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m VOL. I. ASHEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1877. i THE RANDOLPH REGULATOR. rfBLISIIEDVErAnWEDXESDAY -. : BY . . " 1 ... THE RANDOLPH PUBLISHING CO. OFFICII 2 DOORS EAST OP COURT HOUSE. On YeaKpostasre paid.........' Six Mont lis, postage paid. 1 1 00 THE .! CO : A : -.- . ; j. RATES OP ADVERTISING. One square, one insertion ......... 00 Ow square, two insertions 50 On: -quare, three insertions..; ..2 00 One square., four i.iiWrtioris.;.....i......3 00 One si in an1, three months 5 00 One square, eix months... s 00 For larger advertisement liberal eon tnfts will bo made. Twelve lines solid bn'i'-r constitute one square. ,A1I kin-Is of JOH WOIMv-JonO-.it the ''KKfU'LAToK" office,- in the ne.ntrt ftyli'. and oil r(';isoh:ibh;t'rins, Bilfefor a,ivrii.-in considered' due when pre-u-nt-d. -I From the Ihileigh observe-r. j5ih(iiAPin;cAL sketches of ; . . i TI1K OFFICERS OF THE '. GOVERNMENT.' NEW 1TUHBER50". ZEBU L 0 N B, V -A HOE, covkkxou.of the state. (iovi;i:.'oji Vance was horn in liun ctiinlm comity 'on the thirteenth day of 31 ay, 18:50, and no man in tlip State can boast a better lineage thali he. His futhjnr, David Vance, was a man ofhili character and intcliigciTjce and one who though lie preferred the quiet v.ulksof private life and never ehgaged in-polities, was a most excellebt and .estimable citizen. His grandfather. Col. David Vance, the elder,! was a Ilvvoh:-! Sioiiary hero who fo light and was woiinded at Kinii's ' Mountain. r Al't'T the Revolutionary war he was ( ark of the Superior Court of Bun- ov.rJte unfil his-death in 18p.' No :;n was his superior in accumcy in . kismets' and strict discharge of dutv, in ni:il temper. -hospitality, in'cgrit y iwi pt'tv- (J'Mvoi-nor roce.'s" Much'. Ah'"l'ii Vance, ?it. one time a1 member . of Congress .from the Mountain Dis tflet and who fell in a '.'duel with Hon. S;un ('arson, wjx also a man of rare promise and popularity.' Xor v.-as his note, I ho bc- United States Court for North Caroli na. Colonel David Coleman and W. W, Avery, Esq., of Burke, both Dem ocrats, became; candidates to fill the unexpired term caused by General Cliogman'a resignation. As soon as the contest had waxed sufficiently warm, young Vance came forward as a Whig candidate. Coleman with drew, .but it was too late ; a fatal breach had been made in the Demo cratic party and Vance was elected. In, 1850 he was a candidate for re election for the next full regular term, amI having firaiy" established liims'el f in the affections of thepeople of the District, was able to defeat his old opponent, Colonel Coleman, one of the best, purest, ablest and most pop. ular men that ever lived in the moun tains. He served in Congress until March 1861. His course in Congress was eminently conservative. He la bored hard .to stay the tide of North ern fanaticism and carefully refrained from language calculated to increase sectional feeling. He sought rather to allay it. .While a candidate for re election in 18G1, the Ordinance of Se cession was' passed by the- Convention on the 20th of May: .Preparations for war were already on foot, and Vance was no laggard in war. He respond ed, and at once, tothe very first call to arms. He had not favored the seces sion movement, but he was a true North Carolinian, and ready to obey the behests of his State at all hazards at thd hazard even of his life. Before the end of May, indeed on the very day tlie Ordinance ol Secession was active part in ever' stage of the Btrn gle ; ever maintianing and upholding the rights of the people of North Car olina! In every section of the State was his voice heard, exorting the peo ple to courage, and to patience, and to hope, and that, too, doubtless, at a great sacrifice of his private interests. Finally, in 1S70, when honest men once more controlled the Legislature, it was thought the time had come to make an adequate reward for such long and "faithful service in field, in camp, and , in the council chamber. Accor dingly, on November 20th, 1870, he was elected by the Legislature to be United States Senator, to succeed Gen. Abbott. The Federal Senate, after delusive hopes held out by its mem bers, refused to remove his disabilities, and on the 2nd of January, 1872. his resignation was sent in to the Senate of North Carolina. Thereupon Gen eral Matt W. Bansom was elected in his place, and was 'enabled, by person al appeals to Senators, to secure the passage of a bill removing his disabil ities. During the campaign .that fol lowed, Governor Vance took an active and distinguished parit, canvassing both the. Eastern and Western portions of the Stste. Everywhere he went he was received with the most cordial aud enthusiastic welcome. Governor Vance's disabilities being now removed, the great mass of the people everywhere were turned to him as the man to fill the vacancy caused b' the expiration of John Pool's term in the United States Senate, but their expectations were not fulfilled. The Polly's ChristlliaS S0CietyB fTer7 collected allj te nice booka jtbe curtain, over the window, and, pat wc tuum. e racu gav ooe or iwo j uia uooir&ueivrs, at mo head wneresao of our own, and asked the boys that could reach it, .And wts put tho taoss knew Polly, and most! of our mothers thuig . ou it j and the ruo filled With AS TOLD BY OSE OP ITS MEMBERS. What started the thing, I don't re- member. proposed and , w. vio iaA Jerson'a works a, whole set Uho could sec it without laorins. AnH n,l K.nH ' (Johnny Burnett gave that; wasn't ho then we trimmed, theVholflt room viUi xT. . : . , , , splendid t) and 'Little M I .m.. . A 1... i 1 i : . i r . i i -. . . Oir I believe Veil Tain tor I6 T b1 muK1 m uiiicrwrci on it; .anyway'h was splenaid, . " "U'J- 1 rcunruvr uin v uy uuca wie meTt I'll ti.ll von ll itmnt it ine dooks -unainv -unm s sionM, . oriui oooij, ma fiun;tlic picturt whero Nell proposed that xn .hoald "J ,"od -'""'i ethinS for Tolly Suphcns' G'rl, d-oh . oj, of otL, can t remember, only ail liice ones, passed, -he was Captain Vance, and recollection of the senatorial contest had his company in camp at .Raleigh; fin 1872 is fresh in the memory of us The call of President Lincoln upon all. Everybody knows that Governor North Carolina for troops to make war Vance was the regular nominee of the upon her sister States had been suffi- ; Conservative party, and that he was cicnt tor him. It needed not to wait rnaternnl ancestry or lo ing a -grandson of ( olouel Zfiidon Ihiird, one of the best citizens" df Bun combe -count y, honored an 1 respected nil his ' dnys' ' and fop man- yfars.. M .member of thr (i"nrr;d Assembly.' Hut notwithstanding su.;ii Imeago, ooven .made man and ow. for an ordinance ofseccssiou. His cotivpiiny was one of those that formed the Fourteenth Regiment, first com manded by that gallant soldier Gener d Junius Daniel. Captain Vance defeated by the refusal of certain gen tlemen to be bound by the action of the partj' caucus. Everybody regret ted that division and dissensions should have occurred in our ranks, and the people everywhere S3'inpathised erved with his regiment in Virginia j with him in his defeat, and have, ever ic ma-v! boast i' Vance is; a sellV to his own tal ents and energy. .' hi rnpid advanco- r i ineni m :ne. i.ie miieriTed put nt .ie more; than a librarv, Iut.th:it librarv i'.y UfliM-io ine rtrwie.sr-a-'ivnntfq're, so ' r 'u.if . ,....1.. .-,.. 1 in.vt .i . uu- i i. i vi o i . ivt i i i lie i :oeura'!'y' of ids .knowledge, especially in the' English -!a:-ies. as is sta i".;e- well . its od to jiulue, was ed by most ie be came, a student at the Fniversity. Shortlv after Ids return home the next a:,ouihinir. in the year until late in the fall or early winter. when he was elected Colonel of the Twenty Sixth Regiment, in command of which he fought tit the battle of Newborn and in the fig!;ts around Richmond. In August. 18G2, he was elected Governor, and having resinned his colonelcy was inaugurated in the fall of that year,. under a special ordi nance of the convention fixing the date of the beginning of his term of office. In 18G3, he was re-elected Governor of the State. His vigorous, earnest etforts for successful prosecution of the war are matters of common history. In April, 1865, he lea Raleigh with General' Joe Johnson's army, went to Greensboro, and from .thence to Char- lotte, where he joined President Davis. From. Charlotte he went to Statesville, in Iredell county, to which place he I'Oiir niiil iui:'! I .- i 1 1 o r i i n 1 1- rr I i. . . . . . , I .... ... ..... . ... .. , ,la prcvI0USly rcmovoU lus-fam.ly for forth that thc hour an(1 'ir. "' I hjrAVTl There he rcnaiued mcct, Vanec str:lislltway v v r; ;. U rir.til some time in May, ISOo, when arrn0r, nor did he put it J. Vance was a poblicuin I'.v n hture. ' t,rt .0 j . .ie wabairested and carried to ash- victory was W0I1. Never aniLlhe charms ot tho law. with all its ,u - , ..-..., . A, , , i ,J iiiLituu v u . itiui iiiiorisoiieo in l ion a i ... .. 1 i . . . . i . : i i i. uuiiyib ami cmomWeni, uiu noi pos- Cnpitol whcre Le was oohfinetl for SCV sess power; enough to rule with undi: , cml monlhs. It while-there that vided sway over him. It was only in hi QnQ Gf his characteristic replies tiiu political atenu uiai lie couai una given to him the meed of praise due to one who has been, in peace and in war, true to party, true to honor and true to North Carolina. Rut the years rolled on and the nreat battle of 1S76 drew nigh and the first notes of preparation were calls for Vance to take the leadership. As the days went by the cry increased, so that when the convention met ft was ! one-grand shout for Vance from the mountains to the .seashore ; for Vance fast, and all the time. The people had determined to make such an effbrt as they had never made before to redeem the State, and in their grand supreme effort they wanted no leader but Vance, lie had not sought the nomination, in deed had done all to prevent it that a good citizen might do against the will of the people, but when their flat went the man must buckled on his off until the before since the white man first set foot upon the soil: was there such a campaign in North Carolina as that which ended on the 7th of November last. From to do; and make some Christmas. Polly's a real nice girl, and used to go to our school, but she fell on the ice last winter and hurt her back, and she had to Ho down all the time ; she cant even stand up a minute. Well, wo used to go and see her as often as we could ; but, of course, we had our lessons, and practicing, and oth er things, out of school ; and so she used to get awfully lonesome, Nell said, because she: couldn't do much of any thing, and she had read every book Nell had Nell lived next door and used to run in. And she staid alone ever so much, because her mother's a dressmaker, aud has to go out, and she didn't have things very comfortable ; the doctor's bills were so large that her mother had as much as she could do to get along. When Nell told us about her we felt ashamed that we hadn't been to see her more, and so we just got a plan to give her a surprise. We gave our society a new name, "Polly's Christmas society," or "p. S. Society," in public, so that everyone should not know what it was, and we all went to work for her. Kate Woodbury was president splendid girl Kate is. She said she would make a nice wrapper for Polly, out of a blue dress of her own that she had burned a hole in ; she knew her mother'd let her have it. Mattie liar ker said she would give her a quilt, or spread, that she was making out of bright bits of silk. It was lo-cabin pattern, and real pretty. Alice Bur nett said she would make her a pretty rug to lay before her lounge ; the floor was bare, and it would look so pretty. She knew how to make ono out of round pieces of black and red and white wool en. You've seen them ? A black one about as big as a teacup at the bottom, a red one, a little smaller, laid on that, and a quite small white on top ; all tied together with a tuft .of red thread in the middle of the white one. Then, when she had lots of these made, she sewed them all on an oval piece of old sacking, and it was real bright aud pret ty. You can shake the dust out of them. Nell said Polly needed a curtain for the window at the head of her lounne : she had nothiug but an old shade, and it wasn't nice, so I said I would make her one like some I saw at mv aunt's last summer. It was of unbleached muslin, with two stripes of bright red, and bright blue percale across the top and the bottom a little way apart, you know. It didn't cost much, and 1 had a dollar of my own, and it was ev er so pretty. It looked like son) for eign cashmere thin;;. Well, we all went to work with a will. Nelly got Will, her' brother, to and others I 4 ones,' and in good order. Mrs. WJo4Jbury put in a lovely new Bible, with! clasps, and there were lots of peotry Looks ; she's very fond of poetry. ! I And rlct me think Sluttie's si&ter, e her a most little angel, Oh, it was vc seen Pol and I want- who's been to Kuroe, gav lovely photograph three' or cherubs, or something. too tweet for anything! , Iy look at it till she cried, ed to myself, though I'm not good like Polly. " We got a glass, and made a frame for si t Sr- ft lcaie ucnens i hpw ? they're We all went out in the woods to get tqera, and we it of card-board, with" de glued on. You know real pretty, aren't they ! evergreens ?. left from decorating oat church. Over the door we put "Merry ChiUtmas," in aut"oinn leaves,' rJtfrs. Taintor.made it; ba sowed the leaves upon ; whita , uiuliu, . anil Ji locked as though it was right on tho wall. v. . Wo wojkrd there, if you'll beliero me, till twelve o'clock, and when wo finished it wai yut lorcly; All tho time Mrs. Stovena could hardly help bit; she just sat iu tho corner and cried, I never saw such a woman. , . Wo gavc.MrsStevcns the new bluo wrapper, and told her to put it on Pol ly when she dressed her, and tell her the girls sent it to her so ah o would bo all fine when wo came. , I was so excitod I thought I shouldn't sleep a wink that 1 night, but I did after all slept liko a log, and I had to hurry olf bcoro break- brought home such beautiful mosses jfast so as not to bo late. , wo tried to think of something to make of them, and at last we did fix some of nicest in a box, and covered it the i ? i fastened at the corners paper gummed on.. We ferns creen vet. so late At seven o'clock wo were all th( all we girls, I mean; Will and Johnny wouldn't go and .Mrs. Stevens' went with five pieces of glass tut the right into the bod room and dressed Polly and shape to make a cover likje a box, and brought her out. - She was so thin and ugnt that sue was easily earned. )YqU ly .was so delighted with her pretty wrapper that she looked perfectly hajvpyr when she came in. The first thing she saw when her mother , laid her down haps you won't think sb, but it was j was us, and she began :. "Oh, -girls I" but at that minuta she seemed to seo something strange in thc room. ; .'.'Vjiy, who" hlio began, and stopped shore, aud looked around. Sho . looked; at everything the walls, the picnre,ttho. stand and books, tho mosses, tho lonpgo itself; her chin began to quiver and her face to work, and suddenly she just with colored found two as that, and some partridgo-berry, and; Kate put in a slip of her Kenil worth ivy, and per- just lovely! And it grew all winter, and I believe Polly enjtyed it more than anything, she watcht! it so much; she knew every leaf, she said. Well, I believe that was all. These things took us some weeks to do, and we worked hard too, I tell yon. We had hardly time to male lour Christmas as hard as she could, cry. I never thought of crying ; and I'm suro I don't know why, but I found thc tears run presents for our own folks, but I did j buried her face in thc pillow and cried get time to embroiderthat cushion for mamma isn't it pretty I did every stitch mvself. Rut where was I? Oh. all this time the secret was kept nicely, mlni; down my cheeks, and looked though a good many knew about it; around, and every one x?f the girls was and just before Christina one day Mis. jurying, too. It was thc most, ridiculous tevens, Polly's mother, was cutting a thing I ever saw, but I couldn't help dress for Mrs. Barker, ai d we all went il- Soon we began to laugh, though, over to tell her about it! Nell Tain tor aiul tanke fun of our crying, and wu told her that we girls hai a society, and j wouldn't let Polly even try to say had been making some presents fqr Pol- j thank you . , ly. llien we all . went out mto the hall and brought in our surprise. for Mrs. Steven. We told her we had come to stay to breakfast, atd everyone of us had a basket full of good things from our own breakfasts broiled, chickens, breakfast rolls, lint coflce (Noll brought that froru her mother's kitchen,) cold meat, pickjes, hot Surata'poUtoe at least, and ; (from Nell's,) and ever to many things. e could come We pulled out the table and spread it so that Pol- j beforu I oily lounge, and before Jong jwo sat down to a jolly breakfast. 1 hre was ever so much left, though. Well, she cried ! I d d wonder why iti 'fre glad ! She s f people cry when theyVe glad said she had been trying Jto get Polly something nice for ChnstmaK, she had i if such a dull life, and shejwas so patient, but in spite of all she could do, every thing she could earn s used up in doctor's bills and rent She said she nieant to make her a cake Nell said, right olf, that5 si into their.liouse to make it IT .11 1 .t .1 I: e iaiK.ea me iuiu over, uu I we room and verge enough . for the devel opment of his real nature. Aceariding ly, in 183 l, hc became a candidate foK the House of Commons, as it was! then called, and was elected by his follow citizens as the Kepresentative of his nativo county. He served only one 'terra in the Legislature: JtflS55 he was associated with Col. John IX lly man iu the editorial conduct of the leading; paper of , the Whig pkAy in! that section of the State, the Asheville . jectator. : , - - - J j ' In 1856 he was a candidate for the State Senate against Colonel David Coleman and was beat cn, Coleman and Democracy being too stroiig for Know Nothingisni even when advoca ted by Vance. j In 1858, General Clingman J then the Representative (n the United States Conqress from thc Mountain Distric t, was appointed by Governor Brau'i to the fill an unexpired term in 111 T,Tr rn, ' n! ftbeStatC ' ",e 0t"er- J M ir.cloth sifa. He u,ade it oM Tom Gonrtn. of Ohio, "tt hai are in every porti6uot ,t to which he wont, ! out of some timb.rthev lu.J in tl.evanl. you doimr here Vance 9 ' 4if nm bee i i i .. - I T f,. , ta U LC'L j was one -rand triumphal procession. : U was rougIl of cou but htout x lor debt. "lOU see,' said he, at ich in iinrisincT nf thpnoonTo nf nil ! ii i ' , . t' . . . r 4l-. TT11 . 1sucn an llPnsinS OI "ie people ot all s tell you ; and we nailed some old bag- . ... M classes ana conditions was never be- in on it fnr -r-i -if , - . , . . .1 i o o - - vviivui, aim a ; w I l'JIU III UI III ilXOlllia. 11 he vote the last man and the last dollar I to whip the Yankees. I went his se curity aud as he won.t pay, they have taken me with a ca. sa. and bere I am." : was simply amazing. nice soft cushion for it, and a big pillow, and covered tho whole with prutty But the last act in the great drama . chinu ; and fattio made a crocheted Fiuallv about ten o'chv-k Wa nt. lecided that Mrs. Stevens should get . aWay, and nfter we were gone Polly tc Polly to bed early on Christmas Kve. jceived tho cry xxt prtsent of all from There wxs a hall between the sitting- j ntr wotLcr. You it' worried room and bed-room, ajJshc thought ! I110"1 to death that khcVouM'n help" pi ,.T it, t jner mother. It was ono-thing that Polly wouldn thear us,d we were to kt ?r Uck . And Mrs; hcTl gq about tight o'clockjtc fix it all up had taken specimens, of her kiiittlng for her, aud then all mie-et there (Iw 'around to ladiefl wlip had little chH Ji-en next morning to see hcritrprise. All - antl a'1 Pot trs ! for pretty bright that day, Mrs. Steven tld us after- r 'T, CXJ?U?U tn ki " wt ' ' ' ar"4' furnished her own yarn, and there wu thin sr. 1 .f. that oar school i J jej cheerful, poor a pile of lively colored yarns for bar to td girl, alwuys; begin oh. " I'olly could krat- beautifully, ami I .l t. i:. . . ' .1 . was getting ready for a1 festival and a i , V , ttar,,1"uc i-uUfi jivr iiijijir wu lUC lCfc but ho remembered was not completed until yesterday, tidy for it, that could bo washed. was cn rcy when Zebulon B. Vance, having for I forgot ! - l jn i s-, i O i O lb IU WU b a Mrs ance having fallen very ill, Gov- j u, Wrf . k b h Q . . ornAr lTl.lo of tks o.UAlf ,fl I . . " " J4t Governor Vance's friends, and in tar-1 into thc offlcc frora which ho ernor of North Carolina, was reinduct- saw, and Kate Woodbury took an old the United States Senate, caused by the resignation of Hon. Asa Biggs, who had been appointed Judge of the dv recognition of the nrotection ex-f " o tejided to him when the raid was made by Confederate troops on his printing office in Raleigh, wrote . to President Johnson in. his behalf, and he was per mitted to return home on parole, and was finally released. Towards' the ciose of the year Governor Vance re moved to Charlotte and resumed the practice if the law. Of course, during the war of recon struction, as it may well be' tensed, it was impossible for Zebulon H. Vance to be an idle spectator.'! Although a on cm than I would for clean white banned man, he took, wc believe, an 'dishes.? L, . , , ' . ,1 j . . , , . ! thing to help her mother i jUinstmas tre, and she cjouldn't help prnt hhp 4haJ . j thinking of laat year, I fmj.pose, when In the evenfn? wheal- ad rccents with way to a ChriAtraas' party i passed by roily and, the curtain. was t rL I not q.uite Jrawn T couldn't help just iP1" - inero ime iav nail. up on . . . ! sihf Vll thr ami liurl rrr.nta a-itK ' VtrtlT tn ft ChnKmH Tvirt ' V.1T'' T T,.l. T) j , . - rr.r-. I. V wuu uui ucu &aea out a was ; stand , out of their attic. It was rood driven by Federal bayonets t6 make : and strong, but awfully old-fashioned ; room for W. V. Holden. The right i and it had two drawers and leaves to will riumph. Polly, because she could keep the things ; in the drawers, you t r anri ii-r tlli 1 1 sTkil A clanil . . . it A lady expresses her opinions upon the show of ceramics at thf otnnsi. shelves could stand on it. And I made tion by saying : I suppose there's a cover to fit if out of Turkish towel- something lacking in my composition, !lnS lDe new.ushionel way, you know, the rest of us. She did have a present A too, a eii as rewpijus ; ana we . her P)bow5. a book in htr hand, tut took -it with us when we went that not 1 A I t night. It was a real nici work-box, the most lo f Pve often x reading, looking at nothing, with jrely, bappy look 1 ever saw. wuhed I had a picture of her. but I wouldn't give any more for that horrid old ware, all covered over with dragons and moon-eyed women and trees, with fat sleepy looking birds with gay figures sewed on ; and Alice brought a sweet little vase that she had to hold flowers, or ferns and grasses, in winter. We knew Polly was very fond of flowers, and Nell said she had to keep them in a tea-cup. Let loc sec, was that all? Oh, no; .Murion made it. l olly vu ner pet scholar. 7 jWell, we could hardltf wait for eight o'clock, as you may imagtce, and before the .clock was done strljlDg we were there. Polly was abed aiid'atleep, Mrs. oil v I was her net i t. . ... .l ?. after that. From that dir she was thi happiest girl I ever saw, boy from mbr ning to night, knitting or nading. or repeating poetry, which she h-sreed-by the pg". Shi? earned ag jI deal of money, and Uie knit itolattifally Iht he always had lota of order Mhead. - Now her, mother knits tco. and tukes in some workl t::t does cot co out anr Stevens said and we went rijrht to work. i The boys brought in tlie toung?, and put it in a pleasant corner if the room, niorn.' I t'dn't know any happier or nicer puce to vjsu inaa l'our stef ens . i ii :. i. 1I..10L ' i quilt and nice big pillow ; and wC laid ! onc 1 ever QIW Tlrci lx S and we girls fixed it Op with its new ibe ni? dwn In frotit r s
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