"Our Aim icill be, the People's Right Maintain,
Unaued by Power, apd Unhribed by Gain."
VOL-
VI.
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNSDAY. JANUARY 18. 1888.
fjlH GUITAR MANIA
Sf.fnVDAWXISO AFFECTION.
.Generally Developed by Loug
oll and Swinging: on the Gate
There is a time in the life of every boy
he is taken with the fever to learn to
ithe guitar. The fever comes on
the time that he first falls in love
and that
Is at tne gc 1
At fourteen he is in love to
.-mntom.
h an extent that it actually makes him
i to carry it around. He has been
- . 1 nliiflivo O
reading
novels m wnicn wide . -
Spaniard or an
Italian lover, dressed in
fantastic costume,
who takes a guitar and
i in tVi nnvfl. and
.goes i
to serenade mc --
...nrlntu nrl tli rnws 9 ki&s
the comes to uic mmuu... :
.the lover, and then comes down herself,
aid they, Uliygag. on the grass and talk
mtrh mid. and the bov
foreign iovc ,r ,
vinVs that is about tne nnes. suicmc umi
he ever read of and he decided to obtain a
It is some days betore ne wouio
dare speak to his father about it. His
-other has noticed that ne nas noi seemea
well lately, and as she has watched him
moping and sighing around, she has felt
that he is having his young me sappea
away by study, or that worms are feeding
on his damask stomach. The old man,
ho has been there knows that the kid is
in love, and his receipt Would be weeding
onions, or carrying in coal, but the good
mother's tender heart is touched and she
consents to the guitar schene, and shortly
afterward there is a weird, ghostly sound
coming from the attic that is a cross be
tween the aeolian music of a breeze singing
through a wire screen, and a couple of
cats tuning up for a goosebury-bush sym
phony in E flat with boot-jack bouquets.
The guitar 'period is one of the most criti
cal periods in the life of a boy. If he suc
ceeds in learning to play a tune, and his
voce becomes trained to such an extent
that he can sing without being frightened
at the noise, then he is gone. From that
out he becomes a dude, whose soul ambi-
lion is to be called upon to sing, and he
will try to look sweet, and he will sing love
songs at private parties, w ith his hand in
his bosom and think the ladies yearn for
him, when they feel as though they would
like to take him across their knees, and
caress him with a press-board. However,
a boy wants to be attended to at the gui
tar period, and shown the folly of it, or he
will hate himself forever after. When pa
rents find it coming on they should con
sult each other, and take prompt action, or
the boy that is their pride will go through
life singing through his nose, "Odly
Padzy Blossom," or "Oh, Cub, oh, cub
th be, the Boon is Beebin
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THE SMACK IN SCHOOL.
A district school not far away,
Mid Berkshire hills one Winters day,
"as hnmming with its wonted noise
Vf three score mingled girls and boys.
Some few upon their tasks intent,
Jt more on fertive mischief bent
ne while the masters downward look
rt as fastened on a copy book.
f hen suddenly behind his back
7e sharp and clear a rousing smack
1 ere the batterv of bliss
off in one trememdous kiss. .
T?at f that?" the startled master cries,
tfutthis," a little imp replies,
If William Willeth, if you pleath,
1 him kith Thuthana Heath." -
Jtth frown to make a statue thrill.
iri'ikaSter thundered, "Hither Will."
u hung his head in fear and shame
"u 10 lne awful presence came.
5 1 smile suppressed and briscle upraised
e threatner faltered, "I'm amazed
CiuvVTy b5g2est pupu 8hould
ui"r of an act so rue.
th-f hole 8ek 8ch boot
V1! genut vou t& 4t.'
-IdS 5116 herslV'obbed the W.
aat mean to be so bad." 1
Z !enLSusan shook her curls'
AnS thll 1 was afraid of girls
dn't stand It sir, at all.
I ktoST nd kissed her on the pot:
ht .h?TI ougfct to. not.
ithou T ,-v nr looks boo ho
"tooght she kind a wUhed me to."
at XT my.
15j Juu"g married rmmlo Viva
tt?!1, together for four years
HlDhChlldren' whom they have named
led f n,.have given the last one, we
copartnership.
Women Worth Their Weight In Gold.
Mrs. John Minturn is worth $2,000,000.
Mrs. Kate Terry is worth nearly $6,000,
000. V '
Mrs. John Jacob Astor is worth about
$8,000,000.
Mrs. Edwin Stevens, of New York, has
$15,000,000.
Mrs. Hetty Greene, of New York, is
worth $40,000,000
. Mrs. Thomas A. Scott counts her
wealth at $5,000,000.
Mrs. Robert Goelet, worth $3,000,000,
owes her fortune to hard ware.
Mrs. Tayne, the widow of the patent
medicine man, is worth $3,000,000. '
Mrs. Marshal O. Roberts 'is the eight
million aire widow of a mining king.
Mrs. Martin Bates was left $1,500,000.
man who built the first railroad in Russia,
has $4,000,000.
Mrs. Joseph Harrison, the widow of the
man who built the first railroad in Russia
has $4,000,000.
Mrs. Jane Brown, received from her
husband's estate about $4,000,000, which
was accumulated is banking.
Mrs. Josephine M. Aver, who gets her
money from patent medicine, is estimated
to be worth from $4,000,000 to $5,000,009.
Willi 11 jr to Correct.
He walked into the office the other
morning, looking pretty much like a man
dissatisfied with general results
"Can I see the editor?" he inquired.
He was directed to the
foot of. the
throne.
"Good morning, sir," he began gruffly,
"MorninV grunted the editor.
"I came in," he preceeded, "to tell you
of a misprint in the paper."
"What is it?"
"Well, I sent a notice . around here that
my friend Smith had just been married,
and your infernal compositor got it, Mr.
Smith has just been martyred.'
..tTL 11 i :, a s I
"UE i, vju tan mai it misLiiiui, uu ,uu 1
6 r - .
.-.T . T" 1 I X 1 - 1 . 1 . I
well, l aon 1, ana x navc. raiscu mat
r-omnnsitnf's wairps. " If roll don't ' like it I
send Smith-rouPa to met ten years irom
i . . ,j Tn u-..f I
now, and if he wants it corrected. 1 11 have
it done."
The visitor departed to see Smith.
So True.
The chastisement of Heaven are often
disguised blessings. The afflictions of the
body is not frequently in human experi
ence the sweetest cordial to the soul. The
ministry of the suffering verj often brings I
1 1 & : A iUa ftrA rtnune I
1 1.! t . 1U0 -.!! a A nnunc I
joy ana consoiaiiuu iu ic biu u wjo.uo
wiaer tne ga.ewa 10 si.
. . .. . .1 ,.I TS..I ,
. . . .. 1
visitations,, whether upon the individual, I
the community or upon the whole people,
if viewed in the right way, may prove the
greatest of benefactions, for it may lead to
the salvation of the soul, the purifying and
regenerating of society, and the "recalling
ofa whole people to" God, whom hence-
forth they will honor and reverence and
obey. So calamities, when justly consid-
ered, are not unmixed evils, and are not
always manifestations of an irrevocable Di-
vine displeasure. The way of thorns and
jagged stones may end in flowery meads
and glorious mountain tops with eternal
sun-bursts and heavenly fruitions.
Conjag-l Tests.
When the honey moon is over and ac
quaintance molds the lover to a sense of
t t
sober fitness and tne seamy-sioeo reai ;
When tlie glow has left the fever and he
turns an unbeliever, how he 'wanders as
ne ponders on ine iraimy ui iuci: - .
v . J .
Then he sees it, is the passion for the wil-
lltl: Ileal Jk. uiuoiuii - ,- .-w
rn-rfriid in oassion's heedless sight.
When his ardor turns' a question of his
power ot digestion, or wnicn 01 mem
retiring shall put out the vexing light.
W.h.e" flr'ii,
halfwho shiyers with an unproductive
ire.-
She discerns through coughs ard sneezing,
tion ah depends on who constructs the
j.u u -----..-v - fros, nv ihat attc
kitchen fire.
"Look at that dirty little boy, mamma.
n
"Yes, my son."
"Why, h is just black. How I hate a
dirty boy.
"You shouldn't hate any body. You
kn9w we are all made out of dust, and one
little boy is just the same as another in the
sight-
Well," interrupted the urchin, conclu
sively, "he must have feeen made out of
coal dust."
A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS ' EUPHONI
OUSLY ELUCIDATED.
ill
Numerous Newsy Notes and 3fmny
Merry Morsels . Paragraphleally
Packed and Pithily Pointed.
-A head wind A sneeze.
A nervous man Tim Idilr. ,
A stubborn man Will Full. .
A match game Incendiarism. .
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"Ahem !' exclaimed the needle.
A learned man Ed. U. Cation.
A dangerous man Ddn O'Mite.
A fine looking man I Jan-Some.
Justifiable homicide-sleighing girls.
A calculating man Matthew .Matics.
Capital measures -Taking rich nxn.
. The centre of gravity-An English
ioke --M '
Mrs. Cleveland wearr number three
shoes. . ' I
A bill reduciner letter nostape to one I
cent is prop0sed.
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Circus tumblers are afflicted with a
vaulting amDition.
A galley slave the fellow who has
three girls at a time. -
An antarctic expedition will start from
England in the Spring.
The home rule question Who is to
get UP and light the fire? - r
A roadbed Is for the convenience of
wheels when they are tiredi
The man who minds his own business
as he ought to is seldom idle.
"No," said the hack driver, "I can't
stop, my business is driving.1
Money is so tight now that some peo-
pie haven't even any loose change. .
"All flesh is grass," but some' people
disnlar more irreenness -than others.
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T1 - f
xnerr arc miny-eigm wiaowi ox revo- l .i
lutionarv 'soldiers on the tvnsion l!stiL. I
t :re :s a ouarrv. out of which we are to
....... .
mouid and chisel and complete a character.
No Metaphysician ever felt the defi-
ciency of language so much as the grate-
"1-
The man who is slow to express an
opinion might just as well send it by
freight.
When hope is disappointed and bias-
ted, submission should be a virtue, not a'j
necegsjt
K
UCI ItlCIC VVlltt A lUW'IKtk Ul3 Utl, OkaitU-
. 1
"
. It is estimated that the railroads of the
country spend $36,000,000 per year on
1 I
wooaen cross-ues.
It is better to have thorns in the flesh
with grace to endure them than to have no
thornes and no grace.
He who does a base thing in zeal for
hjs friend, burns the golden thread that
ties their hearts together.
.iTo him who waits doth all things
come n , the but he who hustles
llv th
Senator Jones, of Nevada, is preparing
to reply to Sherman's flapdoodle Tariff
Time, makes all things even. The
rich man can have ice in the summer and
the poor man in the winter.
;Frank Fallour, a rich man at Wheel-
. ,
ing, Va has been arrested for arson.
penalty is hanging if convicted.
The
I - -. ( . 1 . .
The most disagreeable weather is yet
I to come. January and February are usu -
ali qoct that anv other months.
I . '
I There, a farmer within four miles of
Lincoln'. 111., -ho appear, to be parttcu-
larly fitted to become a professional juror.
I t . i . k --i...
. . m k . .
mc uiar t pruuuLu inn jii " -vt-
000,000, about $20,000,000 more than the
wheat yidld.
Buying an honest colored voter and
having him subsequently sell out to the
other party on election day is a case of ;
black ingratitude.
In Ireland the liberty of the press U
gone, ine censorsnip wOW
of Russia. England has a great many
-. ti 1- .1 .
sins to answer for.
There now. Nearly half of the Sena-
tors "have no hair on the top ot the head
where it ought to grow." That is a long
way to say they are bawl.
The Legislature of Georgia has re
fused to grant the usual aid to the Colored
University. This comes of the unwise ag
itation of co-education of the races.
Henry Irving's New York engage
ment will bring him in $100,000. Speak
ing other men's words and uslngtheir
brains pays better than using your own.
The Booth-Barrett combination se
cured $44; 1 66.50 by its two week in Phila
delphia. "Othello' was. the biggest night
$3657.50. "Hamlet was closed up,
, -The Queen Regent of Spain is gaining
a strong hold on the affections of her sub
jects, and is said to be a woman of wonder
ful charms of manner and great administra
tive ability.
Two bright New Jersey young wo
men, dissatisfied with the money they
made teaching invested $50 in poultry.
The first year their profit were $1,000, the
second $3,000. v
A dispatch from Galvestan, Texas,
says that the new-born infant of Mr., and
Mrs. L W. Gibbings, of that city, U the
fi"8 fdris vouchsafed to that Gibbings fam-
Uy for over one hundred and twenty
years. " ,
Miss Cleveland, a second cousin of the
President, is the author of "See-Saw, by
! one of 'Em." The book is a story of De-
partment life, and the characters are thinly
disguised Michiganders under assumed
names.
President Cleveland has made $20,000
by the increase of the value of "Red Top,"
the country place be bought near Wash
ington. Secretary Whitney has done bet-
ter, having realized a profit, it is reported,
of $90,000 by the sale of land he bougnt in
the vicinity,
Money is so abundant with many peo-
pie that they really do not know what to
do with it. . At an art sale in London on
the 8th inst onc Picture for mJ
man $50,000, ana anomer iur neariy-
- . , , jr- ,
sum.. Others fetched $27,000 and more
' ' '
sum.
.".' a c a. :t....t iv;u:-,
I sons 01 true rciiucuicuL muiuui. iiuuiumg
4. .-. . . . Mm
into his own nature; nor can anyone live
in an atmosphere of sympathy and good-
will without feeling his emotions stirred
with love and interest in his fellow men.
Notwithstanding the boasted salubrity
of the climate of California, the death rate
in San Fancisco last year was nearly1 18
per ijooo. The z) motic "diseases were es-
rjeciallv nrevalent and fatal, diphtheria and
R . drainage is rhartred with the trouble.
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'
benator Kansom has introduced a Din
to establish a light-house at Diamond
Shoals,fiftcen miles from Hatteras, and said
f 1 1
on introducing 1 in nis usuai granu way :
"There would be few better or more glo.
rious days in human history than the day
when the dark horrors of Hatteras should
overcome by the illumination of hu-
man Rcienci-
Napoleon was a great novel reader,
He laid his hand on all sorts and devoured
them. Macauley was very fond of novels,
and Charles Darwin loved and read them
Is. , . ,
5 cnui"K " usl U1".'
literary excellence.
An orator who recently addressed the
Louisiana Sugar, Planters' Association on
the "Great American Mule," began his ef
fort with these words: "I do not propose
to enter into the history of the mule; he is
with us and has come to stay. Neither
1 m
horsc nor donkey, he is the mugwump of
1 the animal kingdom by nature a kicker
and ncver a gwayback.
I 1
I tk. --- e-.-f m-iMm at AW.
e,.ita thl, VI4r ,. , womln. she doe.
nct uke hcr seat at the Uble, because she
I is a woman, but olavs over the shoulders
Lf the men. betUnc her 100 franc bilLas
1 "
imperturbably as she would so many sobs.
She is described as being altogether un
lovely In person and careless and slouchy
in hcr dress. She is a Greek by birth..
We have 7,640,000 persons engaged
in aericuiture in the United States. This
interest employs over twice as many per
sons as any other industry, and it has more
1 -
tha twk U ital of othet and at
tfce baHot ,t ,. vote than all
th -others nut to trether. Whv should the
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honest, toiling farmers of this country ask
J yea, have to beg Congress and State leg-
J islatures f or laws favorable to their inter
ests? .
STATE NEWS.
FttOM THE DEEP BLUE SEA TO THE
GBAND OLD MOUNTAINS.
An Hour Pleasantly Spent TTlth Onr
Delli-ttttal Excnaaros.
The Hickory Press Is now an eight page
paper.
The actual increase In the taxable value
of property in the State is $7,324,000. ,
M-.J. C Haigh, Jr has recently been
appointed Notary Public by the Governor.
The revenue receipts in Durham on to
bacco during the past year were $486,
383,66. Col.'Lcftwitch, of Greensboro, It now
trying to have the old Egypt mine put " In
operation again.
Rer, T. J. Gat Us, agent of colportage of
the North Carolina conference,' has made
Durham his headquarters.
The business portion of the. town , of
Beaufort was destroyed by fire out he night
of the 3rd inst. Loss about $75,000.
The Fayetteville Oil Mills are daily re
jeiving Urge quanities of seed, and ship
Vng lots of cotton seed meal - to points
south.
Some one in North" Carolina last year
killed a hog' that weighed 1,300 pounds..
The largest this winter thus far reported is
less than 650 pounds.
William Marshall, son of Mr. J. W. Mar
shall, died at his father's home in Scotland
Neck at 1 o'clock p. m., December 28th,
1887 aged 24 years and 11 months.
.Hon. John W. Graham, of Hillsboro,
was recnntly married to Miss Maggie Bai
ley, of Tallahassee, Fla. The bride was a
niece of Dr. J. W.J. Hawkins, of Raleigh.
, The Atlantic Coast Line, at the request
of the merchants of Wilmington, will give
excursion rate tickets on Thursday of each
week for the uext 30 days as an experi
ment. During the last two weeks twenty-seven
far mei.' al Hances have orc-nlzed - and
equiped in the State, and twenty others
have reported to the general secretary
their readiness for equipment.
Commissioner of .Immigration .-Patrick
reports that during the year just ended
two thousand immigrants, mainly from
Pennsylvania and New England, came
into North Carolina, settling mainly west
of Raleigh.
An immense amount of sorghum syrup
was made in this State the past year. In
some counties in the wester part of the
rState as much as twenty-five hundred gal
lons were made, and the most of it is as
erorvrl ax anv Imnnrt pA mnlfl&
e- j - i " '
Charles M. Cooke, chairman of the ex
ecutive committe of Wake Forest College
has been officially notified to call his com
mitte together at once to take action in re
gard to the chair of chemistry made "va
cant by the death of Dr. Jas. R. Duggan.
During tne year' 1887 there have been
established in this State 12 carriages and
wagon works, 27 cigar and tobacco facto
ries, 26 cotton and woolen mills (the State
leading in this branch) 31 flouer and grist
mills, 31 railroads, 9 street railway- and 67
wood working establishments.
From the Winston papers it Is learned
that Mr Jack Hicks will be given his old
position of engineer on the Raleigh pass
enger train. Mr. 1 licks was put oown
some time ago on the account' of his defi
cient education, but since has applied him
self diligenly and has learned to read and
write and passed a satisfactory examina
tion. Mr. Hicks is between 50 and 60
years old, and deserves msch credit for the
success he has met with in studying. .
One day. this week Miss Laurah Wood
a young lad.7" living In the Buckleiberrj t
section of Inoir county, shot and killed a
deer in the yard of her home. There was
a chase going on, and Miss Wood saw that
the deer was making to pass through the
yard whereupon she got her brother's gun
out of the house and shot tue animal as it
passed, the accuracy of her aim resulted as
above stated. Miss Wood is a splendid type
of physical womanhood, and' has a wide
circle of friends, who will read this item
with real enjoyment. ,v
Salvation Oil routs and banished all bod
llv nain instantly, and costs only ?5 cts per
bottle. . .
MA bull in a china shop is out of place'
but a bottle of Dr. Bull's Tough Syrup In
the china closet is in its place. For croup,
bronchitis, sore chests, and col? s it is
prompt and efficacious remedy.