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TARBORO', N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 2G, 1876.
NO. 24.
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
TARBOHO'i
Mayor Fred. Philips.
Commissioners Jesse A. Williamson, Ja
cob Feldenheimer, Daniel V. Hunt, Alex.
McCabe, Joseph Cobb.
Secuetatit & Tkeasureu Kobt. White
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Sinionson, Altimore Macnair.
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Sheri ff Joseph Cobb.
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Duan and R. S. Williams.
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Friday,
May 26, 187S
THE MAJOR'S DECISION
'Well, as he has married to suit
himself without my approval, he
can no longer expect anything from
me. Having made a bed to suit
him, let him lie on it.'
Major Martindale, folded up a
certain obnoxious letter, as he made
this mental remark, and laying it
in a little gilded letter rack beside
him, in company with a tailor's bill,
a licket t some forthcoming ama
teur concert, and a printed circular
concerning 'insurance policies,' went
deliberately on with his breakfast.
He was a handsome, elderly gen
tleman, slightly bald, with bright
brown eyes, straight Roman fea
tures and one of those square, firm
ly molded mouths which betoken a
tendency to have one's way. And
as ho drank his coffee, and daintily
manipulated his French rolls, broil
ed birds, and fresh strawberries,
served in a garniture of their cwn
leaves, he mused over the contents
of this same letter.
'it's a great mistake to allow
servants to bring in one s corre-
pondence at meal timos,' reflected
Major Martindale. 'It's al
most sure to interfere with one's
digestion. I'll never read another let
ter at breakfast time ! What could
possess my son to go and get mar
ried in this abrupt, nonsensical sort
of way : Says he 'feared it wduld
be impossible to gain my consent.
Well, he had god reason for his
ears. iZe 11 find it still more im
possible, after marriage, than be-
fore. He knows my ideas and if
4 w
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he don t choose to contorm to em
to Vm
its his business not mine.
And so after finishing the straw
berries, and daintily cleansing ' his
filbert nailed fingers in a ruby
1 in t ITT" 1C.
colored nneer dowi. ua . iuartin
dale wrote three words on a thick,
erey sheet of note paper, enclosed
i in nr an vol fra f 'ffl V O fl O c f o wi
and gave it to the servant to post.
And the three words were these :
"Consider yourself disinherited.''
That was the way in which Maj.
Martindale disposed of his only
son.
Not that he did not love Harry
the bright frank boy, who was
all that was left of his young wife,
nd one romantic dream and ten
er memory of his lifetime but he
iked his own way better. And it
is surprising how obstinate a man
can be, when he once turns his full
attention to the business.
'Disinherited ? Oh, Harry !
-And fcr me.'
Mrs. Harry Martindale, a pretty
blue-eyed woman, with light hair
that shewsred itself around her
ace like sunshine, little dot3 of
dimples in cheek and chin, and a
round, fresh mouth, like a baby's
ooked piteously up into her hus
band's face as she spoke.
Harry Martindale shrugged his
shoulders; the momentary cloud
passed away from his face, as he
answered, bravely :
'Never mind, Ariel. We can
afford you and I, to be independent
of a crusty old gentelman's money
11 see about that clerkship in St.
Louis.
'Half the world away trom m6
Harry !'
a
'It won t be tor long, pet. Uheer
up : i n send ior you wnen x ve
got well established, and we'll have
t Tin "l n 1 Tf
a little bird s nest ot a home, with
out asking any favors of my fath
er.'
-Ariel smiled throush the dew
drops that sparkled in her eyes
She was easily consoled. A girl's
heart at eighteen is blessedly eiai-
tic.
Major Martindale elected to seek
Atlantic City for the hot we eo
that season. Why, he did net
especially particularize to himself,
Saratoga, was dull; at .Newport one
was half a mile away from the
beach; Long Branch and palled
UDon his fastidious taste. So, to
Atlantic City he went rather en
joying the very peroeptible nets and
snares spread lor him by the van
ous widows, old maids and gushing
damsels who were there engaged
in the great husband hunting cam-
paign.
'1 wender it they think 1 am a
fool,' said the Major, as he strolled
on the beach with a cigar in his
mouth.
But ene day the Major found
himseit lorceu to give up a pic-nic
on account ol a strange and unusu-
al feeling of lassitude and languor, satin pillowed invalid chair, which have been known to employ low
and the next he was in bed. had been wheeled out into the sun- down, disreputable persons to act
'This looks serious, said the
Major to himself. I've heard ef a
low fever hanging about but I nev-
er thought of its attacking me!'
The doctor came, twirled his
watch chain, wrote a prodigious
Latin prescription, and shook his
head.
Peoplo made haste to vacate the
rooms in the immediate vicinage ot
No. 99, and the Major began dimly
to comprehend, through a mist, that
it was likely to go pretty hard with
him.
T will fitnir art A nnrcn liim rlnr
tor. I have had the fever, a year
. . j J P :l
or two since, aau uj not iear it,
and 1 am handy with such people.'
'But, my child you have no idea
what you are undertaking !'
ies, I have, answered the soft,
low tones; 'and we must not let him
die for want of proper care.'
'as your aunt willing r
'Quite so.'
'Then you may try ; but take my
word for it, you'll back down at
the end of the first week.'
Maior Martindale heard these
words spoken as it were out of the
clouds, as he might have heard the
thunder of the
waves on the beach
eutside, or the ringing of the church
bells, without at all connecting
them with himself. Strange what
world of di earns and shadows his
soul and brain bad entered into !
But one day he came back out
of the darkness and the immensity,
and the restless whirling to and fro
of the waves of life, weak, white,
and helpless as a baby.
And there, sewing by tne win
dow, sat a soft-eyed young girl, all
in white, with glimmering hair,
long lashes and delicately-rounded
features.
'Pardon me,' hoarsely uttered the
Major, with a little of his old fash
ioned courtesy and politeness ; 'but
I don't know who you are.
'iZush ! said tho young lady
gently. 'You must not talk. I am
here to nuise you.
And then he found himself taking
a draught from her practiced fin-
. V 1 f nrt
gers, and then anlting on asleep.
'I have been very ill, haven t I r
said he, when the doctor came at
noon, as usual.
'You have been as close to the
-tr.ii r ii.. cjl.j
""' Wl w
once, as a man can do in ns me,
Doctor Delagood answered gravely.
The Major shuddered a little
heathenish old Sybarite as he was.
The idea of death appalled hin,
and he scarcely cared to hear how
near he had stood to the solution
of the great problem.
'But you pulled me through, he
said with a long breath.
'Yes, I and your patient little
nurse, wno nas just gone tor halt
an hour's sleep.'
'Who is she doctor? asked the
Major anxiously.
'ahe is the niece of one of the
lady boarders. Martin, I think
they call her. Her aunt went
away as son as the fever declared
itself in fact it riddled the hotel
pretty nearly but this girl would
not allow any one to suffer for want
of care and nursing so she courage
ously remained to take care of you.'
'Why did she do that?' asked
the Major, a little lump rising in
his throat.
'Why did Nightingale go out to
the Crimea ? Why are all women
born heroines at heart ? retorted
the doctor.
'God bless her!' muttered the
Major.
And then he turned his head to
one side, and a big drop or two
splashed down on the pillow.
Day by day he lay there in slow
convalescence, while the pretty
young nurse ministered to mm.
'My dear,' said the Major, one
dav. 'I think I am beinnin? to
realize now what the blessings of a
daughter would have been, had God
given me one. I have grown very
fond of you.'
Tho soft blue eyes beamed smi-
lingly down upon him as he spoke,
'And 1 love voti. answered the
girl, in low, tender accents.
'Are you much attached to your
aunt : Mrs. JJessenden, 1 believe
her name is.
'Yes,' safd the girl, half doubt-
ediy, 'l suppose so : 1 never saw
'I suppose so : I
her before she asked me spend the
season with herifthe Atlantic City
last month.
'Is that all you have been with
her ?'
'That's all.'
'Then,' said the Maior, 'I shall
ask her let me adopt you. Will you
be my daughter henceforth r
She threw her arms around his
neck, and sobbed upon his breast.
'Do you really love me ? Do you
really want me i asked she.
'1 am all alone my child, said
the Major. 'And you shall be the
sunshine of my house.'
'But you have a son ?
'Yes,' answered the Major, who
slightly frowned. 'Poor Harry !
But he has estranged himself from
me.'
'Forever ?'
'Yes, forever!' (Sickness vou
see had taken none of the inherit
obstinacy out ot our old hero.)
4jfapa : she knelt beside the
shine on the broad veranda (I am
to call you papa, am I not?
'Of course you are, dearest.'
The Major's hand stroked down
her bright hair with a tender touch
as she spoke,
'Then, papa, tell me why you are
estranged from him.
2?e married in disregard to my
wishes, the Major sternly answer
ed.
'Is that such
an unpardonable
crime ?'
'Unpardonable V See here Mary
if he had not made such a fool, such
an idiot of himself he might have
boen your husband. You might
have been then my daughter in
every truth ! Stranger things have
happened.'
'Hut that couldn't be.'
'Why not ?' demanded the Major.
'Because he is my husband al
ready ! Oh' papa dear father
forgive me ! I am not Mary Martin
and yet I am ! My real name is
Mary Ariel Martindale ; and Harry
away at St. Louis, is my husband!
I came .only ivor? to-stay with my
Aunt Fessenden until he
could
which
mane the little nome tor us
we had hoped and dreamed of. Will
you forgive us both papa, for my
sake :
'I suppose I shall have saidto,'
the Major in extreme bewilderment.
'Miss me, dear ! Upon the whole,
Harry isn t such a iool as I believed
him t be ! And you knew who I
was all the time !'
'Of course I did.'
'And you kept dark ? Sly little
puss ! Well Mary I mean Ariel.'
'Yes, papa.
'We'll telegraph to Harry for to
come right back, lhere is only
three of us. Let us try and be
happy together.'
'So, through -Ariel s blue eyes
and heaven-set face, Harry, Mar
tindale was disinherited and through
her he was again received into his
own inheritencc.
'Own up, sir, that I knew what I
was about,' said Harry, as he stood
there Ariel leaning on his arm.
'You dog !' said the old gentle
man facetiously poking him in the
ribs, 'you have got the prettiest
wife going.'
Jottings from the West National ami
State Politics Grain stud Fruits tlie
Principal Products Revenue Ofli-
ce?s Illicit Distilleries-.:!!-. Ashe tlie
I'Aaarit for Congress I.eut. Govern
or Col. Keuau for Attorney General,
Ac.
Yadkin Co
N. C.
May 17th, 187G,
Editor Southerner : While
the Centennial fever is assuming
the form of an epidemic, aad the
approaching campaign is already
beginning to be filled with lively
interest, 4t may be an unpardona
ble intrusion to submit a i?w hur
ried jottings from the dreary west,
if so, and your time and space be
occupied with more important mit
tcr, you may avail yourself of your
waste basket and let this slide.
Having made the acquaintance
of some of the best informed and
most reliablo citizens in this and
adjoining counties, the writer has
been able to gather a few facts, of
which, may not prove interesting
to those readers of the Southerner
who are taking much stock in the
approaching elections
Here, as elsewhere in the State,
the people seem (until very recent-
ly) to be much more interested in
National than in State politics.
In most of the western counties the
republicans are strongly in favor
of Conkling as their Presidential
nominee at the Cincinnati Conven
tion. The explanation f this is
easy enough Cenkling is a strong
friend and zealous advocate ot
Grant and his administration, and
his sunDort here is derived from
that odious branch of the adminis
tration known as the Revenue
To one unacquainted with their
method cf operating the influence
which these revenue omcers exert
is almost inconceivable.
It is a well known fact that grain
and fruits arc the principal products
of the farmers in this section, and
as there are no railroads sufficiently
convenient to offer the advantages
of a ready market, nearly all the
fruit and surplus grain are distilled
and those who are not so honest as
they might be, or have no scruples
about defrauding the government,
erect illicit distilleries and manu-
facture and sell blockade whiskey,
This being known, the counties f
Wilks and ladkin were immediate-
ly over-run with a host ot , revenue
officers, who are very vigilant to
look after and detect those who are
thus evading tho law. So far, so
good their vigilance is rather com
mendable than otherwise, but when
the violation of tho revenue act, to
which there is a heavy penalty an
nexed, instead of being discounter.-
anced by the officers of the law, is
made to subserve political ends,
then honest distillers and honest
people everywhere may very justly
complain of the grievous burdens
which such revenues inflict.
writer has been intormed by a re
liable gentleman, that these olncers
as spies, and pay them stipulated
fees to bring up false charges
against those whom they judged to
be nt subjects tor their rascality
Of course such informants will es
tablish any fact, and when confront
ed with such witnesses the accused
party sees ruin staring him in the
face at tnis juncture the officer o
the law, the dispenser of justice
comes to the accused, and tells him
privately of the reports and charges
which have been brought against
I him what au easy matter it wil
he for the prosecution to establish
the fact in tho Federal Court, and
offers him his choice of standing
suit with a certainty of being heav
ily fined and perhaps imprisoned
for years, or to then and there swear
his allegiance to the republican
party, if he accepts the latter, it
is enough, the law winks at the
trespass and he i3 allowed to go
scot free. This accounts for the
existence of so many illicit distillers
in the west, as well as for the fact
that the manufacturers of this crook
ed whiskey aie almost all to a man
devotees of the Grant administra
tion ; and the fear of incurring the
President's displeasure in failing to
support his favorite, prompts these
revenue officers and their proselytes
to offer a hearty support for Mr.
Conkling or whoever else Grant
may see fit to favor.
The action of Mr. Ashe of the
sixth congressional district in al
lowing his name to come again be
fore the Convention for re-nomination
has given universal satisfaction
and though the names of such men
as Gov. Vance and Col. Steele,
were promineatly mentioned for the
nomination, such is the popularity
of Mr. Ashe, and such has been his
fidelity to his constituents, that
these distinguished gentlemen upon
learning his intention, refused to
set up any claims to congressional
honors, or even to allow their names
to be brought before the Conven
tion. This will doubtless induce
Vance to accept the nomination for
Governor. It was our impression
that Vance wa3 very unpopular in
the western counties, but this so
far from being true, is exactly the
reverse, for we have heard promi
nent politicians up here give it as
their opinion that Vance could car
ry a larger vote in the west than
any other man, and that he is the
only man ;.n the State who can
coin the day in the approaching
campaign. The convention, it is
thhught, will make a great mistake
if they fail to nominate Vance as
their standard bearer in the ap
proaching struggle.
The position of Lieutenant Gov
ernor is very important but from
a list of such names as Cox, Davis
and Dortch, it will be no difficult
matter-to make a good selection.
Several name3 have been men
tioned as candidates for the office
Attorney General, and most promi
nent among them, we are pleased
to notice that of Col. Thomas S.
Kenan, of the Second Congression
al District. From a district hopeless
ly rej ublican, with sixteen thousand
negro votes to contend with, where
through the laudable energy and
activity of the white men have suc
ceeded in keeping tho party organ
ized, it is folly to hope for success
in any district elections, there seems
to arise a debt of gratitude, which
the State should cancel by acknow
ledging its claims to recognition in
the Convention which assembles in
Raleigh on the 14th of June. We
id a strong ticket-men who can
make a good fight, and who, when
elected, will be able to discharge
with credit and ability the responsi
ble duties cf their respective offices.
Such a man is Col. Kenan an
earnest, graceful and fluent speaker,
a polished scholar, and an able
awyer no one would make a more
avorable impression before the
people, and when elected, fill with
greater efficiency the office of Attor
ney General.
The republican Cowles offer a
bold front in this district, but the
democrats apprehend no danger
whatever in the triumphant return
of Mr. Robbins to Consress.
Ino.
Visiting an Editor
It was only half an hour before
the paper went to press, but he
walked unerringly into the editor's
private room, and, dropping his hat
over the warning placard of 'Busy
Day Short Calls,' seated himself
with easy bar-room politeness on
the table with the exchanges. He
was dressed in an Ulster and a soil
ed ruffled shirt, wore an amethyst
about the size of a hock glas3 on
his third finger, and a cluster pin
in his bosom. He took a 'seven tor-
a. quarter' cigar from his mouth,
and, placing it carefully on the ed
itor's ink stand, remarked confi
dentially :
'1 m going to spend some time
this year'
The editor clutched his pen like
a dagger, and pawing after the few
hairs on the top of his head, said
'In Philadelphia.'
The young gentleman spat race
fully over his left shoulder on the
new carpet, and responded :
'Yes I've done a little writin', in
my day, and being disengaged this
summer should like to send a first
class journal like yours '
The editor fell back in his chair
and gasped
'Some letters about the Centen
nial.' The interviewer noded and kick
ed his No. lis pensively against
the veneered panels of the desk.
'Would you like to be packed
in ice until your friends call for
you ?' said the editor, gloomily, 'or
shall we forward your remains in
an air-tight casket ?' I
Then gazing sorrowfully at the
young man he put his mouth to the
speaking tube and asked
'Are any of the pressmen at
hand?'
Promptly wafted through the tin
tube came the reply
'lied Mike, and Isig Dan, sir.
The would-be correspondent start-
ed up aghast, put his hat on wrong all the way from the club. I knock
side in front, and buttoned the ed one of these fellows down, one
third button cf his coat into the
second button-hole ; but the news-
paper man taking no more notice of I
him than he would of a dead head I
advertisement, breathed through the I
tube : I
'Give 'em a quarter apiece and I
let-them come here. Tell them there
is another ot those Philadelnhia I
Centennial fellows here, and then
pull in a district telegraph bey and
A. I
send tor a nearse.
r .r i l i , -1
.otitore me last woras were m
the speaking tube, the tails of an 1
Ulster coat sailed out of the private
office, and a nervous young man,
alter trying tho door ot the coat-
room, and diving into the coal clos-
et, reached the counting room door.
looked over his shoulder at two
brawny Milesians who had just de-
scended,from the upper region, miss-
ed his footing for a dozen stair3,
accentcd Lis decent with a heavy
bump on the first landing, and
reached the street as the editor
wrote the last word of an article on
'the business outlook,' and calmly
sent it whirling up in the box to
the composition room. Boston
Commerieal Bulletin.
May Bay Madness.
The city editor of the Buffalo
Express made a May-day move
ment on the 1st inst. and unloaded
the following :
When it comes to lifting the
stove into the express wagon, it ia
, .. . .0,...l
a good time to go into the woodshed
and spend ten or fifteen minute3
looking for the coal scuttle. Your
wife will do just as well to assist
the cartman.
It is wrong to make paterfamilies
carry more than two clocks, four
vases, a group of statuary and the
baby all at one and the same time.
Heads of families have some rights
which wive3 are bound to respect.
Above all, do not swear. If you
feel in a profane mood, stop a moN
ment and sing a verse of 'Old Hun
dred,' or repeat fragments of the
'Lord's Prayer' if you have not fors
gotten it.
Do not load the wagon too heavi
ly. It is the last chair that fre
quently knocks' the lamp into
'smithereens' or 'puts its foot' in
the eye of 'George Washington at
the battle ot xerktown
The children help things along
amazingly. It galls the parental
heart with jo to see two of them
carrying a clothes pin down stars
and indulging in three fights on the
way, as who shall ride on the next
load.
The joys of life arc completed
when you sit on the top of the
stove m your new home, surround
ed by bruised and mangled articles
of future, and a company of feline
troubadors strikes up a serenade in
the DacK yard. Then it seems as
though there were nothing more to
live tor.
It is interesting to see a cartman
whip his horse into a run with a
full lead ef furniture. The crock
ery don't enjoy it much, however.
IZave all the children of the
neighborhood looking on. It is so
pleasant to get your legs entangled
in a small boy when you are trying
to keep up one end of tho stove and
the iamb of the door is sawing an
ounce or two of flesh off your knuck
les.
Keep the rat poison away from
the baby, it may disagree with him
if he eats too much of it.
In the Mazss of the Telegraph Poles.
A merchant coming home eleva
ted, st&ggered against a telegraph
pole.
'Beg your pardon, said he. 'I
hope ho offense. It's rather dark,
and the street is very narrow, . you
see.
In a few minutes he
came in
contact; with another pole
'Couldnt help it, sir.
said he,
lifting his hat. 'I never
crooked lanes as we have
saw such
nere in
this city.'
Again he ran afoul of a pole,
this time with a force that sent him
backward to the ground,
'Look here, neighbor, you needn t
push
h a fellow down because he
happens to touch you; the road is as
TYiiifh minrt qq irfmra arm i hfivp aa
much right here as you have, old
stick-in-the-mud.
ricKed himseit up and made
another effort to reach home, but he
soon came plump against another
pole.
'Shan tmake any more apologies,
said he; it you get into the middle
Ul bUC ovi vvn nuu Obuuu i la J J J
that s your lookout, not mine.
Proceeding on his journey again,
and becoming angry and dizzy, he
seemed to be entangled in an m-
extricate oaoynntn oi teiegrapn
poles, which led mm to make
general speech.
'Gentleman, you are ot doine?
tho fair thing. Yu do not eive a
man a fair chance. You run from
one side of the street to the other,
right in my way.
Just then he met a friend, and
taking him by the hand, he said :
'There is a procession going along
this street and every man is drunk;
they have been running against me
of the fellows knocked me dows,
and then a lot of them got around
me, and I believe they would have
licked me within an inch of mr
life if you had not come to the
rescue. Let us eo out of this Bteet
before the procession comes back.
for they are all drunk.' California
iSvtrit of the Times.
X
TWO LUCES.
A Big; Bonanza of Lore Drummer
JTLikcnief.
(From the Cleveland Leader.)
A Cleveland drummer was in
Elyria a few Sundays ago, and while
sitting in his room heard, from the
net room, the mysterious question
and answer :
"Whose duckey are you ?"
"I'se your duckey !"
, After a few moments passed dur-
mi which the drummer sat in open-
mouthed wonder, and the Bilence
again broken :
4 Whose duckey are you ?'
I se your duckey !'
Unable to stand it much longer
alone the Clevelander hurried down
to the office, learned that a newly
married coupie were in the nouse,
invited three other drummers to
hear the fun, and tiptoed back to
his room. The wicked quartette
crammed their handkerchiefs in
their mouths, and during the next
quarter of an hour heard that fond
5 i i i
conun put ana answerea no
Ipsa than tmir rim no rlw tho imnnn-
. .. ... . .J "v .
scious rustic and his blushing bride.
At dinner, as luck would have it.
the bride and groom were seated
between two of the drummers, while
the original discoverer of the bon
anza sat opposite. The table had
been cleared for the substancials
and orders for desert had been
given. At that moment a spirit of
mischief took entire possession of
tho Clevelander. Leaning across
the table he looked archly at his
nearest frien 1, and in dulcet tones
propounded the conundrum :
"Whoso duckey are you ?
The other chap was equal to the
emergency, and in tones ot anected
sweetness got in his answer :
'I se your duckey.
Two scarlet faces, the flutter of
a white dress through the doorway,
two vacant seats at the table, and
four crazed drummers laughing till
the tears ran, flashed across the
vision of the spectator as the
tain fell.
cur-
Tha Centennial Calendar
The following is the programme
for the Centennial Exhibition :
Formal opening, May 10:
Grand commemoration
eeremon-
I esi,'lu '
Trials of harvesting machines
June and July.
Trials of tillage implements,
September and October.
Exhibit of horses, mules andassea
September 1-15.
Exhibit of horned cattle, Sep
tember 20 to October 5.
Exhibit of sheep, swine, goats
and hogs, October 10-25.
Exhibit of poultry, October 28
to November 10.
Main exhibition closes Novem
ber 10.
Exhibits must be removed by
December 31.
In connection with the exhibition,
or during the time it is open, the
following society meetings, parades,
regattas, etc., will occur :
Knights Templar, annual con
clave, May 30; grand parade, June
1.
Order of Gcod Templars, special
gathering, June 13.
Regatta (New
York Harbor),
June 22.
Yacht regatta, Deleware
River,
in June.
International cricket matches,
June and September.
Congress of authors, independ
ence Hall, July 2.
Parade or Irish societies (dedica
tion of Catholic Total Abstinence
fountain) July 4.
Parade of military organizations,
July 4.
Parade of United American
Mechanics, July 8.
Parade of Knights of Pythias,
I Lugu3t 22.
I 1 nf arnarinna 1 rnmtn rr vanoff.
I August to September 15
j International rifle matches, Sep
I tember.
I international Medical Congress,
I September 4.
I Parade, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, September 20.
Tho Grand Royal Arch Chapter of
Masons meets in Charlotte on the 5th
of Jane. A number of prominent
Masons of North Carolina will be in
attendance. Col. Thos. S. Kenan, of
Wilson, will preside as Grand High
priest in place of Thos w Dewey,
a j deceased. D. W. Bain, is Grand
Secretary.