North Carolina Newspapers

THE JOURNAL. IKV BX2SS. X. a, JULY 10. 18W. - v - i ,4 a Va IakK Inwtta thai. TBUX coaraga i me f ui buS otlui boor A. A J : Ttti oatofCatteUa. u again at tb kaad cf tb Spaa '.an Ministry Tint latest aewa from Father JStrU It that La has gone to Soot iuo. mhmMinpHT in tha Guide of XUfct-Asdeak "Get there, Eli.,: VlUaeBher thai political differ aees da bo seeesaUata personal : kactll!tlaa. tax boat thatectle. 'FXXXDOX ot election, liberty of ' eoaacUoee, taeee are the birthrights I ararr Aaierieaa citizen. Tax people ahan rala. Demo nU. " D thepeopl! Pile it on. Qoaj.l Gira it to Beed! Bepakiaaa. : kaa beea nominated on the 41Sth iramm hit pwhiwii i w vjjadkaldiatriet. V akttf Ua Uses of the Democracy : XTm : mnai strike for right, oar - : " m s i ".. Tn MM1itiAB aT nabiio affairs aaakaa o requisition upon bravado, - bat u eaSa for the exhibition of mi null Tirau. T. at mvid AhAAr. r- 7 a Hfirtaa; ttiat the misfortunes kardees to bear are those which A never kaDDea.LowelL IBM Enxooeaa aitaation shows fveea tM leading gorernmenu, ad a gearaal txploalon is probable Otri Preach friends doat like fa Aataneaa aog.- vjuue iiaeiy : 1 iThea aa Aaierieaa makes a hog ft alaiaelf he is a rery disgnsting -tiaiaial. .. a 1 " , i GOTXMroa Bn.L is doing some ': iapltal vira-peJliag. It is almost . aqnal to that which defeated . ?Almjf trm TAiilAnfr anil maifa - tT.TI flnmrur. XttU muw t not exciuatvcijr m . ' ItlHWUWO aora and eottoa equal to any, and -a - l . T UM.m ewwouiuea ua wuwu ' gha market is aerer "stocked." ... - Tfia'adaiasion of Idaho and Wjoaiinx to the Union give four saora Eepoblican United States 8eaatora aad brings that party's aaajoritj ia the Senate up to 14 aothing bat to do wrong Emigration agents and Federal Eleeiioa laws eaaaoc tbwart the pragreaa of a brave and virtnoos people' ia aach a eoanty as oars. XBS Peaasylvania Democracy has acted wisely. A ticket led ratUsoa sad Black oogbt to by be encoeasfai, aad . the diasffectioa in tho BepabUeaa ranks on account of Qaai bosaism, makes success ' attainable W do not wish prices to range - aa high as to act as an embargo; bat it ia veil enoagh for oar people to realixa that there is to be a great rise la . the value of real estate in Eastern Sforth Carolina. PXXXCS Bzaxascx has officially accepted the candidature to repre sent Kaiserslaatea ia the Beigh . 1 TT iUt MM U-VBWWUUI lit UiS Oerasaa Parliament, the question ' asaj arise, which Is greater Wil ilaat or Biamarekf Tsz IfeKialey tariff bill cats off the sale by Weetera and Northern farmers ef $32,000,000 worth ol Caravprodaoe aannallj to Canada. It forces the Southern farmers to aeii ia the lowest markets and baj la, tha highest market. Havivm is considering the advisability of bnybg and owning aa eleetrie light plant at an initial east of S600.000, and those who " CsTor the idea, figure oat a very eoaakUrable saving as compared with the present contract system. - Aoxa we say attend jour pri BEariea. When a maaneays "the eoaveatioa was packed," it is a eoafession that he and bis friends did not do their dury before the eoaveaUon met. Let every man do his duty and the country is GlTS the Democratic party full itroL, and one terra of Congress via aot have elapsed before all this oppressive aad offensive legis latioaVQl be wiped from the statute books aad this government be Agaia the government of the people Vfclob it was before the party of the aeetioaalist aad monopolist came. Wilmington Star. It has been coojectured that the "gardea of Eden" was located somewhere ia Eastern Carolina, prababtj ai the continence of the Ncaae aad the Trent. We do not thiak so; but just wait until the Washington, Sew Berae, and Wil mPfP1 Railroad is completed, maJX jott will see a paradise rivaling that of Adam aad Eve. IIUYT Alliance men be kept oat of polities By no means. They art the aoae and aiaew of the land. Lei AlUaaee Republicans support BepabOeaas aad Alliance Demo crats support Democrats. If Alii aaea Democrats are not as good aa4CiaflaaaXial as Alliance Bepub- Cega va are ia the middle of a l.rtrj bad flx. Jjr his speech at Raleigh on the af ' Jalyi Got. Fowle said: 2forta Carolina la ia this Uaioa and there to star. North Carolina's 'disabilities have been removed." We intend that North Carolina shall remain in this Union nnder the Constitution, but at the same time she will protect her rights under the Constitution, the passage of infamous electiotLjws to the contrary notwithstanding." If Democrats are to break away from party organizations to support "independents," they are destroy ing the prestige of the party, they are weakening its power, and they are opening the aveuuen for the return to power of the radical and negro rale from which the State aad every part of the State has suffered so within the last quarter of a century Charlotte Chronicle. SeA.tob Vakcb delivered a BDeecb at Raleieh on the 4th of July that ought to have a wide cir culation. The News and Observer has done a valuable service in giving it to the public. While the whole speech is good, there is one short sentence which we wish every North Carolinian wonld keep steadily in mind. It is this: "So on z as von are one in interest and in thorough accord on the great and weighty matters of Jbe law, there does net exist the means of destroying you or of destroying your liberty.'' ThE Louisiana Lottery contro versy is to oe setueu oy compro mise. The compromise provides that the lottery bill which has passed the House and is before the Senate; is to be put through with out obstruction, the State accepting 11,250,000 a year for the privilege granted. This bill is to be submitted to the white voters only. It a majority is obtained for the bill the anti-lotterv ueoDle are to cease opposition to it; but if a majority of the white voters are agbinst it the company will withdraw its offer and leave the State when its charter expires. THE nomination of Pattison and Black for Governor and Lieutenant Governor by the Pennsylvania Democratic Convention has already excited great enthusiasm in that party throughout the State. A number of ratification meetings have already been held, and Patti son and Black clubs are being rap idly organized. The Democratic press give the ticket a hearty endorsement and promise an active and aggressive campaign. The Republican papers also concede that the ticket is the very strong est that could have been made. Norfolk Virginian. "ETERNAL TIGLLAXCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." Whatever ia good is worth pre serving. There is an obligation on this generation to transmit to pos terity the blessings of liberty un impaired. The worth of a thing is estimated by its cost, but sometimes the cost is as nothing in com pari sou with its value. So it is with liberty. Our fathers purchased liberty at a great cost, but the most ardent of revolutionary heroes never looked forward to a day like this. No such nation has risen in all the tides of time. In proportion to the erandeur and glory of our inheritance is our obligation to transmit it unimpaired to future generations. The task of preserving liberty is not less difficult than that of ob taining it. As in a great struggle for liberty every patriot is a Boldier, so in the supreme hour of its de fence every true man most stand at his post "at all hazards and to the last extremity." No one who opens his eyes to the facts of the case can doubt the gravity of the situation. A bill has passed the House of Representatives more obnoxious to the spirit of liberty than any law ever enacted by the British Parlia ment. It becomes the American people to throw every obstacle in the way of its passage by the Senate. The right of petition is a right sacred to Americans, and it should be used now to avert a terrible calamity. Carlisle, who Bee ma to be the prophet ot the Senate no less than he was the leader of the Honse, believes that it will not pass, but to prevent its passage there must be vigilance on the part of Demo cratic Senators, and especial vigi lance on the part of the people. There, was a time when Con gressmen did not dare go counter to the will of the people. Why the change T Have Congressmen be come braver, and more defiant of popular will! If so it is because the people are less exacting, less vigilant, less patriotic. From this time forward let the people determine to hold Congress men to the sternest accountability. Let no Congressman dare venture upon the idea that his constituents are asleep, but let him realize that the eyes of every man in his dis trict are npon him to see that he walks with intrepid step the peril ous path of duty. Nor is vigilance demanded aloue in Federal affairs. The State de mands the watchfal care of every citizen. The stern injunction "see that the State suffers no detri ment" rests upon every citizen, and be who is derelict io the observance of the inexorable command forfeits the rewards of manliness, virtue and patriotism. There may be times when in difference to publio affairs may find some palliation in the calm serenity that prevails, but in times of public danger, when wave after wave of passion beats against the bulwarks of virtue and the citadel oi liberty, he who hesitates to obey the call of duty deserves a deeper hell than Milton saw or Dante dreamed. Vigilance, eternal vigi lance ia the price of liberty ! Me. CuMMlNag, of New York, the successor of "Sunset" Cox, in peaking on the National Election Law said: "The whole mechinery of this bill is unrepnblican, unfair, partizan, and centralizing to the last degree. A State wonld not tolerate such a law even if enacted by its own legislature. The great mass of the officers who carry it oat are not required to reside in the counties where they perform their duties. Not one of them is elected by the people or respon sible to them. The number of circuit jadges is greatly increased in order that a Bepnblican Presi dent may pack these courts with Republicans. As the judges hold office for life, they are entirely Independent of the people. The returning boards and chief super visors are appointed by the courts. Like the jadges who appoint them, they, too, are given life offices to perpetuate their power and shackle the people. The Pamlico Confederate Veteran Agsselatloa- Bayboro, N. C, July 4, '90. The Pamlico Confederate Vete ran Association met at Bayboro, according to adjournment at its last annual meeting, at 12 o'clock m. July 4, ana was caiiea to oraer by (Japt. James S. Lane, its Presi dent. In the absence of its secre tary W. T. Ciho was appointed pec re tar y pro tem. The proceedings of the last meet ing were read, and the roll of mem bers was called. The following old veterans whose names had not been enrolled, presented themselves for membership, towit : C. S. Dixon, Co. B, Hasting Dixon, Co. B, R. R. Dowdy, Co. A, Abner Boyd, Co. A, H. K. Birch, Co. D, 67th regiment N. C. troops D. P. Holton, Co. B, 10th regiment N. C. troops ; Geo. Price, Home Guard, Capt. Salter's company. On motion of Lawrence Miller Capt. James S. Lane was unani mously re elected President of the Association; Benj. F. McCotter was elected Vice-President, and W. T. Caho was elected Secretary and Treasurer. The Executive Committee con sisting of Geo. Dees, N. G. Brinson, J as. O. Baxter, Jas. M. Caroon, W. T. Caho, R. F. Casey, E. B. Credle, Louis Goodwin, John B, Martin and John Langs ton were re elected. The following resolution was adopted : Resolved, That whenever an ex Confederate soldier shall die in this county that the members of this Association attend his funeral in a body. On motion, it was ordered that the annual meeting of this Associa tion be held on the 15th of January in each year to commemorate the battle of Fort Fisher. The following resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That whenever a Con federate veteran shall die in this county, leaving a widow in indi gent circumstances that each mem ber of this Association shall pay to the Secretary and Treasurer the sum of one dollar for the nse of said widow. Resolved, That each member of this association, be constituted a committtee to solicit subscriptions for the Soldier's Home, and that each member agree to collect by subscription at least one dollar, to be paid over to the Secretary and Treasurer by the next meeting of this Association, on the 15th of January, 1891, to be forwarded to the Treasurer of the State Veteran Association, for the Soldier's Home. On motion a committee was appointed to invite some suitable person to deliver an address before this Association at its next annual meeting. W. T. Caho, J. B. Turner and J. O. Baxter were appointed the committee. On motion the New Berne Jour nal was requested to publish these proceedings. On motion the meet ing then adjourned to meet at Bayboro on the 15th of Jannary, 1891, at 11, o'clock, a. m. Jas. S. Lake, President. W. T. Caho, Secretary. COSCEBITING SUNSTROKE. The Atlanta Constitution calls attention to the fact that the mortality from sunstroke in the Northern cities is very large every summer, while in the South it is very light. The Constitution then gives a few hygienic hints on the sub ject, as follows : According to Dr. Edwin Mann, of New York, our exer cise in hot weather should be very moderate, the clothing should be loose and thin, and we should drink plenty of cold water. As soon as a person in the air ceases to perspire he is in danger of sunstroke and should immediately drink large quanti ties of water, and bring on a perspiration that will keep the skin and garments wet. Fre quently, impending sun collapse may be warded off by these measures. When there is a marked exhaustion and a weak pulse a stimulant should be administered. But the free use of water, internally and exter nally, is the best safeguard. A straw hat worn with green leaves or a wet sponge in the top is also of great benefit. These hints will be of little avail if a man goes to excess in eating and drinking Fat meats and liquors should be avoided, and the diet shonld consist principally of vegetables. By following this line of con duct a man will be able to work in the open air, and suffer less from heat than many who stay in the shade and act imprudently in the matter of diet. The fact that this is not a sunstroke section will not make it safe for us to altogether ignore these simple and reason able rules for the season. It is a shocking thing for a man to drop dead just because he has indulged his appetite too freely, or exposed nimseir too reck lesslv. A man can now be cremated in Paris for sixty cents. Bat the trouble ia that the man who has sixty cents isn't the man who wants to be cremated. It ia the cross that makes the peace so sweet. Amid the tears of grief, peace keeps her silent place like the ralnbw upon the spray of the cataract. Jones County Items. Trie board of education met to day. We Lave had a succession showers this week. Commissioners court, iu hossiou today. Very bltui attendance. Crops in Jones county are better than they have beeu lor ten years. The spring chickens around Treu ton, we learn, have nearly all dis appeared during the past week. Large crowds in attendance at Trenton during the past week have tested the hospitality of Trenton and vicinity, but everywhere vibi tors lound the latch string of the doors all hanging on the outside just pull and walk in and consider! yourself at home. e bad the pleasure ol meeting Professor Joseph Kinsey and So licitor Allen at Trenton one day during the past week. Professor Kinsey's school is, we learn, in a flourishing condition. The Professor is a son of Jo'ies county and we are proud of him. The first week in July, 13'JO, will long be remembered by the citizens of Jones county and most especially by the good citizens of Trenton. Professor Joyner opened the Teach ers Institute on Monday with an ' excellent attendance, and the interest in it increased daily by both teachers aud the citizens during the whole term. We are confident that the Professor has advanced lbe cause of education in Jones county by his impressive and earnest lectures, and has not only put new and progressive ideas among the teachers, but has set the people to thiuking about how shall we proceed to advance the all important cause of educating the children of our county. Tues day the Farmers Institute was opened by Professois Itoberson and Massey and continued two days, which ready captivated the farmers present. All acknowledged that they had tn-cn much benetird. I will next week give the readers of the Journal some of tha good ideas given us in their lectures. Thursday evening the steamers Cleopatra mid Howard gave tte Institute and ihe citizens and visi tors a free txcursiun down the Trent sevei.il miles, which, we learn, was a real delightful, enjoj. able time, mule the more so by its being a beautilul moonlight night. Friday, the Pli, was the great grand day ;f all, as it was a very warm day, the ptople commenced pouring in to Trenton from every direction in all kinds of convey ances carts, wagons, load carts, etc., which continued during the whole day. At 1 o'clock p. m. I heard various estimates of the numbers present. Some said 1,000, others said l,o00, while many were confident that the actual number was 2,000. Trofessor Joyner had the court house tilled to its utmost, listening to a speech from him on education. The Folloksville and Trenton Lulges of A. F. & A. M. were at Trenton in full force and had a public installation of officers. The Farmers Alliance of Jones county was present and held a county meeting, which convened at 1:30 p. m., and consumed the remainder of the day and adjourned to meet again the first Saturday in August next. The Confederate Veterans meeting was n,ot called together for the want of time. Saturday was the Jones county Democratic convention day. E. F. Sanderson presided, liesolutions were passed having the ring of the true metal in them, which will be fully satisfactory to all good Demo crats both in and out of the Al liance. F. M. Simmons was en dorsed for Congress, who, being present, was called upon and made a real ringing speech. He said he had listened carefully to the read ing of the resolutions, and that he must say that they contained the genuine Democratic doctrine. The Stern Parents or Old. The stern parent of real life died out long ago. Severe and obdurate fathers may still be found on the stage, but not in private residence. Perhaps it is not to be regretted that they are obsolete. Thoy were terrible old fellows. Their offspring approached them with fear and trembling, and felt, while in their presence, as if under the lee of an iceberg. The mothers Heaven bless them! were always motherly, from Rachel down; but Paterfami lies, when he wore knee-breeches, a cocked hat, and buckles in bis shoes, was really somewhat of a satrap. A hundred years ago, when a son had occasion to write to his father, he addressed his as "Honored Sir" or "Honored Parent." The mild est head of a family in those days kept a strap or "tickle toby" in his private closet, and administered it in such doses as the case seemed to him to reqnire. If a boy wailed nnder bis whaling, it was taken as Prima facie evidence that the dose was too email, and it was repeated until the "old Adam" was whipped ont of him. Good old times thoe remark ably so. Children were treated as a turbuleut element of the body politic, that mast be snubbed and kept down. Slaves supposed to be on the insurrection could scarcely have beeu subjected to sirijter dis cipline. Boys were not allowed to sit at table with their fathers, to speak exeept when spoken to, to do anything, in lact, of their own volition. A father who mixed with his children familiarly, on terms of mutual equality, was considered a domestic radical a pestilent dis turber of old conservative maxims of household policy. We have got bravely over all that sort of prejudice. Democracy has been introduced into the do mestic circle. The heavy fathers heavy-handed correctors of youth that they were sleep with their fathers. Peace to their ashes! Eerhaps our oung hopefull push family democracy a little too far. Perhaps they are a tritle irreverent, if one might make bold to say so. We are afraid they are. But even this is not so bad as the icy inter course between child and parent which was in fashion when our greatgrandfathers were boys. The best thing to give your ene my is forgiveness: to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to yonr father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, res pect; to all men, charity. It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much ofteuer succeed through failure. Those who are honest and earnj est in their honesty have no need to proclaim the fact. HEROES OF SEVENTY-FIVE. JESSIE. r.iiseil owr our j i yi.iany -co; land. Li be i t v crou , , , .i n. at.i t .e ilo- s , M:i.!e r.iinin.tnil. v:ii',inLr from Ami valiey and hilltops arose To tell to tlio couiiti Whili- otlicrs stood" ruid di end. l'n:itle to cope with trend "l'w.is 1 1 . ii V.f.it tin Nerth State. With niiiuirc 1'ici'i 1 ,i! e. t'olu nibia woes ; ; i trouble 1 Tviant pi-oiid II f the Old pa'riot's iled lor th Assembled, wln.e N at i j'ludsorne and ;iy Allayed m tin- biiuhtnes M iv; ;ui,i heiiuty of !A."emM n: d Mtekleiibu forests and hills Soft, lllstlillL' leaflets :n iii- muring rills Coinminulini: with note from the stel s above Awoke with their echoes an anth lovt : AssenibleU determined to shatter bands That hanineied their actions and fi t the Tee the:r hands And seed to the nations all over tl world, The n.essae that Fieedom her lla nn . urled lo wave o'er Coimiioia to sea ' The land of the bravC the free." 'Twas done: and the lroni nil s.;u .1 the home of . tidings, b. rne northward, awoke A courage that shattered the Tyrant's proud yoke, And reared a Kepublic tint Iju survive ' To honor the "Heroes of Seventy-tiv A Hint for the Sleepless. Years 'Ago 1 learned i" scii that man, woman or child shotiM not eat anything for "thrte or lo ;i hours befoie retiring." Did I be lieve a word of all that ? If 1 did, I certainly did not "live up io my belief," for, every nighr. i i.j l,i--t act which I pet forme I iK-tn: : in door of my chamber t-ii.it me in from mortals ken, wn to pnv :i visit to a certain pnuiry, vhu;n still lives iu my memory thec.ui bodiment of all things toothsome , jat.d good, where 1 ninde such use of my opnortuuitif s that if the sleep that followed was not the "sleep of the just," it certainly was the sleep of the well fed. Now all this does not mean that we should become "gluttons or wine bibbers," or even invite nocturnal visits of our deceased grandmother by the too free use ot mince pie, but ir certainly does mean that to secure good sleep we must use our stomaens fairly, and give them something to do, which very doing will have a tendency to draw the blood from the brain. If a cracker will accomplish this, lot it be only a cracker; if a cup of milk, see to it that the cup of milk is forth coming. "My child cried so iu the night 1 was afraid she would awake the neighbors," said a mother to me. "In despair of anything else, I gave her a piece of bread and butter and she sat up in bed and ate every crumb, then lay down and slept like a kitten," inference is that if the mother had furnished the bread and butter when the child retired, its sleep would have been undis turbed till morning. It is but a morceau of caution, but I beg you all to "give heed to it, as to a light which shineth in a dark place." Jf you would have eleep accomplish iu you its "most perfect word," do not go to bed hungry. Good Housekeeping. Buttermilk for Dyspepsia. Bx-Congressman W. L. Scott, who had often been urged to try buttermilk for dyspepsia, received a letter from an unknown friend in New Orleans urging the same rem dv. He tried it and cained eifftit pounds in two weeks. He said to the New York Press: "My New Orleans friend, who told me he was eighty-seven years old, had been using the buttermilk forty years, had 6et out a formula for preparing the milk. You put the buttermilk in a pan, which is set in hot water. The milk is brought to the boiling point, but not allowed to boil. Then the heavy part is skimmed off. The whey which remains is set aside to cool. I drank a glass of it three or four times a day as hot as I could bear it in my throat. After you get used to it you will like it better than champagne. It has a deli cious acid taste. I have been a great ,suft;rer for years with in flammation of the mucous mem brane, which caused my dyspepsia, and this is the only thing that has permanently helped me." Dom Tedro in Exile. Dom Pedro's mode of life at present, as he informed the writer in a recent conversation at Nice, differs little from thafc which he was accustomed to in Brazil. His chief pleasure seems to be derived from literature. His study, which is on the second floor of the Hotel Beau le Jour, commands a full view of the Mediterranean, and is embellished with handsomely bound volumes of many of the famous authors of ancient and modern times. His favorite among the latter is Victor Hugo. The Emperor rises every morning at G o'clock, and, after partaking of his cafe au lait, reads the news papers, many of which are publish ed m various languages. At 'J o'clock be has a genuine Yankee breakfast, a taste and habit he acquired while visiting the United gtates.Ex Newspapers for Moths. Most housekeepers know how invaluable newspapers are for pack ing away the winter clothing, the tue printing ink acting as a de fiance to the stoutest moth, some housewives think, as successfully as camphor or tar paper. For this reason, says the scientific American, newspapers are invaluable under the carpet, laid over the regular carpet, paper. The most valuable quality oi newspapers in the kitchen, however, is their ability to keep out the air. It is well known that ice complete ly enveloped in newspapers, so that all air is shut out, will keep a longer time than under other con ditions; and that a pitcher of ice water laid in a newspaper, with the ends of the paper twisted together to exclude the air, will re main all night in any summer room with scarcely any perceptible melt ing of the ice. These facts should be utilized of'tener than they are in the care of the sick at night. The man who put on his summer underwear last week was snimng around with a bad cold after Tues day morning's frost. This is per fect harmony with the laws of gause and effect. There is a place for everyone in the world and out of it accor ding to the theologians. Which place is the burning question. i THE ACME OF CHEAP POSTAGE. A movement is now well under wav in Fnodand which contemplates the most remark- abjQ pogtal reform thafc hag been mooted since Sir Rowland Hill, half a century ago proposed that 1 i is countrymen's letters should be forwarded to any point with in the limits of the British Islands on the payment of a penny, or two cents in American money. The present demand is that for the same fee ef a nennv lli-j l n i. a. a -n-x-L. leiters suaii uti sent io irtubu colonies all over the world. As things now are, it costs an Englishman hve cents to send a letter to Canada, eight cents to Australia by the Cape of Good j Hope route, and ten cents to ; India bv the same roundabout ! course, To send letters by the short route via Calais and Brin disi, costs more, because the French and Italian governments between them levy a toll of two cents per letter for the land transit of twelve hundred miles. We only charge on the other hand one cent per letter for carrying the British Australian mails from New York to San Francisco, a distance of three thousand miles. What is pecu liarly exasperating under the existing: arrangements is the , fact that foreign mails are car 1 ried so cheaply by English mail 1 steamers, that a Frenchman or German can send a letter to almost every British dependency 1 for half the fee exacted of i an Englishmen. One London i mercantile house is said to have - ,-aved five hundred dollars a I year by having its eastern cor ; tespondence posted in France, t f course, such discrimination l- against English trade in favor of commercial rivals excites indig nation, and public opinion has lately found such peremptory expression that Mr. Goschen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has agreed to reduce the colonial postage charges to a uniform rate of five cents. This conces sion, far from satisfying the reformers has only aroused a more vehement agitation for the penny or two-cent rate. Amer icans are materially interested iu this movement, because it is a fundamental feature of the programme that letters shall be sent to the United States at the same rate as to the colonies. Considering, indeed, that most of the Canadian mails are forwarded by way of New York, it would be absurd to charge five cents for a letter to New York, and only two cents for a letter sent on hundreds of miles further to Montreal. A PHENOMENON. John T. Abernethy, of Mt. Olive writes this to the Wil mington Messenger: Last night about 8 o'clock the lightning struck the residence of Mrs. Smith, of this place, doing considerable damage to the building and stunning the inmates for a few moments. Ihe very strangest phenomenon of the occurrence was this the bolt passed through a picture of Mr. John Tolar, in a frame on the mantel piece, demolishing the frame entirely, but leaving on the picture the well-defined photograph of an ansrel with outstretched wings overshadow owing Mr. Tolar's head, the arm encircling his neck and the right hand holding a beutiful boquet ot flowers. Ihe picture or the 1 anerel is almost as distinct and clear as the photograph itself and the expression of the face mav be plainly seen. The whole attitude of the celestial visitor, togetner witn the smile upon the face seems to suggest to the benolder the idea ot protection and benediction, while the dark line of tho lightnings journey along the cardboard, turning aside just above the smiling face or Mr. lolar in the picture and passing off to the left seems to suggest the idea that the bolt had been turued aside by the protecting wings. The picture is on exhibition at the store of Mr. J. R. Smith and has been the cause of quite a sensation to-day. The explanation of the phe nomenon is that the picture of the angel was on the back of another photograph that was near the picture of Mr. Tolar Yet the strangeness of the coin cidence has struck everybody, and most of us have understood the feeling of the old negress this morning, who being shown the picture said, "I tell you dat's something to pray over" The afiair has caused considerable excitement and comment. "Great Senators." While Mr. Dyer gives more than half his book to the four Senators, Calhoun, Clay, JJenton and Web ster, he also sketches very enter tainingly Sam Houston, Jefferson Davis John P. Hale, Stephens A. Donglas, Simon Cameron, A. H. Stephens, and Hannibal Hamlin, who is the only survivor of the Senate of 1848. He went to Wash ington with a horror of Calhoun, but became completely captivated by his personal charm, and learned his political discourse. Benton's amnsing weaknesses, especially his self-conceit, are exhibited, together with his gladiatorial strenght. The chapter on Henry Clay fitly sketches its fascinating subject and conveys important political history. The langnage of encomium is taxed to describe the powers of Webster, while his moral weakness is not concealed. No reader with a spark of .interest in our political history, having begun the perusal of this book will be willing to leave it unfinished. How a Young Man Can Become No body. Theodorejlioosevelt says there is a class, our leisure class, already important and steadily growing in size. Whether its growth shall make it a curse or a blessing to the nation depends npon the use to which its members pat their leisure. If leisure is understood to mean idleness, then the evidence of every man possessing it is simply an evil. It is not only sad, but it is altogether pitiable and con temptible to see a young man con tent himself with becoming a haun ter of clubs, an authority on the race track, or, perchance, even a potential leader of the "four imndred." The instant any one makes oat of pnre amusement the serious pursuit of his life, he sinks himself far below the level of his own groom or footman. THE TWO INVASIONS. A. II. EI.LWOOO. I sat by my grate in the jlo.-iinin. AdcI I dreamed of the things far away; And my fancy inr hneknanl wi-nt roani iu 2 To liiemorien lost many a day. I heard the mad rii.ih of the battle ; The trampling of thousands of men : 1 heard the tierce musketry's rattle. The death -shrieks ol' thousands again. As before eanie the. reat armies soutl -ward, Filling this fair Southern lunil. 1 saw them with cannon and rille, 1 saw them with saber in hand. Tlieycame from Katahdin's dark summit, They came from the Green Mountain side; From the cold granite peaks ol' Mt. Many. From Ontario's . lorm-di iven tide. From the hol-liaiinted hills of the Hudson. From Connecticut's beautiful stieum; They came on with war's wildest clamor, They cune with the torches' red gleam. From the banks of the beautiful river. I From the iJcIawarc's broad-rolling tide, l From the wild, rocky shores of Superior, j And Michigan's pine crested side. They came like a mad, rushing torrent Of llame, that rolled higher and higher 1 : They poured through each pass in these mountains. And Idled every villi y with fire. : And they met with a welcome riirht royal, For up from each hillside aud .tieam; I From the banks of the noble JNivannah, To. the cloud wreaths on Vonah that -learn. i From the rice lields of fair Carolina, To the banks of the broad Itio (irande, They poured forth tin- ansv. i in j- wi 1 come - warnoi with ii;le in hand ! And the sons of the Northland and Southland Then learned they were one common blood I That the heioes -ho won at Kind's Mountain Had brothers who r -.-scd Tienton't. flood. Then heie in the hills of the 1'iedtnoiit, The Sisters of Fate set their loom, And they -wove from the -moke, wreaths of battle. The web of our destiny 's Doom. They wove in the clouds above Lookoiu, At Kesacn, on Kennesaw s crest; With fire and blood they wove swiftly, But their shuttle flew never so fast As when the fierce flames wrapped Atlanta. And she sank in the rirey blast. They wove on the dark Chicnmitna Ihe sail veil ol the luver of Death Where Thomas met shock after shock, And breasting alone the wild battle, field firm as the surf-beaten rock. They wove in the ten ib'e w ilderness, Which shook with the rifle's breath ; In the hills of Spottsylvauia, Where Gordon, fjrim giant of war. Broke lino alter line of the foemen. As though aimed with the hammer of Thor. At his side rode the Fa; us aud wove swiftly As, leading his Spartan band; On the banks of the Appomattox lie made the last desperate siand; When foot-sore, and liuugry aud fainting. With hardly n remnant of life. Each one 'gainst a thousand cliai j-iiii; ; He closed in a halo of glory The scenes of that terrible strife. This I saw as 1 sat in the gloaming. As I dreamed of the times passed away, As my fancy went far backward roaming To the scenes of that long ago dav. This I saw in my mind '. But I wakened, And marvelled at all in that dream: And I gazed on today with amazemeut As I thought of the past I had seen. As before, I saw great armies marching Heard the trampling of thousands of men fi'Mii the Northland they came march ing onward, Then laces turned southward again. Thoy came from tLe wild Androseoggiu They came from tho Merrimac's shore From the wierd, winding dells of the Catskills, From Niagara's echoing roar. They caine from the Common at Boston From Harvard's calm, classic vetreat, From the beautiful shades of Wechaw ken, And Chicago's Ioiilt, nniaie lined streets. They came from the frozen Dakotas, From Iowa's wide-rolling plain, From the banks of the calm-llowin Wabash They came to the southland again. And they met with a welcome right royal ! Again from each mountain aud vale From the slopes of the far reaching Fieamont To Florida's evergreen dales; From the battle-scared summit of Look out. From the hills of the Uiver of Gold, Outstretched came the right hand of friendship To greet the lierce foemen of old. No uniforms wore they no war banners bore they But armed with the spindle and loom, With the plow-shares and level the hammer and bevel, Again they write destiny's doom. Again in the hills of the Piedmont The Sisters of Fate weave their spell : They weave thera the fate of the nation And their shuttle flies swiftly and well They weave not in Battle's wild clamor. Mid tho smoke of the cannon aud shell, But they weave to the stroke of the haiamer. The sound of the engineer's bell. 'Mid the rattle and whir of tho knitters, The clangor of iron and steel ; 'Mid the grind of the saw and the planer, The buzz of the swift turning wheel; They weave of the great golden future Ot the cities that are yet to be. Of the countless thrones aud the happy homes, Fro'u these mountains way down to the sea. nd here, in this fair Tallapoosa. Whose towers now pieicing the sky, Almost like the halls of Alladin, In a night, have risen on high. Here the North and tho South meet together. Audioining their ranks in the light, Wage war 'gainst the powers of Nature, With wealth as the prize of their might. From the riches she guards in these mountains The iron, the marble, the irold, From the life in her health-giving foun tains, Like that of DeLeon of old. From the bounteous yield of her harvests Of cotton, of corn and of wine, We will gather and offer a bumper To be pledged in the juice of the vine. We will pledge to the Laud of the Future, Which leacheth from sea unto sea. From the icebergs that circle the North ern Pole To the tepid waves of the Carribee. Firm woven and knitted together. Cemented by faith and by blood; One land, one race, one destiny. One heart, one heaven, one God. "Do you read mindsjust as yon would a book!" aiked Howell Gib bon. "Sometimes," returned the mind reader: "in your cases I'd read it just as I would a paragraph." You Take No Risk In buying Hood's Sarsaparilla, for it is everywhere recognized as the standard building-up medicine and blood puri fier. It has won its way to the front by its own intrinsic merit, and has the largest sale of any preparation of its kind. Any honest druggist will con firm this statement. If you decide to take Hood's Sarsaparilla do not be in duced to buy anything else instead. Be sure to get Hood 'e. 4 CLISG TO HOME. How often we may notice that on the death of the head of the family, the. remaining members of that household sell or lease that house that has so long been their home, disposo of the furni ture ir pack it away and sally forth into the world out of the safeguard of their long abiding place to seek their fortune or their pleasures, or to change the scene unci vary the old monotony, as if for the first time they now had a chance to gratify heart's wishes long forbidden. v eary of close confinement in tne fiome ot long standing; weary of restraint at the hand that now holds the reins no more: weary of possible pen ury which withheld a thousand wished for gratifications, or of just as possible extravagance that threatened to waste all the family possessions; weary, pos sibly, of the cares and labors of housekeeping, or weary with heart sick weariness of the walls that have been witnesses with them of the sights and scenes of sickness and suffering and death the wife, the daughters leave that homo of years and depart on their travels, or to try the seductive charms of hotel life, or the life of the private boarder, which every one but the private boarder fancies to be such a happy one. And the old house is left to itself or to strangers, and the family that had a home is homeless. From that time hence forth those women live not in rooms with chests oi drawers and cupboards and closets and wardrobes, but in their trunks lifting out tray after tray for the sake of a pin or a handkerchief. Instead of the liberty of a house, they are cramped into a room, usually a single one, or at most but two rooms. Instead of tho exercise of as much hospi tality as they choose, they have to ask a landlady's permission for a cup of tea to a guest and they find all the other boarders entertaining their guest as if the guest were com mon property. Instead of privacy there" is publicity; the manifestation of their every emotion is scanned by curious and nearly indifferent eyes, commented on, conclusions drawn and gossip created. And when sickness comes, and when death comes, can the thought of dreariness and desolateness go farther than the scope afforded either for the victim or the survivors, and that in spite of the kindest intentions and best efforts on the part of those who conduct the inn,or what answers for the inn, or any of its de partments? Part with laud, with jewels, part with heir-looms, keepsakes, treasures, but keep the house so long as the sticks and timbers hold together, It is a strong hold; it is a castle, however poor and old. It is not merely that "be it ever so .humble, there's no place like home," but that it is home, the single spot where one reigns, where one is unfettered and fully one's self, where one is at large liberty, where one exists satisfied with the natural love of kin if other love is denied one, a place to retire and with draw in. to feel safety and pro tection in, to live in and at last to die in. A Jersey Weathtr Prophet. Writing) to the New York World he says: Last spring the farmers throughout this section planted their crops and confidently-looked forward to a dry summer, and they were encouraged in this belief by Signal Service officers who stated that we bad received more than the usual amount of warm wet weather; therefore to make np the general average we should have a cool dry summer. I make no claim as a weather prophet. I simply claim that 1 have discovered an important law, and by the opera tion of this law the elements are concentrated, storms are formed and the direction in which they are to move are indicated. For it is a wellknown facl that sometimes storms advance towards us from the South aud Southwest and at other times they advance from the Northwest, and by apply ing this law I can tell months in advance in which direction storms will travel. And as they move across our continent the winds and temperatures are suddenly changed. And now I desire that my discove ry should be utilized to the ad vantage of the farmer, and I have written to the Hon. Jeremiah Husk Secretary of Agriculture, request ing him to appoint a committee of inquiry, and I would carefully and scientifically demonstrate my dis covery. The same law controls the weather throughout the world, and every year we read of thousands of people starving in certain parts of the world bec.iuse of distressing drought. Next year this section will be visit ed by a droughf, extending from Atlantic oast to the Ohio Val'ey, and continuing from April to July, while West of the Ohio Valley heavy rains will prevail. And the wheat crops of the great Northwest will be a failure for the year of 1891. I give this early notice so that the farmers east of the Ohio Valley might prepare to sow wheat ezten sively, and they will obtain good prices. The weather will continue very wet in this section this whole season, and from the 28th of June till the 4th of July intensely hot, sultry weather will prevail with violent thunder-storms, clearing np cool and bright on the 5th. A. J. Dk Voe, Meteorologist. Uackensack, N. J., June 25th, Napoleons Knowledge of Civil Law. Durine the long and difficult discussions in drawing np the Code Napoleon, French jurists and statesmen were astonished at the familiarity shown by the emperor with the principles of lioman law. He told them, one day, that when he was a young lieutenant, he was sent to solitary confinement for some slight breach of discipline. 'The room had no furniture, only an old chair and a dusty cupboard, n which I found one ponderous. musty, worm eaten volume. It was a Digest of the Roman Law. In those ten days of my imprisonment had nothing else to do but to become saturated with Justinian and the words of Roman legislators and judges. Thus I acquired my knowledge of the principles of the Civil Law." Happiness consists in being hap py there is no particular rule for it. i Democratic CnventUa. In pursuance to a call of the Democratic Executive Committee, the Democrats met in convention at Trenton Jones county Saturday, July the 5th, at 2 o'clock. The convention was called to order by Mr. Samuel Hudson, chairman Democratic Executive Committer who cxplmued the object of the meeting unci canea Mr. E. F. Sanderson to aetaa tem portry chair man and K. F. Foscne secretary. On motion, the temporary or ganization was made permanent. A committee of one from each towDsbip was appointed on rule and resolutions. The committee consisted of the following gentle men: Cyrus Foseue, Samuel Hud eon, J. O. Parker, Lewis Kiuk, Edgar liouse, Dr. F. A. Whitaker, C. H. Foy, L. A- Haywood. While the committee was out P, M. Pear sail was called and responded In a short speech, urging harmony and well suited for the occasion. The committee reported through its secretary, Mr. muel Hudson, the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted : Resolved 1, That we intend to do our whole duty during the coming campaign as Democrats, and that we will support the principle of the Democratic party. Eesolved 2, That we are in favor of the repeal oi the tax on chartered by the State. banks Resolved 3, That we are in faror of free and unlimited coinage of silver. Resolved 4, That we are in favor of the real estate of the United States being owned by naturalized citizens of the government of the United States. Resolved 5, Believing in the doc trine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none, and that taxation, National or State, shall not be used to build np one interest or class at the expense of another, we believe that the money of the country should be kept as mnoh a possible in the hands of the people, and hence we ask that all revenue, national, State or county, shall be limited to the necessary expenses OI me government. fr-.nnrmirnllv and honestly administered. A committee of two Ironi each township was aoDointed to lutlert delegates to represent the county in the different conventions. Tha delegates reported by the committee ana elected by the convention are as follows : STATE CONVENTION. H. C. Foscue. P. M. Peara&lL Isaac Brock. II. F. Brown. Dr. F. Whitaker. JUDICIAL CONVENTION. Isaac Brown, Lewis Bynom, J. W. Mallard, J. C. Hawkins. L. A. Haywood, A. P. Barrow, J. J. Simmons, H. C. Koonce, L. Dilla- nunt, Dr. F. A. Whitaker, W, B. Isler, June Stephenson, P. M Pearsall, Jas. F. White, W. 8. Oox) CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION Cyrus Foscne, Lewis Bynum, J. B. Banks, J. F. White, John Par ker, B. F. Henderson. Lewis King, John W. Wooten, Benj. Brock. P. M. Pearsall, T. O. Whitaker, Lnther King, Isaac Brown, J. E. Harrison, c. H. Foy, W. B. Isler, Samnel Hudson. The following gentlemen were elected Democratic Executive Committee for the County. James B. Stanley, Chairman, Samnel Hudson, K. F. Foscne, J. O. Parker, F. M. Dixon, Dr. F. A. Whitaker, L. E. Duffy, Benjami Brock. SENATOEIAL CONVENTION. K. F. Foscue, K. R, Hay, J. B. Dr. C. J. Mattocks, B. F. Hender son, J. M. Henderson, W. W. Pollock, W. H. Mallard, R. B. Claytor, N. J. Learry, G. O. Noble, F. M. Dixon, James E. Gray, Artemus Haskins. L. E, Duffy, F. B. Becton, 8. Hudson. The Convention then called on that well known and talented gen tleman Hon. F. M. Simmons who entertained the Convention . for about an hour with force, truth, and conviction. 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