"Our .4im will be, the People's Right Maintain,
Unawed by Power, and Unfribed by Gain.'
VOL- VL-
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 7. 1888.
NO. 51
HAPPINESS.
0ET CANNOT PUBCHASE IT.
n-iT found in the Bleaaed Prom?
tse Bell Ion Hakes.
i. ikten All the weaun ana an - uie
wealth and all
and aii the splendors and the ex-1 ediction of peace upon her head and in her
il., of this world dyed Into your! heart.
& . .im amimrt vnur
Amilder
cannot i' pv.w
.... fnr a single
moment. The gayest
iLrobe Will utter no voice of condolence
day of trouble and darkness. That
Ln is grandly dressed, and on she,
bo U wrapped in the robe of a Saviour s
Ihteousness. The home may be very
tumble, the nai may t.j
frock ma be very coarse; but the halo In
Heaven settles in the room when she wears
and the faintest touch of the resurrec
fon angel -will change that garment into
rtiment so exceeding white, so as no fuller
a earth could whiten it. We come to you
eung women, to-day, to say . that this
iorld cannot make you happy. We know it
fes bright world with glorious sunshine,
and bird orchestra, and the wrathiest ware
it foam wreath, and the coldest midnight
ts flaming aurora; but God will put out
' .n hc iMits with the blast of his own
ftli UiVv . -
nostril, and the glories of this world will
jensh In the final conflagration. " You
iH never be .happy until you get your
'n foreiven and allow Christ Jesus to
full nossession of your soul. He will J
your friend in every perplexity. He
will be your comfort in every trial. r He
till be your defender in every strait, e do
ot ask you to bring, like Mary, the spices
to the sepulchre of a dead Christ, but to
ferlng your all to the feet of a living Jesus,
wte wnri t ware. His look is love. His
... I
His smile t
land Is help. His touch is life.
fc Heaven. Oh, come, then, in nocks ana
poups. Come, like the south wind over
tab of myrrh. Come, like the morning
ht tripping over the m o u n t i a ni
Wreathe all vour affections on Christ's
, set all your gems in Chrii coro
jour all your voices into Christ so g,
, pour alt your
tad let this Sabbath air rustle with the
ings of angels, and the towers of God
-ring out the news of souls saved.
This world it fancied pearl may crave.
Tie nut the pearl for me; -.
Twill dim its luster in the grave,
Twill perish in the sea.
'But there's a pearl of price untold.
Which never can be bought with gold;
0, that's the pearl for roe. ;
What lie Discovered.
A -hand8omel y. dressed young woman
titered a crowded street car. A long
whiskered old fellow, wearing a dingy
touch hat and a suit of homespun clothes,
jot up and said:
"Mtes, take my seat. I don't look as
"ell as ihese here gentlemen" nodding at
veral men "but I've diskivered that
r?e got more politeness."
The young woman sat down without
ever thanking the old fellow, and slighljr
linking at a woman whom she knew,
whispered:
"How do you like my gallant country
sier? Don't you think he would cut
quite a figure in a dime museum ?"
"Miss," said the old fellow with a smile
clearly bespoke his ignorance of the
unladylike ridicule, "I believe I left my
Pocket book thar on the seat. Will you
Please get up a minit?"
The young woman got up. The old fel-
sat down, and stroking his whiskers,
Marked:
B'lieve I'll keep on setting here, Miss,
'SlOOd UD RO rrU U Ji
cil Liic uime- museum
sorter tired. I've got a
more politeness
than these eentle'
n but I've diskivered that I ain't got so
ch sense."
the 61,1 Who Help. Mother.
There ic
her 9,i 21 ' and we love to think of
'cr and talk 1
th - comes in late
l; liitlc COmpan who ears a pret
anxietr J minSled responsibility and
eem her youih whom the others
forJ TeP!"d n and lot to for many
cr. Iah bhe 15 girl who helps moth-
Ue aint e0Wn hme she is a blessed lit
UA. cmforter. She takes unfin-
at th m Ured finSers lhat
8ta. "urn; ner Strontr finirpr !
1 Wh!Ch the 8rar haired, white
Ptnotht
"cr lean
s and is rested. She
k' " WUh the ngwingj with
Son a "5 wnn a cheerf ul con-
----6V.114, companionsmp
that some girls "do not think worth while
waiting on only mother. And when there
comes a day when 6he must bend, as girls
must often bend, over the old, wornout
bodyEtf her mother, lying unheeding in
her coffin, rough hands folded, her long
disquiet mejged in rest, something very
sweet will be. mingled wih her loss, and
girl wno helped mother will nndaben-
ASLEEP RETEX TEARS.
A Farmers Cartons AC3letlon tFhlcn
Followed an Attack of Fever.
A Utica "(Minn.) telegram says: Her
man Haines has slept almost continually
for seven years. He has been treated in a
dozen different ways, but' no one has been
able to break his protracted slumber. Pow
erful electric batteries have been applied to
his body, the only effect being a contrac
tion of the muscles. Haines is now forty
ty nine years old, and ten years ago was
a prosperous farmer in St Clair county,
I1L At that time he was hale and hearty,
his weight being 180 pounds.
In 1877 he was stricken with fever and
ague,and in the spring of 1880 moved to St
Charles, Winona county, when he was
brought to Utica. A few moths after his
arrival in this State he fell asleep, and he
has lived is this strange condition for more
than seven vears.
In the snmmer of 1884 he awoke one
morning, arose, from his bed, put on his
clothes, and went about his work. When
told that he had slumbered four years he
grew indignant and Would not believe
that he had slept more than a night until
led before a mirror and shown his long
black hair and oeard and sunken cheeks
and eves. For a month his health and
habits seemed perfect He went to bed at
. ... ...
tne usual nour, slept tnrougn the night,
and arose with the lark
In August, 1884, his wife became very
ill, and Haines was obliged to deprive him
self of needed rest. One night, while tak
ing her a cup of tea, he suddenly fell
asleep, dropped the Cup, sank to the floor,'
and had to be taken b hi bed,lrom which
he has never since risen. He lies on his
back, breathes naturally, and suffers little
pain; but is wasting away. His weight is
now less than ninety pounds, and he is no
longer able to move himself in bed.
- About 11 o'clock ' everv. evening he
awakes for five or six minutes, during
which time he is hurriedly given a soft
boileJ egg, a little soup, and a swallow or
two of coffee, his onlv nourishment. He
is extremely nervous during hi brief wak
ing intervals, but. his conversation indicates
that his mind is not beclouded. No medi
cine has passed his Hps for two vears. ' His
children are bright and healthy.
THE SUBSCRIBERS SOLILOQUY.
To pay or not to pay, that is tht question
Whether tis better for me to refuse
To take a local paper and deprive
My family from reading all the news,'
Or pay up promptly what the printer asks
And, by such payment, cheer him? No
pay, no paper-
Then no more shall 1 1 be posted on the
news .
And local haps throughout the town,
And divers topics 'tis a consummation
That I have long feared. To pay, or stop?
To stop! perchance to lose ay, there's the
rub;
For in that stop no interest do I take
In any of the affairs that move the town,
And such a shuffling off of all that's good
Must make me pause. There the respect
Which every editor maintains for those
Who come down with the cash and ne'er
delay
To settle up "that little bill." For who
would bear
The pointed squibs and pungent paragraph
Which far too oft reflect upon a man
Who fails to settle his subscription bill?
I'll haste me now unto the editor.
And, with my purse plethoric in my hand,
Will settle up in full, one year from date,
By paying to him from my ready cash
The sum which is his due.
His 8
ered Premise.
"Rambo," said
reason vou drink
Baldwin, "what is the
your beer and whiskey
through a straw nowadays?"
I promised my dear little wife last New
Year's day, replied Rambo, feelingly,
that I would never touch my lips to the
in oxicating cup again, and
my word, Baldwin."
I'm a man of
His Heaon.
Father: "Aint you going to work?"
Lazy son: "Guess not" ul don't under
stand how anv body can loaf such weather
as this. '1 Why, it is a real pleasure to work
now." "I know'it but I don't want to
give myself up too much to mere enjoyment."
A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCIinfGR EFPnOWI-
OUSLY ELUCIDATED.
Knmerons Newsy
Notes and Hany
Parasjraphleally
Merry . Harsels
Packed and Pithily Pointed.
Genius invents, talent applies.
A stronghold Theull dog's.
We feel keenest Abe joy we never
come to. i
Cupid is always shooting and forever
- 1
making Mrs. .
During 18S7 more than 6,000 houses
were buit in Baltimore. "
The people of the Territory of Dakota
believe in a future State.
Thev only who eo without know
tfuely what it is to have.
Charity thinketh no evil. Charity
never got up a comic valentipe.
How few are- those ,who really under
stand what the mind is good for.
It. is the naked and hungry who can
tell you best the good of food and raiment
In Buffalo a Sunday walking match
is called a "sacred hoof concert."
Many a homely, unattractive girl gets
a husband on account of her pa-value.
If the oU price of coal will return al
will be forgiven and no questions asked.
How to carve a turkey with perfect
ease and self-possession do it by proxy.
It is the glazier who can always be de
pended upon to take panes with his work.
St Louis is making, big preparations
for the National Democratic Convention.
If a man wants to give a helping hand
to a struggling young man, let him slip in
four aces. ..."
Total visible supply of cotton for the
world 2,907,850 bales; crop in sight 6,195,-
094 bales.
?
The Treasury department uses 1 8,000
towels a month, and tll the surplus is not
wiped out.
Shopping is too much of a sweet buy
and buy for the frugral husband. It cloys
on the taste.
A Reading steel mill suspended Fri
day throw ing nearly three hundred men
out of employment.
The bankers talk of forming a union.
It will be a sort of dough-nation. Well,
perhaps they knead it
The real '-boy wonder" is the youth
who would rather saw a stick of wood than
haul a sled five miles.
Collecting old silver is now the popu
lar rage. Others besides burglars find it
pleasant employment
. Mary Crosby, of Wilmington, Del.,
has been married seven timss. She seems
to be a Mary-go-round.
Riches do not always bring happiness,
but they often hold it long enough for a
fellow to put salt on its tail.
; A woman isn't fit to have a baby who
doesn't know how to hold it ; and this is as
true of a tongue as of a baby.
- The girls in Brittany are not allowed
to sell their hair. In this country the girls
don't have to, as it's a sell itself.
Bitter strife prevails between Milwau
kee brewers and their men. In other
words, they are at larger heads.
-"What is that you like about that
girl?" asked one young man of another.
"My arm," was the brief reply.
Girls shouldn't whistle. It reveals to
the young men that they have wind
enough to make excellent scolds.
Self-control lies at the foundation of
character. He that does not control him
self must be controlled by others.
It is calculated by a careful Darwin
ian theorist that the fourth generation in
Minnesota will be born with fur on.
A proverb is, "Ask a pig to dinner
and he will put his feet on the table."
ect not teblc
Frank Hurd says that he has no doubt
that Ohio will go solid in the Convention
for Cleveland and straight out free wool.
It has been settles that LIbby prison is
to be removed to Chicago. The first in
stallment of the purchase money has been
paid.
The , cultured maiden from Boston
wrote to her : friend that she had been to
hear Mr. Joseph Emmett sing "Pique-a
bout"
-An obituary notice contains the touch
ing Intelligence that the deceased had ac
cumulated a little money and ten children.
The naval vessels, in course of con
struction at Cramp's shipyard, Philadel
phia, are reported as favorably progressing.
The scientists have taught that insects
have their affections, and now some one
knows a mosquito that was mashed on a
young lady. . .
A Western girl has a pet bear, which
she- says, can not hug any two young men
in that vicinity. There is trouble bre win
for that animal.
The champion widow lives in Iowa.
She sees that the graves of eleven hus
bands are kept green. She takes no note
of men but their loss.
"Suddenly he gave a start,? is the
newer and more fashionable way of begin
ning a love story. He had been sitting on
a carpet tack probably.
Small pox is reported to be terribly
prevalent in the island of Cuba, and it is
estimated that six thousand deaths have
occurred in eight months.
A man and his wife had a little diffi
culty fn the kitchen the other day, and
presently matters became so quiet that you
could hear a rolling pin drop.
"Another man thrown out of a good
position 1" remarked Crimson beak, as he
saw a neighbor on the opposite side of the
street slip and fall on the ice.
A Rtcoe Conkline I'lub has been
formed in Buffalo, N. Y., with the inten
tion of boomine the ex-Senator for the
Presidency. Look out nowl
Where there is abuse there aught to
be clamor; because it is better to have our
slumbers broken by the fire-bell than to
perish amid flames in our bed.
A Detroit woman has succeeded in
obtaining a divorce In twenty -four hours.
A prominent sporting man offers to back
her for $500 against all comers.
i-Whv ..not let the lawyers settle the
coal difficulty ifThev know all abou
Oike and Blackstone. Jf the coal dealers
do know as much about Littleton. .
The Emperor William celebrates his
9 1 st birth day next month a every sol
dier in the great German army wi-1 be pre
sented with the Kaiser's biography. :
The business of the London postffice
is of such magnitude that the present post
master ceneral has saved $ 1 5,000 a vear in
sealing wax and twine expenses alone.
If the Moorish custom of rubbing
Cayenne pepper on the lips of women who
told scandal were revived what a trade the
Cincinnatti spice dealers would do.
The little farm house in which Horace
Greely was hoi n, together with 129 acres
of farm land, is to be sold at auction at
Amherest N. H for taxes amounting to
$20.25.
"I'd like to cuff you, -ou voung ras
cal !" exclaimed an irate man who had been
target for the lad'a snowball. " Yer
would, ehl Well, collar me fust and cuff
me afterward, old man."
-Mr. Blaine is about to visit Rome.
Rome is the 6cene of the career and un
timely end of that well known magnetic
statesman, Hon. J. Csear, and it will be a
place full of interest to Mr. Blain. .
The Duke of Marlborough has pur
chased a steam fire engine and personally
drills his servants once a week for the pro
tection of "Blenhem," the historic mansion
he inherited from his great ancestor.
A redwood tree recently felled hear
H umbo id, Col., measured 16 feet in diame
ter one way and 20 feet in the other at the
stump. It was 200 feet long, tapering to a
diameter of 8 feet, and contained enough
timber to construct a small villiage.
The Presbyterians of the United States
will in May celebrate the centennial exis
tence of that church in this country. The
church was organized in 1788 with 16
Presbyteries, 177 ministers, 419 churches
and 10,000 members. It has to-day in its
three b rancher 389 Presbyteries, 8,333 min
isters, 1 1,212 churches or parishes and 750,
000 members.
The "negro exodus" scheme seems to
have died still-born. The most prominent
and intelligent colored men of the country
have denounced it and if it is received
with fevor by the negros anywhere it must
be those of the North. Perhaps it was a
cunningly devised scheme to get rid of the
negroes in that , section, and especially in
Kansas, where there are a number of them
in wretched circumstances.
STATE NEWS.
roon the deep blue re a to tup
ghaxd old boustaihh.
An Hoar PleMaatl jr Kpent With On
ZtellKhtTal Exenai
Tarboro is to have a town hall
Tarboro desires a canning factory.
Tarboro is evry anxious for a gymnasi
um
Goldsboro has fifteen lawyers and elev
en doctors.
Grace St. M. E. church at Wilmington,
is being rapidly built
The Sampson Guards of Clinton, N. C
number forty men, rank and file.
The Wilmington papers are booming
the town on the railroad subscriptions.
The Presbyterians are endeavoring to
establish a church at Falkland, Pitt county.
Measles rage as an epidemic In WUming.
ton and is also prevailing in. the country
around.
Mr. W. P. Toomer was elected cashier
of the Savings Bank of Wilmington on
Friday last
The petition to Congress for Tar river .
fishing creek appropriation has been sent to
Senator Ransom.
Elizabeth City wants a canning factory
and a savings bank. Both are convenient
in large cities and towns.
There is a man residing in Lenoir coun
ty, named Lewis Pippin, who is over a
hundred years old an d-has been married
seven times.
A stock company with a capital of $25,
000 has been organized at Henderson for
the establishment af the sash, door and
blind factory.
The Winston Daily says: There are
three street railways In operation in the
State, nine cities and town are lighted with
electricity, and nine have waterworks sys
tems in operation. .
The Goldsboro Argus-says: A census of!-
thte city would show . fifteen lawrrrs andf
- , ' .... t
eleven doctors and still it remains a solemn
fact that Goldsboro is one of the healthiest
and most peaceable ekies in the State. '
Many features of amusement are pronV'
ised at the C-aven county Fair, March 13,
14 and 15. A tournament parade of th
best fire department in the State, glass ball
and clay pigeon shooting, and various oth
er things.
On Saturday last Capt W. H. Kitchen,
of Scotland Neck, got into, an altercation
with Mr. Haddry, which resulted in blow
during which a young boy, brother, we be
lieve, cut Mr. Kitchen in the back twice
with a knife.
Cleveland county h noted for the nu
merical of its churches, which number by
actual count 62. Thev are as follows:
Methodists of all kinds, 34; Baptist 23;
Presbyterians, 3 ; Lutherans, 1 ; Episcopa
lians, 1.
Ground was broken to-day by the East
Carolina Land and Railway Company, on
their proposed road from Newbern to Ons
low county. The first dirt was thrown by
President Bryan, of the Atlantic & North
Carolina Railroad, who is also a director
in the new company.
The first timber for the erection of the
new assembly building at Morehead City,
was placed in position on Monday last and -the
work from now out will be rapidly
proceeded with. The building will be
ready in each and every particular for the
session of the assembly in June.
Judge Walter Clark has accepted the in
vitation to deliver the commencement ad
dress at the University of the State " on the
6th of June. Judge Clark has proven
himself to be a forcible writer and an inde
pendent thinker, and we are satisfied his
address will be strong, practical and in
structive. A peculiar deposit which resembles clay
in pliability, but which, when exposed to
the air, becomes as hard as granit, lias been
discovered at the base of Bear Mountain,
near Taylorsviile, N. C. Blocks of it have
been dug out and used for all the purposes
of stone with success, and it is proposed to
build nouses with it. ''
Nothing but superlative merit can ac
count for the phenomenal reputation
achieved by Salvation Oil. It kills pain.
Price 25 sents.
The Darwinian theory perplexes the
multitude. They object to decendants
from monkeys. But not even a baby ob
jects to Dr. Bulls Cough Syt up.