North Carolina Newspapers

r ajey going to have 2,000 Sufescribers ■AUthoriaanlJ gent raSpa paper, Christmas, JUNE 15,1889. p,:; . HASTY-GBAPHS, .| Hasty-GIiaph will endeavor'to make ’ his J; column interesting, tie . writes his while the typoea are calling . for copy. - ■ .!'■ ■ llALEjon, Goldsboro, Monroe and ' Durham, all went wet at the looal op tion elections on Monday. . Prohibition lsalways a failure where ‘ public senti pmiit-- ig tint wtrnrtg etiptigh to enforce f the law. ' ___ - The greatest obstacle to'piogress. in American communites is the discord • and jar of disagreement. Men and' communities will not quietly and peac ably disagree. There Is much room for tolerance, where every man has a right :l>* to bate an opinion* ..HlcY ' ■■■■•' j ?X: ^aesab generally gets his dues. - 'When the W iimington Star lost its big editor Kingabury, we feared that paper that we had learned to love in our infan J ’■ by must become an evening star , and de ellue in the firmament of journalism. Not so. We are getting*fond of Major Huffy. He haa lots of horse sense. Tub Stats press has greajlv im_ ; : proved mhppearance.ln dirtied abil -' There are able men pursuing - journalism in North Carolina as their - eole profession, Jfet there is a jealous . . spirit and.a “you tickle me and I tickle ?oa” business among some of the pa* . ’ pew, that bring more or less Of discredit .on some of tlie papers. ‘ Injudicious > praise is as harmful as injudicious criticism, and a good newspaper can . not afford either, t » i* A friend tells us that the best orato1 fry he has ever heard was at theUuiver „ sity last week. He says that the young f" men surpassed the old ones. Tlie best - speeches were Judge Dick’s, air. Ella’s : of Wins ton, Prof. Alderman’s of (folds* " boro. He was very much disappointed with the effort of young Janies Madi SOiiHeach, which was tame and com monplace. He believes that North Car olina talent is as good as can be found ' la the country. ' », Xhk Johnstow'n' horrow enforces .. many lessons. Here are some' of them -dhe vanity of earthly rlcfiea,' tKtt among Americans there are many he* roes and benefactors and many goths ■ and vandals. Fire and water are great . friends and most desf’ctive. enemies. 'Air great destrhclioii of human life did not crowd the portals of eternity aud pepple went right on dying In oth > «r places as if nothing unusual had W: occurred at Jolmstown. Be ready, for there is always room somewhere, for - you in the great beyond. ■ _■ . Dr Hyman thinks a poos sinner can repent after death. We suppose some of them postpone the matter until, af ter that date, waiting for a better’ op * opportunity to feel the need of a sa viour, but it strkes us that it would be ; a more difficult task to dispossess his fig Satanic uiagesty of his once humble servant than for his once humble ser , vaut to repent after death. Dr. Hyman’s ‘ message will, comfort some souls - at present, but it may get them Into fu ..ture trouble. „ J bfferson Da vis is a very remark able man. His life since the war is a _ lustiffi-ation of the Southern cause, •’-f lod hag let him outlive his enemies Ji^ith North and South, and though de prived of the citizenship of his country, lie stands, tall and great on the -“•Watch tower of history,, ever ready to defend Its truth. Had Jefferson Da vis died with the Confederacy, recent 1 lstory would contian some very gross misrepresentations. Dana, the editor of the New York Sun has enough of honesty and conscience left to approH ate Jeff's character. In a recent speech at Nashville, Twin., the New York edi . -. .tetsaid, thiapf Jeff! il if is f : I -**])avta’B earnestness, Real, high in tegrity, Intelligence and scholarship, ohd his fixed determination to stand . firm to the end, outweigh all his alleged infirmities of temper and his personal enmities and oppositions. History will deal with him more kindly than the men of his own generation. , TThb Dunn Courier is a paper Hist the 'Exphkss likes. It is much imptov ed tiiis week. We say fo the Courier it it will publish all of its matter at home, continue to usoits own scissors and pett uil and convictions ns it now appears '""to he doing It is bound to succeed. These are mighty good things-to use in a North Carolina newapnper office; The Expukss 1b a favorite with the Cuurltr as the following will show: r : ’•The Sanford Expukss is regarded by us as otic among the best weeklios in the Stale, and its editorials generally contain sound Onunsel and words of wisdom. We liavo seen nothing that we can more heartily endorse than an editorial In the Rxpiucssot June 1st. In - that editorial Mr. St. Clair wisely says that modesty is unmanly, that It is a - Virtue that belongs to women only, lie says that young men especially should not be modest-should not eland book for trltlos, hut pusli themselves for . ward, iielleve that them is something fn "... them, and make tUo world sue it, wheth ' er or why. , „ ... . “Iiow many men, espocla ly old men . —will you Hud that will endorse tills f , Chips From Dr. Kingsbury’s'Work li.C v' bench. ■; 4 ■ ': Wilmington Messenger. A gentleman of the city thinks that “Oft in the Stilly Night"—A charming song that in our boyhood all the pretty girls sang, and some very sweetly—is by Tom . Moore, hut be cannot, find; it in editions of Tiis poems he examined. Keis cor ,reet.''; Wefoun41(j,r .i-Hfi llflC was.’Humphrey Gilford, (1580) who wrote a war gong that occurs in his “Posy of Gilliflowers” and said this, “faint betirt-fair lady- nev er won.” ■ ~v It was Craahaw (about A. D. 16 14) who wrote the famous line con cerning the miracle of. Ch^* ^ Carih: ■ / - ■ . “Vdit ^teruhr,;,- numpha pndiae Deunr," \ I. This has been translated—“The I conscious water saw its' 'God and blushed.” if.-i--- :i.-: ;; k.vi.,* It was Gorge Herbert, the quaint and pious poet of the latter Eliza bethean time who said this good arid true thing—-“A handfull of good lifeis worthy bushel of learning.” .;, i 11 was grnfl and powerful Dr. Samrfohnson who wisely and oc cutcly said, when a certain man’s oratory was praised in his presence in high terms: “You cannot know as yet; the pump works well, but how are we to know whether it is supplied from a spring or reservoir,”. We,, heard a politi cian tellall he knew and exhaust him selfish One speech. We once hqaixl a very remarkable and r mag netic speech from a North Carolina politician. We have heard him some three or four times • since and it was like the rattling of peas in a gourd, all wind andkound signifying nothing. ...Some men are quarter or hundred yard horses. ;; It was Rufus Choot who wrote to Charles Summer—“No Englishman or countryman of ours has th% least! appreciation of Burke.” It was Cat-lyle who said: “Great men taken any way are profitable company.” It was Rufus Choate who first wrote the common newspaper lan guage—“glittering generalities." He applied it to the Declaration of Independence.. . A Magic Tranformation. Editorial iuKett YovU 8uti. .Not a vestige* of war can now. be seen either in the vicinity of Wash ington or the vicinity of Chatanotr ga» or in any part of the country intervening, . hotly and often ns much of it was fought by tho op posing armies. Nature arid the. hand of man has everywhere wrought a miracle of obliteration. New groves have sprung up and a fairer sight cannot be seen upon earth than greets the traveller of every hill top and valley of the long line between the two cities. A still greater winder is the kind of agriculture that is now witnessed m these old sluve States. Fortun atclv, tinder the system of. slavery, man y of the farms had a d ilapidated, desultory, and often at lazy, shiftless 1 look; but tlnsis so no longer, A 1 broken, neglected, poor fence is not to be seen between Washington and Chiitanooga. Thrift, order,., skill, and prosperity mark lbe- “whole ! country. Bettor agriculture or more beautiful farms we have never ' wftuessed. Long Island, the agri cultural region with which we hap pen at the present to be most famil iar, is shabby and cureless m cbm- ; parison..'“Even the homes of the ' negroes as they are seen from the railroad, wear ah appearance'of eare and cleanliness. The change is mar velous, and it bears testimony une- . qualed to the vitality and power of . freedom. , . . Tho transformation in the land and its culture has gone on simultnne- 1 ously with another change, a new 1 inspiration of unity and patriotism * in the minds and hearts of m< n. It 1 is a great country, and the blessiug 1 uf Cl od rests upon it I — * There are nipe great reservoirs in t thn mouiityius about lioueadule, Fa. * I j^RQSSER’S BITTER SPEECH. Monuments, North and South. Staunton, Va., June 8—General Rosser delivered a characteristic and bitter'speech before the Confederate Memorial Association to-day. He spoke of r^tfionaerectins monunxents to their heroic dead. lie. said the difJt5?SUCS bsiv^Oeli Uie NortKciTi tuiiii Southern monuments was that in. tjhe South they were erected over graves to virtue and patriotism., (WijL.ju the North in cities by pharisaical ■ Yan kees to enhance real estate and over the graves of bounty jumpers. ^nd , hirelings and emn*- gra-.Vs. South-' era -~.uier§ bought for the rights Or states and the integrity of homes, for virtue and patriotism; the North ern men for selfish plunder and pay. fn 1661 the integrity of the South ern States was in danger. .They withdrew from the corrosive influ ences to secure peace and prosperty. “The Southern people are Saxon—r the .Northern people. Gelt,”-said General Rosser. •; “I chuckle over the results arising from socialism and anarchism in the North, from which we are free. It has been said we are the same people, but that was a long time ago. NeW erolu* tion or some process has made us different creatures, and soon capital and oppressed manhood will flee, to the South, where honest men can protect them. [Applause.] «The world will see that rebels are the on ly true patriots and, supporters of ' constitutional liberty. “I approve all the Southern Con fedracy did. It decoyed evil forces and established good ones. Its mon uments are to Truth, Patriotism1 and glory, not brazen images result ing from blemished hearts and pon duet. The North abandoned _ the race"they emancipated, except their votes. No Greeleys, Beechers or John Browns write or preach for them or die for them. They are abandoned by the puritanical Yan kees who want: to correct God’s inis" take and place theinferior o ver the superior. Long after the brazen images in Washington and elsewhere have been thrown down' and the G A. It. (so called ) Sherman, Foraken Ingalls and sueh like shall- he, with the rubbish of the French Revolu tion, assigned to obscurity, the names of Lee and Jackson will ,be bright and glorious. , Southern Cotton Mill Trade. C'haU»ni>og(i Tradesman. - The Southern cotton rnili trade is in prosperous form. Old mills are making money, and their managers are .nol paying nll their net- earnings out'in dividends." That reckless pol icy has been abandoned, and the one that prescribed the holding of liberal reserves for repairs and* extension, uid to tide the business over hard times, is substituted. No industry n the country is more prosperous -han the Southern spinning trade. Hie mills in that section have- been lushing their export business until .hey now send abroad ubout oner .bird of all their products, ,-j Their iales in the North and Northwestern i States in' lines of cotton blankets, loweliag, heavy - domestic,—cheeks, itripes, etc., are rapidly increasing. met the time is not fur off ’when the i South will be in that territory with i iner goods than any. yet shade in i southern mills. The great Eagle & [’heonix Co., of Columbus, Ga., is ' he pioneer in this departure, and we nay-ho certain that whatever the ] ible suanngers of that concern un- i lertake will be earned to success. ‘ * 1 Not Above Paper. < j Loudon fihtlc't. Muft JiitH. ■" - •- : j The Rev. Robert Oollyer, of New fork,'is not above “paper," it seems, \ f the following story be true: Mr. < iaruum one day entered his church i ind quietly took a back seat. But the 1 ireuoher saw the great inau, and aid in a loud voice: "j see P. T. , inrmun in a back pew iu this churh, t nd 1 invite him to come forward ( Stake a sent in my "family pow. , Bumum ahvnys.j,ivta men good , rut in .his circus, and P want to , :ivc him uh good in. my church.” t Talmage on the Pennsylvania Flood. Tie woes aggregate. The fiamea embrace the floods, . Tlie doomed' valley becomes an uncovered" sepul chre on which the .filthy vultures swoop. The five hundred lives lost at Johnstown become the 2re-thbns ittid, and the five-thousand have be come ten-thousand, arid .the 'ten HUJ osaim lifive becyiUt; andj and the horror rises’wltK every day and hour; until the nation is in an agony, of sympathy. 'The two elements of water and hre are in eon+ey^on as to which sbatTdfb loo worst. Enough w ater to put out the fire, enough .fire to lick up the water, hut they interlock their fort ces to destroy. In the mountain of debris are many of the dead. . Sur geons and health officers cry : ‘“Let the fires burn until.the bod ies are cremated and so the valley be kept free from the pestilence that must come if these bodies are left to dissolution in the open air.” ■■ “No! No!” cry out husbands and wives, lathers and , mothers and children. “Let the engines jjjay up on the ikmeR, and the fixes.; l>e put out, and we get back the forms. of pur loved ones for one more look be fore they go out of sight'" forever. Let our white hands of . grief ■ bury them, and not the red liaads of con flagration.” 3 '■■■; ■! ■■■, '> If I were - a-'physician ig ; the stricken city, I woulddsay “Le^ crem ation go oh.T ' •" |, / It I had one of ray lieosehMd in the rain, I would say, “Piit iont the fire.” ■■■' ' • ■ ■{ I will tell ypu what we will 'have to do, and that is, leave all to Cod. 'This is a calamity too big' for i hu man management.^ The angels of. destruction are presiding at those ob gequiea. Thank-God, the souls have goge free and the - waters* cannot drown them/ and! the fire cannot burn them. . : d But while; watOr agd firei are in raging controversy, as to which shall make; blackest the wretchedness, another combat more astounding1 goes oil between!- heaven-descended charity and diabolism. While Chris tian grief, with food ami medicine, Comes upon the scene it is confront ed with demons who are rolbing the dead. From thesjvolen fingers of beauty and love the rings are torn and the-popkets ofthpdead are rifled. May there be shot and ropes enough oh the ground to hang or shoot them all! No judge or jury or trial are ap propriate for sucli incarnate fiends. They ought not be allowed' to live an hour. Away with them from the face of the eartlfc-tbe quicker the better. Did ever such opposites meet on any scene or calamity, eharity ind ruffianism, angel and devil, res jue and lothesomeless? Why is it multitudes are prying? Why is it that ari ” this has cpme .tpon those beautiful valleys and that Jiese multitudes are so awfully tlain? . ".P , •Lot no one say; ‘‘|t was a jo eig ne n't of God upon that people,” as io often it is said in. regard to such lisasters. No! There arejio better ipople under the sun than those last •Yiday slain.-- I have been -in their ionics and I know them' well. Be idesthat, there are hundreds of awns and cities by' their iniquities nviting the Divine judgement who vere never, struck with lightening or washed under inexorable waves. If Irooklyu and New York had been unlinked-for all their sins, the Hud on and East rivers would now stand ligber than the piers of the East liver Bridge, and the bluefish would u holding high carnival in our din ng-halls and pautries. ~ • •—e- — Be careful how you try to handle ho thunderbolts of the Almighty • 3od spare our homes, our cities, our intiou from any repetition of such lorrorsl. . , - Can that Conemaugh river be the j ne I have seen pronouncing its geu- j le Wncdiction upon the forms and < he homes on-either side of it? Some ■ onion of the pit must have seized ( po» It..Wjt.h.i»Hndft:; b«?fiikd,-.jWid crathful it has clutched for all it i ou Id reach.. : . , S":y ■< S-i:t - •:~; ;r.~ ; . “Come with *me,n it cried to the hbmefi, the churches^the village, the cities; f‘come with me in my .mid* night Tevels apd dance with death and darkness and woe!-’ . The Johnstown disaster will beset down in history beside three or four greatest disasters of: the nineteenth century. Sibcft the chaotic flood that shthd flftueiEienfei& h ighest mo u n tain a there have been Very few deluges to equal it.Now upon this deluge let the ark' of our; nation’s.sympatlTy sail!5f; 'J T T^Dk Witt TIEuiaoe, No. 1 South Oxford street; Brook* lyn, lllSflp. m., June 3,1889. ; - Neatness in Girls.; The XnUotUSv*'.'^. _• i.. Neatnessis a good thing for a girl, and if she docs opt learn it when she is youngish© necer will.’ It takes a great Ideal more - neatness to make a girl look well than it does to make a boy .look passable. Not because a boy, to start with, is better looking than a girl, but his clothes are of a different sort, so many colors in them; and people don’t expect a boy to look so pretty as a girl;—A girl that is not neatly dressed is palled a sloven and no one likes to >lpok at her. Her face may be pretty and her eyes bright, but if there is a spot of dirt on hercheek, anther fingers’ ends are block: with ink, and her shoes are not laced or {mttoned up, and her apron is dirty, and her collar is uot 'buttoned, and her skirt is torn shei cannot be liked. I went into a little girl’s room once, and all her clothes were on the , floor, and her playthings too. Learn to be neat, and when, yon have learned it, it will almost take care of itself. Getting the beet of Greely. St. l*ats Gloki-BemMrat. ' -«* ■ Mr. Greely, becoming digested with the blunders of oae of his type setters, sent a note up to the foreman requesting him to discharge the man at once, as he was too inefficient a workman to be any longer employ ed on the Tribune. The foreman Obeyed instructions, but before leav ing the “typo” managed to get pos session of Mr. Greely’s note, and immediately went to a rival office and applied for .work, showing the note as as a recommendation. The foreman to whom he applied scanned the note and said; “Oh, I see--good and efficient compositor—employed a long time on the,Tribune—Horace Greely,”. and immediately set him to work on the strength of . Greely’s certification of his incapacity, after having been ‘‘out of job” fpr the space of about fifteen minutes. The Good Natured Man. Philadelphia Xcws.^ • 1 Happy is the man blessed with a good nainred disposition. Ordinary troubles roll off his mind like’water-off a duck’s back. ills presence is Ufce a flood of sun shine, gladdening weary hearts and giving new. life to those around him. He is like good- luek, for all men hasten to welcome . him and would detain him as long as possible. His glad voice is like nierry music and others like better taiistcd tahis presence than talk. ' If he wants a favor the selfish world grants it quicker than to oth sr men and he may owe debts with out being dunned. Yes; happy is the man blessed with a good natured disposition, for the world’s ills do not age his soul wd his family reflects his own kind* y emotions. , • . Science and Fleas. ' In answer tjo a correspondent who lesired to know how to drive fleas m£ of a room, the Philadelphia Press says: Science has recently liscovered that the muscles, or iprings in a flea’s legs, enable it to ump a distance equaLto 200 times ta length. If, therefore f you will ilace the fleas in a direct line at a listnnce equal to 200 times their , ength from, an open door, and wan ram them to make the jump ull ogethfcr in the right, direction, you 1 rmy perhatis be able to secure their 1 bicuce. Failing in this, consult a i rwggist.' " ' ' . GENERAL NEWS. Edward Hanlan says his rowing days are over and he is going back to Toronto to live. ; The New York Sun correspondent thinks the"number of deaths from the recent flood will not exceed 5,* 000. Kilrain has the privilege of narn ■mg"the ground OR which the forth coming Sttllivan-Kilrain fight wil| take place. - The ground chosen will probably be Reno’s grove,; about 200 miles from New Orleans. .Sir Julian Panccfotep the British Minister, called on the President Saturday and delivered to him a message of sympathy / from Queen Victoria for the losses sustained by the American people by the Johns town disaster. _ . ■ Counsel for Kemmler, the man sentenced to be • executed by elec tricity in New York State have ta ken an.appeal oil the ground that execution by electricity is a “cruel and unusual punishment," and* therefore, unconstitutional. Mr. Keicner, an atacfae of the French Minister of War, has been arrested. It is believed that’he is implicated in the plot alleged to have been discovered from.'the papers seized at the houses of two Boulan gistS. " -y---: It appears that Blaine isrnot en tirely satisfied with the- Samoan treaty after all. The work of* the conference will last five weeks lon ger, as some paragraphs may be con ferred back for consideration, Or the conference may adjourn. - ~ J. H. Benjamin, bditor of J,he Deland, Fla., Aretrs, shet and in stantly killed Captain J. W. Doug lass, who was a promineuteitizen (jf. Daytonia, and a well known Demo cratic politician. The shooting was the result of a feud. The Order of. Rajlway Conduct ors has decided to build a national home some in Iowa, the prize going, to the town offering the best induce ments. Davenport, Burlington, Sioux City, Clinton, Council Bluffs andCreston. are candidates. The edifice is to cost 8250,000. It is reported that the Vatican au thorities are alarmed at Russia's ob jecting to the-Catholic missions in the Balkans, and that the Emperor Francis Joseph is al,so alarmed. The latter, in reply to strong appeal to interfere, said he was hound 'not to swerve from the peace alliance. The proposition to hold an exposi tion at Norfolk, Va., next year, is taking positive form, A. largely at tended meeting of those who have pledged themselves to take part in, the affair was held Monday, at which a plan for the exposition was adopt ed. A board of twelve directors Was elected, and John L. Roper, a lead ing citizen and successful merchant, was-eleeted president. Per diem employes of the Navy Department ore agitated over the question of annual leaves of absen ces. These employes think they are entitled to 30 days leave, with pay. Secretary Tracy directed Judge Ad voeate General Tieamy to issue a circular-order giving the men leave with pay. The latter, however; de clines to do this He holds that it is contrary to the law, and therefore he cannot approve the Secretary's action. The matter will- be further discussed 6n Secretary Tracy ’s return., from Norfolk. Senator Voorhees writing froth Hot Springs, Ark., enclosed $30 for i the relief of the striking block-coal miners at Brazil, lud., After refer- ' iug to the strike a& being against an | unjust reduction of wages, Senator i Voorhees says’; This condition of i things, occurring under the highest protective tariff ever known in i American history, and repeated more < -han a hundred times over in every- I State in the Union, makes its own i oriel usive argu men la to every intel- t igent Working man or working wO- i nan. If others will giye as I have 1 lone, according to their means, the * niners and their wives and children t vill not Buffer, - " j Mr. Geo. C. Eaton^ late of Cin» cinnati, Ohio, and a nephew of ; President Harrison, died in Ashe-' = viile, N. C., ^Thursday, the 8rd inst., ^ • □f cosumption. His remains were . taken to Cincinnati for interment. " ; Sixty buildings were destroyed bj fire in Jacksonville, Fla.,. last week. ” £ Loss, two hundred thousand dollars. ' j Ti i- . . ._..i. 1,1 .i *■'. tf./.AAAA . xi* jo reporteir mwrmwuM^ j.v,wvf :-3 r—~ iiVes vyere 16st in ahurricane at Hong ! Kong in China.’ Great damage was done to property also. A alight earthquake shock was felt ' at New Bedford, Mass., on the 7th inst. On the same day in Europe a violent shock was felt at Brest: An agreement has been made by the managers of a number of the ■ # railroads belonging to the Vander- rl S bilt system, to discontinue, as far as practicable, the running of Sunday trains from the 9th inst. This ac tion will be a boom to the men in the, employ of these railroad companies." -t The Secretary of State is informed ;? ■; by IJhited States Consul at Ottawa that the Canadian government has placed on the free custom list cotton yarn, jute yarn, corrugated iron, cot ton twine yarn, yarns of 'wool or ■ * worsted, blanketing, lapping and discs, plough plates, mould boards, land sides, certain ware and steel * galvanized, twined and, coppered, veneers of wool-cut from logs, steel, --^ from No. 12 to 30 gauge, molasses .. ' v for making blacking, various articles. ' for colors and dyes. Most of these ai tides are free only to manufactur ers to be used in their respective fac tories. Painted II Ref. Keiom aud Observer. There was only one occarrence to -v’tjlj mar the perfectipnof the continence- „ f Hienfat the University. From those. * '•'■'ho came from Chapel Hill yester day it was learned that during the ,* night on Thursday night a crowd of mischievous boyspainted the Cald well monument red/not figuratively 0 ■ -1* speaking, but with genuine vermil- 1 ion paint. The monument was aV.; beautiful one, and, was erected in . • campus by the alumni years ago in' : honor of Dr. Joseph Caldwell, thS^ 8s first President. A party not a stu- f; dent, was arrested on suspicion at Chapel Hill yesterday evening. It is thought the, monument is perhaps ^ irreparably injured. At a preliminary hearing yes ter day morning it is learned that noth- ■ s| ing could- be proven against, the party arrested and he was discharg- - ed. ..... .. The Evening of Life. ■’ Selected, When the summerh of yonth is slowly wastingaway on the nightfall of age, and the shadow of the path J becomes deepe, and life wears to its close, it is pleasant to look through the vista of time upon the sorrows and felicities of our early years. If we have had a home to shelter, and hearts to rejoice witji us, and friends have gathered round our firesides, the rough places of wayfaring will ' ■ have been worn and smoothed away in the twilight of life, and many ' : dark spots wo have passed through will grow brighter and more beautl- 1 fill. Hftppy, indeed, are those whose' intercourse with the world has not _ ' V ' changed tho tone of their holier feel- 48: ings, or broken those musical chords . jf tho heart whose vilurations are so » melodious, so tender, and so tho.uch- .. ing in tlip evening of their lives. We had a pleasant talk with one >f our esteemed citizens and an alum* ms of the University— who attended ~ he recent centennial celebration. He was deligffted, He says the ipeechos of the alumni were partic* llarly fine especially Judge Dick1*; rhe speeches of the boy* were (eiiis—far ahead of his time. So we*- .. laid of those of last year. He safe he utter abscence of all dissipation ? vos most marked. He tlid not see a tudeut or any one under the infiu ince of liquor; he was not asked* - 0 take a drink; he never saw the lightest indication that there was rink to be had on the “Hill.” Th*-i 1 very- different from antc-tc-Hut ' * imes. He also observed that the tudents look small as compared with hose of his time.-—Z>r, Kingebury a Wilmington Messenger, , 1& trrTA’S M