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TIIE TOBACCO PLANTS :
" , Durham, N. C,
uli ! :i wonderful stream Is the river Tilne
As it jruns through the realm of tears, -"
With a faultk'ss rythm and a musical rlWnie
And a broadening sweep and a surge siihlinie
'. As it; blends in the ocean of years. '
llivr the winters
i snow,
are drifting like flakes of
i I Till-? I livn . : I . : - . " I - - ,
And the summers like buds littwmi,
An.l the years in thk sheaf, how they xrome
! and go . I '
, ( u tbeiriver's breast, with its ebb and flow
As it! glides in the: shadow and sheeny '
- Tliere's; a magical isle up the river Time,
Where the softest of airs are plaving.
There's a cloudless sky, tropical rfinie-f
And a song as sweet as a vesper chime,- .
: And the J tines with the roses are straying.
And the name of this isle is the "LongvAgo,"
And; we bury our treasures there, ri - '
There iare brows of beauty and bosoms of
- ! : snow, : ; :- " - ;"T '
I .There jire heaps of dust oh ! we loved them
There are trinket), and tresses of hair".
There are fragments of songs that nobody
f 1 1 jngs, ; . :
There are parts of an infant's prayer,'
There'jS a lute uuswept and a harp without
1 j 'strings, ; . , X
Thereiare broken vows and pieces of rings,
And the garments our dead used to wear.
I here; are hands that are. waved wlan the
i fairy shore j ;
I?y Ihe titful niiraire is lifted in air;
And -e sometimes; hear through the turbu-
; lent roar :
Sweetivoices we heard In the days gone be
l '! fore, ' .
When the wind down the river was, fair.
h !i ijemeinbered for aye be that hles-d isle,
. All; the day ot our lite until night.'
And when evening glows with its beautiful
; smile f
AinTtjiur eyes are closing in slumber awhihi;
.day the greenwoodjof soul be m sight.
; THE PRIME 3IINISTEir.
Dr. Talmagre's Sermon, Preached
Sunday, September 18th, 1887.
Text: "And Itiarftnh said unto Jiisfpli
liave Set thee over all the land of Enyi't-1'"'
See, I
MS 3.11', ; - 1
You cannot- keep a good man
dowh.: God hds decreed for ihim a
certain elevation to which Ire must
attain. He will bring him through,
tljough it cost! him one thousand
vffirlds. There; are men constantly-
iif trbuble lest they shall not. be ap
preciates r,very man comes in me
end to be. valued at just" what he is
worth. How often you see meii turn
out all their forces to crush One man
or set oi men. ; now uo tuey suc
ceed? No better than did the gov
ernment that tried to crush Joseph,
a Scripture character upon which we
speak to-dav. It would be -iiii'insult
to suppose that vou were not all fa-
niiliar with the life of Joseph : how
his jealous brothers threw him . into
the pit, but, seeing; a caravan of Ara
bian merchants moving, along on
their camels with spices and gums
that loaded the air with aroma, sold
their brother to these merchants,
who carried him down into 3Egypt :
ho7 Joseph was sold to Pptiphar, a
man of mlluence and office
HOW BY INTEGRITY HE RAISEP HIMSELF
to high position in the realrri, until
under the false charge of j?a vile
wretch he was hurled into the peni
tentiary : how in prison he com
manded respect and confidence ; how
by the interpretation of Pharaoh's
dream he was' freed and became the
chief man in the government the
Bismarck of the nation : how in time
of famine Joseph had control of a
storehouse which he had filled dur
ing the seven years of plenty ; how
when his brothers, who' had thrown
him into the pit, and sold him into
captivity, applied for corn, lie sent
them home with their beasts borne
down under the heft of the corn
sacksi how the sin against .their
brother, which had so long been hid
den, came out at last, and jwas re
turned by that brother's forgiveness
1 ' 1 11 1 a' 1-
ana Kinuness,an liiusiriousiriuinpii
of Christian principle.
"Learn from this story in the first
place, that the world is compelled
to honor Christian character! Poti
phar was only a man of the world,
yet Joseph rose in his estimation
until all the affairs of that great
house were committed to his charge.
From this servant no honors or con
fidence were ; withheld. When Jo
seph was in prison he soon won" the
heart ot the keeper, and itnougn
placed there ; for, being a scoundrel,
he soon convinced the jailer that hp
was an innocent and trustworthy
man, and, released from close con
j linemen t, he -became a general su-
perintendentof prison affairs! Wher
ever Joseph was placed, whether a
! servant in the house' of .Potjphar or
a prisoner in the penitentiary, he be
came the first man every where, and
is an illustration of the truth I lay
down that the world is ' - '
COMPELLED TO HONOR CHRISTIAN
' CHARACTER. I
There are those who affect to de
spise a religious life. They-epeak of
it as a system of phlebotomy, by
which a man is bled ol all his cour
age and nobility. They say he has
bemeaned himself. They j pretend
to have no;inore confidence in him
since his conversion than before his
conVersi6ri. V But all that "is hypoc
nsv. It is impossible lor any man
not. to admire and confide in a Chris
tian who shows that he has really
become a child of God and is what
he professes to be.
John Frederick Oberlin alleviating
ignorance and distress, -John How
ard passing from dungeon to laza
retto with healing for the body and
the soul, Elizabeth Frye coming to
the profligate of Newgate imprison to
shake down .their obduracyr as the
ang'el caihe?to iheir prison at Pliilip-
i, driving open the doors ind snap
ping locks 'and chains.' as well as
hves of thousand of the followers of
Jesus who have devoted: themselves
to the temporal and spiritual welfare
oi the race; are "monuments of the
Christian religion that ' shall not
crumble while the world! lasts. A
man ln lne carg gaid. Mj wouldiike
io oecome: a Christian if Iionly knew
"T gipu is. But if this lying
auu cneaung and bad! behavior
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XVI. NO. 39.
among riien who profess to be rood
is rehgidn, I want none'of it." But
my Inerifls.if I
and a m an comes to me and asks me
what the art of 'painting is I must
not sho v him the lnnl
mere pretender. I will take hiia to
j 1 t
uie nap
mels and the Michael An-
gelos
t.is most unfair and dis
honest tj take the ignominious fail-
ures in
Christian profession in-
stead of
ihe glorious successes. The
nwie an
T ft 1 t
kl the Church are great ic-
ture gai
pieces.
leries-filled with master-
r urthfermore, we
learn from this
story of
Joseph that the result of
on is elevation. Had it not
persecut
been for
his being sold into Envntian
bondage
by his malicious brothers
and his
false imprisonment Joseph
never would
have become prime
minister.
Everybody -accepts the
promise
"lilessed are they that are
persecuti-d
lor righteousness sake.
lor theirs
is the kingdom of heaven;"
but they
do not realize the fact that
this
PRIXCIPLK APPLIES TO WORLDLY AS
WELL, AS SPIRITUAL- SUC KSS.
It is truo in all departments. Had
it not bedn for .Eschines who brought
impeachment against Demosthenes,
the lmm
ortal oration De Corona
wouia iipver
have been delivered.
Men rise
to high political position
misrepresentation and the
"the public. Public abuse
: some of our public men
to rely upon for their ele
It lias brought to them
nt and executive force could
through
assault op
is all th
have had
vation.
what tal
never ha
ve acnieveu. .Many ot those
who are
making great effort for place
and pow
r will never succeed be-
cause tl
y are not ot enougn lm-
portance
to be abused. It is the na-
ture of
nhan to gather about those
who are
persecuted and defend them,
and they)
areapt to lorget the faults
ot those
,vho are the subjects of at-
tack win
e attempting to drive back
the slant
lerers. Helen OurK-arH-oteti
martyr,
band to
k-Qndemned with her
h US
said death for Christ's sake,
to her husband, "Ilejoice ; we have
lived together many .joyful days, but
this day wherein we must die to-
rrAthor nilrrlit tn hf mnt invflll til lis
both, llierelore I will not bid you
good night, ibr soon wei shall meet
in the hqavenly kingdom. By the
flash of the furnace best Christian
character is demonstrated. .
I, go irito another department, and
I find th
t those great denominations
ans which have been most
of Christ
abused lJave spread the most rapid
ly. No
bood man was ever more
vilely
ma
ltreated than John u esley.
His followers were hooted at and
maligned, and called by every de
testable name that infernal ingenu
ity could invent, but the hotter the
persecution the more rapid -the
read oil that 'denomination, until
you know what a great host they
have become and what a tremendous
force for 1 jod and the truth they are
wielding the world over. It was
persecution that gave Scotland to
Presbyter ianism. It was persecution
which gave our
own land hrst to
civil liberty and
afterward to reli-
n-mna frodrlnnv Vpfl. T Tn.1V CO flir-
xw. vp j e
ther back and say it was persecution
that gave the world the great salva
tion of the Gospel. The ribald mock
ery, the hungering and thirsting, the
unjust tri d and ignominious death
where all the force of hell's fury was
hurled against the cross, was the in
troduction of that religion which is
yet to be the earth s deliverance
"from guilt and suffering, and her
everlasting enthronement among the
principalities of heaven. The state,
has sometimes said to the church :
'Come, let me take your hand and I
will help you." What has been the
result? 1 he church has gone oacK
and has ost its estate of t holiness
and has 1 lecome ineffective. At oth
er times the state has said to the
church: 'I "will crush you." What
has been he result ? After the storms
have spent their fury, the church, so
lar Irom having lost any ot its lorce,
has mcr
based and is worth lnfi-
itely morl
after the assault than be
lie church is . far more in-
fore it.
debted to
tbe,-' ; ;
OPPOSITION OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT
than to ifls approval. The fires of
bave only been the torches
which ChHst held in his hand, by
the light if which the church, has
marched to her present position, ln
the sound of racks and implements
of torture I hear the rumbling ot
the wheels of the Gospel chariot.
Scaffolds of martyrdom have been
the stairs by which the church has
ascended. Aquafortis is the best
test of pu re gold.
Furthermore, our subject impresses
us that sims will come to exposure.
Long, long ago had these brothers
"sold Joseph into Egvpt. They had
suppressed the crime, and it wast
prolound secret well kept by the
brothers. But suddenly the secret
is out, Tfte old father hears that his
son is in lh.gvpt, having been sold
there by t le malice of his own broth
ers. Hov their cheeks must have
burned and their hearts sunk at the
flaming piitoflhis suppressed crime.
The smallest iniouitv has a thousand
tongues aud they will blab out an
exposure. Saul was sent to de
stroy the Canaanites. their sheep
and theiij oxen. But when he got
down there among the pastures he
saw somefinesheerand oxen, tiooj fat
to kill, and so he thought he would
steal them. He drove them toward
home, but stopped to report to the
prophet how well he had executed
his commission, when in the dis
tancethe sheep begad to bleat and
the oxen to hello w Ttft? secret Was
but arid Samuel said' to' the blush
ing and confounded Saul: "What
means the bleating of the sheep that
I hear ai id the lowing of the cattle ?"
At just the wrong time the sheep
will bleat and the oxen will bellow.
Achan cannot steal the.:Babylonish
" , H - :
"HERE SHALL THE PRESS
garment without getting stoned to
death, rior Benedict Arnold betray
his country without having his neck
stretched. Look over the public ar
rests, these thieves, these burglars,
these adulterers, these counterfeiters,
these highwaymen, these assassins.
They all thought theyxould bury
their iniquity so deep down that it
would never come to resurrection.
But there was shoes that answered
to the print in thesand, some false
keys found in potjsessiocome bloody
knife that whispfred of the deed,
and the public indignation, and the
anathema of outraged law hurled
him into the tombs or hoisted him
on the gallows. At the close of the
battle between the dauphin of France
and the Helvetians, Burchard Monk
was so elated with the vict ry that he
lifted his helmet to look off.-upon the
field, when a wounded soldier hurled
a stone that struck his uncovered
forehead and he fell. Sin will al
ways leave some point exposed, and
there is no safety in iniquity. Fran
cis I, king of France, was discussing
how it was best to get his army into
Italy. Amaril. the court fool, sprang
out from the corner and said to the
king and his staff officers : "You had
better be thinking how you will get
your army out of Italy after once
you have entered." In other words,
it is easier for us to get into sin than
to get out of it. Whitefield was rid
ing on horseback, in a lonely way,
with some missionary money iri his
sack fastened to his" saddle-bags.- A
highwayman sprang out from the
thicket and put his hand out toward
the gold, when Whitefield turned
upon him and said : "That belongs
to the Lord Jesus Christ ; touch it
if you dare," and the villain fell back
empty handed into the thicket.
Oil, THE POWER OF CONSCIENCE!
If offended, it becomes God's aveng
ing minister. Do not think you can
Iride any great and protracted sin in
your hearts. In an unguarded mo
ment it will slip off of the lip, or
some slight occasion may for a mo
ment set ajar this door of hell that
you .wanted to keep closed. But
suppose that in this life you hide it,
and ybu get alonp- .with that trans
gression burning in your heart, as a
hip on lire within lor days may hin
der the flame from bursting out by
keeping down the hatchways : yet,
at last, in the judgment, that iniquity
will blaze out belore the throne ot
God and the universe.
Furthermore : learn from this sub
ject the inseparable connection be
tween all events however remote.
Lord Hastings was beheaded one
year after he had caused the death
ot the queen s children, in the very
month, the very day, the very hour,
and the very moment There is won
derful precision in the Divine judg
ments. The universe is only one
thought of God. Those things which
seem fragmentary and isolated are
only different parts ot that one great
thought. How lar apart seemed
these two events Joseph sold to the
Arabian merchants and therulership
of Egypt. Yet you -see in what a
mysterious way God connected the
two in one plan. So all events are
can look tack arid group together a
thousand things in your lite that
once seemed isolated. One undivided
chain of events reached from the
garden of Eden to the Cross of Cal
vary, and thus up to heaven. There
is a relation between the smallest in
sect that hums in the summer air
and the archangel on the throne.
God can trace a direct ancestral line
from the blue jay, that last spring
built its nest ifu a-jlree behind Ihe
house' ta some oneof thkt4fock of
birds which, when Koah IrbistecT the
ark s window, with a whirl and a
dash of bright wings Went out to sing
over Mount Ararat. The tulips that
bloomed this summer in the flower
bed were nursed by last .winter's
snow-flakesi The furthest star on
one side of the universe could not
look to the furthest star on the other
side and say : "You are no relation
to me ;" for from that bright orb a
voice ot light would ring across the
heavens responding : "Yes, yes ; we
are sistere.'" :Slr 5riey Smith in
prison was playing lawn tennis in
the yard and the ball flew over the
wall. Another ball containing let
ters was thrown back, and so com-
municationwas opend with the out
side world, and Sidney Smith es
caped in time to defeat Bonaparte s
Egyptian expedition. What a small
accident connected with what vast
result ! Sir Robert Peel, from the
pattern he drew on the back of a
pewter dinner plate, got suggestions
of that which Ued to the important
invention by which calico is printed.
NOTHING IN GOD'S UNIVERSE SWINGS AT
LOOSE ENDS.
Accidents are only God's way of
turning a leaf in the book of his eter
nal decrees. 'From our cradle to our
grave there is a path all marked out.
Each event in our life is connected
with every other event in our life.
Qur loss may be the most direct road
to our gain. Our defeats and victo
ries are twin brothers. The whole
direction of your -life- wat changed
by something which at that time
seemed to you a trifle, while some
occurrence which seemed tremen
dous affected you but little. The
Rev. Dr. Kennedy, of Basking Ridge,
N.- J., went into ,hJs pulpit-one Sab
bath, ancthyai iBtiahge tsw(i mem
oryprgot nis subject and forgot his
texX and in great embarrassment
rose before his audience and an
nounced the circumstance, and de
clared himself entirely unable to
preach ; heja'.lapnched forth irf a
tewvern$sf 'jKojfo J. entreaty and
warning which resulted in the out
breaking of the mightiest revival of
religion ever known in that State, a
revival that resulted in churches still
standing, and in the conversion of a
large -number of men. who entered
the; Gospel- ministry, ' who have
THE PEOPLES RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE
DURHAM N. C, WEDNESDAY; SEPTEMBER 28,
brought their thousands
kingdom of God. God's
into
the
plans are
magnificent beyond all comprehen
sion. lie molds us, turns and di
rects us, and we know it not. Thou
sands of years are to him but as the
flight of the shuttle. The most ter
rific occurrence does not make God
tremble, arid the most triumphant
achievement does not lift him into
rapture. That one great thought of
God goes on through the centuries,
and nations rise and fall and eras
pass, and the world itself changes,
but God still keeps the undivided
mastery, linking event to event and
century to century. Tq God they
are all one event, one history, one
plan, one development, one system.
Great and marvelous are thy works,
Lord God Almighty.
. Furthermore, we learn from this
story the propriety, of
LAYING UP FOR THE FUTURE.
During seven years of plenty Joseph
prepared for the famine, and when
it came he had a crowded storehouse.
The life of most men in a worldly
respect is divided into years of plen
ty7 and famine. It is seldom that
any man passes through life without
at least seven years of plenty. Dur
ing these seven prosperous years
your business bears a rich harvest
You hardly know where all the
money comes from, it comes so fast.
Every bargain you make seems to.
turn into gold. You contract few
bad debts. You are astounded with
large dividends. You invest more
and more capital. You wonder
how men can be content with a
small business, gathering in only
$100 where you reap your thou
sands. ' These are the seven years
of plenty. Now, Joseph, is the time
to prepare for famine, for to almost
every man there do come seven
years ol famine. You will be sick ;
you will be unfortunate ; you will
be defrauded; you will be disap
pointed ; you will be old, and if you
have no storehouse upon which to
fall back you may be famine struck.
We have no admiration for this de
nying one's self of all present com
fort and luxury for the mere pleas
ure of seeing how large a pile you
can get, this always being poor and
cramped, because as soon as a dollar
comes in it is sent out to see if it
can't find another dollar to carry
home on its back ; but there is an
intelligent and noble minded fore
cast which we love to see in men
who have families and kindred de
pendent upon them for the blessings
of education and home. God sends
us to the, insects, for a lesson, which,
while they do not stint themselves
in the present, do not forget their
duty to forestall the future.
"GO TO THE ANT, THOU SLUGGARD ;
consider her ways and be wise, which,
having no guide, overseer or ruler,
provideth her-meat in the summer
and gathereth her food in the har
vest.", Now there are two ways of
laying up money ; the one by invest
ing it in stock and depositing it in
banks and loaning it on bond or
mortgage. The other way of lay
ing up money is giving it away. He
is the safest who makes both of these
investments. But the man who de
votes none of his gain to the cause
of Christ and thinks only of his own
comfort and luxury, is not safe, I
don't care how his money is invested.
He acted as the rose if it should say:
"I will hold my breath and no one
shall have a snatch of fragrance from
me until next week, and then I will
set all the garden afloat with the
aroma." The time comes, but hav
ing been without fragrance for so
long, it has nothing to give. But
above all lay up treasures in heaven.
They never depreciate in value.
They never are at a discount. They
are always available. You may feel
safe now with your present yearly
income, but what will such an in
come be worth after you are dead?
Others will get it Perhaps some of
them.; will quarrel about it before
1 i mi i a
you are dead, iney are only wait-
i "I" IIH .! H
ing ior you 10 cue. w nat tnen win
all your accumulation be wrorth if
ycu could gather it all into your
bosom and walk up with it into
heaven's gate ? It would not pur
chase your admission ; or, if allowed
to enter, it could not buy you a
crown or a robe, and the poor.st
saint in: heaven would look down
and say : "Where did that pauper
come from ?"
IN EVERY FAMINE THERE IS A STORE
HOUSE. Up the long row of building, piled
to the veryr roof with corn, come the
hungry multitudes, and Joseph com
manded that their sacks and their
wagons i be filled. The world has
been blasted. Eyery green thing
has withere.d under the touch of sin.
From all continents and islands
and zones comes up the groan of dy
ing millions. Over tropical spice
groves and Siberian ice and Hindoo
jungle the blight has fallen. The
famine is. universal. But, glory be
to God I there is a great storehouse.
Jesus Christ, our elder brother, this
day bids us come in from our hun
ger and beggary arid obtain infinite
supplies of grace enough to make us
rich forever. Many of you' have for
a long time been smitten of the fam
ine': ' The world has not stilled the
throbbing of your spirit. Your con
science sometimes rouses you up
with such suddenness and strength
that it requires the most gigantic de
termination to quell the disturbance.
Yonr courage quakes at the thought
of the future. Ob, why will you
tarry amid the blastings of the fam
ine when such a glorious storehouse
is open in God's mercy ?
Ye wretched, hungry, starring -poor,
Behold a royal feast,
Where mercy )redrf her bounteous store '
' For every humble guest.
See, Jesus stands with open arms, .
He calls, he bids you come ;
Guilt holds you back and fear alarms,
But see, there yet is room.
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LYNCHBURG & DURHAM.
WHAT SEKPELL & CO.?! ARE
DOING ON HIE LINE.
Mr. Kelly's Sub-Coiitrat-HFisli-iiiSX
Creek Bridge Work at
Tunnel Hill and Section &even.
A visit to the points adjacent to
the city at which work has! been
commenced on the Lynchburg and
Durham railroad, yesterday evening,
convinced the reporter that Messrs.
Serpell & Co., the contractors, are
preparing for a vigorous prosfc ;ution
of tne enterprise. !
The first visited was the site of the
proposed depot, on Twelfth street, at
J. P. Shaner's. At that place Mr. J.
Lindsay Allen, Superintendept for
'Mr. John-'Kelly, the sub-contractor
for three miles of the road, compienc
ing atithat place, has forty-five hands
at work on the road-bed. T hough
they only commenced last tenday,
they have already removed fa great
quantity of dirt. There wilnbehere
a cut nineteen feet deep, an4
a
fill
of the same depth, nearly
Ml
of
which will be blasted through
solid
rock. Mr. Allen uses dy
hamite,
which is the cheapest and mjoi
t sat-
lsiactorv explosive. I he road
will
cross Fishing Creek on a trestle
seven feet high.
At Tunnel Hill, three miljp.'
forty-
from
;hing
the city, Mr. Serpell is pu
j I . j
things with vigor. He, has contr
ucted
seven shanties, each capable bf com
fortably accommodating twer)tv-four
laborers Others will ;be builtjathey
are needed, and provision wjll soon
be made for oUO hands. Thvse shan
ties are situated seventy feet part,
as a safeguard against destruction
by fire, and are substantial and com
fortable plank buildings,and sjtr .pped
on the outside as a prolection Irom
the weather. Mr Serpell is khje first
railroad contractor we have heard oj
who supplies his employes with
cooking stoves and utensils and
comfortable bunks and blankets.
Every shanty is -so provided, 'add Mr.
Serpell explained that men could
not perform satisfactory work unless
they were well fed and well housed;
and while these comforts adjd mate
rially to his expenses, they were, in
the end, a good investment for all
concerned. j j
In addition to these improvements
the commissary building Is j com
pleted, and already j filled jwith all
descriptions of commissary stores.
The blacksmith shop is completed
and ready for operations, and the
tool hose is already well stockec with
implements to be used in the vork.
The stables are' substantially, built
and contain a large number of the
finest mules yet brought tojihis sec
tion. Mr. Serpell does noi believe
in " scrub stock," and works none
but the best. j
Work has been somewhat de ay ed
by the failure of several car-loads of
wagons to arrive as soon as expected.
Mr. Serpell is thoroughly equipped
for the work, havingj brought with
him, or having now on the way,
every description of tool used ir. rail
road construction. j
' Thirty-five hands afe nowlengaged
in clearing out the right of wiy to
the mouth of the projected tunnel,
and the engineers will complete their
part of the work at that point to-day.
Monday morning the removal of dirt
will commence in earnest. The tun
nel will be five hundred feet in leWth
and fifty-two feet at its greatest depth
from the surface. Indications are
that almost the entire distance will
have to be blasted : through jsolid
rock. The tunnel will pass under
the Campbell Courthouse road, jwith
in six or eight feet of the fcorner of
the toll-house, now occupied by Mr.
Butterworth, the toll-gathei;er.
Mr. Serpell is now hauling lumber
to secton seven, , four mile further
on the route, and is erectingtshahties,
stables and other necessary buildings
at that point, preparatory" to the
early commencement of the work
there. It.
Our ohservations on thi$ hurried
visit justifies the conclusion! that this
important enterprise willf now be
pushed to speedy completion.
Lynchburg Advance, 22d.
The Secret of Longevity ,
American Magazine for Octolier.
A little way beyond the, ancient
church at Holderness is a brick! resi
dence, whose front is half hidden by
one of those monster elm that are
the pride of our Northern States,
and beneath its shade I saW yester
day an old man who is passing his
ninety-fifth year, sitting comfortably
in a great arm-chair. Myjwife told
me that his aunt had recently died,
aged one hundred and five ; land,
curious to know if there jwas ! any
special reason for such longevity, I
made inquiries. "No," saifl my in
formant; "only they werje almost
always out-of-doors and live a quiet
life." j
Yet in that single sentence lay a
greater philosophy than hef dreamed
of, & sounder precept than jhe knew.
To keep out of doors and avoid wor
ry is a maxim that, if I followed,
would close a majority of jour ; hos
pitals, which, I regret to &iy, have a
greater number of occupants each
succeeding year.
!
Especially to Women.
! '
"Sweet is revenge especially to
women," said the gifted, but naughty
Lord Byron. Surely he was in bad
humor when he wrote such words.
But there are complaints that onljT
women suffer, that are carrying num
bers of them down to earjy- graves.
There is hope for those who suffer,
no matter how sorely, or severely, in
Dr. R. V. Pierce's "Favorite Prescrip
tion." Safe in its action it is a bless
ing, especially to icomen, and to jmen,
too, for when women Buffer, the
household is askew. j j
Wake Forest has 140 students.
AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN."
1887.
STATE NEWS.
The endowment fiind of Trinity
college is steadily growing.
A terrific storm unroofed Yadkin
college, Davidson county, and caused
much damage to the crops in that
vicinity.
The body of James Wilbert, who
Sunday before cut his wife's throat,
was found floating in the Cape Fear
river at Wilmington last Wednes
day. Neic&it Observer : Gov. Scales has
accepted an invitation to be present
at the Catawba county fair, which
will be held at Hick6ry on October
27th. ;
Goldsboro Argus: Steps are being
taken to organize a joi nt-stock com
pany for the manufacture of shoes
in this city. Right "'et 'er go, Gal
lagher." Niii3ii& Ob.ei-ver : The Governor
has appointed J. A. McLauchlin, J.
M. Goddard, W. C. Dpdson and W.
H. Pemberton as special railroad po
lice for the Cape 'Fear; and Yadkin
Valley railroad.
Davidson Dipalch : Bishop Joseph
S. Key, of the M. E. Church, South,
preached in the Methodist church
last Wednesday. All whosje good
fortune it was to hear him, were de
lighted with the sermon.
Fayetteville News : Mr. Mark Mor
gan will, about the first of October,;
break dirt for the erection of a cot
ton factory in Fayetteville. Mr. Mor
gan will put in fifty looms to begin
with,.and then add more to these as
necessity demands.
Charlotte Chronicle : The first grain
elevator established in Charlotte was
yesterday morning. put in operation
at the plant of the Piedmont Milling
company, where three freight cars
were quickly filled with cotton seed
from the seed warehouse of the com
pany. Xeirs ,tObsercer, 2Zd: The Gover
nor . has appointed Dr. Hubert
Haywood, of this city, Surgeon-General
of the North Carolina State
Guard, vice Dr. Eugene Grissom, re
signed. I)r Hay wood has been for
some years First Assistant Surgeon
General. Wilmington Messenger: Sam Gregg,
colored, swore a lie in the criminal
court yesterday morning. Solicitor
Moore drew a bill for perjury at re
cess ; the grand jury returned it
"true," and Gregg was tried and con
victed in the afternoon. What so
licitor can beat this record?
Telegram to News & Observer : Gas
was turned on this evening for the
first time, and is burning brilliantly.
The works are an entire success.
This is the first gas light in North
Carolina west of the Blue Ridge.
There is general rejoicing over this
latest step in Asheville's progress.
Kernersville Neics & Farm : Mr.
Richard Hackett, a recent graduate
of the State University! and a very
talented young man, has associated
himself with Vernon W. Long, of
the Winston Sentinel, in the manage
ment of the Southern Home, formerly
published at this office1. Success to
thenrboth. j
Webster's Weekly : A freight train
which was shifting up and down the
track early Friday morning, ran over
and killed John Craftoh's fine coach
dog. It beheaded her' as slick as a
button, leaving her body laying out
side the track. This is an especially
valuable breed of dogs which have
lately been brought here, and it was
indeed a pity about this one getting
killed.
Greensboro Workman: A
man, whose name is Thos.
gentle-
is . lhos. oeagie,
and who has been some two weeks
a guest of the McAdoo House in this
city, attempted suicide this morning
with a razor. Between 4 and 5
o'clock, this morning, the night
watch heard a noise of groans pro
ceeding from Mr. Seagle's room, and
on entering, found him lying on the
floor with a murderous gash across
his throat. He may recover. He is
able to speak.
Charlotte Chronicle: A little twelve-year-old
son of Mrs. Elizabeth Hill,
a widow lady living near Dallas, in
Gaston county, met with a horrible
death by having his head caught in
the cane mill. The boy was stand
ing in front of the upright cylinders,
through which the cane is passed,
when the "sweep" struck him and
knocked him down. Unfortunately
he fell towards the mill, and the hair
of his head was caught between the
cylinders. Before the machine could
be stopped the boy's head had been
drawn through the machine and
crushed into a horrible mass of bloody
pulp. j
Wilmington Messenger: A tele
gram received yesterday by Mrs. J.
C. Lumsden, conveyed the sad intel
ligence of the death of Capt H. C.
Brock, at the home of his boyhood,
Doylestown, Pa., of congestion of the
brain that terminated ia paralysis.
Capt. Brock was born Ion the 17th
day of December, 1824,imaking him
63 years of age. -Our friends of the
Argus have very generously contrib
uted the sum of $50 to fund to be
used in furnishing books to graded
school pupils that are unable to buy
them.1 We learn that the sum will
be augmented by the ever-generous
Neuse Lodge of Odd jFellows.
Rev. J. T. Harris, the active and effi
cient presiding elder of this district,
received a severe pounding at his
home, in this city, one; evening last
week. The pounding was at the
hands of the congregation of St. John
M. E. church, for whom Mr. Harris
has worked zealously and with tell
ing effect. - -
Organic weakness or loss of
powerin either sex, however induced,
speedily' and permanently cured.
Enclose 10 cents in stamns for book
of particulars. World's Dispensary,
Medical Association, tfunaio, in. x.
$1.50 PER ANNUM.
THE SLAVONIC SORBS.
THE PLANT'S LETTER FKOM
THE OLD AVOHLD.
A HistorieaTSketch of the Land
of the Ancient Saxons AVhere
Angrlo-Saxon Blood Came From.
At andbeibre the time of their in
vasion of England the Saxons were
a strong heathen tribe inhabiting the
northern and western part of what
is now Prussia ; nor was it until the
tenth and eleventh centuries that
they moved Southward into the re
gion that was then called Sorabia,but
which has taken from them the
modern name Saxony, v
It is, however, not of the Saxons
but of the race which they partially
dispossessed that I wish to speak in
this letter. I j
The original inhabitants of central
Europe Belonged to the same race as
the modern Russians and Poles, and
it is only in certain sections that
they have been entirely driven
out by the Germanic tribes which
emgirated frc-m Scandinavia in the
early centuries of our era.
The tribes bf this race which for
merly occupied what is now called
Saxony, were known as Sorbs and
Wends, and these in turn, had wan
dered hither several centuries before
the birth of Christ.
They had i black hair and eyes,
and flat face3 ; and in their religion,
customs and language they differed
very much' from the ancient Ger
mans, j j
Nevertheless, the results of their
thrifty modes bf life are still to be
seen in the land from which they
have themselves well-nigh disap
peared, j
Their habit of planting trees, their
fine herds, their spinning and weav
ing have all done good to. their suc
cessors and descendants Even yet
Saxony is celebrated for its fine cat
tle, and its spinning and weaving in
dustries are unequalled.
The Sorbs planted flax and wove
the wool of their sheep into cloths
and blankets which they found no
difficulty in selling to their German
neighbors. j j
Their weapons were stone axes
and short swords ; and it is said that
when their towns were besieged they
threw down from the walls red hot
stones and boiling water.
In religion,; they were' pagans, and
had a great number of gods and god
desses. Thejj- chief deity was Swan-lou-U,
the sun god ; and under him
were'Bielbog, the good, and Zscherne
bog, the evil spirit. To these, in their
sacred groves, they onered cattle,
sheep and human beings, whom they
had captured in war. Near Radegast
they had a celebrated oracle, where
they sought the Divine advice and
looked into futurity.
At Wantewitz and Zscorna they
held festivals in honor of Swantowit
and the terrible Zschernebog. In
honor of the former they had a great
holiday in August, as they consid
ered the sun-god to be the giver of
their crops, which they gathered in
August. At the same time they in
quired, through their priests, con
cerning the prospects for the next
year. Among their other deities
were Nixen, Kobalde,'Drachen and
Natchtjager, the night-rider, who i
referred to in Goethe's celebrated Erl
Koenig. In these deities the Sorbish
peasants believe superstitiously, even
to the present day.
From time ;to time missionaries
came among these people from their
German neighbors, and labored to
convert them to Christianity. They
preached Christ crucified, and built
churches in hie honor; and at length
the emperor, Otto the Great, created
the three bishoprics of Meissen, Mer
seburg and Zeitz.
As is always the case when a
stronger nation attempts to force a
weaker people to adopt its religion
or customs, the old Germans, I fear,
used compulsion rather than per
suasion as a means towards accom
plishing the desired end.
As an old manuscript has it:
"Whoever did not fast punctually
had one or two teeth broken out, and
whoever did not bring tithes to the
church, to him it was given to have
a foretaste of hell while still in the
world." X. X. X.
They All Notice It.
ILillsboru Recorder.
We have known Durham quite a
long time, and fully as well as any
non-resident. We spent last Friday
and Saturday there, was present at
the election, and although Saturday
is a half holiday, and all the facto
ries turn out their hands at 4 p. m.,
and a large crowd was on the streets
all the time, we did not see a single
person under the influence of whis
key. It did not used to be so. It is
not hard to guess the reason why.
Let 'er Go, Gallagher !
Raleigh Signal.
The attacks made on Mr. Nichols
are as flies on the back of an elephant.
He has the confidence of the people
without regard toparty , as was shown
last year. Tray, Blanche and Sweet
heart may yelp at his heels, but his
progress will ibe, onward and up
ward, and his detractors will be
ground to the dust.
That's the Way. Keep It Up.;
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fSfate Chronicle.
Ring the bells ! Beat the cym
bals ! Blow ye the trumpet 1 Sound
the trombone I The Warrenton Ga
zette says that, not a car load of hay
or corn has been brought to that
market during the season ; on the
other hand, Mr. J. L. Shaw and Mr.
S. Johnson are both shipping hay to
Northern markets.
Henry Watterson says Cleveland's
re-nomination is the only hope for
the Democracy.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
As an anti-mascot Burchard is
against the deck. Jersey City Jour
nal. Mr. James Russell Lowell is visit
ing Lord Hobhouse,in Wilshire, En
gland. It is said that Robert Lincoln's
law practice in Chicago is worth $50-,
000 a year.
We have to inform "Civis" that
Joan of Arc was not canonized. She
was cremated. Macon Tdegraph..
The Duke of Buccleuch is consid
ered the richest man in Scotland.
He has an income of about $1,200,
000 a year.
Walt Whitman writes to the Pall
Mall Gazette, that the income from his
books (royalties, etc.,) does notreach
6100 a year.
The Boston ILrald thinks it will
not be very strange ir President
Cleveland turns out to be the ablest
politician in his party.
The two most popular women in
America to-day are Mrs. Cleve
land and Mrs. Logan. One reason
for this is that both have sense.
Mr. Phelps, the American Minis
ter at London, has gone to Scotland
to visit the Marquis of Tweeddale.
He will afterward be the guest of Sir
John Rose.
There is a Washington rumor that
Randall will unite with the Republi
cans to prevent Carlisle from being
elected Speaker. Just like him.
Wilmington Star.
If Robert Garrett wants to repair
his shattered fortunes let him take
the place of one of his sleeping car
porters for a few runs. Pittsburg
Commercial Gazelle.
Abram S. Hewitt, of New York, is
pronounced a nervous mayor. He
probably is, but he isn't half as ner
vous as he makes the law breakers.
Gov.-Hill is for Cleveland for the
renomination. He will be renomi
nated for Governor and take his
chances for the Presidency four
years hence. Wilmington Star.
It is said that Ben Butler and Gen.
Roger A. Pryor will appear for the
Anarchists if they succeed in getting
their cases before the United States
Supreme court. Wilmington, Slar.
Congressman S. S. Cox, of. New
York, is mentioned for the chair
manship of the ways and means'
committee of the next House. He
is a decided advocate or Tarifl re
form. -
Miss Sibyl Sanderson, a daughter
of the late Chief Justice Sanderson,
of California, is to make her debut in
grand opera this month in Brussels.
She will sing Juliet in "Romeo and
Juliet."
The New York Tribune denounces
President Cleveland for turning out
all the Republican office-holders.
The Sun denounces him for keeping
them in. The World denounces him
for both.
Prince Philip (Duke of Orleans),
the eldest son of the Count of Paris,
is about to start on a journey around
the world. He will proceed by way
of India, Japan, San Francisco and
New York.
When Republican hopes are pinned
to Fred Grant and Bob Lincoln the
party is on its road to the cemetery,
where all that was worth anything
in it has preceded it. St. Louis lie
puUican, Devi.
Mrs. A. R. Parsons, wife of the
condemned anarchist, says in rela
tion to the decision of the Supreme
court, that she does not believe the
public will permit what she calls
this "judicial murder."
Prince Bismarck possesses some of
the largest and finest forests in
Northern Germany and with the ex
ception of Prince Furstenburg, wbe
is Lord of Schwarzwold, he is proba
bly the largest timber merchant in
the empire. -
Gov, Foraker will scarcely get his
Presidential boom inflated on the
claim that Mrs. Cleveland snubbed
him. The country has an abiding ..
faith in the perfect tact and good
sense of the mistress of the White .
House. N. Y. World.
It is not true, as Senator Sherman
said in his recent speech, that "a
Democratic House of Representa
tives has never been able to agree
upon any political measure," but it
is uncomfortably near the the truth.
Since the death of Joseph Cilley,
on Saturday, Simon Cameron is the
oldest surviving ex-Senator. He
was born in 1709, and is followed by
ex-Senator James Bradbury, of
Maine, born in 1805 ; Jefferson Da
vis, born in 1808, and Hannibal
Hamlin, born in 1800.
It is said that Ben Butler has
made a speech in favor of pensioning
Confederate soldiers. Ben is trying
to see how many leading Southern
men and newspapers will catch on
and help to give the bloody shirt a
fresh breeze. Iet it alone. New
Berne Journal.
It is asserted in New York that
Jay Gould and the Baltimore and
Ohio syndicate are at odds, and that
when the telegraph system is dis
posed of it will be sold to the high
est bidder, Mr. Gould-having no
claims above anybody else. Reports
like these are encouraging. They
show that Gould is not having "a
walk over," after all. Baltimore
American.
Hugh Whittell, a forty-niner, who
died a few days ago at Alameda,
CaL, at the age of 77 years, erected
his own monument some years ago.
It is a splendid marble shaft, bear
ing his name and the dates .of Ins
birth and death 'and this epitaph:
"He traveled over the first railway
ever built in England, and crossed
the Atlantic in the first steamship
that ever plowed the ocean. He ex
plored many lands and died in the
fullness of the faith. Amen."
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