.1 11 illivL 11 ii iLvullllvlli viyil JImIM mm mWm A. Tempernnce and Family Newspaper. : vol. rn-iTo. 40 BALEIGH, IT. C, TTAUOH 29, 1879. Terms, $1.00 a Tear General Hews. Real estate in Lake'City, Florida, is in better demand than for " years past. . . ' A proposition to extend munici pal aid to manufacturers is under consideration in Milwaukee, Wis. Late accounts from Kentucky, in dicate that the deposits of petrole um in that State are very extensive. The American Iron and Steel As sociation will meet in Pittsburg in April or May next. The date, has not. yet been announced. Tomatoes are, selling at 25 cents per bushel in Key West, Fla. With i" ten miles of Gainesville in that State, 600 acres of land are now planted in tomatoes. r ; . may not be iar ttistant wueu - vvm-t fjeld Sc;ott Hancock wdj be the fa vorite of the people as he has been and is the idol of the army. It is estimated that Georgia has received this year, at her different ports and railroad statfnns, 60,000 tons of guano, against 71,000 last year.. Each tore costs tile planter a bale of cotton. ; - 4 There are fourteen ex-Governors in the Senate Messrs. Anthony, Booth, ' Burnside, Coke, Garland, . Groome, Grover, Hamlin, Hampton, . Harris, Houseton; Kellogg, Kirk wood and Vance. ' v It is in the wind at Newport that t the Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise will hire a cottage there for tli oncoming season. Sir ' Edward Thornton will lease the cottage "for the Canadian twain. It is a noteworthy fact that the medical schools of New York, Phil adelphia and Baltimore alone have turned out this season a total of nearly, if not quite, one thousand doctors, besides a goodly number of dentists. - A San Francisco letter says : "A powerful company is organized to light our city with electricity. Te most approved apparatus is on hand, and numerous patent rights are secured. Ex-Governor Latham is at its head, and that means busi ness with dispatch." Philadelphia Times : It is bad for tue country ana, oaa lor jojl,. no doubt, that experienced officers should be turned out to grass with the part v that appointed them, but a Republican movement for reform would have looked better when the Republicans were in power. A movement is on foot. at Boston to light the , harbor at night by the electric light. It is thought by plaT cing powerful lamps on Fort Inde pendence and the wharf of the Cu nard Company the harbor can be lighted sufficiently to make it safe Hie u.irKesi uiguu - - Ex-Congressman Peddie, tf New Jerseys states that during a' ivnent visit to Ireland he could not fail to notice j the demand for American goods.; The preference - for them over- those manufactured in England amounted ' almost to enthusiasm among the people, and this feeling is rapidtj growing. ' Fisk University, at Nashville, ac knowledges the , receipt . from' the Rev- W. H. Wilcox of 0,000- This sum is buf a small .fraction of the munificent gift to the cause of Chris tian education in this ' country by Mrs. Daniel P. Stone, of Maiden, Mass.,. the amount donated aggre gating $1,000,000. : , I -. ' o m , ' .. (jcas of Thfltight. ' Yon cannot dream yourself into a character ; you must hammer and forge yourself one. Love is the strongest and. most arbitrary moral power. Lore fur- gives, but never excuses. If a tree has not blossonv"3 ' -:5";" xJ'iX V IS. to snh- I on it in the autumn. Kty'of pure alcohol Love descends to; 'friendship ; friendship never soars to love. Women do not like to remember ; men do like to foresee. A man seldom shows improvement until he has found himself ; and in this sense, if in no other, the major ity of mankind are lost. By their fickleness women escape much misery. Birds save them selves only with their wings. Crowd is no company ; men's fa ces are but like pictures in a galle ry and talk but a tinkling cyirbal, where there is no love. M No character is complete that has not some mental treasures on which it may draw during tho treachery of fortune. ; . Hearts have windows. Thev that the glad sunshine Vif all that is true and beautiful in this life may enter'and abide therein. Pity with its crystal drops is sweetening many a cup of life. And, in return, many a grateful heart is laying on the palm of pity the choi cest gems of gratitude. Good resolutions are an honor to every heart that may form them. But that honor takes to itself a new luster and that heart is nobler still when these resolutions are not bro ken. ' : It is the narrow -edge3 men the men of single and intense purpose,1 who steel their souls against all things .r else who accomplish tho hard work of the world, and who are everywhere in demand when hard work is to be done. - In our youth we gaze only upon thejsuter and the fairer side of life's patchwork, aud it appears to us to be a beautiful whole. In old acre wo contemplate the other side, and are disappointed and disgusted writhits ragged seams and its tawdry tags and ends. : . :iJn of