating bcre. 1 haie I by suffered more with the co!d in Michigan, fir instance," he ad.Id, as he drew ou a pair ol roatskiti eggins. adjusted a double fur ciix? md tied on pome H-ouimaux car muffs in Michigan or llltnov. we will iay, with the tht rmotneter at zero or above, than 1 have here with it t frma forty-five to fifty five below." The dryness of our winter air is certainly remarkable, be went on. a be wouud a couple of rods of red woolen scarf aboat his ucck, wrap. Icd a dozen newspapers around hi body, drew on a tail cloth overcoat, a winter cloth overcoat, a light buffalo-skiu overcoat, and a heavy polar bear skin overcoat. No. if you have never en jojed oar gloti oas Mmnesata wiuter rlimate, with its ury Atmosphere, it .bnebt iutv.. i-hine and iavigoratiug, roue, jou would Mjam-ly b. beve'some things I could tell jou about it. The si;r is o dry," he continued, a he ad justed hi leather nose tuctvetor. diew on his rtiudeer-hkia muteus nil cirefully closed one rye-bole in the seal-kiu mask he drew loo from his ca; ''it i io dry that nc tuall.v it serins next to im:MUt.Jt' to let-l the Cld at ll. A ii. scrc !y realize la the upriug Ih it e, have ha l winter, owing lo the xtreui" Urynes of the atow.s- phere.77 l!y the wav," be contii Utd, turning to hi wife, '-just bring kiv ;l couple of bu-ikets and Iho bel qtult and throw over my fliuuld- is, and hand i:e that muff with he hot iMi.ip sti e i:i it. and uow 11 take a pull at the jag of brand v and whale and then if Ju have the gid I'nng my mio hhr and icelnrg wmI ng stick. I'd tdep over and S4e tne-o prv the wotk- men off iht top of the ice palace who were fiozt-n on yesterday. I tell yoa we wouldn't be going out tui wav. five mile further otith. here the uir i damp and chili v. Nothing but our dry air make it IMissible." . WliAT IS HAPPENING IX 2 HE WOULD AKOVXD VS. A condfHet r.-porl of the nrtrt a fathemt from thr trfumn tf our conitittporurieM, &tat atui National. " " (D. HwHi " " Tttr M'-n.l Oc v Uhrrsl DtMnanti r- l C Th.9 1't-ri Ttzs. z V. CsTKprriczt. t:.' J. W. Denuaik, of lUleicb, La faded. A deaf and dumb mm ra kuled the train i;car C ri-nboro. c a The train was behind the 4!h l-ust ;:me. .lulia IVtUr, a white band in tb Wilmington tV.tum Mjl,attmptl uu-hU a fcs-daj a gu by taking Ia.i.'.uuui. Th (i4dboro Arga fy tb trt.ck lain.cm of tht M t lioa are vety -busy preparing for aatly fpusg iroducls for 'be rSortbera W .li tots. Merrick. of Caiaden, N. J t-hitl In young daughter and tbeo kiili-d b;tus;f with the nm weap on. No :nv ha been assigned lor the d' ed. U.:!er in th? mdls of Wort lie & Sns, al J utn Uio, t-x ploded uo Die a'li i.et., and kil:ed iDUa;'y the tulurtd Crujan and iiijut tug to t'.Ltr men An ineTeniTe tirgro h-.y waa a l-4-:D.ltsl 10 ll dxrnou ( .U0ty. JI 1 leaiaiD were f 'OuJ Vciaidaa aftT Le j dd h buuaida Laving U-t-a iitlr.it-'.ev by tLe de cay lug bxdy. , lteaulott fJ visiU-J Uht Ifrl i 'i a ?1 fi.-e. Ncarljf the i .,' . i i-i - . t(46a u( r. t - i ('i-iwl. TUat luvtt li.i!i!i pr-;i lotouly dealt v u by b 'h Dr. J. F. : haa-S3na-d t '. ii i.e ! the llatlera " t ui s.1 that place. i bad IwrUty-fiv n , s pi :-lcsMOii,-! ;nou!) d ii.'C. f Go!dboro, Ever f Snce tLe s.: of tlo CorauSlle been tu&ny com; Ler. SjHraker Carli Vj 1 ever clone well, i t! a verdict, and frouY tl a :. of the Coiatalttcc d. ; business cuy t o K ' the way of eirly te; , the CouiLaittesss. Th s of tLe rrrnt O-; y wrved In the las-l l:v fared well in lie ,v and In alao.-t evct; stand LIgli u; ii t: milbres. In order t ; Ccmutttce au c; : : orcauiz and Ls o ! ed to the in31rldi.il ; an adjournment xl i ineJittely after iLf ; rnent on TLur.lay n.. da J. There I ti v .-. terial In the uay 1 on, a tLero Lav ! . already ltdr..5. -bIug'.Cl2 InlrtKluc, I day that lh Hou-; ; tLa Lolidays. Ma:: era bill that Lav ? . duced fvrrr t'::g;. . 1'ift and tno-t tT r fLar the mtue lit ' that tbey have la V la Cointalttc. Si i i bill of a rriv.i-. manage lo ccs; : HTutSuy Usually ; .. and ar ati rovf l, h Ing the number tii;'. lLat are lulroduct '. Ia. The Coiaxnlfn this fe.".sicm Luirev . tHw-d of men t.f t-v . i.-il MI-l!n:etid S. .'. ln.Ve lho l.H-tr y r ptji :ic v !1 ui .e n 'li.e . l '.'.et. of JP State lo i- li -.ul ig A eicu!iei in igil i t"s m i f ""7 Tourer l-Icirir uaw.3 i for all that sixtv millions He foucht sometimes, but was al - - . " ... i ways tnrasneu, pommeueu io a jei- ly. The man was game : enough, to boot. You forget that Vir ginia and the Carolinas and jit rich aud few of the stylish ones, straw or Lay ve f r i- but - liCh wheat ground, dnd four camp Btoola to H' upyu, and a camp table and :a,nclle ytick and candles, a wash paa and bucket, and this was n 1 1 n ar n . . . ttnui our iuraitufe. it was enough for a soldier enough. Georgia are some of the old thirteen that fought, bled and died for all the liberty you have irext. Whoro vtraa Town, t.hftn ? A howling, wilderness that be- , longed to old Virginia. She gave it to your folks for noth ing, and now yon assume to be bigger and better than your revolutionary fathers. But y ou are not the first conceited boy that tried to run over his daddy ind run him off the track. Well, you will not get any more of that money than we do ;F11 bet on that ; and we-will get that cottonrtax back too. See if we don't. The south is loom ing up. and she will come to the front in a few years. She is solid, and always will be as long as the Barrabees ana bner mans and Forakers run the Blander mills of the north. - Bill Apr, The overseer did not hear him. when his blood was up ; but he was no favorite in the mill;. he had tne taint of school learning on him, not to a dangerous extent, Dnt enough to ruin him as a good hand in a fight. For other reasons, too, he was not popular. Not one of themselves, they felt that, though outwardly filthy and ash-covered ; siienr, witu foreighu ' thoughts taud longings breaking out through his quietness in innumerable ennons ways: tins one, for instance In the neighbor ing furnace buildings - lay great heaps of the reiuse iroin me oie after the nis metal is ran. Korl we call it here : a light, porous sub stance, of a delicate, waxeD, flesh colored tinge. Oat of Che slocks of this korl, Wolfe, in bis ofl-honrs from the furnace, had a habit of chipping and moulding figures, hideous, fantastic enough, but sometimes strangely beautiful: even the mill-meu saw that, while they jeered at him. It was a curi- He was talking of net , protiits just then. giving, in fact, a schedule of the annual business. of the firm to a sharp peering little -.j Yankee, who jotted down notes ou a paper Uid ou the crown of his hat : a re porter for one of the city papers, getting up a series of reviews of the leading manufactories. The other gentlemen had aceanipained them merely for amusement. They were silent until the notes were finished, drying their feet at the furnacep, and sheltering their laces from the intolerable heat. ;At last the overseer concluded with 'I believe that is a pietty fair estimate, Captain.'' , . - "llere, somex of you men !'' said Kirby, "bring up those boards. Wd may as well sit down, gentle men, until the raiu is over. It can not last much longer at this rate." 'Pig-metal,'' mumbled the re porter, "urn ! coal facilities, uai! -hands employed, twelve hundred, bitumen, urn ! all rUhr, 1 be lieve. Mr. (Jlarke : sinking-fund, -4-what did you say was your sink ing-fund t'7 j "Twelve hundred hands V eaid the stranger, the young man who had first 8poken. "Do you control ner, the white uguie ot a woman fared him Fn t'e daikness,-.-a wo man, white, of giaut proportions, crouching cu the ground, her arms Hung out in some wild gesture of warning. "Stop! Make time tire burn there !"' ciied Kiiby, slopping shojt. The tl iine burst out again basil ing the gaunt figure into bold re lief. j. itched drew a long breaih UI thought it was alive," he said, going up curiously. The others followed 'Not marble, eh ?" asked Kirby, tO'.lC'lltlg it. One of the lover overseers stop ped. -Korl, Sir." "Who did it!" "Can't say. Some of the hands; chipped it out iu off-hours. 'Chinned to some purpo se, 1 should say. What a flesh-tint the stuff has ! Do you see Mitchell I" "I see.'' He had stepped aside where the light fell boldest on the figure, looking out in silence. Ihere was not one line of beauty or grace in it: a nade woman's form, masculane grown coarse with labor, the pow erful limbs instinct with some one poignaut longing. Oue idea: there it was in the tense, rigid muscles, the clutching hands, the wild, eager face, like that of a Starving wolfs. Kirby and Dr. .May walk ed around it, critical, curious Mitchell titood a'oof, silent. Tue figure touched him strangely. '2s ct badly done,- sud doctor May." ''Where aid the fellow learn that sweep of the muscle in the arm and hand 1 Look at them 1 They are groping do you see 1 Judge Jam.' 11. Mei union, of sheville, sittiiig on tne bupciior Court bench llaieigh, decided thr.f under (he L.cal option :u;' wi!;o and beer could be sold iu those locali. tu where the op!il.ir vote bad de (l.ltiil lor proiuoi: on. uir case was can ied to the Supreme Court on appeal and the Supreme Court n vt-r.-ed tho tbcisioti nlthecouit below, and theicfoie. the sale of wine and beer, being lutexicaut. was forbidden instantly iu all tb prohibition townn of the fctate Justice A. S. Merritnoi, a bio'her ot tin1 S-iperio; ourt Judge, wrote the opmioi), aud a clear and strong one it was. ruice the apix anuice of thi opinion, wit h lixer the law Judge Jas. II. Merrimon, whose de cision i reversed, writes and put lishes a lengthy opinion t:i repl to the decision of the Supreme Court. We refer to the mutter I say we care not ho able and learn ed .this reply nry be we do uot en vy taste displayed in its produc tion. The tendency of sncli replies on the pu t of Su;.H-rior Court Jud ges to the Supremo (. ourt, where it happens o make over-ruling de cisions s to weaken public -confidence in onr highest court. Char lotte Chionicle. The grass so.f, wLcn ti e bay !"- gin to fail, t-kll contains si gr-a amount of Icriihty. lie clever and other loots have brought much up from the ticpius, and if crops have be.n at tiuie somewi at -n couiagcd by 'hand' fertilizers. though the rtiigiual heavy dressing of manure may have beeu nil u?cd np. the so l would have improved both in texture and fertility. The grass may, ludceJ, l kept np by top dressings, aud on rich b.tt'in land we find, not unfrcqnectly. "permanent meadows," which yield naviug crops year after year wiih out muauring, and other which do- io with ucciHoual top dressing of bone. lime. asLe. on similar ma nures. wueiLer mese hnau re main or shall be , plowed up i a question of profit, and it i often the very won-t policy to break up lairly profitable meadow. btn gain laid down to grass thev may come full of weed.-, tuat will give bad flavor to butter, or the catch m.iy be irregular, and it may W ear betre :v gx'd, t-ven sod can ; had, aud the aroe is csiccia!ly true ofo'd pasture. Many dilur eut rotation have been recom mended, but the principal i the same iu nil, aud what rotation hould be followed, and how lliev idiould be broken m nj-on with comn crcial crop, and whethtr or not to reiM'at oar crop several year iu fiiccefMoii, etc, are matter vl ik1icv for individual ;o determine. American Acr;tui:ur.iiiM. 4 ..v: ,'. ite .'-.1 of .February, r, buMiie.s, nearly. La r.s niat ion .irI e we no reo iu w!;y ilc ir.H m IU-h hould lot c-rg.inixi. Commi-'-'oner of Immigration l'atrick tc'-oit ;hat duinii tbe year ju-l ended two thousand im migrant, mainly from IVnnsyl van a and New Kngl.md, came into North Carohnj, i-cltliog mainly wi-bt of IU1 igU. -TcU tbe truth, love, and tbatne the devil," faid an atforncj wife to him the fther day when 6be had Lira in a tight place. -My dear," said L teproichfully, "woild yoa have youi cii'y bnband do an un yrufeAscnul act!" Critic, "An itir.crvnt c'otk maker wo murdered in Wa-hiugtoa county a fewd.naco. Ill name i bnp p isi'd. fruui letter f -id ' on hi l-rcn. to be 11. Dawmnn. ltobbery as the mceufve to li i l detd TUire negriK-.i have b.u arreted against whom there i ruRpicica. One of tbeni ha confeS'-tl to tte ing another kill Daftman. The IUU-igh Saving lUnk has Wen doing busiuc only .ven and a half months and bat opened ,J1 account s. For the year h it will allow 1 r r cent, on deposits iiiNtcad of-i j ( r c nt. Tb capital k paid tri po f r i ?1I.j.ns hn h an.ount i ;i Li:ul in l- Ir.ion to the deposit. Ilaleigb t t)b4TVT. tLcr-e affilr, i i Laving bcn, on tJ.e tnitte lat CKj.r -will te that co I ill jobbery get ut f t tnlllee rooia. I-ti!.i : . 1 tbe (.'balrtnaa i.i. . one cI llie ino.-i ;.- hterling inetnberi ; I'romptness IIkt h:; ? ftrict iotrgrily a re t . characterise the wr Tery lmiHirtint Ciiii:.s la tbe Senate Ju!.:i made lu uin ti fctated in a trevU- would probably d j. I t-trong argurneut of i: F-everely fritici- 1 t; dent'a recouiTueudat; tained in Ida tat.-1. . celved a cloe di.- i baud ol Seuabir Vh.: ', clot attention 1. 1--all the Senator pre i' tbe crowded gallcr-. Verdict eled l be i Lee'tf reply add- l Vt.-j Liis 1'nn-pects for : c on tbe ticket. TL c twetu the gladiator begun but they kra f ing up to the Itup dir. f?ut'ject ana tx-Ir.- I dea.ling telling bl - of their ref icctiye .-1- A Jlrong tlTort vr.'.I thi faer-.-IOD to par.. 1 Wucatiocal bill. 7 btrs ericially r- in are receiving uiany U .Ing tbcm to vote 1 r : advocates of the t 'ii' : ing that unle the 1. Pi e Fatttfvil OWrvtr t baa pa. 11 tbe Mile" tivi-s tLe patticulata of a fatal I a.ni ortu Lar'di-ia, w&Misig btar that place: La.t wk M-.iv Wiliiams a colored woman about TO rar of age, acci Cc;.i.i.l li 'l iuiKiii mig inn "Over in Ch.'.udh rs county, Ala . . ... . . riiii lu-ar ine iro.ip couiu v found on Suuilav the iuecr st U tillei v 1 ever saw." So ail Ueve nue Agent Wd.lJoru C ilqultt e J tcrday. lwa.ith Deputy Mar- shdl Jule Johnson and )epnty Mai shall Kichell-erger, or Alabama. The ow n. r of the t-X bid made a iMiiler by splitting a Kolar, prob at'l." two leeet ai.d a b til io di-uue. ter, ho'.lowiug it out pnd lining ii Wt'li cp:T. Three j arrel were used as Htill. and tin ae were mi ar ranged that there w.-s double dis tillation. The worm wa a long tin Pipe with an kIIhiw at each end The d'st;'.!?ry wc uld deubtle m ike ihirtv gallo-ii of lupior a day We c:ini:l-t two n grfes lut cotiiu not lind ti a ownr of the btill." Atlanta Coustitu'ion. rl9 ia tha Lsdslat-irc. 1 ain't alius Wen pore a this, of b til.iig wa'er which wa being um1 i.i lle vji-1 to ImiII feed forthe bogs SUe M.lT. te I intetia-ly, bat detli leln v. d L r t-arlv in tbe night. T'.o She'.b Aurora aya tbe trial in bic'i MX ft the leading citirco cf K'-evet.-vtl'e ete md e'ed and chiged with Mtt log ere lo their own ure to cet tbe iti-uranc nion.-v. ha cxeiti A much vnnB.eii. Two of the necuM-.l were dc1are4 . . . M in !." iil i.nd tjon -miii. w ruurra. Tne Ciiee day-." trial v' thcr nded iu a ib.-gte-nient of the two in it'l'ita'e .".D.l int -t--.u ar ce u til l-. p!.: -d :n t't' hand of So- bcitor t-lrtM. Many think tbey tv a't i:.tnK-er.t and their arTeda were m ! at the HManec of a de tcc'.ive tmploitd by tbe insurance company. Oa the c.'voiitnI (antral paa- neuger Irani iii.) moniOK w a ouug ubite mill who occupied nexttotbel.i5tM.it in the rr coacu. le iraio a C"e imii few miles when be died. The body wa brought n here, and when it arrived Superintendent liege or dered it M-nt t Dixon undertak ing etab!mhment aad imm diat ly M.-t about tracing Ibe man" re'.a- be lo:-t to tbe leia : Democratic tnetntu r.r. from tbee stales ir lug lo admit that ? : cae. W bat they r.re i tere;-ted irt i th ft tobacco tax, aul tb . tbe failure to pa1-- : palling act will i : thing el draw lr : i ies' trcngth la t'. Tbe advocate of ti to repeal tbe ta gaining ftrcnclh in and a many 1j m hucb legi-lation, th tbe bill may ! 1 - No bill Lava 1 n on as yet iv . u-" and although m.i-j- measure Lave h-u j i-till a. tbey ail tra v ia di2ed or alt r 5 tnltttee before b-i:- ' before tbe Iloue t r in exceedingly Yl'.l any reliable exj r sentiment tbat i-r ceming thetn. ' that tbe whole 1 : of tbe IJou-e 1 material change law favorable to generally, and tLe :i The South Carolina Legislature is quite Eug'.Mi in its methods of j proceedare. The two :prts;diug: offlcers wear handsome aud co-tiy cowns of blue and royal purple silk velve, the '-clarks'' wear long flowing roles of blac"i silk and the seargeat-at-arra opea and close the sessions with the 'mace and sword or the State, banded down from colonial times. In the House sf Itepre-seutativen, tl.o members in their seats, wear their hats, as i the J'ugl.t-h Commons do. Uridget Enjoy tdape, is it? Uow could I. I'd like yez to ltd lie. The minit I lav dowD I'm aslaoe, and the minute I'm awake I have to get up. "Where' the time for eDjoyin' it to come in! ' sai l an Aikansa backwoodsman to a stranger who entered bis cab in for shelter duriag a Ktorru. "Well. well. aid the arranger, "reverse will come. 'That's eo,' 8ail the man, de jectedly, "and they've gie me a ternoie iick. v uy, mister, jouti never believe it, I reckon, but I've seen the'dav when 1 won!du"t give tiothiu to take 14 chaw ol teritiuX er a day, and now I'm in luck if 1 getsixmy old wuman ust-ter have her t-nuff a free as water, ana we hav' had more than 10 dogs but uow we aiu't got but eight. I tell yon, mister, it. had to come down to that, after bein' useter having everything the heart . could wiah fer.' fives. None cm Id ls found at I'tioler, he having lived there bat a j j-ay that tbey d ) l: short time, but letters in the dead te oveLadowed in man's not-Let indica'ed that hi" 1 tirular bv their t: : . m a I . a I ( narenta live ar v-goo, oaica i county, North Carolina. Coadactor V.'o'.f.'of the east U.und through lreih?. wa on tbe platform of bis cab. Hi in':i v. standing oa Ibe side tr.nk. lie the man 1 . . . r 1 " . .1,.- mrA it m -ciiietl as if he wa looking for aoaie one. It km the impression of Conductor oil that the yoang man R-ll offt'e platform. Other nay that be jumped off. At aw r:te be stiutk a wkx1 rack and f d to the ground, where be remaint l. with a cut in hi bead. Sa van o-b News. Col. Jno. C. McLauria, of Laaiin bnrir. died" oa the train, near Southern Pines. Ue was on bia u;-3 ct Tiir: :: Natura i full of v L- ion. V i ves d . I cooking when tl.cy . and rrei.-table. 1:. Journal. Functional d rangements of the female pystitu ii quickly cared y tbe use of Dr. It. V. Fierce "Fa vorite Prescrinlioa. It remove r...... x-rfn't v' IiAlnain and restores iiea4ia ana was 85 years old. strength. Cy ail druggists. 1 ..! Tbey have a nomr - Texas that U a Texa. If a fellow ?,! - i there be ia c-utdt against all comer. K difference wltther I" worth l,C0or iW" retire to it aad boli it creditors. ( '' i , . i -