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" THE LAND WE LOVE."
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VOL. I.
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 8. 1883.
NO. 27.
;c OMIONWEALTU,
y 1 Year.
6 Mont's,
For Dyspepsia,
CostiTeneil,
Sick Headache,
Chroaic Diar
rhoea, Jaundice,
Impurity of the
Blood, Fever and
Ague, Malaria,
and all Disease
caused by De-
eat of lirer, Bowel sad Kidney.
JTOMS Of A DISEASED MVER.
I Breath Pa in the Side, sometime the
ifelt under th Shoulder-blade, mistaken for
atism; eeneal loss of appetite; Bowels
L cctive, stmetimcs alternating with lax;
i is "trosblei with pain, is dull and heavy,
latiderable l'ss of memory, accompanied
iriful tensatan of leaving undone something
ght to havebeen done; a slight, dry cough
ibed face is iometimes an attendant, often
a for consumption; the patient complains
bess and deiility ; nervous, easily startled;
I or burn'rig sometimes a prickly sensation
kin xis:e. spirits are low and despondent.
Cough satisnel that exercise would be bene
kt one can kurdly summon up fortitude to
In act, distr xts every remedy. Several
Cove ymptops attend die disease, but case
Curred hcn but few of them existed, yet
ttion after deuh has shown the liver to
i extensivel deranged.
Id be use by all persons, old and
whenerer any of the above
ymp'oms appear.
D or Living In lu
ll, by tailing a aose occasion-
ns Traveling
Localities. I
Vep the Li er in healthy action, will avoid
tria,Bilioas attacks, Dizziness, Fiau
rsiness. Depression of Sjiirits, etc. It
rate likta glass of wine, but is no im
kig beverage.
St have eaten anything hard of
in, or fed heavy after meals, or sleep
ight, take a dose and you will be relieved.
tad Doctors Bills vrill be saved
Always Beeping; the Itegtilator
in the Home!
Hever the ailment may be, a thoroughly
gatlve, alterative and tonic can
rout of place. The remedv i harmless
ies not interfere with buinea or
flS PTJBTXT Tl.(iFTABLE,
i all the power and efficacy f Calomel or
C without anv 01 tri imimm.
Ja timpruifm fi.imony,
Ms Liver Regulator has bren in ute . n t .
tr some time, and I am satisfied it is
(addition to the medical science.
I J. Gill Shortbr, Governor of Ala.
I Alexander Et. Stephens, of Ga.,
JSve derived some benefit from the use of
Liver Regulata-, and wish to give it a
ial.
L- only Thins; that never fails to
I have used manv rcmcdiss for Dys
Uver Affection and Debility, but never
d anything to benefit me to the extent
Liver Regulator has. I sent from Min-
Georgia for it, and would send further for
adicine, and would advise all who are i in
fected to give it a trial as it seems the only
Jt never fails to relieve.
sS P. M. Jannkv, Minneapolis, Minn.
W. Mason says: From actual ex
In the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in
Bee i have been and arc satisfied to use
JCribe it as a purgative medicine.
fTaVe only the Geiinine, which always
the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Mark
Mature of J. II. ZEILIN & CO.
jR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
TheSnrt of Peonle That One Meets ati
nances.
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ERAL DIRECTORY.
SCOTLAND NECK.
lw A. Dunn.
Sioners Noah Biggs, J. R. Bal
JR. M. Johnson, J. Y. Savage.
st Tuesday m each month at 4
tk, P M.
f Police C W. Dunn.
'jit Policemen - A. David, W D
Js. 0. F. Speed. Sol. Alexander.
jer R M Johnson:
J Y Savage.
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CHURCHES:
1st J- D. Hufharn. D. D., Pastor.
is every Sunday at 11 o'clock, A.
d at 7, P. M. Also on Saturday
the first Sunday at 11 o'clock, A.
rayer Meeting every Wednesday
Sunday School on Sabbath morn-
Stive Baptist Eld. Andrew Moore.
services every third Saturday
may morning.
kodist Rev. C. W. Bvrd. Pastor.
bs at 3 o'clock. P. M on the second
lurth Sundays. Sunday School on
n morning.
Icopal Rev. H. G. Hilton, Rector
ps every hrst, second and third
s at 10J o'clock, A. M. Sunday
every Aaunaiti morning.
jting of Hible class on Thursday
jjii iiic rcaiusnceoi Mr. r. Hj. ftmith
tist (colored.) George Norwood,
services every second Sundav
9 ciock, a. m., and 7. ir. M. Sun
chool on Sabbath morninj;.
-o
cou.vrv.
lor Uourt Clerk and Probatp
ige John T. Gregory.
ur iourt-Ueo. T. Simmons.
ler of Deeds J. M. Grizzard.
lor A. J. Burton.
8 R. J. Lewis.
ler J II Jenkins.
lurer E. D. Browning.
upt. Pub. Instruction D C Clark.
er of the Poor House John Ponton
lssioners-Chairman, Aaron Pres
bterluiff Johnsnn rr W p
u, donn A. Morfleet. and M.
. A 1 7 -
ueueaa.
or tyourt fempu 4L.;.i xxa
I v 11 uu oepiemoer.
rior v.ourt-x.yery third Monday in
iay, August and JNovember
dge of Iuferior Court T. N. Hill.
TBLIC LAND SALE !
r virt ue of a decree of the Superior
yi.fo,r IIalifax County, granted
Wf n If of Febuary 1883, in the
oi u W. Dunn, administrator of
ophilus Bland, against Elizabeth
d and others, 1 shall sell for cash
le town of Scotland Neck, on the 10th
of March 1883, at 12 o'clock, a par-
f land near Hobgood's Fork in said
"I- .S'nning at the mouth of Mill
qwJi nce "P said branch 18 Ples
khi Um' blands corner, thence
Ice NLf-V,2l?0,es to Staton's line,
fcalf acres ContaininS sixty, one and
feniTt half cash' baHnce in
ft T; 18 after day of sle with in
f1' Htle reserved
C W. DUNN. Adm'r of
m -a- 3
D anTW.. Terns
fctt 4 Co PoUi Addrs H.-
Portland, Maine.
rhe Debutante,
Who thinks the world all roses.
Who loves at sight the first man who
proposes ;
Believes that each admirer is sincere,
And cannot bear that men at love
should sneer.
The Neat Young Man,
With high woll-ntarched collar.
And expectations! Ready cash, a dollar;
Who dances like a well-made dance
machine, And wears a most depressed indifferent
mien.
The Knowing Girl,
Who's waltzed through several seasons,
Not married yet ! But then she has her
reasons.
Who's always dressed with chic that
makes girls jealous ;
To please her partners this one most
zealous.
The Man of Years,
No longer pleased with folly.
Who thinks that dancing's good, but
supper's jolly ;
Prefers t spend his time in conversa
tion. With perhaps, to sweeten U, the least
flirtation.
The Clever Girl,
Who's great on education,
Who's talk is lofty and of long dura
tion Who scorns frivolity, neglects her
clothing,
Loves Woman's Rights, and looks on
men with loathing
Lue Nervous Man,
Wl'O stands up in a corner
The very image of a new Jack Horner,
The sort of man who asks, (whilst slyly
glancing
At his lair partner.) '"Are you fond of
dancing?"
The Pretty Girl,
Of whom men ask. "Who is she ?"
And women murmur that she's far too
gushy,
Of whom few guess, who meet her win
some glances,
She has a heart, a thing apart from
dances.
The Tame Young Man,
Who talks about the weather,
And hopes your step and his go well
together.
Agrees to every single word you utter.
Can't dance a bit. and then begins to
stutter.
The Anxious Girl,
"Not been out much before. "
But very willing to go out much more,
Who. when she's asked to dance, looks
very grateful,
Likes grown- up men, and thinks that
boys are hateful.
The Flirting Man,
Who falls in attitudes,
Talks to each girl of love in platitudes
Looks ling'ring looks which seem to
breathe devotion,
! And doesn't feel, himself, the least
emotion.
The Fast Young Man,
AVho drops in for an hour,
Who generally wears some large white
flower,
Who quotes from eomic sengs, and
smoking,
And has a great propensity for joking.
The Chaperon,
Who sits with smile so weary,
To her a dance must be a tiling right
dreary,
Who beams upon young men with lots
of money.
For poor young men her looks are not
so sunny.
The General Crowd,
The average man and maiden.
With never too much braiu or beauty
laden.
But he will see, who at these lines once
glances.
j.ne sort oi people that one meets at
dances.
Beloravia.
A Belle's Wrecked Life.
A Sad Story of a Beautiful Victim of
Opium.
Ten y ears ago no more beautiful
woman walked the fashionable prom
enades of Baltimore than Miss Nan
nie G. Lynn. She was a true repre
sentative of that fascinating type of
female beauty that appears to be the
order of the day iu that section oi
the United States. Blonde, bewitch
ing, tall, of rather commanding ap
pearance, with form developed to
just the right degree of maidenly
perfection, her personal appearance
was such that she could uncrown a
king or make a stoic bow at will. As
may be safely surmised, she number
ed ber anxious, eager suitors by the
score. In the latter part of May.
1874, this priceless gem in the mat
rimonial department of life was led
to the hymeneal altar by a promi
nent young merchant of Baltimore,
Colonel N. G. Pilson. He possessed
a sufficient amount of currency of the
realm to support her in elegant style,
and after the ceremony the loving
and happy couple took a wedding
trip to Furope, and. then began
housekeeping in a grand style on
Madison avenue -one of the" most
aristocratic sections of that city.
Here for a time peace seemed to
reign supreme and happiness to have
found her throne. But before a year
had been numbered with the innu
merable throng which had come and
gone the husband discovered a ter
rible secret. He had daily the most
undoubted evidence that his beautiful
wife was a slave to the terrible opium
habit. It seemed that, a short time
before her marriage she was afflicted
with a vry painful illness. To quiet
her and soothe her sufferings her
physician, one of the leading medical
lights of Maryland, had given her
morphine. Vhen she recovered her
usual health, which she did in the
course of a few weeks, the cravings
for the drug still continued, as is
often the case, and she became in the
habit of buying it at various drug
stores. The fatal appetite rapidlv
grew and the happy husband had not
had what he supposed to be a price
less treasure a year before he dis
covered the awful truth. Then com
menced ou his part a long series of
fruitless efforts to conceal the terrible
fact from the argus eyes of the
world and to wean her from her
powerful and perverted appetite.
Earnest reason, logical expostulation
and loving entreaty were first tried.
All, all in vain. She would promise
reformation, but would soou again
take the temporarily entrancing drug.
Then the husband sent her to a prom
inent institution in a Northern city
where they profess to cure this awful
disease. He kept her there nearly a
year and spent money in his efforts
in this direction with lavish hand.
She returned home at the expiration
of that time apparently cured. For
a few months happiness once more
reigned supreme in that household,
when suddenly one day the husband
was horrified at finding a bottle of
morphine in one of the private draw
ers of the bureau in his wife's room.
For several days prior to this time
he thought she acted strangely, but
attributed it to temporary nervous
ness. When charged with again
using the drug she weepingly con
fessed that it was so, and with loving
arms entwined around his neck, aud
her still beautiful face pressed close
to his, begged his forgiveness, prom
ising him that it would never occur
again, and he did as she wished.
But, as may be imagined, she did not
keep her earnest promises. She still
continued taking the drug. Matters
went from bad to worse. It began
to be noised about among their
numerous mutual . friends that she
did as she did. One night, when
she was out on the street, she be
came so much affected by the now
larger doses of morphine which she
had taken that day, that she was
actually arrested by an officer under
the mistaken supposition that she
was intoxicated. She spent that
night within the dirty and gloomy
confines of the station-house cell.
Her behavior and appearance next
morning before the police magistrate
was such that she attracted the atten
tion of the city reporters, and the de
tails of tne whole sad case were sped
in glowing English rhetoric and chaste
significant adjectives in the local
papers.
This sad blow almost broke the
loving husband's heart. A year
after this sad event, and five years
after their marriage, a more terrible
calamity occurred, which was the
final drop that filled the poor fellow's
cup of woe to overflowing. Their
onty child, a bright little girl aged
two years, was scalded so badly that
she died in a few hours. After this
sad event, and finding that it was ut
terly impossible to free his wife from
the terrible malady which was the
bane of her lifr, the husband lost all
hope, and to quench his domestic
anguish sought the aid of King Al
cohol. The usual results followed
with speedy and destructive steps.
He soon lost his wealth, and his
business became so involved tht he
made a heavy' mercantile failure.
This once blessed and happy couple
sank lower and lower in the scale of
degradation. In September, 1881,
the poor ..fellow one day blew bis
brains out, leaving the following pa
thetic note :
"Opium has directly ruined my
wife. I have done everything that
mortal man could do to save her, but
all in vain. Opium has indirectly
ruined me. Had it not been for the
fatal appetite. I could have saved
her. I would never have tasted
whiskey and had I never drank I
would not be where I am, nor fill a
nameless suicide's grave. I love her
yet, devotedly and passionately.
May God in His infinite love bless
her. and may we meet where there
are no tears, where there is no sor
row. For without her there would
be no Heaven for me in whatever will
come to me in that life into which in
a few minutes I shall usher my soul."
The young widow made another at
tempt to slay the terrible appetite
after the tragic death of her husband.
Kind frends rallied around her and
assisted her, and for a time it really
seemed as if she had actually con
quered the fiend. However.six months
after his funeral she was discovered
one day in her poorly furnished rooms
almost unconscious from the effects
of opium, and several large pieces of
the crude'article were found upon a
table beside her. When this became
known among the kind friends who
were helping her, they without excep
tion at once deserted her, and in a
few days she stdod' upon the thread
hold of extreme penury upon the
brink of actual starvation. At this
particular crisis in her life a wealthy
young married lady of Baltimore
heard of her pitiable condition. This
lady had been a school companion of
the morphine-eater when both were
young misses at a fashionable board
ing school fur young ladies at Bur
lington, N. J. She u id lot sight of
her for a number of years, but when
she found her in her utter destitute
and sad plight the remembered the
many happy hours they had spent
together during the joyous days of
their girldhood, and at Once took the
poor sufferer to her own luxuriously
furnished home on her carriage. Here
she was surrounded by every comfort
imaginable, and nothing she desired
was denied her except the one fatal
curse. This kind-hearted, wealthy
young lady, kept the victim of opium
fastened in a handsomely furnished
room in her house for three months,
and had strong hopes of effecting a
permanent cure when, one day, the
young widow was found in a helpless
condition on the floor of the apart
ment. The family physician pro
nounced the cause of the mysterious
illness to be solely morphine. How
she succeeded in obtaining the drug
will never be known, as she refused
to tell, but it is supposed some of
the colored servants to whom she
was very kind, moved to compassion
by her earnest entreaties, secretly
procured the opium in one of its
many forms for her. After seveial
exhibitions of this kind, and many
broken reformation promises on the
part of the now wretched woman, the
husband of the kindly disposed wo
man turned the once beautiful blonde
belle out of the house, and she had.
no where to seek shelter except the
resorts of the depraved. To one oi
these places, she went, and a brief
sojourn there, on account of her loss
of beauty and attractiveness, she was
again turned into the street. Noth
ing now remained for the forsaken
creature but a charitable home, and
after being almost starved for the
lack of food and almosc frozen by
being without shelter, on last Christ
mas day when it seemed as if all
the world was filled with holiday joys,
and mirth held high carnival even in
the remotest corners of the e'arth-
she was admitted to an institution of
this kind. The once lovely face had
so changed that there was now
not even the shadow of a resemblance
between its now hideous distortions
and contractions and the lily and
roses commingled, and the beaming
blue eyes which charmed all behold
ers only ten brief years ago. And the
stately, praceful figure, once so en
vied by every woman who saw it,
had now shrunk into a miserable bur
lesque upon what it once had been.
In a few weeks this sorrowful ami
eventful life was brought to a close
by the advent of the king of terrors.
A few hours before her death she
feebly wrote the following sorrowful
note, which shows that she was only
too slad to escape from the woes of
her life and the anguish of her exis
tence :
"I have not only ruined my life,
but I have ruined that of my loving
husbund, and am truly his murderer ;
just as much so as if I had personal
ly dealt him a death blow ; had killed
him with my own hand. J am going
to die in a very few hours, and am
thankful to God that the end to my
wretched, weary existence has come
at last. Mv only hope now is that
I will meet mv dear husband in the
next world, whatever that may be for
me. Opium ruined me, and by de
stroying me killed him. After ac-
auirinsi the fatal appetite for that
damnable drug I could not resist its
terrible seductions. Great God, how
I have suffered ; how I have wildly
fought, but all in vain ! See what 1
am, how I die, and what I might be
and mv dear loving husband might
be. too. had it not been for that aw
ful appetite. I do not fear the hell
ministers talk about in the next
world the world I very soon shall
be in for even in its worst aspect it
cannot be a more terrible hell than I
have suffered here for five years past
Oh, if this is made public, if it should
happen to get into the papers, girls,
women, you of my own sex wuo lead
it, I beseech you never touch opium
in any one of its many seductive
forms. No matter what your family
doctor may say,never. never think "
Here the note came to an abrupt
termination.. The wretched sufferer's
strength had evidently failed her at
this moment and she could write no
more. Her hand was stilled forever
by the icy touch of death. She was
quietly buried by the authorities, and
the once beautiful blonde Baltimore
belle, of only ten years -ago, now
rests beyond all the cares and sor
rows of her bitter life of anguish in a
nameless pauper's grave.
WHAT DR. DEEMS HAS TO SY OF AN
ENEMY.
It is hard to eradicate the old
fogy ida that,' because our grand
fathers and fathers had fences and
thus and so, we must follow in their
footsteps. Let us at least try the
new departure ' ana if it does not
prove successful we can return to
the old fashioned worm fences. Kin
ttitt Press. ' ' v - ' '
An Enemy it Sot Partial.
ENEMIES WELL DESCRIBED.
Remark the uses of an enemy, a
brisk, hearty, active enemy :
1. The having one m proof that
vou are somebody. Wishy washy,
empty, worthless people, never have
enemies. Men who never move
never run . against anything ; and
when a man is thoroughly dead and
utterly burried. nothing ever runs
against him. To be run against, is
proof oi existence and position ; to
run against something, is proof of
motion.
2. An enemy is, to sav the least,
not partial to you. lie will not flat
ter. He will not exaggerate your
virtues. It is very probaole that he
w! lio'-tlr nuiinify your faults.
'in'e benefit of"t:i!ii;rs ivi.-fbld. It
permits you to know that you have
faults; it makes them visible aud so
manageable. Of course, if you have
a fault, you desire to coriect it.
Your enemy does for you this valua
ble work which your friend cannot
perforin.
3. In addition, your eaemy keeps
you wide awake. He do rs not let
you sleep at your post. There are
two that always keep watch name
ly, the lover and the hator. Your
lover watches that you may sleep.
He keeps off noises, excludes liht,
adjusts surroundings, that nothing
may disturb you. Your hater
watches that you may not sleep.
He stirs you up when you are nap
ping. He. keeps your faculties on
-he alert. Even when he does noth
ing, he will have put you in such a
state of mind that you caunot. tell
what he will do next, an 1 his mental
qui vivt must be worth something.
4. He is a detective among your
friends. You need to know who
your f riends are, and who a 'a not,
and who are your enemies. The
last of these three will discriminate
the other two. When your enemy
goes to one who is nditlur friend
nor enemy, and assails you, tiie in
different one will have nothing to
say or cbime in, not because he is
your enemy, but because it is so
much easier to assent than to op
pose and especially than to refute.
Li ut your friend will take up cud
gels for yon on the instant, lie will
deny everything and insist o i proof,
and prooving is very hard work.
Your friend will call your enemy to
the proof, and if the indifferent per
son, through carelessness, repeat the
assertions of your enemy, he is soon
made to feel the inconvenience
thereof by the zeal your friend man
ifests. Follow your enemy and you
will find your, friends, for he will
have developed them so that they
cannot be mistaken.
The next best thing to having a
hundred real friends, is to have one
open enemy.
ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT-
The following beautiful discription
of our Lord was found in an ancient
manuscript, sent by iuiic.i3 Lnm
lus, president of Judea, to the senate
of Ro ne :
"There lives at this time iu Judea,
a man of singular character, whose
name is Jpsus Christ. The barua
rians esteem aim a prophet ; but his
followers adore him as tne immediate
offspring of the immortal God He
is endowed with such unparalleled
virtue as to call back the dea l from
their graves, and to iieal every kind
of disease with a word or a touch.
His person is tall and elegantly shap
ed, his aspect amiable, lit s liair flows
in those beautiful shales," wuich no
united colors can match, falling into
graceful curls befo. e his ears, agree
ably coucning his ahoulders, au l part
ing on the crown of nis hea 1 li e the
head dress of the sect of th; Naza
reines. His foio iead is aootu and
large ; his cueeks without spot, save
that of a lovely red ; his nose and
mouth are formed with perfect sy ine
try ; his beard is thick and su ite l to
the hair of his head, reaching a littlr
below his chin, parting in tne middle
like a fork ; his eyes are Drigut, clear
and serene. He rebukes wilh majesty,
counsels with mildness, aud invites
with the most tender aud persuasive
language, Lis whole address w nether
in word or deed beiug elegant, grave
and characteristic of so exalted a
being. No man has seea him laugh,
but the who.e wo;ld beholds him
weep frequently, . and so persu.isive
are lis tears that the multitude can
not withhold their tears from joining:
in sympathy with him. He is very!
temperate, modest and wise. In
short, whatever this phenomenon may
turn out in tne end, he seems at
present a man, for excellent beauty
and perfections, every way surpass
ing the children of men."
"Vr man who devotes his leisure
hours to useful reading and study can
fail in becoming distinguished in hi
nmfession, while he who spends hi
time in idleness or seu-in uiieuc-t:,
i ini tftoccuDV an inferior position
iu life". Goldstilro Messenger. -
MERITS OF THE MULE.
We regard the mule as an animal
of tich value as to be entitled to
greater consideration than it genei al
ly rfceives. In economical point of
view its merits are conspicuous. To
say that the animal is tough express
es a prominent characteristic most
fully. It will live and work under
positive abue, and while it certain
ly does die, it seems to die as seldom
as anything we know of. The very
appearance of the mule shows it to
be possessed of staying qualities, and
it does stay wherever and at whatever
ou choose to put it. It eats less and
does more work proportionately than
a horse will do, Of course there is
difference in mules, as there is a dif
ference in horses. We have seen
mules that were of weak constitution
and could stand but little, but we
never saw many such. We have seen
those, too, that won Id eat more than
a large horse, but they were excep
tions to the rule. Our observation.
and what little experience we have
had with the ai.iu;!, Jeads us to very
different conclusions to those which
most people arrive at. The general
opinion is that the mule is a stubborn,
ill-natured, spiteful creature that
kicks for the fun of the thing, ami
usually prefers going backward to
going forward when the driver is in
a special hurry On the contrary we
have fou. id the animal to be patient
and willing, and not half so inclined
to kick as it is given credit for. It is
rather slow in its movements, but it
is quite as repid as hundreds of our
farm horses are It is devoid of beau
ty, but that same indictment can be
made against entirely too many or
our horses. We have not arrived at
that point where we can say with
truth that beauty is very much of a
general consideration in selecting!
our horses. It ou 'ht to be a great
consideration. There is no use in
having a horse so ugly that he is "a
sight to behold," when by the exer
cise of a little care we can have good
looking stock. But the mule makes
up in other qualities what he lacks in
beauty, an i if we have him at all we
must tae him as he is There is not
much opportunity to improve his
looiis. tie will always be a mule.
We do believe, however, that its
manners can be considerably improv
ed, when they need improving. . Like
the native cow and hog the mule has
not had much inducement to be dif
ferent from what it is. It receives
no special training and tnere is not
much kindness wasted upon it. It is
oftener struck than it is petted, and
we have known some naturally excel
lent mules to be spoiled in handling,
especially at time of breaking. We
recall to mind a mule that was made
a most wicked kicker through bad
management, but the owner thought
it was the result of natural mulish
ness. Generation after generation
of bad management and positive
abuse, will leave its marks upon the
character of any animal; and we
once Knew of a mule that by judicious
handling such handling as Would
be given to a vicious horse was
made as gentle as could be desired,
although originally very vicious.
The freedo n of the mule from
disease is one thing that strongly
recommends it. It is very seldom
sick, and has proved invincible to
some of the wort epidem.es that we
have ever had. In fact and in short,
the mule is usually ready for service
at all times, will do its work well,
and with much less care than a horse
will do it. It is not well in selecting
a team of mules to get those which
are too small. A small mule will
eat as much as a large one, and is
not the equal of the latter in heavy
work. W mle they will do all they
can, they cannot be expected to
perform ynpqssi'.'ilities, and to ex
pect them to do more than they have
strength to do, is expecting an im
possibility. Western Rural.
TWO NOTEWORTxIY EVENTS OP 1882.
The first was the English victory
in Egypt, which marks the end of
the Ot toman power, lhe credit oi
Turkey failed vearsaso. and now its
character is likt v ise gone. England
has, uo doubt, learned, as the never
kuew it before, the hollowness and
hypocrisy of "the sick man." whose
presence in European politics has
so ions' ueen a gwiiuuiniK-umva.
The mutual iealousv of rival powers.
tun disinclination manifested by all
the governments of th West to lei
1 urkey die, because of the" trou'de
tutre would be in dividing up its
possessions, wilt never again nave
n.P influence which tne BUiian n
so craftily and successfully used lor
his own protection. Ana uyrvpvs ui
this, it may be said that an English
writer-ra prominent clergy man uas
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called attention w me u-
the rise of the Mohammedan power
to the date of Lord Duffer in's dis
patch to the English Premier announ
cing the fall of Alexandri, was 1,260
ears to a day. . : '
Tne second is the passing, a way
of the last vestige of the Fope's Tern
pond Power, its. final and complete
obliteration. The highest Italian
court from, the verdipt of whieu
there ia no appeal has recently de-
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cided that the Vatican lies within
the jurisdiction of the State. The
narrow precinct to which the Pope's
sovereignty, once universal, had:
en gradually redu;ed, has now
iiitirely disappeared. His suprema
cy, bv virtue of which kings and
'mperors were for centuries but the
vasals of Rome's bishop, cannot
iiow legally awe even a sheriff or a
policeman who holds a commission
from the State to enter the papal
residence. This decision was quiet
ly announced. It was, moreover, in
violation of pledges made by the
-dvil government, and therefore it
is all the more surpiiing. It looks
like the shadow of an inevitable des
tiny. And thus it has come to pass that
hi two great institutions, namely,
Mohammedanism and the Temporal
Power of the Papucy, which rose al
most simultaneously, and w hich grew
.o such maivellous size, have fallen
together. The same year has wit
nessed the downfall of both. The
Churchman.
A Good Name Easier Kept i han
Reoaiked. Bishop Sanderson savs,
quaintly and well : "A good ue
is tar easier kept than recovered,
.vlen that have had losses in sundry
kinds have in time had some repara.
tion. Samson's locks were shorn off,
but they grew again ; Job's goods
and cattle were driven off, but restor
ed again ; but the good name once
lost, the loss is little better than des
perate. The shipwreck of a good
name, though iu the most consider
able respects it be incomparably less,
yet in this one respect it is in some
sort even greater than the loss of
a good conscience. And the reason
is this, that when ve have made
shipwreck of our conscie ice,' we fall
into the hands of God, whose mercies
are great, and whose compassions
fail not, but when we make shipwreck
of our good name, we fall into the
hands of men, whose bowels are nar
row, and whose tender mercies are
cruel, and their cha.itv too weak to
raise up our credit again when it is
once ruined. I have sometimes
likened a flaw in the conscience and
a flaw in the good name to the break
ing of a crystal glass or a china dish
at table. In the mischance there is
comparison A man had better
break twenty glasses or dishes at
table than one bone in his body ;
and so a man h ad better receive
twenty wouads in his good name
than a single raze in his conscience.
But a broken bone, if it be skilfully
handled in the setting, may in. a
shoi t time knit again as firm as ever
it was ; yea, and it is said, firmer
than ever. But as for the shivers of
a broken glass, no art can piece
them together, so as to be sightly or
serviceable ; they will not abide the
file or the hammer; neither solder
..or glue. vnor other cement can
fasten them handsomely together.
If Simon be once a leper, let him be
cleansed from his leprosy never so
perfectly, yet he will be called by
the name of Simon the leper till his
dj ing day."
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A MATTFR OF SYNTAX.
"Which am de properest way to
snnnress one-self : does ver say, "We
eated at de table," or, "We bab done
ate at de table ?" asked one Austin
darky of another, they being engaged
in a grammatical discussion. As
thv could not aorree. the Question
t7
was referred to Uncle Mose for his
decision, which was: "In de case
ob you two niggahs none ob you am
right. W bat am de proper, way to
sav. "We eated atde table,' Uncle
Mo-'e ?" 'De properest, way for such
cattle as vou two, am to say : 'We
eat at de troft."
Wilmington Star, speaking of the
health and death rate of Wilmington,
pays :
"That the deaths among the whites
in this itv 'are as few to the 1,000 as
in any town or city from New York
in the Gulf of Mexico we have no
doubt. Wilmington ought to be a
favorite Winter and Summer resort
and if the proper enterprise obtained
it would be made such."
A man in Goldsboro was recently
brought before the n tyor's court for
cruelly beating a mule. The mayor
boun 1 him in the su.n of one hun
dred dollars for his appearance at
the Spring term of the court.
The first appearance of cotton as
an article of commrca wa a ship
ment of seven biles fro.n C.Lirles
town in 1757. In lci3-'31 t le crop
was 6.600,000 b iles.
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