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VOL. VI. HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, 7 JULY 21, 1SS7 "nqTsoT
A NAMELESS CASE.
My caho lias bin a very eurious enfi
for about ihirif ;i e.us. At intervals
sf r b nt one v;j;-k I would tt u'tni'kHi
with spo'ls ol'sevi re and mo-t exerweia
tint; pain, always v.nuuxi ficie.g iti I hi r"
uion "f my kiorcys. The p-iin would
then g upwards anil a Meet inj !-! a:;d
hea 1, and so- mod to p'-iitr;;t-; my very
-y l:-ti i T':a'iiir the niot intense stif
leiing, lasting uh'tut cigiil hours cadi
s.pdl.
I ifort-d r-' ail kinds of medicine
without. Iittui li'. Shvi i"h! doctors treated
i;iy caM;. but none gave i-lio;". i ft n-dly
Used li. K, li. J1S Hit experiment, UMll to
my ut! r H-l.)!i!-.h:::'3-v'. a'l pdn ond suf
fering vtni-.hed aft.-r itstii throe i'.'s h.
T.ith- r--M t iiijn- I l:av nsd three
bott'es. :i:i i not U pain hiss ev r r turned.
1 - not Ali-iW V. lint WHS the Uiallcr,
UMithr r cmiIiI my j ; y -i i name the
complaint. Tie P. i'.. li- acted finely
and jiou i;i : it i y uj on my k'dncys; iny
iippelito h ieen sj!i-i.'Ii'l aii.l my cou
Mitiiii i imi t up rapidly.
" I! !.!:.
C or-l ii uli'ir., ii:'., M sv fi, 4.v;.
UNIMPEACHED iNTEURITY.
I am ;." Hi- k-t l wn Uvelvo years
Hire, and have not lieen aid' to work
Min.:e. Have lost prop'-r actim of my
hips :ml leg.. F-r ll v.i y ears scrofu
!m s s,,r(-s h tvo :i! '-ar-il on my s.'m!j)
s li 1 I)'m. am! a!, j-ame time my eyesight.
I)t-'a;i to fail, ami fir l;i-t; yoar.-i Lave
h en eoiii;.i!-a!iv !y biioi). Have i een
lC'-',.-;il h v lsiil)(:fit Iiy Sieiatl.-i of (lilf'i -
lit sehoolM v-i;h -?it n cure. I have,
ttken f vi. 1 Hies of (5. JI. ',. ('iiado at
Atlanta, ( a. , aid aM sefol 11 ii .u s .sure.-
are. radniiiy ha.'injr. 1 e l! m mat ij:i
about 11 V eys h is diaj'j,a'eil aed
there is some im;ro ement in my vi.-i e.
Am very i r ; 1 1 -1 1 I ei.i lu d mi i rtlie.ed
and be'in t lV- 1 !i!.e n boy atjiin feel
good. M , .si i ".jii. aid neiiviiv am le
tiinin in my Ie and !d;. The 11. I',.
11. ae'.s v porously i.ji ni my kid:, eys.
ai( Ihe iiieit ijMani'.y (d'tnalter t!:,-.t lws,
hi en furc.d ouiiiiro'ti the shin is ut
terly i ijei eo i!!", elien -o o!le:i.sive in
dor as to jiro.'ei" '. naiie;:. I i tiibi" to ah
bilsirie.-vs m-.'ii u! l,i iira.11;, .
i'. l'l'.cHl i.L.
Til (irar.gr, Ja'su iry
All who il sire lull in f. irnn! ion ahtit
111'; caii( a. el i'ii re of I'i .od rieii,
NTiiful I :!;ii Si'l . ion S '.veil i liv, Ul-
M-rs, ,-or, Ki enmatiie. Kidney luin-jdaint'-,
':arrh. ele , ean secure by mail
liee, 1 )!)v ot .ur --I'iie 1 I a-trated
Jiooi; oi W inder-', fili al with tl;- most
v.-.n-d ': fid .1 i;.l siarliitii; proof iver iie
l ii'u I. aowii. Addri'.s-,
l;L(.H)l) IlAld CO..
A I m:la.
hauling Time
HAS COME.
X e.v is the lime to plant
IKISII 1'Ol'AtUivS,
and
ONI l XS,
ca nn ; 1:.
LKT 1 r 1:,
T(-m at ::-,
JtA iisir,
KL'KTS.
l'HAS.
MI'S i'AKi),
K ALK,
.SALSI.,V.
CAltltoT
and
P A its X 1 1
AIjSO seed
FOi;
PASTURES, MEADOWS
itnd LO i'S, in OHCH AltD, TLM
Oi'lIY, !iKliIS OllASS,
and ItLl) ami SAP
PLIMJ CLOVLP.
SLKi).
1 have a full siia k of a I seeds and will
me. I priens with anyone.
I S 1 1 A I j I j CO XT I X UE
To Imorovj My
DRUG STOCK
until it is second to nono South of Kirb
moiid. M y svoe.t of
CiUAKS,
ii;Ai:i:Tn:s
v ai'd
TOHACCO
Is Complele.
I In ve 011 hand ai'd sha'l eai ry a la rite r
s-toi k of Irtii!s and Painters' goods th in
ev-r bed. re. First iiuality ground eolors
a specialty.
I I'Mirv at all ti mesa nice line of KOYS
TKk'S I'iiKMI FI:I:N( tl t'AXUIKs.
All Prcsciiptins
snd family ree-ipt intrusted to my care
will neeive my personal attention and
1 ly pure, l.-esii drus used in fi linj
thfiu. In nturniiii; tiiaiks to my
friends and eu-tomers I ak for aeontin
nanee of their p--?rini;:e. and assure
them I will spare 110 c it 'rts 10 desesve
it. A ft-" 'd ii usi. a long ixnerieee-,
and anipl i-apila', I ean and will make
it t i your iiitrr,-! 10 di ;d with me.
Very Respectfully,
Melville Dorsey.
y. 11 a 11 11 1 s,
DKNTiST
;??" Office oyer E. O. Dat' Store,
2Jaiu Street in r. ilj, 1 e.
SAINT LOUIS.
THE PRESIDENT NOT TO VISIT
THE WESTERN METROP
OLIS. His Reasons Therefor The Unbecom
ing Expressions of Grand Army
Men Other News by Wire.
Sr. Louis, July 7. Mayor Francis
: lias rec eived the following letter from
; President Cleveland, declining to
i WA St. Louis and giving the reasons
! therefor :
i Kxkcutivi; M ANSON, )
j Wa-iiini; iun, 1). C, July 4, 1887. )'
i ' the Ifon. Diivid R Francis, Mayor
j and Chairnan :
j My Dear Sir: When I received
! the etretjiely cordial and gratifying
invitation from the citizens of St.
j Louis tendered by a number of her
! representative men to visit that city
! during the national encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic, 1
11, . 1 '
i in the West which the occasion would
J give mc t lie opportunity to visit. The
j exactions of my public duties I feel
i to be so uncertain, however, that when
fir.-,t confronted by the delegation of
which you were the head, I expected
to do IIO more at that time than to
promise consideration of the double
invitation tendered me, ana express
J the pleasure it would give me to ac
cept the same thereafierwards il pos
ible. 15ut the cordialitv and sincerity of
of your presentation, reinforced by
the heartiness of the good people who
surrounded you, so impressed me that
1 could not resist the feeling which
prompted me to assure you on the
spot that I would be with you and
the Cjiand Army ol the Republic at
the time designated if nothing hap
pened in the meantime to absolutely
prevent my leaving Washington. Im
mediately upon the public announce
ment of this conclusion expressions,
emanating from certain important
members ol the Grand Army of the
Republic and increasing in volume
and virulence, constrained me to re
view my acceptance of these invita
tions. The Expressions referred to go
to the extent of declaring that I would
be an unwelcome guest at the time
and place of the national encamp
ment. This statement is based, as
well as I can judge, upon certain of
ficial acts of luine, involving important
public interests and done under the
restraints and obligations of my oath
of office, which do not appear to ac
cord with the wishes of some mem
bers of the Grand Army of the Re
public. I refuse to believe that this
organization, founded upon patriotic
ideas, composed very largely of men
entitled to lasting honor and consid
eration and whose crowning glory it
should be that they are American cit
i.ens as well as soldiers, deems it part
of its mission to compass any object
or purpose by attempting to intimi
date the executive or coerce those
charged with making and executing
the laws, and yet the expressions to
which I have referred indicate such
prevalence of unfriendly feeling and
such menace to an occasion which
should be harmonious, peaceful and
cordial, that they cannot be ignored.
1 beg you to understand that I am
not conscious of any act of mine
which should make me fear to meet
the G. A. R. or any other assemblage
of my fellow-citizens. The account 1
of my official stewardship is always
ready for presentation to my country
men. I should not be frank if I
l.wicu 10 coui.ss, wane uisciaiuiiiig au
resentment, that I have been hurt by
the unwortay and wanton attacks
; upon me growing out ol this matter,
j and the reckless manner in which my
actions and motives have been rnis-
I represented, both publicly and pri
vately, tor w hich, however, the Grand
Army of the Republic, as a body, is
, ' 1 ., , J
b no means responsible. i
The threats of personal violence
and harm in case I undertake the trip !
in question, which scores of misguided,
unbalanced men, under the stimula- :
, -.V,- , ,
tion ol excited feeling, have made,
are not even considered. Rather than
abandon my visit to the west and dis-
J . . r . , ... , ;
appoint your citizens. I might if I alone '
1, ...
submit to the insult :
to which,, it is quke openly asserted, I
would be helplessly subjected if pres-
ent at the encampment, but I should
, ., , 1 , ' , , ,. , .
near w un me mere me peoples nign- :
est Ortice, the dlgn.ty of which I must
jority of its members would ever en- '
courage any scandalous attack upon
it. If, however, among the member
ship of this body there are some, as
I nan been contemplating 101 some ume of Sl Ij0ui3 til.,t t'ne COming meeting
! the acceptance of an invitation from (f the (ranj Army of the Republic
ithat organization to the same effect be held in a Southern State. I
;and had considered the pleasure it supi)0se this fact was mentioned as a
j would afford me if it should be possi- j pieas;n? indication of the fraternal
i t(J t llot only the members of feei;ncso ft gaining ground through
j the Grand Army of the Republic but out t"jie entirc iand amj hailed by
i the people of St. Louis and other cities c.,,,rv mfriotic citizen as an earnest
protect, and I believe that neither the i sonally ana promptly attend to any repair
Grand Army of the Republic as an ! itrusled to me. Shall be glad to have
J , r , . ! niv countrv friends call to see me when in
organization nor anything like a ma- twn anJ he convinced I cannot be umkr-
certainly seems to be the case, deter
mined to denounce me and my official
act at the national encampment, I
believe they should be permitted to do
so unrestrained by my presence as the
guest of their organization or as the
guest of the hospitable city in which
their meeting is held. A number of
Grand Army posts have signified their
intention, 1 am informed, to remain
away from the encampment in case I
visit the city at that time. Without
considering the merit of such excuse I
feel that 1 ought not to le
the cause
of such non-attendance. The time
and place of the encampment were
fixed long before my invitations were
received. Those desiring to partici
pate in its proceedings should be first
regarded anil nothing should be per
mitted to interfere with their inten
tions. Another consideration of more
importance than all the others re
mains to be noticed. The fact was
referred to by you when you verbally
presented the invitation of the citizens
, that the union has really and in fact
j been saved in sentiment and spirit,
j with all the benefits it vouchsafes to a
I united people. I cannot rid myself
of the belief that the least discord on
this propitious occasion might retard
. tl, ,irM?vrf. nf thent-imenr nf rr.m
j mon brotherhood which the Grand
Army of the Republic has so good an
opportunity to increase and foster. I
certainly ought not to be the cause of
such discord in any event or upon any
pretext. It seems to mc that you and j
the citizens of St. Louis are entitled
to this unreserved statement of the
conditions which have constrained me
to forego my contemplated visit and
to withdraw my acceptance of your
invitation.
My presence in your city at the
time you have indicated can be of
but little moment compared with the
importance of the cordial and harmo
nious entertainment of your other
guests. I assure you that I abandon
my plans without the least personal
feeling except regret, constrained
thereto by a sense of duty, actuated
by a desire to save any embarrassment
to the people of St. Louis or their ex
pected guests and with a heart full of
grateful appreciation of the sincere
and unaffected kindness of your citi
zens. Hoping the encampment may be
the occasion ol much usefulness, and
that its proceedings may illustrate the
highest patriotism of American citi
zenship, 1 am
Yours very sincerely,
G rover Cleveland.
ALONE WITH GOD.
Alone with Tl;ee, my (led, alone with Thee;
Thus wouldst Thou have it xtill thus let it
he;
There is a secret chamber in each mind
Which none, can rind
But He who made it none besides can
know
Its joy or woe.
Oft may I enter it, oppressed by care,
And find Thee there
Ho full of watchful luce. Th'ou know'st the
why
Of every sigh.
Then all Thy righteous dealings shall I see,
Alone with 'i'hee, my (rod, alone with Thee.
Tiie joys of earth are like a summer's day
" Fading a way ;
Put in the twilight we may better trace
Thy wondrous grace.
The homes" of earth are emptied oft by
death,
With chilling breath.
The loved departed guest may ope no more
t The wel l-! nowii ilrwir
still in that chamber scaled ThouTt dwell
. , , , . . ,.
.aim 1 wiiu inee, my irou, aione wun inee.
The world's false voice would bid ine enter
not
That hallowed spot,
And earthly thoughts would follow on the
track
To hold me back,
Or seek fo break the sacred peace within
Iv this world's din ;
P.ut, by Thy grace, I'll cast them all aside
Whate'er betide,
And never let that ceil deserted be
Where I can dwell alone, my God, with
Thee.
The war may rage ! Keep Thou the citadel j
. . And all is j
And when I learn the fullness of Tin love
with Thee above.
When every heart oppressed by hidden j
Slsh-iii "-am relief '
When every weary soul shall find its rest
,r. , n,An,idst th"West, .
I hen all my heart, from sin and sorrovv
free,
frhall be a temple wMrf.my GoJ, for Thee.
... " '"' "
Keep Correct lime.
n , . ,
" C .v.. ... lJ ..... ruling jti ijic '
Youup: bnilJinjr. Garnet street, with a f ill i
line of the b-t makes of Watches and j
toocks, together with r. nice assortment of j
Jef I,r-V' Spectacle., &c, I j
shall be glad to see and serve my friends
anj formvr patrons. I will sell first-class
a tides as cheap as anybodr, and will pt-r
sold.
Ifeu.ember the man and the place.
Verv Kespeetfnllv,
AVILMOT WOOD,
Watchmakek ani Jeweler,
Henderson, N. 0.
MASTER AND SLAVE.
THE TRUE SITUATION IN ANTE
BELLUM DAYS.
The Emancipation of the Southern
Whites and its Effect on Both
Races.
Da lti more Manufacturers -Record. J
Under the above heading, the Hon.
John W. Johnston, of PJchmond, for
many years a member n the United
States Senate from Virginia, com
mences, in the Manufacturers Record
of July 9, an exceedingly interesting
and valuable article, that is sure to
command wide attention. All the
world, says Mr. Johnston, knew that
the black man in the South was a
slave, but none recognized or were
conscious of the fact that the white
man was a slave also. It is true he
could not be bought and sold, nor was
he directly subject to the orders of a
master, but nevertheless, he was a
bondsman, and the chains that en
cumbered him were as inexorable as
those mat oounu the colored race.
The negro was a slave to him, and he
was a slave to the situation. He was
charged with being an indolent lover
of pleasure, lacking in industry, ener
gy and enterprise, following year after
year and generation -after generation
the same old beaten track, with no
apparent wish to leave it and no ca
pacity to do so if he wished. He was
reproached for persisting long and
tenaciously in one uniform course;
that he was blind to the vast resources
and capacities of the country he lived
in; that he was surrounded by mines
of wealth, and did not care, or have
the vigor to utilize them, but "never,"
says Mr. Johnson, " was there a more
mistaken idea, and never was there
a people so little understood or so
much misjudged as the Soutnern plan
ter and farmer."
All over the civilized world, even in
the United States, with its unlimited
variety of products, its public lands
and its institutions, which open any
life to any of its citizens, the problem
is: "How to provide employment tor
the laboring classes?" Here, business
has been disturbed, loss and suffering
incurred, and society shaken by the
strikes which have become so frequent
and so wide-spread, so easily induced
and so hard to settle. The problem
has engaged the attention, most pro
found, of statesmen, social scientists
and governments in all European nations;
but no adequate remedy has yet been
found, nor a satisfactory answer to the
question yet given. And the same
problem existed in the Southern States,
though in a different form than pre
vailing elsewhere.
In New England farming was . not
a profitable pursuit, becau.:e the lands
lacked fertility and the people of that
section naturally turned to manufac
tures. When business wss depressed
and the market overstocked the manu
facturer was confronted with the ques
tion of what to do with those who had
no work.
Exactly the same thing was going
on in the South, but not so noticeably.
The negroes were the laboring class
there, and work and employment had
to be found for them. The condition
of slavery itself kept them confined
to their homes. They were not free
to leave one employer and go to an
other, as the Northern and European
laborer was, but master and slave were
bound together they were coupled,
and the ligament was a strong one.
What the Southern white man had to
do was to see that his laboring class
had work, and had it at home. He
was ristri t d to one class of laborers
and one locality. And he was obliged
to conform his business also to the
sort of work his men could do and
what was most profitable.
Thus the persistence of the Southern
man in adhering year after year to the
same course of life did not arise from
incapacity to engage successfully in
some other, but purely from his sur
roundings. He could not abandon it
without disastrous results to himself, to
the negro, to the State and the world.
If ever men were impelled by an
irresistible force, it was the Southern
white man. What did it matter to
him if the earth beneath his feet was
loaded with all the minerals which
contribute to the wealth, convenience
or enjoyment of manhood, cr that the
stream running by his door had water
power enough to turn a thousand
wheels? He could not utilize them;
he vaa l)ound hand and foot bound
to his slaves, bound to his plantation,
bound to cotton, to his habits of life,
to the exigencies of the situation, to
the necessity of providing for his
slaves, so many of whom were non
producers. There may have been
more ways than one elsewhere to an
swer the question : " How to find work
for the laboring classes?" and more
latitude in solving it
but to him there
was only one answer labor ia
field. He saw no other way, nor has
1
1 the world seen any other.
The Southern planter, says the
writer, did his work well. He had a
hard and what would seem to have
been an almost impossible task. He
was brought into contact with a race
who in their own country and in their
native condition were all savages with
scarcely a redeeming virtue. Out of
such material he made men who be
came docile, industrious, kind and
faithful; whose work reduced a vast
wilderness to a state of cultivation.
The influence, control and teachings
that did this must have been judicous
and prudent; no other course of con
duct could have accomplished so much.
More than twenty years have passed,
writes Mr. Johnston, since the negro
was made free, and that period affords '
us some means of judging the effect on j
both races. This he rightly says is a
momentous, a vital matter to the
American people, and one that it be
hooves them to look into closelv.
The question is repeatedly asked
why, if the South has such vast mineral
wealth as is now claimed, was so little
done to develop it prior to the war ?
Why did the Southern people with all
this wealth beneath their feet leave it
comparatively untouched? To these
questions Mr. Johnston gives an an
swer, the correctness of which cannot
be questioned.
To compare the work of the white
man of the South with that of the
negro, Mr. Johnston presents some
very striking statistics as to the main
agricultural products of the Southern
States, such as tobacco, cotton, rice
and sugar, prior to the war and at the
present time. He says : .
" It will offer further on what I con
sider the prior explanation of this
seemingly anomalous result of a de
cline in a number of industries to
which the soil and climate ot the South
are suited and a marvellous growth in
others, and in the meantime will pre
sent the reader with some account of
industry, enterprise and energy and
their results more agreeable than the
picture of the decline heretofore drawn.
It can no longer be said, even by
the enemies of the Southern white
man, that he is not at least making
good use of the bounties which nature
has bestowed upon his country, for
there is scarcely anything in the way
of a natural resource or of an industry
suitable or practicable that is not rec
ognized and developed or put in the
process of development. From rail
roads, mines, manufactures, commerce
and education down to trucking and
the growth of small fruits, everything
is active. .Materials once thrown
away are husbanded and made profit
able, and it is not extravagant to say
that no five years in the history of any
people, ancient or modern, exceeds in
material advancement the past five
years in the South, notwithstanding
the decline already noted."
He then points out a few facts in
this marvellous growth, showing that
in 1880 the South had 1S0 cotton
mills, while it now has 353. In 1SS0
there were 34,562 manufactories in
the South, producing $315,924, 794,
against 51,419 now, producing $505,
892,000. In 1880 the South mined
6,000,000 tons of coal and. in 1886
over 13,000,000, while during the
same period $600,000,000 have been
spent in building new railroads and
improving old ones, the present mile
age in the Southern States being 33,
767 miles, against 20,642 in 1880.
A nice two story brick dwelling for rent.
Apply to,
july", 3o. John li. VV Atkins.
Pulque liccomtnr a Tipple.
An enterprising American has put the se
dueti ve pulque where it can tiekle the north
ern palate and produce the effects so wvl?
advertised by the American ministers tcm
dent nud envoys extraordinary to tb
(Jreasor republic. Who will now give ua v.
sample of the "rarefied air" that .sbouM ac
company it to throw in the proper tonic re
suii A friend of mine who owns .some. ri
the largest maguey plantations in Mexict
gave me the straight tip several years ago o;
the pulque business, anil until he takes it hacl
tbo julep of "old Virginuy is good euonl.
for u:e. If ho is to l.e believed and lie scii
tboiLsands of gallons of the staff it eaimoi
b-i kept long enough to bo exported, and n;usi
lie consumed in a fewt days after it is niad-.
Put the bend that It puts on top of the mos:
robu.-t coiLstmiliou when it gets in its fin.
work cannot be cq i.ded this side of the hen
after, l'aialjais does not begin todescriiK
the condition of the jiaiient. If the X.v.
York article is anything like the iif.tive pro
duction, it will fcoon become the favorite lip
pie of the numerous tanks you aiul I keo-x,
but won't mention just now. Xev York
Star. '
T.iIli'Traml'a Itraim i a Sewer.
The doctors have c-mlalnied the corp! In
order to do Puis they, after the manner of tbe
ancient Egyptians, removed th bowels ami
braies. This done, after having transformed
Prince Talleyrand into a mummy and having
nailed it up in a ccOin, lined w ith white satin,
they went away, leaving on tbs tab!s th
Irt-ain that 1 rain which ha1 thought w
much, inspired so many men, constructed
many ambitious edifices, managed two revo
lutions, deet ivwl twenty kings and held tin
world in check. The doctors gone, a f-r an
out ci-ed and whiit thev had left. Ho
nowai that it was wanted, and reganim
j it as a i juUiSomd otj.-ct, fce gatutrea u it
l" 1 r-.-4 I.-r and tlin-sv it into tin sewer in front C
the Lou?, Froi Hugo's hose Vues."
NORTH CAROLINA.-
IMPROVING CONDITION OF
OLD NORTH STATE.
THE
What the Stock Law has Done for our
Friends Across the Border.
Richmond (Va.,) Southern Planter.
Dear Colonel, I wish very much that
you would pay us a visit, and see w hat a
beautiful country we have here in the Old
North State. I would seud you its picture,
but neither with brush nor pen could I ac
complish the work. Sulhce ittosay, 1 never
saw a country more beautiful before, and,
mind, vou 1 have traveled soma in the Val
ley of Virginia and have lived throe years
in'the Valley of the Mississippi.
"Ah," yon say "what can have happened
to 'Old Rip' that she should have donned
at this late day her holiday dress, and have
so decked herself with jewel as U make
herself either comely or handsome? Put
you say 'beautiful. Ah, my old lrlend,
you must either be joking or crazy, or in
your dotage, and don't know what you are
talking about."
Well, I think I know some thins. I
know that when I came here, more than
two years ago, I thought that it was ns pour
and unattractive a country as I had ever
beheld; and you know I have seen some
very poor in Virginia. For the last two
years the "stock law," or, as it is common
ly called, the "no-fence law," has been
in operation, and the whole face of the
country has been changed as if by maie.
What were once large barren fields, their
very life trampled by the unfriendly hoof,
are now clothed with beautiful green vest
ments, interspersed with many pretty flow
ers, affording ample pasturage, playground
and protection for the wild game, ami am
ple pasturage, too. for the "poor widow's
cow," (that stereotyped argument in oppo
sition to the law,) lor she ean have a cow
tethered within sight of her cabin door,
where the cow can get a better supply of
food in one hour than she could in a whole
day's rambling over denuded commons.
And the cowboy does not have to start out
early in the. afternoon and listen for the
particular tinkle of his bell, and oftt-imes,
unless he has an ear for music, to be mista
ken and report "couldn't find the cow"
the consequence, children go supperless to
bed. And when the tramping cow is found
when the "cows come home" they bring
more licks than milk. As a rule, tfie cow
and the commons is working solely for the
benefit of the ticks, for they withdraw as
much from her as she can obtain by graz
ing. Put I feel that I eonnot do tliis sub
ject justice; so 1 turn it over to Pill, or
some other member of the Arp family.
We have no dilapidated Ponces; they have
all been removed, and thus many acres of
fertile land have been brought into culti
vation. In the uncultivated fields there is
every variety of grass ; occasionally a turft
of timothy or orchard grass, many patches
of clover, red, w hite and French, while
your little favorite the JLiesperteza trifolio
is making herself at home and rejoicing in
her opportunity to spread herself.
The lnonarcbs of the forest, the sturdy
oaks, have put on a livery of fresh and
healthy green, as if, while contemplating
the bright prospects of the baby oaks at
their feet, they themselves had renewed
their juvenility. And then if you could
see the magnificent cultivated fields of
clover and orchard grass that we have here
in our midst, you would see that if the oak
had not, the 'State had renewed youthful
vigor, and was looking upward with a full
determination not to be excelled by any of
her sister States of the " New South."
THE MORAL.
Let Virginia do likew iso and abolish that
miserable' system of building a thousand
dollar fence to protect the crop from the
depridations of fifty dollars' worth of more
than half-famished cattle.
R. J. II. IlATCHETT, M. D.
Henderson, N. C.
P. S. Having made the great discovery
(one of the greatest in the nineteenth cen
tury) that the country tcill bring grass,
some of our enterprising citizens have been
investing very largely in the improved
breeds of cattle, two or three car-loads
having found a ready market hero in the
last few months.
We are much pleased to hear from our
old friend, Dr. llatchett. We turn our
mind back to the happy days of our boy
hood when, as scholars together, in the ofd
log school-house, we were getting knowl
edge from Pike's Arithmetic and other ru
dimentary books. Virginia never had a
more devoted son in the days of his man
hood, and now his destiny has placed hi in
in our State's nearest and dearest sister.
North Carolina. We have always had a
warm heart for the people of the Old North
State, and so it is especially gratifying to
have his testimony in regard to his adopted
State. Would that Virginia would profit
by her generous and intelligent legislation
in rcs.ect to fence laws, well sustained de
partments of agriculture and immigration,
and other matters for the encouragement
of her farming people. Oh ! those grasping
bondholders who have been so long harass
ing our Commonwealth.
We hope some uf the Planter's subscrib
ers in North Carolina will occasionally
send us some of their agricultural prac
tices. Heading AH the I'aper.
Ho was a young man, a sort of an ordinary,
eay going chap. What drew my attention
to him at first was his laying a carefully folded
p Sun back on the news stand, put a cent on
top of it and take up a Tribune. Ho went
back to a settee near by and read the paper,
or all he wanted of it, in fifteen minutes. It
was interesting to see him read. He glanced
up one coluni and down another, seeming to
devour it a a glance. He hai.dJed the f-hett
daintily, and when he hail done it folded it
d'-fily, and with another penny traded it for
a World. He read the four New York papers
ia forty minutes, and for five cents, carrying
off one with hiin. He did not seem to read
much news after perusing the first, only jack
ing out the special features and iki mining the
editorial jage.
"Who is itr sail I.
"One of our younger literary men. He
wouldn't identify, and I did not know.
boston Record.
A Very Danceroun I'rartire.
"This practice of putting suspicious pack
ages in walT," said Lieut. Zalirrdd, "is not to
lje encouraged. It Is foc-iish and dangerous,
especially as it is very easy to make on in
fernal machine that will explode by contact.
I myself invented one, ami if Capt. Wiliiams
bai ducked it in a tub be would never bave
been able to send tij thing" to jiolice head
quarters afterward, nor to have found tbo
tub, the water, nor anything but email pieces
of LhnscL. No, don't put yoitr uifental ma
chines to soak over night They're likely to
rine a good deal more suddenly than yeait.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
A Ielrlfle Itevidecre.
"It commands," say a houw a ;eals adver
tisement of a "desiraole residence, "not only
a view of the pretty Lttw railway station,
but also of people who miss tbo tr?"
royal rssat xl
vt4
am
Absolutely Pure.
This powder ntver varies. A marvel
of purity, sdrengih and whoIeoniMiesw.
M ire pc enontieal than theordhiary kind",
nud cannot ba sold i a competition with
M.e ineliitudft of low test, short weitcbt
ilnm or phoHphatH povlm. ,W only
tn 0111.1. Hoy a r. Making Powdkr Co..
lOo Wail St. m. Y. Juiio'JI, U
PROFESSIONAL CAKDS
rP M. PITTMAN,
ATTORNEY AT L.jVV.
HENDERSON, N.C.
Prompt attention to all professional
busuux. Practices in th State rn.nO
Feder. l courts. g
Refers by jf imbshn to Commercial
National Panic and L. I). LatU fc IJro ,
Charlotte, N. C ; Allrtd Williams A Co
Raleigh, N. C; i). Y. Cooper and Jan.
U. Lassiter, IJ01 deison, N. C.
Office: Ovei Jas. 11. LatsUer AHon'i
stoie iiov 1 o.
NDREVV J. HARRIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
HENDERSON, N. C.
Practices in the courts or Vance. Gran
ville, Warreu and Franklin counties -utl
in the Supreme and Federal courts oV th
State.
Olliee: In C opcr Rui'ding, over J. It
II. iiinsilliei's.
LJENRY T. JORDAN
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
S'OTARY PUBLIC AND TUBLIC
Administratorlor Vance Co
r radices in the courts of Vance
barren, Frtuil Un, Granville and
1 ereon counties, and in the Suiirerue
and Federal courts.
Office. In liurvvelPa Brick
building.
L. C. KDWAKDS,
Oxford. N. C.
A. K. WORTH AM,
Henderson, N. C.
EDWARDS & WORT HAM,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
HENDERSON, N. C.
Offer their services to the people of
Vance county. ol. Edwards will at
tend all the Courts of Vance county, and
will come to Henderson at ny and all
times when his assistance may be needed
by his partner. mar. IV. a.
W. II. DAY. A.C. ZOLLROFFEH
DAY & ZOLLIC OFFER.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HENDERSON, N. C.
Practice in tbs courts of Vance, Gran
die, Warren, Halifax, and Nortbampx
Un and in Supreme and Fdari
courts of tbo State.
Ofkick In the new Harris Iaw Build
ing next to the Court Ilouso.
feb 9 8 i
The BunkofHndtTSon
HESDEKSONr, VANCE COUATV, N. .
General Hanking-, nxcliang and
Collection Hudnnt,
Fipst Mokto Kdv. Loans Negotiated
on good rartris for a term of year, In
sums of " o and upward, xl 8 per eent
interest and moderate charge. Apply to
WM. H. 8. RUKOWYN,
At the Punk of liendeiaou.
try M. H. H. EURGrV YA
ATTORNEY AT L.A.W
II EN'IiEILSCX, N. C.
Persons desiring to consult me profaa
icnally, wi'l rind medai y at my office in
Tne Hank of Henderson 'Building.
R. C. S. BOYD,
Dental
Surgeon,
Satisfaction guaranteed as to work and
pric a. Ollic -jrer Parker A CIW atore.
Mai 11 stre U 4 a.
CUT YOUR HEAD OFF!
DAVE HAWKINS, THK OLDKST
barber in JIederfcoii, has an enrt.
aide repu'a'ion the !uine. Hi
hop. cV'-r Cur'in's ld!lirii mloon, la
tlom-ir and ounfortaLly liued op,
and he jve an e.-y shave and a ala
iouable ba;r cut
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