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'."-'?V "'i.; ''u' r" v '"'J-. JV-: f 4tv y 1.1 Si': if'.-.... r i. 4- NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. "Ob, Johnny, Johnny, get vour gun As quick as e'r vou can." "What, tramp ?" inquired the old mans' i son; "No, 'tis the census man. ', News and Observer. The negro camp meeting near Raleigh has proved a dismal failure. William Wood a Goldsboro colored man suffered a $500 loss to his house by fire. The board of justices of Wake county have elected the old board of county commissioners. Daniel White was tried at Raleigh on the charge of counterfeiting and got six years in the penitentiary. At Oxford Bishop Lyman has orduined as deacons Junius M. Horner, ot that place, and Dr. Drake, of Minnesota. Out of seventy-two applicants for li cense as physicians examined by the State Medical Board forty-five have been li censed. D. M. Fuller's horse was shot at Smith field while it was grazing in the held. It had to be killed. The scoundrel who did the act is not known. While at Richmond the North Caro lina troops organized a drum corps and Mr. J. T. Davis, of Durham, was elected major and placed in command. During the month of May Winston shipped 715,255 pounds of manufac tured tobacco. During the same month Danville, Va., shipped GOO. 751 pounds. Mayor Fowler, of Raleigh, has re ceived a gold medal from congress in recognition of his meritorious .act in saving a human life from death at sea. F. L. Brown, of Wilmington, is re ported as purchasing twelve acres of land on which to erect a manufacturing plant to cost between $4-0,000 and $50, 000. Mr. Sam Black, of Raleigh, has sold two fillies by Pamlico, foaled this spring, for S500, which is said to be the highest price ever paid for suckling colts in North Carolina. Columbus county's finances are in a healthv condition. The county is out oi .lent, wii n a surplus oi nearly imir tnou- san.i oo.iars in tne treawir, . x ..c ... hi iiccii tor i hf mieruil tux nexL ve.'ir. A Charlotte man who had invested in a nickle iu the slot machine which hands out a cigar, ojiened it a tew days ago and found 48 car seals which had been beaten out and put in instead of nickles. The representative of an electric light company is said to have his eyes dead set on Rockingham, and the prospects for the city having a system of its own is so bright'that the smallest print can be read by it. A meeting of the Board of Internal Im provements has been called to be held next Saturday to consider important matters relative to the Albemarle and Chesapeake and the New Bern? and Beau fort canals. From the many letters we reecive from iAfiffvrent parts of the district it is very clear that Hon. W: H. Kitchin is- strong in the district, and his friends are anxious lor his nomination to Congress. Scot- land Neck Democrat. The Raleigh Chronicle is advocating the erection of a big hotel in the capital city. In Asueville The Citizen has to keep hustling to keep up with all ot the proposed ne ones without advocating anv. Mr. G. F. Barnhardt, of Mt. Pleasant, showed us a bullet Wednesday taken out of a tree. Counting the rings in the tree the bullet had been then- 49 years. It was discovered by a saw striking it at Moser's mill Concord Times. And still the most gratifying reports come from the farmers from every quar ter as to crops. It no unfavorable freaks of nature belall, it is the general verdict that the very finest harvest ever known in this country will bless the tanners labors in the fall. Goldsboro Argus. The work of completing the Governor's mansion at Raleigh is progressing rapid ly and visible results of the progress are to be noticed. The columns are to be pnt in all the porticos of the building and ouite an improvement is noticed in the general appearance. Our reporter learned from Dr. Hadey, of La Grange, that although about 500 work hands went from Lenoir, county to Mississippi, there will still be a good crop of cotton, corn and rice made, unless there should be an accident between now and harvest. The supply of labor is but little reduced . Greensboro Workman. Walter Taylor, an employe of Holmes & Miller's factory at Salisbury, dropped dead daring an altercation with a negro boy. He had accused the negro of steal ing a watch and upon the negro's picking tip a stone Taylor strnck him and imme diately fell dead. Heart failure is ascribed as the, cause oi death. , Near Elk Park, Mitchell county, week before last, a Mr. Wagoner and a Miss Crow were married. Last Friday night some daring lover of the woman went to Wagoner's and stole her while her hus , band slept, and also took $40 of Wagon er's money. The latter individual is Marching for his lost funds, caring more : for them than for his missing wife, s The Saddler gold mine, near Sifford's Ferry, on the Catawba river, is to be worked. Jas.-Ax.tim,- of Hot Springs, , Arkansas, and T. T, McCord, of Paw Creek township, have leased eighty-one . acres oi land from J. H. Saddler for min ing purposes. They will put in the most improved mining machinery, and begin ' operations as early as possible. The mine is thought to be a rich one. ' The commissions for A. B. Andrews and T. B. Keogh as commissioners . ou tbe part of North Carolina at the World's Fair at Chicago have been received by the Governor from Secretary: of State Blaine. Tbev are signed by the President to whom the 'Governor nominated the commissioners, r The commissions to the Alternates, JBlias Carrand G. A. Bingham ;were also received, ana ail were sent out Mr. Louis Barnhofcn, the baker at the T land Beach hotel, caught a fine turtle fht in front of the hotel.. He v bi d 2u0 pounds, measured four feet f i k-Ik s in length, and two feet four i,.. !. s in widih. A half bushel of wel) de v ! 1 e -a were taken from this turtle, ! ' s a l.iq'e ti"- l -r of smaller sizes. t ev i I e turtle soup at the i li t.i i j X. '.!:' 'n'jton Me- A SERMON 1M WOliKEES REV. DR. CALMAGE PREACHES JEL0 GUENTL.Y TO BUSINESS MEN. Hla Text Taken from Job: "I Am Es caped with the Skin of My Teeth." Weary Laborer Can Find Peace In God' Haven. Brooklyn, May 4. After the Long meter Doxology and appropriate hymns had been sung by the congre gation, in the Academy of Music, and prayers had been offered, Dr. Talmage preached ou "Narrow Escapes," taking as his text Job xix, 20: "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." Following is his sermon in full: Job had it hard. What with boils and bereavement and bankruptcy, and a fool of a wife, he wished he was dead ; and I do not blame him. His flesh was gone, and his bones were dry. His teeth wasted away uufcil nothing but the enamel seemed left. He cries out, '"I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." There has been some dif ference of opinion about this passage. St. Jerome and Schultens, and Drs. Good and Poole and Barnes, have all tried their forceps on Job's teeth. You deny my interpretation, and say, "What did Job know about the en amel of the teeth?" He knew every thing about it. Dental surgery is al most as old as the earth. The mum mies of Egypt, thousands of years old, are found today with gold tilling in their teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solomon and Moses wrote about these important factors of the body. To other provoking coitsalaints, Job, I think, has added au exasperating toothache, and putting his baud against the inflamed face, he says, "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." NARROW ESCAl'KS. A very narrow escapo, you say, for i Job's body and soul; but there are I thousands of men who make iust as nam)w escape for their soul. Tliero was t; , tfa tition bctween 1 tli am a n l l m nrno nr fliij-tlr.iw tlion n iii-iu nun a uiu v jvs iiuv.ni. i biiau a tooth's enamel ; but as Job finally es caped, so have they. Thank God I Thank God 1 l'aul expresses the same idea by a different tigure when he says that some people are "saved ashy lire. A vessel at sea is in flames. You go to the stern of the vessel. The boats have shoved off. The flames advance; you can endure the heat no longeron your face. You slide down on the side of the vessel, and hold on with your fingers until the forked tongue of the nre oegms to iick tne oack ot your hand, and you feel that you must fall, when one of the lifeboats comes back, anjl the passengers saj4hey think they have, "room? 'for one "more. The boat swings under you you drop into it you are saved. So some, men are pur sued by temptation until they are par tially consumed, but, after all, get off "saved as by fire. But I like the figure of Job a little better than that of Paul, because the pulpit has -not worn it out; and I want to show you, if God will help, that some men make narrow escape for their souls, and are saved as "with the skin of their teeth." It is as easy for some people to look to the cross as for you to look to this pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, lov ing, you expect them to become Chris tians. You go over to the store and say: "Grandon joined the church yes terday." Your business comrades say : "That is just what might have been expected; he always was of that turn of mind." In youth this person whom I describe was always good. He never broke things. He never laughed when it was improper to laugh. At 7 he could sit an hour in church, perfectly quiet, looking neither to the right hand nor to the left, but straight into the eyes of the minister, as though he understood the whole discussion about the eternal decrees. He never upset things nor lost them. He floated into the kingdom of God so gradually that it is uncertain just when the matter was decided. THS OOBPKL NET. Here is another one, who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept the nursery in an uproar. His mother found him walking on the edge of the house roof to see if he could balance himself. There waa no horse that he dared not ride no tree he could not climb. , His boyhood was a long series of predicaments; his man hood was reckless; his midlife very wayward. But now be is converted, Aiid you go over to the store and say, "Ark wright joined the church yester day." Your friends say, Vlt is not possible I You must be joking." ' You say, "No; I tell you the truth.' He Joined the church," Then they repl "mere la nope tor any oi us u o Arkwright has become a Christian 1" In other words, we will, admit that it is more difficult for some men to ac cept the Gospel than for others. : I may' be preaching to some who have . cut : loose from . churches and Bibles and Sundays, and who have come in here with no intention of' be coming Christians. 1 themselves, but just to see what is going on ; and yet Sou may find yourself escaping, be ore you leave this house, as "with the skin of your teeth.", I do not expect to waste this hour. J have seen boats go off from Cape May or Long Branch, and drop their nets, and after awhile come ashore pulling in the nets, with' out having caught a single fish. It was not a good day, or they had not the right kind of a net. , But we ex beet no such excursion today, ins water is full of fish, the wind is in the rlfcht direction, the Gospel net Is $ U-ong. Uii tnou WHO puut uejp u- THE IVlSEigjY mon and Andrew to fish, show us to day how to cast the net on the right side of the ship f S ? , J-l Some of you, in coming to God, will have to run' against Skeptical nations. It is useless for people to say sharp and cutting things to those who reject the Christian religion. I cannot say such things. By what process of tempta tion or trial or betrayal you have oorae to your present state, I know' not. There are two gates to your nature ; the gajte of the head, and the gate of the heart. The gate of your head is locked with bolts and bars that an arch angel could not break, but the gate of your heart swings easily ou its hinges. If I assaulted your body with weapons, you would moot me with weapons, and it would be sword stroke for sword stroke, and wound for wound, and blood for blood; but if I come and knock at the door of your house, you open it, and give me the best seat in your parlor. If I should come at you now with an argument, you would answer me with an argument; if with sarcasm, you would answer me with sarcasm; blow for blow, stroke for stroke; but when I come aud knock at the door of your heart, you open it and say, "Conio iu, my brother, and tell me all you know about Christ and heaven." THREE QUESTIONS. Listen to two or throe questions: Are you as happy as you used to be when you bulieved in the truth of the Christian religion? Would you like to have your ehildren travel on in the road in which you are now traveling; You had a rolative who professed to be a Christian, and was thoroughly con sistent, living and dying in the faith of the Gospel. Would you not like to live the samo quiet life, and die the .same peaceful death? I have a letter, sent me by one who h;is rejected the Christian religion. It says: ' I am old enough to know that the joys and pleasures of life are evanescent, and to realize the fact thutit must be com fortable in old age to believe in some thing relative to the future, aud to have a faith iu some system that pro poses to save. I am free to confess that I would be happier if I coulJ exercise the simple and beautiful faith that is possessed by many whom I know. 1 am not willingly out of the church ov out of the faith. My stato of uncer taiuty is one of unrest. Sometimes 1 doubt my immortality, and look upon the deathbed as the closing scene, after which there is nothing. What shall 1 do that I Wave not done?" Ah 1 skepticism is a dark aud doleful land. Let me say that this Biblo is either true or false. If it bs false, we are as well off as you ; if it be true, then which of us is safer? Let me also ask whether your trou ble has not been that you confounded Christianity vwith the inconsistent character of some who profess it. You are a lawyer. Iu your profession there are mean and dishonest men. Is that anything against the law? You are a doctor. There are unskilled and con temptible men in vour profession. Is that anything against medicine You are a merchant. There are thieves and defraudere in your business. Is that anything against merchandise)? Be hold, then, the unfairness of charging upon Christianity the wickedness of its disciples. We admit some of the charges against those who profess re ligion. Some of the most gigantic swindles of the present day have been carried on by members of the church. There are men standing in the front rank in the churches who would not be trusted for five dollars without good collateral security. They leave their business dishonesties in the vestibule of the church as they go in and sit at the communion. Having concluded the sacrament, they get up, wipe the wine from their lips, go out and take up their sins where they left off. To serve the devil is their regular work ; to serve God, a sort of play spell. With a Sunday sponge they expect to wipe off from their business slate all the past week's inconsistencies. You have no more right to take such a man's life as a specimen of religion than you have to take the twisted irons and split timbers that lie on the beach at Coney Island as a specimen of an American ship. It . is .time that we draw a line between religion and the frailties of those who profess it ; THE BIBLE IS THE BEST BOOK. Do you not feel that the Bible, take it all in all, is about the best book that the world has ever seent Do you know any book that has as much in it? Do you not think, upon the whole,' that its influence has been beneficent! " I come to you with both hands extended toward you.' In one band I have the Bible, and in the other I have noth ing. This Bible in one hand I will sur render forever just as soon as in my other hand you can put a book that is better. . Today I invite you back into the good old religion, of your fathers to the God whom they worshiped, to the Bible they read, to the promises on vhich they leaned, to the cross on whiclv they hung their eternal expec tations. You have not' been happy a day' since you swung off ; you will not be happy a minute until you swing back.' I . i , ' ' ,tu ". ; ' Agains There may be some of you who, in the attempt after a Christian life, will have to run against powerful passions and appetites. Perhaps it Is a disposition to anger that you have to contend against, and perhaps, while in very serious mood, you hear of some thing that makes you- feel that you must swear or die. I know a Christian man who waa once so exasperated that he said to a mean customer, "I cannot swear at you mysolf, for I am a mem aJtTKjk ber of the burch ; )but if you go'down stairs mf: partner in business. --wjll swear at you." All your good esalur tions heretofore have been torn to tat ters by explosion of temper. Now there is no harm in getting mad If you only get mad at sin. You need to bridle and saddle those hot breathed passions, and with them ridetlown in justice and wrong. There are a thou sand things in the world that we ought to be mad at. There is no harm in getting red hot if you only bring to the forge that which ueods hammer ing. A man who' has no power of righteous indignation is an imbecile. But be sure it is a righteous indigua tion, and not a petulancy that bhirs and unravels and depletes the soul. There is a large class of persons in midlife who have still in them appe tites that were aroused ia early man hood, at a time when tliey , prided theinsolves on being a "little fast," "high livers," "free and easy," "hail fellows well met." They are now pay ing, m compound interest, tor troubles tliey collected t weuty years ago. Some of you are trying to escapo, and you will yet very narrowly, "as with the skin of your toeth." God and your own soul only know what the struggle is. Omnipotent grace has pulled out many a soul that was deeper in the mire than you are. They line the beach of heaven the multitude whom God has rescued from the thrall of suicidal habits. If you this day turn your lxie'.t on the wrong and start anew (.ul will help you. Oh, the weakie'.ss of human help! Men will symputUizo for awhile ami then turn you oil'. If you ask for their pardon they will give it and say they will try you again; but, falling away aain under the power of temptation, they cast you oiT forever. iJut God for gives seventy times seven; yea, seven hundred times; yea, thou.rh this be the ton thousandth time. He is more earnest, nuvo sympathetic, more help ful this last time than when you took your first misstep. A ViL-TOS AT LAST. If, with all the inlluences favorable for a rirht life, men mako so many mistakes, how much harder is it when, for instance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into tlio roots of tlia tongue, and pulls a man down with hands of destruction I If, under such circumstances, he break away, there will be no sport in the undertaking, no holiday enjoyment, but a struggle in which the wrestlers move from side to side, and bend and twist, aud watch for au opportunity to get in a heavier stroke, until with one final effort, in which the muscles are distended, and the veins stand out, and the blood starts, the swarthy habit falls under the knee of the -victor escaped at last as "with the skin of his teeth." The ship Emma, bound fromGotten burg to Harwich, was sailing on, when the man on the lookout saw something that ho pronounced a vessel bottom up. There was something ou it that looked like a sea gull, but was after ward found to ho a waving handker chief. In the small boat the crew pushed out to the wreck, and found that it was a capsized vessel, and that three men had been digging their way out through the bottom of the ship. When the vessel capsized they had no means of escape. The captain took his penknife and dug away through the planks until his knife broke. Then an old nail was found, with which they attempted to scrape their way out of the darkness, each one working until his hand was well nigh paralyzed, and he sank hack faint and sick. .After long and tedious work, the light broke through the bottom or the ship. A handkerchief was hoisted. Help came. They ware taken on board the vessel and. saved. Did ever men come so near a watery grave without dropping into itt How narrowly they eseaped t escaped only'with the skin of their teeth." There are men who have been cap sized of evil passions, and capsized mid-ocean, and they are a thousand miles away from any shore of help. They . have for years been trying to dig , their way out.. They have been digging away and digging away, but they can never be delivered unless they will hoist some signal of distress. However weak and feeble it may be, Christ will see it, and bear down upon the helpless craft and take them on board; and it will be known in earth and in heaven how narrowly they es caped "escaped as with the skin of their teeth." ' - ','.. :: B0SINE8S PERPLEXITIES. ';:'.-! f ..' There are others who, in attempting to coma to God, must run between a great many business perplexities." . If a man go over to business at 1Q o'clock in the morning, and comes away at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, he has some time for- religion ; but bow shall you find time for' religious contemplation when you are driven from Sunrise to unset, and have been for five years going behind in business, and are fre quently dunned by creditors whom you cannot pay, and when, from Mon day morning until Satarday night, you are dodging bills that you cannot meet! "You walk day by day in un certainties that have kept your brain oil fire for the past three years.. I Some with' less business trouble than you have gone crazy. The clerk has heard a noise in the. back counting room, and gone in and found the chief man of the firm, raving maniac; or the wife has heard the bang of pistol in the back parlor, and gone in, stum-. blin'g over the dad body of her .hus band a suicide. ? v ' '.;, There are in this house today three UUU VA A QU U1DU UUISUOU. UMWVIUV NV14 4on down and scalped of business fr-r. llSOgW dexities, and which way to turn nex tijey do not know. JSow, God will not be hard on you. , He knows what oW stacles are jn the way of youif being a Christian, and yqu.r fi'wt effort in the right direction &tf via crown with sue oess. Do not let Satan, with cotton bales and kegs and hogsheads aud counters and stocks of unsalable goods, block up your way to heaven. Gather up aU your energies. Tighten the girdle about your loins. Take an ago nizing look into the face of God, then say, "Here goes one grand effort for life eternal I" and then bound away for heaven, escaping as with the skin of your teeth." CHRISTIAN HEROES. In the last day it will be found that Hugh Latimer and John Enox and IIuss and Ridley were not the great est martvrs, but Christian men who went up incorrupt from the contami nations and perplexities of Wall street, Water street, Pearl street, Broad street, State street and Third street. On earth they were called brokers, or stock jobbers, or retailers, or importers; but in heaven, Chris tian heroes. No fagots were heaped about their feet; no inquisitiou de manded from them recantation; no soldier aimed a pike at their heart; but tliey had mental tortures compar ed with which all physical consuming is as the breath of a spring morning. I find in the community a large class of men who have been so cheated, so lied about, so outrageously wronged, that they have lost their faith in every Hiing. In a world where everything seems so topsy-turvey thoy do not see how thoro cull bo any God. They are confounded and frenzied and misan thropic. Elaborate arguments to prove to them the truth of Christianity, or the truth of anything else, touch them nowliero. Hear me, all such men. I preach to you no rounded periods, no ornamental discourse, birt put my hand on your shoulder and invite yo into tib peace of the gospel. Here "is a rock on which you may stand firm, though the waves dash against it harder than the Atlantic, pitching its surf clear above Eddy stone lighthouse. Do not charge upon God all these troubles of the world. .s long as the world stuck to God, God stuck to the world; but the earth seceded from his government, aud hence all these out-rages-and all these woes. God is good. For many hundreds of years he has been coaxing the world to come back to him ; but the more he has coaxed the more violent have men been in their resistance, and they have stepped back and stepped back until they have dropped into ruin. Try this God, ye who have had the bloodhounds after you, aud who hate thought that .God had- forgotten you. Try hiin, and see if he will not help. Try him, and see if he will not pardon. Try him, and see if he will not save. The flowers of spring'" have no bloom so sweet as the flowering of Christ's affections. The sun hath no warmth compared with the glow of his heart The waters have no refreshment like the fountain that will slake the thirst of thy souL At the moment the rein deer stands with his lip and nostril thrust in the cool mountain torrent the hunter may be coming through the thicket. Without crackling a stick under his foot he comes close by the stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and the poor tiling rears iu its death agony aud falls backward, its antlers crashing on the rocks; but the pant ing hart that drinks from the water brooks of God's promise shall never be fatally wounded and shall never die. THE WORLD A POOB' PORTIOS. ' The world is a poor portion for your soul, oh business man I An eastern king had graven on his tomb two fingers, represented as sounding upon each other x with a snapj and under them the motto, "All is not worth that" Apicius Ccelius hanged him self because his steward informed him that he had only eighty thousand pounds sterling left All of this world's riches make but a small in heritance for aiL Robespierre at tempted to win 1Mb . applause of thel world; but when he was dying a wo man came rushing through, the crowd, rying to him, ,yMurderer of my kin dred, descend. to hell, covered with the curses of every mother in France I" Many who have expected the plaudits of the world have died under its Anath ema Maranatha.'", ' . y ;- Oh, find your peace in God. Make one strong pull for heaven. '- No half way work will doit 1 There sometimes comes a time on shipboard when every thing must be sacrificed to save the passengers. 1 The cargo is nothing, the rigging nothing. The oaptain puts the trumpet to his lips and shouts, "Cutaway the mastt" . Some of you have been tossed and driven, and you have in your effort to keep the world well nigh lost your soul. Until you have decided this matter let everything else go. - Overboard, with all those other anxieties and burdens I. You will have to drop the sails of your pride, and cut away the mast .With one earnest cry for help, put your cause into the hand of him tho helped Paul out of the breakers of Melita, and who, above the shrill blast of tbe wrathiest tempest that ever blackened the sky or shook the ocean, can hear the faint est imploration for mercy. " . I shall go horns today feeling that some of you, who ' have considered your case as hopeless, will take heart again, and that, with a blood red earn estness, such as you have never ex perienced before, you will start f r fie good land of the Qonnel nt 1 t to look back, saying: "Wl?l ft rink I ran! Almost loHt, but i -v.M Just rot through, and no ' . I liicaped Ly the akin of my 1 ." . NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. ; ti . , -. Oxford thinks it has a boom. 'Reidfville' ia trying hard to organize a chamber Of commerce.' The North Carolina Dental Association, meets at Wilmington June 25-27. High Point's Y. M.iC. A. numbers 1 25 active and twenty associate members. It is now said' that no steps will be taken to prosecute the Johnston lynch--ers. . .. Wadesboro has voted to subscribe $40, 000 to the Koanoke and Southern rail- s road. Bethel pastorate, Stanly county, has called and secured the service of Kev. C C. Lyerly of the Southern Illinois synod. Fifteen hnmii.0 nimrtti Dn. ...rnp.1 I' " "--- - lnnS fit rnnmnl ni Ayf n,rlur mirrlif XliAir . ..."I.l.llj IJ.1'1.. . .1 V- started at once to Philadelphia, where: iney are ownea. V. T. Howard has been appointed' postmaster fit Red Oak; R. Brem at Swam Quarter W. Q. Denton at Rito ; J. H. Edwards at BattTeboro. The Richmond Dispatch does itself credit and justice to history when it says of North Carolina : "She was in a irreat part the reliance of Lee in the time that tried men's souls." The boot and shoe dealers of Wilming ton will give their clerks a half holiday on every Fridav afternoon. The new or der of things will begin June 6th and last until August loth. Col. T- D. Cameron has been mentioned for the chair of history about to be be es tablished at the State University. No better selection could be made for such an important position. Franklin Press. It is said that Rev. T. D. Arnold, of Rcidsville, will be president of the Ashe villc Female College next session. Char lotte Chronicle. This would be an in teresting item it it did not lack backing. Mrs. Joseph McGhee of Oxford lies in a critical condition, the result of a fire in her home in which she was severely burned. Mrs. Parris, a sister of the un fortunate woman, was badlv burned about the face aud hands. Last evening a woman boarded the northbound train at the depot. When the conductor came around she lacked eight cents of having enough mi ney to pay her way to Salisbury aud she was put oft". Concord Standard. George Miller, a Concord colored man celebrated Decoration day at Salisbury and took a pint of corn liquor to help hnn do it. At nieht he was nrcttv drunk and when he went to sleep on the railroad track it didn't hurt him quite so much perhaps to be tud over as it would if he had been sober. It killed him just the same. The fine iron gray horse that Oen. Fitz- hugh Lee rode at the head of the proces sion at the unveiling of the Lee monu ment, belonged to Mrs. George D. Ben nett, of Goldsboro. When ex-Gov. Lee saw the horse he said : "If I had hunted tbe 5tate of Virginia over with a fine tooth comb I could not havefound a finer , animal.V-.,, . -..,. -,:, , J. . The last issue of the Southern Tobacco Journal contained this editorial briefr W mston will vote on the question of is-' suing $200,000 worth ot bonds for city improvements, including streets, city hall and market house. That is the steo which places the Twin City far ahead of any place in North Carolina.'; Of course theTnbacco Journal meant to except Asheville. A special from Raleigh to the Richmond Dispatch says: There is an unusual amount of interest in the Universitycom menctmestjiextweek. , A special to-night saysjtidge Tenu-sGranfi', former of Iowa, now in California, who is a native ot this State, will respond to the toast, "Old University Times" at the banquet on Wednesdav. The veteran editor of the class of 1835, Colonel R. B. Creecy, of Elizabeth City will respond to a similar toast . Since the -death of Governor Geo. W. Hayward, the oldest graduate of the University of Korta Carolina is Dr. Thos, Hill; of GoldsQorb. formerly o : Wiltnuig- tool pi;tbeClajsp( 1822. KJ ' j The weekly weather crop bulletin of the State Experiment Station and Weath er Service forthis week, issued Saturday, says: There has been a decided excess of . rainfall, but about the normal condition -of temperature and sunshine daring the -week ending Friday, May 30, i890. No damage is reported; except worn a few counties where the overflowing streams damaged the lowland crops, and tbe gen eral effect has been very favorable upon the crops. A comparison of tbe condition and" progress of the crops during May,. . 1890, with the corresponding period last year shows that the season is not only further advanced this year, but the con dition of almost all crops is far better, so that with normal weather the season of 1890 is likely to prove a splendid one. , The heaviest rainfall occurred at Lumber- ' ton, Robeson county, being 5.03 inches. J in one day. Farmers are welL up with their work. Nearly all the farmers have' ' wellnigh finished setting out tobacco plants. Wheat and oats continue to1 irn pro.ve" " ' ' ( -" And the Editor atliiUvea.' ' ' ; Last Wednesday at 1 o'clock, 'the hand- -some and fine-looking Mr. Applewhite, of Freeman's, N. C, led to the altar Miss Rosa Rhodes, of this place. Mr. Apple white is a young and energetic and high' moral and very prosperous mercha and is in every respect most worthy the rare and precious jewel which he won for the coronet of his heart and home. The bride is one of Wilson's Ir liest and most popular and most radi. young ladies, ana her sparkling con sation and her radiant spirits will Ii . up the dearest recesses of human nat with the luminous rays of the bright cheer and comfort, and we therefore ca. congratulate the fortanate groom upon the rich treasure he has won, and we hope he will guard and prize it with affec- tionate and tenderest interest ; for a wo-i man's faith and a good wife's love are-', God's best gifts to man, for they make a lite a pleasant dream, and earth a glotr- ous Eden.rWilson Mirrow. . r,:.'''Wls),;'Mlcsj (tcblnn; riles. . Symptoms Moisture; intense itching and stinging; most at night r worse by form, which often bleed and ulcerate, be- ; coming very sore. Swnvne's Ointment . t At.-. 11 .. . . . iuw mc iicmmr on i uiccuing, neaiS ulceration. -and in mo t casern nmnva. the tumors. At Vr- tatei, or by mail. .. for 60 cents, ir. t way at & Son, Phila delphia. dec.l9w6m. ft
The Semi-Weekly Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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