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THE COMMUKWEALTU, Scotland Neck, Scotland Heck, v. a An uucompromising Democuic Jour nal. Published every Thursdr morning. HE EALTH Adrertlstejt BatM t J. B. NEA L, Maiager. 1 inch 1 week, I " 1 month, ftl.00. 13.50. XII EC OMMONWaLTO. Contracts for any space or time may -e made at the office of The Common wealth. Trausient advertisements must be pai. or in advance. Subscription ftats ; 1 Copy 1 Year. 1 6 Months, $2 00. $1.00. E. E. HILLIARD, Editor. . "THE LAND WE LOVE." Terms : 2 00 per year in Advance. VQL.L ' SCOTLAND NECK, N.C., THURSDAY, MARCH 22,1883. . ' NO. 29. For.yspepsla, Costveness, Sick lead&che, Chro:ic Diar rhoea, fandice, Iinpuxty of the Clooderer and A -' Mmlaria. :l3Celll7ltji" and al DHeaea 11 " VmX ji eausec by De rangement ofLiTer. liowels ancKJdneya. lyMTTOMS OF A PISKASET IITER. Bad Breath: Pain in the Side soieumas the pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, istan for kheumatism : general loss of appere; Bowel zenerally costive, sometimes alternatie with lax. the head is trembled with pain, is dulUnd heavy, with considerable loss of memory, acompaiuwl with a painful sensation of leaving undoc something which ought to have been done; a sligh, dry c -ugh -1 flushed face is sometimes an atteUant, often '. ken for consumption; the patien tompJins mr tor'oess and debility: nervous, eajy startled; V ? M burning, sometimes a prick sens ition of h. sk n is:s: spirits are low and csponJent, and aldtouEhs harfiiy sumraon up -rtituoe to tiual, et one can ' remed Severa ' r,-. iii-uts every remedy Sei ti have occurred wne.. - -,-;-' ,T examination alter cn have been extcnsivjtfy deranged. It should be used by aU persons old and young, whenever any or the live fcymptom appear. rersons Traveling or living In TJn hoallhy LocaUUes, by taking a dos occasion ally to keep the Liver in heahhy action will avoid all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizzness, rau jea. Drowsiness, Depression of Spirit, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, bull no in toxicating beverage. If You have eaten anything hard ol digestion, or fed heavy after meals, w sleep less at night, take a dose and you will b relieved. Time and Doctors Bills will le saved by always keeping the Keguator In the House! For, whatever the ailment may be, a tioroughly safe purgative, alterative and tcnip can never be out of place. The remedy is hirmless and does not interfere with bushes or pleasure. IT IS PTJITET.T VEGETABTJ3. And has all the power and efficacy of C lornel or Quinine, without any of the injurious afte- eCccts. - A Governor's Testimony. ,- ; Liver Regulator has been in tse in my )Vj. ' : I am satisfid it is a 0 2ie aaauion".- 1.L i. i ii -..v-nce. me i J. Gill Shorter, Governn u 'a. lion. Alexander II. Stephens, of fia., says: Have derived some benefit irom tse use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to ?ive it a further trial. "The only Thing that never fails to Believe." I have used many remediesfor Dys- rtpsia. Liver Affection and Debility, tut never ave found anything to benefit me to tie extent Simmons Liver Regulator has. I sent fom Min nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only thing that never tails to relieve. P. M. Jannet, Minneapolis Minn. Dr. T. W. Mason says: From acual ex perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regtlator in my practice I have been and am satisfied to use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. jQTake only the Genuine, which always has on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Hark and Signature of J. II. ZEILIN & CO. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. j GENERAL DIRECTORY. HI OT I. AM MXK. Mayor W A. Dunn. Commissioners Noah Biges, J. R. Bal lard, R. M. Johnson, J. Y. Savage. Xr Meet first Tuesday in each month at i o'clock, P M. Chief of Police C W. Dunn. I Assistant Policemen A. David, W D I Shields. C. F. Speed. Sol. Alexander. I Treasurer R M Johnson. I Clerk J Y Savage. CHURCHES : Baptist J. D. Hufham, D. D Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11 o'clock. A. I M., and at 7, P. M. Also on Sa:urday belore the nrst Sunday at 11 o clock, A. j M. Prayer Meeting every Wednesday p night. Sunday School on Sabbath morn ing. Primitive Baptist Eld. Andrew Moore. Pastor Services every third Saturday and Sunday morning. Methodist Rev. C. W. Byrd, Pastor. Services at 3 o'clock, P. M on the second and fourth Sundays. Sunday School on Sabbath morning. Episcopal Rev. II. G. Hilton, Rector. Services every first, second and third Sundays at loj o'clock, A. M. Sunday School every Sabbath morning. Meeting of Bible class on Thursday mgru at tne residence ot ilr. P. E. Smith Baptist (colored.) George Norwood. Pastor. Services every second Sunday ui o ciock. a. m.. and 7, F. Al. bun day School on Sabbath morning. o COILWY. , Superior Court Clerk and Probate Judge John T. Gregory, inferior Court--Geo. T. Simmons. Register of Deeds J. M. Grizzard. Solicitor A. J. Burton. Sheriff R. J. Lewis. Coroner J H Jenkins. Treasurer E. D. Browning. Co. Supt. Pub. Instruction D C Clark. Keeper of the Poor House John Ponton. Commissioners Chairman, Aaron Pres- cott, Sterling Johnson, Dr. W. R. Wood, John A. Mortleet, and M. Whitehead. , Superior Court Every third Monday in March and September. Inferior Court Every third Monday in February. May. August and November. Judge of Iuferior Court T. N. Hill. 1. U. KTA13iJUAC:ii, WITH AUGUSTUS WRIGHT, Wholesale & Retail Dealer in BOOTS, SHOES, TROKS, LEATHERS SHOE FINDINGS. THE largest house f the kind in the city. Merchants of North Carolina should examine our stock...betore arther North. going . Petersbukc. V.. Un. 25, 21 tf. Hi & 18 Sycanoore St For Sale or Rent. THREE STORES on Main Street, Iq good business places, on easy terms. Ako for sale i complete set of Fixtures ,ur a tobacco lactory. Apply to W. It. W ALSTON, ScotJau4 Seek, N. C. a, 8, '83, ie-3. - - CHILDHOOD. j My childhood days ! Their memorj stirs now; ... , , l Ar-aam and trv to call them back again- But through the fleeting years that come j ai.u 1 call in vain. U Oh ! they were happy, careless, goiueu days, When, unrestrained, I sported glad and tree ... .... 1 When evtry moment, wun us doy-mi plays Had joy for me. rime then had no beginning, nor no end ; ri, rrpspnt was a naradise of years : Xo care could with my happiness contend. To bring the tears. Each token of the ever-welcome spring Was treasureil then, as ot weaitn un to 'i ; ... , Each silvery bird-song wouiu 10 iaut,y bring A gem of gold. rhe summer days brought only glad con tout . , , A bright succession of unwearied hours An endless holiday, rich-freighted spent Among the liowers. Che somber autumn, with harvest store, Its ripened fruits in rich abundance piled, Brought pleasures that were never before To me, a child. felt Stern, icy winter could not check the stieam . Of childhood's softly-rippling tide of glee Sweet home delights bring back a happy dream To memory. Each season of the year was then replete' With pleasant pastimes, all alike en joyed ; ach boyish day-dream then v, j,eace- lul, sweet And unalloyed. V mother's watchful care protected me ; Her loving kindness strewed my path with liowers : She soothed each troubled moment ten derly In childhood hours. ro her of gratitude I owe a debt That all mv later life has not erased That years have not obliterated yet, - . ... , iNor time enaceu. May she in brighter spheres be ever blessed. And here remembered with a filial love; And may her spirit find eternal rest In Heaven above ! But they are gone. They vanished from siSht . . . Like eiisteninsr dew-drODS in the sun- o a liirlit ravs And memory lingers in the distant light Of childhood days. G. V. Butterfield, m Boston Tran script. BY SYDNEY DAY RE. "What are we to do ;.ow ?" "Yes, that's a weighty question." Two boys, sons of widowed moth ers whose means had been almost entirely swept away by a disasterous bans failure, looked out upon life from their standpoint of sixteen year3, good health, and a fair educa iiou so far as it went. "I'd go on a farm if it wasn't for mother and Janet." said Robert Leigh. "I'd make a business of learning the whole tuing thoronghly, and then I'd ao Vest and nreemnt a farm of my own. I'd put my shoul der to the wheel and have a square tussle with hard times, and m twenty years you'd, see me a bonanza farmer with uiy broad acres yielding me up a snug little fortune ye r,"he laughed, and went on more seriously, "but I can't do that. I'm a boy, and can rough it ; but mother and Janet can't and shan't. 80 I must thiuk of something else." 'Mr. Strong has offered me a situ ation in his store," said Frank Wells. "The salary is small, but it will keep me, and I don't know that I can do better. Perhaps you could get in there too." . "What ! dry goods ! measuring silks and fingering laces ' No, 1 thank you : I'm going to do man's work, and leave such a place for some foor woman or girl who has to make her living, and needs a com fortable way of doing it. It's the kind of work for them, and I don't mean to elbow them out." "But," said Frank, "of course 1 expect to work up in it, and have a business of my own in time." "Maybe so, but it's not the work for me." Robert's mother sold her house and moved iut'j a small one. Frank's mother retained hers and took board ers, while he went into the score and worked in very stylish clothing with very soft white hands. Robert went to work too, "some where down among the foundries, I b lieve, working like a day laborer," Frank remarked rather contemptu msly, after meeting him one day in clothing which was undeniably shab by, with somewhat erimv hands ac- tally carrying a dinner-pail. He bad gone into the machine shops with a determination to' master the business from the very beginning, thus enter ing upon years of steady toil. Grad ually he dropped out of his old circle, for h had little in common with 1 them. Fraijk and the others seemed when they happened to meet than Robert himself. He ceased to appear at the younsc peoples gatherings, because they unfitted him for his earlj morning work. "You get very little recreation, my boy." said his mother, laying her hand tenderly on his head one even ing, "you ought to have more young society." "Never mind, mother dear. I'd like it well enough, but it won't hurt me to do without it. I've chosen my way. and please God I'm going to stick to it 'with loyal heart and true.' It's a rougher way than most of the hjys and girls have, which I suppose is the reason I don't seem to fit in with them any longer." "What's become of Robert ?" asked Frank Wells of one of his friends some four years after the two had begun to fight with the world. "I don't know I heard something about his having gone East." . "To find work, probably," said Frank, and then he forgot all about Robert. Years after this Fank stood in the corner of a crowded room, furnish ing his small quota ot well-dressed tnanhool to the party given by Mr. Strong, his employ r, on the occasion of his daughter's eighteenth birthday. "Come. Frank, let's go home," said a friend to him after supper. "Ain't von tir-jd of this ?" "Yes, bur I want to see who that is old Strong is introducing to Miss Laura. See how much he's making of the vouim fellow. Who is he? seems to look familiar, somehow." "Well, I forget his name, but it's 1 man who has graduated with great honor at some school for civil engin eers, and they're making a big luss over him. I heard him a while ago talking with railroad conductor Gay, who they say tried to give him a lift some years ago because De made some clever little inveuUn in the way of a steam cut-off when he was in the machine shops wish I'd had such a chance !" "Or I," grumbled Frank, "I've always had to tug for myself." "But this chap wouldn't be lifted. Said lie had gone in to work his way ui). and was going to do it. Got ad mitted at the Polytechnic. has studied while he worked with all his might, and now he's got a position out on the Great Western, and is going to South America next season on a con tract that's going to make his for tune." Frank continued to gaze into the strong young face, wondering where he could have seen it before. The large eyes, quick and bright in their thoughtfulness. seemed to earrj' him back to other days, but a moustache hid the mouth, and Frank had drop ped his own eyes to evolve irom his brain the far-off memory, when a powerful grasp took in his soft hand. "I've been looking for you how do you do ?" "Robert V said Frank in bewil dermc nt. "Yes, didn't yon know me ?" "Not at first." "I only- got home yesterday, or I should have hunted vou up. Sit j down witli me, old fellow, and tell me about all the folks 1 used to know." So thev talked. Robert touched but lightly 0.1 his hard struggle with circumstances in whica lie had come out winner, but it was all told in the expression of earnest purpose and high endeavor which always writes its own story on a face. Every vic tory over self, every resolution which bore "Forward" for its watchword had set its line on Robert's counten ance, as h-ird work and ignoring of luxuries had develope 1 his powerful well-knit frame. There came vague ly to Frank's mind some lines Robert had been fond of in the soberer houis of his school-boy life of long ago, which ran : ''Loyal hearts and true Stand ever in their light. All rapture through and through In God's most holy sight." He could not help feeling that he had borne them clearly before him all these years. "He was right," said Frank to himself in bitter self-contempt as he walked home alone, "lie's doing a man's work, and I'm the favorite salesman at old Strong's ribbon counter, a place which any girl of modeiate ability could fill better than I. I wish I'd begun differently, but 'tis too late now. I'm bound to be a cipher all my life." DYING. Observation has shown that in countries boasting of ahighl3' advanc ed civilization death from pure old age rarely appears ; as even in those who live the longest some vulnerable point becomes developed, and disease hastens the termination of life. But occasionally age alone Tcauses the scene to close. The ..nature of the process by which this is achieved is approximately indicated as we . ad vance in life. The organs become impaired, the sight dim, the hearing dull, the touch, obtuse. Indolence uecomes naiurai to ine 01a ; witn en feebled strength, bones brittle, liga ments rigid, and muscles weak, activ ity becomes impossible. The cele brated Lord Chesterfield, in his de crepitude, and unable to bear rapid motion in a carriage, said, when about to take an airing at a snail's pace "I am now going to the rehears al of my funeral," an expression showing that the mind had not shar ed in the decay of his body. Yet this retention of mental faculty is but partial. In the celebrated Fontenelle his memory was :mpaired, but his wit remained. He m -irked and could jest on his infirmaties ' "I am," he remarked, "about to decamp ; some faculties have left me, and I have sen, my baggage on before." It is also recorded of him that when near the age of 100, a lady of nearly equal age said gay 13 "Monsieur, I believe t iat death has forgotten us." "Hush, madam,' said the venerable wit. don't talk so loud, or you may arouse his attention." It is cheering to think that death is not to the patient the melancholy quarter of an hour wl 'fjh many imag ined, for we generally die by piece meal, and, frightful as this sounds.it is the gentlest form. The organs de generate without pain, and dwindling together, preserve their harmony. De Moivre, the master of calculation, spent (at 80) twenty hours of the twent -four in sleep, until he fell asleep and woke no more. Ozanman. the mathematician, while in apparent health, rejected pupils, in the belief of his coming death, and he speedily died of an apopleptic stroke. Mechier the divine, had a dre-im foreboding his dissolution, and he forthwith or lred the erection of his tomb, which had scarcely been finished when he became its occupant. Mozart's "Re quiem" and Hogarth's picture of "The End of all Things" were both txecuted by the artists in the belief that the number of their days was nearly filled, and the event appeared to countenance the foreboding. Louisa of Savoy, the mother of Francis I., when in a fever, saw. or thought she saw, a comet. "Ha !" she exclaimed "there is an omen, which appears not for persons of low degree. God sends for us great ; shut the window, it an nounces my death. I must prepare." Her physician assured her that she was not in a d3ing state. She died in three days, the victim of a fright produced by pride and ignorance. Many traits are frequent in the dving hour which are far from usual. Som.', when sinking toss the" bed clothes from their chests, which indi cates that they feel the covering op pressive. Others pick the sheets or work them between their fingers, which may be done to excite by tril lion the benumbed sense of touch. When the sensibility to outer impres sions is lost, the dying often dream of their habitual occupations, and construct an imaginary present from the past. Doctor Armstrong depart ed delivering medical precepts. Na poleon fought some battles over again, and his last words were " Tete (V iirmee.r Lord Tenterden. who passed straight from the judgement seat to his death-bed, fancied himself presiding at a trial, and expired with, "Gentlemen of the Jury, vou v:Vl now consider your verdict." Dr. Adam, the author of "Roman Antiq uities," imagined himself in school, distributing praise and censure to his pupils. "But it grates darfc" he said, "the boys may dismiss," and instantly died. Thus each believed hiroselt engaged in the business of life when ife itself was departing. Sometimes a fatal malady appears to stop, and friends congratulate tne patient on his recover. But it is death come under a mask. A son of Doctor Beattie having passed from the delirium of a fever to complete tranquility, died while his father con gratulated him on his recovery. A victim cf hydrophobia disease m which everv drop of fluid aggravates convulsions was found 03' Dr. La tham quietly quaffing off a jug of por ter at a draught. The nurse exclaim- ed, "What a wonderful cure !" but within an hour the man was dead. Death by brain fever is frequently preceded by - a lucid interval. A patient who had passed three da3's in lunatic violence without sleep be came rational, settled his affairs, and conversed about a sister of his lately dead, whom he said ne should soon follow, as he did in the course ot the night. Sir Henry Halford cautioned his pupils against these appearances, which often deceived physicians themselves. This pause in -the dis order is called the lighting before dp.n.r.h and the amendment is not real, unless the pulse be improved. The moment which converts a sen sitive body to inanimate matter is often indistinguishable, and many nersons esDeciallv women, abi ost fear to sleep least theyshould wake with six feet of .earth for their cover ing and a coffin for their bed. Many have written books to aggravate these terrors, and Julia de Fontenelle who seem J to have been a fanatic in the faith that burial alive was fre- ouent. has collected in his work al ih hioknpved tales bv which the tim.d have icr ages been terrified. Au extraordinary pneaomeaou ormally excited uie 'worst apprehen sions. Bodies were undoubtedly found turned in their coffins and the grave-clothes deranged. But this is now known to be due to the agen cy of corruption. The development of gas in a corpse, and its mechani cal force, frequently mimics the movements of life. All bo lies gen erate gas in the grave, and it con stantly twists the bo lies and some times bursts the coffin itself. When the gas explodes with a noise, imag ination has converted it into a cry or groan. The grave has been re opened, and the position of the bo ly and the laceration of the flesh have confirmed the suspicion. The ceas ing to breath is, however, the in variable and also the unerring sign that death has taken place. Even the existence of heat in the body indicates no vitality when the breath ing has actually ceased. The pain of dying must be distinguished from the pain of previous disease, for the term "agonies of death" has led to serious error. Persons dying fre quently attest the absence of pain. "If I had stren tli enough to hold a pen" said William Hunter in bis last moment "I would write how easy and delightful it is to die." The same sentiment has in other instances been frequently expressed. In another and a common condition thev are in uttrr uncon ciousness. We have evidence from those whom disease spared at the eleventh hour, that while their supposed sufferings were pitied by tiieir friends, ex istence was a blank. The delirium of fever is distressing to witness, but the victim awakens from it as from a heavy sleep, totally ijjuorant that he ha 1 passed days and nights tossing wearily and talking wildly. As little is tne death-sweat frcea out by anguish. It was in the midst of this that Montaigne, roused by the weeping of hi s relations, exclaim ed, "Who is it that torments me thus ? why was I snatched from my deep and pleasant repose ? O, of what rest do you deprive me !" Such fond lamentations disturb many a last moment, and the dying often remonstrate b3 looks when they can not by words. British Quarterly Review. DRUDGE MOTHERS AND LADY DAUGHTERS. Ever3on e blames the lad3r-dangh-ter, and pities the drudge-mother. The daughter sits in the parlor, in nice clothes, and elegantly arranged iiair, dawdling over a novel or chat ting with companions or friends. Her mother is toiling in the kitchen, or fretting her soul in the vain at tempt to reduce the pile of "mend ing," and at the same time looking after the tumbling babv. The moth er's face is worn and thin. Baby has pulled her hair askew. She still wears the old dress that she put on in such a hurry at half-past five in the mcming, when the baby woke her up from her weary sleep. She is tired ! She is always tired. She is tired on Saturday ; she is tired on Sunday : she is tird in the morning; and tired in the evening, and goes to bed and gets up tired. It is hard not to get angry with the daughter, wa confess. She can look on her ex hausted mother's ' face, and know how much work there is to be done, and never willingly put forth a hand to help her. jSay, she is going out to tea this evening, and will coma to ter mother to have a dress adjusted for the great occasion. She ca-its much of the burden of her existence upon the too generous heart that sh dofis not aooreuiate. and never once feels the impluse to give the aid of her youthful strength. In all our modern world there is not an uglier lit than this no not one. It is but natural to throw t ie blame of it upon the daughter. '"Heartless wretch 1 we have heard, such a girl called bv iudignant acquaintances She is to be pitied, rather. When she was a little child, all lovely and eno-agin". tier mouier saii 10 yerseu ; "SiiG shall not be the drudge I was. She shall not be kept out of school to do housework, as 1 was. one shall have a good time when she is .1 1 ' K . j --' . .. v , vonnor mr mere s 1.0 kiiowius wuai her lot will be alterwarcis. Ana so her mother made her voung hie a long banquet of delights. Rough places were made smooth for her ; all difficulties were removed from her path. The lesson taught her every i.nnr for vears was mat it was no reat matter what other people suf fered, if only her mother's daughter hd .a wood time. She learned that lesson thorugulv, and frightful sel fishness was developed in her. Her evea mv fall uooii these lines. If so. we tell her that people in general will make no allowance lor tne faults o: ner bringing up. mev wn luticij n 1 'I'M . .I1 -ni.n 1. say. "See what a shocking and shameful retu n she makes for her mother's indulgence and generous care." "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap" is as true in agriculture as in morals. Therefore get the best seed for ev-H-y crop if it is possible to do x J?x. COS- Letter in the London Morning Advertiser. I am able to speak with knowledge on this subject, and I affirm, withoui ear of contradiction, that Mr. Dis aeli. although never committiny limself, as Mr Gladstone and Lord lohn Russell did. to the principU or which the Southern Confederacy was fighting, always regarded "recog. -lition,, as a possible card to play, and was quite prepared, at the propel moment, to play it. The momen seemed to have come when Genera Lee invaded the Federal States, aftei 'paving shattered the strength of tin Not the rn invasion. At that time it was notorious that the bulk of tin Tory party and more than half of the Ministerialists were prepared for such a step Mr Lindscy's resolution on the subject had failed : Mr. Roe buck's Joquence had been equalh ineffectual. But in the face of thV epeated triumphs of the Southern army, and tin. possible occupation ol the capital by General Lee's troops, it seemed hopeless to restrain the pent-up feelings of the House of Com mons, and Mr. Disraeli 4aw his op portunity. I had freque it conversations wit! him on the subject, and I perfectly recollect his saying" to me that he thought the time had now come for moving in Mie matter. "But" he said, 'it is of great importance that, if the move is to be made, it should not assume, a party character, and it is of equal importance that the initiative should come from our (i. e., the Con servative) side. Now, Mr. Lindsay carries no weight. Lord Robert Cecil could handle the ma.ter best, but he is an avowed partisan of the Confed eracy, and would arouse too much party feeling on the other side. If the thing is to be done, I must do it myself; and then from all I heamnrl know, the resolution will be carried, Lord i'almerston being quite dispos ed to accept the declaration of iar iament in favor of a pplicy which he personalty approves. But" he con tinued, -l cannot speak without more knowledge of the subject than 1 now possess, and I should be glad if you could give me a brief, furnish- the necessary statistics of the copulation, the institutions, the com mercial and political prospects ol the Southern States, in order that when the moment comes 1 may be fully annul." 1 procured the neces sary information from the best au thorities, and placed it in his hands. Every day seemed to bring the mo ment for its use nearer, and the gen eral feeling 111 the House of Com in otis was perfectly ripe for the mo tion in favor of 'recognition," when the news of thebattle of Gettysburg came like a thunder-clap upon the county. General Meade defeated Lee and saved the Union, ami from that day not another word was heard in Par liament about recognition. A few1 days afterward I saw Mr. Disraeli, and his exact words were, "We near ly put our foot in it." Now the ieadcr.of the Tory Oppo sition may have been right or wrong in his judgement, but it was not he who controlled the Conservative partv. 1 ue most powerful influences on tne Opposition side were undoubt edly the late Lord Derby, through his ae.quai itance with the anti-slavery feeling in the raanutacturingdistricts of the North and the present Lord Derbv. then Lord Stanley, whose sympathies were alwa3's and avowed with the Northern side. But these two noblemen would have been pow erless against the overwhelming feel ingofthe bulk of the Tory party and Mr. Disraeli, had Lee been tri umphant aj Gettysburg, would un doubtedlv have carried the House of Commons and the conntry with him HOW TO SAY IT. Saj' "I would rather walk," not "I Lad rather walk." "Say "I doubt not but I shall,' in it "I don't doubt but I shall." Sav "for vou and me." and and and not "for you and I." "Say "whether I be present or not," and not "present or no" Say "not that I know," and not ' that I know of." Say "return it to me," and not return it bacK to me." Say "1 seldom see him." and not that I seldom or ever see him." Sa3 "fewe. friends," and nt "less friends." Say "if I mistake not," and not "if I am not mistaken."' Say "game is plentiful." and not "game is plenty." Sa3 "I am weak in comparison with 3-011," and not "to you Sav ' it rains very fast.," and not "very hard." Say "in its primitive sense,' and not "prim ir3' sense. S:i3T "he was noted for his violence," and not that "he was a man notori ous for violence." Sav "thus much i true," and not "this much is true " Say "1 lifted it," and not "I lifted it nit.' And last, but not least, say "I take 1 mv paper ana paj' ior 11m uvuw. DiSKAELI AM) TuE SOUTHERN FEUERACY. DR. TALMAGE ON BLUNDERS. Rev. Dr. Talmage lectured in Nor. folk a few days ago on "Big Blun lers." He defined them as follows : Big Blunder 1.- "Multiplicity of iccupatiou." The greatest charac ter of ever3' age, he said, were the one idea" men who define their ob ject in life, trod this path with cour ige and toil, and exemplified in the lighest degree, that stick-to-liveli-iess which eventually tells. Big Blunder 2. Indulging in bad :emper." Wdth our supernatural ad vantages no one in America ought to be in a bad temper. A surly business man makes the lives of all his subordinates and associates mis erable. Growl, Spitfire & Co , mads the worst firm in town, while Merry man & Warmgrasp the best. Blunder 3. "Discouragement at treatment of others." The evils of gossip and slander were strongly de picted ; and he showed how the storm that wrecks a home is often started by a faint breath of suspicion. Blunder 4. "Excess of amuse ment." Proper amusements, mental nd physical, should be encouraged and enjoyed ; b .it an excess was ruin ous ; there were things in life which could not be caught with a fishing tackle. Home was a charmed word, and when a man liked any other place better, something was wrong. Blunder 5.; "Formation of wrong kind of domestic relations.'' An in congenial marriage often mars a man's life; but as often a happy one saves him. Some men find that in stead of wife they have married an album, Godey's Magazine, and a medicine chest. Can judge a man's character by his estimate of woman. He paid a beautiful tribute to the true wife and to the American wo man. Blunder 6. "Attempting life with out enthusiasm . and enterprise." Life all around was full of stir. Every day saw fresh discoveries and new appliances in every field. Gi gantic progress was being made. Never was such an opportunity for enthusiastic work. Without such qualities a man would go under. Each one, he said had a special mis sion. Ex. RIGHT SORT OF I BOY. "Sir," said a lad coming down to one of the wharves in Boston, and addressing a well-known merchant, "sir.have 3-00 any berth on your ship ? I want to earn something." "What can you do ?" asked the gentleman. "I can try my best to do whatever I am put to do," answered the boy. "What have you done ? ' I have sawed and split all mother's wood for nigh on two years." "What have you not done ? asked the gentleman, who was a queer sort of a questioner. Well, sir," answered the D03', after a moment's pause, "I have not whis pered in school once for a whole year." "That's enough, ' said the gentle man ; "you ma3' ship aboard this ves sel, and I hope to see you the master of her some day. A boy who can master a wood-pile and bridle his tongue must be made of good stuff." The Southern Churchman. A new steamship now at the New York docks for completion is as great an advance beyond the ordina ry ocean steamer as the screw pro peller was beyond . the side wheel craft. The novel features of the stearair are her wedge-shaped model below the water-line and her oomelike arches above, covering every part of the vessel at all likely to be reached by wind or sea. She will be absolutely safe against the dash of the waves, no matter how fierce they may rage, and the seas will glide from her like the tradition al 'w'ater from a duck's back." The new steamer's trial trip next, week will be an important event to ocean travellers as well as to marine ar chitects and ship-builders. News and Observer. I. LEVI, WITH - J. L. STKA.US & Leading Grocers and Coinmissioiv-Uercn-ants. Dealer in 2aU Fish. . 156 West Pratt St., Dec 7, 15 ly Baltimore, Md. NOTICE ! PERSONS wishing to buy. eell, lease, rent or exchange real estate any where in . this vicinity, will do well to communicate with us. gar Terms moderate. KITCHIN DUNN, Attornejs-at-Lavr. . Scotland Neck. N. C. V June 29th. 1882.- - --. -. A rw M4H WBmMATF ' f 1 U as at it 1. 5.., .-.! ... .' .. - -
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