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RALEIGH REGISTER,
VOL. i.
RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1884.
NO. 3.
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Floor of Fisher Building, Fayetteville
no paper sent att4 expiration of time paid for.
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SI ARE CIILDHOOD 8WEET.
Wait not till th
little hands are at rest
! Ere yon, fill
m full of flowers; : '.
Wait not for
crowning tuberose
- To make aw
t the last tad hows;
But while hi i
busy household band,
Your darlings
111 need your guiding hand,
Oh, fill the!
lives withweetneB.
Wait not till I ie little hearts are still,
For the loving look and phrase; j
But while yoi gently chide a fault ... '
- The good ed kindly praise. , j
The words ytu would apeak beside the bier
Fall sweeterfar on the living ear; j
,Oh, fill yoaag lives with sweetness!
An! what are kisses on clay-cold lips
To the ro mouth we press, )
When the trie one flies to the mother's arms
yi For love'tendcrcst caret! ' ' ' "'
'Let never worldly bauble keep ' '"V'
Your heart from the joy each' day should reap,
Circling your lives with sweetness.
Give thanks, each morn, for the sturdy boys
Give thank for the fairy girls; j .
With a dower of wealth like this at home,
Would you rifle the earth for pearls? '.
Wait not for Death to gem Love's crown,
. But daily shower life's blessings dbwn,
Ami ill your hearts with sweetness.
. .. ' - ! :. '
Remember the homes where the light has fled,
Where the rose has faded away; -And
the love that glowa in youthful hearts,
Oh, rherish it while you may!
And make your home a garden of ! flowers.
Where; joy shall bloom through childhood's
' hours, '
And fiU young lives with sweetness.
STEDMAN.
A SKETCH OP HIS LIFB AND ( II Alt-
Able LawyerCapable Business Man
" " -1.' Bneroa ttontlesnan.
We are not minded, in the undertaking
which we have set about tot execute, to
make a biography, bat only j sketch, and
in no sense a full sketch even, i but rather a
meagre epitome of a life and character
of which it may be truly said,! without ex
asw ration, that the; have been, signalized
t by meritorious acts, and illustrations which
justify a rank among the representative
lives of North Carolina, and entitle his
name, of whose life and character we- are
about to write, to a record in. the annals of
her distinguished sons.
The lustory of a State or nation is but
the life of successive generations of her
children, and their doings, and the inci
dents of their career j and as they are use
ful, distinguished or beneficent, they her
ald her to a lofty fame or consign her to a
lowly repute. She lives then an her arch
ives; and as she makes or fails to make a
perpetual memorial of her claims, she will
reach- to immortality or pass ; into decline
and decay, and live only in the mythical
representation of disputed traditions. She
must make a faithful memento of the life
and character of those whom she produces,
who distinguish her, if she would recall
her "youth and transmit to posterity a true
' portrait of herself. Nor is there any'well
founded Reason in sentiment or taste why
: this record should be deferred till the
s " day after the death " of him who is to be
i ts subject. On the contrary, it is well for
the people to introduce them to those who
deserve to be - known of them while these
are yet living, in order that the tutors of
, youth may point the moral of their lessons
by living illustrations, and in order that
the youth whom they teach may derive in
centive to emulation from the knowledge
that bare posthumous fame is not the only
reward, but. that merit may be permitted
;to read its title in the flattering homage of
Ja public record before death obscures its
vision.. It is under the impulse of these
opinions that we present to our readers a
sketch of the man's career whose name we
have placed at the head of this article..
i - CHARLES it. 8TEDiIA!f,
now a practicing lawyer in; the city of
Wilmington, was born in the county of
Chatham in 1841. His father, Nathan A.
8 ted man. Sr.- is yet living, a resident of
Fayetteville, and is yet an active man of
business, though he has attained nearly his
four-seore' years. In his former county
Mr. Stedraan, Sr. was for many years a
public functionary, and was widely known
throughout the. State. In the animated
- and stirring contests of the olden times,
when politics 'were national and the issue
was the supremacy of the Whig or Demo
cratic party, .Nathan A. Btedman was a
tower of strength to the Whiff party. His
influence in his own countv was uotentiaL
A devoted admirer of Henry j Clay and an
ardent advocate, of his American System,
and on terms of the most intimate and con
fidential personal ' friendship with such
great leaders as Badger, Morehead, Hugh
waddell, Charles manly and Edward J
Hale, he was looked to to hold the balance
i in his county where the public sentiment
was closely divided, where; the conflict
always waged fiercely and where the result
was always doubtful. And more than
once the watchword was, after the battle
had been fought and the smoke was clear
ing off, " Wait till you hear from Chat
ham ; and the political complexion of the
Legislature hingea on tne single popular
itv, of .Nathan A. Stedman. i
It was from this affectionate tie of friendr
ship and fraternity between Governor
Manly and his father that the subject of
this, sketch derived his name -Charlks
Manly Stedx ax.. . ?
Thus: w waoiitnat.' our cmtedmak was
' brought when a youth into contact with
the most distinguished men of the State,
' was enabled to see the majesty of great
minds and to catch inspiration to be like
them::' .'. -t t
At an early age his father sent him to be
taught in English and the classics at a pre
paratory school kept by the Rev, Daniel
McGitvary, a man who has since devoted
his life to spread the? gospel in the lands
that at in darkness; and whose career as
a missionary has J adorned the pages of
Christian enterprise f
About the year 1852 Mr. Stedman, Sr.
removed with his family to i Fayetteville;
and young Stedmah passed his boyhood
in that ancient and celebrated town among
the classic scenes of Cross Cfeek, historic
by the legend that there Flora McDonald,
: fresh from the romantic and heroic exploit
r- which associated her name with the
Prince and Pretender, fixed her home; a
" stately and venerable town, conspicuous in
L-the history of the State as the home of
cultivated and moral people,! who ranked
with the best in the elements of a benign
. hospitality, associated. - with r business
enterprise and honest v and patriotism. It
- was, here, among such a people, thus ad
vantageously placed, that young Stedmah
passed his youth, still fitting himself for
college air the Donaldson Academy; under
the tuition of the Revs. George McNeill and
. Daniel Johnson. " .
: In 1857, at sixteen years of age, he en
: tered at the University in a class composed
of such associates as Eldridge Wright,
Thos. T. Allen, J. Turner Morehead, It
8. Clark, all men of talent, and proceed
ing through the regular term of four years
he graduated in the memorable year 1861,
being admitted to deliver his senior speech
and receive his diploma, though he did
not attend Commenceinent Exercises.
It is often said, and to some extent may
be true, that college distinction furnishes
ho sure index of the forth-coming man.
But it is bad to teach, and worse to learn,
to sligtit the merit marks at college. .
Certainly for all the testimonials worth
STEDJikN won it. During the whole"four
years he achieved the first distinction in
all the branches of study and deportment,
gaining, the esteem of the faculty and
blessing the hearts of parents and friends
by an 'early success in honorable exer
tion," taking rank' as a scholar with Petti-
grew and Ransom. What there was to be
done well, he did it; and this he has fol
lowed up as the avenues of action have
grown wider and more comprehensive.
As we have said, he had been brought
up a Whig; from his cradle, all the in
fluence of teaching and example, as well
as of association, had imbued him with a
love of the "Union of the Fathers," and
of the constitution of that union,' and
with mournful eye he saw the fabric falling
to pieces, and: with sorrowing ear he heard
the elemental 'quake shaking to the foun
dations the edifice he had been taught to
admire.
But the die was cast, the Rubicon was
crossed; Lincoln' had called for North
Carolina troops to invade a sister State,
and her Governor had refused the call,
and North Carolina, though to the core a
Union State, had yielded to the stress of
blood-tie, and kin-tie, and had passed her
ordinance of secession, and was clothing
herself in armor, preparing for the thrice
noble part her sons were destined to per
form, i
Young Stedman was among the foro
most of the college youth to catch the
enthusiasm, : and keenly alive to the de
mands of patriotic duties, he hastened to
Fayetteville and enrolled his name in the
ranks of the " Fayetteville Independent
Light Infantry" Company, then com
manded by Major Wright Huske and
about to volunteer its services for the field.
It was a time-honored corps he entered
one which dated back to the revolution
and which had embraced within its ranks
the worth and merit of the old town from
time immemorial; and those with whom
he was about totouch shoulders in the
ordeal of actual battle, were composed of
the best and bravest of a community.
ians peur et an riproch:" a youth,
not drawn from sectarian denominational,
or social sphere, but from the heart of the
people; the only attribute of -qualification
to its ranks being personal merit, moral
and physical. In this sense it was a com
pany oi tne elite, and for generations a
warm-hearted love of the people had fos
tered and cherished it.
In this noble company the young col-"
egian, now transformed into a ''private
in the ranks," soon found himself fct horde
among congenial associates. Almost im
mediately the company was enrolled in
the State volunteers, and was assigned to
the first regiment under the command of
D. II. Hill, then Colonel, and after
wards Lieutenant-General of the Con
federate .army, and was with his regiment
moved to the scene of conflict in the
Peninsula of Virginia. As ' our young
volunteer was in at the beginning, being
at Bethel, so he remained . in to the close
of the war receiving frequent wounds in
hard fought battles whose scars he yet
carries, a token of honorable service from
Bethel Chapel the outset along the
glorious, but bloody and ineffectual route
of the Wilderness, Spottsylvama C. II.,
and through the trenches of Petersburg
in all the exposure, peril, privation and en
durance of that world-wide renowned
siege, this young volunteer bore his part :
much of the latter time being brought into
the closest and most confidential relations
with Will McRae, Brigadier-General, than
whom tne btate did not produce of ail the
McRaes, and there were well-nigh a dozen
in the list, or others, a more skillful or
heroic officer, nor oner whose service was
more dutifully or more "unselfishly ren
dered
As the last gun fired at Appomatox,
where the. survivors of a lost cause only
less immortal than their comrades who
had laid down their lives ini its defence,
in that they had not passed through the
gates of fame to immortality, our Sted
man how advanced for merit to be Major
of the Forty-Fourth Regiment of North
Carolina Volunteers was present, and from
beginning to close his is the register, com
mon enough, but no less glorious, of a
brave, self-sacrificing, faithful soldier and
patriot, ever present where duty required
him to be,' and always doing what duty
exacted.
At the close of" the war Major Stedman
returned to what was left of home the
rl i i f n t' a
common 101 oi an ms ieiiows ruin ami
poverty.
But he was made of too stern stuff for
idleness and want. In 18C3 he set up a
school at Pittsboro, wherein he taught the
" young idea how to shoot," not muskets,
but nouns, verbs and adjectives, and fight
there in this laborious and responsible oc
cupation he began a series of successes that
fall only short of the romantic in their
actuality.
While thus engaged, he renewed the
study of. the law under the late Robert
Strange and Hon. John Manning which
he had begun at Chapel Hill under Judge
Battle and S. F. Phillips in 1860, but
which had been interrupted by the war;
and in I860 he obtained his license to
practice in the courts of the State. In the
same year he married Miss Kate Wright,, a
daughter of the late Joshua G. Wright, of
Wilmington, of a family associated with
the early struggles of the colonies,1 more
than One of which had filled the chief of
fices of Government, and which .in com
mon with the families of the Cape Fear had
furnished illustrious representatives to the
Confederate cause.
In 1867 Major, Stedman removed to
Wilmington, a poor boy, one may say, with
a meagre purse and no herald to help his
way, with no friend and scarce even an
acquaintance. His future then depended
onlv on an active and bold nature dis
ciplined hv hardship and nured to priva
tion, whicn embodied in itself a very con
siderable aggregate of common sense and
self-reliance; and as they always will, these
qualities soon told with the people.
- Practice soon sought him, and his
clients found in him a zealous and in
fluential advocate,' who could gain their
causes and rarely suffered defeat. J"
-He went : at once into full practice,
which he continues to this time. Perhaps
he enjoys to-day as large a practice as any
lawyer in the State.
It is a; remarkable feature of ' Major
Stedman's success that he readily attracts
men of force.1 J Place him" at liny time
among strangers and the strongest at once
gravitate towards him, and at the same time
he retains a hold with the less stable elc-
ment, being gifted by nature with a re
markable versatility which finds itself at
home with all classes.
The late Isaac B. Grainger, who was
himself a man of gifted attributes, of rare
and fextraordinry energy, power and abil
ity, at once discerned Stedman'b financial
and -general business qualities, and drew
towards him, and they became associated
in important business enterprises. Grain
ger treated the Bank of New Hanover,
and at his death Stedman succeeded him
as
President; and during his terms of
which continued until he declined
re-election in 1883, he maintained the
bank's high character, increased her busi
ness,: advanced her stock, preserved her
dividends and established her in the confi
dence of the people; and all this was done
while associating a liberal and accommo
dating policy with a strict and judicious
business management. So that, at the
close of his administration, he was able to
say to his employers, "Behold, I give into
your hands an institution which I have
contributed to mature and strengthen, and
which I can now. present to you ia perfect
health."
It was thus he voluntarily resigned his
trust in behalf of a friend, who was
promptly elected, Mr. Isaae Bates, who is
to-day the efficient President Of this pros
perous institution. It adds greatly to the
meed of praise to' which. Stedman is en
titled that he assumed the management of
the bank during the yet continuing panic
of " lj873, and brought it through in a con
dition of satisfactory prosperity, with
scarcely any losses from its liberal accom
modations. !
. Mpjor Stedman has never filled political
office, and was never a candidate before
the people. At the last Congressional
election in his district, it is generally con
ceded that he could have had the nomina
tion if he had desired it, but he was dis
tinctly not in the race. The frequent, and
in sqme sense, violent contests which have
grorn out of the rival claims of Messrs.
Stedman and A. M. Waddell, have at
tracted the notice of the public through
out fhe State.
Ire the first of these contests, in 1878,
Mr Waddell had the advantage. He was
a popular leader; he had been elected and
re-elected to Congress, and was yet in, and
his competitor was a beginner. In the
primaries in their own county Waddell
carried the majority, having one more
ward in the city than Stedman, which
controlled the county delegates. On as
certaining the loss of his own county.
Stedmast withdrew and Waddell was nom
inated, but lost the election, being de
feated by Judge Russell, and the district
passed into tne bands of the Kepuoucans
In 1880 the conflict was renewed, to wax
yet more bitter than before and to enlist
so earnestly the sympathies of mutual fol
lowers, that when the primaries came to be
held they were thronged with Democratic
voters to such a degree that scarcely the
oldest citizens were absent from the polls.
The result of 1878 was effectually reversed.
Four out of the five wards of the eity de
clared for Stedman, as did every county
precinct. Waddell, in turn, as Stedman
had done, retired, but other competitors
appeared, and by the time the convention
met at: Favetteville, combinations had
been formed to beat Stedman, regardless
who should be the man. Nevertheless,
Stedman's popularity held him tenaciously
in front for many successive balloting,
demonstrating not only that he was the
undoubted choice of a large majority of
the people of the district, but also .of the
convention, over all his opponents, and he
only lacked by a small fraction the inex
orable two thirds to give him the nomina
tion. His strength, too, was not bounded
by localities, but extended through the
district, for along with the solid vote of
New Hanover, Brunswick, Bladen, Col
umbus and Pender, he held nearly the
united vote of Moore and important frac
tions of the other counties, and when his
name was withdrawn he was still in the
majoritv before the convention.
His acceptance of 'a result well caleu
lated to create discontent was in keeping
with the man, attesting his fidelity to po
litical principle and his loyalty to party
organization. With a zeal pregnant with
acts of industry and of liberal contribu
tion, he served the, cause of the nominee,
ands it is notorious that a few well chosen
words from him rallied to Shackelford
supporters whose name was legion and who
made victory certain. It was very fortu
nate that Stedman took this course, for
the district had been rendered doubtful by
the success of Russell.
- Major Stedman is a man of middle age,
of remarkable fine presence and! address,
of strong and vigorous physique, and of
such imposing appearance aud bearing
that he would attract attention in any as
sembly. He is a man of positive opinions, who
does not mince words in the expression of
them. He is a Democrat by nature and
by conviction, and an earnest and decided
one, but strictly conservative, and liberal
to his.opponents, being a thorough advo
cate of free thought and free speech.
No man has more devoted friends, and
deservedly so, for a- generous nature, a
genial social disposition, and a free-hearted
liberality are sure to beget such.
It is no vain utterance of undue praise
to say that his chief and crowning charac
teristic is his charity to the obscure chil
dren of poverty and misfortune. Many
and many a time and oft he feeds the hun
gry and clothes those who are unclad, and
goes his way in quiet; and there are in
stance on instance which are unwritten of
these unnarrated deeds and their good re
sults, which would illuminate a volume if
they were told
To the cause of education he is a large
contributor, and there are boys and young
men who this day owe to his open purse
strings the opportunities they have en
ioted at school and college.
In a few words, he is a born and bred
friend and advocate of the people. His
father was so before him, and besides his
inheritance of. this nature, his long expe
nence of privation, suffering, exposure
and endurance, in daily association with
the people, has warmed his heart toward
humanity, and. neither time nor success
has cooled or alienated these sympathies. Of
such a man his State and people may well
befproud.
He has proven his loyalty to both through
all the tests by which loyalty can be tried,
and having by hard work and steady so
briety and diligent business habits, reached
the front rank of his profession, and hav
ing reaped its reward in a well-earned
competence, standing, as he does, well as
sured in the respect and confidence of the
pttblie, who know him with a record but
faintly written in these lines, we claim for
him that his life and character afford to
the young and rising generation a shining
example of the worth and value of a use
ful,' well spent life, and commend him to
his countrymen as one worthy to be cher
ished. '
The Newbern Journal advocates Major
John Hughes for Lieutenant-Governor.
ST. MAm SCHOOL
WITHOUT A RIVAL IN THE ACE
THAT HAS PASSED AWAIT. .
Iolnc ! Work Well In the New World
OI TO-lMf,
The capital of North Carolina is graced
by two large and flourishing institutions
for the education of girls, of which the
older bears the unpretending name that
heads this article. It was founded under
the auspices of the Bishop of North Caro
lina, by the Rev. Aldert Smedes, D. D.,,
in the year 1842. Avowedly a church school,
it was for many years without a rival in
the Southern States, and its patronage ex
tended from Florida to Texas. During
the last convention of the Episcopal church
in Charlotte, N. C, every ladv present at
a large Woman's Missionary Meeting had
been a pupil of St. Mary's, and had there
imbibea the principles and graces; which
have made her influence active for good.
more than two thousand such women in
the quiet country homes, as well as in the
prominent cities of the South, to-day
reflect lustre upon the school; while its
classes are filled by the daughters and
grand-daughters of those who have been
educated there.
Through the death of Dr. Smedes, in
April, 1877, the Rectorship of St. Mary's
devolved upon his son, the Rev. Bennett
Smedes, who had for fourteen years been
associated with his father in the .school.
The roll at the close of the session showed
seventy boarders and forty day-scholars.
vurmg me summer uic question was
closely debated whether or not the school
should re-open, and upon what basis.. The
old methods of training women, which
yet had borne worthy results, were ; ob
solescent. A new and more practical age
presented new ends and new modes of at
taining them. Many Southern women,
compelled byxhe fortunes of war to earn
tneir own living, had, lor ten years,
been learning the insufficiency of their at
tainments for the requirements Of the
times. On the othenhand, those who had
not to enter upon this struggle, and who
were able to patronize the school, might
not appreciate the strict adherence to a
well-considered course of study and ther
impartial justice of examinations by which
the darling of each home could not be
spared the toils of the race if she hoped
for the crown.
Still, trusting in the absolute necessity
of supply to meet demand, and in the
ultimate approval of the wise and far
sighted, Mr. Smedes gathered together a
competent faculty,' with whose assistance
he thoroughly re-organized the scheme of
study and the methods of work, institu
ting periodical examinations, both oral
and written, and awarding certificates to
those pupils who should attain a certain
grade.
The school opened in September, 1877,
with twenty-eight boarders and fourteen
day-scholars. During the year the num
ber increased to a total of fifty-eight. The
first examinations in January, 1878, were
anticipated with much dread; but the
results showed each pupil where she
stood, and put a premium upon thorough
ness. Thenceforward the success of rigid
examinations was certain. The pupils,
seeing a good to be worked for, worked to
attain, not a perfect daily mark, but a
mastery of the subject.
That summer there were no graduates,
none having pursued the highest studies
of the curriculum ; but eleven young ladies
received certificates of thorough attain
ment in elementary algebra, plane geom
etry, English literature, descriptive astron
omy, and other sciences, and gave proof
of proficiency in elocution, English com
position; and music at two delightful en
tertainments. Most of these pupils had
also an accurate knowledge of French and
of Latin through a few books of . the
Eneid. Five of them returned the next
; year and completed the course with honor.
Since then the grade has been gradually
but steadily raised, until now it is the
same as that of the .Packer I'oilegiate In
stitute, with the exceptions of laboratory
work in physics and observatory: work in
astronomy. At the recent winterterm ex
aminations, the papers of the graduating
class in logic and trigonometry were of
such marked excellence that they are to
be sent on for examination to the profes
sors of the same subjects of the Packer
Institute and the New York University.
Of the fifteen jroung ladies graduated
from St. Mary's in the full course during
the past six years, four hold excellent
positions as teachers in New Jersey, Vir
ginia, North Carolina and Charleston, S.
V. One taught at ht. Mary's most accep
tably for three years, or until her marriage ;
and three now hold positions there. Of
the many who have taken honors in
special courses, several are teaching; others
have passed examinations for and obtained
government positions, and one has suc
cessful ly passed the examinations of the
Peabody Institute, the New Berne Graded
Schools and the Civil Service Board, each
time with great honor obtaining the situa
tion competed for. Applications are con
stantly received by the Rector for grad
uates to fill positions in prominent schools
further South, and in-every place all who
have been recommended have given entire
satisfaction.
"In the arts, as well as in severer studies,
St. Mary's pupils have achieved an enviable
reputation. Of their proficiency in elocu
tion, music and design, visitors of the
school have frequent proofs in the eloquent
entertainments given.
To prevent overwork, the pupils are
rigidly restricted to four studies and one
art. This rule has two good results be
sides that of preserving health : it gives
time for general reading, which., the
boarders enjoy under the supervision of
their teachers ; and it brings the gradua
ting class to the consideration of the
highest studies at an adequate age. .That
the health of the school is excellent is
evinced by the fact that there have been
but four inmates of the sick-room during
the Dast five months, all of whom were
suffering from the effects of colds.
The number of boarders matriculated
since September, '83, is seventy-seven
of day-scholars, seventy-two. The faculty
numbers, fifteen, of whom one has taught
at St. Mary's for nineteen, and one for
fourteen years. Two are graduates of the
Packer Institute, one of Vassar College,
one of the Massachusetts State Normal
School. Three are graduates of St,
Mary's since 1878. The director of music
is a graduate of the Copenhagen Con
servatory; his assistants are respectively
from the Conservatory of Leipsic and the
Peabody Institute, Baltimore, The Rector
takes charge of the department of meta
physics. The teacher of art is a pupil of
a well-known New York artist. f
- In concluding this article, let us note
certain things that most forcibly strike the
visitor to the school.. These , are, aside
from the beauty of the situation and sur
roundings, the adaptation of the buildings
to the work; the seeming absence of all
school machinery, so-called ; and the per
feet order that obtains.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE.
What they Think of It In Moore.
Correspondence of the Raleigh Register.
Sanfobd, March 3, 1884. All hail to
the new Raleigh Register! "May its
shadow never be less. " It afforded me the
greatest pleasure3, m dea old friend, to re
ceive the first number of your new paper.
Its beautiful typographical appearance re
flects the highest credit upon the printers,
while its well-filled columns of choice read
ing afford pabulum for the most fastidious
intellectual epicure. May "the plans of
fair, delightful peace " ever attend it, and
may it become "a power in the land," as
its eminent prototype undoubtedly was.
I rarely speak of politics, but your arti
cle in regard to
THE INTERNAL REVENUE
pleases me much. Ventilate ; the subject.
The people need to be enlightened in re
gard to it. The tariff and all other issues
dwarf in importance when compared with
public and private liberty. A few dollars
more or less of taxes should never be
weighed in the balance with the liberties
of a great people. Our. public speakers
and journalists have been too remiss in
this matter. The people should be in
formed, they should be aroused, and made
to see and realize the danger which lies
before them. Let the whole internal reve
nue system be blotted out, root and branch.
It is the most iniquitous measure that ever
disgraced a free country. By .its central
izing tendency it has struck a greater
BLOW TO FREE INSTITUTIONS
than any law we ever had in this country.
Let the cry "Repeal! Repeal!" resound
from one end of the laad to the other, and
never cease until the odious law and all its
attendant evils are forever swept awav. .
NV
A SENSIBLE SUGGESTION.
Make Small Promise to Pay.
Extract from Letter to the Raleigh Register.
Yorkville, N. C, March 3. I
send my check to save postage and risk of
remitting silver by mail. Two-dollar bills
cannot be had here at Yorkville. Why
doii't the press wake up our Congressmen
on one and two-dollar bills? These bills
of small denomination have disappeared,
and it strikes me that newspapers are the
lreatest losers on account of the fact that
in the back-woods money-orders or postal-
cheeks cannot be had at the small offices
only registered letters, which require large
Eostage, with no guarantee. Then the
ack-woods people need more newspapers
than the business centres, and they are
more closely read.
QUEER EFFECTS OF EPILEPSY.
Falling Fit and Fleet-Footed Spasm.
New York Herald.
James Brown, twenty-two years old, of
No. 316 East Twenty-eighth street, was
arraigned in the Fifty-seventh Street Police
Court yesterday to answer a charge of. bur
glary preferred against him by Mrs. Hen
rietta Kraske, who keeps a fancy goods
store at No. 610 Second Avenue.
"Brown," said Justice Murray, "this
lady swears that on Monday you smashed
the show window in her store, snatched
property worth $3.70, and ran away. What
have you to say?" j
" I am perfectly innocent, your Honor.
I am subject to epileptie fits ; that is the
cause of all the trouble."
"Well," how in the world can your fits
have anything to do with this case f" asked
the Court.
"Well, you see, judge, just, as I was
passing the lady's store I was taken with a
tit and fell through the window.
"But how about picking up some of her
goods and running away with them?"
" Your Honor, my fits are most peculiar.
After the first spasm is over I always jump
to my feet and run with all my might until
I drop down exhausted. - InTgard to
taking the goods, in the spasm I must have
unknowingly clutched them in my hand.."
" Ycrur fits are indeed peculiar, Brown,"
said the Justice. "They must put great
speed in your legs; the policeman tells me
that he chased you five blocks before he
captured you, and he claims to be very
fleet of foot. ! A person subject to such fits
should be taken good care of ; $500 bail to
answer at the Court of General Sessions."
AN ELEPHANT ON HIS HANDS.
The "Crack " Advertiser's Ways.
New York Post.
The controversy about Mr. Barnum's sa
cred white elephant if it is sacred and
white promises at. least to serve as an ob
ject lesson in natural history, if the contro
versy is ever decided. A .London news
paper correspondent calls the brute pink,
and says it is no more white than an alli
gator. A gentleman who has just returned
from Siam declares that it is the color of
Jersey mud. The Siamese Minister at the
Court of St. James says there is no such
thing as a white elephant, and the Rev.
Wilbur F. Crafts told his congregation
Sunday evening that Mr. Barnum was try
ing to palm off a leprous elephant on an
outraged community for a white one. In
regard to the sanctity of the beast,, a Bur
mese gentleman residing in London writes
that there are no religious rites performed
in honor of the white elephant, and a
scholar versed in the lore of Buddhism cor
roborates hinr. On the other hand, Mr.
Barnum strenuously asserts that his prize
is white and is sacred, and proves the lat
ter assertion with a couple of priests that
King Theebaw, of whom he made the pur
chase, threw in with the elephant to close
the bargain Thus the doctors disagree.
It is within the bounds of 'possibility that
Mr, Barnum has stirred up all this discus
sion in order that the public, shall find it
necessary to go and see the elephant per
sonally and decide the momentous ques
tion for themselves.
AN IMPASSIONED SOUL.
Elgnt Weeks "On"" on Board Bill.
- , Kansas paper on Free-Love.
We don't believe in Free-Love, nor any
other kind of sex -love. We not only be
lieve in the doctrine of Maithus, but we
would go much further and apply that
doctrine to all men and" all women, and
ring the curtain down on the tragedy of
life letting it cease and cease forever with
the generations of to-day. ,
How to Make Hens Lay.
Mrs., Fannie Crapo, who is a flourishing
female" farmer in Waverly, Van Buren
county, Michigan, has had the misfortune
to lose her best barn and all its contents by.
fire, She confessed that ahe was m the
habit of putting live coals in an adjacent
hen-house f to. encourage the bens in. lay
ing," but however encouraging to the hens
it was very discouraging to the barn. ; . :
MONTGOMERY,
NEW ERA OP PROSPERITY
DAWNING THERE, TOO.
Good Laird Good School Good Peo
pie Good Proapeet Every Way And
a little Love Story.
Correspondence of the Raleigh Rboistek.
Troy, N. C, March 3, 1884. Mont
gomery, like her sister counties, is shaking
off her lethargy, and a new era of progress
and improvement is dawning on this highly
favored section. During the last few years
an increased interest in education has
manifested itself, and now four academies
of a high grade are sustained within, her
borders, besides a number of smaller
schools in almost every community.
As the Irishman said, when looking for
the first time oh the hills of New Hamp
shire, "Land is so plentiful here that it
had to be stocked." Montgomery has fin
area, if I am not mistaken, of about eight
hundred square miles, and . a population of
only about ten thousand ; consequently her
vast natural resources h.-.ve been but very
imperfectly developed. It has long been
known that a great deal of gold lies hid
den in the hills of Montgomery, several
mines having been profitably worked in
the past, and new discoveries of the
precious metal have recently been made.
The soil of Montgomery is adapted to
the growth of almost everything that has
yet been attempted. Corn, cotton, wheat
and oats are the chief products now, but
tobacco could "be successfully grown, and
in a few years will doubtless be extensively
cultivated.
There are many thrifty, intelligent and
well-to-do people in this county, while
there are a few hO- are content to live
from hand to mouth, " taking no thought
for the morrow, "and whose marketable
productions annually amount to about
three 1possum hides, two bushels of pease
and half-a-dozen rabbit skins. I am glad
to say the latter class is rapidly decreasing.
Land is very cheap. Thousands of acres
can be bought for from one to four dollars
per acre, which, if improved, would in a
few years sell for five times that amount.
More good, sober, industrious people are
needed here, and those who are looking
for new homes would do well to consider
the inducements to be found in Mont
gomery before locating.
Troy, the county seat, is a quiet village,
containing 150 inhabitants, several stores,
wood and blacksmith shops, hotel, four
lawyers, two physicians, two churches
(one not quite completed), a newspaper,
and last, but not' least, a good school,
under the efficient management of Prof. A.
R. Shaw, assisted by his accomplished sis
ter. Miss Sarah. No bar-rooms are allowed
in troy.
Mt. Gilead, Wadesville, Pekin, Sulphur
Springs and El Dorado are villages doing
a considerable amount of business.
As your readers already know, the re
?cent cyclone was very destructive to life
and property in this county. Those who
were more fortunate have been very liberal
in ministering to the wants of the sufferers.
Many not only gave money and provisions,
but sent hands, wagons and teams to as
sist in building new dwellings.
I have just learnjed of quite a romantic
affair in the county poor house. An old
man, who is very feeble, requires almost
constant nursing. An old woman, who is
also an inmate of the poor house, consti
tuted herself his nurse, which resulted in
their falling in love with each other, and
now they want to marry, but cannot raise
money enough to buy the necessary papers.
Some one ought to buy their marriage
license and make them happy.
N. C. EXPERIMENT STATION.
Analyses and Relative Valuations
Commercial fertilizers.
or
1884. I.
The relative valuations merely furnish a
convenient method of summing up the
results of the analyses and of comparing
them. They are not designed to fix the
price at which the article shall be sold. It
is impossible to give any one set of figures
which shall represent the commercial value
ftf those ingredients over our extended ter
ritory and throughout the entire year.
Since the beginning of 1883 the prices
of superphosphates and "ammoniates" have
declined considerably, as is well known
We shall, therefore, use the following fig
ures, as reasonably approximate, in calcu
lating these relative valuations during
1884:
Available phosphoric acid . . . 9 cents per pound.
Ammonia 20 cents per pound.
Potash tt cents per pound.
The figures before the names are the
numbers of the analyses.
2371. Sea Fowl Guano, manufactured
by Bradley Fertilizing Company, Boston,
Mass. ; sampled, in the Carolina Central
Railroad warehouse, Wilmington, January
9. Contains: Moisture 15.83, available
phosphoric acid 8.68, ammonia 2.94, pot
ash 1.89 per cent. Relative value, $31.45
per 2,000 pounds.
2374. r armere' iriend. Ileatl 65 Co., 34
Beaver street, New York; sampled in the
Carolina Central warehouse, Wilmington
January 9. Contains: Moisture 16.66,
available phosphoric acid 8.51, ammonia
2.51, potash 1.88 per cent, Kelative value,
$27.61 per 2,000 pounds.
2375. Ammoniated LHssolvea lxne, j no.
Merryman & Co., Baltimore, Md. ; sampled
in the Carolina Central warehouse, Wil
mington, January 9. Contains: Moisture
11.53, available phosphoric, acid 8.51, am
monia 2.68 per cent. Relative value, $26.04
per 2,000 pounds. .
2346.i Lister's Ammoniated Dissolved
Bone Phosphate, Lister Brothers, Newark,
N. J.; sampled at Raleigh, January 2; lot
in hands of Rand & Barbee. Contains:
Moisture 14.98, available phosphoric acid
11.62, ammonia 2.72, potash 1.94 percent.
Relative value per 2,000 pounds, $34.12.
2390. "Bos" Ammoniated Superphos
phate, William Davidson & Co., box 126,
Baltimore, Md. ; sampled at Goldsboro,
with B. M. Privett & Co., January 14.
Contains : CMoisture 13.14, available phos
phoric acid 8.42, ammonia 2.44, potash
2.23 per cent. Relative commercial value
per 2,000 pounds, $27.59.
2391. Stono . Acid . Phosphate, Stono
Phosphate Company, Charleston, 8. C. ;
sampled with Williamson & Unchurch,
Raleigh, January 18. Contains: Moisture
15.00, available phosphoric acid 10.57,
potash 1.82 per cent. Relative value per
2,000 pounds, $21.21.
2406. High Grade Acid Phosphate Roy
ster &Strudwickf Norfolk, Va. ; sampled
at Atlantic & North ; Carolina Railroad
warehouse, Morehead City, January 23.
Contains: Moisture 17.22, available phos
phoric acid 18. U per cent, .v Relative value
per 2,000 pounds, $21.80. - .r . J-
: 2410. Lazaretto Acid Phosphate, Laza
retto Chemical Fertilizer Works, Baltimore,
Md., sampled with M. T. Norris & Bro.,
Raleigh, N. CL, . January 29. Contains:
Moisture 16.01, available phosphoric acid
. 10.51, potash 2. 14 per cent. Relative value, 1
ri. & ASWV : 3 - . . . . J
f JL per wo pounus. - .
i s ,; Cha8.;W. Dabskt, Jr.,', Director,
HON. ALFRED MOORE WADDELL.
Wanted In Congress Again.
Correspondence of the Raleigh Register.
.Wilmington, March 4, 1884. I have
read the Register of February 27th with
no little pleasure, and congratulate you
upon the success which I learn it has al
ready attained.
The brief sketch of the gentleman
whose name heads this article, is true to
the very letter. Col. Waddell was de
feated by Hon. D. L. Russell because
nearly 8,000 Democrats, believing that his
election was sure, siayeu away irom tne
polls, while every Radical in the district
alive voted, and hundreds who were
dead were also voted (among the colored
population). You ask the question, "Is
such a man to be allowed to live in private
lifef I believe not; for when the next
election day rolls around, the name of
Alfred Moore Waddell will bo perched
upon the Democratic banner of this dis
trict for the Congress of the United States,
where he can to-day command more real
influence than any member from North
Carolina now in his seat, not excepting
our two Senators.
The writer of this was a short time since
in the city of Washington, and it was a
source of great gratification to hear the
high encomiums heaped upon Col. Wad
dell by members of Congress from all
quarters of the country, and from residents
of Washington. Col. Waddell enjoys a
reputation m Congress that few men now
there enjoy, and if am not more mis
taken than I ever was in my life,, he will
be our next Representative from this dis
trict. The people undoubtedly want him.
Cape Fear.
THE LATE HB. GRAINGER.
Methodist Advance.
tie was one oi those men who have a
singular hold on the hearts and sympathies
of men.
Mr. Grainger stood in the front rank of
his profession in Eastern Carolina, and
although only forty-four years of age, al
ready nad won a State reputation as i
lawver and a statesman.
No man in North Carolina had a brighter
future had he lived than 11. F. Grainger.
His bright intellect, his sterling moral
character, and his unconquerable energy
would have carried him to the highest
plain of distinction, both in his profession
and in public favor.
"But it is for us to speak of him in another
relation. 11c was a distinguished membei
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South
Here he was . as prominent and active and
influential as elsewhere. His religious
convictions were strong and clear, and he
carried them with him wherever he went
His religious experience was clear and
satisfactory, and a more devoted Methodist
without the slightest touch off bigotry it
would be bard to find.
A SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN IDYL.
Remarkable History of Three Brothers
wno liina ana ittea Togetner
Special to the World.
ColcmbIts, Ga., February 28. In the
mountains of Harris county, near the line
of Talbot, lived three brothers Fred,
John and Stephen Terry.. For years they
have lived on their farms, and together
have shared the vicissitudes of life. John
and Fred never married, and they lived as
bachelors in the same house. Stephen, the
elder, lived scarcely a stone's-throw from
the home of his brothers and raised quite
a family. These three brothers were re
spectively seventy-eight, eighty and eighty-
two years of age. They were never sepa
rated in all these years, and were deeply
and fervently attached to each other.
: On Saturday, January 27, the youngest
brother, Fred, died of what was said to be
pneumonia. His brother John was sorely
bereaved and would not be comforted. On
Tuesday, January 30, he joined his brother
ia death. His death was said to have been
caused by grief. The remaining and old
est brother, Stephen, was now bereft of
bis two beloved brothers. The shock was
greater than his frail body could bear, and
he, too, has just passed a Way. Thus the
last of these remarkable brothers is gathered
to his fathers.
TWO REPUBLICAN' STATESMEN.
Bntherford B. Hayes.
- It is to be regretted that a few newspa
pers should see fit to speak Contemptuously
of ex-President Hayes because he has gone
into the chicken business. A man should
always be commended for doing that which
Nature intended him to do. Other great
men have been in this business.- World.
John Sherman.
One of John Sherman's friends in Ohio,
being interviewed the other day, said:
' John Sherman never demoralized the
voters of this State with money. 5 Nane
of his elections were accomplished, with
cash." Yes, be it said to John Sherman's
everlasting honor. He never saw the day
that he did not think a five-dollar note as
large as any office that he had the nerve to
aspire to. Worfd.
THE CURRENCY.
, . New York Time.
; In the Senate a few days ago Mr. Aldrich
submitted a statement showing the amounts
of various kinds of paper currency in the
country on June 80 in each year since 1878
and on February 1 of this year. The
legal-tender notes have not changed, be
ing fixed by law at $346,681,016. Bank
notes started in 1878 at $324,514,284. and
increased to $358,742,034 in 1882, then
feU to $356,073,281 in June last, and
asrain to $348,925,009 on January 24.
Gold certificates, starting at $44,867,000
in 1878. and falling to $5,037,130 in 1882,
have since increased to $101,250,620. But
silver certificates, which were only $1,462,
600 in 1878, and but $12,374,270 in 1880,
were $88,616,831 en June 80, 1883. and
are now $110,137,061. The total amount
of naner currency, then, has increased
from $717,024,900 in 1878 to $906,993,696
on February 1, and there has been ah in
crease of over $130,000,000 since July
1882 and of over $33,000,000 since last
July. Of this last named increase nearly
$22,000,000 has been in silver certificates.
Less than four years ago the silver certin
eates were but 1.7 per cent of the paper
currency ; to-day they are : over . 12 per
cent.. .7
j. The Tender-Hearted Yankee. ;
j ' ' New York World. . f
Unless tne Governor interposes bis clem
ency s woman will be hanged on the 18th
of April next: Mrs. Haight, of Deruyter,
who: killed, her heavily-insured . husband
last February was found guilty on Satur
day last and was sentenced to death. She
had previously been suddenly deprived of
two husbands, and there is a strong belief
that she is a sort of Lucretia Borgia, but
when sentence was passed upon ner the
court officers very generally biubberea.
j PETER BENNETT.
TWO LAWYERS, A DOCTOR AND A
f FARMER. '
1 ,3.jr,. 'V
" Little A leek" Stephens Tells Haw the
farmer rianiei me lawyers ana
Routed the Doctor.
r tJew York World.
A doctor named Royston had sued Peter
Bennett for his bill, long overdue, for at
tending the wife of the latter. . Alex. H. -
Stephens was on the liennett aide, and .
Robert Toombs; then Senator of the -
United States, was for Dr. Royston. The
Doctor proved his number of visits, their
value : according to local custom, and his
own 'authority to do medical practice. Mr.
Stephens told his client that the physician
had made out his case, and as there was
nothing wherewith to rebut or' offset' the
claim, the only thing left to do was to pay
it. MKo," said Peter; "1 lured you to
speak to my case, and now speak."
Mr.; Stephens told mm tne re was nothing
to say ; he had looked on to see that It Was .
made out, and it was. t ;
Peter was obstinate, and at last Mr.
Stephens told him to make a speech ham-
self, if he thought one could be made, j
I will," said Peter Bennett, "if Bobby
Toombs wont be too hard on me." 1
Senator Toombs promised, and Peter
began : '
i' Gentlemen of the Jury : You and I is N
plain farmers, and if we don't stick to
gether these 'ere lawyers and doctors will
git the advantage of us. I ain't no lawyer
nor doctor, and 1 ain't no objections; to
them in their proper place; but they ain't
farmers, gentlemen of the jury. " '
"Now this man Royston 1 was a new r
doctor, and I went for him for to come an'
to doctor my wife's sore .leg. And he
come: an' put some salve truck onto it and
some rags, but never done it one bit of
good ; gentlemen of the jury, I don't be
lieve (he is no doctor, noway. Thare is
doctors as is doctors sure enough, but this
man don't earn his money, and if you send
for him, as Mrs. Sarah Atkinson did for a
negro boy as was worth $1,000, he just
kills him and wants pay for it.T'p
"I; don't," thundered the doctor.
"Did you cure him?" asked Peter, with
the slow accents of a judge with the black
cap on.
The Doctor was silent, and Peter pro
ceeded: ' , .
"As I was a say in', gentlemen of. the
jury, Vwc farmers when we sell our cotton
has got to give valley for the money ;we
ask, and doctors ain't none too good to be
put to the same rule. And I don't believe
this Sam Royston is no doctor, nohow."
The physician again put in his oar, with,
"Look at my diploma if you think I am
no doctor."
"His diploma!", exclaimed the new
fledged orator, with great contempt. His
diploma ! Gentlemen, that is a big word,
for printed sheepskin, and it didn't make
no doctor of the sheep as nrst wore it, nor
does it of the man as now carries it A
good newspaper has more in it, and I pint
out to you that he ain't no doctor at all."
The man of medicine was now in a fury,
and screamed out, "Ask my patients if I
am not a doctor 1" , . : t
"E asked my wife," retorted Peter "an'
she said as how she thought you wasn't."
"Ask my other patients," said Dr. Roy
ston.' "'
This seemed to be the straw that broke
the camel's back, for Peter replied with
look land tone of unutterable sadness:
That is a hard sayin', gentlemen of the
jury, and one as requires me to dier to
have iibwer as I've hearn tell ceased to be
exercised since the Apostles. Does he ex- .
pect jtoe to bring the Angel Gabriel down
to tqot his horn beiore nis time ana cry
loud, Awake, ye dead, and tell this .
court and jury your opinion of Royston's
practice V Am I to go to the lonely church
yard and rap on the silent tomb, and say
to um as is at last at rest irom pnystc ana
doctor bills, " Git up here, : you, and state
you died a nateral death, or was burned
up some by aoctorsr . tie says asic nis
patients, and, gentlemen of the jury, they
are all dead! Where is Mrs. ueasieys
man ISam ? Go ask the worms in the grave
yard where he lies. Mr. Peake'a woman
Sarah was attended by him; and her fun
eral was appointed and he had the corpse
ready. Where is that likely Bill as be
longed to Mr. Mitchell f ?Now in glory a'
expressin' his opinion of Royston's doc
tori a Where is that baby gal of Harry
Stephens's? She are where doctor's cease
f romi trpublin' and the infants are at rest.
"Gentlemen of the jury, he has et chicken
I enough at my house to pay for his salve,
rind I furnished the rags, and I don't sup
pose he charges for makin' of her worse,
and even nc aon t pretena to cnarge lor
curia' oi ner, ana i am numoiy tnanxiui
thas he never give her nothin' for her in
wards, as he did his other patients, . for
somethin' made um all die mighty sud
den" Here the applause made the speaker sit
down in great confusion, and in spite of a
logical restatement oi the ease by senator
Toombs, the doctor lost and Peter Bennett
woni
PROTECTINC "AMERICAN LABOR.
t
Fifty Dollar n Year.
New York Times. .. . ,
It is now more than sixteen years since
the wool tariff was fixed to suit the wool
growers. Last week Mrf Columbus Delano,"
rresiueni ox uic auuiut , n oui-unnrn
Association,' "stated to1 thev Committee of
Ways and Means that the annual product
of the sheep of the United States! was -
$100,000,000, and that 2,000,000 persons
were engaged in producing it. If these j .
persons divided the value of the entire
Erodnct among themseves they would get :
ut $50 a year, t li would appear that this
is a poor result from sixteen years: of pro--;
teetjon, averaging over thirty-seven per 4
cent, and on really competing' foreign
wools over fifty-six per cent -5 Ancording
to Mr. Dajano, the tariff hat failed to keep
the wool-growers from practical pauperism,
and it is idle to keep it op, for there is no
land under the ;sun where wool can be .
raised at any such expense as he show for
the United 8tatei:H;i. .
A Very Cool Old Lady.
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(Greensboro Workman.! t;-."r'
Mr. Spencer, of Randolph, told us that
the cyclone- came pretty near him, carry
ing portions of the. wreck of other farms
over his head and letting them down miles
on this side. He told us of old mother
Cranford, who waa lying covered; tip in
bed: when the storm : came. J: The i wind
took the house away, and -set the bed
down carefully in a -good place out in the
field. When her grandson found her he
expected the old lady would be dead, as a.
matter of course. ' Taking off the cover
in which she was still securely wrapped he
found with surprise that her hands were
warm. - He called ; her, when she
Xned her ' eyes and. exclaimed, Why,
window has Mowed open." -
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