North Carolina Newspapers

Ucking Rocket' pVvALL, Editor Iand Pbopkietob. Office: . oTgB BVSBETT. WALL A COMPANY'S. gUBSCEIPTIOX BATB: .............m!............... $1.50 Six months, ............. .75 accounts must be Thre months,.....-.-- 4 j-All suDscnpuoiw paid in advance. ' Advertising rates furnished on ap plication. XJTBfli PHILOSOPHY. . Do not hurry, do not flurry ! Nothing good is got by worry. Bide the hour to make the spring ! ' Take life easy : that's the -thing. Do not trouble, do not trouble ! ? ' Heavy hearts make toiling double. Groans the back with loajled pain ? Laugh, and 'twill grow light again. Do not sorrow, ao not, sorrow s Grief to-day is joy to-morrow. Life flows smoothly after Bears ; Eyes shine brightest washed with tears. Hark the children, hark the voices ! Somewhere, everything rejoices. ; Blasts without of winter ring, . Yet inward mirth makes endless spring. ' London Spectator, SAM JONES. The Southern Bevtvalist in the North and West What ia Thought of Him. From the New York Sun, ; Sam Jones, the now1. famous revi- valist, has transferred the scene of iis labor from the 'Sout' ltd the West, where his remarkable sermons, which in some respects recall those of the great Baptist preacher of other days, Elder Jacob Knapp, are listened to br many thousands of eager men and women, who come from far and near to crowd his services. At Cin- cinnati the whole town seems to have been1 excited over, his mission, and there was no hall jlarge enough to contain the throngs that rushed to see and. hear the preacher, It i probable that wherever he goes in the North, the same interest and curiosity will be displayed ; and his extraordinary success in stirring up religious emotion in Cincinnati and Chicago will, of course, lead to his invitation to other cities it is not unlikely .that ie will be in Moody- and as much demand as Sankey were at the time when their 8 irvices were a novelty. But Sam Jones has in him elements of popu larity which Moody lacks, for he is a man of striking originality, while the other is noted only for his sim ple earnestness, his sermons contain ing little which, when reported, ex- plains the secret or ms power over an audience. The bright, searching, witty, epigrammatic, audacious, and seemingly irreverent sayings of Sam T.. il - ' ! i ' t j ones, on tne otner nana, nave oecn . in ail the newspapers, lor, montus past, and the name isjnow one of the most familiar in the Union. The quality of his humor, too, is dis tinctively American, and his career before he became a preacher has made him a great obiect of interest lot our public. He is in all respects much more like the revivalists of the famous re vival period of this country than like &nevangeiist of these days, such as Moody, though he seems to encpunT ter in hia warfare agaihsj sin and sinners none of that bitter opposi tion which inflamed Jacob Knapp with something of the! Spirit of a Martyr, and gave Finney, ' another of the revivalists of the past, new vigor in his denunciations of the wickedness of his time. Knapp's special objects of attack jwere gamb lers and rumsellers, and often his language against them was so violent, and he indicated individuals with such particularity, that he stood in danger of ill treatment . But now Sam Jones can assaif all lornis of sin and indulgence without Provoking anger, though he is not less outspoken than Jacob Knapp as, and resembles him, aswe have 8aid, in his rough-and-ready elo ence, and his sharp arid not alto gether reverent wit. , Like him, too, 813 ai uneducated man, in the of scholastic education, and in m respest also recalls the great dy of Baptist and Methodist Preachers and exhorters who excited w hopes and" fears of the American pPle in the early days of this cen Jjry. thundering forth their pictures in llanJ the damned frbm stumps 'I J-16 wilderness, and from rough Hlorrng at camp meetings, where V" y 'or the first time heard such J , to repentance. Thai the effect A auced by those old preachers was "us ana lur extended is own by the circumstance that the r'aptlst. nrA m-.ii i. . ..1 , , r -u lueinoaist unurones De H. C. ; WALL, Editor and Proprietor. Vol. IV. came the chief religious commun ions of the United States, and, before the days ojf the development here of the Roman Catholic Church, divided between them the Vast majority of the professing Christians bf the Union. v . - i In the South they were especially successful, so that to-day the pre vailing religious tone there is that of those communions, which include in their membership a great part of both blacks and whites. The infi delity which has ravaged the North during the last ten or fifteen years has produced scarcely any effect on the South, where what we call an agnostic would probably be regard ed in most places with pity or sus picion and where the old-fashioned religion Sara Jones, undertook to preach after his miraculous conver sion is still the religion of all the people who would live in obedience to the divine commands. It is, therefore,, peculiarly fit that an- ardent revivalist should come in these days from the devout and spir itually minded South, the ardor of whose religious feeling has not been chilled by modern philosophy, but which believes with all the simpli city of the past in the rewards and punishments, the promises and the covenants of the New Testament and the Old Testament. And probably what givejj Sam Jones his hold on his Western hearers is that, despite occasional flashes of irreverent hu mor, he preaches as if he was really and thoroughly in earnest, having no doubts of the truth and terrible importance of what he has to say. His verv defects of. manner and of taste, too, bring him into closer sym pathy with the audiences he ad dresses, for it is to the plain people, who think more of substance than of form, that he makes his mission, and language that might shock those accustomed only. to the greatest re serve in religious services, is all the more effective with the run of his hearers because it strikes them like a blow. Whether Sam Jones is coming to New York we do not know. It is not unlikely that many of those who would most desire to stir up a po tent revival here are more or less dis trustful of his methods, evefi if they are not disposed to cautiously wait to see what will be the outcome of his own personal religious life, for our later experience shows that not a few of these brands plucked from the burning, who arouse general at tention by suddenly changing from sinners to saints, have been unable to long resist the evil tendencies in them, and have fallen back into their old-and vicious ways. But the impression produced by Sam Jones in Cincinnati, so far as we can learn from the newspapers of the town, was a verv favorable one, and his services and sermons are described as far more dignified and elevating than some of the reoorts 01 nis re marks would have led us to suppose them to be. In fine, he was treated with much respect by our Cincin nati contemporaries. Undoubtly he would command the largest amount of interest and attention in New York, and would steadily fill the most spacious hal the city contains, drawing to his ser vices people of all sorts, and not im probably exciting very widespread religious enthusiasm among the Protestant churches. And that is just what those churches stand wo fullyr in need of, for comparatively few of their places of worship are full enough to indicate a strong hold An the neonle. and some of their w X IT . ministers are lamenting their loss o influence in the community. " ' The Episcopal mission last au tumn aroused a good deal of inter est, and the sermons of the Rev. Mr. Aiken.at Trinity Church were espe cially powerful: but the whole body of the Protestants were riot inflamed with religious zeal, as they were in flamed, for instance, in the days of the Great Awakening, when even theatres were brought into service to hold the multitudes who came out to listen to the exhorters: and revi valists. 'Perhaps Sam Jones is the man to kindle the fire. Rockingham, Richmond County, N. WiU Not Go. Bill Nye, in declining an invita tion to visit Washington, writes as follows, through the Boston Globe: "I have just received your kind and cordial invitation to come to Washington and spend several weeks there among the eminent men of our proud land. I would be glad to go as you suggest, but I cannot do so at this time. I am passionately fond of' mingling with the giddy whirl of good society. T hope you will not feel that my reason for de clining your kind invitation is that I feel myself above good society. -j" I assure you I do not. Nothing pleases me more than to dress up and min gle among' my fellow man, with a sprinkling here and there of the oth er sex. It is true that the most prof itable study for mankind is man, but we should not overlook woman. Woman is now seeking to be eman cipated. Let us put our strong arms around her and emancipate her. Even if we cannot emancipate but one, we shall not have lived entirely br naught. My course while mingling in so ciety's mad whirl is to first open the conversation with a young lady by eading her away to the conservato- ry, wnere l asK ner 11 sne nas ever been the victim of thralldom and whether or not she has ever been ground under the heel of the tyrant man. I then time her pulse for thir- ty minutes, so as to mase a good average. The emancipation of wo man is destined at some day to be come one of our leading industries, You also ask me to kindly lead the german while there. I would cheerfully do so, but owing to the wobbly eccentricity of my cyclone leg it wbulll be a sort of broken ger man. But I could sit near by and watch the game with a furtive glance heg; and fsvii the young ladies between the acts, and converse with them in low. earnest, passionate tones. I like to converse with people in whom I take an interest. I was converse with a young lady one evening at a recherche ball in my far-away home in the free and unfettered west, a very brilliant affair, I remember, un der the auspices of hose company No. 2. I was talking in a loud and earnest way to this liquid-eyed crea ture, a little louder than usual, be cause the music was rather forte just there, and the base viol virtuoso was bearing on rather hard at that mo ment The music ceased with sudden snort, and so did my wife, who was just waltzing past us. If I had ceased to converse at the same time that the music shut off all might have been well, but I did not. Your remark that the president and cabinet would be glad to see me this winter is ill-timed. .' There have been times when it would have given me much pleasure to visit Washington, but I did not vote for Mr. Cleveland, to tell the truth, and I knoAV that if I were to go to the White House and visit even for a few days, he would reproach me and throw it up to me. It is true that I did not pledge myself to vote for him, but still I would hate to co to a man's house and eat his o - popcorn and use his smoking tobac co after I had voted against him and talked about him as I have abou Cleveland. No I can't be a hvoocnte. 1 am right out; open arid above board. I talk about a man behind his back I won't go and gorge myself with his victuals. I was assured lay parties in whom I felt perfect confidence that Mr. Cleveland wa3 a "mora leper," and relying on such assur ances from men in whom I felt tha I could trust, and not being at that time where I could ask Mr. Cleve land in person whether he was or was not a moral leper as aforesaid I assisted in spreading the report that he had been exposed to mora lsnrosv. and as near as I could learn i ,. he was liable to come down with at any time. - So that even if I go to Washing ton I shall put up at a hotel and pay my bills just as any other American ;tiVon would. : I know how it is 111 LJCiVl with Mr. Cleveland at this time When the 'legislature is in session here people come in from around Buffalo with their butter and eggs o sell and stay, over night with the president. ' But they should not ride a free horse to death. 1 I may not be well educated, but I am high strung till you can't rest. Groceries are ust as high in Washington as they are in Philadelphia. t- V ' I hope that you will not glean rpm : tne loregomg that J. nave lost my interest in nation! affairs. God orbid. Though not in the political arena myself, my sj'mpathies are with those who are. I am willing to assist the 1 families of those who i are in the political arena trying to obtain a precarious livelihood there by. I was once an official under the Federal Government myself, as the curious student of national affairs may learn if he will go to the treas ury department at Washington, D. , and ask to see my voucher for 89.85, covering salary as United States commissioner for the second udicial district of Wyoming for the year 1882. It was at that time that a vile 'contemporary characterized me as "a corrupt and venal Federal official 'who had fattened upon the lard-wrung taxes of my fellow-citi- zens and gorged myself for years at the public crib." This was unjust. was' not corrupt. I was not venal, was only hungry ! Yours as herc2 4., ' .y . Bill Nye. A State to Be Proud Of. From News and Observer. North Carolinians generallj' "good, easy riien" are too much disposed to agree to some extent with those ingrates and supercilious foreigners who are fond of under rating the intelligence or enterprise of this State or the. achievements of her sons, living and deed. We are too prone to say, "well, there s a good deal of truth in that," to any- hing that may be affirmed deroga tory to the State or its people. The disposition proceeds we suppose, partly from that win ate sense of courtesy which seeks to avoid of fense, and so prompts an agreement to the utmost limits of loyalty. It is in great part due, though, to sheer intellectual laziness--a shirking of the effort necessary to sustain a po sition which we know to be strong- and to a lack of State pride. We should call ourselves to account in the matter therefore and cultivate that sentiment, the absence of which makes us the prey of "witlings and scorners.'' The truth is that no star in the galaxy of States shines with a brighter or steadier lustre than does that of the Old North State. From the founTlatori of the republic her soil has supported a people whose sturdiness and virtue have been conspicuous, as she has given birth to sons who as statesmen, orators, mrists, soldiers and sailors, have written their names high upori. the roll of fame. She has produced bus- iuess men of. the highest character and largest capacity, journalists un surpassed in their calling, and cler gymen who have ranked among the highest in learning and eloquence, She has given Presidents, Vice-Pres idents, cabinet officers and foreign ministers to the country at large. She has, in short, nobly maintained the leading position she assumed among the original thirteen States and has at the same time preserved a conservatism, a simplicity, a free dom from the heresies, social, polit ical and religious, which have so : ,- J r .;- . demoralized sister commonwealths that her virtue, homely though it be her constancy to the right and her firmness in adhering to the way of honesty, have become proverbial. Her enterprise, too, ; in materia things, while not very rapid, has been upon sure foundations, - She has advanced slowly, perhaps, but sure ly, without doubt, so that her mate- rial condition now is better -moie firmly founded than that of any other Southern State. Her people have been ever ' thoughtful before taking a step, but that is a charac teristic which has marked every great people in history. When any if- 1,1 1 ' I II I I I f 1 11 I I I k . II II I Ti K ;C., Makch 4, 1886. step has finally been determined on the State has taken; t firmly and has held to it with absolutely all her might She has always been a State to be depended on in war and iti peace, and at the same time been not without the brilliancy which no-1 ble deeds, splendid oratory, true I statesmanship and all the forms of f genius, lend i a community. North Carolinians have .every reason to be J proud of their State and it shall be our pleasure to present from time to time in the near future the facts to support this position. State Pride. Raleigh News 2nd 0 hserver. There is necessary to the make-up of the camplete man a pride in his powers as a man. It inspires a cop fidence without which the best ef forts will not be made. It incites to progress and to attempts to scale loftier heights than any ever reach ed. It is not inconsistent with the modesty which should ever orna ment manhood, but rather renders hat grace more admirable by af fording a contrast in ''the deeds of bold crriprise," to which it leads. It is the parent of that striving after excellence which brirjsrs about all that is great and glorious in the world. It is in short a virtue of the highest order, without which the marvelous powers of man made bv the Creator after the Pattern of His own, cannot De exercised to their necessarv to the progress of commu- nities, to the majesty of States. To accomplish great things in their way these, too, must have the vir tue of pride and this must be the common pride oi their compotent parts, the men and women who go to make them up, in the achieve ments of each other and of the whole body to which they belong. North Carolina has never had her share of this virlue. Of modesty, however, she lias had more than a fair share and the abnormal development of the latter 'has very much cramped tie former. The State has done great hings. Her sons have been noble and brilliant and sell-sacrificing and able and learned. Yet she has been content to know this and to leave the trumpeting of their fame to oth ers or wholly undone. She has therefore never attained the high po sition in the sisterhood of States to which she is entitled. We are be ginning to roalize the impo. tance of 1 State pride, however, and this being so, let us cultivate the virtue to the I utmost We have as great reason to boast as any people on the face of the earth. None have accomplished more in the period covered by our history. We should take "a proper There are ominous signs in the sec pride in the fact,- treasure the deeds tions of our country where the an- of our fathers, teach them toourchil- dren, commit thera to the keeping of the "art preservative' and sound them to the world -on all proper oc - casions. So only will we gain the incentive we need to still higher and greater achievements. So only can the "Uld JNorth State" De made as prominent as she deserves to be in the eyes of the world. We have been lax in this matter too long. Let us endeavor hereafter not only to do great things, but without vanity to claim the credit for them. Let us not be so slow to proclaim the merit we find in our brethren. Let us en- courage each other by the judicious praise which helps so much in the struggle toward greater heights. Let us in fine be proud of our own peo- pie and their enterprise, of the sun- kissed mountains, the broad waters, the valleys and hills, Ibe rivers and rills of our own land, and let us make this pride evident to all with whom we come in contact. ; ; .-. . : . ' : : , Eminent North Carolinians. State Chronicle. : r ' I ; One of the most distinguished men North Carolina i has produced, in a letter to the editor of -the "Chroni cle,7 says : "The ; young men edu cated at the University, and various colleges in North Carolina, seern fbr the most part invincibly ignorant of many of the illustrious characters who have siven their State renown, - TERMSr$1.50 a Year in Advance. No. 9. Your series of biographical sketches of men eminent in the history of North Carolina, ; whether in legal, military,-political, or literary spheres is one of the most "attractive as well as ; instructive features of your pa- per. ! I look to the "Chronicle" to stir up the colleges and schools in the State to'the importance of mak- ing our children; familiar with the great men North Carolina has pro- duced." . ; The; "Chronicle" agrees with this gentleman in his views and hopes to be ; instrumental in leading the youngs men and boys of the 'State into a genuine love for the men; who have attained distinction in our State. The professor of history in every school and college ought to be familiar withthe lives of our Bad ger, Kumn, Ashe, .Battle, Uraham and other such lights, and teach the lessons of their careers to the young men more thoroughly than any-oth er part of history.' It is a sad com mentary on the faith fulness of teach ers in North Carolina when a boy receiving his diploma knows more about, Xerxes than abont Judge Badger, more about Nebuchadnezzer than. Judge ' liumn in a word is perfectly familiar with the great men who lived two or three thousand years ago, but knows nothing of such men as James C. Dobbin, Na- thaniel Macon, Wm. A Graham The "Chronicle" is .trying tostjr uv DV1"V luv "J11" y publishing biographical sketches of our Sreal mei?- a "is wees , wo vary the sketches by publishing from the pen of Mrs. C. P. Spencer a sketch of a single woman whose generosity to her churchfand to the State Uni versity entitles her to a prominent place in the history of "Eminent North Carolinians." We hope to publish sketches of other North Car olina women from time to time. It Might Be Worse. Richmond Christian Advocate. There is an unhealthy craving among small statesmen in the South for "emigration." There has been expenditure of money by several commonwealths to bring in ship loads of foreigners. With the aver age Apolitical Solon population is ideal of successful statecraft Ex-Governor Vance, of North Car olina, in a recent address in his na tive State, uttered wise words when he said the people of that common- wealth wanted only the amount of immigration they could thoroughly assimilate. That is sound doctrine, To add a swarm of hornets to a bee-hive increases the population in the gum, but not the social order. nual million of steerage passengers forni an eddy. The western cities are overloaded with thef decayed 1 driftwood of Europe. The restless, Godless and dangerous class on that I Continent held in subjection by po- lice and bayonetj seek our' shores, where they become potent lactors in I our civil government The dema gogue of the day is made in their image and breathes their breath, The codes of cities are interlined with their influence. The "Conti- nental Sabbath" turns the day of I rest into a bacchanalian festival I American ideas are mocked. And what do those serfs and criminal vandals know or care for the great principles of consiitutionial govern ment? These -"sovereigns," bred in moral rotteness, kept in subjection J by fear, festering with lust for riot and rapine, find vent for diabolism in the crowded centres of our coun- try where "manhood suffrage" gives the ballot at once to the vilest brute that is transported hither, while i forces the native to live twenty-one years before he can cast a vote. ; . ; Year by year the refuse of the un der stratum of European civilization is emptied into American politics How loner can our system endure - - cj . . m , this acrid and , disturbing element? Tt is a cumulative poison .' in the body politick The blinking eyes o an owl can see the disorder, chaos 1 and hideous confusions coming in Job' Printing. ;v Having recently "purchased a first" class ; outfit, we are prepared to do all kinds of " " ' ' ' PLAIN AND FANCY JOB -PRINTING IN -THE BEST. OP. STYLE iiuu at ljivmg rnces. the evil days of our children and uimuren i ciuiuruu. jwtvwwy inc.; . tension is strained. Men of patriot- ,; ism and forethought shudder at the : I - I -I 7 - i -1 i r. i.. it horrora ahead. Is . there soundness. ( enough in the tree to expel the velv f oni Working , its way into the sap ? -v A s"rebellion" of States, geographi- ; rollir Hffinpr1' mnv V nnt down .with - guns. What avail weapons, of steel against invisible ideas of evil con tending with ballots ? The South need .not be anxious., for an influx of monevless. ignorant s w andivicious emigrants and regretful that the Northwest ia attracting, the mass of foreigners who come over as human ballast. The. old emigrant : of Guinea, long used to our' customs , and climate, is preferable. . The forcible and confiscating free- . dom of the slave and his hostile at- T.Hiuin in n l iiwhi ik iiik mm inn masters has led .to, the underrating ,i him as a citizen. -Asa peasant popr: h. ulation, he is Unequalled, He is do cile, stout and fairly , industrious. , v His habits and character, formed by. k; contact with a superior race, are su- - r perior to the same grade in Europe,- His behavior during the war, in pro- teeting propert' and households in r the absence of the white men, rank iS him far above that4 Caucasian iui-o ii. . a " i.i.. ' 1,1 . I .,Vl aer. .iue negro is nits iiuinuouw m,a. j ' rri. i ii. i.- l - -C . an atheist in religion and a nihilist' in asassination. -. The white and black- citizens , of the South . know, each , other. Let j them work out their destiny togeth- ,: er. They may not have a miracle. rr ri'ni-vnf If tf nniflinr will f VkOlT 7lt- nessJ a pandemonium ; of horrors : Deserved Hickory, Arkansaw Traveler. ' V '. "' .... i ... r . , While the professor of West Bran.ch , Academy was busy, "working sums' for one of the r eterson boys, a red "hided" man from Hallelujah , Springs entered, the school-house, , approached the professor and said : "Air you tfth'e man that runs this here erfair ?".' The professor put down his slale and pencil, studied the features of he visitor and then replied : "That s what I came here for. "Ah hah, my name's Jowcrson." , "Glad to meet you, Mr. Jowcrson." . ' We'l, you mout not be so glad agm I'm dun .with you. ; My son hau been goin' to school to you. . Little feller, name's Tom." - "Oh1, )res," said the professor,, "I believe I remember him." "Yes, reckon you'do,, Tuther day you whaled him ; with a oak split. I've come to maul you.'' "My dear sir," said the professor, . "I did whip your son with whilo oak splitSj but he deserved it. Dur ing a recitation of arithmetic, T ask ed him this question: If jrou were to go out with a jug to fill it and there was a still-house a half mile away "and a spring a quarter of a, mile away what would you bring back? He studied a moment and said "water." Then "I took up a white oak split and whipped him." "Well," said the visitor, "I must be goin." In the -transaction that we wus jes' talkin' about i I agreo with you all but one thing. - A boy that didn't have no more sense than my chap has deserves hickory in stead of white oak' ": r , Gen. H&aeclt's Ilamor. St. Jjouis Globc-Demccrat. The late Gen Hancock was not much given to humorous dcclara liuiis, uut uc tuiu uiiu fiu tumj;ij' gUUU I 111 11 111 alllUli illJV U.L VJIVllJ' burg. At a; certain stage ofthat3 great battle it 'happened ttiat some OUUUlUiUUtU UUlbU) UVllll -t J 1 1 1110 own Tesponsibilitj', disregarded oiv'i dinary military rule and caused a where, according to West Point phi losophy, a-disaster should, have cn-: sued. nancocK was noth' provoKeti Ai;xA; , urt t i."L. e UIIU UCllgllliCVI, il 1 - AlJVlV .ilH, JUUl who ordered that movement, he ix claimed, "I would have hinrbrcyctV tV ' -