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. - . - i . - i 5' COLLECTION f.. i mmmmmmW- v ' VOLUME 1. plASHEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, JULY 13, 1878. NUMBER 10. THE RANDOLPH SUjh, 1 rBTSliEb 1 EVERY SATURDAY. Wt tSl!EBOI10, X. C. i r.50 n . .;HtEEMS: , One yat, in advance, -Six moTitW, - - ' - KAfU? OFi ADVERTISING. One square; jl inch) one. wee!:, $100 " 'A 11 ' .two " 1, ' fe50 '?' " : three " 400 ' "lour " ' ' " live .'.;oo . ' via 1! Goitrt Notices bix weeks, $06 ; aistr.ites' four vecks, $5.00 iriatl-vam-e. il f, I : : U-"l ' AlmnLstator8, notices, six weeks, $0.50, in advance.! ' K Letters addressed to the Jtand uTpb Sun will receive prompt atteiitioiu . : Written for the i Randolph Sun;j i THE 1LE PUBLICAN PARTY A I ' v TIIE HOMESTEAD, . . UY I The homestead provision - of .the Oonptitut'o'n of 1808 was the t most beneficent act cf legislation er ' - - - If the whole tide of debt .had been turued loose uptfn " the country in 186 8, a few sharpers in each county would have: bought up the' greater portion of the land in thcrtl- Even as it was every one knows 'tV&t from 1868 to 18'2 any . amount of land was sold mthis county "under process at from ten 'cents to one dollar per acre. Jn one case a sale was twice set aside by the court when made by an admin istrator because it brought once only nine and the other time only thirteen cents per-acre.. While the prices of producer c.,, were good, and the harvcsts'xf undant, there had been no time to repair- the disastrous results of war and tlje people had noj money with which tp protect their home steads. . Fully brie half ol the home steads might have been bpnght with fifty pgr cent, of the liabilities of the owners and the creditors' would still have held the balance ol the judg ments oyer the heada of the unfortu nate" creditors.' ; There is now more ability, to discharge them because they have, had some ' time - to 'gather J uusieuaucu,- - ,l : . ! , It . was never p claimed that the horn estefid was an absolute-and a cer - t V HOW. JED 3IISSED IT. Sjme folks are in. the habit of talk ing jn their sleep, and Miss Betty Wiljon was one of tile number. l is peculiarity she accidentally revealed to Jedediah Jenkins, in a careless, conversational way. Jed ediah had just finished the recital of a niatriftionial dream, in which the young lady and himself figured as hero and heroine he having inven ted the same (or the sake of saying, at the conclusion, it was "too good Ftate. Although: it; has ultimately been decided to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of, the United tateR, it has operated as a stay of old debts for a period, of exactly ten years from the day of il s enactment. By means of it enterprising and pru dent debtors ihavc been enabled to compromise their liabilities upon terms which have permitted them to iraintain themselves and families, and thousands of those who were un able to do this, even, have been able to keeD a roof over their heads and make a comfortable livelihood d-Jring the same period. Such have, in ef fect, held their homesteads, rent free, for ten yrars. Probably one-half of the homesteaders of the State have compromised their old liabilities' Or might easily have done so. The ob ject of the law was not to protect men who could pay their debts in full, but those wlro eould not It was for the honest debtor who would other wise b'e impoverished, and not the sharper who' sought to avdid. his just liabilities, whom it was intended, to "protect. Those men who deeply involved that they even, pay ell' their debts be an experiment in legislation a new protective policy for. an j impov erished and prostrate people. The Republican Supreme Court! of the State held it goodxind absolute up on appeal in about forty cases.. The uncertainty as to the result, iind the public feeling against the reversal of this decision was so great and the distress and suffering it would pro duce among- the people was so evi dent that no one could be-found to carry it to the Supreme Court of the United States until Col. L. C. Ed wards, of Granville county, one of ,the Democratic State Executive Committee, brought suit to be' ;truc. and bv thvs sDeakinir 3 parables, assuring the darnsel of what, he dared not to speak plainly. "I ilon't dream," KaidBetscy, "but J smotimes talk half the night, and tell everything I know in my sleep." "You dont say so?" "Yes; I nev er can have a secret from mother. If'sfce wants to know anything, she pumps me after I've gone to bed and I answer her questions as hon estly as if my life depended on it. That; the reason I wouldn't go to ride the other night. I knew she would find it out. It is awful pro voking!" Some days after this, Jed called at the house and entering the parlor announced, foun J Miss Betsey, prob ably overcome bv the heat of the tain reliefT T Ik VF."" h .-nlL fr ' m U-A -f-n -"-u , Ke . n- tc nn PYiiori in i n vr lprrial ntirn a I-V fa. Now Jed , as the reader has surmis ed, liad long felt an overwhlming partiality for the young lady, and yearud to kiiow it was returned, but though possessed of sufficient courage, to mount "the imminent, deadly breach," or breeches, (connu bial ones, we mean,) he could never muster spunk enough to inquire into the state of 1 er ueart. But he now bethought himself of her confessed somnambulic loquacity, and felt that the time to ascertain his fate had come. Approaching the sofa, he whispered: "My dear Betsy, tell me. oh tell Archibald Kearsey. an old colored J me the object of your fondest aflec m an, to take a way his homo! Butltions!'' for this the homestead law1 would j 1 Tho fair sleeper gave a faint'sigh, have barred old debts to-dav. So ! Knd rescondod"i "I lovo let. mo thiuk .ere vou might have heard against SUBMISSION. I There is one little words tnat it takes us all our life to learn) We begin the task when, as lidld chil- ' It is hard, even then, for lcpiild ish hands to leave untoucten the coveted object. Still, as t!c3ears pass on and on and we put4sjtle our childhood, with its innogeade and happiness, and take up thf urdeu oflilo for ourselves, we findtyiis first lesson of our youth yet unliiiahcd. We have yet to learn the fu.Pmean ing of that word, Obey. t was easier in childhood, because ticn wo felt more the need ot somel-jiigher pqtwer to direct our steps ; wj!c now ye -so often let go the haial that leads us through the darknetof to . day, that we may come ouljirithu light and -glory of to-morro-.vfchoos-ing rather to 'Walk alone biight,' hudinc: at the end only thcS router darkness." . Again ana again no we. 1 obey and then when we fini of our own wisdom, wc come the arms ever willing to ro When our lips liare Iccracd oVauie the vords and our hearts to feel, Thv will. O God. not mine, bfc dono 10 w m . w thAn i 1 i fa rrTrntesl crrur: 1 ea r 1 r-l . ijuc on now many, limes ueire we finish that lesson will lips quvjbr and eyes grow dim ! Wc are of fearth earthy and the heart will hy out when its cherished idols arc broken j but ji kThc paths that have once been Jrd Arc never so hard fur the feci And the lessons wc on have Icrtcd Are never so ham to reneat. c I Though sorrowful tears inu.tfa'! Anil the. heart to its IfptIi.4bo-:!e:i. With storai.s and tempe.-t we it i tii ail To render us lit for heaven." use to i folly -lCJL tl i I.S. VTK'. that the jecord of the two parties is j this : KKPUHLICAN. j DKMr; 1.. This party, jr.- i 1. 1'hi. tcrtcd 1.00, fKK homes i iiottiu-ed from cNeeutiun" for led th' homtKstt in ten H'T. " th"- snv-'. In'JS." nna mile mi- '.re n'eu irotn u i j;i-i it w iu'it through Alcohol as Medihsk. D ardson has been delivering k tiieu. .G llltll' orcc in teresting lectures before th lunte- nan society m the London Eliistitu- tion on the use of alcohol as &a lie maintains that total all is as sound a. principle in tij in he llth. Tho less Dhvsici tri to alcohol, he cays, the lei thev see to believr in it. KvSm position C-S a medicine, it is oludl th more uccful remedies the leafttl neces sary. He insist that the nhysici in I the beating of Jed's heart a itricK wain 1 love heaven, my I 111 1 my tartv 1 eountrv, ana oaKca beans. Jiut II ml "i t .-! 1 "hnvft nnc nassifih .ihnv all nthnrs it is for roast onions! The indignant lover didn't wake t - 1 m 1 -a tnl the ! :n iieeeKarv i.m r, Lmt sloiea at -once a saadcr, yotutjr from poverty. l so to TnivV'tt h- but r.ot a wiser man. j. - During this -'. f '.-it ;t t!.' jolU. j riil fully tvo-tlur.lst J. It wis over-, Victor Ilu-ro s.ivs. "Some da v.. me p,c-:urir v,r.cv o., r.i;.,.. ,i,;.., ;ii i?roLcciion, :n tms tiay rnntnin nil linm:initv will .illv thorn. I "Iff KllOWlCllgC. Can, lOl lsr'i U'jh' loaumc member" 111 - - --j - --. Lr " cf the! order to seem c" ! selves arid be blended and lost, l.kc tHue' CXCUSC' Just,1-V' cr ilicitie jsunence I case as f reason I in its su tiering ol me oi'i c i.uins n m ow n uv i:l lic.ollll' stn.ll1 i t loll of OIlf of itt iv the lspse'f time I leading memheri in ami me ikvt ci ine-or.ier 10 .secure, a who willfully leaves its us indiscriminate ;hoi e of the to their :ncrautatte:i iar.L-, .1 breach of trus. which no 1 1 yto the sfcck, or mtnits )yssion- jkK ;i- l0..g .li.lt. eo.uuromisea a iicriod, or at the 1 went v cents . on were- SO ' -tatute of limitation-ulrtit ot; less th:n a eould not"5 This party triinl I tJiou.nnd d'oMars i i o nroteet the l'jir :ii;'ins't .a itimr 110- at the low j ,-rc,iit,.rs hone r.!"i iirro. j 1 a I . . n'V.Kii :l 1M:tTl Wiiiiil! .... HiN'h'lftrn"ii-ii 0 iirotrctf I 4 vr 1,0 1 i ;t tiittii' iiitli.Mio iiiv tuiin 1 nnnTtliK i ..,. ,.i. '....!.. ... . i.i 1 i i other M-heine of --.re-'rdowutht. hoinestead. raies lor wiiien inev -iuignt nave. the seven cdurs of the prism, in a f I radiant celestial arch; the prodrgy of I peace Will appear . rale or from live to the dollar, i lief evtr devi-cd.and Uliotrii u iroU;vted t UUKJ has absolutely savejl. twice as manv Dcn- litU be able to s ive their homesteads ! fully, ne half thrjerats as it !.v rue-tea ..ii iU.t- V 1 V v Y:'lt:?A Elizabeth is a little A ladv said that this . and tue dazzled t est compliment v.-hich world rill contemplate the immense ceived : She w;i on hoi ram dow 01 tne united peoples 01 as sue roue past, an in?i' Europe:" was standing by the rea l heard him say : "T wisht if Elizabeth Allen, in a poem, anks: j prison for the staling ofyc un, wittmr, whv lorevcr weep. V'.M IC- y, r.-id I WoO mistaken as to Visitors to t' e I'.xris I Mie I
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