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7 fH&fiWANffl 103 OFFICE. THE ADVANCE JOB OFFICE. IS BETTER EQUIPPED THAN AMY EA8T OF RALEIGH. ALL OR DERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT AND EFFI :o: IS BETTER EQUIPPED THAN ANY EAST OF RALEIGH. ALL OR DERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT AND EEFI CIENT ATTENTION. LET ALl THE ESIDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY'S, Til IT GOD'H, AND TIIUTIIS'." CIENT ATTENTIO. WILSON, JOBTH CAROLINA, AUG. 2,. 1888. NUMBER 27 :o:- VOLUME 18. TEY TJS. TRY TJS. Wilson BILL ARP'S LETTER. -:o:- nx rni:si urii oi:s or tuje sorTiinnxAitMY.' He Say the Hoys Who fought Should Meet ami Recount old Tinir". notation of Office, etc, TLe 21st of July is a good day for reunions a kind of red letter day among- the veterans. 'He laughs best who laughs last,' but still it is human na ture to think more about vie tories than defeats. It is soldier nature especially, and so, as the veterans . have to . choose some day on which they will gather as comrades and recal the heroism and the trials of the war, the day that is the anniversn-y of the first great battle and the first treat vic tory is the best. And besides, it is about the time when the . crops are laid by and there is plenty of greeu corn and toma toes, and spring chickens and sheep, meat and ripe fruit. The bovs had a :.bte time at Newnan . "1 j XL ' I X and J wameu iu ua iiiero wuu the old bloody 7th, and see how many were left of the original pannel. They are not ibloody now. though they do wave a up 1 wonder, how are of red bandanna. many survivors there that 'great battle; how many would draw pensions, iff there . were any to draw. Out of thirty thousand who went iuiu mat fight, they say there are - but three thousand left. 'Somehow or other the veterans" will' Idie, sooner or later, down South maybe it they drew pensions they would live longer. A little money coming in every month . does relieve a man from anxiety and lengthens out his days, but still I can't understand why it , takes more money to .pay pen sions now thau it am ten years ago. I wonder how many sur vivors there are of the old original. Eighth Georgia and Fourth Alatama that fought , side by side in the pine thicket" Three companies from Home were in that fight, but there is only a little squad left to gatli ei. now. Captain Moore told me yesterday' that he could count them on his fingers, for there were but seven of the Light Guards. Seven of the seventy that first left Rome for Virginia. A short table would be long enough for 1 their re union, and a sniall sheep suffice for their meat lorty-hve yearsl I he boys are old now and up wards. Most ojf them are fifty. Those first volunteers, were the game boys of the South, and they went in spurred for the fight and eager for the fray. But they trot enough of it in lime. jney thought it was only a quarter stretch but found it a four mile heat. Many fell in that battle ; many more in succeeding battles; many surrendered to sickness and disease, and s4iil more have died in the years that have passed since the war. Some of ine aeau nave children grown 9 1t -T ana granacniiaren, ana l see widows who are widows still. We used to see fathers and mothers who grieved long for the noble boys they lost, but we don't now. Their grief is all over, for they art dead, and have joined their boys in the spirit, land. 1 don't know but one lather who lost a son at Manassas. There are but five in the county of Floyd. There are not ten mere who lost a son in any . battle during the War That generation has passed and the next has nearly gone'. The boys who fought are few and lar Detweeii, ana every year counts tue number less. The war is over, for the fighters are dead, but some folks don't . seein to know it. If a. gray Laired brigadier gats into Con- . ress and holds up bis head and looks liko he feels at home, some of our xsorthern brethren Imagine the rebel army sent him and that they are alive and kickiug and had ju&t. as lieve fight some more as not. That is a mistake, my friends. There is no rebel army. ,Tho army is dead all but a few, and thej have fit enough. They are as harmless and gentle as a suck ing dove. This is another generation that is circulating now. When the few surviving vets have a reunion their child ren and kinfolks and friends meet with them to mike the cumber look respectable. That's all. These outsiders furnish . the barbecue and help to eat it, and they love to sit around the old soldiers and hear them spin yarns and tell how they licked 'em here and go.t licked there, and how they lived on roots and drank brauehwater, and marched all night and fought all day, and how empty steeve or the the missing eye or cheek, and how old looked ajid how old come the cratch or he scarred Bob Lee Stonewall prayed and all about old Bob Toombs aud old Tige and old Hock aud the other general i. No, there isn't a bit of. harm in itlein old veterans. Let them eat sheep meat and roasting ears if they want to. They flidn t have much for four long years and so let them make for lost time. Who are all these people we see everywhere we go, and where did they come from? The cities are all full and the towns and railroads and hotels. They get thicker and thicker and but few of them are past middle age not one in ten is over forty -Ave most of them are under thirty, and they move around lively like the whole world belonged to them and I reckon it does. They are the lawyers, and doctors, and editors, and teachers, aad preachers, and merchants, and farmers, and mechanics ; the men under forty-five are the live men of any age or genera tion. Old men are pretty good to act as ballast for the ship, or as balance-wheels for the en gine, but that is all. Their fire and steam are gone; They can ruminate and philosophize and give counsel, but their grip upon the world is loosened. I visited' Rome the other day, where only a few years ago I knew every man and woman and child and negro and right smart of the dogs and cows but they arej nearly all strangers to me now. I called on Judge Underwood in hi3' office and was telling him about how strango I felt in my old home and hoW few faces were famil iar and we ' discoursed of the olden time. I sat and listened to the words of wit and wisdom that came from the lips of my good old friend the friend of nearly forty years my asso ciate of fourteen years,-, my daily companion, and during an mat time l leit that l was his pupil not only in the law, but in almost every department of learning, for he was indeed a treasury of knowledge. For an hour or more we communed to gether, and when Judge Sim mons, of the Supreme Court, added his genial presence to our company, their wit and wisdom was generously ex changed, and the old judge brightened up with a fresher vigor.4! don't know these young men who have grown np around me,' he said, 'and it mortfiies me that 1 1 do not, for their fathers and mothers were my friends. I would apeak to ev ery one of these young men and call them by name if I could. There was a time when I knew everybody's children in the community, hut ; memory weakens as age comes on. I can't keep up with the changes now. Indeed I have changed myself so much of late that some of my old friends don't know me. They don't recognise me as they pass me. The other day I stopped to speak to a friend who has known me in timately for thirty years, and he looked so bewildered that I had to tell him who I was; and it hurt my feelings. I know that I have changed a great deal of "late, but, gentlemen, I can't help it. Xo, I can't help it. Such as I am I am. I wish that I could help it.' He was sad for a moment, and we pitied him, as his weak eyes watered yith helpless tears, and a kind smile trembled on his face. His sadness was but for a mo ment, for Judge Underwood never marred or lessened the genial humor of any company. His presence always increased it, aud he became the leading minister to their most refined pleasures. Judge Simmons,' said he, 'I did want to make a remark in your court in the Hamilton case when the lawyers were discus sing the doctrine of 'title in nubibus title in the clouds ; I just wanted to tell Judge Bleck ley that I knew of but one such property or estate within my limited observation and that war; his own title and es tate upon the tqp of Screamer mountain."; As we left that goodly company that morning I remarked to . my companion bow clear and bright was the judge's mind, and how he might yet recover from his infirmity. But what do we know about the hidden, mysterious organ ism of this wonderful human frame? In half an hour Judge Underwood was dead. Without warning, wiihout pain, without a groan, he died. Not a word fell from hia lips-; net a throb or quiver from his heart; not a heave or sigh from his bosom. Verily, a great and notable man has fallen, and he dis pensed his cheerful wisdom and hia bright intelligence to the very last. As a man of great legal ability ; as a man of comprehensive mind andf won-; derfu.1 memory he had no peer in upper Georgia. A. young man he was in the bright days of Joseph Henry Lumpkins and Warren and Jfesbit and stood fairly by their side and ranked well with that galaxy of1 noble men that included the first Su preme Court, and-their contem poraries, such as the Cobbs and Doughertys and Hilyer and Hutchins and Hall and Jackson and Peebles and Overby and he ranked them all in his mem ories of the past-his store house that he was ever ready to unlock for our . pleasure or our instruction. He was the link in the chain the lapring that connected that age with this. That chain is now broken aud will never be iouna again so far as Cherokee Georgia if concered. Let Rome mourn for him and all North Georgia, for he was pre-eminently the most learned and most notable man of this region. He has held many high official positions, and was fit to hold them. He filled them ably, easily and without a strain. There is not much politics now in these parts. Everybody is of one mind pretty much, and there is no excitement. Dr. Felton is not running against anybody for anything, and so we are all calm and serene. He and. Captain Foute will just walk into the House as usual, and Colonel Harris will walk into the Senats, and we are all content. Colonel Shumate and Colonel Philips and Judge Branham and Capt. Reese are circulating lively to let the people know that they are candidates for Congress, and think that Jud Clements has been there about long enough. Well, it does look like eight years ought to satisfy any reasonable man. We sent Gen. Young there for six years, and Dr.- Felton for six, and Mr. Elements aaid that he had nothing against the doctor ex cept that he had had it long enough and I think it is a poor rule that don't work both ways. Why don't these gentlemen ro tate. How graceful it would be for a man to say 'my friends, you have honored me longer than I expected or deserved. There are many other good men wno wouia iiKe to serve you and so I will retire and .11 1 - V give mem a cnance.' I never knew but one man who did that and he is dead. He died because he resigned I reckon. Somehow they all want to die in the harness, die a pulling, die a sucking the government pap. A man told me that It took six or eight years of train ing for the average member of Congress to get fitten to be a member, and that Clements was just beginning to get fitten and we ought to let him stay. That may be so but I don't be lieve in giving one of the boys forty-eight thousand dollars worth of schooling and let the other boys get none. These other gentlemen are all good men and well qualified. I know Judge Branham better than the others, and I know that it wouldn't take him eight years to get fitten, and if he was sent to Congress it wouldn't be two years before he would make a reputation that our district would be proud of. So would either of the oth ers, and it is a comfort to know that every county in the dis trict has got men who could easily fill . Mr. Clement's place if he were to die. But the true Democratic idea is not to die but to rotate. That's right. I am opposed to letting any man stay longer than six years un less he has gotten away up among the stars. Let them ro tate. . ' - Bill Am. They "Will Drop Mrs'. Cleveland. ' There is a section of Wash ington society, the sternly ex clusive set, which allects to re eard with disdain and aims to keep at a distance the ' new people whom the fortunes or political war are "constantly sending to the front there. These severely select people as sume the attitude toward the mixed official society of the Capital which the vieille no blesse in France assumed to ward the second empire crowd. Some years ago I heard an old dame of the exclusive circles say that she would not receive General Grant into her house. W7hen Mrs. Cleveland became the rage, however, the 'selects' in due time thawed out and smiled upon her, and in con sideration of her beauty and brightness and general refine ment they consented to over look her accidency and newness and accept her as one of them selves. Of late, however, it is said,' the 'selects' have come to regret their generous treatment of the young woman, and it is probable will drop her. The trouble, it seems, arises from Mrs. Cleveland's continuing to receive as her guest and treat as an intimate one Miss Kather- ine Willard, a beautiful girl, who possesses a voice of won derful sweetness, and who was a schoolmate of the mistress of the White House. When Miss Willard first came here last winter as the guest of Mrs. Cleveland she was received with wide open arms by society of all grades, in consideration of her girlish beauty and her exquisite voice. Along towards spring society was shocked by the announcement that Miss Willard had accepted a pesition as instructress in a local young ladies' school. Of course, so ciety people said, they would be compelled to cease to know her, although it would cost them no little regret, as she was such a dear sweet girl; and of course they thought Mrs. Cleveland would also cease to receive Miss Willard. But, to their dismay, Mrs. Cleveland continues to associate with Miss Willard just as if the latter were not a working girl, and actually has her now as a guest at Oak View. It has been a fearfully trying ordeal for the exclusive3, but it is said they have set their faces as firmly as is consistent with good form, and resolved that they owe it to their sacred ex clusivenes3, come what may, to drop Mrs. Cleveland as well as her working-girl friend. Waterbury American. NEWS ' OF : A , WEEK ro: WHAT IS..A1APPENING IX 1HE WORLD AROUND US. , , , .i..-.- ii A condensed report of the news as gathered from the columns of our contemporaries. State and National, agin Rumors ire 'among the best things in the world to let alone. The fare to the State Fair will be one cent per mile each way. . A colored infant in Raleigh at the age of six weeks has twenty teeth. ;- Maj. John Spelman will soon re sume the publication of the ytate Journal at Raleigh. Mr. O. GPerkin8, of Goidsboro, made an assignment last week. Liabilities not stated. The Landmark says that au ricnltnral fair will be held Statesville in October. The bill appropriating 175,000 for a public building at Statesville, has passed the Senate. A little child of Eev. W. J. Crow son, of Fremont, died last week. "Of such '"a the kingdom of Heav en. " Governor Scales will go into the banking business in Greensboro after the expiration of his term of office. The Farmers' State Alliance will meet in Raleigh on the 14th of Au gust. Specfirl rates over all the Railroads. Messrs. P. p. Ilanes & Co., of Winston, shipped 87,000 pounds of mknnfacturedj tobacco daring the month ot Jane. The manufacturing corporations in the City of Charlotte pay taxes on property listed at over one mil lion of dollars. The Old North Stats to the Front Our State stretches from our sea coast westward 505 miles, land beyond the Apalachian Range. Its area covers 52,250 I square miles. It is as large as The Democratic Embryo. Last Wednesday eveninar a W est Market street boy bound ed into the front passage, with his hair a wet mop, while he smelt of tadpoles and water lilies from the soles of his bare feet up. 'John Henry,' said his moth er, meeting him with a dan gerous glitter in her eye and taking a grip on his dripping locks, 'you've teen in swim ming again !' Xot a bit Of it, mother ; Pve been to the Democratic Con gressional Convention, and it's the sweat oozing outer me.' Don't tell me ! This is regu lar Rock Creek sand all over your scalp.' 'Why, ma, that's hay-seed in my hair, and I'm the farme.-'s candidate 'We'll float the old bandanna, boys, ' Ve".l float the old bandanna 1' ' 'Look here, young man, I want no fooling,' and, unbut toning his jacket, she thrust a vigorous hand down his back 'here's cre"ek sand ridged all along your backbone !' 'Pshaw ! ma, don't you know what that is ? It's the 'sand in my gizzard' breaking out. I'm one of the 'unwashed,' 'unterri- fied' Democracy We'll float the old bandanua, boyp, We'll float the old bandanna !' ' 'Well, you are not 'unwashed' this time, for a wonder, and as for being 'unterrified,' I'll see what effect a No . 4 slipper can have' and for about five Greensboro minutes the air was full of 'slipper, sand, :. dirt, gyrating arms and legs and blood curdling yells. But, after all, in the words of Maurice Thompson, 'a boy's ways are the wind's ' ways, and .the thoughts of a boy are long, long thoughts ;' as John JJenry passed out on the back piazza he reached down and threw out an old saddle-blanket which he had padded in under his clothes at a convenient place, tossed it into an empty closet, and went out towards the barn whistling: 1 ;Ou give me back my fifteen cents, And give nip back my money !' the States of Vermontf New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland combined. It has ninety-six countieo,in either of which some of our most desir able fruits can be grown, and in a large number of which all of them may be grown success fully. We want to see some specimens of the fruit of every county in the &tate on exhibi tion at our State Fruit Fair, which is opened in Metro politan Hall, in this city, on the 15th of next month. The express company will bring them free of charge. There will be five hurdred dollars in cash awarded as premiums. Let each county be represented in the? exhibit. The Society is now receiving zo,wo iruit baskets, in which will be dis played 250,000 pounds of fruits; a sight that is worth a trip across the continent to see. Let thoee attending the State Alliance bring something from their respective counties. Let us show to the world that for grapes especially, our good old State will in the near future be recognized as. the Burgundy of America. This is an enterprise that appeals to the patriotism and State pride of all our citi zens, and we have ever reason to belieye that the exhibit will be the most superb display of fruits ever seen on tha Atlantic Seabord, and one which will give every visitor a . higher conception : of the grand capabilities of our native State. Progressive Farmer. Salisbury has a fountain. It is on the public square. Durham is to have four. They have come but are laying about town. A Lexington merchant received a letter from gentleman in Ran dolph county who wanted to know the price of "frine shicens." At Morehead yesterday J. L. Borden, of Goidsboro, and H. C. Thomas, or Raleigh, caught C3 fifh in 25 minutes. Pretty good. The one story frame cabin in which Andrew Johnson served bin apprenticeship as a tailor is still standing in Colombia, Tenn. It is estimated that eleven hund red thousand dozen cases ot peach es win be packed this season at Baltimore. A good many dozen. Since the Republican Convention at Chicago there has neen an aver age of two Republicans a week coming out from their party. , Rats leave a sinking ship. Fire at Rockingham' Wednesday night destroyed the Court House, seven stores and one dwelling, all westoftbeCourtIIou.se. The loss w estimated at $40,000 : insurance $23,000. The Elizabeth City Falcon says a certain Michigan paper has over 1500 subscribers in North Carolina aud it wonders if there are ten North Carolina weeklies that have as many. It's doubtful.' A young Jew, named L. Orton, was convicted at the Catawba county court lor obtaining money under'falne pretense. He is the second Jew who has been in the denitentiary of this State. A Lincoln county farmer has a daughter 14 years old who weighs 240 pounds. His nearest neighbor has a daughter 16 years old weigh ing 230 pounds. A very prolific county for daughter growing. English farmers are offering re wards for the destruction of the English sparrows. It is asserted that these vicious pests cause a loss to the agriculture of England of $40,000,00 or 850,000,000 each year. The Fayetteville Observer Bays the trucking business in that sec tion has so steadily grown that the growers fonnd it necessary to form a society for their mutual protec tion. They met last week, organ ized and elected officers. We noticed a flock of fine looking sheep passing along oar streets this morninj. It is an evidence of thnrt to see them dotting the hill sides of par farms. Bat do i we f Sheep husbandry is very much neg lected In some portions of our State. Durham Eecorder. Wilmington criminal court has beaten the most seedy case of "Jersey justice." David Herring 'stole an ox about 9 a. m., and by noon he was sentenced to ten years hard labor in the penitentiary. That will break one negro from stealing for a while, at least. The Grange in the vlcinitv of Vanceboro are taking steps to es tablish a school. This is one great advantage derived from the Grange. Every neighborhood cau, by supplementing the public school land and co-operating, sustain a good school ten months in the year. itev. jiu i-. Koe, tne novelist, is dead. He died last Thursday from nearalgia in the heart. ; His noted production, "Barriers Burued Away," ws published in 1872, and "Opening of a Ohestuut Burr" in 1874. The sales of his works have been enormou, the sale of the first mentioned reaching G9,000 and the latter 6?,000. The contract for a handsome ho tel building at Piedmont Springs has been awarded. From the Wins ton Republican we lenrn that the structure will cost some 810,000. or iz,uuu, in itseir, and will be ur ronnded by cottages built by per sons who have already and will in future purchase sites in close prox imity to the Springs. The handsome residence of ilr. Julian S. Carr, at Durham, is Hear ing completion. A corresondent says it is unquestionably the hand somest and most costly residence in the State ir not in the whole South. It is the wonder of North Carolina in the architectural line. When completed it will cost between 875.000 and 130,000. The export of terrapin and turtle from this immediate section to the cities of the North is not inconsid erable. The Vesper r. -ierday took out some barrels nt.i. . ves of the former, aud thrie of tue latter which weighed three hundred pounds. The bill.ntroduced ear ly in the present session of Con gress by Hon. P. M Simmous, ap- urupnauDg so.wu ior tne con struction of a new' revenue cutter for Pamlico sonnd and its tributar ies has passed the house. A new boat is an absolute necessity, and we agaiu congratulate Mr. Simmons upon his success in getting mea sures through lor his district. New Bern Journal. Tha Eeptilisaa Eatifcatisa. Goidsboro, July 25. I see that Chairman Dobson in his published advertisement announcing a grand ratification meeting of the Republicans, to be held in this city, oi the 23th day of the present month next Saturday), after mentioning the speakers lor the occasion, viz; Col. Oliver H. Dockery, Hon. W. S. O B Robinson ani Hon. Geo-W. Stanton, use3 this remakable lanenage: Come every body and hear the honest truth proclaimed in the open day time.' I sincerely hope the speakers on this occasion will stick strictly to the text and tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the' truth' tell how that party was solid in all their neiarious dealings with the peoele from 18G7 to 18TC. Tell how they increased the Btate debt fioin 15,000,000 to 40,000,000 for iuternal improve ments; how not one shovel of dirt was thrown; how Sampson Littlefield . & Co. stole the bonds; tell Low the Legislature of '63 misappropriated the en tire school fund; how all the school houses were closed and the little whites and niggers were left out in this barren wilderness of ignorance, and no new school house built; tell how that party, through Its Governor, sent for Kirk and his bandit! from Tennessee to tyrannize over arrest and throw into prison under centence of Drumhead court martials some of North Carol Inas ino?t dis tinguished men; tell how they were solid in these few things leaving out the mighty roll of Infamy enacted by them when in power and I am pure there is not a man of the white race in all this country, fit to be out of urlssom's Institute one who loves wife and children and neighbors and native land with that partriotic zeal, that should glow in the bosom of a ture Southerner that would touch, politically, one of these, or any others on that ticket with a thousand-foot pole. 'A Citizen in Goidsboro Argus. it rfect cf 5 cit scr POLITICAL ECHOES. Buffalo Bill's Indians do not like to venture into New York alone as it possesses for them more dangers than the Wild Westlnita mostlaVless sections. The other day two of thelndians come through the Bowery to make some purchases. They wore their red woolen blankets but attracted . little attention until a lank lean, boy, with a piece of suspender holding up his tattered trousers, knelt down upon the walk smelt the tracks, sniffled the air and, jumping up with a screech, announced that de're in yon kanyeon. Bloody Bill's on de trail, and Smilin' Sue will be in de arms of her lovyer before de settin' eun has reached de double peaks. The embryo scout then started off after the two reds, followed by five hund red other boys, all dying to be scouts and killers. The boys, gathered around the two lone Indians, and yelling, wIIo-le-lo-llo-llo-le-holyho.' an In dian war dance learned from "Bill.the Texas Terroror oome ench sanguinary history. They tried to swipe the gaudy blankets and the red men had all they could do to keep from being stripped to the ekln. When the Indians reached the Franklin Square Station of the elevated road they were about aa scared as if each urchin were an avenger with pi -tola aud bowieknives seeking for their scalps. OltraiXAL, STOLEN OTIIERWISE. AND What ITe Cltan from the Netrp- l"txr World am it l lomtt imJlo r'w lrforr Vt, Tha Istcr Sute , Seep and Shallow Cultivation. Mr. W. M. Green, of Iredell Co., has a pig about ten months old which has six feet. The extra feet come out at the knee joints on the forelegs and reach to the ground, so that the pig walks on four feet in front and two behind. Nothing 5(iualg Jt- Zalah?,Fla., Jane 27, 1887. N. E. VenAble & Co.: I have been using B. B. B. in my lamiiy as a blood purifier. Having never used any medicine to equal it. llespectiaJy, Hes. B. M. Laws. ; It is stated that an Elizabeth city lawyer has produced a cabbage that weighs eighteen pounds and measures tour feet across. A large cabbage or a large lie. Makes An Qld Man Young. Extract from a' Letter P. S. I bought 3 bottles of your Botanic Blood Balm from my menu u. u. Hailard, at Campo bello, S. C. I have been using it three weeks. It appears to give me new life and new strength, If there is anything that, will make an old man young It is B. B. B. I am willing to Befi. it. I earnestly and honestly recommend Botanic Blood Balm. '" Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. A negro, Harry Barfield, about eighty five years old, tell dead at his home in Graven county last week. He was driving bis ox when the ox made a dash jerking him down. He never moved after fall ing and friends fonnd him dead. Wake forest College has now an endowment fuud of 169,549.04. The toal receipts last year in in- tora.f on1 rintii vera StlO A1K 71 . receipts from tuitiou 86.044.Q5. The receipls for the Laboratory were" 88,160.00. This is perhaps the best chemicalLaboratory in the South. The annual meeting of the Bap tist Urpnanage Association was held last Weduesday. About three thousand people were present. Mr. J. N. MiUs was re-elepted inperin tendent of the Orphanage. There are now 92 children in the orphan age and everything shows the most excellent management. The four colored men, David Siaimons, York Gibson, Henry Battle ana jonn justice, wno were convicted at the last term of Dur ham Court and sentenced to b banged August 3d, -have escaped death. Governor Scales com mat ed tbefr sentence to imprisonment in the penitentiary, ten years for each prisoner. Our agricultural readers will remember (?ays the Greensboro North State); that about this time larit year the Guilford County Farmers' Club discuss ed the subject of deep and shallow cultivation of corn. Prominent and almost alone. was Mr. W. A. Coe in advocacy of shallow plowing. A com mittee was appointed to visit his farm and examine, his mode of shallow culture, and he con vinced the committee that he was right, as to culture but it still insisted upon the. old theory of subsoiling in the preparation of the land. Here is what, the Farmer's Review has to say: The preponderance of evi dence elicited in the discuss ion of the question of deep or shallow culture- of corn is decidedlyon the side of shallow culture, especially in the latter workings of the corn when deep culiivation involves more or less of the mutilation of the roots. There may be conditions (we do not say there are) such as very rich soil, as a high de gree of heat and ' abundant moisture, producing an extra rank growth of stalk when moderate root pruning may do no injury and possibly som e good. But such conditions are the exceptions and not the rule and should not govern in farm practice. The food required for the development of the plant is contained in the upper layers of the soil. It cannot go to the plant. The plant must go to it. This it does by sending out ita root, the extremities of Which are so constituted that they cau appro priate this needed plant food and send It back through the roots to the stalk. This process Koes on till the whole upper soil, nearly to the sur face is filled with these feed ing roota. To cut or break them involves just to the ex tent they are injured a stop page of the food supply to the plant. It is true that nature sets to work at once to repair the injury by sending out new roots to take the place of those cut or broken but in the mean time the plant Is on half rations and suffers just as au animal with half its food supply taken away. Everything points to a large gathering of representative farmers of the South in this city on the 21st "prox. Gov. Iee, of Virginia, promptly appoin ted fifty delegates from that State. Alabama Florida, Geor gia Louisiana, Texas and North Carolina have reported full delegations through their respective Vicij-Presidentsand the remaining States will be reported as soon as possible. Private letters from each of these States say that they will eachbeweil represented". We expect Senator J. II. Keagan and our own graat Vance to be present, and a large number of distinguished citizens from our own and the other States. We hope to perfect the arrangement with the proper authorities for the laying of the corner-stone of our State Agricultural and Mechanical College during the session. e have a local com mittee of fifty of our leading and public spirited citizens to look after the comfort and pleasure of - our distinguished visitors, and an advisory com mittee consisting of the follow ing gentlemen: His Excellency Gov. A. M. Scales, Dr. II. B. Battle, Commissioner " Jno. Robinson, Col. W. II. S. Burgwyn, Arthur Arrlngton, Geo. Wilcox B. Cameron, and Gen. W. R. Cox. Every farmer nd friend of industrial progress and develop ment in the State should attend this meeting. Delegates certifi cates, together with inform ation as to rates will be mailed to ea:h delegate as fast as their names are received. Progres sive Farmer. Let us give you nome figures. They are no dubt within the bounds of exactness. If you build a frame hou&e that costs $'J7G.21 you have paid ? 133.96 more than you would have paid if there had bean no Tariff tax. This is not an Idle state ment. It is from a work by Herman Lieb entitled "The Protective Tariff. He glvss all the items with the tax on each under the present robber Tariff,' as the Republican Su preme Court well characterized it. He shows further, and he gives you the facts, that the material for. a barn costs f 41 more on account of the man ufacturer's tax than it would without;f enclng 129, farm ma chinery f 171, farm Implements ?17, household furniture fcG", kitchen furniture $23, house holder's wardrobe boys ward robes $3G, two girls wardrobes $10, domestic supplies (in a purchase of 10.75) $3X7. Sum ming it all up we find that of $3,0o2 paid for house, barn, and fences311 is the manufacturers tax; of 1,004 paid for farm machinery implements and supplies, 120 is ' the manu facturers tax; of 325 paid for household and kitchen furni ture, 97 is the manufacturer's tax, and for 3HS r-'d for domestic supplies and w ardrobe for man, wife and two boys and two girls, 12G is the Ux which is paid to the manufacturer to 'encouragG' him Wilmington Star. The Durham Recorder says: Just think of it! It took twen ty three days and eight even ing sessions of Congress to dis pote of the Mill's bill, during which time 151 speeches were made. ' m The Newton Enterprise says: Linney, the bull of the Brushy Mountains, had a discussion with Tom Vance, son of Zeb and got walloped, splintered and wiped out Mr. Vance is the Democratic elector in the stn District. The Executive Committee of' both the Democratic and Re publican parties have already gone to work In New York. Both parties will ttrive to car ry mat btate with an earnest ness that has seldom btea wit nessed even in New York. Senator Ransom Las been re elected a member of the Na tional Democratic Executive Com mil toe. A better selection could not Lave been made, for he is one of the sbrewdevt poli ticians in the whole country aid Lis labor on the commit tee wjll result in Democratic votes. Tha Prthiti'lca Party. While in the" United Sit tea Senate General Harrison roted against reducing the tariff oi agricultural Implements and tools of mechanics. See Con gressional Record, volume XVI, page 1,701, 47th. Congress. What will tha farmers and me chanics of this country think of that vote and that sort of pro- ectlon? V Irgi nian. The Winston Republican says Joseph Bradfield will probably run for Congress in the ith dis trict as an independant candi date. He, It will be remember ed, began the warfare on James W. Reid and afterwards secured a position at Washington as the price of his aid in electing Brower. A short while axo he published a letter in the News- Observer "going for" the Re publican party and announcing his allegiance to the Democrat ic party. The "Independent ism" with which he appears now to be afflicted is but anoth er evidence of amonut of stabil ity of character that 'bo men who desert the Democ: e par. ty are made of. At u time Bradfield announced 1. - return to the Democratic pay, we said that he was welcome back as a "high privave" In the ranks but we wanted officers who were more fixed in. their prin ciples than this "Joseph of many colors" appeard to be. Tha 2Text Su.9 Fair- " Three things make a good State Fair: a good exhibit, cheap means of going to see it and the people to see it. It is written down that all these conditions will be filled at the next State Fair. Not only in dividual farmers, but organiza enlisted. exhibits. reparation for them ha be ttons of farmers, are leaking competitive I nether Sisappohtnent. Employer William, you have now worked for me three years, Yes, sly. 4nd I have always found you industrious, painstaking and honest I have tried to be, sir. Now, I desire to show that I appreciate your fidelity. Thank you, sir. For the next two months you will work on the book.-, until 11 o'clock every night. I do not fear to leave you, u the ofice alone at all. X have a wrreat deal of confidence in you, Wil liam. Lincoln Journal, and they will be larger and more complefe than ever before. The buildings will be touched up and the eurround Ings of the exhibition spaces improved. So that what is ex hibited will be shown to the best advantage. The rate ot practically one cent a mile has been agreed upon by all the lines of railway. This is very cheap riding. To come to Ral eigh and' return, say from hundred miles, and a conple of dollars, ia a new means of fa miliarizing our people with the State's capital and with each other. There will be the largest crowd ever seen at a State Fair. With some spare money and cribs and smoke houses with plenlyat home, nothing should prevent our hard working, self deuying people from, taking a little holiday, seeing what their neighbors are doing and show ing their neighbors what they are doing. Let the crowd only be limited by the measure of the large accommodation to be had. Progressive Farmer. i For the life of us we cannot see what object the Prohibition party has in view In North Carolina if it Is not the Injury of the Democratic party. This must be regarded as Its mission and so treated. Prohibition and this Prohibition party are to be regarded as distinct. We have no reference to the cause of Prohibition. But we do say with all the ardor of our hearts that no sober and unprejudiced Democrat in the State can justi fy himself on any grounds, whether moral or political, In supporting the candidates of the Prohibition party In the coming struggle. For our part we have a higher regard for the out and out Republican than for the man who claims to be a Democrat and yet casts his vote against the Democratic party by voting for the Prohibition party candidates. The cause of Prohibition cannot be advanced by supporting at this tibie a third party, but the State can be turned over to all the evils of Republican rule, which means negro rule, by It. Can any man therefore who loves hid SUte or who is actuated by a da ire to cast his ballot so as to do the greatest good to the greatest number vote with such a party ? We think not Char lotte Chronicle. TbeSestPzrier2ala. Damascus, Ga., Jane 23, 1S-S7. I'.have suffered with Catarrh for about four xears, and alter urlng lour bottles ot Botanic Blood Balm 1 bad my general health greatly im proved, and if I could keep oui of the bad weather I would be cured. I believe it is the best purifier made. Very respectfully. Ii. w. THoxrsox. Ca Tina i Zterul Cijir- Far back in the pat ara en shrined the deeds of the brave men of one hundred years ago '; dim are the pictures of their long suffering ratriolim, their heroic endurance and their un- ( selfish devotion. Alinott at our doors they marched and toiled and fought for the rich heritage of a free republic be queathed to us ; and only the other day the eloquent tongue of the orator wrought their vin dication, and their gralsfal prosperity sent their acclsma- . lions of rejoicing toward Leav en. The echoes have died away, and the grand old grove that shelters the Guilford Rattle Ground Is voiceless once more. Bat while the dead sleep, his tory gathers Its.treahures every where, and goes back even through the centuries to com plete its annals. A few days ago Mr. Dennis, who lives adjoining the Gull ford Rattle Ground, found In a gully washed out by the rains, the bones consisting of akulls and teeth of two Contiaental soldiers, together with the brass buttons- showing their command. For over a century there has been their silent rest ing place. "Take the wings ot oorniog. And the Barcau detert pierce, Or loe thyself ia the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon Yet the dead are there." Green boro Patriot. Palatia, Fla., Msy Si, 1888. We have been selling B. B. I, for two jeats, and It has always given satisfaction ia every case. Lowby & Stars, Draggista. The Executive Committee have decided to hold the next for of the Cumberland Agricultural Society on the 11th, 15th and ICtb of No vember. When Mr. Uncoln made h's visit to Gen. Grant's camp at City Point, Va-in lSOLhewas met by the General and fctaff, and, on being asked how he was he said: "I am not reeling very well; I ?ot pretty badly shaken up on the bay coming down and am not altogether over It yet" Let me send for a bottle of champagne for you, Mr. Presi dent," said oni of the staff of fleers; 'that Is the best remedy I know of for seasickness.' No, no, my young friend said Mr. Lincoln; 'I have seen many a man In my time eaIck ashore srom drinking that very article.'