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: . - . ' : .. ' 1 . . -v : - - On. - w th:lt nun th. f ' . ! E 1 ! " i i I k :.. i ;-: i A. 1- t ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION; CASH IS ABVANC) ; ; Cl'V. One Teat, $1.50. G. BURKHEAD. - Editor xotice to correspondents. VII irrsK)n.lenfs are hereby notified y insure the insertion of their com ltHtioiis they must furnish ns with In.iut jute nitme nl liildress, which we Mi ute to krtep m strict confidence. Write lit. ime sitH of the slirrt 1 in .l'l.wi! is in no wise responsible for .I Jisu s ol ts correspondents. A i dress nl J communication's to TiiE TOBACCO PLANT, j i Iui:ham,.N. C. AX(JEL. Mowlv tlu-iniht is falling ; r'ailmi,' dowii from the hill, Aiitl all in the tow greeji valley File dew' lies heavv jiiul chill : 1 le rr'n-kets cry in the hedges, "1 Ami Uu ibats ai-eicirvlini' low. .v ... f, T;umlu?,. u.e oKKs.mung iXlic fiiiiAiiierinu; 'night-moths go. II Lid in liiuid UiroiiL'h the twilight .nm-u ! .' t. I I onietlie cliildren, tyerv one, 1-1 iisheil with their eager frolw, lawnv with wind and suli; II me from the sunny Upland, here; t;iie sweet wild In-rries f?row, 1 1 im' Irdin the Unified thickets, - W here the nuts are riix.-niii' slow. 'I icy nuiiik at fht owTsj wierd laughter .; . And the! cricket' lH-sonw cry, ; A the tardy swallow Hying " ' V Late through the darkeiiing sky ; And silently ;Iidiiif; after 4 . riirough thejdnsk of the shadowy street, (V mes their little angel sister, "tar-whrtv fmni her head to her ft-r- ' I i ' V ' - I ' ; ; : - ; ' Never crossing! the threshold, oine thi'V ejirlv or late: ' Wutli her tfiniitv hands ion her Isisoni phi' stops at flic itUige gate. I stretch out itiv hands lin 1 irlir. ut slut failes I nun inV aching sight. A J"a lilthj white" cloud at morning' Nianisheti into the light.' 1 i : i I I .1 . ikd spite; of the shining garments olded ntHiilt her now, ; I Spite hf tlie.ileathliiss le:futy rosviintg her lip and brow. I , wish tor jone Jiuissioiuite moment lie sat m ii v Knee again ; Oil h-r lei s sitles anil tender I he dust and the eaJ tlilv stain. I i nuking lu-r morning ami evening, ; 1 he lntlTt'--t t.hoiiglitj must lie .1 ll:it satewitliher hlesseil kindred . i l he i-l i i Ik 1 h;ith iio need of me ; Aibd eiimliiig ier heavenly birthdays; I 9 sav in unv iealous care : j'lie k that lav on inv liosom 1 1 : i:t 1 1 grown to maidtMl fair: I 1 . j j . j i I ' ' ; . nd now! if out of tl';glorv . Ih-r )ai' like a star should shine. lt I gsirss1 the (teaiitiful chaiu'eling ll;i l ever oir earth InVii mine.' loiililj v i I imv -yes at her splendor, '.nt ncvij-r forget inv jack 1 he t'liiigiiig hands of mv halv F lit I the mouth ithat kissel me hack." h ,iIioiil;Ii in inv hiimaii liliudness i cuiiiotif.it hour His Way, w io eniinls in his glorious evcles K !thoiis.nd years as a day KMieverit lie .cloud is rifttil, iVlieiu-v(T I cross the ti.li IM iiieowii will MesureliV- give me, in 1 I shall Ik- satlslic.l. AnoNYMiiI'S. ill MST'S llMSIIi:i WORK. lr T.iIiii kyr" s .Se-riiion, rntiflied Nltllilll V AIoriiiiir, Oct. i2th.. Inn ' I tlie'Miirkl wliii-li Thou mivest in 17:1. ,! ; r a profound satisfaction in I.. 1' M I: llie noil will Iran Hill J ltd t.nn it .anything we liave t Iketi c liltiltlie v:tstoiH' exultat ion, iwlule, cm tlie other 1, tlieii' is1 nothing more disap-. m:i U iiig than, aft r having tolled in -: i t:iHi ltei tiijn, to hnd that our ttil and our ; investment Christ eanie : ! .' t: 1 lilt wa -ro TllllOV l'l A jllliiinVAY n f tiicli ithe wholt world ...'might, ti i lie ivh. m ie. mount into heaven. it. The foul-mouthed crew atteisipled to fread on Him . .it 1L I not extinguish1 the sublime J i ' i I i r l satiJ tciiom wiiicn iiie expresseu win iv o i ii lie said, "i- nuve nnisneu me khvhicpi Thou savest me to do." exaiii ler the flrettt was wounded, ay! his tlij l. tors could not medicate j .Vollllil aim ne stHMiieu xo oe uy lUdrCiim thesickmansaw li Li Peculiar ; flowerand nig. :tlll 111 Hit Wl reannjd that that plant "was put i ! his'! Wound! ami that immedi- he i UlM iitel iti wiiis iured. ' And Alexander, - Svakfiiig fn mi nis uream, ioti tins to (he Win phyVi ian, and the physician j lered out unui ne iouihi just p1ant.vhicji the sick man th kind o null dt;sci ibed, brought it U) him, UK i: tlu- wlniiid was healed. , th!e jliuinttili race had been uit w ith the ghastliest of all wounds -tl..lt f It was the business of i'hrasi.to bring ;i btilui tor that wound r-tl e balui of divine restoration. In carij vingtliis business to a successful ISSIM the itlilliculth-fi were stupeiid- Hist 1 iii in f our plans we have bur in. ihls to help Uis-i; some to draw n i fi ' . ... sk. rh of the plan, others to help us m t ie! exe iution.fi Put Clirist fought ev rviincl ol nis way against outer lilitv, kind amid circumstances ho. ill In aleulateil to depress and defeat, he first place. His worldly . : kKtl p.i tion was auaixst him. I lilidthati lie earned His livellhiMKi i -i . - - 1 1 v the earbenterss trade an occtipa- Itioth alwa vs to Ik' highly regarded and r -ted. But !ybt j know,, as well do. that in order to succeed a Any employment, one must give his flit nt jtime to i it, and 1 liave to it the tatigues of carpentry 1(H lareth: uufai orable to the execution of :i liiission whii-hf required all mental inl Sphysieal j t)ufulties: Through h J I Iiarji, drv, j husky, insensate Ju laistn, to heW la Way tor a .new ;aiH .1 glorious disjM'nsation was a stu- P'' lidous undertaking, that was demand all the concen-- -h High to tr:ted iiHtgies even jot Christ. He !a grttat hnuiy roinantic stories ab but wlutt, hieii jwitli physical toil h:Jvi accoiuplisii&l in intelltH'tual id ii'tnteiits; lrut"ytt know that i all a mm lias pieeii toiling all day adze saw And hammer, plane j- winh :tl d ix, about all an tlo is to rest A WKAKY fHlY IS fan unfavorable in unct to a toiling hlin't- IpU tti?we upuuimiuj; oi ti jphuildi kHW'doim nr thH proclamatu , lor the I proclamation xf a r . .. u ii. a ..r n.Kv eixltMiT moral, or nit- suiniin; oi i k.v.diitijm W hich should upturn all nitions cduhl git some idea of the coherence ot Unrist s wonuiy occu- ition with His heavenly mission. in His lather's shop no more in re. jurse Was uwlessary than is ofdi- old ; "Seneca was old. The great leg irilv iiec!ess;irytjih bargaining with islators of the world have been old. unftliatl! havefjwork to do; yet Christ was I young. All this was t nai- IL 1 , . .. . in tJ w t h hands liard trom touch f t. Is of: trade,) was called forth to of age, should get up in your pros eeoiiii m lmlilii uTic;l ker to nreaeh "ence to. discuss great questions ot ill tlie face of limbs, while some wept, and koine sliook heir lists, and some VOL. XV.-tNO. 44. gnashed upon him with their teeth, and, many wanted Him out of the way. ' i To address orderly and respectful assemblages is not so easv as it tnav seem, but it reijuires more energy, and more force, and more concentra- tion to.addri'S8 :iu exa.si,erak'd mob mi . ... ,. .-. . ., I he : village ot .azareth heard th jKiunding uf His hammer, but all the wide reaches of eternity were to hear the stroke of His spiritual up building. So, also, His habits of DRESS ANU IllKT ' were against Him. The mighty men of Christ's time did not appear in apparel without trinkets and adornments. None of the Caesars would have appeared in citizens ap parel. Yet here vas a nran, here was a pretended king, who always wore the name. coat. Indeed, it was far- from shabby, for after he had worn it a long while the gamblers thought 'it worth raffling about ; but still it was far from being an im perial robe. It was a coat that any ordinary man might have worn on any ordinary occasion. Neither was there any pretention in His diet. No cup bearer with golden chalice brought Him wine to drink. On the seashore He ate fish, tirst having broiled it Himself. No tine fetched Him water to drink, 1ut bending over the well in Samaria "He begged u drink. He sat at only one banquet, 'and that , hot at all sumptuous, for, to relieve the awk wardness of the host, one of the guests had to prepare wine for the company. Other kings ride in a chariot ; He .walked. Other kings, as they ad vance, have heralds ahead, and ap plauding subjects behind; Christ's retinue was made up of sunburned fishermen. Othvr kings sleep under embroidered canopy; this one on a shelterless hill, gliding but once, as' far as I now remember--on a colt, and that borrowed. Again, HIS I'OYKIiTY was against Him. It requires money to build great enterprises. Men of means tire atraitl ot a penniless pro jector, lest a loan be demanded. It requires . monev to print books, to build institutions, to nav instructors. No wonder the wise men' of Christ's time laughed at tlds penniless Christ. "Why," the saidj"wliois to pay for this new religion ?; Vfio is to char ter the ships to carry the missiona ries? , Who is to pay the salaries of the .teachers? Shall wealthv .Juda ism be discomfited bv a penniless Christ?" I 1 I ! The consequence 'was,' that most of the people that" followed Christ had nothing to lose. ealthv Joseph. of Ariinathea, buried Christ, but he risked no social iiosition in doing that. It is always safe to bury a dead man. Zaccheus risked no wealth or social position in! following Christ, but took a position in a tree to look down as he passed. Nicodemus, wealthv Nicodennjs, risked nothing of social position in following Christ, lor he skulked by night to hnd Him. All this was against Christ, So the fact that He was XOT REGULARLY iRAIUATKI was against Him. If a man comes with the diplomas of colleges and schools and theological semina ries, and he has een througli for eign ! travel, the world is disjiosed to listen. There wiis a man who hail graduated at no .college, had not A any academv, bvi ordinary "means, P:lrned the alnhahet ot a languaire jie Sp0ke, and yet he proposed to tiui to instruct In subjects which had confounded the mightiest intel- lects.- John savst: " The Jews mar veled, saying, liojw hath this man letters, having never learned ?" NV e, in our day, have found out that a man without a diploma mav know as much as a' man with one, and that a college cannot trans form a sluggard into a philosopher, or a theological seminary teach a man to preach, j An empty head, after the laying on of hands of the presbytery, is empty still. But it shocked all existing prejudices in those olden times for a man with no scholastic pretension, and no gradu ation from a learned institution, to set himself up for a teacher. It was all against him. . - So, also, THE BREVITY OF HIS LIFE was against Him. He had not come to what we call mid-life. But very few men do.ahvthing before thirtv-three vears of age, and yet that was the point at which Christ's life termina- mt teb The first fifteen vou tike in nursery and school. Then it will take you at least six years to get into vour "occupation, or profession. That will bring vou to twenty-one years. Then it will take you ten years, at least, to get established in -your lite work, correcting the mistakes yaxi have made. If any man, at thirty- three years ot age, get? tuny estab lished, in his lifei work i he is an ex ception, let that is the point at wJuch Christ s lite terminated. Men in military life have done their' most wonderful deeds before thirty.tiiree vears cf h eptios to it, bi age. There may ptions to it, but the most won derlul exploit in military prowess have,. occurred helorej thirty-three years of age. But as a legislator no man becomes eminent as aegislator until he has had long years of expe rience. , And vet the gray liearded scribes were extweted to Ihiw tlowni in silence before tins young legislator. wno arraigneu buiuicuiiuis aim ac cused governments. Aristotle was old ; Lycurgus was . . wr- ' T I 'll x 1 agamsiuim. 11 acnuu, ieieeui metaphysics, or ethics, or politics, or j government, you would not be more "HERE SHALL THE PRESS contemptuous than these gray beard ed scribes in the presence of this young Christ. 1'OI'ULAU OPINION declared in those days, ' Blessed is the merchant -who has a castle down on the banks of Lake Tiberias." This young man said, "Blessed are the poor." Popular opinion said in those days, " Blessed are those who live timid stttuary, and fountains, and gardens, andf-ongratulatioiis, and all kinds of festivity." This young man responded4, " Blessed are they that mourn." Public opinion in tliose days said, "Blessed is the Roman eagle, the flap of w hose wings stirtles nations, and the plunge of whose iron beak inflicts cruelty ; upon its enemies." This young man respond ed, "Blessed are the merciful." Pop ular opinion said, "An e'e for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." In -other words, if a man knocks your eve out, knock his out. If a man breaks your tooth, break his. Retort for retort; sarcasm for sarcasm ; irony for irony; persecution for persecu tion vound for wound. Christ said, "Pray for them that despitcfully use yon." They looked at his eye, it was like any other man's cye,'except perhaps more speaking. They felt s hand, made of b.one and muscle and nerves and flesh, just like any other hand. Yet what bold treatment of subjects, what supernatural de mands, what ; STRANCE IKM TRINE ! . They felt the solid earth under them, and yet Christ said: "I bear' up the pillars of this world.1 They looked at the nioon.- He said, "I will turn it into blood." They looked at' the sea. He said, "1 will hush it." They looked at the stars, lie said,! "I will shake tlieni down like untimely tigs." Did ever one so young say things so bold? It was all against Him. After the battle of Antietam, when a -general rode along the lines, al though the soldiers were lying down exhausted, they, lose with great en thusiasm ami huzzaed. As Napoleon returned from his captivity, his first step on the wharf shook all the king doms, and two hundred and fifty thousand men Hocked to his stand ard. It took three thousand troops to watch him in his exile. So there have been men w'f wonderful magnet ism of person. But hear me when I tell you of a poor young man who came up from Nazereth to produce a thrill which has never been excited by any other. Napoleon had around him the memories of Marengo, and Austerlitz, and Jena ; but lu re was a man who had fought, no battles, who wore no epaulettes, who brand ished no sword. He had, probably', never seen a prince, or shaken hands with a nobleman. I imagine Christ one day standing ill the streets of Jerusalem. A man descenderl from high lineage is stand ing beside Him and says: "My father was a merchant prince, he had a castle on the beach in Galilee. Who was your father?" Christ an swers: " Joseph, the carpenter." A man from Athens is standing there unrolling his iarchment of gradua tion and says to Christ: " Where did vou go to school? Christ answers : "I never graduated.." Aha ! the idea of such AN 'UNHERALDED YOUNU MAN attempting toj command the atten tion ot the Worfd! As well some little fishing village on Long Island shore attempt to arraign New York. Yet no sooner does He set His toot in the U wns or cities of Judea than everything is in commo tion. The people go out on a picnic, taking only food enough for a day, yet are so fascinated With Christ that, at the risk of starving, they follow Him out into the wilder ness. A nobleman falls down flat before him and says : "My daughter is dead." A beggar tries to rub the dimness from his : eyes, and says: "liord, that my eyes may be opened." A poor, sick, panting woman, presses through the crowd and saVs: "1 must touch the hehi of His garment."- Children who love their mother bet ter than any one else struggle to get into His arms, and to Ciss His cheek, and to run their fingers through His hair, and for all time putting Jesus so in love with the little ones that there is hardly a nursery in Chris tend in. from which He does not tike one, saying: "1 must have them. 1 will till heaven with these; for every cedar that 1 plant in heaven 1 will have fifty white lilies. In the hour wheii I was a poor man in Judea they were not asnamed of me, and -now that I have come to a throne I do not despiseihem. Hold it not back, O weeping mother! Iav it on mv warm heart. Of such is the kingdom of heaven." Again, I remark, there was NO ORCAMZATION in His behalf, and that was against Him. When men propose any 'great work they band together, they write letters of ageement, thev taxe oaths of fealty; and the more and com plete the organization the more and complete the success. Here was one who went forth without 'any organ ization and alone. If men had a mind to join in His company, all right; if they hail a mind Hot to join in His company,' all' -well. If they came they were greeted with no "loud salutation; if they went away tli-ey were sentivit-h no bitter anathema. Peter departed, ami Christ turned and looked at him. That was all! All this was against Him. Did any one ever undertake such an enterprise amidst such INFINITE EM HARRASS M E X TS and by such modes? And yet 1 am here to say it ended in a com plete triumph. ' Notwithstanding His worldly occupation. His iov erty, His plain face, His unpre- THE PEOPLE'S 1UGHTS MAINTAIN UNA WED BY INblLUENUE DURHAM, N. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, tending garbj the fact that He was schoolless, the fact that He had a brief life, the fact ithat He was not accompanied bv any visible organ- ization notwithstanding all that, in an exhilaration which shal be pro longed, in eve lasting chomls: "I have finished the work Thoiirest me to do. SEE HIM VK TORIOUS over the forces of liature The sea It swal is a crvstal sepulchre. lowed the Central America, the President, the Spanish ' armada as easily as any fly that ever floated on it. The inland j lakes are fully as Urrible in their "wrath. Re cent travelers tell is that Galilee, when aroused in a storm, is over whelming ; and yet that sea crouched in His presence, and licked his feet. He knew all the wavjes and the wind. When he beckoned, they came. When he frowned, jihey fled. The heel of His foot made no 'indentation on the solidifical Water. Medical science has wrought great changes in rheumatic limlis ami diseased blood, but when thd muscles are en- tirelv wit In. Ted, n liuman power an restore them, and when a limb is once dead it is dead. - But here is a paralvtu his hand lifeless. Christ says to him!: "Stfeteh forth thy hand," ami he stretches it forth. In the eve infirmary, how many .diseases of that ' delicate organ have been cured? But Jesus says to one blind: "Be open," jand the light of heaven, rushes thnimgh gates that have never before beeif opened. The frost or an ax mayi kill a tree, but Jesus' smites one duad with a word. Chemistry etui do many wonderful things, but what chemist at a wed dingwhen the winif gave out, dould ehan'"e a pail of wa; er into a cask of wine? W hat human vqice could com mand a school of tish ? Yet here is a 'voice 'that marshals the scaly tribes, until, in a place where they had let down the njet and pulled it up with no fish iii it, fhev let it down again, and the -disciples lay hold and begin toj pull, when, by reason of the multitude of fish, the net broke. Nature jis His servant. The -Mowers He twisted them into His sermons; the wiinds they were His lullaby whn'i He slept in the hoat ; the rain it lmng glitteringlv on the thick foliage of the parables; the star of Bethlehem it sang a Christmas carol over llis birth; the rocks thev beat a dirge at His ileatll. ' Behold His ' VinoRY OVER T1IK ORAVE ! ' The hinges of tin' iamily vault be come very rusty, lira use they are never opened except to take another in. There is a knob on the outside of the door of tht sepulchre, but none on the inside. Here comes the Conqueror of peath. He en ters that realm ami says: "Pa ligh ter of Jainis, sit j up;" and she sits up. To .Lazarus: "Come forth," and he eanie forth. To the widow's son he saiil: "(let up from that bier; and lie goes home with Jesus snatched l and hung them . 1 his .mother. Then Up the kevs of deati to His girdle, and cried until all the gr'avevards of the earth heard him : "O death! I will I be 'thy plague! O grave!'. I will be tjhv destruction !" No man could gi through all the obstacles'! have described, vou say. without having a j A NATURE SUPERNATURAL. That arm amid its muscles, and nerves, and bones Were intertwisted the energies of Omnipotence. In the syllables of that voice there was the emphasis of the eternal Hod. That foot that walked Ijhe deck of the ship in (Jennesaret shall stamp kingdoms of darkness into demoli tion. This poverty-struck Christ owned Augustus, ojwned the Sanhe drim, owned Tiberias, owned all the castles on its beachjand till the skies that looked down j into its waters; owned all the eth and all the heavens. To Hinijof the plain coat belonged the robes jof celestial royal ty, lie who waljved the road" to Eniniaus the lightnings were the fire-shod steeds of His chariot. Yet there are those who look on and see Christ turn wsiter into wine, and they say : Sleight of hand. And they see Christ raise the dead to life, and thev hiy : Easily V plained ; not really dead; playing dead. And they see Clirist giving sight to the blind j man, and they say: Clairvoyant doctor. Oh ! what shall thev do oil the day when Christ rises up in judgment, and the" lulls shall rock, aiid .the trumpets shall call, peal on jeal? In the time o'fj Theodosius the (ireat, there was I a great assault made upon the divinity oft Jesus Christ, and during! that time Theo dosius the (ireat culled his own son to'sit on the. throde with him, and be a copartner in the government of the empire; and one. day the old bishop came and 1 towed down before Theodosius the emperor, and passed out of the room, ami the emperor ... 1 1 . A I 11 was uncniliii, saying, io me om bishop: "Why don't you pay the same honor to my son, who shares with me in the government ?"' Then the old bishop turned to the young man, and said: "Tin- Ind bless thee, my young man." but still paid him no such" honor as he had paid to the emperor. And the emperor was still oll'ended and displeased, when the old bishop turned to TIhhj dosius the (Jreatand said to him : WOMll tlllT Hl iltsilllU .111 H-F III"- "You are offended ith me liecause 1 don't pay the- same honor to your son, whom you have made copart ner in the government, of this 'em pire, the same honor I pay to you, and vet you . encourage multitudes of people in 'your realm to deny the Son of (od, equal authority, equal power with God the Father." My subject also reassures us of tlie fact that in all our struggles WE HAVE A SYMPATHIZER. fjYoUjcannot tell Christ anything new lxUt hardship. I do notthink that wide ages of eternity will take the jjacanj from his punctured side, ami jlis lacerated temples, ami his sore tJian4s. You will never bave a bur- qen jweighing so many pounds as that j burden Christ carried up the bloody hill. You will never have any suffering worse than fee endured when, with tongue hot, aitd cracked, itnd i inflamed, and swolen, he moaned: "I thirst." Yout will never be surrounded by worsi hostility' tiian that which stoiKl around "Cjhrist's feet, foaming, reviling, livid, with rage, howling down his prayers nd nufling up the smell of blood. ye faint hearted, oh! ye troubled, oh! jye persecutel one, ; here is a heart that can sympathize with you I ;. Again, and lastly, I learn from all that j has been said this ; morning, that jChrist was awfully ip earnest. If it had not been L i S j A MOMENTOUS MISSION, He Would have turned hack from it disgusted and discouraged. He saw you in a captivity from which lie Was "resolved to' extricate you, though it cost him all gweat, all tears, all blood. He came a great way to save you. He came from Bethlehem here, through ; the place of skulls, through the charnel house, through banishment. There was not among all the ranks of celestials one. whitj would do as much for you. I lavi his rushed heart at; your feet to-day. , Let it not be told in heaven that you deliberately put your foot on it. AVhile it Wjll tike all the ages of eternity to celebrate Christ's triumph, I am here to make the stirtling an nouncement that because of the re jection of this mission on the part of soini ot you, till that magnificent of garden, and cross, and grave far as you are concerned, a work IS, soi fail u ft HELENA, THE EMPRESS, to the IIolv Land to find the ! went Cross- of Christ. ( Jetting to t he' Holy Land there were three crosses ex ca vate , and the ipiestioti was which of the three crosses was Christ's" cross. They took a dead body,; tradition says, and put it upon one of the crosses, and there was no-life; and they look the dead body and put it upon another cross, anil there was no life. But tradition says when the dead ibody was put up against the third cross it sprang into life. The dead man lived again. Oli, that the life-g ving jxiwer of the Son of (Sod migh : start your dead so(il into ah eternal life, beginning this day ! "Awake, thou that s lee pest, and rise from the dead,, and Christ shall giv thee lite-" The President and His Presents. 1 New York IUthIiI Anii ng the wedding presents ten dered; President Cleveland last June was aj grand piano, the gift of Mr. 4Villilim Steinway, of Newj York. It has been subject to his order, and yesterday was sent over to "Red Top"; and placed in the parlor. Speaking of the piano, the President has been told that during President (i rant's term nearly every room in the White House was furnished with a piano until the number got so large that the servants room m the basement had to be used hi store them in. Nearly every jnaker of pianos in the country thought it a duty to present the (ieiieral with one. Their appearance at the en trance of the White House was the first known of their coming. Pres ident Cleveland in accepting bridal gifts litis taken care Athat none of them; enter into the furnishing of the White House. Nearly every article of thj: many received will be utilized in the country house at "Red Top.'' The gnly convenience the house will not liave is gas, the nearest gas main being over half a ,jnile away. The cost of running one out to "Red Top" would be too great for the benefit conferred, so that the elegant can delabras presented to Mrs. Cleveland will furnish part of the parlor and dining-room decoration, t ltepublicans Hoot at Senator Dawes. New York World. . Senator Henry L. Dawes was one of th!e speakers at a Republican rally held recently in '-Boston. The man ner in which he was received showed that Ihe had lost his hold, on the Re publicans in this part of the State. No sooner had he begun his address than! the entire audience; began to yawn and scrape their feet. This was followed by the ringing of chest nut bells, hooting and cheering for John I). "Long, the opponent of Mr. Dawes in the coming Senatorial eon- test.. The meeting became so bois troiis that (iov: Robinson was com pelled to inform the audience that lie wtis presiding oyer the meeting and that thv could preside at some other meeting. He was obliged to come to the rescue of the Senator no less than three times. The affair is town talk and ex-(iov. I m's friends refer to it as a very significant straw. AYe Thank Yoif, We Hope Wt Deserve It. Sriiirtk-li1 Ki'lrti-Miran.. Progress in North Carolina is not confined to any one department, hut extends to all bin's of thought and I'liitnstrv The i-diicational institu- I "' - j tions, from the primary school to the university, are steadily advancing, while the people manifest a growing interest in their work by contribu ting more and more liberally to their support They also attend in greater numbers than ever beforVjhe public exercises of the common and private schools, and they hold the teacher's calling in as much respect as they do. any of the learned professions. AND UNRRIRED 1iY GAIN." 1886. Mrs. Stewart's Last Hours. Ni-w Yoi'k World. Mrs. Stewart had, until a time previous to her death, enjoyed good health for a lady of - so advanced an age, and her death was sudden. Last Friday night -she was as well, as usual and visited her sister. Satur day she took her usual ride in the Park. Sunday morning, however, she was taken with a chill and sent for her physician. Dr. J. C. Minor, No. 10 East Forty-first street, her regular doctor for the patjt tc,n years. The. messenger reached the doctor's residence atjoyJO in the morning and he went at i once -to Mrs. Stewart's residence.' He found that she was suffering from pneumonia, both lungs being afl'ecteil, and from the fact of" her advanced age and that she had for some years been subject to tin atl'ectihn of the heart, he saw that her condition was critical. . He remained iii attendance upon her until' her death. Sunday evening. Mrs. Steward-rallied and seemed to be' much im provedi but early yesterday morning she suffered a relapse and passed away very quietly at o'clock. Besides l)r. Minor ,tbere were with her whenshedied her sister, Miss Clinch, her grand-niece, Mrs. Wethrell, ami Mrs. Horace! Russell, the daughter of ex-Judge Hilton. Mr. Hilton and ex-Judge Russell were at once noti fied and Wcj-e soon in attendanokat the house. The arrangements for the funeral werj' placed ;in charge of C. P. Jack sonville undertaker, at No. 12 West Eleventh street. The funeral will tike place Thursday afternoon, and after the usual services at the house in the presence of the family ami immediate friends, the body will be taken to (iarden City and placed in the crvpt reserved for it in the Ca thedral, j The services will be performed bv the Rev.. Artl inr Brooks, of the Church of the Incarnation, and by Bishop Littlejolm, if he can get here in time. He was summoned lv telegraph yesterday and it is hoped he may be here to officiate. , Mrs. Stewart was the daughter of Jacob Clinch, a merchant of this city, and her brother, the late Charles Clinch,' was for a long time employed in the Custoni-I louse. She has no chililien and her .only blood rela tions surviving are. three maiden sis ters. She was married to Mr. Stew art in 1S2.". She leaves a large amount. ol property and in regard to the disposition of this. Judge Hilton, wh is the only person cognizant of her intentions, declined yesterday to make tiny tateinent. After Mrs. Stewart's death, yesterday-morning,, it was at first thought that Bishop Littlejohn of the Hiocese of lyoiig Island, was in Chicago, but it was learned later that ie had un expectedly returned froni the Wist. He wtis telegraphed to sat (Jarden "City, and iii the evening came to New York, stopping at Judge Hil ton's. The funeral will tike place Thursday afternoon, amliishop Lit tlejohn will officiate both at the resi dency and atthe eathred:al" in Car den City, in the crypt of which Mrs. Stewart's body will be-placed. The services at the residence will begin at 1 o'clock, no one but relatives and intimate friends being pres nt, and at 2:30 a special train' will leaver Long Island City for (iarden City with the funeral party. The announcement of the death of Mrs. A. T. Stewart was received tit. Castle fiardeii yesterday afternoon with the protoundest sorrow by all the residents of that village and the the neighboring districts, as' well as the poor and needy who were the recipients of many bounties at her hands. Itain Fall i uk Three Hours From a Clear Sky. Clnirlotte OtfstTver of fc-tiiU-r 1!3. Charlotte has a sensation of a m'ost puzzling character, and one which will prove an interesting subject for study by scientists and the learned men. of the land. It is a tree, or rather a ptiir of trees, in the vicinity of which regularly; every .day at 3 o'clock, a shower of rain falls. The phenomenon, was yesterday wit nessed by a crowd of at least 2-r)() citizens, before 'whose gaze the rain fell for the space of two hours. The locality of this strange occur rence is at the corner of Ninth tind I) streets. Three weeks ago it wtis reported that every day at o o'clix k a shower jof -rain would fall at that spot, but inost of our citizensthought it a subject for the chestnut bell. During the last few days, however, they have begun to look atthe mat ter in a different light There is no joke about it, but . the rain really does fall, as indicated above, and it can le witnessed any day after : o'clock in the afternoon. An 0xe-eer reporter, anxious to test the tru ill fulness of the report, yesterday visited the spot and found a crowd of at least 2-"0 jeople already j assembled, waiting for the rain to ! commence. The skies - were per fectly clear, the sun was shining brightly," and' everything in the vi cinity was dry and dustV from the prolonged 'drought. On reaching the place where the people were as- semhledj the reiortj-r .enquired for tie spot on which it was said that the rainfall was to lie seen, and. Was pointed to two scrubby oak trees growing in a yard "at the corner of Ninth and D streets. There was nothing unusual alout the appear- ance of the trees, save that they were not very well filed w ith leaves. At half past v o'clock, the excctaht multitude was rewarded by the ap- nearance of tlie rain. It begun com- ing down between the two tn-es in a kind of a mist which gradually in creased until it was a gentle, but undoubtedly a genuine rainfall. Though the rain was falling before M. - ! $1.50 PER ANNUM. i tlie eyes of all present, no one. could i tell from whence it came. It could be seen coming down from a point above the tops of the trees, and con tinued falling until 5' o'clock, and that was all that could lie realized. Every individual present could see it plainly. An umbrella held under the falling water was quickly 'made' dripping wet. Handkerchiefs" spread' on the ground were also made .-wet. One lady pkced a gossamer at the foot of the tree, and when she took it up it contained a tablespoontul of water. The water is icy cold. Among those present yesterday and who can testify t the truthfulness of what is above recorded, were Mr. James A. Barry, sergeant in charge of the sig nal station in this city; Mr. I). P. Hutchison, and-a large number of the young lady pupils of the Char lotte Female Institute in charge of Mrs. Atkinson, in addition h a num ber of prominent citizens. Mr. Bar ry wtis so impressed with what he witnessed that he reported the ik' currence t the Chief Signal Stition at Washington. The plat of ground covered bv the rainfall is about ten fi'et square. This wonderful occur-' rence has U-en going on daily for the pjist four weeks, as the residents of that vicinity can testify. While the rain was tailing yester day Mr. Hutchison climbed up one of the trees ti make an investigation, but tailed to unravel the mystery. The leaves and twigs -were perfectly dry, and while he was in the top of the tree, he epu'd see rain coming down froi ii alxive him. 'Thct? are the facts, and the wise inerfan now take the case. A Medical Iis-overy Greater Than SucePs. NVw York World. J Dr. R. C. Fisher, a member of an excellent family, a student of the California Medical 'College, find a resident of Sharon, Pa., has caused great excitement by his prolonged fasts, which he makes periodically, receiving no other sustenance than that afforded by a sjpofa nutriment discovered by him three .years ago after many years of closest applica tion to medical science. Dr. Fisher states jthat in specific medication the results' hoped for arc often prevented by the process of digestion, which interfere with the treatment 'of the physician. To alleviate this a pro longed fast is necessary; hence the incalculable, value of a preparation posst ssing the virtues attributed to Dr. rishcrs discovery: I he doctor challenges any committee that may be selected-by the press or by physi cians having a State reputation to submit him to a test, ;and in the event of failure he will accept noto rious condemnation as his just de s rts. The superiority of Fisher's nir.rient over. Sucei's preparation lies in the fact that while Succi only subjects himself to abstinence, Fisher Van with his preparation aid other persons to fast equally as well as himself. She Went and Did It. (Nru York World. A friend of Murat Halstcad relates an interesting story concerning the wife of James (J. Blaine, Jr. Hesavs Miss Nevins studied for the operatic stage. She had much talent, and as her 'people were not rich their friends raised money to send her to Europe to complete her musical education. Murat Halstcad was one of her sjr cial champions. He wrote to ( ii orge W. Childs, describing the 1 (entity, talent and promise of Miss Nevins without mentioning her. name, and asked him to contribute a fund to send her to Europe. Mr. Childs wrote back a letter in closing a check for $500, but there was a condition attiched to the sub scription. He was not to know the name of the neipient and she was not to know li s name. He added : "If she is till you describe her, I am quite sure she will be married before she ever reach- s the operatic stage." A few days after the marriage of Mr. Blaine, Jr., Mr. Halstcad wrote to Mr. Child's spying: "Our protege Iras gone and oone it. Your proph ecy has been fullilled." It was in this letter th: t Mr. Childs first learned who:vas the object of Mr. Halstcad's friendly interest The Episcopal Church on Mar riage and Divorce. Rev. 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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Senator Wade Hampton is visiting his family in Columbia. ' ' The young Prince LouisN'apoleon s is in New York, and will remain there until after the Bartholdi statue T is dedicated. . : J Abrani S. Hewitt fs sixty-four, slight but wiry in fraine, stoi Shoul dered and narrow-chested, but big-ger-hraihed than, millions, .of men twice his weigh Before Jie turned journalist and political economist, Henry George was a sailor. He should, therefore, be jicculiarly prepared for his forth coining voyage up Salt Riven Theconihined capital of the Roths childs is estimated at Sl,(K)U,tKM,(XX. Half of this litis been gained within the last twenty-five years, and the whole of it in scarcely more than a century. . . A few weeks ago P. T. Bamum! of B.ridgejiort, made a lilieral contribu- . tion for the Charleston jieople. Since then, when his circus was showing there, the receipt amounted -USlt,- -(HK in one day. ' ' Editor Haskell, of the Pittsfield i(Mi'i) .J(vV.Kfr, who has just uiar- Lried a lady, in Alabama, sent up . iroiu me r-ouin io ins pajn-r tins felicitous dispatch : . "No North, no South, but a happy union." Miss Frances E. Willard gave the address of welcome to the Rock River M. K. Conference, which met at Evanston, III.,, hist month. This is the first time a woman has been in vitvl to greet such an assemh y. A Mr. Henry O'R.illy died re cently, who fort y years ago, wanted to put up a telegraph line In-tween Philadelphia and New. York. But I the railroad company refuse I him the right of way on the ground tlyit the telegraph woiih enable people to do business with-it the railroad. Hon. H. R. Jackson, ex-Mihistcr to Mexico, has arrived at his home in Georgia. He says the future of Mexico is full of promise, though the donkey is still a formidable rival of llie steam engine.' He says that Diaz is not only a soldier, but a man of extraordinary ability as a states man. . Senator Lyman Trumbull lives in i modest wooden cottage on' the South side of Chicago, near the Hong las monument. lb is very demo cratic in bis ways and appearance, and a few days ago was seen sukt-' intending some repairs to the side walk in front of his bouse. His fig-, lire "is erectr and he looks as young as he did thirty years ago. A. P. T. Elder, of Liliranj Li'r, said that lie was in receipt of a letter from her physician jhi New York, certifying that Miss Cleveland's health is entirely broken down; and : he forbids her devoting Iht energies to the- excessive labors of editorial work. I'nless there is sopp a change in Miss Cleveland's health, she -will spend the winter in the south of France or in Florida. Mr. Charles F. Brush, of the Brush Electric Light Company, owns one of the largest tuid costliest stone res idences in this country, lie is de termined that the walk leading through his grounds, from the street to his front door, shall describe a true geometrical curve, And he has sjient some hours of his busy days in in structing his" workmen how to lay it, often getting down on his hands and knees in order t draw the line. Mr: Cleveland's hopes for a second term appear t have materialized in to the form of words, according t the information of the Chicago er-(h-ran. A d.is patch from Washing-, ton to that journal says: "John Wiley, Chairman of the Democratic Executive ( 'ommittee of Erie county, N. ,Y., is here. He is reported to have said that the Prcsidem informed him that he had changed his mind ax" to a second term since he has lieen in Washington, and he now hopes for a renoniination." Nrw York Sun. ! At a reception given to the Taylor brothers, in Gallatin on Tuesday, three cakes on the 'banquet lioard attracted general attention. One, which was the central ornament of the table-, was the figure of a man fiddling, and around the I (orders was the inscription: "The Mountain Fiddler Will Win." Another was fringed with white ornaments,. -ind on it was the inscription': "The Next Governor." And still another was trimmed with red, Alt" color, ami on it were the words; Ihe Next Governor's Brother." Mr. Blaine, in his- Pittsburgh shkech, stiid: "We have lived to sjp negro suffrage in the South a1( lutely d sf roved." Mr. Blaine is, as usual, In-hind the times. He is liv ing in the dead past. Under Ji--jiubl can rule in the South negro suffrage war. ' deslroy-d" in the sense that Mr. -Blaine usd the word. Ne gro stjfirage w:is then a mockery, as the negrxies were driven to the Kills like cattle and made to vote accord ing to the dictation of their Repub lican m:istcrs. But that.d iy is over. Now the negro can vote as he pleases. David L. Yulee was flesh, and he had the passions with which flesh is peppereo. But often, if irot every time, he ' mastered his spirit with mightier efforts than tire required to take a city. But his restless pulse is quet now ; his busy brain is a dark senseless void, and there's dust on. the eloquent liis. In life Ids walk was digiHjied, pure, elephantine and pathfindin". And now that he has walked out into the echoless and Viewless beyond, we. know it is well with turn in the- country to which he h is gone. He has passed away and p ople say he is dead, when the mean he has just begun to live.