North Carolina Newspapers

WILSON AD:,7 PTBLISBED, EVEB TllUKsUA AT VILS0N SOUTH OAUOL15A. -EY- j iC. CjD.VSlELS. Kiil--.s ad PwpritUis l ATta ct Amr-7:.:.. " i - -. "- - -."""'"" ' "" . Ltm m. w w rmwww? rmna imjtt a WTW- A T P C Tly rAfiMTW ri a mnir i-awaen a mpv - - - . " "" nm War "" !. ..... . ,.nr r.e'i, Street, in 2 00 I to Money Ordrt ct the OH Poai BILL' ARFS LETTER -:o: A GRAND ui: K EC El f EH AH3IY CIRCULAR. 4nl has something to. my about :i -reunions given to Northern Yundals who wrecked the South, The South a ood irtace to ....il.p aentlemen vf Northern Republicans. "LtT ALL. THE ENDS THOU AIBTST AT, BE TUT COUNTRY'S, THY GOD'S, AND TICUTHS yOLTJME 18. Georgia gave him territory to would be delighted if we were the Mississippi river. North to turn loose and kill about five Carolina gave hfcn Tennessee, hundred neeroea at one time. Yes, sir, our people set them up They would just clap their with land and farms, just like hands and say, "Bless the Lord, a father sets up (his children we have got 'em now halle when they marry , and leave lujah." ' Old Sherman and For- him, and now .some of these aker and fild Musrat Halsted ungrateful children have got so would rejoice with exceeding uppity and biggity they would joy and call for drinks for shove ms o? on a plank if they three. Old Musrat would cover Oli, iny country where is Uncle Sam? that watchful old fellow with the striped pants and bell-crowned hat. The pic torials always have him . stand ing around when any tng ras cality is going m at Washing ton. Iwondjrifh-a' has seen thu circular of the" National "Tribune. A copy had been sent to me and it. says, "Comrade." Well, I'm no comrade -.of that sort, and if I was I would be attained to have such a circu lar sent to me. If that concern can carry out its: ssheuies we needn't 'worry any more about the nrrplitri, nor about the tariff, nor the iuternal lv'vcmie, for it will take them all to foot the bills and they will I a?t forever, more or less, for pensioner,-? in crease; as the yer roUonv Cut few die and none reni-'a. It takes eighty millions now for pensions, but not a dollar for Dixie,.and we. have helped to pay if for . twenty years and 'made no fuss. The wL,cle of this one-sided business is as mean as a dog and as vindictive as Satan. "How lung, oh, ata line,wilt thou abuse our pa- . tience." "Comrade : We have 125,000 subscribers to cur paper and wish to number you as one of its friends for the good work it is doing in behalf of the veter ans. The coming national en campment will' take action of I great importance to those who wore the blue and will' be foi lowed by legislation in congress for the passage or tho "arrears bill," which will distribute mil lions to the veterans and a bill for bounties which will pay many millions more and the dependent pension bill and other similar measures, etc., etc. Youcs in F. C. and L ," .; which 1 suppose stands for fraud, cheating af.d lying, or some other devilment. I won der if they want the earth and the fullness thereof., Xoav, we Lave had about enoirra of this' rascality and if Mr; Cleveland don't stop it the country will be ruined. Let the invaua soimers be pensioned just like they have always been, and when one dies let his widow draw it and when she dies lot'it stop. lsut there will never be any real national peace and brother uooa in tins country until our soldiers are pensioned, too, and put on au equal footing. Like: the old fellow and his bull, we can pass and repass but there will be no. affectionate fami.liar-i ity. Back-pay and arrears will have to come, and slander wil have jto stop. Our boy .43 id justj as much fighting as they , did! Jtwas a family quarrel thai the north had been bringing oil for fiCty years. We didn't vr&n to fight, nohow: We just Want ed to dissolve the partnership and be let alone, and they would'nt let us alone. They inf vaded us on our own territory and we never did put a hostile foot upon theirs but once, and then we found their lands post!- ed and intruders warned off and nu shooting allowed, and so we didn't stay very long and cave back with alacrity We thou! we had some state riirht-', but they said we didn't, " W e think so yet, and maybe they will think so, too, sooner or later. When congress takes protectiojn off of lumber Malue will fee fighting mad. Whea wool i3 made free, Ohio will shoot off her mouth if she don't her guns uid limy loung was a powei- could. For 25 years our invalid soldiers have been living on robts and drinking branch water while theirs are pension ed and living comfortably on the V9ry soil we gave them. The billions of acrea of public lands all came from U3, In 1812 old England took the Missis sippi river, that mighty artery of northwestern commerce, and we sent General Jackson down to New .Orleans and whipped old Packenham and got it back again. Later on we had to send General Taylor and Jefferson Davis down to Mexico and wnip them out, and later on we gave Texas to Uncle Sain a state big enough to give her 2,200 United States senators, if she had as many in proportion as Rhode Island. It is the - big-hearted, unselfish south that has been foremost' in securing the land and building the houset and be cause the north his put in the furniture they are claiming the whole concern. The declaration if independence is ours, and the Fourth of July and Washington aud Jefferson and ', Madison, and Patrick Henry and Randolph aud Pocahontas' aud John Smith, and all ti e Lees, and Clay and Calhoun, and General Jackson, aud Stonewall, and state's rights, too,! if there are any left. And wa have clothed the world with bur cotton, and civilized all the negroes the yaukees stole and brought over, and we have since raised up six millions more in good order and condition, and are making WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 23, 1888. TRUE KNOWLEDGE. NUMBER-1 :o:- one side of his paper with head lines and print them in red ink. Nevertheless, we honor Gov ernor Bullock for his candor and truth and boldness. He loves the south and her people. I do believe that a few year's residence down here Hill make even a republican ! become a gentleman and a Christian. I wish that we could get more of them to come. Try it, old Mus rat, try it! . I had a very good letter yes terday from a man who says that we mistake the northern republicans ; that he knows them, and lived among them ior twenty years, and they am the very be.t people up nort I've heard that before. The are eood to everybody but ui They vote for our slandere every time. They take th papers that slander us, and they believe them. They hate Mr. Lamar for no other reason than that he is from the south. They don't want us to have any thing, and so we fight back. They may build their church steeples to the sky and cry "Abba Father" all day Sunday, but the book says without char ity they are nothing but an empty sound and a tinkling cymbal. When they 'are good to us we will make friends, and in no other way can they ever break the ranks of the solid south. Bill Aep. , Wouda't Fight That Way. pIFFICUL TIES Til A T SOME- kl3lE ATTEND ITS PURSUIT t' " - ' i . - i phe Charming Story of Sweet Ivy Geer as Site Tread the Flowered Pathway of Learning. f democrats of them just as fast ful union man until Sherman came along aud took his corn and folder and ' mules add cattla and didn't pay nor stop to give a receipt, no? say, "I'm much obleeged to you, Uncle Billy," but just went on like he didn't live there, and then he got desperate and called for hi3 gun, and.swore.he d be dad- Diasted ll he didn't light 'em forever and ever before he'd be , horn-swaggled in any such !a way. ' Look at our record. Our tit goes back a hundred and ten years, when our forefathers did .most of the fighting under our own Washington. The first re- , hellion was fixed up at Meek lenburg, in old North Carolina, and the Becond iu old Virginia, uuuer jenerson and Leo- and Patrick llonry, who fired up the country to resistance, and it was all about a little tax on tea mat nobody drank but the yankees, and a little stamp act that charged two shillings on !a aeed. But it was principle principle th?y foudUt for and ho did we. They rebelled and receded and bo did w. In 1784 Old Viro-infa c uncle Sam all her northwestern territory, which was a belt of gantry 500 miles wide and ex wuMng to the Pacific ocean, as we can. l see tnat tne re publicans now wknt them ail sent to South America and col onized. Well, we don't care. Maybe it will be ia good idea. WTe can get as many more from Africa a? we want aad will civ ilize them, too, and will keep on importing and civilizing un til all Africa is redeemed from barbarism. The yankees tried Liberia and failed, but we never failed. I see that Mr. Clements has put in a bill to get pay for some damages the federals did to a church in Marietta. I wonder what that means. Don't he know that he can't get that bill through ? Was . any such bill ever paid ? There are scores of them, up there now, in, the pigeon-holes or some old box. We sent threej from Rome, eighteen years ago; and the proof was all made jam up, and it was certified" to by General Yandiyer, of Maryland, the very man who did the damage ; but they never got further than the vestibule, anl were switch ed off on a, side-track. If Mr. Clements has apy encourage ment, I wish he would hunt up the old papers that came; from all along the line, and' ; then press alValike. .There were two colleges and three churches burned right here in Bartow, and it was said that, as church es ana colleges were non-com batants, and difjn't belong to anybody in particular, they would be paid for.. But there was our beautiful cemetery at Home, that had inobody living in it- but dead folks who couldn't fight, aad-old Sherman, with his vandals, broke up every toinbstone aad monument and iron railing in it the monument that marked the grave of our own little boy roll ed away down the hill, and I could hardly find the place where bo was buried. What do you think is the prospect of ever harmonizing that bov's mother? Some of this nension money is going, to 'the very Dummers who did this kind of work. Well,, I reckon they had better grab al! they can in this world, for pension money wili be scarce in the next. But these little bills for southern church es won't be paid Southern piety is at 'a-big' discount up there, and the bill is not big enough to furnish a margin. ' It is too little to split, i There is no greage in it. A : man can put through a fraudulent hundred thousand dollar cotton claim easier than a two thousand dol lar' church. They say that som southern democrat voted for that dependent pension bill that Mr. Cleveland vetoed and will veto again.. A southern democrat, who voted that way had a job on hand and was log rolling. lie wanted to get some local matter put through and would vote away a hundred millions to get it done. He swapped votes I and the idea was, you tickle me witha straw and I'll tickle you with a tele graph pole. , j Governor Bullock ha3 written two splendid letters to the northern press ! about the ne groes, and as he is a republican aud a northern man and used to be our governor? and has lived here ever since : the - war, he ought to know the situation and his northern brethren - ought to believe him, but they won't. They don't want to. They re joice over every mean thing we do and when we don't do any , they gefmad 'about it. They Judge Jno. B. Rice was a promir nent lawyer of Montgomery, Ala. When secession was being whoop ed the State the Judge made a speech iu oue of the small towns up in the pine woods country, and in the course of his heated and sanguine remarks exclaimed : wny, lellow citizens,! we can whip them Yankees with popguns. After the war clouds had cleared away and the Judge aad settled down to the practice of his profes sion professional da ties took him back to this same town. He was defending a criminal in his usual way. lie assured the jury earnest ly that that every word thet fell from bis lips was true. At this point a one-armed, long-haired, juror arose in his Beat with doubt written all his countenance and said : "Jedge, ain't you the man that said in this very coart boase m tiiem The Judge was silent a mement. and then with great vehemnence exclaimed : "Yes, I said it ; but, d- u their dirty souls, they wouldn't fight us with popguns." Winchester Sun. i AO that iva vnhl whirn: Yankees with popgnns V'l Level Farming. A farmer called our attention to the highly enlightened system of farming employed in one portioii of Edgecombe. This was to haves the land, according to the con? figuration of the. surface, 'divided off into sections as near level as possible and convenient to make it! Of course attention is first paid to drainage by hill ditches and fur-; rows, then between these drains the guide row is run it matters not how ciookea it may be and the others could be run by it. If nec-: esary let them iun around hills goserpentinely, bat the level should be always preserved. It can readif lv.be seen that bv this method the bind will retain all the manure that is placed on it. The farmer said tht it was was noticeable bow vastly I found better the crops were onf Jand culta vaitu m iuis way luau uy old method where all thijs was neg lected. He thought this method must give place to all others; if we would get the best results from otjr launs. Tarboro Southerner. ': : : J i- I "Mamma is right ; I know I am It little goose," sobbed she. (The words were mental, intangible, un spoken ; the sobs physical, palpa ble,decided.) I never did know any thin and I never shall, --and 1 dou't care if I don't. I don't see any gord in knowing so much. We don't have a great while to stay in the world anyway, and I dont' see Vhy we can't be let aluue and have n good time whilo we are here, and When we get to heaven we can take a fresh start. U, dear ! l nerer shall go to heaven, if I am so bad and vex mamma. But then papa diden' care. But then he would have liked me to go to school. But there, I won't ! I won't I I will not ! 'I'll study at home. O, de-r I I wish papa was a great man, and knew everything, and could teach me. Well, be is just as happy, aud just as rich, and everybody likes him just as well, as it be knew the whole world full ; and why can't I do so, tool liebecca Dingham, indeed! Mercy!) 1 hope I never shall be like her; I would rather not know my ABO! What shall I do t There's .tlr. Urownslow might teach me; he knows enough. But, dear me ! he is as busy as he can be, all day loug; and Squire Merrill goes out oi town every day apd there's Dr. Mix, to be sure, but he smells so strong of paregoric. I don't believe be knows much, either; and there's nobody else in town that knows any more than anybody else: and thereV nothing for it bat I mast go to school, if I am ever to know anythiug." (A renewal oi sobs, uninterrupted for several minutes.) "There's Mr. Cierrou !" (A sudden cessation.) "I suppose he knows more than the whole town tumbled into one; aud writes books, and mercy ! there's no end to his knowledge; and he's rich, and does everything he likes, all day long. O, if I only did know him ! I would ass him straight off to teaeh me. I should be scared to death. I've a great mind to ask him, as it is. I can tell him who 1 am. "He never will know any oth er way, for ho isn't acquainted with anybody. They say he Is as proud as Luciter. if he were ten times prouder, I would rather ask him than go to school. He might just as well do something as not. I am sure, if God had made me him, and him me, I should be glad to help him. I'll go straight to him the first thing tomorrow morning." -Once seeing a possiu e way out of h difficulties, her sorrow van ished. Not quite so giyly as nsnal, it is true, did she sing about the house that night ; for she was sum moning all her powers to prepare an introductory speech to Felix -ierron Esq., a gentleman and a scholar. Her elocutionary attempts were not quite satisfactory to her self, bat she was not to be daunted; and when morning came, she took heart of grace, slung her broad brimmed hat over her arm, and be gan her march "over the hills and faraway," in search of her fate. "And did her motner really let her roam away, alone, ou such an errand, to a perfect stranger t" He Had Paid One. A few days ago there was a Bmall civil suit tried before the justice f Pizen Switch the same man who decided the anti-treat " law uncon stitutional. It is always custom ary in such cases to have the win ner of the suit pay the fees. The plaintiff, a big raw-boned rancher, .it- . u n. in, ww ft hi was caued on to pay the jury bf hr.ii a six J apiece. He immediately stood up in court and queried : I "Pay the jury $121" 4xes,77 replied the couit. "Look a'here, jedge, ain't this sorter piling it on thick 1 I just paid four of them fellers $20 apie&e. Do you want the earth. (?) f The dead silence of the room was broken by a slight snicker from the defendant's attorney, and then the spectators went out to snort. The bailiff called everybody to order and the jury filed out without ask ing for fees. Carson Appeal. I "Unmanly speaking" nothing was more unlikely than that Mrs. Oeer, a prudent, modest, and sen sible woman, should give her con sent to such au to use the mildest term unusnal undertaking. Nor did she. The fact is her cousent was not asked. She knew nothing whatever of the plan. "Worse and worse ! Did tho wilful girl go off without informing her parents?" I am sorry to say she did. In writing a story of real life, one can not take that liberty with facts which is quite proper, not to say in dispensable, iu history, science, and belles-lettres generally. Duty com pels me to ad here closely to the truth; aud for whatever of obloquy may be heaped upon me, or upon my Ivy, I shall find consolation in the words of the illustrious Harris son ; or perhaps it was the illustri ous Taylor ; I am not quite sure, however that it was not the illus trious Washington : "Do right, and let the consequences take care of themselves." 1 am therefore obliged to say, tht Ivy's departure in pursuit of knowledge was entire ly uuknown to her respected aud But you must years before (not in the same place) with the 'fwind blowing her fair hair about ber beautiful cheeks." There had come to Ivy from the great,! gay world a vague rumor, that, instead of knocking at a door like a Christian, with your owu good knuckles, for such caa made and. provided, modern fashion had introduced "the ringing and the dinging oJ the bells". Tbu vague rumor found a local habitation, when Mr. Olerron came down upon the village aud established himself, his men and women aud ho.ses and cattle; but as Ivy stood ou bis doorstep, looking cpward down ward, side wise, with earnest, peer ing gaze, no bell, and no sign ot bell, was visible ; nothing unusual save a little door-knob at the right hand aide of the door, a thiug whie could not be .accounted for. After long and serious delibera. tion, she came to the conclusion that the bell must be iuside, and that the knob was a kcrew attach ed to it. So she tried to twist it, first one way, then the other; but twist it would not. Iu despair she betook herself to her fingers aud kuoeked. Nobody came. Twist again, No. nse. Kuock again. Ditto. Then she went down to the the gravelled path, selected one of the largest pebbles, took op her statiou before the door, ami began to pound away. In a moment a geutlemau iu dressing-gown and smoking-cap, with a cigar between bis fingers, came round the corner. Seeing her, he threw away his ci gar, lilted uis velvet cap, bowed, and, with a gentle "allow me," stepped to the door, pulled the bell, and passed out of sight. Ivy was uot so confused at being detected in ber assault and battery on the door of a respectable, peaceable, private gentleman, as not to make the silent reflection, '-Pulled the knob, instead of twisting it. How easy it is to do a thing, if you only know bow !" The summons was soon answer ed by a black guouie, and Iry was ushered into a large room, which, to her dazzled, sun-weary eyes, seemed delightfully fresh aud green looking. Two minutes more ot waiting, then a step in the ball, a gently opening door, and - Ivy felt rather than saw herself in the pres ence of the formidable Mr.CIerron. A single glance showed ber that he was the person who bad rung the bell for ber, thongh - the gay dressing-gown had been exchanged for a soberer suit. Mr. Cierrou bowed. Iry hardly knowing what she did, faltered forth, "I am Ivy Geer." A half curioae, halt-sarcastic smile glimmered behind the heavy beard, aud gleamed beueath the heavy eye brows, as be answer ed, "I am bappy to make your acquaintance": but another glance at the tremblicg form, the frighten ed, pale face, the quivering lips, changed the smile Into one that was very good natured, and even kind, and he added playfully, "I am Felix Cierrou, very much at your service." "You write books and are a very learned man,"" pursued Ivy, hur riedly, never liftiug i er eyes from the' floor, and uever ceasing to twirl ber bat-strings. There was no possibility of sup posing her guilty of committing a little diplomatic flattery in couvey iug this succinct bit of information. She made the assertion with the air of one who has a disagreeable piece of business on band.and is de termined to go through with it as soou as possible. He bowed aud smiled again ; quite unnecessarily, siuce as I have before remarked. Ivy's eyes were steadfastly fixed on the carpet. A slight pause for breath and she pitched ahead again. - "I am very ignorant, and I am growing old. I am almost seven teen. I don't know anything to speak of. Mamma wishes me to go school. Papa did not, but now he . i ' rather coax ber voice. His hospitality was shocked. ( "Indeed yoa mast not, till we have at least had. a consultation. Tell me bow much you know. What Lave yoa studied T" j O, nothiDg. Sir. I am very 6ta pid." "Ab I we must begin with the Alphabet, then. Blocks or prim er I" Ivy smiled through her tears. "Not quite so bad as that. Sir." Yoa do know your letters! Per haps yoa can even coant, aud fell your name; maybe write it. Pray enlighten me." j Ivy grew calm as he became playfal. "I can cipher pretty well. I have been through Gnouleat'd Large. "House or meadow t And the exact dimensions, if you please." "Sir!" "I understand yoa to say you h:id traversed Ureeulears Large. EDITORIAL TALK If Elaine Is not nominated it will bo because of the deliber ate judgment of the Itepubli c&n leader that d Mn v.. nr'D r r,....n.. I . . - w i'uuiiJt yt tt Dili- elected. Cleveland rialndeal .vj A ,3, j frit T.t j ,ay of Politic. lUJia- and 0!h"r Thing that At tract their Attention, Yuo did uot designate what." ' He was laughing at her now, in deed, but it was upou ud geuial, ttuu oue joiueu. t "My Arithmetic, of c ursc. 1 supposed everjuody kuew that. Everybody calls it ho." "Time is short. Yes. Do yoa like Aritumeticr" i "Pretty well, some parts of it. fraction and Partial Payment Bat 1 cau't bear Duodecimals, Po sition, anu sucu tuaigs.'' Positious are occasionally em barrastdug. And Grammar TT' I tuiult it's horrid. It's all 'ia dicatlve mood, cowman noun, third person, singular uumbcr, and agree wnn jonu.' " i "Bravissiuia I A comprehensive sketch 1 birdVview, ud one may Bay, aud uot entertaining, certaiuly. What other urauchc have you pursued t Di awing for instance T" O, no, Sir !" "Nor Music t" No, Sir." "Good ! excellent I Au overrul ing Providence has saved yoa and your trieuds from many, ui pitlall. Shall we proceed to History ! Be so good as to inform me w ho dis covered A merit". i 'I believe Co.umbns has th credit of it," ret :. d Iv-, dtuuarely "Nou-conimittat, i Bee. Case goes 6trongly in bis favor, but you reserve your judgment till further evidence." I think he was a wit aad good aud enterprising man. ' "But are rather sceptical about that Sau Salvador story. A wise course. Never decide till both sides have beeu fairly presented. lle tbatjudgeth a matter before he beareth it, it ia folly and shame ou to him,' aid the wise mau. Occa3 ionally bis after-judgment is equally discreditable. That is a thousand times worse. Exit Clio. Enter well I Gtocraphia. ,My; young friend, Uit celebrated elty has the hoaorif concentr.vingthelaw?, learning, and literaru . uf Maria- cbusettuH, to wit, n iu.v.iy, is its cap ital uYour Geography ha evidentf- beeu atteuded to. You have learn ed the basis fact. You have dis covered the pivot ou which the world turns. You have dii down to the antediluvian, ante- vy revn granite, the primitive, un fused stratum of society. The foice learning can no farther go eu wirn mat iact, you may tnareii fearlessly forth to do battle with tho woild, the flesh1! and U.e -atiem--tbe King of Beasts ! o you think yoa should like me teacher t" "I can't tell, Bir. I did uot UV yon as anything awhile a;o.M I -But you like me betler noU"? Yoa think I improve en acquaint ance ! You detect signs of a mor al reToimation t" To be Continued. The Danville Times savs that if the present leizislat Virginia fail to abolish the free pass to members of the Assem bly, the people will elect that will abolish it. one 1'he indications point to the nomination of Capt. A. II.' A. William, of Oxford, f or Con rre;?3, in the 5th District, by the Democrats. If nomlnaten The white people pay the taxes that educate the colored race. Year after year they pay thousands upon thousands of dollars to maintain colored schools. Everybody knows that without this support their schools could not live. And In various other ways the white men of the State Lave helped ana encouraged the colored race, liiev have made their progress possible. And yet we ee tne coiorrd voters at every election march up to the ballot dox in solid column under the whip of the demagogue tnd me eiiect of partisan appeals and vote against the Interests oi luese eame white friends and neighbors who have done he would be elected. Durham an? V? do,Dl? ""- in t-e-r Recorder. Detail, bo long as there Is eoua uiacK column there will be a solid white column and W adhlngton letter writers re-1 lLe - the demagogues port that the Hill men are na me political cUd Iran strongly antagonizing the Pres- nerth cannot break It. Among ident In New York, and ire ray lQe otuer important Issues in 0 Iik. tw ,-m.-ru HCK 1 . .. Pit Hnn'.M, UWnl tijrnii NEWb OF A XIZl miA t is it a 5 r.x i v a mi: would Ai:oux:i vs. A -' ri ii t 1 1 jr. n g-tihryrt rum ,?, . .. . mmr rii;rori', jr-l AjbcvUIc U to woolen tni'.L The Gold-.: S.-v. . beeu iioor; ;'. 1. The A !:. ii. baa (ne tl f w . . . Go.J!jr j is backet UtUTj,. A little fc!;.' o i ! . . Urrue k bcti i-; . UlUt 0. . A te o".:-- i '.i- ' bo dl ca the C. 1". A. V we Me frotn a !,:. In that he cannot carry that State. Wo believe the Pre!. dent is stroncer In h own State than any other ina.u and If nominated ha will carrv It. Wilmington ftar. a Henry George has come back to the Democratic party, and will support Mr. Cleveland. This provokes the Radical press, tleorge U a very able man. If anyone doubts.- let him read hij book that stirred all England and has been read by tens ol thousands of copies. He favors Mr. Cleveland s election. Wilmington Star. ' The I'Lutk".!' there is p . : SariDC lUt. .ti Tte Gv-i.r . tia ace j tux! couttty tMt4-. Mgtea pii " i.w it t t; :' ' ( volvtd it should not be forgot tea in this year of Grace that white men must rule North Carolina. Asheboro Courier. Thegoepel of self preMvation I Concord, an 1 J. is wcat will De rrenched and bam wi:i bad I acted upon this year. 1 1 should be the most powerful motive to move men and it is. ry i.a ty. 11 aw j:r..r re- T . , it we waicu tue enemy ciot-e- ly and defeat their echemes of imposing upon the people, we will carry the next election by an overwhelming majority. But they must be watched. W e can not afford to run any chances of pufferinc defeat and letting this party of plunder and ex travagance get into powei again. KInston Frae Press. The amendment to th C5nn. Ftitutlon, which enabled the hvisla'tne of lC;-'77 to put in force the present county goir e mnent law, hs been tbe 1 vatlou to the counties domi neered over by the unscrur ul ous white radicals and Ignorant colored people. It Las been a belief to them financially. They are our brethren : they are bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh. It has worked well., It has done no Injury to any other part of the State. ,Vho demands its repeal 1 What In terest will be better served by IU repeal ? Do Democrats who with so muck zeal voted for the Convention in 1375, and who voted with such nnanlmity for tne rauncation of It 1 Vtf v . I the Icrmts?;. i. r brcacb t j-r.rn.f gallant jou'.h . 1' pose d.-.ai .-, i . . Daily. Tbe jSuu-m .,1 ( Cate th-t l. . . did uot iuk rt . . tiosal or ar; l. :n. ; when he id :i-t . oaopbtcal cfa u. '" A new paper, t ' Boanoike llerd. r . lisbed in tlytuociL. stead rill con i art t of tbe county st.i a v Ibe IViaocr-tJc I i ; . Tbe Gold!i;r. A'., t7,000 is ready arivi v . town for tie ma:i Hart a cottuu North Carolina tca u Patrick wrote to V.. Another Method. the amend- ments to the constituUon, one IaT . 7x3Z n u W'hvia it thatnolitlrians An among them being to give the not lead ? Among that cla.s we Gfneral Assembly the power to ready U-n receive. i ? ."r look for stale?men with ideas. P wo present county gov- poe nd if wmc;J ernment law, which was well the building i'l l. i understood at the time, demand Jane Ut. It3 repeal? We think not. The 4 w . .t ., ,, Republicans demand its repeal nowe La -r c . wn and have done eo in every cam- pmoometit K.rtn j paign since 1877, but the topla neuitutiarT. TLi 1 1 Oa the contrary vre find them lagging in the rear to do what tho people may tell them is safe and proper. And tlie people are timid and not united, and so politics go at sixes and ce rf Atia- 1 Vf fo a . I. v.. OLD E03. OM mau Bob was dying. ! He had always been a quiet man Tbe artist would not have painted bim with regard to auy aesthetic rule but rather, if be had thought of h m at all, as. a stupid clown, with rounded baca and weatlu-r beaten fsce, that had bent over the epade aud done the rough works oi the world. . lie had "struck" the town years ago, but he worked bard and ; his big heart found means to do char ities that the world with its cold obligation, would remember that she was an only child, and 1 a spoiled child. spoiled as only stem New England Pnritan parents, somewhat advanc ed iu years, can spoil their child ren. I do not defend Ivy. On the contrary, notwithstanding my re gard for her, 1 hand her over to the reprobation of au enlightened com munity ; and I hereby entre t all young persons into whose hands this memoir may fall to take warn ing by the fate of poor Ivy, and never enter upou any important undertaking, until they have, to say th,e least, consulted those who are their natural guides, their warmest friends, and their most Morgan, merchant, I experienced counsellor. While I have beeu writing (his. Ivy Geer, light of heart, fleet of foot, and firm of will, has passed over hillside, through wood path, and across meadow-land, and drawn near the domains of Felix Cierrou, Esq. Light of heart perhaps I scarcely ought to say. Certainly, that enterprising organ had never before beat so furious a tattoo In Ivy's breast, as when she stood, hat in hand, ou the steps ot the somewhat stately dwelling. To do her justice, she had intended to do the penance of wearing her hat when she should have reached her destination : bat 'in ber excitement she quite forgot it. So, as I said, she Btood on the door Btep, as a roval maiden stood three hundred ' . Worth Snowing. Mr. W. II Lake City, Fla., was taken with? a severe cold and attended by a dis tressing cough and running into consumption in its first stages. He ti i ed many so-called popular cough remedies and steadily grew worse, was reduced inflesh,had difficulty in breathing, aud was unable to sleep. Finally tried King's Dr. New Dis covery for consumption and found immediate relief, and after using about half a dozen bottles 'fod ad himself well and has had no return of the disease. No other remedy can show so grand a record of cures, as Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. Guarranteed; to do jnst what is claimed for ill. Trial bottles free , at A. W, Row land's drug store. . does. I won't go. I I would rather be Btnpid all my life long than leave home. But mainuia Is vexed, and A ToucMnj Sfcrv of an Old Mr. Brownslow Is so busy, aud you, ii yoa have nothing to do, and kuow so much, I thought" She slopped short, utterly unable to proceed. Wonderfully different did this affair seem from the oue she bad planned the preceding evening. It is so much easier to fight tbe battle of life in our owu chimney-corner, be tbe ruddy and genial firelight, than iu broad day on the world's great battle-field. Mr. Clerron seeing Ivjr's confus ioD, kindly came to befaid. "Aud you thought my superfluous time and wisdom might be transferred to you, thus making a more equal division of .property V "If you would be so good,.l, yes, Sir." "May I inquire bow you propose to effect such an exchange T'' lie really did not intend to be anything but kind, but tbe whole matter presented itself to him in a very iudicrous light; and in en deavoring to preserve proper grav ity, he became severe. Ivy, all unused to the world, still had a se cret feeiingthat he was laughing at her. Tears, that would not be repressed, glistened in her down cast eyes, gathered on the long lashes, dropped silently to tbe floor. He saw that she was entirely a child, ignorant, artless and sincere. His bitter feelings were roused, and he exclaimed, wr.u real earn estness, "My dear young lady, I shoul 1 rejoice to serve you in any way, I beg you to believe." His words only hastened the ca tastiophe which seems to be always impending over the weaker . sex. Ivy sobbed outright, a perfect tempest. Felix Clerron looked on with bachelor's dismay. "What in smile and self never have seen No oue knew anything of his past history; no one car d .to ask, and bis bowed and trembling term at the alter, when God's ieole were called to the Holy Commun ion was seldom noticed, for This 1 had the tbe the thunder? Confound .the girl!" were his reflections; but ber utter abaudonment to sorrow melted his heart again,- not a very susceptible heart either; bat men, especially bachelor's, are so green l He sat down by ber side, stroked the hair from ber burning forehead as if she bad been rix instead of sixteen, and again and again as sured ber ot his willingness to as sist her. i "I must go borne," whispered Ivy coat was faded and patched lie was dying as be had lived ut' known but his love for the God that he had served was of the kind that "Passeth all understanding," and there was a silent glory in Ins death that gives the lie to the thought in the fool's heart, "Tnere is uo God.". ! A few sympathetic women gone to the humble cottage ou last missiou of love. Death is common enemy aud hard is heart that hath no sympathy The sun went down and the soul of old man Bob parted with .the body as the fires of evening, burn ed low iu the west, flickered aud went oat. i His mind wandered ! before! he died, and tbe silent watchers knew that he was a boy again, among the hills of old Scotia, but when he came to the river's bank, there was a glad smile on his face, and; he plunged into the cold waters. He saw on the other shore what is withholds n from bumau eyes an gelic bands. i The world bad sneered at 'his ragged coat and paiS'l him by, bat noiselessly the clianoU bad come down through aveuuis of either,and carried him to bis. home beyond, tne stars. The good women, brushing the tears from their eyes.6aw only the desei ted tenement. Old -uiuu Bob sevens and nothing Is done to satisfaction. Asheville Citizen. In a ppirit of justice .to our present Lieutenant Governor, Maj. Chas. M. Stedman, we mu.-t say that he proved a most formidable canvasser In the campaign of 1834. His tour through the section impressed upon all who heard him an ap preciation of his ability aad mairnetism that has not been forgotten. If ' the convention commits to his hands our par ty's banner, we believe he will carry it nafely through the struggle. Ldenton Lnquirer. - . Mr. Henderson, has scored an admirabl point in securing the passage through the llouee of his bill to amend the internal revenue laws by abolishing the minimum puuii-hment iu rev enue cases, by prohibiting the issuing of warrants upon'infor mation and belief except npon aQdavit made by the collector or deputy collector or revenue agent, and by authorizing the commi-itioner of internal rev enuo to compromise any ca?e under the internal revenue laws. We congratulate him, but we more particularly con gratulate the people of Jforlh Carolina. It is clear that the Democratic .members of our delegation are alive to the in terest of the people they re present, aud are doing their utmost to secure such legisla tion as will meet the pressing ing demands of the times among us. AU honor to their faithful, earnest, intelligent efforts. Charlotte Democrat. . at every election have put their root down upon their demands anu we oeneve tney will con tinue to da so. Now, shall the Democrats of Nort!i Carolina repeal a law which rleht, Jus-1 lice and common sen .- lemand should remain, simply because the negroes and rascals de mand it ? Hillsboro Recorder.! A man carae out of a little ranch in south -eastern Wyoming a we were going past and said : - Prob'Iy yoo folk wouldn't be com iu' back thin way I No, we don't ex;ect So. I reckoned not. If yoa was I calkiiated to scud down to tbe Post Office for my ma L Haven't yoa had it lately. ot lor 'bout two weeks- The fact Is, I darou t go down after it. What are you afraid of. 'Fraid o' the doggoned i-okI- mjMer, 01 coutoe. We bad mme trouble 'bout some ttock an' te 'lows he'll blow the top of my bead off tbe first time I Mick it up front o the gen'ral deli'ry. an' be'd mighty apt to do it, too I Why don't yoa report bim to the department f Ob, that's all right; bo's got the inside track on me now. and I'm willm' be should step high if he want's to. Jes' yoa wait, thon.h I've fent la an appiecation, for tbe office tnj wMf, chargin him wi'.b bein one 01 thee 'ere offensive partisans, an' when I git it I'm gom to move it up here, wad my shot pun with tbe first letter that comes to bim, an, when bis friends come to get bim tbe first time after be tries to draw mail out e' my office they'll think norae railroad company's been taking him for a big mountain an rnnnin'a tunnel plumb through, bim t Jet.' yoa let him keep right oa walkiu' round with his bead op'n the air if be wants to; the tin. ia corain' very soon when that office will' be man aged by a man who can pound tamps with one band and keep the gen'ral del iv.ry covered with a well as he can! Chicago Tribune. "Star Sat Veal." as soon as 6he could command, or was a king and wore a crown. Democrats who are planning, expecting or hoping that the platform of the Democratic party in the Presidential cam- pakmof tbiayear will Ignore, Blx-hooter with the other ies't as . 11 t cm i - - evaae or sirauuio tue lariu Issue are bound to be disap pointed. Before the Preident's message marked the line of the campaign, gucii a cowardly policy seemed possible, but from the moment when that message appeared there has been no possibility of anything but an honest, manly fight on the lines therein ineradicably drawn. Nothing that Congress may do or leave undone can prevent the tariff issue from occupying the front place and belittling ail other issues in the canvass. If there be demo crats who would change all thi a pnd go into the campaign on such a straddle as that of 1884 we advise them to give up hoping or trying for the Impos sible. The thing they would do can't be done. Washington Post, Dem. A story Secretary Lamar tells at his own exiiense: At a political meetiDg in bis own Stale soon after the war. he wss one t tbe speak ers, and iUuding to the civil war, tuggeAied as a praralkl case tbe paaable of tbe prodigal eon and bis joyful reception at bis borne when the naughty boy returned. He waa succeeded by a negro, a Uepablican,wbo, after some gene r al rent arks, paid bit respects to Lamar's parallel. "ForgibenH a d be. "Dey iorgiben dem brig-idles! Wby dey'M come' walkiu' into de' house an' bang de do an' go up to the 01' man and aay: -Whar dat veal!" victed at l)tib..:u Utinony t.f a t ;; baa oo3lt-iwe4 tL it 1 L The Hickory V: C tell of a bold t ;:;!..:. town. Two iccu c:.- : i of an oIJ cay e. 1 . ma tided "money cr lit tlS.70. Two i-y. : neighborhood arc :..; Tbe Xloruiorj ! ' ly pisse l tarou.;u Uavte oou-t!f, ; ; ' Moa to prra-Ii ..: . .. Boad and at SI '.: . count, bat w?v i f , : idacea. Tbey lrvt 1 of biboe. The New lw-rne that few Northera :.', -been sold in tfcat j i tv r Tbe truck farmer r -need. Tbe Wil.nu . 1 fbc people of lb l ;.!..f ern and Karopfaa .:.. getber, aluio't. Oxford is to l.- r i -pajer, we fee at t..:r . ". .. of that to a -rU.i.. to patronize a Bewt.;i:! : , deuced bv the l:.'t j! ' stowed upon the To L er paj-er would be -. '. . we bare nodcuV.. The Kng..h f; .: . tacked tbe tru Last aad are 1 ; : green pea atd I .:.." ' is an unmilig. t.-d " -where and every-'. - . thing mu-'t kku I ; . country of them. lv tuer. The I'.ocky M' -n: c i of the Taxb,ro N-ufj.: Duricg 1S7 the f . - r : chants on both r . ! r as CVlDCd by tier ments before tl.e u ' -of KdiJcooniW a-'. increased ' p-r v t lfts6. The Gwuv.'w l; :. tbe follow: pi.ie i newr: There - u, 1 ' '. tin on the pr: "f -' r : to go into iJ.e luoivai-v this year. A lare per t have not catciIU-d V..? 1 . mortgage, and they tV-i dal to try the buukrc; year. Here ate the taxe. cj' e-: 1M7 in North Carti.oa: T censed retail 1:qucj- - t r.v Mild, soothing and hel ng ia Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. 737; tax oa white ; tax oa colore.1 teal aud pt-rsoiiiil ; cent on tbelioo w it:, ty, i.'7.4v.' 1o:d 00-,CK); total tatei fr, purpose, ?320O.v. John Ueljer. liA'.-l V, Williaa TernpU :-r.. Statesville, ctkrtd Abram Barker t L- boase, m Iretle'd tct c-.; 26th of Ui-t ltc!? charged that iU-te tJ'n the bonr-e and when f u: appeared ta ct'.it. mother, shot bin. Te o oTercocce when t t terrible e.tuaUon that Lc StatrsTihe Lit. 'lui-k.. sr.. J : I v - - . .j . . Hi' t'r t-tr It-.- - .- . it -;-;- ( . L 1 l - lib . ! :i! - A 1 tw ' o .i ,e ! - ...t i. c . A : U t h.n f : ... .1 - 1 1; 1. .1 c u li - - -. .-; o.-i 1.' y HA y l : i