B- 0. iloPOJUtD Authorised Agent v *»*>' . this paper. ■i WM going to have .2,000 Sat«rit«s Christmas. - ■ ■ ■ . t ' h virisr m in.. SANFORD, , MAY 25,1889. No. 39* i; A SHORT BUT CAPITAL SPEECH, Gov. Fowle Bebra the Southern IDs torical Society. t '* ‘J* While in New York attenditife ' the Washington Centennial, Ctof. Yuyvle vu a specially invited gueel of‘the Southern Historical Society to an elegant banquet. While flat feast was being vto£Vfd*^*he £: Afnnr made the following remardsr Mr. President and Gentle, .ten: If there’is one State in this Ameri can Union that does not know how to blow its own trumpet, it is North . Carolina. [Applause.] And yet, X tell you that there are, no people now within the city of New York that are prouder of the display which the Union mode on day be fore yesterday than those of the Old • North State. [Applause!] Daring this entire centennial cele bration there was one grievance that North Carolina had against NeW ■ York, and only one, and I will tell yon what it was: When you placed vu in the procession, you put 16,000. men from New York in such a posi-„ tion that it took a long, time for ‘ North Carolina to greet her sister * South Carolina, [Laughter and applause.] But North Carolina got there all the sam?. [Laughter and applause.] - ' * v ; WlMlb Mf BUjT ouc. tutuf, .. grand New York Southern Histori cal Society. It did my heart good, my countrymen, wen I saw title up on the ticket that was to me ' only yesterday to meet you, hero to night; ami why? Because, members of the Southern Historical Society, we wish you to have treasures upon ,..r your record every brrfve act of every Confederate soldier in the lato^wer _-7. between Urn Stator this Aja-.. on: tVe want to show yoa t£at tile next time, if ifl .par day, the United States of America is en gaged in any struggle with any foe, | that these same Southern soldiers intend to surpass their reco.-d in be half of our. common country. '{Loud applause.] New York may 7 love this American Union, and 'Georgia,-though her distinguished cons may boast of its devotion to ' this Union, hut let me tell you that '< plain old North Carolina has within her breast an affection for this Un 1 ion of oilr fathers that is second to * »o State upon the soil of North American. [£o«d applause,] My countymeh, do you know why it is that we had such a grand cele - bration as this? I stood upon your streets and went in a erriage from one end to the other, and I grazed w the faces of a miilioh of freemen " who prided themselvs on the tittle of American citizens. [Applause-] . Why is it that we had such a de monstration .as this? I will tell * yon, sir, why. When the Southern gtatea went from the Union (.here was one thing they carried with them. It was that grand, glorious instrument, that work of pure patri ots and sagacious statesman, ’that best mode of civil * government which human virtue or wisdom have ever devised—the constitution of ihp United States. [Loud apr S plause.] And when we returned again to this Union we found that same old glorious Constitution, and this day, puuu, uuuuay «vi«u Carolina Btands the peer and-sister of magnificent New lory. [Ap plause.] There is one thing that has been in my heart erer since the ■' war terminated, and I tell you, my countrymen, my American country men, that on day before yesterday, for the first time, it seemed to me that before these eyes closed in . • death, they might see the desire of , heart fulfilled, and it was this: In English history, when the.wars of the Roses were erer, the sons of Lancaster joined in prosing the deeds Of York, and the sons of York glori ed in the manhood of Lancaster, -and their deeds Conjointly were weated together in order to form a . chaplet with which they might crown their old mother England, .May the time come when the glori our deeds of. the Union soldiers and the equally glorious deeds of the Confederate soldier* may be taken and weaved iao*« chalet' with which we will crows all Attends: [Loud applause.] And when' that time comes, then, my countrymen, will come the day when the national mausoleum to erected to t our great leader, - Abeoham tffineoln led by anothermonuiperit .ejected to our Christian Sgothern leader, Uofceri Edward ^Les. [Lend ap plause.] And, then a monument erected by a grateful conntiy to the large-hearted and honorable Soldier, Ulysses S. Grant [Loud applause], will be equalled by American’s monument to one of the greatest soldiers of modern times, Stonewall Jackson, [Loud applause.] When that time comes, and come it will, every one in this broad Union may take the pqet’s own words , and sayt. -‘1. "The union of lakes, the union of The umon of States, let none sev er; . The union of hearts, the union Andthe flag Of our Union t orev . w.” . Three cheers and a tiger were then given to the Governor of North Car olina.' ' 7" • " - ' - • Female Suffrage.. TtorAn Ctilyrr. _ “Far female suffrage means in finitely more than merely dropping a vote in to a ballot-box. It means a participation in all the responsibility of government; it means eligibility to nearly every legislative apd execu tive office; it means that in addition to all the high and onerous duties which -God, has :. laid on every wife and mother,therp should . also be imposed the sacred trust and tytrih ena of civil government. The idea is so monstrous that Dr. Horace Busbuell, ip his unanswerable vol uuie agauist it* well styled it ‘tlie re form ugainst nature' Some able aud excellent women—chiefly among the" clrss who appear on public platforms—do indeed favor the project of loading their own sex with burdens of political 'citizenship and civil government. But they are a very small minority. Horace Greeley once said to me, very-wisely: T will be' metre inclined to grant the ballot, and’all its attendant sespon sibitities to the female sex, -when a large majority of the thoughtful; cultivated, and conscientious wo men of the land really wmt the bal lot. But Ido not yet discover that they do want it.’ He was right. Four-fifths of the most rensible wo men of America 'ere utterly opposed to the imposition of the "burthens of political duties upon their shoulders. Woman’s empire is broad enbugh' already; her burdens heavy enough.” ' The men in all ages have been the governors!* The Bible itself author izes the supremacy of man in the great activities of the world’s sphere. The sanctity of Ameicanhome de pends to a great extent in the con duct of the women. Let them turn politicians and they at once (deprive themselvs of all those guards* and. sanctities that surround woman. Reverence and respect, and with it love and delicacy will disappear to a great extent when women become political factors^ voters electioneerers and candidates. ^ ' Tribute to Lee and His Men. Theodore Roosevelt, the Civil Ser vice Commissioner, wrote the “Life of Thomas Benton” in the “Ameri can Statesmen Series.” In that work.he pays, the following high tribute to the soldiers of General Lee's artuy: “The world has never seen better soldiers than those who followed Lee, and their leader will undoubtedly rank us without any ex ception the very greatest of all the the great Chieftains that the Eng lish speaking people have brought forth—and this, although the last and chief of his antagonists, may himself claim to stand as the full equal . of Marlborough or Welling ton, ' .. - ■ - Death of a Notable Man. Allen Thorndike Rice, the newly appointed minister to Russia, died suddenly ot the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York at 8:80o’clock Friday morning. He was to have sailed for Russia the day'he died. ' Mr. Rice’s reputation ns editor of the North A liter ic in Heview is known through out the country. - - SOUTHERN UTERATURE. p A Growing School of Writers of South era Ffctta,. j CkcrfnMra, Jba» mn4 Verier. A few yean ago the cry was heard on every hand “Let n* have a South ern magazine of high literary grade!” The jfigiy was ths$, owing^tu.the bifer terneeg.engendered by thecMwar* Sonthrn writers could not get a hear ing in Northern magazines; that Northerners stontly persisted* in literary as well as in political mat ters, that no good could' possibly come out of Nazareth. As the years have worn away the cry has become feebler and feebler. Southern capi tal was neither strong nor enterpris ing enough to establish a magazine which conld -successfully compete with the great New York month lies, ■ <; y'-i 0>; - ; The only attempt to establish such a magazine was made at Louisville about five years ago; but the South ern Bivouac no sooner showed signs of vigor than it was bought, ont by the Century. Several young writ ers, whose first efforts appeared in the Bivouac, now contribute regu laiy to the Centyrg. So Southern talent has been obliged to go North for an outlet; and be it said to the lasting credit of Northern pub.ishers that they forgot war prejudices much more quickly than did the politicians, and were not slow to see and appreciate the efforts of young Southern writers.' Afresh, breezy story is a thing of delight to the ed itor of a literary journal, and it be came plain to the editon as well as to their readers that the vein struck in the literary mines of" the, South yielded ore.. u-, • . - The New England Yankee—and a truly'interesting character he iutm! has been masquerading through our lighter literature till We know all hie tricks by heartland now the time has come when his place is being rapidly taken by fresher Southern and Western types. The Southern story especially ba»£ome to be looked' upon as the winning card in our big magazines. They sometimes tell their readers that the next number will contain, among other attrae tinons, a fresh Southern story! More than one Northern critic has said that the best stories we get nowadays come from the South and Ex-Judge Tourgee, in a late number of the Forum, gives it,as his opinion that the South is destined -to reap a rich harvest in the field ef fiction. He I thinks that the Southern negro and : the Confederate soldier will get the lionVshare in-thesong and story of the coming years! .. If all this be true, it is hot a matter for coasting, but for modest congratulation. . _ Why should we not have a literary renaissance ? Our pulses have been quickened by the stir and thunder of a civil war; we have a picteresque and checkered past in which the so cial fabric waa semi-patriarchal and semi-feudal, the interest in which will deepen as the years bring their changes; the Old South is pre-emi nently a land of memories, and around many firesides to day may be heard tales of privation and poverty, of noble daring and of still nobler sacrifice; many a grave now Covered with periwinkles and roses has its story of love and devotion and death All these literary sheaves may he had for the gathering; and the fol lowing cursory glance at some of the writers who are now delighting thousands of our- magazine readers will show that the reapers have not been slow to thrust in their sickles and that the harvest has been far from scant. The first Southern writer who won a national reputation after the war was George W. Cable. He publish ed In the Centm-y a series of sketch es of Creole life in Louisiana, which at once attaacted public notice. The life pictured was new to most Amer ican readers, and the lightness and grace of touch with which the work was done did not fail to charm. Mr. Cable, despite his vagaries, on the uegro question, oontjnnes to please many reader* of the great magaoiaes? Two other New Orleanswriterahave won their spurs within the past jrhree years—Miss Grace King and Mir. Latcadio HearU. They have infused into their stories of NewrOrleatsslife more wealth of coloring and tropical warmth than Mr. Cable has into hist Mr. Hearne writes for HarjerVani Miss King, ha* /contributed several stories of Creole life to the New Princeton Review. ' Coming further we find a group of story-tellers who picture the life of & middle and Northern Georgia, dealing with the cracker, the negro and the mountaineer. These writers are Col. Richard Mal colm Johnston, Joel Chandler Har ris and Barry Stillwell (Edwards Col. Johnson was 60 years of age when he gained* foothold in the Century, his earlier life having been devoted to law and teaching. He has had his home of late years hi Baltimore, and gives to. literary work his undivided tune. Both Mr Harris and Mr. Edwards have had journalistic training,' the former in Atlanta and ih* latter ht Macon. Mr. Edwards has. recently published several humorous stories in the Century.. .<* The Old Dominion furnishes the next group of writers as we journey northward along the Atlantic feast. The Mother«f Presidents can elaim by far the largest number of the newer story-writers, Thomas Nelson Page’s stories of life ha Otd Virginia, in which the pathetic devotion of the old family negro is idaliaed, are read with delight around every fire side; Mm. Amelie Rives Chandler eujoyes the questionable distinction of being the American Ouida; Miss Frances Conrtenay Bayldr, Mm M. (1. McClelland and Miss Julia Ma gruder have not only published Col umns which give faithful pictures oi certain phases of Southern life, but they contribute regularly to the metropolitan magazines. Perhaps the latest aspirant for literary fame is Mr. A. C. Gordon,- who has writ ten for the Century; gome charac teristic sketches which show decided ability, - Tennessee and Kentucky come in. for their share of the ’glory; each contribute one story teller of nation al reputation. Charles Egbert Crad dock’s stories of mountain life in Tennessee, which have appeared from time to time in the Atlantic Monthly, pre too Well known to re quire comment. Mr. Lane Allen has contributed to Harper's and the Century several sketches of Ken tucky life whieh have the genuine blue grass freshness'Of charm. The limits of this article Will not allow even a notice of the younger poets, and While there are other Sto ry tellers whoee names deserve to be mentioned, my aim has been to no tice only those whe tue known to the nation. Others will doubtless win their names for themselves in the near future, but in the mean while enough names have been men tioned to show that Southern wri ters have been kindly received by Northern readers, and that the greed; magazines have truly become na tional by ignoring all sectionalism in the selection of their literary matter, .. It is needless to add that the re flex of this magnanimity upon Southern writers has been whole some and gratifying. While their writings contain the wihnth and color and glow of Southern life, they have shaken section shackel" from their limbs and have breathed into their work the broad spirit of na tionality, which "is growing and strengthening every day. Northern magazines have become National magazines, and Southern writers have become National writers. A- W. Long. Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C., April 25th. Mrs. M. T. Lathrdp, of Jackson, Mich wrote the poem In which oooure the fol lowing beautiful stanza: “Do you know you have asked for the costliest tiling . Ever made by the hand above— A woman's heart and woman's Ufa. And a woman's wonderful love. ’ '''/ ' "fT . . ■ ■ -• /■ . •/'••• A BRILLIANT SON OF CHARLOTTE. Rev.'W. W. Moore, 0, D., to’.Preach a. Graduating Sermon. ^ CharUHU Chron-UU. Re*. W. W. Moore, *D. D., of Hampden Sydney, Ya., will preach the sermon before the graduating yhm at Petyce Institute this year.,, ’ Speaking-of Dr. Moore, fRe Ral eigh News arid' Observer says: Moore,’isra brilliant mant and his career hasi been a remarkable one He is a native of Charlotte, N. C., and is a graduate of Davidson Col .ege. After leaving Davidson Col lege he took tiie course at the Union Theological seminary of the Sonthern Presbyteriaa Church. He is now a professor ip this seminary having-been called to take a position there six years ago, almost immedi ately after his graduation, He is the youngest member of the faculty being about thirty years of age, and ie perhaps the. youngest man who hag ever Occupied'S similar position. The Doetor is not only a fineScllol is or»«■ n i .I r,—n.1 kn x X MUU «T WUPlUVll/U mjj “aJ ~~ most brilliant young preacher in the Southern Presbyterian Church.' A few years ago Dr. Moore mar ried Miss Lola Fries, - of N.CJ* Gen. Pryor Vindicated by the Facts. New Yerit Suftu. ^ A Southern journal having stated recently that Gen. lto^er A... Pryor was a deserter from the Confederate ! army, the General's son has taken the trouble to obtain letters and affi davits from persons acquainted with the cinsumstauces of General Pryor's capture on November 27,1864, the. date upon which the desertion is al leged to have occurred. The Gen eral wan at that time a “general” on ly by courtesy, being iu fact a private in a Confederate cavalry regiment. His capture .was an act of treachery. He crossed the Confederate lines Lo exchange newspapers with the. Fed eral pickets'—a common practice— and hating been, made prisoner was [ kept'in Fort Lafayette till arrange i ments were made for bis- exchange. This account is confirmed by a letter from Gen. Wilcox, who commanded the Confederate line where; Pryor crossed; by an affidavit of H, 0. ; Dudley, colonel of the Eleventh New Hampshire, who effected the capture; by affidavits of Capt. Hussey and Mr. T. 0. Furnald, who assisted in I the capture; by a letter from Assis tant Provost Marshal General Sharp; - who met Pryor at City Point in the position of prisoner, and by a letter from Washington McLean, of Washington, who secured from Mr. Lincoln an order for his exchange, and on visiting Rort Lafayette found Pryor in strict confinement in the casemate witli other prisoners.,'Con temporaneous accounts in both Con federate and Federal newspapers agree as to the fact of the capture, the Richmond Examiner and Peters burg Express describing it as a capture effected treacherously by the enemy while Pryor was trying to se cure an exchange of newspapers.- Ex tracts from Northern papers are giv en chronicling every step of his pro gress from City Point to Fort La fayette, . Under the weight of this mass of testimony the slander upon Gen. Pryor is effectually extinguish ed. , . London Standard: At a village school, not many miles from Canter bury, a precocious boy being asked to parse the sentence, “Hary, milk the cow," went on accurately till he Came to the last word, when he said: “Cow is a pronoun, feminine gender, third person singular, and stands for Mary," ' “Standsfor May?” asked the roaster in astonishment. “Yes sir," responded the urchin with a grin, “for if the cow didu't stand for Mary, how could Mary milk the cowl” . Why_Women Fad*. Women lose their beauty because colds undermine their life. Dr. Ack er's English Remedy for Consump tion'is an absolutecure for colds. Hold by Dr, A. J- Thompson, drug StK ■ _\ THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN. Exprcel Correspondence. The imperative summons, in obe dience to which I became an inhabi tant of this mundane sphere,came to me in the cool breezy days ofSeptem ber, 1862. No great preparation had been made, o* royal personages assembled td give mi an ovation on my arrival and impress me frinu the beginning favorably with-the world1 03 as a place of habitation. No, my infant eyes first beheld the glorious light of nature as it illuminated a, ; scene of bloodshed and carnage. My young ears were first greeted not with soul-cheering -melodies, but with sad waits rising from bro ken hearts and the heart-rending cry for bread, for the people were pas. sing through the experience ’of the little Irish girl, when she prayed, i' “Only three grains of com mother, ,1 - Only three grains of com, To keep the little life I have, 'Till the coming of themom.” j The' storm was raging'fiercely overhead; the sky was darkened; the angry thunders were muttering forth their wrath, and the . blinding and awful lightning’s flash was playing heartlessly around onr fondest hopes. What the end of .civil strife would be, no one could prophesy. I could not take in the meaning of this great war storm. ; My per ceptive faculties and consciousness were not at that time sufficiently de veloped to appreciate or in any measure realize how lamentable and disastrous were civil wars* T have been told since of untold wealth that-existed in the. South previous to the years ’01-'Q5 and how it was swept away in the tempest of which l am now writing. I have been told of men reared in opulence and^great wealth, upon realizing that the war had made then) panpem, giving up allhope of reparation and sinking Underneath the burden never to rise again. I have been told of noble, aspiring young men and women whose education and mental devel opment were neglected in conse quence of the ravages of war. Yes, I came to the world in a stormy sea son to become the heir of poverty, and, in a large measure neglect, be-, cause of civil strife, yet I am proud to say, bora of honorable and respected parentage. I never heard of any “bine blood” tracing its way though my veins! I belonged to no special order or caste that would brffig me favors and prestige and strengthen me for life’s arduous du ties, but to that good class of hum ble people who try to be loyal, to themselves and their country, thons ands of whom are to be found in Moore county to-day. 1 have mentioned these . things himply to show that no favoring gale of fortune swept across my, pathway and led my : young mind first to think of attaining unto use fulness, but that all was dark ana discouraging from the very begin-', sing of my career. It has now been nearly seventeen years since I was deeply ; burdened on account of sin and felt in my heart the great need of a Saviour from sin. I alyill never forget, while &ason sits enthroned, the happy hour when my burden of sin rolled away and Christ was formed in my soul the hope of glory. I was then only ten years of age and connected myself frith the misaona ry Baptist Church m the-old town of Fayetteville, my ohildhood’s home. I come to Christ, I suppose, in compliance with the divine ar rangement, “The poor have the gospel preached to them,” for I was even at that early age beginning to feel the effects of poverty keenly. I would; pause here to say to the read ers of this article that my accept ance, of Christ at that age was the most important event in my life’s history, giving shape to my charac ter and setting me in a determined resolution to serve loyally my best interest and leave the world far richer and better by my having liv ed in it. The first thing every young man should do in order to he aucr cessfnl, ia to seek the kingdom of —±(M WW: ur ' ' m ■ *. 4 Gotl and His righteousness, and. then, abide God’a time, confidently ' expecting to receive nil things, need-; ful from Him. ✓ • With my conversion came the conviction.that God had called the to preach the Gospel of X His Son, and to this end I was kept in School ' ; up to wy fifteenth year. When the shadows fell across oar threshold . and what seCttftd^a sad ■ stroke of providence, drove me out- info the battles of life, fo-learn something more of privation .and hardships, and to be strengthened for the great struggle just ahead. The event re ferred to above was my father’s death. He left to me his only prop erty, a wife, my own deny mother* and two sisters, orphaned tby his do mine. : , , •* - • This of course put an end to my school days, and instead how- of dreaming of college life and a glori ous future, my mind was directed by stem necessity','to the satatkin of the problem of an existence. Up to this time I had not come jn contact with the world, and knew little of ifaa > customs and treatment toward those ' who are dependent entirely upon their own efforts.. Many hard'lea sons were in store for men mid were learned one. by one* making me stronger and more determined every time. _ - • _ t It is disgusting fo watch pretend ing sympathy with the unfortunate. They are deeply moved at the trouble of their friend, but never go beyond a tear or some worthless ex pression to indicate their sympathy. This writer had scores of such sym pathizers, but not one fo suggest a way out of the difficulty or lend a helping hand. He soon discovered 1 that he most “root hog or die.” -®he soener w* all learn that aym*' pathy is a luxury . with which w» ; can dispense, the better it will he for ns and the world. Next week I will tell you of 1 my first visit to Moore county* W. P. Wakkut. • Note* About People, Gfen. Lew Wallace has a decided penchant for baseball. , Cardinal Gibbons has reached his home in Baltimore, from his South ern trip. - .** _ ~ A yonng minister “away down in Maine” introduced Mis. Mary A. Livermore to an audience the other ■ evening as “the Grand Old Woman.” I Gov. Hill is taking riding lessons. He goes frequently to a quiet riding school in Hoboken, where he has al ready became quite an expert in the saddle. . He has not, of course, mix ed m with the ordinary pppils, but has taken his lessons privately. Sybil Sanderson, the California girl who has made a striking success at Paris in the title role of Massen et’s latest opera, has luxuriant au burn hair, a pale complexion and a magnificent figure. She is fond of dressing in black, and the whiteness of her skin, the brilliancy of hereyes and the peculiar tint of her hair combined to make her a fascinating * object when thus attired. She is * great coquet te and has had various love affairs of a romantic character. North Carolina Farmers' Institutes. Mntelffh and Observe X8th, - ,/ -MNIi Commissioners Kobinson yester day received a letter from Secretary Rusk of the National Department of Agriculture at Wwbiagton enefew mg blanks, and asking him to tend dates regarding the work of organ. SJn* “TOiers institutes in *his State Secretary Busk is collecting reports from all the State in thf Union. North Carolina has done some_important work in this line! but there is much more -to be done, and it is hoped that Commissioner Kobinson will he provided with the necessary funds to carry out the worK\ *end a report of the work in this State to Sfeoretory Rusk ASadStay. .The child couched. The mother nm. «o wmedy woe hear, Befor \ u ,MSraf- Always keen Dr. Ackcr’eBngheh Remedy u'bmt - HM. ' .,~r}Z4p •.

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