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THE EVENING
ITOR.
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VOL. 4 NO. 120.
HALEIGD, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1S81.
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Editor.
city visim
One marriage license issued this
morning. J
No old bouds received at the
Treasury department this morn-
inrt
In a rainy day an umbrella is as
- necessary in market as in the open
air.
Nearly all the members of the
Legislature have departed for their
homes.
It looks lonesome around the ho
tels since the adjournment of the
Legislature.
Mr. L. Branson has just received
a new stock of croquet sets, garden
seedsj&c. See new advertisement in
. i - i
anoiner uumiiiu.
Two pair of baby shoes were lost
nn t.lio strfifif a Vflstprdav. Thn findpr
is requested to return them to Messrs.
W. H. & R. S. Tucker's store.
Fodder has sold since our last re
port from $1.25 to $127 1-2 per hun
dred; oats f.iom $1.15 to $1.00; hay
none; straw 50 to 60 cents.
Messrs. D. S. Waitt and J. Q.
Edwards left this morning for the
northern cities to purchase their
spring and summer . stock of
goods.
A patent medicine man paints his
advertisement on the fence an hour
later a cow comes along and licks it
off, and dies. Let this be a warn
ing. A new two horse plow was found
in the streets by the police and put
in the station house. The owner can
get the same by calling there and
paying for this notice.'
Drummers license were issu ed this
morning to the following named
firms : Hess, Rogers & Chambers, W.
E. & N. H. Camp, of Phil idelphia,
and Womble & Walk, of Nortolk,
Virginia.
Mr. Isadora Rosenthal, of the
firm of L. Rosenthal & Co., left
yesterday for New York and other
northern cities to purchase their
spring stock of dry goods for said
house.
The charming actress, Miss Ada
Gray, will appear at Tucker Hall
next Tuesday and Wednesday
hwooi
nights. She will have good houses enforce the cash system in the future
no doubt, as Bhe is a favorite here on everybody. .
with theatre-goers. .
( Mr. A. W. Simpson, the member
We have received the Rocksboro of the Legislature com Dare county
Herald, a neat 32 column paper, ag feefore the May)r yesterday af
published by Whitaker & Hunter. ternoon charged with the larceny of
Mr. Whitaker is an old Raleighite, j yarious articleg from the National
' and he will be successful in his
en-
terprisb. Price $1.50 a year.
If you want to be strictly fashion
able, don't leave your knife and
fork crossed on your plate after fin
ishing dinner. Ex. ind it maybe
as well to mention, in this connec
tion, that it is not etiquette, when
dining out, to slip the silver spoons
in your pocket as you get up from
. the table.
Market dull.
Low middling 9 1.2.
Middling cotton 10 to 10 1-4.
Strict low middling 9 7-8 to 10.
Salad plentiful.
Wood and coal plentiful.
The pic-nic season advanceth.
Full moon at 5 o'clock this after
noon. Fresh meats have advanced in
price.
One new bonnet will make a wo
man happy.
No man can be wise on an empty
stomach.
St. Patriot's Day is next Thursday,
the 17th.
A pples wei e forty cents a peck yes
terday.
One squalling child will spoil an
entire evening.
There is nr greater every-day vir
tue than cheerfulness.
The sha le trees ubont town have
commenced to bud.
It's easy finding reasons why other
people should be patient.
Precepts are the rulps by which we
ought to square our lives.
See notice of Mr. I. W. Rogers
in our advertising columns in to day's
issue.
Young Men's prayer meeting at
Swain Street Baptist church to
night. I
Not withstanding the Lenten sea
son, our butchers have advanced the
price of fresh meats.
Salt will prevent hair from falling
out, but to preveut it being pulled
Out, get home early.
The combinations generally have
met with the worst luck this season.
All regret that they ever started
out.
The Second Presbyterian church
will be dedicated next Sunday week,
by Rev. Dr. Smith, of Greens
boro. ,
We are pleased to announce that
the litttle son of Mr. A. W. Fraps,
who has been very ill, is gradually
convalescing.
If any one in the city has a chair
suitable for invalids, they can find
quick sale for it, by applying early
at this office.
The present year is the Hebrew
year 5642, and it is leap year. It
has thirteen months. The added
montn is Adar.
Every one, it is said, has a mission,
but it seems to be the mission of
very few people to mind their own
business alone.
The trouble with life is not that
there are so many things to learn,
but that there are s many things to
unlearn before we begin to learn.
The Rev. Dr. W. A. Nelson pass
ed through the city yesterday after
noon, on his way home. He went
by the way of Ilendersonville to
unite his brother's daughter in mar-
Is your subscription paid up ? If
not, you had better do so at once, if
you desire to receive the Visitor
much longer. We are determined to
Htel. The case was Jcwntinued till
this morning when it was re-opened,
and the defendant proved a good
character. After argument by coun
sel the Mayor dismissed the case, as
he thought that the defendaant
was not (jguilty of the . crime.
The verdict of the Mayor was
received r with a shout of ap-;
plause from the large crowd of spec
tators present.
Doctors have to do a great deal of ;
cnaruy wont.
Rev. J. M. Jloilemtn of Apex was !
in the city to day. i
If you should want any cjkes baked,
call on Mr. J. U. . Osborne and g. t
supplied. See advertisement in
another column.
Dr. Eugene G rissona has leturned
froni Washington City, whither he
went to attend the iuaug.ual cere
monies of President Garfield.
It is said that love conquers
things, but a jumping toothach ; that
knows its business ami stiictly at
tends to it can for the time being
make a man forget that he ever loved
at all.
Any one wishing to purchase all
kinds of liquors at cost, can do so by '
calling on or writing to Mr. C. A. !
Goodwin. Wilmington street. lie is i
offering his stock at
cost,
igee a'l-
vertisement.
Regular weekly meeting of Man
teo Lodge, I.O.O.F. to' night. A
full attendance of the . members de
sired. Business of importance to
be transacted. Visiting brethren iu
the city are ordially invitad to at
tend. !
thirty of :
Dr
Pritchard baptized
the students at Wake
Forest Col-
lege on Sunday last at that institu
tion, and will probably baptize
about twenty five more soon, all
from the result of the labors of the
Jlev. Dr. Nelson among the'students
there during the last few davs.
Mr. Allen G. U
lingers, ot this
city,
who has been visiting friends here,
on a leave of absence from the U. S.
Navy, for a few past weeks, has re
ceived order? to report at New York,
on Saturday next, preparatory to
taking a three years eruise in South
America- He will, therefore, leave
here on Friday next for New
York.
Bleak, chilly Maivh and Novem
ber are the tw worst months of the
year for those suffering with pulmo
nary diseases. Keep Dr. Bull's Cough
Syrup near by and such sufferers
will be able to brave the rough
weather without danger. Price 25
cents.
Murdered.
About 9 o'clock last night two ne
groes living in St. Mary's Township,
by the name of Rufus Fuller and
Isaac Taylor, became involved in an
altercation, and Fuller stabbed Tay
lor, and from the effects of said
wounds Taylor has since died. Ful
ler was arrested, and had a prelimi
nary trial before Justice Thomas
John's, and committed to jail. The
facts in the case the reporter was
unable to learn.
Miss Ada Gray in East Lynne.
The play of East Lynne is one of
the most pathetic and emotional to
be found in the modern drama, and
always atttracts a good house. The
College hall, therefore, was well filled
last night with an audience to wit
ness the play, and to see Miss Ada
Gray in the leading parts of Lady
Isabel Vane and Madame Vine.
From the first the interest of the
audience was awakened, and kept en
chained until the close. Miss Gray
portrayed with great effect the beau
tiful, jealous and loving wife, and the
repentant, heart broken woman. At
the close of the second and third
acts, she received a call before the
curtain in appreciation of her talent,
and in the fourth act, in which is
portrayed the death bed scene of her
little son, and in the fifth and last, in
which she dies filled with remorse
for the errors of her life, when she
has "tried to bear the cross, but its
weight has proven too heavy" for
her, she received still more practical
recognition of her genius by a co
pious flow of tears throughout the
auditorium. Savannah News.
Jay Rial's Humpty Dumpty.
The great "Rial' Humpty Dump
ty" company is booked to appear at
Tucker Half next Monday night.
This is one of the plays that sends
everybody home buttonless auJ with
much sideaching. It had an immense
r " New York last season. The
following from the Detroit Free
i resM, vi leuruaiv Jst, sweats
ol teUiuaiy Jst, speaks tor
iiiielf :
Dktt.oit Oi'eka Housf.. Jay
Iliad's "Humpty DuiHptv' opened ut
the Detroit, Inst night, with Grimaldi
ZfltntM- us "Ilumpty." It is the Geo.
L. Fox version of the old pantomime qw thft knees aml innjcting otllt,r ter
whieh this company p. eseuts, but riide iniurks. The ( V.ar was i.nme-
many o
t the mechanical tucks are !
new iiiid vastly amusing. Tneift was a
large audience in attendance, the
dress circle and gallery being crowd
ed, and the parquette circle having a
goodly delegation. On the whole this
is one of the liveliest and merriest
Humpty Dumpty entertainments
Detroit has had in several seasons.
In the specialty act are several ad
mirable leatiues, tlie most surprising,
even
startling, of which, is tn per
lormunce of the renowned Fire King,
Kcl Mucab who lunches on red hot
iron, caresses a fiercely heated shovel
wit!; his bare arms and face, drinks
boiling olive oil, and executes a dance
mi sheet of hot iron. To night lie
will vary his performance by drinking
a quantity of molten lend. Mattie
Antonio was a graceful Columbine,
and she also danced a straight jig
very artistically. Punch Walton is
not only amusing as a merry Punch,
but he plays the cornet with taste
and skill. The dog circus, with Prof.
Wirgfiv
wildest
as ling master, evoked the
applause, uno ol the uogs,
called Prince, is a marvel of intelli
gence a gfinmne dog comedian.
My Graduating Speech.
Correspondence of the Visitor.
More, than a score of years have
passed by since I closed my college
days. It was an epoch i:i my history
to myself although others have seem
ed to take no note of it- It was a
law of the school thai; each graduate
should write r.n essay or speech, read
it to the President of the college, let
him criticise and correct it, and then
on commencement day, the graduate
must stand up before the people and
deliver his speech.
There were two difficulties in my
way of obeying the school law. I
was in the first place, inexperienced
in speech andwriting, and then I was
too bashful to speak it before the
people. But I broke over the first,
selected my subject and at it I went.
I finished my speech ? and a poor
thing it was, that is, I see now that
it was.
There were six in our class and
our c ommencement came in the short
nights of June. Six speeches, and
all straight along without rest in the
sweltering weather of J une ! It
was too much the President asked
some ot us to be " excused" and my
timidity led me to gladly accept
his proposition. All the others
spoke and most of them, if not all
fell lifeless on the audience. The
speakers alone seemed to enjoy the
fun. Friends came to me afterwards
and exj ressed regret that I had not
spoken they wished to hear me, for
they believed that I could make a
good speech. I kuew that it was a
miserably poor one. The kindness
of friends gave me moie credit than
my speech would have brought me.
I During these years, I have heard
many speeches and I can say that si
lence on the part of the speakers and
imagination on the part of the people
would have improved nine tenths ot
them. And yet the boys must speak
on commencement day !
An Ex-Gkaduate.
Miss Helen Mitchell, says a St.
Louis journal, a very handsome
young lady ana elegantly attired,
was recently fined $o for appearing
on the public streets intoxicated.
Come, come, ladies ; this will never
do. If you must imitate man copy his
noble virtues, not his baser ones.
A dying man was found by the
roadside in Camden county ; he said
he was attacked by three men hired
by a young lady and a mulatto maa
to murder him ; when found a large
knife was clutched in his hand, and
h seemed to have fought bravely for
his life ; his name was ascertained to
be W.D. Sykes, from ElizabethCity
Assassination of the Czar of Russia.
A rispatch from St. Petersburg
says: "As the EniPior was returning
from a parade in Michdmnge, about
2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, a bomb
was thrown which exploded under the
Czar's carriage, which was consider
able damaged. The Czr alighted
unhurt, but second bomb exploited
at. hia fat. uliutri'itiLf luhtli ltcra Via
,i:ofli ..,.,.;
state, to the Win er i'alace, where
he died at 4:30 o'clock .Monday after
noon. Tw-j persons were concerned
iu the cri.ne, mw of whom was seized
immediately. Tim ? plosion alo
killed an ofie.-r and i w Cossacks.
Many polioem- n and other persons
wcrj injuivd. '
The Loudon Tinio3 has the- follow
ing from St. Petersburg: A Dicta
tor's bulletin, published at 3 o'cleck
in the afternoon, states that both legs
wore broken below the knee, the low
er part of the body severely injured,
and the left eye torn from its socket.
The Grand Duko Michael was not
hurt. The assassins were disguised
as peasants. One report states that
one of them was so roughly handled
that he has sines di.d.
A paper does not cost much. That
is the reason why so many walk into
an office help themselves and walk
out. To prevent this little steal, it
is veritably announced that a shrewd
editor trained a parrot to watch visi
tors to the office' If one picked up
a paper and attempted to go off with
out paying for it, the bird would sing
out, with startling clearness: '"Stop
thief! stop thief! Ilang it, bring that
paper back, or pay for it!" By this
means the editor receives nearly all
the money for his papers, which gives
him quite a lift. Yonkers States
man The construction has been com
menced at Nashville, Tenn., of a
flouring mill, to be" six stories in
height and 120 feet in length, with a
capacity for turning out 400 barrels
of flour every 24 hours. The par
ties ac the head of the enterprise have
purchased machinery of sufficient
motive power to double this capacity,
should it be found desirable.
TV. IL& R.S.TUCKER
Have received an invoice of the finest
qualities of
Black CASHMERES
ever shown in this city, offered at less
than New York prices.
Also a choice lot of fine quality
'Zanzibar Striped Ginghams.
We continue the sale of our
Special Purchase
OF
Lyons Black Silks
AT
REMARKABLY LOW PRICES,
Which.together with their POSITIVE
ELEGANCE will Commend ihem to
all as of SUPERB VALUE.
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