'Our Aim-wOl. be, the People Right Maintaii
uiuwea oy rower, and Unbribed by Gain.
WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNSTjANHAPV a ppp
NO. 43
A
YEAR'S BUSINESS.
filT 1887 HAS BEEJf A
)tf 1 rt KOR9fOUS BUSINESS.
Thonsand Seven Hundred
fr",J ..ronr 'Miles of Bail.
Finished Ineraaae In the
" .-miry-i-General ImproTC
S.
G Dun & Co.'s review of trade says:
s' , nrmnni business closes with
V year ox .
IflOrC thin UlC ecaovuawiw uuhiivm.
sTctions much beyond the average in
l' . a n.-tnlvr nreoared for slack-
c-xmDer
, of trade in November and Decern-
y. which has been maeaea dj iann un
nv several htrikes of importance
, jjy speculative ii
fsaal pressure for money during the fall
the other hand caused adjustments
prevent severe pressure as the year
d, and except at a few Western points
t money markets are comparatively easy
th collections almost iair and at most
ts reasonably good. But the pending
cies and controversies about wages and
certainties as to the future in some of
Z largest industries operate unfavorably.
Ease of money, ana ucticx mat mc i.cau-
. .i . ..!-? nrf Incfr havp l-iflrrl
zi strue. u"'u
(Mcks to improve until recently, wnen the
0Mned with some reaction. Hopes of
icuvuT ana auam.siwi. jwm
Lrfain nrices, but the great movement of
foreign capital hitherto for investment has
teased at least tor the time
The dvinz year has seen 12,724 miles of
rd finished, making the mileage for
the United States 150,710, but changes of
freight rates at the West tend steadily
downward, lessening the prospect for build
sng nextjear. The iron industry, after
the largest Year s output on record, is rap
idly cutting down production, prices, and
at many pointi wages. Sales of thirty
thousand tons Alabama and Tennessee
toii arc reported, but no ' sale of rails, . for
which next year ' order' wver only two
hundred thousand tons." The cotton Indus
&y record for the rear larger productions,'
!m and profits, than for i886,and the year
dotes with so excellent demand, stocks
I1 cleaned up and many markets told
well ahead. But the woolen manufacture
described as baring about the most un
B&factoryyear It has ever experienced.
5A business and profits smaller than last
jear, and foreign agents are again offering
"wjrwwteads five to ten per cent, below
fct year's prices. The rear' return of
Mures reported to R. G." Dun & Co.. the
serchantile agency, shows '-'decrease of
o hundred in number for the year, but a
increase of $53,000,000 ih liabilities.
p returns from the Dominion of Cana-
ow 1882 failures, with $16,311,745
duties. The failures, in the Dnmlninn
fereonein every ci nersnna in hK;nMe
tall ?
tinted States average one in every
bisons 1
1V"C youJ 1 could not live a moment with
out your
"But you will hate me, Arthur, when
you know what I have done" said the r.
rowful'girl, as the tears began to follow
one another down her face.
'Tell me, oh! tell me what it is." he
whispered, as his heart took a 'circuit round
his left lung.
"At supper II oh! I" she stam
mered, as she moved toward the sofa and
cropped upon it," half lifeless. "At supper
1 ate an onion!"
Selah!
A MIXTURE.
EDITOHIA1V ETCIIIIfCS ECPHOIfl.
OUSxTx ELUCIDATED
numerous Newsy Notes and XXany
""X . nomu Faragrapttleally
Packed andJPlthlly Pointed.
Dr. I,. G. BBOUOIITOIf.
formal Resignation Tendered
. and Accepted.
THE WIDE ESTBAJfOEMEXT,
iHL?tt0n Mear Sl not
"D Sener that Xftg-ht.
With
At the regular monthly meeting of Ihe
Wilson County Medical Societv. held on
the 1st Monday in November, Dr. Ii.
l5rcughton tendered his resignation as one
of the members, which resignation being
u-cepiea, a committee was annointerf tn.
araugnt resolutions to be read at the Tanu
ary meeting, of which the following is a
"Whereas, brother L. G. Brouehton has
tendered his resignation as one! of our
memeers, and whereas we feel it our dutv
A ...
to accept n, we cannot do so without ex
pressing our appreciation of his labors with
us. He joined us in the initiation of our
society, and has been' an active and useful
member. Inspired with zeal and ener.
he has entered the profession of medicine
with that high sense f honor, which looks
to the welfare of the afflicted, more than to
personal aggrandisement. He leases our
community with the regrets of his profes
sional brethren, and our society looses in
mm one of its most active and useful mem
bers. We heartily commend him to the
good people of Reidsvllle:as a physkfan
whose worth ind merit will entille him to
their esteem and confidence-
.r.Vi .?-
a h'ght heart- t,nA . 1 1 1
less. V M-pc ui iiappi-
WaL S!!PPed Up to the door of one of
" ' beautiful mansions and rang the
How the vision of his fair one came
eni before his eyes as hetood there
ha7enng darkne8s waiting for the
anH f WS Wn trea8ure to turn the
receive him in her dear, fond
h! ha the door opens, she
w . k1 is wronor? vu ,-. 1
looked at him with a cold,
feed qu ,,unS- w"at has hap-
J1IC
rca gaze, arid motioned him to a
At
u'i hC Z6' and stepped to
" holding out his arms, while his
v w noie lrame at even- hnat
, nave t a '
t, done, oh! what have I
hnguid movement .of the
hand telK u... . V
far A' take A seat.
ihc.: SCOnsolate iook from the eves
J V? 80 bright- tellinS him that
v, leilmgr hJrr. (U .L- 1 r
wi4w 111C IOVC 01
ed, and gone forever.
jewel, tell me what has
nan . .
'Berth, anished, and gone forever.
; The language" of flowers cling to refy
few of the gardens of conservatory ; but
this cannot be said of those star-shaped lit
tie blossoms which we call forget.me-nots,
nor of those man r-hued flower, the pan
ties. Little faces hare the nancies 1onVinr
. ( .ww....
t us and nodding from - between the
sprightly green leaves that are among the
first in April peep through the ground
That the,ir colorsajre; purple and gold; that
their texture is lilw velvet and their odor
delicate is not ajlv their charm. So it is
that when the young girl receives gifts of
flowers roses, violets, lillies of the valley
-they may or may not mean what the
poets bid them say, but the pansies with no
uncertain voice repeat Thinlc of me."
The forget-me-nots, too, never loose the
refrain of their legend. rTwo lovers, says
the German story, on the eve of marriage
were walking on the banks of the Danube
A flower, blue as the deepest .skv, swung
upon the waves, which seemed ready to
bear it awav. The young ladr admired its
beautiful color ftnd bewailed its impending
destiny The affianced bridegroom leaped
into'the'stream; siezed the blooming stem
and sank engulfed In the flowing waters.
With a last effort he threw the flower on
the bank, and at the moment of his disap
pearance forever, cried out, "Love me,
forget me not!"
The Only War.
Strangely do some people talk of "get
ting over' a great sorrow; overleaping it,
passing it by, thrusting it into oblivion.
Not 60. No one ever does that at least
no nature which can be touched by the
feeling of grief at all. The only way 1 to
pass through the ocean of affliction solemn
ly, slowh , with humility and faith, as the
Israelites passed through the sea. Then
its verv waves of miserv will divide and
become to us a wall on the right side and
on the left, until the gulf narrows before
our eyes, and we land safe on the opposite
6hore-. -
Se Awfully stnpid.
?heheMhed Srr0vt lttricken - First sweet girl I understand
Stembles hls hand upon jus throb- J handsome young stranger has been c
;and 1
tobla
-ever!
that
calling
on you quite regularlr.
Second sweefgirl Yes, but he's awfully
tiresome.
Tiresome? -
vr 1 j . J it At t 1
1 lit 1 1 1 1 7 1 1 tic. -1 rninrr Tna . - r I a
lTv,f, . j J - ".w n iiWlk. w
fiacu, as ne came . mg but sit on the extreme end ot the sofa
I have never ceased to 1 and talk."
ofh; 'and glared wildlv at the ob
$loj; .eepest adoration.
.'vo!1 diStinctl-v the a" er came:
W. '-0a can now- 1
Pan t tl e me a&ain ;.we
am to blame."
Toot terrible-The blast p the amateur
cornet player. V,'. " .
-The latest wrinkle that in the tails of
your overcoat. .'- -;
Why is a'tired man like in umbrella?
Because he's used up. -
"Doing good is the only certainly hao-
! py action of a man's life.
Happiness is alwars where, we find it.
j but rarely where we seek it.
A good motto for a." dime museum.
I "w oncers will never, cease. ?
A helping hand at the right moment
wouia save many trom ruin. k J:
Women have a tendency toward aiv-
archy. They blow up their husbands.
A miser grows' rich by seeming poor:
an extravagant man" grows pbbr by seem-
ing rich.. A
The chiropodiste is content to begin at
the foot in business; the - barber straight at
the head ...... -
The great high rpad of human wel
fare lies along the old highway .of steadfast
well doing. -
In the United States there are t, 300
different railroads. These are operated by
500 corporations.
Cheerfulness Is an excellent wearing
quality. It has been called the bright
weather of the heart.
John Sherman has been preparing
a Tariff speech, otherwise a bid for the
Republican nomination. -
The Popo fainted durinr the recent
jubilee. He declined to receive the gifts
sent by.the;Klhg ofj
The Paris edition of tne New York
Herald has a bitter attack upon Mr. Glad
stone and wishes him in hell. ;
It is said in the organization of the
Ohio Legislature little Foraker is on top,
and Sherman is left in the cold.
A german army corps has been moved
eastward. This is regarded in Iondon a
anothei'slgn of approaching war.
The strongest friendships have been
formed in mutual adversity, as iron-: is
most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Major General Isaac R. Trimble died
In Baltimore, Monday, in his 86th year.
He served with distinction in the Confed
erate army.
The President flatly contradicts the
manufactured-to-order statement that he
would send a supplementary message to
Congress. He has spoken.
As the sword of the best tempered
metal is the most flexible, so the truly gen
erous are most pliant and courteous in
their behavior to their inferiors.
Study rather to fill your mind than
your coffers; knowing that gold and silver
were originally mingled 'with dirt, until
avarice or ambition parted them.
We should manage our fortune like
our constitution; enjoy it when 'good, have
patience when bad, and never apply vio
lent remedies but in cases of necessity.
How much trouble he avoids who
does not look to see what his neighbor
says or does or thinks, but only to what he
does himself, that it may be just and pure!
Miss Frances C. Fisher ("Christian
Reed") was married, December 29, to
Professor James N. Tiernan, mining expert
of the Clyde syndicate. The ceremony
was performed in New Orleans.
Thoughtless and inconsiderate Boston
nians are laughing at the young English
women who recently, after hearing much
praise of butternuts, said: "At what sea
son of the year are the doughnuts ripe?"
The orange tree and the lemon tree
are both descended from the citron. The
history of the orange tree is said to date
back to the crusedes the retumihg Pilgrims
Carrying into Europe 700 or boo years
ago.
The Railway Age shows that the rail
way construction of the year 18S7 in the
United States surpass that of all other
years. Nearly if not qui:e 13,000 miles of
new main line trade were laid, .North Car
olinaV share naving been 184, Virginia's
64, Sonth Carolina's 104 and Tenneseee's
6S.
T
Florida is to hare an exposition of rte
fruit and flowers of the subtropical region
and of the industries of the people of the
region as welL
Slander is often its own punishment
The good and useful at whose characters
It is commonly aimed generally outlive
this unscrupulous form of opposition so
that those Mr ho" have sought to injure are
in turn despised.
There isnt a fool in the United States
who is fool enough to believe "Chairman
Jones when he says that the present Ad
ministration is hostile to American indun-
tr7- American, anywhere, is hostile to
American industry
A fascinating young German ladv
who has been teaching school in Conecti
cutis said now to be no less a personage
than the Princess of Prussia and to be on
the point of marrying a son of Gen. O. O.
Howard. O! O!! Ol'l
-The two-and-a-half-year-old x was
watching the effect the cold heat had on
his young breath, and tickled with it he
was breathing his lungs out. "What are
you doing that for?" asked his mother.
"I'm blowing the dust out of me."
At a recent lecture on "The Decline
of Literature," the eloquent orator shout
ed: "Where are the Chaucers and Shakes
peares and Milton and Spensers and Ma-
cauleys? Where are they, I say?" And
a voice answered sadly from the gallery:
MA dead."
We cannot always tell that people
mean by what they say, but when the bot-
torn comes out of the ash barrell that a
man is tugging and straining to get up the
cellar steps, and the man says something,
It Is safe to assume as -a general thing that
he means it.
STATE NEWS.
riion the dexp hick sea to
WBAHD OLA BOUJCTAIXB.
1 nr P1.ms.Uj pmnt XTitU
Petersburg new. Academy o! Music
will be inaugurated next Monday evening
by the Petersburg Musical , Association
with a programme of exercises appropriate
to and worthy of the occasion. The musl
caj taste and culture of Petersburg are
well known;: They render the charm! ri
dty named, indeed, perhaps the leading
musical centre of all this section of the
country.
Jim Blane has the same old mahge-
tlsm, and the same taffy talk that he had in
184. In addition to these charms, he has
fortified himself with the tariff issue which
he stole from John Sherman and yet there
are only twenty-five Republican members
In Congress who support him with the
Presidency. Blaine is acknowledge by his
party to be brilliant, but the troubble with
him is that he is one of that class of men
who shine and stink.
From the annual report of the director
of the mint it appeals that at the assay
office in Charlotte the deposits during the
year were $224,336.36, the earnings $1,
93I.23 and the expences $4,31 5.85. Direc
tor Kimball says of the institution: 'The
assay office at Charlotte may be said to be
fulfilling the purpose for which it was es
tablished, and providing necessary facilities
to a mining region in relation to which it
occupies a central position."
A sign of the times is the election of a
college graduate, a Massachusetts man, as
master workman of a national trade assem
bly of Knights of Labor leather workers
just organized. The new officer, more
over, has decided views on the tariff. He
thinks free hides have made work in leath
er plentiful, and as a result "we have been
able for twenty years nearly to export con
siderable finished product. I consider the
wool question a parallel one to hides.
From the third annual report of Fed
eral Commissioner of Labor, Carroll D.
Wright, we get some idea of the cost of
strikes and lockouts. The report is for a
period of 6ix years ending December 3 1st,
18S6, and shows that during that time
nearly $95,000,000 were spent in the sort
of amusements referred to, $59,948,883 by
wage-workers directly and some $35,000,-
000 by employers. These are big figures
and are exclusive, it must be born in mind.
of the year just gone. It behooves every
workman to 6tudy them well.
That was a pathetic incident the fail
ure of any veterans at all of the war of
1812 to appear at the President's New
Year reception. Last year there were but
six of them. This rear there were none.
The whole number of this class of veter
ans in the country is put down at 1,069
and Senator Hearst, of California, propo
ses to ask for an increase of their pensions
from $8 to $25 each, per month. The
widows of such veterans, however, num
ber upwards of 11,000. We have still rea
son to "bevare of the vidders."
The house of worship for the Second
pust Church, at Asherllle, is nearly
completed;
The Tarboro Southerner is the oldest
paper in the State. It recently completed
its sixty-fifth.
The Cunberland county jail in Fayctte
ille is without an inmate for the second
time in three years. .'
W. G. Simmons, of Wake Forest, has
been in New York for some weeks and is
Improving in health, .
The question of the union of the two
conventions of Baptists in this State is' now
under consideration.
Thepostoffice at Asheville. was robbed
of $800 last. week, it being supposed bv an
employee recently discharged. " ,
The business men of Wilmington have
held a meeting and protested against the
proposed reduction of force in the custom
house.
The Matthews News tells of one of lis
citizens, fifty-three 'years old, who n-cently
purchased his first suit of rezdj-midt
Clothing.
The Hamilton and Tarboro narrow
guage railroad has been completed, andfs
now uoing a good business In freight trans
portation. During the past year J. Van Lindley,
the noted frclt grower of Guilford county,
has sold two hundred and seventy-five
thousand fruit trees, vines, etc.
f .... . - - -
We see the name of Hon. W. R. Cox
mentioned In connection, with the Mexican
mission. We hopV there lsmore than mere
mention at the bottom ci 'the Incident.
.Thctt of ; Raleigh hittoio7uyted ,
lire Alarms during the laYt-Vyear. and the
low fram nine of them was not over $600
ane loss xrom the tenth, which was a cot
ton seed oil rhlll, was about $55,00
Bro. J. H. Mill, -was fn Raleigh on
Christmas day and addressed the conre- ,
gatlonofthe First Church on the Baptist 1
Orphanage. Tbi church gave the Or
phanage in cash and subscription upwards
of $300. ,
rfie Raleigh News-Observer says that
there Is pending in the Supreme Court a
case in which a man named Stfllwell is in
volved in blockade- distilling, and another
case In which a man named Truelove is '
charged with beating his wife. What's In
a name.
John O. Leach, Chatham county, died
yesterday morning at the , age of 73.
About a week ago he received an injury
wum a ran wnicn was followed by pneu
monia. He was the father f George T.
Leach, of New York, and M. T.and G. E.
Leach of Raleigh.
The Louisburg Times says that Mr.
Rutherford Perry Informed the editor that
one of his neighbors had a gourd vine con
taining 54 gourds, in addition to nearly a
wagon load which he. had already pulled
from it. To off set this our old friend, .
Louis Bartholomew, Esq., told of a man in
his neighborhood who planted peas on
shares. He planted one bushel, and at last
reports had already received 43 bushels for
his share, and shelling was still going on.
The Methodists of North Carolina are
doing a grand work. The reports made
during the recent Conference in Fayette
ville show that there are in the bounds of
the Conference S95 church building worth
$917,646; 108 parsonages worth $192,295;
86,262 member a gain, of 3,389 during
the year ending Nov. 30th; 548 local I
preachers; raised for Sabbath schools, $8,- '
647; raised for missions, $22,066. Trinity
College is getting along well in its efforts
to raise $100,000 as an endowment fund.
To this date $40,000 of this is secured, and
it is practically an assured fact that the re
mainder will "be raised in the coming
twelve months. -The Church has 923
Sabbath schools, with 7,430 officers and
teachers and 55,077 pupils a gain of 46
schools during the year. ; x
. "Shall our girls whistle?" Of course if
thev strenghten their lungs by taking Dr
Bull's Cough Syrup.
"When headache joines neuralgia, then
comes the tug of war." A wise general
marshals his forces, charges with a bottle
of Salvation Oil, and the doughty foe lies
cringing in the dust.