Newspapers / The Weekly Star (Wilmington, … / Oct. 10, 1890, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
M tl ricultwnu one yf :i WILMINb i,ON, N. C., .1 - . I I - VM- " II TI II I - V '- 'Mi '3'!- '7 V;v."''T'li -vi l -? I IfirT I llCx" I Yi':" i i A : ; ; MY"' -y AL I .. W H T - A YTTSi rV.M- U A rf- at-: -V I- MM' j- -M M'K n1 HI Ml - . AX I W-rlrniW:.lK -; - - - Fenner. Judgment. . . ! . $1.00AVEAR,,NADVANCE,1 j;. : , fj-.V : M . JL JLU 83S383S8S8S88S8SS summit zi 8S888888888883S88 l888888S888iflll"f 38 ;88 :8g2 888888888838881 82S888SSS83888 P'U,W 8 5 rs tr W tr o o 888888S38SS888888 IQtjar-Q'4lBta0j T" 8S88S8888S? 388888 8888888888:38S588 4 ' t AV I IK" i-.vd at the Post Office. at;Wilmtgton, N. Second Class Matter.l SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. 'I - i i The subscription price of the "Weekly Star is as .jjiUmvs: ! " t Sinitle Copy 1 year, postage paid. i..'..... J.$l HO " G months " " ( . 60 " 3months " " i. 80 flOW TO THE PEOPLE. li VrUfr record is made.. The; most lawless and revolutionary Congress which has ever assembled under the dome of - the Gapitoli has completed as1 much ofjts work jof infamy !as it cquW and it now .remains fotj 'the American people to endorse or con demn it. If the record is not ; buite infamous as it might be it is be cduse they-were unable to acjcom ptish all they . planned, and some of i their contemplated I devilment was not. carried out because the more and timid and cautious dried a halt checked tne boldest jot. the conspira tors in theip mad career! For the first time In the history of J the American Congress the people ot tnis country saw re speecn and free discussion of public measures denied, and an arbii trary despotism established under a i so-called set of rules for ; the government op the Mouse, which governed and were in tended to govern -minority. . ' nobody but the .: For the first time ii ,n the history of the American Congress the people of this coufttty saw Speaker assume sovereign power and arrogate to himself the right to count a quorum and say whether a measure was car ried or defeated. For the first time in thehistbry of the American Congress the people of this country 'saw could see . ' the j Speaker who most diminutive Republican in the House h the rembtest corner, w hfen rising to claim the floor, and could not see tlhe big est Democrat in it when nose rising jithin six fet of lis i or the same purpose. For the first time in the hist Y of the American Congress the pe bpicof this country saw Speaker WilO couldn't see a . Democrat didn't i-want to see him, whe n ne brjt who could see two Democrats where there was only one when two were necessa ry to count a quorum For the first timein . tbe history ot the American Congress the peopleof this country saw Speaker who were treated the minority as if they intruders not entitled to the cdurte- sies which obtain all legjs ative bodies. ' . : Fori the first time iri the history of the .American Congress the people L of ths r.ountrv j . r sav w a Speaker in whom partisan prejudiee and sec tional, animosity j were so dominant that he coufd not treat with ordinary politeness and civility, t -1 i when his ; preiuaice or sectionalism were tailed into play, the Democrats from the North or from the Squth. For the first tirn the American Con the history of TfiSS saw, a Speaker wr :-. .. . . I assumed the role oi lauor and locKed the doors to keep members in the House" for the ! purpose of counting them to make a quorum to pass partisan measures 1 which these members were opposi to opposed,' I For the first timein the history of i the American Congress the people ! saw majority disegarding all law and; precedent asserting that the J minority had no rights which the ma jority was bound to respect, and that the minority had no right to oppose anything which the majority saw fit to propose.- j ' . ;; . . For the first time in the history of the American Congress the. people of this country saw this majority de clare that less than a quorum was a Quorum, and that measures rnight be carried by any number of votes cast, ' large or small; - if jjthe Speaker's eye Could detect "heads enough iri sight to count a quorum1. j j : For the first time in the history of lhis"Concrs thfl kpnnlp saura nark- Ctl 0 committee, decide without evi Tlence facts or ;figures, thd right of members to seats In the House, and Ti ' . . , i .... I . ruiocrais wno naa tnousands ma jonty summarily rinseated and Re publicans who did tul of votes swont iri ii theiif places. f'r a mock debate; amidst the rap turous applause of I he !conslpirators. ; For the first time in 'the historv of lle American Congress thej people sa pension bills I and other bills. amounting in the aggregate to $462r J.Job', passed af tter a one-sided dis cission and carried through under the Peremptory I mandates I of the m,gnty capcus arid the application of ."yielding gag rule, j I ! h . tor the first time in the history of American Cdngress the people saw a tariff law, iri which every man :;!; 5; , : : "" ' ' a' :.. .' . ..fM,..VV .... ... woman and child in the United States is directly or indirectly inter ested; passed as a purely partisan measure, with a mere nominal dis- Lcussipn, the Democrats being denied the right of free debate, or the op portunity by discussion to point out its defects or secure amendments which; wouldj make it better and less oppressive upon tjne toiling people of this countryj - j , 1 For the first time in the history vi the American Congress ;the people of this country: saw a gan of conspirai tors, calling themselvei Representai fives,! drunk with power and wild with excess, lawless, unscrupulous and revolutionary, ignore decency defy public jsentiment 'and leave a record which should consign the iasi one of : them to oblivion unless the American people are as lost to manhood arid to love pf " liberty as these j conspirators were toionesty and decency. i I At any time during the past, few months have you received a bill fpr subscription to the Weekly Star? it so, ana ypu nave not already paid the amount, do so 'at j once. It is wrong to read a paper without pay ing for it. STATE TOPICS. "li yrie The Danjjury Reporter states that! it has assurances that aj branch rail- road will be constructed either by tne.u. t. ci' x . :V. or the R. & S., from Walnut Cove to Danbury. and on the strength Of this assur ance some large iron plants will be erected. A road to Danbury would open up a considerable amount-of iron bearing land in the upper part of Stokes county and in the Saura- town range of mountains,' which are said to contain some very large and" superior deposits of ore. Until the - completion ! of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley road there was little interest manifested iri this kind of property because for want of transportation the ores could not be turned to practical account. The completion of that road, however, gave foundation for, the hope that a branch would eventually extend into the iron fields, which gave a stimu lus to exploration and also to investJ ment. We have i frequently in; these coU umns called attention to the increase of tobacco ' culture in the eastern 1 i . . portion of the Statd I We like to note it- because we consider it a matter of great section of Lthe importance to this State and an addi- tional source of lncome to its Jarm- ers which -cannot L ;be wen over- estimated. ; In everw county; so far heard from where . - j ben introduced, it he culture has nas proved a most gratifying success. The Tar- bord r Southerner says that so well satisfied are the farmers of Edge- - i i combe county with it that next year between 0,000; 'will be planted and K10.000 acres in tobacco. If the crop succeeds .it wi 1 be worth a great deal of money to that county, at least five times as much as the same acreage in cotton. Senator Vance made a capital speech at the Cabarrus county fair at Concord Thursday, where, not withstanding the pad weather, a vast crowd of the best people of Ca barrus and siirrou iding counties greeted him. He made a tip top speech in every particular, , which- 1 greatly pleased the. people who heard it. .lhe benator is harnessed for ' i . i i .. ;m - campaign workj and is Dined tor a number of places in the State. Thousands will hear him before the i . ! I J i ,1 day of election. Iiji our contests Vance has always boen at the front, and the Democracy pf , this State has never, entered a campaign in he did not do his duty. which Mr.. Hi C. Wall has disposed; of his interest on the J Rockingham Rocket to his associate F. C. Guthrie who assumes exclusive control. I According to a German writer who has been figuring on railroads there have been constructed in the world within the past four years 150,000 miles of road. Of the total mileage in the world, America has more than onefhalf. Mr. Blaine is too busy now study- ing up hiSj reciprocity that he hasn t any time to look after the seal busi ness in the Behnng sea. In the mean time the seals are being scooped up and the poachers aire having a jolly time. If Ingafls, Lodge, Tom. Reed.Cod fish Hoar, et. a. of that kid went down to Knoxville arid took in the: Blue ahd Gra festivities this week, it might do them some good artd eli-j minate some of the "pizen" from them. . r j The late Samuel J. Randall, after nearly thirty years of life' in Con- gress left an estate worth about $d,uuu. . ne aian t acquire tne pusi- ness method of Hon. John Sherman, James G. Blaine and other dis: tinguished Republicans who entered public life poor and on a salary of $5,000 a year, managed to become millionaires. ! I CAPE FtAR VAnVIKI VALLEY- Annual MeeUng of Btookholdera-Old Of- noeri Ko-eleoted-Affalrs of thef Com- panyin a Highly Prosperous Cbndil The annual meeting of stockhjold er$ ot the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railt. road Company was held here yesterday in the Mayor's office at the City Hall Among those present were Coll Julius A, Gray, of Greensboro, President o the Company: Capt. T. W. Erv. Greensboro, General Manager; Col. M. Murchison, of New York; Col. R, Gray, of Raleigh; Dr. D. W. C, Bfeiibo of Greensboro; Mr. W. A. Lash, if Wat nut Cove; Mr. W. A. Moore, of Mt.yVirv; Dr. John M: Worth, of Greensbcr6; Mf. John M. Rose, Secretary, of Fayette- ville; and Mr. W. H. MacFarl irid, of Greensboro, Secretary and Treas uler of the North State Improvement Corri- pany. - I (' ' Mayor John J. Fowler was called to preside at the meeting and Mr. Jbhn M, Kose, of l'ayetteville. was made secre- :The business transacted was cjf a rou tine nature. The reports of the Presi dent ot the company and otheij SfficeVs were receive'.Jand approved; all snowing that the road is well managed ind the affairs of the company are in a jrosper ous condition, 1 I The report of General Manager Fry gives the gross earnings of the road for the fifteen months ended June 30th as $544,561.59, and the obe'rati lg expenses, $312,936.36, leaving the net earnings over expenses, $231,025.23. The total length of road now in pperja- tion is 338.05 miles. The main lilie from Wilmington to Mt. Airy is 24.65 miles; Bennettsville branch, 57. B5; Fac tory branch. 18.74; Madison branch, li.- 39; Granite branch, 2.02. ; To this j mdst be added 23.75 miles of side track,' mak ing in all 301.80 miles, j j j The road has twenty locomotiVes, six of which were purchased since the last report. The rolling stock consists of 6 baggage, mail and express cars, 18 passenger coaches, 210 box cars, aO stock cars, 232 fiat cars, 1 conductor's car and 9 shanty cars. Six coaches and 3 baggage, mail and express cars, were purchased, and 125 box cars and 125 fiat cars were built at the company's shops. j The report also says: 'It is gratify- ing to be able to state that , He earnings per mile ot roan per annum show an in crease over the previous year, and now 5 hat the system is sabout completed, irith the traffic fast developing on the new portion of the road", and the best crop outlook for ears, we may conn- deritly expect a large j increase in earnings during the coming year increase in the lumber business over same twelve monthsj o last year isks per cent., and this branch of, the traffic 1 I - i is growing rapidly, j During thej comihg winter tne cnariestoni sumter ana Northern railroad wili be completed from Bennettsville, through Darlington and Sumter, to Charleston, giving direct connection with Charleston, Columbia and Augusta; and as pur Western con nection through the Norfolk arid West- ein railroad is an assured fact, giving direct connection with the coalfields ill i and the srreat Northwest, we may, in tne we may, near tuture, iook lor a very large in crease in both the passenger and freight traffic. ! The old Board of Directors was re elected with the exception of Mr. Ef. J. Lilly, Jr., of Fayetteville, who was placed on the Board to; nil tbe vacancy caused by the death late Mr. E. J. Lilly. hi his father, he At a meeting of the Directors all the old officers of the Company were re- elected, i REV. SAM JONES. Pungent Hits in Els; Morning Sermon. A preacher said to me, "it 1 preached like you do I'd expect to backsl de. said, "I never heard you preacliL but it I preached like I've heard yon do. I'd expect the devil to get me every mm ute."' v , :, I You say: "Mr. one I must push my daughters into society.' God bless you; it I had some like some of ybiir's, I'd push 'em too! See a fashionable woman on the train: Two seats ahead of her sits the nurse I with her two children, while she nurses a poodle dog. I dont know why She loves dogs so, unless she is fond of her husband's kin. , L The average seventeen-year old girl don't know enough to shear a sheep, much less pick out a husband. Some of you know what I'm talking about; you married at about that age. I i Show me a boy that's proud ofjhis daddy has to tell who his darling is before you can recognize fiim and 111 show you a boy whose daddy is ashamed of him. i I never did believe the doctrine of men comimr from monkeys; but when I look at some men I think they are headed that way. , , I'd rather have the devil for President with no whiskey in the country than a grand man with whiskey. The devil would resign in three months! ; A saloon keeper gets a pistol and the any church member says, 'j I don't want difficulty." They may scare my -head, but my legs won't go! If they can afford to die for whiskey, I can afford to die for innocent women and children, The Clyde Iiine'sNpw Sieamer. The Clyde Line's new steamship4-the Pawnee built to run between New Yoak and Wilmington, arrived here yes terday evening about seven ojclQckJ un der command of Capt. TrlborL She left New York last Wednesday at midnight. The Pawnee is a wooden shiri about the size of the Gulf Slream,.but Vrijth great er capacity for freight. Her length (-over. an is aiv ieet. one nas accomnaouaLiuiis for about twenty first-class passengers, -.' mmm ' I 1'- 14 i The Register of Deeds issued three marriage licenses during the past week-'-two for whites and one for col ored folks. TABERNACLE MEETINGS; YESTERDAY'S SERMONS BY REV; SAMi P.- JONES. " 1,. ... Thousands of People Still Flook to. 'the .Gatherings and Increasing Interest Man; !lfested. , . .. J i , YESTERDAY MORNING'S SERMON. Another large crowd at the 'Taberna4 cle under the direction and leadership! of Prof, xcell, filltd up the hklFhour oi '-oong;. oervice f wun sweei music: i But little; mention pa's been made'in thee reports of the-music; which has been ans important feature of, the meeting. The songs learned there will ring out and : give hours of pleasure to many hearts . long after these meetings have' closed Prof. Excell deserves the highest praise: for the admirable manner in which he has led and taught the thousands of' hear-' ers, and the thanks 'of the. community; for having introduced into their homes . such sweet gobpeli songs. Sii (ging for Jesus is nc -"-Mnjon. ioble.work4' : , ': : fones took for his text one of the: shortest verses it h the Biblb:. "Pray Jst Thess, pth. chap- without ceasing, ter, 17th verse. j : . ... i Praye-, he said, is simply cdmnuinioa with God. Were Vou to ask rhe what is the life-iperpetuat ing power i n a tree -1 would say the circulation of tlie.sap...rIf as,ked to. demonstrate that statement . I would, vrith an ax:, put around deep into the tree and interfere with that circu lation and the tre; would die.! If I were asked wiat is -the life-perpetuating pow er in a horse, I vojuld say the circula tion of he blood i l his .veins; to demon-: strate that I. would jcut his jugular vein and thejhorse.would die; If I were asked what is the life-perpetuatingL power in the souL I would say,, . communion .with: God. I. ; Ul all tne duties: and privileges: ot : a Christian none is j worth'so much to a man as prayer, lhe- benptures tell us r 1 ... to "pray all prayer,' that is, a 1- kinds- of praj'er-4-sccret, public; eiaculatory, fam ily, etc. The man whd prays anywhere will f called on. If a man pays his debts he has pray everywhere lives upright and the esteem of his! fellow man; but let him bejwhatever else he will, if he does not pay his honest debts nobody has any use for him. Duty means, etymo- logically, d-u-e-s-tt-y, Ask a Mason or an Odd Fellow what dues are and - he will tell you, "Something I owe, some thing due, and something I rri ust pay or be turned out." A Christian's duty is something he owes to God; th;.t! is now due and he must pay or do wqrie. Christian father, is it your duty to pray in your family? If you the negative side ! and be honest you're safe. ) God has made spedial provision enough to this audi- for a man who hasn't sense be religious. Every father in ence who reads the Bible and prays with his family at Jleast once a day stand up. Twenty, besides the preBchers! 1. could go to Sob phow, China, among the professed Christians, and ;eet a bet-i ter showing than that, members in your! church, who pray in their families? replied, "I dor 't know." in yours, Bro. Beaman? How many Bro. Creasy.! Bro. Creasy How many "About fif- teen." rose? must How many in yours, Bro. Prim-f "Eight." Well, Bro, Creasy, I conclude ' your members either have no religion or no pastor to instruct them; I was going to ask your people to raise your salary, but I expect you're getting all you're worth. A good idea is for pastoi s to take stock annually, like a wise merchant does. In a pastorate of eiht years I cannot remember! a single man who did not priay in his family in wh Dse religion I had any confidence. It takes more re-1 ligionto make i , man pray than to take him to heaven, it takes mere steam to take an engine i rOm here to Petersburg than to Weldon , and how yo a can make any progress srjthout pra) ing in your families is a. my itfery to me. I Bro. BurnSi an Irish h borer, said "I'Ve ho, toime pray; the Bible says he that provide! hj not for his own house hold is worse ;han an infid ;1." I said, do you provide religion for them? He said, "Yes, the Bible lays on the table all I the time;" jl said, "Very likely i does ail the ti'tfre." I said, "Do you gather your corniand tell vour children to take an ear , rr hen they ajre hungry?" He. said, "No; I shell it, have it grouncl, and wife bakes it!" I said, "Then take that Bible, shel it off with your reason, grind it With yc ujr experience, and bake it in a warm heart, and give it to your family. ' i i I said once I Wouldn't take a mari ' in my church that wouldn't pray in his family, publicly. Or anywhere. A lead ing merchant told me I shut the door in his face; he icouldn't do all that. I said what kind of Christian do you wanf to be? like Bro. jGreen, who won't pray or pay, or like Bro. Johnson, who will occasionally work when warmed up by a revival, or like Bro. Watts, who is a steward, and prays and works anywhere? He said like Bro. Watts. I said, no; you want to live Watts;' like Green and be like Some women never go to prayer meeting until Ehey are so old theycanlt, and then say, 1' I'd give anything if I could go to prayer meeting." Bless your soul w,hj don't you. rack - out now. j A wipked fellow. got sick jand .sent for the ' preachers and made all sorts jof promises to God if. He would spare his life. He recovered, and w; s as wicked as ever, w hen reminded of his c prom ises, he said : f'A fellow will promjse most anything when he is sick as I was. There is top much of that. A dying boy said to bis. lather, -'bury me qn the .path to, the horse lot and every time you pass say, there is ;my poor lost boy, who nev sr heard -me pray. 1 -may pe talking, to fathers jiow i. . i- - f j . .. . T " M"tn children ,heii,5whpJn . I them. pray, jl dont, want, tq never heard leave any duty.nnperfqrrned, whereby I can make- my children i better. . I heard Christians say before I . was converted that praying, visiting the sick, dsoing.,.. prayer , meeting helped Ljicuo, .aHu wnen i was convertea- i saia I'll do these things; I need all the help I CngeU ; 1 ,, - .-v., - ' ; i I Church i members have -got - enough, religion pf-the kind, but they need com monsense, and that is the most uhcom monthing iri Americau . . . A .When my Wife handed me the Bible the night after. I joined the church, I . didn't know) what - to do. -I took it. etbodist pTeache'r was born. i. If I had refused wpuld have: been an old back slider like You. ;! I don't see "how you can respect yourself as a Christian when you neglect our, plainest duty. You say your Bible don't tell you to pray in .your family Neither does it; .telljyou to put 6n your shirts -There, are some duties so plain - that it would joQkj like child's play for God to -tell you-S : 1 -;: - .:..,.'. - -i' - . . Not. one church member in ten would fail to fall in line if his wife persisted in famy. worship. Home life has got to be regulated lor family prayer; if the wife gets up cross, and begins, to spank the children before breakfast, ' prayer ; won't jfit in, and )jrou. will never regulate home until ;you get where prayer is in j -the natural order! of things. : You must j have ..a - family altar if you perpetuate piety.- Your children go to church and Sunday-school and are pulled down to destruction by home life. Cards, balls and theatres - won't mix 'with - family prayer, i , ,-.. . , ...A church partakes of the life of its in dividual members... I don't know what you want with more members. If you thought I was going to duplicate those you have you. wouldn't want me here, Some say: "Sam Jones' converts won't stick." I don't f know whose converts these , you have are, but if the ones I make don't average up with them, I'm sorry for the lot. ..." If you've onlyJ; tried to pray once or twice it won't do; you couldn't walk or :talk until you kept trying. God intend: you shaU develop. . Secret prayer:; If you can't live righi , with three prayers a day, pray six; if thai: is not, enough do as the text says, "Praj' without ceasing' How can you-.sit down at your table ;and eat the bounty God has given , you and ask no blessing ner return thanks k !Yputurn up your nose at me, but you had better puff and blow over your own hoggishness. Turn up your nose at Sam Jones! You'd better turn it up at sotns things in town that are a disgrace to civ ilization, i ' , Find me a preacher in this town kick ing. against mej and I'll show you one who has covered up the devil in his church, housed men .who sell and drink liquor and rent houses to saloon keepers Dn Young, o Nashville had been a steward thirteen years, and one morning . i i i ' . i . l . t tt. - , .It in oeu ne got to tninKing. - ne saia l have been a Methodist 17 .years and a steward 13 years and never yet tried to live-one day for God. He got on his knees , and promised the . Lord if He would spare him until sundown he would put in one day for .him. He call ed the family together and had family prayer, went to his store and spoke kindly . to everybody, came to dinner bright and cherry, .(I expect he had chicken for dinner , and when he had helped the children only the neck and i I 1 J I" T DacK ;.were mi tne aisn.j -1 can ten man by the way he helps his children at the table. If you take the breast and give your child, the neck you ain't right always .want my children to have I the best I've got; and some of all I've got, apd the only thing I've got is religion It will change you when you get it. He told -his wife to fix a waiter of good things for a sick .man, took it to him, prayed with him, came home and spent the evening with his family; had family prayers and . retired. His two boyslslept. in an adjoining room. He heard Jim say J "Tom, the old man is go- ing to; die.' Tom said, "Why?" Jim ' jlf replied, "He's got pious all at once. some;pf you. were' to live pious twenty- four- hpurSi your, .children would nudi each other arid, say; "The old folks going to die." ' "Give me a manr whose wife has conp dence in his religion, and children who have Confidence in their parents relig ion . . j ;)l . God has .put up with some of you as long as hei can;, you will have to get out of the way of your children. Every manor woman in the audience who will say,,'By " the grace of God pray in my family and live more ligious inmy home, give me your hand..- .1 'j In -response to - this invitation hun dreds came.-forward. . , . THE NIGHT SERMON. 1 here were about sir- thousand peo ple at the Tabernacle last night. J : There will be at 9 a. m. to-day an ex perience meeting in the building. Those who desire to attend must be on hand promptly j as the doors will-be closed j so as to prevent those participating from being disturbed. ; This meeting is in ad dition to that at 10.30 a. m. 1 ' There. willalsQ be a special meeting for infen at . 3 p. m. Railroad men jare especially invited to attend these ser vices. . . j ; Mr. Jones ,aimounced that the nght service would probably close the meeting."- i f."r. 4 ":v:;-:; j Durine the song service, the colored people rendered with telling effect, led roll by Prof.. ExcelL'When the general is called I'll be there' ." Mr. Jones said that" it was a grand thing to listen to-such music, "I never could sing, though I used to be a tune- hister' op,my .circuit,-'' I used to four different tunes.to. every verse; sing used to -change! the.-tune att every line, ;. tell , you it takes a. musician to do that r rbf.'!.EieelLsungthe solo entitled "The OW Ship of Zion.f - - Ms. Jones said -that he - intended to talk rather-than preach to-night. Some of you fellows, have been sayings that I am nptvfit to preach from a pulpit. . Bless iyouy I seldom . go ' in one; they -are not mge enough. A preacher must nave a text, and I take as mine, "The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eter nal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." There are two. questions which inevita- Diy arise oetween employer and em ploye..; If yon seek to employ a man, he always asks. "What kind of work ho you want me to do ?'? and that being satisfac torily answered, there is another, "What will you pay me for it?" There can be no intelligent contract of labor entered into without the settling of these ques tions. . Some, of you . boast that' you never sustained the relation of servant. That may be so in one respect; yet there ' is an important and leartul sense in which all men are servants. Whose servant am I ? In reply, some will say that they are neutral neither servants .of . God or the Devil. Our Saviour teaches us that no man can serve two i masters. . If , you are nol. with God you are againsi him. There can be no neutral ground. Talk about your moral man; the fellow who is not quite good enough to go to heaven, por yet quite bad enough to go io hell. He is rascal. nothing but a white-washed These fellows stay out of the chijrch, do their duty toward man, 'probably, but l j . - t-v ' i i. L j rr neglect vjou.j mo you -Know me ainer ence between a whitewashed man and a iellow that,; is washed white? In the latter case he is clean forever, while in the former ypu have to keep putting it on every few days because it will peel off-..- .: '- ' -A'y Christianity and morality are msepar- able. All that law and moral preceDts can do is to reveal man's imperfections. But you need something else to remove them. Sin is like a cancer. Local ap plications may cure the sore in one place .but unless eradicated from the system by a blood purifier -it will break out in another place. Do not think that because you cured the sin on your tongue profanity that you have de stroyed all the virus. It will break out on your hand and you will steal. You must entirely eradicate it. Talk about being, a pretty good fellow,. Your trouble is ignorance, and . when ignor ance is voluntary it is a crime, j What do you want to be a fool for when kero sene is only fifteen cents a gallon and you can buy books at ten cents apiece, j You say,-"Well I am a Christian but I don't belong to tbe Church."; You are like those cowardly rebels who were the worse secessionists but never went to the front to maintain their opinions. I tell you .that if we had had all of the able-bodied men in the South at the front we would ihave been sitting up with those boys now. I would 1 not give a flip for a fellow that does not join a regiment of Jesus Christ, and do his duty, "Don't belong to the Church but I am a Christian .nevertheless.? When you see a fellow like that coming around I lock up your things. You give us as an excuse that yqu do not join the Church because (there are too many hypocrites in it in your, way. Did'it ever occur to you that j a fellow can't get in your way when he is ahead of you? Dou you see the L point? If I was in that fix 1 would keep my mouth shut and not give myself away. Of course there are members of the church who are not leading; the lives they should, but I believe there are few that do not desire to be good. We church members are in the field plowing and hoeing while you old sinners sit up on the fence in the shade and criticize us because we cannot do our work and your's too. You ought to get off that fence and help us, you old lazy devil. The church is a fence to keep the devil off of you; get inside and work. Some of you in the church let down the bars and don't replace them going to card parties, theatres ; and dances, and the devil slips in on us. When you begin to dilly-dally and waver about religion the devil puts you down on his side, i I often , think of the story of that poor girl at the dance who dropped dead,, and the devil came immediately and .carried off her soul, but in a few moments St, Peter came running up and said: "Where's the soul of thrt girl gone ?" and somebody said: . 'The devil has taken it off.pj- St. Peter, rushed : off at a double-quick and overtook the devil. "Hold on," he said. "What's the matter," said said the; deil. "You have got a . church member's soul there, and you have no right to it." "Well," said the devil, "you cari take it if you - want to, but she died so far in. my territory that J-thought it was mine." My doctrine is that a Christian ought not to go so far that if he dies ! he will be on the devil's territory. ; j I ! ' Do you live in - Christ, keep the commandments and obey the precepts of the law? If - you do not, then will you go to the devil and ask him what work he has for you to do, and what he will pay you for doing it? I The devil wants you . to live in Sin, and for doing so he. will pay you with the deepest despair and misery. . What does it pay, is the i great question. - God wants you to be charitable, honest,, upright and good, and if you are so true, He will pay you cash enough to iive on in this world and give you the ioys and pleas ures of heaven in the world to come. If the' devil pays with despair and misery, and God with happiness here and eternal joy hereafter, I would like to know how it is that the devil has one servant on earth? j J I am trying to get up a strike on the' devil. J.f you were working in a factory under a boss as mean as thej devil is, you would strike in fiVe minutes, and not only would not work for hiiri yourself, you would take a stick arid keep any one else from doing so. I am for the under dog in the fight. If you want to find Sam Jones, scratch under the bottom dog and you will find him. If you do not he has only gone for a few minutes 'to his dinner. j . ' -.- ...'.''! - i- Wat is the matter?. Here I have been trying for eight days to get J you people to strike and I have; succeeded with only about eight hundred. You must be fools. Some of you object to the use of that term, but bless you, what is the use ofa fellow having a name if you don't call him by it? j ; 1 ' I want to get up a strike on the devil and -get every J man tq say, "I have worked fpr that boss and I don't like .him, and I shan't work for him, 'and if a'ny one else tries to I will knock them down. .:--;.-. : j - j.; -j . . j I 'The dog shall return to his vomit.' That means the fellow that gets in the church and then returns to the wicked ness he forsook. Don't you go away from here and say that I have been using slang. (You fool, you, 1 1 was quoting the Bible. Christ called men by the names of the animals they most resembled. When I call a fellow a skunk of hell I mean a fellow that is odorous when, you touch him: Bless you, my illustrations are not elegant "sometimes, but they just illustrate, and that is all the use I have for them. I adopt my working implements to the fellow I am working on. ! l want to get the devil out of you; my honest purpose is to pull you out of those deep, bad places, andbless you, brother, I can't get you out any other way. . tLook at .it like a man. If God offers pardon and peacei say I will be a Christian the ; rest of my life. I desire every young man, every father, mother, and every good citizen to say, 'Ihave struck my last lick for the devil.' . The end will soon pe here. Pay day is com ing, when your wages will be counted to you to the last cent. A man near my church, whose ; life had been spent in sin, was dying. And such a death ! Tortured with the visions of thedemons of hell waiting to seize and drag himl away, he died in agony cringing before the fantastic creations of his own fancy. Turn to another picture the death bed of a pure; sweet woman, whose pas tor I was. She had been afraid af death," but having in a dream wandered to the Elysian shore, when death's dark angel folded her in his arm and swept out into eternity, she died as happy as any I ever saw. A few weeks later her little daugh ter lay dying. The doctors came to cauterize her throat, but she told them that it Was no use. "Mama is calling me, and I'll soon be with her." The lit tle girls of her Sunday school came to see her and they began to sing, "We shall gather at the river." As the words of the song floated out on the air, the little waxen fingers became cold. Ere the chorus j was j finished death had kissed the little eyelids down in an eternal sleep, and drawn about the little frail form, the dreamless drapery of an endless rest, and little Annie's spirit had gone to God, to meet her sainted mother beyond the river. Well might the old prophet say, "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his." ' ; ! The gift of God is eternal life, and if I had a thousand lives L, would give them to him.;! God help you to do the same. i j . superior Court. The Docket Cleared and Court Adjourned j for the Term. , 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.: j The Virginia Paper Company vs. Ju lius A. Bonitz four cases, all pf which were continued, j J. H. Strauss vs. W., C. & A. R. R. Co. Judgment for defendant. Motion for a gew trial by plaintiff. Jasr F. Post vs. W. P. Canaday. Continued.- - N. A. Brickhouse 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 i i H. A. Bagg vs - W. C & A. R. R. Non suit.' Appeal by; plaintiff. J. W. Harper vs. L. Stanaiand. Non suit. I - j F. H. Darby vs. W. A. Fanning, et al. Non suit. j ! J. P. Richards vs. Evander Leares. Non suit, ' ; i i J. H. Strauss ys. Peter Smith, et al. Order of publication. The Morehead Banking Co. vs. John F. French. ; Non suit. Amanda Everett vs. The Wilmington Sayings & Trust, Co. Judgment on de murrer, 'i Mr DuBrutz! Cutlar and wife vs D. L, Russell. Decree, Clayton 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. W Fon ville. Judgment for plaintiff. In the matter of the will of Mrs. Susan A. Flanner, who died in June, 1890, and left an estate worth $40,000to her niece, Miss McFarland and her sister. Mrs. Sarah Nut Andrew J. Flanner, grand- aside the will I on the ground of testa mentary incapacity. The case came up for trial yesterday morning, Col. Wad dell and D. L. Russell, Esq., appearing as counsel for caveator, and Hon. Geo. Davis, Iredell Meares and M. Bellamy, Esqs. counsel for propounders and lega tees. Motion was by counsel for caveator to remove the cause for trial to another county. The motion was met by coun ter affidavits by counsel for legatees and was over-ruled ljy the Court. Caveator's counsel then moved a continuance; mo tion denied. The case then came on for trial, when counsel for caveator asked that a retraxit be entered and withdrew from the contest. The question then went to the jury. The jury found that "the paper writing, propounded fot pro bate. Jnd; every part thereof, is the last will and testament of Susan a Flanner. And therefore it is considered and ad judged that ; the said - paper writing be admitted to probate and the executor therein Warned be qualified as such. Ahd it is further adjudged that the propound ers do recover of the caveator the costs of this proceeding, to be taxed by the Glerk." : ; ;V; J- .-'." i.-' . Besides the above the following cases were also disposed of ! j J. Wf Harper vs. L. Stanaiand. Judg ment of non suit j stricken out and case continued. j , j E. S. i Jaffray & Co. Vs. Sol Bear. Plaintiff1 has 60 days to file complaint. C. B. "Mallett Non suit. - In the matter of the Fenner. Judgment. Hall & Pearsall vs, R. M. McNair. Judgment stricken out; defendant, by consent allowed 60 days to answer. The Fischer Leaf Co. vs. W Defendant allowed 60 days to answer after filing complaint. F. H. Darby vs. W. A. Fanning et al. Judgment of noh suit stricken out, and case continued. Florence V. Bagwell Vs. Jno. G. Bag well. Continued, j Soh C. Weill vs. A. L DeRosset and wife. Continued. Thos. Bell vs. schooner Annie et al Continued. Jacob Thompson vs. A. C.Wesscll. ! Continued. Henrietta Stone, et al, et al. Continued. Vs. Susan Love, Lawrence Brown vs, no. F. Garrell, et. al. -.. Continued. i Sam! Reed vs. Carolina Central R, R. Co. .Continued, j I. El Taylor vs. W. P, tinued. j i Canady. Con- C. H. Stemmerman vs. W. H. Bell Continued. j Bank of New Hanover vs. W..P. Can aday and wife. Reinstated on the trial docket. A business vieVv of it. The Benefit Wilmington has Derived from the Sam. Jones Meetings. Talk about fairs, gala weeks and "booms" generally, but "your Uncle Jones" has brought more strangers to Wilmington during the 'past week than have been seen here during any similar period during the past ten years. 'And, moreover, they have spent, -in the aggregate, a large amount of money. A Star' representative accidentally met two leading jdry goods merchants ' yesterday afternoon. Both referred to the subject matter of -this local. J One said the inflow of strangers had been worth a thousand dollars to his house, and he would givej Sam Jones fifty dol- . lars to come here any time. The ; other said he and his large force of clerks had been busy from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. every day, making a livelier trade than he had enjoyed for some time. Yesterday afternoon the streets were literally lined with strangers, both white and coloied, and last night the shop keepers seemed to be doing a driving trade. M It is admitted that the' Weekly Star is a cheap paper at one dollar per year,- but the impression that prevails with some of its subscribers that it can be published, and mailed free of postage, for nothing is errone ous.- . j .The' bright prospects of rice planters in South Carolina and Georgia have been-rukied by.rjecent heavy rains. The reporfs of damage have caused prices of rice to hold firm. The Weekly STar, each issue containing nearly thirty columns of reading matter,1 is mailed, postage paidi for less than 1 ;wo cents a copy. And still some people seem to think it entirely honest to read it without paying for it. ; . Rev.; J. W. Rbse, of Johnston county, has been it the city a few days, in the interest of a mission church at Four Oaks. He collected about twenty dollars here. I Schooner Frank S. Warren cleared yesterday for Buenos Ayres, with a cargo of 2,767 barrels of rosin and ' 299,224 feet of lumber, shipped by Ed ward Kidder's son and valued at $11,000. If you owe for subscription to the Weekly Star why don't you pay it? Is it fair to subscribe to a paper, read it regularly jfor one or more years, and then pay no .attention to a bill when received? THEY WANTED ONE. How a Graveyard Was Started In Burl ington. Detroit Free Press. Out in the Erie coal fields near Burlington, Col., a! few years ago a lean freckled-faced fellow, with high Spanish heels on his boots, walked into the Stone arid Quartz saloon at Burlington, and leaning his long body on his bony arm bn the bar, turned round to the dozen loiterers who were in the place, and with a drawl drew his lanjtern jaw down1 on his flannel shirt and said: i "How long has this yer camp been a runnin' ?" j j "Two years," replied the bartender without raising his eyes. "Graveyard begun yit ?" "Not yit." . ; - ", 'Bout time the camp had one. S'pose I start one ?" ! One bony armj left the bar. It never reached ; its owner's- belt. There was a noise that sounded like a man dropping : a log chain in an empty, hardware store, and this noise was followed by a crash of explod ing six shooters from the loiterers. A curtain of white smoke rolled up against the ceiling1. The man at the bar made a lurch and then fell upon . the floor. Six bullets were in his body. i - - I A graveyard was started in Bur lington next morning. The lean . man started it himself,. Burlington is now wiped' out, but high upon Bear Rib Butte H one grave. It is the only one the camp left. I Salem Press: Salem Female Academy claims a register of 850 persons, pupils and teachers, for the present ses sion. Last year the number was 315. " Epocli. ' ..- "The transition from long, lingering and plainful sickness to robust health, marks an epoch in jthe life of the indi vidual. Such a remarkable event is treasured in the mjemory and the agency whereby the good health has been at tained is gratefully blessed. Hence it is that so much is heard in praise of Elec tric Bitters. So j many feel they owe their restoration to health to the great Alterative and- jTonic. If ' you are troubled with any disease of Kidneys, Liver or StomachJ pf short standing yon will surely find relief by use m Electric Bitters. iSold at 80c and $1 per bottle at Robert Ri Bellamy's Whole sale, and Retail Drue Store. ' t Read advertisement of ! Otterburn Lithia Water in this paper. Unequaled for Dyspepsia and all diseases of kid ney and bladder. j Price within reach of all. . ,-.. ' !-: :, I ' . I n it .li il ' 1' - V 1 m- J;1 fit it 4 I 1, 1 1 '. f ! i
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 10, 1890, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75