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THE r COMMONWEALTH. An uncompromising Democratic Jour nal . Published every Thursday morning. E- E. HILLIARD, Prop'r. THE HE COMMONWEALTH WEALTH Advertising- Rates S 1 inch 1 week, 1 " 1 month, $1.00. $2.50. GEO. M. CARR, Editor. Subscription Rules ; " THE LAND WE LOVE. Terms : $2 00 per year in Advance. Contracts for any space or time may be made at the office of The Common 1 Copy 1 1 o Year. Months, $2.00. $1.00. VOL. II. " SCOTLAND NECK, N. C.( THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1883. wealth. NO. 1. Transient advertisements must be paii for in advance. . 1 i ,1 W. II. KITCHEN. W. A. DUNN. KITCHEN & DUNN, ATTORN FYS & COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Scotland Neck, X. C. fiigT'Ouice on 10th Street, first door above Mam. Dr. R. M. JoTnisoii, BSy-Offioe over lirj-an & Whitehead's wrug store. Scotland Neck, N Office hours from S to 5 o'clock. C. JQOLISOXWIIITEIIEAD, Tonsorial Artist, Main Street, - - Near Tenth, SCOTLAND NECK. I KEEP a first-class house and sharp razors. The patronage of my old customers and the public generally so licited. Satisfaction guaranteed. Give me a call. BRYAN & WHITEHEAD WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, t'or. Main and 10th Sts.- opposite SCOTLAND NECK, N. C., Post; AND DEALERS IN Stationery anil Toilet Articles, 'louMor Braces, Trusses, " Faints, OHs, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Glass, rutty, Carbon Oil, Ltvnip- Chimneys, &c. .Lixti'- Accents fur J. w. & Co'f Woakley, Jr., Electro Maple Brush Country Merchants will nnd it to their interest to call and examine goods and yv"i. before b try ing elsewhere. Physicians Prescriptions accurately C'.':i:p...unded at all hours, da- or night, aivi orders answered with care and dis patch. &3T Stock kept complete by frequent arrivals. Notice. BY VIRTUE of power in me vested by a decree of the Superior Court for Halifax county, 1 shall sell for cash in the town of Scotlan 1 ." cck. on the 3rd :ay of September ne.t, at 12 o'clock, one iivu-horse power steam engine and fix tures, used therewith, and cne gin. Persons wishing to see the property can 'i so by calling en Robert Ferrell, Stew art Uanh' or Anthony John. It is loca I'.'i at Anthonv John's store. W.A.DUNN, Kitehin ,t Dunn, Com'r. Attorney.-:. aug 14 4t O E N E 11 AL D I TlECT O 11 Y. Mayor W. II. Shields. Commissioner;' .Y0&I1 Biigs. M. IIolI- man, li. M. Johnson. K . Allshrook. Meet first Monday m each month at 4 o'clock, P M. Chief of Police J. A. Perry. Assistant Policemen C W. Dunn, W. K. Whitmore. C- Speed - Rol AWamb-r. Treasurer R M Johnson. Clerk K. Allsbrook. CHURCHES : Baptist J. D. Hufham, D. D., Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11 o'clock, A. M., and at 7, P. M. Also on Saturday before the first Sunday at 11 orclock, A. M. Prayer Meeting every Wednesday night. Sunday School on Sabbath morn ing. Primitive Baptist Eld. Andrew Moore, Pastor. Services every third Saturday , and Sunday morning. j 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 10 o'clock, A. M. Sunday School every Sabbath morning. Meeting of Bible class on Thursday nigm at tne residence ot jUr. P. E. Smith. Baptist (colored.) George Norwood, Pastor. Services every second Sunday at 11 o'clock, A. M., and 7, P. M. Sun day School on Sabbath morning. COUNTY. Court Clerk and Superior Probate J udge John T Gregory. nferior Court-"-Geo. T. Simmons. Register of Deeds J. M. Grizzard. Solicitor A. J. Burton. Sheriff R. J . Lewis. Coroner J II 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. Morlieet, and M. Whitehead. Superior Court Every third f Monday in March and September. Inferior Court Every third Monday in February, May,August and November. Judge of Iuferior Court T. N Hill. 4ilSIS SURGEON. From 'Chamber's Journal.' CONSOLATION. BY C. G. Through the village o'er the river, to the breezes gladness Hinging. "With the glory of their music, are the church bells sweetly ringing. Weary, sad and disappointed, hope borne down by many a fear, I, a stranger, pause and listen, as their gladsome sounds I hear. In my heart sweet memories waken, round me gleams a glory vast. Linking all bright thoughts together, of the fitting and the past. Hoty music, rich in blessing, is the glad ness of the song. That the breezes o'er the river, from the church bells bear along. In my heart hope re-awakens, bringing strength and life and light, Love to suffer, will to battle and to con quer for the right. Though cast down yet not despairing, glorious words I seem to hear, Words to make me strong in daring, words to cast out doubt and fear. In the belfry stand the ringers, while the silver song still swells, But they cannot hear its beauty, for the clashing of the bells Only others, not the workers, hear the music of the strain ; While we bless them, they must labor; theirs the labor; ours the gain. This, perhaps, the holiost lesson that the holy music tells, While across vale, wood, and Hpland, all its silver gladness swells. Ye whe live, who love, who labor, bear ing, daring all you can. So you may; by God's good blessing, ease one suffering heart of man; Help one brother to grow better; cause one sinful soul to see God's great care and love and patience ever waiting ever free Freer than his holy sunshine or the bless ing of the rain, And the freest to those sad ones who are worn with doubt and pain; Oh, take heart ! perhaps no knowledge, no sweet thanks tor help well given Mav be granted for thv cheering m thy life on this side heaven. Love thou on in earnes' working, and per chance thou yet imyest see That some hearts whom thou hast solac ed have been blessing God for thee. At Home and Abroad." A LEGEND OF LOVER S LEAP. KY CAKRIE WA In the ila3's 'Lang Syne' when the Red Man hunted on our (?) moun tains and fished in our (?) streams, dreaming neither of 'posted' lands, nor embargoes on Saturday shad catcing ; whe no 'election bosses,' no civilizition of any sort shaped their destinies contrary to their own rough hewing ; the Cherokee was lord where now the steed of iron 'flies fleet and far' over the mountains. On or about the spot where one of our embroy Chicagos now rears the majestic dome of its country capitol, there lived a tribe whose hunting grounds extended along tie Tahkeostee to the Tennessee. Its warriors boasted that none excelled them in any art known to their race. In behalf of the tribe, each man was an Iago. Each year a grand trial of skill was made ; warriors cane from every na tion to compete with this proud peo ple, but never to win, and many paid hostages of youths and maidens. The conditions were, that three youths, the bravest, and three, maid ens, the loveliest of their tribe, should be surrendered by the conquered to the victors. At last there came a day which humbled these haughty braves. The concmerer came not from the neighboring clans, but far off from the tribes of the big sea wa ter.' Like Hiawatha, he was "Learned in all the lore of old men In all youthful sports and pastimes In all manly arts and labors.7' Like Longfellow's hero, he was al so so swift on foot that "He could shoot an arrow from him And run forward with such fleetness That the arrow fell behind him." In the beginning ot the games on the da3' of which I am speaking, our hero, Connaheet, was merely a spec tator. lue old cuiei, Lowneh, rested on the mountain-side with that complai sance which tells of assured success. Near him stood his two sons, Kato sieh and Elowwee, lads who yet were not deemed sufficiently skilled to join in the national games, ihere was another at the old chiefs side, the young Aihnee, daughter of the royal house, and right royal in mien was she. She had been sighed for by noble suitors lords of powerful tribes and even a pale-faced one had besought her to leave the forest and dwell inthe mansions of the white man. Her heart's easy beating told her that none of these hart touched it. As she sat resplendent in the wampum on her breast and the feath ers on her queenly head feeling quite as content as does the New York belle arrayed in the aesthetic costume approved by Wilde, or as do our country coquetts in one ot "Alt man's Ready-made," her eyes wan dered to a stranse. erave youth. He ' w appeared to regard the efforts of the contestants with a good-natured con tempt. I admit that her patriotism should have compelled her to ignore one who ridiculed the prowess of her Countrj'. Girls do not kindly regard such sneering strangers now. I know a girl who declared, during the last campaign, that no J'oung man who voted against her father need ever call on her again. The result was that her favored follower pleaded guilty and marched under the yoke. This on'.y illustrates the spirit of this age in contrast to that in which Con naheet and Aihnee lived. I beg the reader to excuse the hardihood of which I am guilty in forcing him or her to leap through the space of two hundred years. We must jump back however. Aihnee withdrew her at tentions and endeavored to fix them on the contest. In vain, for she had no control over her eyes ; again and again were they drawn 10 the same spot. Now, each time, she discover ed that her glance was returned, and Connaheet left the spot and came toward her. In those free days no ceremony was needed to acquaint them with one another. The glances exchanged were sufficient introduc tion. Their wooing was short ; she promised to go with him to his far-off home, shou'.d he vanquish her father's men. She would not wed one who was their inferior. She Teturned to her father's side. Old Lowneh's eyes had been fastened on the games ; he knew not of his Aihnee's treason. Connaheet rushed into the game with i i -i 1 a vigor Ainnee naa never seen equai- ed. One after another of the braves retired ; the first because they were overcome, the last for fear of being beaten. The old chief, Lowneh. wit nessed this with shame and dismay. His head sunk lower and lower as one by one of his men his pride and the nation's glory stepped off, yield ing the victor's palm to the stranger. The cry went forth that the last and the greatest, the mighty Inoqueh had come forward. Lowneh arose, he stood with outstretched arms as if to sustain this brave on whom all depended. The contest was long; ill were breathless ; great beads ot sweat stood on old Lowneh's brow. first one then the other won, but at ast the "tide of victory flowed Con- naheet's side. Ionqueh struggled igainst misfortune but nothing avail ed Losses continued, and he too, sick at heart, with trembling hands yielded the palm to the invincible one. A wild yell rang through the forest, cry which was never heard before. the signal of defeat. Connaheet stood alone, his arms folded on his breast, his hps parted in a smile for his glance rested on the lovely Aihnee. All saw this and a. murmer ran through the assembly, for they guess ed his thought. He heard the muriner, and as the had read the mute language of his, so he now in terpreted their unspoken dissent, and again to invite a combat, the victori ous arm was raised, All was still moment. The two sons of the roy al house arose, and with beseeching faces asked permission to join. The old chieftain consented in an absent way, as he would have done to their death, in that moment ot humiliation. Their untried strength was nothing, and they too, retired. Aain the -Jictonous arm was raised and, to the amazement of all, olu Lowneh went forward. Connaheet dropped on one knee before him. in token of surrender. He would not contend with this old warrior. Aih nee's father. In a voice of thunder Lowneh called : Rise, boy! Begin! Iam no do- tard !" "As you will !" replied Connaheet 1 A in a low lone. Lowneh was no mean rival, though eifhtv winters had furrowed the face and silvered the raven hair, in nis vouth he had known no rival. After a prayer to the Great Spirit lor aid . .. . -. he iomed with his enemy, tor such Connaheet was now considered. He too was overcome, and the last stake was gone. Still the youth held up the unconquered arm. With a preat crv the old man lowered his o " head and wept, saying : "The great spirit has turned his hack on us. He does not hear our cries nor see our shame." Stillness like death rested upon t.ho field after this. Onlv for a brief anfu. however : for this race was as honorable in defeat as they were generous in victory. The principal men went forward and requested Connaheet to choose his slaves I wish no lad, and but one maid- en sue, oniv, wno win oner uerseu, 1 1 Ml 1 11 he said. With timid step and downcast eye Aihnee came from her father s mat, stood at Connaheet' s side and said "I promised, lather, he has won his wife." With a furv no one had yet seen, Lowneh sprang forward, crying "And it is thou who hast brought defeat upon us !" He would have caught her, and in his wrath would have torn her, but the stror.g arm of Connaheet clasped his fleet foot bore her many paces onward, ere the old man reached the spot. Onward they sped, and onward ran the pursuers ; but the light-footed Connaheet left them far behind, and his strong arm tightly held the precious burden. 'Over meadow, over mountain. Over river, hill and hollow," he bore her. The foot aiid arm were weary, yet he slackened but a little. Slowly but inevitably the persuers gained upon them. Aihnee knew every nook and bend anion.' the mountains, and pointed to guide him. A word passed between them, a look behind the chieftain's men were hard upon the ::. She altered his course. They turn ml to the brink of a mighty precipice. She stepped to the ground, wound her arms about his neck, and with a leap they were in the stream below. Rather than wander alone on the earth, they preferred to" float together on the bosom of the beautiful Tah keostee to the hunting-ground of Gitche Manto. the Lover's Leap refrred to is the ono at Warm Spings Madison County. RUNNING OFF WITH A NEGRO. The arrival in the city yesterday morning of a young white girl, accom panied by a negro man who carried her bundles, put our people in mind of the Matthews Station case, report ed in yesterday's paper, and as soon as the girl was arrested and an inves tigation was held, it was found to be in truth a parallel case. The two walked into the city at an early hour, but were not seen again until about noon, when the girl was found to have taken temporary refuge in a house of ill repute, the owners of which, having seen her passing by in company with the negro, and with the Matthews Station case fresh in their minds, called her in and sent for the police. -The negro became alarmed and fled, and has not since been seen. The police arrested the girl and carried her to E. K. P. Os borne's office, where an investigation into the case was made. The girl was under the influence of liquor,and it was impossible to get an intelligi ble account from her. She stated, however, that her name was Lizzie Henderson, and she came from Union county. Her father, Thomas Hen derson, was dead, and since lii death her mother married a m:in named Col. Kendall, and is now living near Davis' mine, in Union. She h id been unable to live peaceably with her step-father, and her mother finally told her she had better go seek a home elsewhere, and yesterday morn ing turned her adrift, witii a gift be fore leaving her home. The negro who was with her, she states, is nam ed Bill Gregory, and she has known him all her life. She and the .negro got together and came on to Char lotte, but with what object in view she would not state. It is the opin ion of those who conducted the ex amination that the girl run off with the negro with the purpose of living with him, and that to shield him she was guarded in her answers, ami re fused to tell anything about him. The girl was sent to a responsible family in the city to be taken care of for several days, or until something more is learned of her case. She is apparently about eighteen years old. and has an uncultivated and rather course look. Joumal-Ohser ver . WANTS AN OFFICE. The following application for an appointment as Justice of the Peace, to fill a vacancy, Mr S. VanAmringe, Clerk of the Superior Court, found on his table yesterday. We give it verbatim : . Wilmington, N. C, August, 18 83 S. VanAmrige Esq Dear Sur I wisn to apply four the office of Justice of the Piece which office I hear is vakunt I am a good Republikin and sponshus and relatible man and have always vote for 3ou I kin tend to the busi ness rite up. but I will ask you lend me ten Dollars to open an office with and I will pay it back the first case I tri, dont disapint me sur if you kin possebly help it as my Ilorre is Mor tegigd and I nmst have an office at onct to work out becase office holders office hol lers make money you know, if 3ou will apint me I will guarante you to hold vour office as long as I do. write me an ansur to this at onct .and encloss the appointment and office yours Respectabil P. S. dont appint John Egils, he amt got Sense anuf nor dont appint Tom Gardiner Nor Ma Quiggs lease they belong to the aristokrisy and Jo Hill the Pepul dont want no how. I am the choise S. P. M. P. S. befre the war I always voted the Demokrat ticket and so my ap Dintment will satisfy them I rnene the Demokrats I am a Gas Up Lib M. ral now S. P. IV U. btar. DR. CHARLES F. DEEMS. THK C11UUCH OF THE STRANG ICRS THE WORK OE A NORTH CA'l OLINEAN IN NEW YORK. New York, August 1 The Church of the strangers i uated on Mercer street, b. v Seventh and Eighth. It i-s one west ol Iiroa hvav and not far the Ne-.v York hotel. Tne bnil 1 comino lions ami comely. It wii about lil'leen hundred persons, interior is ii''t gaudy, though it ce?dinglv neai. Here Dr Deem best known Jilorth Carolinian i:. York, preaches the gospel th round While Talmage and li and Dr. Johu Hall are away an 1 ir ml r is vat l'sie -. the Xew . vir v- lot i3ir churches closed, Dr. Deems remains at his post and carries forward the work which he loves. This morning exactly at half-past ten the great organ opposite the pul pit rolled forth its heavy tones, and a moment later a side door opened, a gray haired man walked up a cou ple of steps, and Dr. Deems was b . lore his congregation. The 1) -.Hor is a man of fine presence, lie nas a fine head, high forehead, keeii eye and expressive mouth. They say that he is between fifty-five and sixty years' old, but one would hardly think it to look at him. He looks and tali. -. like a very learned man of middle age. He has his own notions about divine service. The first thing he says on entering the pulpit is this : 'The Lord is in His holy temple ; let all the earth keep silence before Him.' Then there is a moment of si I nt prayer. Next a lesson is read from the Bible ; then there is a hymn, then a recitation of the creed by the entire congregation and then a prayer. Then follows the announcement of the text and the sermon. Another short pray er, a hymn by two hundred orphan children, one hundred boys and one hundred girls, a collection in the meantime, a chant and the benedic tion. Tnat is the ceremon3. It is very -simple, very attractive. And let me say that Dr. Deems has one of the most orderly and attentive con gregations that I ever saw. No one ever enters while the pastor is pray ing or reading the Bible. There is no turning of heads to look up at the choir, no whispering during service. Of the do -tor himself, be it said, lie is an able, highly cultured preacher. Whatever he says is fraught with meaning and his manner is preposess ing He speaks without notes; his utterance is free, his , language pre cise and his articulation perfect. At times he is eloquent, humorous, plain ly spoken. He is always reverent never stiff. A ripe soaolar, an aide theologian, a noble hearted man, Dr. Deems is to-day one one of the mo.it prominent citizens of New York, and he is aNorth Carolinian. Six teen yearsago he left his native State and came to this city, poor and unknown. Now lw is famous. He has a comfortable home at 229 West twenty-second street. His wife is a most excellent lady and, l.ke her husband, is refined, affable.hospitable. The Joctor had the misfortune to lose a son inthe late war, the young man having fallen under the Confed erate flag at Gettysburg. The only surviving son is a minister in charge of an uptown church in this city. What Dr. Deems's theoioj-y is I do not know. He preaches very practi cal sermons. I never heard him mention hell. His idea seems to be that men are rational and that thev can be persuaded. He does not trv to frighten his hearers. And here let me observe that the Doctor has adopted that form of the creed which reads, 'he went to the place of the departed spirits," instead of die de scended into, hell.' It is very well known that Dr. Deems has the good fortune to gain the friendship of Commodore Vander bilt, who bought and paid for the ed fice known as the Church of the Strangers. Speakiug of the purciiase of the building in a sermon delivered Sunday, January 1, 1871, Dr. Deems said: 'We consented to take it, and the Lord helped us through Cornelius Vanderbilt,Esqr., who paid the whole amount of the price, doing this with out solicitation, on his own motion, out of approval of our work, and in cited thereto, as we-believe, by the spirit ot Almighty God.' On the in side of the church, to the left of the pulpit, there is a handsome bronze plate in the wall, placed there to the memory of Cornelius Vanderbilt. The first sermon that Dr. Deems ever preac.ied in New York was in a small chapel to fifteen persons, in cluding three of his own family. This was on the 22d day of July, I860. Since that day he has had many bat tles to fight, many difficulties to over come, but his ceaseless labor and great energ3 have been fruitful of much good. From a report which h made at the end of 1881 I find t! -s there have been taken into t c church during the last thirteen years 1,135 persons. 55G on confession :' faith and 580 by letter. There have been taken from the roll by remov 1, etc., 572. Total on roll at the close of 1801, 5G4.' It requires $10,0;) annually to support the Church of the Strangers. The receipts for 18a i were $11,011.90. Now, I am almost sorry that I have written about Dr. Deems for I know I have not said half enouirh, for my desire was .. -iV" t he readpr n nmi. ; sketch of ;l :,reat and .i0a luan ")f i whom his native State may well be i proud. FLIp EDUCATION OF WOMEN. We are too much incl-'ned to treat t he subject of educating th women d" our country, in a light. thoudit- ,; less manner, i ins !s one of the most j important quesiions now before our j people. Shall tne youns; ladies "row up in ignortncrt. or shall they" re- ,ci c u. n-j.-i ;u f iucarionr Why is it that the chiHred of this country have to be taught to speak our own lan guage correctly? It is for the want of the mother having a proper educa tion and training. Educate the wo men and you educate the men. Ed ucate them a.id there will be no use tor grammar schools, sur the child will naturally speak the lanjua'e correctly. We have liberal endow ments by the State for the education of our 3'oung men which is very im portant, but where is any free col lege tor the females to attend? Let us have such one and let the doers be thrown wide to the girls of our land, and in educating and refiniu the women you elevate and refine the race. Ex. A THOUSAND WIVES. THE BAD BOY'S IDEAS REGARDING THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON. 'Sit down on the ice box,' said the boy to the grocery man. 'What you 1 r- neea is rest, ion are overworked. Your alleged brain is equal to wilted lettuce, and it can devise means and ways to hid rotten pe'aches under good ones, so as to sell them to blind orphans, out wiipii it comes to grasp ing great questio n your small brain cannot comprehMt 1 them. Your brain miy j:o u i i v ays to a great qtu -sli a. a:i I ru; a;.uast. it, but it can nor. surrou'i 1 it and grasp it. That'x where you are deformed. Now it is different with tne. I can raise brain to sell to you grocery men. Lis ten. This Solomon is credited with being the wises' man. and yet histo ry savs lip iiitd a thousand wives. Just think of it. You have not one wife and pa has got one, and all the nei ;':ibors have one, if thy have had any kind of luck. Does not one wife iiTi'ie you pay attention? Wouldn't t.v wives break you up? Wouldn't three cause yon to sec stars? How would ten strike you? Why, man alive, you do nor. grasp th magnitude ot the statement that Solomon had a thou -land wives. A thousand wives sta;i lin - si Je by side, would reach about four Moks. Marchin b fours it woul I take tjieni twenty min utes to pas. a "given point, ihe largest summer resort, hotel only holds about five hundred people, so Sol. would have had to hire two hotels if he took his wives out for a day in the country. If you woul 1 stop and think once in a while yon would knor more,' . The groeerv man's ey.;s begun to stick out as the ha 1 ho continued. as 'though the staiisti ;s had never been brought to his attention before, but he was bound io stand by his old friend Solomon, and he said : 'Well, Solo. lion's wives must have been differe.it from our wives of the present day. 'Not much.' said the bov, as he sees he was paralyzing the groeerj'-man. 'Women have been about the same ever sin ;e Iv. j. Sue got mashed on the old original dude, and it stands to re.n-m .u.ig Solomou's wives were no better than the mother of the hu man race. Statistics show that one woman out of every ten is red-headed. That would give Solomon an even hundred re l-headed vtives. Just that hundred red-headed wives would be enough to make an ordinary man think that there was a land that is fairer than this. Then there would be, out of the other nine hundred, about three hundred blondes, aud the other six hundred would be brunettes and maybe lie had a few albinos and bearded women, and fat women aud dwarfs. Now, those thousand women had appetites, desires for dress and style, tiie same a-i other women. Lm agi.ie Solomon saying to them, 'Girls, let's all go down to the ice cream sa loon and have a dish of- ice cream.' Can you, with your brain muddled with codfish and new potatoes, real ize the scene that would follow? Sup pose, after Solomon's broom brigade had got seated in the ice creamery, one of the red-beaded wives should catch Solomon winking at a strange girl at another table. You may think Solomon did not know enough to wink, or that he was not that kind of a flirt, but he must have been or he could never have succeeded in marrying a thousand wives, in a sparsely settled country. No, sir, it looks as though Solomon in all his glory, was an old masher, and from what I have seen of men being boss ed around with one wife, I don't envy Solomou his thousand. Whj', just imagine that gang of wives going and ordering fall bonnets. Solomon would have to be a king, or a Vander- bilt to stand it. Ma wears five-dollar silk stockings, and pa kicks awfully when the bill comes in. Imagine Solomon putting up for a few thous and pair of silk stockings. 1 am glad you will sH down and reason with ine in aracioual way about some of these Bible stories that take my breath away. The minister stands me off when I try to talk with him a bout such things, and tells me to study the parable of the Prodigal Son, and the deacons tell me to go and soak my head. There is darn little encouragement for a boy to try and figure out things. Ho.v would you like to have a thousand red-headed wives come into the store this min ute and tell you they wanted you to send carriages around to the house at 3 o'clock, so they could go for a drive? Or how would 3011 like to have a hir ed girl come rushing in and tell you to send up six hundred doctors, be cause six hundred of your wives had been taken with chorera morbus? Or' 'O, don't mention it," said the gro. eery man with a shudder. T wouldn't take Solomon's place and be the nat ural protector of a thousand wives if anybody would give me the earth. Think of getting up in a cold winter morning and building a thousand fires ! Think of two thousand pair of hands in a fellow's hair ! Boy you have shown me that Solomon needed a guaidian over him. He didn't have sense,' 'Yes,' said the boy ; 'and think of two thousand feet, leach one as cold as a brick of chocolate ice-cream. A man would want a back as big as the fence to a fair ground. But I don't want to harrow up your feelings. I must go and put some arnica on pa. He has got home, and says he has been to a summer resort on a vaca tion, and he is all covered with blotches, lie says it is mosquito bites, but ma thinks he has been shot full of bird shot by some watermelon farmer. Ma hasn't got any sympa thy for pa becpuse he didn't take her along.' Mil ica uhee Su a . GEXERALNEWsT ....Wilmington Star; The follow ing revivals are reported in Raleigh Recorder : Liberty Church Davidson county, 14 baptisms; Gum Spring, Anson, 12 baptisms ; Hauler's Mont gomery , 0 baptisms ; Rock Spring, 32professions ;Corinth,30professions, Hopkin s Chapel 18 professions -Swift Creek, 25 additions ; Salem, Pasquo. tank, 14 additions; Panter Creek, G professions ; Merry Oaks, Chatham, 13 professions : Mt. Vernon, 5 professions, Moore's school house. 18 professions; Hopkm's Chapel, 15 baptisms, Lower Creek, Caldwell, 14 for batism : Olive Branch, 11 pro fessions ; Trading Ford, 9 additions. ...Accurate statistics show that since 1847 thirty six years-there have arrived in the United States ten and a half million of foreign im migrants. By the end of 1883 they will amount to eleven millions Frank Welch shot and wounded William Santec mortally at Erie, Pennsylvanie, on the 20th. The 'hip pocket" is around in the North as well as in the South. A prisoner was lynched at Park Cit-, Utah. A man was stabbed at Atlantic City, and soon. And yet Northern papers are eternally prating of crime in the South. ...Charlotte Journal-Observer : Benjamin Hahn'a 30 ung jeweler who will be remembered by our citizens as a former workman in Butler's jew elry store, but who left here last win ter to open business for himself in Laurinburg. died in a wagon while being conveyed from the woods, where he was found yesterday morn ing, to his home in the town. Young Ilahu had been d-inking hard, we learn, and had strayed to the woods where he was seized with fits. Being missed from the place, a party of friend" set o it to search for him and found hiin lying in the woods in a dying condition. A wagon being pro cured, he was placed therein, but died before he reached the town. Hahu was about 2G years old. He was a German and a splendid work man. ...Anson Tinies : A little four year old son of Mr. J. A. Funis, near Ce dar Hill had his right arm crushed badly in the cogs of a corn sheller last Saturday evening. The bones of his arm were broken, but it is hop ed the arm will be saved. It is sup posed he fell against the cogs while running The first bale of new cotton was brought here on Tuesday last by Mr. Thomas Ratclifffrom Morven Township, and was sold to, Messrs Leak 4- Wyatt for 9.12 cents. It weiu ; 1 440 and was classed as midaliTiir. The first bale last year was brought in on the 23rd of August. A Wisconsin man was killed by a cyclone because he wouldn't go down in the cellar, but insisted on staving above ground to enjoy see ing his neighbor's new barn blown to flinders. Two or three weeks' vacation spent at a farm house is a great thing for an overworked business man. It so reconciles him to his life in the city. J
The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
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