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. c 4. DEMOCRAT r - v V iixlLIARD, Editor and Propiretor. voT-llli i; s S 1 O N A L. 7 .yo. M( UOWELL, ,nlrP Vi.-t'u corner New Hotel it. ;-. .t.axi.' Neck, N. C. -:tV3 at his office when not .liy engaged elsewhere. , c LIVE II M A N, I)" Ciir. M:::i :i:vl Tenth Streets 1 1 AITOIINKV AT LAW, H rili fax , Is" . C. Halifax and adjoining ! a A t- Federal and Supreme I U1 ' 1) A !!) l!Khh, TTOHNKY AT LAW, . .n the Co arts of Halifax .- i ' i'. unities and in the Su-j ; ' ' tli i.nil Courts. Claims col ; ;,'a; mi-is of 'he State. 3 S ly. W. a !':- NN, Arr u R N K Y AT LA W, r-i "TLanp Neck, N, C, , wherever his services are . ,'vn ;. fel.i: ly. ,t ' 11. aITCiU N, . a : :u;:- . v a. 1 Counset.OK AT Law. Scotland Neck, N. C K?2;- i :. : Coiner Main and Tenth vr,.!v 1 5 ly. K.n. F.rKT.-N, -Ik. E- li Tkavis, BUPTON & TRAVIS. A iiu.iNr.vss and Counselors at Law, HfcLIFAX, N. C. i n v. u-.i:.: .v. weM-?n. K. kansom, weldon. DAY, RANSOM, 1 AT TOUNEY AT LAW, V.'eldon, N. C. I.. I. 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Many American families on their return from r.broad bring my erticles with them, foi tuy know them pretty weir, nut you may not be one of these . Confidence between man and man Is slow of growth, and when found, it:? rarity makes it valuable. I ask your confidence to this Journal to endorse that confidence, I do not think ic will he rainlac d. I rr.ul.e the best form of a cure ?n absolute one for biliousness and headache that can be found in this year. The cure ia so small irj itself and yet its comfort to you in so great 20 minutes being its limit when relief comes that it has become the marvel or time. One and a half grains of medicine, coated with sugar, is my remedy, in the eliape of one small pill, known to commerce as Dr.. Daybook's NEW LIVER PILL. It is old in the markets of Europe, but is new to North America The price is as low as an honest medicine can be sold at, 25 cents. Send a postal card for a sample vial, to try them, before you purchase. Each vial contains Twenty Tills. Trice Twenty-five Cents, For sale by all druggists. Send a postal card for copy of pamphlet 'The Liver and its mys tery," It furnishes valuable infor mation to all. HAYLOCK & CO,, C3 Fulton St., 4 7 lvr. New Vork ITS. All i . - stoppe ; free by lr ! line's 'Jreat .'rye lies; er. J(o i its cer first day' use. M ellous c::ies Treatise $2.00 t-ial bot'l? free to Fit i -ses. Send Dr. Kline, 031 Arch St Vhiladelphia, i' NOTICE ! I shall sell at the Court hoaee in Halifax nn Monday the Cth day of J me 1692, 1005 acres of land in Taluvrra township, listed by AV. D. Turweil to ssiify State and County taxes due tor 1801, amounting to $27.50. This May 3rd, 1802. B. I. ALLSRROOK, 5 o t. Shenif. II B. LEE, & Lee, ealers Richmond, Va- tr -j. i- & New and Setom HAiyo SCHUBERT. The beet Low-Tnced Tiano on the market. Contains ail the modern iicproyements. MASON lS- HAMLIN. Rich and Reascnablo m price. New mode ,,f string g. V . ...n & I ' - 'jlio, 1 ore a. a Mud. 20C.O0O in ui-e. I'm f ()ra!S.--San)pl-i ii; warv. r.iom. Will pay ex press to Richmond and return ii church rcpersen utive buys aTipe Organ. Ml '? --''I STOCK OF RYLAND 9c LEE, RICHMOND, VA. SCOTLAND Till: OIJ .AOIt Til HT4TK S. L. DIXON". Carolina, Carolina, the land of the free, What treasures of wealth and beauty in thee! From your surf-beaten beach to the mountains in blue. No land lias more pjrandeur and glory than you. The words of your freedom are first that were taught; The Congress of States your language did quote; Defiant to kings your Hag you unfurled, Your freedom of speech istounded the world. Within your grand limits are all products of soil, Enriching the stores of those who do toil; While your mines in their wealth the tale is not told But has paid her miners m lumps of fine gold. Your fruits and your llowers with Eden compare; Your fields are as fruitful as Canaan's lands were; Your people the freest from faction and strife, Your daughters, the purest to make a good wife. Your churches and colleges here high do rise, With spires and towers that point to the fekies; Asylums are built for deaf dumb and blind. And those that have lost the helm or the mind. Your telegraph wires and lines of railway lu praise of youi progress have much for to say; Like lightning and thunder they go fcide by side, And progress is taking an excursiou ride, Carolina, Carolina, the land of the brave, What tyrant dare come your land to en slave? Old Tryon once tried her, but lost in the game, For Lincoln took from him that county's first name. The Regulators and Pi.ifer Hill boys Did burn some gun powder that made a great noise; Old Tryon's mean heart did sink in de spair, lie knew the youn lions would break his lair. Great Britain's Cornwallis did once stop to rest But the hornets did sting him and he roon quit the nest; lie was worn ovt at Guilfcrd, gave up at Yorktown, Eor Green and Dan Morgan did well crush his crown. Carolina, Carolina, the noblest of States, Yrjnr Vance and your Kansom are noblett of mates. On the ship of their SUte with others they'll stand, To moor her quite safe from the rock and the sand. With the sun shining brightly and happy your crew, And the dark, sullen clouds receding in view. The Hag of your freedom more proudly can wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O, who would not love the land of his birth! Tne lu:me of his chd Hiood is the deaic-.-t f em th ; I'he grsw of hi father and mother air th..-re A i d ever-, thing e!si that can make earth deai'. Mr, llillion' ICide. When Mrs. Million goes to ride ehe travtds forth in Stat-, Her horses, full of fire and pride go prat-iing from the gutc ; But all the beauties of the day ehe view? with lanquid eye, Hrr fl?sh in weakness wastes away, her voice is but a sigh. For Mr3 Million i in an advanced stage of catarrh, and all the luxuries that wealth can liuy fnil to give her comfort. She envies her rosy wait ing maid, and wou'-d give ail ber richen for fl at jouni: woman's pure breath ami tdowmin lie . 1th. Now. d sonic true ar;d di-nMi ri -He i frisnd would adv:?e Mrs. Million of the wonderful merits of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, s'.i would learn ih.it iore are is not p .: i help. 5v0 re ward is offered by the manufacturers for a case of catarrh in the head which they cr-nnot cure. The Democx-at Freel To every person who sends ns a club of five sub scribers we will give THE DEMOCRAT Free. Cash must accompany the list of names. If the subscrp tions are to run a Year the free copy will be sent a Year or for anytime the subscriptions run- igv "ASAKESTS " jrives instant R relief and is an infallible W Cure for Piles. Price $1. By W Drupsriftor mail. Samples llfree. Addrw8MANARESI8." XSf BOS 2416. Knrjwjs .Citn -EXCELSIOR" I?oUIl MOTTO. NECK, N. C. THURSDAY. .11' XK !. lSi2. rnTjri QT A IfDQ 17 1 Ol rAxVl EjO Li TWINS INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF CHANG AND ENG. THEIR HOMES awl FAMILIES. Richmond Dispatch.; Tbe recent death near Mt Airy, N. C, of Mrs. Sallie Bunker, widow of Eng Banker, one of the world renowned Siamese twin, recalls to mind mnch of the domestic history of these gentlemen and the:? lami lles, but comparatively little or which has ever iound it way into print, and which now conies direct from one who lived in the neigh borhood of their homes in the Old North State, and who was a perso nal friend of the twins fiom his youth up. Chang and Eng were born in tbe year 1811, in the lowlands of Siam, ot humble parentage, and at at early age lost their father. As soon as they were old enough to be of use to their widowed mother she put them to the light work of tend ing a large flock of ducks, which they used to carry out every morn ing in a boat to a neigh boring marsh, where the wild rice was plentiful; there they remained all day and at night, at tbe blowing of a born, the ducks would waddle back to the boat, crawl aboard, and then tbe twins would paddle tbem home. When tbe boys were proba bly 12 or 13 years of age an English traveller named Bunker happened that way, !.and, after viewing tbem with amazement, for a stipulated consideration with their mother, obtained possession of them Leaving the East .shortly after, Mr Bunker for several years ex hibited the twins 111 every part of the known world, treating them with great kindness and making money by them where he went, un til in 1S32 be had amassed a fortune, and tbe twins being by this time of age, be considerately gave them their freedom, with permission to adopt his name, and with enough ready cash to start tbem comforta bly m life. This happened in Raleigh, N. C;.and the young men, though they loved their protectoi well, loved IreedoiH better; so, with a friendly parting on both sides, they started out to make their way alone and yet together. Whilst in Raleigh they beard some talk regarding tbe excellent hunting to be found in tbe mountainous p-it of the State, and wishing for a little recreation they journeyed to the Tiedmont section, where they liually took up their resilience at tbe bouse of a well-to do farmer named Yates, living in tbe county of u ike, Mt u iHd ar the foot of the Bine Rulge mountains, ami vjnt.v-fi v miles of G leenOoro'. Farmer Yates was fond of th cha-e. Living in i:ood. old-fasb-ioued stle, with plenty of negroes and dogs, raising supplies of all kinds, and sorronmW by a laree family, he took life easy aad made it pleasant for the twins, who boarded with him for a considerable time. v hilst there Eng Bunker became greatly attached to Miss Sallie Yates aud Chang Bunker lost his heart to Miss Adelaide. Some time between 1S3.J and 1S40 a double marriage took place at the residence of Fatber-iu-Law Yates, and tbe twins commenced their married life on a farm which was ju easy dictftpce of their wives1 old houistertd. Here they lived happily, fanning part of the time and at intervals going on the road with Barnum and others, returning home occasionally to their families and firesides with well-filled pockets But, the farm on which they lived oiu hot suit t lie twins, so iney purchased ahout 2,000 acres in the adjoining county of Surry, within three miles of then the little village of Mt. A:rv, now the terminus of 7 the Cape Fear and Y'adkin-Valley railroad. On this estate they erect ed a large, comfortable frame bouse, with all necessary outbuildings, and made mauy improvements. Being of a cheerful, kindly dispo sition, their lives passed smoothly for manv vears, whilst eeverai childien weie born to each wife. Some ot the children were nearly trrown when one day, from some cause or other, a squabble ensued in which the mothers took part and subsequently Chang and p;ng, who, being men of spirit and courage, . drew knives and were a' nt ' at -. j tack each other when tin' wiv,-. j ! 8eein tlje dAn'r' bPSl them to j desist. The twin- cea'd !rn.T- ghnr, but decided that tbev won!. I then and then te s"iir.re jand at once sent to Mt. 1 their family physician. (Iingswortb, a m-m with A:r v J'r 1 Vr. qu U local reputation as a hkdlfui -ur-j geon He arrived with hi lntrn merits, aud alter being told wh.tt j was wanted, remarked Ver well; just get up on that table and Til fix you, but which would -u prefer, tbit 1 should sever tbe lle-h that connects you or cut otl" vur heads? One will product rnneh abont the same results :t the other." This brought tht twins their senses, for they know vt-r well that the reat surgeons in London, Tans, New York had de cided thatjt would be death to separate them. In a peiplexity of mind how to guard against future warfare 111 their household, the twins railed in Dr. Hollingw8worth and Messrs. Gilmore and Rawley, of Mt. Airy, as arbitrators. Theso gentlemen, after revolving the problem in their minds, drew up a legal contract whose principal provisions w-re that out ot tbe money owned tn tbe twins a similar mansion and like out-buildings a those which they then owned should be built on the large estate about one mile f'om the exi't'iig homestead; that the l.md should be eqnally divided between tbe brothers by a compe tent surveyor ; that no transaction of a business nature should rake place on these farms between the two brothers; that the family of Clung should live in one I.cmm', whilst tMt ot Lug should 11 v in the other, and whilst the wivi-s occasional! v visited each other it is woith noting that foi many 3 ears the children did not mterch mge visits, thongh they met at church, or 111 the village. I was also agreed that; Ing should speid three days nnd three. n'ghts with bis folks and that Chang (who. of course, could not help being present) should, during that time, remain passive and not in any way interfere with the affairs of Eng; then Chang should spend three days and nights at his own house, during that time as mindful of attending strictly to bis own business, and not that of his brother, as Chang- bad been. These pro isioiiN we re accepted and re ligiously observed by the bortbers uutil death, they alternating ev-iy three days in th"ir visits to th'ir family. Indt ed, so particular were they in not having bu-iness f ab actions with each other that if, for iustance, Eng needed corn for bis cattle, and Chang had u 1 i sale, Eng never once hinted at buying from his brother. And again. n worn -times happened, i( one brother received invitation ' 1 n ! 1." t" , the other would, I course, o, our, u;n te.iving n I i; un.k to the 5;.-t, '1 w id nay m v 1- ! t you at s-ome future time.7' Allusion has beeu made to the cheer tat disposition of the twin-. They were lively and very fond of a joke, and several might be iclated did -pace permit. Two will suthce. On one occasion, while d riving through the neighborhood in a buggy, they were thrown out, resulting in one being badly bruised, wbil-t the other escaped without a scratch. It then became necessary for ti e injured twin to remaiu in bed f-.r a week, and, of course, hi brother had to do likewise, explaining to a friend who called to see. them that he sfned there to I ok alter bis v J brother and keep off the flu -. The other joke occurred on a trip thev made from Greeusboro to Raleigh. Before starting Eng pur- eiiased one tick' t : they then bo.nd ed the tr;in, and after awhile ' : t conductor came around for tickets Eng handed his up, but Chang, with a merry twinkle in his eye, ie marked: "I have no ticket, audi have no money." Then when the conductor threatened to put him of! En" iuteroosed and told him that could not be done, as he (Eng) b-d given up h.s ticiiet. At tins the passengers raised snch a laugh that the conductor concluded to pass Chang, whose passage was, 1, -t-ever, soon after properly pa.d. for in all dealings they were study honorable. So far as can be learn ed their lives at their homes w re irreproachable; they were virtuous, temperate, scrupulously honest, sociable, charitable, aud whilst j never having professed religion they Hurht of ail in Iiframj Por: 1 ABSOUUTEltf PURE often attended charcb; their tnm. ners and dress were thoe of g-i 'Ie men, though their educati-tn hd been gained almost entir If bv trarel. They are naturali.e l citi zens and regularly vnted the Dctuo-; cratic ticket. When the war ended it foun them; with forty or fifty !a?es. and, ttouh theee of course were liberated, they had hidden supplier of goUl wh'ch carried them comfortably through. This act was well known, au 1 after Stonemin's raid through thnt ec tion the twins were one day narprm ed by a camp-follower who forced himself into their presenco and de manded their gold. Upon an Im mediate refusal ho threitene 1 tn shoot, whereupon thev loth rone from the chair on which they wren seated and exclaimed "1 yon, shoot !" aud theu hustled the fellu out. During their travels the twin sc cutnulated much money, and in their absence from home their wive managed their property in nn ex cellent manner. Several children were born to each wife, and these all received a first-clas education and were brought up as raombM of the church, principally of the B i !i-t denomination. All the children, sav e one deaf and dumb daughter, were healthy and strong, hav nrtr ried , and are counted as Rome of the best citizens of that section of th State, and inherited about $200,bOo left by their father. The last scene in the hi'tory of the twins was as sad as it was re markable, aud without, precedent . Whilst with Barnum In 187.'S Chae had puflered from a sbht stroke of paralysis, but after medical treat ment urvl rest, had apparently re covered, ao Cbriatr.ia wn- merrily spei-t at 1 'in -. A h.'jf t' I.Vhor 20th - f January, ' 7!, U' tviris! were over at V !.mi d ;:, 'r! a conifortabl -i supper, folloved by their usual pipe, thev r'irr.' v aeerning pood health. Enrly t tie next raorninjz Eng woke up, nnd, called to his wife, asked i.er to a- certain what ailed Chain;, as he could not be awakened. .Mrs. Silbe Banker, very soon realized that Chang was no more, dispatched a boy on horseback to the village (some three miles distant) for Dr. Hollingsworth . After the messen ger had gone, Lng complained of feeling numb and cold in hi ex tremities, ar.fi bin f-imily lid all tne y could to restore the circulit.ion. lie rupidly grew colder, and wituin nn hour after awakening and before the doctor arrived lie had joined hi tirother on tho farther shore. As soon aa possible Dr. Holllngswnrtu tele grBphed the new to Dr. Tneoat, of Thiladelphia. This gentlrman took the next train for Greeusboro, ' and upon his aut eequent arrival at the house of Kng, he arranged with the families of the deceased, eo that by giving heavy bonds for their safe re turn be was permitted to take the bodies to Thiladelphia in the interest of science. They were then era balmed, and would have rerajined there for some time had it not been that Mr. Crtstopher Bunker, one ( I the sor.8, who was in the We it at the time of his father's death, turned home, and objecting to the bidi being in Thiladelphia, went there at ODce. and had tbem brought back to the farm, where they were tM bur:. .1 in a grave in front of Mr Adelaide Bunker's hoaf, and hesvy granite monument w then upon erected to their memory. ."Sow fry 'I' hl. It will cost you nothing and w surely do you aood. if yoa have Couh, Com, or nuy aou.-.rf w.,.i Throat, Cheat or Lurjgs. Dr. King" New Discovery for Cons'iuipMori. Couzha and Colds is aua:ntced l give relief, or mot,ey will be puio" hacL-. ii;Terers frooj La fjrip; e foQD 1 it ju -1 the thi. .j, -.nd .r,der it" use ;-.lac otdy crd j em : : ' ery. Try a - mpie ; ott!e at ou pen; ie. ! how aood a thing it 1 Tri.i O'jt j ties tree at i.. 1. " u li aise Drug "store. Large $1.00. .VJo, hlji uti t Ijillun ftl OO )rr LIU No. 17. i5 Powder Influence lb" grct ot.r il nt in:i 1 fhov are tesfnj i.'Vrt 1 f.r mi I urevil by I'll, wc "ir, tiv wlit w d , nt:d by what we are. A bunch of fragrant (Sower in the parlor will nin atoratelh at tnptrrf of th entire room. And we cn no mrr rpTent our iniluene going out tha.i '.tie f.uwer can preve.it It fragrance. You tiiade a utrlkinjj rrtrark thia u:irmng in the prt-aenco of !itl!r tnj a mi 1 that will be freah In tlnir minds f .r fifty years 1 The lct of roor wending your way every LorT day to the house of prayer, though )ou s;ak not to any one by the way, fill Knoll make an tmprnaton upou .tie mind of every rational pfciann t h tdserve y ou. If your immIi tiers regard you a a gd man and tl.ey "'ill if you are jood vu will MM. have n secret maic power over fh-- u. And it doea not require, in r b r to be inDuential. that we h-ivn re.it talentf, great wealth and jrreat o sforical power. Miiten wa the ;r -idrat Iran of fiia melioration; .fotm the M iptist wai raiscil in obo-anty ; I'r.il wag often in abject want of the com moncHt bleB.lnii of every day lib; and theao men exerted the tfrcaJest influenco of any men in their day. And an important item i. ii. tt nor influence dop not die with oh, but it pM-H n, for m"ud or evi1, according aa we hme llvrd, aft: c ahnll have p.med nw.jy. Toil find Tuin are dead, but thov are exerting wider influence now thnn when they lived. And cmi we aTord, in onr hirl protat ion try s'-itc, to how u crop of 'lire.-, ft,i. h wi:! thrive and tdootn, mi I brin lorth a t r.) after nre goiie?--l.i. 3ome StaUstitfcs to Reiuembi r (F'.X'"!::..lg.-,. By th" lust renu't thr totnl hank i :g CMp a I in t lie I n ' : ed S ! rn w n 717,000,000. Tho work in,.' nun ..f thiii co'iiitry j;olo down the vnlun of all the bank in thi country in nine months. Tbp value of th mines whi fl,- l()0,00'),b((). In 1 t months Ihnt . im.- tire value dlHipeared down the throat of the country who rnno d heir money by their muscle in the fnri of drink. The mill and fiictorb- of tin coor.irv cost f 10' I.OOOifn, :,! in four month all f ti latiori-rs wh-i Irink swallowed nil the tnilli arrl raCtoMC. The railroad in 1HH0 were cip- It'tbze I at 5,0tHI,0!)(,,O(JO . I. .it even una enormous aum i hw'iiiowi down in three moruh le thin yenrs. 1'ive month of liquor drinking tiy tie lat firing men of thi coootry seven To awallow up all the capital Inveate.i in telegraph atock in f! 3o-intr'. And thin baioe n'i!i ' he 'eb -jraph, is under irove'nmer.f ;Mitrol. Tint is where the wsnte cmnoi in. I'h'it would have wrecked the Roman Ktnpire in its pa!rniel dayn. We were told that our circulatii.p rr.c- itrn sf the close of the nr a f 1,0 )0. 000,000. It take jud or,e jci' ;md a half for onr j eop'e to awillow that amount at the present rat'-. It goes down the tl roat of f.'ir people in tbe form f liquor in a ypir and a half. Nr-imeti 4 use. 11. t :lf -rd , New C H Wl IrouOied Willi Ui.eumatiiiL, 1. 1 torn wa d, i, hi- Liver war; :!'.c'.td to nn '.lirminz degree, appetite f l awny and he was terribly reduced in rit-sh a'jd -tre-egth. Three bottles of L ivctnc Bitters cured him. JvU'urd Snepherd, Harrishurg. Ll. ;..jd a runt.ing Mir'- o,j hi- Irg of 'itd ) ears btundin?. '-cA turee 'ottirf of hiectric Title's and s.-ven ',' ixts of BucKiea's Arnica '. t e. .t'i hi- eg :s -!und and w 11. .Joha . i . . 1 .. 1 A . ...... x" i 1- ever rores on tU leg doctf ra a -id . kui iocurable. Ost bofle E;ec- ric Bitters and one box Bock I en' a Arroca .i'vc cij'f i h:ro entirely. W Litehc-d .V Co'b , 1 S dd by h. 1 1 1 Drug Store. 25
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