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A Golden Memory.
tli.le a ruined well.
frith tnuiuig grass g""
i the skylark music swei
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1 .vasraiiee Bweefcaiue up the dell
. ,,-;v-mowu hay and clover.
t of rare and winsome Sra('e .
nns.were loudly twining:
il a, her iumoft thoughts 1 (1 trace,
Uid Wiitclie.l ua u..0 ."w.
ith va'l
BttHlife'l't kissed her hair,
lam
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d her lace iau
I while -he
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fhat Pliiile
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when we :ire.
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with tlie l"at ,
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0t oi'te n si i ice I've thought that day
prd like an hour f heaven.
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Odd Facts About Snake3.
LGK AS I'
SMALL, KE1TILES
HAIUTS.
AND TUELR
deie was brought to the iStur office by
. htarr, an eiioi tnous egg. was
1 .1 .......... tti., l.llf tl' . . u 11x4-
t? liie M.U Ul il Jj'w.t- I. J. , "in mD
gular in silage. Ihe outer covering.
hard .and hrittle like a
31, was tso soft that it could be easily
lented by the linger. This singular
j was cold and clammy to the touch,
4 it gave a- person -"who handled it an
..nComiortalde feeling like that which
would result from contact with a snake,
toad or frog.
' "This egg," -wild .u fStiirr, " was laid
by the three nuni.red-poiuni python which
v as brought to this city !;y 31 v. O. li.
1 Uinell a lew days ago. 1 he python is
'.tiug.npon a nest, full of such eggs, and
i short time a lot oi Utile snakes will
'"hatched 'oht. 'They wiii be nice iet!s
people who have an admiration for
jtiles. The mother .snake is twenty-five
1 in length, ahd she is coiled uiou her
i . i . k- .... .. ,.f
vouug. Her teiniier is iu: t like that
sitting hen. Slie is very ugly, and if
is disturbed she manifests, htr dits
sure in ft wav, that gives all meddlers
Inderstand that she wishes to be left se
Iv'alone. What shall 1 do with' this thing?"
the inquiry made by the represent
ee!' the JSiur- to whom the python's
was handed.
KYou can have it hatched artificially,"
the-reply of the donor. "Just keep
!n cotton m a place w hich is neiter too
inn nor too cold, and .the first thing
3u know you will be the owner of a real
live python. Then, if you take proper care
of the young snake, it will be able to coil
about you in its vice-like folds."
Mr. W.'A. Conk ling, superintendent of
e Central Park Managerie, speaking of
diles, said: "There is scarcely any
mal that commands so much aversion
ilieVserpent, yetin spite of this it is one
Hie most interesting of all that come
fore the naturalist. Ytt little attention
been paid to the snake, as compared
itheis of the animal kingdom. The
iient writers speak iu repectful tones
fserpents' size and power. Aristotle
us of the immense Lybian servients, so
- fge that they pursued and upset some
(f .the voyagers', boats I that visited that
tcist. The story of the gigantic snake
tl Jit threw the army of Kegulus into dis
crder by killing; and deyouring several of
his soldiers, ah it' squeezing a few hundred
to di'ath iti his lohls, w ill he remembered.
Kegulus finally jkilled the monster by the
aid of the engines, used io assail fortified
pi ices. , The skiu of this python was 120
l ot in length, and for y ears adorned one
; the tern pies of Home."
'Can I tell vim anything about snakes.''
I SllOUld H;lJ SO,
is, li'irlitinii''
' said Ilev.s ,Mr. Hutch
calculator and lecturer
K)ii Bunneirs Nvonders. " Sir ! I could
J you facts, air; facts in relation to the
trayer of our common mother that
iuld overwhelm yod with amazement,
jreincniber one in the year lHOT. 1 was
JtHlbert's Museum, Market, near Sec-
i; San Iranciseo, California. Iiltyin
1U ailll Ull e. leiJte. jlijo nncgiu-
r , it i it
1 ... 1 ..II . , ...... . 'I !.i.a itrt.M iy A
Jus davs; gohl wav up, ana myseii geu-
Lll'v in a like condition. 1 noticed for
Vval days a man they called Reynolds
fging about the dace. He was a man
Out fifty, no taller than myself, gray
As hanging over his shoulders. A bent
On, like a tree that had beem brought
wrong. Eyes with a faraway look.
I had a peculiar gliding motion, and his
!t, unfilled in slippers, gave forth no
re sound than the reptile. Shortly
er J noticed the proprietor advertise.!
t snakes. One day a mountaineer came
I with a box pierced with airholes
fom the inside came forth a sound like
i nto the rattle of musketry.
"What yer got, stranger?" said Rey
nolds, pushing tin iT.gh the crowd.
' ltattWn', sidvi the uiountaineer.
I'Liet me take one?'
r Jkdiing for the box.
said Reynolds,
i: iun iuui oiu, iney one, ana when
i iey bite they kill," was ;tie reply. I
I " If yer brought these in ansej to the
3vertisement them's mv " niA
i ' li.. 1.,. ,N ..... II 1 1L . 1 1
Vynolds, as he plunged his hand into
e lio.x. In a second h hmiwlit f.i-tlv a
-foot rattle snoke, and holding it ue-
I'en a thumb and finger looked at it.
e lar-awav look in the eves of the mvs-
r - -
ious man had given way to a dancing,
torkling brilliancy, before which the
lake was powerless. j
I" Ain't he pnrty? See the sun strike
1 handsome hide and come back in rain
Vnr colors. Kiss me, boy." S
plowly the deadly serpent went towards
I mouth and then darted down his
roat. The crowd did not move: they
JarceJy breathed; I felt my hair rising; T
ight Kay, in ew- Haven slangy "iWe
ere paralyzed." At all events we were
oted to the spot as fiinily as the pyra
uls me to Egypt's sand. In an instant
s hands were in the box and no less than
euty of these deadly animals were danc-
S around him to the music of their rat
es. I 1 mninit.iitiDni' W a a oa ttalo a a o.
ictt and trembled as with the aeue.
ck went tli unaL-a intn thfl hrW .
Urninor tQ ie mountaineer. Reynolds
x claimed: "What's tha innttrr ftre live
(,hl?'' His voice broke the spell, ;the
t'ountaineer gave one look and then made
r the door Ha
wose snakes."
Anions t.h visitors fn cao fx onnrmmift
jaee hundred pound python on exhibi-
iou mere was a native of Central Am-
pnea. He told Hie attend ant ot tlio dnnr
hat a Ions residence in ' n. warm Mi'mntA
pd made him perfectly familiar with
pptiles and their habits. He acknowl
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edged that the python in the museum
was a remarkable serpent; but he said he
had seem many such in Guatemala. A
representative of the Star who happened
to come along just then and overheard
the Central American's remark, asked
him to relate some of his experiences with
snakes. The man was a veteran of sixty
five or seventy years. His face was
bronzed, and his hair, which he wore
long, was as straight as that of an Indian.
He was fully six feet tall, and the lank uess
of his figure gave him a singular appear
ance. He told the reporter his name was
Senor Jose Iece, 'that lfe was born in
Mexico, and left that country for Central
America when a young man. The Senor
was well educated, aud is able to speak in
the Englsh language with the same
fluency that he does his native tongue.
He said: j
" I have camped in swamps and thickets
and slept with pythons and anacondas
crawling all about me. I never thought
of being afraid of them. The stories'
told in books of immense shakes attacking
large animals and men, coiling about
them and crushing and swallowing their
prey, are for the most part exaggerations.
It is true small animals" are often killed
and swallowed whole by anacondas and
boaconstrictors; but it is safe to say that
no full grown man was ever made a meal
of by a serpent."
" Is an anaconda good for human
food?"
" Now, that is a question which is very
hard to answer. It may be wholesome
enough, but I think it would be pretty
tough eating for any human being who
has an ordinary set of teeth and the
average digestion. I think I would prefer
good beefsteak or a tenderloin if I wanted
a good square meal.
"Is any kind of snake suitable for
food?"
"Oh, yes; rattlesnakes are delicious and
wholesome. I have been in countries
w here they formed a large share of the
regular diet of the inhabitants."
" T- what countries do yon refer?"'
" Well sir, the people of Brazil and
Chili, eat rattlesnakes; but you: need not
tio so far away from New York to find
serpent eaters. The folks down in the
northern part of the State Of Pennsyl
vania eat rattlesnakes. Ihe serpents m
that State are particularly plump, and
exceedingly inviting to the palate of an
.epicure. According to - the othpdox
method, the rattler is skinned and cut up
inth pieces about an inch or an inch and
a half long, and then fried the same as
you would cook an eel. I have eaten rat
tlers lots of times. They1 taste something
like eels, only a great deal sweeter. 1
prefer rattlesnakes to frogs any day in the
week. 1 rogs are insipid.
Some Surprising Sallies.
REV.
SYDNEY SMITH. THE POPULAR AND
WITTY PREACHER.
In his day, Rev. Sydney Smith was the
idol of London society, winning and re
taing popular favor for a full half century
at least by his most felicitous wit and
humor. His exquisite drollery has not
been surpassed by later humorists, nor
has any one excelled him in the genial
character of his fun and playfulness. He
never wounded friends by his shafts,
making them his victims, -though he en
joyed a practical joke at all times. Noth
ing amused him more, in fact, than the
utter want of perception in some minds
which he came in contact with concerning
the force or mission of a bit of playful
ness or humor.
One of his friends, Mrs. Jackson, once
called on him, and in the course of the
conversation spoke of the oppressive heat.
"Heat, ma'am," said Smith; "it was
so oppressive that I found there was noth
ing left for it but to take off my flesh and
sit in my bones. "
" Oh, Mr. Smith, how could you do
that?" exclaimed Mrs. Jackson, with the
utmost gravity.
" Nothing more easy, ma'am," replied
the witty rector.
" Why do you chain up that nne iCSew
foundland dog?" inquired a lady of mim
once.
"Because he has a passion for.breols
fasting on parish boys," answered the
humorist.
"Parish boys!" exclaimed the lady,
"does he really eat parish boys, Mr.
Smith?" .
" YTes, he devours i them, buttons and
all," was the answer.' '
" Her face made me die of laughter,"
said Smith, in telling the story.
While dining out at Y'ork, he happened
to meet a gentleman with such a total
absence, not only of humor in himself
but in his preception of it in others, that
he at once became an amusing subject of
speculation to the humorist. The con
versation assumed a liberal turn, and Mr.
Smith remarked that though he was not
considered ah illiberal man, yet he must
confess he had one weakness, one secret
w ish he should like to roast a Quaker.
"Roast a Quaker!" ejaculated the gen
tleman full of horror at the idea, ' .-
" Yes," replied Smith, with the greatest
gravity, " roast a Quaker. "
" But do you consider, Mr. Smith, the
torture?"
"Y'es, sir," I have considered every
thing, replied the humorist. " It may
wrong, as you say; the Quaker would un
doubtedly suffer acutely; but everyone
has his tastes mine would be to roast a
Quaker one would satisfy me; but it is
one of those peculiarities that I have
striven against in vain, and 1 hope you
will pardon my weakness."
This story may have been the inspira
tion of Charles Lamb's witticism when
asked by a lady how he liked babies.
" B-b-boiled!" replied Lamb.
"Don't talk to me of not being able to
cough a speaker down," said Smith. "Try
the whooping cough," In speaking of a
diminutive friend once, he remarked, " He
has not body enough to cover his, soul
with; his intellect is improperly exposed."
" I have renewed my acquaintance with
young .," wrote Smith to his wife.
"There is something in him., but he does
not know how little."
He liked paintings without knowing
anything about them, and heartily hated
coxcombry in the fine arts. One day,
while examining one of Bowood's paint
ings, an observer, taming to him, said:
"Immense breadth of light and shade."
" Yes," replied Smith; "about an inch
and a half." s "He gave me a look that
ought to have killed me," said the brilliant
preacher in telling of the incident.
Commenting on the spring of 184:0, he
remarked: "This is the onl sensible
spring I rememberj " It is a real March
of intellect." Of a highly educated lady
of his acquaintance, he said, in his inimita
ble way, " She has a porcelain .under
standing. " ,On examining some new flow
ers ia his garden, a beautiful girl ex
claimed, ' Oh, Mr. Smith, this pea .will never
come to perfection.."
"Permit me, then," said he, taking her
by the hand, and walking toward the plant,
" to lead perfection to the pea.
On another oscasion he charmingly re
marked : "Miss reminds me of a youth
ful Minerva, and her friend, as Dr." s
daughter must be, you know, the Venus
de Medici.
Smith never liked dogs, as he always
expected them to go mad. A lady once
asked him for a. motto for her dog Spot.
He instantly proposed " Out, damned
Spot," quoting from Lady Macbeth.
"Were you remarkable as a boy?" in
quired a lady of him.
'Yes, madam," he replied, "I was a
remarkably fat boy."
" Whatever you do," said he at another
time, "preserve the orthodox look." "Cor
respondences," he once wrote to a friend,
" are like small clothes before the inven
tion of snspenders; it is impossible to keep
them up." Daniel Webster, he said, stuck
him very much like a. "steam-engine in
trowsers." "No furnitnre so charming
as books," said he, in one of his sparkling
moods, " even if you never open them Or
read a single word;"- and it was one of his
' observations that a man's character is inore
faithfully represented in the arrangement
of his home than in any other point. It is
hardly necessary to add that to Sydney
Smith, the resplendent preacher and wit,
home was the brightest spot in the world.
A Submerged City.
eCRIOUS DISCOVERIES MADE IX FLORIDA.
The following very interesting story of
the discovery of a submerged city or town
belonging to centuries long past, we find
in the Tarares ITcrahl of this week:
Por the past six months the work of
digging the canal to connect Lakes Eustis
and Dora, iu order to open up the more
southern lakes of the "Great Lake region
of Florida," has been prosecuted by St.
Clair-Abrams k Sumerlin. near Tavares.
The work was undertaken and prosecuted
in the interests of commerce and the de
velopment of this portion of the peninsula
of Florida. The history of the first dig
ging, the subsequent damming of the
waters of Lake Dora, and the further pros
ecution of the work has already been given
in previous issues of the Herald. The
work, which was undertaken, however,
with the view of only opening the chan
nel between two of the larger lakes in
the great chain of lakes which formthe
headwaters of the Ocklawah river, mis,
in the completion of the work, opened
up to science a chapter in the history of
Florida as yet nnthonght of and un
written. A careful survey of the levels of the
waters in the two lakes last November re
vealed the fact that Lake Dora was nearly
four feet higher than Lake Eustis, into
which its waters emptied. The northern
margin of Lake Dory for nearly a mile on
either side of the opening through which
it discharges its waters into the rivulet be
tween it and Lake Eustis was a knoll
about six feet high and from ten to forty
wide, on which grew large pine, hickory
and magnolia treesv while the decayed
stumps of older trees that had fallen dnr
ing past centuries attested the fact of the
great age of the natural barrier which
kept back the waters into Lakes Dora,
Carleton and Apopka. The second cut
ting of the canal was finished last week,
under the supervision of Mr. T. H. Sprott.
who has been from the commencement
one of the foremen of the work. At the
outlet of Lake Dora the sand bar had al-,
ready been cut to the debth of nearly or
quite three feet on the previous digging,
and was dug about two feet deeper last
week. At a distance of over four feet
below the old level of Lake Dora a mound
was discovered. The first excavation re
vealed the existence of a clearly defined
wall, lying in a line tending toward the
southwest from where it was-first struck.
This wall was composed of a dark sand
stone, very much crumbled in places, but
niore distinct, more clearly defined, and
the stone more solid as the digging in
creased in depth. The wall was evident
ly the eastern side of an ancient house or
fortificatioii, as the slope of the outer wall
was to the west." About eight feet from
the slope of the eastern wall a mound of
sand was struck, imbedded in the muck
formation above and around it. This
sand mound was dug into only a few
inches, as the depth of the water deman
ded but a slight increased depth of the
channel at that point, but enough was
discovered to warrant the belief that here,
on the northwestern shore of Lake Dora,
is submerged a city or town or fortifica-'
tion older by centuries than anything yet
discovered in this portion of Florida.
Small, curiously shaped blocks of sand
stone, some of them showing traces of fire,
pieces of pottery and utensils inada of a
mottled flint were thrown out by the men
while working waist deep in water.
. The finest of these specimens was pres
ented to the Herald on Monday by Mr.
Sprott, who promises to use his best en
deavors to secure, if possible, more of
these submerged curiosities. There are
several theories by the "knowing ones",
to account for this submerged building
or fortification. Some think a large house
or forticatifion has gone down in a sink,
such as has been known of in Florida, but
the topography of the country around
would seem to contradict such a surmise,
as the land is higher and rolling, and no
depression exists to wiarrant the belief
that the ground has ever been subjected
to a caving in of any portion of the sur
rounding Country or this particular spots.
About three-fourths of a mile east of the
present channel between the two lakes is
a natural depression with a bay head on
either and (although the ridge between is
several feet higher) which, some think,
was the old channel of the river between
the two lakes, and the gradual filling up
of this old river bed forced Lake Dora to
rind a new outlet in its pres'eut channel,
which is now the lowest land between the
lakes. This would seem to be the correct
theory, as the discovery of the mound
and wall, which may have sunk somewhat
from the action of the water on its base,
is aboutlon a level of the present ordinary
high water-mark of Lake Eustis, the more
northern of the two lakes and the last in
the chain before the Ocklawaha proper
begins. Further investigations will be
made as soon as practicable into the sunk
en mound for the purpose of ascertaining,
if possible, what is really now hidden by
the waters of Lake Dora. A spear head
of mottled flint, fiye and a half inches
long' by one and a quarter inches wide,
nicely finished, is now to be seen at the
Herald office, which was taken from the
top of the sand mound, and about four
feet below the water level of the lake.
Now that a Brooklyn boy has died
from smoking cigarettes, couldn't some
body advance the argument that the tax
on this form of the weed should be replaced?
Curiosities of Ocean Cables. '
Of the total 97,200 miles of cable in the
world, some 36,420 are owned and worked
by the E istern Telegraph Company and
its affiliated companies, the Eastern Ex
tension Telegraph Company and the
South African Telegraph Company. The
Eastern Telegraph Company is perhaps
the most enterprising of; cable corpora
tions, and makes a very fine display at
the Crystal Palace, Loudon. Cable
operations, have been, says Nature,- of
great assistance to the geographer, and
the soundings taken in order to ascertain
the nature of the sea bottom where a
cable route is, projected, have enriched
our charts quite as much as special
voyages. There is, however, another
way in which these, operations could be
made subservient'' to the cause of natural
science; but it is a 5 way which has not
been sufficiently taken advantage of.
Besides the specimens of Stones, mud and
sand, which the sorgidinglead brings up
from the deep, the cable itself, when
hauled up for repairs, after a period j of
submergence, is frequently swarming with
the live inhabitants of the sea floor
crabs, corals, snakes, mollusks and fifty
other specimens, as well as overgrown
with the weeds and mosses of the bottom.
Many an unknown species has passed
over the drums unnoted to rot and fester
in the general mess within the cable tanks.
We venture to predict a rare harvest to
the first naturalist who will accompany a
repairing ship, and provide himself with
means to bottle up the specimens which
cling to the cable as it is pulled up from
the sea.
Some idea of these trophies may be
gathered from the stall of the Eastern
Telegraph company, where a few of them
are preserved. Two of these are very fine
gray sea snake, caught on the Saigon cable
in a depth of thirty fathoms, and a black
and white brindled snake, taken from the
Batavian cable in twenty-five fathoms.
Twisting round ropes seems to be a habit
of this creature, for the writer remembers
seeing one scale up a ship's side out in
the River Amazon, by the "painter" hang
ing in the water.
A good example of a feather star is also
shown; these animals being frequently
found grasping the cable- by their
tentacles. A handsome specimen of the
blanket sponge, picked up in the Bay of
Biscay, is also exhibited. But the most
interesting object of all is a short' piece
of cable so beautifully incrusted with
shells, serpulse aud corals, as to be quite
invisible. It was picked up and cut out
in this condition from one of the Siugapore
cables. The rapid growth of these corals
is surprising, and head some valuable in
formation on this might be gained if the
electricians of repai ring-ships in these
eastern waters would make some simple
observations. Curiously enough, so long
as the outermost layer of oakum and tar
keeps entire, very few shells collect upon
the cable, but when the iron wires are
laid bare, the incrustration speedily
begins, perhaps because a better foothold
is afforded.
A deadly enemy to the cable, in the
shape of a large boring worm, exists in
these Indian seas; and several of them are
shown by the company. The worm is
flesh colored and slender, of a length
from 1 finches to 2 inches. The head
is provided with two cutting tools of a
curving shape, and it speedily eats its
way through the hemp of the sheathing
to the gutta percha.of the core, into
which it bores an oblong hole.
A Curiosity. The following is a sort of
syllabic or word acrostic that doubtless
has a name as well as exhibits a deal of
ingenuity, and perhaps time expended or
wasted in arranging it, that might have
been more profitably employed:
down and you if love for you shall
and , you love you your me for be
up i will 1 love if is love for
Read see that me but not' my got.
Rewiyal meetings the courtship of a
widower.
An egotist's story extends as far as the
I can reach.
The moon, like some men, is brightest
when it is full.
" Come right to the point," as the rod
said to the lightning.
A man's appetite resembles a railroad
pass it is not transferable.
You can't electrify your barber by tell
ing him to " Brush Light. "
Mummies are the only weH-behaved
persons who are now left in Egypt.
Girls, like opportunities, are all the
more to you after being embraced,
Capitol stock the bums that loaf about
the lobby.
In regard to our army, the w hole truth
in a nutshell is that there are too many
kernals in the army.
The saddest consequences of a great
man's death are the verses that are written
to his memory.
Rice was introduced into Europe by the
Saracens. It is introduced into the
Chinese with chop sticks.
An oak tree recently felled at- Chico,
Col., measured eight and a half feet in
diameter at the stump.
'"A horse chestnut tree on the premises
of Mathias Raser, 328 Washington street,
Boston, was covered with pink blossoms
this season.
Madison connty, Ky., prides itself on
an elm tree, recently cut down, that
measured twenty-five feet around the body
and more than 300 feet around the top.
On July 4, 1812, Dr. West, of Chester,
N. J., stuck into the ground in front of
his door his walking stick. To-day the
circumference of the trunk is seventeen
feet,
A peach tree in the garden of Mrs. John
Arney, North Hanover street, Philadel
phia, had double blossoms almost as large
as the common June rose, which they re
semble in a remarkable degree. . The tree
is ten or fifteen feet high, of the white
freestone variety, and though not" prolific
bears double fruit.
The preparation and feeding of prize
pigs in England is attended with some
curiosities in the dietary. , The animals,
which are usually over-fat, are fed on every
thing that is good; they are also given
new milk and rum. dapples and London
porter. A bottle of port wine is sometimes
used to restore tone to au exhausted porker
after a long journe.
Law is Rke a sieve; you may see through
it, but you must be considerably reduced
before you can get through it
IS PROHIBITION DEAD?
READ AND CIRCULATE.
From the "Spirit of the Age," (Prohibition
Organ of the State,) Feb. 11, 1882.1
We tear that some of those who talked for
temperance and prohibition in the recent past
have backed down, or baek-slidden, or at Lest
have grown lukewarm. We hear nothing from
them not aword.
We are sorry for it, because,
we do not think now that, in the result of the
recent election, there is any just cause for dis
couragement much less an excuse for a back
down and give-up, as some Beem to think, judg
ing them by their silent indifference ; because if
the cause tor which we have so long contended
was right last year and in the times that are
past, it is right now, and will always be right ;
and, if right, it should be maintained at all haz
ards. As for ourself, we are determined to continue
the warfare, let the consequences be as they
may. In the language of a very eloquent anil
zealous brother : " We have had a snuff of the
battle, and our blood is still warm." Instead of
being discouraged we are greatly encouraged.
From the'Spirit of the Age," (Prohibition
Organ of the .State, ) Feb. 21, 1882.
A political paper stated recently that Prohibi
tion had "its rise and fall," last "year in North
Carolina. We do wonder it the editor meant to
convey the idea that the Prohibition movement
is dead in the State? If so, he is wofully mistak
en. It did not so much as get a "fail," in the
recent conllict at any rate, got no dust on its
back.
It is not true that it had its rise and fall last
lyear; but it is true -that it declared a warfare
against the legalized liquor traffic, in North
Carolina, last year: and also true, that it went
into battle with unorganized forces and made
one of the most .gallant tights of this or any oth
er age, coming out of the battle with a disciplin
ed army of tiity thousand freemen, who, pressed
back by brute Voi ce, were not whipped, but, on
the contrary, had more to rejoice over than the
majority whose seeming yictory was won by ap
peals to the baser passions of men.
The right last summer was the first effort, as it
were, .of a stripling, unused to partizan conflict
against a giant skilled in all the arts and tricks
of the demagogue. How well it sustained itself in
a contest so uneven, the world knows.
That man has read history to very little pur
pose who has not yet learned the fact that re
volutions never go backward. And it doos seem
to us that a newspaper could not choose a more
certain method of forfeiting its claim to pro-
Ehesy, than by uttering the opinion that prohi
ition has had its rise and fall.
A certain bill was rejected, but the great
questiod of Prohibition is a live issue, and is
growing izx stature and strength daily and hour
ly. . It will at last win the fight, and the great
battle which is to decide the conflict is much
nearer at hand than many people are willing to
believe.
Another Blast from the Prohibition Organ.
Brother Whitaker in his paper of the 30th
of March last plainly states the purposes of the
Prohibitionists. He says:
We are greatly encouraged at what we have
heard and seen lately, as to the future of the
temperance work in North Carolina. We have
been somewhat among the people and talked with
them; both in private and from the rostrum, and
we are cheered to find them more ready, than
ever in the past, to fall into line and make war
against the iniquitous liquor license system
the source of almost all the evils which grow out
of the traffic.
The people are beginning to understand that
they have been cheated by the politicians; that
the bill which the last Legislature passed, in re
sponse to their petitions, was framed with the
view of making it as odious as possible to the
masses to the end that it might be voted down at
the polls and the cause of temperance and pro
hibition made odious. They are beginning to
find out that nothine mav be exnected at the
hands of the politicians, therefore, they must, if
tney wouia ever succeed in freeing tneir State ot
the curse of Alcohol, take the matter into their
hands and manage it for themselves.
The Prohibitionists fully recognize and appre
ciate the fact that they hold the balance of pow
er in the State, and while they make no threats
and are not yet prepared to say what they may
do in the next general election they are are de
termined to make no concessions. They
are proud of the fight which they made last
summer, and, reasoning from analogy, they
are very confident that the next few years will
decide the matter very differently from the way
it was decided last year.
We find among the people a fixed determina
tion to stand by the cause of Prohibition, and
they are only waiting for a proper time to move
forward in the work. !
I The Voice of Capt. Bell.
In the Prohibition Convention which was held
in this city on the 27th and 28th of April, 1881,
Capt. W. T. It. Bell, of King's Mountain, made a
speech, in the course of which he declared that
whilst he did not desire to carry politics into
temperance he did want to carry temperance
into politics. He then added : After this day,
party or no party, T will vote for no man and no
pleasure that is not sound on ; this prohibition
question ; and if that be treason," shouted the
gallant Captain, "make the most of it." (Loud
and prolonged cheers.) Next day Gov. Jarvis
gined the brethren. And Capt. Bell sticks to his
word. In a letter to the Sjnril of Vie Age, (Pro
hibition Organ,) dated March 1st, 1882, he says
From my earliest connection with the Tern
perance movement, I have held that the license
system was the root of the great evil ; and, hav
mg once struct Doiaiy at it, i ieit mat it was a
humiliating concession, to abandon a virtual
organization, and relapse into the old guerrilla
warfare. With that view I wrote an article over
my own signature for the Methodist Advance,
urging organization at the proper time, and the
exercise of all the anti-license system strength
ot tne htate at tne naiiot-uox, year alter year
until our enorts snouia ue crowneu witn success;
That campaign was a wonderful one ; and if fol
lowed up by prudent sagacious leadership, will
vet tell upon the destinies of this commonwealth.
I do not stop to ask what effect such au organi
zation may have upon the status of political par
ties. I have mv own uartv views and oartv tire
ference which I do not propose to sacrifice unless
driven to do so. But when I find party organs
ready to apologize for a movement in which
every better principle of my nature prompts
me to glory, then expedient must go, and, what
1 leel to be right must nnd a tearless assertion
I have no political ambition to eratifiv. Bnt when
I find both political parties manoeuvering for ad
vantage auu both seeKing to pander to a depraved
vicious publio sentiment: when nolicv so far
loses signt of all enlightened principles as to
i .i . .i . . i . i. av i i . r. i? ii
grouuu ine uiiiiit name upon uie lnaiienaoie
rights of man, then, wiith one or a thousand. I
am for virtue and truth and reform, and the God
of Providence, in the mean time, must take care
of the State.
And if the political philosophy expressed in
the -bill of rights' promulgated by the Liquor
Dealers' Convention that met last summer in
your city, is to be accepted by both political par
ties as piauorm principle, men until tne sermon
on the Mount have taken a deeper hold upon
the minds and hearts of the people in our State,
l an independent voter.
Fraternally Yours,
W. T. It. Bell.
Brother Aberxethy to the Front.
Senator Vance's friend Abernethy writes to
to the Spirit of the Age as follows. We find his
letter in that paper of March 30, 1882. We
suspect Mr. Abernethy is not so much of a Vance
man now as he used to be:
Mv Dear Editor: Capt. Bell in a recent issue
gives no uncertain sound upon the great question
at issue in North Carolina. I, under a pressure
of abundant labors, stop long enough to say
that, I am in unison with him ; and bv the grace
of God, 1 expect to nght it out upon this line till
the Master calls me to my account. Political
parties that have to be cemented by the glue and
ffoth of drunkenness, deserve to be condemned
by the voice of a free enlightened people to
endless infamitv. The elements that should be
found in the make up of every political party,
should be such as to exclude from its code of
principles whatever tends to moral or social
evil. Every good man in North Carolina know
that laws which we make to permit and encour
age the making, buying and selling of ardent
spirits, no matter what seeming good they may
do in increasing the revenue, or in healing as a
medicine, nevertheless, overbalance all these
goods in the damage they do to the moral and
social interests of our people. The trreat trouble
in our political parties heretofore has been that
good and sober men could hardly be elected to
our legislatures. The great mass of the voting
population are dram-drinkers and drunkards ;
hence the impossibility of getting such members
elected as would make proper temperance laws.
And a goodly number of those heretofore
elected, who were sober men, have leen too
fearful of the las of their seats in the next
legislature to come out boldly in favor of Pro-
hibiUon. Thev have beeni like the Jjishman
when about to die and being told that he must
pray: "Faith and be jaLVi-s I don't know who to
pray to. I'm not after making enemies for
mes. lf in that far off country, and I will say. its
good God, good devil, for I'm not knowing into
whose hands I m to fall.
Let the temperance element in North Carolina
stir itself in organization in every county some .
kind of temperance fraternities, and when the
time comes to elect .State legislatoi s, let these
fraternities select and nominate the best man or
men they can bring to the front, intsiiedite oj
all political partits. 1 1 tell you that, if the two
old parties, or those in them that love the critter.
stick to their principles being cemented only by
ine liquor element, a third party ol good, tem
perance men in many counties being gathered
from both the old "ones, will elect their man.
Let us trv it. The salvation of the country de
fends upon this move.
Let these liquor lovers call us what thev
please, w will ultimately succeed. They mav
pile on me whatever epithets they choose, I
shall not change my purpose. I can t do it
without sinning against God ; and I can't ee
how any other Christian man in North Carolina
can take any other position. It would be re
markably strange, in the more than 200,000
church members in North Carolina, we cannot
elect a majority of temperance members in"
the North Carolina legislature.
It. L. Abernethy.
Where Brother Branson Stands.
ltev. L. Branson clips the following from the
Ashboro Courier and republishes it in the Spirit
of 'the Age, "it so nearly coincides with my views
and what I conceive to be the truth." "Prolybi
tion, he adds,, "is gradually gaining ground."
The majority against Prohibition last year was
large, but there were 18,000 who voted lor it, un
satisfactory as the proposed measure was, and
their number have not grown less. That ma- -
jority is not the kind that accepts such a defeat
as final.
They will be heard again, and their power
will be felt in elections hereafter. The issue
is a live one and will be while the penitentiary,
jails and the poor-houses of the State are being
constantly recruited bv whiskey's- doings.
Great evils, and those that were considered
invincible in this country, have had to succomb
to an enlightened public opinion, and this one
is destined to go also.'
The Balance of Power.
A Greene county crrespondent, "W." of the
Spirit of tlue-Age (Prohibition Organ) ' writes on
the 25th of February: -
As for myself you may count me for temper
ance, for prohibition for temperance men and
prohibition men and when voting time comes,
regardless of politics, I intend to vote for the
man who is opposed to the present system of li
cense; and I am not alone in this locality, by
many. There are temperance people enough in
JNorth Carolina, it they would speak out and be
farm on this important question, to hold the bal
ance of power. -
Let us have a convention soon, and put our
principles and our demands in proper shape.
Then if both political parties reject or ignor our
claims, let us nominate and vote only for such
men as will agree to treat us and our cause fair
ly. The time has come when we should refuse
to be set back to make room for politicians who
used us and our votes to hinder and not ad
vance our cause.
The Main Question Still Alive.
We quote from the Spirit of tli Age, (Prohi
bition Organ of this city,) of the 14th June:
Let politicians prate and bluster and turn
somersaults, and make wry faces if they delight
in that kind of sports but, it will all amount to
nothing, in the end, for the Prohibition senti
ment of the country is growing and is going to
keep, on growing until it shall come like a mighty
wave" and sweep the deck of the old ship of State
so clean you will hardly believe that an anti-pro.
Lib. or any. other sort of a politician ever sat and
walked thereon.
The bill on which the people voted last sum
mer is dead of course, and will never be revived
again, but the main question is still alive. That
will not die, nor will it down so long as human
lives are being sacrificed lor the purpose of rais
ing revenue.
The Republican Party's Lost Opportunity.
A correspondent of the same paper and of the
same date, writes:
Mr. Editor: I have seen from the papers' that
XI TTT1 "1 - A Al ' l .1 1 'A ll .1
iue vvnisivey pany iuiuk uiey nave it an tneir
own way, but thev are mistaken as to the mean
ing of the vote last August. Many thousands
who yoted against that, to them, obnoxious bill.
are not in favor of whiskey domination, by any
means.
If the Republican party had vigorously de
clared tor .Prohibition fourteen months ago, it
would have gone into power in North Carolina,
to stay for some time. But, it is now in great
danger ot committing the greatest blunder ot
all its blundering career ; a blunder that will be
fatal unless the Democratic party should outstrip
it in blundering, as it has otten done.
Politicians should remember, as a rule, that.
that class of society who are most susceptible to
party enthusiasm "are not the prohibitionists.
There are thousands of solid, quiet men. of both
parties, who cannot be coaxed or driven against
such strong convictions as they have on this
liquor question especially when those convictions
have been aroused as they now are. I hey believe
that it is essential for "the well-being of this
country, that the liquor traffic be prohibited by
law. They believe it the most important ques
tion now agitating the public' mind, one that
comes nearer home to every philanthropist in
the land, uut, they are notot that class ot voters.
as a rule, who are most likely to be present at
political conventions; or, if there, they are not
apt to oe tne most noisy iuenioers.
y '
Strictly a Political Question.
And thousands of these quiet, firm, country
loving anu oruer loving men an over the land oi
both parties, have determined in the future to
vote for men and measures known to be most
favorable to laws restraining men from propa
gating vice, crime and poverty in the land. This
liquor question is strictly a political question,
but wo to that party which shall declare in its
favor. W.
Prohibition Platform.
In the same paper, same date, we find an ad
dress " To all Good Templars," fronr the R. G.
W. S. The annual session of the Right Worthy
Grand Lodge convened at Charleston, 8. C, on
the 23d of May last, aiid 39 Grand Lodges were
represented, one of them by Needham. B.
Broughton of this city, if we mistake not.
Among the important legislation of the session
was the following:
The Platform of 1851 was re-affirmed total
abstinence fob the individual and prohibition
for the State and the membership through
out the United States urged to press the struggle
for Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the
tramc, and warning them not to be diverted
therefrom bv other social and political reform
until this, the greatest, is settled.
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