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VOL VII.
bis
MRS.
A War Relict.
28. 1888.
t0G iSD- SADLY NEGLECTED
WOU AX.
The following is a copy of a w
vw e neid at McCoul's farm, ne
Spotsylvania, C, H. The mn-r o u:
A MIXTURE.
NO. 2
.(last has a Kind and Sympathet
jf Word Spoken in Her Defense.
0b was a wonderfully afflicted man, but
a partial compensation for it he has had
the sympathy of the human race for four enated from
near i
the leUer is written has grown veHoW ;u
age, and, where folded has been carefully
sewed together. J
The genuineness of the latter is fully at.
tested hv . . J
fK 77 ,Mawwub PeoPIe among them
the finder. It is hi,hiv .
r "itcicsungana
The paper on which EDITKIAI. ETCHINGS ErpHOxi
OUSLT ELUCIDATED.
fy Morsels Paragraphical!,
Packed and Pithily Pointed.
nomen have much m'r ;,....!...
than men. The eirl wi.h .hi ZTT
i . . " -uiv3i ruse-
bud mouth can hold from fo,,.
in-Ji clothespins between her iaw
-The Brotherhood of Locomotive en
gtneers, it is said, have a fund of $S6o,ooa
STATE NEWS.
FBOoJlIDEI:PBLrE "EATOTIIF
GUAXD OLD MOCXTAIX.
can raise
in an hour $3,610,000. An Honr Pica
organization, well offi-
illlrVlJ Wllh
era-
thousand years, cut it has not been so
with Job's wife. No body has ever spoken
a kind word of her. On the contrary, she
been held npjorty centimes as a horrible
example. But for all that we are confi
dent the poor woman deserves a better
nlace in history than she has ever occu-
pied H she was sour-tempered she had
1 . J nlA J 1 1
enoug" wgic i ouu migc to iicr dispo
sition, he was made to drink the dregs
from every bitter cup, and it is probable
that she bore her troubles w ith about as
much equanimity as the average woman
would do. In the first place she was sud
denly reduced from luxury Uo penury.
Any unfortunate woman who has this or
deal knows just the frame of mind'poor
Mrs. Job was in. In the next place she
s bereft of her children. There is no
grief so burdensome as that . which falls
upon a mouiers neart when the grave
hides her children from her sight In ad
dition to this accumulation of sorrows, she
was left with an invalid husband on her
hands. Job was covered with boils, and
experience has taught us that there Is no
more exasperating patient than a man w ith
i boil on him. There are w i ves, and good
wives, too, in the Christian land of ours
whose lives have been made most misera
ble for days and weeks at a time bv a hus
band with one boil. Just think, then, what
this poor woman had to endure with a hus
band with perhaps from five hundred to a
inouna dous on him ! is it anv wonder J
that the woman encouraged her husband to
to-mate his existence? Iheonlv wonder
siat she didn't cut her own t hroa' in dis-
F- isut these were nor all the tmnW.-c
that Job's wife had to bear. rer husband's
U 1. ... . . - -
nrc;Mf tame on a
a young lady evidently bent
on marrying her dear Henry :
My Dear Henry;
I embrace this here opportunity to
Ict jou knough as how I had a spell of
aiger and I does hope thease fue lines mav
find you enjoying the same Gods blessing
vvry dont you rite a sweate line to tell suf- numb- about 25,000,
nv oh Hen" " "H Detroit CUi l $77,
ny on Hennv mv cuafo i t I i r it
, " j --- "ciiny my turtle I mantactorie
r "TPng my deer deer Henny -There
Bustles continue to shrink.
A man overboard !--The editor.
Su7ZyC PrCSident Was J'ears old last
-iNew imported tailor gowns are simpli
city itself.
The child laborers of Ni
New York city
000,000
months. Buvers
my poor sole is lon t ' f. I . . - "owns m life Michigan.
Wi I J M III I" III t V II
SWOilta vn T t . -. r ' lllia
- x neer mm singing yankee
oudle as he comes from his plow now Oh
my Henny do come home and lets et
They
This shows a stron
cered.
I
.;.ror r redenck works as hard " "cu monument will be erected
w mCr oetore him, despite his mala- bccn
dy. To the remonstrances of his nbv.iJ Mr- Pritchard raised ,
cians h rni;.e .... T.r v" t.u . . m ox ncc
5 w Iuc; x cannot do what T v
? . 1 -
wiin it."
...w0?w, umoer lands are beinff
nnA1. 1 . ... 5
.jr .wugniDjr northwestern lumbeV
men. Recoids show they have purchased
a quarter million acres during the last six of houses owned by the rail
months. RiiioK - - ... . 1 . 7
a,c' pnnapany from I Iast week.
coun-
The Landmark says this is Trwir.
icniai year. It
1788.
cen-
was cut off from Rowan in
married
.u,c ti present hut rpma n
your lovin
game leg.
Liffhtninp- .m .' . . I .
? . w" ice in the Mrs. Grant. IT iaf, u u 7 c.-.
fcitme piace -it doesn't have tn Uc , ullU uc wrote the ireasurer.
' . i it rrt nw J a
"wwa Vi vrant, ana he sues for a shar.
A fire at Chadborne destoyed a number
wy company
Up to date about sixty ot the ninety-.!
Gea Badean has brmtoht I sKrr i .L . . .
n me estate hare settled IK.
KATHTRUN AvTrrnrv
To
f " -AVUtlJ
P S part sekkurt
-Nankeen is a dull veil ! of,henmfif. Z; Wl". 'ra s,,are ..'. PIWr to build ,
k-i. L. . . ' "m "su. vjranc. on th nfhi i - -wv
wi nign tavor the comincr .m. . I hsnH to- t . MW,UU' cnurcn.
&
Durham wants a public P-rW r-.j.
Doro a savings bank.
hand, says Badean was mpn.i ki.
when a physician loses his skill if n,f. amanuensis. ,
urally follows that he is out of practice -It isannoun ut..
Mrs. W. H v,u.u..!u . , I deWtiVi rii . -? I The new railroad fmm xc .
7ppV Rl0.t u , , . '""'"""i, OI Hew r,C8cni name Of Edwin i. i . muiw 10 Al
.ma rased a nue houcn i orK. is snendino- o i . . ... I H. Fftlei- v i now comnlrtH t ..i.l.
t & " wawu in ASneviiie. I mrti uiy, ai me Wat nnal D. . .. r w ""n
ii - -
puuucan convention. Tr. Fitler'. i-t
w IV- &
N. C.
Kisings are treated
Pollv does 1
w ,.WC es nlm gQme
tunes when he gets a little Antnnv
you love me I ,vont whip ,ou indeed nor duty. M ' d "S
1 wont look at anv K- r .
: wv bkj m. wont. lJad I W l i
dy says I must eet ma'rieH h,.,,,.. r u.... . ' Color and white very stvlish
a long already. So no more " - the light fabrics of summer
no more at present
KAT
i y are got the
VIM to i."m And tnnt-
fusion of the house tor siv weeks at a
time. Other wnmn in,i ...
..v..., guuu "uiiien,
W I It.
,"ae nan to endure the same affliction
and they can very easily account for M
Jobs exhibition of bad temper. Job got
wuh the three visitors himself, and
jet he didn't have to uait on them, to
uF u.eir rooms, to w ipe the tobacco
m tram the parlor carpet evefv dav, to
: "t'UJl ine they carried in on their
and to submit to the thousand a-d
me annoyances, that, a male visitor rfves
"C "peeper. It is about time that
nfcbodv was raising a voice in defense of
lte, and saying a kind word for the
W- ....
'"omanuho frr W u-:,....,- .
.... - , l iv
has
suffered the
1(1 nncomplainin
orr,
a'
dav. W
swings of
ears
unjust criticism
silence. There
r many Job's wives in the worM
e meet them . Q. .1. -.
n()f- v:t,.m u- 1 nev mav
-have husbands with boils on UwiV bod-
-meyhave hushpr,
w ho
. 1
oevemgs.Thev have husbands who
"cseihsli enough tnj ;
bnv;nai . , rt -4VJ,t-a11 meir time to
-P S part thurd
Atv pen is bad my ink is pale
my love for you shall never fail
for I Icnny is my own true love
My pidfiin duck and M.-tle dove "
K A TlLDEN"
P S Noty Beny
Mothers dead and Timoth
fever,
lovin
Xotv Bennv
I fiirgotto sav as how that ir
- wilt KJll
niy big toe dont hurt as it use to did. so
once your wife as it is to be sends 2 kisses
and say farewell, yours till dea'h do us
pan. ' KAT
wear.
Very few long garments are seen for
spring wear, every thins- beW infmu-
short. -
It is now asserted that President Gar
land left stocks and bonds of the value f
Gloves that button or lace ud the arm
So no more at presen from your P""6 JUSt nOW in more request tnan the Ion.
Kathrun An ousquetair gloves.
There were more than 2,000 persons
present on Monday night at the Pearson
meeting in Wilmington.
After all, it is perhaps appropriate that
physicians' prescriptions should by writen
in Latin, a dead language.
HOW would it work for
nuiililll
surrragasts to colonize and govern the ter-
mory of Man's I Land?
A lot in Denver that was purchased
settler for $5 and a revolver.
MATRIMOSY.
mci iur a man tn snffpr
claim to d!stnr4(n u . .
10 Jac mac neowns
unny-six pairs of suspenders.
cciy, ine motor humbug, is to be
mpeiieu by the court to divulge the aw-
lul "secret" he has been making his back,
ers believe through the years that he has
been in possession of. But suppose he re
fuses? How can y6u force him?
A San Francisco girl, aged eighteen,
visiting friends in Roxbury. Mass- inviteH
a lady to go with her to the bath room to
see her cie. She took poison anH
found suffering the greatest aronv. She
died and gave no reason for her act .
TM . r . .
.c panned remains of a buffalo of
great size were dug up at Belleville, Kan.
recently Dy workmen who were excava
ting for a coal shaift. Tne remains were
found at a depth of 6 feet belows the earth'
surface and were-in-a fine state of preservation.
In single blessedness the rubs of fortune, by an earltr
vfv aK some nrettv vr tn h
All . 0 w iiJO UUUU CS. --1 J -1
10 woo, to
tk.. ' V""U11' "llllOUL COnSU frinrr
Portion of, hat time of right belongs
in nio
coin nan inn t
,:! ed Wlth the cares anH K..., r
ifj v wo Ul
hfcnnn,.:. .BCl-no -mpathv. And
fee in u-M gln' and some of them are
" noon.
A 1 L ' . a .
Anu oy proposing end them?
wed.
JJ moifT:a?d.i,1v' a form to sv he's free
. .w.w an inue ins a oactielor, poor man
Is pUgued with -'tis a consumation
iouoreoiy to be wised. To t ...1
T1....1 . , ... . l" cu
i-einaps a tamtlv! Ah. there's the rh.
. ' H
r or m me marriage state u-htMr-.
. - - w WO 11144V
When he has taken to himself a wife
.Must give him pause: there's th
rni . ,. - ..v. n.OIJtl.1
I hit ni'il-u.. ...I.U . e ...
iiuiH.3 t-cuucitv 01 so ion' a life
ror w no would bear the washerwoman'
crimes ,
ri 1 .. 1 .
inenui oniess shirt the stocking full of
1. 1 o - "
noies.
Tl r ., '
me pangs 01 collars with a saalitp
TK 1.1.T; i.. , . . "ni
v, i..s Accpcr s sins, the cats mis-
aeeas,
TU ' : . -
...c.e iS seno.-.s reports in re,rarH 1n
emperor fredencks condition, and his re
covery is regarded as impossible.
In view of his preference for a "Shin
ing mark," it is a little stance that death
doesn t capture more bootblacks.
T . r l i. " 1 ....
x .cMuirm Cleveland s waist measure
fifty-six inches. No wonder he is anvion
about the reduction of the surnlus
1
Senator Vance is writinir a series of ar.
tides for the Baltimore Sun on the -Nee,!
of the Nation."" Number one appeared in
the issue of Monday l,st We have not
been able to read it as yet. It is devoted
to showing up the fallacy of the Protec
tive idea.
-There are various incentive to noetrv-
It was a gentleman who had stepped on a
po.ecat in the country who wrote: "Now
the wild rose blossoms o'er the little, trreen
grave where mv coat and trousers lie and
the farmer t lis me he thinks I'll save bv
digging for them in Julv."
-Miss Mary anderson is now pavinr the
penalty of over work. .She is said to be in
really delicate health and her friends are
a half miles of Monroe.
Engineers have calculated that there ar.
uw'000 wn of coal accessible in tke
Dan river coal fields in this State.
Five hundred convicts have been hired
to work on the Carolina, TCnoxville and
Western railroad at $i2.r0 per month.
Gov. Scales has been 'selected to pr..
side at the session of the NaUo'nal Presby
terian Assembly to be held in Philadelphia
May 24th.
The Vidette says the nein-o are
Montgomery county by wairon lo..
will form a colony in the neirrhhorh
Kockmgham. ;
The County Commissioners, unoni.
turn, hav e ordered an election to oe held in
Raleigh on the Local Option question on
the first Mondav in June.
Quite a large force of laborers U now.
employed at hecity rock siry, h getting
out BelRW blocks for extensive street pav
mg operations in Raleigh.
There is a natural rock house in Sw.in
cotmty w hich is used as a church. Seats
have been placed in it by the citizensof ,he
vicimty and regular services conducted.
While plowing a cotton fielH h .u.
j day. Jack Reinhard. of
stumbled over a vein of gold. He has
ueeu onercti -,20,000 for it, but refu
sell.
ises to
And strange evaporation of his brandy
When he himself might his quietus mr
the orders of the swimming dele-ate.
The German daily newspaper havin
v.v. a.6.,01. uituiauon in the world is nuh.
oiiietnc mol,0 iibiiea m Xew York, nor in
1th a nlain nr1A 3 1T1 f i.l J
f- o wouia cham
bers keep
And errowl and fret
e lob SBllt the drenH of
- f vuitoj uaucsmen s ni c
(The housekeeping expenses, from whose
doom
No Benedict escapes) puzzles the will
C ' 1 t r .
oc..ooiot herring are strikinz in t. r,,,, ... I ' .
ward the American shore. The, obeved toglve .'ZZLJ
- o o LiillCo
f i .
OI ooairy. prostration. The strain
upon her breaks he down at 31 years old.
The Washington (D. C.) Star, inde-
nendenf. in cruol!n r pi .
t , ... vp.,, WA onerman s pros
Do Y
on Ow e Vs.
Dou owe ...L! .
ill t . . . - WUPr lf ou do
ranahumnvftH..i.... .
'Wian:"dsin,dus:if''otyo..owe.
... " u
pre it; 1: .
W$ PnH. - to even an
5nw.:.r U COSts -money to
t--iiiK rnct
chac W uueof ihebrarn k
A. .
LW .here mivelv. we thin!-
t , ininiici
.o It0!" an-vbod throat,
Wbam, uu sendin
-- wn-
, because
it to a lot
in February the increase in the earn! pects for the Presidential nnmin,,
. - - ...t.iui.iuii MVS
..u. over tne correspond- l anone is ready to espouse his caue
inT month for tR5?- t : r: - . .. r
0 ' . ww " v per. cent. ginia, ana that bergeant-at-Arms of
When a washermoman chanires her the U- S- Senate, W. P. Canadav. intend
i t 3 1 j ,. . .
ut resiaence one may ask her -r lu ',5-au a sona Sherman de elation to Phi
A y 1 A I w S- V- I w vill
vna makes him rather bear the ill he hoc she hansrs out now" witho.,r c;.i. cago f rom North CarnUnn
I hnn flu- trt tU,.- u4. 1. 'I i- !
W rdence SiTJrr"- -The bab-'- King of Spain is said to be "The predomina.mg interest in Xorth
And thus we see most desnernts Hirtnti. afflicted with aponlex.-. an Iieredilarv ji. Carolina is agriculture. Accordin - to th
m x vuiiviio 1 j 1 - -
wn tni account too often end in smoke, sease ot nis mother's family, the HapsburrS. 1 censu5 ot lbbo of the 400,000 persons
And promises apparentlv of P-ranite
Are broken like the crust of apple pie,
And ladies brinjr "action."
A Useful Lesson.
It is said that a hive of 40,000 bees makes
only one pound of honey daily; and to do
this thej must glean from 3,500,000 clover
blooms. What an example of patient in
dustry! This, however, is not their vir.
TU lie . - - '
average me 01 a Dee is not over the prince sn,lr. "i- -t, u . , .
Six weeks, and consenneritlv W " " " Keep si-
J W.....J . V.11.1 live
off the hardly accumulated store. They
A Tli:.: . .
man wno went hshincr with
Lincoln htty years ago threatens to sue the
Century Magazine for not printing his pic
ture.
Ti r . . I
uc iv b are now conspini.g to defeat
the Democrats in Congress. Of course
you know the R's- Republicans and Ran
dalites. Prince Bismarck predict that war will
not take place in Europe until 1892. When
wn ""nee, the vear
m vour
Vfji,,. - mini
hiJ'Iron,
r J . 1 . .
pcnu ineir lives lor each others. To
spend your days revolving the question.
"What shall it profit me," is to dwindle
5cied se,, u are r a wai
ter a
I To m n t- f - 1 .
reda . ,uin remorse. 'c ' ",CU1U,S cnjoyaDie toothers
ou a . J.' don 1 think for a n, " . low the live of a bee. as small as that is.
ver
fhi,
hav,
Inquent
ln an enormo
us sala-
e cnnt... . . "IVJ
Jde!innn ; ucled to hunt each anH
subscribe
defi 'oer until hematic
.. Sim lS
tK:.
US ... 1
and urbe USa,!d mil tickets,
on
QnJ a.
"7 takes with him a
wishes. CUCketS'as
sweetening their cup of sorrow, lightening
their burdens, brightening their path is
like the bee; to imitate him "who gave
himself for us."
The doctor w ho rejoices at clean prem-
j ises and good gardens loves his neighbor J
as nimseii.
lence and listen.
lne-r rench transatlantic steamship
company has furnished its large fleet with
complete apparatus for "dropping oil on
the waves during bad weather,
There are lots of men in this country
lut t ...
"""uu"1 -rc ior monev, but they feel
just like using a postage stamp over aeain
ti liic iiik nas just touched one corner.
It is stated the indebtness of the far
mers of Georgia decreased 15 per cent, last
en
gaged in all occupations in this State 360 -
000 were exclusively engaged in agricul
ture, while of the balance, a large majority
were dependent upon or in some measure
connected w ith that industry.
At Macon, Ga., a few days ago, there
was a meeting of "northern capitalists, at
which a land and timber company was or-
ganized. This company has n.in-h
mi f
20,000 to 30,000 acres of finely timbered
The State Convention of the Prohibi-
tiom.ts of Norn, Carolina, will be held in
Greensboro, May 10th, to nominate
dates for State officers and elect delegates
to the national convention.
The Raleigh & Gaston Railroad Co
whose headquarters are in Raleigh, have
just purchased two more vcrv laVge and
powerful engines, extension fronts, 18 inch
cylinders. They are brinmn un their 1
ling stock to a high state of perfection.
We learn from the Wilmington Star
that the grand jury of the Criminal Court
returned a 'true bill' against John S. Bis
sett, engineer on the Wilmington & WeI
don Railroad, who had charge of the loco
motive of the train w hich struck and killed
Mr. Southerla
, county, on
Smiths Creek bridge, a short time ao
The case was continued until May ternTof
Court and the defendent gave bond in the
sum of $300 for his appearance.
W. N. Jones. Esq., the head of the IJU.
reati of Labor Statistics, is mapping out his
worK ior the current year. He U Qw se
curing the names of all the employee and
enployers in the State. His next report
will contain many new features and will
;je a volume hi unusual interest and value
The Charlotte Chronicle says: A party
of about fifty colored people came into the
city yesterday- from Concord, and other
land in Jasper and neighboring counties of Parties came in from different ola
Jeortria olnnn I, 1: .. r . , : 1
year in consequence of grow ing more sup
plies at home. Raie VOUr Own hoar an A
Ihominv.
Georgia, along the line of the Covington &
-Macon road, which will be colonized by
nonnern and western people,- developed
and made to yield a big revenue.
Thousands of people will regret to
hear of the death of North Carolina's most
distinguised missionary, Rev. D. Matthew
T. Yates. He had been in China for for.
ty years, was a man of God, a man of
many labors, a man of great personal
wonn. tic was born in Wake county and
was graduated at Wake Forest Collet
The Baptists of this country probablv
never hid a more useful, a more eminent
missionary in foreign lands.
ces. mak
ing a colony of 100. The crowd will !,-,.
this evening for California, chaperoned br
Pegleg Williams, of Lauinburg. The dark-
ies are said to have the California feaver in
an alarming degree, in the face ,h-
gloomy reports sent back here by those
ww nave preceded them.
A remarkably handome
to be the-moving spirit in a philanthropical
movement in R ussia to
that countr, i,K n.:,. yur OI
, b vougnorrup.
In chronic and stubborn cases of neural
OH SItUd rhcumat"" SalvatSn
S2 oLhe ST'1 destroyer of
the age. Price only 25 cent.
t