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NOW UNTIL JAM. lot
FOR ONE DOLLAR.
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THE ADVANCE FROM
NOW UNTIL JAN. 1st
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LET ALL TIIE ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY'S, TJI Y OD'8, AND TRUTHS.'
WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, APRIL 5, 1888.
VOLUME 18.--
NUMBER-10
DVANCE
11 irtl va
BILL ARFS L
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1TTEB,
THE OLD .PHILOSOPHER
RVM1XATES ALITTLE.'
He Talks of Ingalls and lihtcfi
burn. He gived Clei-eluml.
Grady and a fiw others a little
Thought. ' v
It is curious how our thbiiuists
runaway and meander aroundi
and then come back aud take a
new start. They will' do this
in spite of us and we wonder
how they get away off. from the
matter we were thinking about.
But there is always some pro
vocation or they wouldn't, g
I was ruminating about Senator
Tnial1 nnd his trreat learning
and scholarship and wonderful
irta oa on nrator and thinker
I wa9 wondering how he could
nrostitute those talents to the
low-down, mean, contemptible
business of slandering the soirtl
and manufacturing willful and
malicious lies about our people
Then I thought of John Sher
man in the same connection and
it s-eined to me a monstrosity
that men should have puch
brains and the devil control
their hearts. I How is tliat?-
asked a little boy one day what
kind of a dog that was that
was following him and he said
'that !flog is half terrier "
"What is the other half?", said
I. Tbejboy looked surprisec
and hesitated as he said, "noth
in but dog, I reckon." And
that 13 the trouble with these
great men who are so laeau
They are one half terrier and
the other half dog. l was trav
veling not long airo with San-
fdrd Bell, the revered veteran
of all conductors, and some con
sequential darkies demanded
that the white men should be
expelled from their car. San -ford
said, 'well, that is all right'
They must go if you say so,-'
and bo he pohtelydnviteius all
out. and we acquiesced with a
got one fifty cubica high in their
back yards. , ! . '
Let the comedy go on until
the tragedy begins. I was look-
ng over a northern paper yes
terday that abounded in figures
and statistics. It gave proba
bilities' of the south, and they
ere astounding. The population
of the six New England ptates
ias increased only 23 per cent
n forty year, while that of
lexas Las increased 260 per
cent since the last census. The
south is coming rapidly to the
front. Just think of it ; 260
per cent in eight years, and the
other . southern states coming
along rapidly. It will be a
great while before Haman
hansjs Mordecai. ' He is still
sitting at the kina'a gate and is
biding his time. Grover and
Frances are all right. When
Grover returned from his late
trip down south, Senator Col -
quittsaid: "Well, Mr Cleve
land, what do yiou and Mrs.
Cleveland think of, the south
Grover equeezea the senator's
hand first said : "She is solidi"
THE HEATHEN'S SLUSHED.
EDITORIAL TALK.
iud ftirs. uieeiana squeezed
us otrier nana earn: ".Keep
her bo, senators." i
And she will keep so. The
north will keep her so; Ingalls
and Sherman and their sort
will keep her so slander and
abuse will keep her so. That
is nature. The boys in 'Possum
TroS may quarnel and fight
with the boys of Pine Log, but
just let any outsiders abuse
fartow county, and 'Possum
Trot and Pine Log " will both
jump on him. The old 'oman
may abuse her oud man, but
sLe wont let anybody else do
it. When Mrs. Arp threateus
to whip her children and feigns
a terrible passion as she exclaim?-.
"I do wish I had a
swit'a!" it wont So for me to
-top in and tell her there, is one
on the mantel piece. That is
talking too much with my
mouth. I never tried it, but
once, aud shant try it any more.
But they say we ought not to
As They Feasted Their Eyes Upon
Washington Society Women.
A Washington dispatch says at
the Chinese bah the Corean Lega
tion was present in court costume,
a ad its members moved ' about
through the big parlors of Senator
Stewart's palace v. ith their big
black sugar loaf hats held on to
their enridusly shaped heads by a
string of long glass beads of differ
ent colors which ran around their
head under their chius. Their
almond eyes curiously watched the
beautiful bare necks of the iair
ladies .present, and the Corean
Minister says the women of this
couutry, as they appear at evening
receptions, look as though they
grew up out of their clothes. The
Cbreaus first appeared at a White
House reception it was in the jam
of last week their lemon" colored
cheeks blushed to a decided hue,
aud the leading members of the
Legation came up to Dr. Allen,
their American Secretary, aud ask
ed bim if he reaMy thought it would
be etiquette for them to look at
these women Allen told them to
feast their eyes, and '.he indications
at the ball last night showed that
tbey were following his suggestion
with a vengeance. In the mean
time the youug girls at Washing
ton, at least some of them, sermed
to enjoy the admiration of these
Corean. nobles, and they hang
around them at this ball like the
beautitul nymps about the ugliest
satyr.
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OUR BROTHER QUILL DRI
VERS ON-PASSING EVENTS.
Our Comments, Mingled With
TJiose of Other Editors, on Poli
tics Farming, and Other
Things. I -
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THE INTERNAL REVENUE.
"Which Party is Inclined to Help
Us? Bead the Testimony.
MADE FOS THE WOODS..
He Gays the Best Advice He Could.
In his 'Random Kecollections,"
Henry B. Stanton tells the follow
ing laughable story of Jeremiah
Mason, the great lawyer :
Alter lie had become distinguish
ed in Nt w Hampshire, he went in
to a run county to try a civil suit.
A pompous little judge was on'the
bench. He assigned Mason to de
fend a negro on an indictment lor
petty larceny. With surprise tin
ged with iudiguaticu, Mason de
clined the task. '-Sir, you must
obey the order of the court," said
the-little judge. "All you need to
do is to take your, client into the
adjoining room and give him the
The Republican County Con,
vention of Halifax will be held
at Halifax 10th of May.
The Weldon News proposes
the name of Thomas N. Hill
for a eeat on the Supreme Court
Bench. ' i
Mr. N. B. Broughton declined
to allow his name to be used as
a candidate for State Auditor.
He was probably the f oremest
man in the race.
It is given out now that Col.
Boyd, of this city, and K. K. K.
notoriety will play second fid
dle to, E. L. Russell, on the lie-
publican ticket for Governor.
Greensboro Patriot.
1
The Greenville Reflector
comes out squarely for the
nomination Gov. Jarvis. There
is little probability that he
will play a stong hand unless
he pledges himself not to,1 use
that office should he be bo for
tunate as to secure itas a step
ping stone to Senator Ransom's
place.
speak unkindly ol tne dead, ana beet advice you can." This struck
Mason, in a funny liht, and he
good grace; but "there was a
curious looking, measley pided,
ginger cake fellow, who didn't
vacate, and one of the darkies
hunted up Sanford and com
plained that there was still one
man left. Sanford went back
and inspected him. He looked
inquiringly at his face, and the
back of his head, and the shape
of his feet, and finally address
ed him and said : "My friend,
are you a white man ?" "2sTaw,"
said the mongrel. "Well, what
are you?" said Sanford. "Ma
mudder Potugee and me f.xdder
a nagar." he said. S-ir.tord
turned solemnly to the darkies
and said: ''How's 'that?"- and
they subsided.
There are some stra'ic mix,
tares in our humanity. Talents
go a long ways to atone i'or
cality and meanness.
ways wilr, I. reckon. Lrd Iki
con took bribes, and so some of i tional
the greatest minds in the nation fN'ow
so l win say no more-aDout ln-gells.-;
He committed suicide
and Blackburn buried him, and
Henry Grady preached h-is
funeral, and so we will let him
rest. The southerners are a
Grange-people anyhow. They
iret nrad quick, and will fight,
but they get over it just as
quick and make friend. I got
mad with a man once, and he
got mad with me about some
thing, and we did not speak for
three months ; and one night
we happened to meet in a hotel
in New York, and the same
emotion took posession of us
both at the same time, and we
went right up to. each other, and
he said, "God bless you major,
1 am glad to see you," and I
said as much to him, and we
made it all up and never got
mad any more. But I know
i folks win have poison bags
ras- right under theii eyes, and
al-ithev carry their hatred for
arose, beckoned to the negro, and
stalked into an ,einpty room with
his 'client' at his' heels. "Are you
guilty f asked Mason. '-Yes, sir,"
responded the negro. "Can they
prove it!'' "Ye, sirj all the wit
nesses are here." Mason put his
bead ont of the open window and
said, "It is about li feet to the
gr. und. Do you see those woods!'
The L-egro leaped and Mason re
turned into the court. . I5y aud by
i he case was culled but the negro
did' not respond.' "Where is your
clieut!" asked the little judge. 1
o not kuow," replied Mason.
"Your honor ditecte'l me to give
him the bct adviee I could, and
the last. 1 saw ot iu nt
n!!)g for tbse to'mN over
Everybody laughed except
tie judg,e, and the cu tain
the scene.
wan run-
there."
the lit
ftll on
Sadical Allies-
Gov. Jarvis has written a let
ter to a gentleman in this city
in which he says that he is not
a candidate for Governor, and
does not desire the nomination
or the afUce; but that if put
upon him without his action he
would reel bound to accept it.
The "Wilmington Star says
the death of Mr. Dorsheimer,
proprietor of the New York
Star, will be regretted. He was
a man of ability and shrewd
ness as a politician. His paper
had attained to influence, and
was the best exponent of De
mocracy in the great city.
The Sandford Express says
the Third Congressional dis-
j trict is to be congratulated al
ready. Therd are three gentle
men who are willing to serve
T A
in tne jauonai House next.
year the present incumbent,
Maj. McClammy, ex-Congress-
! man V narton, J . ureen ana
Thomas H. Sutton Esq. We
suppose that there is little
doubt but that McClammy will
be renominated.
have 6tooped to iniquity that
would send a common in sin to
the chaingang.-
Mercury was the God of let
ters and : astrouomy and elo
quence and music but he was
at the same time the patron of
fraud and perjury. He wore
sandals to keep his . footsteps
from being discovered. lie stole'
some oxen from Apollo and
when the theft was proved on
him he went to playing on the
lyre and his music so delighted
Apollo that he let him keep
the oxen. And just so these
modern men like Blaine and
Ingalls and Sherman play the
liar and so tide- the people
with their eloquence that they
let them keep the (bxen.
But the late assaults of 1 -
galls , and oherman seem- ;!
come more from bate thanj i
icy, We can understand why
the igncrant people of the nort
still hate us bnt why an intells'
gent wall informed man should
do BO passeth all comprehend
Sion.
Now, there is Senator Ingalls
who, next to the preru lent j
holds the highest poeithm in
the nation. He is brainy, pol
ished and rich, and jet like
Hamansays: A11 this avail
etU me nothing, so long a s 1 see
Mordecai sitting at ti.-.' king's."
gate," The solid south . is his
"bete noir" his evil ge-iius.
The solid south is sittirig at the
king's gate." -The -south has a
friend at court. Uncle Sam is
the king, and Harnan is some
Where building a gallows.. Me
has been building it a lony time
and his great misery is because
Mordecai is sitting at the king's
gate,
Never did a "pfsople behave
more civilly, more courteously,
more considerately than has the
south since the war. We have
defamed noDody, vilified no
body at the north, and have;
endured every oppression iui
at the same tendered tha olive
branch and hegged for peace,
and urged our northern breth
ren to come down and see us
and share our hospitality, aud
yet they continue to elect to
office the most venomous of all
oiir enemies. Now we can
hardly- believe that theiorth
wants to hang Mordecai, but ;
me men they elect to congress
are actually building a gallows
rears and vears. It is constitu-
J AT 1 i 11 T i
aim iuey cau t ueip it.
it ingalls were to rome '
down here and show a kindly,
brotherly feeling, our people
would forget and forgive every
slander he ever uttered. Why
old Tecumseh came down here
some years ago and our people
toted him around in a carriage
and wined him and dined him,
but we are not goimj to doit
any more, for he went back and
abused us and told lies " on
Hampton. They may fool us
once or twice, but they can't
fool u? three times,
! Bill Arp.
Republican allies, to all intent
and purposes are Republicans and
worse. They sail under false and f.e
luding colors; wear, so to speak,
the livery of Heaven 10 serve the
devil- iu proclaiming themselves
and pretending to be Democrats,
they rebel against party methods
and nominations and fight party
nominees. Let all such look well be
lore tbey leap this year. If they
have the good of the Srate at heart
they will not wish to t--rn the
State over to the party that came
so near eternally bankrupting her
treasury and smirching her fair
charaoter. It seems io true patriot
would lend his aid aud eiicourasa
ment to the same party that again
seeks dominion. Tarboro South-
ruor.
A SHAKE OF THE HAND,
Yvhat '. is
Sisnined by
Pecpio,
Different
Inga'
Is and -Sherman have each
Tiierv is ' great 'signifleaii.ee in
WAti'd Khaktng, and many are the
me:. hods. used to perform 'that'op
iMration. Soiue seize jour band
with ;i fervent grasn one foot ex-
tendtd and holding yonr eye with
their own. Such is' the salutation
of the jolly tar, -ready to sh
'. he -last snot in the locker" with
tlu? stranger of the-; hour. Others
auain, eize .yuiir . nana with, as
nuicn ierency, auo may mean as
vvtit toward yon, but they do not
look directly at you"; but past your
I cii-ek, with eyes ste'adily set, as if
:"ku;g tor some undefined ghost
Pkcss beyond, and seeming to con
rae with the same. Others give
too great a show of fervency to the
salutation; causing your fingers to
tingle with pain; you involuntarily
"hhice at the injured hand, ex'pect
it to have been com pressed, in-,
to oi.e horrid, bittised extended
dexter finger. Others, again, add
to the exhibition of muscular power
by swinging your; baud jip and
i'owu, a sort of intimation that
i they are about ' to 'pump' you.
, bouie jive you the tips of their fiu-
yers ; others take the whole hand
jThe'inoutl abominable hand shak
1 ing is that lazy, listiesg offenug,
giving no Dies.snie, and averse to
receiving any. We have shaken
hands with such .persons, and the
memory of it annoved ua for an
hour afterward. It; was likb touch
ing a wet dish-clathj, or a cold qniv
erins frog. An embarrassing shake
ol the hand is wlfen the partv
greets you hastily,;yet silently, as
d he felt guilty of boldness, or was
not quite sure that he had not
heen misled by a resemmance. it
is as awkward as a pause in con
versation no one I knowing quite
what to say under the circumstan
ces. EX. ! .-i
The Duty ofEaitcrs-1
But woe to you, scribes and prin
ters, that fail to perforin well your
part; for the abundance and va' ie-
tiy of the pabulum you have fed, to
to the reading world have' rendered
it somewhat fastidious and hyper,
critical. The Press what of it! It
has been called argus eyed but th
epithet is disparaging to the mod
ern press. Argns had but a hun
dred eyes, and these were lulled to
sleep, and the divinity was killed
by Mercury. The modern press
with its myriad eyes to see, its
mlyriad tongnes to tell, with the
telephone, telegraph, postal depart
ment, railway corporation and
ocean t-teatners all ready and eager
to do its bidding, slumbers not. but
is perpetually wide awake and hard
at work.-llaleigh Recorder.
A Great Scheme.
The Sun copies an article
from the Elizabeth City Econo
mist coming out squarely for
the reuominatiou of Theo F.
Davidson as candidate for At
torney Ueneral. We suppose
there is no doubt but that he
will be renominated. There ap
pears to be no oppocitipn to
Davi ison, iBaine, Saunder3 and
Finger. Gen. Roberts will not be
renominated, appears very
plainly.
Cotton Seed Meal for Butter Makers.
It is certain that at present, pri
ces of butter, many larmers can
profitably use crron seed meal. It
is a very rich food in oil and gives
the butter, even whe'i made iu win
ter. a better color than thau is ob
tainable from aiiy other dry feed
Owing to Its richness only a small
qua tiry can. te Kiveii (tally. lo
pounds of this meal is enough for
most cows, though after using it
awhile this quantity may be slight
ly .ncreased. Given with wheat
bran or barley sprouts, it atliHira-
blv sunnlements the deficiency of
those feeds which are excellent for
making quautitv of milk without
regard to the quality. If the cow is
a good irilker, eottou seed meal
may be fed to her after she is put
on grass as long as she will eat it,
American Cultivator-
An Austin man met a visitor
from. Northern Tex?s, and asked
bim how a certain mutual friend
was coming on.
'He is doing well,' was the re-
P'y- 4
what business 's he at?'
'De has got the softest thing in
the world of it. He bought a lot of
donkeys at San Antonio for three
oouars apiece, anu taking them up
A California widow who put her
all into a ueai in stocK ana was
shrunk out; called upon her broker
and said : "When will this thing
probably come out in the papers 7"
"To-morrow, doubles." (Iow
long can you suppress it 1" "Why
I might keep it out two days, but
not longer." ''Only two dayaf
That's pretty short notice, bat I am
a hastier when I get my bonnet on
I'll depend on'.two days." On the
third day the papers chronicled
her loss and her wedding on the
same page.
Mr. GuzzIb (who has met with a
to his ranch he cleared twenty sev- bereavement) 'Lend I me a dol-
.j .. 1 1 . .. i . i I ar T 1
eu dollars a head on them.
'Do they bring such high prt
prices!' 'ifo, but he lets the railroad
trains run over them, and the'eom
pany las to pay him thirty dollars
a piece for them."
The Kaleigh ews-Observer
says at Sparta Alleghany county,
last week, just after the adjourn
ment of court, Joseph .Lee was in
formed that George VV. Sexton
had gone before the grand jury as
a witness against him. Ue walked
up behind him and fired two balls
from a pistol into him, both of
which passed entirely through his
body. Lee fled but was captured
by the sheriff and a posse and
placed in jail. Sexton Is doubtless
dead by this time.
There are some Republicans
who argue to the people of
North Carolina that if anything
is ever done with the internal
revenue system it will be done
by the Republican party, and
some weakminded Democrats
are half inclined to believe
them. We have time and again,
quoting from the Congression
al Record, shown that in the
closing hours of the last Con
gress, when Mr. Henderson got
the floor and called up his res
olution io repeal .the tobacco
tax, to forbid the destruction of
stills and to provide other mod
ifications in the revenue laws,
131. Democrats and 8 Republi
cans voted for it. and 107 Re
publicans and 5 Democrats vo.
ted a gainst it. Under the rule
two thirds vote 163 votes
wer required for the passage
of a resolution. Had the five
Democrats who oted against
it voted for it, it still would
not have been adopted, but had
only 29 Republicans more, or
only 37 Republicans in all, out
of 115, voted lor it, it would
have been. To put it another
way, more than 96 per cent of
the Democrats voting, voted
for the resolution, while more
than 83 per cent of the Repub
licans voting voted against it.
That tells the tale. That tells
which party in the Forty -mnth
Congress was most inclined to
hem our people. '
Now. let's look at the record
in the present Congress as thus
far made. Our readers under
stand that the Democratic mem
bersof the ways and means
committee of the House have
uuanimously agreed upon a tar
iff and internal revenue bill
which thev will report to the
loose with the recommenda
tion that it do pass. This bill
provides.' among other other
things, for the repeal ol the to
bacco tax; pre'euts revenue of
ficers from destroying property
seized by them, in the absence
of an order of condemnation
(heretofore they have been per
mitted, without any proceed
ings of condemnation, to enter
upon premises and cut up aud
destroy property;) provides that
in case confinement in jail is
found to iniure the health or a
person imprisoned for a reve
nue offence, the judge who sen
tenced him may make such or
der in the case s may seem to
him humane and proper. !ow
then: all these provisions were
agreed upon by the Democratic
members of the committee
without any consultation with
the Republican members: but
last week the whole committee
met together to consider the
bill. Three of the five Republi
can members oa the committee
opposed the section which re
peals the tobacco tax, and to
auote the language of Mr. Cic
ero W. Harriss a perfectly re
liable arid truthful" gentleman,
in his letter of the 18th inst.
from Washington to the AVil
ui ing ton Mesenger, "several of
them are opposed to doing any
thing on the subject of still-
breaking arid the general amel
ioration of the " bperation of
these laws." The section repeal
ing the tobacco tax was left in
the bill, by virtue ot the unani
mous vote of the Democrats of
the committee. But let s go to
a non-partisan aumority ior
the facts: An Associated Press
dispatch of the 16th from Wash
ington said:
The ways and means commii
tee again considered the inter
nal revenue section of the Mills
bill today, and completed it
with the exception of the par
agraphs relating to the des
struction of private distillery
apparatus to the treatment of
the prisoners whose health was
jeopardized by confinement
Over taose sections mere was
some difference of opinion and
it was evident that the Repub
licans will vote against them
when the committee meets
again.
Did they? An Associated
Press dispatch of the 17th from
Washington said:
As was expected the two in
ternal revenue sections of the
bill left over from the last
meeting of the House ways and
means committee, to-day en
countered the the vigorous op
position of the Republican
members. 1 he section iorDia
ding the destruction of private
distilling property by revenue
officers in advance of a trial
was particularly obnoxious to
them and they pointed out the
difficulties that would encom
pass the officers of of the gov
ernment in attempting to Be-
anre transportation or safe
In Case of Fire.
, L.
'What is the first thiDg to be
done in cao of fin-?' asked a teach
er in one of the district public
schools.
Tring suit against dose insur
ance goompanies,' replied little
Ikey Rosenthal, whose lather had
been burned out three times, and
made a good thing of it.
me
An Unjust Sustain
Dud 'Miss, will you allow
to accompany yout'
Indignant Female 'Sir, do you
think tor a '
Dnde 'Me think!! Good gwa
ciocf, dr 1 wc&hy look a if 1 could
think?'
NEWb OF A WEEK!
WHAT IS UAPPESISa IS
THE WORLD A&OUXD US.
A condensed report of the newt as
g tit lit red from tKo columns of
our contemporaries. Slate sunt
Xutlonitl.
" That's da Way Did.
A New Yoik family were recent
ly blessed wi;h a baby bov, the
first one in the family. Nex door
there was a 1 mill v in which there
were half dozen children. When
tho arrival of the Ixiy next door
was announced, little Johnny, aged
six years, Hsked :
'IIav they . dot a boy
enough V
"Yes. there is a b.y over there
at lat."
'Then they will h-.iv a lot
That's th- way we did."
sore
more.
The depot at Four Oaks iu
broken into, and a lot of floor fol
ea therefrom, few eight tiooe. A
dwelling sear by was entered the
same alga.
The Clinton Caucasian says the
price of cotton can be made high r
by raising a leas amount of it. and
devoting the time Urns saved from
cotton, raising corn and meat.
The Asberille Citixen says the
peach crop U totally desuojed.
woueuiaine -opinion ot many ol
ms trait growers that the apples,
cQcmfB cm:, nave not yet breo
aarmea.
' e see from the Weldon Kews
that a force ol hands ar already
st wore laying tne track on the
Scotland ecfc branch of Lb W. &
w.ii. ii-, wUKUiU bdag citeoded
Uobgood's Fork.
ibe mends or local option in
Asbevllle are endeaToriof to se-
care enoagn names to their pe
nnon sating for an election to se
core a vote on the question, we see
irom tne ban.
xoe vosruHie ueaocrt says:
several oi me negroes who recent
The Charlotte Cotton , Mills are
being enlarged.
There are forty two law vers la
Asheville says the citizen.
The late Chief Justice Wait .was
worth $20,000 at his death. -
Liberty county Gs record show
not a solitary real estate mortgage.
M. Q. Waddell Esq- a piominent
citizen of Smiibfield, is dead.
Another boase was burglarized
at Fayetteville a few nights since.
Tha -Inn rn a! sanfa '
- H U k4 m AtUllf BUU a .
veiretabla fair hohi at v.ti.r,n. I iy went from this section to Gall
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&ixiy neguie leit llickorv one
day last week in tue party for Cal
norma ii wots in ihe orange
groves aud vineyards of that
state. They were in charge of
railroad passenger agent wbo ex
lects to recruit, on the way until he
.ill have a thousand by the time
Caliorma is reached. Catawba's
Democratic tnui rity will this year
le even larger thau usual.
The Dut ham Tobacco Plant says :
H According to I lie school census
for the Dnthain school district
there are neatly 1,500 children of
both races letweeu the ages of 6
and 21 year-i. Therei are enrolled
in the Sunday cbcl of Durham
about 1,400 nu-mlv- , rhite and
colored, including .. . teachers
and pupils. .lh -a gu-nl &how
ing, but we c n do better. There
ought to be at least 2,000 attend
auts at Sunday schoo' vry Sun
day."
The Asheville Sunsas: "Jim
I leu ncr, mi is year old ooy, was
arr sfed ny the faliertn of iork
c uuty, S. C, oa the 2Clh inst.
three miles from Coopers station
charged with breaking in and rohb
ing some live or six houses in that
State. His two con federates tried
their h:i! ) Pi Citawba county, N.
C and were c.pturd. Wbeu the
were raptuied tLev informed the
Sheriff of '-'ouMi Carolina where
thev cou'd rn d this bov. He was
taken to l.-H'k J X ill, S. C, Monday.
Tb Charlotte Chronicle orres
the farmers ol that section to plow
deep.
AsbevMle is to Lave the Bell
Tclephhone service established in
May.
There are over fifteen fmit can
ing factories la the State, we cee it
stated. . ,
The French Broad Voice .u the
nau.e of a new paper just siirtd at
lirevaid.
The medical colleze for negroes.
in Raleigh, will turn loose five col
ored M. D's.
Chicago ha bad 8.132 divorces
in 15 sears, or one to every 13
marriages.
Tobacco plants in the Buncombe
section have been badly iojnred by
the cold imk p.
A man of 57 and a girl of IS were
recently niwrried at Mouth of Buffa
lo, Ashe countr.
A negro bov stabs a wbitt brry in
Union county, ana is shot dead by
a brother of the boy cut.
The Greensboro Patriot says
that town will soon have the track
for the street railway laid.
The farmers tell the Morgan ton
Star that the growing wheat crop
it looking unusually fine.
,'F. C Totter, a negro, escaped
from the jail in Greenville last
week, we see from the Reflector.
The Goldsboro Headlight is un
der the impression that crime is on
the decrease in Wayne county.
A union meeting of the Tar Riv
er Missionary Baptist Aociation
will be held at Scotland Neck April
23d.
PAI3.
1 IV
that 2ortbi Carolina la a better
coantrv than California
It Is rumored that at no d
day uolloweirs Mill, situated
about foor miles south, of Smith
neia on uisck urer, will De con
verted Into a factory for the maon-
lactore or spokes and nnbs.
The Greenville Reflector saji :
Jat at the hour or gciog to prras
we bear the sad news of tbe death
of Dr. John G. Jame. which oc
curred at tbe Macon Hon a few
m (notes before six o'dck jester-
aay evening.
A coontry negro was sentenced
to work on the street of Cbsrlotte.
lie begged the mar of to bave bim
given a good whipping and lorried
loose. IIU huts was letnitted aid
tie wan letVaKrd wilboot bring
either whipped or made to work
the trert,t
Tbe Mt. Airy Cewi learns or a
woman who has a doable row of
teeth, when one of tier so a I bss no
teeth at au. A daughter has
heap of hair Kack oa one side and
fed on the other.
The Advas.ce will be sent
from now until January 1st for
One Dollar.
Our object in taakirur this
propositi on Is that we propose
having considerable tossy to
the people daring the cxrn
palgn about the two parfie. We
propoae showing op their rse
ords as clearly as it Is pored Lis
for oa to do and exerting oar
selves to retain In the aeat of
government the Ikraocr&Uc
party. We delre a larger audi
ence than we now have though
we already have a large circa-
lation and we hope br means
of this prpoltloo dd tnanj
new names to oar llfL We ex
pect futthermore to retain
many or tho pabwrlbers we get
from the campaign and it Is by
this means that we expect to
get our money. The aVvasce
ordinarily goes for elx months
for one dollar, but by this prop
ortion It goes about tilte for
the fame money.
Will oar corretponuects and
friends everywhere pee make
this fact generally know a In
their respective neighborhood?
Will not all tbe friends every
where, of ttu ppr arid the
cause, now tarn la and Co a
little solid work for both?
1 Will not the country rot.
masters every where Inciden
tally remark, every now and
then, la the hearing of the pat
rons of their oficeii, that the
Advasce Is golrg at a dollar
from now onlil the 1ft of Jtn
oary? Will not Democratic 1" leni
tive committeemen, county anl
township, can vans their territo
ry a little and rend 00 a tew
clubs?
w e want a thousand cim
palgn pubMTibers In.iSeofa
month. We will get then If
the present patrons and f rleods
Barton M Mills, a travelling
anleHman, met with a eculiar and
.innl.lonl .it Om.1,1 V.I.
I r. I 1 1 1 u 1 1 1 - 1 1 f nit vuiaua iiru
on thezlst. Mr. Mill alighted from
a carriage at the raProad station
entrarce jv.id 'proceeded to walk
around h;. depot to tin -.baggage-
room, .lust as he tejobed the
houthwert comer something struck
him fairly in the eye and knocked
him down. The cause of the mishap
was an Lng iu sparrow. Tne bill
of the bird penetrated the eyeball
and the unfortunate mau will lose
hi eye. Ice bird was picked up
dead and one of ita eyes were clos
ed so it was evident that it did not
see the gentleman. aa Mr. Mills
was close to the wi
n,;i
The Southern Herald is tbe
name of a new paper started at
Bethel, Pitt county, we see it stated.
The ieo'p?e of Oxford propose
having a big time on the 19th inst.
in the way of a llailroad celebration.
The colored Knights of Labor of
Greensboro have bought a lot and
will erect a lodge room in that
town.
Mr. W. A. Jenkins, of Warren-
ton, a young man of 2G years, is
dead. He was well known all over
tbe State.
on
The KfifieM correspondent of the
Weldon ews x;iys : "OwiDg to
the excessive rains Fishing Creek
ia Hg;un very high : no high that
the county bridge is . impassable
List Saturday mum negroes from
the vicinity of Whitaker'a . mill
while attempting to cros, would
have Ikcii droucd but for the
timely asxistHiice of Gereral L. G.
Estes. He saw them pans nod
after waiting some time for their
return, knowing they couldn't
cros, he went to look afier them
and found them in the creek cling
ing to branches ot trees, and their
mule s' Mini in g on a knoll with his
head jnst out of the water. Their
l"ad of Hu!trv was browned. The
General went in to tiiem and after
considerable effort succeeded in
rescuing them."
the KcidHVilie Democrat says
J. C. Corbet t. an intelligent negro
and a teacher in one of tbe district
schools in this county, presented
two cleverly forged school orders
on Treeurer Smith for payment
yesterday. One of them wan for ?00
d tho other for S0. The amount
due that 1 i.-tt iirt was just what the
t wo orders called for, aud was not
calculated to arrest anv suspicion
of crookedness. Mr. Smith, how.
ever, scrutinized . the signatures
closely and detected a slight differ
ence iu n:u: of thern in comparison
with a uf-nnitiu one. and he bad tbe
negro arrested. It was afterwards
shown that both of them were
forged, and Corbett was committed
tojail.
Friend 'You are drunk now.'
Mr. Guzzle 'I can't help it. I've
keeping of snch property In a
country hostile to their pnrpo
been trying hard to drown my sor- ses.
row.' ! Now which party in Con
Friend 'Give it up, Guzzle; you cress is in favor of helping our
1 . -, I ,J ...
are aiways zrying to arown your ueorjle? Tase the tne testimony
and make up your verdict. The
Do
sorrow, but you uever succeed,
you know what I believe!'
Mr. Guzzle 'No, what da
ueiiever
Friond 'I believe your sorrow
has learned to swim.'
you
A German citizen of Hobcken
was informed that a lady bad call
ed to see him in his absence.- "A
lady," he, mused aloud, "a lady."
Upon an accurate description, be
suddenly brightened up and said ;
"Oh, dot vos no lady ; dot vos my
wife."
internal revenue system is the
child of tbe Republican party
and as a party it is not willing
to have it touched. Statesville
Landmark
A father consoling his daughter,
who had lost her husband, said:
don't wonder you grieve for him
my child; you will never find his
equal.' 'I don't know as I can, re
sponded the sobbing widow: 'but
I'll do my betst.' The father ltlt
comforted.
The Baltimore Sun eays : "Col.
XV. H. S. Bnrgwyn of Henderson,
North Carolina, formerly command
aut of the Fifth liegiment, of this
citv, arrived in Baltimore Saturday
in the interest!, of the Atlantic,
Henderson & Virginia Kailroad,
of which be is president. The ob
ject of Col. Burgwj n's visit is to
make arrangements with parties in
Baltimore to have his road connect
with the Suflolk & Carolina Bail
road at Suffolk, Va., which will
give the A. U. & V. Kailroad a di
rect and through connection with
Baltimore- Col. Burgwyn gives an
encouraging account of t'.;o pros
perity of his sect tou of yoi lh Caro
lina, and says the sales of tobacco
this season have reared good
prices, and put the nco,h iu that
Dart of 5crth. Carolina in excellent
condition. The tobacno sold from
this part ol North Carol.ra is the
celeorated -Gold Leal," ' which
brings from 50 cents to $i.50 a
pound in the leaf or raw state.
A negro thief wa captured
tbe train at Hickory. He was
identified bv means of a chicken he
bad in bis possession.
U. F. King, formerly editor of
tbe Greensboro CraPjrman, Knight
of Labor organ, is now editor of
the Danville Watchman.
Elizabeth Moore, an 18 years od
white girl, is in jail at Shelby
charged with leaving her illegiti
mate child to freeze to death.
Tbe SmitLOeld Herald says 2 .500
marriage licenses bave been issued
to white people of Johnston county
during the latt twenty years.
Extensive preparations are be
lag made for tbe celebrations a
tbe G cllford Battle ground May 5tht
and a grand time is an tic pa ted.
Tbe Wades joro " Intelligencer
sagely observes: Tbe guano crop
has been punted bat tb gasno
note will not be ripe until next
fall.
We learn that Capt. U. N. Ben
nett, of Norwood, recently sold to
one nrm siu,ouo worth of wraps
from the YaJdin Falls Cotton Factory.
Five convic's escaped from tbe
stockades on the Madison branch
of the CF. & Y. V. It- It- daring a
severe storm recently, we see It
stated.
Hon. K. P. Battle has formally
accepted the invitation recently
tendered bim to deliver an address
on tbe history of oar state supreme
court. -
A report from Goldsboro savs
the cold Veatber bas really done
much damage to trait in that re
gion, and has killed three foarth of
the peaches.
The executive committe of the
North Carolina Agricultural : So
ciety have fixed the time of tbe
next State Fair for October 1C, 17,
is ana rj.
and the aatch
dog that guards this variegated
family bas one artificial eye and
wss born without a taiL
The Greensboro Patriot aaya the
Chatham coal fields near Egypt are
soon to be opened op on an ex
tensive scale and it is claimed that
Wilmington po-scm superior ad
vantages as a ooaliog station for
vessel, as that port la mm direct
ly In tbe path of vessels boand
over tbe Atlantic than Is Newport
News or any other Soalh Atlantic
port.
Tbe Shelby Aurora says t TIe 3
Cs Railroad were last week dig
ging the second well at the Bather
ford ton depot. Tbe first wen hav
ing "caved in" and partiaHv filled
with dirt, tbe second well was
braced with Umbers and was dog
to tbe deptn of sixty feet, when
the qaick sand gave way and im
prisoned one well-digger, Dan Neat,
at tbe bottom.A beam struck htm a
fearful blow and be was Imprisoned
np to his arms by tbe Tailing dirt.
Lustily be cried, Oh, Ln"v, help I
oupii Anoiuer colored ian was
let down by tbe rope m, another
rope was tied under the arms of
tbe woanded man, wbo was tbns
ren.?d from Impending death. Ia
three mtnntea sAer he was polled
by tbe rope to tbe surface, tbe two
wells in close proximity were
"caved In" and foil of loose dirt.
Dan Neal is now very Iff, snfTerlng
from Internal injuries.
of the rrr will help ui. Ulll
tbey?
If anybody eends us a club cf
of ten new eubriter?, with
the cash, we will m-d1 the pa
per fre to that perwu through
out the campalim.
No name will be entered no
odds whose It is until the
money is paid. We can do very
little more than pay expends
nnder this offer if we get the
thousand subscribers std every
one pay la advance, inl we
certainly cannot afford to have
any deadheads in the ebte prise
nor and of the piy-you-ln the
fall fraternity.
Now, then altogether! and
let's pee wLat can be dnr.
is the title of an Interest log ltlas-
iratea treatise (103 rsret) ant.
post-paid, for 10 cents la stamps.
Address World's Dispensary Medi
cal Association, Bnfialo, N. Y.
Major Smile--'What Is this sil
ver question, anyhow f
uea. Lacier "Lend me quarter.
While Congress is passing
laws limiting to eight tours
work the employees cf the
government, we wl.-h ft would
do something to show crdinary
mortals (not fuckin rivern
ment cap) bow they , ;ve t y
working only tight : -urs a
day. Charlotte Iera
Exactly. Soaie of iu. ve to
put io sixteen Lours a cuy iu
order to keep the wo.f from
tbe door and pay our honed
debts. If CongTehS ran tell us
how to do this on eight Lours
work per day, the woods are
full of people who will be very
much obliged to it. bUtesvilie
Landmark.
Tbe opinion of tbe people Is that
Dr. Ball's Coagh 8yrop is the best
and cheapest remedy for concha.
colds, sore throat, asthma, etc
An evangelist named Wolfs Is
said to bave jumped op and crack
ed his heels together la the pulpit
at Lancaster, wia, and exclaimed,
"Ob, bow I do love to worry tbe
devil r
Tbe healing and parlfiflor Quali
ties of Salvation Oil render It tbe
best article for the apeedr and safe
core of ulcerated sores. Price only
ti cents.
Is Csrial tzi Hipry.
It Is an error to Imagine that
cternncM or padnens Is a t!gn of
devoutnesa. Ictu-e a man is
relLelously Inclined it does nut
follow that he mufl be four
and sullen. It Is Lt that bad
men should ecowl and look
melancholy; but he who Las
God'j smile of appaotatioa
upon him should (how its radi
ance upon his countenance. An
honest man, the man with a
good conscience, let Lira enjoy
himself and ehow a bciiaing
face. There Is no orre theol
ogy than that which teaches
that lie wbo Lis given rurh
fullness of joy to beads and
birds, delights in the iniry cf
men.--Mocking Eird.
In Staieevllle Jail there srssevrn
prisoners charged with m aider.
For weak Inn gs, spitting of blood,
shortness of breath, coasomntlon.
nigbt-weats and llogering coughs.
Dr. Pierce's' Golden Medical Dis
covery" s a sovereign remedy nr
ettor to codltver oil. By druggist.
We learn that a Bomber one ar
ticle of hard coal bas been diacor.
ered in Bladen coanty.
When everything else falls.
Sage's Catarrh Bemedy cares.
Pr.
Geo. M. Roue, of Fayetteville,
win aenver tne aaaress or wel
come, at the meeting of tbe North
Carolina Musioal society in that
town in May next.
Since tbe first of December
Morehead City and Beaufort have
exported nearly 5,000 barrels of
clams, oysters and escallops, pnn
cjipilS the former.
Deputy collector John A. Oates
made an internal revenue raid in
company with a United States Mar
shall the first week Into that sec
ton of Duplin known as Purgatory.
He failed to bag tbe game however
thnnorh ti AiA m tf T"n prra inwr
after them. Clinton Caucasian.
We learn from the Windsor
Ledger that detective J. T. Jame,
of Norfolk, bas succeeded In bring
ing to jastioe the parties wbo Darn
ed Mr. J. K. Moodv'e stable and
horses in Windsor on the 10th of
Feb. Isaac Pa vis was arrested on
suspicion, and confessed that Le
was interested, snd that Cecilia
Jernlgan, his sister-in-law. did tbe
burning:
Truck rARMrsa. Tha atten
tion of our citizens Is directed to
the Importance of truck farm
ing as an industry that will pay
handsomely. Arrangements can
easily be made with the Kail
roads to ship-to New York and
other markets all produce that
may be raised. Let our citizens
consider this suggestion and
prepare for this industry for
another year.
The idea bas been trtnsmlt
ted from (feneration to genera
tion that happiness is one large
and beautiful e Lone a single
gem so rare that all search for
it Is in rain, all effort to obtain
It wellnlgh hopeless. This Is
not so. True happiness is a
moslar, composed of many
smaller stones, lach taken
apart and viewed singly may be
of little value, but when all are
grouped together, and Judici
ously combined and set tbey
form a pleasing and graceful
whole-a costly, rare jewel.
Trample not nnder foot then
the little pleasure which a gra
cious Providence scatters In the
daily paths, and which in eager
&e arc L after some great and
exciting joy e are apt to over
1 00 k Mocking Bird.
Brown, "Jones is tbe greatest
talker I ever;beard."
Robinson, "Got the gift o' the
gab hasn't he?"
B, "He's worse than ny wo
man I ever heard. Po-s Le
ever give bis mouth a reft!"
R, "Yes, when be bas a cold
in his bead."
B, "Ohl he gives bis mouth a
rest when be bas a cold ia his
bead?"
K. Tfes. talks through bis
nose then.1