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BLUE EIDGE BLADE.
MOROA.NTON. N. C. May 14, 1881.
J. II. UALii WURION,
Edl or :tml Pron'r
MEMORIAL DAY.
Miscellaneous
Its Obcrvciiif e Iti Moranton
The Vcat!iri-r-The
Add re .
.The Tenth of May, ts is cnstomary in
he South, was observed ab Memorial
Day in our town. The day was pleasant
and the chief mirshall tuid his assistants
conducted the proceedings in a very cred
itable manner. The address of Mr. C
: F. McKesson was a (splendid production,;
and was deHvered in .1 graceful and
brilliant manner. We would be pleased
to publish the aadress in fall, but owing
to limited space we can only give these
extracts :
"North Carolina was slow to leave the
old flag and the Union ; but when she
was Dornnaded that it was her dntv. she
Buffaloes were slain to the extent of
100,000 in the far West last winter, for
their hides.
Dr. M. J. DeRoseett, s prominent
phjBiciau of Wilmington, died in that
city May 2nd. 1
Southern California wants to secede
from Upper California and go into busi
ness for 'herself.
The North Carolina Parmacy Act of
1831, goes into effect from and after the
let day of June,
Many reflecting Democrats are begin
ning to look on prohibition as a Trojan
horse, Wilmington Star.
ihe proposed world's fair at New York
iu 1883 in a failure, and has been aban
doned. The money subscribed will be
returned.
entered into the conflict like (Joifrey of
Bouilon with holy lance into the field of
Afkftlon, crying, "God lor thh right and
ihejnst!" Then the rnst-d sword of
the Involution and the brilli int banner
of our new Confederacy were thrown- to
the sunshine, and the breezj. Uur whole
Southern country was oiil yr.iid military
t nciitnpuieut. Tu- Hanou of w;ir rushed
throu'ii her border. hk" the fi rv crops
orClaii Alpine through the hi lis f S-ot-liiud.
Our buys our ni'-n 01 matnrr
years and even old yrey lriTeil fathers
enlisted in the cause, oon .(he earth
trembled 'neath thj tread or Ji.s':l. ar
ndes. and this miclitv contiii nt in-iwd
like a sea in a tempest. Vith what 1 f:y
patriotism our citizens becmie soldiers !
The followers of Cortz and Pizarro
were. goaded on by a thirst of gold ; the
Jeg onury soldiers of Homo burned with
fl love of conquest. When Maiirius and
Sylla itnbu'-'d the streets of the seveu
hilled city with royal and pit-bean blood,
it was for the splendors of t'te Imperial
purple. When the hips "of L'r.uiee
blu-hed crimson witli defeat at Ajjiucourt"
it was in behalf of the decaying system
of feudalism. When Klchard III. and
the Duke of Richmond f,n.ht at 1$ js
tvorth, it was for the jeu.-!s of" . crown.
When Henry V. sailed down the placid
waters of Southampton and . beseigwd
Ilavtieur, it was for the hind of Cathe
rine and her Norm in dowry. XVlieii the
roses of Euglaiid wrre. marsh dl-vl against
the Thistle of Scotland or the Shamrock
of Ireland, it w is for domain and em-
inv-u' neaTtQ
swelled witli but one emotion, w irm-. d
with but one passion to protect their
homes and their heart hetoncs. Tor this
they pledged their lives-,-their fortune,
and s icred lio-ior, and thousands sealed
the. com, act w.tii b!-i;i. - ''
"The cii-it-):i! (.1 .I' torating toe graves
reach'-s i'.u- lu.;. info the ages. The
U-heesalLus decirt-ated the grave of Ach
illas with jifeimnes and Mies-. Anac
reon speaks of the custom 111 rapturous
lhym.', .viiilo Homer, amid the tears of
the Iliiad, plants flowers' 01 the graves
of his fallen heroes. With us this cua
Oiii is embalmed with peculiar love in
the hearts of our womeii, for it has about
it so mii'h that is tender, and pure, and
holy. I confers with shame that our
' aien do, not take the interest iu this cer
emonial that they ought. They are too
much interested in the hunt for. office,
the "bo.v to be popular," the rattle of
the corn wagon, the philosophy of the
yard t-u lc, the search for gold that iu-
satiable Neptuue tital eats up all other
gous. liut, my fair hearers, should you
uegiect this iKlty, Natii.e herself would
elude and rebuke you. tor she annually,
. us if wnh a mother's hands, plants upon
thosii -sacivd moulds tiie foxglove uud
Jhe violet, the one of w.i.m t.t-, i.j tiny
notes, a ri ipi'n m sail, whii.- tn other
sheds morning an i evening d-w-..rop
tears upon th" to ub."
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Mr. McKesson closed in the following
appropriate ad well chosen wor is ;
'Jc eP;us that the GovL of War and
fhe lMnoeof IVace dcreeedi against us ;
ml way lament ? The fig a r of Jud.a
. 011 the Ko.hiu coin, Telle. and w.'fpmg
.m. Iiirrjul.il c v i n ... s; :y and
the li.sCory -i a lutiou tu it iijagut lor a
cause and 1-s: :L.
"Let us all .forgive and" forget forget
and forgive and hope that, after all,
the peace dove has settled upon 1 he naves
of ad our Southern h nu s .r. i vl. it w,-
. as a people have passe.; tVoai n ',, 1 :he
ro-.J, audiire living in the ii-h; oi a ,.!
- gloiious day: Let us bide t-h faith tiiat
the passions engendered by war have
been borae away on the ljr.-ez s of In-u-erlylove;
that the cou'-titut.o.i is. an
chored to its ancient mo rings; tliat the
old Sbip of State, freight, d with the
dearest interests of nniuauity, s.;ils on
Unruffled aij.l nou-sectioijal seas, and
that we t the Sijuth, uisrohtd and dis
crowned as we have bem, ui truth ami
pride offer our ftllegiauce to th.- ti ig of
our country, which floats oui iu its beauty
I like a tropical night brillinnt witu the
t Uri of a whd bsmiapher. "
The Commissioners in a number of,
counties throughout the State have re
fused to grant licence to sell spirituous
liquors
Vi. Eugene Griasom, of this State,
UMibeeu. icaJe Third Vice President ot
the American Medical Association recent
ly in session at Richmond, Va.
Among the curiosities of Louisville,
Ky ., ia a boy not yet three years old who
weighs 110 pounds, and over three feet
tail., Re wears a So. hat.
The nomination of Geo. B. Everett,
appointed by the Presidbttt to Buooeeu
Collector Wheeler 01 the 5cu N. C. Dis
trict, has been coafirajad b the Senate
Gen. B. I Butler having announced
that he "fells like a boy again," the
Boston Herald a wicked enough to re
mark that he probably means the "oiu
boy.
The hitch between Garfield and Couk
iing gave rise to the question lrequeut y
asked, "Who is Pisident?" it now
begins to look as if Garfled or Blaine
was.
A Federal jadgo in Arkausn h vs re-
cently rendered a decision which make
the Indians the exclusive proprietors of
tbeIndaui Territory under the existing
treaties with the government, aud says
no man has a right to ettle in that ter
ritory, which embraces 14,000,000 acres,
without the consent of the Indians.
A genuine sensaation was created in
Alexander county recently by the falliug
of an immense bonld-ir of rock from
Rock Face Monntain, the rock being
brOomiug suddenly dttich !1 faoai its
resting place aaJ tumbling down the
ujouDtaiu with a terrible crash, carrying
with it trees aud whatever else came in
its way.
Riedsrille Timet: A popular cry is
that prohibition will save the youth of I
the Lund from di-unkuess. The belt r j
plan would lie to put the youth & the I
laud to work and t jack abou: one-third
of them trades, who are in a genteel do-
nothing sort of way prepairicg for the
parlor stepping professions of life, with
just enough talent to dfm like their fa
thers, aud not su.iieieutiy s'-asjued in
work to of any real service to the
world outside of a cut-away cot uu-l
demiu'd foine oignr."
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Olera hia ser.-i-vs t tf citizens of M..r-
gmton and the urr ..n.:i:j country. i 1
be f -und in his oTe in the Urte'-i U v.-.
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The Senate at Woi'k.
The llepublicaus of tti U. S. Sea.it j
have deciot-d to yielJ t far as to go iuto
Executive Session for ttw cousidention
of the nominations of tbo Preside it. and
o: the treaties with foria p wrs. Mr.
D.twms annonnced "tlie suIp way back
down" of ids party ; tiiey did m-ujau to
yield the point lor whicli they nad been
dghtiug, Imt only desired not to hln.pr
the Admiuisnitio-! auy fiirta r. ' To.'
Senate was iu Executive .Session two
days, and did au iui-.iuoo ammt or
work, aud it is L ui -v ; I .iV'.i.ijo ifrn- 1'
will this month le iv. ng Altiine's set,
Itiddleberger and Uorhaui out in the
coid.
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Take this method 0;' inl -ruling the peo
ple of Burke ami surrounding coun
ties that tliey have jx-t opened
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'The statue f f General Stonewall Jack
sou, erected in Metaire cemetery, iew
Orleans, was nnveiled on the 10th iust.
Tne statue is said to be very handsome
and life like.
The Winston Sentinel is jubilant over
the fact that eighteen tobacco factories
are uow in full blat - in that town, aud
large quantities of the yellow leaf art:
being worked up.
The latest we have g.d is that ex-Gov.
Holdeu has given it up, and John Nich
ols (of "Gorman and Nichols ate with
us" memory) will be his 'successor as
postmttster at Baleigh.
unngmiiuD irom .Nortu Caroliua con
tinues. During the last few days several
parties, says the Greensboro Patriot,
have bought tickets at the office of the
Piedmont Air Liue, in this city, for the
great West.
What m-.lu's the Northern Senators
mad,- asserts the Augusta Chronicle, is
that the youth has kept up to the Cham
ber, men who are more tfian matches for
their best champions. Here is wnere
the free ballot aud fair count cannot be
forgiven,
The track laying on the Chester and
Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad is fin
ished to Lincoln ton". ' Says the Progress :
Monday evening the first passenger traiu
will be drawn here by the "V. A. Mc
b'ce," au engine named in honor of our
fellow-townsinan.
The evideucpa of thrift and improve
ment in the South are apparent on every
h:o d. Grent cotton factories are going
up at Columbus, Augusta, New. Orleans,
Natchez and Charleston, and fnruace
stacks are being erected all over the iron
districts of the South.
"Uneasy lies a head that wears a
crown" whs never more forcibly ili.istr.i
thi.n in the case of the Cz .r of i.us.-i.
w .0 lives ia hourly' dread of assas-.n 1
ti ui, and who eviry moment i.i guirde .
by t odies of armed men, lest th s fate of
his father be also his file.
On Thursday, 2nd of Juno, says the
Landmark, Jtat'Sville will vote on a
proposition to subscrile $50,1)00 to the
atatesville Air-Line Railroad, this sub
scription to be turned over to the North
Carolina Midland, provided it builds to
our town. The proposition will carry
almost if not quite unanimously.
A terrible tngedy occur J at Barn we'd,
S. C. ou the 2d instant. V. II. Prisst-r,
without iUiy 1 rovo viUion, shooting his
fat h. r, Captain l'm. Priestr fiv. times,
f .oiu ihe eff.'CU of whioii wound hd has
muc died. Young PriesUr killed a ne
gro while attending school at Charlotte,
X- C in 187S but was acquitted. He
was recently married aud his wife was
on tiie eve of leaving him when he killed
his father. His wife and brother both
say that he has beeu msane for some
time but the family kept the mattea a
secret. This ia probably trn as he after
-ase .ping and wandering through por
t oub of deorgia and Xortb Carolina, re
turned to Greeuville, S. C. where- be
was well knowu. He was arrested and is
now in jail.
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Ait'?, being t'av .!: Manufa-i urv;-s in th
latter city, are pjwparo J, wit ii their hn-sjc
stock, to offer goo J at prices that cicr'y
cqnjutitiu&acHftt--4 '
WINDOW. SHADES,
Of every quality and variety at La west
Prices. . r
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OUUU LOGS, sjimd anlstiai-!it
delivered at any r'epot on he W. X. C. 1.'. R
bctiveen Saii-sbarj and Jenry; cr at i!t
iuU riaeiUatf point convenient for loailhej.
lU'eii ouv lmndrd are delivered at si. -!i
point, i-fli l.-.g must average in length 2.'
ftct, and ranging from 16 to 34 feet, T;:
smallest wanted is 22 inches inside of Liul:
at small end.
H'e a'l-vwant all the White Hi. k rv.
Biaok Walnut and Prickly and White A 1:
e ean get in round logn. Tho3e havi:--sach
timber can g..t particu'ari and pii -by
a Mr Ssin
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Da. II. C. FEAKSON if n wj n.e-i .
and op.-ning at fh'Rjaii'1 f'urin.T y '
Eru A Ort. .', a lare aud wi-H s--!. -ted
stvk of r'rh and Pur Dr i-s;s a;ni
Cheiiiica-St Oiif, Famts and Dye Stuffs,
Kancy, 7'oi'tt, .Medicated and .Laundry
..wp, EpStDced ia I ui ri-tj, P.invailes
and CoRtucticp. ilair and Tvth Brushes
iriniow Glaaand Puty.
Pure Wim-s and Liquor f.r M l eal as
Irrfac1. tvtry thing lisral-y k-j t in a fir.-t
eaad Drug Store Which he wii! dispen-?.- t.
the publw at ivasunabie prict?. As the
.yvls are to l-? sAl en cMnn!is.-in. tr,
CASH ru'e wi.l h st ri. : t a !,a r . 1
. Phycieian's Prescript i.in .ar -fr. y . .!:
ponnded at a?i hoi.rp. A s!;ar of j...r
patronage is r speo.':' ;.i v !. itcd.
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N. D. Dr. rears. ,n" s office u at th
Drup Store.
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PilOHlBiTlOi!, and Aili.-PiiOHlBllION.
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' var-tbr tj h:.v: it' cr not have it.'
' ' i ' i ' t.-f thj trade by m l ing pood
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; PRODUOS in GilSII 02? TRilDS.
Our Spring Stock of GE iCilU, MliiL'ilANu.Sr: will ba fall and .-omple ;c
We also keep a good ijo f,f
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Wm. S. Pearson.
Attorney and Oounsollor,
MORGAXTOJf, X. C.
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Iht p'af ; tnon as th ; McK non rv.V.
tract on Linvtiic K;v.r, .pp-sil't2 ck
tam o3." acr-on,? h ,:i !r i in "; fif'r ,-'
which is fin !ftt-)o 'and, win K- .!:
'.'.ap r.-r t-ah rn time, rit'i.r ail z- t:. r
.ir ill (ri ' sT.it :i.rhas-. ri. A y t
oncr 1) C. J W. iib-rn, Ex-i-ufer S. S.
Hurshasr, dce'd Tbo wiJ rccaia b?re but
a few dr.
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Goin7 Whoa, Cotton and Tobacdo,
LACKEY & WARLICK.
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