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F 1 TT.KESBQ. p.. TTlmY ME. 191896
LOCAL DOTS.
Brief .Vot of Passing ETents That
3Iay or May Not Interest You.
Ganien seed of all kinds at
jgavbfrry's.
Mr. annovr is quite
sick and unable to be out
-Fresh Fish at 4 cents a
pbuad at Kayberry's
Thfire seems to be another
wave of the g-ip in the county.
"Nice Ladies' shoes at May
berrrs at $2.50.
Surry court this week two
weeks terra. Alleghany county
follows.
Jesse McEvTgn has eutered
Prof. Wagoner's school at Trap
Hill.
The railroad is putting in
a new trestle down at C. N.
Hunt's. '
-Mr. J. M. Wellborn has
gone on .a trip to Winston and
Greensboro.
-There is tall f a hotel be-
incr buiit on the brushies this !
spring. Wq hope to see - it
accomplished.
-Afr. L. H. McKoy, of Dur
ham, was in the city last week.
Ha is a" cousin .of' the Berry s at
this plau".
The prepa,ration the farm
ers are making point to. large
crop Now ia the time to get
the land roady.
Mr. Morrison and, xvife who
have been visiting-their son, C.
F. Morrison I of this place; re
c honir! last week.
Owinsrto the bad weather
t
theEpworth League did not
meet last week, but meets
Wednesday night of this week.
Bro. Robertson's lease on'
the North Wilfeesboro News
closed last week, but we are
glad to rlote that he will con
tinued as editor of the paper.
By, request of many who
wished! to read it we publish
Coi. Waddeiryiews on future
punishment. The rest of the
article will appear next week.
Mr. F. F Johnson, of Utah
ps visiting relatives and friends
in this county, who are glad -to
&ee him. He gavehe Chroni
lf otce a pleasant call ' last
week.
Mrs. Robert Hix's horse
died on Wednesday morning of
last vreek. It was a good, gen
jft e horse, and it is a consider
&ble loss. "Rnts r.ansed the
death.
A new Masonic Lodge will
reorganized Friday at Shad
Qrove, near Osbornville." E
vv A. Foster, of Wilkesbro
odge is to be master of cere
monies.' Hence Cheek and Bud Gar-
ns they who attempted leg
&au from court and were, over
men by Cranor's hound pups
were carried to' Iredell last
week, where they go I to work
on the roads for 12 months.
The school. at' New Hope
dosed; Thursday of last week,
P pleasant series of exercises,
so forth. The students we
Fn(ierstand acauittedr them-
I '
One day last waV wfl were
Nsited by a fight lively little
lakes fpli ;n , trhiiav.
utthere vasa regular storm
10
nS the Blue Kidsre f on the
I'Dq ciH.. L.-.i l. . n..-'
-ie other, ' It fell to two and
:'.T inches deep ' in. aome
: , .u iti x n iu not , remum
louon tiieVro'uaa, '
May berry is gettimg in afi
nice lot ofi goods for the sprfngf
ana sumcrier trade. Call an
see them.
Asouiry Combs was trie
beford U: S. Commissioner Cra
nor Monday, on the charge of
counterfriting, but was acqit
ted. He had been in jail here
a week or so.
Hon. W. H. Bower, while
here last week, gave an order
to the Wilkesboro Marble
Vork3 fo a beautiful monu
ment to b placed at the grave
of his father.
, Those
who attended the ex-
hibition
at Wrig-ht' S SchnnT
House last
Saturday report a
The exercises were
everything went
fine time.
good and,
along plealsantly.
Court
morning.
closed Saturday
A good number of
were disposed ,of.
circumstances we
civil cased
Owing: td
were unable to report the cases
this week, but will next week.
Joe Prevette and Ferris
Howell were carried to Raleigh
last week xo serve out the time
allotted them in the peniten
tiary. Prevette goes in for
six months and Howell for 12
months.
Mrs. jj. O. Rousseau, has
placed with the Hix Clothing
Store some beautiful four-m
hand summer neck-ties, linen
and .silk hand made. Tney can
be washed without lniury to
the ties.
CSTou should see how
pretty the
are.
The Federal court meets at
Greensboro on Tuesday follow
ing the first Monday in April.
The following are the Jurors
from this county: H. Kendall
W. M. Lee, W..M. Myers, C. I.
Smith, col
ed man in
. There is one color
the number.
Mr Pohl Chatham of Elfcin,
was. in the city the first of the
week, accompanied 'by the
taylor which the Chatham M'f
g Co. emp oyed, taking orders
for their taylor made clothing.
This company has just recently
added thisj department to their
busmesj
Mr. Jqel Ferguson, of Lew -
is Fork, was in town .durrng
court. He is quite an aged
gentleman. He was diked up
in his broad cloth coat, which
he had bolight 40 years ago.
The coat appeared as good and
shek and 4(hiney,, as wh.n
first bought. In these days of
modern improvements, we nev
er get any such cloth as this,
that will 1 ist forty years and
still be as isrojiL4WWft-
here
is a lot of wild ge
now along the Yadkin Valley
t
The repoi
is that there
are
flocks ud about the Go
shen 'bottoms- There was a
Hftrable number of tnem
in Finley
and Hacked bottom
Monday.
Ed Vannoy shot one
with a riffle, breaking its wing.
Ed took a notion to save its life
and tame it. And so he pro
cured the services of young Dr.
Cotrell, who amputated the
wing witlj skill, but with some
fear and trembling. The goose
seems to te doing well.
East Cairo a negro village,
just east of Wilkesboro, enjoyed
a sensatija the first of the
w,eek. Bfert Barber colored in
dieted thtee colored citizens
for breaking into his whole-
sale estab ishment and stealing
three cani of sardines and three
sticks ' of candy. . Associate
Court of
JUoHW "Jf- v
nr:iUA. James . F. Somers,
heard the
w t aai- i
case ana uibuhsocu
it at' plaihtiff's ost. It was
hard en the piainim. iu "?
stock of gfoods and pay the cost
tOO.
J
nal Punishment.
ilmmgton Meeeen&er,)
The following remarkable letter
written by the Hon. Alfred M. Wad-
dell, of this city, to a friend in tjiis
State, was shown us by another ' friend,
and we requested permission to pub
lish it, as many persons are interested
in this matter:
Wilmington, N C, Dec. 12, 1895.
My Dear Doctoki As an old friend,
who has, I think, always cherished the
same beliefs and opinions upon almost
very subject which I myself hold, you
will permit me to give you the result
of some study which I have recently
made of a very great question, and to
invite your attention to it.
Having all my life been a believer in
the Christian religion, and, for. much
the greater part of it, a communicant of
the Church, I have nevertheless found
it always utterly impossible to accept
the "orthodox" doctrine of endless
torture for the unbeliever.
At the same time, one of the abso
lutely fixed beliefs of my life has been
that of the immortality of every human
soul; and, therefore how to reconcile
these two positions with each other,
and with what seemed to be the teach
ings of the Bible, has been a hopeless
problem'from which I tried to escape
by assuming that the language of Scrip
ture must be either mistranslated or
'misinterpreted in some way.
Late'ly I have been reading much on
these and kindred subjects, and have
arrived at a satisfactory solution of my
difficulties. I find a complete justifica
tion of my refusal to believe in the ev
erlasting torment of the wicked, but
have been compelled to modify, my
lifelong and cherished faith in the
natural immortality of all men. I
thank God that in these and all other
matters of belief which are not essen
tial to salvation the Church to which
you and I belong allows perfect liberty
of opinion. Neither the Apostolic nor
the Nicene Creed has anything to say
about eternal punishment or eternal
death, but only of "the life everlast
ing." I still believe, as I have always b-
lieved, that the terrors of the final
judgment will be realized by those who
deliberately reject the plan of salvation,
prsistentlv offered to them; but I also
belfevt that these terors will end in
eternal death, after -'many" or "few"
stripes, as divine justice may deter
mine. The f ew passages in Sts. Mathew
Mark, Luke and in Revelations, . on
which the argument for everlasting
misery is based, cannot out weigh the
otherwise uniform testimony of the
Bible that death utter, destruction
awaits those wrho refuse, deliberately
and wilfully, to believe in Jesus Christ.
And these few passages do not necessari
ly mean, what they are generally inter
preted to mean, while the overwhelming
weight of testimony furnished by the
eighty or ninety Other passages, render
it highly improbable to say the least,
that such an interpretation ought to be
put upon them.
I am well convinced that the result
of the teaching of endless suffering has
been altogether harmful to the interests
of true religion, in that it has driven
multitudes of men and woman into athe
ism and skepticism, while it is doubtful
if1 it ever induced one human being to
sincerely embrace Christianity. It is a
notorious fact that this doctrine has
been a chief stumbling block in the way
of Christian missionaries to the more
cultivated heathen nations who will not
accept a God who is represented as in
flicting endless torment on His creatures
aud I am eqnally well persuaded that
though generally allowed and taught
by Christian, ministers as a doctrine
handed down by the Church, the truth
is that very few enlightened ministers
however much they may try to be
lieve it aud think thtjy believe it do
really have the same profound convic
tion of its truth, which they cherish in
regard to the'plarkof salvation.
As to the unspeakable horrible, and
to my mind shockingly blasphemous,
idea that not only tTae saved portion of
humanity and the holy angels, but the J
all-merciful God and Savior will witness
with pleasure the ceaseless torture of his
helpless creatures through endless ages,
I do not desire to express myself, as it
would be &ifilcult to-lo so temperately.
Of course it'iB easy to say for it is
always easy to say flippant and unchar
itable things that the wish, is father to
the thought with those who refuse tq
believe in endless torment, but that the
Scriptures teach it, and therefore it
6ughtto.be believed whether agreeable
or not. V -
But this is begging . ' the question by
assuming that the Scriptures do teach it.
I am satisfied that the Scriptures do not
teach it,!and that, therefore, no one, is
required to believe lt,iand I rejoice! to
know that sonie, of -the most learned
scholars ana most aevoui. men, Clerical !
inthdmrch-of England,
MinIrs and most devout, men, clerical
j past "centurie? fin$ iathis, as welj s
.-. y . ...... -
ttiose in kurdpe and this country of
j ther communionsX have so "declared
and conclusively proYen.
What then? Do I mean to Bay that
the man or woman whV with knowl?
edge, or full opportunityof knowledge,
neglects or refuses up to the day of his
or her death, to accept Christ as our
onl Savior and Redeemer and dies
impenitent, will not be condetnned (or
damned) eternally? By no means. On
the contrary that is exactly what I do
not mean to say. I believe that . when
that Grand Assize is held, capital
punishment will will be administered
to those "who deserve it in the eye of
Him "who hath powei to destroy both
body and soul in hell," and who for that
reason is to be greatly "feared." But
eapital punishment dees not mean end
less torture. On the contrary it means
the ending of life, that isdeath.
And this brings me to the doctrine
out of which, and out of which alone,
has sprung the theory of everlasting
punishment, in the sense of torment;
namely, the doctrine of the eternal ex
istence of the human soul, as a separate
entity.
"Before speaking of the Scriptural evi
dence on this subject I want to say, as
I did at the outset of this letter, that in
common with most men, I had always
accepted it as a matter of course, and
not only this, but have talked and
written and published my thoughts up
on it, as a matter of philosophic specu
lation, aside from what I assumed to be
the teaching of the Scriptures in re
gard to it.
The reasoning which Plato (in the
Phaedo) puts into the mouth of Socra
tes always seemed to me to be a sublime
illustration of the reach of the intellect
if not the result of actual inspiration,
and I exulted in it as such.
It had not occurred to me, strange to
say, that his, argument perfectly ! logi
cal as it was in its conclusion that, be
ing immortal, the soul must net only
liv4 forever hereafter, but must have
lived forever heretofore was not sup
ported but was contradicted by the Bi
ble, Indeed, like the majority of Chris
tians. T disregarded that part of the ar
gument about pre-existence, and accept
ed the other half, supposing it to be
clearly corroborated by Scripture. But
this theory, so grateful to the feelings,
and so flattering to the pride of men
which all my life I believed te be be
yond dispute, except by gross material
ists when brought under the light of
the truth, fades out, and something
very; different takes its place; some
thing more mysterious, more sublime,
and more consoling, as well as infinite
ly more in harmony with the attribute
of diviue pity, than would result from
endowing sinners with immortality in
sin and suffering. That something is
emblazoned on almost every page of
the New Testament, and was the unva
rying utterance, the constantly, reitera
ted appeal and warning of Jesus Christ
himself th one theme on which He
dwelt, and which He strove to impress
upon the hearts of those who heard
Him, as did the Apostles wherever
they preached the thing for which He
said He came into the world, and for
which He died. What is this wonder
ful truth? It is contained in utterances
like these: "The gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our, TLord."
"He that believeth not, God hath made i
Him a liar, because he believeth not
the record that God cave of His Son.
And this is the record, that God hath
given us eternal life and this life is in
is Son. He that hath the Son hath
e life and he that hath not the Son
of God hath not the life. "I am the
Way and the Truth and the life" "He
that believeth on the Son hath ever
lasting life, and he that beUeveth not
on the Son shall riot see life." "I am
the Resurrection and the life." He that
believeth on me, .though he were dead
yet shall he live, and he that liveth and
believeth on Me shall never die." "The
wages of sin is death, but- the gift of
God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ
our Lord." "For God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten
Son that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting
life. '
(Concluded in next issue.)
- :' . :- -t 1 - ' :
A western judge, sitting in
chambers, seeing from the piles
of papers in the lawyer's hands
that the first case Was likely to.
hotly contested, asked: ','What
is the amount -W question?' l
"Two dollars,' as'd the plain
tiff's counsel. 'll pay it,"
said the judge, handing ov.er
the money; 'call the next case."
He had not the patience of Sir
William Grant, who, after,
listening for two "days, to the
arguments as to the construe
tiou of a - certain t -ait, quietly
, , , ,
observed when theylhad doner
V'Thv act has - bpei) jreeaiea."
The N
in the
WHO IS THERE?
Evy c
SVSillar'B
W1LH THE NICEST LINE OF DRESS GOODS, HATS.
SHOES, CROCKERY, ETC., EVER KEPT IN
WILKES BO 110, N. C. - '
CALL TO SEE THEM. -
mu bE!
1
We want to call attention to
IE IT
&3
FALL AND WINTERiCLOTHINa
Bought at . -
LOW TRAIFF PRICES,"
we are in a position to sell Cheaper than ever before.
A good suit for 3.50; better at $5, $G, $3 $10 and up to $20 .
See our line of Shoes, Hats, Shirts, Umbrellas and Milli
nery. We can save you money. ,
! THE HIX CLOTHING HOUSE.
THE MEMO
. . .
CAFFEY & PRITCHETT, PROPRIETORS.
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C. ;
Are Now Located In Their New Quarters Opposite
McGee's Establishment. With a Complete Line
Of Anything Kept In A ' . -
Fl RST-C LASS FU R N I TO RS ST 6 RE ,
And are Offering Special Bargains In . r .
Sewing JSiTacliiiies, JPianos, and.Orpans,
CARTS,
BUGGIES, HARNESS, tC. KEROSENE and LUBRICATING
OIL by the BARREL, and STANDARD BRANDS OF GUANO AT
STARVATION' PRICES.
Finishing Coffins and Caskets a Specialty.
ji .x n .
Heanouaners h or
STOVES AND -TINWARE;
I have opened up a full line of Tin
ware of every description,' and Cooking
and Heating-Stoves of all kinds, in the
new Prevette Store house on main et;,
where I will be glad to wait on my cus
tomers.
Ail kinds of Tin work done at
reasonable rates.
As a specialty I handle the "new Lee"
cook stove, the leading stove on the
market. Give me a calL
W.H.STARR.
Wilkesboro, N. C , Jan. 13th'94:
Big Bargains.
. I have just opened up a com
plete line of grocries in one of
the store rooms of the Wilkes
boro -Hotel, and i am prepared
to meet the i wants of all ' the
people in everything except
"Credit." ' : , - - .
The best goods pn themarket
at the lowest prices,' but no
credit business. Call and see
me.- " " '-
. ,s . 'U CALL.
NO. 48 .
9
uildin
our stock. of '
ifflTfPnBi? nn
mmiuiirj uu..
.Money to Lend.
I have rnade arrangements with
brokers in New York .City through
whpm I am able" to place kns secured
by a first mortgage, on improved farmn
for five years time, payable , in instal
ments, at the low rate of 6 per cent,'
interest per annum. - The brokerage
and the charge for abstract aVid - inspec
tinn iirrfjmnll and at. tha 'a
! Ii r " "7; rf v " "'Z -
itne borjrower. If yoa. trant chpT
money come at once as the ' supply Ir
limited. Jon5. Cuakob.
: B. N. HcUtt. : Frank D. Hackett
HACKETT & HAGKETT, ' :
WlLKKESEO'lO, N, O. . . ' .
Practice in all the court., State' od s Fedr
aU All bujn6s cntnwtccl to o will recieje
prompt attention., Cotlectioiin wiU be careful
ly attended to and ipromptly; nmitted when
paid. ; Will fitend'th coarts cf ffntta, Aahe,
Alleghany anVl other Adjoining cqantles.1
Parties -wUhin eSther fir or life Inraranca
will find it to their ntrMt'6 confer with s, a
we can ftuaiiah Mthei , in reCaljle companiee at
Joweat poibIrat, eoaaiwonf with ttfo and
secure inatnraftee. ' ,
. DR. L A. HA USER, .
;oDental Surgeon,
. ,Tour Years experience, t OfJKrs b ;a
seryices to. the peopleof ITilkes.
.' Will be aiIlkeRboro OTr Sp.ljic- '
atoro 1st. week each montli, & t t t!a a r
In North Wilkesboro tfc r vor, t-t-
All Wn k Ouararii : : r. . ,
WHOWR
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