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VOL. II., NO. 2.
PINEHURST, N. C, NOV. 4, 1898.
PRICE THREE CENTS.
RELIC OF YE OLDEN TIME,
A Raleigh Newspaper Dated
Oct. 18, 1836.
Its Political Gossip Very Similar to that
in the newspaper of Today.
Facilities for Travel Yery Different from what
Yisitors to Pinehurst Now Enjoy.
J An ancient copy of the Raleigh Register
' and North Carolina Gazette lies on my
table. It requires extreme care in hand
fling or it will tear in pieces from its own
i weight, so fragile is the time-worn paper.
.October 18, 1830, is the date it bears, and
this is the forty-ninth number of its
thirty-seventh volume. Joseph Gales &
Son are the publishers, and they seem to
have been kind and considerate men,
as all printers are for they required
their subscribers to advance only one-
half of the subscription price, which was
three dollars per year. If the confiding
subscriber was willing to pay them his
money and trust them for the paper the
first six months it seemed nothing more
than fair to Messrs. Gales & Son that
they should send along the paper and
trust the subscriber for the money during
the second six months. A very equitable
arrangement indeed ! Let us hope that
the parties of both parts lived strictly up
t,o it. Let us hope that the delinquent
Subscriber did not exist in those early
days, but is an evil product of our own
generation "a being erect upon two
legs and bearing the outward semblance
of a man," whose name is upon many
subscription books, but the color of
whose money no publisher ever saw.
& Promptly (let us think) every Tuesday
the Raleigh Register started forth upon
its honorable mission of spreading abroad
reliable news of the city, tlie state, the
nation and the habitable world, together
with such announcements of boots and
shoes, pianos, anti-dyspeptic pills, runa
way negroes, steam-packets and stage
Coaches as the proprietors were willing
to pay for, "at the rate of a dollar for
three insertions, not exceeding sixteen
Hues of space, those of greater length in
proportion."
Just beneath the title-lines on the front
page appears a very cheerful and amiable
motto :
"Ours are the plans of fair delightful peace,
Umvarped by party-rage, to live like brothers."
nevertheless, scattered here and there
through its columns of political news
and comment there are passages strongly
flavored with what seems like the gen
uine odium politicum. At all events the
Register does not always speak of Mr.
Van Buren and Mr. Richard M. Johnson,
Democratic candidates for president and
vice-president, in such terms as an affec
tionate brother ought to use. Van Buren
is the slippery elm, the political swindler;
Johnson and his daughters are as well
fitted for the cotton field as for the presi
dential parlor, if elected lie will disgrace
the nation. The chief supporters of
these disreputable candidates are dema
gogues totally wanting in regard for the
truth and respect for the intelligence of
the people. Their arguments are detest
able flummery put forth to entrap the
ignorant and so on, and so forth. Just
the opposite of this, of course, are the
Republican-Whig candidates, Hugh L.
White and John Tyler, and their sup
porters, and the arguments of their sup
porters, all of which Republican-Whig
gospel the Register is doing its Lest to
spread among the voters of North Caro
lina. Other exciting events of national in
to be on the march with his troops
toward the capitol. The people of France
were very much tossed about in their
minds as to whether they should take a
hand in Spanish affairs or not.
Scientific news is somewhat meagre,
also, but it is interesting to find an item
from one of the popular lectures of Pro
fessor Arago at Paris. It was said to be
M. Arago's custom to lix his eye on the
stupidest looking person in his audience,
and then speak so simply and convinc
ingly that this dull face would light up
with comprehension. When he had
gained that point he was sure that all his
auditors were with him in sympathy and
were following his lecture understand
ingly. He that as it may, he surely had a poj
ular subject for his discourse on the oc
casion reported. An artesian well was
being bored in the outskirts of Paris. A
depth of 900 feet had been reached, and
THE OUTLOOK BUILDING.
terest besides this presidential election
the Register also took note of. There was
a war with the Seminole Indians going
on in Florida and another with the
Greeks in Alabama, which evidently was
not going on with satisfactory vigor, for
the President had appointed a court of
inquiry to investigate General Scott and
General Gaines, and find out if possible,
who was to blame for an unsuccessful
campaign in Florida, and no campaign at
all in Alabama.
How natural it seems to read of the
investigation of our military department !
Is it possible this paper was published
sixty-two years ago, instead of yesterday
morning?
The foreign news has a strangely up-to-date
character, also, to our modern
eyes. About all the meagre foreign news
there is comes from Spain. There had
been no serious disturbance in Madrid
for some little time, but the inhabitants
were in a state of great alarm. Troops
had been sent to Seville to put down an
insurrection. Don Carlos was reported
at this point the temperature had gone
up to a considerable degree of heat. M.
Arago was confidently predicting that
when water was obtained it would be
hot enough to warm the public buildings
and perform quite a number of economic
services. He seems to have been right
in the main, though a little too sanguine
in his expectations. Abundance of warm
water was obtained at what was then the
unprecedented depth of 1798 feet, but it
was not found practicable then, nor has
it been at any time since, to heat public
buildings or baths by supplies drawn di
rectly from Mother Nature's boiling tea
kettle. If we had not become somewhat used
to the announcement, we should be
deeply saddened to read that even sixty
years ago our country was upon the
downward road to ruin. This statement
is on the authority of no less a person
than the Hon. John J. Milligan of Dela
ware, but he adds the cheering news
that in the person of Gen. William Hen-
ry Harrison the country has a faithful
follower of Washington and Jefferson
who will be able to rescue it from de
struction. My happy chance (Jen. Har
rison was on the spot when Mr. Milligan
made this encouraging announcement,
so that he could corroborate every word
of it, and this he proceeded to do with
such "grace, propriety anil fluency that
he produced a powerful impression" upon
as many of the freemen of Delaware as
were within sound of his voice. Consid
ering the size and population of Dela
ware, it would seem as if this must have
been pretty nearly all of them, if the
general's voice was in good condition
that day.
Visitors who travel from New York to
Pinehurst in luxurious vcstihulcd cars,
and are only seventeen hours on the
way, would be interested in the adver
tisement of Messrs. J. 11. Avery Si Co.,
the enterprising proprietors of a stage
coach line, which used to take passen
gers from the terminus of the Petersburg
railroad at Weldon and forward them to
Halifax, Tarboro, Warrenton, Raleigh,
Fayetteville and other southern points,
as far as Augusta, Georgia. Under the
caption "Increased Expedition," these
gentlemen announce that passengers
from Baltimore who reach Washington
by the evening train will be forwarded
immediately by steamboat to Potomac
Creek and thence by stages and the Rich
mond fc Fredericksburg railroad to Rich
mond, and by the Petersburg railroad to
Weldon, making the whole journey from
Baltimore to Weldon in the unprecedent
ed time of twenty-six hours! Think of
that, ye pampered moderns who grumble
over the tediousness of this journey un
der present conditions! Twenty-six
hours more, after a good long ride from
New York, before reaching Weldon, and
then heaven only knows how many ad
ditional hours to get to Raleigh and from
Raleigh down into the "piney woods" of
Moore county! No doubt Messrs. J. II.
Avery & Co. were very kind, as well as
enterprising gentlemen, "hustlers" we
should probably call them now, but let
us be thankful that when we want to
visit Pinehurst we do not have to entrust
ourselves to their tender mercies. The
Seaboard Air Line may be very much
less romantic, but it is vastly more com
fortable and expeditious.
Where Xoali Kept His Hecs.
Dr. James K. Ilosmer, while recently
visiting Boston, had occasion to visit the
new public library. As he went up the
steps (says the Ladies'1 Home Journal) be
met Edward Everett Hale, who asked
the doctor's errand. "To consult the
archives," was the reply. "By the way,
Ilosmer," said Dr. Hale, "do you know
where Noah kept his bees V" "No," an
swered Ilosmer. "In the ark hives,"
said the venerable preacher as he passed
on.
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