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CLAUDIUS F. WILSON, EDITOR & PROP R.
VOLUME XXI,
Wliat tie
Backet Man
Has to Say.
We have not been able to arrange
it, but the New Stock is all in and
narked and ready for sale except the
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pecial attention to the Dry Goods
and Dress Trimmings. All who see
Uiem pronounce them "the correct
thing" and then the prices are from
15 to 20 per cent, less than the same
;oods are sold eleswhere.
We cannot mention all the nice
tilings in Stock but we must take the
time to say something about our
Shoes. Some of our customers have
s.iid, your prices are low enough but
we want a finer article in Shoes. We
have now both in Gendemen and
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i istidious at prices within the reach
of all. Our Ladies Shoe at 1.98
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THE OLD FASHIONED HYMN'S OF THE
SW EET LONG AGO.
He Give a Chapter on Music If Ton Can
Sins;, Join a Church Choir, But If You
Can't, Stay Out of it The Power of Melo
dy. Music is the only employment that
is innocent, refining and that cannot
be indulged in to excess. It stands
by itself as the peculiar gift of God.
It is the only art that is alike com
mon to angels and to men. It has
wonderfull compass and variety,
and yet from the grandest to the
simplest it is all pleasing and inno
cent. fc.very other pleasure can be
carried to dissipation, but not music.
The highest order of music is that
which we never hear, but only read
about and wonder. It is called the
music of the spheres the grand
symphony that is made by the plan
ets and other heavenly bodies cours
ing around the sun, and which Milton
says is heard only by uoa ana tne
angels. I don't suppose that such
creatures as we are, afflicted and lim
ited with original sin, could bear that
kind of music. The child that is
charmed with a lullaby or soothed to
sleep with "Hush, my dear. Lie
still and slumber" would be frighten
ed at an oratorio from Handel. But
musical taste is progressive like every
other good 1 thing. The time was
when I thought "Billy in the low
grounds" and "Bonaparte crossing
the Rhine" perfecdy splendid, but I
don't now. I have advanced to a
higher grade. By degrees the chil
dren have educated me, and as they
climb up I climb a little, too. Time
was when I thought "Kathleen Ma-
vourneen" the sweetest song, and
my wife, whom I was courting, the
sweetest singer in the world. But i
dqn't now that is, I mean the song.
There are sweeter songs. I don't
wish to be misunderstood about the
singer. No doubt her voice has the
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same alluring, ensnanng, angenc,
?lysian sweetness it had forty years
ago, more or less, but the fault is in
me, for when a man has once been
allured and ensnared and is getting
old and deaf he loses some of his
gushing appreciation. Nevertheless,
when her eldest daughter touches the
ivory keys and sings Longfellow s
beautiful hymn, of
"Daylight is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of night,"
my appreciation
seems to come
me calm and se-
back and it makes
rene.
There is nothing after all that so
proves the goodness of God to his
creatures as in giving to them the
love of "music-and the faculty to make
rt. It is the cheapest and most uni
versal pleasure. Much of it costs
nothing, for we hear it in the winds
and waves, the trees, the waterfalls,
and from the birds and insects. It
is of many kinds, from the pealing
anthem that swells the note of praise
in Westminster abbey down to the
plantation harmonies of the old-time
darkies around the corn-pile. Be
tween these extremes we have the
music of the drama, the concert, the
nursery and the drawing-room.
I was having these thoughts be
cause Mr. Arp and the children were
practicing some church music in the
parlor, preparing for Sunday. Some
of the family belong to the choir, and
it is a good thing to belong to. Choirs
have their little music fusses some
times and get in the pouts ; but,
nevertheless, it is a good place to
raise children. It makes them go to
church and to Sunday school, and gc$
early, and if they are lacing the con
gregation they have to keep awake
and behave decently, and thev.do
their best to look pretty and sing
sweetly. I used to belong to the
choir, and it was there Mrs. Arp saw
me and ever and anon heard the
sweet strains of my melodious tenor
voice. But alas ! that voice has
cnangea to a Dass at one end and a
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lalsetto at the other, and "there's a
melancholly crack in my laugh."
Young man, young woman, if you
have any gifts for music you had
better join the church choir, but if
you haven't, don't.
Sacred music is very much varied
according td denominations. The
Roman Catholic church is the oldest
and the richest! and has the most pas
sionate music and the finest organs,
and embraces a rendering of such
intense words as are found in the
"Agnus Dei" and "Gloria in Excel
sis," and the litany and chants of the
old masters. The Protestant church
has rejected the dramatic style and
confined its music to hymns and
psalms of sober temper, and in the
main has done away with the fugue
and galloping style oi "one part chas
ing another through the vocal har
monies. I remember when it was
the fashion in fashionable choirs to
give one part several feet the start in
the race and the others would start
later and overtake it before they got
to the end of the line. There is a
hyrog beginning, "I love to steal
awhile away,'' and the tenor would
start out, with "I love to steal" and
and then the alto would prance up
with "I love to steal" and then the
bass confessed the unfortunate frail-
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ty, I love to steal ana nurnea on
for fear the first man would steal it
all before he got there.
Sacred music is of very ancient
origin. Indeed, it is older than the
church or the temple, for we find that
Moses sang a song when he had
crossed the Red Sea, and he said, "I
will sing a song unto the Lord, for
he is my strength and my salvation,"
and when he finished his song Miriam
took it up, and she and her maidens
sang and made music on timbrels.
King David sang all through his
"LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY'S, THY GOd's,
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psalms, and Isaiah not only sang but
wanted everything to sing, tor he
says : "Sing, oh ye heavens, for the
Lord hath done it Break forth into
singing, oh ye mountain, and every
tree, for the Lord hath redeemed
Israel."
I was looking over this book that
we are now using in our church, a
new and beautiful book containing
i,200 hymns and a tune with written
music to every hymn. Here are 360
authors of all Christians denomina
tions. Of these, sixty -one are women,
seventy are English Episcopalians,
twenty are Scotch Presbyterians, ten
are English Presbyterians, and only
eight are American Presbyterians.
Eight are Methodist, ten are Bap
tists, fourteen are Congregationalists,
and five are Roman Catholics. The
rest are Dissenters, Lutherans,
Unitarians, Moravians, .Quakers and
Independents. Only fifty-four are
Americans. Leaving out Isaac Watts
and Charles Wesley most of these
hymns were composed by English
Episcopalians. Isaac Watts was the
founder of hymnology. One hundred
and twenty-six of his hymns are in
this book. He has been dead 142
years, but we are still singing 5
"Welcome Sweet Day of Rest,"
"How Beauteous Are Their Feet,"
When I Can Read my Tide Clear,"
Before Jehovahs Awful Throne,"
Am I a Soldier of the Cross,"
and many more of his composition.
He was a very small man with a
very large soul. He was only five
feet high and weighed less than a
hundred pounds and never married.
His hymns are sung all over the
Christian world. Our grandparents
and parents, ourselves and our chil
dren have all treasured them and
become familiar with them.
Charles Wesley, a Methodist, has
thirty -six hymns in this book most
of them inspired from his intense,
absorbing love of the Savior such as
Blow ye the trumpet, blow, and
'Jesus, lover of my soul." He was
brother of John Wesley, the foun-
der of Methodism, and came to
Georgiajwith him in 1735.
Rev. John Newton has twenty-six
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hymns in this collection, wnat a
strange, eventful lite was his. seiz
ed and impressed tor a seaman on
board a man of war when he was
only nineteen years of age deserted
was caught and flogged and de
graded deserted again and hired
himself to a slave trading ves
sel. Four years afterwards he went
back to England and married Mary
Catlett, the girl he had been loving
years. He then equipped a slaver
of his own, and shipped negroes from
Africa to the West Indies and made
fortune. In a few years he became
disgusted with the business, and
studied mathematics, Latin, Greek
and Hebrew without a teacher.
About that time Wesley and Whit
field began their great religious up-
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rising, and he was convert ea ana
joined them and went to preaching.
When eighty years old he preached
three times a week, and when urged
to stop pn account of his feeble health
he replied: "What! Shall the old
African negro trader and blasphemer
stop while he can speak ? No !" No
wonder that the great change in
spired him to write those beautiful
hymns: "Amazing Grace! How
bweet the bound. "Une there is
Above all Others," "Glorious Things
of Thee Are Spoken," "Saviour,
Visit Thy Plantation."
And next comes Cowper the
amiable, lovable, miserable Cowper
whose life was spent in alternating be
tween hope and despair, and was
sent several times to the insane asy
lum. In his lucid intervals of hope
he composed such hymns as
Sometimes a Light Surprises,
There is a Fountain Filled with
Blood,"
"Oh, for a Closer Walk with God,"
and many others.
James Montgomery, a Moravian,
has twenty-three hymns in this book.
His early life was full of trouble. He
was indicted, tried and imprisonea
for writing a ballad on the fall of the
bastile. Soon after his release he
wrote an account of the riot at Shef
field, and was again imprisoned. The
press had but little treedom in nis
day, but his gentle, earnest Christian
character fully won tor him the re
gard of his enimies, and he was grant
ed a pension by the crown. There
are no hymns in his book or any
book sweeter than his. Such, for in
stance, as "Oh where shall rest be
found?" "Prayer is the soul's sin
cere desire," "People of the living
God," etc.
Addison, too, that stately, polished
writer of essays, found time and in
clination to pay poetic tribute to his
maker. There is no poetry more
majestic than the hymns beginning
"When all thy mercies, oh! my
God," and "The spacious firmament
on high." And next we have Heber
the gifted bishop of Calcutta, the
Christian gentlemen who never knew
a want, but nevertheless, spent his
life in charitv and missionary work
His world-renowned hymn would
have immortalized him if he had
written nothing else.
"From Greenland's Icy Mountains"
still stands as the chief of all mission
ary hymns. He wrote others of ex
quisite beauty, such as "Brightest
and Best of the Sons of the Morning"
and "By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill."
Then there are many other com
posers who did not write much, but
wrote exceeding well. There is
"How Firm a Foundation," by
George Keith ; "Come Ye Disconso
late," by Thomas Moore, the poet
laureate of England; "Awake my
Soul," by Medley; "Come Thou
Fount of Every Blessing," by Rob
ert Robinson.
Rev. Augustus Toplady has sever
al beautiful hymns, but none compare
with his "Rock of Ages Cleft for me."
Sir William Gladstone, the greatest
premier of England, was so much
impressed with this hymn that he
has translated it into Latin and
other languages. Of a latter we find,
"Nearer My God to Thee," by Mrs.
Adams, and English lady.
The oldest hymn in this book was
written by Thomas Sternhold, in
1549. He was groom to Henry VIII.
The next oldest is well worth remem
brance, for it was written in 1690 by
Thomas Ken, and has but one verse,
and that verse is sung oftener than
any other verse in the world. Its
first line is "Praise God from whom
all blessings flow." If Thomas Ken
is in the heavenly choir (and we be
lieve he is), what serene comfort does
his translated soul enjoy as it listens
every Sabbath to his own doxology
as it goes up from a million voices
and swells heavenward from thous
ands of organs all over Christendom.
Then we have hymns from Kich-
ard Baxter, who was chaplain to
Charles II, and resisted the usurpa
tion of Cromwell.
And here we have hymns from
Mrs. Charles, the gifted authoress
of the Schonberg Cotta stories, and
lrom William Cullen Bryant, our own
poet laureate, and Francis S. Key,
the author of the "Star bprangled
Banner," and from Mrs. Sigourney,
and John Dryden, another poet lau
reate of England, and Henry Kirke
White, who died in his twenty-first
year, but left as his monument "The
Star of Bethlehem." Here, too, is
the litany by Sir Robert Grant. And
here are many hymns from Dr.
Muhlenberg, who wrote "I would
not live alway."
And now let me pause to remem
ber that all these men and women
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are dead. some nave Deen ueau
300 years, some 200, and very many
100 and some less, but all are dead.
But poetry outlives prose, and a song
outlives a sermon. It is a comforting
fact that most all of these famous
poets have been Christian men and
women and have given to the church
some 01 tneir sweetest ana nonest
thoughts in songs.
Dr. Oliver W. Holmes and John
G. Wittier are both represented in
this collection.
But hymns without music lose half
their beauty. They are like birds with
out wings they can't fly heavenward.
And now if the choir and the congre
gation will enter into the spirit oi
these beautiful hymns and sing them
with pure religious feeling it will be
acceptable praise. A song without
inspiration is music, but it is not
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praise, f rotessionai cnoirs wno sing
for pay seem to be singing lor men
and not for God. Such singing is
like the funerals that have hired
mourners. When the tune fits the
sentiment of the hymn, like it was
all one creation ot genius it greatly
enhances the beauty of both. The
coronation hymn would not be half
so popular if the coronation music
were not set to it. And this is one
reason why the oratorios of the grand
old masters, such as Handel and
Mozart, have never been excelled.
They composed both the sentiment
and the song. Bill Arp.
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Some of the Things Thought About by the
"Advance" Young Man, That May be so
Served up as to Suit Your Taste, What
ever It May Be.
The grain speculators have al
ready made more money juggling
with the price of wheat than the
farmers will make out of their phe
nominal grain crop this year.
Sam Jones is firing ungrammatical
broadsides of salvation slang into the
ranks of New York sinners, but no
breaks are observable in their lines,
although they contribute liberally to
pay the Rev. Sam for the amusement
he furnishes them.
They have queer ideas over in
Australia. The minister of education
tJ".as suspended one of the most suc
cessful school teachers just because
she prayed for the death of her hus
band. If her husband was any
thing like the husbands of some
self-supporting women we know
she was justifiable in praying for his
death, and more deserving of sym
pathy than censure.
The short crops in Europe make
it almost certain that there will be no
war there this year, notwithstanding
the strained relations between France
and Germany.
The idea of nationalizing the mili
tia of the States and placing the
whole under the command of the
Secretary of War.
Senator Morgan j of Alabama is out
in a very strong letter against the
Sub-Treasury scheme, and he an
nounces his intention to take the
stump against it in Alabama.
Col. John S. Mosby's long resi
dence in China has not caused him to
forget how to do the bid-fashioned
American knock-down-and-drag-out
act if it is fair to judge by the newspa
per reports of how he thrashed the
conductor and the gripman on a
cable train in San Francisco the
other day. About twenty -seven or
eight years ago Mosby was rated as
one of the most dangerous men in
this country, and the old man isn't
played out yet.
Ex-Senator Blair, of the education
al bill and Chinese ministry notoriety,
who objects to dropping into the arms
of obscurity, has written a letter in
which he claims to be the father of
reciprocity. He is also modest
enough to intimate that he is a much
brainier man than either Mr. Harrison
or Mr. Blaine, and that the only
reason why he has not done better
things than either of them is, because
he has not been given the opportu
nity. If he never had the right be
fore, this letter gives Mr. Blair the
undisputed right to the conical head
gear which school boys, in their love
of fun, call a fool's cap. By the way
Blaine and Harrison refused Blair
anything further in the diplomatic
line, or he would not have written
that screed.
Some American tourists must have
been telling the young German Em
peror about how it feels to have the
wind blow through his whiskers, and,
wishing to feel for himself, the Em
peror is now engaged in raising a
crop of whiskers of his own.
Again the story is going the
rounds of the press that .Blaine will
shortly announce that he will under
no circumstances become the candi
date of his party next year, and that
he is in favor of Harrison's renomi
nation. This story is killed by a
little addition to the effect that Mr.
Blaine is very anxious to retire from
public life. Yes, about as anxious as
a hungry horse is to retire from a
trough of oats. Private life would
be as great a vexation to Mr. Blaine
as life ashore is to a sailor, and in
spite of all the stories which have
been or may be told concerning his
intentions we predict that if he is of
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of his party he will accept it.
Senator Stanford is in the 'field as
a Presidential candidate, not of the
Farmer's Alliance or of the third par
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candidacy will prove a God send to
those Republicans who were badly
disappointed When Alger closed up
his barrel and announced himself to
be for Blaine, as Senator, Stanford is
much the richer man of the two, and
is more willing to pay out money
for empty compliments. As to his
getting the nomination there is no
more probability of such a thing than
there is of the Republican convention
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He is Not a Candidate for the Nomination
for Governor, and Would, not Accept it if
Unanimously Tendered.
"Will Maj. Charles Manly Sted
man, ex - Lieutenant - Governor of
North Carolina, be a candidate be
fore the convention next year for the
nomination to gubernatorial honors?"
That is a question which has been
asked by many people of the State.
The question has gone among the
newspapers and some of them are
already discussing the Major as a
possible candidate.
With a view of settling all doubts
about the matter the Citizen called
on Maj. Stedman yesterday after
noon. He was found in his law of
fice over the Battery Park bank hard
at work, but he was willing to give a
portion of his time to an interview
with the paper which prints all the
news.
The attention of Maj. Stedman was
called to article appearing in a State
paper in which his name was men
tioned in connection with the nomi
tion for Governor.
The Maj. was all attention at once.
In decisive tones he talked about the
governorship as follows : 1
"I have received many letters from
different portions of the State, asking
me to allow the use of my name.
But I have told all of my "friends who
have personally approach d mev and
have written to all those from whom
I have received letters td the same
effect, that I not only wa s not a can
didate for Governor, but would not
accept it if it was tendered to me
unanimously."
Continuing, Major Stedman said
emphatically that he did not wish the
office, and meant exactly what he
said. He also had a profound con
tempt for any man who secretly was
seeking a nomination and yet said he
was not a candidate. He had met
several people of that kind during
his file.
"I shall always," said Major Sted
man, "support earnestly and cordial
ly the nominees of the Democratic
party, and believe the success of that
party is necessary to the wellare and
integrity of the whole country. ,
"I shall continue to practice law in
Asheville, but will always be found
ready to respond to any call the
party may make upon 'me. Person
ally, though, I repeat, I desire no
office for myself.
Major. Stedman was further asked
if he never again intended to alllow
his name to be used in connection
with public office. His reply to this
query was :
"I cannot say what I might do in
days to come, but I certainly neither
desire nor would have any office ten
dered me at the present time."
Maj. Stedman has the greatest con
fidence in the success of the Demo
cratic party in the national campaign
next year. He expressed kind feel
ing towards all the gentlemen whose
names are being cousidered 'for Gu
bernatorial honors, without naming
his preference. He said further that
the Democratic party at large, had
manifested very kind feeling towards
himself, for which he felt grateful, but
that to the people of Buncombe he
was under special obligations, for he
had received this county's unanimous
support, both for the nominations for
Lieutenant-Governor and oovernor.
The fact that hisname has been
mentioned in close connection with the
United States, Senatorship was also
spoken of to Maj. Stedman. In re
ply he said that the time when a Sen
ator was to be chosen was so far off
that it was useless to discuss the mat
ter. There the interview ended. Maj.
Stedman's determination to keep out
of the race cannot be doubted. He
is evidently in a good humor with the
Democratic party and its leaders, and
not worrying much about himself.
Asheville Citizen.
A Famous Arabian Proverb.
Men are four.
He who knows not, and knows not
he knows not. He. is a fool; shun him.
He who knows not, and knows he
knows not. He is simple; teach him.
He who knows, and knows not he
knows. He is asleep; wake him.
He who knows, and knows he
knows. He is wise; follow him.
Friday lit Not An Unlnclty Day-
Lee surrendered on Friday. Mos
cow was burned on Friday. Wash
ington was born on Friday. Shakes
peare was born on Friday. Amer
ica was discovered on Friday. Rich
mond was evacuated on Friday. The
Bastile was destroyed on Friday. The
Mayflower was landed on Friday.
Queen Victoria was married on Fri
day. King Charles I was beheaded
on Friday. Fort Sumpter was
bombarded on Friday. Napole
on Bonaparte was born Friday.
Julius Caeser was assassinated on
Friday, The battle of Marengo
was fought on Friday. Thebatde of
Waterloo was fought on Friday. The
battie of Bunker Hill was fought on
Friday. Joan of Arc was1 burned at
the stake on Friday. The battle of New
Orleans was fought on Friday. The
Declaration of Independence was
signed on Friday. Friday is not an
unlucky day, no more so than any
other day, although a man sentenced
to be hauged on that day may
think so. State Chronicle.
Mirtie M. Tanner, Boonville, Ind.,
writes : "I had blood poison from
birth knots on my limbs were as
large as hen eggs. Doctor said I
would be a cripple but B. B. B. has
cured me sound and well. I . shall
ever praise the day the men who in-1
vented Blood Balm were born."
AND TRUTHS.
$1.50
STATE NEWS. -
BRIEF CONDENSATIONS INTERKST.
INOLY GATHERED TOGETHER.
Some of the Things Being Done in the "Old
nortn state" That May Prove of Interact
to You.
On Thursday last. Mr. Geonre
Wood, had one of his legs badlv
crushed on the yard while coupling
cars. Mr. Wood is assistant varH
master at this place. We hone he
will soon be able to walk aeain.
tWT . . t
weidon JNews.
Rev. Mr. Morton, a Baptist minis
ter of Weidon, while attempting to
open the blinds fell from a second
story window. He was taken up
unconscious, but no bones were
broken and he has since recovered.
A correspondent from Harrellsville
states that the farmers of Hertford
county now think there will be the
largest crop of corn, cotton and pea
nuts made in that county than ever
before. Elizabeth City North Caro
linian. Mr. J. B. Rowell tells the Warren-
ton Gazette that his uncle, Mr. loe
Egerton, was so confident that this
would be a dry year he planted all of
corn in the low grounds, so as to be
sure of getting some moisture. For
the last two months he has been able
to see the tops of corn by takine a
boat and rowing over it.
Last year the first bale of new cot
ton was sold in our town on the 22 nd
day of August by Mr. John M. Stew
art. We have been informed
that Judge Whitaker condemned the
jail as unsafe and unfit for priso-
oners so the county will have to pay
expenses of prisoners in some other
jail. That's too tough on our coun
ty. Dunn Times.
Uriah Lamb, an old citizen of
Jamestown, who has just died, is sup
posed to have come toons. death from
the eftects of bee stings. A man
was ploughing in the field, and Mr.
Lamb was walking close behind him;
a bumble bee's nest was ploughed
up, and the infuriated bees stung Mr
Lamb in the lower part of his fore
head midway between his eyes, caus
ing him to fall to the ground, when
other bees swarmed upon his bald
pate, stinging him with great fury.
Mr. Lamb was carried to the house,
but continued to grow worse until he
died Greensboro Workman.
Col. Paul F. Faison, who has in
spected the damage done the State
farms by the freshet in Roanoke,
says only about no acres of corn in
the lowest places in the bottom lands
are effected. Probably some of this
will be saved. Most of the corn crop
is on higher land. Mr. W. M.
Darden, a prominent young farmer
of Greene county, was here yesterday
and placed his brother, Eddie Dar
den, and Abner Wooten in the A. &
M. College. Sheriff Sutton, of
Lenoir county, brought a negro
woman to the penitentiary yesterday
who had been wearing men's clothes
and was put in lor twenty years for
killing a white woman. State Chron
icle. The two buck negroes that made
an assault upon the Sheriff of Person,
in the Roxboro jail, which was men
tioned in this paper some days ago,
were indicted and convicted of an at
tempt to escape jail, this week, at
Roxboro. Judge Winston gave them
their choice of going to the peniten
tiary or receiving: b lashes, with a
huggy whip, with coat off. They
chose the latter punishment. There
is another chapter to this incident of
the court. Another negro prisoner,
already convicted and sentenced to
the penitentiary, petitioned to the
Judge, in writing, to be allowed
whipping instead of going to the pen
The petition was granted and he was
served as his fellow pnsoners and
turned loose. Durham Sun.
A shooting scrape occured on the
plantation of J. T. Dupree, near Old
Snarta last Saturday. A crowd of
colored people were goinjr home from
town in the evening, and among
them were Adam Jordan and Eleck
Hines. These two men began quar
relling about something. Soon the
affair between them grew hot, and
caused both to draw their pistols
Jordan empted his load in the air and
then made a pop or two at Hines'
feet. Hines did not fire, but with
a stick knocked Jordan down and
ran? who recovering himself from the
blow arose and shot at Hins, but
missed him, and hit two men, who
were standing by. One of them, the
doctor says, will surely die. Jordan
was captured by the sheriff Sunday
and carried before the justice. He is
now in jail. Tarboro Advocate.
For Over Fifty Year
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
has been used for over fifty years by
millions of mothers for their children
while teething, with perfect success.
It soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind colic, and
is the best remedy lor Diarrhoea. It
will relieve the poor little sufferer im
mediately. Sold by Druggists in
every part of the world. Twenty -hve
cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for
"Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrnp,"
, and take no other kind.
The only way to cure fever and
ague is either to neutralize the pois
ons which cause the disease or to ex
pel them from the system. Ayer's
Ague Cure operates in both ways. It
is a warranted specific for all forms of
malarial disorders, and never fails to
cure.
Try it.
That ' pain under the shoulder
blade is dyspepsia. Take Simmons
Liver Regulator.
A YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE.
NUMBER 34.
WINSTON HOUSE,
SELMA, N. C.
MRS. G. A. TUCK,
PROPRIETRESS.
DR. W. S. ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
WILSON, n. c.
Office in Drug Store on Tarboro St.
DR. ALBERT ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
WILSON, H.mz.
Office next door toth First Nations
Bank.
DR. E. K. WRIGHT,
Surgeon Dentist,
WILSON, N. C.
Having permanently lcated in Wil
son, Joffer my professional services to
the public.
Office in Central Hotel Building.
I DK. k. w. joyner,
DENTAL SURGEON.
WILSON, N. C.
I have become nermanrarlv identi
fied with the people of Wilson ; have
pracucea nere ior the past ten years
and wish to return thanlrc ihu
ous people of the community for the
"ucrai paironage iney nave given we
Hf"I spare no money to procure in
struments that will conduce to the com
fort of my patients. For a continuation
of the liberal patronage heretofore
bestowed on me I shall feel 1 deeply
grateful.
Subscribe for
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H. W. WHARTON, Editor.
8-6-2t.
The Finest
IN WILSON.
That is the verdict placed upon the
turn-outs in my Livery Stables, after an
examination. They are
FOR HIRE,
By the day or hour to responsible par
ties at reasonable rates. Strangers in
town are especially looked after and
given good teams. '
YOU HIRE THE TEAM,
I DO THE REST.
Very respectfully,
5-2i-3m. W. J. BULLOCK.
T T NIVERSITY OF NORTH
U CAROLINA.
The next term begins September 3rd.
Entrance Ezaminations, Sept. 2nd.
Tuition $30 per term. Needy young
men of talent and character will be
aided with scholarships and loans.
Besides the general courses of study,
which oflers,a wide range of elective
studies, there are courses in Law,
Medicine and Engineering. For Cata
logue etc., address the President,
GEO. T. WINSTON,
Chapel Hill, N. C.
MRS. ADAMS1
School,
WILL OPEN SEPT. 7, 1891.
8-2031.
W
ILSON MALE ACAD
EMY. The Fall Term of the Wilson Male
Academy will begin on Monday, Au
gust 31st, 1891. For particulars apply
to W. H. WILLS, Aft.,
8-20-tf. Principal.
Ellis iWips.
We have bought out the
horse business of John Selby
may be found at his old stand,
adjoining Bob Wyatt's tin
shop, where we will be pleas
ed to see his friends as well as
ours and serve them.
Mules & Horses
for sale or trade. We are
better prepared than ever to
serve you. Call and see us.
ELLIS & WIGGINS,
Wilson, N. C.
5-2i-3m.
DEALER IN
Richmond, Va.
9-3-3m-
S. H. HAWES.
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