■of Scotia, ■of duty. ■ft is reported that P. H. Winston is now running for Congress as a Democrat out in Idaho. O tcmjw , 0 mores ! Kiv. li. H. Collett the new pastor at the Graham street M, E. church arrived last week and occupied his pulpit last Sunday Zion church gave a festival and fair at Carson’s Hall on Thursday and Friday nights to aid in raising the general funds of the church. Wo arc glad to learn of the promotion of Mr. A. B. Lind from a S9OO to a SI2OO position in the Treasury Depart merit at Washington. Mies Ella Cantev is suffering severely with a wounded foot. She stepped on a n il a v eek ago that pierced the foot, making a serious wound. "■» ■ The long prayed for rain came last Tuesday. We had a slight shower in the morning, and in the afternoon we had enough to make all happy. Mr. W. J. Tucker of Raleigh, was in the city this week posting bills for the colored fair week after next. He re ports the outlook very encouraging. Another of the best of our graded school teachers has resigned. Miss Vic toria Richardson has left us to accept a position in the Asheville normal school. The rain prevented a full meeting of tbo Oriole last Tuesday night. The members are all requested to meet at Bishop Lomax’ next Tuesday night to elect officers. The Central N. C. Conference of the A. M. E. Zion church has been post poned till the first Wednesday in De cember. It meets at Lincolnton, and Bishop Hood will preside. An extra term of the Superior court has been ordered for this county to con vene en the 22nd of November. It will continue two weeks and try civil cases only. Judge Montgomery will preside. Mr. and Mrs. Albery Sutton have the sympatoy of their many friends in the loss of their child. It was about nine weeks old and died last Wednesday morning. Mrs. Sutton is 6till very ill. Montgomery and Meßea is the i’anc of anew (inn just opened in the grocery business in Concord. G. V. Montgom ery and Itobt. Mcßca are well known citizens of Cabarrus and ought to suc ceed. The dust is now laid, the weather pleasant, ootton coming in nicely, money circulating, alt our people looking for ward to the fairs, and all are happy ex cept the independent, and he “cares for nobody.” W. E. Mayo is the Knight of I.abor 1 candidate for Congress from this District. He is in good stand ng in the order, and some one will be made to suffer after this election for slandering the character of a brother knight. Among persons going to the colored j fair in Raleigh, we mention Mrs. Della Evens, Misses Mary IJarner, Anna F. Hayes, and Eliza Houser, Dr. .1. T. Williams, .Messrs. J. M Goode, L. P. Perry, J. E. Ratley, J. F. White, and Frank Henry. We regret our inability to attend the marriage of MUs Bettie Archibald to Mr. G. V. Morrtjomery, on last Wednes day night in Concord. The reception was on Thursday night at Mrs. Eliza ; Montgomery's. They have our best wishes for beallh, happiness, prosperity and long lives. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith gave a very pleasant social on Thursday night, com plimentary to Miss liieburdson. We all regret to see Mias Tor e leave us, and hope she will find her new field both pleasant and profit dile. The good peo ple of Asheville are to be rongiatulated on the addition to their town. A. Deal is the ring leading In ident. tfc is top harrow minded to i'ov If he was not a • 'good democrat.» A Wot fit for a Legislator that all the candidates are democrats,” in this county except. — 1 anr V Salmord, let honest colored ,o .w their manhood and vote for ■st man if they vote for any one. „ _ icndentx are no good. I A. Deal is the man who goes to his I »*o gather up personal accounts to ■ Aish against men. It was he that lislied Brown with the amount we | .Tones. Will the readers of this paper |otc fur such a man ? Mr. George Sutton returned home , from Charleston last Sunday. He gives the same ’horrible account of the great wreck there by the earthquake. He thinks it will take months and months of work by many hands to repair the city. A number of masons and plaster ers are there from this city, all doing J splendidly, making from $3.50 to $5.00 per day. * The Yelping henchmen in this county a say that if you refuse to vote at all it is r u vote for the Democratic ticket. Is it true ? Dr Mott tells us to refuse to vote the Republican State ticket ; will that be a vote for the Democratic State ticket? Will the great tnogul advise true Repub licans to vote the Democratic regular ticket? Ah, gentlemen, we are free men. Let us be independent once and vote as we please. Colored men, go to. the (Kills next Tuesday moruing and vote for men of principles. If there are none there to represent your principles, then leave with a clear consience that you did not vote for men you arc ashamed of. Vote the Republican State ticket. Vote for T. K- Salmond for Sheriff. Vote for Eli C. Hinson for the Senate. Vote for Cato Thomas for Constable. The balance are | “all good Democrats,” and you have no business voting for them. No one will ask you to vote the Independent ticket except hired strikers or candidates. The time is now on us when we should exer cise our manhood. / /Our former typo, Mr. W. C. Smith, 'of tho Charlotte, N. C Jfonnenger, having taken Bishop S. T. Jones to task for cer tain remarks capable of a construction disparaging to education, is bearing him self nobly in a doable contest against the bishop and the Star of Zion, stand up, brother Smith ! don’t let them give you any better than you send Vt ash ington Advocate. Thanks, Bro. Cromwell. It is not only a double fight with the “ablest b ack bishop” and the “only man in Zion fit to edit the Star," but we have a number of little “yelpers” in this city trying to follow the examples set by men of God—personal abuse. Dancy dodges behind the church and school which we do not care to injure. What Does It Mean ? The Mettenqer may think it strange that the leading Zionites are disposed to watch its actions, but when it remem bers what part its Editor played with regard to Zion Wesley College, Ac., it will think they have good reasons to watch. We desist from further mention. —Star of Zion. Mr. Dancy has promised by letter to explain the above in this week’s issue of the Star. If he does, all well, if he does not satisfactorily, we will demand satisfaction. Such innuendoes are not very good, and we hope brother Dancy will not indulge in such again. A Card. A little personal difficulty between L. D. Wilson and myself has been mag nified into a slanderous rumor, by some designing and wicked persons, who were only actuated by enmity and hatred. There is no foundation for such a report, but what was constructed by the wicked hearts aud tongues of these designing slanderers. The |>eople who pay any at tention to the said report waste valuable time and breath for nothing, and those who do not, thereby show their wisdom L. D. Wilson will testify to the correct ness of this statement. Z. Haighto.n. Jr. Off For Liberia. There was a great scene at the Central ! depot last Tuesday evening. Two coaches were loaded with colored men. women and children- There were about one hundred aboard on their way to Liberia. They were from around Curetons Store, Lancaster county S‘ Cl aud they expected to be joined by fifty others at Norfolk and go to New York aud from there sail to-day, twelve, for j Cape Palmas. Liberia. Their leader is , Mr. R. A. Massey, an mtellgicnt young ! man who seemed interested in the com I fort and welfare of his passengers. Many citizens were at the depot to see them off. and it was sud to think of the perilous voyage before them We untie e l iu the pumder old gray haired sages, strong Jyoung men and women, and children of ull sizes. We can only hope they will be happier and more prosper ous there than here. The xesstisoaß went along with them and we expert to | bear from them toon after their arrival er post They Seem Mart. Some thing* that appeared i* this pa per lari; week seem* to have- hwrt rex»?*l partiee pretty severely. Wet „ wrtK* men go upon the metro-a s* s-yeodem « put themselves up aseeodi’att* before the people, they may expert arecre wit. icisms and some hard Stows aad then. When a follow wademkv* to de fend himself, he must be ewrefoil mt the U-t-u ig-i h* »ks. ig-ihntS hwamtoswMst. ! If a fellow can’t take hard worst* he must not give them, of he may hare to take harder thing* than weed* All sort* of lying, and osteawtom has fore* expended on the .$ >«*■. We know how to take and we know hew to gire in a manner that make* the animst* move around like vermin with heft em bers poured on them, We have no apology to snake to any «t the candidates or henchmen, font we ask the pardon of our westers few *ttowins j certain names to appear ia war paper last week. The offense was against the reader and not the parties whose names are of no special service to this paper wr this community. lUMJtif Mr. Biifitvr: -Vhnisv altow sac -paw in j your paper, to say that the Rxx ,\, R, ! Torrence.* a gradual- of lincada I'nivvcs- I ity, was. married to Mi** Sarah !. 1 Smith. Oct. 2ffl;h Sh TV- marritai-c j took place promptly at # eVtock pa *». 1 in the Second Presto tvroan chnrehmf Duvidson College- The ctoarvfo was crowded to its orer-flkvsr with eotored and whites, A F. GraAmn odSewtxd in the marriage eereareny. Abort the middle of the cecemoioy- the Rev. IV S. Baker of Datwlem Cvdleyto offered a 1 brief prayer, invoking the- Wvsdng of • Gcd to test upon theta, aval make- them . sensible of the NhgjaiM* and . vows which they were abort to *stko. Alter which the ceremony wots com pleted. Then a fotxttrt ptnajvr- xcas j offered up. by the Rex, 4, A. Ratstey, j which left a long impress***. Then part of the crowd left tor their- h-xmes j and part remained to pta«ti.-ip>a!c ia tk* ; banquet. Toe tabto was. toatoi with l dainties too numerous, to mention. All ! that participated in the foauqsart coatld 1 return to their hemes tvefcog as if they had been to the- BvtmgN. table. Alter supper was oxer asauy xaieraldc pwosents were given to the- parties fox- their friend*. On the next storming the Rev. A. E. Torrence, and wtfo left on the Iff o’clock train foe their field of labor- in the South. We hope the bbs-dw* of God will fotliow them, awl help them in their field of haboe - A. F, fosxttxtr ;j Rev. Etlwaid Eagles died yesterday morning at tenoYleek. utter-a psoftraw-ted illness. Mr. Geo. Johns** was- ewamned hot Thursday to Mbs Magatrc C. t'toyd, at Sandifer. SELECT SITTINGS, In old calendars the -saints' days were marked with tad letters. Amy hanky day is now culled a “red letter- day, - " A European rcocremiss reckon* that there are om the tuevot the slab* tl.NtM,' - 000 head of cattle awi SOXW *MtMI sh-cr-jv At the conclusion ms thf play, or- «l the epilogue, it waft corawsly eewtomatj for the actors to kneel down ow the s' agx and pray foe the sovereign, nwhdity, clergy, and sometime* foe the corns*v»V An artesian well at lemwto. I3*k,, sunk for railroad nwsc is *ttr-*.-;i»g at teuton on account of it- meiiceJl quali ties it » said that it* eemtinwal nse wiil put an end to a desite left alcoholic drinks Three hundred native* of the Wxrt Indies of both sexes were sent to Spain as slave* during the reign, of Ferdinand and 1-aJtelU. Tims was an art ms re taliation far the murder wt Spaniards iu the New World. The one place in the country where the most railroad ».-*!•>* pas* is sad to foe the l nioa I>epo«, IdwaHvrth, N. Jt, A man was put oa for the pwswwe last week, and counted up XtAa ns the total, nad in one day of twenty-town hews* •iffff. It is n erewtmg at the sttveft level, too. A London paper **y*; “tiphteva hundred and eightx-sav forgna res a Fri day, will end on a Friday, and vow ait fifty three Fridays Fonr wreaths in the year have tee l rislays Fixe ehasexa of the moon occur «a n Frii iax, and l-mth the loogest and shortest da * ia the twelve months are e* Fridnxn. This might, indeed, be teesned n Fraday ye«r, v In England bach tten-res wa*reave p*n i-hed by dragging et the hwne'h tail, through the streets (ten* the pern.-* to the place es execution; we soy pfow-ktac out and horniag the saunas s, while lb. , prisoner wae-ye;’ fthve; nr- by hanging by the neck so a- net to destroy Tito; aso by beheading, quartering nad the exposure of the hngmxrfo. es «hr body in such place* a* the kins sheotd direct. It has keen found by to. Tail that Ur ear in women can perceive higher notes —that in sound* with n greater cumber es xihratinia* per Irani—than the ear of men. The highest limit es tinman hearing is some*hetv i between forty one and forty two thouwaad xibtntioas |er second. Few persons bate e wal »raf ts. I ities to acute x wa U in tmth ears the right ear usually heurieg a higher note thm Ike hit The fowv-t ewat nuwua sound* have about sixteen xibumurea* per second A poodle was buried wader a grata s ack in baa leftqnia tore*-tv. CaU’eran, for 1* r week* It had tired during I at urn- wilkent red *• water. Rt r-n-eful aueriag the dug hm has* placed m a hearty conditio* WOT BY HIS OWN TROOPS, j a vrrm acoodnt of the beath OF STONE WALL JACKSON. * tied Fpon tsv Mistake While Re t ammg I'vom the Front at Chan vettorsvtlle-lfls Last Moments. Captaia Jala-* Fewer smith describes 'tvn assist the litter cu tv ned.andthcGencral felltolheground, with a giftxn of deep pain t.reatlv| akormed, I sprang to hi- head, and, lift j ing hi* hi ad a- « stray to m of moon light rij;adier*rtcncrrtl Pen { dcr H>h, '»rm them, they arc j much feiok'n bv this t'rc.' Hut Jack ; mUjim? bis Mrcugth.witfe firm voice 'Sii 1 i ' You must hold your ground .Gen j mil iVtodercyou mu I hold your ground. ; a.r*’ aa«l »♦> unfix'd hi* last command on , fef Both Waiting. IWi Ni a ftufofe iu her satin oheok to-night, And fear hea*i is iMlmtating, feii.t fenr cyw am Ailed with love's swept light; For fe«r bean the maid is waiting. fell? w. u d that a fnetxl the youth would %ara— Tfea \ Nt ha'll doarlv m#~ for tn r fa with a club l»?»htnd the ham U awa.Uag h«s coming, t *v —Hatton Courii \ Tfern Is a wi«r in Morden, Muni twba. lie «lip|>ed hit • ollar the other day, and whan hit master called refused tw r«wae. avidrnt y f arinff punishment, but in the night he returned, man.-ige I lo the rwlor or rh t head, and in the fceni nfwn found < ha ned to his ken ••s wagging hit tail in conscious virtue. | NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN Venetian beads in great variety are coming in favor. Black silk stockings are very stylist with red checks. In Paris most of the bonnets are worn without strings. Colored bows to match the stockings are worn on slippers. Flower and insert designs in jewelry are as popular ns ever. The moonstone grows in favor for brooches and hairpins. Velvet for mantles has bead tassels arranged in various designs. Short plumes tippdl with pearls are revivi d for millioery purposes. In fancy work there are two ways of using color—in harmonics aud by con- 1 trasts. A Dew industry in Gotham is the stealing of cats, their skins being sold I for fur. , Tho hair stripe is seen in all sorts of fabrics, plain or rich, and is the leading fashion. Cashmere and camel's hair overdresses are worn with skirts of watered or bro caded silk. Russian crash in fine qualities is used ; in making bed spreads. It is a good ' background. Bay rum is now said to be the oure for freckles; a little borax is added to the bay rum. All strictly fashionable bracelets are cither in narrow flexible bands or loops of slender wire. Beaded capes are. worn by young girls. They rea- h nearly to the waist and are i of fine net work. At Fargo, in Dakota, good wives be-' wail because housemaids are not to be had at $1 per day. Aunt Susie Grubbs, an old lady of eighty-five, took the prize for dancing at a recent picDic in Indiana. Hair ornaments arc combinations of ribbon loops thickly massed and sur mounted by herons’ aigrettes. Fur will be much used for trimming both house and walking costumes, light, soft fur taking the precedence. Rich black faille Franca’se, plain or oovered with bends or satin pendants, will be much used for mantles. Mrs. Lucy Wood, of Barre, Vt., will be 101 years old if she lives until Janu ary. She is now in the best of health. A Michigan man lias invented a hair- I pin which cannot become loose or fall out, and is confident of making a fortune i with it. Mrs.. Sunderland, of Washington, be cause of the brilliancy of the precious stones she wears, bears the title of the Diamond Queen. Umbrellas with a glass look out in front are new and of Parisian make. They come in black and brown, and have elaborate sticks. Rough-looking, camel’s hair materials, cither plain or in pekin stripes or tw shades of color, are among the favorit i: tissues of this autumn. New mantles arc ve y short in tho back, but have longer fronts, and striped, beided and gold shot stu.fs are pre ferred for these first fall wraps. Striped and b.ocaded velvet will be much employed this season for dressy toilets. It wdl be combined with eilk rep, plain fa lie and corded silk. Philadelphia lias eight woman physi cians who have each an annual practice of over $.0,0;)0, aud a do en or more ' woman destists who make large sums. Goods with clearly defined blocks,bars 1 and plaids in various colors promise to be popular among Indie- who can afford to have one or two striking costumes. Soft woolen stuffs are frequently mado up with full bodices, the pleats or gath ers crossing over the bosoms and joined to the skirt draperies in a looped sash or plastron dropery. The residence of Mrs. Mark Hopkins, in process of erection at Great Barring ton, Mass., will have a state dining room, forty by sixty feet, two stories in height, with a roof of glass. The midnight sun is not a wearing at traction. Mrs. Scidmorc, of Washing ton, who has been at lievcn, Norway, writes that site has si-cn it, aud would give $1 for a dark night and an honest sleep. Buttons are in great variety. Those of metal either have etchings and raised designs or are of fiiiigree work. The old fashioned way of covering button molds with the material of the dress is again revived. Spirts of salts, with powdered salts ol j lemon, in proportion to half ounce ol j the latter to one of the former, will take i out ink spots after they have dried. | When the spots are removed wash in cold water. It is a great mistake to clean brass ar tides with acid, as they very soon be come dull after Ml li treatment. Bwect j oil and putty powder, followed by soap i nnd water, is ono of the best mediums i for brightening brass and copper. For wa-hing embroidery in crewels or silk, pour a gal on of boiling water on one jiound of bran. Let it stand for twenty-four hours, stirring occasionally; strain and use. A decoction of soap bark j is also excellent for the same purpose, j Simmer a handful of soap hark iu a quart of water until the bark is perfectly soft; ! strniti the decoction, dilute with water, 1 and wa h the articles in it. A Persian Judge’s“Jokr.” A soldier had been stealing a melon i of a peasant. Tho peasant ran complain- | ing to the Fll, telling him the soldier j ' had refused to |ay for the melon—five dishs— three and n half ccntsi. The | i Fil ordered the soldier to be brought be- j j for him ow ] li test this matter." he 1 ■ mid to the peasant. “If this man has | melon m his stomach you’ll get your live j thftha. If not, o* g o yqirhoad." Th; j t soldier was cut open, the melon found, ; the peasant got his five shal s >nd went j ion his way rejoicing. Turningto ihc ie j mains of ihe ■ oldier ho said: “ihrow this thing out.’ This i rince is very fond nf irsctical jokes, and th s is the kind 1 he likes to piav.- -M o f an Sr, u. rlirant Mrs. Miy, the wile ol riwen May. o: Dalilonegu, > a.. 10-tb#r!if . a fewdayi ngo, from tho sting of a hornet on t.x j I end of her noau. tier lace, head and ■ neck were die dfully Inflam-d, and th' lady died in excruciating pain. RELIGIOUS__READING, God Knows Beit. If we could push ajar the gates of life, And Rtana within, and all God’s working! fee, YYo co Id interpret nil this doubt and strife And for each mystery finds a ready key. But not to-day. Then be content, tad heart! God’s plants, like lillies, pure and white unfold, We must not tear Ihe tender leases apart; Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. And if through patient toil, we reach the land Whero lired fe?t, with sandals loosed may rest; When we shall clearly know and understand I think that we will say, “God knew the Lest ” • ‘Carry Him to His Mother.*’—a Kin as The father of old led forth his young son r.t morning amid the reapers; but when the noontide came, and Syria's sun bent fiercely down up tho young child’s head, he drooped and was sick; and the father said, “carry him to his mother.” How true a picture of every day’s ex perienec is thisi The father, with joy and pride, lends forward the young, healthful, exultant being and glories in his beauty and strength; but when the buoyant footsteps falter and the cheek grows pale, ho surrenders him to othei and tenderer guardianship—he is car ried to his mother. And how constant is this instinct in the heart of childhood. Its young companions, its pleasures, any novelty will allure It from its mother’! side while health lasts, but tbo first touch of illness throws it unhesitatingly into its mother’s arms, as if there, alone, were comfort and peace. Her presence and attention arc all that the childish spirit needs. Among all that'blooms and fades iu life’s pathway, the mother’s love stands alone in undying beauty nnd freshness. The world grows cold and forgets her cherished one, calumny is busy with its fair name, disappointment folds its qjtd attired robe around it, but the mother is true to her trust, loving the more, the more her love is needed. It seems infi nite in strength aud tenderness. And what is the mother’s recompense for such a flood of affection, poured un reservedly upon her child’s head? Not unmitigated joy by any m.ans. Such love is too full of fears, 100 suspicious ol the world’s tenderness. Could she al ways keep her treasure bv her side and stand between it and unkindness and scorn, this would be all her prayer, bul not such is God’s will. He prepares the furnace of affliction, and takes the child’s hand from the mother’s and leads it through the fiery trial. His purpose veiled. His decision inscrutable. He requires of her to believe that His love surpasses hers, even while he holds th# chastening rod, and that in due time she shall reap if she faint not. When her child suffers, how hard the lesson of resignation; and when it dies young, how difficult to say, in the remembrance of all her sufferings, toils and sacrifices, Thy will be done. She almost feels that she has earned the right of that young spirit’s Bafety and continuance with her, and her anguish seek to swallow up the remembrance of her joy. “Carry him so hismotherl” Aye,that is a sweet recompense to her. She can sooth when no other is able; her pres ence can bring the only gleam of joy that visits the sufferer. ’ If slumber can cotnc at nil, it will visit the weary one pillowed upon her b east, and her cool hand upon the burning brow is like ben ediction from the God of mercy. The poor exile sinks beneath disease where foreign skies bend over him, and stranser faces greet him. Wealth lured him from the covert at home, from his mother’s counsels aud prayers, from his father’s guidance, and he went forth manfully to win a position among his fellow men. Disease tracked his foot steps and death lurked for his prey; and while contending for life, a voice within that will not he silenced, calls for the friend that shielded his childhood and prayed nnd wept for him as no othei friend might do. “Carry him to his mother!” but it is too late; be must await her in heaven. Let not, then, that love be slighted which is so precious, so enduring, so un like all other love in its absolute unsel fishness. As year by year departs, the once elastic step becomes slow nnd heavy, the once bright eye dim; hut the heart never withers, never forgets. It carries to the tomb the same spirit of self sacrifice that watched unwearily by the cradle of the tender in fant; it bears into eternity the same yearning fondness that blessed youth and manhood. Let the young seek to strengthen that love by every endearment, by every vir tue. The Saviour’s example is left us. He obeyed his mother, and in the ago nies of a cruel death commended her tc the one He much loved; and they alone arc blessed who followed Him in thii as in all other of His righteous ways. l-lrr For Homrthlna. Thousands of men breathe, move and live, pass off the stage of life, and are heard of no more. Why! They did nol a particle of good in the world, and none were blessed by them; none could point to them as the instruments of their re demption ; not a line the* wrote, not n word they spoke could to recalled, and so they perished, their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die? 6 man immortal iive for something! Do good and leave : behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. , Write your name, by kindness, love and mercy, on the hearts of the thousands 1 you come in contact with year by year, , and you will never be forgotten. No: | your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind, as the •tars on the brow of evening. Good deeds wiil shine as brightly on ths I earth os the stars of Heaven. The sunlight falls upon a clod, and the clod drinks it in, is itself warmed fey it, but lies as biack as ever, and sends out no light, But the sun touches a diamond stud the diamond almost chills itself as It sends out in radiance on every side the light that has fallen on it. So God helps one man bear h s psin, and nobody but that one man is a whit th< j richer. God comes to another stiff rer— reverent, unselfish, humble—and the lame leap, and the dumb speak, and the wn Iciicil aio comforted alt around b< | the radiated comfort of that happy aoi l ',