North Carolina Newspapers

1 fr IttttHMKLifc HALL & SLIDEqS-E, i'i:oii:i K'i' nts. VOL. XIV. .A. 1TE WSPAPEE FOB THE PEOPLE. TEBMS--'"1' '' ANN l M IN ADVANCK. AVKLDON, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 18S5. NO. ' ' A DV F.UT1SKM F.NTS. COFFINS. Metallic Cses, ip ft Coffins; AM. SI.KS, ALL STYLUS AT LOW Pit ICES. Orders by ma ly ir liy telegraph n- iii t - A goml assortment of each k i 1 always oh baud aitil purchasers call select tu suit themselves. k. a. (ttiiiiki.l. W.ldiui, N.C. $ MONEY MADE! $ AUdn." SOUTHERN BIVOUAC," B. F. Avery & Sons, Louisville, Ky. T 1 1 K N KV SU 1 T I ! K 1 1 X M A( i A . I N K. 'I'll is irumu.iltO cm tUllllC lllllllMl'K IIH I' Mi'lltlltTII lillOftl .'L t.M-ii-iilu- st.irv-w n mv Ukim' t'ltii 111 II, inilial hiinJui I'll IU tU ltl. n't;iii iiuuli'rs. iiiul i Uhiik inor : ii.-im; mie 1 tit' llnttle of KianMiii r It. V. Sutith'i-, Isrvivilinnly uraplin a iinjH.riutit haillcs ot ilii li eiii'rn uiu-ol tiriH-M art Hini i iciicnii Sri.lh hi il ullC nf tlir lll'M It in HrcMiimiii' i I'Tlie , li. lli'Ml Mc - i i- i nil -I in n jym nil d in 1 he three color tlx l i-l. jhL li hlue. anil ilit- I'niilt I. ii'ic hi nl. A l VVot Point Id . i. tin- War, liy i.eneml J. M Wright, ili-si riU-B (In- yntuhnil i harui l iilii : ol Until V of the mrii wlm Inn i' Minv lu'i iiiiic laninll It t" dill uf niliTi-l. imil w ill lie wi.h-k it n.l. A Ki il-limik'il Kitmily. is mi iitirm hw niililnoi patter I iv Mauricc'l hiiiitii. A winter Kuni, hy Mitjur Win. I.i I, ttwritu" n fiiiiiiitiiii In fciiht 'lVliiii NHi.t: that li:i(t ht t'li Kinti ( m U'di ralt1 Wur Fniiu'. 1 y I'.iul II Mimic, cin tjiins hirt skt ti'lu-K ul tin- hh1 irniiiiii iit w ritci nl'ttn' Stiiith, w Itli iK'tMiiutl iiii'iili'i.i- on. I cniical tilwi'rviUiiirm uhit li tin niiH'li t" illii-tnilf tlir wur htkmI anil wliirli n'l'l lurs;t ly U liw indTi-l ul'thc hlirriiiK wir lyric tlmlniv it'itriHlutnl in the ar ticle Wil.l l.ifo In he ScM-titics l.y Will Wallmc llnnicr, ii H stury uf iihuioT lid in Kluriiln. 'lie churiicliTH arclrllllK, ami Hit: liinlcit' ImUitnliy given. flic KtiIk-uf ticlicnil Ji'hti 11. Miiirnii, i- It. flrt ill a Hcrlesof iMiit-rs !y Chief Jn-licc linn iU riili vc uf the nnliNiy i thiimUs in ttie tn wckt in lv '..ntl In.i. Ine c-.cu' trmn ttie t'hi M'iiitciitmry uftiviicnil MiTumi ami miihc ! hi cionntilt. un ciiiM'ili' ul r iiiiiiiilic inti n-t, v.t iilaiint'tl hy t a.tain Him ami cur net I it iinihr liiN IHTMiiml ilirci lh'ti. After t ii if he ntnl t'ii.niin t lotleliitui were iksIhiic'I I'ltlUlj in tin' .ullliWM, Hint their e("-Hence mil lie I'uiUitully lot-ri i !. The CM tqie uj tu'titTiil Mxruan M a,i nit-rely the icv linic tiv hat fellinveil. li is wife In wiv llnil im wur iitit'rn will excite iimru .caer iiiU rot (linn llie-e hy Jinl'f IIiih-h. I'hc itclry tif tin1 iiiiinhcr U cnntrilnilcit hy Mar rtiM'ii iintl ti!.M lt.,nniiih fully up to the iihikhiiiic kt a n In 1 11 ".-HlniHifiiinli" inact.llct liuiiof tni'i bUaiOBUini rhHrHctemttctciicit. 1885. Til K I'HUiAhKMMItA TIMK8 Aium ttt itvir the wlmlc Itchl of pniirri'fsivf Juur iifllixiu. Noaiihjcct it- ttHi tcn-iit fr ittn dim-us in l IliKilillv iintl illinut hius, Hint tn 'tic mi iiisKni hi miiI mh in ttH'NiN its inillcf. I. I'lvtt the tturhl lnl.utnr loll wniu. nml evcrywhtn tl audit. U f..uinl. nlt-rl ! uather Hie pttrtn ill.us t.i .ii iUliii . in.l M-ti.l Hu tu l.v ti h iinii'h ui to llit- InhI nioiiit'HI tit tiiiiiiK In prow. Il ii- u hrii-t ntl nlinict chruuiclc ! the unit ami it.iHtiiiin MlitliHl la worlh liiii'Wiiitt in the history uf tliv wi.rhl for tin' tiwiuiy fniir houm. $1.00. T1IK WKKKLV TIMES $1.00AYEAB. The l.ai((tt (lie ItriKlitvot and the HorI. "THKWKKKl.Y T1MKH" In funtiingi tnmiK Die lanreit nu'l tx it of the Kmuilv nn Uciicrnl iicmh- .....n. i.nl.Mi.hi.il in 0 iiiitrv.mul II I now f- fcrvtl t" ninirle suhM-rlhcni ul tun- IhilUr n ymirMtiil hii elm iipv (tlvcn with every rluli til pi. Il I the iiMMt prn"irrcrtv)l"unuil of in oUmi. It Him li l U-the m-wnpui-Ti'Mlic (H.U- of ttm wh-ilc i rv iii iiiii-i ivirv liilt lliuetit unt III luiiriial- Uni, und bi iiiMkt it mi I'livNp lliat nil i-h Nlltinl Vu fill 'A ll weekly VlnllM. TIIKANNAlit (IK TUKWAIflrnvf Kill otic of the ilistniuuishiliK Icnture or "IHh WhKkl.l 'ii l hs." Hii.l it in mm imili Utl in lli"t feiilure y many of the lemlliiu Juurnal.i am) iK'rtmllt'Hh nf the t'ullUiry. I lie neiti Tilers rnnii un- m u inin. r-tii.t-nl'lhcurciil HtruirnU' nn lnth uhlin will mil iliiuc tht'lrciiiilrihuihiiiN tn C'u iinwrillcii tii!ury uflhfwnr in every tiuinticr, aim nuiKc un ipci HirfeiHlly eiilcrtalniir ami hmtructivu to tliti vet crmiumf both tliu Hltiu and Ihe lit-ay. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: THE WEEKLY TIMES" l mallnl. for OmIHllari.)'tr. vury oluu ui w win oe eu- THE TIMES, . Gin! '" Vv1' III d i"1 I '', ,tf T1MKS BUIL01KO, PHILA. Tin: i'OKts. (Hi! why ,-lintilil ihe sjiirii Di'iiinrial hopruHir.' Knox. I he li i-hle u ni. Ihe ;i si In tic in liis shriill.i Young. Tliywlf hut iliiM, thy stJilnrc hut n shul Prior. Eli'W in-i'iiiiirimt is nmriiil mini. Kirk Whitr, II mt fmliiii,' arc llie Joys w eilntc upnu. John Motrin, Wc iinikr ihe hi nvc t ur hi'il, nii'i llicntiri' (tunc. Illnh: Life's n lonu' irn-fctly . t his ululic Ihe ftnitc Watt. Ami llieiliciiius In ynulh arc Iml tluM in ace. J. Miltrr. Vlu n' s un cmiU'iittiiciil In h wnrM like this. Willi. Uchkihs ni eiij.iy hIutc piinccH dn mim. tlircm: Mini's ycstcnlny iihiy never be like Mm ninrrnw,- Sfaii.ft. l-'nr diiys nl'Juy ciiniit' wnt nifhlM nf Nurniw. fjimilcit. Think tmi inn nicmily (if thy Inw ckIuIu. 0. V. JIulHtr. Tliej alsiisirvc Him mily Hlninl uml wait. Milton. II ihr iiti'l liuuic i'luiii un ci'inlitioii rlw. rl: Tin; iiiiiu f.-rj;' ts ii-.t, tliMiili in nip lie lies. Akninio1!: Ami nil! liclii'M'iiic. liu lnivc klii.M li il hot. Motttttn. in liiuilnls to ciiIiiiiiiiimI siiccchh. AihUson. niimit kiinw what ye have never Iricil. Wulurr. What hilt - ilii'i-e tluit man inihl needs nhhlt Sh'thanorc, is l.nl iiet's-ity in plny. Htiifiif, 'n hich the K"ls must ) iclil ami u i1h''. FMrhrr. Muli't hut Ihe tny ul nn Uinuisciciit putter. Nfi;7. A schni.llM.y'jt Inlc, ihe wmnlcr ol'mt Imur. Myron. riisi lint al luiicli, fur l'uiir lln.ii hmi'st nil. Hrrbrrt. lie stulfMinin rim s on amilhcr'B fall. A. Itronr. Itut wihl aiiihiliait luvcato Hliile, imt nUiiii!. Ihyihn. i s uf it!, n.M-ciil arc cut in hiiiuI. Ii'ubi i t Minimum: Alt' fin. I, tiicxiii t in a Kh.ry mi vniii. llraltir. lit lie uf life's rtciuily saii limy remain. lluriiM. Ilntim s (lie tlarlinu ii hut i'nc sliui t day. Sir 11. Walton. ht- liishii'ii lift his .rid ui.ssci!i a way. rith: Wh) i.n iicli MitnU tl.t y ciirii.N tt uiilcs rear. Siyountry. acriil liurili ii in tu- life ye leiir I'rouriit Kimlmll. The j-imh! Ih'KUU hy thci slni'l mitt mil linn - L Wtlt o.,: fall- Ih.' lire, si, lie II, si shall tlmil.- Dunn. 1 -ul li i. the I' ul tthcri' all inn) refuse Hint. Slrtiiuy. iit in ii il, uiiiii.iltst. .1, unci -iiliucil. tbhuitllt. KX(UNKEU'SST01tY. Cll.Mll.Es K. Ill llli IX "llll(ll) I'llKKH. Itailrimil nu n, laki n as n wliolu, arc ratluT a iiialtcr-oi'-f'a.-t mirt of pnoiilc. That run lianlly lio Buii.li ivil lit Iiowi'V.t, t'ur tlii-rt1 is tii jiriilV.inii in the whole caial'iuo w ulttily anil tliiirouglilj r.uil. There in no ruiuanee about it. Wliile the stai;e-ilrivers nl' the (lays ol' our father. were the ;allK'rs-ui unit Imlilrrs ol inulerial which would have sutlieeil the re- uirciueii!s ol' half u dozen novelists, every tiling ubiiut the life of the ruilroail man ol the present day is as hard and unrouitintie ns iron and steel can make it. To Ih? sure, there are sometime excep tions till rules have tliem anil one conies to uie just now. A little mure thuu a year aj;o I found myself -on an express train oil ono nf the leading railroads of New Kii"l.uul. The suiieriiiteudeiit was an old friend of mine, and us luek would have it he was on board. Naturally we fell into conversation. During our talk I expressed my rejiret at not belli!; able to see more of the delightful soeuery through which we were passing. How would you like to lido upon the engine?" asked the superintendent, with a smile, as if ho thought that that was the lust thing 1 would cure to do. "Abovo all thinirs," I replied. "I've always wanted a chance to do that." "Keally?" said ho. "Then you shall try it. ( shall roach t ill ten miuutes, and I'll put you on the engine when wc stop." nd lie did. The caginocr seemed good enough sort of fellow, but for the first doten utiles he didn't sccin inclined to talk. After a time lie grew more com municativc, and enlightened me in regard to a good many things about railroading which I never know before. "Do you see," said he suddenly, point ing with ono hand, while the other grasped thl lever, "dn you see that bend in the road yonder? There is a clump ol trees this side, and thirty rods or so be yond it the turnpike crosses the track. Wait till we've gut past, and I'll tell yon t stoiy that perhaps you'll remember, shall, (ill the laU-st day of my life." There was no station at the place pointed out; not even platform;, but the train Blackened its sKied as wo reached it, and came almost to a stand still at the crossing a curious thing for an ezpruas to do in so uninhabited looking a locality. In another minute we were regaining our I lost speed. "I suppose it's all foolishness," said the engineer, "but I can't help it. I couldn't keep up speed over that crossing if you were to give me 81,000. It's the 'only spot on the whole line that makes mc feel nervous, and there's good reasons for it." " Von promised to tell me when we got past," said I. "Was it an accident?" "No you could hardly call it an acci dent; but then it was the nearest to one that ever happened. If it Inul been an accident I'd have thrown myself under the wheels of the next train. As it was, I wasn't fit for work for three weeks, and then I hail to go on another part of the line." "Vou see, when an engineer runs over the same road, day in and day out, for half a dozen years, he gets tu know things so well that ut times he is naturally a bit careless. I had run fur four years on the noun express the saruo train we arc on now and there wasn't a foot of tho six ty miles I didn't know as well as my father's dooryard. One afternoon I re membered it belter than any other after noun in my whole life I was spinning along the road on this very engine a mile or two back from the crossing we just passed. It was the hitter part of .Septem ber, and the leaves were just beginning to turn. I don't know how it happcucd, but while I was looking at the woods and or chards as wc rushed past them, I sort of lost myself. I forijot all about where 1 was, and was thinking how beautiful it must look up country where I was born, and about old times when I was n boy, Ioii"; enough befure I ever saw an engine. It couldn't have been more than a min ute ur two, but then a great deal can hap pen on a railroad in that time. "All at ouce I heard a shout, or ruther a scream. J t brought mo to mysell in an instant. We were just coming on the curve, ttiglit ahead, tearing down the turnpike toward the track, was a woman swinging her arms and shouting at the top ot tier voice. 1 lelt that something was the matter, and in a twinkling I had my my engine reversed, and whistled down brakes. I had been making up lost time, and wo wore going ut such a fearful rate of speed, I was afraid it was of no use. lust then wc rounded the clump of trees, and I took the w hole thing in at once. liight in the center of the track not more than a dozen rods ahead stuod a baby carriage, and in it us true as I'm telling you a baby I It was wide awake, I could see that, and it smiled as we came down upon it, as if it thought the engine was sonic great plaything. I had no time to guess how it cniiic there no time for anything. My brain was ill u whirl. knew wc must strike it, but I Could no more stir than that lever could move of itself. 1 just shut in v eyes and waited. It was all over ill half a minute. The train was slowing up rapidly, but I felt it strike the little carriage, and almost fan cied I could hear it being crushed under the wheels. Then we came to a stop, I didn't know how long I should have stood there dreading to open my eyes if it hadn't biTii for my uTcinau. 4 tie a man. will you?' said lie, giving mo a rough shake. His nerves were stronger than mine, but his hands and voice trem bled, for all that." I gave a ipiick glance in front of the engine, dreading to see what I was sure 1 should see, but I know you'll hardly believe mo there was the little curriugi the baby sitting straight up in it, gmilinu. just the same as a minute before. Vou v, the cow-catcher hud struck it luirly bt twecu the whirls, and iustcud of crush iug it, had pushed it along in front just us if it had been a part of the train. Hi lore I could get out of the cab, the uiuthcr had reached the spot. I never saw such streie'lli in a woman, she snatched the carriage off the track, ran with it up the buuk, took out the baby sal oil the grass, aud then fainted dead away. Her husband and a dozen neigh bors were there a minute later, aud as no one was hurt, and none of us could do any particular good, wc weut back to (lie train. started up again, and got iu only eight minutes behind time. As I told you, it was the last trip I made for weeks, and I can never pass that spot to this day with out the old feeling coining over mo. siiimj vvi: n i m Tin: i.akjii "lte sure nn.l come up at the key of (, darling !" wrote a young lady in postsciipt to her lover. "Key of ti !" exclaimed the gentleman: "what on earth docs that incan?" L'hi'V ul (If W hv. that means 'one sharp,' " answered the musical room-mate, "Now, I must not exhibit my ignor ance," leplied the young lover. "I'll pay her buck in her own musical language, but the duce of it is I don't know a musical note frniu a chicken track." "Write and tell her that the key of F will be there," said his friend. lie did so, and now he wants tu know why she lauuhs every time "one flat o iiues up the garden walk. Saih in a Ci.otiiiN(1 Stork. "Tin matter is that the rotten thing is full of moths, you miserable " " 'Mots,' do you say," indignantly in terrupted tho dealer. "Mots I Vat do you egspect to viod in 87 overgoat ? Humming pirds ?" The Jmle. SAVING! LAMAR'S 1.1 FK. The Secret of Nenatnr ltansnni'M Pow er Over the Mccrctury of the Interior. WiiKhinglmi noecliil III (.'In, Coin. (iiiKrllc.) Three Southern "kunnels," one from Mississippi and two from Xorih Curolinu, sat in flout uf a noted hotel here, hugging the scant shade of a blistering morning. A malevolent and vindictive thermometer hung near by upon the casing of a door, tu the tube the mercury hud mounted slowly and mercilessly up to the figures "01" and hung poised (here in malicious triumph, pausing fur another climb toward the "100" goal is reached an hour later. The kunnels looked full of misery and uloric. They sat mid steamed and sweat and mopped and swore. Their undershirts were hitched up in warm, moist rolls across their backs and, with wet, hot collarsi they pulled at cigar stumps or ground their teeth savagely on liberal boluses of navy plug and spit accurately at tho flies on the pavement. They looked mud, niis- rable and murderous, tireat goddlcmity, did you ever sec anything like this?" jerked out one of them. 'It beats !" remarked a second. 'S'help me Satan," rejoined tho third, I never got such a deal as this. My shoes lire full of sweat. Something must have bust looso in the celestial economy. I wonder if there lias been a change of administration up there and aro some se raphic Mugwumps trying to run the mu- hiue." 1 could run things a good denl better if I hud charge," said one of the first ipeakers. "I'd havo breezes without yclones, and showers without floods, uud wives without women, and I wouldn't have it too warm iu summer or too cold in winter, and I wouldn't have a man bald headed when he needs huir or sheds his teeth when he gets old and needs them most. I'd have whiskey cooling in sum mer ns well as wanning in winter, uud I'd make whiskey aud tobacco necessary to sustain life instead of such silly aud vapid thiiiL'S as bread, meat and water. And I'd Hello, there goes Lauiur." "Yes," said another, "thero goes his body. Wonder where his mind is? Lamar was passing slowly upon the op posite side of the street. A strange-look ing figure. A cotton sun umbrella under his arm, his hands clasped hebiiid him hitching up in their grip ono skirt of his long-tailed frock coat. A soft felt hat his head hind side iu front, his hair flowing lown upon his coat collur mid his cy bent upon the ground. The bottom of one trouser leg was rolled up, probably u re miniscence of the shower a few day iiro. "Queer old party, ain't be?" said one. "Yes," remarked the Mississippian, "but you bet he's a white man and just as smart is any of them. I wonder what gives old man Hansom such a grip on him," said a North Caroli nian. "He seems to get anything he wants anil Vance does not stand any show. Hauwnn can fix up anything in five mill utes with him, but he'll promise Vanei and then forget all about it. Vance h;u to "Ct Hansoiii to help him. 1 wonder what is the bulge Ransom has on Lamar.' I'll tell you," said the Mississippian bending over and drawing his lorehnger, noint downward, across his forehead and giving it a flirt to throw off ths perspira lion. "He saved Lamnr's life once right lown thero in the enpitol." "Tell it to us, if it ain't too long. Whc jimminy gosh, ain't red hot," growled North Carolinian. It was in the forty-fourth congress," began the Mississippi man, hitching up his pantaloons at the kuees, bunging an un lucky shad fly ten feet away with a straw hut. "Lunar was in the house. He had just finished his great speech favoring thi electoral commisssion and gone into the cloak ns to brace up: Hansom came over and met Lamar in the cloak room and congratulated him upon his great ef fort. Old Beverly Douglass was in the house from Virginia then though he's gone tu warmer place since and he hud been filling up his tank pretty lively. He got on the warpath about Ijnuar's speech. He declared that Ianiur was double-dyed traitor to the South and the lost cause, and wore he would take his life. He went charging around after Lamar and broke into the cloak rnotu just as Hansom was shaking hands with him. He out with big revolver and cursing liuuir for a trai tor lit only for deaih drew a bend on liiui. li-imiir was taken by surprise and hud no chance to get his gun out. Hansom sprung on Douglass (browing up his pistol arm and wrenching away the revolver, while old Hev's finger was on the trigger, was all done ouick as a flash. "It was a narrow escape for Lunar, and h,- bus never forgotten it, and Hansom cun d i about as he pleases with him. Old Hcv got sobered off ill a day or two and wrote an apology to Imuiar, but just the he would have killed him, sure as shoolin; if it hadn't been for Hansom." The Tennessee mother, who doom' allow "slack." enough in i boy's panU to last him two growing years, is rated u woman of no calculation. THE A. O. U. W. HOW AN ENHINEKtt HAS HNITEll NEARLY 150,000 WOHKINliMEN, From Ihr Situ Franrim-n t'linntii'tr. On tho Cth of April last a resolution was passed hy the California (irand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Work men inviting Vast Supreme Muster Workman llpchurch to visit San Fran cisco. As is very generally Known at this time. llpchurch, or "Father l'p ehurch," us he is generally called, is (he founder of the order. The order is an cient only in name, or ruther only so far as it refers to the existence of workmen, and that goes back to the expulsion from aradisc. The principles uf the order arc embodied in onu word charity. It is simply an organization of workmen, of workers, of laborers of high and low de cree, banded together for the purposes of rendering assistance to sick members, burying the dead brother, aud supplying the needs of the widow and the orphan. It is, iu fact, a great beneficiary organiza tion. Commencing on Oct. it, lbCo, with seven members, it now counts with in its ranks 145,934 workmen, making it the second largest fraternity iu the United States. To that prodigious total Cali fornia contributes no fewer than 10.808 members, surpassing Pennsylvania, Illi nois, and Missouri, and being only ex ceeded by New Yurk, which has 20,140 on its lodge rolls. Not only by common consent, but also by the official declaiation of the Supreme .edge of 1S83, John J. I'pchuich rec ognized as the "Father" and founder of tho Ancient Order of Tinted Workmen. He was born Maich 26, 1820, in Frank lin county, N. C His mother was the daughter of tho Hon. Henry Hill of Frauklin county. Cpchurch's father was a farmer, but in October, 1824, he was hot and killed over a land trouble. After this the fann was lost, and in order to support herself and. children, tho mother wu8 compelled to ply the needle for a livelihood. Helief was finally afforded the struggling mother by the grandfather taking the children to live with him. The school facilities were very meager ill those days uud tho youngster's schooldays were few and fur betweeu. Iu the meantime, his mother, having bought a small farm he went to live with her, but upon her second marriage he determined to strike out for himself I'pon leaving he went to learn the mill- writs' trade, but being iu poor health he was cumpelled to give it up. He then went tu learn carpentering, but this also was too hard for his physical powers. Next he served as a clerk iu a sture in ihe village uf Henderson, remaining until June, 1841. TemiHfr.incc hud its advuut iges in these times, and I'pchurch associated himself with the movement, joined the Washing ton Temperance Society, and tried to run a hotel on these principles iu Halcigh Hut after two years' effort he had to suc cumb, the time nor place being ritic U such a business. He next procured a situation in the liops of the Raleigh uud t la-ton Railroad, where he remained until 18-15, and was theu sent out as engineer, and being about three years ou the ruad and in the shops he received the appointment of muster mechanic which ho held for thirteen years. It was here his mind became fully im pressed with the importance of un organ ization being established for the purpose of uniting the two great interests uf capi tal and labor, and he went to work to ar range his thoughts into some tangible form. On the 1st of February, 18CG, he re ceived the uppoiiitmeiit of master me chanic of the Alabama and Florida Hail road, with headquarters ut Montgomery. Ala., but it was while employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Atlantic and Great AVestern Railroad at Meadville Pa., that he found an opportunity of in troducing the work which had given him so much thought. While filling his various positions he saw many respects in which the life of the mechanic might be improved. He had iu view first, principally, the idea uf briu ing employer and employee together in a fraternal organization for a better mutual understanding and the prevention of strikes; and secondarily the education elevation, and iraterniziug ot the masses and a proper provision for the future of their families. This was iu April, 1808. All know that the Order has so far out grown its original scope mat the sec ondary idea aforementioned has become the primary one, and the Order, instead of being confined to mechanics, embraces all classed of society, even to the highest officials in the laud. As to tie remind,- of the story it may best bo given iu his own words On Oct. 27, 1803, at Meadv'.lle, Pa Jefferson lslgo No. 1, Ancient Order Cnited Workmen, was instituted, with fourteen members. On the morning of the 28th a number of tho fourteen de manded that tho words "white male" be stricken from tho constitution. I por- sistently refused to do o, and tho Re corder refunded to every man his entrance fee, lean assure you that the future looked dark, but I was determined to do my duty. On Nov. 3, the second meet ing night, seven of the fourteen cnmo for ward and paid their entrance fee for the second time. That evening wc took in two new members. We went to work with renwed energy uud determination to try und build up Ihe infant order. When we were nine months old we hud twenty mem bers. I'pchurch was transferred from Mead ville to Lcavillsburg, Ohio, to take charge of the shop for (he company, where he remained three years, and then went back (o Meadville. Iu 1873 he removed to Missouri, where he was for three yeats master mechanic ol the St. Louis, haleui uud Little Hoik Railroad. rpehtirth is ut present living ut Sedu- liu, Mo. His family consists of six chil dren, the two youngest not being yet old enough to take care of themselves, their ,'os being 10 uud 15. His eldest son, . F. I'pchurch, is n machinist, and was one of the original seveu who constituted the first lodge. Brother I'pchurch still works at his trade when his health will allow. That, however, is not often. I'pchurch is in fact, ft poor man, und no longer ugo than 1881 the founder of the order which has paid out millions was in such reduced cir cumstances that a contribution of ten cents per member was luadc by every workman for his relief. California contributed some 8300, and every lodge seut its quota with willingness and love. Ill: HISBAXIVS COMMAMl- M i:ts. 1. I am thy husband, whom (hou didst vow to love, honor and obey; for I suved you from old maidism und the terror of single blessedness. 2. Thou shall not look upon any other man, to love or admire him, fur I am a icalous husbuud. I. Theu shall not speak lightly of thy husband, nor expose his faults to thy neighbors, lest he should hear of it and punish thee by u deprivation of Sunday items, such as bonnets, dresses, etc. 4. Thou shult buy cigars for thy hus band ruther than ribbons for thy self. 5. Thou shult nut go to the opera or evening parties without thy husband, nor dunce too frequently. 0. Thou shult not rifle thy husband's lockets when he is asleep. 7. Thou shult conccul noihiiig from thy husband. 8. Thou shult nut make falso represen tation of the state of thy pantry, purse or thy wardiobe. 11. Ketiieinber to rise curly iu the morn ing and welcome your husband with a good breakfast. 111. Look not for jewelry from thy hus band, lor it is said: blessed are they who xpect nothing, for they shall not be ills itppointcd. THE wiee's CUMMANIIMES'TH. 1. Thou shall have no other wife but uie. 2.' Thou shult not take unto thy house any beautiful, hruzcu image to bow down tn Iter, nor sei ve her, for 1 am a jealous wife. 3. Thou shall not take the name of thy wife iu vain. 4. Remember to keep her respectably. 5. Honor thy wife's father mid mother, ti. Thou shult not scold. 7. Thou shult not find, fault with thy dinners. 8. Thou shult rock tho cradle iu my absence, and prepare the tea for my re turn. !). Thou shult not be bchiud thy neigh bors. 10. Thou shult not visit the rum tavern; thou shall not covet the tavern-keeper's rum, nor his brandy, nor his gin, nor his whisky, nor his wine, nor anything that is bchiud the bar of the rum seller. 11. Thou shult not visit tho billiard saloon, neither for worshipping iu the dance, nor the heaps of money that lay on the table. 12. Thou shalt not stay out later than III at uight. AN ANCIKNT M A It It I AG K When a marriage between patrician familios was celebrated in ancient Home, loaf of bread, made of wheat and barley, was solemnly tasted by tho bride and biidegroom before tho priest of Jove and ten Roman citizens as witnesses. Children of marriages in which this ceremony was observed were entitled to certain privileges and omccs, for this was the highest and most sacred rito of marriage. Dainty and sweet as it is, the biide-cake is the modern representation of that wheat and hurley bread. Whence the Kouiana derived the custom is not known, but it came no doubt from Asia. Dreaming upon wedding-cakes is an old English custom. In Greece the bride rode to her husband's house in litter, seated between the bridegroom aud his friend the best man. In Home two boys led tho bride, but his attendant was a married woman, whoso duty it was to lead the newly married pair to the altar of the gods. In the timo of the Auglo Saxonp the bride was led hy a matron, and followed by i company of young girls, who were called bridesmaids. From them the I custom has descended to us. V ( IIAI'TKH IC IIOCSl'.HOI.ll J MINT'S. Iloti't stand when you well. can sit just as II. I put off the mending from week to week. 1 1, hi t yoii know th.it vinegar wi the iin,;l.is-i in the stove door? "Doii'i you know your floor oil can be washed ill hnltcnuilk or ill chilli l-lollis kero- seuo ? Hon't hesitale to place a piece ol zinc ou the live coals iu the slove; it will clean out the stove pipe. Don't throw away nice woolen stockings when (he feet are worn out, hut rut lln-m down for the children. Don't fail to be clean un tidy in every nook und curner, but don't bo a slave to a shining stove or carpet. Don't di unnecessary wotk because your grandmother did. There was not hall' so much to bo dono in her day. Don't cherish the idea that you will catch cold if you feel a bit of fresh air, or know there is an outlet for heated impure air. Don't throw away old suspender rings, but sew them to the corners of kitchen holders, serving a better purpose (hull loops to hung by. Don't flirt dirt from one piece of fur niture to another und call it dusting, but take it up carefully in u dusting cloth and shako it from the window. Don't suy "uiicky" for milk, "ridey" for ride; baby will understand "hand niuuia your little dress" as rcdily as if you said "bring his little dress to mama." Dou't talk servants or family mutters to cullers, uud dou't tell them the exact date of their last cull. They will bo likely to tuuko the interval longer tho next time. Dou't you wuut to know that rose bugs can be destroyed by adding three or four spoonfuls of kerosene to a watering pot of water, if used fccly when the bug up peurs ? Dou't fail, iu conversation, to occasion ally pause uud give tho listener an oppor tunity to speak, and don't mistake polite listening, prolonged, for interest iu your subject, Dou't lose a moment of the day, finish ono piece of sewing before commencing another; don't fail so tu plan the work that several things may be attended to at the same time. Dou't fuil to rest yourself during lung day's sewing by changing your scat occa sionally, and in waim weather don't fail to remember that washing the face and hands will bo found very refreshing 1 loti't sit over tho stove, with 1'ect in the oven, complaining of beiug cold, but dress warmly and take a brisk wulk the opeii air, when you will think the fire bus taken a fresh start, or the weather has abated. .SVieoi J llfaiu-hnnl, t (JitOtl lttilllukt'1'llintJ. AN' I lll lOlt Kdili; A ItKONt llll. A broncho is a horse. Ho has four ;s like tho saw horse, but is decidedly nioru skittish. 1 lie liroticho is ol a gentle deportment and modest mien, but there isn't a real safe place about him. There is nothing mean about the broncho, though he is perfectly reasonable aud acts on prin ciple. All he asks is to be let alone, hut lie docs ask tins, uud even insists upon It He is firm in this mutter, and no kind ot argument can shako Ins determination. Tln-re is a broncho that lives out some miles from this city. We know him right well. tine day a man roped him aud tried to put a saddle on him. The broncho looked saillv ut him. shook bis bead, and begged the fellow as plain as could be to go away and not try to iutcrfcre with a broncho who was simply engaged in I lie pursuit ol his own happiness, but the man came on with the saddle and continued to aggress. Then the broncho reached out with his right hind foot and expostulated with him so that he died. lien thoroughly aroused the broncho is quite fatal, and if you can get close enough to him to exumitie his cranial structure you will find a cavity just above the eye, where the bump of re morse should lie. The broncho is what the cow-boys call high strung." If you want to know just how high he is strung, climb up on to his apex. We rode a broncho once. We diiln t travel lar, tun tne rule was mighty exhilarating whilo it lusted. Wo got on with great iuip and derrick, hut we didn't put ou any unnecessary style when wc went to get on. 1 In lieast evinced con siderable surpiim) when we took up our location itiHin his dorsal tin. Ho sccnicd tn think a moment, and then he gathered up his loins and delivered a volley of heeli and hardware straight out from the shoul der. Tho recoil was fearful. Wo Raw that our seat was going to be contested, and we began to make a motion tu dis mount but the beast had got under way hy this time, so we breathed a silent hymo and lightened our urip. He now went off into a spasm of tall, stiff-logged bucks, lie pitched us so high that every time wo started down we would meet him coining up on another trip. Finally he gave ua oih) grand farewell boost, and we clove tht firmament and split up through Ihe hushed etheral until our toes ached from the lown w of the temperature, and we could distinctly hear the music of the spheres. Then we came down and fell in a little heap about one hundred yards from the starting point. A kind Samaritan gathered up our remains in a cigar-box and carried us to tile hos pital. As they looked pityingly at us, tho attending surgeons marveled as to the nature of our mishap. One said it was a cyclone, another aaid it waa railroad smash-up; but wo thought of the calico hided ponT that was grazing noacefullv in I the dewy mead and held our peace. Santo Fee (N. M.) Democrat, A l)V I'.IiTISK.MKNTS. n UNI. rn: LARGEST STOCK THIS SIDE OF BALTIMORE 5110 dozen 2 and 3 hoops? buckets. 50 Nests tubs. 100 dozen wash boards. The jiest patent churn in the market. Old style cedar churns. Stone churns. Stone jars of all sizes ond jugs. The celebrated Patent Fire Proof Bot tom Half gallon tin buckets 75 ct., per dozen, Oil tank with pump, Tin toilet sets at 1.75 per set, Iron stone chamber sets, I'uper and paper bugs, Mutches, &e., Fruit jars, Toilet soaps, Bird cuges, FluurgciveH, Lard stands, itc. L. IIKHRING, C Bank St. Petersburg, Va. aug 28 ly iwWEICaTSMAS LIVERS EMdthjr lotion to th L1t idnlimaUbll, talr Vijium , tiijtif . Mm Ut. All Prujiuu dee ls-ly COlWI rtlWt'" l"vm'"1 Klveu awiiy. Kend tSM,VU.I un . 1-,-iits mi.UiKe, and ly mail you will ai I (lei H iackiiie ul kimkU of Urge value, IIihi will hliirl yull oi yi.rk Hull H ill al mice bring you in iiioiii-y insu-r limn itiitlilns elae In Aruvrl-i-u. All iiIhiiiI the I'.") 111 1UWM.-U1 Willi Uttl-tl bus. Audits w-iniu-il eyi-rj w lii-re.iil ellber sea, of ultiiKi's, lur nil Uie tune ur-ilmre nine only, to work fur Ubiu tlii-ir own Imuiea. rorliiut-a fur .01 wurk-enalHuiliiu-l-asnunil. Ilun'l delay. H. UALLkTT & Co., l'urllaiid Maine. fcb-t-lv PROFESSIONAL. CARDS. w. ii. kii. ii i , w, a. livnn. COUNTY ATTOBNKY, Y I T C II I N & Il It N N , ATTOKXEYS AT LAW, Kl'oTLASlI NECK, N. C. mar l.itf F. II. BIMU K, B. H. SMITH Jr. R.ll.iaoil . N C. StOTLANbsneK, K. 0. B V H B 10 K & S M I T II . Mr K 11 l.nsheo ainl Mr. K II. Smith. Jr Cnuti Helnrx at Iriiw. kav formed R limited purtmrnhip fur the priiclice of law in Halifax county. Mr. ItiWtt-e will atU'tid themurU of Halifti,n'fulilf , and will aiiMi vUilUiu county wheiutvcr hhnerTict'i arc rvijuinti. M-tKly Hl'SIA8 N. HILL, Attorney at Law. HALIFAX, N.C. Praetlcf tu llaliitx and sdJuiuinKCouiitiei and Federal and Supreme court. aug. 26 tr. T w. mason, Attorney at Taw, UARYRBI UU, K.C. rractlrrt In the rnnrtt of Northampton ttff ad- hilninif cuunUe, ahto in the KtUeJal aud isurr ui court. June i if. W ALTER IL D A N 1 K L, Attorney at Law, WH1.LK.)N, N. C. I'ractlce In Halifax and adjoining comiUei, Kiiecial alU'iitimi niven to collectlona iu all parti of Uie Statu uud pruiupl rulunw uuule. icu it ty. HALL, Attorney at Law, WEl.DON, N. C. Special atu-ntinn given to collections and molt taiicca promptly made. may 1 tf. M ULLKN MOORK, Attorney! at law, HALIFAX, N.C. lYactlce In tha rounttcaof Halifax. Northampton KMii-vcomlie. I1U and Martin In the Hunreiue wurl of the Stale ami in the Fittcral t otirta of the Kantrra District. I'olU-clloiu madu in ill) part of lb suite Jan I ly JK. J. K. SHIELDS, Burgeon DeutlvU Havlnjr pcminnrntly lot-ated In Weld!, ran he ftmndat hlaiimt tnHmith a Rrtck Ruthllng at all Mm exii when Ntwent on nrolVnatonal bualuea.. Careful attention iciveti to all hmnchea of the pro htwiou. fartiea v haled at their hooiea when da tired. July 1-J ty- D R. X. L. HUNTER, Burgeon Dcutlet. Can be round at hia offloe in KuncM. Ihirc Nltroua Oxide (tea rot the PeJttteM EUtne Una- or Teeth always ou haud. , juue XI tf tT f TlT mora money than at anvil f 111 taking an aireiic for the bonk out. Bqtiunflrt Mimaulg andlr. Tarmi free. W .i.ltfTS Wv P"")- ythln m- t y i 11 M'liltif None 1-uL 1-ttd Mat";.. I IJ. w P.. mi- m w