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OUTLINES.
Six thousand people attended a meet
in? at Indianapolis. Wednesday night
in behalf of home rule in Ireland; stir
ring appeals were made by a number of
speakers, and resolutions adopted de
nouncing kBalfour and Salisbury, and
pledging support by all honorable means
to the Irish people. Over two hun
dred emigrants arrived at New York
yesterday on their way to Mormondom;
among the number were thirty-two
voung girls, and much moral suasion
was used to prevent them from proceed
ing on their journey; all to no purpose,
however, each one expressing a willing
ness to be one of seven or eight wives;
some of the girls were remarkably pret
ty. A bold train robbery is re
ported from Ohio by masked men; the
express car was rifled of several thou
sand dollars and other valuables, and an
attempt was made to kill the express
messenger; a revolver was placed at his
head and the trigger pulled, but the
cartridge failed to explode; the tliieves
made good their escape. Three
thousand people attended a joint re-
- tin ion of G. A. R.'s and ex-Confederates
at Clinton. Mo., yesterday; several ad
dresses were delivered. A very
destructive fire occurred at Sydney. N.
S. W.. Wednesday night; a large num
ber of business houses were burned, and
the damage is estimated at 1,500.000,
A number of Presidential nomi
nations failed of confirmation, among
them James H. Young, collector of cus
toms in this city. A pettifogging
lawyer, who had been placed in jail for
perjury, and who had been guilty of
swindling transactions, was tarred and
feathered by ten masked men of Bakers
ijeid, Cal., Wednesday morning; he was
then turned loose. . All of the
business portion of the city of Aspinwall
has been destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of over a million dollars; the fire
originated from the explosion or upset-
ing of a kerosene lamp, The
September crop statement, issued by the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange, shows
that the movement for the first month
of the season was the largest -ince the
war. if not in the history of the cotton
trade; the amount is given as 857,024
bales. - The trustees of the Pea
body Fund have re-eleated the officers
of the past year. A serious diffi
culty occurred Wednesday, in Orange
burg county, S. C, between two promi
nent citizr ns; a blow was given, when
the assailed party used his knife with
fatal effect; the trouble grew out of po
litical matters. The Civil Service
Reform League, at a meeting in Boston,
elected George Wm. Curtis president
for the ensuing year. - New York
markets: Money easy at 35 per cent.;
cotton steady; middling uplands 10g
cents; middling Orleans 10 9-16 cents;
southern flour dull but unchanged;
wheat steadier; No. 2 red $1 Ol ac
elevator; corn active, closing steady;
No. 2 red, 55).53J cents at elevator;
rosin steady and quiet: strained com
mon to good 401 45; spirits tur
pentine steadier.
The wheat market was somewhat
unsettled, Wednesday. The House
Postmaster Wheat was somewhat
unsettled, too.
Kaolin is said to contain 53 per
cent, of aluminum, the metal which
is now attracting so much attention,
and which that Chicago Professor
says he can produce at a few cents a
pound. North Carolina has large
deposits of Kaolin.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Re
publican, makes the charge that six
United States Senators and fifteen
Representatives made $l,00u,000 by
the rise in silver following the pas
sage of the silver bill. Republican
statesmen are nothing if not thrifty.
The World's Fair to be held at
Chicago may not be run on a parti
san schedule, but Republicans seem
to have hogged all the best paying
offices connected with it. The total
amount of salaries voted aggregates
$70,000, of which Republicans get
$55,000 a year and Democrats
$15,000. "
The Harrisburg, Penn., Patriot,
Republican, estimates that fifty
thousand Republican votes will be
cast against Delamater, Quay's can
didate for Governor. . There is an
anti-Delamater Republican organi
zation in nearly every county in the
5tate. There seems to be rough-
walking for Quay's man.
According to the Atlanta Constitu
tion the assessed valuation of prop
erty of colored citizens of Georgia is
$12,322,000 this year,as against $10,
415,330 last year. Judging from
these figures it would seem that the
colored men of Georgia do not spend
all their time in keeping out of range
of Democratic shot-guns.
II II II II V All VV n v -V-Tf -vi IV 1 . " " Three
congressman Butterworth, Re
publican, of Ohio, says in a published
letter that "Legislation should be
free to investigate, devise and act
with greater freedom than has usu
ally been accorded. The lash, the
caucus and a plunging partisan
spirit are not the means by which
gr,eat pfoblems are solved." This
coming from a distinguished Repub
lican is a pretty keen thrust at the
Reed gang and its methods, but it is
somewhat belated. A good time to
have said it and to have reiterated it
was when the Reed gang was getting
in its work and Mr. Butterworth
was, however reluctantly, dancing up
to the crack of the lash and voting
as the plunging, "partisan spirit or
dered. i 9
Four hundred and sixty-two mil
lions nine hundred and thirty-nine
thousand nine hundred and fifty-six
dollars is the nice little bill which the
Republican statesmen have piled up
for the American people to pay.
This is $40,313,013 more than the
last .Congress asked for. Republi
can Congresses come high.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Star Office Boy wanted.
Hall & Pearsall Tobaccos.
Opera House Colored Aristocracy-.
Munson & Co.-Ready-made clothing
LOCAL DOTS.
Items of Interest Gathered. Here
and There md Briefly Noted.
Hon. C. W. McClammy was in
town yesterday, from Washington, D. C.
The Wilmington Fox Club had
a fine chase yesterday morning. The
dogs caught two foxes.
The British brig Jtdlia A. Mer
riit was reported off the bar coming
into Southport yesterday afternoon.
Sheriff Manning left last night
for Washington, D. C. His visit is sup
posed to be in connection with the
Custom House here.
Rev. Sam Jones took a trip
down the river yesterday afternoon on
the steam-tug Marie in company with
several of his friends.
Reserved seats for "Colore
Aristocracy" at the Opera House Mon
day night, will be placed on sale at
Yates to-morrow morning.
The bright prospects of rice
planters in South Carolina and Georgia
have been ruined by recent heavy rains.
The reporfs of damage have caused
prices of rice to hold firm.
SUPERIOR COURT.
A Large Number of Cases Heard Yesterday.
In the matter of the will of the late
Susan A. Flanner, set for trial yester
day, caveator filed affidavit for removal,
which will be heard by the Court this
(Friday) morning at 10 o'clock.
The following cases were disposed of.
viz.:
The Virginia Paper Company vs. Ju
lius A. Bonitz four cases, all ol which
were continued.
J. H. Strauss vs. W., C. & A. R. R.
Co. Judgment for defendant. Motion
for a new trial by plaintiff.
Jas. F. Post vs. W. P. Canaday. Con
tinued.
N. A. Bnckhouse vs. G. H. Dicksey,
administrator. Continued.
Bank of New Hanover vs. Mary E.
Smith et al. Continued.
H. A. Bagg vs. W. & W. Railroad Co.
Continued
H. A. Bagg vs. W. C. & A. R. R. Non
suit. Appeal by piaintin.
J. W. Harper vs. L. Stanaiand. Non
suit.
F. H. Darby vs. W. A. Fanning, et al.
Non suit.
J. P. Richards vs. Evander Leares.
Non suit,
J. H. Strauss vs. Peter Smith, et al.
Order of publication.
The Morehead Banking Co. vs. John
F. French. Non suit.
Amanda Everett vs. The Wilmington
Savings & Trust Co. Judgment on de
murrer. DuBrutz Cutlar and wife vs D. L,
Russell. Decree.
Clavtorr Giles and wife vs. C. B.
Wright and wife. Decree.
D. L. Russell vs. The Carolina
Oil &
Creosote Co, Non suit.
E. L. Martin, assignee, vs. E
ville. Judgment for plaintiff.
W Fon-
Bev. C. L. Arnold,
The Goldsboro Argus says:
Rev. C.
L. Arnold preached a most excellent ser
mon here Monday eveningj in St. Ste
phen's church, and that congregation
are more anxious than ever to secure
him as -its rector and it is probable that
they will succeed, as he has resigned bis
charge in Wilmington and likes Golds
boro very much."
Colored Aristocracy.
The Opera House opens again on
Monday night for one night only.
"Colored Aristocracy," a musical farce
in three acts, presented by bufnt cork
comedians, will be given, and it is said
to be funnier than any minstrel show,
combining, as it does, singing, dancing,
marching and specialties, with the pro
duction of a connected piece. Reserved
seats at Yates' to-morrow morning.
SAM JONES' MEETINGS.
THE TABERNACLE CROWDED
AND NIGHT.
DAY
Many Visitors in the City Interest Un
abated The Crowd Last Night Esti
mated at Over Seven Thousand.
IN THE FORENOON.
The usual large crowd greeted Mr.
Jones at the Tabernacle, and after the
preliminary song service healled atten
tion to the following statement:
"Many good people are bewildered by
my statement last night, that I gave the
last cent I had in the world to the
orphans who were here. Well, I
did. I haye got houses and lands; I
don't want you to get the idea into your
heads that I'm a pauper. I'm worth
about $40,000 when you get it all togeth
er; but if I ididn't give away every cent
of cash I had in the world last night I'm
a liar. Understand me, I'm no pauper.
I could get two hundred nights in a year
and $200 a night for lectures alone. I
told the truth last night; but I'm iust as
well off this morning. There is that
that scattereth and vet increaseth. I
hope you reporters have got that straight,
because I don't want to bother my sin
ner friends. Your Uncle Jones quit ly
ing when he joined the church. Don't
you wish you had ?"
He then .announced his text: Third
and 4th verses of 1st chapter of the
second Epistle general of Peter "Ac
cording as His divine power hath given
unto us all things that pertain unto life
and godliness, through the knowledge of
Him that hath called us to glory and
virtue; whereby are given unto us ex
ceeding great and precious promises
that by these ye might be partakers ot
the divine life."
He said: This strong, clear declara
tion convinces me of the fact that no
matter who or what you are, it is not
only probable and possible, but a pre
cious fact that if you want to be a first
class Christian you can be. I've seen
men choose the professions of law, medi
cine, xo, and tail. 1 here are reasons in
the very nature of things for this;
but I know no reason why any
man may not have just as
much religion as he wants. An old
darkey said, "I'se got much 'ligion as I
want;" another said, "you'se de fust man
I eber saw got enough." The reply was,
"Salvation's free; if you ain't got all you
want, why don't you git more." That
salvation is free is a truth as broad as
the world. The degree of your Chris
tianity is determined by your wants.
I entered the immense dry goods
establishment of John Wanamaker in
Philadelphia and walked over acres of
floor. I saw in the basement a restau
rant. I said, "Do you teed people here,
too?" Mr. tfanamakr said. "Yes; I
have racked my brain for twenty years
to fix this store so that when a man en
ters he need not go out for anything."
And let me say here I'm not a fool
Democrat that believes Mr. Wanamaker
a rascal; he is one of the best men in the
United States.
The Lord was 4,000 years getting up
the Bible, and angels will give a reward
for anything man needs it hasn't got.
"Walk in the light and have fellow
ship one with another." The way is
open; some of you will have to get right
before you start though, and when you
do, youi wife will have to call in the
neighbors to identify you! Some of ypu
go on the principle, "Jesus paid it all."
I'm like the fellow who said "if Jesus
paid it all, what does he keep dunning
us for?" Jesus pays this much; you
plank down what you've got and He
pays the rest.
Do the best you can. A heap of
preachers could do better than they do.
I heard a man tell of a deer with horns
seven feet across, who ran through a
thicket with the trees only three feet
apart, and never touched a tree. I never
believed it until I heard a man, preach
ing, drive 'through God's intellectual
universe, with ideas as thick as hair on
a dog's back, and never touch a hair!
A first class preacher is ninety-nine
per cent, man and one per cent, preach
er. I'd rather be one grand, royal, true,
man, than a preacher with the manhood
sapped out of me.
God can only make a first-class chris
tian out of a man. No instance can be
found in the Bible where God ever
called a man to dare and do for Him,
who wasn't game. The church lacks
manhood, not men. You haven't got a
man in Wilmington; got lots of pieces
but they wont fit! If I had to make a
man out of one hundred such as-some
are, I'd be mighty economical with my
dirt! Have the courage to say, "I'd
rather be right than King."
Every equipment essential for the
triumph of your manhood is furnished
by the God that made you. Count the
cost and pay the price. If you want in
fluence in the church you mustn't say
anything to hurt the feelings of any of
the members, is the sentiment of to-day.
I stood in a round house and saw two
engines; one bright and beautiful, her
brasses glistening in the sun; the other
a ten-wheel Mogul, rolling in along side,
creasy and dirty. I asked why this dif
ference, and was told one is used only
by the President of the road and goes
out about once in three months; the
other has just pulled in forty loaded cars
from Chattanooga. If I stood in the
round house of the pulpit, I could be as
nice as any of you, but if you'll come
and help me pull in a couple hundred
sinners, you'll be greasy and dirty too !
There is no need or want of your na
ture whereby you can grow "bigger in
character that God does not stand
pledged to give it. The trouble with
the churches now is .little , folks. If a
mother had ten children the oldest 28
the youngest 10--and none had ever
grown from babyhood, she would have
your sympathy. The church is full of
babies, born into the kingdom but never
grew a bit. They can't walk, talk, or
work for Jesus,"and the preachers just
give them a dose of soothing syrupevery
Sunday to keep them quiet the rest of
the week. "When I was a child I spoke
as a child, but when I became a man I
put away childish things." Say I'll be a
man for God.
There is no Christian life without the
imputation of divine life. The hardest
thing a man ever tried to do is to be a
Christian with a mean heart. I believe
in imparted, not imputed, righteousness.
Imparted righteousness is the life of
God given the soul of man. I am not
amenablefor what Adam did. "As in
Adam all tlied, so in Christ shall all be
made alive' The race got back more in
Christ than it lost in Adam. I have no
respect for Adam; any man with his
chance who would be tolled off- bv a
woman and the devil ought to be !
bucked!
1 believe in inherited sin. But the !
question is not what sin you inherited, !
drunkenness, stealing, lieing &c. but !
what did you do with it after you got it.
If I have a saloon left me as a legacy by
my father (but let me tell you I never
did, understand that) patrimony ends
and volition begins. If I choose to con
tinue the sale of liquor rather than roll
out the barrels and keen a erocerv
store, then I sin. And God has fixed it
so you can overcome every inherited
sin.
The basis of man is in man. You are
all there, but the devil has knocked you
out of harmony with God. God wants
to put you in running order. The doc
trine of total depravity won't do. God
said the serpent shall bite your heel and
humanity has been lame and limping
six thousand years. But every lame
foot can come in contact with the devil's
head and be healed, and walk the golden
streets without a single limp. Preach
ers, tell the people they are lame, not
rotten.
Steam does not make the locomotive,
it imparts the life that enables it to pull
tons of freight. Suppose I receive a box
by express filled with pieces of machin
ery, neither wife nor I can understand
what it means. I put it away, and in a
few days receive a pamphlet from the
Singer Sewing Machine Company with
a woodcut of each piece of machinery.
I say, "Wife, that's a sewing machine,"
and aciording to the directions I put it
together ready for work. I say. "Wife,
the man that made that machinery made
that book." For twenty-three years I
was all to pieces, but, blessed be God,
eighteen years ago I got myself together
according to the Book. That is all you
need. I believe in human nature, but
am talking of perverse human nature.
We are not changed from nature to
grace.
It is not a change of substance, but
relation; not a change of thing, but of
attitude,
Convert is from the Latin "con," al
together, and "yerto," turn, and when
we "con" altogether, and "verto" turn
the right way, we'll "get there Eli," or
get there whether Eli does or not.
Strip off the mystery and teach that
we've been bad and God wants us to
come back to Him.
I never preached on the 'New Birth"
in my life. Christ never did but once,
and then to an audience of one, and he
just staggered and couldn't take it in,
and Christ dropped the subject.
What is a change of relation? Sup
pose a Frenchman, an Irishman and a
German want to become citizens of the
United States. They renounce alle
giance to their respective countries and
take an oath of allegiance to this, and
that moment three foreigners die and
three American citizens are born. Do
you get the point? I'm in deep water
now; if some of you ain't got gourds
under your arms you'll drown. Some
of you better tie the gourd to your
heels, your head won't sink.
The best way to express the imparta
tion of Divine life is, "born from
above."
' Love is a unit and imparts life in pro
portion to the attitude at which you
touch the law. The law of creation is
the same. I go down in the earth and
find a rock that touches the lowest point
of nature. I rise a little higher and find
the rose bush "with its sweet flowers; I
rjse higher and find the horse, an ani
mal with instinct and reason; a little
higher I find man, a thinking, praying,
crying animal; a little higher the angels,
and above all God, each a little higher
because they touch higher the Jaw. The
trouble with Christians is they touch the
law at too low an altitude. Show me
your life and I'll show you where you
touch the law.
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Here he denounced severely the dan
cing, billiard-playing, butterfly church
members, and long-faced people en
quiry "Oh to be nothing" until it gets to
be God's truth !
Come up higher! We want to see the
day when a church member who sells
liquor, or a man who is party to an un
licensed saloon, called a club, will not be
tolerated. Preachers, say I'll have a
church with no members, or if ever get
one they'll be decent ones. You'll have
to convert some of your preachers in
town before they'll be with you, though.
-God said to Paul, "Arise! stand on thy
feet." God won't work with men that
compromise with the world. I won't
give the Devil half of my loaf; it's mine,
and I'll have it, too, or there'll be blood
and hair and the ground tore.upfora
mile!
We want divine life in us to show how
grandly we can live. When does that
begin? Suppose a case: A well-to-do
merchant, an ungodly man, has a Chris
tian wife and six children. She is taken
ill, and for days Ee watches her
life ebb away in spite of the c6m
bined skill of physicians and nurses,
bhe dies, and he returns from her funeral
desolate and heartbroken. That night
he sees her Bible on the table. He says,
"That's wife's Bible; she was a good
wife, she has gone to heaven. I would
give this world if I could go there and
see her once more." Wretched, un
done, he went to his pastor. They
prayed together; he prayed with his
children; but no light came. The next
night as he tossed on his pillow he said j
"I'm a lost sinner." and something whis
pered, "Jesus Christ came to seek and
to save that which was lost" and from
that moment divine life was imparted to
him. Where did that life begin ? It
began when he said, "that's wife's Bible,
she was a good wife," &c, and he fos
tered and cherished it until it budded
and blossomed. May God touch our
natures with that life and help us to
cherish it until it blossoms into eternal
life.
No synopsis could do justice to this
closing illustration.
last night's sermon.
The largest audience that has yet as
sembled to hear Rev. Sam. P. Jones
gathered at the Tabernacle last night.
There were over seven thousand people
in the building.
It was announced that there would be
prayer meeting at 6.30 a. m. at Grace
and Fifth Street M. E. Churches, and
also at Fifth Street M. E. Church at 3
o'clock in the afternoon, the hour ap
pointed for the special services to the
colored people in the Tabernacle.
Mr. Jones said that one evidence of
the good these meetings are doing for
the town is that while the average num
ber of cases before Mayor Fowler were
six a day before these meetings, yet in
the last three days there has been only
one. If it was a fair or an encampment
there would not be room enough in the
lock-up for the prisoners. "I desire to
say a word in regard to the course pur
sued by the railroads toward your peo
ple in the arrangement of rates to
and from this city during these meet
ings. They are not toting fair
with you. The give you a rate to
the State Fair at Raleigh of less than
one fair for the round trip, while they
charge you four cents a mile to come to
these services." A corporation has no
back to cowhide or soul to be damned,
and it is hard to get even with them.
The best men in the country come to
these meetings, and they are entitled to
some consideration. If you want to get
even with the railroads elect men to
your Legislature who will vote for the
establishment of a railroad commis
sion, and mafe the railroad companies
put their fare at two cents a mile. They
will reduce their fare for a dog-fight or
a base ball game one-half, but .you
scarce can get them to give you a re
duction of a third to these meetings.
And yet at a fair average they .will make
fifty thousand dollars by this meeting.
You can tell the effect of these high
rates by the' size of the collections here.
It took all your money to get here and
you have none left to give.
Pro, Excell sang the solo, to his own
acconfpaniment, entitled "The Model
Church."
From the text 7th and 8th verses of
the 6th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the
Gallatians "Be not deceived; GocTis not
mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth
that all shall he reap. For he that
soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh
reap corruption, but he that soweth to
the spirit, shall of the spirit reap eternal
life."
There may be a thousand impossibili
ties in life, but there are three absolute
impossibilities that we know of. First,
for a man continuously and successfully
to practice a fraud upon his own im
mortality. If you are good or bad no
one knows it better than you and you
know it better than anything in the
world. God will not let any man pur
sue the road to hell without prodding
him now and then to remind him where
he is eoine. Secondly, for a man to
continuously and successfully conceai
from his neighbor his true character. If
you are a bad man or a good one your
neighbor knows it. Church member
ship is no indication of the morality of
a man. Your neighbor don't want to
know what church you belong to, hut if
you payjrour debts.
Thirdly To practice successfully a
fraud on God. He knows us through
and through. He not only sees all our
needs, but his omniscience analyzes all
of our motives, You may conceal your
meanness for a time, but sooner or later
your neighbor will find you out, and
God knows you every minute of your
life.
It has been reported that I made the
assertion in a meeting in Cincinnati
that my grandmother had gone to hell
because she was a Catholic, and that
thereupon a young man arose and went
toward the door, and that I said 'There
goes another to the same place,' where
upon he inquired if I wanted to send a
message to my relative. The story is a
lie. Some of you fellows have been tell
ing this story on me; you lieing rascals
you.
If there is one truism in this world it is !
stated in the text. And this without re
gard to who said it, or the truth of im
mortality and a future life or the existence
of God. It is true injthe physical world.and
the moral world is but a photograph of
the physical. You sow the various
seeds known to husbandry and in due
time reap according as you have sown.
Notice the multiplying nature of seed.
From one grain of corn sixteen hundred
grains; from one oat eight thousand
oats. Adam dropped one little seed
and the harvest to-day has filled the
world with sin.
I want you to listen to my remarks,
whether you indorse them or not. I
do not want the indorsement of the cityof
Wilmington. You are too little. It
would not do me any good. If I got a
thousand miles from here and exhibited
my credentials, indorsed by this city,
my hearers would require proof of your
existence. That distance from here no
body knows you.
Who is "Observer?" I understand f
that he is a co-partner in that unlicensed
saloon, the club. Don't want any in
dorsement from him; would have to
change my methods if he did so. Every
preacher on this platform that indorsss
what "Observer" has said rise. Not one.
All who indorse me rise. I see you all
stand. Well. I have got the preachers
with me, and "Observer" has got the
Devil.
Every step in life, every act, every deed,
is a seed sown. Sow whiskey and reap
honest, industrious, sober citizens!
That's a lie. If you sow whiskey you
reap idleness and debauchery. I had as
soon sow wheat and expect to reap
potatoes. What is a drunkard good
for? You fellows that drink whiskey get
on your hind feet and tell me. The on
ly place in this country where a drunk
ard can be used to an advantage is in
the Legislature and Congress. The sa
loons can debauch our youth, but you
say that we must not say anything be
cause we will hurt somebody's feelings.
I am like the countryman who stuck a
pitchfork in a vicious dog that endeav
ored to bite him. On being asked by
the irate owner why he did not hit the
dog with the other end of the weapon,
he replied, "Why did'nt the dog come
with the other end." The saloons came
at me and mine, and you and
yours, and by the help of
God I intend to use the
business end of the ' fork on them.
You tell me that my theory is all right,
but that it won't work. You old Colo
nel, you old Judge, you old pussy hound!
A man made a promise to his dying
daughter that he would never touch an
other drop except from her fingers. The
girl died and was laid out. The watch
ers hearing a noise in the death cham
ber went there and saw the father drink
ing from a bottle that he had forced into
the stiffened fingers of his child's corpse.
God help a man that will sell a thing
that will make a man do that.
That damnable Club is worse than
any saloon, because it keeps open on
Sunday; and it does'notjdo the fair thing.
You people should petition the Legisla
ture to tax it. Is not that so, brothers ?
Then say so, if they lick you before day
light for it. If there is a gentleman in
that Club that does not desire to figure
as a co-partner in a saloon, get out of it.
Sow profanity and reap profanity. I
understand that not an oath has been
sworn in the W. & W. R. R. shops since
last Sunday. I tell you, you are doing
something for a man when you make
him decent. God pity every wretch that
will swear in jthe presence of his wife
and children.
Sow cards and reap gamblers. God
pity a Christian man or woman that
can't run their home without a deck of
cards. Tell me you can't see any harm
in cards, you old blind fool! Any one
that plays progressive euchre in which
a prize is at stake is as much a black
leg gambler ag any faro dealer in Chica
go. Mother - and father go home to
night and burn up the cards. My child
may do a thousand evil things, but with
God's help I'll not set the example.
Big parties beget little parties, then
parlor balls, then square dances and
round dances, then dudes and dudines,
and when you get there you have got
a thimbleful of calf's foot jelly.
I make the dudes mad in every town
I go to. If you want to get rid of a
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One Week..
Two Weeks.
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" Three Waeks .
One Month.,
" Two Months
" Three Months,
" Six Months
" One Year., 00 00
Contract Advertisements taken at proportion
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Ten lines solid Nonpareil type make one square.
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dude, spit on him, and if he can't swim
you haAe got him, for he is sure to
drown.
I never yet saw an intellectual man or
woman dancing. Dancing is based on
the contact of the sexes. No boy or
girl would go across a room to dance
with one of their own sex. The round
dancer is a disgrace to virtue and so
ciety, It is simply hugging set to music.
The Catholic Bishop of New York
says that nineteen out of twenty of the
young girls who had lost their virtue,
stated at the confessional that the in-
fluencee of the ball room was the cause
of their ruin. And any young man that
will drag a young girl over her church
vows andthe blood of Christ to the ball
room floor will not hesitate to drag her
farther.
i ;You little dancing dudes brag on be
longing to society. Bless you, if you
went to Baltimore with your society,
you would not be allowed to sweep out
the kitchen of society there.
You have got a brazen set of dancers in
this town why they actually sent an
invitation to brothers Creasy and Bea
man to attend one of their damnable
Germans.
Sow the dance and reap a debauched
society. And yet the members of the
church send their children to an old
hook-nosed devil of a dancing master,
who may have come from the chain-
gang for aught you know, to teach them
grace and good manners. Sister you are ,
good, but you aint got no sense. If they
chopped your old head off you would
not lose in weight. It is too light up
there; you haven't got anything in it.
Hedge your children in with every
protection until they become good
Christian men and women, and God
help you to see that it is best lor you
to give your hearts to God and lead a
better, purer, grander life.
PUNGENT POINTS
Made by Rev. Sam. Jones in His Sermon
Yesterday Morning.
Be like theQiiaker who, when smitten
on one cheek turned the other, and
when that had been smitten, too, he
said, now that the Scriptural injunction
has been complied with I'll proceed to
whip you out. Get the Bible on your
side and then clean 'em out!
Angels. never looked upon a grander
thing than a man or woman true to
themselves, and to God.
A man can never be what he ought
to be on the outside until the devil is
run out of the inside.
Listen to a good wife; but if you've
got a little, flippant, foolish one, don't
say anything; she'll evaporate pretty
quicR:.
A little fellow leaning over a billiard
table touches the law where a 'possum
does when he's up the tree getting per
simmons, but the 'possum is the higher
animal, for there's something in 'sim
mons. A preacher who won't take a stand
for God and the right is like an old ox
in the gap, he won't let no calves out
nor cows in.
A preacher who will house saloon
keepers, loves his people and don't want
to be separated from them; and he never
will .
A butterfly of fashion 1 What is a
butterfly ? Is was a wo rm yesterday; is
a butterfly to-day; will be a worm to
morrow. I'd rather be a honey bee,
harming not the flower from which it
extracts the honey, and blessing man
kind. Sale of the Wilmington Street Ra lway.
Mr. E. A. Hawks, representing a syn
dicate which is negotiating for the pur
chase of the Wilmington otreet Rail
way, arrived here yesterday and vill
remain "several days. The terms of
purchase have been agreed upon, and
there is every probability that the sale
will be consummated at an early day,
and an electric system substituted for
the present plant.
Police Arrests etc., in September.
The police court records for Septem
ber give the total number of arrests
during the month as 124; whites 30 and
colored 94.
Policemen reported five places of bus
iness found open at night. There was
only one alarm of fire during the month.
The 'court fines collected amount to
$269.60, and the pound fees to $19.70. f
Weather Forecasts.
The following are the weather fore
casts for to-day:
For Virginia and North Carolina,
showers, variable winds, generally north
westerly, slight changes in temperature.
For South Carolina, Georgia and Flor
ida, showers, variable winds, stationary
temperature.
A cable dispatch to the New York
Herald from London, says of the report
(published in the Star of yesterday)
that the engineer of the British steamer
Picton, at Liverpool, from Wilmington,
N. C, is suffering from a disease which
was at first said to be cholera, that the
Picton called at Carthagena, and was
therefore quarantined on arrival at Liv
erpool. Several of the crew were after
ward seized with a doubtful illness. The
quarantine doctors having pronounced
the disease not to be cholera, the vessel
has been released.
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