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I v;. THE COMMONWEALTH. .-! EAJLTH An uncompromising Democratic Jour nal. Published every Thursday morn ins. Advertislnfc Mates i -4V inch 1 week. I month, $1.00. 2.60. E- E. HILIjIARD, Frop'r. j J inni. 1 ME UO MMONW - -y 111 Contracts for any space or time may GEO. M. CARK, Editor. "THE LAND WE LOVE." Subscription Rates ; Terms : $2 00 per year in Advance. be made at the oflice of The COMMON WEALTH. 1 Copy 1 " Year. Months, $2.00. $1.00.1 V0. II. SCOTLAND NECK, N.C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1883. NO. 2. Transient advertisements must b pai for in advance. w. A. Dunn. KITCHEN & DUNN, ATTOKNFYS & COUNSELLORS AT LA"W, Scotland Neck, N. 0, fig-Officeon 10th Street, first door above Main. Dr. R. M. Johnson, jSTOffioe over Bryan & Whitehead's j Drug Store. Scotland Neck, N. C. Office hours from 8 to 5 o'clock. rag-9-G aanorcos aovNoaxvj' ipujjuOi) SurpiooDu ouop yiOM. y 0 5L '3oax onvhods aaauna aoiovamoo -QOLISON WHITEHEAD, 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 cic a call. BRYAN & WHITEHEAD WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, Cor. Main and 10th Sts., opposite Post Oflice, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, AND DEALERS IN Stationery and Toilet Articles, Shoulder Braces, Trusses, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Glass, Putty, Carbon Oil, Lamps, Chimneys, &c. State Agents for J. W. Weakley, Jr., & Co'? Electro Hart Brush. Country Merchants will nnd it to their interest to call and examine goods and prices before buying elsewhere. Physicians Prescriptions accurately compounded at all hours, day or night, and orders answered with care and dis patch. IST" Stock kept complete by frequent arrivals. GENERAL DIRECTORY. SCOTLAND NECK. Mayor W. H. Shields. Commissioners Noah Biggs, M. Hofi man, R. M. Johnson, K. Allsbrook. Meet first Monday m each month at 4 o'clock, P .M. Chief of Police J. A. Perry. Assistant Policemen C. W. Dunn, W. E. Whitmore, C. Speed, Sol, Alexander. Treasurer R M Johnson. Clerk K. Allsbrook. CHURCHES : Baptist J. D. Hufham, D. D., Pastor. Services everv Sundav at 11 o'clock, A. M., and at 7, P. M. Also on Saturday before the first Sunday at 11 o'clock, A. M. Prayer Meeting every Wednesday night. Sunday School on Sabbath morn- 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. H. G, Hilton, Rector. Services every first, second and third Sundays at 10i o'clock, A. M. Sunday bchool every babbath morning. Meeting of Bible class on Thursday night at the residence of Mr. P. E. Smith. Baptist (colored,) George Norwood, Pastor. Services every second Sunday at 11 o'clock, A. M., and 7, P. M. Sun day bchool on babbath morning. o COUUfTY. Superior Court Clerk and Probate Judge John T. Gregory, nferior Court--Geo. 1. 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. K. Wood," John A. Morfleet, and M. Whitehead. Superior Court Every third Monday in juarcn and beptember. Inferior Court Every third Monday in ieoruary, Alay,A.ugust and .November. Judge of Iuferior Court T. N. Hill. W. H. KITCHEN. 'From Youths' Conipamo11- Benefit of Industry. BY C. F- ORNE. Ho, all who labor, all who strive ! Ye wield a lofty power strength, Do with your might, do with your Fill every golden hour ! The glorious privelegc to do - Is man's most glorious dower. Oh, to your birthright and yourselves, To your own soul be true ! A weary, wretched life is theirs Who have no work to do. BARTHOLDrS GREAT WORK. THE BIGGEST STATUE EVER MADE BY HUMAN HJDS. I visited Bartholdi'j gret statue of 'liberty enlightening the world' to- day, but no description that I can wnte will give you a correct idea or I its magnitude. It is now a dark tower nitft mass, surrounueu jv suauumms' t protruding over the house tops of the Rue Chezelles, and has been the sub ject of much curiosity and specula tion. One intelligent street car con ductor described it as a part of the new foundry, another informed his questioner that it was a shot tower, and it could readily be taken for ei ther. It is well known that the monev which it has cost was raised bv public subscription and individual liberality, and that it is to be erected a wjse discrimination. This adjust on Bedloe's Island, inNew York har- mentis the most uifficult problem in bor, as a monument of the friendship ae wholo educational work. Happi that has always existed between iy for us Providence and our people France and the Uaited States. There have solved it. is no doubt that it will eventually The work of education may, for reach that destination, notwithstand- the sake of a better understanding, ing the present hue and cry and that be divided into Common, Intermedl we will live happily eve: afterwards.' ate. and Hisrher. The Higher may The project first acquired practical chono rl n ri nor the Centennial, and was taken uo bv a committee com- nriainrr men of mark frnm both tions,l)y whose energyUnd patience it, has reached its present advanced state. ' It has been completed as high as the chest, and only ne snoui i ders and arms remain ID be execut ed ; in fact, both hands ,snd the fore arms are already finished and ready j to be put in place. The head, with its sDiked diadem, hguwa at the ex hibition of 1878, and now stands at the base of the statue. The workmen, of whom about eighty are employed ! on the vast mass of coj per plating, look like pigmies in corrparison and recall Gulliver and theiLiliputians. ! The hammered copper sheets, which msasure about a tenth of an inch in ! thickness, have been male very skill fully to simulate the folds of the dra nprr n d ?o follow the general con- tour of the nsure, wmcu, holding aloft in its left hand the lamp whence the light of Liberty is figuratively supposed to diffuse its roys over the globe, will closely resemble tne com- paratively small statue which was inaugurated on the Place de la Re public on the 14th inst. . The statue is one nunared ana ior-ty-six feet high, or about sixteen feet higher than the historic Columbus at Rhodes, and will stand on a pedes- tial one hundred and forty-three feet high, so that the lamp will be at an elevation ot nearly one nunureu vards above the level of the island. In vertical diameter tne nead meas ures fifteen feet, the nose being more than three feet long, whilst the fore- finder is eisrht feet in length. A large portion of the floor of the work - shop is covered with the arm, sections! of which are already enveloped with their copper plating, while in the case of others only the earliest framework has been prepared. HOW IT WAS BUILT. The system adopted in the con - struetion of the ditferent parts of the 4-i s Vines ViAon no fVtll.Mirci TTiict. f VlD .;;i Q ,w0ri thfin thi wftrfinrodfifidon a scale four i.i.nwiteaannn. C ?u . narpn- for t.hfi st.tnfi it.sfilf. Aft.fi.r the shape and outline of each section had ,-m?f oto,i k fin framework covered with lath the lat- Common education, though he need dard' twenty-five ye ar s. I am too ter received a coating of plaster, from not necessarily send them to the Pub- feeble physically to conduct a news which when perfected the outline, un- lie Free Schools to get that educa- paper. I have no idea of attempting dulations &c., of the surface were ac tion. That which is of second impor- it. Nor is It true, as stated by many i a a .,-, f,..a fr th st.at.fi t.o do in oerfectimz of the papers, that I voted tor Mr. J;e.A v ,.ia nvi firmly together. On these gabarits, as they are called, each seperate section ot the copper plaiting is careiuny hammered into its appropriate shape. When ultimately erected in America the heads of the bolts and nails will be turned inward and the exterior of I the statue will, except upon close ex amination, present the appearance of IK ix auiiu ptcuc ui uieiinx. xuc iusiuc ui i rriu- the monument capable of holding forty persons, while there will be room for a rlovAn in t.hfi lant.firn it.Sfilf is strongly braced in every direc-1 tion by ties and ponderous girders, the whole being calculaed to stand j the heaviest gales known on the At lantic. Additional steadiness will be supplied by forming a sort - of in ner casing, the space between which j and the outer one will be filled with Rand. Thfi total weicrht of the Statue is two hundred thousand kilogram mes. eishtv thousand of which mnnr anrl t.ha rfiat. on, hundred and tnronttr fhnnannH r iron. The figure will be conveyed to me - .... . . .i United States in upwards of three hundred pieces, but as to just when it will start, is something a fellow can't find out. I was informed to day that it will be finished by the first day of October, but I have my doubts about it, as they are just now jin a position where the work cant be very rapidly pushed, even it t.ney wished to do so, and I don't think they do. The angels are not all on this side of the Atlantic Letter to he Philadelphia! 'ivies. HAVE WE ACOMPLETeIySTEM OF EDUCA TION In NORTH WKULMA. According to statute law we bav not, but practically we nave, uur educational work has of its own ac- cord crvstalizcd into a complete sys- tem. ' ' 'l . ' Education in the full sense, in- eludes literary, moral, ana religious training. The family, the church and IA ?sr.n.M nrp. rne names uuuu wiium rCsts the responsibility of imparting this training. The head ot the iami lv is responsible for the literary , mor al and religious ; the State is respon- ible for the literarv and moral ; and the church is responsible for the mor al and religious trailing. Thus the agenc3' upon which rests the respon sfbility of education is of a complex nature : and the adjustment of the work to the different agents requires be supplemented by what we will call L h TTitrhoaf Tho Pnhlic. Free Schools and the Private Primary Schools, na-lvnainltr fnrni ah t.hfi Common educa- tion, which includes a knowledge of the ordinarv English branches; the Academies (or High Schools) and col- lecres furnish the Intermediate and Hisrher education, which includes the classical and scientific courses ; and the Colleges and University furnish the Hiaher and Highest, which in cludes classical, scientific and profes sional knowledge The State has provided for the Common education bv establishing Public Free schools in every commu nity to continue four months in the year ; and for the Higher and High est ducation by establishing the University, where "all useful knowl edge" is imparted to such as choose to enter. The State has, also, provided for moral training by requiring that teachers in the Free Schools the and University be persons "of good mor aj character," and then giving them power to suppress immorality amongst their pupils Th State has done all that it ever nnrht to do so far as the extent ol territory it occupies in the education- al field. To continue the Public t ree t.ha in t.hfi vfiar. uuuuuio av av m v v - w u -w 4r 7 and the University for ten months in the vear. is as much as it ought ever to attempt. To carry forward u-er degree of perfection the j - w to a Pub lin Frfifi Schools and University as now established, is the future work of t.hfi State.1 Thfi family and the church ought J to COoperate With the State in making mm.fi ffimentt.he Public Free Schools, 1 rf it :s desired in any community to ieuathen the term ot these schools, .. fftmiiv (families of the coramuni tv mav aq this bv the provisions of the j,ocai Assessment Act, and at the same time obtain a voice in the selec tion of teachers for these schools 1 xnus tne lamay auu mc dially co-operating, schools may con- I t.innp. loner enousrh in everv comrauni- t.v to finable everv one who grows up in the State to obtain the Common fidncation. ! tL ;n twn. the State needs ,;;i .0Jf ,ir to nfirfAci its Common Schools is to compel bv law every head of a family to see to it that every child .rrowina no it that family receive the ht. nmmon Sr.hoolsisto provide ICiKillCliJ msiVMaj 1 - - would be unjust to compel parents to aonA their hhildrfin to a school tausht nr-fivir f thfi t.it.ifi tor it, by such a teacher as many of those ntlm aa nrkw pmnloi'fid in that iiao nuu iu 1 J capacity. The family and the church ought tua Ktatoin car. : T.,Kii r.holc hn O ... .... l V 1 1J iUO X UU11U - A V. W 1 rl nn,,r o 1 1 thn hilrlrAn to luuguu nucuwmugv I I attend them; for if the State claims wl - I the child tor only six or cignt uours I a dav ' SIX daVS in the Wesk. during four months in the year, the family and the church will have all the bal ance of the child's time to give it the desired religious and moral traiuing which it is their duty to impart. In the University the A. B., Ph. B, and B. S. courses ought to be contin ned as now. but henceforth it ought to give special attention to the A. M, I (post graduate) course, and furnish are! every facility tor A. B. graduates I the University and Colleges to ob- I tain ttt ftOH tUC I rrt - n nn rt.r r Tin ivarci. xnere i mneaouu wujr wi..w. tv of North Carolina should not be among the very foremost in the Union, and to this end the State ought to furnish it money with no stinted hand. Intermediate education ought to be left to the family (private enterprise) and to the churches. This is the pe riod when children and youth are forming character, and they ought to be exclusively under the control of those who will give particular atten tion to moral and religious training while they are giving the intermedi ate literary training. A second rea son is, that the State ought not to monopolize iu any thing, but leave iinclogged, as far as consistent with her own duty, the wheels. of individ ual and corporate enterprise in the educational field as well as elsewhere. Hence intermediate education (the Academy and the College) would best be left to the family with the church. And ft tMrd ig thft. we wm avoid the monotony and oppression of a grinding educational machine. characteristic of some other States of the Union and some countries of Europe, who have undertaken to do all the educating from infancy to man hood, by the State. We give the above as our conclu sion after a long and patient study of the subject of education in all its bearings, and we iuvite criticism up on the article as a whole, or on any of its parts, N, C, Educational Jour nal. ANOTHER CARD FROM GOV. HOLOEN. Cor. of The News-Observer. Raleigh, Aug. 3.1, 1883. I published not lona since a card in the 'News-Observer that X was no longer a Republican, and that I was not a member of the Liberal party. had a riaht to do this. A man in this country may do this as often as changes his shoes or his hat, and he no one can question him thereoi. But what I expected has come to pass that is, I am roundly abused tor this act, and the fact that I am an old man is used: cmvairousiy, w give point to this abuse. It is also assumed that 1 nave join ed the Democrats, and that 1 wil edit. n. Demor.ratiu oaDer. I have a right to join the Democrats if I choose and I have a rmht to edit a JLJemo cratic paper if I choose ; but I am not a Democrat, and I have no idea of editing a paper, though 1 think I would know how to edit a Democrat ic paper. I was a Democrat forty years ago, when it was a great and glorious thinff to be a Democrat, and I have always had a sincere respect for that parly. I agree with that party in favoring a tariff lor revenue oiuy.ana I approved Gov. Vance's speecli in the Senate in which he labored tore-- duce the present tariff which is so op pressive to the Southern people ; ana 1 1 if I had said this publicly iu a little card,at tne time uiu speegu wu9 mane. I would have been denounced as a renegade from the Kepubiicun party for so doing The national government has been sectional since 1860, and it is now sectional, in that it does everything tor the North, and by comparison scarcely anything for the South. ItM pays out one hundred millions of dol lars per annum in pensions to the conquerers, and doles out to North Carolina a few hundred thousand dol- lars now and then for improvements i and all the while it drains us by high tariff and by an internal revenue tax of several millions per annum. Of course 1 would pay the pensions. but I would allow sixty millions in stead of one hundred I could not as a Republican have conscientiously suDDorted a high tariff, and that is now the issue between the two par- ties for the first time since the war, It is not too much tor me to say that I founded the Republican party in this State, and that but tor David S. Reid and myself there would have been no triumphant flcP m North Carolina. I edited the 'Stan- Bennett tor Congress at the last elec- I tion. i wan wxj icbuib w tu mc I . j.j , , polls and consequently did not vote at all. I am perhaps the most independent man politically In the State. I would l i i j, . i not turn on my heel for the offices the two parties could bestow on me. T r.ovet the erood opinion of just ;nd m rfi5?np.etable men. but I am no candi 1 .1 11 , t- .vrtr.'' K I. I (1 aT.n IQr L11B swetsb vuitca un uu for the "sweet changing and thoughtless multitude. In all my public life I have striven to do my duty as I understood it, and though I know 1 am trail and weaK, yet I febali always maintain a manly front and never apologise lor my past acts. Men are always prone more to have others repent than to repent themselves. . It is also assumed bv some of the papers thai I have left the Itepubh can party solely on account of the tendency Qf that party to negro This in only one of ui ot equality reasons, ixegro equauiy is a grts.ii. and threatening evil. The colored - .. I na.tnla Kn tru nrnorn t.!ifi line against the white people, and are deinauiing j omce because they are colored, and in Virginia the contest, is now iroino" forward in favor of mixed so" : ..!. the Democrats sternly resisting. i the Republicans or Liberals undi-r the lead of Mahone, contending for theiii. Mixed schools is but another name for equality between the moos. The Republicans of North Cor-jlma took ground as one man againsi nix ed schools in 1868. Is it po-t-ude that there are now in the State .viiite men who are for them? Another reason for mv "course is that the President refuses to ivouiu- mend and Congress fails to p:sss a bill to refund to the Southern States the tax of eighty millions of d :!:irs imposed on them or their cotton -most' unjustly and cruelly at the cloae of the war. The share of our State in this sum would be five or six millions. Another reason and a great one is that the Southern States are not the equals of the Northern States in the Union and never will be while the old Abolitionists control the govern ment. The South has no Vice-President, no seat in the cabinet and no first-class foreign mission. And when any little office is obtained by Southern gentlemen they for the most part have to beg and humble them selves for such recognition. Another reason is that the Repub licans of this State desire to pin the counties in the bauds of bare majori ties in the townships by -electing magistrates bv the people. This might do well enough west of Greens boro where the whites prevail, but this change could not tail to be cal- amicous 10 many oi me eastern coun ties. . It would subject, much of the East to negro rule, and the result would be neglect or oppression of the white and serious injury to the finan - cial prosperity of the counties I am a "Holden man." The old people of the State will know what this expression means. If I shall vote at all hereafter, I will vote inde pendently for good men and proper measures. The Union is safe. We need give ourselves no special con cern about that. I am therefore for North Carolina and her best interest against all comers. I am receiving letters from friends in all parts of the State approving my course. Lot it be borne In mind that this is purely a political and not a personal matter. I have no ill feeling against any one. I desire the well-being and happiness of everybody. And those who use personalities or utter unkind words on any account will live to re gret it. I speak from experience. W. W. H OLDEN. THE FIRST DOUBLE TRACK. The Goldsboro 'Messenger' says : 'We are pleased to learn that as a re sult of the consolidation of the East Tennessee, Georgia As Virginia and Richmond and Danville systems the business over the line from Paint Rock 10 Greensboro will be largely increased and the bulk of this great Southern traffic will pass through North Carolina. This will aid large- y to the importance ol the piece of road between Salisbury and Greens- oro, and the Raleigh 'Observer sug gests that the early future may yet see fulfilled the prediction Col. An drews made years ago tiiat the first double track laid iu the South will be between these two points." MaJ. Wilson thinks the first double track will be along the French Broad, to accommodate the rapidly increas ing freights destined for the South via Asheville and Spartanburg road, which is to be completed by or during the next year and the South-east via the W. N. C. Road. We will hail double-track roads anywhere in the State. We wish to see every section of the good old commonwealth pros per, and recognise the railroads as the grandest agencies of such pros perity. Asheville Citizen. THE PUBLIC ROADS. The public roads question is at tracting more attention than ever be fore. In this State the papers have had much to say pnd we hope it will be continued. In South Carolina and Virginia the question is exciting de served interest. The public roads must be improved. It is a positive necessity. The trade and inter-cora munication of the country require it. Mend the roads. Rev. Dr. Mangum, in a letter in the 'Southern Christian Advocate' published at Charleston, S. C, has some sensible and timely remarks on the road Question. His testimony is such that it will be well to copy a part. He says 'Part of the road to the District Conference was almost impassable for vehicles. . Though very careful in driving, I carae ljpar being thrown from nav boggy into a sea of ian and water. The carriage that con veyed Bishop Keener broke down. V is not by any means improbable thut the euvuit nuer ot today is oi: compelled to navel road a far woi'8i tha'1 those (jvj- fttlU'il tha pionp is plo-Utud or ;; ! isi the days whv n few or no vehicles were in use v.- these .-jiates 'lrulv in souk- ri. spcv t-i the preachers of the present ha . harder times than their pitied and lauded predecessors. I don't believe Bishop Asbury or Jesse Lee ever passed over a worse road than one I once travelled when in hearing of the church bells of Raleigh. Such roads are examples of suiciial economy." Now what Dr. Mangum says of one section will apply to many sections. We have known the roads so impas sable in the upper country that men could not travel in buggies without breaking down or stalling, and wagons had to postpone trips to await the drying out of the roads. If the General Assembly has not the moral courage to legislate for the pro tection of the sheep industry it ought to oe aoie to do somet. unor tr im prove the condition of the great thoroughfares of the State. Star. REPRESENTATION IN ENGLAD. The progress of Britain toward fair representative government is, for such a prudent. staid ccuntrv. somewhat. Within little more than half a centu ry great strides have been made in extending the franchise to various cases, such as Dissenters. Roman Catholics and Jews, as well as to the people generally. Great inequalities still prevail, however. Various class interests are well represented in Par liment, such as land owners, ship owners, mercnanis, lawyers, officers oi tne navy and . army, brewers and distillers, etc., but there are only two representatives oi tne great bulk of the people in the House of Commons 1 rt ... and oi course none in the House of '.Lords. The latter, however, hna full representation of Anglican Bish- ops, wno are usually lound on t.hp who are (wrong side of questions of reform land freedom. The whole power and patronage oi tne nation used to be under the control of the land owners wno uad an overwnelming majority in both houes ; but the Duke of Wel lington and Sir Robert Peel saw that to prevent a revolution and perhaps civil war, it was necessary to admit all the influential classes to a share in the government. Mr. Disraeli al so carried on the good work. Now between Mr. Parueil and Mr. Glad stone reform is likely to be carried as far, perhaps, as sound discretion and public safety will warrant. The constituencies are exceedingly unfair ly arranged at present. Old bor oughs which have no more population now than they had some hundreds of years ago retain their right to elect as many members as cities with ten or twenty times their population lct. Landlords also, by the one sided hind laws' can control the votes of their tenants, and the tarm labor ers have no votes at all. It thus happens that the House of Commons is elected by perhaps a twentieth part of the population, and though that is an improvement on former times, when it was elected by per haps a twentieth part of the popula tion, and though that is an improve ment on former times, when it was elected by a fiftieth or a hundredth part, yet it is not suitable for to-day. The Chartists demand fifty years ago for vote by ballot has been conceded. and universal suffrage, which they claimed, seems to be coming nearer. Equal electoral districts, which was another of their points, has been to some extent approximated ; but it is likely that Mr. Gladstone, if spared, will present a much more complete measure next year for the fair representation of the people of the British Isles. Witness. ECCENTRIC, BUT GOOD. The hymn, "Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing," which is so often sung at the close of the evening ser vice, was composed bv the Rev. Dr. Hawker, a clergyman of the English Church. He was such an eccentric man in his numerous charities that his wife often found it a difficult mat ter to keep house. The old man was always so responsive to appeals of poverty that he never stopped to con sider whether he could afford the alms which his charity prompted him to give. Sometimes in Winter, while making pastoral calls, he would come across a poor family without suffi cient bedclothes to keep them warm Out of the cottage the benevolent man would dart, run home, pull the blankets off his own bed, and hasten with them over his arm, to the family where they were needed. He was one of the few disciples who interpreted literally, and acted upon their inter pre tat ion, the Master's command, "Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away." The doctor's helpfulness made him popular with many pious ladies. Thev so swarmed around him as to be troublesome. "I see what it is," he said in one of his sermons ; "you ladies think to reach heaven by hang- ino on to mv coat-tails. I will trounce 3-ou all ; I will wear a spen cer" fa short iaoket. so-called from Lord Spencer, who first wore it). The doctor's grandson.a precocious lad who lived with him, was in the habit of dabbling with rhymes. Not i knowing the authorship 01 nis grand ; fathers, favorite hymn, he thought he would 'improve' it. "Grandfather he said, one morning, as he came in to the old gentleman's study, paper in hand, "I don't altogether like that hymn, 'Lord, dismiss us with Ihy blessing' ; I think it might be improve ed in metre and language, and would be better if made somewhat longer. Oh, indeed !" answered the old clergyman, growiug red. "And pray, sir, whatemendations commend them selves to your precocious wisdom?" "This is mr improved version, said the boy, and he read his hymn, the first stanza of which was as foK lows : Lord dismiss us with thy blessing. High and low, rich and poor. May we all. thy fear possessing, Go in peae aud sin no more I' "Now listen to the old version. grandfather," and he read that. This one, he said, as the reading ended, "is crude and flat ; don't you think so?" "Crude and flat, sir ! Young puppy, it is mine I I wrote that hvmu." "Oh, I beg your pardon, sir 1 I did not know that. It's a very nice hymn indeed ; but but" and, as he went out of the study door "mine is bet ter." In a few days the doctor carried the grandson to a boarding school. They arrived in the evening, and the grandfather departed as soon as he had handed the boy over to the mas ter. The latter, being close-fisted, sent the youth to bed supperlesa. The lad did not relish that, nor th bed and bedroom in which he slept. As the master was shaving on th next morning, he saw his new pupil with his portmanteau on his back, striding across the lawn, singing at the top of his voice, "Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing." Leslies Sunny Mag, Sew Advertisements. JOHN E. BELL. CECIL C. BUCKMAN. J.E.BELL &CO AND WHOLESALE Fit IIT &, I'ttOIUCi: ii:ii.kh Nos. 4 .$ 6 Bowly's Wharf, BALTDX ORE, MB. Special attention given to the sale of Southern Fruit and Vegetables, and Orders solicited for SEED PO TATOES, Apples, Potatoes, Onions, Oranges, Lemons &c. 9 6m Klipper. Webster & O o.. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL FURNITURE, No. 7 South Calvert St. BALTIMORE, MD. lyr Notice. Cotton Ginnen. To Having procured the right for Halifax County, to use W ood's patent GIN SAW FILER, I am prepared to whet gins at short notice for ten cents per saw. Also to repair Gins in every respect, when sent to my shop in Scotland Neck. Sept. Gth 1SS3 Jr. . SJUlTli, F.or Sale. NOTICE. The undersigned having bought proper ty elsewhere; the firm of Biggs & Owens, by mutual consent, propose to close their business at Palmyra, N. C. on the first day of January 1884. Thei stock now consist of a good assortment of gen eral merchandise, which will be sold off 'till January 1st at extremely low figures and the excellent store house and lot will then.be for sale or rent. The undersigned having conducted the business for the last seven years-would say to any one wishing to engage in the mercantile business that owing to the many large Shingle Swamps now in op eration in the vacinity whose hands are paid a large amount of money every month, the cheap water transportation and other causes, Palmyra is one of the best places for a successful business on the Roanoke. Also for sale or rent a very convenient family homef consisting f cottage dwelling of five room and all nec essary out houses, a good garden improv ed clover lot &c, all in good repair. The Stock of Goods can be bought very low, and the house can be rented or bought on liberal terms. Property subject to inspection Correspondence solicited and communications promptly answered. Apply to either member of the flam. R. R. OWENS, Palmyra N. C jpARM FOR SALE 1 A good farm of 18:i acres. One&alf cleared, other half well timbered it cy press, oak and pine, with a three"oom frame house and good well of water, in the healthiest part of Greensville county, Virginia, immediately on the Petersburg & AVeldon Railroad, half way between Jarrett's and Belfield depot3. This land has enough timber on it to pay for it, and is well adapted to the growth of cotton and peanuts. Parties wishing to purchase may write to the editor of the Biblical Recorder, Raleigh, N. C or call on Mr. George H. Bailey, near Belfield (Va.) Possession given 1st January 1881. aug Y
The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
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