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Better the love of a gentle heart, than beauty's favor proud ; Better the rose's living iseed, than roses in a , crowd. Better to love in loneliness, than to bask in love all day ; Better the fountain in the heart,than the foun- tain by the way. Better be fed by a mother's hand, than eat alone at will ; Better to trust in God, than say : "My goods j ' my -storehouse fill." Better to be a little .wise, than in knowledge I to abound; " Better to teach a child, than toil to fill ier- . fection's round. Better to sit at a master's! feet, than thrill a I listening State ; Better suspect that hou art proud, than be ' j liar 4 tboa ert grea. Better to walk the real unseen, than watch I " the hour's event ; Better the "Well done !" at the last, titan the air with shouting rent. Better to have a quiet grief, than a hurrying t delight: Better the twilight of the dawn, than the noonday burning bright. etter a death when work is done, than earth's most favored birth : letter a child in God's great house, than, the king ol all the .earth. George McDonald. "IS THINE HEART RIGHT?" Ir. Talinages Sermon, Preached Sunday, December 4, 1887. Text: "Is thine heart right?" II Kings x, 15. ! With mettled horses at full speed, for he was celebrated for fast driving, Jehu, the warrior and king, returns front battle. But seeing Jehonadab, an acquaintance, by the wayside, he shouts, "Whoa ! :whoa !" to the lath ered span. Then, leaning over to Jehonadab, Jehu salutes him in the words of the text words not more appropriate for that hour and that place than for this hour and place. Is thine heart right? I should like to hear of your physical health. Well myself, I like to have everybody else well : and to ask : Is your eye- Lsight right, your hearing right, your nerves right, your lungs right, your entire body right? But I am busy to-day taking diagnosis of the more important spiritual conditions. ! I should like to hear of your finan cial welfare. I want everybody to have plenly of money, ample ap parel, Liige storehouse and comforta ble residence A id I mi;htask: Is your business right, yoar income right, your worldly surroundings right ? But what are these financial questions compared with the en quiry as to whether you have been able to pay your debts to God ; as to whether you aie insured for eternity; as to whether you are ruining your self by the long credit system of the soul? I have known ire a to have no more than one loaf of bread at a time, and et to own a government bond of heaven, worth more than the whole material universe. ; The question I ask you to-day is not in regard to your habits. I make no inquiry abour integrity, or your chastity, or your sobriety. I do not mean to stand on the1 outside of the gate and ring the bell ; but coming up the steps I open the door and come to the private apartment of the soul ; and with the earnestness of a man that must give an account for this day's work, I cry out, O man, O woman immortal : IS THINE HEART EIGHT? Twill not insult you by an argu ment to prove that we are by nature all wrong. If there be a factory ex plosion, and the smokestack be up set; and the wheels be broken in two, and the engine unjointed, and the ponderous bars be twisted, and a man should look in and say that.nothing was the matter, you would pronounce him a fool. Well, it needs no acu men to discover that our nature is all atwist and askew and unjointed. The thing doesn't work right. The biggest trouble we have in the world is with our souls. . ! Men sometimes say that though their lives may not be just right, their heart is all right. Impossible ! A farmer never puts the poorest ap ples on top of his barrel; nor does the merchant place the meanest goods in his show window. The best part of us is our outward life. I do not stop to discuss whether we all fell in Adam, for we have been our own Adam, and have all eaten of the for bidden fruit, and have, been turned out fif the paradise of holiness and peace ; and though the naming sword that stood at the gate to keep ua out has changed position and comes be hind us to drflre us in, we will not go. The Bible account of us is not ex aggerated whetv it eays that we are poor and wretched, and miserable and blind, and naked. Poor: the wretch that stands shivering on our doorstep on a cold day is not so nfuch in need of bread as we are of spirit ual help. Blind: why, the man whose eyes perished in the powder blast, and who for these ten years has gone feeling his way from street to street, is not in such utter darkness as we. Naked : why, there is not one rag of holiness left to hide the shame of our,sin. Sick : why, the leprosy has eaten into the head, and the heart, and the hands, and the feet; and the marasmus ot an everlast ing wasting away has already seized oh some of us. ! But the meanest thing for a man to do is to discourse about an evil without pointing a way to have it remedied. I speak of the THIRST OF YOCR HOT TONGUE only that I may show you the living stream that drops crystalline and sparkling from the Rock of Ages, and pours a river of gladness at your feet. If I show you the rents in your coat, it is only because the door of God's wardrobe now swings open, .1 ' 'HEBE SHALL THE PRESS and here is a robe, w'lite with the fleece of the lamb of Jod, and of a cut and make that an angel would not be ashamed to wear. If I snatch from you the black, moldy bread that you are munching, it is only to give you the bread made o it of the finest wheat that grows oi, the celestial hills, and baked in ue fires of the cross, and one crumb cf which would be enough to make all heaven a ban quet. Hear it, one a id all, and tell it to your friends when you go home, that the IiOrd Jesus Cirist can make the heart right. ! First, we need a repenting heart. If for the last ten, twenty or forty years of life we have been going on in the wrong way, it hi time that we be turned around and started in the opposite direction. If we offend our friends we are glad to apologize. God is our best friend, and yet Jiow many of us have never 'apologized for the wrongs we have done him ! There is nothing that we so much need to get rid of as sin. It is a hor rible bladk monster. It polluted Eden. It killed Christ. It has blasted the world. Men keep dogs in ken nels, and rabbits in a warren, and cattle in a pen. What a man that would be, who would shut them up in his parlor. But this foul dog of sin, and these herds of transgression, we have entertained for many a long year in our heart, which should be the cleanest, brightest room in all our nature. Out with the vile herd ! Begone, ye befoulers of an immortal nature ! Turn out the beasts, and LET CHRIST COME IN ! A heathen came to an early Chris tian who fad the reputation of cur ing diseases: The Christian said, "You must have all your idols de stroyed." The heathen gave to the Christian the key to his house, that he might go in and destroy the idols. He battered to pieces all he saw, but still the man did not get-well. The Christian said to him, "There must be some idol in your house not yet destroyed." The heathen confessed that there was one idol of beateh gold that he could not bear to give up. After a while, when that was destroyed, in answer to the prayer of the Christiah, the sick man got well. .Many a man has awakened in his dying hour to find his sins all about him. They clambered up on the right side ofthe bed, and on the left side, and over j the headboard, and over the footboard, and horribly de voured the soul. Repent ! the voice celestial cries, No longer dare delay ; The wretch that scorns the mandate dies, And meets a fiery day. Again, we need a believing heart. A good many years ago a weary one went up one of the hills of Asia Minor, and with two logs on his back cried out to all the world, offering to carry their sins and sorrows. They pursued him. They slapped him in the face. They mocked him. When he groaned they groaned. They shook their fists at him. They spit on him. They hounded him as though he were a wild beast. His healing of the sick, his sight giving to the blind, his mercy to the out cast silenced not the revenge of the world. His prayers and benedic tions were lost in that whirlwind of execration. Away with him ! Away with him ! Ah ! it was not merely the two pieces of wood that he carried; it was the transgressions of the race, the anguish of the ages, the wrath of God, THE SORROWS OF HELL, the stupendous interests of an un ending eternity. No wonder his back bent. No wonder the blood started from every pore. No wonder that he crouched under a torture that made the sun faint,- and the everlasting hills tremble, and the dead rush up in their winding sheets as he cried, "If it be possible, let this cup pass from me." But the cup did not pass. None to comfort. There he harigs ! What has that hand done that it should be thus crushed in the palm? It has been healing the lame and wiping away tears. What has that foot been do ing that it should be so lacerated ? It has been going about doing good. Of what has the victim been guilty ? Guilty of -saving a world. Tell me, ye heavens and earth, was there ever such another criminal ? Was there ever such a crime ? On that hill of carnage, that sunless day, amid those howling rioters, may not your sins and mine have perished ? I believe it. Oh, the ransom has' been paid. Those arms of Jesus were stretched out so wide that when he brought them together again they might em brace the world. Oh, that I might, out of the blossoms of the spring, or the flaming foliage of the autumn, make one wreath for my Lord! Oh, that all the triumphal arches of the world could be swung in one gate way, where the King of Glory might come in 1 Oh, that all the harps and trumpets and organs of earthly music might, in one anthem, ! SPEAK HIS PRAISE ! Bgt what were earthly flowers to him who walketh amid the snow of the white lilies of heaven ! What were arches of earthly masonry to him who hath about his throne a rainbow spun out of everlasting sun shine ! What were all music to him when the hundred and forty and four thousand on one side, and the cheru bim, and seraphim, and archangels stand on the other side, and all the space between is filled with the dox ologies of eternal jubilee! the ho sanna of a redeemed earth, the hal lelujah of unfallen angels, song after song rising about the throne of God and of the Lamb. In that pure, high placej let him hear us. Stop ! harps of heaven, that our poor cry may be heard; Oh, my Lord Jesus ! it will not hurt thee for one hour to step out from the shining throng. They will THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE DURHAM, N. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, make it all up when thou goestback again. Come hither, O blessed one, that we may kiss thy feet. Our hearts, too long withheld, we now surrender into thy keeping. When thou 'goest back tell it to all the im mortals that the lost are found, and let thy Father's house ring with the music and the dance. They have some old wine in heaven, not used except in rare fes tivities. In this world, those who are accustomed to use wine on great occasions bring out the beverage and say, "This wine is thirty years old," or "forty years old." But the wine of heaven is more than eighteen cen turies old. It was prepared at the time when Christ trod the wine press alone. When such grievous sinners as we come back, methinks the cham berlain of heaven cries out to the servants, "This is unusual joy ! Bring up from the vaults of heaven that old wine. FILL ALL THE TANKARDS. Let all the white robed guests drink to the immortal health of those new born sons arid daughters of the Lord Almighty." There is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth ; and God grant that that one may be you ! 'Again, in order to have a right heart it must be a forgiving heart. ' An, old writer says, "To render good for evil is God like ; good for good is man like ; evil for good is devil like." Which of these natures have we? Christ will have nothing to do with us as long as we keep any old grudge. We have all been cheated and lied about. There are people who dis like us so much that if we should come down to poverty and disgrace, they would say, "Good for him ! Didn't 1 tell you so?" They never haye understood us, and never will. They do not understand us. Un sanctified human nature says : Wait till you get a good crack at him, and when at last you find him in a tight place, give it to him. Flay him alive. No quarter. Leave not a rag of reputation. Jump on him with both feet. Pay him in his own coin sarcasm for sarcasm, scorn for scorn, abuse for abuse. But, my friends, that is not the right kind of heart. No man ever did so mean a thing toward us as we have done to ward God. And if we cannot for give others, how can we expect God to forgive us? Thousands of men have been kept out of heaven by an unforgiving heart. Here is some one who says : "I will forgive that man the wrong he did me about that house and lot; I will forgive that man who overreached me in a bargain ; I will forgive that man who sold me a shoddy overcoat; I forgive them all but one. THAT MAN I CANNOT FORGIVE. The villain I can hardly keep my hands olf of him. If my going to heaven depends on my forgiving him, then I will stay out."f Wrong feeling! If a man lie to me once I am not called to trust him again. If a man betray me once I am not called to put confidence in him again. But I would have no rest if I could not offer a sincere prayer for the tempo ral and everlasting welfare of all men, whatever meanness and outrage they have inflicted upon me. If you want to get your heart right strike a match and burn up all your old grudges, and blow the ashes away. "If you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses." An old Christian black woman was going along the streets of New York with a basket of apples that she had for sale. A rough sailor ran against her and upset the basket, and stood back expecting to hear her scold fright fully' ; but she stooped down and picked, up the apples, and said: "God forgive you, my son, as I do." The sailor saw the meanness of what he had done and felt in his pocket for his money, and insisted that she should take it all. Though she was black, he called her mother, and said: "Forgive me mother ; I. will never do anything so mean again." Ah ! there is a power in a forgiving spirit to overcome all hardness. There is no way of conquering men like that of bestowing upon them your pardon, whether they will ac cept it or not. Again, a right heart is an expec tant heart. It is a poor business to be building castles in the air. ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE NOW. Don't spoil your comfort in the small house because you expect a larger one. Don't fret about your income when it is $3 or S4 per day, because you expect after awhile 810 per day ; or $10,000, because you expect it to be 620,000 a year. But about heav enly things, the more we think the better. Those castles are not in the air, but on the hills,' and we have a deed of them in our possession. I like to see a man all full of heaven. He talks heaven. He sings heaven. He prays heaven. He dreams heaven. Some of us in our sleep have had the good place open to us. We saw the pinnacles in the sky. We heard the click of the hoofs of the white horses on which the victors rode, and the clapping of the cymbals of eternal triumph. And while in our sleep we were glad that all our sor rows were over, and burdens done with, the throne of God grew whiter, whiter and whiter, till we opened our eyes and saw that it was only the sun of the earthly morning shin ing on our pillow. To have a right heart you need to be filled with this expectancy. It would make your privations and annoyances more "bearable. In the midst of the city of Paris stands, or did stand, a statue of the good, but broken-hearted Josephene. I never imagied that marble could be smitten into such tenderness. It seems not lifeless. If the spirit of Josephene be disentabernacled, the soul of the empress has" taken pos session of this figure. I am not yet satisfied that it is stone. ; The puff of the dress on the arm seems to need but the pressure of the firiger to in dent it. The figure at the!bottom of the robe, the ruffle at the heck, the fur lining on the dress, the! embroid ery of the satin, the cluster of lily and leaf and rose in her hand, the poise of her body as she j seems to come sailing out of the sk, her face calm, humble, beautiful, but yet sad attest the genius of the sculptor and the beauty of the heroine he cel ebrates. Looking up through the rifts of the coronet that encircles her brow, I could see the sky beyond, the great heavens where all woman's wrongs shall be righted and the story of j EJJURAXCE AND RESIGNjATION shall be told to all the ages.! The rose and the lily in the hand of josephene will never drop their petals. The children of God, whether they suffer on earth, in palaces or. ijn hovels, shall come to that glorious rest, oh heaven, sweet heaven ! at; the gate we set down all our burdens and griefs. - The place will be full. Here there are vacant chairs attfie hearth, and at the table, but there are no vacant chair in heaven. The crowns all worn ; the thrones all mounted. Some talk of hcavey'as!though it were a very handsome church, where a few favored spirits would come in and sit down on finely kishioned seats all by themselves, and sing psalms to all eternity. N;. no. "1 saw' a great multitude th)t 110 man could number, standing : before the throne. He that talked witji 111c had ;i golden reed to measun- thj-'rity, :iiii it was 1 2,000 furlongs" ll lit h. 1. "'' miles in circumference. Ajh '- heaven is not a little colony, :it one corner of God's dominion, whmj a 'manV entrace depends upon what kind oi clothes he has on his back, and iiow much money he has in his purse: but a vast empire. God krrant that. the light of that blessed World may shine upon us in our last ljioment. The rourhest time we had in cross ing the ocean was at the mouth of. Liverpool harbor. We Arrived at nightfall, and were obliged to lie there till the morning, waiting for the rise of the tide, lefore we could go up to the city. How fthe vessel pitched and writhed in tjhe water ! So sometimes the last illness of a Christian is a struggle. IU is almost through the voyage. TheJ waves of temptation toss his soul, but he waits for the morning. At- last j the light dawns, and the tides of jjy rise in his soul, and he sails up and CASTS ANCHOR WITHIN T1E VEIL. i Is thy heart right? What -question can compare with this in im portance ? i i It is a business question Do you.; not realize that you will jsoon have to-go out of that store, tliqt you will will soon have to resign thjit partner ship, that soon among al the mil-' lions 01 dollars worth ot goods that are sold in New York you will not have the handling of a yard of cloth. or a pound of sugar, or a pennyworth of anything ; that soon, if a conHa'-1 gration should start at Leptral park and sweep everything to t$e Battery, it would not disturb you ; that soon, if every cashier should abscond and every" insurance company should fail, it would not affect you? What are the questions that stop this side the grave compared with? the ques tions that reach beyond iti? Are you making losses that are to be everlast ing ? Are you making purchases for eternity ? Are you jobbing for time when you might be wholesaling for eternity ? What question of the store is so broad at the b4se, and so altitudinous, and so overwhelming as the question, "Is thy heart right?" Or is it a domestic question ? Is it something about father, br mother, or companion, or son, of daughter that you think' is comparable with this question in importance? " DO YOU NOT REALIZE that by universal and inexorable law all these relations will be broken up ? Your father will be gone,your mother will be gone, your companion will be gone, your child will bfe gone, you will be gone, and then this supernal question will begin to iarvest its chief gains,or deplore its worst losses, roll up into its mightiest piagnitude, or sweep its vast circles. What dif ference now does it make to Napo leon III whether he triumphed Or surrendered at Sedan? whether he lived at the Tuileries or! at Chisel hurst? whether he was emperor or exile? They laid him iout in his coffin in the dress of a field marshal. Did that give him any better chance for the next world than j if he had been laid out in a plain shroud? And soon to us what will; be the dif ference whether in this! world we rode or walked, were bbwed to or maltreated, were applauded or hissed at, were welcomed in or kicked out, while laying hold of every moment of the great future, and iburning in all the splendor or grief, and over arching and undergoing all time arid all eternity, is the plain, simple, practical, thrilling, agonizing, over whelming question. "Is thy heart right? Have you within you a re- fenting heart, an expectant heart? f not, I must write upon your soul what George Whitefield Wrote upon the window pane with his diamond ring. He tarried in an elegant house over night, but found that there was no God recognized in that house. Before he left his room iij the morn ing, with his ring he wrote upon, the window pane: "One thing thou lackest." After the guest was gone, the housewife came up jand looked at the window, and saw the inscrip tion, and called her hiisband and her children ; and God, through that ministry of the window glass, BROUGHT THEM ALL TO JESUS. Though you may to-day be sur- f : AND U2BRIRED BY GAIN." 1887. j tounded by comforts and luxuries, 'and feel that you have need of noth ing, if you are not the children ol God, with the signet ring of Christ's jove, let me inscribe upon your souls, J'One thing thou lackest." I pray "you that, whatever elsekyou may .miss, you may not miss heaven. It is too bright a home to lose. Your oul has been bought at too dear a price. I preach to you of the blood that cleanseth from all sin. Casting all your sins behind you,,X Iegof you to start tfns morning .tor the kingdom. "Yes," you gay "I will start, but not now." William' III made proclamation, when there was a revolution in the north of Scotland, that all who came and took the oath of allegiance by the 31st of .Decem ber should be pardoned. Maclan, a chieftain of a prominent clan, re solved to return with the rest, of the rebels, but had some pride in being the very last one that should take the oath. ;,He postponed starting for this purpose until twq days before the expiration of the term. A snow storm impeded his way, and before he got up to take the oath and re ceive a pardon from the throne, the time was up and past. While the others were set free, Maclan was mis erably put to death. He started too late and arrived too late. In like manner some of you are in prospect of losing forever the amnesty of the (iospel. Many of you are going to be forever too late. Remember the : irreparable mistake of Maclan ! Mississippi's $5,000 Msulstone. Memphis Avalanche. A day 'or two ago Mr. B. L. Milam, an old and respected citizens of Waterford, Mississippi, called at the .1 ralanch office and exhibited a mad stone tfcat has a history.. It was brought to Alabama from' China in 1S10, by Dr. William Barker, who used it with success for several years. At his death it was sold to Jarvis Milam, the father of the Avalanche's visitor, and four others. Milam moved to Mississippi in LS35,and took the stone with him, having bought out the interest of his partners. He died in 1849 and left the stone to his son. The present proprietor has used it in l,2b0 cases, for bites of rabid dogs, cows and horses, besides "spider and snake bites, and he as serts that it did not fail to effect a cure in a single instance when ap plied before paroxysms had set in. The stone is porous, of a light cream color, an inch and a quarter in diameter and weighs one ounce. It has been broken in five places, and is mended with silver bands. When a person is bitten the wound is first carelully washed. with warm water, a mop being used to guard against danger to the operator from infected blood or pus. The stone is then bound tightly upon the affected part and left there from two to fifteen hours, according to the freshness of the bite the older it is the longer the time necessary. When removed it is found to have absorbed a quan tity of blood or pus from the wound. It is then washed clean in warm water and dried before a fire or stove. Mr. Milam has been offered $5,000 for his treasure, but refuses to sell. He gets a good revenue from L, charging those patients who aie able to pay, but its virtues are more fre quently called into play to save the lives of unfortunates who have noth ing to give in return. It is to Mr. Milam's credit that these are never refused, and that he values the stone most for the good it does to suffering humanity. 1 He is greatly troubled lest at his death his children should divide it up and thus destroy its virtue. Over-Worked Women. For "worn-out," "run-down,"debil-itated school teachers, milliners, seamstresses,housekeepers, and over worked women generally, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the best of all restorative tonics. It is not a "Cure-all," but admirably fulfills a singleness of purpose, being a most potent Specific for all those Chronic Weaknesses and Diseases peculiar to women. It is a powerful, general as well as uterine, tonic and nervine, and imparts vigor and strength to the whole system. It promptly cures" weakness of stomach, indiges tion, bloating, weak back, nervous prostration, debility and sleepless ness, in either sex. Favbrite Pre scription is sold by druggists under our positive guarantee. See wrapper around bottle. Price $1.00 a bottle, or six bottles for $5.00. r A large treatise on Diseases of Wo men, profusely illustrated with col ored plates and numerous wood-cuts, sent for ten cents in stamps. Address, World's Dispensary Med ical Association, . 663 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. Protest Against Small Windows. New Orleans Times-Democrat. A St. Louis physician says : Every time I see one of the new style of houses in the course of erection I feel like telling the owner to take out the small windows and have more light. I have entered my protest many a time against small windows. Let there be light is the warning of every physician. It is absolutely necessary to health that a house be well lighted, and a great deal of the sickness of a city is to be attributed to dark roomsr It may be called re finement for a woman to be pale and thin, but it retiders her unfit to bear the burdens of life and powerless to resist disease. A plant cannot grow in a dark place, and why should a human being? Children brought up in these modern houses, .with their small windows and dark rooms, become unhealthy and puny. Style is to blame for this evil. Every house should have as much sunlight as possible. $1.50 PER ANNUM. Tlie Rise and Growth of the Epis copal Church at Durham. Up to 1880 there was no Church organization in this town. In that year St. Philips church was organ i"?d with only 15 members as a pure ly missionary congregation, and up to about two years ago it Was only able to maintain its existence with the aid which it received from the missionary fund of the dio cese. It is now, however, not only entirely self-supporting, but is a con tributor to the missionary fund from which it so recently received aid, and also to the other funds of the diocese and general Church. It has a plain but peat, and comfortable church building, on which there is a debt of less than $400, and has on its roll 102 cojamrnicant members, which is an increase of nearly 30 per cent, in a little over one year, as it only reported id members to the diocesan convention of 1886, and an increase of 980 per cent, over the membership with which it star-ted in 1880. It has a Sunday school which has grown so rapidly that the rector " finds great difficulty in getting an adequate sup ply of suitable teachers. Ihere are also a"Childrens' Society," a "Young Ladies' Society ' and a "Ladies' Aid Society," these societies being-em ployed, among oilier good worts, in collecting material and making it into garments for the use of the or phans at the "Thompson Orphan age," an institution located at Char lotte, N. C. The parrish raised for all purposes during its last financial year, $2,250.12 in actual cash. The indefatigable young rector, the Rev. T. M. N. George, is taking great in terest in work among the large col ored population of Durham, and is making an earnest effort to establish a congregation amongst themT To this end he has gathered a flourish-, ing Sunday school, and with some pecuniary aid furnished by the white members of the Church, has estab lished a day school with a compe tent colored teacher. He has also, with the hearty approval of the Bishop, just made an urgent appeal to the Church at large for $1,000, with which to aid in securing a lot, and building a suitable chapel for them. ' W. Annual Meeting of the X. C. Far mers' Association. This association was organized at Farmers' Mass Convention, which was held in the city of Raleigh, Jan uary 26th, 1887, by electing one president, one vice-president for each Congressional district in the State, a secretary ana an executive commit tee of five. It adopted a constitution and by-laws for its government. It adjourned to meet in the city of Greensboro on the second Wednes day in January, 1888. The constitu tion restricts the membership of the association to such only as have their chief interest in farming. Each county in the State is entitled to as many votes in the body as it has members in the lower branch of our legislature, but in no manner restricts the number of qualified delegates who are to cast these votes. The object and purpose of the As sociation is to take such action as may best improve and uromote the agricultural interests of our people. lhis is the broad basis upon which it is founded and it hopes to have the hearty approval and co-operation of every farmer in our State. Although called without organized effort or formulated plan, the con vention of last January was com posed of nearly four hundred farmers representing lorty-three counties. We earnestly hope that everv countv in the State will be represented in our meeting in Ureensboro. , Let the farmers in each countv in the State call meetings at once and elect delegates (as many as will come; and give them certificates, to the end that all sections and the in terests of all sections mav be renrp. sented. Reduced rates on railroads have been secured and . the agents are instructed to issue round-trip tickets -to all delegates. Reduced rates have also been secured at the hotels and boarding houses in Greens boro. A Farmers' Institute will be held during the session. Able and dis tinguished agriculturalists will be present to address the body on im portant tonics culture. Every effort will be made to rentier tne occcasion interesting and profitable. Elias Carr, Pres. A Sound Legal Opinion. E. Bainbridge Munday, Esq, County Attv, Clay Co., Texas, says : "Have used Electic Bitters with most hannv results f K.tV,,.. If. 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The receipts of Mr. Irving's mati nee of "Faust" on Tuesday, in aid of the Beecher statue fund, were $2, 931.50. j - , It is John Sherman's idea that there can never be a fair count in the South until John Sherman is elected President. ; t ? It is authoritatively announced that Col. Robert Ingersoll has no more cancer in his throat than he has religion in his heart President of the Senate Ingalls was born in Middleton, Mass., December 29, 1833. i He graduated from Wil liams College when onlv IS. - Queen (Victoria bus made the youngest son of Lord Iddesleigh a baronet, Wjhich will make him "Sir" Stafford Northcotc, like his father. Mr. Lamar was born in Georgia in 1825. Mri Vilas was born in Ver mont in 184(1. Mr. 1). M. Dickin son was born in New York State in 1846. j The movement M on foot at Ma con, Ga., to raise a fund for the ben efit of ex-President Davis, has bet n abandoned at the request of Mrs. Davis. j Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich has fi nally decided to contribute some of his own poems to his own magazine, the Atlantii: Modesty has prevented this heretofore. Charles jDickens, Jr., says: "There is but little in American characteris tics now-aj-days to justify" the satire in 'Martin; Chuzzlewit1 and the criti cisms in 'American Notes.' " President Cleveland is no longer a citizen:of iBuffalo, N. Y. His name has been stricken from the tax-list. Some people would like to see their names stricken from the tax-list, henceforth. If we niay rely implicitly upon the verdict of the New York news paper critics, Mr. William Dean Howells and Mr. Frank Ji. Stockton are hopeless failures as public speak ers. Washington Post. This reriiark upon Jenny Lind ap pears in ap English paper : "If ever an angel jleang over the crystal battlements happenci let a voice slip out of her possession, itWi upon the cradles of Jenny Lind." Mrs. Laingtry has had a remaiv bly-successful fortnight at the GloVx Despite tlie unusually adverse criti cism which "As in a Looking Glass" has received, the theatre has been crowded every evening. Boston Post. E. P. Ri)e says that he wrote "Bar riers Burned Away" in a month. Those wh6 have read the book will have no (jlifrieulty in crediting the statement It surprises them that it took so long to remove the barriers. N. Y. World. Pigg is a probate judge in Ohio, Hogg is a;member of Congress from the same State, and Bacon is accus tom house officer, at Toledo, all of which leads to the conclusion that there is something swinish about the Buckeye State. . The great international scandal concerning the forged Bismarck let ters is still the toic of foreign talk. It is said Ithat -noted Prussian and Austrian women leagued together to deceive the Czar and misrepresent the German Prince. Rev. Dr. Parker, of London, has certainly jiad a rather rough time in this country. He has been so mis represented that he at last wrote to the as3istiant pastor of Plymouth Church that "he did not come to this country to be insulted." Don. Ml Dickinson, of Michigan, whom the President has nominated as the, successor of Mr. Vilas as Post-master-Gejneral, is said to be a dis tinguished practitioner at the bar in the Northwest, and possesses great influence as a sagacious Democratic leader in his State. It is generally understood that Hon. John S. Barbour, will succeed Senator Riddleberger in the Senate! He is a shrewd political manager, and it was during his ad ministration as chairman of the Democratic executive committee that the State was delivered from Mahon- lsm. Ex-Govj St. John, of Kansas, in an interview in Chicago last week, said' the results! of the recent State elec tions were, very gratifying to the pro hibitionists. He claimed that they were steadily increasing in numbers, and that prohibition was a success in Kansas. He said he would not un der any circumstances - be a candi date for President The people associated with Joseph Jefferson this season seem to be pe culiarly fortunate. Geoffrey. Haw ley, the leading juvenile, recently in herited a fortune by the death of an uncle, and: it is now made known that Mr. Barron, the property man of the orgaization,has inherited $10, 000 from a relative in England. Philadelphia Record. Matthew Grant, a wealthy colored resident of Xenia, Ohio, has deeded his property, valued at $30,000, to Wilberforce University. That insti tution is the pioneer of its class and tha looIi'nn r,lrprl Allwft. It llAS tronnontliT hiwn t.r nations of a tho- upwards. 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