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fro, ,. ;
Heard maxims both foolish and wise,
And ever have found midst the high and
the low,
There were always two blanks to a prize.
A drum in a band always makes the most
sound.
And a hypocrite makes the most noise,
And in every profession the whole world
around,
There are twenty-five blanks to a prize.
With money to spend we have friends by
. the score,
To flatter us, fawn and advise,
But how soon we find, if we chance to be
poor,
There are sixty-five blanks to a prize.
If to settle a grievance to law we resort,
What quibbles and cavils arise,
But one thing is certain, in every court
There are ninety-five blanks to a prize.
There are other things, too, in a journey
through life, . .
Which the dullest may see if he tries.
But the risk is the greatest in choosing a
- wife,
There are ninety nine blanks to a prize.
POLITICAL. POINT.
7 Boston Globe says : The great
trouble is that this 'ere bill is nnconstitu
'shn'K " I have a bad habit," gays Mor
ton, "of saying what I think at the time."
Ah, yes; but you have a far worse habitof
very often not thinking what you say at the
time. Courier-Journal.
The New York Tribune of Mon
day publishes a long account of an inter
view with President Grant,1n which he an
nounced his belief that the time has now
arrived when an immediate resumption of
specie payments is possible.
The Electoral bill is now a law,
beyond the power of injury. Itwipesaway
for the present and for all time the mon
strous pretense that one man, and one man
.alone, has the right to decide beyond ap
peal whom the American people has chosen
President and Vice President, It thus
melts out of sight the leading pillars in the
Radical conspiracy. ' It secures the cer
tainty of a fair and satisfactory decision.
Neisark Journal.
PERSONAL.
jL Jules Verne has just beeD oacd
by a French author, who claims that the
V Journey to the Centre of the Earth" is a
plagiarism. ' '
A number of Roman Catholics
of Ottawa have decided to join the Amer
ican pilgramage to Rome, leaving New
York on the 15th of April.
Unless good people begin soon
to give more freely, many a poor wretch
will be deprived of his tobacco and whis
key before the winter is over. Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Jennie June tells us that Ben
nett's late fiancee is broken-hearted. We
supposed that Bennett's head and the anti
duelling laws of New York and Delaware
. were the only things broken in the whole
affair. Courier-Journal.
Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Wash
ington, is now 78 years old. He has spent
$200,000 on the Corcoran Gallery and the
ground on, which it stands, and $100,000
on the original collection of pictures and
statuary, and for an endowment fund he
has given $900,000.
Iglesias claims that he has a
right to count himself into the Mexican
presidency, because he was Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court, who legitimately
succeeds on the death of the President.
Iglesias,! however, deserted bis post on the
re-election of Lerdo, and organized a re
bellion in a neighboringState. ,
., The newcomer in the family of
Senator Christiahcy, of Michigan, gets the
following welcome from the Burlington
Uaickeye: '
.And if he is good boy
A Senator he'll be,
And follow in the footsteps of
The elder Christiancee;
And he'll go to Washington
And pull the countryhrough,
And he'll flirt about the Treasury
Like bis daddy used to do.
PALMETTO LEAVES.
Greenville county has already
paid in $2,000 of her quota of the taxes
called for by Gov. Hampton.
Mr. C. C. Smith was killed at
Cokesbury last Sunday afternoon, by his
horse falling in a gully by the roadside and
falling on him. r
Mr. W-W. Tarrant, Jr., a gal
lant soldier of the late Hampton jjegiuu,
and an esteemed citizen "of Greenville
county, died at his home near Grove Sta
tion, on Sunday last.
Lt. George Turner, Eighteenth
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custody ten soldiers under sentence of a
general court-martial. The prisoners are
en route to the military prison at Fort
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The Raleigh Observer.
ON THE" 16TH DAT i OF NOVEMBER, 1876,
and in the city of RALEIGH, the undersigned
The Observer,
a DAILY and WEEKLY Democratic newspaper.
Of long experience in their profession as editors,
respectively of the Fayetteville Observes and the
Wilmington JouBKAx they do not affect to doubt
the soundness of the general judgment which as
signs them ability to furnish a newspaper suited to
the needs and adapted to the tastes of the people of
North Carolina. Differing in ;politics in the olden
time, there was never a difference between the Ob
bxbvbb and the Journal in zeal for the interests
and honor of North Carolina. To promote the one,
and to uphold and add to the other will be the ob
ject of the Obbbrvbb nowj
Of very decided opinions on questions of public
interest, and apt to give those opinions plain ex
pression, they deem it the tret duty of a newspaper
to furnish its readers with the information necessa
ry to the formation of their opinions, to publish
all "the news;" and their purpose is to make Thi
Obsxhtbb now, as ef bid, a truthful, accurate, con
densed history of the times m which we live. It
was thus that "the old Obsxrvm" won ito hold up
on the people of North Carolina, enjoying the affec
tion of its party friends, receiving the respect and
confidence of Its bitterest political foes, and com
manding in Its comparatively isolated location a
circulation larger than has ever been attained By
any other North Carolina newspaper, and it 1 thus,
by like dignity and fairness that the editors of Thz
Obsievbe, transferred to the State Capital,-hope it
will deserve,' and soon equal, and then surpass, its
former circulation and prosperity. i
It will be their high aim to deserve the public con
fidence by earnest efforts to promote the public wel
fare, first and foremost of North Carolina, next of
all the Southern States, and anally, and through
these, of the whole Union. They think that this
can only be effected by the prevalence ef Democra
tic principles and the dismissal of the Radical party
from the places and power which they have so great
ly abused, and under whose baleful rule the South
has been outraged and the whole country has been
impoverished and disgcaced. ' -
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OVSTA R. K. COMPANY,
WILMINGTON;' N. C. Jan 8. ifc'.7
Change of Schedule.
ON AND AFTER WEDNESDAT, JAN. 3, THE
following Schedule will be run on this Road:
Day Express) and Mall Train (Dally
exeept Sunday)
Leave Wilmington J 112 :15 P. M.
Leave Florence 5:20 P. M.
Arrive at Columbia , 9:30 P. M.
Leave Columbia 7:40 A. M.
Leave Florence 12:30 P. M.
Arrive at Wilmington.... .... 5:20 P.M.
NIGHT EXPRESS TBAIM (Dally).
Leave Wilmington.... 8:05 P.M.
Leave Florence......... 1:00 A. M.
Arrive at Columbia..... 5:10 A. M
Arrive at Augusta, ,. 9:00 A. M.
LeaveAugusta,.... 4:30 P. M.
Leave Columbia 9:30 P. M.
Leave Florence 2:80 A. M.
Arrive at Wilmington. 7:25 A M.
Through Freight TralnKDally exeept
Sunday a.)
Leave Wilmington..-. 1:30 P. M.
Leave Florence 3:00 P. M.
Arrive at Columbia -. 10:10 A.M.
Leave Columbia ' 4:30 P. M.
Leave Florence... : 4:00 A. M.
Arrive at Wilmington.. 2:45 P. M.
Passengers for Augusta, and beyond should take
Night Express Train from Wilmington.
Through Sleeping Cars on night trains for Charles
ton and Augusta.
Parlor Car on Day Express and Mail for Charles
ton, i
JAMES ANDERSON,
jan 4-tf i Gen'l SuD't.
Wilmington & Weldoo
RAILROAD CO.
OmCB OV GlHL SUFE&lHTHNOXNr, ' I
Wilmington, N. C, Jan. 1, 1817. 1
j' ' i'
ON'AND AFTER WEDNESDAT , JANUARY 3,
1977, Passenger Trains on the Wilmington &
Weldon Railroad will run as follows :
- 1 : :
Day mall and Express Train. ,
Leave Wilmington, Front St Depot, at 7:45 A. M
Arrive at Goldsboro. 11:26 A. M.
Rocky Mount 1:20 P. M.
Weldon. ... 8:00 P.M.
Leave Weldon daily 12:23 P. M.
Arrive at Rocky Mount........... .2:03 P., M.
Goldsboro... i 8:68 P. M.
WilmingtonFroHtJSt. Depot, 7:53 P.M.
Night Mail and Express Train, Dally
except Sunday.
Leave Wilmington.... At 5:43 P. M.
Arrive at Goldsboro 10:15 P. M.
Rocky Mount.... . 18:80 A. M.
Weldon ........ 2:20 A. M.
Leave Weldon, daily,. 4:90 A. M.
Arrive at Rocky Mount 6:01 A. M.
Goldsboro. 8:00 A. M,
Wilmington... 12;00j M.
The Day Train makes close connection at Wel
!nJor appoints jiflvAflfflontf'f u&BZ
rail route. 1
Night train makes close connections at Weldon
for all points north via Richmond.
1 PULLMAN'S PALACE SLEEPING . CARS at
tached to all Night Trains, and run through from
Wilmington to MUford Station, en Richmond, Fre
dericksburg fc Potomac Railioad. ,
FREIGHT TRAINS will leave Wilmington tr!
weekly at 5:30 A. M., and arrive at 1:40 P. M.
. : JOHN F. DIVINE, -
jan,18 tf General Superintendent. 5
CAROLINA CENTRAL RAILWAY CO.
OmCS GSKXBAIi SUfKUINTSfTDBIIT,' I
Wilmington, N. C, Sept 16, 1876. 1
Change of Schedule.
On and after SUNDAY, the 17th inst, trains
will run over this Railway as follows:
Passenger and Blail Express.
Leave Wilmington at j. 6:30 A.M.
Arrive in Charlotte at.. ....... .......... 8:30 P. M
Leave Charlotte at. 6 :30 A. M.
Arrive at Wilmington at 8:30P.M.
Daily except Sundays.
V. Q. JOHNSON.
I nov 10-tf General tSaperintendent.1
THE TJBJXjJD,
A Journal for tlie Sportsmen of To-day.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING.
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or degrade public sentiment.; t
THE FIELD being the only Sporting Journal
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South, among whom it enjoys a large and increasing
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The Biblical Recorder,
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RALEIGH,' N. C. !
REV. C. T. BAILEY. Editor, i
REV. J. D. HUFHAM, Associate Editor, .
REV. W. T. WALTERS, D. D., Agricult'al Editor.
Organ of North Carolina Baptists
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IB THE OLDEST-ESTABLISHED PAPER IN
Kershaw county, and has an extensive circulation
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febST-tf Editors and Proprietors
mavassa xooacco fertilizer.
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ZERS, we propose this year to introduce a I
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INSURANCE.
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1
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FIKE.
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1 InOrthlBritish & Mercantile Ins. Co., of England.
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' National Fire Insurance Company, of Hartford.
Continental Insurance Company, of ' New York.
Phoenix Insurance Company, of New York.
Springfield Insurance Co., of Springfield, Mass.
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Insurance Co. ef North America, of Philadelphia.
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11 ' -Representing
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I Annual Income Over $1,500,000
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J ARTHUR J. HILL, Jr., Agent.
Office for the present with Dr. T. F. Wood. Medi
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September 8-tf
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O. B. ROOT, Vice President.
BEATON GALES, Secretary.
PULASKI COWPER, Supervisor.
ATKINSON" & MANNING, AeiHTs,'
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Bank of New Hanover.
Authorized Capital $l,CCO,OGO.
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A SIXTEEN PAGE PAPER.
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