North Carolina Newspapers

fOOL, . . - - x v . . 'If' 1 T "V & Claudius F. Wilson, Editor, AL. : 5IK SXOS THOU AIH'ST AT, BE TUT COCHTBl'S, THY GOD'S, AHD TRUTHS?." $1.50 a Tear, cash in Advance VOLUME 21 WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, NOKTH CAROLINA, JAN , 29 1891. NUMBER 2 i .ii H - .... ... NGE. BILL A RP?S LETTER HE SAYS THE PAPERS HAVE . FOl'N'I) OTHER SUBJECTS. THAN THE SOUTHERN NEGRO AND ARE WRITING UP THE INDIANS. The Northern pre3? seems to be in a very hopeful; condition. It his ceased to be so deeply concerned about the south and the negro and is now devoting more atteution to their own moral.. I like that.; Thepub lica'u's pfayer was a ' more ac ceptable one than the rharisees The Country Gentleman in la menting the condition of the farmers iaVestern Kansas, says that over 10.000 families in one district are now suffering for the necessaries "of life and would perish but for. charity. This is an awful state of affairs. It sounds like families we sometimes read about that come over from China and India and Japan. ' The explanation given is in teresting and peculiar. There is a large territory lying east of the Rocky mountains that used-to be called the American desert, upon -which the rain seldom falls.1 In the spring and carK summer it is colored with bnifalo ra-s teat is green' and rank and beautiful tolookupoD The great railroad companies that were crossing this desert on route for the Pacific got im mense areas of this land as sub sides from the government. Of course they rfauted to sell it. and the emigrants must be the victims. The companies had their sweei talking agents at Castle Garden, and every for eigner who had S100 or 200 to spare was given a free pass to this beautiful country in the spring and summer, and they took the poor fellow's money and located him on quarter section and patted him on the, back, aud told him to go to work and he happy.: The com panies seem to believe" that a Dutchman could make his crops grow, ram or no rain. The money lenders from the east came right along and loaned the poor fellow enough money to build him a little house and a big barn and to buy some stock and some tools and they took a ten-year mortgage and tr1rl liim trv urnrfc 15 fro f ho i1r ens and pay the interest and not bother about the principal. But the rain didn't come and by midsummer the grass had dried up. and blown away a,Dd the poor farmer couldn't cany enough water from his shallow well to W,ter his perishing crop; and so he struggled along and lived on his garden from year to year hoping for better seasons, but they didn't come, and now be can't get away for he has nothing to get away with ' The Country Gentleman sug gests that as the railroad com panies moved them there to get their, money they ought tc move them back to the eastern states free of transportation. All that rainless country will have to be irrigated by water companies just as California is now, and the government was urged years ago to ; withdraw those lands from the market until irrigation companies were formed. , - Thi 3 accounts for, the suffer ing among those 10,000 fami lies, and I reckon accounts in part for those seventy thousand farms that are uuder mortgage in middle and eastern Kansas. A Georgian, writing from there says they are the best farmers in the world, but they are over loaded with debt, and will nev er get out. vv nen tney nave good seass ons and the grasshopper does not come they make so much corn the price drops to 15 cents a bushel, and it won't pay to ! haul it over the mushy roads to a railroad station. ' The New York Evangelist, that great and paper that is ed ited by Henry Fields, is now .'tfnnhls.fi nhmit t Ti a nnnt Trirlian It says they have been exas perated to a merciless war by the perfidy of the . white man, aua mat we would do just as they have been for half a cens turv. They gave up their lands under pressure and under prom ises tfcat have n'ever teeu per formed. Government agents and oth er plunderers ; have cheated them out of their money and their supplies and left them to linger out a miserable existence on roots and nuts and the scat tering game that fcr fast disap pear ng. In their desperation they ehow fight and our soldiers shoot down men and woms en and children all alive and all that accords with Sherman's cold-hearted idea that the only way to reform an - Indian is to kill him. That's the way they tried to reform us when they were marching through - Geors destroy . and make desolate. .- Fifty-five years ago -.'. Sam Houston, who was the best friend the Indians ever had, went to Washington and pub licly denounced the men and the methods that were swin dling them, and he got 1 nto a fight with a Mr. Starisbury, a member from Ohio and mauled the juice out of him on the street, but the same sort of men and the same methods have prevailed ever since, and it looks like the poor Indian; has got to go. Aoother trouble with the northern press is the late re port of the commissioner of m teral revenue, which shows that during the year just passed there were exported from this Christian land, to foreign coun tries 1,G00,000 gallons of spir its, not ghosts nor "sperits of just men made perfect," but spiriGuous liquors and all of it but 60,000 gallons was manu factured from molasses in the lovely city of Boston and was shipped to Africa for the nes groes, and the bills .of lading called it New England rum. The shippers are respectable members of orthodox Churches and contribute liberally to the cause of foreign missions. Their idea is to establish the doctrine of man's free agency, to go to the African with a Bible in one hand and a battle in the other and lejb him take his choice. That's fair. A century ago the yankee went to Africa and brought the negro over here to the rum, but now he takes the ruin, to the negro. Stanley says that the worst thing he had to contend with over there was New England rum. The trading, speculating yan kee is a curiosity. He will cheat you if he can, and he gen erally can. - He lies awake of nights ruminating how he can adulterate what he manufac tures so as to undersell the honest man. His baking pow ders, and pepper, and sugar and candy and coffee, and but ter, and tea are all adulterated. The average yankee will cheat an Indian or an emigrant, or an African or a white man all the same, but he will contribute liberally to help them when they are humble or in distress Who are so generous as the yan keea when Memphis and Charleston and Jacksonville were visited with the pestilence Who is so generous now to Kan sas Rufferers, who so charitable in their gifts and legacies to science and to the poor ? They are a curious people. In a 25 cent trade they would cheat a preacher out of a dime, but they would give him $5 If he needed it. That reminds me of the Dutchman, John Kitsmiller who had a mill and was sus pected ot taking too much toll from his customers. One night he dreamed that he died and went up to St. Peter brought up that mill business, and John said: "Yell, some times ven de vater vas low and the stones van dull and de times vas hard. I deed take a lee tie too much, but den I alwas geeve soni-j of it to de poor." St Peter finally let him in,- but John admitted that '-it was a tarn tight squeeze." We see that some writers in the northern press are suggest' ing a compromise on the negro question. They seem willing for us to exclude them from voting in our state elections if tve will let them yote for mem bers of congress. That would give the republican party more members from the black belt', and that seems to be all tkey want, One man suggests that we debar the negro from hold ing any office, state or federal, and so he wouldent be counted in our voting population. Of course that would suit the grand old party, for it would would reduce our number of representatives in Georgia from eleven to seven, End in the same proportion in the other states, but ve are all getting along very smoothly now, and I reckon we had better let well enough alone. The Country Gentleman! says that the tide of emigration to the west will have to roll ' bick upon the older states and pop ulate the abandoned lands of New England. It does not men tion the south at all as a fit place, It never has. And so now is the time for the direct trade movement to take Bhape and build the ships that are to land at our ports. The Atlanta movement is a grand one and we are glad to see Governor Northen giving It-his earnest attention. This movement looks more like basinesa than any that ever has been started in the south. The emigrants will not settle on those abandoned lands if our people start them this way from ; Earope and if we let them know what sv coun try and what a climate we have. gia burn and LIVING -PRINCIPLES WHAT IS THE. MORAL IMPORT OF THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. IT IS HERE FOR GOODJ IT IS HERE TO , STAY, AND ITS PRINCIPLES ARE AS - HIGH AS HEAVEN. One of the most talked of men in New York to-day is Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr. He is the subject of much .adverse criticism; but nevertheless crowds flock to hear him. We do not defend his sensational style. We have no use for it in the pulpit. Bat that does not keep us from admiring the good that may be in the man. Certainly the following, deliv ered as a pulpit review of cur rent events before his sermon on Sunday, December 7th, 1890,. is good reading. He says: The real sensation of the year 1890 is the advenV of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union. It is no mushroom growth. It is he e to stay. It is . the resistless movement of millions under the. oppressions of centuries. Its. motive power is social, economic, religious and politi cal. The advent of these em battled hosts is the most preg nant event of this generation. It is the beginning of A REVOLUTION that will shake tb-is continent and move the world. The first time they gathered around the ballot box was the 4th day of last November. They pollec between two and three million votes, elected the Governors of three States, sent forty men to Congress and scar ed the lives out of hundreds they did not sand. What is THE MORAL' MEANING of this great movement? 1. It is the protest of the patient burdan bearers of the world, who Itavo toiled through weary years, struggling be neath the wrongs of economic and political superstitions. In America the farmers have liter ally beome the beasts of bur den of the nation. Their busi ness has been to feed over 65,- 000,000 people, together with the hosts of the old world, with the products of the year's work, and then through the winter eke out a miserable ex istenca wrestling with their MORTGAGE?, CYCLONES AND FLOODS. While they are doing this, we laugh and grow fat, dance and make merry in the city, and bet how much they will make next ytar, buy and soil their crops fifty times before they are planted and charge old "Hayseeds" with all their loss es. The question is whether these men, the freest of tho free, the authors of this coun try's liberty, shall assert their rights and obtain justice, or de generate into the condition of tenants and serfs. The condi tions of labor in all other ins dustries have undergone mar velous development and changes in the past hundred years. The farmer works un der the same stern conditisns, perisuiug in me miasi oi boun41es3 prosperity, for oth ers. He has determined to ef fect a change in these condi tions, and re-adjust himself on a living basis to the newcivili- zitlon. 2. This movement means the EDUCATION OF THE MASSES, as masses ot the iarmar as a farmer. It means the aeser- tion of the manhood of the yeomen of the Nation. This is real education. The accent of our education has . hitherto been to get on, ,fto rise.' We have been taught to climb out of the humble sphere in which we were bc rn into some so called highpr Bphere. The smith learns to despise his an vil, and the clodhopper to look with contempt upon the plow. They rise to "higher" things. They become lawyers, and doctors, and preachers, and bankers, railroad men and politicians, We now have fully eight million men in this country educated to ba Presidents of the . United States. We only need about a dozen Presidents in a hundred ears an awful waste of raw material ! The farmers are learning and te'aching it to their chil dren, in this organizatien, that the work of the farm is as sa cred, as noble, as honorable as that of anylsphere in life. Women too are admitted to the Order. Well they may. There are more farmers' wives in the insane Asylums of America than any other class. They have actually recognized tho fact that WOMAN IS A HUMAN BEINO. A reporter once asked an old farmer in the West what he thought , about the question "Is 'marriage a failore?" Ho replied, o "What, , marriage? Well, lefs see. There's Lucin dy gits up in the mornin', kin dles the fire, milks .six cows, starts four children off to school, tends to three others, skims twenty pans o' milk, ieeas me nen, ussewiae me hogs, looks after some mother Ies3 sheep, jgics breakfast, washes up the dishes, gits din ner, et cetera why, man, do you think I could hire any body to do all that f'r what she gits? Not much! It's a great success, sir !" Ah ! these patient, sadsfaced, weary mil lions of women ! . Tho pathos of their lives ! They havo en tered this organization with cheeks flushed with hope, many of them for the firt time in life. May God lead and bless them ! 3; This movement means CO OPERATION AS AGAINST COM PETITION. it is in this principle of So cialism that the Order has its strongest foundation. . They are pledged to co-operate with each other in the production of economic goods, and not on ly so, but to co-operate in the distribution of these goods. The Alliance stores for sup plies are a prominent feature of their work. These stores contain the germ idea oi the great Industrial Co-operative Societies of Workingmen in Great Britain. They are assert ing In life the principle, that it is better for men to fiht for each other than against one another. They are learning the secret of associated power that in union there is strength. It is in the light of this fact that we solve the apparent par adox, that while they cry out against trusts and monopolies, in the same breath they de mand that the Government press its functions to the very verge of State Socialism. These cries are not Inconsist ent. They are the assertion of fundamental principles. They recognize the important fact that government is not some thing separate from the peo ple, but whan normally ad ministered, is simply the peo ple governing themselve3 that it is not a power to be forced, but a power to be util ized for the happiness of all. , 4. The Organization means Brotherhood. It is a fraternal and benevolent Order with principles of love and fraterni ty, wide as the world, univer sal as the rose. - The 5th and Cth Articles in their Sv.. Louli Declaration of Purposes, A SECOND DECLARATION OF INDE PENDENCE, read thus: "5. To .constantly strive- to secure entire harmony and good will to all mankind, and brotherly love among our selves. "6. To suppress pergonal, lo calj sectional and national prej udices, all unheathful rivalry, and all selfish ambition." " An ideal as high as Heaven an echo of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. They have determ ined to "bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ." They . pledge themselves to alleviate suffer ing and pain, to care for the widows and educate the or phans of their dead. This is climbing the height?" of life This is pure religion, unde nted. They have gone into politics not because they are a politi cal organizstion. They have been FORCED TO GO INTO POLITICS because their principles were social, economic and religious All social and economic ques tions have become political questions, and all political questions are religious. The political arena is where . all the great questions of today and to-morrow must be fought and settled. Let no. man deceive himself by believing that this organization is but a passing episode in politics. . Remem ber its foundation is not pri marily political, but social and economic. It is the embodi ment of grand moral ideas it is the movement of a revolu tion. It will not go backward May God give its leaders wis dom. Ask yonr Druggist for Surinuers Indian Venuifnge. If he fails to supply you address tbe i proprietor EaviuE. Foutz, Baltimore, MdV The "best way to keep warm is not to get cold. 'Farm mm. WHAT THE FARMERS OF NORTH CAROLINA ARE DOING. ITEMS CONCERNING THE TILLING -AND TILLERS OF THE SOIL. who sevoo pioYTt, 169 b,UH9 oi cotton, :i5!1 ample supply of corn wei-e mud by W, U. Tolaon, . of ivJirecortib;;. fri4Bd,-Mr. A. Tiscale, qf af 3,-, h a t he s arn e n t ock ftehk--k ?.,' tLe ancestors of which were brought from Canada ia May 1745. . : Alfred .-Forbes, "of Pitt county, made hat year, with three plows, fort j -seven-bales cotton, sold 000 worth of robaceo, 125 barrels corn and 300 bafhels of peanuU. Mr. Tom Ward, one of the good farmers of '-Old Nash'' ban been farming sixty-oihreo years and has had to buy corn but once .during Wiat time, nor has be ever had to purchase meat. Mr. Aloxanvler, the representa tive from Tyreil county, said in a spet-cb in Raleigh the ftther day, he had never sold merchandise in his life, aud never traded horses hut once in his life, and then he got bit, - -' M E . G. Pippin, of tho Fre mont section, last year harvested 75 bales of cotton from 60 acres, made 200 barrels of corn on a small patch and killed 5,000 pounds of pork. BeRidea doing this he read the Advance every week. Mr. H. C. Alford raised last year, besides loads and loads of pork, aud lots of corn, 218 bales of cotton on 240 acres of land. Mr. Alford says that we have the best cotton land In this section of any he knows, and he came from the brag cotton section of South Carolina. Maxtoa Cor. Robesouian. R. B. Tloma?, ot Rocky Mount townahip,has departed for no place to give way to tobacco producers. On two acres he has already sold a few dollars orer 400 and has 700 pounds of the best yet to seil. which, if at the average of that he has marketed, will brijg bim in Si 50 more. He raised his meat ana bread also. Tarboro Southern er. ' ,:. .' ,. . No tfae farmer will be ashamed of h is vocation. It is a calling God-ordained, and outranks all others in point of antiquity. Broad cloth and fine jewelery do not make Dooihty, nor do jeans and brogans indicate a plebiau ocigin. All conditions and classes are depend ent on the farmer for their daily bread. He (eerls the world. W by, then, should he not be proud to be known as n tiller of tbe soil? S. W. G.;sp, of No. 9 township, BarterfieL', is one of the best far mers in the county. He is not wbafc you would call a brg farmer, but he is a sure one and has stead ily improved his tarm. Probably nojarm in the township has been improved as has his. Last year on thirty acres made 42 bales 'an 3 300 pounds of li at cotton. He only ran two plows. Besides making this cotton, rith the same plows he made seventy-livo barrels of corn and a tine oat crop.---Tarboro Souiheruer, , It would be wiee for our Legislas tore- to make a law that every la bor ajjent coming hi to this State be required to pay a licence of at least $1,000. There are at piesent 75 of these "sharks'' in this couaty and are carrying off thousands of cur bebfc colored laborers to the turpen tine regions of Georgia, leaving our farmers to shift for themselves. It's not right, aud our law makers ought to put a stop to this busi ness. Lomberton Robesonian. A bid has been introduced in the As sembly making the tax $1,000. We hope it will pass Ed. Advance. What class or profession of men other than' farmer's can say : My theatre is tho country, my dome is the bearens, my curtain the blue sky, and the sweet scented grass is the carpet on which I delight to treat!. Tbe birds and brooks, the rivers aud tn-es, and the wild flow era growing in such free aud un trammelled profusion are all dear to my heart, and we the sources of inexpressible joy. Jenny Lmd found her only rivals anion the tuneful forest birds, aud did not disdain to warble to them and for them her sweetest melodies. To teem she gave free open air con certs, to which they floekek joyous ly, matching note with note, nntil the great artist owned h -iself de feated. Mr. M. W. lUnsom. Jr.,' sold for his father, Senator Rausom, last week, 550 baies of cotton the pur chaser p-iyiug ever 822,030 fcr the privilege of owning it. This is the largest sale of cotton by an indi vidual farmer that we have ever known in the State. Senator Ran som baa an immense landed estate, sitnateU mostly in Northampton countv, the cotton production of this property amounting, the past seasoD, to nearly "1000 bales. He has 5000 acres in the Oconeechee Neck, on Roaneke river, that "will equ-U any land in the South, for its cotton producing qualities- Sena tor Ransom is not only a states man, of acknowledged abiUty, but he is in every sense a farmer, and one that has coma to stay. WeL don News. The biennial report of the Board of Directors, of the Penitentiary I State farms in Halifax and North- ampton counties which may b of interest to enr readers. The. estis mated crop varied Is as follows 475 bales of cotton, 17,000 bushels of corn, 15,000 bushels of cotton seed, 135,000-pounds fodder, 120, 000 pounds of shucks, 25,000 pound3 pea vines, 100.000 bushels oats, 2,000 bushels peas, 1,200 bushels sweet potatoes, 300 bushels turnips 600 bushels wheat 1,000 heads of cabbage, 400 Dushels- onions, 500 bushels Irish potatoes, 24.0QOv pounds annual clover-, besides otho er vegitables. They have 150 acres iu wheat aDd 300 -in clover and grass.; The total.. estimated, value J or tneso crops is f50.702.o0. On these farms there are 34 mules .10 borses 17 cows, 17G hoas, forty nine sheep, valued 6.222.95, Ma- chiller. t iols &c. valued at $4,604,- i, ana lur nnure valued at $i,o7, 71. Tbe wLole value of all the above and buildings, bricks; etc. is Tut down at S88,933-.48. After de- dn-et'ng expenses the report shows a net profit 513,011,34. The average number of convicts worReu on these farms per lay du ring the fiscal year was 104; G2 convicts have been dischargee from thete farms during ihe jear, 17 es caped, eight died. r,000 T W liO WN A W AY, In 1863 a Causer development on my lower hp. I went under treatment at once, and from time to time sinco that have medical aia in New O lans. Boston, and New Ytrk. with no benefit at all. It has progressed right along, and now involves mv iaw and ehesk. One thousand doilars would not cover the loss sustained through the medical and surgical aid I have received. I have certaiulv tried everything and was benefitted by nothing until I took S. S.S. It has done me more srood than all else put together, and I believe I will soon be sound and well. Swift's Specific is certainly a great boon to humanity. D. D. Ware, P. O. Box 1022. Keene, N. H. The man who ge- 'o pns a the on will be more guuraj future. DISGUSTED. WITH A DOCTGR. I contracted a severs. cif 6f B:ooJ Poison in 1S33, and my Phy- sicians pus tiie'nader a mereunal of treatment; of 3 months without doing me any good.'in fact I was gradually growing worse. I then consulted another physician, who tried me with potash and sarst.pa- rilla, bnf with no better result. I then became disgusted with doc tors and their remedies, 'and com menced taking- Swift's Specific. After taking seven bottles I "was entirely cure.1, and 1 have not had any symptoms of a return since. I have recommended S S S. to oth ers, who have used it with vthe same gcod results, o. C. Nacs Hobbyville, Greene Countv, lnd Treatise on blood and ckin dis eases mailed free, - Swift's specific Co., Atlanta, G i. 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' When it is put up for a late husband. Faithful tor Thirty-Six Years. Senator Vance in accepting the nomination said : I stand here tonight to thank you for the fourth time for the nom ination oi United States Senator. During ths t:ma I have represen ted you I may not have done it wisely or ably, but I. tJe done it honeotly uud fathfally. During the 39 years io which I have served my peoplo. . I am proud to say they have never had occasion to bhwh on my account. You mar not nave bad occasion to be proud, but joa have hd no occasion to be asham ed of my name. Changes have taN ken place.' Calamity and disaster have been our fortune: but they have been overcome with a forti tude aud heroism that entitles the people of Nonh Carolina to be ranked among the bravest and no blest oi the world. Ia speakiug of tbe Alliance he said that there wasa time when he was apprehensive that it wonld ruin the democrats, but now it was ail right. He said, "in fact 'on a cloudy day I can't tell the differ ence between an Allianceman and a democrat. Of course not. It was not intended there should be any difference. The First Step. 'Perhaps you are fun down, can't eat, can't sleep, can't think, can't de anything to your tatisfaction, and you wonder what aila yoi. You should heed the warning, you are taking the first step Into Ner vous Prostration. You need a Nerve Tonic and in Electric Bitters yon will find tho exact remedy lor restoring your nervous system to its normal, healthy condition. Sur prising results follow the use oi this great Nerve Tonic and Altera tive. Your appetite returns, good digestion is restored, aod the Liver and Kidneys resume healthy action Try a buttle. Price 50 at A. W. Rowland's Drugstore. Killed by a Locomotive. A littie white child aged about 4 years was killed by the Carolina Central train on the 23rd inst, near Shelby, N. C. When approaching a deep cut the engineer saw two children playing on the track. Upon seeing. the train one of the chil dren Jumped ' to one side, but the other turned and ran down the track. The engineer cut off steam and put on the air brakes so tightly that every wheel slided along the rails, but overtook the child. The pilot struck the little child in the back. As soon as the train could be stopped it was picked up. It was unconscious but still alive. Its head was crush ed in. Tfee child was a daugh ter of a section hand on the road named Taylor. It was ta ken home, where it soon died. Stato Chronicle. HERHAPS no local disease! has pnzaled and baffled the medical profession more than nasal catarrh. While not im mediately latal it is among the the most distressing and disgusting ills the flesh is heir to, and the rec ords show very Tew or no cases of radical cure of chronic catarrh by any of the multitude of modes of treatment nntil the introduction of Ely's Cream Balm a lew years ago The success of this preparation has been most gratifying and surpris ing. ' Mr Samuel S. McGwigan, of Enfield, has filed n the Register of Deeds office, at Halifax, a deed of assignment to S. S. Alsop. Lia bilities $3,777.83; asets not known. A Bay cf Hope- For all who are held by the chains of scrofula or other diseases cf tha blood come from Hood's Sars saparilja which by imparting the elements of good health and strength to the vital fluid, dissolve the bonds of disease and sets the captive free. No one remedy in existence combines the posiuve econon v. the -peculiar merit and the medicinal power of Hood'd Sar sapaiilb. Mr. J. W. Ballance. a merchant of Lewiston suicided last week, a his home in Lewiston, Bertie, conn tv, by shootng himself through the head, lie had failed for 9b. 000, and made an assignment tbe dav before. He leaves a wife and several children. Catarrh In the head Is a constitutional Disease, and requires A constitutional remedy Like Hood's Saraparilla. vv hich purifies the blood, Makes tbe weak strong, Restores health Try it now. The. Greensboro Knitting Ifilla have been placed in the hands of a receiver. io one can complain at the price of Old SauPa Catarrh Core, it is within tbe reach of all. Sold ev erywhere at 25 cents. Parents cannot always carry the baby oa atrip for the recovery of its health. But they can keep Dr, Bull's Baby Syrup in the house, and and it will compensate for the trip by its prompt relief. NEWS OF A WEEK. WHAT IS HAPPENING JN WORLD AROUND US. THE A CONDENSED REPORT OF THENEWS FROM OUR CONTEMPORARIES. Littleton is excited over She fact that northern capitalists are prospecting for a $100,000 hotel in that place. " In private schools Granville leads every couaty in the State with 57 private schools, 53 of which are white and 4 colorad, . p. M. Lowder, a one-armed vet eran of Cabarrus, raised ten bales of cotton, plenty of hogs, corn, wheat and other supplies Vor home use for his family. We ate glad to learn from the Clinton Caucasian that our young friend, Dr. J. A. Stevens, has been elected Superintendent of Health of Sampson county for the next two years. The Greensboro Patriot thinks the salary of the Governor should be raised to $5,000 to accord with the ' sew mansion. The people generally do not favor the raising, of official salaries at this time. The Weldon News says a joint stbek company has been formed for the purpose of building a large brick hotel in Enfield. It will stand immediately in front of the old Forbes hotel, in close proximi ty to the depot. The enit of Mr. Klebor Den mark, of this city, against the A. & N. O. ft. It., ior damages for the loss of his leg when a boy, has been compromised, by the defend ant company's paying Mr. Den mark $2,000 and all accrued , costs. Goldsboro Argus. Tbe Headlight says a. colored man is preaching in Goldsboro on the coming of the day of judgment and claims that Goldsboro will be he first town in the world to be destroyed on that occasion; further that he is a special me&senger sant ' from God to save that doomed town. The colored people believe him crazy and take little, stock in his preachieg. When Mr. Walter Holmes, the miller, on Saturday, attempted to ssart Mr. Ii-E.' "Jones' mill, which is located about six miles from here, his efforts proved futile. Six men rendered help bat to no avail. By a closo examination of the ma chinery it was fouffd that forty eels were clogged to tbe wheel and nothing else could induce them to cave but a big crow-bar with which they had to be chiseled off. Goldsboro Headlight. - The Goldsboro Headlight of last week says: Saturday morning at 7 o'clock, Deputy Collectors Jno. D. Grimsley and Patt Massoy, ac companied by United States Dep uty Marshal J. F. Dobson made a raid on the illicit distillery run by Herring Creech two miles below . Dobbersville, In Sampson county. Herring made his escape, but ev erything abont tbe distillery .was completely wrecked. When the officers were on their way home, Herring attempted to 8horl them from ambush, bat fortune 1 his gan failed to fire. Herring is a desperate character, and he h the. same teiiow woo was ran out oi Johnston county last fall for using concentrated lye in making whis key. A dispatch to the' Norfolk Virs gician, from Elizabeth City, N. C., January 21st, says: 'K)ae pr two . hundred vessels owned and mans ned by non.resideuts of this State, "t have been poachihg upon the oya- ' ter beds in tbe lower sounds of North Carolina. About 2 o'clock to-day, the Pasquotank Rifles, Capt. Griffin commanding, left on tbe steamer vesper for the pur pose oi driving off the poachers, and enforcing the laws ot North Carolina, There is great excites ment here, but nothing very seri ous is apprehended. The same, paper says: A detach ment of ten members of the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues; under com-' mand of Capt. M, C. Keeling, left yesterday, morning for Elizabeth City, N. Ct with one ot their guns, to assist tbe North Carolina mili itia in driving oyster pirates out of the sounds and rivers of the Tar Heel State. They were met by Col. Wood, and after a conference tbe Blues returned to Norfolk. The cannon and ammunition brought from Norfolk were turned over to Colonel Wood aud placed on board tbe steamer Vesper, which left Elizabeth City at 1 o'clock with fifty members of the Pasquotank Rifles aboard for a trip through tbe oyster-producing section of North Carolina, The steamer will go to New Berne, Washington, and Beaufort, notifying dredgers of the passage of the law. Aa she . proceeds on tbe return trip if any dredgers are found continuing to ravish the oyss ter beds they will be arrested, ev en if their boats have to be blown out of tbe water and their crews killed. People call it backache and do nothing for it until the doctor is called, and he piononnces it rheu matism. If they had used Salva tionOll in tiae, the doctor's bill could hayebeen saved. Do not catch cold, but if you do, nothiig will met the requirements of the case as well as Dr. Bull's Ooagb eyrup. Price 25 cents,