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a ,. i t WILMINGTON, N.C, FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 241881. . 'I 4 i t 1 i 1 i 4,1' t 1 f'abllftixcd under tbe auspices or the New Hanover County Prohibition Ko rietj. VKUV I.ttPOIlTA.Vr. The law requires that books for registration should bp open election. Similars are nor in eluded in thn count. Failure to appoint will cause the -election to po by default X Then is dnncir that iii many counties this" will bo overlooked. nil DUTIFUL JLIV11H. Beautiful lips are those whose words Leap from the heart like Rongs of birds, Yet whose utterance prudence girds. Beautiful bands are those that do Work that Is earnest and, brave aud true Moment by moment the long day through. . s Beautiful feet are those that go On kindly ministries to and fro Down ' lowliest ways, if God wills It so. Beautiful shoulders are those that bear Ceaselessly burdens of homely care, With patient grace and jdaQy prayer , .?Uiifl!;iUiTrXlll',t Wh06e hidden" fountains but few may guess. Tlmaj Great Wen Were Poor Hoy. An anonymous wTiter recently recit ing the benefits of tluit excellent insti tution, the ''Orphan Homes," thus speaks of the capability of indigent white children; "Who can sav what God has fixed as the 'station in life of any white child ? Uttle Watts and tho tea kettle; Peter Cooper, the mechanic millionaire; Cor nelius Vanderbilt, who mourned all his life that ho hid no education, and who used to pull a buttery boat for hire; Alexander II . Stephens ,who went to college on foot, and years later saved the whole estate of a lady who had for gotten that she gave him supper and bed, Mrs. Parks; John Gilon, the sculptor; Benjamin West, the great painter; eTerY American President save one, poets, statesmen, authors, divines, benefactors of tho world, from Baron Chief Justice i'enderton, who was a tarber, to Napoleon Bonaparte, who was a nobodv, and then a First Lieu tenant of artillery; these arise and pro test that God alone knows what isHhe station in life of a ioor child. This writer lias been of some use, at least to himself. lecause liev. Dr. Samuel K. Talmage. thought a poor lad, might le lit for a college education, nod Senator Joseph K. Brown, thought a good mine worker might be a lawyer,; This should encourago wliat the world ils "poor boys;" bnt thestf boy so far from being poor, are richly ..dowed with excellent gifts, developed by stern necessity, from being thrown out upon their own resources. Tho moneyed toys often have the gifts also, but have no need of exertion, and hence make no effort. The world has to thank the "poor bovs" for nearly all of its great things. " It proves that nature bos ttinked energy and pluck with the noble reward of success and fame. ., , . .i What Royal Chlldreu Do. The education of Queen Victoria's grand-children Is conducted on the prin ciple that the Prince Consort introduc ed in her family. Particularly is this true of the children of the Crown Prin cess of Germany. Thcv have to rise early and retire early. During the day they have punctually to perform their duties, and to keep strictly the time al lotted to the various branch of study and recreation. They breakfast at eight with their parents, and the time between ten in the morning and five in the after noon is devoted to their lessons, with an interruption of one hour for dinner. Accomplishments, such as riding and skating, receive the same, attention as art and science. Their meals consist of simple dishes, of which they have their choice, without being; permitted to ask. for a substitute if whit is placed before them does . not . suitA Between meolsj ttiey tfu, not UKtl u ca&r :tfnly Inex pensive xoys are piacea in weir nanas, and tho princesses dress themselves without the aid of waiting maids. Trance Vojanee. Some interesting sceintific experi ments demonstrating the truth or the disputed-phenomena of clairvoyance have recentlv been made by Dr. G. M. JLJeard. The?'sensitive" was a lady. A first epertnept failed, but on a second irial the lady, whoso eyes were covered with cotton and closely bandaged, was able to name accurately cards drawn at random from from a pack and held by the doctor upon her forehead. She also read the title-page of a volume which the doctor took from his pocket. Dr. Beard calls the faculty trance-voyance, and thinks tliat it may be developed to such a dogree that the person gifted with it can read entire pages of ordinary print held against. the forehead. The lady, describing her sensations, says that an electric light seems to be thrown forward from the buck of the brain upon the object held upon her forehead, illu minating it and enabling her to see it distinctly. - - The LargeMt Hog aud Cow. It is reported in some of our ex changes that the 'largest hog in the country is a Poland-China, four years Lhis vii4, lat4f -oa-oxUibiticMi-ofc Junction City, Kansas. His length is seven feet; girth of neck six and a half feet; girth of chest seven and a half feet; girth of center eight feet; width across tho hips, thirty iuches, and weight one thousand hve hundred and thirty-two pounds. Posey county, Indiana, claims to have raised the largest cow in the world. Her name is Ladv Posey; breed, mixed Durham and Big English. Her meas urements are: Greatest height, five feet ten inches; girth, eight feet nine inches; length, ten feet six inches, or including the tail, seventeen feet. Her form is good, ami though not fat. she weighs three thousand pounds. Her color is red" and whiti red predominating. Age, six years. Her present owner lives in Starke count -. , 111. Flo wen at Eight Times ' ' Weight in Gold.' Their Scribner for June. ' 1 The cut flower business, nother phase of horticulture, is perhaps greater in the United States than in; any othej part of the world. Certainly the use of cut flowers iu the New Yorkfoi; bou quets baskets; and wther design nj-wfAt greater than in either London Or Paris, and the taste shown in their arrange ment here is vastly superior. It is esti mated that $3,000,000 was paid for cut flowers in New York in 1SS0, one-third of which was for rose-buds. Immense glass structures are erected in the su burbs for the special purpose of growing ing cut flowers to supply tho bouquet makers of the city. Not less than twenty acres of glass surface is devoted to tb.e purpose of forcing roses alone during the winter months. At some seasons the prices paid for these forced rose-buds are perfectly astounding. One grower, of Madison, N, J., took into New York three hundred buds of the crimson roso known as "General Jacqueminot," for which he received at wholesale $300, and which, no doubt, were retailed at $1 50 to $2 each. A flower dearer in Fourteenth street, a few days before Christmas, received the only four of this same variety of rose that were offered in the city, and found a customer for them at $60, or $15 a piece, or eight times the value of their weight in gold mm; Cotton Culture in Eastern -North Carolina. New York Cotton. j A farmer subscriber in Mecklenburg, or. jur. ueorge Alien, oi jNewbern, upo we premium cotton, .crons ..xaAa , Eastern North Carolina fast year, a: requesting information as to the method of cultivation in raising said crops, we sent his letter to Mr. Allen, and the fol lowing is his reply: "In reply to your inquiry we would state that a ten-acre crop was planted with garden peas the latter part of Jan uary, 1S80. The crop was sold during April. We then listed, the same rows and planted with Dickson cluster cot ton, which was cultivated entirely with the Allen steel syeep. The crop com menced to open the latter part of Sept. and yielded six hundred and seventy live pounds of lint per acre. The sales of peas, forage, cotton and .cotton seed amounted to over one thousand dollars, and the net profit was $622 on four acres. 55 Over-Work. Burlington Hawkeyc. Don't Ikj afraid of killing yourself with over-work, son. Men seldom work so hard as that on the sunny side of thirty. They die sometimes; but it is iKJcause they quit work at six p. in. and dont get ho'me until two a. m. It's the intervals that kill, my son. The work gives you an appetite for your meals; it lends solidity to your slumber; it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holidav. There are young men who do not work, my son young men who make a living" by sucking tho end of a cane, ami who "can tie a neck-tie in eleven different knots, and never lay a wrinkle in it; who can spend more money in a day than you can earn in a month, son; and who will go to the bherifl's to buy a postal card, and apply at the oihee of the street commissioners for a marriage license. So find out what you want to be and to do, son, and take off vour coat and make success in the world. The busier you are, the less evil you will be apt "to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holiday, and the bet ter satisfied will the world be with you. l.iimluouH Ink. Successful Ilnulcr. Two Englishmen recently returned to St. Petersburg from a successful bear hunting expedition in llussia, after an absence of three weeks, during which they traveled 1,500 versts in sledges and 150 "in snow shoes, through dense tangl ed forests, over frozen marsh and lake, the thermometer often standing below zero. In the course of twelve days act u ally devoted to hunting they killed wi. h snear and gun no fewer than twent -three bears of all sizes, to the great suN isfaction of -the peasants,whose crops and live stock suffer heavily every year lroui the ravages of these animals. History L ol the Potato. NEWS ITE5IS. Oxford TorckUgfit : Granville has one of the smallest and most inferior wheat crops we recollect to have ever seen. We shall have to.ok to Western North Carolina for our flour snpjy. Charlotte Observer: Hon. A. fc rim on will deliver the address -efore the King's Mountain High JzSh&oi on, h the 24tfc' iiitt. KiiJsrt meiH vrm W The Past, Present and Future of North Carolina." llaleigk Vixitor: A gentleman showed us sour wood root this morning, which was pulled out of the ground by a young lady of this county. On the root was the shape of a well formed bird as per fect in appearance as any live bird. Raleigh News Observer : In the pro gramme of the State Fair we notice that Friday of the Fair is set apart as a gala day for the young people Mcyclo racing, prize a $90 bicycle ; grand sabre tournament,- first prize a fine horse, bridle and saddle : second prize a fine bridle and saddle. In the glass ball and pigeon matches the prizes are three ele gant guns, two at $85 each, and one at $150. In archery practice a prize of a nice and complete archer's outfit. J Wilson Advance: Information 'has heen received of the accidental poison ing, at Griflin, Ga., of the family of Mr. W. J. Kincaid, a former resident of Wilson, and others: . A party of young people had been invited to his house, and ice cream was served, which con tained poison. It is thought that the poison in the cream came from the brass in the freezer. Lateb. All who were poisoned have almost entirely recovered. North Carolina, having read the report Wl'ru,"'- 11 D 1 MkyAvAV tUUAUCf VVaO ocommirxea iour mues iromxavji T3 rflvtili 74 ' "Ii UII- A new and somewhat remarkable in vention lias appeared at Turin. It con sists in the application of light-giving materials to printing ink, by which that in future it will be possible to read j at night, in bed or during a journey, ! without the assistance of candle or j lamp. It is 6ald that a new daily paper is about to be printed in Turin with this luminous ink. The potato is a native of the new world, and took its name form the In dian word, "batatas," which was subse quently called bv the different nations as follows: English, potato; Spanish, Kitatta; French, patate; Italian, pa tata; Portuguese, batata; Spanish America, papas. The potato was first found in spontaneous abundance in latitude thirty-five degrees south, in 1550. The former Indians in Minnesota used large quantities of wild potato, which for merly, and we suppose now, abounds in differentparts of tne State. The French called this wild root or tuber pomme de Urre. The Dakota name was "undo," or "tamdo." When properly cooked and prepared it was palatable, as we j know from experience. There will be a graad Prohibition pic-nlc at Carmichatrg Mill. Cumberland county, j on Saturday next. Maj. James C. McRae ; will deliver a speech on the occasion. The ' public are invited to be present. known person or persons. A Miss Car oline Thompson was lulled in her fath er's house, when the father, James Thompson, an old man, was in the field plowing, and the house robbed of six or eight i hundred dollars. When Mr. Thompson went to the house from the field, about sun-down, he found his daughter lying in the yard dead, with her skull crushed, and the house plun dered. Another warning against keep ing money in dwellings. Raleigh News Observer : We learn from the Fayetteville Examiner that tele graph poles have been distributed by the Western Union Telegraph Compa ny along the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad trom the Gulf to that town. The wire will be strung in a short time. We sincerely regret to announce the destruction by firo of the extensive cotton mills on the Haw, owned by the Neuse Manufacturing Company. It is a matter that concerns us all. The mills were among the most productive in the State, employing over 200 hands, and furnishing a livelihood to perhaps 800 persons. The pecuniary loss to the owners will also be heavy, as it appears that the insurance is only $70,000, while the property destroyed is. said to have- cost $200,000. We learn from Mr. Hr A. Gudger that Judge J. W. Albertson has offered his services to the Executive Committee of the State Prohihitory Association, to take an ac tive part in the canvass, and that he has been placed on the canvassing com mittee. Monroe Enquirer: John Strawn's son, Stanley, aged about eight "years, while pulling off young sprouts in a "new ground" on Wednesday of last week, was bitten on the left hand by u snake supposed to be of that species known as a "rattle snake's companion." and but for timely treatment no doubt the little fellow would have died. As soon as he could be taken to the houc cords were placed around his arm t four places, for the purpose of keeping the poisonous matter out of the body. A poultice was. prepared of tobacco, salt and turpentine, and applied to the wound, and in an hour's time a pint of ' whiskey was given him. Afterwards a pint of sweet milk, in which an herb had been boiled, was given him. His hand and arm swelled to alarming pro portions, and became discolored. He was very sick for twelve hours, and speechless for six. After this a reac tion took place, the swelling Legan to subside, and he began to get better. His hand is yet very sore. Tlie snake, we are told, measured about three feet after being killed. 4 V ft -
Our Rights (Wilmington, N.C.)
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