ht M0rmng mat.
"Old si" ob the Latest Couatv
One of Old Si's political friends
met him yesterday and said :
"How is yer now?"
"Well, Fie chock fall of Dimocrat
prinoerpal yit l"
"Yasr-btrrdat gameob seben-up is
got away wid ver ?"
"Yer mean dat count ap at Wash
in'ton ?"
"Dat's de berry numershun V
"Dat warn't no seben-up, nigger,
lessen dey is change de game sence I
played hit. Dar warn,'t no jerger in,
seben up when I Wnz er furriner'ter
de cho'ch." m rm irf '
"Well, w' got yer, ea ylsow I"
"Dat's mebbeso, bat den hit, 'minds
me o de feller dat cotcH te' itfch fan
de oaten de stolen pants, fer he sed
dey is got me in de jale-house bat I'se
still got do itch an' de britches !"
"Bnt, wha' am yer all gwine tor do
'boat de kase ?"
"Gwine ter 'bide de 'cishun ? We'se
too good Dimmocrats ter kick 'ginst
de law dat we help fer ter 'corpe
rate !"
"An' de Radikels lan's on top, jess
ez I tole yer when yer startid P
"Oh, yea, yer kin crow now but
hit moughty weak lungs dat
got ler blow de belias on, for
yerV
we se
had yer down we ae sot
on
yer
we'se nigh onottpjpIM yer breff an'de
good luck dat's sabed yer dis time is
only waitin' fer ter vakate de premi
ses when we sets down de nex' time.
So, stan1 f am onder, I tell yer; stan'
futn onder?"-4fato Constitutitm.
We suggest this couplet rrom
Butler as a motto for the Electoral
Commission:
"Is not the High Court of Justice sworn
To judge that law that serves their turn ?"
iVu York World,
Why did not oar neighbor go on a
little further with the quotation?
Some of the lines that immediately
follow axe no less pat and to the pur
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"Can they not juggle, and with slight
Conveyauce play with Wrong and Right ?
Will not Fear, Faro, Babe and Grudge
The same cases sev'ral ways adjudge ?
As when the sea breaks o'er its bounds,
And overflows the level grounds.
Those banks and dams, that like a screen
Did keep it out, now keep it in ;
So when tyrannic usurpation
Invades the freedom of a nation,
The lam o' W land, that were intended
To keep it out, are made io defend it."
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The Raleigh Observer.
ON THE 16TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1876,
and in the city of RALEIGH, the undersigned
will commence the publication of
The Observer,
a DAILY and WEEKLY Democratic newspaper.
Of long experience in their profession as editors,
respectively of the Fayetteville Obsebvsb and the
Wilmington Journal, they do not affect to deubt
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 tne olden
time, there was never a difference between the Ob
server and the Journal in zeal for the interests
and honor of North Carolina. To promote1 the one.
and to uphold and add to the other will be the ob
ject of the Observer now.
Of very decided opinions on question of public
interest, and apt to give those opinions plain ex
pression, they deem it the first doty 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 The
Observer now, as of old, a truthful, accurate, con
densed history of the times in which we live. It
was thus that "the old Observer" won its bold up
ob the people of North Carolina, enjoying the affec
tion of its party friends, receiving the respect and
confidence of its bitterest political fees, end com
manding in its comparatively isolated location a
circulation larger than has ever been attained by
any other North Carolina newspaper, and it Is thus,
by like dignity and fairness that the editors of The
Observer, transferred to the State Capital, hope it
will deserve, and soon equal, and then surpass, its
lormer circulation ana prosperity. n.
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hdence by earnest effort to promote the nubile wel
fare, first and foremost of North Carolina, next of
all the Southern States, and finally, and throngb
these, of the whole Union. They think that this
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from the places and power which they have so erei
ly abused, and under whose baleful rule the South
has been outraged and tne whole country has been
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Change of Schedule.
ON AND AFTER WEDNESDAY, JAN. S, THE
following Schedule will be run on this Road:
Day Express and Mall Train (Daily
except Sunday)
Leave Wilmington 13:15 P. M-
Leave Florence.... . 6rS0P.M-
Arrive at Colombia 9:80 P. M-
Leave Columbia 7:40 A. M-
Leave Florence 13:30 P. M-
Arrive at Wilmington ... 5:30 P. M-
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Leave Florence 1:00 A, M.
Arrive at Colombia 5:10 A. M
Arrive at Augusta, 9:00 A. M.
Leave Augusta,... 4:30 P. M.
Leave Columbia 9:80 P. M.
Leave Florence 3.-80 A. M.
Arrive at Wilmington 7:35 A M.
Throoeh Freight Traln.(Dally except
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Leave Florence. . . 3:00 P. M.
Arrive at Columbia 10:10 A. M.
Leave Columbia.., 4:80 P. M.
Leave Florence 4:00 A. M
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Passengers for Augusta, and beyond should take
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Through Sleeping Cars on night trains for Charles
ton and Augusta.
Parlor Car on Day Express and Mall for Charles
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ON'AND AFTER WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 3,
f8T7, Passenger Trains on the Wilmington &
Weldon Railroad will run as follows :
E Day Mail andExpreos Train.
Leave Wilmington, Front St Depot, at 7:45 A M.
Arrive at uoiasooro. . u:zo -a- j.
Rocky Mount i:au r. at.
Weldon 3:00 P. M.
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Arrive at Rocky Mount. . . . , 2.03 P. M.
Goldsboro 3:tb r. .
Wilmington, FrontJSt. Depot, 7:50 P. M
Nignt fflall land ExpreealTraln, Dally
except 'Sunday.
Leave Wilmington At 5.40 r. st.
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Rocky Mount 12:80 A. Jtt.
Weldon 2:20 A. M.
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Arrive at Eacay Mount. t:ui a. as.
UoiasDoro :uu a. m.
Wilmington .12:00 M.
The Dav Train makes close connection at Wel
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except Sunday, and daily via Richmond and all-
rai 1 rooie.
Nieht tram makes close connections at Weldon
for all points nortn via Kichmoad.
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dericksbure & Potomac Railroad.
FREIGHT TRAINS will leave Wilmington trl
weekly at 5:30 A. M., and arrive at 1:40 P.M.
an!18-tf General Superintendent.
CAROLINA CENTRAL RAILWAY CO.
Omci Gnxmuii Superintendent, ; 1
Wilmington, N. C, Sept 16, 187S. i
Change of Schedule.
On and after SUNDAY, the 17th inst., trains
Will run over this Railway as follows:
.Passenger and Hail Express.
Leave Wilmington at 6:30 A. M.
Arrive in Charlotte at 8:39 P. M
Leave Charlotte at 6:30 A.M.
Arrive at WUmington at 8:30P.M.
DaDy except Sundays .
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