V EDS ESDAY p .cur, jap.cn zt, too.
-4-
DIED.
Hale. Ia this city, on Friday last,
a.cil 48 years, Maky Badger Halb, wife
of IV M. Hale and elder daughter of the
Ute George Edmund and Delia Hat
wood Badger.
OBITUARY NOTES.
THE WEDDING SEASON.
r A Wedding In High Lift.
NATION Alt 8ER9IONS
Mr Jones C. Miller died at his home in
vmmons township, last Friday. He rep-
t,tca this county in the Legislature
?om- years ago. Lexington Dispatch.
Mr- Mary Ward died in Westbrooks'
t,.wnhip. December the 9th, 1884, aged
SO v :ii s, 0 months and 14 days. A good
woman has gone. Clinton, Caucasian.
Wi- rt x'ret to announce the death of ex-
lutj,rL Moore, of Edentdn, N.-C, which
Ud event occurred in that town Friday
ri.t of naralvsis. Judge Moore was an
able jurist and a gentleman of fine attain
ments. Norfolk Landmark.
On Friday last, Mrs. Sallie Ratcliff,
;,lnw of Albert Ratcliff, aged 76 years.
was a member of the Presbyterian
Church, and was highly esteemed by
everybody who knew her.. Waynetville
Sacs.
The oldest person in this county, Mrs.
I ucindv Queen, died in the poor house on
vndav aged about 110 years., Mr.
iipnrv Guffv, one of our most highly re
spected citizens, died at his home, near
Kappa, on Monday, aged 80 years. Davie
Times-
The widow of the late Stephen Gibson
jicil ;it her residence, near Hamlet, last
Monday, aged about 70 years. The widow
r,f he iate Z. B. Moore died in Great Falls
vii! i"e last Monday, after a protracted ill
ntss. She was about 65 years of age.
Rcl:i"jkum Spirit.
-riw.m-w V Pool died in Oxford. Dec.
3rd. 1SS4, in the 74th year of his age. A
more uuiet. unobtrusive and kindhearteS
niati lias never Jived in Oxford. Mr. Pool
was for years d member of the Episcopal
Church, and qied in the (Jhristiau s nope.
Osjrd Tcnchlifht.
Mr Jesse Bqwden, of Rocky Point town
ship. Pender county, died yesterday morn
in'. He was about 48 years of age and
i, "Ives a wife and six children. Hia dis-
we was pneumonia. Mr. Bowden was a
irf)0U eill.eil, a &lliu-uvai Hiu uviuuul,
" Miid his death will cause a deep void in
the see.? ion in which he lived. Wilmington
little.
This morning, at 5 o'clock, Capt;. J. J.
Frav, who has been gradually declining
or a lung time, died at his home, in this
city, aged 4S years. Raleigh loses ft good
citizeu; the youth of the city a competent
and successful instructor, his wife and lit
tle daughter a devoted husband and father.
The remains were carried to Culpepper
county, Virginia, Capt. Fray's old home,
fur interment. Chronicle, 2Zd.
. Capt. W. U. Brown, a well known and
one of the most highly respeeffed citizens
of Bladen county, died at his home, near
Carvers Creek, in that county, on the 12th
in?t. Capt. Brown was, wc think, about
53 vears of age, and leaves a wife and four
children. In all the affairs and duties of
life ("apt. Brown was a man of irreproach
able integrity and a kind-hearted neighbor
aud citizen. Wilmington Review.
Yesterday (Sunday) morning at 5 o'clock
Mr. Geo. T. Cooke died tt his home on
Fayetteville street in this city, after a lin
irerihg illness of nearly three "months.
Mr. Cook has always been an active busi
ness man. and a high-toned christian gen
tleman. In his death Raleigh sustains the
loss of one of its most valued citizens. He
was a strict member of Edcnton Street
Methodist Church. He gave largely of
his means for the support of his church,
and was' charitable and kind to the poor.
-llihijli Chronicle, 22d.
Mr. II.devDupree, the aged grandfather
of Mr. Joseph P. Gulley, died last night
at lO.CO o'clock, at Mr. Gulley's residence
' in this city. "Uncle Haley," as every
body called him who knew him, attained
his ninety-fourth year in October, and was
the oldest citizen of the county. He was
born, rcaretfcjand always resided in Wake
county. His life was spent as a quiet,
highly respected, unassuming farmer, a
law abiding.ihonorable citizen, and a gen
eruus. kind-hearted neighbor. Of- late
years, he had resided with Mr. Gulley, for
whom he had a very tender affection; and
up to about twelve months ago, he could
be seen nearly every day making his way,
with the assistance of his cane, back and
f'Tth from Mr. Gulley 's residence to his
place of business on Fayetteville street.
An honorable and upright man has passed
away, after a life of very unusual length.
Clin.iiirle. 18ft.
Correspondence of Ralxigh Register.
Rockingham, N. C. Dec. 18, 1884. Mr.
James Bethell, of Virginia, and Miss Anna
Leak Scales, of Rockingham, were united in
marriage at this place last night, and it was
the most brilliant wedding that tnis part oi
North Carolina ever witnessed. The mar
riage ceremony was performed in the
Methodist Church by Rev. T.,W. Guthrie.
A vast crowd of the town people and vis
itors from a distance began to assemble at
the church long before the time announced
for the ceremony to take place, and by the
time the hour had arrived the spacious
church building was densely packed with
people of all ages, all of wham were eager
10 get a gooa view oi me untie, not a
whisper was heard from the vast crowd as
the bridal party entered the church and
came slowly down the aisles on either side
and arranged themselves around tne altar,
and when the clear tones of the preacher
were heard to pronounce James Bethel! and
Anna Leak Scales man and wife, a still
ness of death seemed to steal over the
people, and you could hear the very hearts
of some of tnem beat, for a number oi
young men with pale faces and throbbing
hearts were there young men who hoped
to the last, and only surrendered as the
last tones of the preacher died away.
After the two glad hearts were made
one, the bridal party, followed by almost
every one present, proceeded to the house
of the bride's father, Maj. John M. Scales,
and there enjoyed such a. royal entertain
ment as only Mrs. Scales knows how to
dispense.
Being somewhat an epicure myself, I
cannot refrain from saying something
about the elegant supper, for it was dainty,
delicious and luxurious, and one of the
best things about it was every one enjoyed
it with that freedom that ever goes with
true Southern hospitality.
Maj. Scales' family have ever been noted
for their hospitality, and on this occasion
old and young, rich and poor were there,
and the flow of soul ran so high with all
of them that at times the " mirth and fun
grew fast and furious," reminding us of
that old time festivity and hospitality that
in long gone days made wealthy Southern
homes the envy and admiration of the
whole world.
Rockingham has ever been famous for
the beauty and intelligence of its young
ladies, and has usually stood without a
rival in this respect, but on this occasion
the young ladies of Rockingham, Danville,
Fayetteville and other cities? seemed to
vie with each other in beauty as well as in
sparkling wit and repartee, but it was
conceded by all that (except the bride,
Who is always the star of . every circle)
none equalled Miss Fannie Steele in spright
liness, vivacity and kwit, and that Miss
Kerr Morehead and Miss Emma Ledbetter
were unrivalled in beauty.
Many costly presents were presented the
bride, the groom's present being a magnifi
cent set of diamonds. The room where
the presents were deposited looked like a
jewelry store.
The newly married couple, accompanied
by several friends, and carrying with them
the wishes of many more, departed last
night for an extended- tour. They will
first visit relatives in Memphis, Tenn.,
where a reception will be given them;
from Memphis they will visit the Exposi
tion at New Orleans, and from there they
contemplate a European tour. .
Mr. Bethell, the fortunate groom, is a
chivalrous representative of the Virginia
aristocracy. Miss Anna Leak Scales, the
bride, is well known not only over North
Carolina and Virginia, but ovej the entire
South as one of the most charming and
fascinating young ladies of recent times.
Though quite young, she has reigned an
unrivalled belle in all of the cities and at
all of the watering places in our own State
and has as well in many cities throughout
the South. She has had many devoted
admirers. Many young men with nothing
but love to offer have plead eloquently for
her heart and hand, and many men of
wealth and distinction have offered their
fortunes and prostrated themselves at her
feet, but her ideal of a man was unrealized
until Mr. Bethell presented himself ; not
until then did she feel the divine fire of
love kindling in her soul, and for the first
time she smiled upon the man she loved,
but not the first that ever loved her, and
it may well be said "the smile that glad
dened one lover's heart gladdened many
more." ""It will be a long long while be
fore Rockingham will feel like the same
place without sweet, genial, sunny-hearted
Anna Scales in our midst. May all of
Heaven's blessings attend her in her new
mountain home. C.
Baaed on the 23d Chapter of Matthew.
Reported for the Ralxigh Rkqisteb.J
The Teachers' Assembly.
The next session of the North Carolina
Teachers" Assembly, which was organized
ut Waynesville last June, promises to be
"f the greatest interest and benefit to the
teachers and to the general cause of edu
cation in the State. Arrangements are
now being, made towards securing the at
tendance of some of the most urominent
and uccessful educators in the Union,
und the lectures from these gentlemen will
create the greatest enthusiasm upon this
subject. We learn that Col. Francis W.
Parker, the great originator of the popu
lar '"(Jtiincy Methods of New Education,"
will be at the meeting and address the
Assembly. Every progressive teacher in
the State ought to go to this meeting, and
!e or she cannot fail to catch such inspi
ration from the gathering as will go a long
way toward insuring future success and
appreciation. The "Teachers' Assembly"
was organized through the untiring efforts
'-f our enterprising cotemporary TheNorth
' Tmrher, and the good effects of
tin- tli n,iighly practical association Of
'"r b adiri teachers is being already seen
Rtnt This
.... .. u, juia ia a l'uuu u
r ambitious teacher's name ought to
''li the roil of members. The expense
iHeniiin" tv. KPi.a:nn ;n hn mountains
1be ea is a mpr triflp fts such fa-
e rcdlirtinna om eovuvori ann
'Mins-oC recreation
ire vi-ry reat.
(v
'if
'ir bv
'irabl
fAshevflle Citizen.
On the evening of the 16th inst., Mr.
Walter L. Cushman and Miss Catharine
McQueen Cameron daughter of John D.
Cameron, Esq., of the Citizen staff, were
united in the holy bonds of matrimony at
the Episcopal church in this place, the
Rev. Dr. Buxton, assisted by the Rev. Mr.
Bell, officiating. The occasion the first
marriage ceremony that has been per
formed in the new church was greeted
by a large concourse, friends of the con
tracting parties, and the church was hand
somely .lighted up, the scene presented
being one of unusual splendor and ele
gance. As the wedding march swelled up
f th olnireh. Miss LUlie tfuxton presiu-
ing at the organ, the bridal party entered
the church in the following order: the
ushers, Messrs. -T. W. Patton and J. H.
Law ; flower maids, Misses Mary and Katie
Waddell, Fannie and Mattie Stone, Carrie
Furman and Josie Patton; Mr. W. C.
Ballard with Miss Mary Buxton, Mr John
G Aston with Miss Sallie Coffin, Mr. F.
A Sondley with Miss Maggie Buxton,
Mr. T. R. Yeatman with Miss Lizzie Cur
tis Dr B. H. Douglass with Miss Mary
Cameron, Col. John D. Cameron with his
daughter, the bride. As the party entered,
the groom took his position before the
minister, and the beautiful ceremony was
proceeded with.
Afterwards a, most pleasant reception
was held at the residence of the bride's
father, attended by a large number of the
immediate friends of the family.
m,. v.nnir nnnl( have OUT bC8t W18hes
for the future may their wedded
as joyous as their most ardent
could desire.
life be
friends
and
the
improvement
flie If lllnboro School.
T!
of this admirable
be-nn on Feb. 6. 1885. The
"pened on July 15, 1859, by
K. Nash. Miss Maria Nash, and
"ali J. Kollock. dauffhters ana
Oet session
liool w ill
-lJ'-l
Mi-Mi..
"iece of tl
; il1, and has remained in their charge
''"" twenty-five years. In all these years
""t a mi'Ii- death has ever occurred in the
""'"I, not a single case of contagious or
try severe Hckness nor any suspension
'" S( liooi duties on any account whatever,
''I'l the usual holidays. The three co
pnncipuU are well known and distinguish--J
'"rrare intellectual culture, forunusual
'ganee MM,i g.race of manner! for a pecu-
'dr aptness i imnortinrr instruction. Bd
nlerfu! executive power in.governing
l" 1 " ' t ease, harmonv na oru.
Statesville Landmark.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Drake celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage
at their residence in west Statesville Wed
nesday evening. A number of their friends
had been invited, and they received many
a koortv nonoratulations upon the at
tainment of such long life together, and
the large share of physical and mental
vigor that remains to them yet. They are
indeed a rarely well preserved and hand
fiMr. Drake now 76 years old,
his wife a few years his junior and bid
fair to pass many more wedding anniver
saries A number of their friends remem
bered them, Wednesday evening, with
golden gifts of various kinds, and amidst
,.h social enioyment on the part of all
refinement (rrrp niitv
woman-
andrwo-
with
i.. . r
' " tt '.f Xorth Carolina women, pupils
uT, l", (tTt and example the best
ho( i :iUnutes of genuine
"""! sympathy
The
'ri-tin
will
w,'elc"s
U:
Hk'.isteu will take the usual
' Holiday, trusting that its read-
1 '" too happy to begrudge it a
rest. '
present, the evening, crowned with an
elegant and more than bountifu; supper,
zlA niMR&ntlT awav. The editor of
The Landmark, who learned the printing
business under Mr. Drake, and wh has
cause to regard him with affection, hopes
that his days and those of his excellent
wife may yet be long in the land.
A golden wedding is, by the by, an an
niversary which few couples live to cele
bratethe fiftieth year of married life
probably does not come to more than one
couple in a thousand. The only other
celebration of it here that we recall was
that of Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Witherspoon,
in March last.
" Woe unto yon, Scribes and Pharisees, hypo
crites ! for ye make clean the outside of the enp
and of the platter, but within they are full of
extortion and excess."
My friends, the cups to drink out of and
the dishes used at their meals were used
metaphorically by our Lord to exemplify
the real characters of the Scribes and
Pharisees. Cleanliness was a wise ordi
nance of the Mosaic jurisprudence. Every
conscientious Jew was scrupulous about
observing it. AH the vessels used in eat
ing or drinking were carefully cleansed
after use, and the observance of this cus
tom wai a testimonial of the fidelity of
every Jew to the Mosaic law which en
joined it. To show the hypocrisy and
love of outward show of the Scribes and
Pharisees, our Lord charged them with
cleansing only the outside, -the least im
portant part, and leaving the inside, the
most important part, uncleansed, filthy and
offensive. This observance of only a part
of the law, is another example of the in
fractions of that law, and that by those
who made the most demonstrative pretence
to keeping it. According to the philoso
phy of the Master, it was of little conse
quence how well cleansed and polished
the exterior might be while there remained
within abominable, decaying and death
dealing matter. This metaphor shows
how profitless it was to those who ostensi
bly acquiesced in the law, and yet inwardly
ignored its obligations. Let us see its
moral application to the Scribes and Phar
isees. They pretended much refinement
and put on ostentatious manners. They
made ostentatious displays of the outward
forms of religion. They wore gaudy robes
emblematic of the priesthood. They
bound their highly hnished regalia of re
ligious profession with broad phylacteries.
They said by their sanctimonious bearing
to the passer-by, "I am more holy than
thou." As they stood at the corners of
the streets and prayed, they scorned the
Dublicans. their own mercenary scents.
Indeed, they cleansed the outside of the
cup and the platter, but within there was
"extortion and excess." The term "with
in'' indicates the moral condition of the
Scribes and Pharisees themselves, for they
were full of extortion and excess, or "rav
enous and wickedness," as St. Luke h as-
written it. Under the exterior of their
boastful religion they possessed the rave
nous traits of the hungry wolf. Having
wrenched a large snare oi tne nard earn
ings of an oppressed people they indulged
in extravagance and gluttony were guilty
of all manner of excess. While they ob
served the forms of godliness they were
given over to the indulgence of animal
appetites and passions. But witn the dex
terity of their outward religion they could
not elude the power of tne Master to read
the inner man. He strip t off in one sen
tence their foul garb of hypocrisy and
revealed the horrible wickedness within
He made this public exposure of them in
the presence of the multitude the dupes
whom they had deceived and misled. But
having forgotten the power and knowledge
of God, and they and their mercenaries
having completely given themselves over
to lasciviousness, they resolved to disprove
Our Lord's claims to divinity by murdenn
him, and thereby, as they imagined, end
mg the struggle between them.
There is a law of retribution which
reaches all such cases. It, however, often
forbears until the cup of iniquity is full.
In its administration the Almighty ruler
sometimes uses the abused and deceived
ones by turning them loose in their wrath
upon the offenders. At other times the
retribution comes from without as in the
case of Jerusalem when Titus invested it
with his army and swept it with the besom
of destruction. With what wonderful ex
actness was the prophecy of our Lord ful
filled when he said " this generation shall
not pass away until all these things be
fulfilled."
Is there in all history, my friends, a
more complete likeness between the rulers
of different people than that which exists
between the Scribes and Pharisees and the
present dynasty which rules the North
American Republic? As these words were
used metaphorically by our Lord to point
out the true character of the Scribes and
Pharisees, so they apply with equal, force !
to our own officials who conduct the affairs
of State. These officials like their proto
types are ever cleansing and ostensibly
garnishing the exterior, hoping to chal
lenge the admiration of the thoughtless
and giddymultitude, who know nothing
of the inside condition. Washington and
Adams and Jefferson and Madison and
Monroe were great lovers of constitutional
government. The exterior with them con
formed to the pure and unostentatious
Eatriotism that burned within. Their
ves, their hearts and souls were conse
crated to that purity and economy which
characterized their administrations. No
extortion and excess no extravagance at
Eublic expense attached to them. Nor
ad they any bribed minions to go at their
bidding. They did not wash " the out
side of the enp and the platter" and leave
the inner part polluted with corruption
and villainy full of extortion and excess.
In their appointments of officials they
sought honesty and efficiency. They had
no thieves and robbers in their cabinets to
shield. They had no excessive revenues
to divide as a corruption fund among their
partisans and adherents. They had no
agents to disburse corruption funds in
buying men s votes. Not had they any
governmental officials with pockets stuffed
with money with which to suborn wit
nesses to rob the people of a lawful Pres
ident, and that too amidst the glitter of
the exterior pobsh of the cup and platter
No. no. mv friends, they scrupulously ob
served their oaths to God with the strictest
fidelity oaths by which they consecrated
their lives, their fortunes, their honor and
their official power to the cause of liberty
and justice, and to the equal well-being
of the whole people, as well as to the
honor and prosperity of the government
of which they were the chief magistrates.
In this way, these noble statesmen estab
lished the rights and liberties we now en
joy; and laid the foundation of that growth
and wealth which characterize our national
life. Would to God. my friends, I could
point out to you one feature, only one, of
that grand ana maniy patriotism, mmcu
was the glory of these noble chiefs, in the
present rulers of our KepuDiic. i ne con
trast. however, presents a sad picture
Degeneracy in statesmanlike quality marKs
the present." The lovers oi liperty ana
justice and the friends of purity and hon
esty in the government have found but
little encouragement in our highest offi
cials. The words" of our Lord to the
Scribes and Pharisees furnish a sad com
mentary on their public conduct: "Ye
make clean the outside of the cup and of
the platter, but within they are full of ex
tortion and excess." Aye, "full of extor
tion." As gold in their code constitutes
the ground of official fidelity, so the prac
tice of extortion follows as a legitimate
sequence. Taxation for raising surplus
money in the treasury is extortion. It
matters not as to the method of levying
the revenues or the agency by which they
are collected, if they be in excess of tne
requirements of honest government, it is
extortion in the purest sense of the word.
This iniquity has been systematized by
the administrations of the last twenty
years. . Protection, the very essence of ex
tortion has been the cherished bantling of
the ruling powers for a score of years. It
extorts from the people millions of dollars
annually and gives it to the manufacturer
as a bonus for party fealty. It is an ex
tortion that reaches every interest and oc
cuoation. especially in the rural districts.
The agriculturist feels it on the implements
of his nrofession. J no oiacKsmun ana
z
the carpenter on the tools of their craft. I
Your cup and platter pay their part of it.
The machinery of the mill which grinds
the meal and flour for your bread creak
under the weight of it. The cartors of the
trundle bed on which your children sleep
i -j ' . . . . . i . . i
leti us wcignc. it siriices a oiow at tne
wool hat awl copheras breeches of the rural
aborer. Every article of clothing we
wear has to pay a rate per cent, on account
of it. It begins with life and only ends
with death. The fmt swaddling clothes in
which the new born babe is wrapt are
made of protection goods, and at the
grave's mouth it lifts its hydra head. The
sexton digs the grave with tools upon
which it has levied tribute. The under
taker, too, has worked with tools made of
protected material, and the very grave
clothes have suffered from the hand of
extortion before entering the charncl
house. But I call your attention, my
friends, to another)f the many nets' of ex
tortion which blacken the record of recent
administrations. The officers of the gov
ernment are paid for their services from
the funds of the national treasury. This
is honest and square, and here the matter
should end. But all the clerks and em
ployes in the various government (depart
ments, many of whom ore widows and un
protected females, have to live off their
salaries besides having to dress in goods
that fjay protection duties. Ia addition
to this they arc forced to contribute a
given per cent, of their salaries to a cor
ruption fund with which their masters
propose to buy votes and official position;
or forfeit their places. This kind of ex
tortion is wicked in the highest degree,
because it despoils government employees
of their manhood and self-respect, and
degrades them to the condition of servile
menials. The same rule is applied with
relentless vigor to all revenue and other
officials. Their submission to the unholy
extortion is the price of office. The whole
nostal system has likewise teen piacea
under tribute to corrupt the "people it was
intended to serve. This postal system was
designed by the f miners of the govern
merit to carrv. in confidence and with
safety, the private communications be
tween man and man. It has, however,
been perverted and used for the basest
purposes of those in power. Alan con
tractors have not escaped the rapacious
worshippers of the golden god. Postmas
ters all over the land the agents oi inc
government and of the people have on
the eve of every general election, been no
tified by letter and circular carried through
the mails, that they must pay specified
amounts of money to corruption agents.,
accompanied with the threat that if they
fail to do so they will forfeit their offices.
And this "extortion and tj-cess" has been
practiced under the specious cleansing of
the "outside of the cup and of the plat
ter" by postal bulls against all correspon
dence, through the mails, with lottery
nrencies. In all this there is a mott
wicked and devilish feature. Have you,
my friends, thought of the moral enormity
of this extortion practiced through the
postal service of the nation? The hypoc
risy of the chief of the department rises
to the supreme of hypocrisies, in the is
suance of these postal bulls against lottery
agencies, while at the same time acqui
escing in the transportation by the mails
of levies of black mail upon postal offi
cials; and by the further use of the mails
in can-vine, the moneys thus extorted to
chiefs of the great official corruption fifnd.
Much of these black mail levies is sent in
postoffice money orders, thus prostituting
the finance of the Postoffice Department to
the use and encouragement of a principle
which is the exact equal of the highway
robber's order " your money or your life !"
The sin of lotteries, however great that
may be, is incomparable to this abuse of
the postal service, making it an agent to
aid the grossest "extortion and excess"
for corruption's sake. This, my friends,
certainly fills the Pharisaic measure desig
nated by our Lord " within they are full
of extortion and excess."
Shall I. my friends, attempt a portrai
ture of the results of these methods and
nractices of public outrage? As the high
wayman has his carousals on the fruits of
his robberies, in like manner these govern
mental SDoilsmen enjoy surfeiting and
riotous living at public expense, and the
expense of oppressed and robbed officers
of the law. Thev revel in venal and cor
rupt indulgences, shielded by the specious
show of fashion and society. Aye, the
head men rob the robber's fund to provide
for their bacchanalian orgies. And these
are the men who claim to Ik: national
patriots who claim exclusive qualification
to govern ana aireci iuc uesiimes ui
christian nation. These are the men who
assert that those who oppose such villainy
and hypocrisy are traitors to the best gov
ernment the world ever saw. These are
the men who come from their bacchanalian
revels, to anathematize just and holy men
who protest against such baseness, as ene
mies to the government. These are the
self-styled patriots who, rather than sub-
mit to defeat, would loment rcoeuion anu
fill the land with insurrectionary bloodshed
and devastation.
It is a trite saying that history repeats
itself. There is nothing more definitely
settled in history than the fact that God
punishes national crime with as much
certainty as he does individual sins. He
holds the head and chief men of a nation
to as strict accountability as he docs the
head of a family. This was the divine
method with the patriarchs and the Israel
itish kings. When a patriarch sinned a
notable sin he and his household were
Dunishcd. When a King gave an evil and
corrupt administration he and the people
he ruled suffered signal punishment. This
rule held good down to the times when
the Scribes and Pharisees thrust themselves
into Moses' seat and exercised his prerog
atives. Their administration culminated
in the terrible catalogue of crimes charged
against them by our Lord, and the Al
mighty soon swept them and their govern
ment away forever.
We have, in all essential points, a won
derful parallel in our own national iniqui
ties to the corruptions of the Scribes and
Pharisees. The likeness is complete with
one exception. Corruption, in official
circles, has increased with us much more
rapidly than under the administration of
the Scribes and Pharisees, until the cup
has become " full of extortion and excess."
And now if the good meu of the nation
rise not, and we do not have a new order
of things under a new administration, God
will see to it that history repeats itself
with us, and the glory and stability of
this Republic will be swept away forever.
THE TREASURY SURPLUS
Very Likely to Dispose of Itself.
New York. Wodd.J
Washtngtok, Dec. 19. There are over
two hundred thousand applications before
the War Department to correct the records
of soldiers who are classed as deserters.
The majority of these applications are
from men who are seeking pensions.
Nearly all of them are technical deserters
and are really entitled to an honorable
discharge. At the close of the war, when
the regiments were sent home, there was
an utter absence of the usual discipline.
In many cases where the regiments were
mustered out at inconvenient locations the
men went home without going through
this last formality. In a great number of
instances the greatest possible stupidity
was shown in selecting places for muster
ing out. For instance, the majority of
the Ohio regiments were ordered to report
to Louisville to be mustered out. It was
too much to expect that the Ohiosoldiers,
after three or four years of absence from
home, would consent to ride right by their
own doors to go to Louisville for the pur
pose of complying with a mere technicality.
Yet all who failed to report were entered
up as deserters. Few of the soldiers were
aware of this until the fact was brought
out against them in rejection of their ap
plication for pensions. Congress has passed
a general law giving the War Department
full authority .to correct all deserving cases.
These applications are being acted upon
as rapidly as possible.
TOUGH OLD PEOPLE
the Empire are tending to higher and more
general taxation in Germany. The policy
of protection has led to a higher duty on
wheat in France, and so added another
burden to the heavy taxation borne by the
French people. These governments are
both of necessity very costly, and the bur
dens now imposed upon industry could
hardly be much lightened unless such a
reduction were accompanied by a radical
change in public policy. Compare with
this our situation. By reducing unneces
sary taxation nearly two dollars a year
would be added to the earnings of every
man, woman and child in the country.
And estimating the yearly earnings of a
workingman at four hundred dollars a
high estimate a fund would be added to
the disposable wealth of the country capa
ble of giving employment to two hundred
and fifty thousand men. No nation is so
favorably situated to make substantial
concessions to labor as the United States.
ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.
RAILROAD PROGRESS.
The ten and a half miles of the South
Carolina Pacific Railway, which is com
pleted from Bennettsville to the North
Carolina line, where it connects with the
track of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley
Railroad, was examined by the railroad
commissioners on Saturday, and the oper
ation of the line was authorized on and
after that date. Charleston Newt and
Courier.
Oxford's Boom.
In Connecticut and North Carolina.
The population of Connecticut by the
census of 1880 was 622,700, and may be
roughly computed at the present time at
650,000. In this number Mr. Frederick H.
Nash has detected more than six thousand
above eighty years old, and publishes a
list of them arranged by townships. Of
the six thousand there are six hundred and
fifty-one more than ninety, and one hun
dred and twenty more than one hundred
years old. Brief sketches of most of the
living centenarians are given, and of some
who have recently died, and we are im
pressed by the very slow effects of rum
and tobacco upon their vitality.
For example. Mrs. Nancy Coley of
Easton, is set down as one hundred and
five years old. At birth she was so small
that she was put into a teapot and the lid
was shut on her. She was married twice;
first in 1799, and again in 1865. At the
age of fifteen Aunt Nance acquired the
habit of taking snuff, and has continued
it for ninety years.
Mrs. Elsie (Jhittenden, oi (jruilford, is
another example. She was one hundred
years old last April, and, like Mrs. Coley,
has been married twice. For more than
sixty years she has been a snuff taker.
She has no physical disease, has never
i taken medicine. Mrs. Chittenden, how
ever, has been a total abstainer from spir
itous liquors, and "to this," says the
biographer, "many attribute her longev
ity."
Mrs. Bridget Farley, of Stratford, how
ever i who beats Mrs. Chittenden by three
years, makes her own bed daily, is subject
to no physical disabilities except rheuma
tisin, and thanks God for " the privilege
of living so long to repent fully of her
sins"), takes spiritous liquors with mod
eration every time she gets a chance, and
has done so since a tender age.
William Hamilton, who died last July
at the age of one hundred and two, was
an honest man, attended strictly to his
own business, was respected by all who
knew him. and had been an inveterate
smoker for eighty years.
But North Carolina is ahead in old folks
as in all other things. The Asheville
Exlatigator has a four column biographical
interview with the oldest man in the world
He lives in Cherokee county, is l j-ears
old, sees with his second set of eyes, eats
heartily with his fourth set of teeth, and
says he is good for 20 years more of this
life. Temperance has done the business
for our old man whose name is Thomas
Williams temperance, that is to say three
drinks a day for 15U years, bays the re
portan the Exlavtgator:
"And to what cause, principally, Mr
Williams, do you attribute your great im
munity from the common fate of man
kind, for such a lengthened period?" I
asked.
"Temperance, sir; temperance in all
things. I have always eaten moderately,
slept moderately, and never worked too
hard. I have taken three drinks oi spirits
every day for 150 years, never exceeding
that number but once, when, in 1746, on
the occasion of my son's wedding, I be
came intoxicated the only time in my
life."
All the glove manufactories of Glovers
ville have shut down.
The coal companies have decided to re
strict next year's production in order to
obtain higher prices from consumers.
A Pittsburg oil association has bought
out three farms with a view of shutting
down the wells and restricting produc
tion.
i Mitchell county, on Tuesday last, by a
majority of 1,200, voted a f 100,000 sub
scription to Marion and Rutherford railroads.
Illinois has produced more corn on a
less acreage than for several years; the
yield in money to the farmers is the small
est since 1878.
The cold throughout the country last
week was very severe, ranging below zero
from 8 to 38 ; several persons were frozen
to death, cattle and poultry were killed,
and peach trees destroyed. A large num
ber of fires are reported all over the East,
ue to the cold weather and the conse
quent increased use of heating apparatus.
The bodies of twenty-one children and
one woman were found in the ruins of the
Brooklyn Orphan Asylum which was
burned on Thursday. The burned chil
dren were iu the special infirmary for suf
ferers from ophthalmia. lherc were
thirty patients, and additional victims are
looked for. Sixty-six of the boys are
Oxford Torchlight
It is estimated that at least $75,000 have
been expended in building improvements
in Oxford during this year, and from the
present outlook that amount will be more
than doubled next year. Oxford'agrowth
is rapid and substantial, and her future is
full of promise. There is not a vacant
house in town, and new ones are going up
in every direction. Many families who
would like to move here are prevented
from doing so by the absence of houses to
rent. ?
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
BALEIGH MAHKETS.
Official Report of tine Cotton Market.
Reported by the Cotton Exchange.
Raxeigh, December 34, 1884.
Good middling. TX
Strict middline.; 10Y
Middling 10K
Strict low middling 10
Low middling 9)4
AlarKet nrm.
The Board of Trade of Columbus, O.,
estimates the cost to the Board and to the
coal companies of the recent strike in
Hocking Valley at $1,620,000. The loss
to business men outside of the Board has
been estimated at $350,000, to the rail
roads centering there at $1,100,000, to the
furnaces in- the valley at $225,000, and to
the city of Columbus at $3,511,000.
BU8INESS NOTES.
City Market Wholesale Prices.
-COBRECTED WEEKLY BY
E. J. TT A BDUT,
GROCER.
Raleigh, December 34, 1884.
Apples, per bushel 751 00
Bacon hams 1314
Bulk Meats clear rib sides 6K
Butter North Carolina 202o
Beeswax 20
Corn 70
Corn Meal 65
Coffee Rio H13
Cheese ia,sei?4
Chickens 2035
Eggs, per dozen 23 V
Flour North Carolina 4 605 00
Lard pure refined, in tierces 99
Lard "off grades," in buckets and
tubs 89
Molasses Cuba 3033
Oats shelled 4750
Rags ymA
8ugar granulated 77
Sugar Standard A 6
Sugar yellow 56K
SVTUD S8MU
Salt Liveroool fine 1 50 1 60
REMARKS.
Wholesale markets for staple Provisions are
without important change. People are devoting
their attention, and spare dimes, mainly to the
purchase of Holiday supplies ; and the Register
wishes tnem all a merry unnsimas ana a nappy
New Year.
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The cotton receipts last week were 257,-
569 bales, against 247,108 last year. Since
September 1, the receipts are d,dl,8a
bales.
Wilmington's cotton receipts last week
were 3,593 bales; an increase oi iza.
Since September 1, 76,832 bales, an in
crease of 4,402.
The total visible supply of cotton for
the world is 3,058,531 bales, of which 2,-
589,431 bales are American, against 3,300,
539 and 2,772,619 respectively last year;
crop in sight 3,982,0o4 bales.
Dun & Co. report 395 failures last week;
an increase of 47 over previous week. The
Western and Pacific States furnished near
lv one-half of the casualties. There is
also a considerable increase in the South
ern States.
The weekly statement of the New York
Associated Banks shows the following
changes: Loans increase $4,116,500; specie
increase $809,600; legal tenders decrease
$1,253,200; deposits increase $4,489,100;
circulation increase $43,700; reserve de
crease $1,465,875. The banks now hold
$45,686,625 in excess of legal require
ments.
FARMING FACTS.
WILMINGTON MARKET.
Wilmington Star, December 23, 1884.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE The market was
quoted steady at 27l cents per gallon, with sales
reported oi ato casKs at tuat pnee.
ROSIN The market was quoted steady at 95
cents for Strained, and $1.00 for Good Strained,
with sales as ottered.
TAR The market was quoted steady at $1.10
per barrel oi aso ids., witn sales ai quotations.
UKUUK 1 UKrji.ru iijnui Aiaraet sieaay wiui
sales reported at $1.00 for Hard aud $1.60 for
Virgin ana i euow uip. t
COTTON The market quoted firm, with
sales reported of 100 bales on a basis of 10 5-16
cents per lb. for Middling. The following
were the official quotations:
Ordinary 8 1-16
Good Ordinary 9 5-16
Low middling . . . io
Middling ; 10 5-16
Good middling 10
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
AGENTS FOR
Haiall-Crensliaw Coinany Byrd Island
FAMILY FLOUR
BEST IN AMERICA!
DEFIES COMPETITION!
JUST RECEIVED r
4,000 POUSDS BEST CMASSED HAMS.
50 Barrels Irish Potatoes
FOB TABLE AND SEED.
New York, December 24, 1884.
Good middling .11 5-16
Middling ns
Low middling iu
Futures barely steady: December 11; Janua
ry 11.16 ; February 11.16.
CHICAGO MEAT MARRET.
The Collapse of a State.
New York Herald.
The State of Nevada has collapsed. It
never was much of a State. It never
should have been admitted into the Union.
The enabling act of March, 1864, was one
of the most culpable follies of the Repub
lican party. It swindled the other States
by giving two Senators and a Representa
tive in Congress to a mining camp, among
barren mountains.
After sixteen years the population of
Nevada had grown to but 62,266, of whom
25,653 were foreign born and nearly 10,000
were Chinese and Indians. Since 1880
apparently at least a third of the 53,556
whites have emigrated. A very large ma
jority of the inhabitants arc males. .The
census of 1880 eave the proportion of
males to females as much more than two
to one. But in the Presidential election
last month the State cast only 12,797 votes.
Its three electoral votes were given to
Blaine one for every 4,266 voters. If
they had been given to Cleveland what
a howl the Blaine Republicans would
have raised about the disproportion as
compared with Illinois, Ohio or Pennsyl
vania '.
"What shall be done with a collapsed
State? Is not a constitutional amendment
desirable to extinguish it? Is it just that
the other States should tolerate the mon
strous political power Nevada exercises in
Congress and the Electoral College any
longer than may be needful to correct it
by due process of law?
But the extinguishment of any State is
a very serious matter. And the continu
ance of any State in the monstrous con
dition of Nevada is a very serious matter
also. -
The farmers are greatly pleased at the
beautiful manner in which their wheat has
come up. There was a fear that it would
not sprout, but that fear has been dissipa
ted, and where wheat was sown a most
complete success is seen in the manner of
its coming up. Greensboro Workman.
A larger crop of wheat was sowed in
this county this year than usual, and we
are pleased to learn that it is coming up
very well. The dry weather kept it back
for some time', but since the recent rains
it is growing finely. There was not as
large an oat crop sowed as usual, on ac
count of the difficulty in preparing the
ground. Chatham Record.
Mr. Nathan Palmer informs us that Mr.
Jimmie Stewart, of Six Pound, made $800
clear of all expenses this year on his two
horse farm. But this is no new thing with
friend Stewart. He .sells about enough
cattle, flour, oats, eggs, butter and pork,
every year to pay all of his expenses, thus
leaving his market crop a clear gain. His
neighbor, Louis Scoggin, Esq., does about
the same. Warrenton Gazette.
Mr. John Graham, of Fork township,
tells us he made this year with only two
horses, twenty-five bags of cotton, 6even
thousand pounds of good tobacco, seventy
barrels of corn, one hundred and ninety
bushels of wheat, three hundred of oats,
and one hundred of sweet potatoes, be
sides fodder, shucks, fruit, &c. At a
moderate estimate this crop is worth $2,
500. He said he used a good deal of ex
tra labor, but he did not know how much.
We do not suppose the total expenses in
cident to a two-horse crop could well ex
ceed $1,000, and this looks to us like a big
estimate. Mr. Graham is one of the truth
ful men in the county and his statements
can be relied on implicitly. If there is no
money in farming at $750 clear to the
horse, how and where can money be made?
Warrenton Gazette.
Chicago, December 24, 1884.
Clear rib sides, loose 5.90
Clear rib sides, boxed 6.15
Bulk shoulders, boxed 4.50
Market firm.
Freight to points on the Associated Railways
60 cents per hundred.
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Terror In Sunday School.
New Tork Herald.
Fayetteville. N C Dec. 21. The
inhalation of an irrespirable gas, produced
by burning coal, in the Methodist ssunaay
school chapel here this morning, produced
among the teachers and children a condi-
tion of partial sunocation. oome miceu
children and a few of the instructors fell
from their seats prostrate and fainting,
presenting a fearful spectacle. But for
the prompt action of others in admitting
fresh air fatal results must have ensued.
Mr. Thompson, for forty years the school
librarian, is yet seriously ill and may not
recover.
Advent Term Begins Sept'r 1 1.
A Strange Story.
Labor Trouble.
An action was brought recently before
Mr. Justice Hawkins, in England, to re
cover the value of two casks of herrings
furnished in 1854. '"Why such long dc
lav?" naked the Jodsrc. Well." said the
plaintiff, "I again and again, whenever I
could find him, asked for the payment,
until at last he told me to go to the devil,
upon which I thought it was high time to
come to your lordship." A remark which
was rece'ived with roars of laughter, in
which the Judge joined. '
New Tork Herald.
A spirit of unrest is abroad among those
who depend upon their daily labor for
their bread, not only in the United States,
but also- in European nations. . It is im
possible to estimate closely how. much la
bor is now without employment in this
country, but if the iron and textile indus
tries may be taken as standards at least
one-half of the labor of the country em
ployed in manufactures is idle, and a large
proportion of the remainder is earning
greatly reduced wages when compared
with returns in former years. Agricultu
ral labor is affected in a much less degree,
but even there the effects of depression
are felt. The Hocking Valley miners and
the Norwalk hatters are only special and
aggravated indications of a general condi
tion. In France labor outbreaks are feared,
and the prevalence of communistic ideas
favors such movements. In England
large bodies of workingmen are in idle
ness, but they endure it stolidly. In Ger
many the industries pampered with pro
tectiou pap are passing through a crisis
which bears heavily upon labor. Yet the
cost of a standing army and the needs of
rAsheville Citizen.
We have information, rather indefinite
it is true, of a strange and striking in
stance of retirement from active life and
partial seclusion from the world of an ed
ucated Englishman now living in western
North Carolina. In Haywood county,
close to the great Cataloochee mountain,
has lived for many years the person refer
red to. His cabin is a mere hut, barely
excluding the weather. He has never had
companionship of any kind in his retire
ment, holds little intercourse with his
neighbors, is reticent though not morose ;
talks readily when addressed,"Tut says
nothing of his former life. He has been
in his orescnt locality so long that few re
member when he came to it; does little or
no labor, but seems to have money with
which to suddIv his few and simple wants.
He and his fife are a mystery .to all around
him. Only once has he given any clue to
his former history. In a serious sickness
some time ago, he was attended with great
kindness bv the wife of one of his neigh
bors. Supposing the illness was a fatal
one. the ladv asked him for his name so
that in the event of his death his friends
might be communicated with. He did
not erive his name, but told her that he
had lived in London ; that he was a wit
ticks in a verv important case; that the
suit could not come to trial without his
evidence : that in the interest of one of the
nartiea who did not wish the case to be
. in -i ,j 1 1
tried, ne naa nea ana conceaieu mmscu
in the mountains of North Carolina bo
completely that all trace of him had been
lost, and he supposed the case was still on
the docket.
He is supposed now lo be upwards of
70 years old.
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