North Carolina Newspapers

m. m 1 ... f - ir' M J "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." Vol; 6. .:r3gCagKgES5TBSEggi EUrJIM, IM. C, MAY 5, 187. No. 1 8. ELK'. ELK 1 ' '- '1- 7. 'i " ' t" ,-,r as li. n ever yon see a can of Bakinjr l,.u Ivis with the name and picture of KLK "ii it. it i a. guarantc of mirietj-. 'Jin' KIk I'owder is the best and cheap- powder. It wand.- the limhe , ii. i,ii ;d unalyst.s ofiuny brand Oif the lijuiM-t. (five it a trial and vou '-will n-t n no other. Sold by : : II. V. JERNIOAN M.iy Dunn, N. C. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. K. VV. lu. Attorney-'at-La'w. SM I i ll FIELD, N. C. refill attention to any civil matters cA to hiscaix in thu' courts of - -i in Harnett County - K L Godwin, . f Attorney at Law. lhnm, - - N. C. Oili.-e next door to I'ot Office. Will jtraetice in the courts-of Harnett :i. l.i i ui nij counties and in the !-"-. t i :i 1 ( 'oiii ts. I'roiiij.L attention given to all busines W E- Murchison, 1 JONKSBOKO, N. C. I'nii -tires Law in Harnett, Moore and oihci- counties, but not for'fun. F 20 It. Isaac A- Murchison, FAYETTKVILLE, N. C, 1'iartii-e-; Law in Cumberland, Harnett m'ihI ruivwliere services are wanted. SEWING A CHINES. ! wish to announce to the i)eople of mini and surrounding country that I ir celling the Wheeler and Wilson No. . and the". White Sewing Machine?.; . I . I A 4. winch are guaranteed to give peuecL at ifaction. on reasonable terms. The best machine oil, needles, fixtures N.C.., nil uavs on hand. I also repair in. i. Iiinc- at moderate cost. Work guaranteed; I have fourteen years ex .c(ii ilce hi the. machine business and am thoroughly acquainted with them. My headquarters are at Mr. E. F. Young's - tore where I will be pleased to liov my machines "Yours to please, J'. M. HAYES. a12t f. Dunn, N. C. TOWN DIRECTORY. f - CHURCHES. Methodist Churcli. Rev. E. C. Sell, Pastor. Services first Sunday night, and fourth Sun tlay me ruing- and niyht. Prayermeeting every Wednesday ni.iht. Sunday schcl every Sunday morning' at 18 o'clock, G. K. ii;iuth:im Superintendent. Uaptist Cliiireh: Rev.L. R. Carroll, pastor. Sirvieos every second Sunday morning' and nitrlit. Pi ayeruieeting every Thursday night Sunday School every Sunday morning, R. Q Taylor Superintendent. l'restiyterian Church. Rev. .A. M. Haseel pastor. Services every first and fifth Sunday morning' and night, Sunday school every Sumlay morning, M. L. W ade Superintendent. bisciple Churcli Rev. I. W. Rogers, pas-tin-. Services every third Sunday morning uni night. Christian Endeavor Society every Tuesday night. Sunday School every Sunday evening at -i o'clock, McD. Holliday Supt. Tree Will Baptist Church. Elder R. C. Jackson, pastor. Services every second Sun day inurning and night. . j Primit i ve Baptist. Church on Broad street Killer W. O. Turner, Pastor. Regular servi ct s on the third Sabbath morning, and Satur day beforo, in each month at 11 o'clock. El iler V. 1). Gold, of Wilson, editor of Zion's l nnduirk, iireaches at this church on the 'fourth Sunday evening in each month at7J4 o'clock. Everybody is invited to attend thest services.' Young Mens' Union Prayer meeting every Sunday evening at A o'clock and Friday night at ;:.;o o'clock. All are cordially invited to attend these services. Au invitation is ex tended to the visitors. - LODGES. Lucknow-Lodge, No. lis, I. O.O.F. Lodge ; t.h m over J. D. Barnes store. Regular ineet "K on every Monday night. L. H. Lee, N. G.; '- H. Sexton, V. O.; G, lv. Grantham, Secre tary. All Odd Fellows are cordially invited t" attend. ' ti Palmyra Lodge, No.i 117. A. F. & A. M. Hall over Free Will Baptist church. F. P. Jones v - M : y. A. Johnson, S. W.;' E. A. . Jones -J- )V.; J. o. Jphnsen, Secretary. Regular mniunications are held on the 3rd Satur day at lo o'clock A. M., and on the 1st Friday M T::;.i o'clock p . m . in each month. All Ma sons in good standing are cordially invited to attend these communications. CorNTY Officers. lit t-iff.j. h. Pope. Clerk. F. M. McKay. ' Register of Deeds, J. McK. Byrd. Treasurer, G. D.Spence. Coroner,' J. J, wilson.. "J purveyor, J. A. O'Kelly. . . - County Examiner, Rey. J. A. Campbell. Commissioners : . J. A. Green, Chairman ?H- N.'Bizzell aufi Neill McLeod". -.' The County Union is the only paper published in Harnett bounty. Subscription price $1. Subscribe "now. ""j 'ELK- i " H3 siiUi-S- W. L. Douglas $3 Shoe. Stylish, durable, perfect fitting:. Endorsed by- over 1,000,000 wearers. V. L. Douglas $3.50, $4.00 and $5 J00 Shoes are the productions of skilled workmen, from the best material pos sible at these prices Also $250 and $2 Shoes for Men, $250, $2 and $ 1.75 Boys We nseon1ythebe8tCalf,Rus8iaCalf,Freiica Patent Calf, French Enamel, Vici Kta, etc., graded to correspond with prices of the shoes. If dealer cannot supply yon, write Catalog free. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. COLD BT - liiM,lA,ASS.w,vJ J. A. MASSENGILL & Co Dunn, N- C- STATE NEWS. Items' of news gathered from ALL PARTS OF THE STATE. William White, a fisherman of Columbia, was drowned in Scuppernong river last week. He went" out in his boafc in an intoxicated condition and fell out of the boat. His body has not been found. We are informed that a beau tiful white baby girl was found ast Tuesday in Smith Creek, just across the line in Virginia, wrapped in a guano sack and staked about two feet under the water. KNo clue as to who the fiend was that did this deed. Warrenton Record.- Jim Thomas one of the gang of train robbers .who held up an xpress -train on the Louis ville and Nashville railway near Calera, Alabama, last March, was arrested in Fayette ville Saturday by the cihef of polices There was $300 . reward .for lim. Last Thursday there were shipped from points along the Wilmington and Weldon rail road between Wilmington and Goldsboro 10,000 crates of Strawberries. The regulation crate holds S2 quarts and this would make the number of quarts shipped on that day 320-, 000. The town of Wilson has suc ceeded in getting Prof. Kinsey to move his school "Kinsey Seminary" at Lagrange to that town and the contract for the building has been awarded to rD. J. Rose & Bro. The build ing will be brick'and heated by steam and have all the modern appliances. The Concord Standard comes to the front with the most thrill ing romance we have. yet heard of in North Carolina. A young lady was engaged to be married but, fell a prey consumption. They were by a creek when she told her lover she did not expect to live long and there-fore, must postpone the marriage. He de manded his ring, and finally did take it from her hand and toss it into the stream. Some time after she was fishing in the same stream and caught a catfish and in its gills she found the ring, placed it on her finger and died with it there, white her lover was in distant parts. One day last week Mr John J. Highsmith, of Hives, found a rat nest in a hollow sill under his stables. He made war upon the rats and killed one hundred and sixty grown ones and an un known quantity of little ones. A remarkable experience be fell Will Register of South Clin ton one afternoon last week. He was driving a mule in a cart along the Holmes lane near Mr. R. Page's when a swarm of bees seeking a home pitched upon the turnout. Willie was stung near "about all over," as he de scribed it, and was soon after so badly' swollen that he only knew himself by his feeling. The mule seemed unmindful of the bees and showed no signs of having been stung. Aii ox in a cart that was along was tadly stung. The bees finally rose in a flight and went on in search of a ionic Willie .and the ox since been laid up for re Sampson Democrat. haxe pairs Items of Interest to the La dies, FURNISHED BY OUR Correspondent. THE ORPHANS' rFRINB- At the intersection o the busiest streets in old New Or- leans, stands the only monu I ment ever erected to a woman's memory in America. Sur mounting the base, which bears the simple inscription "Mar garet," is the seated figure of an elderly woman, plain of feature and attire, with' a little child beside her, one of whose arms is thrown confidingly around her neck. It is Mar garet Haughery, the "Orphans' Friend," and of whom, in an swer to any query as to who she was, . no more fitting words could be said than those of Lo well in the memory of Thomas Hood : . , 'Stranger, if to thee His claim to memory seem obscure, if thou vvouldst knoyv how truly great was he ' j. Go, ask it of the poor." Among the names enrolled in the "Legend of Good Women," none better deserves to stand than that of "Margaret," by which affectionate title she was known to all New Orleans. She came of humble stopk, being the child of Irish emigrants, both of whom, father and moth er, died soon after their arrival in this country. Happily a friend was raised up for the lit tle waif, thus separated' from home and kindred by the great ocean. A Mrs. Richards, who had come over in the same ship with Margaret's parents,, re ceived the poor baby into her home and brought her up as her own child. While her tender ness and love for the- daughter of her adoption were unfailing, she still endeavored to follow out what she thought would have been the wishes of the child's own mother, and in pursuance of this object, al though herself a. Protestant, she brought Margaret up1 in the Catholic faith, in which she had' been baptized. Until she came to woman's estate Margaret continued to make her home with Mrs. Rich ards in Baltimore, only leaving her kind foster-mother to be come the wife of Mr. Haughery. Shortly after the marriage she and her husband' moved to New Orleans, thinking the change might benefit . Mr. Haughery1' s health. It did not, however, and in obedience to medical ad vice he started on a sea voyage, during which he died. -Before his poor wife had time to rally from this blow, another follow ed the death of her little girl, her only child, and Margaret wTas left desolate indeed. . Work, however, is the great est healer of grief, and Mar garet found it to be so. Throw on her own resources pecuniari ly, she took a position as dairy woman in a Catholic orphan asylum. During the years she spent there she grew to dearly love the little one,s, whose frind less condition had been her own before she endeavored to deal with them , Her heart seemed to have room for all the children in the world ; self-sacrifice was nothing to her ; she would rise at two in the morning to milch a cow for a sick child who need ed the milk. In time she extended her dairy business to outside custom and she drove about the city in her own cart, bringing in a rich harvest of money for the end she had in view the purchase of the property and erection o a building for the New Orleans Female Orphan Asylum. By the united efforts of Margaret and the Sisters who had charge of the 'Asylum, this was done. In ten years the building was debt free, still owing in great part to the labors of Margaret, who had promised to work for that cause alone until the in demnity was lifted. This purpose fulfilled, she opened an establishment of her own. Although her education was limited, and she could not "manage figures," she was yet so capable that her business in creased wonderfully, as did her bank-account . But her heart, -as ever, went out to the unfor tunate, and an unstinted supply of milk was daily giyen free to the orphan asylums of the city, and to all in any xace who stood in need. - About 18G0 she discontinued thedairy business, and estab lished a- bakery, which pros pered as well as the other busi ness had done. There was in all New Orleans no more fami liar sight than Margaret Haugh ery's bake-wagon, as it rattled through the street, its owner in side, dressed as was her custom (and as the statue represents her) in an unfashionable bon net plain prmt dress, and shawl. And, it may be added, '- there was no siaht which excited more respect; the whole city loved ana nonorea ner. feiie was called the "bread giver of New Orleans,- her bounty to the poor being 300 loaves of bread a day. Creed and nationality were nothing to her ; she gave to all whe needed, and with a hearty good-will which embo died the; spirit of the words in "Sir Launfal:" Who giveth himself with his alms feeds j three Hirn.elfv his hungeriug neighbor, and . Me." The soldiers during the" Civil War were" supplied with bread by the same generous hand, and when the yellow-fever broke out in New Orleans it was Mar garet w'ho first established the "free bread -carts." Her bake ry prospered more and more, bringing her in a large income all of which, save what supplied her owifsimple needs, she devo ted to charitable, objects. Her last will left her fortune to va rious institutions for the desti tute, including the Asylums of the city, which- the "Orphan's Friend" never forgot. At ller death her remains were placed in state, and visited by thousands of sincere mour ners . Her funeral was more largely attended than any other known to New Orleans, save that of Jefferson Davis. The procession of carriages, miles in length, included every religious order, every civic society, the clergy of all denominations, the inmates of all the asylums and the pupils of all the schools, all eager to do reverence to the memory of a woman, so unedu cated that she could not write her name, so great hearted that she, if any, could merit, the "Well done, good and- faithful servant" from the lips that said, "Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of these little ones, ye did it unto Me." ' Bride 35. .Groom 17- A Gretna Green affair 6c cured in the neighborhood coun ty of Davie Thursday - night that completely changed the natural run of events of this kind from the way they were conducted in the day of Cer y antes. j It is generally the rule for the gentleman to take the initi ative, but in this instance the "Fayre Ladye" actually did the purloining. She - surrep titiously took possession of the wagon of i, a neighbor, drove seven miles to the home of , her I beloved, with the assistance of a rope ladder helped him to escape from his - room. She then drove to Mockville, where they were married. Our correspondent requested us to withhold the names. Truly this was a singular case, but like the last chapter in the yel lowback novel, where the hero and heroine ever live happily afterward. The age of the bride is 35 and the groom 17. Salisbury World. ;" Mr, John Peterson, of Patoutville, La., was very agreeably surprised not long ago. For eighteen months he had been troubled with dysentery and had tried three of the best doctors in New Orleans, besides half a dozen or more patent medicines, but received very little relief. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, having been recommended to him, he gave it a tral 'and to his great sur prise, three doses of that remedy ef fected a permanent cure. 'Mr. Wo. McNamara, a well known merchant of the same place, is well acquainted with Mr. Peterson and attests to the truth of this statement This remedy is for sale by N. B. Hood, Druggist Dunn, N. C. - What My Lorcr Said. By the merest chance, in the twilight gloom In the orchai-d path he met me j In the tall wet grass, with its faint perfnme. Ana I tried to pass, but he made no room ; Ch. I tried, but he would not let me. So I stood and blushed till the grass gTew red. with my face bent down above it, while he took my hand, as he whispering said. How the clover lifted its sweet pink head. To listen to all that my lover said ! v Oh, the clover ih blooia 1 leve it. in the high wet grass went the path to hide. And the low wet leaves hung over, But J could not pass on either side. For I found myself when I vainly tried, in the arms of my steadfast lover. And he held me there and he raised my nead While he closed the path before me ; And he looked "down into my eyes and said How the Itaves bent down from the boughs o'erhead To listen to all that my lover said! v Oh, the leaves hanging lowly o'er me !' I am sure that he knew when he held me fast, That I must be all unwilling ; For I tried to go, and I would have passed. As the night was come with its dews t last. And the sky with its stars was filling. But he clasped me close, when I would have fled ' And he made me hear his story. And his soul came out from his lips and said-. How the stars crept out when the white moon fled To listen to all that my lover said ! , Oh, the moon and the stars In glory! I know that the grass and leaves will not tell. And I'm sure that the wind, precious rover, will carry his secret so safely and welf, i That no being shall ever discover One word of the many that rapidly fell From the eager lips of mylover. And the moon and the stars that looked over Shall never reveal what a fairy like spell They wove round about us that night in the dell, in the path through the dew-laden elover ; Nor the whisper that made my heart to swell As they fell from the lips' of my lover. y Homer Greene. HOW GEANT. PROPOSED. Romatic Stories Told -About tiJe Great General's courtship. "I first met my husband," says Mrs. U. S. Grant, "in my father's house, White Haven, near St. Louis, and it was there General Grant proposed. As to what he really said to me or I to him well I must not tell that just now. We were young there was a long separation ahead danger to the soldier for him and 'woman's usual part waiting, for me. The most ab surd stories have been published in regard to his proposal. One of them, and I think it about the most ridiculous, is that I had fallen down an embankment, and that he Julia Dent, ; at the time threw himself . on the ground, reached down and, gathering me up in his arms, protested he . wrould hold me so until I consented to mar ry him. Another is that I clung frantically to him while we were driving across a bridge on the Gravois, and that as we reached the opposite bank he proposed tliat I should cling to him always. I have often laughed at the absurdity of these stories no less than at the count less different ways in- which writers have made the General propose." ' General Grant's own, account of the engagement's as follows : "There is an insignificant creek -the Gravois between Jeffer son Barracks and the place to which I was going, and at that day there was not a bridge oyer it from its source to its mouth. It had been raining heavily. I found the banks full to over flowing and th current rapid. So I struck into the stream and headed the horse toward the other bank, and soon reached it, wet through. I went on, how ever, to my destination, and borrowed a dry suit from my future brother-in-law. We were not of the same size but the clothes answered until I got more of my own. "Before I returned I mustered up courage make known, in the most awkward manner im aginable, the discovery I had made on learning that the Fourth Infantry had been or? dered away from Jefferson Bar racks. The vounff lady after- ward admitted that she, too, al though until then she had never looked upon me other than as a visitor whose company was ' A. agreeable to her, had eper iericd a depression of spirits she could not account for when the regiment left. Before separa ting it was definitely understood that at convenient times we would join our fortunes and not let the removal of a regiment trouble us. This was in may 1844. It was- August 22, 1848. before the fullfilment of this agreement." Ex. How ''The Conqured Banner Written- was Many years ago a young? lar T gave rather Ryan as a Christmas gift a N pretty little scroll of "The Conquered Ban ner," After thanking her he said: "Some people have said this is a great poem, but I nev er thought so, and but for a poor woman who had little, edu cation, but whose heart was full of love for the South, it would have been swept out of the house and burnt ; and you would have never made this pretty book mark for me." He then told her the circumstances under which it was written. "I was at Knoxville," lie said, "when the news of the surrender came. It was night, and many of the regiment of which I was chaplfn were quar tered with me in the old lady's house. An old comrade came in and said to me, 'All is lost ; General Lee has surrendered.' I looked at him, and knew by his whitened face that the news was too true. I simply said. 'leave me alone, r and he went out of the room. I bowed my head upon the table and wept long and bitterly. Then a thou sand thoughts came rushing through my brain. I could not control them. That banner had been conquered, and its folds must be furled, but its story had to be told. I looked around for something to write on ; but we were very poor in those days, and I could find nothing but a piece of brown wrapping paper tied about an old pair of shoes thafc a friend had sent me. I seized this piece of paper and wrote on it "The Conquered Banner." I then went to bed, leaving the lines on the table. The next morning the regiment was ordered away and I thought no more ot tliem. wnat was my astonishment a few weeks later to see them, oyer my name, in a .Louisville paper. The pooi woman, in whose house we were quartered, had picked up the piece of paper and-was about to throw it into the fire, when she saw some writing on it. She said she sat down and read it and cried over it, and then sent a copy of it to the Louisville newspaper. And that was' how "The Conquered Banner" got into print." Ex. ' Wages in 1800. What we call "workingmen, ' "the mechanic,'" had no exis tence as classes. Labor was performed almost exclusively in the. south by slaves, and in the north yerj largely by men and women who for the tune be ing were no better than slaves: All over the free states were thousands of Irishmen, Scotch- men, Ji.ngnsnmen, uermans, who in return for transportation from.theold world to the new had bound themselves by indenture to serve the captain of the ship that brought them over. Sol diers in the army received $3 a month. Farm hands in ISew England were given $4 a month arid found their own clothes. Unskilled laborers toiled 12 hours per i day for 50 cents. Workmen or the turnpikes then branching out in every direction were housed in rude sheds, fed coarse food and given $4 per month from November to May and $G from May to November. When the road from Genesee river to Buffalo was, under con struction in 1812, though which it 'went was' the, frontier, men were hired in plenty for $12 per month in cash and their board, lodgings and a daily allowance of whiskey. John McMaster in Atlantic. " I like my sandwiches with the bread cut -thin," said Mr. Googleby, "but I seldom try to make them that way myself, for them always make me angry the bread crumbles and curls up so when 1 try to spread it. Mrs; Googleby has no such trou ble, however and this morning I discovered why ; she butters the cut end of the loaf before cutting off the slice. Simple, aint it? And Mrs. Googleby tells me it's as old as the .hills." 1 A BIG GAME PRESERVE. Proposition to ' lease 212,840 - acres of swampland. An application has been re ceived by the State Board of Ed ucation from Fayette C. Giles, or "Turf, Field and Farm," Park Row, New York, who de sires' to lease 212,840 acres of land in Eastern North Carolina, for the purpose of completing an association of Northern gentle men for a game preserve and winter resort. Mr. Giles, in making this ap plication, is acting in behalf of thej"Field and Shore Associa-' tiori," which was incorporated by the" last Legislature. The objects of this association, as set fourth in these articles of incorporation, are the preserva tion, importation, breeding and propagation of all game ani mals, birds and fishes of both Europe and America, which are adapted to the waters of tho State, and to tho different sec tions where the association may operate ; the affording of facili ties for hirnting, shooting and fishing, on . its .grounds to its , stockholders, and the issuing of permits to others, subject to its rules and regulations ; the culti vation of forests, furnishing its stockholders and others with agreeable summer and winter resorts, respectablo hotels, cot tage houses and anything neces sary or proper for their accom modation. The headquarters of this association are to be atltho city of Newborn. In this proposition for leasing this preserve, with an option of purchase, Mr. Giles sets forth that large bodies of land are necessary for came .parks for- deer, bear and other game, be sides fields for good quail shoot- ing, and seacoast and lakes for ducks. These, of course should be easily and quickly accessible by -vater and land from head quarters, arid they must be adapted to the purposo for which they are intended. On behalf of the "Iield and Shore Association," as lessor, Mrs. Giles asks for a lease of these lands and waters for a term of ninety-nine years, with an option of purchase at .any time during the lease, or upon any part thereof . The pur chase price offered is at tho rate of fifteen cents per acre, for the amount purchased, for both land and water. The amount of annual rental to be paid by the lessee, for tho first two years is to be the nominal sum of $10 per acre, jor tno remaining ninety-seven years the annual rental is to be 5 per cent, upon the amount the lands and waters leased would amount to, com puted at the rate of 15 cents per acre. For instance 300,000 acres at 15 cents per acre would amount to $45,000, which, at 5 per cent would amount to $2, 250 per annum for rental. The lessor does not, however, propose to pay any taxes except for such permanent improve ments as may be put upon tho property. This lease is to con fer upon the lessor all the rights and privileges of ownership in and over these lands and waters, including the right to cut and sell timber and wood. 1 Mr. Giles says his association intends to bring into the State many hundreds of the wealthi est men from New York, Boston, Chicago and from all sections of the East and Middle States. They will be men who will have capital and will make such in vestments in the state as they deem advantageous. These lands .'comprise eight tracts, as follows : (1 ) Carteret county open lands, between Core. Sound, North River and Neuso River, comprising 106, 000 acres; (2) White Oak Swamp in Onslow and Jones counties, 90,000 acres; (3) Long Lake in Jones county, 1,280 acres; (4) Ellis Lake, comprising about 1,5G0 acres ; (5) Great Lake, 3,000 acres ; (6) Catfish Lake, 1,000 acres; (7) Catfish PocOsin, in Jones and Craven counties, 8,000 acres; (8) Dover Pocosin, in Jones county, acreage unknown: News and Observer. If you want to get the homo news subscribe for this paper.