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"Our ltm icill be, the People's Rigid Maintain,
Unawed by Power, and Unbribed by Gain.'1
VOL VII.
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1888.
NO. 1
THE SOUTH.
".irrirw. picture of south-
AA wv PROSPERITY.
PROSPERITY.
irffrbly Cultivated and Thor
r "tomolished and Exqui.
liteiy P,isned ady of Norfo,,l;
VtdeR Mirror:-A trip through the
option of the South is quite suf-
nt to dispel tne pcssimuv -
n Southern croaKw.
Boots.
ries,
heaven
Thrift and enter-
cr aDOUL 111 OCVi
Cotton factones, tobacco tacto-
Tuiarries and mills thickly dot this j
arc
-favored section, uuu man.- w
of the expression "Before
the odsoicc" , . . j i-
he war." Marietta, Ga., being our desti-
Lire passed aver the entire length of the
Piedmont Air Line. It was difficult to tell
i-.u Qtnif- showed most prosperity, but
... m0St beautiful section is that, where
Sonh Carolina joins aouin Carolina auu
Mfm'nc nntlinp tht hOTlZOfl.
1 M . n mi 11 I 1 1 I tllllO
the diuc
Our destiny
was Marietta, Ga.,,. now cele-
! bated as a winter -..i...
It is but a short distance trom Atlanta ana
is finely situated, occupying the hills of the
rif t-i tViot- ctill i in -
famous Kennedy u.ur.
folds a pathetic page of Southern history.
All about its heights are twined the breast
v0'ks raised by the braves whose grass
howil unmarked graves near by reproach-
o - ... x u:i
fuilv sav, "we ana tne cause iur wmui c
me our lives are being forgotten v In
striking contrast to this desolate spot the ;
Fedraf cemetery is the chief attraction
of the town, it is to ue ucvuuu;
that the Legislature may pass the proposed
bill to tax every person in Georgia for the
ourpose of keeping in order the burial pla
ces of our heroes, while the sister States,
whose dead are buried there, should come
to Georgia's assistance. Since w e cannot
tee the support of the Government in
Ms, which is the first and-most important
for of every Southerner, we should share
oct last farthing to perpetuate the .memo
ry of those who died so noblj for their
countrr. ,
A marble quarry forty miles distant has.
its cutting and polishing works two miles
from Marietta. We noticed a pretty cot
tage near the town that was being enclosed
by a fence made of broken bits of pure
white marble, and this seemed to empha
size the sad fact of our dead heroes neg
lect Pink and gray marble are also quar
ried near there. The drive around the
works being strewn with beautiful pieces
of these colors. M arietta is also in the
midst of the cotton section and receives
over twenty thousand bales a year. In a
suburb of the town is the interesting home
oi Mary Freeman Clarke, the aged sister
of the; Boston savant, James Freeman
Ckrke. Visitors are welcomed there and
while inspecting the oil and water
fetches of Oriental scenes that line her
studio you cannot help wandering at the
gy of the artist who is now in her
' -
eW-eighth year. Her library is also
irEeand she herself sits at a table in a front
to take down the name of the bor-
wer and the number of the book. On a
U1C m me library were doubtless her
tenures, for on opening several of the
ks the autographs of the authors ac-
npanied the inscription, "With best
wies. One of these was the gift of the
Mar TTrVtf -Vinjo rr.int lootll VlCJC
kened a fresh interest in her literary
r- Another hnrl- - crltt (mm (Iip rnil.
, Ilk J. 1 Vtli litV
'en. of v. d Howell contained the
V - win 111V111W1 ) Uf Vt Lll O
nine year old daughter after her visit
" continental galleries. The pictures
k'e well reproduced and showed a giftal-
equal to her father's verbal pamtin
j reeman Clarke herself is a writer
aDlWy, and
WSatnU.I! ....
frp,v "sllLness ot mind that is as re-
s i., z k"ssii dlusu tnat occasion-
io' Uffuses her remarkable clear complex
James Freeman gives her one hun
uunp.rc o . ...
- ar to add books to her col-
see if Mrs. Jones wore any. She did not
9
travel in diamonds, but she wore jewelry
and was by no means Quakerish in her at
tire. Much to their mother's discomfort
the young Satri Joneses were as fond of
thrusting their heads out of the car widows
as ordinary people's children. The dark,
, rugged face of Sam Jones is of a type that
is truly Southern, and may' almost be said
to be peculiar to Georgia, and the far
South. It expressed determination to such
an extent that I should fear for his antago
nist in a prize ring.
The great stride of Atlanta towards at
taining the chieftancy of Southern cities is
too familiar with all to permit a descrip
tion, yet we cannot help telling of the
agreeable impression of a first visit. We
reached there on the day of its return to
free license and this appeared to be Atlan
ta's only retrograde movement, otherwise
it seemed wedded to prosperity. The new
capital of grey stone on a commanding
height in the centre of the city is approach
ing completion. The builing for the school
of Technology on a suburban hill is a huge
structure of red brick and stone now re
ceiving the finishing touches. Peachtree
street lined with its elegant homes would
adorn anv citv. 1 his viororous. prowin?
city lias completely obliterated the little
station of Atlanta of thirty years ago
Augusta too with its boulevards and wide
avenues, and its air of enterprise clearly
indicate that the old South has picked up
the lost thread of its progress. It is fight
ing for the next exposition and is hopeful
of winning. From there to Aikin is a brief
railroad journey, and as climate was the
object of our persuit we felt on reaching
Aikin the satisfaction derived from.ACCom
plished aim. We knew from the pines and
sand hills around there was a balm in the
air notwithstanding the incessant rain. An
irresistable impulse to explore the town
pleaded the balm of the air as a counterac
tion to the cold giving rain. It v proved,
however, a false calculation and now we
cannot see why invalids seek Aikin. The
town has1 broad streets, -pretty homts, and
a park on nearly every street. Kaolin beds
are scattered through the country, and are
soon to be developed. The extensive cot
ton factories of Graniteville and Langley
are but a few miles distant, and the towns
near them are unusually attractive. If
our winters continue to increase in cold
the southern towns and cities must furnish
refuge for our western and northern neigh
bors, and may look forward to a very won
derful stride towards prosperity. Let us
value our real estate accordingly. R
A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUPHONI
OUSLY ELUCIDATED.
Numerous Newsy Notes . and Many
Merry Morsels Paragraphieally
Packed and Pithily Pointed;
A good nick-name Satan.
A mere shadow The detective.
Gen. Grant's widow is in Florida.
Newport News is rapidly building up.
Sign for a money lender Lucre here.
She stoops to conquer- the washer
woman.
Where there is no hope there can be no
endeavor.
Miss Columbia was the first girl to get
a New Jersey. '
An awkward waiter frequently plays
the duce with the tray.
Every thought which pity throws into
the world alters the world.
One must study to know, know to un
derstand, understand to judge.
Death rocks our second childhood to
sleep in the cradle of the coffin.
The sonorous shouts of the fish ven
STATE NEWS.
GRAND OLD MOrXTAISS.
An Hour Pleasantly Spent With Oar
Delightful Exchanges.
In a quarter of a century fourteen
theatres, museums and circuses have been
destroyed in New York city alone.
A bill providing that no survivor of J from THE DEEP BLUE HEATOTIIF
the war of 181 2 shall receive a pension of
less than $12 per month wift introduced
by Mr. Evarts.
Do not fret It only adds to your
burden. To work hard is very well; but
to work hard and worry, too, is more than I min
human nature ran bear.
A girl who weighs 120 pounds and has
$3000 in her own right, no matter how
homely, anattractive or cross-tempered she
may be is worth her weight in gold.
Judge Campbell, of New Orleans, As
sistant Secretary of War in the Davis Cab
inet, will publish soon some reminiscences
and documents concerning the great war.
We don't know whether to believe the
story that Mr. Ho wells replied to a person
who asked for a list of the best hundred
books: "I
books."
Fayettivelle thinks of having a knitting
Goldsboro is contemplating a cotton
compress.
A military company has been organized
at Warrenton.
There are more than 500 Farmer's Alli
ances in the State.
The Wilmington savings bank has com
menced operation.
The Newbern Game and Oyster Fair
was a grand success.
THF GREAT SNOW STORM.
Unparelled in its Enormity and Se
renity.
ders should be called fish bawls.
The dresses of engaged young girls rope, it makes charity 6eem cold to hear
ware out soonest around the waste. the voice of the landlord heW vllintr nut-
I J to
When the fire is kindled in your par- "All right. I've got the valise; let go the
750 dozen eggs were sold on the Green-
have not written a hundred ville market Saturday.
Some thief has been robbing the New-
The railroad companies of the United post office boxes.
States have made greater profits since they Warrenton will have an agricultural fair
have been operating under the provisions and farmers' institute in October next,
of the Inter Sate Commerce law than eve. Ninety-eight orphans are' registered at
before in the history of the country. the Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville.
When a man without cash or credit. The hosi mil, at Wilmington is to be
attemnts to 1
wwto .,.0 enIerged ltg present capacity is 200 doz-
vausc uui 01 a uuck winaow Dy means 01 a 1 en a week
lor stove, then look out for "sparks."
Wonder if a balloon would be more
effective if it were made of fly paper?
One may live a conquerer, a King, a
magistrate, but he must die as a man.
The pen is a mighty engine, and it
sometimes runs away with the engineer.
A young' man intending "to press his
suit," first went and had his suit pressed.
rope."
The bitter speech of Senator Ingalls in
the United States Senate week before last
promises to involve him in lots of thouble.
Several Grand Army posts have already
A National bank is to be organized in
Concord. D. B. Coltrane of Missouri, is
the mover.
The State Guard now numbers 1,192
men. There are 25 white companies and
two colored.
The Statesville Mail has a madstone
J I 1 t . . . . ...
censured him for his reference to Generals wnicn can "earea suewng "ptzen," just
Hancock and McClellan as "allies of the 1 a suckin milk
Confederacy." .
Mr. Randall's tariff bill will, he says,
reduce the internal revenue $70,000,000
The revenue collections at the Winston
branch office for the month of February
amounted to $47,208.54.
A meeting of all state superintendents
of public schools in the South will be held
aon that she"
inv c. . ""nittuiy ienas witnout
WhPn I , . CVer havinS them returned
s . .J .ie lrain to leave Marietta,
nd rw exh5bi-ating climate, we
Wm o SCated in a car with Sam
W ,V m Jnes and two little Sam
Portun;L . 6 Were veH' glad of this op
l a. t:n$!e another of Georgia's celeb
ftesa' . !? had Sne UP to Marietta
ed as if TVS,TPartV: Itreall-V
ur svrhtc . viuence tavorea
!U?K5 "o- was VPrvn'n'lv
On March the 12th the biggest snow
storm ever seen in the Middle States tel
in New York and Pennsylvania and other
adjoining localities. In New York busi
ness was entirely suspended, trains were
stopped, ferry boats ran at long intervals,
and the snow came down in blending
sheets. A dispatch on the morning of the
13th said: The East River was frozen
hard this morning and many Brooklynites
walked across it to the New York side.
Few trains if any have reached the differ
ent termini in New York and Jersey City.
Many trains are stalled between stations
on the Hudson River and Harlem railroad.
The officials said yesterday that forty trains
were snowed in. Efforts to break through
the snow drifts had completely failed. Not
a train reached the depot during the day.
Most of "the roads report a similar condi
tion of affairs. Passengers suffered great
discomfort. Ferry boats are only run at
lon- intervals. Communication with Phil
adelphia last night, by long-distant tele
phones, said that the storm there was the
greatest in over thirty years. No trains
wpre running. Manv were snow bound
r 1
near the city. The east bound Chicago
limited express was snowbound within 17
miles of Philadelphia. Business is suspen
ded. All telegraph wires are down. Most
persons who get to business yesterday were
unable to get home last night. Hotel ac
commodations were strained to their ut
most. Stores and offices were converted
into sleeping apartments for the benefit
of their employees. Many grls were com
pelled to accept such quarters. Many of
the theatres closed last .night. Famine is
threatened if the roads are not soon cleared.
Nothing will turn a woman's head so and tari reVenue about $2;.ooo.ooo. but
complete as a bonnet that has passed by. it8 free list is deceptive, addinc hardl v anv-
When a girl is littls.she has a dollba-1 thing to the free list at present existing, so H1 forehead City on June 20th and 21st.
by ; when she grows up she has adol-man. that it is calculated to do the people at There are over two hundred and seven-
A European miser has learned to bark lare little or no good in the way of lessen- ty ca on' 'the civil docket of the present
so as to save the expense ol i keeping a dog. Ing the burden of taxation. term of Buncombe court, the Asheville
The barber's is a strange profession. Ingersoll's friends are deserting him bun reports.
You seldom see one that is not at the head. and tne devl, and getting converted. : His Mr. D. W. Jones, living near White '
Truth should be the first lesson of the Chi6f Hend IlliniS ha8 jmed thC Plain8- in SurrJr count-v ls the father of a
child and the last inspiration of manhood. "1C "c"a oiu, wno nas ten nngers,
... , JO . ... . Durg, v . v a., is mat v i. aia wen, "tne two tnumbs, and twelve toes.
Mitchell and Sullivan are still in cus- T . n r .u v: r l
cSt v i,g.ia uar, a!, c The Mt. Airy people are preparing for a
was known, has been converted, joined the great railroad jollification in May. They
Methodist church and will enter the minis- are arranging a Trade Display and a Cav-try.
The Booth-Barrett combination have jt is with feelings of much reeret that
had a big thing of it all around. In San ws Iearn o the suddenleath of Cant. Dur-
Francisco they have been drawing the gei.f which sad eyen occured at his home
is the town of Warrenton on Friday morn-
tudy at Semis. Charges will be preferred
against them to-day.
iv iarmer says tnat "gate-money is
that which is expended for the damage
caused by Jim and Kate.
Toast An honest lawyer, the noblest
work of God, when an old farmer added, largest audiences ever known in that city.
"Ana anout tne scarcest." During last week "Othello," "The Mer-
An old man, aged 79, was hanged for chant of Venice," and "Macbeth" was pre
murder in New York, recently. They sented. In April these distinguished ac-
shortened his life very little. tors will give three performances in Oma
A sharp shock of earth quake was felt ha for which theJ Nvi11 receive ten thous-
at Los Angeles, Cal., on the 7th inst., be
ing the severest fos 18 years.
Ah! when shall all men's good be each
man's rule, and universal peace lie like a
shaft of light across the land?
It is when a man sits down sbddenly,
unexpectedly and severely that he realizes
what a hard, hard world this is.
Phil. D. Armour, now eastward bound rQm membership
on a transatlantic steamer, is taking ms
"first vacation in twenty years."
The railroad earnings for South Caro
lina for January are very encouraging,
showing nearly 20 per. cent, increase.
To be a gentleman does not depend
upon the tailor or the toilet. Good man
ners count for more than good clothes.
You may deceive all the people some
of the time, and some of the people all the
time, but not all the people all the time.
A musician advertises that the "teaches
the piano." After he has tanght the piano
we suppose he w ill look around for pupils.
A paper mill at Athens, Ga.,madea
sheet of paper last week that was five feet
wide and tix miles long without a break in
and dollars.
So Ingall's speech has brought him
into bad odor even in the house of his
friends. We are not surprised. His'dis
tinguished and patriotic service during the
war consisted in his being a judge advo
cate of militia and prosecuting jayhawkers
for robbing hen roosts. The Loyal Legion
has discovered it in time and bars him out
The rebuke is thor
oughly deserved.
William and Mary College, at Wil
liamsburg, Va., whose germ dates from
1619 and which is . consequently the oldest
injr last.
There are three candidates for the Re
publican nomination for CongrebS is the
second district in one town. Thev are
Messrs. C. A. Cook. A. A. Owen and J.
A. Hy man, of Warrenton.
The plague of miningetis is playing sad
havoc with the children on Catawba river
in the vicinity of Triangle and Denver in
Lincoln county. A great may cases are
reported, several of which have, been fatal.
It has been demonstrated that North
Carolina pine, from which the turpentine
has not been extracted, is the strongest and
most desirable wood in the United States,
save live oak. Another point in favor of
our valuable timber.
Here are the taxes collected during 1SS7,
in North Carolina: Tax on licensed retail
institution of learning in the countrv, is to
be re-established as a State Normal school licluor dealers, $82,757, tax on white polls,
nnd will cret a vearlv income of Sio.000. $I73,o55; taX n colored PIIs $So,03S; n
en.J? na lectin
rk. . JUl? With r- i
PchafeSt1 about the iewel
ln Chicago we looked to
Indignant.
As they came from church Sproggs said :
"Was it not disgraceful, the way in which
Smiggs snored in church to-day?"
Stuggs: "I should think it "was. Why,
he woke us all up."
Marriage is the best state for men in
general, and every man is a worse man in
proportion as he is unfit for the married
state..
Col. E. B. C Cash, the South Carolina
duelist, died of appoplexy at his residence
in Chesterfield county, S. C, Saturday be
fore last.
Vice President and General Manager
of the Union Pacific Railroad Co., Thomas
T Potter, died at Washington recently,
aged 46 years.
real and personal property at 12 J cents on
the $100 valuation, $257,488. Total school
taxes, $605,000; total taxes for all county
purposes, $920,000.
The Richmond State notes the fact that
"Oxford, N. C, is now in 'close railroad
Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Randolph,
of Roanoke, and Tyler were educated at
William and Marry College, and its old
catalogues bear the name of scores of no;
table Virginia families.
Senator Inralls. presiding officer of the
1 I . . : ...:.u r :-i 1 1 .u .1 :t
Senate, has a toneue as" venomous as the uMn..iU.
fangs of an adder. Yet this is not a good ty city will grow faster than ever. Hen
year for snakes, and the" political "rattler" derderson is only twelve miles from Ox-
- 7 1 x i 1 .1 .1 ...111 . .
has been condemned by the people to end "'
its da vs in "innocuous desuetude." There of Henderson traffic, too. Henderson h
is much about the Senator from Kansas Rowing rapidly." If the Stete will watch
to commend him to the admiration of his the movement of events Durham will
fellow citizens; He is brainy-as "subtile al in "cIos railroad connection" with
as the serpent"-he is a scholar, and he Richmond at no distant day.
has a rare turn for biting sarcasm. In fact,
, . . . . . . If vou are arlicted with rheumatism, neu-
he is not a product of the W est, but rather gQut or other y or if yQU
au offshoot of the older and more refined have a sprained wriit or ankle you ought at
civilization of the East. It is more to his once to procure a bottle of Salvation Oil,
shame, therefore, that he should, with his the greatest cure on earth for pain. It
. . , a .... only costs 25 cents a bottle,
culture and calm reflectiveness, prostitute J
hh talents and devote his energies to the mLo! the poor Indian r dying with cold,
renaissance of bitterness and loathsome ha- Won't some "good Samaritan" send him a
tred. bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup.