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fit $ a. . n4 A rrfS By P. M. HALS. 1 ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisementa 1U be inserted for One Dollar per square (one inch) for the first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. Contracts for advertising for any space or time may be -made at the office of the RALEIGH REGISTER, ' VOL. I. t RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1884. NO. 5- Second Floor of Fisher Building, Fayetteville Street, next to Market House. II U. mm 11 HI www office: Ka.vrtii-villf St., sSreuil Kloor fisher Building. RATES OF SCBSCXIPTIOX : ne copy .one year, mailed post-paid f2 00 One copy six months, mailed post-paid. . . . 1 00 No name enteral without payment, and no paper sent after expiration of time paid for. TUB LITTLE QUAKERESS. Marie Le Baron, in Golden Rule. J I would wear," said a little Quakeress, "A silken ribbon of blue; . ' . t U would look just like a glitteriug gem On my gown of sober hue." We are not of the world, my Ruth; Thee lnupt not take delight In what thee knows the Lord frowns on, The garb of colors bright." But doth he frown?" the small thing said; " He paints the earth and sky; Sweet flowers he makes of every tint He frowns? I wonder why." "Thee knoweth in ignorance of him The flowers grow, my Ruth; We may not, like those senseless thing, ack reasoning aud truth ; "We, we who have'hearts and heads and hands To guide us in onr dress;. For he hath taught us plainly, child, A godlike solH'rness.'" ' ' . i A smile illumined the face of Ruth; " May lie,' said the Quaker elf, "CJtMl painted the shining flower lwause It could not dregsjstetelf!" COOKE. BH1EV RKCOBD OP A WKLL SPENT LIFE. Good Soldier Good Citizen Good Law yer Wise Legislator. The National and State Campaign of ltW-i will be of unsual interest, and will doubtless fall forth all the energy of both lMlitical parties. Among those spoken of for the first place on the, State Ticket is Chablkf M. Cooke. He was born in the county of Franklin in, 1844. and is now in his 40th year. In his 17th year he left school to enter the army of the Confederacy, joined the 55th Regiment, was at one time the adjutant of that Regiment, and served to the clone of war. lie was severely wound ed in I the last tight around Petersburg, and was for some time disabled. As a1 soldier, he was brave as an officer, saga cious and vigilant, and he possessed both the love and the confidence of officers and men. The, eriod of life usually devoted to study and preparation for life was spent in the army,, but after the surrender Mr. Cooke made up as far as it was possible for those lost advantages by close applica tion, and in 1867 he was ' licensed to prac tice law. -.His energy, industry, integrity and abilities soon secured for him a lucra tive practice, and his professional career has been eminently successful. In 1874, he was elected to the State Sen ate from the counties of Franklin, Nash and Wilson. The Legislature Of 1874 called a Convention to amend the Constitution. A joint committee on Constitutional Reform was raised, of which he was chairman, and the advisability of calling the Convention at that time was a question upon which the Democratic party was divided. All desired an amendment -of the Constitution, but in the then state of the public mind in regard to the Homestead and other questions, many thought it the wisest and. safest course to defer action until an unrestricted Conven tion of the people could be had. Mr. Cooke opposed the call of the Convention at that time, but after it was determined to call it, no one worked more earnestly than he to make it a success. Upon the sub ject of education, Mr. Cooke's views are broad and liberal, and he was a strong and an earnest supporter of the bill to revive the "University of North Carolina, of which Institution he is now a trustee. In January, 1877, he was appointed by Governor Vance Solicitor to fill an unex pired term, and the members of the bar and the public will testify to the ability, fidelity and efficiency with which he djs- . . . . In 1878, he was elected to the House of j Representatives from the county of Frank lin,' and was assigned to the important post of chairman of the Judiciary Commit tee. He was also & member of the com mittee to settle the State- Debt, and when the committee agreed upon the terms of settlement, and u committee of two one from each party was appointed to draw the bill, he was chosen as the Democratic niemler of the committee, and the success of the measure was as much due to him as any other man iu the Legislature. lie favored the sale of the Western North ' Carolina Railroad, and his speech in the Hall of the House of Representatives in re ply to Mr. Dortch (who had made a strong speech in opposition to the sale), was a masterly effort and gave him much reputa tion and had much to do with the passage of the measure. . In 1879 he was appointed by Governor Jarvis a member of the Board of Internal Improvements and confirmed by the Senate, lie resigned this position in 1880, and in that year he was again elected to the House of Representatives and was elected Speaker of that body. Few men ever filled that position more aceeptablj'. Mr. Cooke has always taken an active in terest in. popular education, and is, withal, a zealous christian gentleman. He is in the prime of life, full of energy ana vigor, ana tne recoru oi ms me us a soldier loy, a lawyer, citizen, solicitor and legislator, would make him a strong can didate for the first place in the gift of !the people of North Carolina. What Can be In Cumberland. IFayetteville Observer. But few persons know that within amile of Fayetteville there are valuable beds or veins of three or more different kinds of clay, which beds are almost inexhaustible. One is red clay, suitable for making the lest of brick ; another lighter colored, from which flower-pots, water-coolers, &c, are made ; a third, which makes pipes that are sought for from Maine to Texas by those who have once used them; and last, but not least, a darker clay, which is suita ble for the manufacture of jugs, pitchers and other articles. What Became of the Tree I Wilmington Star. A gentleman from Darlington stated to us yesterday, as an illustration of the power of the late cyclone, that a board seven feet long, nine inches wide and one inch thick, was blown end-first against a treefive or six inches in diameter and passed through it to the extent of two feet. This was at Darlington. How will that do for a cvclonical item? Important to Justices. Chatham Record. Section 822 of The Code reads as fol lows: , " When any Justice of the- Peace moves out oi his township and does not return therein for the space Of six months, he shall forfeit and lose his office: and any sueta Justice of the Peace presuming to art tlereaftj contrary to this section, unless reelected or reapporatejf. shall be eniltv of a misdemeanor.' ROCKINGHAIH. Tlie KxpoHltion, Cyclone, Polities aud Home Matters. Correspondence of'the Rai.kioh Register. Wentwobth, N. C, March 15, 1884. At the. meeting of our County Commis sioners, held on Monday, the 8d of March, ithey appropriated $499 to represent the products of Rockingham at the Exposition. I understand we are indebted to Mr. Charles S. Hamlin, more than to any one else, for having our grand old county pre sent at the Exhibition. Mr. namlin is a young man who has made an enviable repu tation as a farmer. He is also a member of the Board of Commissioners, and would be a most suitable person to have charge of the County Exhibit at the Exposition. Petitions are leing circulated in the county asking the appointment of Chas. A. Reynolds, as Collector for the 5th District. Every one signs as soon as asked, for though a Republican and an ex -Federal office holder, Mr. Reynolds, by his strict integ rity and freedom from partiality, has made friends with every one. He is every way qualified for the office, and all the people in his native county would rejoice to see him appointed. Politics are very quiet at this "time, no one seems to care much about them ; though at our May Court you will begin to hear the various aspirants talked of. The people of the county are in favor of General Scales for Governor and the abolition of the In ternal Revenue. If the Democratic Con vention will nominate Scales and insert the old plank in regard to doing away with the Internal Revenue, you may put Rock-. ingham down for at least 1,200 majority? We are true Democrats and will stand by the nominees of the Democratic Conven tion, be they whom they may, but Scales is dear to the hearts of the people, and no man except Gilmer, or ex-Judge Dillard, camget the full vote that he can. W ehad only a slight touch of the cyclone that did so much damage in the State; iu fact, from all I can learn, it was only in the north-eastern portion of the county that any damage was done. On the planta tion of Dr. John Brodnax it was very severe, destroying his granary, stables, and out buildings, killing :J horses and an ox, blowing down one dwelling house, tho' fortunately the inmates escaped. Mr. Samuel Wilson also had some barns des troyed. Our people are taking hold of the fence law in earnest. Wentworth township adopted it by 100 majority, and it was also carried in Stoneville township. Several other townships will vote upon it soon and it will be pretty generally adopted in the county. The weather is so bad very few get to town as it has been raining constantly for the lastten days. Hoping you will repre sent the Regimter in person at our May Court, and wishing you success, I am, your friend, F. BRINGING THEIR SHEAVE. 9Ien, Money and Opportunity. Mr. J. A. Pierce, of Troy, and M. L. Rockwell, of Canton, Pa., who came out with Mr. J. F. Satterlee, of Bradford county, Pa., have purchased a tract of 6.000 acres of land from Capt. S. II. Gray. This tract is known as the Judge Gaston land, and is of undoubted good quality. These gentlemen are delighted with our country and are no doubt the advance guard of others that will come.-AVr Berne Journal. We encountered between Richmond aud Greensboro, a gentleman en route to West ern North Carolina in the interest of North ern capital seeking investment there. The object was to purchase 60,000 acres of timber land, "with the view of erecting a large tannery, in Addition to developing in other ways. Why not? With hemlock, white oak and red oak in inexhaustible quantities perfectly convenient; with a local supply of fine hides and a short through line to the Western hide markets, we can conceive of no possible reason. (Ireenxltoro Patriot. Mr. W. A. Skidmore, of Jamaica, Long Island, has lought a place on the sound between Portsmouth and BcaufoiVto be used as a residence during the shooting season, and has laid off an oyster farm on the front. Under the late oyster law of this State every facility for "reservations" to be laid off and full protection of all the rights of the planter are guaranteed and the culture is rapidly gaining favor with our own citizens and also attracting the attention of persons from abroad. Neie Tierne Journal.., AT BOTH ENDS. Currltuek a Paradise. The immenseness of Curritek's wild-fowl hunting industry is realized by but few, even among the county's immediate neigh bors. To call Currituck sound the "paradise of the sportsman, is a very mild way of putting it. "Why you would be surprised to know,'' remarked one of Currituck's solid citizens to The Falcon man, " how many men in our county make good livings and lay up money ducking." Elizabeth City Falcon. Haywood on a Boom. Haywood is booming in every conceiva ble way, at this time. Cattle are com manding fabulous prices, and every one you meet talkw'of tobacco and tells you of his plans ana chances for a good crop. There will be five acres this year set to to bacco where there was only one last. Then I hear there are going to be two to bacco warehouses at Waynesville and one at Pigeon Valley ready to sell the next crop. Ashetifle Citizen. A Perfect Gentleman Deserlbed. Columbus (O.) Home Gazette. "Who is that man who has just gone out?" asked a traveler of a bar-keeper in Deadwood City Ihe other day. "That," replied the gin-jerker, "that's a perfect gentleman one of the most per fect gentlemen in the camp." "Indeed!" said the surprised strangd-. "You bet he is! Why, the other night over at Jack Bowie's game he killed a man for something or other, and the next day he paid the undertaker's bill out of his own pocket and sent the widow a barrel of flour. It's true he made a big winning, and all that ; but how many men do you meet now-a-days with a great big heart like that? He's a perfect gentleman, sir." The 8k ye Crofters. London 'Special to the New York Po6t. A letter fromthe Isle of Skye says that Miss McLeod's lectures on la " Visit to the Colony of Flora McDonald's descendants " in North Carolina will probably induce an emigration of several thousands of the crofters to that locality. There has been great distress in Skye ; the people are dis posed to emigrate, and only want to know where to go t. TRINITY COLLEGE. THK COLLEGE OP THE DISTS. JIETHO- Tne Good It has Done Is doing Will do for North Carolina. Near the sources of the: Cape Fear and Uwharrie rivers, in the county of Randolph, N. C, on an eminence from which is view ed a gently rolling and fertile country, watered by meandering streams of cool, crystal water, and brought to a high state of cultivation by its thrifty, moral and intel ligent inhabitants, is located Trinity Col lege, five miles from the town of High Point, on the North Carolina Railroad, and 100 miles west of Raleigh. Here, in 1838, Rev. Brantly York began an ordinary school. The next year a good framed building of two rooms was erected, and the school was chartered Union Insti tute. In 1852, Dr. York retired from the Academy, and Rev. B. Craven, then nine teen years old, was elected Principal.!' The school continued to flourish. From 1843 to 1850 the average number of students was 125, running up as high as 184 ' one year. In January, 1831, the institution was re chartered, and named Normal College. The chief intent of this change was to se cure a higher grade of teachers for com mon and high schools. By the charter the certificate of the College was made lawful evidence of qualification to teach in the common schools, and no further examina tion was required. The Governor of the State was ee-offieio president of the board of trustees, and the Superintendent of common schools was secretary. This ar rangementmade the College a State Insti tution. In 1853, the charter was amended, giving the College full power to confer any and all degrees, and do all other acts usual to literary institutions of high grade. The amended charter lirected the Literary Board of the Staft to loan the trustees of the College 10,000 upon execution of ac ceptable bond for the same. Hon. J. A. Gilmer, a trustee, and one of the most ac tive and efficient friends of the institution, was the first to sign the bond, and the sig natures of five other responsible gentlemen being obtained, the money was secured. With this money the old building, now forming the north wing of the present col lege buildings, was erected. From 1851 to 1859, (the Normal period) the College flourished. The average num ber of matriculations, yearly, was 197, and the average gross income about $5,000. Meanwhile, though a State institution, the College had become connected with the North Carolina Conference of the M. E. Church, South. In 1851 the trustees made propositions to the Conference, which were accepted. According to this arrange ment, the College was to educate without charge young men preparing for the minis try, and the Conference endorsed the Col lege and annually appointed a visiting committee. In 1856 other propositions were made, the final result of which was the transfer of the college propertv, and in 1859, by an act of the Legislature, the College was fully and finally vested in the Conference, By the same act the name was changed to Trinity, all Normal features were annulled, ,the connection with the State was severed, and the institution be came a regular denominational college. Increased prosperity was the result of this arrangement. From 1859 to 1862, the average number of matriculations an nually was 204,; and the gross annual in come $7,500. Agents had secured pledges of funds sufficient to erect more commo dious buildings, and a movement was started to secure a handsome endowment, when the war ljetwecn the States inter fered. During the war the regular exercises were continued, but the number of students constantly decreased. In 1863, President Craven resigned and Prof. W. T. Ganna way was chosen to succeed him, who. with a small number of students, continued till the arrival in the village of Gen. Hardee's corps in April, 1865. The exercises were then suspended till January, 1866, when Dr. Craven, having been re-elected Presi dent, re-opened the institution. From that time to the present it has continued with varying prosperity, the average number of students being about 150, and the gross annual income $6,000. A new and larger building, substantially built of brick, three stories high, and covered with iron, has recently been com pleted ; and now the accommodations in lecture-rooms, - society halls, libraries, museum, and other things needful, are ample for at least 200 students. The chapel, which will comfortably seat 2,000 persons, is perhaps the best auditorium in the coun try, betn for the speaker and the hearer. The whole property, including land, build ings, furniture and apparatus, and libraries, is worth from $50,000 to $60,000. On the 7th of November, 1882, Rev. B. Craven, D. D., LL. D., the honored Presi dent and founder of the institution, died, and Prof. W. H. Pegram was appointed Chairman of the Faculty till a meeting of the' trustees could be called, and a presi dent elected ; but it was deemed advisable by the board of trustees to continue that arrangement to the close of the scholastic year. At the late commencement in June, 1883, Rev. M. L. Wood, A. M., a graduate of Trinity of the class of 1858, was chosen President, who assumed the duties of this position on the 5th day of last September, and all fears that the College would not survive the death of its great founder have passed away. President Wood is assisted by four professors, and all are working and planning to make Trinity one of the fore most institutions of learning in the whole country. When the debt, which is now not large, is extinguished ; and the endow ment of $100,000, which mis already be gun to be subscribed is completed ; and the 4 curriculum, which, like that of most of our Colleges and Lni versifies, is a reuc of the dead past, shall be modernized, as it is pro posed to do before the opening of the next scholastic year ; and when the 73,000 Metho dists of the North Carolina Conference be come united in supporting it with their patronage and influence, then will the brightest hopes of the friends of the Col lege be realized. These things we expect to see. But in the meanwhile Trinity is now a first-rate school, and young men desiring an education .might go further, pay more, and get les than here. We are now thinking occasionally about.! Commencement. Commencements are grand occasions at Trinity. The spacious and elegant chapel will seat comfortably 2,000 people, but usually many who come cannot obtain admittance for lack of room. Trinity graduate speak well. There are incentives to it besides that of popular ap plause. Several medals are given for good speaking and debating. The one most de sired is the! "Willie Gray" medal to the best orator , among the graduates on Com mencement Day. This medal was estab lished by, R. T. Gray, Esq., of Raleigh, in honor of bis brother who fell gloriously on the bloody! field of Gettysburg. Gentlemen hare been elected to preach the sermon and deliver the literary address. but as they have not yet signified their ac ceptance, we must withhold their names for the present. If they accept, a rich treat is in store in that way for our friends who attend the next Commencement. J. F. Heitman. Death of a Methodist Bishop. Norfolk Virginian. The telegraph announces the death on March 20, at Columbus, Mississippi, of Bishop-Hubbard Hinde Kavanaugh of the M. E. Church, South. Bishop Kavanaugh was born in Clarke county, Kentucky, January 14, 1802. He was converted and joined the Methodist Church in his sixteenth year. lit his twenty-second year he entered the itine rant ministry in the Kentucky Conference. In May, 1854, he was elected Bishop. From his admission into the traveling connection in 1823, to the date of his death, a period of nearly sixty-one years, he has been doing the full . work of a Methodist preacher. There has been no turning aside to other pursuits, no cessation from work on account of ill health. His career has been one of unremitting toil from its "be ginning to its end. Like the Apostle Paul, he was "in labors more abundant." He has had few superiors in the pulpit. His culture was not as varied or his learn ing as profound, nor had he the polish of speech or grace of manner that have char acterized some others. But in that subtle gift of the true orator, which we call mag netism, in the ability to captivate and sway an audience at will, in fervor of imagina tion, in genuine pathos, few if any among pulpit orators have surpassed him. His personal religious convictions were deep and all-controlling. His piety sim ple, unaffected, childlike: There was nothing austere or forbidding in his spirit, manner, or speech. In his presence was sunshine. He diffused around him where -ever he went the genial glow of a spirit at rest in love with God and with man at peace within itself and rejoicing in the numberless tokens of the Divine benefi cence and glory scattered along his path way. With him there could be no ques tion as to whether life was worth living. It was a joy to him to live and, as. God's instrument, he made it a joy to multitudes of his followers. No doubt it was a joy to him to die. Death in such a case is but the In-ginning of life in its deepest and truest sense eternal life. " He rests from his lalors and his works do follow him." Faith Cure In Connecticut. New York Sun. On the King's highway to Boston, over which Washington travelled, just off the main street, in the town of Stratford, stands an unassuming house, in which during the past week a remarkable cure by faith, prayer, and anointing is alleged to have been effected. Miss Fannie Curtis, about 40 years of age, has for twenty three years been an invalid, and incapable of walking, except a few steps at a time, and while doing so the effort has been accompanied with extreme pain. A ihtn reporter visited Miss Curtis at her home yesterday to learn whether the report of her cure was authentic. She said that she had positively been cured at "the hands of the Rev. Arthur J. Sloan, rector of Christ Church. This change was made instantly, on Friday, March 7. I had prayed earnestly that I might be cured, and with our rector, Mr. Sloan, had often spoken of the faith cure in which he has been so much interested. We de cided on the date I have mentioned, and eaeh of us had perfect faith that God would literally answer prayer and grant me a relief from my long-continued suf ferings. He anointed me with oil and since that moment I have been well. That same night I walked to the evening Lenten service at Christ Church, a quarter of a mile away." The rector confirmed her statement. A number of such cures, he said, had been made by Dr. Collis, of Boston, and by himself. "The Bible furnishes examples and prescribes the process of anointing St. James, v. 14, 15 and in John Wes ley's notes you may read : ' This was the whole process of physic in the Christian Church till it was lost through unbelief.' The first prayer book of Edward contains a service speciallyprepared for anointing." The Chlltern Hundreds. N. C. Presbyterian. Bradlaugh the infidel took the oath which is tendered members of the British Parlia ment, and which he declares he does not consider binding, and was allowed to take his seat. Measures were promptly set on foot to expel him. He applied for the stewardship of Chiltern Hundreds, obtain ed it and so vacated his seat without ex pulsion. We introduce Bradlaugh only to bring in the stewardship of Chiltern Hundreds. In former times the Chiltern Hills, in Buckinghamshire, were infested with bandits, and for the purpose of res training them the crown appointed an offi cer, known as tne steward oi t tuitern Hundreds. The original purpose of the office has long ceased to exist, but it now serves a purpose which is thus explained. No member of Parliament can resign his seat unless by the acceptance of some place of honor and profit under the crown, or for some other disqualifying cause. Ihe stewardship is held to be such a place, and as soon as it has served its purpose it can be resigned and so ready for another occu pant. It is clearly an evasion of the law instituted to prevent resignations of Parlia ment. There are a few other such steward ships in England. One case is on record where the stewardship of Chiltern Hun dreds was refused. The gift is in the hands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in 1842 he refused it to a member who was under investigation for bribery. Getting the best of the Umm Man. Texas Sittings. "Schaoob," said Mow Schaumburg one dark rainy day, to his eldest son, who is chief clerk in the "hand-me-down" de partment; "Schacob, once more I dells you put oud dot gas, so we saves a leedle dose hard times." ' ' Fader, let burnin' dot gas. I scharged dot next gustomer what comes in 10 per shent extra to make good dot loss mit der gas." " Schacob, put dot gas oud and scharge dot 1T0 per shent pesides, den ve makes shoost 20 per shent." And Canon Farrar's No Hell 1 Newspaper Waif. A French mother was talking before baby of the old prison for debt, in the Rue de Clichy. "Mamma," said tho little one, " what is debt?" "A debt is to buy a doll when you have no money to pay for it "And where is that . orison ?" ' It is torn down. " Itajnediately baby started toward too door. : . " Where are you. gftiag ;my child?" "I am going to buy a doll." FAYETTEVILLE. HOW ITS PEOPLE AND PHYSICAL ADVANTAGES IMPRESS A GENTLE QUAKERESS. Sites for Factories on thaalvely streams, and for Hotels and Schools on the old unitary Uroands. Correspondence of the Hal-sigh Register. J Fayetteville, N. C, March 21, 1884. The Register's Fayetteville correspon dent gives the current news with such accuracy and minuteness, and in such excellent style, that there is little left for a gleaner. No good Boaz travels round among the workers, telling them to drop a few nice heads of grain for a "lone, lorn woman " to gather into her apron. (I am not sure that my namesake wore that useful appurtenance of our home gowns, although Mrs. Gummidge did, and I do ; but let that pass.) There are in our city many things, old and familiar to us, that may be fresh and interesting to strangers. Of some of these, by your kind permission, I will write, hoping that thus the atten tion of our men-folk may be called to exist ing industries, and to those chances for greater things that seem to my unpracti cal eyes to be abundant. OLD MILLS AND NEW. Of the mills that are, and the mills that were once the pride and boast of Fayette ville, I will not write, but of the dashing stream that once turned any number of busy wheels, I may safely say, that its power for work is as great now as it was a hundred years ago, while one-fourth of it runs to waste. Oh, for the day when some Virion Des Lauriers shall come here and build on its banks a factory, wherein the raw silk of North Carolina shall be woven into fabrics fit for the garments of a Queen. FUTURR FUHNITURK FACTORIES. - Or, oh, for one of those enterprising Michiganders, whose splendid furniture of native woods delighted every woman that visited the Centennial. We have the woods and the water-power. Why should we go to New York or Ann Arbor for our parlor and chamber sets? Oak, ash and black walnut for fine work, poplar for painted sets, these we have in abundance, but only Pemberton & Newbeury and Mr. McKethan use them, and the latter only for his carri age work. THK BEST PRODUCT OF THE OLD ARSENAL We once had an armory, that is. Uncle Samuel did, but when that naughty rela trve and we disagreed, it fell into other hands, and finally some of our cousins up and burned it; (Uncle Samuel's own boys at that, and very foolish of them it was to spoil that excellent old fellow's pet prop erty). But that armory was the direct means of bringing here a most worthy Lngnsh gentleman, MR. WALTER WATSOS. He is an honest man, who makes a living by steeling. Is it not put down to Tubal Cain's honor in "the best of books," that he was an artificer who knew how to make metals useful ? So we honor Walter Wat son, the man who has got the power to weld iron and steel with a deftness that has made his tools the best of their kind in the world. Many a piney-woods man has had a taller scrape than he ever dream ed of, until he got hold of Watson's hack ers and millers. Wherever turpentine is produced, there the MACMILLAN BROTHERS are famous, for their seamless stills have become indispensable. I never walk through the woods where the whited tree trunks stand thick as tombstones in populous cemetery, without thinking that they are standing tributes to the thrift and industry of these Fayetteville artificers. Now, if McMillan Brothers would do what it is said they have under advisement, that is, make SMALL STILLS FOR ESSENTIAL OIL8, so that the" winter-green, sassafras and mints of our State could be distilled, tney would be public benefactors indeed. They would enable me and my fairer sisters to earn our living in a most congenial em ployment, for from roses, from the yellow jessamine, and from many another flower, wild and cultivated, we could extract the perfumes, and sell them as essential oil to the great druggists and perfumers. THE FUTURE HOTEL OF THE PINERIES. But that old armory site ! What a spot for an elegant hotel, or for a seminary When we so up to the Exposition next October you, Mr. Register, may think we wont because we have not yet got be yond talk we ought among other things to carry there large photographs of all the lovely places in and around here, but es pecially one of Armory Hill. Who knows but that it would bring us the one or the other ? Confess now, as an old citizen Mr. Editor, is not that worth trying ? THE MC KETHANS, father and son, have been with us for gene rations, . and all citizens of Fayetteville have it in their hearts to, say, as did those warm souled Orientals of ancient days, "may they live forever." When we go out riding we never feel safe in a vehicle of other make, but nobody ever knew a McKethan carriatre to break down. The honor of the men goes into their vehicles They would much rather close their busi ness forever than to build anything less durable than was that "wonderful one horse shay," which Dr. Holmes immortal ized. All honor to those men, of whatever vocation, who always do their best. "Of such is the kingdom of heaven " I verily believe, for says the highest authority, "he that is faithful in the least, is faithful also in much." and all those clever artisans of Favettcville I have named, are of that stamp. LOVELY TOKAY. Fayetteville without Tokay, would still be delightful, but with it close at hand what one adjective can fitly express all the lovs of a residence here. Now, while all is bare and brown in the Vineyard, for " Gone are the sumtner-hearted leaves. That once were nurtured there," yet the house, the out-buildings, the regu lar trelrtises, the tangled scuppernong bowers, the rolling land, the hsh pools, and the broad fair landscape beyond, com bine in a picture well worth seeing. Later, when the blossoming vines fill the air with a goodly smell, or later still, when the vintage time has come, what a pleasure is a drive to Tokay ! All the fair maiden and young men of our society know how it is, for they have tried it time and again, but at the Exposition we must make this a feature of Fayetteville's numerous at tractions. - I should enjoy gossiping still more about our city, its men and women, its Light Infantry and its babies, its stores, schools and churches, but your regularly chosen cbiel does that so fully and well that I forbear. Spinster Ruth. Mr. J. G. Gilmpre, of Sanford town ship, has just completed a tobacco barn, the first ever built in Moore county. DEATHS OF NOTED CITIZENS. J. W. Pardle, Esq. - We regret to learn fhat J. W. Purdie, Esq., a very prominent citizen of Bladen county, died at his residence last Sunday morning. Mr. Purdie was about nftv-seven years xi age, and had been a sufferer for a long time with, dyspepsia. His health com pletely broke down several months ago, and his death was no surprise to his many friends. Mr. Purdie belonged to a family of wealth and distinction in his county, and was himself owner of large landed estates. He was elected State Senator from Bladen, Columbus and, we think, Brunswick, since the war, but was banned, -having been too good a patriot to be tolerated by the Re publican majority of the Legislature of 1868. At the time of his death he was a member of the Democratic Board of Com missioners of Bladen. He leaves a wife and several children. Wilmington fitar, March 19. Mr, John V. Avera. On Monday night at 7 p. m., Mr. John Washington Avera, Jr., after continued illness of several months, breathed his last, at thp residence of his father, about three miles west of Smithfield. Mr. Avera was well known throughout the county, was one of the largest farmers in the county, having been very successful in that line. At the tune of his death he was only about thirty years of age. He was an ex ceedingly kind-hearted gentleman, always ready to befriend whenever in his power, and was very popular with his fellow-men, and many a heart has been saddened by his death. Smithfield Hemlq. Bcv. Dr. Pharr. The death of Rev. Samuel C. Pharr, D. D., of the M. E. Church, South, is an nounced. Dr. Pharr was originally n Presbyterian, and as a minister of that church he was pastor of Providence and Sharon congregations in Mecklenburg, as well as of another congregation in Rowan. But about fifteen years since he connected himself with the M. E. Church, South. A little over a year since, while pastor of church at Rockingham, he was para- iyzed, and last Sunday, at his old home near Charlotte, he breathed his last, aged about fiftv-five -te8rsJ-LiGrrmloro Work- ITIr. Fannie Devereux Sklpwltu. Mrs. Fannie Devereux Skipwith, eldest daughter of the late Bishop Polk, who was also a Lieutenant-General in the Con federate Army, died at Oxford, Miss., last Saturday. The deceased lady had near relatives in this city faod in Raleighl. - Wilmington Jierteic. Mm. Alex. Gray. Mrs. Alex. Gray, of Franklinsville township, died at her home last Tuesday, in her ninety-ninth year. 1 he -deceased was probably the oldest person in the county. Axhboro Courier. The Fish Hatcheries. Wilmington 8tar.j Mr. S. G. Worth, Fish Commissioner, states that the work of the fish hatcheries will begin April 2d. Twenty-five assist ants will be employed. There will' this year be five stations at Avoca, Raleigh, Weldon. New Berne and Wilmington. At Edenton Mr. Worth will have his head quarters. The main body of the assistants will be at Avoca, as heretofore. At Wel don special observations upon the spawn ing of the rockfish will be made. From Raleigh rock and shad eggs will be distri buted by express to points all over -the State. Fish will be hatched at the State fish ponds near that city and placed in the pfeuse Kiver. "What Alls de Hull Kentry. Lime Kiln Club. . "We are runnin' away wid de kentry," said the solemn voice of Wavdown Bebee as his name was called. "We am libin too fast. Twenty y'ars ago I was satisfied with a two-roomed cabin an a dollar day; Now I has to have a two-story house an' twelve shillins' a day. Wives who used to go ba'rfut six days a week to save deir shoes for the seventh, now wear $8 butes to mop in. De pussou who airns 10 per week mus' lib jist as good as de one who airns $20. Twenty y'ars ago de woman wid a diamond nng could boss a hull nayburhood. Now, when she tries to eben boss de servant gal de gal packs up her peck of diamonds an' quits de job widout waitin' to. collect any leetle matter like $40 back salary.- When I was a boy de man who bought a caH;of oysters was supposed to have bin left a legacy of fo'teen millyun dollars. Nowadays de poo' man' back yard am kivered wid de empty cans. '1 km see sign arter sign aat ois gen- erashnn am speedin' along without thought or car of whar it will bring up. Men who am hoein' 'taters to-day am nabobs to-morrer. Men who used to believe in savin' up fur a rainy day now scatter deir cash aroun' as if . de sunshine mus' alius last. Whar I used to be satisfied wid bean soup I now want ox-tail, an' dat's what ails de hull kentry : we has got to slow up an' simmer down or de top-rail am gwine to give way an' give us all a drap." ' Save Her ! She. Is My Wife ! Detroit Free Press. Marital affection is a beautiful thing, and every fresh exhibition of its tenderness af fects us to tears. A wife possibly an old wife on a certain occasion fell overboard. Thui8band rushed frantically about the deck, literally tearing his hair out by the handful and crying in the most beseeching tones, "For neaven's sake, save her, save her; she is my wife!" The noble sailors thought of their own sweethearts and ran all risks, and at last brought the poor wo man into the cabin of the swooning hus band. The look of gratitude he gave them fully repaid them for all their efforts. Then recovering his equanimity he thrust his hand into his wife's wet pocket, pulled out a somewhat plethoric purse, and with infinite relief said : "Old woman, the next time you tumble overboard just leave that purse behind, will you You scared me almost to death." Does it In the Senate, Too. New York Tribune. Senator Bowen, of Colorado, is reputed to be the best poker-player in that State and that means a good deal and a corres pondent relates that once at Denver1, well on toward morning, he wanted four "jacks," and had only; three in' his hand.. So he dropped the fourth card under the table, slipped bis own photograph into his hand and played it. as thfl fourth " jack." It was so near morning that the other players were not in condition to detect the trick, and in the chaste language of Den ver diplomacy, " Bowen raked in the pot." FRANKLIN. ITS PEOPLE INTELLIGENT, IN DUSTRIOUS, HOSPITABLE. Its Aarrtcnltnre far Ahead of Fnraian'a Its jnanulaeturlna- Possibilities verv Large.- Ron. Joseph J. Davis. In 1779, the county of Bute was divided into two distinct counties, and the name of Bute, distasteful to Ahe Whigs of the Revolutionary period, gave place to the yatriotic names of Franklin and Warren, it was said then : " There are no Tories in Bute," and 4she liberty-loving, law-abiding and orderly character of the people of this section for more than a century, has shown that they were worthy of their ancestors. Franklin County is situated just above the level region of the long-leaf pine, and in the edge of the rolling lands. In the lower or southeastern part of the county there are considerable forests of long-leaf pine, with oak, of many kinds, hickory ash, maple, gum, elm, etc., while in the west ern and northern portion of the county, yellow pine, oaks, hickory, maple, dog wood, and a great variety of other trees grow. Lpon exnaustea iana (ana Daa cultivation has exhausted many tractsXthe old field -pine grows in great luxuriance and very soon restores fertility. Ihe climate is that oi itaieigh, and is healthy and invigorating. Throughout the county abundant springs are found of pure water of the best quality, and the en Ure county is well watered, lar Kiver runs diagonally through the county and upon this stream there is valuable water power, especially at Louisburg. On Cedar Creek, Sandy Creek, Lynch's Creek and a number of other never failing streams, are excellent mill sites and a number of fine mills.: At Laurel, on Sandy Creek, there is a c6tton factory, which has been in successful operation for several years, There is ample water-power in the county for large and extensive factories. The population of the county is intelli gent, industrious, hospitable, law-abiding, generous and tolerant. It is nearly equally divided between the white and colored races, and a better class of colored people cannot be found. It is not a wealthy county, there are no very large estates, and property is, perhaps, more evenly distributed than in any section of the Lnion. There are no overgrown fortunes and no suffering pau pers. It has the general school system of the State, and the moral, intellectual, religious and industrial character of its people is good. Agriculture is the chief employment, and there is a steady improvement in the farms. Prior to the late war, corn, -wheat, oats, peas, etc., were produced in great quanti ties, and hogs were raised for market, Cotton and tobacco were cultivated with success and constituted thus the chief mar ket, cropsbut, as a general rule there was an abundant supply of all food crops for home ' consumption. Since the war the cotton mania has prevailed here, as else where in the south, and supply crops have been neglected, to the great detriment of the material welfare of the county. JNo one product of the soil, however well it may be produced, can be relied upon to en rich an Agricultural State. It is not an unusual thing to produce two bales of cot ton to the acre in Franklin and the - capa bilities of its soil are very great. One far mer in the county (Mr. Henry Pearce, near IVanklinton) has, for many years, averaged more than one bag and a half to the acre and in 1880, on 42 acres of land he pro duced 73 bags of cotton, averaging 475 pounds: on 28 acres he made 59 bags. Mr, Pearce did not confine himself to cotton but has raised abundant supply crops and illustrates the capabilities of the land of the county. Every section of the county could be made to produce as well. All the fruits of this latitude and climate can be produced in Franklin. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, melons, strawberries and many other varieties of fruit nourish. In the northeastern portion of the county are valuable gold mines; from one of them '(the Portis mine) gold, to the value of more than $1,000,000, has been taken These mines present an inviting field for enterprise. The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad passes through the western part of the county and the town of Franklmton, on that road twenty-eight miles from Raleigh, is the principal depot for the county. The con templated road from Raleigh to the Albe marie section will pass through the south eastern part of the county and a road is chartered from the town of Lonisburg (vhe county seat) to Henderson, on the Raleigh and Gaston road, and there is little doubt it will soon be built. These roads will greatly enhance the value of the land in the county. Land along the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad can be purchased at from $10 to $20 per acre. Lands off from the railroad, of equal or greater fertility, can be purchased at from $4 to $8 per acre. The lands in the western and northern por tions of the county are undulating, well watered with many streams, and these are usually skirted with fertile bottoms, and corn, wheat, tobacco and cotton, grow well and also clover and other grasses. The southern and eastern portions of the county are level, with a gray, sandy soil, and admirably adapted to cotton, corn and peas. In many sections of the county, granite', of an excellent quality, can be found in inexhaustible quantities. The population of the county in 1870, was 14,134, in 1880, it was 20,829. The Bap tist and Methodist are the leading religi ous denominations. Louisburg, the county seat, is situated on Tar River, twenty-eight miles northeast from Raleigh, and has a population of about eight hundred, with two Baptist, two Presbyterian, one Metho dist and one Episcopal church. As already stated the chief occupation of the people of the county is agriculture. Manufactures and other pursuits have been neglected, but the water power of the county will admit of extensive factories, especially of cotton, with the raw material at hand, and her forests of wood will ad mit of great enterprise in the manufacture of wood. To people desiring homes among agri culturists, moral, kind, hospitable and tolerant, where - lands can be purchased cheap in good neighborhood, and where, With moderate labor and 'ease, fortunes may be accumulated, Franklin presents an inviting field. To men desiring to engage in the undeveloped field of manufactures and to make available the resources of the water powers of the county and the woods of the forests, there is ample scope for un told wealth. Mr. C C. McCarthy, of Hull & McCar thy, has returned from Richmond, , Va. where lie had gone to purchase a full equipment for their new plug factory, The" firm expects to manufacture about 'one hundred and fifty thousand pounds the first jear. Saltdmty Watchman :l , ? A stranirer who went to the WhrteTHotise' was asked : " How. did jo ! enjoyther levee!" 'iwelL there were several uudes and plenty of nudes there.? PROSPEROUS TOWNS. Edenton. Its business is reported brisker than fot years, its merchants arc handling more ; goods than ever before, and its professional men are- well, they are rapidly growing fat. It is the new Edenton now ; ' the old lethargy which threatened to keep the town in the back ground has been dissipated by new-born pluck and business activity, and the dawn of a better day is investing the historic town with new life and sprightlincss. Eiiizaoctn, cuff falcon. A prosperous merchant of Edenton said to us a few days ago, Edenton is a great place. A great place for business not for a very large business, perhaps ; but a good place for a small successful business. It requires less money to run a good business here than in most any place I know. You have the fishing season, the trucking sea son, the melon crop, and the cotton and peanut crops to help out in trade. Four seasons to trade on, whereas most places have to run from one fall to the next to collect their bills. He added, if a man can't succeed in business in Edenton, he couldn't anywhere. Edenton Enquirer. . Fayetteville. One at least of the burned stores will Soon be replaced by an elegant structure a modern store, iron front, &c. Last week several town lots were sold at auction, and we are glad to hear that the prices brought were quite satisfactory. Real estate is certainly ad vancing in price, and all of the sales that have recently taken place will show an advance of from fifty to one -hundred per cent, within the year. We are certainly on a "boom," and old fogies mavaskhow and whore, but nevertheless, it is true, as the steady advancement in real estate and the large number of new buildings goes to prove that enterprise and. prosperity is moving our good okl town, and it all has a solid foundation. The town Board has compromised the town debt, and intend before the spring sets in, to put every thing in complete order. Fayettetille 6- ercer.K Durham. Our town is getting to be one ol the best cotton markets in the State. The cotton and tobacco wagons are rolling in while we are writing. Dur ham has more thorough business men to the square inch than any other town in the United States! Hence her success. lie- jwter. CROP NOTES. Cotton will pay, says the Newberu whose editor speaks from ex as Well as observation. "We Journal, lienence know of farmers who, since the war, star ted out with but very little of this world's goods except strong arms, willing hearts and firm determinations, , and . now own good. farms which they have bought and paid for by the actual results of planting cotton, aud the same Tesults could not have been reached by means of any other farm product of this immediate section. Without wishing to be offensive we will hint that when a farmer asserts that cot ton growing don't pay, he is also saying his management is bad. It is bad manage ment to buy all his bread and meat from the Western : grain grower and his hay from the same place he does his ice and expect cotton to pay. but if he will first see that these necessary articles are pro duced at home and then put all the sur plus iu cotton, the profits will show them selves even in fa poor season. As to fer tilizers the same rule applies. Make all that can be made on the farm and then supply the deficiency with commercial fertilizers and it will pay. It is useless to say that this; self-supporting systeto-can not be reached, because the fact that a large number of farmers do it is incon trovertibly true. Onslow, Jones, Carteret, Craven, Pamlico, Lenoir, Pitt, Greene and Wayne counties each have a number of farmers whom we can name who all diversify their crops for home use, make 1 cotton to sell and are prosperous. As a selling crop, take one year with another, nothing in onr opinion is more profitable than cotton.!' It pays to keep good cows and make good butter, says a letter to the Elizabeth City Varolinitin. " We have four cows. From them,; during the year 1888, we made 550 pounds of butter; and from the milk and buttermilk not used in the family, and the use of $30 worth of grain, we made 1,100 pounds of pork. The butter at thirty-five cents was worth $192,50; the -pork at seven cents was worth $77.00; total $269.50. During the winter, in ad dition to the fodder which the manure made richly paid for we fed $20 Worth of grain. In the summer the cows were kept in pasture. The better you feed better-making cows in the winter, the greater will 'be the returns from them in the summer" Capt. Gray L. Brown, says the Tarboro Southerner, raised on ten acres, 18,000 pounds , of seed cotton without using any manipulated fertilizer. This is six hundred pounds of lint cotton per acre a bale and a-half. Peanuts, too, in Edgecombe. Mr. T. E. Beam an planted 11 acres in peanuts last year, x rom this he made $150 worth of peanuts, retained twenty-five bushels, and has now on hand a large quantity of pea-vine hay. He has been feeding, the hay to his cows, ana they doubled their quantity of milk. W. T. Taylor will plant 500 acres in peanuts on his three plantations in Nash, Edge combe and Wilson counties this season Rellalo ol the Cabinet. From a Washington Letter. J President Arthur is an Episcopalian, as is . also the Secretary of State and the Attorney-General. Secretary Folger is a broad gauge Presbyterian. Secretary Chandler is a Unitarian. Secretary Lincoln attends the Presbyterian Church, as does also Postmaster-General Gresham, who, it is said, is of the Orthodox stamp, while Secretary Teller is a Methodist of the Rocky Moun " tain quality.' 4 ' 1 4 V ' f A Timely Speech. Jiiui'HL-k Johnson in Lime-Kiln C'lub.J " Be war' of ambishun. I doan' mean dat any of you shouldn't want better cloze, better houses and a leetle more cash in bank, but doan' hanker fur to be great an' powerfuL j fieizcr.wasambishus, and whar am he now! . Nero 'was ambishus, an' de grave in which he sleeps cannot eben be found. Roscoe Conkling was ambishus, an' at one fell swoop he was knocked into de centre. b . las' week. , , Ben Butler was ambishus, fan1 to-day he would be forgotten except fur de picters of his face on tobacco packages, f De minit ambishun1 "seizes any1 one of you heah befo' me, -msC makes you sigh for ibi upsot laws, invent, new customs an' spill wur -oralnr fMn. de,, Speaker's desk in Congress,' you am a goner.. A tree can't be klf top1; d ha 'got be some rooti aotowe limb:- White: de top may show off a leetle mo', it am alius de lust to . be damaged in a gale."
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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