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ii . , - - ( THE DKMDCHAT. TIIK I) I . MOCK AT. The Advertiser's FAY01E. -(it t-7 r o KATES LOW. i WF. M ("ST WORK FOR TIIK PEOPLE'S WELFARE. SCOTLAND NECK. N ('. 1 II CHSI ) VV. .IANTA RV Hi. IS'.lu. Sulttrripllnn (I nprr rnr. NO. . r IJILLIARI). K-Iitcr nnd Proprietor ()!,. VI S I, r i ! JL AlJo I O X A L AYOX'K a- Oanik.'.s, ('. C. ;ANIKI.S, . C Wi'.sin, A . '.tick & Daniels ec j;aiun, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Wilson, N. C. Any Buincs Entrusted to us will lc Pi inVtiy Attended to. 1 ly' J A. Dl -N-N, A T T o K N E Y A T S otla.ni Neck, N L A W , C Practices wherever his rc uirtrT. services are febBl ly. J II. K1TCIILN, t Attorney and Counselor at Law, Scotland Neck, N. C. Ofiicf1: Corner Ala;n aixl tenth 1 1 Sueet D AVID 15 ELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Eni iki.I', N. C. Practices m nil the Courts of Halifax nnd adjoining count bis find in the Su-prtiii'- 'and Federal C-mrts. Claims col lected in all parts of the State. 3 8 ly. XV. H. PAY, A.C..OUaOoU'EK, R.ItANSOM Weld on. Henderson. Wei Ion. I' AY, ZoI.uniFFKU RANDOM. Ald'OKNEYS AT LAW, W HI. DON, Is. C. : s 1 v. T MIO.M AS X. HILL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Halifax, N . C, Practices in Halifax and adjoining comities, and the Federal and Supreme Courts. s ly. D II. JL I. d O H N S O N Hi kick- Cor. Mai. 1 and Truth Streets, 10 !1 lv. Scotland Ni'ck, N , -DOW ELL. :KT M.;i:i & IOth S -or to Futrf I! A; S-M C 7f Co ' V 1 - - 1 1 ?td, j , 1 N. V. r v 1, at h; o!l .. ;,'-( d 1'" -0 -Y. Wl fee Silks, Laces, Velvets, Dress Goods, LinniN Flannels, l.hinivcts, DOMESTIC COTTONS, WHITE GOOtS. PRINTS, G'fiGH&rlS, IIOISEIIY, iL "KS. C NUEit WEAR, I.AMKS' AND MILKS' WUAl'S, ALSA F.vevy t;r--, :as reticle a Dry Goods Hor..-e should hare in Low. Medium and Ilij;!i-Pr:ce.l I!(haI, One Price for everv one: a chiid c: buy of r.s as -heap as the Lest judje cf !h y Goods. The same price to thof.e who de-nre to purcnase hv m as to th' se who our Store. e have the larg.t Stoiein Baltimore, and carry the greatest varit t ' :' a'i kiiid- ot Jry Gods. Ci !, is Ibr Samples will receive pronij t attei t'rin. Customers. when order ing Samples, wi.l please say if Black or t'ol .rs aie de-ired, and give us an idea 111 rfsrard to Price. We- supplv Merchants the better class of Dry Goods, not to be had from .Job bers, ami cut any length to suit their cu to liters at lowest Piece price. In business for thf past 59 years. Hamilton P.astR? Sim New Nos. 2d, 2." and 27 Baltimore St., I m:ak Mi.irr stkekt, Willi t: M V HI U.K. Ill' 1 J.D1NG, 15 AL IT MO RE , Ml. lu 10 Sm. ! I VERY ANUSaL STABLES. 1) II s E S 1 ii It xr ii ALWAYS READY F on II j n 1: t; ( i 'Y i." J'v N - () I' T S at C Ii cap Kates. I'a f-engors c-in led p-jii.t o-i or oil' the tv. Horse--, well iVd groo-r-ed ' v tl.c day at rea-on- toe eharg.-- Oiio-K ly to an bv montl 1 1 . 1 ,. S: 11 or ti-;,ie. BKVAN St., ouuis!-;r r, land Neck N. (3. NiiREOLK mm. I'OR YOfvi, LAI)ii;S, Nop.i-oi.iv, Va. LargvsU ( lieapesl and l.cst S-.bool in Ti lewnter Ya. '2.)0 students. '20 Teachers. Health record unsurpassed. ONLY 42.50 VCARTRR for Board and Tuition. 7 2.3 tr. R o F lion'i Stand in llie Way The world is too crowded,' T'ae grumbler declares, "I J.m"t Ike its labor, 1 don't like its cares.'' If you care nr;t to work, sir, And much rather play, Win, do as you please, But don't stand in the way. Th" sowers are corning To put in the seed, Tl is army is scarcely Enough for our need; You can lend us a hand Ff r an hour, or a day, Or .stand like a post, But don't stand in the way. Life's summer and autumn The' glide on apace, And then the glad reapers Will fall into place. But if you have not labored, You can't expect pay; And the harvot is theirs! So don't stand in their way. Keep moving, keep moving, There's good work for all; Put a hand to the plough, Or go back to the wall. The young men are coming. And old men grown gray, The world needs them all; Friend, don't stand in the way. 'Ific Jltinncr. "l)oet ."ot Agree Willi mm. Under the abve heading the Roanoke Nrirs of last week publishes a letter from Mr. E. W- Gregory as follows : Kiutous Roaxoki: News : Hav ing read your article in your paper of January 2nd, in regard to "Ask iuo for bread and receiving a sone,'j I beg to say 1 think Governor Eowle ! acted wisely in refusing to call the f I .1 r.l 1 11 iwi i 1 1 r I 1 I ail Wil AQ i.vj;ijKumi; iwuiui,! nan t to tabhsjied this precedent we would never have lived long enough to see j a year close without a petition from i some quarter to the Legislature for rJicf; in otlur Words every man ; in ot failed 10 0 ir.eet Lis linr.i.cial would think that the 1 T V T get;" 1. nl: i'nisiiuuio hi'juiu oe convenen. 'i'h re has already been too much said :i'jut h-ird times, as it has had a tendency to demoralize the public. j Then; ha been more : hr-.rd times 111 the last said abo.it four iTf-'Utbs than during the four dark years when every aide bodied man was in the army (i 'hting the enem, and our mothers and wives and dausjh tors were home wearing homespun dresses and homemade shoes, drinks iag potato and rye coffee sweetened with sorghum molasses, and boiling water out of the Atlantic to get salt for th'3U" bread. As to the ten thousand farmers who are unable to carry on their farms the present 'jjjjjyear, I will stake my reputation a business man that three fourths of the number got their supplies on credit, and I sec no reason why every farmer wlib acted square with his merchant and shows a disposition to work s.nd try again, Bhould not have help. I would say, however, that there are thousands of acres of land cultivated ever3' year that should not be, and it would be bet ter for the public if such tenants failed to secure supplies, thereby giv'ni a better system of labor and more of it. If the Legislature had to be called together it would be more consistent to call it for the benefit of the merchants who advan. ced money and supplies to the farm er the past year . F. W. Gregory. AScrap of Paper Nuveslicr Iilc. It. was just an ordinary scrap of wrapping paper , but it saved her life. She was in the last stages of consumption, told by physicians that she was incurable and could live only a short time; she weighed less than seventy pounds. O i a piece of wrapping paper she read of I)r, King's New Discovery, and got a sample bottle ; it helped her , she j bought a large bottle, it helped her j more, bought another and grc.v better fast, conlinip.-d Hv usci and is I row strong, hoalthv, rosy, plump , ; weighing I 10 pounds. For fuller 1 particulars send stamp to Vv". II. !Coh, Drug-it, j Buflcs of f liis Fort Smith. Trial wonderful Discovery Whitehead & Co. lit 1-:. T. 1 i 1 C tj ! )rt!g-tore. We vrdue everything in this world by comparison. Wster and air have 1.0 intrinsic value, and yet Jay Gould, if famishing in the desert, would give all his wealth for a pint of the former, and think it rheaji ; hence, life and health are the standard of all values, If your system is full of Malaria you will be very miserable; a few doses of Shalienberger's Antidote will make you well and happy. Is one dollar a high price to pay? SOUTH, La BY HON. HENRY W. GRADY. New York Ledger.) When my basinc33 partner came home from the war, in which he had gallantly commanded a battery, be had neither breeches , bome nor money. His wife cat up a woollen dress fdie bad worn for years, and made birn a pair of breeches. Gather ing oJ1s and ends from the rain? of Atlanta, he built a shanty, of which love made a home. His father gave him a Ove dollar gold-piece, of which ingenuity made capital. Ill three tears be bad built a $ 1.500 home in eight years a $ 6,000 Lome. He now has a $GO,000 suburban Lome and is woith well over a quarter of a million dollars. His life is an epitome of the South in 18G5 its swift energy its cheerful heroism its shrewd knack of turning some thing from nothing its ttages of growth and its present prosperity. The people of Atlanta in eighteen hundred and sixty-four crept out of the diagonal holes cut, like swallows' nests, in the hillsides, in which they had abided the siege, to Ond their city in ruins. Old citizens could scarcely thread the course of familiar Streets through ashes and debris. As the refugees straggled back and th$ soldiers, afoot from Virginia, tound or ce more th.tir dismantled liorats, the ruined city trembled with the energy of a camp. Strenuous as life had been in the South for four years, its most desperato struggle had but begun. The fortitude ot the march, the courage of the charge, the heroism of the retreat, the touch ing sacrifices of the ill-paid and ill- e: tupped soldier-life these were to re emphasized and prolonged, when the tattered flag no longer Hew, the quick roil of the drum had ceased, and ibe comradeship of the camp and march was dissolved. Erom de feat and utter poverty was to be wrought victory and plenty. There was no faltering no repining but Atlanta worked as a'ae bad fought, for all that was in her. Five hundred shanties were made of the iron roof ing of destroyed building?. Four posts were driven up iron sheeting tacked about them, a cover laid, a door cut, and in these, with pitiful huckstering, was established the commercial system that now boasts its palatial etore3, its merchant princes and 13 known and honored the republic over. In 18GG there ete but four meu in Atlanta worth 10,000: In 1880 there are six mil lionaires whose wealth aggregates 10 000,000 ; nine others assessed at ' I more than 750,000 each; fourteen m others woith over 500,000 each, and twenty one worth from $250,000 to $500,000 each. These fifty citizens now worth over $30,000,000 were not worth $250,000 in 1865 Back of them is a prosperous city filled with well-to-do people and capital of a orosperous State. How was this progress wrought? HIGH PRICES AND DESTITUTION. In 1801 a cavalryman was saluted by a citizen with : "I will give you $20,000 for that horse." 1 The devil you will ! I jus paid a nigger $1. 000 for currying him !" About that time I paid $1,100 for two wool hats, such as now retail for fifteen cents, the dealer haviug knocked elf $300 in consideration of my taking the I two. Enormous quantities of de- j predated currency were afloat , tin- settling values and provoking reck less and desperate trading. So vast was the issue that Gen. Toombs ch.irged that "the treasury depart ment ran the money presses all day and let the niggers run 'em all night to work their wages off.'' The de- i preciation of the currency, however , did not hinder or warn the people who had staked all on the success of the Confederacy. No matter what a man bought, it would bring more money than he p id for it. '1 hi story is told of speculator who bought several hogsheads of sugar at 10 cents a pound, and soid it at 20 cent. Shoitly after lie invested his fortune iu btig-ii at 25 cents, and sold at -10' and so on to the e.id. Each time he made mure money, but it would buy less sugar. He kept at itj adding to his increasing profit and decreasing quantity until be found himself, in I8G5, with $2,000, 000 clean profit on sugar, which would not buy enough to sweeten his parched-pea coffee. The day after Lee surrendered, a friend of mine sold for $110,000 in Confeder- nte money a comfortable home. Notes given for slave, which were Tr 1 free in a week, were sued, snd pro nouueed valid by the supreme court. ! lanta soli more piaco at From this era of inflation, tLelspiece than were sold U i Southern people dropped to com plete destitution. The currency they had accumulated was valueless. The bonds they h?A stored for emer gency were worthless. Taeir slates were freed. Their governments de stroyed. Their farms stripped by the foraging of two armies and the demands of two government. Guer illas of both sides plandered under cover of law. The swamps were ran sacked for hidden, fctores or crops. The torch, carelessly and. revenge fully handled, completed the desola tion. To meet this awful crisis and to rebuild from tb-;se pitiful re rources, w:3 a pearls stunned by de feat with racks decimated by war, partnerships sundered , every family ('.ride broken, and those relations ,1 r -1 - I thnt had knit together fauubes anu neighborhoods forever shattered. There was dislocation everywhere. And everywhere the weeds of the widowed and the cries of the father less. In every country grave-j'ard there were new-made graves, and the Virginia valleys were red with the best blood of the South. Miriam and her hand-maidens were yet in the depths of the flood ! THE ERA OF SPECULATION. In the midst of this desolation, small eddies of trade whirled this way and that. A few men , shrewder than patriotic, had steadily bought gold for the past two years. They had traded Confederate bonds for diamonds -or silver. Oihcrs bad hidden cotton and tobacco in swamps or cellars, and found it good a3 gold when hauled from its hiding-place. There were garrisons of Federal troops in almost every town, paid off in greenback?, which went rapidly into circulation. The abnormal lack of money, and the pressing demand for it, tempted many sutlers to in vest, and brought some money from the North. The city of Atlanta Issued script, redeemable for taxes, and it passed cum nt, Trading was fast f nd furious. Almost indescrib able activity ensued, and. strangely enough, 44ilnsh times'7 were on us be fore the ashes had been carted from the buried streets , and the lamenta tion of the bereaved bad ceased. The recklessness of war was carried into the conservative ways of peace. The provisional and republican adminis tration issued bonds and ecattered money lavishly. The enforced abstinence for four years took its revenge in full gratification, and the sales of cotree, cheese, sardines, and like articles, wero astonishing. There was feverish tumult in all tradincr . , . ,, , centres, greit or small, ana there ,. f. . ,. f. was neither time nor inclination to think of the past or future. In the country, excitement and speculation ran even higher. The few bales of cotton exhumed after the war readily brought sixty-five cents a pound, and the dpmand was eager and unsatisfied. At fetich prices there was a fortune in every acre. The uegrocs, cat-like in their local attachment, had been jostled out of place but little, even by the passing armies. They were stiil ready to work, and appeared to think that freedom was justified when they lett their master'3 slave quarters and hired out to his neigh bor. And so cotton became king. It had alway-3 been king, and the slave had been hi3 prophet. These two the planter never surrendered to sentiment or law. An intelligent man would himself volunteer, and call his sons, even to the mother's Inn' to his sidfi in the ranks, but would resist to the uttermost when his sorely pressed government at tempted to levy one of his slaves. General Toombs, more responsible for the war than perhaps any other man, and pledging to the onteder- acy bis life and hia honor, openly rebelled when it proposed, that it3 starving armies might be fed, to limit by law the acreage each man shonld plant in cotton. And in '65, though its prophet was gone, cotton was king again. The demand for land wa3 arT iversal. Great plantations brought i astonishing prices. It was believed ! that cotton could be raised only scantily by free labor and that high prices would continue. This delas- ion was fatal. Itstartei the Siuth wrons. it gave tue local insreuani T A A 1 1 1 I credit at the North and he in turn gave credit to the cotton grower.The planter would pledge his land to cotton and put a lien on bis crop. On this the merchant woul 1 advance ' him cash and supplies. Thi3 money, i coaiins: before it was earned, was j - jeasily spent; and it is said that At- l0 ; year later at 2o0. Under the stimulus of high prices for cotton, the South- tr,i people loaded rv with land at I fancy figares, and tLen went nndt-r lien to the merchant fur cash and supplies. COTTON ONCE MOKE JvIN'.. Cotton worth sixU-5ve cents I860 brought only forty cents in in 18G7. This was still high enough to tempt reckless land-buying an.l reck less planting. In 18(13 it declined to eleven and one-quarter cents, but ran up in a few wetks to thirty six cents. After thn it went down steadily, involving thousands in ruin. The Hon. R. H. Hill bought several plantations and stocked t hem lavishly 0:1 credit. He lost over $250,000 in bis planting operation, ' 1 b 1 " and although he coined more than a million dollars from hB brain, was for years hampered with his losses. Land had practically no selling yalue. Superb estates that had brought -200 000 dragged at f 10,000, and estates that hai sold for $6.000 went unhindered to the sheriff's ham mer for taxes. Broader than these personal losses, was the oppressive system entailed on the planting class. Having once mortgaged his crop for supplies to his merchant, the farmer was practically the slave of that merchant. Under the de clining price of cotton, his crop would barely pay his lien. He was thus lefc dependent for the next year's supplies on his merchant, who charged him what he pleased. The oilicial report of the commis sioner of agriculture of Georgia shows that an average of 54 per I cenL u9ury waS chargeJ ou a11 8UI plies sold to the farmer on credit, and that he bought bis meat, bread , hay, stock, and often his butter and eggs, devoting his land entirely to cotton. When he saw the wisdom of raising his own corn, bacon, grasses and stock, he was notified that reducing his cotton acreage was reducing his line of credit. He was thus helpless. Carrying this burden of usury, and buy.ng every thing he needed, and Laving stocked his farm on credit, he made slow progress. How he progressed shall be shown hereafter. Suflice it to say here tha1, he gradually diversi fied his agriculture, slowly paid his debts, and this year for the first time since 1850 raised in Georgia all the corn that Georgia needs. The Southern merchants began business with an interest rate of live per cent, a month. It dropped rapidly to one nl a half to two per cent, a month, aDd halted there stubbornly. As late as '78 Georg'a issue! a ten per cent. bond. She hps since floated a four per cent., and money rules in Atlanta at from fave to seven per cent. From its specuN ative beginning business steadied wonderfully quick in the South. The old soldiers traded as resolutely as thev fontiht. There is a smaller ner r -t.c .1 i centage of failures in tin South than in the West. Every city has its board of trade building, and well equipped exchanges for its different departments of business. Com-j mercial ethics are high, and busi-l n'ss integrity is valued and respect-; ed among a people who lor years j bad nothing but integrity as capital j and credit. There slightly more 1 than fifty millionaires in the South, and of thi.s number more than three fourths made their fortunes in the legitimate buying and selling of goods. From Maryland through Texas the merchants are prosperous, ! pabHspirittfd and able la every - the South and con- thing that has adorned they have been foremost stant. THE CREATORS OF THE NEW SOUTH. Let me close this article with one point that may be carried through the series. The South has been re built by the Southern people. I shall often use Atlanta as an exam ple, for it is a typical Southern city. None is more generally thought to be eo largely the result of Northern capital and enterprise. And yet the censu3 of 13S0 shows that of 45, 5S? people in Fulton county, vf which ! Atlanta is the capital.) . less than 1,000 were of Northern birth. This will astound those Northern men j who , amazed at Atlanta's simple an comprehensive growth, have declared the South never had built and never could build such a city, hat that it was a -Yankee cit" in the South. Let me particularize. The census shows that of the 47.5S3 people in Fulton county, 33,618 were born iu Georgia. Of the rest, 2,102 were boru in South Carolina, 752 in North Carolina , 1.44 in Aiabrsa , j 1 ,200 m Virgin .!. !.K in I'cr.nf ce, land 472 in other Southern Sla'cs. Ftn cives ui 4 4 .'." i Southern b rn. To this add 1.3.H r.e.-i . ?nd we hate 4e"..8H. Deduct :hi fn t m the total, 47,5SS. and. we have 77 4 as the total of Northi r'n-born c.i'-en-of Atlanta. This the city that ! uftenest cited as a 'Northern city in the South." Since 1 the S uth h U; nearly oue-focrth of its for . etimvs were h very c unm .n tb.tt eign born population in spite of the ' b vecs w t . thought dn- tremendocs trie of forrign imrQira- raeefu! : and Tacit a 1 rrjrvnf tion that flows in at Northern ports. 1!' former a capable nfN'iii; en Further the South has less North j dy oieromie by ffron dr.nk a by ern-born citizens in 1hQ than in:an!1'- IntetnjH'rance w..s 90 general 1SG0. In the eight South Atlantic ; 411 1 habitual tLat no one was thought States ther fere even fewer NortLvjtobe tit for mtiou buiursa after crners inltS)ttan in 1870. 1 n( leori i dinner ; and under this jrn.iMu in 17'J there were G,".13 ciCzen of foreign birth; in 1S0 only 5, SIS this in a total population ol 1,642. 180. In 16S0 there were 13.071 more Southern people living Nortt than Northern people living Socth. The South has been rebuilt by Southern brains and energy. the souih is ami:k: an and REI.PllOt s. We regret that our brothers fron the .North have not taken larger part with us in this work. We have also watched with regret the great cutn j rent of immigration sweeping west-j ward , giving ns nothing and even i absorbmg into its miiihty volume j one fourth of what foreigners we al- ' ready had. But our status has i t ' compensations. It has given us : ! homogeneous people compact, earn est, sympathetic, and united when i unity means more of safety than if ! ever meant to any people before. It j has left us the '. might an 1 simple faith of our fathers, untainted f)y Im play for eveiy on.: Weneith heresy and unweakencd by upeoula-; ,-r think less o( a man Icciiim- I,. tion. The spirit of Americanism j h-ls OUtl,, !lis I"1' ,,or wrsc d him of popular liberty, of love for detno-j hceausr he is bunting lo. it. Hum cratic principles and institutions j the shirt sleeve nation of the burns steadily and un-jbstructedly xv,,I,t, which the hard w.uker 1h here. Anarcby.socialism that level- Loii-.umI and in which L'randla' liei. ing spirit that defies government ' an,,1'M r' ot !"'r br"' ;l hr-r and denies God has no hold in the 1 'ut- :lt a discount. South. Here the old churches are the best churches, and the old creeds still living and saving. Hero law and order reign. Here government is supreme, and if we love well that government which touches us most closely we love none the lees that government which, above all, blesses all. It may bs it may well be, urilnss some brave statesman shall challengi .1.. :.,mi i,flJ!..i tUO llltUliJlli Ii o CO (ftu JUl wa ' 1 u demand that they shall be worthy ofihirlh only and are called eitien, by rit,7onsbin hoff.rn it is bestowed nn-1 wa.V of compliment or flattery. w.-.. , oa them that in the South, here amid this homogeneous and God fearing people , may te lodged the last hope of saving the old fashion in our religious nd political govern ment. While, therefore, wc welcome immigrants to our matchless domain, we prefer that they shall come in be seeming order rathirthan pellmtll as friends and neighbor, to mingle their blood with ours, to build their homei in oar fiel Is, honoring our Constitution, reverencing our God ' " Until such immigrants come we pre-1 prepaie the way lor an imujenc fer to work out our own salvation, as j circulation for the ".Memorial Yol we have largely done f-r tnonty-f:yc i nine of Jefferson Davis," now being long and strenu ius years. j prepared b lie v. I. Wrn Jones 'the How Wtll wo have done this in the I fighting chaplain.. Dr. Jone was line of agriculture and rnanufaoturs tor tears the secretary of the ing the succeeding article will tell, i Souf hern II istorical Society, and n This is what you ought in fact, you must have it. to have, to fu!iy enjoy life. Thousands are searching i for it daily, and mourning because j tiey Qncj it not, Tho-isands upen j thousands of dollars are .vent au ' nU;ij;y ,y our people in the hope ! that they may attain this boon, j And yet it may be had by all. We guarantee that Electric Bitter?, if used according to directions and the use persisted in, will bring you Good Digestion and oast the demon Dys pepsia and install iusteai Eupepsy. We recommend Klectric Bitters for tU-cnoTuia orirl 1 ' I d:s-"ii;r of l.'vnr 1 Momacn and Ki lneys. Sold at oOc and $1,000 per boKle by E . T. Whitehead & Co. Drust . .... . Persons advanC2d in v-ears feel younger and stronger, as well jis freer freer from the infirmities of atie , by taking Dr. J. II. McLean's Sarsaparilla. For salt by K. T. Whit-.-b-a i 1 Co. One of Dr. J. H. McLean's Little i Liver and Kidney Fillet?, taken at j night before going to 1 ed, wiil move I the bowels : the effect will astonish I toil For sale bv E. T. Whitehead & Co. The nso?t popular liniment , is the old reliable, Dr. J. II. McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment. For sal by E. T. Whitehead & Co. itror, lrt Ifiu itntl IkrlnU. N. Y. l.-Lf. Ti ' h.r n.V. ;.: h "i e ' f.:n''M id dd , mi Furp ! "i.vl .i:,d drtnk U r the i.m:: tlClj ! h f cop. -!:nrd. Tte :ui.; o:it Gr-tnu xr.A .b-.r s.n-'ti ilfvcorsduitH m In,; bind , were rcm.ufcsbV fur tbnr hearty rneah. Gluttonv an I drunW- it ,h eu.it fed 111 tho .w ibat judges -hou'd bfar and determinr CUl-es Jts'.r,j, I , af',r ;.,;,.-. An Italian author , 111 his "Antiqtii Me.v pl.i n'v a:!iims tf.at ibis reg ul.ti n was frame I for the purjHse f avoiding the unsouu I drrife coiit -quota upon intoxication; and Pi . i ilbert St uat t has ink' tru' - di-eived In bjs 'lli-tonc. il I)iv.'r f at ion Concern dig tfio Ant quity of the Bntih t'oiiN'.ituj ion," that liom tills p:iqenity o! the older Briton- to indulge eecvsivel in t at Kit; an 1 drinking proceeded the restrie, tion uhn jiiioi.s and luijincii to rt drain from meat and drink , ami to lie even bold in cu-dod y, unt il they ha l agreed upon their rrdiet. Mir liirt "lt-rf X111I011 ' The New York . ) ('(' leeelit I V said e liforially: 'I his iv the only eountiy n W.r ' ghbe w here tbrre is a free li-Id and Of course we have a lew fo N with a Viii'iiin in their skulls who think they form an aristocrat ie clans aild w ho live pi f:1e stupid seelilsion of their own Ncll-colireit. 1 bey have- motipy, a dialect of their own and a bearing which an honest laborer would be ashamed to imi tate. They count in the census li-t, which includes a'so the idiot ami the lunatics, but they are i Americans bv the misfortune of The representative man of the lt"publie has Minn-thing to do nnd never loafs in busit.os bonis. All t be ot hers ar-j barnacles, bats and vamp'.rt s. .1 flTron luvi. It is said that the m ill and i 111 . perfectly prepared books puiporN ing to give a history of .Irilcioiii Davis are having a good sale. Thin shows the interest taken in the subject all over the South , and will not. only a scholar ami popular preacher but a tiaim-d writer ar;d master of a very pleasing htyle. When to thes2 qualifications are added his long and Intimate per sonal acquaintance w ith J 'resident Davis and bis family, and bis own active personal participation in the stirring scenes of the mo ?. impor tant per iod of the life of the Presi dent of t i 1 r- Con fe . racy, it w ill be seen at onew that be is eminently fitted to prepare such a volume as this. He is busily engaged In the work now. ami has tin cordial co operation and assistance of Mrs. Davis, who places much material At his disoo-.'i!. If is or!ler?io(l uv an arrangement, with t.e publishers Mrs. Davis will .share m the profits of the publicuf ioa, and w hen we. add that the book is to b brought out by the well known southern house of B. F. Jolm-on Co., liicbmorid, Ya . it goes wit bout, snl.-'g that the b .ok will be in all re-p-cts tir-t cla-s, and m every way worthy of the illu.st r iou sul). jeet. It is destined ;o have a large ciiculation and will lei wortby of it. Tiipas lie in ambush for the ' Wf.aio: ; a feeble constitution is ill ; adapted to encounter a malarious ! atmosphere and sadden cha&ees of temperature, and the least robust are usually the easiest victims. DrJ J." H. McLcau'd Sarsaparilla wilt give tone, vitality and fetrength to the entire body. For sale by E, T, Whitehead k Co.
The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 16, 1890, edition 1
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