Claudius F. Wilson. Editor,
"LET ILL l'li2 JUNDS TIIOll AIKI'ST AT, BE THT COURIBr'g, THT QOD'I, AMD TRUTHS V
$1.30 a Tear, cash In Advance
VOLUME. 21
WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, APRIL 9, 1891 .
NUMBER 12
SPH1
BILL ARP'S LETTER
SAYS GEN. GEO. H. THOMAS
WAS A SOLDIER OF FORT-.,
UNE.
LOVE AND FLOWERS.
SEE OVH NEW STOCK OF
K ATS I
HATS!!
HATS!!!
SEE OUR NEW STOCK OF
HITE GOOD
..... AND......
TRULY
CASH CATCHES
THE
Store
NASH STREET.
NOTICE !
Having qualified as administrator of the esJ
tate or Eilujth Dew, deceased, notice is nerDy
kiven to all persons indebted to said estate to
make immediate payment and to all persons
having claims against said estate to prestnt
them for pavmenton or before the 25th day
of March .1892. or this notice-will be plead in
bar or their recovery. ------
J NO. W. FARMER, Admr,
J. D.RARD1N, Atty.
3-36-f.t
NOTICE !
Byvirtueof an execution to me directed,
from the Superior Court of .Wilson county. In
the case wherein John "T. Barnes is plaintiff
and James Kni'ght is defendant, to enforces
Mechanic's Lien. I will oh Monday the 6th day
of Ajril 1891, at 12 o'clock m at .the Court
House door in the town of Wilson, N. C, offer
for sale to the hisrhest bidder for Cash, all tn
rltrht. title and interest, which the said James
Knight, the defendant had in the lollowing
described real estate to-wf; one house and
lot on Spring street, in the town of Wilson,
N. C and bounded as follows:1 on the North
by James Wiggins lot. on the West by Sam
WUUams. on the South by- Jan.es tWiggiM lot
and on the East by bp.ing strett; containing
one-ourta acre mure or less, to satisty saia
execution. -
J. W. CROWULIj, Sheriff.
March 2, 1S91. .
NEW REGISTRATION.
A new registration of the voterg embraced
in the territory of the Wilson Graded School
District having been ordered by the Board of
County Commissioners of; Wilson County.
and the undersigned having been appointed
. Registrar, this is tvt notify the voters of said
District that the Registration Books will be
open at the oihee of the Clerk of the superior
Court of Wilson County, on Monday, March
23. 1891, and will close on Saturday, AprilSot,
at 13 o'clock, m,
A. J. SIMMS, Registrar.
326 td. ;
School Election.
WILSON, N.C, March 16th, 1891.
At a special meeting of the Board of County
Commissioners held on , Mouday, March 16th,
1891, it was ordered that an election be held
on the first Monday of May. 1891, In the terri
tory comprising .the Wilson Graded School
District at which the question "Whether an
annual tax shad be levied in said district for
the sup xrt of a Graded Public Sohool for the
white and colored children of .said District,"
be submitted to the voters of said district,
A new registration of the .voters of said Dis
trict was ordered and Ay' J. Sitnms was ap
pointed Hegistrar, The books of Registration
will be opened at the office of the Superior
Court Clerk on Monday, March 2 1. 1 01:
J. WUIUOWKLL,
, - Sheriff of W lson County,
3 v t.1.
HE MAKES PUBLIC A HIGHLY SENSA
TIONAL INTERVIEW WITH THE
LATE GENERAL JOHNSTON..
The volunteer soldiers of the
ariny of Northern Virginia
knew bat little of- General
Johnston until after the first
battle of Manassas. Whjr
should they? War had not
been much of a business for
many years and our people
Ene w go great wan icrs except
bScott and Taylor and Jefferson
Davis. We dident take much
stock in military men, especi
ally the "lieutenants and cap
tains and majors. We had ma
jors and colonels all over the
State. They were as common
as pig tracks. I was a colonel
myself a pea, e colonel. But
Old Joe, had been fighting. In
dians and Mexicans for nine
teen years and hadent got any
higher than lieutenant colonel,
he started out In 1829 a lieu
tenant and fought all over the
South and West, and was
wounded ten times and had
thirty bullet holes in his
clothes in one battle; but pro
motion was slow then, for there
was no room at the top no va--cancies
no resignations aud
but few deaths. Jeff Davis
knew all about these men, for
he had besn Secretary of War
and had fought with them in
Mexico; , but we didn't know
Joe Johnston from Sam or An
dy or any other Johnston. It
dident take long to find him
out, and then the boys began
to fall him "Old Joe" and to
love him. He is the gamest
looking man I ever saw, said
one. My rooster alavs crows
when Old Joe is walking by,
said, anrther. But can't he
ride though, and cau't he
mount a horse easy, sal a a,
third. While in winter quar
ters at Centerville the boys
saw him every day, for he was
most always on the go, and
they got to idolizing him and
would have followed him to
the jaws, of death. It is a
great thing in war for the sol
diers to worship their general,
and that is where the mistake
come in when Old Joe was re
moved and Hood put in his
place. Tire talisman was gone.
POLITICIANS IN CONTROL.
It . is astonishing now to
think what low rank these
ereat men had. General Lee
was only a lieutenant colonel
when the war began. Albert
Sidney Johnston was the colo
nel of the regiment that Bob
Lee and George H. Thomas and
Hardee were in. When the
war with Mexico was derlarod
civilians were made generals
for political reasons and noth
ing else. President Polk made
Franklin Pierce a brigadier,
notwithstanding he naa never
been educated at West Point,
and that appointment made
Pierce a President. 1 remem
ber when he was nominated et
Baltimore in 1852, The news
came by stage to our little
town and a strong Democratic
partisan.threw up his hat to
the ceiling and shouted: Hur
rah for him; hurrah for him!
Be is the very man the best
man of them all. Then lead
ing over to a friend iu the post
office, he said: And what did
you say his name was? The
cc mmon people had never
heard of Franklin Pierce. He
reached Mexico with his regl
ment just in time to fight a lit
tle in the last battle, and his
horse fell down and broke his
legtbe horse's leg-aud the
rider hurt his knee the rider's
knee and it disabled him
enough for politicians to take
him up and make him Presi
dent. That's all. But he made
a good President, aud so can
most anybody who has good
sense and good principles
Sometimes I thiak that I could
run the machine for four years
and nobody be hurt.
Johnston, and was a major
in his regiment, and was a Vir
ginian and it was expected that
he too, would go with his people,-but
unfortunatly he was
ent offered a good place, for
there'wasent room . at th top
for everybody, and so he took
his chances ou the other side.
There is a great deal of un
written history that would' be
intensely interesting if it could
be revealed I was talking one
night at my own house in Au
gust, '66 with General Joe
Johnston and lie spoke of
Thomas as a very able soldier
and said he tried very hard to
get a good position for him'on
our side but failed and hence
we lost him. Of course, said
he, southern West Pointers
very naturally sided with their
section, but a soldier is a sol
dier war is his profession and
promotion his highest ambi
tion. Most of the professional
soldiers will fight anywhere if
the inducements are inviting.
In this respect they are like
lawyers who will take either
side of a lawsuit for pay. In
all wars the professional sol
diers are more or less mercen
ary. Baron Steuben and La
Fay ette and many others came
over here and fought for us in
the old revolution, but patriot
ism was not the motive. But
General Thomas did not do
right- He should have waited,
but he was restless and ambi
tious and punctillious. I know
whereof I speak that he nev
er would have left us if the
confederacy had offered him
th'e position he wanted and de.
served.
GEN. THOMAS A SOLDIER OF F0RT
.. UNE. - '
Important Sale.
By virtue of the authority vested in me as
surviving i artner of the firm of Lipscomb &
Co,, I will on Mondar, the
27th Day of April, 1891. i
On the premises, sell for cashT to the highest j
bidder, the f oil" win r real estate and personal i
property belonging to sarfd firm:
The ship lotting and lieUr g situate on the '
corner of Pine and Lee streets, in the town of j
W ilson, N. C 'adjoinfng the lands of W, T.
Clark, P, D, Gold and others, con taining one
third of an acre, more or less,
A Iso, si) l-horse-Dower en&rine and boiler.
a planer and all other machinery and equip
ments necessary to constitute a good ttasb,
Door and Blind Factory, - -
John T. Barnes,
Surviving Partner of Lipscomb & Co,
I 6hali be glad to show the property to any
one desiring to purchase -
But if military heroism is
the best presidential timber,
just thiuk how Albert Sidney !
Johnston and Joe Johnston and
Robert E. Lee were defrauded.
When the last war broke out
ttee men were wanted and
Wf re wanted bad, and they rose
rapidly in rank. Those three
nnd Beauregard were soon
made full generals, which , was
a step higher than the rank of
m-jjor general; Their cavalry
retnmeuts in the old army had
fifty-one officers; thirty-one of
these were from the South,. and
twenty -six of the thirty-one
resigned and cast their fort
unes with their States and
their people. George H.
Thomas was a comrade of Joe
AN INCIDENT CITED.
This was a revelation to me
and I was shked, for it seems
ed like a slander upon patriot
ism and upon principle, and I
so expressed myself, and read
to him a letter that I received
from General Thomas, in which
he lectured me severely for
permitting the young people of
our town to use an old confed
erate flag in a tableaux at the
city hall. I was the mayor in
1866, and the young people got
up a snow to raise some money
to get Dew pews for the church
es. General Sherman's forces
had taken all the pews to make
troughs for their horses to eat
out of, and so these young peo
ple were all arrested and put
under guard, and I wrote a
very touching letter to Thomas
for. their release. His reply
was long and bitter and re
vengeful, and he closed by
saying tnat ne uaa very re
luctantly ordered their release,
but would warn tnem ana me
that if we dared to repeat such
an inbult'and indignity ,he would
visit upon us the jitter most
penalty of military law. The
last sentence was: Traitors
shall be punished and treason
made odious. How could
gentleman write such a letter
as that after the war was over?
said I. General Johnston
smiled and said: Well, I don't
know; I could not have written
it, and my opinion is that he
aid not, ana tnat he never saw
it. He. referred your letter to
some subordinate, or secretary,
ana toia aim to order the re
lease ana give you a proper
lecture, and that is all he knew
about it. But still, it is a fact
that the longer a soldier fights
for a people or a cause the
deeper are nis sympathies en
listed on that side. No doub
but that General Thomas had
come to the conclusion that
our separation was rebellion
and rebellion was treason, and
your little tableau was a great
indignity. .
'During the evening the gen
eral alluded to his removal
from command by Mr. Davis.
He showed no resentment, and
remarked that Mr. Davis was
sorely beset by civilians who
knew nothing of the arts of
war, and that his removal was
forced by two prominent gen
tlemen in Georgia who de
manded it of Mr. Davis. He
named the men, and then said:
But Mr. Davis is a soldier, a
very euperior one, and should
not have submitted to the
pressure. It was suicidal. I
have differed with Mr. Davis
and suffered humiliation from
him, but he is a true man and
a great man notwithstanding
his conceit ajnd his prejudices.
I thouhtof all this when I
read what Colonel Livingston
Mims said Davis was a great
man and a good man, and so
was General Johnston, and the
proof of of it is they both had
mutual friends notwitstanding
their differences.
Smith, who died in Rome. It
is as tender and loving as if a
woman had written it. A fath
er could not have written more
lovingly about the death of an
onlyson, Martin Luther was
his'pet, his fondling, his pro
tege.
Old Joe had a great heart
and strong emotions. There is
no stain upon his honor; his
humanity, or his patriotism.
He came of pnnd old Virginia
stock. Patrick Henry's father
was his great grand father, and
he married a noble woman, the
daughter of Lewis McLane, who
was United States Senator for
many years, ana also -our min
ister to England. What a pity
hat suh an union has left htr
issue. Hut tnis is a common
misfortune to the great. It
takes us common folks to keep
the world agoing. General
Johnston was a Virginian of
the Virginians. He would not
have - accepted the supreme
command of the northern army
f tendered him at the begin
ning of the war. But Thomas
had no such ancestry; no such
state pride. He was a cross
from Welch and French par
ents, and his face in Appleton
is as hard as a flint rock. He
was a great soldier, and , that
was all. Just as General Lor-
ing went over to ngypt ana
fought for the Khedive's mon
ey, o would Thomas have
fought anywhere.
i5ut they are an congrega
ing on the other side of the
dark river Davis and Grant
andSherman and Lee and Lin
coln and the Johnstons. It is
curious thought. What are
they doing and how are they
getting aloog. If there is an
ntermedlate state one can im
agine that all the great and
good men have made friends
aud would send an angel back
to us if they could, and say,
Be loving, be kind, be forgiv
ing, tor tnere is no good m
war. Bill Arp.
THE MEN
WHO COMPOSE NORTH CARO
LINA'S R. R. COMMISSION.
tie
are
the
C.
THE SPRING MEDICINE.
The popularity which Hood's Sai-
sapanlla has gained as a spring
medicine is wonderful. It possess
es jast those elements of beairhgiv
ing, blood-pnrifying and appetites
restoring which everybody seems
to need at this season. Do not con
tinue in a doll, tired, unsatisfactory
condition when yon may be so mash
benefited by Hooa's Sarsaparilla. It
purifies the blood and makes the
weak strong.
SHORT SKETCHES AND PICTURES OF
MAJ. WILSON, CAPT." HASON AND
- MR. BEDDINGF1ELD, THE ELEC-
TI0N OF WHOM HAS GIV
EN GREAT SATISFAC
TION THROUGH
OUT THE
STATE.
i
The State Chronicle, Wednes-
diy of last week, contained the
following:
Below will be found pictures
of , the three Commissioners,
and a sketch of their lives.
These sketches are all written
by gentlemen "who know the
Commissioner of ; whom
writes very well, and they
therefore pen-portraits of
Commissioners. Mr. W.
Erwin, editor of the Morganton
Herald, writes of Major Wil-
son, unairman oi me commis
sion. Mr. W. W. Hall, editor
of the Roanoke News, gives a
sketch of his friend, (Jape. T.
W. Mason. As an influential
member of the. Legislature,
Mr. Hall contributed largely to
he election of Capt. T. W. Ma
son, and Mr. J. J. uunn, aecre-.
tary of the Wake County Alli
ance, gives a short sketch of
Mr. E. C. Beddingfleld, the jun-
or member of the Commis
sion.
The Chronicle has watched
he utterances of the press with
much care to see how the peo
ple received the election of the
Commissioners. With unpar
alleled unanimity there has
been from every section am ens
dorsement of thair election and
they go into office with the full
confidence of the peeple of the
State.
Apartments for the Commis
sioners have been provided on
the first floor in the Agricul
tural Building, and to-day they
will be sworn in and commence
their untried duties. The
Chronicle trusts and believes
that wisdom and
will mark their
that all they do
the material prosperity of the
State and bring about a feeling
of kindness and friendliness be
tween the people and the rail
roads. -
A lawyer of California has jast
received $95,000 for five years
woik on one case.
DON'T BE liLOOMt.
Those who are the victims of
mercurial poisoning, or who are
suffering from mercurial rheama
tism, are inclined to take a gloomy
v?ew of life 'vhen, as the poet 8ys,
'Winter is folding its white tents
and spring getting its thucder
storms togemer." ei tuese vicn
tims have no reason 10 despair. S
S.'S. is a sure remedy for all forms
of mercurial "poisoning. Though it
is purely a vegetable medicine, it is
powerful, indeed, when called on to
chase mercury, and the last linger
ing effects of mercury, oat oi the
system, it performs the work with
neatness and dispatch, as thousands
of testimonials show.
conservatism
actions', and
will advance
Filberts
Greece-
originally came from
THE JflRST STEP.
Perhaps yon are rnn down, can't
eat, sleep, can't think, can't do any
thing to your satisfaction, and you
wonder what ails you. Yoa should
heed the warning, yoi are taking
the first step into Nervous Prostra
tion. Yoa need a Nerve Tonic and
in Electric Bitters you will find the
exact remedy for restoring your
nervous system to Jts uorma!,
hea'thy condition. Surpris'ng re
salts follow the use of this great
Nerve Tonic and Alterative. Your
appetite returns, good digestion is
restored, and the Liver and Kidneys
resame healthy action. Try a bottle
Price 50c at A. W. Rowland's
Drugstore.
MA JOE- JAMES W- WILSON
The development of North
University of Vivitj
Koch's ljmph is a clear, reddish -brown
fluid, s:
BEADING OLD LETTERS.
Ye3, they , were both great
and noble men. I have some
letters from Old Joe that 1 get
out sometimes and read for
comfort. I have one before
me now that was written in
1866, about the death of his
friend, General Martin Luther
E5TCE IN A LIGHTHOUSE.
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Treseott are
keepers of the Uov. Lightboae at
Sand Beach, Mich, and are blessed
with a daughter, four years old.
Last April she was taken down
with Measles, followed with a dread.
ful Cough and turning into a Fever.
Doctors at home and at D3troit
treated her, bat in vain, she grew
worse rapidly, until she was a mere
-handfnl of bones." Then she tried
Dr. King's New discovery and after
the nae of two and a half bottles,
was completely cured. They: say
Dr, King s New Discovery is worth
Carolina from Salisbury" to
Murphy, has been largely due
to the Western North Carolina
Railroad. Through this grM.t
artery the blood of prosperity
has floored and is still flowing
with increasing volumb into
every county from the cotton
fields of Rowan to the; meadow
lands of Cherokee. No man
has done more to forward the
completion of this magnificent
commercial highway, than has
James W. Wilson, the subject
of this sh etch, who1, with short
Intervals of rest, for Ihlrty
five years, from 1853 to 1888,
gave to this Titan work hie as-?
siduous attention and unremit
ting care.
The tourist, westward bound,
who speeds in ft Pullman car
from Salisbury to Faint Rock
In nine hours, will look from
the car windows on the finest
piece of railway engineering
that can be found east of the
Mississippi In fact, it is
doubtful if anvthing can be
found on the great trunk lines
that pierce the snow-capped
Rockies and Sierras to 'surpass
this pathway for the modern
ized leviathan, than that from
Round Knob to Swannanoa is
carved aud looped and twisted
through tunnels and along diz
zy incline's, like a lariat hurled
through the air.
The credit of planning this
great work and carrying it out
iinroufcru ai; us Deruieiiu . ue-
Carolina on December 17th
1832, and is therefore now In
ms nity-nintn year. He was pTJuiversity of
(iioyBicu iur i"utioo uuuer tut
instruction of his father and at
the celebrated Caldwell IustK
tate at Greensboro, N. C. In
1850 he entered the Senior
class at the University of North
Carolina, then the leading edu
cational Institution in the
South Atlantic States, and
graduated with distinction in
1852L- Some years before he en
tered college he had determins
ed on adopting the prafession
of a civil engineer, and immed
iately after his graduation- he
joined a corps of engineers un
der: Gen. Rhodes, then making
a preliminary survey of a part
ef the Western North Carolina
Railroad, Entering the ser
vice as a rodsman, he soon
gave evidence of that talent
which has since made . him fa
mous, and rapidly rising to the
position of assistant to his
chief, he ws assigned ta . work
out the most intricate problems
connected with the location of
the road. While engaged ia
this work, the young engineer
met Miss Louise, ths, beautiful
daughter of Col. Adolphus Er
win, of Pleasant . Garden, Mc
Dowell county, and his wooing,
prosecuted with the same in
trepid euergy which has marks
ed his action in undertakings
ess pleasant and romantic, re
sulted in a wedding at the
stately eld country seat oa the
upper Catawba in the Spring
of fateful sixty-one. - .
A few months after hi mar
riage, Mr. Wilson heeded the
call of North Carolina for
roops, and raising a company
of his boyhood companions on
the Haw river hills, entered
Col. Foster's regimeift as Capt.
of Co. F., and made a brilliant
record for bravery dnring the
terrible struggle b-t ? fn the
8tates. ,He retired with the
rank of Major aud with a rep
utation as a soldier and a lead
er of men which entitles him
to a much more exalted poaK
tien. - 1'
Near the close of the war
Major Wilson was appointed by
Gov. Vance Supt. of the Wes
tern Nrth Carolina Railroad.
In 1875 he was elected Presi
dent of that road and served
four years until the State's in
terest was conveyed to the
Best syndicate, when he was
elected Chief Engineer, hold
ing that position for seven
years. Darin? this period the
road was pushed through the
big tunnel under the Blue
Ridge and the ribbon of stee4
was uncoiled along the French
Broad valley and far out west
wardly tc wards the skadow of
the Nan tabulae. .
In 1887 Maj. VV ilson resigned
his position on ' the Western
North Carolina R&ilrosdto ac
cept at princely" salary th
position of Chief Engineer on
two railway lines ' radiating
from Knoxville, Tennessee, the
Knoxville and Cumberland
Gap and the Knoxville South
ern. In 1890. both the lines- be
ing completed, Maj. Wilson
resigned his position and
turned to his home in Morgan-
ton where he had intended to
devote his time exclusively to
the management of hia exten-
slvevestates. The action of the
Legislature in calling him to a
position on the Railroad Cotn-
mission, a position wmcu ue
had neither solicited or- ex
pected, will cause him again to
forego for a time that well
earned rest in the midst of his
family to ;which has so long
looked forward. .... j.
Since the close of the war
Major Wilson has lived iu
Morganton and or all the hand
some residences for whieh the
town is famous, none are more
attractive than the gabled and
turreted structure he has rear
ed which stands among spread
ing elms on the greenest of
swards, and from whose shady
verandas are to be had enchant-
ing glimpses of those blue
Highlands, whose mysteries,
for ages unknown, were unfold
ed to the world :bythe skill
of this nineteenth century ma
gician. ' W. 0. Ebvix.
Morgauton, March 26, 1891.
in this State, on January 3 J,
1839. He graduated at the
North Carolina.
aiier tne usual i ur years
eovrse, in 1858, not having at
the time attained hia twentieth
year. He was prepared for
college by the late Proi. Hoop
er.' Governor Swain via then
President of the University,
having been elected io that po
sition because of his fine execu
tive ability, rather than his at
tainments in the field of letters.
It is not generally uown, and
it may be inter3sting to state,
in passing, that Governor
Swain acquired much of his
knowledge of Latin with the
assistance of Mr. Ma sou, when
a student at Chapel Hill. Thus
early in life did Mr. Mason irow
press those with whom ha
came in contact and command
their respect for hi o r ility and
capacity.
- After receiving ht
the University of iia
enter d the law ?ciO'
'egree at
State he
i of the
U at the
mastered
ne term,
thorough
vledge of
him in the position to which ha
has lately been placed by the peos
pie of the State. He will know
neither friend nor foe, but, will act
ith judicial impartiality. His
devotion to. North Carolina tfnd
North Carolinians Is undoubted
for though born in Virginia, he
was mainly educated in this State,
married here, and here has lived
the greater part of his manhood
and with our people has been most
associated. He ia thoroughly
identified with North Carolina, her
people and her interesta.
W.W. Hall.
Halifax, N. 0,, March 30, 1831.
session of 1853 0 r.td
the whole coarse in
there receiving that
grounding iu the kn-
iaw which enabl?d turn (subse
quently to reach - in a" very
short time that degre of emN
nence at the bar whif-h usually
requires long years of constant
and unremitting application
and toil.
He was married in Northamp
ton county, this Stato, in Sep
tember, 1860. Wheu the war
between the States began he
was residing on a plantation in
Louisiana which he still owns
and successfully manages. He
was among the first to respond
to the call for volunteers and
in order to be at the front he
returned to Virginia ;nd join
ed as a private a company or
ganizea in isrunswics, nis na
tive county. Here, too, his
worth soon became k town and
before his company bad seen
active service he was appointed
by General Robert R nsom to a
position on his staff vhich he
held until tne close t the war.
When the sun of t .e Confed
eracy set at Appou.' ittox Mr.
Mason, like thousand .of oth
ers who had sUked i ieir all
and lost, resolutely turned his
face to the future to repair hi3
broken fortune?. U settled in
Northampton county where he
still resides, but formerly
spending many of L 3 winters
on his : Louisiana plantation.
He engaged in ricultural
pursuits and bechm'e and is
still a successful farmer.
While thus engaged he by ho
means neglected t!i study of
law or general literature, Jbut
still found time to devote to
these without negiacting his
affairs, and is one of the best
informed men ia tl ei State.
vln 1877 he was di n ed to the
bar ot JSortnampfou e .untyj not as
a newly fledged i ccu - oi theSu
preme Court, but as :r lawyer well
equipped and wt profound
knowledge of ron&u itioral and
common law. Hi pt notice begtn
ati once to grow n --.:d year has
seen it increase, bi' n ver yet has
anyone been heard lo eak aught
agAiust him or cbarj;;- him with
taking an uuldir advi- age. either
in or out ot tf.art. II. gives the
he humblest
o
its weight in gold, yet you may get taiis na3 been justly attributed
land'
It is said that a Chinaman never
goes craz?. -
Any drnggiRt will tell you what
he knows about the merit of
Shnnet's Indian Vermifuge, the
popular remedy. ,
to tne ctiainnaa oi iNortn uar"
olina's new Railway Commis
sion . .
Commissioner V ilson, a son
of the distinguished - Presbyte
rian educator and divine, Rev.
Alexantf er Wilson D. J)., was
same care and ze-i o
cases as to thttgreaii
Mr. Mason has ner songht of
fice. In every eampuieia whenever
and wherever hih- At. vices nave
been needed he ha- ever been
found in the toickest of the fight
battling for the et'rnM principles
of Democracy, and jcJ ach is his
fairness, his honest' .nd his unls
versal courtesy that ),o has never
given one wound to in opponent
nor made a pprwon-'l raemy bj his
hard blows at Uepat. canism.
So much 18 h e-". ?med where
he is bfst known : r- tt in 1884 he
received unsought sb Democratic
nomination for S a Senatoi in
thn third - 'district, . Mmposod of
Northampton and Bv- rie counties.
He ieluctduliy aecfp eJ, and can
vassedtUe district, ua-1 was elect
ed by a handsome majority, repre
sentlng the district in the General
Assembly of 1885, with credit to
himself and his constituents. Here
again hU talents were at once rec
ognized and he took a deserved
ly high stand both by reason of his
eloqueuct) in debate and his vigU
lance and .tbilify iu the work of
the session.
Mr. Masou' innate modesty has
always prevented his seeking po
sitions of honor and profit; his are
not the ways of the demagogue,
bat of the wise and patriotic citi
zen, and wnile aidic-r with alt his
ability the advincetBsnS of his peo-
and the State of h, adoption and j
taking a nctp :ru;-esc in tiieir
welfare, he unseirl?!-7 leaves the
reward to oiher.s.
- He is- a tnn of en, ;'
EUGENE C. BEDDINGFIELL.
Eugene 0. Beddingfleld, former
Secretary of the North Oarolin
Farmer's State Alliance, now onfl
of the newly elected Railroad Com
missioners, was borue on the lOtk
of October, 1862, in Wake county a
few miles north ofRaleifu Hie
father, A. H. Beddingfifld, was a
Confederate soldier and diad in the
hospital at Gordonsvill Va., in
Nov. 1863, leaving bis Wife and son
dependent upon her father, Edward
Chappell, who wa3 a plain substan
tial farmer, at the time sereuty-flve
yers of age. Shernian'a niuiy
having left the countay in a desti
tute oodition, it w;w with coasid-:
erable sacrifice that ttey managed "
to send Engeno to a Kubsorintion
sohool for a faw months in each
year, until he was oil enough te
plow. A corrupt Loeislatnre hav-
ng squandered 4he public school
fund, there were no public echooU
in his neighborhood at tha time.
As soon as he learned to read.
however, Le niauifc sted a great
fonduess" for books, and through the
kindness of friends waa enabled to
borrow and read manv which he
could tot otherwiaa have done.
Every spire moment was employed!
in reading standard wrks of histo
ry and fict'on.
When he was fourteen 3 ears old. -
through the kindness of his teacbtte
Dr. L. Chappell. of Forestville, he
attended tne Academy at that place
for a jear. Dr. R. II. Lewis, noxr
President of Judson College, was Al
tnac time principal, lois was vjoe
principal part of schooling he ever
received, as some private mat(el
prevented him from attending col
lege as he , had hoped to do. lie
however did not give up his stR
ions habits, bnt continued to stn.dy
and read at spare time while word
ing on his farm. 1888 Mr. Ueddiag
field was nominated as a candidate
for the State Legislature Up to this
time he had never delivered a pnb
lie speech in his life,' hnV sooa
showed considerable Mb .; as a
speaker, and .was ab'u i nold bis -own
with the old politica- orators.
His canvass of the county was a
brilliant one, he being the only
Democrat elected from this county..
Mr., Beddingfleld at ouee took a
prominent position in the Legisla
ture, and perhaps no young man in
the State ever exercised a wider in
fluence. His record in that body ef
one of which he may well be proni".
When Col. Polk resigned as Sscrev
tary of the State Alliance be wu
elected to-fill his unexpired term
and received the en Joisment ef
the . brotherhood throughout the
State by re-election latt August at
the meeting of the Scate Alliance
at Asheville. He continued to hold
this position until he was elected
one of the Railroad comroiasioneie
for the State by a very flattering
vote. His brethren throughout the
State express themselves asrhighlj
pleased at his election. I am f je
to say Mr. Peddingheld will, J.
think, fill the new position to whteji
he has been elected with as much
ability as he has the other impo-.
tant positions w high he has behj.
J. J. DUNIf. "
Raleigh, N. O. March 31, 1831. .'
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup
should always be nsed (or children
teething. It soothes the child, sof
tens the gams, al!ays all paip,
00 res wind colic, and is the bes
remedy for diarrhoe. ;Tweaty-five
eents a bottle.
The United State has more
miles of raiiro.vl th n all Earope.
"gentle
A'
CAPT. THOUAS . MASON-
Mr. Mason was born in
J born in Granville countj Nerth j wnich adjoins Northampton
and
1 unswerving
h and nu--mination
to
jt prejudice
-wd interesta.
lischarse of
eves not in
-ftnsoof hou
haracter, his
acquiremeiitw, epec - and general,
added to bis studious habits, make
him peculiarly fitted for the oner
oua. duties which will devolve upon
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she waa a Cluld,'she cried for Caetoria.
When she became Mias, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
; Thomas Jefferson
hillside plow.
invented the
OeVr.'iO"--
or, V:
Every tissue oft.be body, every
bone, muscle and organ, is made
stronger and more healthful by fcfie
use of Hood'a Sarsaparilla.
Maryland's State
petrified oyster.
M'isflain has a