"Tee wfeN Miee)K
"Our Aim vail be, the People's Righf'Mointain,
Unawed by Power, and Unbribed btjrain"
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1888.
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VI.
NO. 48
A. MIXTURE.
tTOBlAl. ETCHINGS EUPHONI-
orSLY ELUCIDATED.
aprons Newsy Notes and Many
yB lr Morsels Parasraphlcally
fllued and Pithily Pointed.
The equestrian takes a back seat.
Keifer, Gf Ohio, has declared against
Richmond, Va has twelve and a lialf
miles of railroad that is operated successful
ly by electricity. The grades for nearly,
the whole distance are heavy and curves
sharp.
The number of people employed in
and about the London and provincial thea
tres of England, it is said, according to fig
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For The Mirier. I and a gruff voice asked: "Why, what is the
How Sorrow Changed to Pleasure, I matter? I really can't allow this in my
store."
"This boy says my daughter is married."
"So she is, but are you going to vent
"And he has enough already with his I your rage on us for her conduct?"
wite and six children," observed Maria. 1 "Well, no, but I tell you Nell is not
STATE NEWS.
CONTINUED FROM LAST. WEEK.
FHOM THE DEEP BLUE SEA TO TJIF
GRAND OLD SfOUNTAINS.
An Honr Pleasantly Spent TTIIh Our
Delightful Exchanges
Oak Ridge has 125 student this session.
Three divorces were granted at the last
Enough ! yes he has enough," said Ezra I married, and do you suppose I am going to
ures compiled recently, amounts to about pushing his plate back and rising from the be contradicted about my own business?"
150,000 table. I hen his competent wile stacked At this juncture Mr. Brown came in
Th Smith trmr nf FH win TWh the dishes ?d DOured the water pieparato- with a beaming countenance, walking up
and Lawrence Barrett is phenomenal. ry to washin&- having performed this to Mr. Andrews he took his hand, shook it Catawba Court.
Seats are sold at $4 and $c each, and peo- dut sne Jolned Mr Andrews on tne back Sin ' The Salem paper mills ship manila pa
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get them.
RIain.
H. is a good orator who convinces , . geveral , . to porch where that worthy was enjoying the "Why, what is the matter, have you per to New York.
lL get them. " fresh air, his pipe and easy chair. Placing found out that Will isn't married?" Freight is being shipped ove rthe Oxford
There is a great deal of blow about the -xchan-e has an article on "China ChUm hw hU$band she miht "He8 married Andrw8 but it istoyour &Clarksville Railroad.
Thereiag -An exchange has an article on China WQrk an(J converse at me Umej she little Nellie. Bless the children, how did hJ m L - t
4al service offices. as It Is." Jusc how China is depends upon wm Mr BrQwn disinherit wm on th k ,t rom us. A deaf mute reports that Bingham, the
When there is elevation of character, the hired girl. Generally it is wicked, and acCQunt q thg afair .., tRun my wfth my hag he? and murderer, is in France,
.there M be fastideousness. - often so badly broken that it has to be wT knQW hat Brown wM . but here d a voll of terrible It is stated that a dog was recently sold
The convict is naturally in a good hu- swept out.
m0r when he's breaking out
Maud asks: "How can I get white
hands?" Make bread, Maud.
-Bismark says that the great European
war will not occur until 1892.
r -What we call our dispair is often only
the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Man was created a little lower than
the artels, and he generally stays there.
Opportunities are like vacant lots.
Thev must be improved to be profitable.
Wnmenare happier in their illusions
than in their most agreeable experiences.
Life is not all sunshine for the tramp.
There is a good deal of dish water thrown
A war Tarriff a high tariff was lev
ied to meet the expenses of the War debt.
Now a low tariff will fill the Internal Rev
enue vaccuum. One fact is worth a thous
and theories.
Stepniak, of whom there is now much
talk of in this country, lives in a little cot
tage in the St. John's Wood suburd of
London. He is tall and of square and
massive build.
A scientific exchange says: "What is
rotary motion?" Why, it is that expe
rienced by a drunken man when lying flat
on his back and clutching the sidewalk for
fear he'd fall off.
An eggshell is said to be strong
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in. enougn to support a man s weigni, dui me
"I shall husband my resources," said man who puts half a dozen in his coat tail
the rich woman when she married a poor J pocket and steps on a banana peel cannot
clerk.
I just tell you what Ezra Andrews would execrations on the head of the offending at Thomasville for $500.
The roll list at Trinity College now
numbers about 160 studenls.
There are now at the Baptist Orphanage
at Thomasville, ninety -one orphans.
The Rev. Mr. Pearson will .commence
lis meeting in Washington next month.
Raleigh's cotton receipts this year are
A woman's scorn is not to be trifled
- with. Especially when you step on it in a
crowd.
-Judge North of the Missouri Supreme
Court, has declined to run for Governor in
that State.
be made to believe it.
The farewell engagement of Henry
Irving and Ellen Terry in the United
States will open at the New York Star
Theatre on Monday evening, Feb. 20, with
W. G. Will's "Olivia."
do. Will could keep the horse and buggy Will. But he finally ended by begging
but he should never have one copper cent the pardon of the merchant and his son,
of my hard earning, or one foot of my shaking hands with Mr. Brown and jump
well plowed land. You hear that, don't ing into the buggy insisted in driving
you, Maria?" and he brought down his fist straight to Lunly's plantation and bringing
with vehemence on the arm of his chair. the young folks home.
Mrs. Andrews intimated that she did Mr. Brown being used to his friend's vio-
KiAar iorff1 ?f -vv-rMiIrl hnvp Vin mi5ff it lot-it imnnl cc rm?f-tr1 h:mcpl f tr Tv Cflr-
' . , j , ,, u j-j . . . 1 t iTT-n u- u u one thousand bales in excess of last yeac
wonder if she had not fully comprehendid ned. to the home of Will, which they ' .
every word, for the farmer, as was his cus- reached early in the afternoon. The fath- A 8eal was captured in Neuse river last
torn when speaking in real live earnest, ers entered the new farm house fogether. week', measuring between five and six feet
had elevated his voice until he fairly Mr. Brown took little Nell in his arms im- onS-
roared. . : printing kiss after kiss on her blushing Twenty farmers sub-alliances have been
"That is so really l you, Ezra, but cheek, while Mr. Andrews walked up to organized in the State within the last to
don't be too hard on Y 1 he really loves Will and slapping him on the shoulder weeks.
" S-jd said: "Well, I have come with your father Greensboro has eighteen incoming and
"Loves!" thundered frlb-farmer. "What to take you home," and, winking his eye outgoing passenger trains daily to all parts
does a boy of twenty know about love? mischievously, "Will Brown I'
as much as a cat does of astronomy. Will mind to give you a whipping. But I do'nt
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just got mameu 10 snow uic uiu 101ns 11c 1 expeci it is mucn iruuuic tu pu,. up, w gci 1 Qoldsboro have
could get along without them, I reckon your horse and buggy and lets go to moth- J thejr peacr0p.
however he II hnd out marrying isn t wnat er. .
novel writers make out it is." "And you are not mad with us are you,
"And the girl he married what is her father," asked Nellie,
name, Ezra?" "I have been as mad as a man ever got
ve a good of the world.
The truck farmers
in the vicinity of
almost finished planting
The fire in the hearth of a house at Dan
bury, N. C, has not been out for forty-five
years. 'The man who occupies the house
built it and he has never spent a night
away from home.
, The Republicans of this State will hold
It is rumored that-the interstate peo
ple are going to abolish the Rocky Moun
tain passes.
The pen is mightier than the sword
but an argument from either is likely to be
very pointed.
The waves of old ocean are by no
means ready to sleep when they put their
white caps on. . .
"Every cloud has its silver lining."
The boy who has the mumps can stay
away from school.
-Frederick Warde is preparing a spec-
tacular production of "Othello," in which
-he proposes to play lago.
When the palm of your hand itches it strength.
b a sign that you are going to get some
who have not seen each other for sixteen
years, although they live only four miles
apart and are on perfectly friendly terms.
-An exchange says: "A potato that
weisrhed eleven rounds was raised by a :
man in Lawrence county, Ark." The
Arkansas men must be "powerful weak" if
this is considered a remarkable feat of
will do" I that she instantly fainted, and was quite ill
"When he gets in love?" suggested Mrs. when Nellie arrived. '
Andrews. "My darling child, why did you act so,"
"la love J Will Brown can no more love asked the anxious mother,
that ungainly creature than I can. He "Because I knew that you and father
can't do it, Maria, it is not in him to stoop would say, 4 Wait until I come home from
low enough for that. J school,' and I could not leave Willie, be-
Just then Ezra saw Mr. Brown's buggy I sides, Mama, I don't want to be a fine edu-
come in si&ht, and walked to his gate to cated lady.'
see if he t could get a ride to town, as he 1 "You were such a child Iever thought
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wanted some tobacco tor. his hands, "lhey 1 01 you loving any one
The best explanation of the phrase -nt work with out it vou know. I "I'm not auite such a child, mama. I'm
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cjr wnen you earn it. "between the two horns of a dilemma" is a I nnH what ! vour business to-davf" I nparlv eighteen A
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Arrangements are being made in New boy on top of an orchard wall, with a dog j To find out something about my son's "Yes, indeed, you are, but it hardly
ork t0 celebrate Gen. Grant's birthday impatiently waiting for him on one side j affairs. It is a bad case, worse than you I seems so."
anniversary on April 27th. . and the owner of the premises, with a cow- think for. I never thought I'd live to see Soon after there was a snug little cottage
The Mormons are believed to oppose hide, on the other. j a son of mine act like that"" built and neatly furnished, and presented
round dances, because a man can only G. W. Smally in his cable letter says: All the way both were unusually quite to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brown as a Christ-
dance with one wife at a time. "No soldier believes that Russia is a match but in the first store tkey entered they mas gift from Father Andrews.
And thus did the farmer prove what he
would do, if it had been a child of his who
had married without his knowledge.
Ernest Harte.
ticket and appoint delegates to the Repub
lican National Convention.
"Her name, blessed if I know, but it is I to be, but I couldn't help my self, and now
Nervous lady passenger (in the train, that cymbling headed, red faced girl he hurry up children and lets get back home."
after passing a temporary bridge) Thank has been fiviner around with all the Sum-1 Mr. Andrews and Will walked over to
retimes find that theyare, after all, very goodness, we are now on terra firma! mer. .'V see if Squire Lunly would release Will their convenUon in Raleigh on the 23d of
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terror and more nrmer. , have done better." - upon Mr. Andrews promising to mi-tne
! tell you what it is, Gus Araminta's "Done better; if it was my son I rather situation with a competent person.
father can't appreciate us. He has no see him marry a pig," yelledthe farmer. It was quite dark when the bridal party
soul." "Oh! he hasn't, eh? Well, if you'd It hurts Brown, and hurts bad too, for he reached home.
been in my place last night you'd have was setting great store by that boy and I Mrs. Andrews on going to Nellie's room
thought he was all sole." used to say to myself he was a son to be with her breakfast found a note pinneci to
There are 'two sisters between fifty I r"JUV " " ,-.v , -...w - ..-
and sixty years old living near Dal ton, Ga.,
who
Because a wife does not sneak out for both. An attack by Russia can only were accosted by a merry youth
against some of your habits is no proof that be the act of a mad man. Yet the publica- asked : "Well, gentlemen, how did you en
w no. make her unhappy.
tion of his treaty puts the Czar in this di- joy the wedding last night.'
--Life is a reckoning we can not make
Onceover. You can not mend a wrong
subtraction, by doing your addition right.
The man who idly lives on what his
k&er earned and stored up, occupies the
same relation to society as does a pauper.
77"1 see the dude has got into the latest
edition of Webster's dictionary." "Has
e- Well, hurry then, and 6lam the cover
down." y
"Does marriage change a man?" asks
nter. That depends on whom he mar-
TlAe? O -
oome women would make
oaid
come
a man
m six months.
"Advice" says a philosopher, 'should
w us like a gentle fall of snow."
erv true; but we UKnallv nrelve it as If
11 ere a shower bath.
What a suspicious monster the man
have been who first invented a lock;
, Vnat a' trusting creature the woman
ho first allowed a latchkey!
co7 Czar has cut the buttons from the
a of his soldier boys. He wants them
""aer cartridges and ship the buttons
Lue Ja(ets of Fritz and Hans.
Estrange child was introduced to 4.
hise t uciaile with injunctions as to
the 5 ain.ment- With a superb dignity
8uggestions were checked by: "My
life." haVC pla-ved with children all my
lemma: He must attack, or must yield to
a public threat.
Mme. Christine Nilsson says in a let
ter to a Philadelphia, friend that she is a
constant rheumatic sufferer and she fears
that she will be obliged to close her pro
fessional career at once. She adds that
she has not even contemplated another!
American tour. I
The Czar does not mean to be eclipsed
by the ex-Empress Eugenie. She expen
ded $500,000 upon a mausoleum for the
Mr. Brown passed on without answering
but Mr. Andrews said, "No wedding, only
a runaway match and Brown seems to
take it rather hard."
"But how about your self Mr. Andrews."
"Oh! I sympathisej deeply with Brown,
but if ft had been my son "
"Your son, it was you daughter, Mr.
Andrews." 1
The Opinion of th Star Endorsed.
Editor Mirror: In a late issue you
asked the editor of the Star if "North,
South, East and West should be capital
ized or printed in lower case." He re
plied "the Star follows its own rule and
Head Emoeror and son. and Alexander is
' I . . 1 ft 1 ! 1 .t. ..n.... vnon
about spending $6w.oooo on a monument "er aay ; repucu uw B
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to his murdered father. The people, of
course, have to furnish the money.
--Charles A. Dana, of the Sun, is 78
years old and his politics do not improve
with age. He favors abolishing the whis
key tax, advocates a High Tariff and blows
"My daugnteri psnaw, you are joKing, rintg it North South .
Nellie is at home." The rule of the Star is the same as that
"I am not afraid to wager the half of of 8uch workg on composition ahd of such
Vanderbilt's estate that you have not seen mmarians t have consulted. The
rule is thus stated: North, South, East,
West, etc; when used to indicate a dis
trict of country, commences with capitals,
as, "The West is rapidly developing when
used to denote direction, they commence
with a small letter, as "Buffalo is west
from New York." Respecfully,
Subscriber. "
"Sure enoucrh I have not, but then I
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never do until dinner time."
"Didn't you know she married Will
Brown last night?"
"No, nor am I likely to know it. Nellie
is nothing but a child; she is going off to
for the Blair bill. He is also opposed to wwuukm ""y.
President Clevelands Administration and young man, but I know my own affairs
to his renomination. He opposed him in better than you do."
1884. Mr. Cleveland was elected. "I don't like to contradict you, Mr. An-
In Connecticut in 1886 there was drews, but I saw the knot tied myself, and
some talk concerning the marriaee of vour daughter is now Mrs. Brown." Ruth Woodall, a negro woman living in
young Harry Baldwin, of Birmingham. v Slowly the truth began to dawn on Mr. Jones county, about ten miles from Wash
aged 22 years, to Mrs. Charlotte Canfield, Andrews. "Young man," he roared, ington, mixed some rough on rats with
aged 76 years,- also of that town. On Sat- catching him by the arm, "if you don't water and made her daughters, aged seven
ufdav the mismated couole were divorced, tell me the truth I'll give Nyou the worse teen and five respectively, drink ot it. She
Baldwin failed to get the old lady's money thrashing you ever had in your life
the magnet that had led
match.
A Mother Poisons Her Two Children
and Herself.
About two hundred and seventy-three-
thousand pounds of smoking tobacco and
forty-seven million four hundred and fifty
one thousand cigarettes have been shipped.
from DurhamN. C, since the holidays.. m
In Chatham county last week, a school
teacher undertook to whip one of his boy
pupils. The(boy resisted, and was rein
forced by a young lady scholar, who drew
a pistol and fired two shots at the teacher.
The pedagogue had evidently taught that
young lady how to shoot, for she put a bul
let through his coat tail.
During 1887 the Oxford Orphan Asy
lum provided for 203 childien at that In
stitution. Now there are 221, and 90 ap
plicats for admission on file. The superin
tendant estimates that there are 1,000 chil
dren in the State who ought to be in the
asylums. The receipts of the institution
were $19,072, expenditures $18,527.
John A. Moore, Esq., a prominent law
yer, died at his home in the town of Hali
fax Saturday night His death was due
to pneumonia, after an illness of a fort-
night. He was a very clever and bright
man, and was popular. He was a brother
of Judge Wm. A. Moore, of Chowan, and
r. son of the late Hon. Augustus Moore, of
the Superior Court. He had been spoken
of as a nominee to the Supreme Court.
Never In the recent history of North
"Caroline has there been a period when the
idea of the establishment of cotton facto
ries has taken so strong a hold on some
sections of the State. Charlotte was first
to become conspicuous for its effects in
this direction, and a number of such enter
prises have been set on foot there. Ral
eigh has begun to get in earnest In regard
to such establishments, and Statesville has
just organized a factory with $50,000 sub
scribed as stock. Other places have been
awakened on the subject, and we are grati
fied that Asheville is not behind, but that
other big projects are likely to be inaugu
rated and that city will sustain her reputa
tion of keeping square up with the procession.
He I then drank what was left. The mother
tv.. oV.cnrH ura nhnut to carrv his threat into execu-1 and older daughter died, but the other
tion when his arm was suddenly arrested, child was saved by a physician.
The great popularity and success of Sal
vation Oil, the great pain destroyer, have
made it a target for counterfeiters. Buy
the genuine. Price 25.
"Died of ammonia, poor fellow," said
Mre- Partington, on learning of a friends
death from pneumonia. "I believe I
should have died, too, but for Dr. Bull's
Cough Stirrup." Dr. Bull's Cough Sv-
rup she' meant, fo course.
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