J. &t C. DanIcIs,Ed's and Proy's
"'li'l ALl- r fciiU E3DS THOU AliTI'ST AT, BE TO COUIfTIST'S, TtIV GOD'S, AXI TRUTHS'."
Sl.SO a Year, ens li In Ativan
VOLUME 20
WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. JAN , 15 1891.
NUMBER 48
ARB'S LETTER
HE and -airs,- arp
SCHOOL DAYS.
RECALL
Sortie Amusing -;' Recollections
cf
Their Association.
It v. as about" the close of a
. . . J3 1 .. J3 . -
Drignt . aim: nappy uay . v e
were all sitting in the' broad
piazza and Mrs. Ary. had laid
aside Tier spectacles and was
talking about', the: old Hog
mountain that,' she had been
readin-r about in Joe Harris's
pretty storr, fAt Teaqne P6
tflets."" -"Why," said she. "that
Hog mountain is in old Gwin
nett, away up north towards
Gainesville,' and I went to
school there when I was a
chilo. Old Aunty Bird taught
'us,.-and she was a sweet old
if anybody is. ;I wonder if it
is the same Hog mountain
but I don't remember any of
ths "Poteets." -
Good, honest, clever .Toml
Gordon who lives a. fev miles
above as passed along as we
were talking, and Mrs. Arp's
memories took a fresh start as
she remarked:, "He was a good
boy, -Torn was. I went to school
v. ; tii Liin to Mr,. Spencer, and I
mow his speech right now,"
and she rose forward; arid- as-eiiining-'
an anzlous, excited
oonnlenance ; said as she
stretched forth '' her hs,iid, f'ls
the gentleman done? is he
completely done?" Mrs. Arp
3s miguiy gooa on a speecn,
and her memory is wonderful,
and so toll her along I said.
'and Charley Alden, what
was
nis speecn: ' ana witnout a
mo
menis nesitaiion she took a
i.ew position and'made one of
thofe short neck bows and
cleared her throat, and repeat
she
ed with slow and solemn voice,
- 4
On LfniJen. vrben the sun waslow.
All bloodless iay the umrodden mow,
Ar.il dark as wiDtr was the flow
Of Isier rolling rabidly,
--Then" she put her other little
foot forward, and brightened
up as ski cortinued:
' "But LinJenss
And wheiv
w another sigtt ' ..-
she
cot down to
thrilling heariher and to see
her heroic " a ttitude slo she
screamed; :
"AVave Munich all thy banneri irare,
., And ciiargo with ah thy ehival.-y."
And she waved an imaginary
flag all around her classic head.
. We ail cheered and clapped
oar hands, for'the girls had
never seen their mother in that
role before. '
Ar.d poor Thad Lowe, said 1
v. hat wq.g Lis speech?
So from that; region of the
north, said she. ;
And'i?F!inelv Hntlftr. pmid T..
At miiiisight in his guarded
tent, and ahe gave U3 a whole
verse of Marco jBozzaris. She
likes that, and we begged her
to go on, aed she v ent through
that fighting verse where the
Greeks came down like an aval
a.ucbe, aud her martial patriots
ism wis an agiow as sue saia:
"Stritc'or the irreen (rraves of yewr sires,
8lrik( for ynur al ars and your firei, .
Gol Lad yourjiativtj land;"
Goodness gracious, what a
soldier she would have made.
It was my turn now, and so 1-1
put in on Jim Alexander's
speecn at my sciiool.
x "Slake way for liberty he cried.
Make way for ltbarty and died." .
Jim was always a cruising
arouud for liberty, and the
speech suited him mighty well.
But Tom; his brother, had a
likitg for the law and spoke
from Daniel Wenster; "Gentle
men, this is a mpst extraordi
nary ca.se." And there was
Gib Wright, the biggest boy in
school, who carried his head
on one side like he was fixing
to be hung, and he came out on
th floor with a flourish and
mad8 bi demonstrations, fis
ing his No. 1& tept, and you
would haye thought he was go
'iiig to Epeak sonjething from
emo"theues or Ajax ,or Hers
cules or the rock -of
Gibraltar,
stretched
when suddouly: he
forth' his big long
arm ani
said: ' "
' How iloth the little busy bee
im prove tr.eh shiniug hour."
U e never thought he would get
io oe a tig lawyer and a judge,
bat he did. , .' V
A. .1 1 i ITT or
u- uenerai vyonora was
there two, and his speech was
the speech of an Indian chief
to thy pale faces, and most ev-.
ery .sentence began with broth-tr--,
and he whipped a big sas
y Spaniard by the name of
Del Gardo for imposing on us
little boys, and then went off
to fiuht the Mexicans for im
posuig Uccle ganj) and evQt
si'uCii hao heea fighting
, Humeiio.'iy or. imposing ou
someboay, and 1 think he had
rathtr do it lhan not. '
And there was; Jim Dunlap
wao used to spread himself
Patrick Ijenrys great speech:
'lhey t3U us, sirthat we are
BILL
weak, but when shall we be
stronger? "Will H be next
week- or the -next -year?" and
ha just pawed around and
shook the floor as he exclaim
ed, Give mo ltberty, or giye me
death! Jim did not carry as
much weight before him as lie
carries now, but he 'wis a whale
and had a roiee like a baas
drum with a ball frog ia it,
Jim was called on during the
late war to choose betwixt li
brary and death, and he sorter
split the difference and took
neither, but he pulled through
all right.
After this effort, which, sorter
exhausted me, Mrs, Arp recall
ed Melville Youngs speech
about King Henry' of Navarre,
and Charlie Gortons fpesa to
the eagl j, Great bird ut the
wilderness, lonely and pr$ud,
and Charlie Eowlasds-tffemn
dirge to Sir John Moofce, Not a
drum was "Hear J, not a funeral
note, and then I was called on
for my own speech and I had
tojstaud up and . advance for
wrd and make a bow and
sap: My name is Noival on
the Grampian .hills' my father
fed his flocks,
. I remember that it, toos my
teacher two Wb.ks to keep rae
from saying my namo is Not"
val on the Grampian hUia, and
ha askd me what was my
name off feho Grampian hills;
ana miaiiy i gut the iCi& mat
I must put on the brakes- after
I said NorvrJ and then make a
new start for.th&"hills.'
Mrs.' Arp then beau eh ad off
ou the couvpesitnm and re
tions ;
sweet
piece
jailer
f the
litiJ
nd rjc'ited
Maltbie's
iniac: Stay
Mr Wiii-"
on
etav
the
111!
and h
and Sail it
tion on li
John:
j ,
en's composi
15. . , '
l Vi J.L Y.
would die
not
-i-io
tor J
pe i
was
ope
a
not
isaa
good invention,
for hope, would
If
it
ghiy nigh
give up & stay.
And . that rcmindc
Mack Montgomery's
say on money.
Money! Money is &
vention.. The .world
get along much witLct:
But folks oughteut
i'-me of
..rite Q-
ycod in
coaldn't love
money too good. They ..ought
?nt to hanker after oth?v folks
es money, fur if ths'y' . do it's
might3r apt to make em steal
and rob. One axj thsro was a
lonesome -traveler &oing along
a lonesome road in she woods
all solitary and aioae by him-
slf, without nobody at all
with him, when t-r.Gdf.nly in
the twinkllbg-of an Oj ebaH'out
sprang a roucor auu
him down, and U was-
mccey.
Mrs. Arp's '.thoughts
seamed
she ten-
a way cii scuitfwheie as
aerly reprea.aa :
ft'fcea 1 atri riearl do pftfcnt trai-n '
wu;to tU :r aorrt ws nt my my bi ar,
I'hat - was iay dsai- brother's
speasiV
d she-, sad ic' all
cams, true, lie was Kuieu at
Chicamaui. The cruel, bullet
went in his brain aud he fell
Willi ins iace to tao toe ana
there was no v;go ur.t train; r..o
kindred, no sorroTc- wasted, s:o
tim8 for sorrow; no 'loving hand
no burial for a long liur.
. Oh,
i tniiik
it is S3 sad, even cow, t
about the poor, dear boy
lie
was so good to us and we ioved
him.
Out school-mates, aro few and
faa between now. Daath has
cerried most of thern away and
those who are left are widely
scattered. How the roads of
life do fork, and some tako one
and some another. We are all
like pickets skirmishing around
and one-by one get picked off
ourselves by tie common foe.
I had liked to liava ot picked
off myself a day cr two ago.
The "wagon had com&from town
with a few comforts end one
was a.barrel of flour. Mr;?. Arp
and the children- alway3. come
to the south porch when tbe
wagon comes, tor tuey want to,
see it unloaded and '.fael gopd
for a little while, arm so when
tha hind gate was taken off and
and Mrs. Arp had wondered
how we" would get out the flour
I thought I would show her
what a man could', do. I rolled
the barrel
to UK
as
i stood
on
the ground and.genilyea.oe3 it
down ( ix my mauiy Enees.
opinion now ig tnat therd
My
keg of load ia that bdrroi, for
my knees gave way atidI was
falling backwards, and to keep
the barrel from mushing - me
into a pancako or something
else,. I. gave it a heave forward
and 1st her go, and I fell on a
pile. of rocks that' were laid
around a cherry tree; and they
were rough and ragged aad
sharp, and tore my left arm all
to pieces and raked it to the
bone. ..--The blood streamed
through my shirt sleeve aud I
was about to faint; for blood al
ways makes me faint,when Mrs.
Arp screamed for camphor, and"
the girls ran for it, and before
I could stop 'em they had camp
fire and turpentine fire poured
all over my aim, and I vent a
dancing around like I was in a
yaller jacket's nest. It liked to
have killed me, shore enuf, hut
after awhile I rallied and went
to bed, I havent use that arm
nor a finger on that hand till
now, and go about sad and
droopy. Bnt I have had a pow
er of sympathy, and Mrs. Arp is
good, mighty good. I am most
willing to tear up a leg or two
by and by, for they are all so
good. And now I'm in a fix,
for I cant shavebut one side of
my face and company is com
ing tomorrow.
Woll. 1 used to could let down
a barrel of floor, l used to could
but rolling years will change a
man, anno-domini will tell. I
reckon by the time I get my
neck broke 1 will begin to rea
lize that Im not the man I used
to be, but as Cobe says, if I
could call back 20 years
I would show em. The next
time a barrel of flour aomes to
my house I will get two skids
25 feet long and let it roll out
see if I don't. But its all right
and Ive had a power of syinpa
thy is a gold thing. I would
almost die for sympathy.
Does Experience Count ?
It does, in every liae of business,
and especially in componodiug and
preparing medicines. This is il
iustrated in tlie great superiority
of Hood's Sarsaparilla over other
preparations, as shown by the re-i
aiarkable cures it has accomplished
The head of the firm of C. I.
flood & Co., is a thoroughly corns
petent aad experienced pharmacist
having devoted his whole life to
ti'-e study and actual preparation
of medicines, lie is'also a member
ol the Massachusetts and Ameii
can Pharmaceutical Associations,
and continues actively devoted to
supervising the preparation of and
managing the business coanec
ted with, Uood'a Sarsap trilla.
Hence the superiority and pecu
liar, merit of Hood's Sarsaparilla is
built upon tbs mo3t substantial
foundation. In its preparation
there is represented all the knowl
edge watch modern research, m
medical scienca has developed,
combined with long experience.
strain-work, and experiment. It is
only necessary to give this medi
P'.ao a fair trial to realize its great
curative valus.
Customer. A year ago I
paid you $150 for an engage
ment ring. Shortly after that
J got a wedding ring for 25.
Jiow I waut some plated safety
pins for baby." ' .
Clerk. Yes, sir. Will you
pay for them?
Customer. No; 'hava them
charged. New York Sun.
EVERYTHING
ELSE
JLED.
I am now 28 yeais old, and from
the tirae I was seven years cf age
nutil 1885: 1 suffered with a severe
case of Scrofula. D irin this time
I took evtry krowu remedy, but to
no. purpose. My father took me to
North Carolina, where I was put
uuder the treatment of an emis
ueni physician. Th medicines
given me bad only a temporary efs
feet, for shortly after my return the
Scrofula broke out in a more mas
lignant form, and I was worse off
than ever before . In 1883 I dis
continued' taking all otnec medi
cines and commenced taking S.y.S,
I tt'."k a number of bGttlcs and it
cured use, I have beea free from
that iina to this.
T. A . Sizemobe,
Fk'diuont, S. C.
IlESTORED HER HEALTH.
For 25 years I suffered from
Boils, Erysipelas, and other blood
affectations; taking daring the
time great quantities of different
medicines without deriving any
perceptible relief. Friends induced
me to try S drifts Specific. It itns
pro vol me from the start, and ab
ler taking several bottles restored
my health as far as 1 could hope
for at my age, which is now 75
yearj. Mrs. S. M. Lucas,
Bowling Green, Ky.
Treatise on blood and skin dis
eases mailed free.
Swift's Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
"You are as bad as a playful
kitteu in jumping at conclus
ions," rdmarked Keedick io his
wife. -
; Do k ttens jump at conclus
ions?" asked Mrs. Keedick,
"Certainly; have you never
seen kittens chase their tails?"
--Exchange.
V A SAFE INNS3TMENT. :
la one which is guaranteed to
briag you satisfactory results, or
in case ot failure a return of pur
chase price. Oa th?s safe plan you
can buy from enr advertised Drug
gist a' oottle of Ir. King's New
Discovery for C-onsnreptiou the
bought a' bottle and to her aelight
fouud iierself benefitted from first
dose. She cun tinned its use and
after takiag tea bottles, found her,
self sound and well, now does her
own ho&sework and is as well as
she ever was. Free trial bottles
of this Great Discovery at A. W.
Kowlands, Drug Store, large botv
ties Oo and 51.00,
. Gatarra indicates impure blood,
aad to care, take Hood's Sarsapa
filla, which purifies the blood.
Sold by all druggist?.
SENSIBLE CHAT,
LET THE
HUMBUGGERY
- PED OFF.
BE L0P-
Change the Law for the Actual
tection of the Poor. '
Pro-
"Now that the couutry
cracker' has got on top. it is
time for the town tackers' to
begin to look er bout to bettor
their condition.
"After the war, when bank
rupt lawi were popular and, 1
might say, or necessity to res
lieve the . people of oid debts,
capitalists got mighty suspi
cious, and mighty careful of
how they turned loose their
money. The laws that made
it easy for er ' fellow,; to ge
outen paying his debts made it
hard for er fellow te get in
debt it is er rule working
both ways. These laws made
money hard, and killed the
countryman's credit, and caus
ed 'em to have to pay ruini nis
per cents that kept them poor,
their noses to the grindstone,
for twenty years. This want
of credit has had er heap to do
with keepitg the fafmers in
the deplorable condition of
which we have heard so much,
and theyhad to go to work
and combine in order to build
up the credit they so much
needed.
"This alliance business had
er heap more to do with giv
ing it much thonght. They sa
credly bound themselves, as
one of the principles of the al
liance to make as few debts as
possible and to pay such debts
as they did make. This prin
ciple at once attracted men of
means, and in er short time,
instead of having to pay the
ruinous per cents,- they got
living terras, and at the same
time cultivated er spirit of self
denial and economy, which has
put them on top, and ia doom
ed to make them independent
at home. '
"If the want of credit was so
ruinous to the farmers, why
i,U0Uiu nui me iuwu ., wording
peeple begin to look erbout for
er remedy against the deplora
ble condition in which they
are still to be found?
"Er good credit would be as
er capital to poor folks in
town, and they "would find it
profitable and convenient as do
the country people, if they had
the chance to try it, but how to
arrive at it would be a ques
tion upon which there would
be much disagreement.
"Lawo that have bsen pass
ed to shield the worKing man
ergin the operations of garnish
ment are delusive. Instead of
beintf er benefit his credit is
killed, his capital, as it were
taken from him, and when the
time comes, as it is most sure
to come to every poor man,
when he is erbleeged to have
credit or him and his family
suffer, he has to put himself in
the hands of shylocks who
bleed him by their per cents
in such manner that it makes
it next to impossible for him
t) 'ever get outen debts when
once he gets in.
"These bad collecting laws,
as .demonstrated since the war.
made collectiug so uncertain
that it had the effect of creat
iDg er 'monopoly' in the mat
ter of money lenders, and the
farmers were bled at the rate
of 75 per cent per annum, and
it waB only the rich as could
irive mortgages on real estate
aud could get credit at that.
Besides cutting off the poor
man's chances for credit, it's
mv notion that such dishonest
laws, bv their operation, cause
men to lose reverence for de
cent principles, and tend to
drift them into tho ruts of dis
honesty.. "When the farmers went to
work in their alliances in such
er manner that convinced mer
chants that the non-payment of
honest debts should be made
odious ia their society, they
found plenty of men willing to
sell to them at much less per
cent than they had been sub
ject to. Not only did it benefit
them in the important matter
of less per cent but it stimula
ted to economy and self-denial,
and everybody should be glad
if thev are not, that the coun
try cracker' has got on top, and
in more ways than one.
"The laboring men of the
towns have the need of er good
credit. These 'protective' laws
hang over 'em, and there is half
of 'em who think so little that
if it was proposed to do away
wiih these laws they would
have visions! of distress and the
jail in the near future. This Is
er delusion. If the merchant
could, collect his debts for sure
every man would at once have
er capital. If the garishee law,
the homestead law, all laws
that retard or prevent the col
lection of honest debts were re
pealed, the shylocks would go
to ' the wall and other men
would do er credit business at
er living -per cent, and poor
folks would feel the benefits
therefrom in the dark days of
sickness and misfor.une.
"Lfit the neart Legislature do
erway with all laws that takes
erway the poor man's credit,
that is what I say, and I ven
ture thpt all thoj3eugihleiSij?k
ing folk's will say - the saint, if
they will go to Work aud give
the subject proper considera
tion.' --Atlauta Constitution.
Steeped in Vice ani Crime.
A sermon preached by , Its v.
VV. T. Folsoin, of the Secimd
Baptist Church, created a sen
sation here today. The rever
end gentleman unmercifully
scored the Columbia Club, tbe
city government and the Young
Men's Christian Association.
The Columbia Club is the prin
cipal social organization in the
State. Senators Hampton and
Butler and nearly aU the" prom
inent men in the State are
members and ex-Gov. Rich
ardson was for years the presi
dent. "1 he city of Columbia
is in league with Satan and is
doomed to hell unless radical
changes are made," said Mr.
Folsom. The Young Men's
Christian Associattou is In
league with the same personage
It has allowed the pasting of
disreputable posters on its
proparty.
The oity, Mr. Folsom charged
overflows with vice and crime.
He states that there are f orty
five disoiderly houses in the
city, some of the inmates being
girls of twelve ana thirteen
years. There are, he says,
thirty-five white women raising
families by negro men and
twenty-eight white men with
negro wives, in the city there
are five regular gambling hells
and thirty-three bar rooms.
The saloons and disreputable
houses are frequented by mi
ners, wlie are ais3 enucea into
the handsome bars of, the Co
lumbia Club and started in the
ways of sin. ;'
The preaeher was particuur-
larly severe on the city govern
ment for allowing vice to have
full sway .itichecked. Golun -bia,
S. C, Dispatch, 4th, to the
New York Herald.
Gen. Canby's Death
It is with solemnity raised
above light or vengeful feeling
that I call attention in this
connection to the newspaper
report ut thei time, and which
I have never seen contradicted,
as to the manner of General
Canby's death in the lavaxeds
of Southern Oregon. With a
large and absurdly dispropor-
Kioned force he had been oper
ating in that region against the
feeble band of . Modoc 1 Indians
under' the leadership of the fa
mous Captain Jack, who had so
palpably outgeneralled and
outfought his adversary that
the whole country was laughs
ing at Cauby and hurrahing for
Jack. Uuder these circutn
stances Canby asked a parley,
tthich the savage granted upon
one condition viz., that the
troops, who had again, as they
had done many times before,
nearly surrounded him, should
not be moved until the parley
was over. During the sitting
of the council'one of his tcouta
came in and informed his lead
er that some officer Gitbon, I
think was moving . with a
heavv force and in a short
time would cutoff his last ave
nuo of escape.- Captain Jack
rose and without a word shot
Canby dead where he eat,
scalped and stripped him, and
the next time this barbaric
chieftain appeared upon the
field of battle it wa5 in the uni
form of a major-general of the
United States army. Rich
inond Dispatch.
Mr. E. R. Kennedy, a republican
In Brooklyn, N- Y. has furnished
the Tribune with an accouufc of a
trip he made through the North
west. The Tribune says that he
had "excellent opportunities-for
conversing with representative Re
publicans and th-?; Mr. Kennedy,
is a wide awake repubituaa. Good
indorsement. Now what tt id he
see 1 He thus speaks out : "I
d sen it a duty to declare that the
final enactment ot the McKinley
bill, in anything like tha shape ia
which it now stands, will lose us
the next Congress, and will make
it next to impossible for the Demo
crats to bangle and blander suffi
ciently to enable us to eloct a suc
cessor to President Harrison.
TO DRUGGISTS AND STO If E
KEEPEES. I guarantee Shrinnet's -Indian
Yermifage to destroy and expel
worms from the Lnnian body, There
thev xtit, if 'i--ied according to the
directions. Yon -ire mthorized to
sell it on the above conditions. Da
vuVTC Tnu'zt Proprietor, Baltimore
Md.'
COMPULSOEY EDUCATION-
Threa Expressions ei Opinion cn
' th9 Subject- .
Much can be said in favor of
compulsory education, and jet
we are hardly prepared to . see
the system adopted in North
Carolina. We regard wltn-suspicion
any attempt tit the law
making power to interfere with-
the right and authority of
parents. Pittsboro Record.
The late convention of county I
Superintendents of Instruction,
in Raleigh, passed a resolution
favoring compulsory education,
which we do not think . will
meet with the endorsement of
the Legislature nor of the peo-
pie of the State. If -people
will not give their children
schooling when the schools are
open to them, the forcing pro
cess would hardly prove effec
tive, unless it panned out more
satisfactorily in this State
than in others where, it has
been tried. There is a compul
sory law in Illinois now which
Works so badly that there is a
demand for its repeal, even in
the cities, where such a law
could be most effectually en
forced. Aside from the objec
tion that it would probably fail
to accomplish' the purpose for
which it is intended; there are
other objections which it
would be difficult to oi ercome.
People as a general thing J do
not take kindly to compulsion
of any Kind, and the people of
this State are not an exception
to this. Wilmington Star.
Compulsory Education is riot
so undemocratic as voters who
can neither write nor- read.
The State provides, that is the
people provide, schools for the
education of our children so
that they may be equipped
with general information
enough to enter intelligently
into the affairs of a government
in which all are,, or should be,
interested, and of which each
voter is a component part. If
that general intelligence is
partly or altogether lacking we
shall not have, other 'things
being equal, as satisfactory
government as we ought. The
fountain is not likely to rise
higher than its source. Ashe-
ville Citizen.
He Went Frcn North Carolina., ...
-
In a list of California's million
aire., published in the New York
Times, we hnd the following:
"Jon D. Liaagenour, xoio coun
ty's richest man, bad twenty-five
sents when he got to California in
August 1550. He was a North
Carolinian. He mined near Hangs
towc, as - Placerville . was then
kaown, and in the Spring of 1871
his twenty-five cents had grown
to several hundred dollars. He
went to Yankee Jim's, in Suirtail
Canon, aud, with two brothers,
opened a miners' trading post,
lie. mada money, and bought a
tract of land in Yolo county, which
he planted with grain. Extensive
speculation in cattle added to his
rapidly growing fortune, and now
be has, it is said, a millioii and a
half.''
The name LaugeBons is not fa
miliar to our ears, but there are
lotsof people in North Carolina -Raleigh
News -Observer.
Lafourchee Crossing, la.,
July 29tn, 1890
J. Goldenburg, Esq., Agent M. K
Lafourche Crossing, L-i.
Dear Sir In tbe early part of
April I had a severe attack of
rheumatism in my left shoulder
and elbow, which laid me up in
bed, and I h id to call in a doctor,
who gave me great relief after
about a week or ten days treatment
Still I felt a constant pain in my
shoulder. I wrote to New Orleans
for a gallon of Microbe Killer, and
after taking about, two quarts I
felt entirely relieved of the pain in
my shoulder, I have taken two
gallons aud never felt better in my
lifo us at present, and free or pain,
Yours, etc.,
JOHN D. BELTON.
Forsale'uy Doane Herring,
Gentlemen 1 have bad your
medicine. Microbe Killer, in my
famiiv ever since I heard of it last
summ-er. My health has been ex
cellent eber since I began taking it
My family, so far, has escaped tha
la grippe that has been afflicting
our neighbors and everybody else.
I firmly believe in the : Microbe
theory and shall never be without
the Killer. Yery respectfully,
H, B. MOEEHBAD.
For sale by Doane Herring.
Visitor. Isn't your mother
afraid, Willie, of your catching
cold in those slippers?
Willie. Huh, I guess you
don't know them slippers! Ma"
uses them to warm the whole
famiiv with.-iAmerican Gro
cer.... '--.-..-
' There can ba no doubt tha
Rohfert Louis Stevenson is a
man who possesses much force
of character. He has succeeds
ed in living down his own por
trait. Chicago Tribnne.
NEWS OE A WEEK; ,
:o:- . - :
WHAT IS HAPPENING IX
THE WORLD AROUND CS.
Condensed Report of the News
Frjnivnr Contemporaries.
Sotlaid,Neck i to have a bank,
says the Democrat. v
Knitting mills are to 8a estab
lished at Norwood, says the Stanly
Observer. J
A tobacco company with a capi
tal of $i;O0O,OOO has beea formed
at Wheeling, W. Va.
The Reiddvllle public buildiag
b;ll has been tigned by the presi
dent. It means $25,000.
Statistics just published show
tbafe in Maine there aie 3,320 aban.
doned Uran, total acrsage 254,513.
E. K. P. Osborne, one of the
most prominent busiuess men in
Charlotte, has made an assign
ment, A company with a paid up capi
tal of $50,000 has been formed at
Maxtoa for the manufacture of ma
chinery of various kinds.
The tax collector of Meeklen
bnrg county gets over $5,000 a
year, a salary ranch lareer than
the Governor of the State..
Grand Secretary Bain, of th
Grand Lodge of Masons, anaoafices
that the next aunual communica
tion will be held at Raleigh on Jan
nary 15th.
North Carolina held fourth place
last year in point of railway con
struction. Active work is now in
progress on 8evn roads and will
begin on three moie in a w
months.
Very active efforts are now m
progress at Raleigh to secure the
pardon of Cross and White, the
ex-president and cashier of the
wrecked State National Bauk of
Raleigh. "
Mr. Amos Jenkina, living about
ten miles from Trenton, has a curi
osity in the &hape of a one-eared
pig. Where the othr ear eaght to
be there is not even an opening.
Kiustoa Free Press.
We are told that oar pountyman,
Mr. jV attnew T. Johnson, rsVlc-f
100 bales of cotton on 70 acres this
year, also 5Q- bushels of corn to th
horse. Who says farming doesn't
pay. Goiiabero Headlight.
J. G. Southerlaud says he has
bee i prospecting in this moantiu
country for the past fifteen years,
aDd be believes that for its size X,
is richer in minerals than any oth
er in the world. Cherokee Scout
Secretary T. K. Bruner, of the
department of agriculture has been
interviewed regarding the new dis
coveries of gold im Rowan ccnuty.
He says he finds that four million
of dollars; will cover all the gold
taken from mines ii tEisTtate.
Frank Christie, cook in an Ans
I'erson, (lad.) restaurant, tck up
some years ago a mining claim in
South Dakota, supposed to be val
ueless. There have been lately
rich developments in tbe vicinity
and he has sold oat.for $185,000.
The county" commissioners of
aieckllnbnr have decided to strict
ly enforce tho law against those
who failed to list their taxes last
l.ln',i.'. and will mak no nxcen-
tions, so tne amount of double tax
es to 'he paid iu consequence will
be large. .
rWe see it stated that our, enter
prising citizen, Mr. Joseph H.
Btockton and associates, have pur
chased nearly 1,000 acre - of land at
Fancy Gap, Carroll connty, Va.,
aud will convert the same into s
magnificent summer resort. Win
ston Republican.
The colored" women of boston
have struck a new Kins, xney
have discovered a way, which
comes iroca uanaua, toiase mo
kink out of their hair and now th
chief occupation of many of " the
colored feminiues is going for the
kinks.-Wilmington Star.
The Murphy Scout says that Ar
thur Stewart, of Philadelphia, has
recently purchased two tracts of
land clo.e to Franklin in Macon
county, one containing 175 and the
other 137 acres. Ouooe ot tnem
he thiukn he haa the finest hotel
site iu Western nortn t-jaronna.
A few days ago a trunk belong
ing to a cerxam youug iuu uviug
not a thousand miles trom Tarooro,
was opened by a blacksmith, the
key being lost, and what do you
suppose was lonnu tnereini a
pistol, poker cuips ana a uiuie,
were all ther together. Tarboro
Southerner.
Dr. S."W. Battle, an Asheville
physician, arrived home from Ber
lin last week with a vial oi ut.
Koch s lymph for the treatment of
consnmption, and made his nrst in
jection oa the 1st. ine unizen
says he speaks conservatively aooat
tbe lymphDuc tniaKS mere is a great
future before it.
The Warrentcn Gazette says
that Warren county has only bad
two clerks of the Superior Court
since. 1817. Mr. B. E. Oook held
the office for fifty-one years, from
1817 until his death, 1867. ' His
deputy, Mr. W. A. White, was
then appointed by Judge Barnes to
fill the unexpired term, and he has
been elected to the office every
year since. Warren county is
largely Republican, yet uo caadi
date they eonld bring forward has
ever been able to defeat hha.
General Phileman B. Hawkins '
died recently &t his home at Louis
burg, Franklin county: aged tixty
five years, lie was before the war
a prominent government contrac
tor, a member of a well-known and
very influential family. Since the
war he. had been a republican In
politics, and served several terms .
aa a senator. ...
Sunday night a small negro boy,
5- years of age, was seriously if not
fatally injured by a kick from a
mule on John Torrent's place,
tax collector Torrence's, The boy
was running by the mule when it
gave him a kick on the head which
broke his skull. Dr. Sinclair Das
ridson trepanned his skull and at
last acconnta the boy was still
alive. Charlotte Chronicle.
The Female Academy of "Tar
boro, Prof. D. G. Gillespie, princi
pal, was destroyed by fire about
half past! ne o'clock on the night
of the 30th nlto. The origin of the
fire is unknown, baTthere is every
reason to believe that it was the
work of an inceadiary. The build
ing was insured for 2,000 and the,
furniture for $5,000. State Chron
icle. -
A correspondent of the Raleigh
State Chronicle says of the Fay
etteviile People's national bank:
It has come to tbe light that Presi
dent E. F. Moore used about 1107,
000 of,the broken bank's funds with
collaterals worth less than $40,000
Thus it can readily be 6een what
has gone with the honest etock
holders money. Coninient is un
necessary .
John B. Wright, one of the in,
ventorsof the "Automatic Statiou
and Street Indicator,", writing us
from Wilmington, under date of
December 15th, says that he had
up to that time sold st;ck in the
invention to the amount of $10,
000, chiefly to railroad men, and
that the Se eorst Lir-e ' had given
the Indicator .Company peinmsiou
to use their invention cn the'.rcars,
&c. Troy Videttf.
Tne return of the active, effectus
alstrength of the the North Caro
lina state troops shows that there
are 1C1 officers ar.d 1,219 enliated
men. This force is divided as foN
lows: General staff. 22; brigade
Btaff 8; -First regiment 32G, Second
Third 355, Fourth 3l,.era!ry.
r'oop S3, unattached ' cotnmny of
colored infantry, 4.3. Theentire
force ia thoroughly equipped for
service in the field. t .
A Franklin telegram to tbe State
Chronicle: There 13 considerable
indignation manifested in thin sec
tion over tbe removal cf John O.
Harrison, the worthy and capable
postmaster at Franklin. He was
assessed bv L'warts henchmen, but
announced that he would not con
tribute cue cent to corrupt and de
bauch tha ballot box. These same
henchmen tcld him if he voted
against the radical ticket he would
ba removed, and he has been.
A number of horses have died in
this county in the past few weeks,
and in other sections a good many
have died, In this county they
have died after very short illness
No one seems to know what the
disease is; pome have attributed the
falality to eating spoilt corn, kome
to blind staggers and others
to poisoniag. It if -arioua
matter with the farmerv. As yet
the disease has prevailed-lo the
western and northwestern part of
the county. Graham Gleaner,
The Key myth comes to to front
once more, and this time it is elab
orately set forth in a book written
by Rev. Jaaie3 A. Weston, of Hick
ory, N. C. Mr. Weston is an
Episcopal clergyman, a scholarly
gentleman, and he is- firmly con
vinced that the Peter Stuart Ney
who taoght school and died in Ro
wan county, North J.iroIinain 1846
was the veritable Michael Ney, the
marshal of France, who was called
by Napoleon the , bravest oi the
brave. Atlanta Constitution.
In one of t'us negro churches of
Charlotte, N. C. there is a moves
ment for a division of the member
ship oa tins line: The pure blacks
favor a congregation composed of
themselves, and the mulattoes ex
press a similar desire on their part.
At a recent meeting the proposd
division was agreed to, but the
terms could not be settled. The
minister being black, the blacks
naturally claimed him, and alio the
church and farniture. Some of the
black men have- mulatto wives,
ad gome of tbe black women have
mulal io basbaudsi. The difficulties
aeem insurmountable. Greensbos
ro North State Republican. !
Coroner Renn held au Inquest yes
terday ever the remains of a col.
woman fouud dead Saturday, under
suspicious circamatances, in Sasa
frus Fork township. The woman's
name was Ann Harris, and she
was employed a a, farm hand by
Bat 'William a ' negro occupying
part cf C. A. Gregorys plantation.
The bo3v was examined, and was
found to be (rightfully bruised by
iron switches and some
heavy weapon. Her neck was
hrnfrM. Tie woman was about
uitv years of age,-and was
idiotic. -
T?At Williams" had been
seen wnip
ping her severely frequently, and
the evidence tended 10 snow mat
u roanrtnsihltt for her death.
The jary brought in a verdrct that
Ann liar, is cam8 to her death
bv violence at ":he bands. ot Bat
Williams. Williams was placed
under arrest, but managed to get
away iroin the special officer who
had him in charge, He is at large
bat eveFV eur5 will be made to
capture him. Oxford Dij.