% a JCo»o5fX3' i .^ \ ' I*—4 *5 Authorised Agent . _ yC : BCtB, . ! tM« papOT, -v . *■ WJS AMJS going to hare* 2,000 Subscriber* -BY — Christmas. Yol. III. a=? ' ■ "Li^ •«. SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 1,1889. .ygU-tt.. V*' <' A;-1 No. 40, fiEV.W. F» WATSON AT THE TUMIJJje POINT IN LIFE. « . ■JECorr**pbn&e»*o. ' ■ There is something about the word home that wields a strange yet pow erful influence over hearts not lost to all the holier eniotloha of the hu man breast. Nearly eleven years have elapsed since I first turned my face toward strange scencee and 8aid ; good-bye to my native town, and ■ yet her 1 s, lanes, streets and streams are all familiar tojme jtp-day *nd greet n as old friends when I ; visit the home of my childhood.. I tom glad that I still love the old town; that in my heart a chord of Sympathy vibrates in unison with i her onward movemeote. I feel the •sentiment of Scott when he thus •expresses himself .* ’•‘Breathes there a man,with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, ;This is my own, my native land! Whose heart has ne’er within him bur . - ned, ■&8 homeward his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand! ‘ ‘if such there breathe,'go mark, him well '■Forhim no minstrel raptures swell; \ ' High though his. titles, proud his name, : Boundless his wealth as wish can claim' .Despite those titles, power aud pelf, The wretch concentred all In self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And; doubly dying, shall go down To theviledust from whence he sprung. X'nwept, unhonored ai;d unsnug?' > ■ - l had now arrived at that cntical juncture ina boy’s history when .some step must he taken, and upon 'the correctness and discretion with “ which the step.is made, hinges des? ..tiny, not only in this life but in the .life which is to come. Alas!, so 'many young men in stnrlingTSut in ‘ life to seek their fortunes, at this • Aery critical period* make the sad -mistake, which ultimately leads to • wrecked character and eternal ruin, ; .«ll owing"*0 a misconception of "the -true purpose awl end of life. Xet intf Say' that just at this time* sore trial ’ i :iiu:e ionic, I had accepted a position . in a store in Fayetteville which dealt -■ in intoxicants. The opportunity to -make money seemed very - flattering • indeed, and for-one whole month: t fried to convince myself that it . would not he wrong for me to te inain in this position and provide for •my loved one—arguing, you see, to | myself, that the end sought would X justify the means employed, an ar gument of the devil's own get-np, . fallacious and misleading. At the expiration of the month I told, my .yer a poor hoy looked out ppon ’ a - author of tMaicrtiele. - ~9han> yim fiothing that a young man’ could get to do in, Fayetteville at that X'time and my mind was turned to othr fand reasonable -..payfor it. . The good-bytthad bey said, and.as 1 beginning looked buck through the. kaleidoscope ,of my child-hood and boy-hood pleasures, vt baselines of Byron, with which' J .i-wu not.then familiar, fitly describe - iny feelingi as I commenced the so lution of my first problem profit afid .loss-—home .and its loved ties li*t, a wide du^yjinpathetic world 'gained: , h-’.j “Ye scenes of my youth, idBlifi years; Heat of frfendflU^ *11^ trtith! • —n Whet4© love cbaaCH its fast fleetlug JWMBt . i • i ■ .ir'-’-'-ij.. >y to leave thee I mourn, ;r: ■ .•or a last look I turn; ~ ■ -W-tuy -snUSi--, were sparee^sete through my tears, - • ' No modern Montesnmn Pullman Palace ears, with every umdern cou * No light flashed scrpesroy pathway, ' « that! “When Washington was President, As cold as a any icicle, Hernever on a railroad went, , „ And hevpr rode abyeicle. . He read by no electric lamp, ' Nor heard about the yellow stone, : : He never licked a postage stamp, And never saw a telephone.” No, gentle reader, mine was the happy privilege of making a grand pedestrian railway tqnji, My earthly store sitfgty pSBkfSJih* tfcite white pillow cjee tinder my arm- constitu ted my baggage, and 1 might as well remark it was not burdensome. After a day of hard travelling in the manner above mentioned, weary, footsore and painfully lonesome, my tired vision fell upon the little town of Cameron. I repaired/ at once to Britton's Hotel, not stopping to enquire the charges, (though I had but fifty cents in the World) feeling sure that they eonld not be more than my purse contained. Go ing to my room and shutting . ray self in from the world, I relieved my burdened and aching heart in a guish.'of tears.* Think it not weak ness oh gentle reader, for [ was on ly sixteen years* of age and this, was my first trip from home. I felt restless and could not remain in Cameron, as .Carthage was my des tination. So I started on my pedes trian tpur, without the railway feature this time, about 8 p. m. of that day, and had proceeded about three miles when a kind spirit over took me with a fine horse and buggy .and invited me to ride with hint the remainder of the direction, which of course I did. As the sun was sinking behind the western hills, giving all nature a golden hue, my eyes fell fop: the first tune upon beautiful Carthage. W. Watsoiu The Cronin Mystery. ~ VuMurlm fait. So far the public bn8 u.no clew to the murderers of Doctor Cronin, un less Woodruff’s statement and Iris connection with the Mood-stained trunk contain one. Three theories as to the cause of the crime have been offered, without result: That of private animosity, that of faction al conspiracy in one of the Irish so cieties, and that of a plan on the part of the enemies of Home Rule in Ire land for bringing discredit op the surporters of that cause. The facts in the case seem to offer little or no presUmpiidn for the first theory, and the other two are ‘mere guess work. Tt is hard to think that the sudden and violent “removal” of Cronin should have grown out of any set tled political purpose, and it will be necessatr to.receive charges of con spiracy from either side witn great caution and to investigate them with the utmost thoroughness. It should not be in the power of a hostile, disposition- anywhere to turn th^ circumstance of the crime ! into an imputation against any re putable individual or against a soci ety that have a legal and long established standing. The large re ward . offered by the Clan-na-Gael society puts the Irish patriotic or gunizutisns iu the right position'. An Editor Wtekte frCowbfcto. . • Xtms a«d (Maerrcr. ' "~'X! ■' ’ News was received here yesterday evening fwrtn Goldsboro that a lively encounter occurred there yesterday between two brethren of the quill. Bro Joe Robinfcon, editor of the Ar fl i<3, it seems, executed a lively tat too upon the corprosity of editor Roscower,tif the Headlight, with a horse,. whip. They had hod .a journalistic misunderstanding of some kind, in which it seems that Mr. Roscdwer made allusions which Mr. Robinson considered too person* ah ' Mr. Robinson met Mr. Roscow-r er on the street, and stepping into a hardware store borrowed a horse whip, with which he sallied upon Mr. Rosecower with a vim - which absolutely took the latter's breath away. - £ The Ststsville Landmark tells of a moonshiner In Wilkes county who la 05 years old. The business has, not been unhealthy for hie.'. _ ^ "WHO FiT HEBE7” ; Baeprwt Correspondence, ' The Farmers* Alliance * has brought down the price of axle grease; hard times, and the compe titive labor of the publishing craft | have brought down the subscription price of newspapers. Now, not withstanding the fact that axle grease and newspapers are two great factor*lathe progress Of a people and are now within easy reach of all; yet | there are many men who don’t grease i their wagons, and won’t read a news paper— either bought o? < borrowed There seems to be a general uneven ness and an upsetting unle vein ess in the eternal fitness of " things that render all things eternally unfitting. The biggest,'awk watdest “alt-per vadingbst”least understandable, most unapproachable and consequently most uncontrollable thing now | afloat or that has been since just before the discovery of the moun tains of Ararat by a certain distin guished navigatorris education and its varied and various attachments constituting the means by which it fliay, can and must be obtained. Gov ernors, legislators, the whole staff of school officers, a vast multitude of teachers which no man can number, all closely hacked up by the press and the pulpit ail enlisted for the war—which theyTtave been’ pushing into Africa for more than twenty years, and yet blissful ignorance bids defiance to all these powers and tri umphantly sits “upon her ebon throne” undismayed! ; I am under obligations to opr very efficient and vary courteous county Superintendent of Public Instruction for a copy of onr school law as amen ded. - It is the patch-work of abou| two generations and ought to hare accomplished something—I reckon it has, Our legislators get a Bmall pittance for “patching,’’ and some of them make a trifle by teaching and our school officers are benefitted to the extent of their salaries if no more. The whole machinery as it now stands reminds me of Bijah Brown’s patent clock-faced self-lock ing alarum beadstead, which was in tended to throw the sleeper oat at a given hopr—and lock- him out—but by an error in Bijah’s calculations, he, while innocently experimenting With it got Caught and locked in side of it, himself—so his wife thought—jand She smashed the thing to get him out.—But, Bijah was a great inventor and he wanted to get caught—and to be let alone—so he could invent a way to get out. And I reckon it is well that our school authorities are all locked in—near the coffers—where they can “invent'' more improvements and take pay for their services. "V:"• - .. . Put about our school la# I have to say there is too much of it—too much complication about it—and it proposes to do too much. . ’ If “perpetual Wotjon" is ever achieved it won't have a spring in a mile of it, and it won't have as many wheels as a bycicle. And if ever the poor children of the State receive enough education to enable them to transact their own private . business as farmers and mechanics, a 'gieat part of the free school machinery must be eliminated, (and perhaps some of the children^) thereby re ducing' the friction—by which we will be enabled to apply the power more directly to** the work. Arwt again: Our free school system pro poses to do as much as could reason ably be expected of a common two horse . academy—everybody knows that the masses have no Use for and can never utilize what is offered. The few that can, ought to pay for It. And there, it’s only education after .all,-—not one bit of solid learning required of teachers or pupils, and but very few of either will ever “catch on” to any solid learning while education per m is so much boomed. When a boy has l>een taught to read well and taught the importance fof a cultivated memory, he has the key to the gieat store house of solid learning—and there is a hope of that hoy; hut give him an education ac cording to the popular definition of the Word—I mean give hfm 4 text book qualification for teaching tree schools and you’re; ruined eleven tenths of all the boys gp qualified. Education jper sc fe taking hun dreds and thousands of - firet rate boys from the farm and pitting them to strolling over, the country in search of some way to make^aliv ing—-and a little surplus cash with out labor, and if they can’t find it in fiay-timc their » danger of their find ing it after iiigbt. My old friend Solomon used .to say,- “In much knowledge there is much grief,” and he was speaking prophetically of our boys. He could “phancy the phe links” of these unfortunate educated chaps who can’t find a free school to teach nor standing room behind another man’s counter. > A friend .writing me recently from Cabarrus county says: “They are going to have a celebration on ike Battle ground of Guilford Court House on May 4th next. -Well there will be 1000 people there, who won't know what they are celebrating. Like children on Christinas day-r-it’s Christmas and that’s all they know about it. I bad the honor to be there. on auch an occasion last year, and \ happening on a knot of celebrants i who were aimlessly wondering oyer; the field I remarked: “It has been a long time since the battle' was fought here., "Who fit here?' queried one of the groupe. *The armies of Lord Cornwallis' amf.Gen.' Greene’ said L ‘CornwaHief said another, who was he, a Yaftkee or a Southerner?’ I turned away sad and. sick, It is horrible to think,—to knoit that in this age of progress, where there are villages of sehool houses* besides colleges and seminaries— and regiments of teachers—not ebuntiiig the teachers that teach the teachers—millions of School hooks and money thrown broad east over ; the land, that Stich sooty ignorance; should be found.” Let the authorities steam up a lit tle. We would like to have a little more “works,”—our “faith” needs a tonic, . • Long To*. BALES AND THEIR COVERING. -\;ii Important Action of the New York Cotton Exchange] Nl favor of 500 Pound Bales and Cotton Coven. • New York, May 24.—The Board of Managers of the : New York Cat ton Exchange today endorsed the report of the Comthlttee on Trade, in a letter of the Partners’ National Allianqe/of New Orleans, which recommenned uniform bales for cot ton, and the use of cotton bagging for baling. ’ • * The committee; approve the idea of uniform bales of 600 pounds each' The use of cotton bagging for cov ering, the committee believed, would use up cheap trade cotton and form a means of employment for many hands in the manufacture. It would be advantageously used in ex porting. It was considered useless for the Cotton Exchange to pass any rule in the matter, and it was re ferred to a special committee, ' We entirely agree with tlie Wilson Advance when it pleads with the pres# of North Carolina$ cultivate friendly relations one with another, and no( to disparage .the work of men of brains, leaders in journal ism, in bar State. The disparage ment may never injure them, but it cam do no good. As decent fellow mett they are entitled to the treat ment due gentlemen. If any one pa per in the State is more ably edited than any other, there ought to be enough magnanimity in the brother hood to accord to him his due and nobly join in the wofk of placing upon his brow the crown or honor which he has so faithfully won -we can do no less and bejust.—Raleigh Christian Sun. The lost relict of the old “Lord Cornwallis headquarters*' in Char lotte are gone. Mr. . George Hall’s barn whmh was built of the old timbers, has been burned by an in eendiary.- - • - • ....... ' W. IRVING BISHOP, ‘MIND READER * Heientlfle American. W. Irving Bishop, whose feat* in what ia called “mind reading” have made him known in this coun try and Europe, died at a New York city club house in 'the early morn ing of May 18th tinder extraordina ry cireumstanees. There were pres ent many men of some prominence in New York Soeiety, ahd the even ing had been passed Until a late hour in the' social intercourse among el ub men, when Bishop, Wfco was an invi ted guest, was asked to gfte do rr hibition of his powers, “ He com menced with what he called an or dinary trick. On his leaving the room,1 one of the elnb members took a small dagger and made the motion of stabbing another member, after jwhtcb the dagger was hidden. Bish op was brought in, blindfolded, and, with the hand of the man who had hidden the dagger upon his own hand, quickly searched out the dag ger, and made a similar motion of: stabbing the mune man in the same way it had been donejvhen he was Out of the room. i Bishop then made light of the difficulty of this trick, and proposed to do something pore astonishing. He asked the secretary of the club to think of some word, in the dub’s bonks of account or record. The' secretary, with Dr, J. A., Irwin, of this city, who was an acquaintance of Bishop, went down stairs where the books are kept, and selected the ntm# of Margaret Townsend, found ifl SOfhe record, but fixing the word “Townsend”; in their mind, and noted just where it appeared; they uia me doojt ana wen t back up stairs. Bishop, blindfolded, bad the secre tary s hand placed upon' his own, ttnd then led the party down stairs. He found the book without difficult ty« turned over the pages rapidly till he came to the page where the name appeared, then, skimming his fin gets over it,1 gradually settled, Upon, the word itself, although he was not then told what the word was. All this had been done while he was blindfolded, and' Bishop , had* been getting into 4 very excited state. " ' On being led back up stairs, he proposed to tell what the word was was in a manner which would de monstrate that “muscle reading1’ as it is called, had nothing to do with the performance. He asked all to stand back, and, insisting that the secretary should think intently of the word, stood apparently in a state of half consciousness, the bandage corering his eyes and parts of his face. Soon he said, “I think it is a name.” After 'further apparently intense mental effort, he exclaimed nervously, “Give me something to write with.” Being handed pencil and paper, without an instant's hes itation,' he wrote, “Townsend,” not in, natural form, but as the word would appear written on paper ' arid, reflected on a mirror, “that is it," he exclaimed, and, as the persons about bust into applause, Bishop Stif fened out and sank buck unconcious. Dr. Irwin assured the others that it was o ly one of tne cataleptic fits to which Bishop was fiequenly sub jected and was not dangerous. Bish op was stretched On. the floor, and soon, under thecare Of the doctor, began to show signs of returning consciousness. When he was able to sit up, though apparently only half conscious, the doctor was ex plaining something of the physical features of the case to those present, staring that the peculir backward fashion in which the name was writ ten might be accounted for by the fact* that the original reflection of everything seen be the eye is in* verted as.in a mirror, and if reversed by the optic lens on the way to the brain. Bishop, who had apparently heard everything interrupted the doctor and asked him to make it clear that was written on the paper was the exact copy of what appeared in his eye, and was written by him without conscious invention of .the brain. -.. — . .. Bishop was now so excited that the doctor ordered him to be taken to: an upstairs room. His pulse was frightfully high, bat he so strene onsly insisted on doing the trick over again that the doctor 'finally consented, as affording the best means'of quieting him, The'book was brought, and, Bishop, blindfol ded, set out to find the word again. He wandered over the book with great difficulty, but finally hit the right page, found the word and in dicated it by a savage stroke of the pencil acrotaijt. •The “mind reader” was how more ejchauated 'flnd ftTr cited "than ever, and Dr. Erwin, fearing a nervous col apse, sent for Dr. C. C. lee to help him. Bishop had frequent spasms and it was with difficulty that he could be held stilh About 4o'clock in the morning he had another: vio lent cataleptic fit, and Went from it into a state of coma, front which-he had only moments of half conscious ness for two Bouts, hut not a realy conscious moment from 6 o'clock in the morning until a few minutes past noon, when his pnlse and breathing ceased, and he was appar ently dead. For fear, that it might be only a cataleptic trance, powerful electric Currents were applied, and jfor half an hour some semblance of life was maintained, but at last the current ceased to have any effect, and the doctor said Bishop was un mistakably dead. The body was re moved to an undertaking establish ment, where, in the afternoon an autopsy was made by Dr. Irwin end iDr. Ferguson, the pathologist at the ; New York Hospital. ' ‘r ■ ’ ’ lne suddenness with''which- this autopsy was made, in the absence of authority from the friends or rela atives of the deceased or from the coronor, has caused great feeling‘in the community. This is heighten ed by the fact that Bishop, his wife, and his mother, were opposed to any autopsy, and especially desired, that in the event of his supposed death at any time the body should he kept as long as possible, for he had fre quently beenin a i^te of almost seeming death for a good many hours, as a consequence-of these cat aleptic fits, as had also his mother. The autopsy is said to hive shown nothing to indicate any cause of death, except the result of the great nervous strain to which Bishop had subjected himself. The brain was a little larger than Usual for a man of his size, weighing 40 ounces. They matter was unusually dark in color, but there was no malforma tion or physiealindicatiqn that the brain was otherwise than that of an ordinary man. The case is bnh, however, that js sure to nttrack ‘wide attention in the medical'fra ternity, and the controversies about it cotnmmenced on the very day that the “iniad reader” died, '* ' ' ’ • Bishop was horn in r Boston in 1856, and early obtained a, reputa tion as a “mind, reader,” Some ten years ago, in England, he attracted much attention by what he did to expose the alleged tricks of Slade and other spiritualists, and did some surprising feats in telling the ^um bers upon bank notes which be- bad not seen. About three years ago, in Boston, he' discovered a hidden arti cle, to get at which it was necessary for him, blindfolded, to drive a'team of horses to a Carriage a considerable distance through crowded streets,— a trick he-afterwards duplicated in New York city. ■ v - To accomplish those feats he al« ways had to be in physical touch of some sort with the person whose mind he pretended to read. Others have pretended to he able'to per form the same feats, but it is nrit known that any feat similar to the one herein described has never before been performed. Dr. Irwin says he thinks the feat cannot be accounted tor upon any known theory of science or medicine. Buokln’s Arnica Salve. TheBest Salve In the world for Cuts, Bruises,Sore?,Ulcers, Halt Hheum raver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands ChlbUins. Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect, satisfaction Or money refunded Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Mclvere Sauford. N. C. i BRECKENB10GE ON THE SOUTH, The speech of ,Representative Breckenridge, of Kentucky, deliver- .7. If. ed at the dedication of the Soldiers’ - v' Mohument'in Nashville last week, ‘ . I,% contains a beautiful and truthful presentation of Southern life before the war. Mr. Breckenridge is on® of the finest orators in the ' United, } State®. Ho has the gift of ( elo quence in the highest degree. . His ^ lauguage is beautiful aad his delirs - gry earnesttad-faapassionittft: go is a goo ■ goad nrK-altpr and what he ■ saVS. whether in the halls of Congress, in the lecture room, or oft the stump, * is always listened to with rppt at tention rad never fails to elioiti high t;4 | i »• praise. Silver-haired' as well as | - ’. silver-tongued, he has a comman ding presence and his speeches in M|jf the House of Representatives -readi- 1 ’ f ly remind one of the superiority; of the South over the North in prodn ring the finest specimen of eftntory. This is what he said of rank in the South: . . “In other comminutes wealth or birth made rank, bat in the gonth ern land color, not condition, vu the only rank. Every white man was the equal of every other whit? man. Slavery had mnch in it that must be deplored, disadvantages that those who knew it heat j knew most of, but it did have, thif one - compensation; that it gave to; color the quality of condition: ‘ Cblor in and of itself was a tie which bound all white men together and,'? in a sense which cannot be onduratood out of that community, made all white men eqnal,” i " - Of wealth and the characteristics of the Southern people he said: - “The South was not rich in seen mutated capital. In all the boun daries there was scarcely a matt who . would how be called rich. Beal poverty, that poverty "which is ac companied with want, which is the parent of vice, under whose blithing influence human nature shrinks and human courage dwindles, was un-' •known in all that great beantifnl region. There wire people who thought themselves poor, bnt it was within, the limitspf a well-to-do mh| reasonable comfort, , , , ’‘Physically it was a handsome and noble race. The climate waa fenerous, the land sb fertile, the abitual industries and sports in the open air, so invigorating, the ordi nary life so calm and yet so earnest, the daily comforts so healthful and1 the daily duties so fruitful that the people within that section bounded by the Atlantic ocean, the Potomac, tne Ohio and the Western plains were, indeed a comely and manly race of strong men add beautiful women. • “Their manners were grave, but simple and cheerful, much to the $pen air and. living in a country sparsely.settled and without good roads and full of game, the men wore fearless horsemen, “expert *• in the use of arms, quick of eye and ready of-hand, calm - of demeanor, Self-contained, self-poised, and hab itual to the habits of command.” vfef-; Of da very and its effects he [also said: - . ' ~ ... slavery also made agriculture the first of vocations, the most profita ble, delightful and honorable, and. this required that families should live apart on their farms," surround ed by their laborers, and thus waa developed individuality which .mark ed the leaders of Southern, opinion*, who. also become successful officers. A successful planter had acquired those habits of daily life ' which made him at once competent to command a regiment, to quietly but firmly enforce discipline, property care forthe men, understand how to clothe and feed them end 1 see that they were taken care of. And the men of the regiment-were ready sol diers in the high sense that they knew how to both obey and com mand ; were able to take care of him self if thrown' upon himself—were expert in the ose of his weapons, and physically capable of continued hardship and much exposure." fell ■ i Judge Hugh L. Bond, of the United States Circuit Court lor the Western distriot of North Caroline has issued a mandamus ordering the commissioners and treasurer of the county of Rutherford, this State, to show cause on the 17tb day of June next, why thy should not be jailed for contempt of bis court in refusing to turn over to the officers: of the Ths C’e railroad the stance of the interest due on the bond* of Ruther ford county issued to assist in the building of said roufl. , ,, ■■■mM , st - -4 03$