North Carolina Newspapers

REMEMBEB I j THE ADVANCE (till UMV - ONE DOLLAR ASD FIFTY CENTS nr.M'Ai" roii CaSh in Advance. BILL ARFS LETTER :o: H'i. 1 T HILL, 11A.H TO 8 A 1 TO 1 UK EDITORS. tin' Croniin Philosopher at the I'resn Meeting. Ceil You lUllt' now 1 little sea!) uu-nt after tleinen of the Press have received your wel- -you Lave dined it 'is. n order to indulge ia a post prandial talk, ii d with taffy. Compli i are well received just dinner when the inner is satisfied with big inner Wilson A lu y j iVNCE. V0LUME.19. 'LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE Till' COlINTKV'it, THY (JOD'H, AMD TRUTHS' WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, JULY 18, 1880 It and the mind craves a dV-e.-t as well as the body iiri'pose tovpeak a . few words concerning the press, the edi tor and printer?: and though t lie devil is absent I shall' give the devil his d.ie. There is an eternal fitness of tiling, and it if! tit on this oc-,-n-h.ii that the host should let Lis gutst be the subject of his thoughts and his attentions, A ueneious hospitality requires that, and so does good policy for as one good turn deserves another, it is reasonable to sup p.is that when you return to your type all our compliments will be repaid fourfold, good measure pressed down, shaken tnj-vtlier and running over. Hut facts' are not compli ments, and it is a fact that the pre has made more -advances -within the past half century than any art or science or pro t'e-siitn. - It has done more for the world's progress in all humanity, it is no longer the fourth estate, but is the first. .It i-i now more potent for good ;hai is the- pulpit or the schools. For, without the ir-ris, the preachers and the teachers would be helpless Not a book nor a sermon could he printed ; not a Bible or tract for mission work ; not paier for the farm or the fire side. It is curious to thin how the world got along with out it in the ages past. History tells us that in an cient Rome there was a written iiHw-patier published daily an nosted noon bulletin boards at prominent places in the city. It was called the Acta Diruna and furnished the citizens with the notable events with the births and deaths, and fires and earth"-, quakes, and the edicts of the magistrates, ine Acta uiruna died with the empire, - and medieval Europe had no more newspapers until the printing press was invented in the six teenth century. Then another appeared - at Vtnice and was ?old for a small coin called a gazette and from, this coin the papT took the name of Gazette a popular name until now. Hut oven this limited prpgress in the dilfasion of knowledge unpopular in England until reign of King Henry the . Jack Cade1 the rebel, had army of twenty thousand n making war upon, royalty 1 the educated classes ; and if a prisoner was taken who rould read or write it was a ?uf!icieiit excuse to put him to death. Shakespeare records fade's sentence of death upon Lord S.iy : "Thou has corrupt ed the youths of the realm in ri-ptinvr a school house. Our fathers had no. books but the score and tally and they were honest , but thou ' hast raused printing to be used, and hast built a paper mill. Thou shall die tor it." My friends, XfJack tade were here what would be ciuin of you? , Even in our day editors are not universally pop uur, f.r I remember that when Mr. Scruggs was publish ing a paper in Atlanta and" was assaulted In his office and badly beaten for something that ap peared in his columns, I asked a learned judge if he thought the man was justified in the assault, and he, said, "Oh, I don know , I have not heard tlm linn in the case, but I will My ihis, that in the abstract on tle'eiierdl principles it is right to win 'u,." ine jiuL'e had himself been 'verply handled by another iper abuut that time and was t amiable towards the proles- 1 lie first English newspaper as published in-1.622, by Na 'liiniel 1 '.utter, and was called n" Cert ian , News of the res! i,t e,.k " fn HUM. rlnrinir e rri.fti nf i '1. i tt 'i 1 n (iaz.'tte appeared and! irvives. being the oldest tp'-r in the world. lathe there appeared the btily paper under the 1' Him l.vn.,l l"l... .f " no n,,t know that, it died, Ullt "'I' "pinion is that it was 8l,lll'ly transplanted and is Jow published Iir.Cartersvillo. a christian . gentleman with an America,,, Fret man to assist '"' d,"l hence is caller! the. 'JUraiit-Ameri.-.fin Hh ! reeinan.. lu 1704, )atiiel ""Y'M'Ublished a tri-weekly it VU Huli3h Nation, and i1:1"11 its columns with u'!l DVCii -!!, ..l TV .. . "'filial siury OI KOD- ,;" Crusoe. But there was sion. 1 have before me a genu ine original ' number that is dated August 20th, 1773. In 1721 James Frauklin was a printer and his brother Ben was his devil. The boss of a newspapers was not then called the editors ; be was simply a printer or publisher. The name editor came afterwards, and is derived from a Latin word 'edere," to eat. To make a living by this calling was so precarious that the publisher was generally hungry and was giaa to iace subscriptions in something to eat. Some of our country editors are still driven to the same necessity. Not long ago I saw in the Camilla "You Democrats havn't got enough negroes to get up a runaway." It is instructive and humili ating to look back now over political past the strife and struggles between Whigs and Democrats, the excitement and tumult and bitterness, and all without sufficient cause or ne cessity. Crimination and re crimination, slander and blood shed and all for the benefit of the office seekers' and dema gogues. How the politicians did fatten upon the people ! The time was when I really believe that if the Whigs were put in power the country was in peril, but I have lived long Clarion a double-headed, hun- enough to learn that the real wa, til H an an gry announcement that Brother Underwood would receive for possums, ram, lamb, sheep or mutton, pig, pork or swine, and until further orders would take green corn, blackberries, lye soap and inguns. Blessed with the maintenance of thirteen children it is no wonder that he rejoices in the privilege of meandering around with hia brethren once a year and re- pledishing his corporosity Ben Franklin was the yonngest of seventeen children the last of the litter. His, brother Jim got into an ffupleasantness with Rev. Increase Mather, who was then the bull of the theolo gical woods in New England The question discussed in Jim's paper was whether it was a sin to inoculate a man as a pre ventive of small pox and ned the old preacher so roughly that he was arrested and tried and forbidden to run a newspa per any more. And so Len was promoted irom being an imp to an imperial and ran the machine himself : 'and this was thfr beginning of his wonderful career. Ben had light hair and blue eyes, and so did Horace Greeley who follow ed in his lead. History does not record a case wherein a little devil became so wonder ful a 'personage as did Benja min Franklin. None have ap uroachea hi in, unless it be our own beloved Uucle Remus, who before he was in his teens was the little red haired devil of the Old Plantation in Eaten- ton. j - In course of time the edito of a paper became' a man of consequence, and he was known by name as i the ruling spirit, the resDonsive party, the UlUUlUcr Ul ail 113 iincmuvoj , but now the' editor is lost in the superior power of the stock holders and the general mana- ger. we Know o: ine tieraia, and the Tribune,and the Tiues, and Courier-Journal, and the Detroit Free Press, and the Chicago InterOceati, but who knows who are the.": editors.? Who write the leaders that share. our politics . and our statesmanship. Henry watterson spends a year in Europe, and Wbitelaw lisid is minister to France ; but still the thunders of their' pa pers' roll on and agitate the re public. Who knows the lead iiig writers of the Atlanta Con stitution ? Who -knows the mental power that is behind the throne a power that is greater than the throne, but is generally too poor and too mod ern to assert itself ? The man fighters want some palings between them. What a world of papers there are. What a world of readers. How eager are the people for news and for knowledge. Even the Sabbath is the day of rest for the body only, but not for the inquiring mind. Young man, why do you leave Sunday School before it closes ? "Be cause I want to get the mail be fore church 'begins," he paid. The mail is the biggest thing out whether Sunday or in the week day. Not long ago pur preacher took his text in Nehe miah and at the close of his very interesting discourse closed the Bible" and said : "Now, I want you to read the iemaining NUllBKft 25 FOR THE FARM. MATTERS .OF INTEREST TO THE TILLERS OF THE SOIL. Original, Borrowed, Stolen atul Communicated Article on Farming. issue between tne two great parties are the spoils of office ; this is the politics in its last analysis. But still politics must not neglected. The peo ple must take choice, and the responsibility is greater upon the country press than any other power or influence. I believe that this power to day is more independent than it has ever been. The editors of our weeklies are less sub sidized by the great dailies' or the great leaders in politics. They are bolder in expressing their own convictions upon the tariff and education and agri culture and monopolies and finance than ever before. There is no well defined party line. The country press individuali zes and speaks for itself. This is well. When tnere is one good weekly paper in a county town the! people will get the editor's honest convictions When there are two there will be strife and insincerity. What one advocates tne otner will oppose or condemn. . Onahotel, and one paper, and one school are enough if they are good and the community should sustain them with confidence a.nd lib erality. What a world of gratuitous comfort the weekly gives us. Just think of the homely fireside news that comes from every preciDct through the unpaid pens of Slim Jim and Grinning Jake and Susan Jane and Daisy. Think of the arrivat of accom piished men and charmmg women that ire recorded with compliments that gladden the hearts of those concerned, and didn't cost a -cent. Think of the lovely bride and the manly groom and an tneir angenc attendants, and of the omciat ing cleryman who get five dol lars for tying the knot, hut the poor editor got nothing but chunk of cake What is a mar riage without publication and half a dozen papers to send to rejected sweethearts Think of the long obituaries of de parted friends that ithe editor has to publish free of charge and be thankful. Think of this, and still be calm and serene if you can. If, however, the county pa per is venal or vindictive or licentious in its tone there is no greater curse not even the preachers or the teachers can counteract its bad influence upon the rising generation. No man is fit to be an editor who is not moral, temperate, con servative and considerate of the feelings and opinions of his fellow creatures. li.is paper goes Into every family and hapters of this book this even ing, II you nave time alter reading Tub Wiusox Advaxck You will find it quite as roman tic and more instructive." Our preacher still hears the thun ders of Mt. Sinai and his faith is the faith of his fathers Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." Jiut as raul found it at Mars Hill, the Athenians still outnumber the saints and spend their time in hearing or telling some new thing; and so ' it becomes you, gentlemen of the press, to be more circumspect in giving them news that is fit to hear and to tell not only on the week days but on the Sabbath. Let your lotteries, and murders, and scandals,and patent medi cines, and mad dog, and snakes be double sandwitched with maxims and paragrapns incul cating virtue and piety and truth. Let us all keep the and marks of our fathers and write nothing and print nothing that will make memory ashamed of our life when we iuger and languish at the close. . ) Bill Ari. DAN5EES0? WEALTH Our Liter- agr ipw j - - character of money that id in it. Tlie edi tht iiev-p year 1; firsl Ci no Kreat sncraaa i 1 , , t. Ilflo- u o.ujf iiUjH3U l iih,,, . . "tier i. 1 11 run. - -. t livii country mere are n 'K papers as old as ".the lia. M 1 be Maryland Journal "'in iiii iin npAtran anniiAa until the London its wonderful J't one hundred vears tor wouid like to shape it in accordance with his convic tions, but he cannot always, do it. If the manager sees profit or advantage in advocating tariff reform the editor must conform and write upon that side. Not lone ago an editor told me that all his convictions were against protection, but h'is employment depended upon his writing in its favor. I have known editors to thundel' against the debasing influence of gambling in stocks and lot teries, but the advertisement of the Loulsana lottery contiiu4 'ed in the columns of the paper and mention was carefully made of every man who drew a lottery prize. " The first newspaper I ever saw was the Youth's Compan ion. and for more than fifty vBflrs it has not lone been out of my. sight, except during the period of the war. My father .. -. was not a partisan, Dut always took papers on opposite sido in politics the Chronicle and Constitutionalist and the Fed eral Union and the Southern Recorder. He used to say that it was safest to believe only the better half of each, but nevertheless he was a Demo crat; and, of course, I followed in his lead. The Recorder rep -resented the whigs -who were more wealthy and aristocratic than the Democrats. They owned, perhaps, ?5 per cent, qf the slaves in the State, and the Recorder's columns of runaway negroes was three times as the nn in th Ffldra.l Union. The little wood cuts of the runa wavs with the hind leg on the trot and the bundle and stick over the shoulders were lined down the columns in military precision, and I used to wonder if all the runaways were just I alike, and all carried the same sized bunele ot ciotnes. ine Whig boys of our town used to boast of their paper and its more numerous runaways, and would taunt us by saying : The Greatest Henace to . ties BILL A HP AND TUE FARMERS. Taylors, N. C. Mr. Editor. Dear Sir. That Bill Arp writes with a view to doing those who read his articles good, no one will doubt. He writes only in kind ness and every man can learn from the. tone of the letters that are published in your pa per He does not go deep enough he does not go back to first causes, however, when he writes of the farmer?, and right thore does he make a mistake. I have always thought that Bill Arp was, or had been a farmer, until reading his last letter in the Advance. Now, we are very much obliged for Mr. Arp's sympathy aud don't see how he could feel other wise after investigating, aa he says he has, the condition of the farmers ; but we are sur prised that Mr. Arp should fall into the same old worn-out tale of advice to the farmers. They have heard it so often that there are a few fools who half way beiieye it. Mr. Arp says : "I was think, ing. about tie farmers the poor, downtrodden, oppressed farmers the men who sweat and toil for the support of the country and get no thanks for it. The me a who are fleeced by the merchants, robbed by the protective tariff, bled by the lawyers and doctors, im poverished by ihe r-ugar trust, and the jute trust, aud the corn ers in-wheat and-corn and ba con. The men who .have to work the roads and serve on the juries, aud live hard aud die poor, and have no comforts ex- farmers have something else to grumble at besides themselves and God, and they are going to grumble and continue to grumble until the condition of things is so changed that with the same amount of honest work they will have n equal cuance with other classes to make a respectable living.' No, Mr. Arp, you cannot prove tUat farmers do not work as hard as other claspes of men. You cannot prove .that they haven't something ehje to grumble at besides themselves and God. Look further, and see the relation that our govern ment sustains towards the tev eral classes. See how it is made possible for one class to rob and prey upon the other, and then nee what protection the government gives the rob bed and downtrodden class, and see if they haven't something else to complain of besides themselves and God. Just puch advice as Mr. Arp gives: 'That you are chror.ic grumblers, that you are not as bad off as you say ; go home and do more work, vou don't work enough," has caused the farmers to drift along into their woful condition long enough. They are now aroused and are thinking for themselves, and they have learnel tint their laziness is not the sole cause of iheir burden. and will xtvr.n again be the tools of ioi.mcAL tricksters, who make laws by which one class of citizens may. rob the other and grow rich in a day and have ull their sur roundings of the very best, while the other is groaning uuder the heaviest burdens to meet the demands made upon them by the favored class. All laws should rest Alike upon each man and his environ ments In this Union. So mote it be. 0v. v-iXALl.Y. NAUTICAL LIFE. -:oj- A T THE GATES OF CANTOS'. IX THE BOCCA TIVR1S. and it ilerrhant Shametn Mfinret. A Uack Fvrtlgncr. A Boat roitttla lorn, fioene and Teinples. . r -JOIl WOItK SESlYCrBtBPrC3 to this orncz.- CANTOK, China. The Flowery Kingdom ia eiwen. tially a land of rivers canals and boats. The entrance into tba southern province at Canton ia very pictorwqoe. Th broad month of the river, kuown an the Bocca Tigna, opens the way to the city, which lies n ita northern bank in the midst of a rich alluvial piain, aooot thirty mi lea from the! its inmates. It is a good part of their education. Indeed, have thought that a fathe could not-do a wiser thing than to lay aside ten dollars every year for good standard papers for his family. A good rell gious paper of his own religious creed a good metropolitan weekly newspaper of his o'w politics a standard literary weekly for the circle, an agri cultural paper if he ia a farmer a paper for the little children, and his own county paper for county news and official adver tising and general reading. Jt would be an education without going to school. But when a paper stoops to personal abuse from personal motives it is an outrage upon those who have no paper, and I have thouoght it would be a good law if when and editor lampooned a man he should be required to give the man an equal amount of space in his own columns to defend himself and reply to the charges. If the editor should call a man a thlet or a scoun- drel.the man should have space enough in his next issue t j say, "Ynn flrnnliar. von old HOD-: 6ared hound ; and I can prove that you stole.an empty guano sack and used it for a taoie cloth. you dirty old fiee-bitten dog." The like of that would keep down a. personal rencountef. Just let two men have an equal phanpe tQ talk I and they will not be inclined to fight. That is the reason why lawyers get along sq harmoniously cut of the Court House. They ex pand and exhaust all their wrath in the Court House while the judge and . the bheriff are near enqqgh to maintain the dignity and the majesty of the law and keep down a collision. The judge and the sheriff are like the paling fence that is pe- tween two dogs as tuey run up and down the line as though if the f snce were not there they would eat each other tn.il and all. Most or tne Editor Henry W. Grady told a great truth and told it well- when, in his speech at the University of Virginia, he said : "The fact that a man ten years from poverty has an in come of 820,000,000 and his two associates nearly as much from the control aud arbitrary pricing of an article of univer sal use, falls strangely on the ears of those who hear it as thy sit empty handed, while children cry for bread. The tendency deepens the dangers suggested by the status. What is to be the end ot this srut piling up of wealth? When the agents of a dozen teen who have captured and control an article of prime necessity meets the representatives of a million farmers, from whom they have forced $3,000,000 the year be fore, with no more moral right than is behind the highvay man who halts the traveler at his pistol's point, and insolently gives them the measure of this year's rapacity and tells them men who live in tne sweat or their brows and stand before God and nature that they must submit to the infamy be- 1 1 41. cause tuey are ueipiess, me first fruits of this system are gathered and have turned to ashes on the lips. When a dozen men get together in the morning and fix the price of a dozen articles of common use with no standard but their arbitrary will find no liini1, but their greed and daring and then notify tho sovereign peor pie of this free republic bow much, in the mercy of their masters, they shall pay for thejuecessaries of life, then the p..iut of intolerable shame has been reached " ai si A Isw aaii u.a.l I on itlior LatiH Th -. r.i.1 I '"I Of Can fiver nrn ..rr.l itt . tl..-' 'u1 1 aye wn wrM -,: "r -" "rr: rt tnt t Unknown Friends- Sometime dnriug Monday night some kindhearted but unknown friend left a piece of rope about nneen ieet long, beautifully noosed, on our steps as a present for our faithful work in this community. We took it in and shall treasure it highly. The editois of the World, Herald, Times and other New York sheets toil from sun to sun and are hardly known by name. Scarcely a day passes that we do not receive dead head tickets and, beautiful lit tle mementoes to prove that the busy world is not too busy to remember us. Cum soil. Which means, 'tis well Ari -zono Kicker. cept rest on Suaday and a cheap religion. Now, I don't say that, but that is the way the fanners talk about themselves." We assure Mr. Arp that that is the condition of the farmers all over the Union, and that is not half the tale it is tenfold worse. I ask why u it so? You say, "The only drawback upon prosperity or our farmers is, that they don't work enough, tc." What other class of men work so hard as farmers do ? Do other men's wives and daugh ters work so much as those of farmers? There should always be a standard of judgment or rather a standard by which things should be compared in order to show their relation. Now. by what standard can Mr. Arp say the tanner don't work enough? By what other class does he judge or measure their work? Does the lawyer do more hard work? Does the mer chant? Does the banker? Who does? The wives and daughters of the farmers do more work by far than thj men of any profession. But say all classes of men do the same amount of work. The farmers as much as the lawyers, merchants, , doctors, bankers, ivc , wnat aoout tne generous output which get the most for the actual hard work done, which class gets the most mon ey FOR THE WORK DONE? A farmer works haYd all the year round and makes a bale of cotton and sells it at or below what it cost to make it. What is that bale of cottou worth, to the world ? About 200. The farmer gets 35 or 40 "and the other class gets 1(J0. Now, who did the real work about that bale of cotton ? Does Mr. Arp mean that farmers dou't work enough to equal five times the amount of work done by other classes? He stm-ly does not mean to say that a farmer does no, do as much work during a year as a banker, merchant, or a man in any oth er profession. No, I think that Mr. Arp will agree with me that a farmer during the year does iar more wors man a man in most auy other of the pro fessions. But after the work is done, what is the rssult ? Who gels the best pay for the jvork done? Which is the moat thrifty or prosperous class? A f.-ATT:.K 5-TM.l- A correspondent of an agri cultural contemporary says what u ay be of practical inter est to our people when it says : Some years ago I desirous of allowing my cattle the run of my hog pasture, but did Dot want the hogs in the cattle pas ture. How to do this was a query. 1 finally arranged a con trivance. Make an opening in yur division fence so that the posts stand three feet apart. Twenty-two inches from the ground place a roller, which fhould bo four or five inches in diameter, straight, and of any hard wood. The journals may be left on the roller, or the ends may be cut smooth and round, smooth bolts inserted in the ends, with staples in the posts to receive them. If the former plan is used, 1 1-inch auger holes lu the posts will auswer. Care should be taken that the roller may work free and easy, for it answers a double purpose. Cows passing in and out will not injure the udder. but when Mr. Hog goes to jump into the other field he will land on his back ot his own premises. Last summer I had a hog that would jump the roller twenty-two inchos high. Not washing to make it higher, I placed a board, ten inches high, eighteen inches from the roller, on the hog pasture side. This prevented the hog from facing the roller, and he could not jump ; at the same time it did not interfere with the cattle in the least. every size and ha. The approaches to tho city are guarded bv the lio u lortx, and the eity itself ia enrroon.l- ed by a brick rampart and -bordered with extensive eubarb. A wall divides tbe town into two narU. and separates tbe Tartar popula tion from the Chineae. Ia tbe walla are numerous gates, to which tbe Htreets lead, and at ech of which stands a guard bouse. TLchm ti. tern, fortresses and catea. from the earliest time, have een scenes of con 11 ict and violence. In front of the city lies tbe little inland ofSbameen. which baa be.-o ceded to the French and the Eng lish, where mmt or tbe foreigners live. It contains rainy very band no me jeHuleuoeH, tli. it cte hoilt in the old dys wheu all ibe busineiui with Cbiua waa dotif by Kuroi. anx, who weuu-d to deal with John Chinaman pretty much as they pleaard, being in fact merchant princes, living in the rnot ehcnt tyle and making Tabulon snms nf money, wli:cb were rx?ndt-d lar ihly lof the com for tit and laxorien ot a hie tar from their homes ami among a ople who tegardod them wiiu suspicion and growing hatred In the absence of their families. l heir houses tircamw sum pi nous dab, where ibey dined, 'wined and made merry week io and week oat. Ia the yearn past naiv forMu-rs bav found graves tier ia the. rM, the way is clear d by an attend int Unpleasant sights 'and new ry smells fret th visitors about tbe haunts, the homt- and the hnts of these wretched Moi'.t who make' up the greater part o this ciiy of J Cantoa. Ia the basin? tboroagblares the Caudj shop display oriental wares and merchandise. Mot of the fchopa are very small, for the neces. slties ol this frugal rare are not oaoy. The building re covered with signs whichhanging by cine end, are read vertically, the -bar-vstera being plAoed one attore another. Tbe silk and cbina bo. howeret, are usually large stores, .n which the display of every- va riety of ailfc, rrrpe, embroidered panels and wall deroratioua is fioe and interesting. The sales are made by 'bright and basineas like Oealora and assistants. The kiIU ton are unlike snv elsewhere ia China be j-rtirle offered! .or sale have only one price. In 1 1'iorr niies it arems io be Ine ru torn ol native merchants to charge foreigners lure or lour times the amount tbey ordinanlr charge fur tbeir goods, bat If the atcbaHrr Uaa patience and will wait a week or two be will be visited by tbe eller every day, and will be able r'.timately to make his porcbaee on a reasonable basis. Io tbe maikrt Mafia are found the carcasses of uog sua cats, ctiner cooked or law, which form aa imjHiant ar t.cle of food, the eyes of bn.h are regarded aa 4 superior delicacy. The tea bouM-n and reataaranta are buudautly numerous in every part it the city. The temples and joss Vmses, wLich play a gn at part io t.ie daily life of tbe eople, are huge and ill-ahapen tttuctures of btick or stone, in the at ntional rftjle of architecture, d are about a agly as tbey are unsightly in their Mirroun.lings. Throngs 1 Inly ausl beg24il p'uMs mv-t li tcwpli, :u I i '.J tf !!-.1- d being .'l.rt u'm tin- rq-ure lu Iroiit i king Kltf. r4-E4ri ol !.i;ii wur., icpul-ie ia jt-.tau-- and ure, f.ml:ti; ti- riilr. it, HOME CHAT. c. ir.- TilOVOltT FROM OVli FXLiiAsais. HA el the ItrHhrr of the )uitl are TkinXtMg atul Snffimg. THE LAST IULL r.fc FIUST. The man who tells ihe lat atory generslly comes oat ahead any way, 30a kntw. Sanford Kxpteas. Alt IM Kttk.fr Tix: i:i.ot. There is some mighty lntretirg redmg ia the record of tax re turns. That book would not be a very incorrect tet of the religion of some folks. Charlotte Chronicle, a batiiks LmssnvK riETr. ll!.i crtintr Alabama, has aevea thousand Heputihcan voters and not a white tn an among theiti. It onh f.ike tne whitn man's i: puMir,m patty .me time to tnaienali in Pallas. YVd uuntua Star. a riciiwickus itkf.. UreenUrfxi Js'urtu Srate. IX The Kep, Is authority lor the s'aiettient that -iIr. Krorer is be.ng tn-tiUon-ed bv the Northern 'jJi-r as aa available man for th'S;wakt-r.hip' of the lloase d IIctreentattTra. Tboe most In Kotue f lh- North ern mmir pajwr. YYi1tuinloa St tr. TXVKB.Tr t u im 1 1 u. It has Wn ttr,gcM-d that Mr. Charlc-s I'rwe a as aptoiutrd diMtict attorney tuTatiM the President cxnild not find any available matrtta! in his own pajty. Jdr. I'f (v" eumjM-trticy 1 or: kined, Imt the old '.iu rs d-uy tut hf is a I. juil.'..caa. DavidMiTi Dispatch. ihe Ilouan 'omjih, which is the uit noted in Canton, we were te reived by a lobvd priest, who fr a wall fee coi.diiri-d n abmt its sacred piennei line ale Lrt scores ul '.gs aud loals, known where the rhmate, ihe water and 7 " ' ' the mode or life are likely to Im- "'T 0 lht,r f vru in faUU i.ir tho ..r, IHf ttt I I ITonii I s Hud in lime ol The island baa many attractions M'T tlK ! I K I Hi Kl I 1.1. .Vutil Samatitha as : "Ihouca I dil Me totil.'m, still I do be iee that Ihe oll4-r ate happier Ihaill them tUT Ciu't Wotilile. This is t ajec;tU Hue tu Ihe tolj tic. The otiV.et arc Uie kind of Kt1itK-iatis i rao the li a t of ir'otis gamed by the earuet, straight furwsid witkei. (Irerns. In North Klxle, le. Its beaut ilul ardn f exrellent club, liwu tenMs gtourult. boating course, and Ua hospiuble eojile hiade it very inviting toonroftice.-s while the h'p lay at anchor otT its ehores. j It was here, It will le ren.emb-r- ed, lh.it a few ej,r ago an initi ated mob of Chinese made a wan ton attack tion the f.-rrigu wtilu ment, to areng. the l.itb ol a na tive who was pushed by tbe gu-ud Trom a river-lio:t, whi-u att iiiptiug with otherc to board it wuhoot ia thorify. M my bnues were rohlied and burned, the wbaif aud etores were destroyed, aud Ihe unfortu nate uteamer e.c.id ouly bv diop ping out into the nvt-r. The riot I up, Who gets the most money out of his labor the farmer or the other classes? What is a ton of cotton seed worth, to the farmer who makes it? ?10 to 511. What to the cotton seed oil trust? S23 to 23. What is sugar worth to the man who makes it or produces it out of the foil ? Does he get his. share One of the highest of spir-of the profits with the man tual luxuries is the enjoyment who manipulates it, considering 01 'ii wheat rtoi. The wheat crop of North Carolina harvested this year where not injured in the shook by the wet weather, is reported as very fine, the yield being good and the grain very superi or. There have been some fine yields, from twenty to thirty bushels to the acre in some of the western counties, while thero are Instances, doubtless, on woll cultivated farms where it will run much higher. In me great wneat growing sec tion of the W est, from which North Carolina imports so much wheat and flour, a larger yieia man tins is very ra-, and the average yield is net more than twelve bushels to the acre. North Carolina fanners can offer no good excuse for the further importation of wheat, flour or corn from other States. Tliey can and should raise not only enough of these but more than we need for home Cju sumption. Wilmington Star. Enjoyment of Thought. of pure and exhileratmg ana sublime thoughts; to such a devout and cheerful thinker 1 m. r a prison may be a paiace. "i thought of Jesus,', said noiy Rutherford, "imtil every stqne in'tlie walls of my cell shone lifre a ruby." New Berne Journal. A ?erp3tu4l dominion- A Christian should make his Saviour a perpetual companion everywhere and on everyday of the week. Chist offers to walk with Mm in every day's jour ney of life. What companion ship go .enlivening ana so narifvini? as his? and who els can so make our hearts "bam within us by the way ?" the amount -of work each has done? How about meatj who gets the iimney ; the man who produces it? No. In other words, of all classes of men in the several professions, doing the same amount of work, which is the most prosperous? Are the bankers and merchants under a? heavy a strain to live as the farmers? Don't their business pan out more at the end of the year tuan inat ot a farmer who has done the same Last Spring sepd oorn was so scarce that some of the farmers in Moore and Chatham conn ties planted their entire fields with Western corn. This corn haa grown a very small stalk and has tasseled out At about the height of three feet. Moch of it will produce no corn at til, It is a provoking failure. Sao -ford Express. Tor flay Fever- 'Give Ely's Cieatn B!am a trial. This jnatly celebrated remedy far tbe cure of catarrh, hay fcVer, cold Vm tbe head, Ac, can h obtained of auy reputable druggist and may be relied upon an a ate and pleaa- irevailed for sever id days, until a man-of-war put io an appearamv aud quelled the disturbance. A few diiiled sailors and mariues who can he landed ouicklv from our war vessels, with the reiieattng rillcs and Gatlmg guns, are pretiy sure- to uinperpe a mo'i in a short while. Such summary treatment ia ofteu needed in these lands lor pro- lectioa agaiuat the Chinese, wboee hatred of the "foreign devila," aa tbey are called, is liaole to tie in- censed at any moment. Naval ves sels are often required to lie for months in the most 11 a healthful aud inhospitable porta to prevent -dent motion 0 ptojierty, and to bolu a' riotonn people in restraint. Of the large imputation of Can ton, fully .'J30.UUU, regarded aa a pariah ciass, live in bjafs, a. id sel dom if ever eo on shore. Thev form a strange and interesting community. The boa' a ar? fasten ed side by sole in tows, between which street-like opening are left lor the passage 111 an out of those wishing to cnauge their jwmitiou, as well as for the pivsage of res taurant and provisions boats, which are moving about continual ly to Kell meichuudiKO lo these dweller on the water. The boats re ci)rnii wun mailing, excepr a portion at the bow. which forms sidewalk for the occupants to pass from oue to another, wit hoot dis turbing anyone. Their boats are t 1 . mcir uuusr-s, 111 w 11 ten famines are located pretiy much as though they were on lan-l. 1 preveut the children iroai failing iu the water, tne emi;er ne ae -tied wilh rop, s, a dog are aometimes fast t-ue.l, to keep tliem iiom the edga of the boat. Thelir;pT ones are provided wun tlKita secured to tln-ir hack, and if they tumble into Ihe w:iter no no-ice is taken of Iheinaxivpl U 'he mother, who pluugea ovetlfiird :o tefCiie them. with mt w hich they would he lei: lo M-rish. The crie ol a drowning c'.ilJ in Cliina fall on deal ear. This community, which lie along the sLotea of the rivor. is one of the uiot novel aud notable sights iu ail the List. Uii tbe nver are to U set hot Yer.i lertsl the tne eveiuufl The atreeU of the edy are nar row, labyrinihiao and dirty. They are ooutinually thronged with people, mauy of whom carry large loads about, aa uo other means of transportation are practicable. No horses, doueya er lniUo;ks are met with anywberel No wheeled ve hiole rattle over the navementa. The usual way oi oarruog hardens is 10 saspeud them from tbe middle i:UOrw. lu the native trial court a are eti .e'.ed many ditr s:cg toenea. The 1 Ices are mandatius who are at ioacbel by itioiiera and mental t 1 beudeI knee". The offender i led in cxiuit !' hi pig lail. ty ol l.c.iou and cru-l atleudsnla. and ia :rade to kneel before the judge, who sits in open court behind a .nail tab'e. Tbe j'ldge Is surround ed by court oflical who remain landing, and occasionally takes a -hifl I torn a pipe handed lo him bv h servant as the trial proceeds. There are no wttnee or lawyers. Tbe complaint is made, and tbe of fender is exacted to confess, or otherwise U iersccuted ontil be cmfesses, nnless bis friods par chae ao acquittal. Severe ienal ties are impoM'd imprisonment. .'ecapitation, strangalatloo or tor tute being the tor in of punishment mat is meted out to the nnforta Lite and nnresisting cu''!. Tbe prisons are small, dim ..i.J over crowned places, in wuicii M seetns imtiossible for human beings to fa dure a short term of incarceration. Justice, with her amiable feat a res. is a strango divinity in this land ol uowers, whose deities are without l umber, of whom this people are the especial care and solicitude, tveu though tbe aim file human ligbta, of which we boast a our heritage, arc denird them bv their mlers. SamshUky. UK lllll VoUk Mill 1 Kit. The man host In the plane of he Sixth Auditor 1 a lu.r litlt lepubhon bell. jle 1 tin lallow-dip. He ii i'li Ifue puMicaa ienliment bot mailed itt the expression lhat "the mea who did the horn :! in s In the lat caajpaiu should have iMitne hiug lo show for lhe:r lstoi Wilming'oo MeMrtiget. Did Ihe fair M-X ever onk 1 itt li er than at present, attired they .ire in l-autilui white ntitrftt'-, as the driven tnoa t 1 hey remind one of the pictures of the atigels atttreil In their white tolies ihey chaat Ihe heaveuH aMl ctiis and wave their palms la tSe gteat c-.titts atHive. VN h ..uld the world without ..tu:-;i ! Hrl 1 v.lJe Weekly. "All Veal ard a 7ari Viie."' When a great busincas boae. of wotM-wide teputatioa for borietv fair dealing and financial resiKmst bility, feels warranted in atta biug i.s t-ertiucate of gnarantee lo Its (Tois, Ktich action furnishes tbe best tto-vxible evidence that tbe roducta are In-lieved to be jus what they are represented to lie, Such corfidetice on the patt of 'lannfactuteis and -vendors naitir- :iiiy oegets conndeuce la par- chasers. aud hence it I that there Las grown to lie, all over this grea gantry, such an anprceletrd demand for. and mcu itnilicit coo hdence in, that most popular brer oiood and lung remedy kowii as Dr. Tierce's Golden Medical I)i covery. as no o;her medicine has vvrr before met wih. It is sold bv druggists, under a sitive guaran tee frout Ihe mauufactutcrs. that '.t will either benefit r cure every cas-of tbsease tor hich it is recommendetl, or tbe money id for it will le promptly refunded. It is tnauufaciuied ly Ihn World's Dispensarv M- dmal AsMi-ition, of liuffalo, N. V.. a well kuown and Jnaouially !:d business roiioia 1 1 on. No other reKnihIc msuu. taeturers of medicines have put t '.heir remedies to each seve.e tests I .is to warrant them 10 give satis t i.ac'ion, or refund the monej pnl ' 'irlhem. '(Joldeti Medical lis Kill. sipula- KOf A1IOS IH WIIA1 V 8evcnly per cent. 1 f 1 Hon ol tiiis republic .a the farms or are engared i ' rmirifr. We saw at Ihe 11 oai.. ..1 elec tion Una seventy p-r c ut. go to the polls and allow itself to con tinue to Im taxed and r.bta-1 for Ibe benefit of tea er c-eut. of Ihe eopIe liecaase the l4lt r sai l it as right and it ocht lo be. San ford Express." k KKP AN KVE !!t:. Keep vour eye on It b Vance. He waa ehn-ted l'resi lent of the litinr-omhe tVnfelerai' Veterans last wee. Ih-lween now and one jear next Novemler he will em brace and elap n I lie shoulder eveiy voter in the :dh Lmgres- Mooal district who i not a h less invalid. Keen y ur ee tut !b Vance. He will try 10 g t back to Congress, aud he ia a hat d man to l-t. Jreetitro Nfrth State, 5en. Ar. :lrc In a ICr-io- Instances are on tecotd b-w toilets in gol l minc-i aud diam'id Gelds, who. by one lorn of a.s, .de, a single movemeut f Ihe hand, have been transfxtmed fim p tno- IklMirers to milbonires. l:ut Ibey were not litrky as Is the consumptive who finds arresfisnf ten' oration to heslth. ho leattia Ibst the dread diea frm which he snfTera is but incutsdle. Dr. 1'ieice's Golden 1e.l:rl li.MK.rt i v will cure con su million (shicb is lung scrofula), and tioth ng 1 will. For all dteaM-a of the bhsxl, such as blu'chespi nple. ruplimi", M-rofuloas Mires nd wi Hinc, it is uneaaled. It I guaranteed to cute in all caes .f diM-aes ftr which it is reooromeiidi d. or money paid for it will be promptly refund ed. 1 -: - -V " nuiuuuivi unLi mi. nmjjoiani renieoy ior ih atov. trom that -"the farmers are tshronio plaiuts aud will give im im-.U'd is grumblers and tbey -haven't lief. It is not liquid, aim if or anything to grumble at but God powder, has no otlVnsire odor and and themselves, and as they can be used at any time with good won't complain of them they i results, as thousand cm t.-.tify, growl at' everyboly else." 1 Uihotr them jsome of tlu- .i nches think from the above that u1 ofthia othce. '-Sp.r.t of tho Time t ...... .-. it i. :.. 1 : ... 1 , 1 ,1 null ocil in 1.1- nth., ibiwer Uuts. or uo.itd.g-' "?.r ". live tout, a. alwavs b-iti tie- ef of elaborate design, lu wh.ch X: I?? V'-'n I.i.idhand io bf affairs, was rcomlortablequa.tera and en ' V. ",""u l,m ": drlel,, rar.lflle d .u:,, the street nmentateto he found alter i woiuioua woir dU v gates of tba o,ty are tloeed ln !mo.s and pute.on.try ra.r "V 'V " L 1 IMU I W U1VU IH tal li I Jl I UV i - s ' m K ungs) 11 tawen in lime and civcn fair trial. Chronic catarrh n ii.e uead, bronchitis and throst di-e- itcah-ocured by this n-t wonder ful bloo.l-i ui.fjtr anu iuvigojating Jouic. . Angry subscriber to editor "1 am mad all the war tbronch, an' I want my paper stopped." e ur ; do you want to pay what owe t" of a bamboo pole, the ends of ! imJ IUra ,f C which rest on tbe shoulders or two! P:0eD1K Ilera' men. ir ooe person, however, is the A-inea t- if-v.-. harden bearer, the load is aitaobed , A-ncatt-ers. fn nasi, ah J .r tl . . .1 ? . . . I v eUuui iueK et 8 middle- Mrs. Window s Soothing Symp fcelng supported by his shouldeis. should alwavs I oaed for childteu ihe more ImporUnt iiersonages when teething. It soothes the child, ride in chairs and palanquins, thatuie gums, allays all pain, cures are pome by two or more chair j wind colic, and U the liest remedy cooiiea. V, henever a mandaria or for diarrhoea. TweMv five cents magiatrate passes along the street ' a bottle. liore after the accident, lh driver, true t nature, yelled out: 'III, tbT! g't nnt of the way: l on which Ibe darkey, uot l-ing very much hurt, picked himself up as quickly as fr-M-ible and hal . loed back : "io' de lyd s ake, bo??, yo' ain't cotnin' tark again, is yo ! isw m A good business manager of a newspaper beiieye in the cah system; while a good editor rather affect the credit -y.tem. Is this a parad ix ? . What cau be truer than the expression of an excLaue th at "should man be judged by man, bell would be too mall."