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"Our Aim will be, the Peoples Right Maintain,
Unaxjced by Power, and Unbribed by Gain.'
WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1888.
NO. 49
MiaM
AN HONORED SON.
rrA3f K. McBAE K2TTEBS UPON
f,CA BEST.
Htiful Tribute from the Gifted
1 JJ5tor of the Wilmiaftou Star.
The intelligence of the death of Colonel
can K- McRae reached us yesterday.
j: occt
;ured ai ni! "s1"1-"'
Bioouyn,. ...
ii.. Vinrn in Favetteville
r-Anlflrr. iic - -v -
ctq and had just turned into his 69th
For a rear or more he had been a
sufferer, and last Summer went
forth to seek such kill as New York
,ianrA. It has been apparent to his
coma ,
friends that he could not last -very long,
and he contemplated his departure with
tisfaction. North Carolina has produced
the fewest number of men who could be
compared with him in brilliancy of intellect.
In wit he was equal to any man we ever
knew. In powers of repartee he was in
deed a master. In eloquence when at his
best, and in his prime, he was of a high or
der In mental resources he would com
pare with most men of his lime. He was
an admirable illustration that splendor of
mental parts is not incompatible with sol
idity of reasoning. He was a goodjawyer,
but a better advocate. When in full health
he had but few rivals at the North Caroli
na bar as an advocate.
At five years of age he made an addess to
General Lafayette when he revisited this
countr and came to Favetteville, that was
named in his honor. This was in 1825.
He was educated at William and Mary
College, Va., and entered the bar as soon
as the law would allow. He soon attrac
ts attention. He settled in Raleigh after
dew years and practiced in Wake and the
fining counties. There were great law
jeson hh circuit then, and he soon took
an.eiceilent rank among them.- As a po
litical speaker, he was bold, dashing, earn
est, witty, sarcastic, vigorous, eloquent.
He was a dangerous man to meet, because
of his remarkable combination of gifts.
t He was Consul to Paris for six years.
In 1S5S, he was an independent candidate
for Governor against Gov. Ellis, and was
defeated. He made a very splendid cam
paign. He was Colonel of the 5th North
Carolina Regiment, and did some heroic
Sghting at Williamsburg, Va. He was
also in the battle of South Mountain and
perhaps other engagements. He edited a
dailjin Raleigh for a year or so during
the war. It was called The . Confederate
and rendered signal service to the great
Southern Cause. It was a dashing, slash
ing, lively paper. After the war Col. Mc
Rae removed to Memphis, Tenn., where
he became distinguished, as we know, as
the most consu mate advocate in the city
ne was successful there, but on account of
the health of a daughter he removed to
nicago where he practiced law for a few
vearsv His heart was always in old North
Carolina, the home of his fathers and his
Actions, and 1876 or 1880) he removed
this city. Here he has been a well
Kwn figure on our streets. Here he ob
ned a good practice; here he made polit
ical speeches; here he delivered some of
jost magnificent lectures that have been
earcMn the South. Here he had many
ends and relatives who will be deeply
d tQ learn of. his death. He 1ms
fssed away at a somewhat advanced age,
onored, respected and venerated. He
J5 a man of physical and moral courage.
was not a great man perhapSj but he
certainly a man of unique, striking,
Puvating, commanding gifts. He was a
Za BOmctnS like genius- He was no
' der. He reached the highest altitude
- - eagle's sweep. His
sweep. His intellections
ere
ranid k?c i
t;f. , ' "ia perceptions een and in-
t mastery of subjects easy and
,4al-C. Ha -ixnc ronnU f l.:
He
1Qn?.
aei elaborate i i .
tered ti S'ents, and when he en
orfm6 arenao.'debate he was in full ar-
head tc( heel, like a knight of old.
P. A i
tnd Their Salaries.
!?&ident Cleveland is supposed to be
orth a
10 4 rfi '
i real estate in
and he owns, we are
Buffalo which is rapidly
President Arthur left
" u Ies than
le was suDoosed tcf -be
rtly before his death
vjrani- j. .
to
General Swaim, and
to-his-fortune bv his
House
-ofthep iccr -ays made money
- hK.j. reWeincv. and i rloh thm..nh
"lanr . 1 "
j j . . m. A iBlUCUlO,
as a rule, nave not saved money dunnsr
their Presidency; but the same abilities
which made them Presidents would, if
they had been used in the field of money
making and money saving, have given
them fortunes. "
Martin Van Buren made money out of
politics. He started life poor and died
well to do. One estimate puts his estate at
$80,000, and he made money in real estate
as well as in the law. Both of the. Adamses
we re. money., save rsif not,moneyvmakers.
The letters of John Adams, the second
president, to his wife Abigial, repeatedly
urged her to cut down the household ex-
penses ana to practice economy, ne 1
lunched himself on oat cake and lemonade,
1
ana ne waiKea iar ouener man ne roue.
John Qumcy Adams received nearly a
halt million dollars irom government In
salaries during his life time, and he pos
sessed the Yankee thrift. The Adams
family at present is one of the richest in
New England, and I was told told at Kan
sas City that Charles Francis Adams had
mere than a million dollars invested inYeal
estate there. He has roalroad stocks and
1 i- jjji! 1 1 1 u: I
oonua in auuiuon, anu uc ui4kc is mwwcjr
breed like Australian rabbits.
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salary while he was in the White House
and he had to borrow money to keep up
with his expenses. Thomas Jefferson bor
rowed money that carried him out of
Washington when he left the presidency.
Ande Johnson, though he entertained con-
Col. McRae was an extraordinary boy. I siderabl y, is supposed to have saved at
least $50,000 during the White House ca-
reer. He died, we are told, worth about
St 00.000. and the most of this came from
economy. It was a pretty good estate for
a tailor to leave. James Buchanan was
1 w
making about $7,000 a year at law when
he entered Congress, and he spent during
his presidency what was left from his liv
ing expenses in charity. He was not, how
ever, a rich man when he died, and his' es
tate at Wheatlands was sold a year or two
ago. . . . . . ;
President Fill more began life as a wool
carder. During the three years he was en.
gaged to his sweetheart he had not enough
MW,CJr vaj "i'' o
mues wmcn lay Deiween ner nomc in oar-
atoga county, N. Y , and where he had oe
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m rt, t-r-v 1 r r iirinrr t Vl fi fct"
& . . . . . . ...
years of their marnaee his wife did the
housework and taught school, and still he
died one of the richest of presidents. The
greater part of his fortune, however, came
from his'second marriage.
Elections This Yeur,
Congressional elections will be held this
year on Presidential election day, Novem
ber 6, in all the States except Maine, Ore
gon and Vermont. Maine elects her Con
gressmen September 10; Oregon, June 4
and Vermont September 4. In all the
other States except Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia," Louisiana, Maine,.. Oregon, Vir
ginia and Vermont elections will be held
generally for State officers and legislators,
but in some instances for legislators alone,
November 6. Alabama's election occurs
August 5, Arkansas Semtember 3, Geor
gia's October 3, Maine's September 4, Ore
gon's June 4, Vermont's September 4 and
Louisiana's April 17. Virginia, Iowa,
Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi and
Ohio do not elect legislators this year, and
Maine, Oregon and Vermont hold their'
State and Congressional elections on the
same day.
The Bath.
Every human habitation shoulJ always
contain a convenience for a complete bath
in water. In the long catalogue of diseas
es, says a well known physician scarcely
one can be named in the treatment of
which a bath is useless. To those blessed
with good health, a bath gives thrift and
growth to healthy fictions, a brightness
and delightful serenity, a clearness of mind
and bouyancy .of spirit. It is certainly a
blessing to both mind and. body. For the'
mental worker it is a nerve tonic. "A
thorough application of water of proper
temperature will calm and give tone to the
whole system. The indoor laborer, who
gets but a scanty supply of fresh air, needs
a bath to obtain for the skin invigorating
elements of open air.
A Dad Spell.
If an S and 1 and an o and a u, with an x
at the end spell "Su,"
And an e and a y and an c spell i,M pray
what is a speller to do?
Then if also an s and an i and a g and an
h e d spel 4cide,
There's nothing much left for a speller to
do but to go and commit Siouxeyesighed.
A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUPHONI
OUSLY ELUCIDATED.
Numerous Newsy Notes and Hanj
Merry XXorsels Paragraphlealljr
Packed and Pithily Pointed..
Austria asks for more money.
Home life is the interior of winter's
shell.
Sailors who sing are never guilty of
mutiny
ine eold fever has proken
out in
Michigan.
There were 328,617 sttikers in
this
countrv in l887.
The man of brass is always ready to
show his mettle.
An old man repents of that of which a
young man boasts.
Sam Jones got $,500 for preaching
in Voneie ft r r I
"It is better to be nobly remembered
man 10 De noDiy Dorn. .
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t c lnv Tt Mc
... m I
suroius in tne lreasurv. I
cings are not just now needed. J
The Spring time is coming, gentle
Annie and don't vou forget It.
The coming actor in this country is
thought to be Richard Mansfield.
Henry Irving played to larger houses
in Boston 1 hat ever known there.
Napoleon wrote an excusable scrawl.
His education was badly neglected.
No man is fit to have power unless he.
wishes to weild it for the good of all.
The Richmond State says that city is
in treat need of a larger police force.
Mrs. D. Givewav, of Tennessee, gave
birth to five bouncing boy babies recently.
John C. Calhoun it is said, never
drank one drop of whiskey or spirits in bis
life.
The floods m China haye caused twQ
million people to become "utterly desti-
. . ,,
IUIC
There are only forty-five female law-
yers m the United States, but they talk
r . . .
The preachers at Nashville have deci -
ded to put no more church notices in Sun
day papers.
The House' Committee orrLaborre
port that conductors on railroads do flOt
need liscenses.
Base-ball is as old as the world, as is
proven by the first line in Genesis: uIn the
big-inning," etc.
A heavy storm of sleet and snow Sat
urday in Lynchburg, Va., which almost
put a stop to business.
The steamship agents report that the
spring and summer exodus to Europe will
be the largest in ten years.
Of all American writers Poe is the
most read. That fact shows the standard
of taste that most prevails.
The Prince of Wales will soon cele
hrate his silver wedding the twcntyfifth
anniversary of his marriage.
There are 4,000 theatres In the United
States, and $1,000,000 a day is paid for
amusements in this country.
The Congress has voted $175,00010
repair the old iron steamer Hartford. An
old iron steamier is a luxury.
The question before' the meeting is i
If a blushing bride were were not led to
the altar, would she go herself!
Indiana is now called the mother of
Vice-Presidents, as Virginia used to be
called the "mother of Presidents."
Sam Jones says- the zoo pound men in
Congress who are afrafpto tackle the tariff
have "shoe-strings for backbaftes'
-When a man attempts tof warm hi?
hands over a hotel register it is high time
to inquire into his mental condition.
The coldest weather known is reported
from Minnesota, the thermometers show
ing from 48 to 63 degrees below zero.
To be a gentleman does not depend
upon the tailor or the toilet. Good man
ners count for more than good clothes.
Forbearance and elf -control smooth
the road of life, and open many ways
which would otherwise remain closed.
Earnestness is the best gift of mental
power, and deficiency of heart is the cause
of many a man never becoming great.
A citizen of Brunswick, Ga proposes
I to paint his house black and ornament the
roof with representations of coffins painted
white.
You can get more wind out of a ten-
cent fan than you can from a $500 one.
It's the same way with a ten-cent man.
It is sad to see family relics sold at
auction, but the most painful thing under
the hammer is generally your thumb-nail.
Ingalls Is being fired Into because he
put' five "Pacific railroad, men on tne corn-
mittee of 6even to consider this very road
The proprietor of the Florida house at
St. Augustine is serving on his tables wa
termelons, cucumbers arid Jamaica ginger.
There are in Germany 2,000 Sunday-
schools, 30,000 teachers, and 300,000 schol
ars. Twenty-five . years ago there wres not
one.
According to an exchange a headless
1
man is roaming around an Ohio graveyard.
We have no hesitation in saying that it.is
not a hotel clcrk
I uui ux inc sunenn? comes me scnous
mind. out of the salvation the erateful
0
heart: out of endurance fortitude: out of
t
ate, is the comfort of old age, standing for
wealth with poverty, and serving as an or
nament to riches.
An exchange tells of a young woman
who went to a party with a decolette dress
on, took cold and died. Undoubtedly she
was dressed to kill.
It turns out that the noted peachblow
vase belongs to Mr. Bray ton Ives, a Wall
Street broker of great wealth. Mrs. Mor
gan paid $ 1 8,000 for it.
An indiscreet man is more hurtful
than an ill-natured one; the latter will
only attack his enemies, the other injures
indifferently both friends and foes.
There is no period of a girl's life 9
which she is not beautiful and charming
anti an that; but it must be confessed that
I jt js a a bride that he takes the "cake. !
-"Does the masculin embrace both
nuestion that has often been
discussed. As for us. we have observed
that the masculine embraces one sex much
more than it does the other.
Boucicault, the playwright, say& he
wishes that Adam had died with all h
J ribs in his body. What a lonesome tirrje;
father Adam would have had
He wpu)d
have died of the "dry rot."
r-The National Democratic Executive
Committee- will meet at Washington City
ort Wa&Hirigt6ii's birthday, to-day for the
purpose of fixing the time and place of
holding the next National Convention.
v What a wonderful magician Bismarck
in. He can utter a few words and the
whole continent of Europe thrills with the
gladness they produce. He can speak to
the agitated sea of contention and at once
all is peace and quiet.
The North distrusts all Southern men
who have not crawled on their bellies and
kissed the hand that smote them. The
only trusted Southerners are Longstreet,
Mahone, Key, Mosby, and a few politi
cians of the same kidney.
The United States Treasury contains
$282,000,000. in gold, the largest mass of
gold in the world. The government re
ceipts for January have averaged about
$1,000,000 a day. The reduction of the
public debt during January was $15,000, -000.
Since the year 1865 the people have
been taxed to pay the Federal pensioners
$870,000,000 eight hundred and seventy
millions of dollars. The South is paying
annually quite twenty-five millions to
Yankee soldiers. This is about $1.35 for
every man, woman and child in the whole
JcrUlh, This is what the toilers must pay.
IThere are enough miles of railroad in
the United 'States to girdle the earth five
and a half times. Over a half million of
men are engaged in operating these roads.
There are thirty thousard locomotives,
Iwetrty thousand passenger cars, and eight
hundred! and seventy-four thousond freight
cars in the Conked States.
The sfx da1 walking match ended Sat
urday night. Albert has broken the re
cord and is now champion of the world.
Eight of the competitors- completed the
525 miles that entitled theft) fo a share in
the gate receipts. The score of these eight
at 10 o'clock was as follows: Albert 621
miles 4 laps; Herty 582 miles; Guerero
564 miles; Hart 546; Golden 538; Moore
531 ; Strokel 526; Noremac 526.
STATE NEWS,
FBOB THE DEEP BLUE SEA TO TUP
GRAND OLD XXOUXTAIXS.
An Ilear Pleasantly Spent mtu Oar
Delightful Exchange.
Tarboro wants electric lights.
A man in Yadkin county, has this win
ter "gummed" 187 rabbits.
The Newbern truck farmers have put in
their peanut crop and are now preparing
xor potatoes.
Eight new cotton mill companies have
been incorporated under the laws of North
Carolina since January 1st.
A man in Johnson county bought a
wool hat the first year of the war and has
worn it constantly ever since.
Chicken thieves are numerous around
Reidsville. The Times report several de
predationsin one instance fifty fine hens.
A. J. Galloway, of Goldsboro, has been
appointed a director of the Eastern Insane
Asylum of Goldsboro, vice J. D. Spicer re.
signed.
The Raleigh Savings Bank has been in
operation only nine months. It has.S67
depositors with $43,701.83 of deposits in
small amounts.
Mamie Leslie, a white woman, implica
ted in a shooting affair at Salisbury, at
tempted to commit suicide by taking poi
son in her cell in jail.
The Winston Sentinel learns that the cli
mate of California does not agree with Mr.
J. W. Reid, and that' he speaks of return
ing to North Carolina.
The teachers of Harnett county held a
meeting Saturday a.t the enterprising and
growing little tawn of Dunn, and organ-
S 9-W-t m .
izea eacners' Council.
A yQung man near Hilifax, a few days
ago, while cutting wood, by chance cut
down a tree that contained four gallons of
honeyr lour bats and a peck of wasps
Next! '" ' "
In 1880 our State had 49 cotton mills,
102,767 spindles and 1,960 looms. She
noNv has 91 mill, 250,854 spendles and 5,-
929 looms. In number of mills, North
Carolina leads all the Southern States,
A child was born in this State recently
that has two grand-mothers, four great-grand-mothers,
one great-great-grand-motherj
all living and able and willing to
wait on the infant. The great-great-grand
mother is in her 94th year.
Col. A. C. Davis is going to have new
double barracks added to his already im-
inense military school .building at" La
Grange made nectgsary by the. constant
and rapid manner in which the mernber
ship of the school is increasing.
The Charlotte Chronicle savs it isundef
stood that the car record office of the Rich
mond & Danville Company is to be re
moved from Charlotte to Washington
City, where the general headquarters of
the company are now located, .on March
1st.
The ohlest Moravian settlement in the"
South was made Nov. 17th, 1753, and Old
Town, afterwaids called Wachovia, five
miles north of Winston, in Forsyth county,
by imigrants frofi Pennsylvania, There
is a stone church at his place oi hundred
years old.
There are on exhibition in the State Mu
seum some samples of canned fruits from
the canning establishment of A. J. Hatt &
Son, Flat Rock, N. C, and they are as
fine as any manufactured. There are now
fifteen canning establishments in the State
every one of which is successful. '
Mr. Isac Manning, who once lived in
Wilson and clerked for Hargrave, is now
living in Wilmington. In noticing his ar
rival there the Star says: "He arrived in
the city last night to take a position In the
labaratory of the Navassa Guano Com
pany. Mr. Manning is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina. After grad
uating he took a special course in chemis
rry, so that he is most eminently fitted for
his work. He enters upon hi duties im
mediately.
A Western newspaper says that the la
test sensation la St. Louis horse that
chews tobacco; but the gratest sensation
is D. Bull' Cough Syrup.
Salvation Oil is the gratest paln-de-stroyer
of the age. It speSdUy annihilates
pain, whether from a cut, bruUe, scald,
burn, frost-bite, or from a wouud of ' any
other kind. Price only 35 cents.
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