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' RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1884.
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THE TWO LIGHTS.
Blackwood's Magazine. J
H7i(i Fm a man? i the poetry of youth.
H7n- Yf yoOTK."' in the poetry of o?d age."
" Wben I'm a man!" the stripling cries,
And strives the coming years to Man
Ab.' then I shall be strong and wise, !
When I'm a man !" ;
When 1 -was young ! the old man nigh,
Bravely the lark and linnet sung j
Their carol under snjnny skies, j
When I wan young !"
'When I'm a man, I shall lie free
' To fruartl t he right, the truth uphrild. "
When I was young I bent no knee
"To power or gold. "
, - Then shall I satisfy my soul
With yonder prize, when I'm a man."
'Too late I found the goal
To which I ran."
"When I'm a man these idle toys
Aside forever shall be flung."
"There wa no poison in my joys
When I was yonng."
The boy's bright dream is all beforp,,
The man's romance lies far behind;
Had we the present and no more,
Fate wcrejnnkind. .
T.ut, brother, toiling in the night,
Still count yourself not all unblest
If in the east there gleams a light.
Or in She west.
COKE.
LEADER IX TWO HARD-FOCCHT
CAMPAIGNS., -
lCloqueut Orator Practical Business
ITIan Attve, Sensible, Well-informed
Democrat.
The lcatier of the Democracy of North
Carolina u two hard fought campaigns,
pcTAvius Coke has since 1880 filled a
large plao in the public eye, and in the
picture gallery of great North Carolinians
he, a North, Carolinian by choice not ac
cident, deserves prominence.
Captaiu "oke was born on October 4,
1840. Aft-r serving with distinguished
gallantry .fa the Army of Northern Vir- j
ginia he addressed himself to-the study of
law, and j: "ii-obtaining license settled in
the town of Edenton on August 28, 1868,
and on thr. night of that day began his
work for( Democracy by addressing the ,
Seymour aid Blair Club of that place.
Since th - day when he thus dedicated
liimself to he work, his service to the
Democrat party and the State has been
continuous. In 1871 he led the forlorn
hope of Cl.owan in the convention cam
paign of that year. In 1872 he was
electoral candidate for the First District,
.and his brilliant canvass is yet remem
bered. In 1870 he made the First Sena
torial District Democratic, carrying it by
319 majority.
In Vme respects the work of the Gen
eral Assembly at its session of 1&76 was
. more important than that of any other
that ever mtt in North Carolina. To it
the Convention of 1875 had relegated the
question of county government, and the
; solution of tiiis question meant life or
.death to the white people of the eastern
j-ounties. Ti the solution of this question
Captain Core devoted his every energy.
By night, by day, in caucus, in the com
mittee room, in the Senate, he labored in
behalf of the negro-ridden counties of the
black belt until honest County government
was assured. From that day to this Ike has
been as persist 'ntly and earnestly the sup
porter of the county government system, as
he has been persistently and earnestly the
foeof the odiou- system of Internal Revenue.
His highest duty to the State, he has be
lieved and doe-; believe, calls for hiis best
efforts to secure the maintenance of the
iirsi and the abolition of the last. lie it
was who prepared and offered to the Con
vention the resolution denouncing the In
ternal Revenue -ystem and demanding its
repeal.
Captain Coki also distinguished himself
in the Senate, and gave evidence of the
keen foresight vhich so eminently distin
guishes him, by the leading part he took
in opposition to the resolution instructing
our Congressmen, to vote for the Electoral
Commission bill Jiy which Hayes was made
President, and the greatest fraud of the
age consummated. Soon after his iSena
torial term expirwl Captain Coke removed
to Raleigh, intending to devote his time
to the.jn-actice of his profession, but the
party he had served- so ably in the past
could not yet spure'his services, and in
1880 1 was called to the chairmanship of
the Executive Committee. The reasons
which pointed out Captain Coke as the
man to be called t this onerous position
were many and obvious, It was necessary
that the chairman should reside in Raleigh.
It was necessary that he should be ti man
of first rate abili'v, an active, sensible,
well informed Denmt rat, at odds with no
Democrat, and m ; ,Mtion to deal fairly
with all. Democr; t
that he should hyu
the public service
without compensat .
able to " work for
self,'' and help to
There were many !
with one or more 01
iications. There v
in Raleigh who had
It was necessary
leisure to devote to
I as his work was
that he should be
'.iing and find' him
f.irrt'" the party also,
'mocrats in Raleigh
these necessary quali-
but one Democfat
he m all, i and him the
i To accent it he
Committee appoint
gave up the nominatn.n for Elector for the
State-at-Large, a josition4nuch more de
sirable to him persfciiully and politically,
and which was tender him by the State
Convention. ' . '
Things are forgotten with vast rapidity
in these days, and a nlht picture of what
responsibility and later was entailed by
this position may be t out of place.
In 1876 Vance had x ,de his triumphal
progress through the tate, and had been
.vept into the Governor's chair oft a tidal
wave of popular enthusiasm. The Repub
lican party buried undtr a popular vote of
123,25 was paralyzed and only kept up
the shbw of organization for the con
venient parcelling ouj ,f the government
pap. In 1878 the pnulalum began to
swing back and Republicans were elected
in the First and Thirds Congressional Dis
tricts, then held by aafi thought safe for
the Democracy. Unkr this reviving
shower the dragon's tefth sprouted again,
and the Radicals sprung up full armed for
the fight of J880. Th Democratic party
in the meanwhile was Buying the penalty
of its former overpowering strength. It
had come to think itsf invincible, and
havitag, as it seemed,
outside foe to
fight, j its leaders were
each other's throats.
'Udy to sprang at
i The result mav be suWad un in few
w -iv "f .-7-
Words: Vance had receid 123,265 votes,
Jarvis 121,827. Vrilde had received
122,251, Hancock receive 124,204 votes.
, The two Congressional piistricts lost , in
1878 were redeemed, theyvmoerats elect
ing seven out of the eighf ( ,ngressuien to
which the State was then: entitled. In a
word, the Democracy had won everything
that could be won.
This was a somewhat glorious result,
hut it does not become marvelous until
the , whole circumstances are considered.
In the campaign of which we are speaking
the Executive Committee of the Demo
cratic party received not one dollar of as
sistance from any source outside the State.
Inside the' State the Committee received
contributions amounting to exactly $515.
"We must not be understood, however, as
saying that this pittance paid all the expen
ses of the campaign ; that would be too mar
velous. To be exact, the expenses of the
campaign of 1880 amounted in round
numbers to $2,500. Of this sum $515, aa
just said, was contributed by the State at
large and the remainder by OcTAVirs
Coke.
So far the history of Captain Coke as a
campaign leader had 'been that of a man
of large industry, who had lavishly given
labor, time and money tq the party in
whose service he was enlisted ; but in the
struggle of 188a he developed yet greater
and higher qualities. Since the existence
of political parties it has always been held
that a party having a majority in the Leg
islature is responsible for all legislation.
So, when prohibition, passed by a Legisla
ture largely Democratic in both branches,
had been buried under the most enormous
proportional majority ever recorded, it
seemed as if the Democratic party had been
buried with it ; and when the campaign of
1882 opened not a dozen men in the State
saw a possibility for Democratic success.
As the campaign went on matters seemed
to be going from bad to worse. Our speak
ers were hacked, our newspapers contained
each day reports of new defections. Coke
had never lost heart, but he realized'that
the crisis was not to be trifled with.
Quietly, earnestly, and systematically, he
had been at work, and in the very flood
tide of the occasion "Document No. 1,"
the very best campaign paper of which our
memory holds record, was launched. Its
effect was instantaneous. As day by day
it came into the hands of the speakers and
papers the complexion of affairs changed.
The darkest hour had passed. The day
was dawning. The influence of this doc
ument was almost decisive. From the date
of its appearance the whole tone of the
campaign underwent a change. Our ora
tors, our editors, began to see that all was
not lost, and, better still, that there was
good stuff out of which to make a fight,
even jf it should end disastrously. The
progress of the pamphlet through the State
could be traced by the changed tone of
the repots of public meetings. And to
sum up all, there can be no doubt that but
for " Document No. 1 ' the campaign of j
1882 would have resulted in disaster to the I
Democratic party, notwithstanding the
efforts of the gallant Bennett. The blow
thus given to the enemies of Democracy
and good government was ably followed up.
While "Document No. 1 " was going to
our speakers and newspapers the presses
were hard at work on a supplement discuss
ing the issues arising in the campaign. I
One hundred thousand copies were printed j
and distributed broadcast throughout the !
State, and when this was done the work i
of the campaign was done. The race was j
all over but the shouting.
In this campaign, as in that of 1880, the :
expense was borne in large measure by j
Captain Coke, he having given out of his j
own pocket to the campaign fund about !
fifteen hundred dollars, while the contri-
butions from other gentlemen of the State
amounted to less than nine hundred dollars, i
Such in brief is the history of the publie !
service rendered by Captain Coke to his !
party and State. In private life he has I
rendered service by precept and example !
no less valuable though less widely known, i
On accepting the Chairmanship of the
Executive Committee he devoted himself ;
to farming, and in this, as in all other '
things, his success was marked.
In person, Captain Coke is the very
model of a born leader of men. Now in i
the very prime of a vigorous manhood, his j
handsome face and superb figure would at
tract attention of all men anywhere. ' His J
rich, deep voice attracts the attention of j
his audiences, and the attention once i
attracted is held firmly by his matchless j
eloquence an eloquence which, while close
and logical in its reasoning, at the same !
time arouses its hearers to the-highest
pitch of enthusiasm. He is a speaker most
effective, of mind as practical as his tongue
is eloquent and his person good fo look
at ; an active, working, well informed
Democrat, who has freely given his time,
to the public service and his" inoney as
freely to pay the party's bills.
Besides this, there is about the man a
marvelous degree of personal magnetism
his friends
Brave, generous and sincere,
love him as the leal clansmen loved Bon
nie Prince Charlie; and if the standard of
the Democracy should be placed in his
hnn-a thev would follow it with aa mrh
enthusiasm as the blue bonnets followed
the white cockade. His nomination wi
His nomination 'will
mean "the dav is won let the whole line
advance."
The Good Old Doctor.
Correspondence of the Bai.eigh Register.
Tkoy, N. C. March 6, "84. Please ten
der thanks for us in behalf of the storm
sufferers in our county, to Dr. J. M.
Worth, State Treasurer, for the handsome
contribution to the relief fund received
to-day for the Uwh&rrie country.
The Doctor was for years a citizen of
this county, and some of the sufferers
were his neighbors, and this fresh assur
ance of his sympathy and generosity will
make them think still more of him whom
they had always delighted to honor.
Yours respectfully,
C. C. Wade, C. S. C,
( and Ch'n Citizens' Relief Com.
The Widow' Consolation.
Milwaukie Sentinel.
An old lady who does not live a great
many miles from Milwaukie is fashioned
after that rare type of people who are al
ways finding virtues in her fellow-creatures
when nobody epe canv The other day one
died, hard, -as the common report went,
uncharitable, unkind to his family but.
he was dead. Another positive and dis
agreeable quality which this man had was
that he was forever prying into other peo
ple's business. The"-, widow grieved, as a
woman often does, when about to hide
away what remains of bright, young bridal
dreams. Her charitable companion grew
nervous. Her kind spirit smqte her for
neglecting to pour the comforting oil upon
the bruised feelings of the once happy wife.
" There is this about it, my dear Mrs. .
Your husband was a very spry man."
Never I Try Dr. Battle's Plan.
Newbern Journal Letter.
Richmond Koonce has lost, during the
past week, eighteen head of sheep by the
dogs. When will our legislators adopt
a i. .v. . f c.r.
raisers?
THE UNIVERSITY.
ONCE IOR
THE FBIDE OF
STATE.
THE
How It Educates Whom It EAneatea
And Whit Us Children are Doing
for Its.
The University of North Carolina is one
of tha few institutions of the State having
a history and traditions reaching into the
last century. It is rooted in the Constitu
tion of 1776. The great men who gained
our independence were the founders of
the University. . It is to-day, after a check
ered career of good fortune and of bad,
among the foremost educational forces of
the South.
It is true we do not find in its class-rooms
students from the banks of the Savannah,
the Tombigbee, the Mississippi, the Ten
nessee, the Brazos, as were found before !
our disastrous, ivil war. From poverty
and other causes the States of the South
west prefer to educate their sons at home.
They have able professors and their Uni
versities are thrown open free to all their
citizens. Those Universities are liberally
supported from the public treasuries. The
young men do not seek their education at
Harvard, or Yale, or Princeton, or Washington-&
Lee, Or the University of Vir
ginia, for at our own University.
Notwithstanding this loss the patronage
of the University of North Carolina, leav
ing out of the estimate medical and law
students, and counting only undergradu
ates, is larger than most of the Southern
institutions. It ranks with that of the
University of Virginia, whose large med
ical and law schools, supported liberally
from the treasury of the State, give it an
apparent superiority.
The University has, as we learn from
many quarters, very superior instruction.
The Faculty is composed of unusually act
ive, intelligent and progressive men. They
have impressed their enthusiasm in a
marked degree on the students. We have
several proofs of this. In the first place
there is the utmost harmony between Fac
ulty and students. There is no spirit of
hostility on the part of the latter, venting
itself in irritating and annoying conduct
in- the recitation room and elsewhere.
Cheating at examinations has totally
ceased. The students have a high stand
ard of honor on this subject, which makes
such conduct impossible. Another proof is
that a considerable number of graduates,
ten or twelve, afe pursuing post-graduate
studies advanced courses leading to the
degree of -Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.)
and Master of Arte (A. M.). These courses
are prescribed by the Faculty, requiring
two years' study for the former degree and
one year for the latter. The applicant
must submit to rigid examinations and
prepare, theses ) on prescribed subjects.
This eagerness foe higher culture is evi
dently built on foundations laid in under
graduate instruction.
We will give nly one other proof of our
assertions the ;remarkable success of the
Mitchell iScientfic Association. Many of
the students arej regular members. Some
of these contribute papers to be read
at the meetings! or published by the So
ciety. The -energy displayed in its or
ganization and conduct and the enthusiasm
with which it his been received show un
mistakably the powerful influence of the
professors in stimulating the scientific and
literary spirit.
The fruits of this excellent educational
culture are already seen in our State. The
University has already furnished from the
ranks of its new students four chemists to
the State Cheijiieal Laboratory, a chief
chemist to the Navassa Quano Works,
about four-score accomplished teachers to
the schools of the State, and well trained
young men to all the professions and pur
suits of our people.
The questions which have so much agi
tated the educational world as to the com
parative value of classical and scientific
learning have jeen compromised at the
University by the eetablishment of three
noiiraa lpfiriincr to (lorrwa MttpafWl Vkv (It- t
plomas. The weight of the Faculty is
thrown in favor of the adoption by the stu
dent of one of these. There is the class
ical or A. B. course, corresponding to the
"old curriculum," Latin, Greek and Math
ematics, but with a larger infusion of Eng
lish and scientific studies and with French
or German. The Ph. B., or Philosophical,
omits either Latin or Greek, while the
Scientific course (B. 8.) has no classical
studies. Under peculiar circumstances the
student is allowed to choose out of these
courses such studies as he may find it best
for him to take; While, therefore, the in
fluence of the University is in favor of a
systematical education, regard is had to
' e nece8Siies f our people, many of whom
lrom want oi UtUie aim money niiisi uasien
through college to their life-works.
,iV vT V a 7
! a.11 well-behaved students passing through
the senior class the diploma of A. B. with-
u"1 lu uiui
r i I . ... ,, f . . i ..... ,1 mi, .. j
t-Btuumra were , uuaiuiUiucu uv uuuuru,
1st, 2d and 3d. Under the present regime
diplomas are not given unless earned by
real attainments, tested by rigid daily and
final examinations. It is certain that there
is at present a much larger average of at
tention to duty; The diplomas of the Uni
versity can only be attained by successful
toil.
It is clear that the University has won
the great heart of the public. Large num
bers of its students are recipients of its'
bounty in the way of free tuition. Some
are. appointed by the counties tp the schol
arships alkfwed by law; others give their
notes, to be pajd only after they shall suc
ceed in lifej. Their success in winning an
education, and the summer Normal School,
in which hundreds of teachers yearly bur
nish up their mental panoply without
money and without price, have made it
loved and admired by classes, who in the
old days looked on its privileges as unat
tainable by their sons. The authorities are
proud of this, j They desire that the insti
tution sliall be as its founders designed and
the Constitution contemplates the head
of the public-school system.
Anobstacle .in the way of popularizing
the University jwas the lack of a hall large
enough to accommodate the swarms of vis
itors at the annual literary festivals. When
the farmer has, ridden perhaps a score of
miles to witness these exhibitions he can
not help being irritated at his family being
turned from the door. The Memorial
Hall, a grand , room, capable of holding
four thousand people, will remedy this de
ficiency. It will be a great historic build
ing, wherein will be commemorated the
eminent officers and sons of the University.
It will show in; a most striking manner the
influence of thesUniversity in alt the stages pf
the history of independent North Carolina.
It -will show that University men were lead
ing actors in the struggle for release from
the bonds of England, in the adoption of
the Federal Constitution and the entrance
of. our State into the Union, in averting a
war with France, in the war of 1812, in
the inauguration of a public school system,
in the settlement of the sectional disputes
in 1835, in the beginning and prosecution
of the railway system, in the development
of the agricultural interests, in the gallant
but futile struggle of the great civil war in
fact, that they have been active, sagacious
and skillful in legislative, executive, judi
cial and private station, in building up
strong ana firm the structure of the gov
ernment of the Union and the government
of the State.
In conclusion, we say to every aspiring
young man in North Carolina that an edu
cation at the University is within his reach,
no matter how slender his means. Such
is the standard of economy, so favorable
are the terms offered, so welcome is every
one whether he does or does not bring
money in his hands that none should de
spair of obtaining the diploma of our high
est State educational institution.
LA IRINBtHG.
The Good that 1 In'ftrea.'
Correspondence of the R vxrioH Register. r
Latriwburg, N. C, March 10, 1884.
Laurinburg seems to be unfortunate in the
way of fires, but every time a lot of old
frame buildings get burned down substan
tial brick ones take their place. A town
ordinance has been passed forbidding the
erection of wooden buildings on the main
streets, and I learn that brick stores will
soon take the place of the wooden ones re
cently destroyed by fire. Pluck and en
ergy are bound to win ; and as Laurinburg
seems to possess these qualities, with the
addition of a fine fanning country to back
the town, I see nothing to prevent it
from continuing to grow and prosper.
The crops were very short in this section
last year, consequently one hears a good
deal of talk about hard times, but business
seems to be reasonably fair. Judging from
the amount of guano farmers are buying,
they must intend making large crops this
year, One enterprising fertilizer dealer
approached me to-day for the purpose of
making a sale, but as I had never heard of
guano being beneficial to the newspaper
business, I declined to invest.
Some of the Scotch Crofters who have
been located near here do not seem to think
that this part of the moral vineyard is ex
actly like a paradise, while others appear
to be very well pleased. Their chief cause
of discontent is the quality of houses fur
nished to tenants in this country. Some of
them refused to accept locations procured
for them on this account, the houses not
being, as one of them expressed it, "fit for
a baste to live in." Of course it will take
time for them to become accustomed to the
usages of this country. I saw a number of
them to-day, and they are fine-looking,
able-bodied people.
Very little interest is manifested in pol
itics in this section at present. The white
people are almost unanimously Democratic
and will support the nominees of the Dem
ocratic party. E. R. Wood.
CATHARINE LAKE IN ONSLOW.
What la Wanted of Wilmington.
Wilmington Star, after Col. Pardee. J
Col. Pardee had been in Onslow
county. He had visited Catharine Lake
and the remarkable springs near there. He
said he had found just what New England
physicians had been in search of through
the years a locality adapted in all respects
as a sanitarium for the Northern sick as
well as for visitors seeking rest and recrea
tion. He said its latitude was exactly
right; the temperature and atmospheric
conditions were what were sought; the
springs were of remarkable medicinal
value; the Lake covering probably sixty or I
seventy acres offered a beautiful sheet of,
water for those who delighted in boating
and fishing, whilst not far distant were
immense pocosins where the bear, deer and
other game could be found: Now, said
the Colonel, what we want is communica
tion by rail between Wilmington and Cath
arine Lake. Wilmington can establish its
j oyster-canning industry, can become the
centre of the immense oyster trade that
can be developed in New River, and it can
engage in other industries that will be
needed and will be suggested, but what
we of the north ask is for easy means of
access to Catherine Lake. Let the railroad
be built, and in a few years thoiunnd of
Northern people . of means will come to
your city and to Catherine Lake to spend
three or six months at a cost of $5 or $6 a
dav.
A BULL BI N INCIDENT.
General Tyler the Teller of It.
New York Post.
" A singular event happened at that bat
tle that has never passed into history. At
the most critical moment, when the forces
of the enemy that Patterson and Fitz-John
Porter had originally promised to have in
their front were being brought up to drive
us from the field, General Tyler sought
Burnside, of Rhode Island, and ordered
him forward.
" ' General,' responded the kind-hearted
commander, 1 1 have but one regiment left ;
the other two have been cut to pieces. The
last one is made up of the best families of
Rhode Island; if that is cut up I dare not
return home.'
" 4 What in h has that to do with
this fight ? Move up, sir, at once,' roared
General Tyler. But the retreat came be
fore the ' first families ' were decimated."
Generou, Benevolent, Busy.
Wilson Advance.
There are lots of beggars in the world.
In conversation with Mr. Julian S. Carr,
on the train Monday night, we said to him :
"I would think that you would be
greatly troubled with begging letters. Do
you receive many ?"
" Yes; and some of them can but amuse
me. Only a few days ago I received a
letter from an old woman who wanted ma
to give her enough money to dig a well.
And the clerk of the court in county
wrote a short while ago and asked me to
give him enough money to buy a planta
tion." "Of course," we said, "you oju't an
swer all these letters."
"I rarely fail to answer one. I dictate
to a stenographer, who answers them all."
Well, this set us to thinking, Here is a
man the most generous ana benevolent
and busiest man in the State who is not
too busy to respond to letters written to
him by all sorts of people on a hundred
different topics. He is a wonderful man ;
not because he is so much greater than
some otner men we Know, Dut oecause oi
his capacity for work, bis cheerfulness and
his open-hearted generosity. .
A inaaaaeh asetts Blether.
Worcester (Maw.) Spy.
It is said that Mrs. Henry D. James, of
Brocton, although only 89 years of age, has
been the mother of 27 children.. She is
still in good health. She had once four at
a birth, twice three, thrice two, and the
rest single. She was married at the age
of 15.
FAYETTEVILlpE.
ITS OLD-TIME PIONEER1
RAIL-
ROAD.
Iovea
rown Well, Telia the
Tale.
Correspondenee of the Raleigh Register.
AsnityiLLE, March 12, 1884. A few
days since a paragraph in a Fayetteville
paper met my eye which carried me a long
way back into the past, and yet startled
me with a kind of surprise, that what is
so well remembered by me should be
viewed by the present generation as a relic
of a remote antiquity. So time flies. It
is hard to realize that the first railroad
that had ever gladdened the eyes of the
population of Fayetteville should be bo
clean fargqtten that the exhumation of
aonie of its reKcs was hailed with as much
wonder as the bringing to light some of
the mementoes of the " buried cities " of
the old world.
I think it was in 1834 that the idea of a
railroad from the foot of Haymount to
Campbellton took a practical shape, and
was put in action with great enthusiasm.
Fayetteville used to do things, or at
least attempt them, on a grand scale. The
great fire of 1831, which brought general
ruin and impoverishment, had not entirely
destroyed the spirit which had fired the
old race of Scotch merchants to keep' up
a direct trade between the "port" of
Fayetteville and Greenock and Liverpool,
which had led them to the then wild
plan of making the upper Cape Fear
navigable, and in consequence of which the
streets of Fayetteville were traversed with
broad canata, the channels of which re
main to mark the energies of a prema
turely enterprising people ; or which led
them, in connection with the navigation
scheme, to begin the work of building up
a town of brick, of which the dilapidated
"Brick Row "'marks the beginning and
the end, a tower of Babel enterprise;
for the people of Fayetteville used to fall
out with each other, and a confusion of
interests brought about much the same
result as a confusion of tongues." and
brought more than one enterprise to an
untimely end. The foot of Haymount
and the lower Hay street interests for very
many years could never agree to agree,
pulling against each other with a -will
that better suited two rival communities
than the citizens of one town having in
terests in common.
But the fire of 1831 involved all in one
common calamity, and the necessity for
unity in the effort to retrieve their for
tunes was so apparent that propositions to
that end had a general concurrence. As I
have said, the spirit of enterprise was not
dead, though its power was crippled
Among the first illustrations of the
awakening of the old spirit was the pro
position to connect Fayetteville with the
West by a railroad to Salisbury. This
was the first extensive railroad enterprise
undertaken in North Carolina. Dr. Cald
well's proposition for a road from Beaufort
to the country beyond the mountains,
grand as it was in suggestion, was only a
suggestion, far in advance of public
thought and public capacity. Its sub
sequent execution proved the far-sighted
wisdom of Dr. Caldwell, but many years
had to pass before the State came up to
his views.
But the Fayetteville and Salisbury road
was undertaken in good earnest, and in
1833 a survey of the whole route was made.
The Hon. D. K. MacRae, then a lad of I
twelve years, was one of the rod-men.
We have learned that the people of Fay- !
etteville, in their inexperience in the costs
of railroad construction, were so confident
of their ability to build the road, that
they rejected the offer of Boston capitalists
to build and equip it ; rejecting the propo
sition because they did not wish to see the
management of the road and the benefit of
its profits pass into foreign hands.' The
work ended with the survey.
But in connection with this scheme, and
as a starting point in the work, the road
from Campbellton up into town was un
dertaken and built as far as a point on
the south side of Hay street, between the
market house and E. J. Lilly's store. Be
ginning near the river bank it ran all the
way on the south side of Person and Hay
streets to its vague terminus. The struc
ture was wholly of wood. Cross ties were
laid about ten feet apart, upon which were
stretched the stringers of heart pine 8 by
4. The top surface of the stringers was
rounded, upon which the concave wheels
of the cars ran. The road crossed Blount's
creek at the "Half Way bridge" alongside
of the present bridge, and was a very
pretty piece of lattice work, graceful and
substantial, surviving long after the super
structure of the road had perished.
For a few weeks the road was used. It
was a novelty, and the flat-cars ran almost
every hour, crowded with those to whom
a ride on a railroad was a new experience.
A few loads of cotton and other produce
were taken to the landing; a few loads of
heavy merchandise for the town and the
back country were brought up in return.
But a serious difficulty presented itself, and
the elements of opposition developed their
power. As I stated, the road stopped half
way between the market-house and the old
La Fayette Hotel. , From the terminus
goods had to be transported by wagons to
the stores, and the wagon interest, always
a strong one, made its power felt, charg
ing as much for the handling of goods
from the terminus up town as from the
river. Then again, the Brick Row inter
est derived no advantage whatever from
the road unless it were carried to the foot
of Haymount, and the short experience of
down town was unhappy. The road was
at once abandoned, fell into decay, and in
two or three years disappeared, leaving rio
sicm of its existence excent the bridere.
which survived six or eicrht years and then
gradually dropped to pieces.
But when built this railroad had the
honor of being one of the pioneers in rail
roads in the State and in the South. At
the same time there was a road, a tram, in
Raleigh, used for the construction of the
Capitol, running out to the granite quar
ries, a mile from the Capitol; and there
was the Blakely end of the Petersburg
road, terminating at the head of navigation
on the Roanoke River, between the present
Weldon and the town of Halifax, eight or
ten miles in North Carolina. The line of
the road was changed when the Greenville J
and Raleigh and Gaston roaas were built,
and Blakely has long been amongst the
places that were. J. D. C.
THE RVL.ING PASSION.
Strong After Death as It Is In Death.
Texas Sittings, j
There was a large boiler of scalding
water over a fire in the yard, and several
black imps playing near it Suddenly a
shrill voice was. heard from inside the
shanty : ' ' You, George, Washington; keep
away from dat ar biler. D'rectly you is
gwine ter upset de biler and scald yersef
to def, an when you is, you'll be de fust
one to say, Twasn't me, mammy.' "
PROSPEROUS TOWNS.
Newton. Newton, which now has a
population of about twelve hundred, is
situated on the Western North Carolina
Railroad, about 75 miles from Salisbury,
and is the terminus of the Chester &
Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad. The lat
ter was completed about a year ago, and
bince Newton has manifested unmistakable
signs of growth and future importance.
The population has increased almost fifty
per cent. , while its mercantile concerns
have kept pace with the population. New
ton, unlike most of the western towns,
has not yet partaken of a manufacturing
boom, still there is sufficient nucleus here,
around which will be built a large number
of industrial concerns. There is a cotton
factory operated by steam which employs
25 or 30 hands and makes No. 20 warps
and skeins. It has a capacity of 700
pounds per day, consuming in a year
about 255,500 pounds of cotton. Mr. J. T.
Finger will shortly erect a machine shop
and will manufacture agricultural im
plements. There are two steam flouring
mills in Newton. These mills each grind
and prepare for shipping about fifty
bushels of wheat per day. Winston Sen
tinel. Hickory. This seems to be the coming
town of Piedmont North Carolina. Sit
uated on a high sandy ridge, in full view
of the Blue Ridge, Brushy, South and
Green Mountains, und yet in the midst of
a fine wheat, tobacco, corn and cotton
country, with excellent water including a
fine mineral spring, and with an honest,
industrious, enterprising population, who
believe that "a pound of pluck is worth a
ton of luck," Hickory bids fair at no
distant day to rank among the largest in
land towns of the State. Already she
boasts of two large tobacco warehouses,
four tobacco factories, three tanneries (one
of them run by steam), a large steam
wagon factory, &c., &c. The whistling
of steam engines apd the puffing and
blowing of seven regular rauroad trains
make it quite a noisy little town of 1,800
inhabitants. New houses are going up in
all directions. AiJtetille Adeanee.
Thomasville. rSome time this month
G. A. Thompson will put up a steam saw
mill. Thompson & Kindly, Triumph flour
mills, are about to put in a sixty horse
power engine, and increase their capacity
to forty barrels of flour a day. They are
also doing a sash and blind business.
Peters & Reed, of Norfolk, are getting
out a lot of walnut lumber to ship to Italy.
A great many barrel staves are made in
the country and sold in Thomasville ; and
now a factory has been put up in town for
the manufacture of staves. Jas. A.
Leaeh & Co., are making hand sewed
shoes for men and 'women, superior
to any made in the North - and sold
as hand made. Their shoes are stylish,
are made of the best materials and wear
welL-'Lexington Dipatch.
' Hick ob y. For the past six or eight
years Hickory has been noted for her thrift
and enterprise, and headquarters for all
kinds of country produce, which reputation
she still boasts in an eminent degree. But
now without her great manufacturing in
terests the town would seem dull. . With- j
oilt visiting the western portion of Hickory j
a stranger can form no correct idea of the
immense amount of wagons, carts, lumber, j
building, material, Hour, castings, saw
mills, &c, manufactured' in this place.-
Prem.
Hexdebson. Everything
seemed tb be lively and trade brisk, and
we think Henderson one of the fastest
growing and best business places in North
Carolina. Large, handsome brick build
ings have taken the place of old wood
shanties. Henderson is rapidly assuming
the proportions of a city, and has the
most energetic and go-ahead set of bus
iness men in North Carolina. Rocky Mount
Reporter.
Our vacant lots are fast disappearing,
and many of our town people would be
surprised if they would ride around and
see how many comfortable dwellings have
been built, and are still being built in our
prosperous, thriving town. Fayetteville
Observer.
There were a great many people in town
yesterday with tobacco. Twenty-six wag
ons from one neighborhood in Granville
came in town in a line. These things are
unmistakable evidences of. a genuine pros
perity. Durham Toftaceo Plant, March 13.
NOT liOST.
But Gone Before.
Western Paper.
One sometimes receives consolation from
a source , wholly unexpected. Two men
were in a boat and trying to cross the rap
ids. The traveller was timid in presence
of the turbulent waters, and, clinging to
both sides of the little cockle-shell, said to
the boatman in trembling tones, ' ' Aren't
people sometimes lost here ? It seems to
be very dangerous." The sturdy ferryman
gave an extra tug at the oars, and then re
plied cheerily, " Lor' bless you, sir, I never
knew a Bian to be lost here, though-- I've
been on this river off and on for nigh forty
year. Why, only last month my brother
John was drowned right on this very spot
that we are going over now, but he wasnt
lost, for we found his body two days after
ward in the creek below here." .
FOUND AT Li A ST !
A Good Word for Mother-ln-Law.
(New York Sun.
A half-elderly married couple were look
ing through a "house for sale? up town.
The good lady would not believe that the
doors were solid black walnut and not ve
neering. She said, " Shakob, you take out
i your knife
and cut a pieces out of dose
doors, ahnd vee vill haf it axammt by a
garpenders down by dot Shatham Square
already. You see, Miss Lady, I am shmart
some more. My mowder'n-law she gomes
yet, sometimes, to veesit us in dree years,
and if she had found oht dot ve pay doze
prizes she voud faint avay, clean ; zo you
hat petter take dot low cost, and maype
she might lif through the -summer."
A VERY SMALL, PARAGRAPH.
But a Big Lamp of Sense.
Newspaper Waif.
The old negro was right who said that
the reason why a certain quarrel was set
tled was that one of the parties "kep' on
axin' 'pertinent questions an' de oder kep'
on sayin' nothin'; an1 that," he added,
"will settle a big difliculty quicker'n any
thin' else."
The Same Erery where
Courier-Journal. .
A recent dispatch from Egypt says;
"The rebels advanced this evening to
within a mile and a half of the town (Sua
kira). They then righted fires and de
stroyed a large melon plantation." What
stronger proof could be given that these,
rebels belong to a dark-skinned race?
WILMIXGTOX. .
HOW THEY WORK AND HOW THEY
PLAY.
In the City fey the Sea Ita Pleasant Pros
. peets of a Prosperous Future.
Correspondence of the Raleigh Register.
Wilmington, N. C, March 12, 1884.
You, my dear Register, may think you
don't know me when you read my name be
low; but all the same--it was on my part
" Hale fellow, well met '." in the old by
gones, and to-day it is hail Register,- may
you have abundant success! I am not
alone in that wish, by the way. Every
body who knows your past record rejoices
that you have once again gone into jour
nalism, and hopes that the Register will
have a Hale old age under your oversight
and charge. I enclose my subscription for
a year, to make sure of it, and hope that
ten thousand of your friends will do like
wise. .
SOMETHING IN STORE FOR THE RADICALS.
I know you will pitch into the Radicals
in old-fashioned style, giving the party all
the hot shot in your locker, without indulg
ing in: personalities. That's the kind of
talk for me. If we Democrats cannot
stand on principle we ought to be beaten,
but we have confidence in our party to be
lieve that it will. At all events we are
true 4o them in North Carolina, and the
rest must look out for themselves. But,
my dear Register, I did not intend to
drop into politics, but to hurrah for you
and for the tar-heels.
LIKE A THREE-YEAR-OLD.
We are getting along famously, espe
cially in Wilmington. Our city grows and
grows. Mayor Hall is a wide-awake ruler,
or, if yqu please, executive.'
WOULD BE DELIGHTED.
Please come down here and look at what
he is doing. A splendid government, fine
police, streets paved, Produce Exchange
lively, new residences going up, the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad certain
to be extended this way, and foreign com
merce increasing. You published lately a
letter from Major Hearne, of a practical
kind. Give us more of the same sort. That
kind of thing tells.
STREET SHOWS,
Excitements ? Yes, we have one now
and then. The latest is a circus on the
streets in the shape of a gorgeous adver
tising cart, with a band of niggers in fancy
costumes, lots of signs of gilt about it, a
tonguey French woman dressed like a Chi
nese, with a linguist of clear voice to inter
pret for her. Market street is crowded
with people to see and hear, and all sorts
of quack notions of (vouched for) miracu
lous efficacy are sold to the listening mul
titude. AT REST.
Last Sunday I went with a friend to the
Federal Cemetery, where the dust of more
than two thousand brave men reposes.
The old flag was floating in the breeze, and
the grass was beginning to show its pale
green through the faded turf of last year.
Why did those men die? thought I. Ah!
Mr. Register, who in this generation can
answer that question, stanaing over any
gallant soldier's grave, wore he the blue or
the gray ? Enough for us to remember that
the buried braves of this nation were noble
specimens of the very best type of our
American manhood men of whom in after
years the whole country will be proud.
Reverently, lovingly, in national and in
Confederate cemeteries let us care for the
gallant dead, remembering that whether
vanquished or vietor at the last, they all
fought the good fight of faith and were
ready to be offered up on the altar of that
country they mutually loved.
THE FINEST FISH THAT SWIM.
The firm of Davis & Co. is shipping fish
North in big cases and little boxes, in
either' case the shad being packed in
broken ice. When our Northern friends
see the silvery scales of the toothsome shad
shining through the cold packing, won't
they be glad they are Americans '. You
bet!
I have used up paper ; I can only add,
health and wealth to the Register !
f J. C.
IV. C. EXPERIMENT STATION.
Analyses ana Relative Valuations
Commercial Fertilizers.
of
1884. n.
The following have been completed since
the last report:
2370. Etiwan Dissolved Bone, Etiwan
Phosphate Company, Wm. C. Bee & Co.,
general agents, Charleston, S. C. ; sampled
at Laurinburg, January 10; lot in hands'
of Everett Bros. & Gill. Contains: Avail
able phosphoric acid 11.97 percent. Rela
tive value $21.55 per 2,000 pounds.
2372. Allison & Addison's Star Brand
Guano, A. & A., Richmond, Va. ; sam
pled at Laurinburg, January 11 ; from lot
in hands of Malloy fc McKinnon. Con
tains:' Available phosphoric, acid 9.37,
ammonia 2.26, potash 1.23 per cent. Rela
tive value $27.88 per 2,000 pounds.
2892. Peruvian Mixture, American Fer
tilizing Company, Norfolk, Va. ; sampled
at Raleigh, January 18, inhands-of Parker
& ' Snelling. Contains : Available phos
phoric acid 6.32, ammonia 2.21, potash
2.81 per cent. Relative value $22.99per
2,000 pounds.
2393. Pocomoke Superphosphate, Free
man, Lloyd, Mason & Dryden, Norfolk,
Va. ; sampled in Raleigh, January 18j in
hands of M. T. Norris & Brb. Contains :
Available phosphoric acid 8.49, ammonia
2.40, potaeh 3.48 per cent. Relative value
per 2,000 pounds, $29.06. .
2409. Excellenza Soluble Phosphate,
Long & Dugdale, Baltimore, Md. ; sam
pled at Raleigh, January 29, in hands of
Wyatt & Taylor. Contains: Available
phosphoric acid 9.48, ammonia 2.50 per
cent. Relative value per ton (2,000 pounds)
$27.06.
2442. Acid Phosphate of the Atlantic
Phosphate Company, of Charleston, S. C,
Pelzer, Rogers & Co., general agents; sam
pled at Shelby, February 6, in hands of
W. L. Dameron & Co. Contains : Available
phosphoric acid 10.19, potash 1.01 per
cent. Relative value per ton (2,000 pounds)
$19.55. .
2443. Edisto Acid Phosphate of the
Edisto Phosphate Company, J. B. E. Sloan,
general agent, Charleston, 8. U. Contains :
Available phosphoric acid 8.87, potash 8.16
per cent. Relative value $19.76 per ton,
2,000 pounds.
2446. Dissolved Bone phosphate of Lime,
Pacific Guano Company, Glidden & Curtis,
general agents, Boston, Mass. ; sampled at
Shelby,-February 8, with J. 8. Border.
Contains: Available phosphoric acid 11.78
rcent Relative value per 2, 000 pounds,
21.20.
2447. Acid Phosphate: L. &. It., Lorentz
& Rktler, 10 South street, Baltimore, Md. ;
sampled at Shelby, February 6, with W. L.
Dameron & Co. Contains : , Available
phosphoric acid 11.87 per cent, potash a
ADVERTISING BATES."
Advertisements will be inserted for One Ikiliar
per square (one inch) for the first and Fifty Cents
for each subsequent publication. 1 .
Contracts for advertising for any space or time
may be made at the office of the
RALEIGH REGISTER, -
Second Floor ot. Fisher Building, Fayetteville
Street, next to Market House. -
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trace. Relative value per 2,000 pounds
$21.36. i
2449. Ashepoo Acid Phosphate, Ashepoo
Phosphate Company, Charleston, S. C. ;
sampled St Shelby, February 6, with A. B.
Suttle. Contains: Available phosphoric
acid 11.35, potash 0.80 per cent. Relative
value per 2,000 pounds $21.39.
2451.- Raker's Dissolved Bone Phosphate,
Chemical. Company of Canton, 32 and 34
S. Charles street, Baltimore, Md. ; sampled
at Shelby, February 6, with A. B. Suttle.
Contains:' Available phosporic acid 11.67
per cent. Relative value per 2,000 pounds
$21.01,
2394. "Farmer's Friend Guano, Read &
Co. , 34 Beaver street, New York, N. Y. ;
sampled at Raleigh, January 21, with
Williamson & Upchurch. Contains : Avail
able phosphoric acid 9.04, ammonia 2.71,"
potash 2. 39 per cent. Relative value per
2,000 pounds $29.98.
Chas. W. Daukey, -Jr., Director.
1884. III.
The following have been completed since
the last report: ' f
2412. 3ood Luck Guano, George Wj
Miles Company, Milford, Connecticut ?
sampled at Raleigh, with Partin & Crow
der, January 29. Contains: Available
phosphoric acid 7.18, ammonia 2.85, pot
ash 1.62 per cent. Relative value per
2,000 pounds, $24.27.
2438. Soluble Pacific Guano, Pacific
Guano Company, Jno. S. Reese & Co.,
Agents, Baltimore, Md. ; sampled with J.
S. Borders, Shelby, February 6. Contains :
Available phosphoric acid 9.10, ammonia
2.44, potash 1.01 percent. Relative value
per 2,000 pounds $27.46.
2439. Durham Bull Superphosphate,
Durham Fertilizer Company, Durham ; sam
pled at Djirham, February 4. Contains:
Available phosphoric acid 7.04, ammonia
2.44, potash 2.01 percent. Relative value
per 2, 000 pounds, .$24. 84.
2441. Etiwan Guauo, Etiwan PhosphfCtc
Company (Wm. C. Bee & Co., Agen1i(r,
Charleston, S. C. ; sampled at Concord,
February ,. with Jacob Dove. Contains:
Available, phosphoric acid 8.04, ammonia
2.39, potash 2.49 .per cent. Relative value,
per 2,000 pounds, $27.02.
2445. Cotton Food, Maryland Fertil
izing Company, Baltimore, Md. ; sampled
at Shelby, February 6, lot in hands of Mil
ler Brothers. Contains : Available phos
phoric acid 8.45, ammonia 2.29,f potash
1.90 per cent. Relative value per 2,000
pounds, $26.65.
2450. Navassa Acid Phosphate, Navas
sa Guano: Company, Wilmington, N. C. ;
sampled February 6, with A, B. Suttle
Shelby. Contains: Available phosphoric
acid 8.60,; potash 2.11 percent.- Relative
value per 2,000 pounds, $18.01.
, 2464. Ashepoo Fertilizer, Ashepoo Phos
phate Company (Robertson, Taylor & Co.,"
Agents), Charleston, S. C. ; sampled Feb
ruary 8, at Pineville, lot in hand of 8.
Youuts, Son & Co. Contains: Available
phosphoric acid 8.01, ammonia 2.53, pot
ash 2.17 per cent. Relative value per
2,000 pounds, $27.14.
2468. Stono Acid Phosphate, Stono
Phosphate Company, Charleston, S. ; C. ;
sampled at Raleigh, February 12. Con
tains: Available phosphoric acid 10.22,
potash 2. S3 percent. Relative value ' per
2.000 pounds, $21.19. ;
:We will soon commence to receive, in- .
ntense numbers of samples of fertilizers
from dealers, fanners, etc. To such we
want to say a word. It is generally un
necessary to make analyses of these sam
ples uulei there is some reason for believ
ing that the article has been injured by
rain or otherwise since it left the factory.
The State inspection of fertilizers is very
thorough, and affords the amplest protec
tion to all concerned. The official analyses
published in these reports may be accepted
as representing very closely the character
of the articles named, and other analyses
are rarely needed. When you think they are
needed, that is when there is good reason
to suspect that the goods are not of the
character represented by the official analy
ses, write to the Director and state the
facts. You will then receive directions
for drawing samples and forms for descrip
tion. If you send samples directly, remember
that the work of the Station is not intended
for the benefit of individuals alone. It is
for the benefit of the whole State. Our
rules require, therefore, that you give the
names of the fertilizer, manufacturer and
dealer from whom you bought it, price,
and all the circumstances about it. This
is necessary in order to make the work of
any public benefit. Unless you do this wc
cstnnot-' give the matter any attention.
Chas. W. Dabsey, Jr.,
Director.
Statesvllle Female College.
Correepciidenee of the Raleigi! Register.
Statesville, N. C, March 8, 1884. I
do not knbw how it was possible for me, in
my letter of the 28th ult., to have omitted
from the; enumeration of the Faculty of
Statesville Female College the name of
Miss Margaret E. Mitchell. In forty years
of active life as a teacher sheTias brought
"fresh trophies to the illustrious name she
bears, and now the pupils of the excellent
institution, the name of which I have men
tioned, are enjoying the benefits of her in
structione Lenoir's Exposition Plans.
Kinston Free Press.
The citizens of Lenoir have resolved to
make their exhibit with individual sub
scriptions. The Association has resolved,
1. To publish an illustrative map of the ,
county accompanied with descriptive hand- .
book,to be distributed at the State Expo- '
sition. ;
2. Specimens from each township of all
timbers, woods, shrubs, marls, minerals,
rocks, agricultural products, flowers, vege
tables, mineral waters, fruit, bricks, and
soils, etc, arc to be collected and prop
erly prepared for exhibition. '
3. Statistics of all crops, , schools,
churches manufactories, inventions, num
ber of itf.es of land, number of wood
land, number; of acres of cultivated land, -number
of acres in cotton, cornf rice,
wheat, oats, rye and on down until every
thing cultivated in our county is reported.
Tax valuation of land and commercial
value and rate of taxation; condition of
our county finances, rain fall and mean
temperature ; health report of the county,
water powers and fisheries.
Pee Dee Immigration. '
Wilmiugton 8tr. J . , v
Mr. J. L. Coo ley has just received
the
the
appointment of Immigrant Agent of
Seaboard Air-Line, embracing tho Caro
lina Central, the Raleigh and Augusta Air-
Line, the Jtaleigh and Gaston,, and Seaboard ,
railroads with headquarters at taurinbtirg ,
at present, and he will look,outrforr
the Interests of those families already ar
rived, and make- provision for increasing
the number, there lieine twenty families -already
booked who will be sent on as aoop
as the necessary arrangement can be made.
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