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fH&fiWANffl 103 OFFICE.
THE ADVANCE JOB OFFICE.
IS BETTER EQUIPPED
THAN AMY EA8T OF
RALEIGH. ALL OR
DERS WILL RECEIVE
PROMPT AND EFFI
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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
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VOLUME 18.
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TRY TJS.
Wilson
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
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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.
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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.'