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TIIK L1 I'll I LOS 0 111 EH IN-
DVUi KS 1 X li IS VERIE.
lloir Thing Were in the Days
That Are numbered With the
l'dstThe Customs ami Man
ner f Our People Tears Ago
Evolution is a success. Not
that evolution of living crea
tures, which the men of science
are discussing, but the progress
of the mind in developing ma
terial things, the enlargement
of mental capacity; to discover
to invent, refine " and enjoy,
Therie Chutauquas that are be
inr established all over tne
laud are the last and best sign
of our advancing civilization
The eaer steps that the South
is taking in that directipn il
lustrates their appreciation of
the good, the true and' the
beautiful, llovcy quickly she
saw the golden fruit that grew
upon the tree that was planted
atrthe New York Chautauqa,
and now within three years has
plauted her own at Monteatre
and Lake Af eir, and Defuniak,
and Salt Springs. What a re
fined luxury of thought and
emotion abounds in these gath
erings for the diffusion of
kn)wleBge. How they do
nruadefrthe mind and lessen
prejudice aud enlarge charity.
. , 1 said to a friend who had just
returned from a tour around
the world, 'What effect has your
travels had upon you.?' With
grateful expression he replied
They have given me new views
of lite aud nature and humanity
They have taken away many of
my prejudices aud made me
more tolerant as "to govern
ment and laws and religion, and
yet I return with a profounder
respect and a deeper love for
rmy own country her freedom
her institutions and above all,
for the blessed influence of
Christianity upon our advanc
ing civilization.' When that
noble-heaited Englishman Jas
Smithson, bequeathed to the
I'nited States a million of dol
lars for the diffusion, of knowl
edge apiong men he became the
founder of the Smithsonian In
stitute, which "Tas in fact the
first Chautauqua, and began its
good work iust forty years ago
It was the first normal, college
a college whose purpose was
to educate the educated, the
learned, the savaus in science
and id art ; and so the high
purpose or tins Chautauqua is
to amuse knowledge among
oen and advance them to -a
higher plane than can the
schools. What a contrast do
these snrrouudirigs present to
Uhe minds of those who half
century ago struggled i for
knowledge. How gratefully
conscious we are that our child
ren aua irrandchilaren live in a
better ae than that in which
our youth was spent. The
world is asimilatiug knowl
edge is being diffused. Haifa
century ago it was within reach
of the privileged few. Ire
member when my farher was a
merchant, and I was a lad be
hind his counter, about half his
customers made cross marks to
their promissory notes. But
. few of them could tell whether
they had signed for ten dollar
or a hundred, but they signed
and trusted. Honest and true
they believed that others were.
We love to ' tell of the honest
simplicity of those good old
- times, but still every man has
a yearning for his children, a
longing desire for their educa
tion Not long ago I called at
an humble cottage for a dr,iuk
of water, and found a little
bare foot "itl reading a Btory to
. her grandpa. ' It was a Sunday-
school paper and the old man
was proud to tell ine that Sarah
fane could read. 'I had no
larnin',' said he, 'but this child
lias been to school and now she
comes aud reads to the old man
and it does me a power of good.'
I know of a father who goes
regularly to school with his two
little boys and studies the same
lesson and stands up with them
at recitation". The humble
country people, the toilers, are
advancing in knowledge, in
ideas, in language. The time
was when most every family
aud their kindred had a dialect
of their own.- Their language
and tone of voice was . handed
down from some rude ancistor
arid spread around among the
children to the third and fourth
generation. There was a whole
settlement in Gwinnett county
who said 'wall' for well 'yaas'
for yes, and added efe to every
break in their sentences. 'He
told me eh that, he was a gwine
to town eh, and I axed him eh
Co bring us some coffee eh.'
There was another Very numer
ous family who enclosed their
sentences with 'so it wus' or 'so
he did' or 'so- I will.' I have
bought me a cow, so I have,
and I gave fifteen dollars for
her, so I did. There are still
beople jiving among the hills
of North Georgia who say you'
uns and we'uns, but they are
growing few and old. A clever
country woihan was telling my
wife about one of her neighbors
falling in the fire and she said,
as soon as 1 hearn it l sont
alter Jim for to come for to go
for to git some inyuus to make
a poultice for to put on the
bum for to draw the nre out 01
hit.' I knew a good woman
who called her daughter Thella
and when I asked what the
child's name was, -said, 'her
name is Othello but I call her
Thella fox short.' : But the
children and grandchildren of
these good old fashioned people
make no such mistakes. The
school master is abroad in the
land and the press is circulat
ing knowledge everywhere.
Miss Murfree caunot now find
the people nor the dialect in
Smoky mountain that she
write3 so charmingly about.
Betsy Hamilton can't find her
quaint and curious characters
in North Alabama. Colonel
Newman can't find the North
Georgia cracker around Canton.
That generation has well nigh
gone. Even the negroes have
ceased to use" their old time
folk lore, and bre'r rabbit and
bre'r fox have ceased to discuss
their private aliairs. 1 remem
ber when my grandfather used
to set the big milk pail under
the cow and milk with both
hands and say Ah, my laddie, I
kin git more milk from this ere
cow than ye can from, half a
dozen aown in ueorgia ne
was a rough old man just like
the times he lived in. He mow
ed hay and laid stone wall for
a living ; but the next age
was a better one and so my
father got a good share f
schooling . and became iwell
versed in the limited literature
of hia.day. Next came my own
age, which was better still, and
I was sent to college, which
was supposed to be the goal,
the finish, the completeness of
education. The difference ' be
tween the dialect, tone and ac
cent of the up country and low
country people , is still very
marked and distinguishing. "
remember that forty years ago
a little girl of one of the best
Savannah! families would say
to her brother James, 'Berjim,
mama say come dare to he', and
they still pronounce mama and
pappa long with the accent - on
the secoud syllable, while our
up country people pronounce it
broad with the accent on the
first. i '
Simplicity was the " marked
characteristic; of the past age
simplicity in habits, manners
and customs. The people lived
and acted the truth of Pope's
couplet : i
iMan wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long."
They were honest ; they were
faithful and true in their do
mestic relations ; they earned
their daily bread, and had no
respect for money gained by
trick or hazard or speculation.
Their sports and, pastimes
were rough and rude, and their
quarrels were settled .without
pistols. Court week and the
general .. musters were '- their
semi-annual holidays. An old
fashioned muster was equal to
a modern 'Mardi Gras.' The
governor was the commander
in chief, but as he could not be"
personally present, . the militia
were reviewed '- Dy proxy
Every county had an aid-de
camp with the rank of, colonel.
He held his rank and title as
long as the governor held his;
office, and he was expected to
holler for him and talk for him:
and boom himr and if neces
sary, he must fight for him on
a suitable occasion. It the gov
ernor failed of re-election
these colonels had to retire too
and a new set were appointed
but the old set tiever lost their
title, and so the State in course
of time got pretty full of col
onels. On muster day
colonel wore a co'skade hat
a red plume and epaulets,
a long brass sword and
brass spurs, and horse pistols in
the holsters of his saddle, and
he and his personal staff rode
up and down the lines review
ing the militia, who were
drawn up in a double crooked
straight line in a great big field,
that was 'full '.of gullies and
broom 8a ge. Some wore coats
and some didn't; some wore
shoes and some didn't, but none
wore beards, for in those days
none wore,L beards but gamb
lers. Some were armed with
shotguns and some with, rifies
or muskets i but most of them
carried sticks and cbrnstalks
and umbrellas, and they stood
up or squatted down at pleas
ure, and about half the time
were hollering for water. The
colonel and his staff rode .up
and down the lines on . fine
horses that danced and pranced
like there were tacks under the
saddles. The roll of each com
pany was called and every man
answered to his name whether
he was there or not. Thenithe
colonel iook a central position
and faced the long audience and
waved his glittering sword and
exclaimed, 'Attention, battalion!
Shoulder arms, right ' face,
march !' Then the kettle drum
rattled and the fife squeaked
and some guns went off half
cocked, and the militia gave
three cheers for the colonel and
were disbanded until the, next
muster. -' ;:
Old man Brooks was the
chief musician in my day and
would not have, exchanged this
office with the king of England.
He' always played, Brooks's
march for the militia to loco-
mote by. They never marched
or kept step by the music, but
they got along somehow by
walking and trotting and pac
ing and fox trotting by turns.
Old father Brooks played his
part well in the drama or farce,
or whatever it was. He mag
nified his office. He loved
music. He said his fife was his
life and his fiddle was his
riddle. On his last bed he sent
for my father to come and see
him. Old and wrinkled and
cadaverons, he motioned to be
propped up in his bed, and
then with an inverted chair be
hind his pillow he pointed to
his fiddle that lay upon the
shelf near by and it was hand
ed to him.- Hugging it to his
old bosom he smiled amid his
ttfars and whispered 'I wish
that I could play yOu one more
tune.' That nitrht the old man
died with his left hand closed
hard and rigid around the neck
of his violin. ,
; After the muster was over
then came the horse racing on
quarter nags and horse swapp
ing and of course some pugilis
tic exercises in front of the
groceries.
Jim Bowles was the center
of a crowd from his beat and
stripped to the waist, he pranc
ed aTOund and popped his fist
in the palm of his hand and
jumped up and cracked his
heels tcgether three times be
fore they struck the ground and
gave a wild Injun whoop and
exclaimed : 'I'm the best man
in Pinkneyville district.' About
that time big Jim Robinson
jumped up in the center of
another crowd and yelled, 'I'm
the best man in Ben Smith's
.deestrict,' and Nic Rawlins
screamed, like a panther from
another crowd and gritted his
teeth, and shook his hair and
yelled, 'Gentlemen, my Betsy
Jane says I'm the best man in
Rockbridge deestrict, and I
reckon she ought for to know.'
It was just like gamecocks
crowing in tne Barnyard, and,
like the cocks, two of them
soon got together and went to
fighting, and everybody stood
around and shouted, 'hands off,
gentlemen ; stand back, gentle
men, llanos on ; let 'em ngnt
fair and square.' And they
fought hard and fought long,
and when one of them got to
be the bottom dog in the fight,
and hollered 'enough,' the show
was over, unless the. victor
dared to crow again, and had
to tackle another rooster. I
have known Nic Rawlins to
whip three brag men in one
evening and Nick was no bad
man either. Everybody liked
Nick. He had fit and fout and
fought until he had lost a fing
er and a snip out of his nose
and a piece out of his left ear
but he was never mad. Nick
told me not long ago that he
never did love to fight but when
he courted Betsy Jarfe she
'lowed that when she married
a man he had to be a man all
over inside and out and so he
got to fishting on her account.
But these old times are gone
gone never to return. Even the
preachers who used to take off
their coats in the pulpit have
conformed to more polite cus
toms, lheir singsong sermous
are heard no more nor the
nasal attaenments mat were
something between a snuffile
and a snort. Old Father Dau
nely and his wooden leg are
dead and so is old Barny Pace
who said to the Rome girl who
went out to hear him just for
the fun of the thing 'If that
town gal with the green bonnet
on her head and - the devil's
martingales around- her neck,
and ms stirrups in ner ears.
don't quit her giglin, I will
pint her out to the congrega
uon. we nave more manners
now, though our morals may be
at a discount. :.--
' r-"' Bill, Arp.
INPAMOTO-ADDEESS hPOLITICAL.BCHOES.
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TIIE INCENDIARY tll)liE3$
SIGNED BT GEORGE Wt
STANTON AND OTJTERS." 7
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How the Worst
JL'assiotut, or .n
full land, the names of all the
A)' i" Burners. . r.: . . . .
j Such' were , thef , suggestions
made to a body ol angry.: ex
cited, ignorant negroes, who,
even .after twenty years of free
dom and twenty, years of. edu-
catlap. Ju.ageRussel, their life
long any anq. aseoctai?, de
clares to be'stlTl savages, made
nejrires were octrrru H3P"n I VJ illgU pUPUC ; OJQCiaiS, . lOO,
i fie n mie j. eopie' -vjp nuntca
Politicians, Ihe Shoffner Bill
Vunder which the Best People
of the State were out raaed. , .j
.U A .. .1-:;
. Tig ' (Mi"
!'l:h f a 1 -3 s'l
Since the days of Canby, the
days when the iron heel of the
military de3pjtigrquHdn, our
Dtople into the very dnst,-i the
ORIGINAL, STOLEN' AND
' OTHERWISE. '
Whmt We Glean From the New-
palter World an it PloaU in lie-
view Before Vs.
who, to Ignorant . negro under
standings, constituted the em-
bodlment of all law and srovern-
ment io the State., Jt is Bimply L Lne oanford Express calls
monstrous to think that uxiis- lreaux "Devilron,,, and. we
gesnous 1,0 , Buqu. , savages, lei
days when the clank of hostile
sabres could be heard at- every
turn, near twenty "years' have
elapsed. In that time a new
generation has grown up, one
it was done, ann in order that
there, might be, no. datibt on thf
subject; and to' give legislative
sanction, as it were, to their
suggestions, it was declared in
the very beginning of the Ad
dress' that it was issued by 'the
Republican members of the
Legislature ' upon earnest and
careful .consideration'
No wonderthat 'Honest John
Ragland,' of Granville, himself
1
-. Jpues countyrDemocrats have
pudoxtsad. iianyan Broeksforthe
Senate in that district.
The Democrats . of- Martin
county hold their county con
vention on the 2Sd inst.'
that has little or no recollection
of the oppressions , of , those
two inctdentriThe- ltre declared that 'the ad- newspapers of the country.
The Republicans entertain
but little hope of carrying In
diana now, it appears from
the
1 j .
To-Radi-
of
man whom the Radical party
delights to honor are hereby
recalled. The man referred to
is George W. Stanton,,, f
son county, North Carolina and
the incidents are the infamous
legislative address of August,
1868 and the no less Infamous
Shoffner bill of 1869-'7a 'Fdar
years ago Stanton was f nomi
nated by the State Convention
of the Radical party as its
candidate for Secretary of
State. Later in the campaign)
npon the declination I
Duke, he was raa44,yi
ecutive committee,; its
date for State Treasurer
day he is once more the
cal candidate for Secretary
State.
Is he a fit man to present to
the white men of .North Caro
lina for their suffrages?, FTis
record says not." ' ,,
What is that record1?. In. IS 68
was issued one of the' most- in
famous publications ever "made
in a civilized country. ' This
publication was an 'Address' to
the people of North Carolina,
Bo-called, signed "bjr thinl Geo.
W. Stanton and his brother
Radical members of the Canby
Legislature. Its suggestions and
instigations to the , negroes,
then in a very excited .'condi
tion and angry frame of mind,
to burn the property and take
the lives of white people, were
simply horrible. . ,
These men eaid in that , ad
dress, pretending to talk to the
landowners, that is to say, to
the white people, but in the
hearing of every negro in the
State : V ' ,.,
'We do not deny that if a
poor man come to onr door in
the cold and storm of night, we
have the right to deny him ad
mittance. But if he perish be
fore morning, whether, -we
would not, in the sight of God,
be murderers, is another ques
tion. There are in North Caro
lina about 1,000,"000 of human
beings, but not one person in
twenty in the State owns land.
Have these few the moral right
to say to the mauy, we own the
world which God made and yon
shall not live in it. n -
'But suppose these voters do
not choose to submit to... be in
timidated. Suppose .th&y con
clude that their rights and lib
erties are in danger, and that
the object of those who seek to
intimidate or coerce is to. op
press and enslave them, and to
aress was so nttetly Infamous
that any man who signed it
otight to be hung with an un-
trimmed grape vine.
''Looking back over the twenty
years that have passed since
the date of that monstrous pub
lication, no man familiar with
events in North Carolina, es
pecially in the eastern portions
of it," during that period can
fail to see what answer was
made by the negroes to the sug
gestions of Stanton and the
other signers of that 'Address.'
Dwelling-houses, barns and
gin-houses, in a word, 'shelter
of all sorts, were destroyed by
the torch of the incendiary un
tlj insurance companies were
loth to take risks upon them,
especially npon gin-houses in
certain eastern sections. How
many ''' nights '.of sleepless
anxiety, " how much loss of
property, and how much physi
cal suffering flowing therefrom,
our people, f roni thit day to
this have enduied,no man may
now tell. Certain it is that there
has been enough to sate the
vengeance of the most malig
nant hater of the Southern peo
ple ever born enough to make
the name of every man who
signed that infamous 'Address
a by-word and a scorn for all
time and himself loathed and
despised.
1 he advance In the price of
iron since the passage of the
Mills bill is one of those little
facts that do not run with the
n 1 m ' .
ivepu oiican ruie mat tax re
duction means destruction to
industries.
s
Senator Vance is still kick
ing over the traces about civil
service reform. He is reported
as saying recently: 'No civil
service reform for me. When I
fight a man and lick him, his
scalp is mine.'
The socalled prohibitionists
of Rockingham county have
nominated a legislative ticket.
The nominees ar. ' the Sen
ate Rev. John An.lrewr; for the
House, J. W. i'innix aud Capt.
T.C.Evans.
V
The Ashville Citizen says
"Everything ia lovely and the
Democratic Fowle hangs high
in Buncombe." The moun
tains will give the Democratic
party a good large majority,
everything seems to say.
Since the pa??age of the Mill
bill the price of wool has been
firm. The price of clips is ad
vancing aud orders are 'not ea
sily placed.
The church to which Walker
the Prohibition condidate for
Governor belongs Las piRsed
a resolution which pay "While
the church and its membership
are advocates' of temperance
and the suppression of the li
quor traffic, they ptrongly dep
ricatethe third party movement
as ill-advised, and calculated
to do so much harm that they
cawiot give it tnetr support,
We see from the Wilmington
Star that there are now -I0G,O07
U. S. 'pensioners drawing an
nually 52,821,641.23. But thy
are growing. For the year end
ing the 30th of June, "18S7, the
amount paid was ?74,815,1SC.85
more tha;i it took in 18C0 to
meet all the.expen.ses of the U.
S. Government. Since 1SC0 the
people of the United States
have been taxed to pay In pen
sions 883,440,203 .30. The aver
age pension is ?I30 10.
A Cleveland, Fowle and Dunn
Club has been organized at
Springhope, Nath county. The
following are the officers:
President, T. C. May; Vico
Presidents, J. T. Hollimrsworth,
W. II. Culpepper and J. C.
Richardson ; Secretary, G. W.
Uunn. Over fifty names were
enrolled as members and the
list will increase uutil every
Democrat in that section will
be enlisted for the fight. Three
cheers for the Democrats of
Springhope.
Harrison is credited with two
declarations that will kill him
politically, with the hone?t la
boring men of the West. He
paid if he was ' Governor he
would i-hoot the strikers if they
aia not go io worK. lie also
said that a dollar a day and
two meals are enough for any
workineman.' He has not' de
nied these things, e o he must
have said them. Can the
workingraati support a man
who would give utterance to
puch sentiments?
But this George W. Stanton
was not satisfied with only this
title to infamy. In 1870, still a
member of the Canby Legislature-he
tddednn perfecting the
provisions of . the notorious
'Shoffner -Bill. ' This bill, it
will be-r remembered, swept
awy every vestige of civil law
and destroyed every shadow of
civil 'government in North
Carolina, - the Governor being
authorized at his own will
practically to declare martial
'law-lif anyportion of the State
hemight designate. Under this
act, . it will be remembered,
martial law was declared in
the counties of Alamance, Cas
well and Orange, the brutal
Kirk brought from .Tennessee,
put in command of a regiment
of cut-throats and sent to Ala
mance and ; Caswell. Arrest
after arrest was mach? by him
until a reign of terror was in
augurated, the like of which
had never before been seen in
the States Among those ruth
lessly thrown into prison were
some of the best and most hon-
make them hewers of wood and a "Mmm of; our State, for
wnqse inai a arnm-neao court-
martial was organized. What
The Democrats of Iredell
county Instructed its members
of the next Legislature to vote
for Mat. W. Ransom for United
States Senate. Gen. Ransom
evidently has a strong hold
upon the Democrats of that
county.
I was local anpnrakrrapher on
the '"head journal' of Syracuse,
N. Y., once. After I ha held
this position for severl mouth,
I imagined.
Well the editor looked over
that awhile and his coun
tenance feLL He took another
look, and said, "the goffering
Moses." He read a little farther
and remarked, "Oh! my sainted
grandmother." A more cartful
perusal, and a deep groan. He
finally finished and than look
ed up at me and observed, aj he
got his hat and cane.
"Twistjou are a ruined com
munity. I am coin toleaTe
you to enjoy ihefrult of your la
bor. by. man, all of that dead
man's relatives will be here io
no time thirsting for human
gore. I must letve. Look out
in the street at the mob. I can
not etay and see the fan. Maria
and the childein demand mr
presence, and I am going to
elide down the gutter. If I were
to stay here, this outraged peo
ple would shoot my skin so foil
of holes It would not hold my
principles. A man would come
prancing in looking for yon and
carve me, another would try to
tomahawk you, and take my
brains out; one would fling a
bombshell down the chimney
to blow you up, and , send the
stovedoor down my throat.
Such will be the playful scenes
soon transpiring arosnd these
hitherto peaceful premises.
Why, man, such an extraor
dinary death notice was never
penned before. And I venture
to say never will be again with
out raising the entire world to
arms."
After he left I concluded to
try cool bravery and go out at
the front door and quietly
leave the town. But, as to how
the thing exactly happened, I
do not know. 1 was struck in
four thousand places at ones,
knocked down, rolled in mud.
sat upon f pit on, and nearly
eralped. 1 took apartments at
the city hospital.
When I got well I left
Syracuse. The people are too
critical in ibeir JournallcUc
tates to suit the natural
delicacy of my constitution.
They may find a man .. who
could become accustomed to
their playfulness, but such
scenes are too rapidly varying
for me. In order for a discrimi
nating public to see that I car
ried out instructions and
"puffed "the paper as well as
deceased in that obituary I
append a copy entire:
"The intelligent local editor,
who has so ably filled the posi
tion of cheif editor of the Rip
Saw 2J0 per annum in ad
vance, during the editors
NEWS OF A WEEK
what is UArrExixa ry
1UB WORLD ABOUND US.
A e,HJ$nel report the nere is
VniXrrd from the emlmmtm. kf
or emnitmpmmrlt State
Sat Ufttn t.
I
The North Croltns Tobarco As
sociation meets iu MortheJ city '
on the th Inrt.
TVs Warreaio GiEKt ptyi the
tobacco crop lucks better thin any
other in the eouutj.
The pot office at LI k Moco
tain mm robbed s few days ajro, e
aee from tbe Asbenlle Cttir.cn.
The O I ford Torchlight reports
tbe farmers as very dpun2-ut of
tbelr tobacco prwpects thit year.
Three cases of yellow fevtrare
rejiortex) from JarkHonrii:, 1
We fear tbia it tbe U-tnoiig of I be
oat break.
Tbe Weidon New mm the
Farmer AHianw f jSiaing
strength every day is . Ntlhaj-
ton count j.
A milk white anake, 7 f-U. 4
iocbei long, was lilU-.l in Ci!;cn
county, Va iaat week. - It wan vT
the sopher species. i
A young white man wm kilWvt
by lightning sear Cedar l'mk
church, Frssklin county, lott vek,
we aee from tbe Tlmea.
. Tbe Clarendon bridge acrowi
Csikj Fear st FayeUeriHe
strnck by lightning ou day lt
week. No serious daoa, tu
done.
An exchange aajt it i;ars to
ue a fixed (act that 'a Caiiroad
will be rss by tbe W. - W. C.
from Dorgsw down into OoUow
couutT.
Old Jobs liobinRon' whose
name la familiar to every tnan,
wotrau ssd .cLilJ is dead. Ilia
abow baa lar<bed smument to
maoy thousand! of people.
i We see from the Doikam
Recorder that Prof. Kainert Man
gum baa been elected to a postern
lu tbe Graded School of that plane.
A better selection conU Bet Lave
been made.
Juliua FrieunJ, who was wanted
in Darbam for steaUnC K.1 aad s
gold wslcb from Mr. L. Ddwarda,
was. captured in Richmond s tew
days ago. Tbe Governor bas is
sued tbe reqaiaition pjjer.
Lat Thursday, on Lumber river,
while Archie McLanglin and Uot
LmncKton, both colomL w-re
the editor-lu-hlef came to me, absence, is called upon to per-l turseiing, tbe former pUjlulJv di.
Charlie Price, who went off
after the false god of LIberaism
in 1882, has announced his in-!
tention of voting for Judge
Fowle this year. Price was
speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives when a Democrat.
He is a smart fellow.
the
and
and
big
Nothing Equals It.
Zalaha, Fla., June 27, 1887.
N. 13. Viable & Co.:
i i nare oeen using a. u. li. in
iny family as a blood ipurifier.
Uavius never used any medicine
to equal it. ltespectlu.lv, Mes. It.
l-lakes An Old lan Yo ling,
of
my
Extract from a Letter
P. S.' I bought;' 3 bottles
your Botanic BloodjBalm from
Irienu II. D. Ballard, at Campo
Dello,&. C I have been using it
three weeks. It appears to give
me new lite and new strength, If
there is auytbing that will makn
an old mas youug it .is B. B. B. I
am-wjlhflg xo seli it. I earnestly
aud honestly recommend Botanic
Blood Balm.
1 Blood Balm Co.,
Atlanta, (Ja
Mr. Peter M. Wilson, chairman
of the. publication committee, has
jnst had issued & handsome and
comprehensive circular,- setting
forth all desired information con
cerning the Inter State .Farmers'
CouventioD. which! will be sent out
to the delegates and others who
will probably attend the Conven
tion. "Addresses will be. made by
Senators J. li. Keagao and Z. B.
Vance, and other distinguished cit
izens, and by men eminent for their
acquaintance with the subjects
which they will discuss.
i "
T. II. Vauderbiit, of Kew York,
has bought 1,000 acres of land
near' Ashe vi fie, expects to build a
residence on the land and spend
his summers there.
drawers of .water, and that their
safety consists In their, inde
pendence and demands resist
ance When you tell them that
they shall not till the ' soil to
make their bread, suppose they
say,. we are obliged to mase
bread or die, and we cannot
submit to die.' When yott tell
them that they shall.; iiot Shafe
a shelter from the ! cold, f eup
pose they determine that neith
er shall you have a shelter
from the cold. . When you tell
them they shall nof'have meat,
suppose they tell you- that-ihey
are willing to work,, trot i hat
they are not willing ;to 'starve.
v ua,t way an mis coiire io T
'Did it nnver occur to you, ye
gentlemen of education, r prop
erty and character:, ;tb you ye
men, ana especially ye women,
wno nevar received anvthinff
from thfese colored .people but
services, kindness . and protec
tion did it never occur to you
that these same people, who are
so very bad, will not be willing
to sleep in the cold when your
houses are denied them, merely
Decause tney will motWote as
you ao; l bat they may not
be willing to starve while i they
are willing to work, for bread ?
JJid it never occur to you that
revenge, which is so sweet to
you, may be as sweet to them ?
Hear us, if notning else yonjwlU
hear, did it nevej pecar to iq?u
that if you kill their, children
with hunger they will kill your
children with fear ?,;... Did , it
never occur to jou that if you
good people maliciously , deter
mine that they shall have , no
shelter they may determine
that you shall have no shelter?
Io this Address the name of
"ITT n i t
ueurge w . cstanton, rtuen a
Radical member of slhrf flaTibir
Legislature, now Radical candi
date for Secretary of State, was
auiy signea, as will be seen by
reference to the Weekly Raleigh
would have been the result but
for the" interference of Judge
Brooks, of the Federal Court,
no man may now say. There
Can .be little doubt, however,
that military executions,' so
called, would have . speedily
followed.' J .'. .
To all this iniquity this man
Stanton was a party. He help
ed the bill under which it was
done, at all of its stages, through
the legislature, giving it the
sanction of his vote on its final
passage,' all of which appears
from the Legislative Journals
of that time.
:. For liis part,, in executing
this law. Governor Holden was
Impeached, driven from office
and forever disfranchised. Geo.
W. Stanton has escaped all
punishment thus far. Not satis
fied with this, however, he per
sistently seeks honor and emo
lument at the hands of the
people. Shall he receive them?
.Ana wnai snaii do saia oi a
party that puts such a man for
ward, year after year, as a man
to be honored and trusted ?
Does Colonel Dockery endorse
the .Shoffner bill or does he re
pudiate it ? Let him answer !
Does Colonel Dockery endorse
the Legislative 'Address' of
1868 or does he repudiate it ?
Let him' answer!
" Colon3l Dockery is , now in
the same boat with Stanton,
Will he stay in it w.hen he
knows Stanton's record ? Make
him answer! From the hand
book of North Carolina politics.
il.j itf.vv .')'
The Germanton Times re
ports Presiding Elder Cunning
ham as saying that "he thinks
the third party in the most im
prudent organization on the top
of the earth." Mr. Cunningham
has one assurance that there
are thousands who think as he
does.
The Democrats of Wayne
county hold their County Con
vention on Saturday, Sept. 1st,
for the purpose of nominating
candidadates for county offices
and a legislative ticket. The
primaries will be held in the
different townships on the 25th
of this month.
. w
The Shelby , Aurora says Mr.
James Rippy a respectahle citizen
m the lower part of Cleveland.' was
found dead kneeling at his bed aide
on Wednesday morning atsnn rise.
Hia .wile, died last summer. His
family found him a corpse kneeling
as, if in prayer j when tbe summons
came to the aged pilgrim.
The Third party people met
In Wake County last week and
no to mated two negroes for
the legislature and Coroner.
White , men, prohibitionists,
what will you do about it? Can
you support a party that tries
to elect negroes to make laws
for you? Can you? In our
sunny Southland we believe not.
The News and Observer says
it has particular information
from Chatham, Harnet, John
ston, Wayne. Lenoir and
Greene that . those counties are
in very fine condition political
ly. This is very gratifying aud
we feel assured that the feeling
there only represents the feel
ing parvading the State gener
ally. Wake county will do bet
ter than usual.
m w
m
The Wake County Democrats
have nominated for the Senate,
A. D. Jomj for the House, A.
C. Green, L. E. Bancorn, G. C.
Judd, E. C. Beddlngfield; for
sheriff, M. W. Page; for Regis
ter of Deeds, J. P. Goodwin; for
Teisurer, Louis O. Lougee; for
Coroner, Dr. J. B. Knight; for
Buveyor, J. Q. Shaw. A good
ticket all the way through and
one that will be elected.
The Durham Recorder speaks
what every Democrat in the
Fourth district should exert
himself to make absolutely
sure, when " ys: Capt. B. 11.
Buun is making a rousing cam
paign. He will defeat Nichols
by 1500 or ,2000. He is iu full
sympathy with the ; laboring
men ana nas snowu uy Lid ex
ample that he has d"ne all in
his power for the working clas
ses. He advocates low Uriff
that all necessaries . of life be
pieced on the free list.
and said:
"Well, Oliver, you do make
a nrei-cias local now. aua no
mistake,'
I said. "Yes sir.'
"Well, did you ever imagine
yourself sitting amid all the
luxuries of a modern chief
editor's sanctum writing red
hot editorials.'
"Ah! this has been the one
drtam of my boyhood and man
hood. I have often looked
through the future, and have
seen myself rolling in wealth,
popularity, greatness and
power, and eloquence and
and and all th other
things so natural to the life of
a first-class editor of a leading
journal.'
"Yes, yes, but calm yourself
now. I have concluded to go to
the Niagara Falls a few weeks,
and thouht to let you have
charge no, stop, stop. I had
better not, though. It might
be too much bliss forone brief
period. Do you think you could
successfully conduct the Rip
Saw for a week or so?'
"Oh, my benefactor! Don't i
think so; just try me, in y pre
server, my guaruian,: my my
oh! my
" That will do. Let me in
struct you. Remember the jour
nalist must keep his paper be
fore the people.At every oppor
tunity just, insert a puff,' you
know. . Make this the main
feature without pretending to
do so, you understand. Good
by. I shall expect a good report
of you.'
He was gone, and I was boss
editor of the Rip-Saw, $2.50
per annum in advance but
bold on, my editorial instincts
still follow me. I thought I
would inaugurate my reign by
promptly discharging, every
printer In the office. But I
reconsidered this.
Well, all went smoothly j
enough, I thought, as each iu;
of the Rip-Saw raised a general
sensation, and subscriptions
were coming in rapidly, even
from a distance.
After the lapse of a few
Weeks the editor-in-chief came
home, ne arrived just after
the paper had been printed off
for that week, aud I gave him
a fre?h copy,with a feeling of
pride, for my ablest and bet
article was in there. It was an
obituary. One of the most
prominent but penurious men
of the town had died; and it
was just before the fourth of
July celebration and display of
fireworks, on which oc?asion
deceased was to have made au
oration. It so happened that he
had never taken the Rip-Saw
since the present editor had
taken charge; and there was
not the best of feeling between
the two. I thought this a fine
opportunity to display my
ability, as I had prepard a fine
obituary; an extaordinary one,
form the most painful duty of
his life. It is to record the
death of our able fellowtowns
man, Col. Smith. Though he
never subscribed for the Rip
Saw, jet we cheerfully do this
gratis, and it is hoped his
untimely end. will be a fair
warning io non-subscribers to
come and subscribe ri?M away;
52.50 per year Is rc-aonable.
Ills funeral notice ws duly
sent to every individual in
town. (We Justly pride our
selves upon the execution of
this job. It will be noticed that
there is good' taste displayed by
our printers in putting the
afflicted widow in this notice
immediately at the head of the
grave, beneath a irracerul weep
ing willow, with her children
gathered iu a picturesque
group about her. We are
prepared to execute all such
and other jobs, with equal neat
ness, at reasonable rates. The
relatives should feel proud of
being first to to use this neat
design for funeral tickets.) We
tender to the family our warm
est symathy, and hope they
will now come up and sub
scribe without delay. Ye will
prove our sympathy by credit
ing them till the first paroxysm
of grief is past. His hearse and
cofln were procured of Silas
Jones (whose house is jnstoppo
site the Saw's of3.ee. Let every
one hasten to patronize him.
His card is found elsewhere to
which attentlou is called), and
it was really gorgeous. The
entire community regretted his
death, as he was our fourth of
July orator, and it is too late to
procure another. He was one
of the chief movers in the
coming firework display. But
let not his friends grieve at
this, as he has now gone to a
country where he will witness
a greater pyrotechnic display
than any firework makers of
earth can design. The able pro
tein editor will be at the fu
neral, and will be pleased to
take orders for job work,
advertising, or subscribtlon.
Rem reseat in pace.
charged Ibe content of bin jaio
Bob's right sand. Its there rev , -
We learn from the Winston Dai
ly that tbe fail oop of ecLi-ji in
that section wRl be very larre. Tte
trees are weighted down mjth fine,
Inscioua frnit. It baa een one
peach that measured nii' o( Lt ia
circumference.
Senators Kannom and - j.. will
both be at tbe Dorbam 1 it ion
snd it Is hoped that 1.-. . . or Jon,
ofGs Senator John W. Du.itrL of
Va and CongreKmi Sunset Cox,
of New York, will alo lie frewnt,
aays the Darbam Tobacco Plant.
Dr. Richard IL Galling, known
as tbe inventor of tbe uGliog
battery gann was born in licrtLrd
county, N. C-, Sept. 12. 1M. lie
baa constructed another gan tbat
will shoot a thousand ttms a
minute.
An exchange gives the foa-ing
illustration of tbe tuoney t'-at
trucking brinks In : Three acres of
land that was boagbt a' few years
since near Newberne for two dol
lars snd a half an sere, ban o
daced s bean crop this year uich
netted over t"00.
Tbe Charlotte Democrat gives
tbe following trick of tbe lighrniug:
Daring the storm Friday sttcrnotni
tbe electric fluid played hid snd
seek la the dynamo room of the
electiic plan snd jomped Iromoots
lightning arreat to another in quick
succession, bat did no damage.
Mr. C. L. Smith, or Durham, a
stndeat ol Johns Hor-km Untver.
aity, wools new stuuyiag ponucai
economy in Germany, baa been
elected to sn instructor ship io tbts
University. On bia return in Sei- ,
tetnber be will be required to U-c-tun
twice a week on general Euro
pean II istory, tbrea time a etk
on English snd American Constltn
tion, and will assist Dr. Adams tn
Cbureb. History. We get rnr MoT
mat ion from tbe Biblical Reir4er
The Charlotte Chronicle tells of a
tearful wreck on tbe Charlotte,
Columbia and Angosta Road, about
22 miles from Chailolte. It says :
"No one on board tbe train was
killed outright, but fire people
were wounded, one of whom baa
Hiuce died. Tbe wreck was caused
by a "rochet drill," which is a
heavy iron Instrument made to
clamp tbe rails where tbey join sad
bold chisel while s bole is being
made in tbe ralL Tbe wrecker
fastened this tool to oue at the
nils snd tbe deadly wreck soon
followed. There is no clue what
ever to tbe guilty parties, but no
effort is to be spared to bant them
down.
The Method it Conference will oe
! lit Id at 2ew Berne tbia year 2o
veinlier 2Stb. Biahop tiranberry
presiding. Tbe date has been
changed from the 21st to tho ' 2Sth.
It 2s Izj "vTay
The talk about the elections
in Indians, before they come off
was like the man in jail, when
a friend came and looked
through the bars.
"Helioh! What are you doing
in there?"
"Walking around.
"But, what are you io for?
fWhy, I'm in forgetting out.
"Well shucks! I mein what
did you do to get put in?' : :
"Oh I told a fellow that Lis
head looked like an unkiuned
tomato, aud that he put tne In
mind of a bob-tailed bull in Cy
time, etc '
My goodness man, they cant
put you la jail for that.'
"They can't can't Theyr
Thunder, ain't I In here any
how? r
You go off and let me alone.'
So it is with the election. One
friend says to another, Ob",
they can't Import votes and
carry Indiana for the radical,
and he gets mad and ?ay, "the
dickens they can'tf iiavent
they done it? You go home aud
hush up.'