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S A BEMEMBER 1 THE ADVANCE-- FOR ONLY- iNE DOLLiR AID FIFTY KHTS -WHEN PA1I rOK 1 Cash in Advance. BILL ARP'S LETTER ' . MS . ' "' ' HIS GRIEF OVER THE ItEA TH OF GRADY. lie lleaUites 8qwnXn$idt. allowing; HowWoun&uHd fw" acious Mr. Grady Wa? : It ia a ead" time to: Write a Sunday letter. The burial of Jlenry Grady has left every body. sad who knew him. We have not missed him yet. A ,few have in his household and in bis editorial ''eahcute; but . . we who saw him' only - now and then, and the, thousands who - never saw him but Who loved and honored - him haye not missed him. Perhaps; we -will not until some emergency comes, some, trial of f our-f pa- , tieries, so'iui' - ylntliltftSl&rr. : . oflhment,' some caluinqy, a'nd then we will sigh for -Grady. A fewryears ago Ben Hill stood in the' breach, and pe fed that we were sate, arid we,, were. Wlien he died we felt like the soldiers felt jyheu ,Stbne wall Jacksottdied.f ;The years lolled on, and Northern cal Tuuiuy seemed to gather sterngth aud bitternesg, when suddenly a, pleading voice waslieard that erec.tlfied .the natjgiKvThe- Hy stood-bravely amcng!'the 3Eest and proudest of our successers, and dared to tell them what herald, without prestige, With out political training, without c u 1 ti vated oratory, he einbaras sed them .and charmed 1th em and. captured them .with ;the beautiful eloquence of truth and the South ;- wept tears of joy at his triumph. But re cently he stood again, and seemingly without an effort es tablished, himself .as; the peer less -orator of the Jiation; and :so grandly dfd he' champion our cause that even New Eng land blushed that . she had 'ever doubted our honor or our , faith. Did ever a -star rise, so rapidly or the zenith and shine so resplendent and .attract the admiring gaze of so many millions of wondering people 1 That star has gone; vanished called in by the fiat of the Almighty. When will another come ? ' - . Henry Urady was, a boyr- uothiuif hut a boy we all call ed him Henry. - His smoothTfitS and boyish face and laughing. -,yes and merry "voice did hardly, become a man. He had tu be deeply .., .impressed with the deep concern or the peril of anything to put off his hoyiah ways. Only a few years i ano 1 rode with him and two more friends Id the country and s-jeiug a squfrel across the road he leaped from the carriage and chased him far down in the woods. He came - back laugh ing andpainting,; and said : . "I would have caught him if if J had been a dog." He loved the boys and their boyish sports, and,, onced remarked that he would- go to school again if he was not ashamed. Said he wanted to play marbles and sky-ball, and would try a iame of mumble-peg with a newsboy if there was no one watching him. f When baseball came on the carpet he was de lih'ed, for it gave even a man a chance to be a boy again. He joined in the sport with eajjer enthusiasm, and kept it alive, and became ifor a while its champion! ;f- remember being in the ofO.ce of .the Con stitution one day When. Henry came sauntering in with a hap py smile upon his face,' and Kvaa Howell said; y'lifou . need not come ; here laughing, just look at that bill for telegraph ing your baseball news from all over the country. That'the bill for one week just 'one week and if yoa don't stop-'tt I'm tjoing to charge,it np to you Wve got it to pay, but I im going to charge it up to you." Henry glanced at the bill au'd said: "That's .all, right;: charge ' it hargeit. charge it; ..'I- don't care; but I'm goiug to have the baseball news all the same. What axe you. fellows talking -about?" When he left the room HoWell said: Was there ever such a .boy in the - world 3 Whfln be returned from . the IXew York banquet wich all his 1)1 ushing honors thick . upon iiim Howell said: "1 knew it was in himj but he didn't, and he doesn't know now what he has done." Was ht, embarssed?' Jaid I. 'No, not a bit, he! 'iever embarssed when he -championing or defending jufct cause. His earnest, uwe- hsfeed nature has no room for embarrassment. Grady is "just .as mneu at ease la the presence of great men as he is amoner the boys. He would as readily converse with a king or an em peror as with ore and yet he liaa nothing of cheek or brass 1,1 assurance or conceit in his mature. All that I apprehend n about Grady is that he would loose some of his -influence by catering too much to - the boys and . their spbrts and Srolics. Bat he can't ifelp that and now I believe it adds to his nato4" Since . his death, Howell said I iu ten der emotion, "I never knew -of. such a man. 1 neVer kntw hw much l loved him, W much the men and the foys and the women connected rif the Constitution loved him an over w cuuniry. 1 The jfuuuj iuou uu us oia men VOLUME 20. and the negroes. I beleve th when he died he was the m at universally beloved man in ost United States. Was there the such an overwhelming un ever 'sal tribute paid to mortal man as has been paid to him?" Some years ago I, happened lb Atlanta upon the day that Cox killed '-Alston Alston who was Grady's, friend Grady loved him like a brothar. The. town was wild. There was hurrying two and fro as the excitement" intesified,. and Henry Grady was by; tarns the center of every, crowd. r k-' . Horror-sticken. shocked and grieved, he told and retold the sad news in all its tragic de tails, seeking , and courting sympatyfrom every- listener an4dHry little -while HQ.W!1 would all him away and say: "Can't you go,to the office noW? This thing must be written up you know," All k the evening Howejl .watched and wited and efvery time he urged Grady to goVhe said: "I will please wait iuflt a moment. I promise I Will go directly: there is time enough." As fi-esh listeners joined the crowd Grady would tell it tall, again, and grieve au-ain' and so the night came on and 8 o'clock and 9 o'clock and 10 and the paper must go to press at 3. . Finally ilowell te- desperate . and seizing Rim by the arm, he forfeed him bodily to the building ana up the stairs and into his room and then locked the door and begged him to write. And he did, write', We have not yet forg'otton that wonderful and thrilling narative that apeared the next morning and covered an entire page of the paper. A homicide was never so written up before hor-since. With eyes in teaifef and trembling fingers, he dashed off sheet after sheet to ihe utmost precision of de tail. The inception, the prov ocation, the extnuatiou and the- consummation, ann clothea it all in such pathetic,, passion ate . language that seemed to havebeej:! " written with tears that fell upoe h3 pea. In two hours his work was finished, and he went wearily to bed. Aswe walked to the church Robert HemphiJ.1 said, "This beautiful Christmas day just his Character a summer in the midst, of J winter. ,i.very morning be was at my desk and brought sunshine 'with him Eagerly he ran oyer the morn ings mail, and what there was good in it he read aloud and made his comments as he read. Ther weekly paper was his pet ; and as the receipts increased, and daily increasing subsciip tions came pouring iu he was happy and declared it would go to 200,000. in 1890. 'It shall do it,' he said. 'And, Bob I want you to telegraph me every day when I am gone to Boston. When the receipts get to 2,000 a day wire me uatil you find me, for ft "will make me so hap py. ' They, have passed the mark," said 5 Bob. . "They are now .loobut he never knew, it. Yes,! X.shall miss him inore than any one else in the office. My morning comforter is gone. . Henry Grady had just attain ed his majority when he came toRoine and begau his career as a journalist. Very .soon he mingled socially with the young men, land became their leader and their pet. . He had no aristoeraiie circle of fridnds. He never had.' Zeke Edge, the bright,-cheerful shoemaker, was as dear to him as the bou ton hi the town", and Zeke knew it, and lovd him. . 1 know he lov ed him for he came from far tj Jtiis funeral, and . I. saw him weeping at his bier. Grady ear sily-molded the young men of all classes to his gentlej persua vlve wil.i. In later years he advanced his mental and social forces among the mature and the aged', and became their con fidant and their comfort. . What a shock, a cruel' shock, was his death to Chief Justice Bleckley and' the venerable and venera ted Campbell Wallace. "God did not take you nor me; my friend," said the judge to me, "but he sfet the dial back and took Grady in his prime." He was a born leader, among men, not for gain, not for office, tut for measures and the advance ment of those La loved. What he made he scattered with a lavish hand j and there was no charity, no high and noble en terprise, no progress that he did not foster. He was Atlari ta's unselfish .friend. He lost thousands in seeking to promote Tier welfare ; and Atlanta owes it all back to him with interest compounded. Owes it back to his dear old mother and sister, and his wife and child re ti. I thought of this Wednesday while Dr Morrison was praying for them in that , great prayer, the greatest I ever heard in all my life. It was good to be theroaud listen to his slow and measured and trembling words as he breathed themout in broken-hearted tones to jGdd. It was good to feel the breathless stillness of that vast assembly of mourners. It was good to .drink into the heart the touchy fng strains, of , music as they sung his favorite hymn "We Shall Gather at the River." When his good mother first came to him from her distant home and found him half con scious, half delirious, he drew her to his bosom and, with that song in his heart, said : "Moth er, my foet are already, iu the he the trruf oi ' ' A k r Vi qtt - nrava vy uiuvxi auu vua y note y knew that he was crossing river. - , -. -' Georgia has followed Grady wherever he dared to go. Mow easily he made governors and judges, anu senators, when he willed it, and threw himself within the breach ! How ea sily he captured Boston With all her exacting, critical rigid ity of culture, and had he lived to stand berfore the other great centers or the Korth; he would have captured them, too, and would haTe revolutionized their sentiments ane brought harmq iw nnrl rac mi t of discord. To ; " r . vttaA hi in p.nm A3 nnnrnr (nnsr it than to reid the utterances j of any other man. But to hear him and see Jilm and feelihtm, was to surrender to him'' and become willing prisoners to truth. The secret of all this was his earnest, pleading patri otism. Neither party nor par-r tisanship was In it, nor ofiice nor the hope thereof, i. Foftlfied by truth and love, lie carried no other lance. Having never held office, he was fettered by no rules of political warfare. He did not seek to " vanquish any foe. His ambition was to win them. Added to the right eousness of his cause, be pos sessed the highest elements; of oratoVy, sincerity and the -.-pa thos of language. His mostJn timate friends hardly knew the extent of his, varied and won derful gifts. ) ? He did not know them him self until he had tried them.! It is amazing that he- trifed them when and where he did. : lake the proud bird that poises on the loftiest pinnacle, and then sparing easily and gracefully above attracts the admiring gaze of those below. 13ut, the world moves on and the people will die the noble and the ignoble. As fast as the ranks are broken we seem to hear the ceaseless ticking of the clock and the voice of old Fa ther Time saying,:. "Close up; close up,'r .With smiles and with tears we are all marching to the grave. There is no stop, no halt, no rest, and the Lord expects every . man to do his duty - Bill Aim HIS LAST BEQ,UEST He Was Drunk And Wanted The cjc Cat Watched-' "I heard a story on an Irish man the other aay, wnicni think new," said a . gentleman recently. "Thiailrishman was in the habit of going home drunk every night of his life, and beating his poor Wife, Bid dy, in the good old fashion. He didn't lick herl because he dis liked her, or wanted to punish her, but just because he thought it the proper thing to do. .Fi nally at's wife got tired (of it and appealed to the priest. The priest took Pat in hand. That nigh "he came home, j as usual, drunk. The good priest told Pat he had to stop getting drunk and beating bis wife : that if he got drunk again he would turn him into a rat. " Next night he got drank as usul, but he remembered what the priest had told him. Here is what he said to his wife j I "Don't be afraid, darlin'.i 'l'yi not goin' to bate ye this night I'm not goin' tp'lay the weight O me nnger on ye. i want j ye to be kind to me, darlin', and to remember, if ye kin, the days when we was swateheartsj and when 1 was always kind' to ye, and yo' loved me, to Know his riverence was here last night, and he told me if got drunk again he' turn me into a rat. I'm drunk this minjt; dar Un and watch me, and when ye see me gittin' little, and the hair growin' out on me, an' the whiskers gittin' loug, for God's sake, darlin', ag ye love me, kape your eye on the cat.' Eegularity. "Ye.-,'' said the professorj "when regulate my time piece I consolt the hf.st authority, in town -the watchmaker's cbronometer, In the same way wlien i nee4 a digestive pill. I invariably take Dr.' Pierce?fl Pleasant Pellets, because . they are so accurately graduated, Sa gedtle in t heir efl'ects, regalating Ithe in testinal action with such; nicety that toe system is left invigorated, fne natural functions are resumed, fay bra,in is clear for work, my spir its geiene, ayd my appetite fine." Give The Women a Chanee, I . As an instance ot pluck and industry we mention the fact that Mr. It. M. lilackwell, of thjs county planted a crop last year for himself jfcjad another man to work, Soon sftier he crop wag planted Mr. BlackwelJ was taken sick and the other man left. Mrs. Blackwell, un daunted, took the crop In hand and cultivate 1 it herself; only hiring one man - about two months.- he not only cultiva ted the crop bat dftji all, her household work, and iu thVfgH dried a large quantity of fpftit, bap made a fine crop toi tobac co, a good crop of cotton, corn, etc., paid off all her' accounts, bought everything she needed and has plenty to run her this year Nashville Argonaut. j "tET ALL THE PS TIIOl) WILSON, grAdts speech BEFORE THE BAT STATE DEMOCRATIC CLUB. He Eloquently Pictures the Democratic Idea, of Individual Responsibility . Democracy. and Defines On his memorable visit Boston, the late eifted Heney to W. Grady; on the evening after be had made ' his famous eneecn tit the Merchant's Association, was the eaest oi toe Bay State Club. This is the old est and most influential o I the Democratic clubs iu' New Fnzland. Mr, Grady stKfce He was an ad mirable i m- -. HENRY W. GRADY. orompiD spean i r and made a "hit." U was a tell ing speech, and its brightness and freshness has a mournful interest in view of his recent untimely death. He said : Mb. President and Gentlemen: , I am coondent you will not ex pect a speech from me this alter nooi. especially as my voice is in such a condition that I can hartll talk. I am free to say that it is not a lack of ability to talk,because I am a talker by inheritance.' lLaqghter.1 ' My father was an Irishman, my mother was a woman ; both talked. I came by it honestly ' I don't know how I could take np any discussion here of any topic apart from t.ie incidents of the past two. .days. 1 saw this morning Ply mouth Rock. 1 was palled up on top of it and tola to maite a speech; , It reminded me of an old friend of mine. Judge Dooley, of Geoigia, liQ.was a very provoking fellow and was always getting challenged to duels, and never fighting, them .He always.got out of it 6y being smarter than toe other fellow. Que day he went out to tight a man with one leg, and be insisted ou bringing along a bee gum and sticking one leg into it so that be would iave no more tiesh exposed than his antagonist. On the oc casion 1 am thinking of, however, he weuf out to fight, with a man who had St. Vitus' dance, aud the tellow stood before him holding the pistol cocked and primed, his hand soaking. Thejadge went qnietly aud got a forked stick and stuck it uo in uoitt ot bim. . "What's that for,' said the man. "I want you to shoot with a rest, so, that if you hit me you will bore only one hole. Laughter. If yon shoot that, way A on will nil me full of bolt's with one shot." I was reminded of that and forced to tell toy friends that I could not think of speaking on top of Plymouth Bock without a rest. Laughter. Bui I said this, and I want to say it, here again, for I never knew how true it was till I bad beard myself say it aud bad taken the evidence of my voice, as welt as my thoughts that there is uo spot on ,earth that 1 had rather have seen than that. I huve a boy who is the pride and the promise of my life, and God knows J - nut bim to be a good citizen and a 2od man, and there is uo spot iu all this broad republic nor iu all this world where I had rather have bim stand to learn the lessons of rigbt citizen ship, of individual liberty, of forti- iuue auu upruifJI aiiH jusiioe, inau the spot on which I sopd this morulug, reverent and uncovered. Applause. Now, i do not intend to make a political speech, although when Mr. Cleveland expressed some surprise at seeing me here, J said : ' Why, 1 am at borne now; wag out visit ing la.-t night," Great lapliter aod r applause. 1 was visiting mighty clever folks, but still J was viciting;. Now 1 am at home. It is the glory and promise of Democracy, it sterns to me. that its success means more than partisaory hid mean. I have been told that iwnaj, x saiu jeipea tne democratic rarly 10 this btate. well, the cblel jiy that I feel at that, and that you feel) id that, beyond that and above it, it helped .those Jarger in terests oi the republic an those essenjbiaOnteresta pi humanity that for seyepty years tpe peroocratic party bas stpfl4 for be'ng the guarantor and the defender, Now, Mr. Cleveland last night made I trn&t thi&wMl pot get into tbe papers (laaghter)-one of the best Democratic speeches I ever heard jn my life, and yet all arouud sat Republicans cheering bim to tne echo. It was Just simply be cause he pitched his speech ou a high key,and because he said things that no man, no matter how parti san he was, could gainsay. I Iow it s eems to me we do not carp much for political success in the SouthfoT ft simple bupstipn of spoils or of patronage. We want to see onedemocratic administration sii.ee GeheralLee surrendered at Appomattox, just to prove to the people of this world that tbe Sooth was not the wrohg-neaded and im pulsive and passionate section sbe was represented to be I beard Jasp pight from Mr.f Cleveland, onr great leader, s'e sat by me, that be held to be the miraple of modern history tbe conservatism and tbe temperance and tbe quiet with which ! tbe South . accepted his election, and tbe fw office-seekers in comparison that came from that section tobesiege and importune him, . f Applause. r - JjWfJt eem 'pp jpe that tbe struggle ip this pountjry, tbp great flsbt, tbe aw and din of which we already .beer, s a ngbt against tbe consolidation of power, tie concen tration ot capital, the diminution of local sovereigety and the dwarfing of tbe individual citizen. Boston is the home ou the one section of a nationalist party that claims the remedy for, all onr troubles, the ay in which Dives, who . Bits In side the gate, shall be controlled, and the poor Lazarus who sits out side shall be lifted up, is for ths government to usurp the fnnctions EN 1I T AT, BE Till CODNTItt's. THI COO-I, AJ.S TRUTHS NORTH CAROLINA, of the citizen and take charge of all bis affairs. It is the Democratic doctrine that the citizen is the master and tbat the best guarantee of this government is not garnered powers at the capital, but. diffused intelligence and liberty among the people. Applanse. -My friend. General' Collins who, by the way; captured my whole State and absolutely con jured the ladies (applause) when he came down there talked a,bout this to-us, aud he gave us a train of thought that: we have improved to aa vantage. id is ice prrqe, i believe, of the South, with the slmplst faith and ner nomegenerous people, that we elevate there the citizeniabove the party, and tbe citizen above every thing.) We teach a man that uirf best guide at Jast is his own con- ouieuue, iuai'is sovereignty rests oeueath his hat, that his own tigixi arm and his own stout heart are his best dependence, that he should rety ou his otate lor nothing that be can do for himself, and on bis government for nothing that his Slate can do lor him; but that he should stand upngut and .sell-re specting, dowering hts family in the sweat of his brow, loving to his Strte, loyal to bis republic, earnest in ins aiiegiauce wherever it rests, but butldiug at his altars above bis own hearth stone, a?d shriniug bis Own liberty in bis own heart. lureat applause. xnat is a seu- limeut that I would not have been afraid to avow last niht. Laugh- ter.j Aud yet it is mighty good Democratic doctrine, too. .(.Ap. plause J ' ' l I went to Washington the other day and 1 stood on the capitol hill, and my heart beat quick as looked at tbe towering marb.e of my country's capitol, and a mist gathered in-mv eves as I thonsrht of jits tremendous significance, of tbe armies and tbe treasury, and the judges 'and the President, and the judges aud the courts, and all thai was .gathered there ; and I felt that the suu iu all ics course could not look down ou a better sight than that majestic home of a repnouc tnat nan taugnt the world its best lessons of liotrty . Aud I felt tbat it honor and wisdom and justice abided therein the world would jit last owe that great house in which tbe ark of tbe cohvenant of mv couutry is lodged its final uplifting aud its regeuetation. Applause. But in a lew days afterwards I went to visit a friend iu tbe conutry, a modest man, with a quiet couutiy home, it was just a simple, unpretentious house, set about with great trees and encir cled in meadow and field rich with the promise qt harvest the lra- grauceol the piui and the trolly - hock in the front varil was mm gled witL tbe aroma of the oi chard and tbe garden, and the lesouaut clucking of poultry and tbe hum of bees, foside was quiet, cleanli ness, tbrif and couitort. Oulside. there storjd my lntnd, the master a simple, iiidenendenc upright man, with uo mortgage ou bis roof, no lien on his growing crops -master ot bis land aud master of himself, There was his old father, au aged and trembling man, but baity in the heart and home of his son.. And, as he start ed lo enter his home, the hand of the old man weutdowu ou the youn mau's shoulder,' laying there the unspeakable itlessiug of an 'honored aud. honorable father, and enno bling it with tbe knighlbood of tbe fifth commandment. And as we approached the door tbe mother came, a happy smile lighting up her faceiwhile fitb the rich music of ber heart sbe bade her husband aud her son to their home. Be yond was the housewife, busy with ber domestic ailairs, the loving tielpmite of her husband. Down the lane came the children after the cows, singing sweetly, as like birds tbey sought the quiet gt their uest. v So the night came pown on tbat house, falling gently as the wing from ' an unseen dove. And the old man, while a startled bird called from the forest and tbe trees thiilled With the cricket's cry, and the stars were falling from tbe sky, called the family aiouud bim and took the Bible from tbe table and ca'led them to their knees." The little baby hid in the, folds of its metheis dress wbiie lie closed tbe record pf that day by calling down God's blpssiug on tlvat simple home. While J. gnzed t he isipn ot the niaru'te capjtol faded j forgot ten werp jis treasipes and its majesty and sail : r'qrely here ip the homes of the. people lodge at.last tbe strength vand re sponsibility of this governmeur,che hope and the promise ot th s re public' Tremendous applanse My tneuus, this is the Democra cy we know in the South ; that is tne uemocrauc oociriue . we preach; a doctrine, sir, that is writ above our hearthstones. We aim to make our homes, poor as they are, seir resppcfipg .auu inaepena ent. We y tft make them temples of refinement, ip which our daughters may learn that women's best obarm ana strength is ber, geptleness and Uer grace, and temp'es of liberty in which our sons miry learn tbat no tower can just fy and no treasure repay for the surrender or the slightest right of a free indiv dual Ameiican citizen. (Long applause. Jwow SOU do ol f now fiOT. we lote you Democrats, : Had we bet ter prinf- tbat f Laughter. Yes, we do, of course we do. It roan does not love his folks, who should be love t We know how gallant a fight you have made , here, not as bard and hopeless as ourlrieiids in Vermont (taugbtei), but still , au opbHl rtetjV. Vop ln e tjcpii (Jojpg better, much bettey, JJow, gentlemen, I have some mighty good Democrats here. There is one of the fattest and best in the world sitting fight ovr there (pointing to his partner, Mr. Howelll ) ( You want to know about tbe South. My friends, we representa, live men will tell you about it. I just want to say that we have had a bard time do wu there. i ; When my partner - catne out of 7. AY V s W T TTJ ! J-V ) WVrW " i ' U ' . v J JANUARY. 23. 1890. . the war lie didn't have any breech es. I Laughter. That is an actual iruiu, wen, his wife,, one -of the WBfc women mas ever lived, reared m tbe lap,of luxury, took her bid wuoieit iress tbat sbe had worn all uuring me warand it had been - """"""v ui eui row DQ oi con- ?curanon ana or heroism and cut it up and made a good pair of oreecnes. He .sUrted with that pair of. breeches and with $5 in gold as b la capital, and scraped up boanls from aminrl th aahaa uisjiome, ana bailt him a sban ty of which love made a home and which courtesy mare it - hospitable, And now, I, believe be has with him three pairs, of breeches (laughter), aud several pairs at borne. We have orosnered rirmr,. there. I attended V runemi Pickena county in itiv' Hr.afa a tuueral is sot usual It u hUo.rni object to me unless 1 could select the subject. I think I could, perhaps, without going a hundred miles, find the . material for one or two nhporini rnxo.ni. Laughter.! StilL thiafnnprai was peculiary ad. , It was a poor "one gallus" lellow, whose breeches stuck him under the armoits and hit him at the other t.iT immi ti,'u knee be didn't believe iu decol lete clothes. They buried him in the midst of a marble quarrv ; tbey cut through aolid marble "to make his grave; acfH jet a little, tombstone they nut above hi from Vermont. They bnried him m the heart of a Dine forest, anrt ffet the pine coffin was iniDorte.1 rrim lnmin.s mi i ... . . y " wutt,'''i' . xuey ounea him wiiuiu toucn or an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in tue snovei that dug his grave were imported from Pitts burg. Tbey buried him bv th aiue ui me uest sneep grazing 1 .. - r i . , wouniry ou tne earth4 aud y et the wool in tbe comn- bands and the i,. i i 1 . -. uuiu uauus v inemseives were brought Irom the North.. The South didn't, furnish a thing on fcartb - for that funeral but the corpse and the bole in the ground, Liaognter.i There ftv put him away and the clod: ri fed down on his coffin, and luoy ourried him to a New York coat aud a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breech es irom (Jhfoago and a shirt from Cincinnatti, leaviDg him nothing p carry into ihe next world with pim to remind Lim ot thn uOnntry ID which he livorl mil crhwl. ha FoSght tor foar years but the chill pf blood iu bis veins and the mar row in his bones. Now we have improved on that JWe have got the biggest marble- cutting establishment on earth lw.it hi u a hundred yards of that ?rave,. We have got a half doaen woolen mills right , arouod it, and iron miuea, aud iron farnanoes, ind .iron factories. ; We are coming to meet yoa. We are going to :ake a noble revenge, as my friend Mr. Carnegie, said last nigbt, by invad ng every inch of jour tern :ory with iron, as yoa invaded ours twenty-nine years ago. Now, 1 want to say one word ibout tbe reception "we have had bere. It hasv ' beeu a constant revelation of hospitality and kind ness and brotherhood from; the whole, people of the city to mself and my friends, Jt has touched ns bey ound measure. I was ati tick with one thing last bight. Every speaker tbat rose bx pressed his confidence in tbe future and lasting glory ot the re public. There may be men, and here, who insist on getting op iraticidal strife, and who imfa mouslj fan the embers of war that tbey may again raise them into a blaze.- But just as certain as there s a God iu the i heavens, when these noisy insects of the hour have perished iu the- beat that gave them life the great clock of this republic will strike the slow moviug, tbe tranquil hours aud the' wa'chinan from tbe street will pry : AJl is well wtb the republic; al is well.-. Great applapse.l , l T - 7 vvp uriug to you irom deans thatearo for yoo confidence and or your love the message of tel lowsbip from our homes. This' message comes from consecrated ground. The fiejds in' which 1 played were tbe battlefields of this republic, hallowed to you with the blood of your soldiers who died in victory, and doubly sacred to us with the blood of ours who. died undauntei jn defeat, : AU aroxnd my pome are set me hills ot lien- nesaw, alj, around tbe mountains and bills down which the gray flag fluttered to defeat. &nd tbrongh whipb American soldiers from either side charged like demi gogp; and I do not think l could onog you a false message from those old bills and sacred fields witnesses twenty years ago in their re i desolatiob of the death less valor of American arms and the quenchless bravery of Ameri can haarts; and in . their whitp peace and- tranonnity to-day of the lmrerjshable' flnion""of the meripan States and the inde etructihje hrotherbaod of the American people; Great ap. plause.) It is likely that I will not again see Bostoniafis assembled togethe. I therefore want to take this oc casion to tbanK you and my ex cellent friends of last night and toose friends who accompanied us this morning for all that yop have done tor fla inco we baye been in yopr cityf apd to aay whenever any of you come South jast speak your name, and remember that Boston or Massachusetts is tbe watch word, jand wre will meet you at the gates. Applause. Tbe monarch may forget the crown That on his bead so late hath been ; The bridegroom may forget the bride TU&1 smiled &n flwnet v on hpn IrnAe t Pit foftcet thee wJH t ne'er, Qleqcairn, Ant au mat inou nag done tor me. At - the close of Mr. Grady's ppeecp tbe pent up enthusiasm of the assembly found vent in three tremendous cheers and a tjcer. Mr. Jobn Wards worth, of Charlotte, last week damped 3,000 pounds of spoiled pork in itw , com post heap on his place" near, the city. " '': FOR THE FARM. "LA ITERS OF INTEREST TO TILLERS OF THE SOIL. Original, Borrowed. Stolen, and Communicated . Articles on Farmig. ." ' Some farmers are complaining that the fly is doing damage to the wheat, Salem Press. Once more we say: then, to our farmer fiiends: Make your bome supplies, and your sleep will be sweeter, your life hap pier your self-resnect creater and yonr independence surer. Scotland' Neck Democrat. A. R, Whiinev. nf Grove, 111., says that lor many years he has planted onlv ton. grafted trees, his exDierence having shown that on the aver. age they bear, times as- much fruit ag root grafted, under the same conditions of treatment, xuere xiave Deen. e;nnr men. i-ai. eiationa eBtablished under the direction of the Acricnitm.. al Department in thirty-seven States and one Territary. The appropriation for the 'support of those was made by act of Congress, March 2nd, 1887 and apportions to each $15,000 year, i . per For the geatest productic'n of milk, cows need succulent food, It is not enough that be given when dry 'food is need, for this result. Grass and clo ver is the best of ail foods for producing; milk, and ensilage mo uext; ana tne use of the buo ior .preserving food for cows in atsucculent ondition is indispensiable for the winter ieeaing. But where no silo has ueen provided, the next best ieeding is cut hay wetted and iuiaou wim ineai, inis moist rooais belter digested than dry iooa is, ana has beeu found to increase the quantity of milk one-tourth. Exchange. While it is true that some of tne farmers in section of the East are in a bad condition, still if they would raise their own "hog and hominy" as has been preached to them time and again they soon discard the burthensome yoke of debt .ine raiemg of produce for home consumption has 'been advocated so much by the quill arivers tnat it has'become al most as tedious as a twice told tale.'! Farmers cannot be too often reminded of the fact that their farms will never sustain mem until tney plant crons bv wmca iney can fiveat borne. Tarboro Southoner. vWOKK FOB WINTER Look over the tools, and set them into working order. See that missing teeth are replaced by new ones in the wooden rakes, and that rivets In spades shovels, and forks are not sprung; that the axes have eot good handles: that the picks are pointed, th grub-hoes are sharpened, and the wheelbar rows are in good repair. If you have not got a 'hand-bar row, make one, it ia easily done. See that all the rungs are in all the ladders, and that the folding atep-iladder are whole and secure. Have a ten -foot measure-rod, properly painted and marked, a garden line in good order, and everything got into readiness for epriug. And gather up all the old, broken and useless tools you have on' or about the place and burn them. It is wonderful, the amount of rubbish that soon accurai- lates about a plae. A naor or broken tool ia good for nothine. Tme ia money, and the time spent with useless tools would more than pay for now ones. Uoqntry Gentlemen, : , DOES THE FARM FAY ? ' Every farmer should ask himself this question at the close of harvest aud answer it honestly. The farm does not pay if it merely affords a living and prevents the accural? tion of debt. It may , do more than this it may even . decrease debt apd add to, the value of stock and. improvements' and yet not pay. It being assumed that the labor and superintend ence q the owner id equal in value to the support of the family, then the pet accumula tions of the year must be equal to the legal interest npon the whole capital invested, os the farm does not pay. This ia" a simple method of farm book keeping, and will always an-, ewer tho onestion yet too many farmers would ehrink from ap plying the test. If Ihe farm does not pay to at least this ex tent, the situation shouldl be rigidly canvassed, with a , view of finding better methods. Labor, brain and capital work ing together f arnish the best possible .combination 'for suc cess, and when they are center ed in one individual should be able tocommend it. Exchange. . A verdict of $13,Q0Q waa given against the 1$. li. R. R. at Dan-, Vine, v-a a tew days since tor iDjary to a passenger. .Greensboro is evidently on the np grade. We see from tbe North State that a few acres of land was bongbt a shart whild since for $175 and was sold last week for $1,0004. NtfMBER 1 SI3NIHCIENT PACT- A L ssoa in tha TariffPnmer ew England Manufacturers are much in eaanest in asking mo uuKress to iree wool and woolens from the grlevious tax! unaer the juggernaat Kadical tarin. iney want raw wool reenved altogether of the pres ent enormous tax nnnn it nave it reduced much. Al ready 520 manufacturers asked for a chanee. ; The flax industry is also, taxed to death. ine result is there is a posi A 1 ; .. uecwue, ana linen manu factuers are anxious for a change. The products of flax had- fallen from 27.000.000 pounds in I860 under a low tariff to 5,000,000 in 1870, and now it is top insignfficient to be computed. The - importa tion of linens has increased four-fold under the high tariff. Look at the steel rails. ' In 1887 the American manufucturs made money by makiner them i i.oua ton. Was a tax of $17 supon it then to enable this "infant" to thrive? - Mr. Charlisle says that when there shall be an increased demand in our couutry "the manufac turers, by reason the tariff, can put the price np $17 higher per ton than it is abroad, and still monopolize the home mar ket." Who pray will have to pay this increase? The men who' ship over roads paying the increase in construction. These thing are worth noting. They help on the, schooling in economic science. IIow Law Lei to Crime. I wonder whether really crime or law-came fiist. Law came very early in the history of things, uf I remember 'aright, Adam ana jve wave instructed not to eat fruit in the Garden of Laen. .So it would seem mat law came lirst aud led to crime, and it st'll seems so I here is a quiet little Dlace in he Santa Gruz mountains where the si mple inhabitants lived for years without law at all The dread policeman's star did not shine out in the dalk night; There was no court honse, no jaii. no use for them. . They were happy, innocent people; One day the office seekers found this Arcadia and made a dead set for it. The profit went to the discoverer, I suppose, and he grabbed all of the offices. He became deputy- coroner and justice of the peace, and being tne surgeon, the community was at his mercy. He had hardly tsken office before there was a fight. He had first, in his-capacity as a surgeon, to attend to the wounded men : secondly, he had to attend to the assaulter in his. capacity of justice of the peace ; but to his chagrin the wounded man did not die, and he oonldi.' v sit oh the body as coroner. And ever since that little Arcadia has become a riotous kind ox Dlace. and the offices have quite an income. San Francisco Chron icle. Foisoned With Malaria. Mr Jr. Price, of. this state, but now a prominent and influential citizdn of Dallas, Texas, writes un der date ot April, V2t,h, 1889 : "A oout three years aeo I was living in a malarial" district of Georgia, and while there frightful sores oroke out all over my body. The poison in mytloodras so bad that it ruined my health and pros trated me. f I was at length so re duced in health, aud apparently in curable after taking large quanti ties of medicines prescribed by my physicians, thtt they, as a last re sort, advised me to go to Hot Springs, as it was tbe only chance of recovery left, and in this they expressed their serious, doubts that I would derive any benefit from the trip. I went to Hot- Springs and while there took a thorough eonrse of medicine under the physicians, which seemed to benefit, but did Dot cure me, for in one mouth af ter my return, tbe malady re-ap peared. I immediately began tak ing. S, S. S.. which made me perma nently well well irom until now. ' . SKIN.ESWUOR CUBBD Une oi my customers, a highly respected and influential citizen, out who is now aosent irom tbe city, has used Swift '4-iSpeciflc with excellent results. Hef says it cured him of a skin eruption that he had l been tormented with for tbirtv years, and had xesisted the curative qualities of many other medicines. Robert Clegg. druggist.. Falls City, Neb, Treatise on B'aod, surd Skin Dis eases mailed free. SWIFT SPE- ClFI(!fJO Atlanta. Ga. "A Word to the Wise is Sufficient-" Catarrh is not simply aa ineouve nieuce, unpleasant to the sufferer and disgusting to others it is an advanced out pot of approaching disease of worst type. Do not neg lect its warping ; it brings deadly evils in its train. Before it is -too late use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Reme dy. It reaches the seat of the. ail ment4, and is tbe only thing that will. Yon may dose yourself with quack medicines till it is too late till tbe streamlet -becomes a resist less torrent. It is the matured in vention of a scientific physician. "A. word to the. wise is sufficient." The San ford Express learns tbat there are good indications of tbe existence of natural. gas at Egypt, Chatham county. ' .. FOB ALL HOTS SEUDY0TJB0BDEB3 . hTO THIS OPP.ICE.- NEWS OF A WEEK iVUA1 It UAPPRJI TXTl TV IHE WORup AROVXX VS. V Condensed Reitort of thj, From our Contemporaries. The town' of Shells' iT a ,... electric hghts. , , , . ie cotton cin of M. a .Pioor near Kaleich :h..m - e' da.va since. . The Wilmiiifftrtn mat. wo;, the Oape Feir & Yadkin ra!Iev K. li. to be enmnlnio.l i..'. by Feb. 15th. ? :r-r.VJ The tornado in Kenrnr-Vw w.o :"rKf8tro. It destroyed injured sixty persons. ;--' -- The opreme Coqrt has "granted new trial to Bovle th iiathnhn priest who was convicted hf rano and sentenced to be hung, . i The Kiuston PrPB Ppooo lnini thar Mr. R. f. . Whitehurst; t Durham, has invents & "s"""") uu man. a stock corn- pauy uas oeen form Ad at Darhaia. for its manufactnrAP. Trotter, the colored recorde of deeds for tbe District of Columbia has, at the request of the President, tendered his resignation. During the last two years the office -has paid him over $40,000. It . i9 now proposed to take tho fees a way and make this salaried office, nJWarmcwiQter weather 'has not been confined to Eastern Kortk Some pf the wheat in the county" has jointed, some is knee high and rabbit. Some peach trees are in bloom and some of th elm trees on the street are ready to burst. And Krt it Z biting frosts are comiglwe don' lVhe' 8"etiuie between now and the middle of April. v The Statesville Landmark the best county weekly in the Kite says: A - sheriff, in one of the counties of Western North Caro lina was recently on his tax rounds, and, talking to one of his constitu ents, made some rpfAron. tn Weath of Jefferson Davis. The man when he died. .Another man came np and joined in the conversation, and asked if Gen. Lee was dead yet. While the three were talking a fourth joined them and tendered a Mecklenburg Bank bill in pay ment of his taxes. These would be . called bv ioke r-nfavoro f r kind." ' i ' - The Kinston Free Peess tells of a strange case. That paper gives the following 1 circumstances : It seems that sometime ago there was a congregation of christians, call- lng themselves Union Bantist. aft - Hickory Grove, this count v. Bv private subscription they obtained funds to bnild a church, which was built upon the land of " .vtr .Tnnum Sutton, who made a -deed to cer tain persons for the land npou which the cnurch stood aeT 4tras trees, for the Bantlsr. nhnrnh at. Hickory Grove.'' Sometime after wards tbe donor of the land rh trustees and tbe whole ' -igrea-tion at Hickory Grove ; over bodily, to theMethodist i.hurch, since which time servir- t. have been conducted there ic the Methodists alon to r.hA o'i iiclnn of Eev. B. W. Nasn, the chielf preacher and leader of the Union Baptists, Now Mr. Nash hrinas suit to recover the property as trustee for tbe Union Baptists. : A 1TE3E6E'S EETUEN: He'd Been to the "Promised Land" The News gives an ' interest. ing interview.with George Jfew ton who passed through Char lotte Wednesday en route ' f ror i Arkansas to hia'old home i : Wilson,- N. G. ' Georze left North Carolina about nine months ago, and left Arkansa s abontjhe last of November. He has since been "n the- road with long tramps relieved by fortuitous rides. He reports a large death rate amounting to ohe third among the' necroes who left with him, andA keen desire to return. - They are out of money, suffering for drinking ; water, and are dissatisfied. " George had left and! had ar ved here with hi? heels !,worn td the 'qaickM as the Newa puts it. He was well fed at the . depot, by negroes . and went; his . way. There are many who will say he was served right,. How ever this may be, surely the promised land did not. come np to representation, and so we fear that the going of . the neg roes will not be permanent; and , just here, comes the rub. ; That is why we have said in another column, fill their places as they leave and shut off . return in large numbers. But with the picture in background of the negroes gleefully; ttoing away with all their , savings soon to be gone, : there stands in the f orefground this single figure of Geoge Newton "The Return," ragged hungry and sore, to those whom be trusts and leans upon. There is pathos in the contrast.. There is affection and docility and humility and child like dependence and a memory -of sunny home and happy life. We can Imagine "The Return' as he hears the. ."Exodus" train rolling away behind and the laughing hurrah of his , ignor ant comrades, thinking of .the "tender grace of a day that is dead which .. will never come back' to fhem.' - Charlotte Democrat. The Wilmington Star pays that a large in umber of white people are leaving ' Sampson, Duplin ' and Pender counties for the far West. i I 5 A' ' i I V
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