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1 X THF DFMOCKAT. Tho Advertiser's FAVORITE. RATES I.CJW. E. E HILLIARD, Kditor and Proprietor ()L VI. WE MUST WORK FOR THK PEOPLK'S WELFARE. Viilm rli in t I 0 jier r:n SCOTLAND NKCK, N.C., THURSDAY, SKI'TKM 1KU IK 1810. N I. -V 7C irvo rrvn fSti 4. nn si v mja jalll iv x .11. I P R O F ESS! O X A L . R. . I'-nn'oN, -In. F. L, Travis, BURTON & TRAVIS. A 'l MMt.M-iYs a n i Co r v.-1 : i n.s at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. Avcock a- Dan IK i. C. C Daniels, Wilson, N. C. Auoek & Daniels & Daniels, attorneys at law, Wilson, N. C. nv Hu-iness Entrusted to us will be 'piiupt! v Attended to. 4 -11 v, J A. J CNN. vV . A roilNEY AT LAW, Si O'l'KANT) Nl'.CK, N, C, Practices wherever his services are required. fcbliJ ly. W. J I. K I J C II IN, :ney md Cor.xsrr.oit at Law, Scotland Neck, N. (,k Corner dai:i and Tenth 1 " I v. v A VI ! J '.ELL, AT LOUNKY AT LAW, Enfield, n. C. V..-ti.-(-; in fill the Courts o f Halifax i-Klioininc- counties and in "i.c Su nine and Federal Courts. Cla-ias col-b-.-U-d m all parts of the State. i S ly. o . 1 1 . 1 A Y, A.t'.. U-T ER, R.KANS )M Weldon. HemUrson. "weldon. PAY, ZOI.I.ICUFFEK k RANSOM. A TTOItNEYS AT LAW, Wkluon, N. C. ;; s l v. rs m n m S HILL. .8 ATTORNEY AT LAW, ILlIiblX, N. C., I i :u C- ''iris. '.'1 J!;:!!I;i J'.ii'i ao .U;ier 1 the Fe'.kral .1 Supreme o s 1 V. yd. u. m. J n n s o n , Oi Fin:- r 10 11 ly. Main rend T ntli Streets, S"C('1LANI Xl-X'K, X. C. o. ;j, !)0VELL. orriCE Comer Main & 10th Sts., Next door to Wilson A llshrook, Scot'.axd Xr.CiC; N. O. V Alwnys at his ollice wheu not professionally enac-l cli cohere. j R. C. l CHRISTIAN, Si OT.LAND Xr.rK, In. C, Ci'.U he ftruL'd Ul Li3 office over .lo-sey ISroU'.ers' store whoa not prfd'essionally engaged elsewhere. 2 If. tf. MONEY TO LOAN. Op. imp-roved LV.rm lands in suras if sr0u and upwards. Loans repay sfov in srnali annual instalments thpiuh a erioel of 5 years, thus e'n aHhvi the borrower to pay oil' his indel-tt dness v;ithout OMiausting his en i) in any year. Apply to K. (). IHJKTOX, Jn., Attorney, 4 10 Gin. Halifax, N. C :n Y! ! HOMINY! HOMINY! 1 I keen best of hand at ail time 3 the HOMINY AM) M E A L. wb;ch I will sell at the Lowest Prices Possible. Call at the DKICX MILL and be surpr'. cd 1 :ow ur..w yuu can buy "W. H. KITCHIN. p p. m m si mm IGDMSUrfiPTIDN r5 U tJ i i if m 1 y a t -. i i js j- SCROFULA , BRONCHITIS COLDS "Mondvr rul Florh Producer. Mnnv hnvo gained on pound y- v d.-.y by it;' it--c. S.-.dV:; I'inulsion is not a secret rrir.edy. It contains tho siimulat-ii;-;- pi-oj)fvtieS of tho Ilypophos p ni lea uiul puro Norwegian Cod L- Oil, tho polev.ey of both Tr iie;- " L ,dy in'-reasod. It is used 1-y I'hv.-ici-tr.rf all over the vorlL PALATADLE AS MILK. S!1 ln oil Jtrmjnists. 3CCJTT &, iJSWNE, Chemists, N.Y. (For The Dk.mockat.) Never more will f clasp your hand, Your loved voice 1 shall hear no more; And 1 shall never see that land Of pleasant scenes we knew of yore. No never on a sunny day, Hear the sweet music of its stream.?: Or wander down its liowery vale, To where we dreamed our youthful dreams. Still wafted on the scented air, The songs ot birds rise clear and sweet, As when we gathered il jwers there; And drank the cadence oi the feast. Hut since that golden dream has died, It leaves a wound that nc"er can heal; Vet lovers dream ora happy life, Which ne'er can come for you and me. Not meet ajain, Oh! never more, They seem so near, those happy days; When Hope's bnrhf ; tai ihi-'.veu before, To shine adown time's misty ways. I sometimes think 'tis but a dream, And time will bring them back again; More blight than thev have ever seemed, Hut alas! my fond hopes are vain. We parted with kind words and bow, With farewell kiss and soft adieu; From her blue 03res the tears did Slow, They sparkled like the morning dew. Then as she went, I heard her sing, tk Adieu, adieu, may do for the gay.' How could she dream that life would bring, Xo meeting m some future day. .Memories of that happy past, Have left their shadows on my mind, Times's relentless barriers have cast: Many years and bright hopes behind, We no movement, Lut cares and tears, They can not dull the parting pain; Hut never can the weary year, Zither your form or beauty change. For on the tablets of my heart, And sweetly in my memories depth; Indelibly they arc painted there, Time cannot change, nothing but death. IVritin; 'Jonesboro Leader.) At one tiiiio, long ao7 it was cou .idered necossary that cliildieu should learn to write, and due at tention was wont to be paid to this branch of education. Onwarel progress has the senti ments of tlie people in some partic ulars, and in none more than in regard to tins subject. It is now ot minor importance whether a boy or a iil shall learn to write decent ly, provided they can lUuijuim and become proficient in the iaiern accomplishments. It is a disgrace to any institution of" learning that not ton per cent of its students over the ae of twelve can write a postal card to a l'rieud, but what it may become a tit subject of adverse crit cism by every post master and mail agent through whose hands it passes. And yet lew institutions, within our knowledge, can show a greater degree of proficiency in this respect especially among its male students. And why? Simply because they do not require the pupils to practice and to learn the art of writing. The majority of the number of our schools seem to prefer that its boys should understand how to find the value of x in an algebraic equa tion, before they learn how to write their fathers a decent letter, re minding him ot his pecuniary obli gations to them, or to their mothers, asking for a spool of thread, a few needles, and a box of creature com forts. We parents are old-fashioned enough to prefer the value of some other letter or letters to that of x ot y. Wc are anxious to sec letters from our children when abroad, that we can read, and show with pride, and let x and y take care of them selves until such letters can be written, even if the whole scholastic year is iequiied to bring the pupil to a respectable degree of profioien j cv to the neglect of every other studv. spelling. A. singer for breath was distressed, And the delors all said she must rest, Hut sh- took (j. M. I). For weak lung-., you fco, And now .she can Mn with the best. An athktj givo out, on a run, Ar. j lie feared hi career was juite done; M. I)., )::y o'.iirvc, tlayc back t:is lost nerve, And now lie. ran lift half a ton. A writer, who wrofo for a pn.e, Had headaches and in the eyes; M. I), was the spell That made him -pito well, And glory before him ,iov lies. These arc only examples of the daily triumphs of Dr. Pierce's Gold en Medical Discovery, iu restoring health aud reviving wasted vitality. Sold by all druggists. ROANOKE LANDS. A GREAT FACTOR IX THE WEALTH OF THE STATE. TilKin VALUE UNTOLD, AS VIEWED i;y a wise western north oakolinian". (Ashevilic Democrat.) P2ditors Asheville Democrat : 1 cmve space in your columns to bring before your readers in the West, and everywhere else it is possible to make impression, the claims of some of our Eastern brethren for aid; at all events, for sympathy, in their efforts to restore to it3 original pro-, ductiveness and yalue a large body of river lands, once of enormous agricultural importance; now, from the decay and disappearance of the works that once protected them, re turning only precarious reward to in vestment and industry. I refer to the lands along the low er Roanoke river, the most extensive and continuously fertile that border any of the rivers iu this tate; now, by exposure to annual, or more fre quent, overflow, so uncertain in their returns as to dishearten the most sanguine hopes and discourage the most indomitable energies ; once protected and secured by combined local effort, now, with the destruction of the original labor system, unable to oppose to the overwhelming forces of nature the feeble resistance of private, unassociated, unaided op position to the constantly recurring assaults of the rising waters. The Roanoke river is the largest and longest river which has its course almost wholly in North Caro lina; the only one rising in the Blue Ridge which reaches the Atlantic. Its drainage within the State is about 2,000 square miles. In its coarse it gathers a large body of water from its upper tributaries, the Dan , the Stannton, Mayo, Smith's, Ilyco and other rivers. These, in their upper courses, are swift and broad streams, in their swellings from heavy rains spreading themselves over b"oad low grounds with diminished currents, and subsiding without serious injury to ths adjacent lauds. These floods bring down with them enormous quantities of alluvium, which is swept onwarel over the rapids which continue untii the falls at Weldon are passed; and then, as the cur rent is retarded, it is deposited, as it has been . on either side, until on either bank, down to the approach of the river to it3 entrance into Albemarle Sound, a body of land has been created that is not surpass ed by the fecundity of the valley of the Nile or the exuberant richness of the Mississippi bottoms. Lut below tha falls at Weldon the channel of the river is sensibly nar rowed, the waters are compressed within more restricted compass, and the immense columns of flood that are pressed for war I with impetuous tumult from the country above, are forced to find relief when so restrict ed by invading the contiguous bot tom?. These bottoms early inflam ed the ambition and challenged the enterprise of agricultural venture. If they could be reclaimed, if they could be protected, if the waters could be repelleJ in time of flood, then no anticipation could be too ex trava2fnt in the calculation of re turns. And so it proved in expert ence. In time, wealthy planters with unlimited command of slave labor, obtained possession of the river lands. They had no competi tors for occupation, for wealth and labor coald alone conquer conditions as they existed. The great planters of Northampton and Bertie on the north side of the river, of Halifax and Martin on the South, combined their energies and their forces to re- pel the floods by the erection of such a system of levees as guard the plantations along the lower Miss issippi ; and with such success that on no lands along the Atlantic slope were such exuberant crops of corn and wheat, produced. Cotton did not enter largely into the agricultural system, but the grains above named were produced so largely and with such rich returns as to bring an annual fortune to the planters. Harvests of 20,000 bushels of wheat were not the infrequent reward of each plantation; and corn was pro duced in such quantities as to justi fy, m fact compel, the use by eacts planter of bis own schooncr, loaded at his own landing , to transport his crop to the markets of Norfolk, Baltimore or New York. Up to the war, and in fact until its fag the use of large slave la- ese lands were protected against freshets; and the great crops still made, though shut out from their original market?, were of in estimable service to the Confeder acy. The Roanoke plantations were its reliable and unfailing granary, and so long as the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad was hell by the Confederacy, so long was the army of Virginia relieved ot the fears of starvation. With the close of the war departed the glory of the Roanoke river lands. The struggle with the river was one t!i3t could never be intermitted. In cessant vigilance was exacted to re pel encroachment from the waters, to repair damages a soon as discover ed, and to do this, not In one place, but in a thousand, and to do it simultaneously and by concerted ac tion. When this power of concerted action was lo;t, then all the fruits of past achievement were lost. The river asserted its supremacy and na ture resumed her sovereighty. A territory once the most fertile , the best cultivated, the most productive in oar whole territory, reverted to the wilderness. The conquest over diillcalty was not all abandoned , and a feeble res liance upon chances, rather than reasonable expectation, gives cour age to some planters to try to wrest from the rich soil some of its exuber ant rewards. With what success the melancholy experience of last winter reminds us, when the people along the Roanoke were in a state of semi starvation, and when it was serious, ly proposed to convene the Legis lature in extra session to provide for pressing immediate wants ; and this because repeated freshets had over whelmed the land, destroyed t he crops , and left the planters stripped of the proceeds of their year's hope and toil. Tbi.s is a result not only melan choly in itself; it is reproachful to our commonwealth. It proclaims retrogradation in a once wealthy sec tion, when everywhere else is heard the exultant note of progress; it de notes the dr) mg up of the .sources of food supply when all around is rais ed the imperative demands of in creasing population ; it sounds the note of diminished State and coanty revenue, when, from every quarter, comes demands to meet the impera tive needs of a people enlightened with the spirit of au improving age; nnd it betrays the unwelcome fact of ruin and poverty in one section con trasted with life aud activity in all other parts, no more the elfects of 1: - il. . luuuieuee or negligence in me one than it is the undeserved good fort- une of the other. The one fails be cause he is opposed by obstacles in surmountable to unaided human ef fort; the other succeeds because more happy conditions await his energetic hopefulness. Retrieval of the conditions of Roanoke lands is not within the scope of private means, and is beyond the attainment of private effort. It i3 a work to which the State, in some shape or other, must put its hand. It would be disgraceful sur render to the rude forces of nature what intelligent energies had won from them in its conflicts with the turbulent river god; It would be lamentable indication of indolence, indifference or parsimony to yield without resistance to forces once poved to be complaisant when bold ly assaulted, and to welcome desola tion back to what had once been converted into a teeming garden. I do not know what those who direct attention to the surject pro pose to do, farther than that Mr. K. E. Ililliard of the Scotland Neck Democrat suggests appeal to the Legislature to permit the application j of local convict labor to the work of j redemption. Compared with the slave force once deemed imperative ly necessary to the gigantic straggle, such convict application would be of inappreciable weight. The State must take a broader, wiser, more energetic position. It rcu?t do this in its Impartial regard for the inter ests of all sections; it must do it in prudent rcarn for its own interest?: it must do it in regard to its own reputation for intelligence. The lime has passed, it is to be hoped, when the different sections of the State viewed with hostile eye aid appropriated to one part at the apparent expense of the other. Those sections neither knew the wants, the necessities, the characteristics of the others; therefore thiy were not in j sympathy with them. The west suf fered from the unsympathetic ignor ance of the eastern members of the Legislature who wacd ur.Ci-a-in : warfare against the turnpike Mai? so indispensable to a mountain coun try, the east sutured equally by Ce ignorance of the west when at : erf. 4 was made for digging of canaU. w.-.,. ter ways and drainage. The one was overburdened and shut in by mountains he other was drowned with a surplusage of water: neitutr knew or appreciated the condi'f. n .f the otter. They understand each other better now. No better !eS..n;o! the history of the Western North i n .13 i c l L' i cu l ; j u i untj ur'i i , Carolina railroad. 1 1 3 progre-s wns j contested step by etep ; and th: tat with difficulty was brought u..t t admit the prospective value (if the work , tmt to give reluctant ai 1. Ao'tv , every one admits tnat its cu:- ; pletion has practically g lvcn a n e world to North Carolina, and the whole Slate shares in the profits: for alrudy the taxable value of pro perty in the west l as so greatly in creased as to materially diminish tie burdeus of the east. Therefore, if the west 13 called up on to aid the east, or any other sec tion, let it do so with intelligent promptness. The good of one part enures to the benefit of the whole. Each and every section has its pe culiar, often apparently opposite, interests. But none of tuera are an tagonistic. They are all a part of the great common stock of one com monwealth, and all to be cherished, promoted and defended as the great patrimony and property of the whole. J. D. Cameron. ri pplic;itiou in Vontli. 1Y MRS. ANNA N. IRWIN. For The Democrat,) I Precious be ond rubies r.re the j hours of youth. Lt none of them I pass unprofitably away, for curely they make to themselves wing?, and ! they arc like a bird cutting s-.v'ftly ! the air, and the trace of her can no more be found. Youth should ac custom themselves to raise their minds and their hearts towards I bevren, end soir ;n thought beyond the sun, moon , and stars unto onr Creator; reflect upon his grandeur, and adore him in silence, when the sublimity of the night shall fill our souls. Let me urge upon my young friends the imporanca of taking loftier and better views of life than those taaght by the vain world. It would be a sad thing to see any of you make your life a blank, whose kten susceptibilities, whose noble powers, whose deep affections lavish too much of your time upon dress, gayety and fasbionable visiting , Lvear the bri ht ap.)arel 0f the but , who pparel of the butter fly, whose conve'rsatiou finds no higher or more improving subject than the idle gossip of the day, the last party, or the never failing topic dress. I implore you to take loftier and better views of life than those. I would not draw you from the rational pleasures of society, or bring one gloomy cloud npon your youthful sky. I still would dead for some serious hours; some time appropriated to the culture of the mind ; some industrious moments. The enri:hing of the memory with stores of useful knowledge. Do as sured there is no beauty like that of goodness, there is no power like that of virtue. Personr.l beauty may at tract the admiration of the passing hour, but there is richer beauty of moral worth. The loveliness of the soul commands the deepest rever ence and secures the mo3t lasting af fection. In the morning of youth yoa have launched your barqie upon the sea of life under the moat favora ble auspicies. It is the wish of your friends that your voyages may be one of serenity and peace, and when their mission is performed may they safely anchor in the haven of ever lasting happiness. 20-j I rln hmen: Street. San Iranlt.io. November 3. 1S6D. Microbe killer Co. : Gentlemen--After sufferi: z from catarrh fur ei;zht years , doring widen I tried various patent medicines and 4. i .1 t, 1 t ...-:: .. even specialist5, ' determined to gjye yoar Microbe Killer a trial. After two jugs had been taken an improve- ment in my health became pe-rcep- tible, which steadily continued. Now I am taking my seventh jug. I am so far recovered, as to entertain or.ee more a hope which I had long Soit that of a complete und radic.il cure. Gratefully yours , Henry Keo..io. For sale by E Co , sole agents. T. Whitehead a ! i l' .! A IM KMC Tin lit l!' r wing -':pp-d from i'.;i :iht u:;d cmLtt d American tin- Western windier !, ought ! be intcn--:i:ig t ot;r 1. inner fru-nd-I he farmer from the very i;.i?u:t h 'Hvcp.H t.-n L.-e- many oi ; i. J.-erY.lt .oil III. it au' c:)i"-Vt '! l" u;t n of 111 -t ctin I Hate suriuimd cdinug ins immct I ings oivupy :.; ei Lis s time ;iiid an cation and bixlavs for rfrie.it;-:; : and mi..g!.ng broadly with his fe: i lowmeii ai lew and far U t v een. j lie sli uid. tbeicfoie. when uppur , itanltv oti' -is lii eiim inn ;mi:i ul h:-i own Lib, 'i wi'h that of others in th. ; same lawnc.- s take ad an; age oi it i no i, ins oner an o : ee; .es-c I I C . . - .V i worthy of his -tmly. He finds at : them an a--enib!ago of the lie-:, prodm-t- of Ins fellow laboier.s. lie j can theie judge by eom pai iso'i as to i Ins own status in his bu-im-.-s. 1: he finds t h;it others are outdoing; him he is stimulated to gieatei j Cfl'oit. He is led to inquiie how ; certain u-Miits aie attained: to seek j informat ion that cannot iai! to be of advantage to him when fie re turns to his ioiind of toil. 1 1 i w ife. I who : should accompany him, alsoj finds .strong competition in her linej of tint ies and Icai us secrets valuable ; to her iu the kiteli'-n. dairy and1 parlor. Time -qent at the fur wiii! be well spent, be it one day or mote. IT i e ideas will be brightened up b j i Contact with others. The splnt ol 1 emulation will be aroused, and you i will go home feeling that what ; o-hers c.:n aceoninlish is also w ithin 1 ------ , your power. What you see at the! fairs will give you new zet fei 1 your calling, and you will go b;iel. j to the daily routine of labor with a ! eiiecrfu'ness and :. lei itnuate-:- not . measurable in the dollars and cents ; by which profits are sordidly icek oneil. (ioto t be exhibit ions wit!; note book and pencil and jot down the items of informations that oui think wiil piovc of especial value ; to you. Lxhibi'ors an; as a iule very willing to diseu -s methods b ; . t which they leave achieved success. y and the. items you can thus gleiiu . will recompense you twice over hu , time and expenses to say nothing oi ; the enjoyment you will gain fiom ; your outing. Ye, go to the lairs i by all means, even if something j, must be left undone at homo which!;. you feel ought to he done. Let the - , greater advantage have precedence over t he lesser. Win. Madam's Mic-ob: Killer Co., New Orleans, Li. : I have u ;:d the Micrrol e Kdhr in my own family, as well r-.s tevern! of my handd on the plantation for the past twelve months, and find it to be of greut benefit in all ca-es. I keep a supply on hand at all time? . J. LmWiRMl"! I!, S .dsbur. 181)0. Piantatio: June 25, Wr.-r Li: North Carolina, Sept. lCtb, l.C Dr. A. T. S.iAi.r.r.Nci-R'.i:::. Rochester, Pa. Dear Sir : The two boxes of Pills you sent me d; I everything you said they would. My son was the victim of Malaria. deep-set , by living in Florid -i two years, and the Antidote ha? done more than live hundred dollars worth of other medicines could hav done for Mm. I have had or.c of r.v neighbors try th? medicine, ;.r.d i cured mm immeui.-n'jiy. l r ow commend it to every one s.u:i'. from Mal'.-.ri. it-;-?: -.e fully yr-.r:-, V. W. Mo-.. re-dr.-' ii m:ii-';i!Ie IIe ire. yirs. ji; m.. C' -.1 '' c : i ? ' 1 1 n 1 - . i r . - h-- "J w- C: phy M t to1 u- :n. drnggi-t - Discnyi r Co.:-:-;mr;t ioi bought a oo-.tio ar ; fought h-re'T b d. Sh? c;:.t:r. o L' I.er deiii tiie J from Lie its u-e i after trd ; self -ou own hoi: . hot well fo'J .d ; , l.oW dt.-CK in! bof lei of r r ! ever wi-. Free trial j Great Di.-.co . e. y at K Whitehead v.v Co.'s dru j stor iar.Tfi Lott!' it. d ?UJj. 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The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
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