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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
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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. :
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.. (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. : .
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