"Our Aim icill be, the Peoples Riyht Maintain,
Uiuiiced by Power, and Unfribed by Gain"
VOL
VII-
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1888,
NO. 5
HEART THROBS.
.TTIIK 'NOBLE rniF.TIIIIF.Br WAY
KId mow they turn oub
tflGUT TO DAY.
IM.i: ASUIII.S OF POVERTY."
Simple Joy Undreamed or by ttie
Wealthy uud Worldly.
When husband and wife are true-hearted,
there is no greater aid to happiness
than a few derrivations and hardships at
-t nil Ihlnff doth SO bright tnj cnmmnnrm r,t .K..J- o-. i;f
f flli
A MIXTURE.
editorial irrniiNGH EITPIIOM.
OINLY ELUCIDATED.
'ear, and only sweetest
111 u i c "
It is a great thing for each to realize lhat
he or bhe is sacrificing something for the
T-re peerless Mirror has just closed its other. The wife came with emptv hands
-Volume a-d has begun another vear. to the husband who had no rich gifts to be-
n,..y was tne sweet 1 , mow; out wruie sne is struggling and sav-
V . . .t- i: T 1. ... ... .. .. ..
tng, and he 1 timing and denying himself,
the consciousness of doing it for the other's
t . Z mr raolnrc 1 rl1t n ! 1 .
ho&5- lcclir' N''"s saKe comers a nappmess notmng can equal,
"hetf under the magic spell of its purity of it wih be in more prosperous days alone,
'houffkkrcano oul lR triumphant strains perhaps, that both will realize the pleas
:.c mire wit and humor the harae ures of the novertv thev pndnrH in onth
eai3 DV 1 i 1
"i , 1 in niai ifrauu new nuuse: mere is nomine
c- - - o
n f Knrth ( n ml inn Tntir-
time it touches the deep
er?.. .
sat
merr laugnier.
v,Khlrs over
ncin uu"
!. --aM:RROR whos reflections are ever
l-c"& harp whose notes beat time and
-'.inharmon- with the noblest aspira-
' n F"ids without a rival because
, n--r dare attempt to wander in the
'-Id occupied by the peerless, silver.
waeJ, brilliant and versatile Henry
3!ouat.-The Courier.
With the versatile, crginal, and only
Henry Blount at its helm, the
Son MIRROR, one of the brightest gems
a tar heel literature, has entered upon its
venth volume, arid like the glittenng
ainbeans that come glimmering down
throat the cloudless skies, scatters "sun
'Abe and rotes" wheresoever it goeth.
Each number is filled with choicest selec
tions and pearls of thought from a poetical
mind, ever and anon sparkling with those
rarigated scenes which ' are paintt d upon
the landscape of existence. Long may it
!ive in the homes of the free and the landj
f the brave. Patriot. '
The Wilson Mirror has entered its
lacking that taste can devise or wealth pro
cure. Yet amidst tne splendors and de
lights, the hearts of both the wife's often
est, without loubt will turn with wistful
affection ,to the little home of old time,
poverty stricken and inconvenient as it
was. The hardships and discomforts en
dured within its walls have passed away
like mist before the sunshine, and memory
Nnmeronn Xewny Notew and Many
Merry . MurMelM I'ttrasrttphlcally
Packed and .Pithily Pointed.
onlv recalls the delights of contriving, j pie learned by wrote
managing and arranging. The fun enjoyed
over amateur attempts at carpeting and
surprises in coohery. The brief, sweet
holidays stolen from weeks of toil, saved
for o anxiously and looked for so eagerly.
These and a hundred other simple joys are
the pleasures of poverty, in fact, un
dreamed of by the rich and worldly.
Tried by fire-Lard.
Rabid transit Mad dog on a fly.
Lilian Olcott, the actress, is dead.
A dry subject An Egvptian mummy.
Shake-spear experts The early Ro
mans. The point in question An interroga
tion point.
A marked effect The work of a ship
ping clerk.
Gould and Bennct seem to be in the
saddle, too.
A tug is the only thing that has its
tows behind.
The garden making season comes
saddest of the ear.
In the days of manuscript books peo
1
Marriage.
The foundation of every good govern
ment is the familv. The bet and most
prosperous country is that which has the
greatest number of happy firesides. 'Hie
seventh volume, and mav it live to clebrate : holiest insti .ution among men is marriage.
rent times seven anniversaries and be
mthe future what it has been in the past,
irdBro. Blount will go down with bright
and 'shining laurels in great profusion.
rhe Mirror should be in every house inj
North Carolina, and each member of each
family should devote at 'east one hour a
iay in persuing its columns. Oh, for
more Henry Blounts to drive the quills in
North Carolina. Enterprise.
The Wilson Mirror has,, commenced
is seventh volume. W e never feel equal
to sain about the Mirror all it deserves.
Henry Blount's style of writing is une
qualled by any editor in the State and he
stands alone in his mastery of beautiful
tvord painting. A subject that passes
through his hands is bea itified and en
riched bv being ilothed in purest, poetic
olorin;s, and the Mirror every week
carrie with it thoughts pleasing 'and en
trancing. Reflector.
The first number of the seventh volume
of the Wilson Mirror came to our table
to-day. Six years old! We congratulate
brother Blount. The Mirror scatters sun
shine and the best of cheer wherever it
Ss. Each number contains the most
brilliant gems of a poetical mind, and al-
make one feel better for having read
hn. Recorder. '
That excellent paper, the Wilson Mir
has entered upon its seventh year.
Jts eekIy visits are like a ray of sunshine,
jnd it is eagerly sought for "by our typos.
J bright, cherry and inimitable writ
gs makes it welcome at every fireside.
may it and its noble-hearted and gif
W editor live. Fayetteville Journal.
The Wilson Mirror has entered upon
; seventh vlume. To-day it stands with-
PCCr North Carolina journalism,
wish for Bro. Blount and tFu Mir-
lutuhCfUlIC8t. measure of access in the
re- May it live and nmvr on
Maintain the hfch stnr uLtv w
. a niuvil lb lias
i-Charlotte Ooserver '
aW Wlsoa.MxRoR, one of our most
nth f XCha I eek closed its
manV U sh or the MlRROR
Blountm0re ear8 f 8UCCe8 and for "enry
ithelm111 mre 'ears o usefulness at
but on. iV Dut one Mirror and
nce. r-V Blo"nt.MethoJist Ad-
I has taken the race of countless ages to
come up loathe condition of marriage.
wThout it there would be no civilization,
no human advancement, no life worth liv
ing for, life is a failure to any woman
who has not secured the love and adora
tion of some good man. .Life is a mocke
ry to any' man, no matter whether he be a
mendicant or monarch, who has not won
the heart of some worthy woman. With
out love and marriage, all the priceless joys
of this life would be as ashes on the lips of
the childien of men.
Home, Sweet Home.
"Home is the residence not merely of the
body but of the heart ; it is a place for the
affections to unfold and develop them
selves; for children to love and learn, and
play in; for husband arid wife to toil smil
ingly together and make life a blessing.
The object of all ambition should ba to be
happy at home; if we are not happy there,
we cannot be happy elsewhere. It is the
best proof of the virtues of a family circle
to see a happy fireside.
Sd Vn happy.
imitable h- that brilIiant and in
naPDm,u "".I lhe minded and
ireek an ! Uenr-V Blount- began last
rsof tW ' "fulness, anc all
, the chaste anrt ko...:r..i -i
c success u,v- l ""uiicjuxi
Senis.-Vim h attend that talented
V,1Ilan'6portlims.
"George, there is a sadness and melan
m 4 -
cholv in your eyes to-nigm, ann your
cheeks seem blanched.'
t4Yes,Naomi,I am far from being happy."
"Confide in me, dearest. Let me share
your sorrow. Have the buffetings of this
cruel world cast a gloom over your soul?"
"Yes, my ownt sweet da ling, my last
suspender button has just bursted off and I
don't see how I will be able to get out of
this crowd of ladies."
Different Tastes.
"I can imagine," said the poet, dreamily,
as he toyed with a Charlotte Russe, "that
Aphrodite originally rose from one of these
at some love feast of the immortal gods on
high Olympus. I always think bo when I
see one of them." "Well, I do not," said
nis companion ; "whenever I see one of
them I feel like dipping a leather brush in
it and having a close shave. It would
make a shampoo, for the foam" But the
bard had fainted.
Ieap Tear.
most R " ne of the brightest, best
"Do you know, Edward," said she ten
dealy, "I do not care for wealth. True af
fection is hat. I seek. Love in a cottage
is my best ideal." .
"And. right you are, too, Alice," said Ed
e at 1 ward, wannlv. "Come, can't we make an
agreement about that? You furnish the
cottage and I'll provide all the love you
" NonK o .?lln8 ?'eeWles .published
5me PPort h Hnd Reserves a hand
V crWn' U citize". May its fu-
want.
Kh prosperity. Herald. each way.
Railroads will carrv troops to the en
campment in July for two cents a mile
In month of sun, so live that months
of rain shall be happy.
When hour glasses were in use peo
pie had a rattling time.
City directory estimates give St. Louis
a population of 449,160.
The flour of the family you will often
find becomes college bred.
We've all heard of the angry seas, and
that's why the waters pout.
The only dairy which does not use
water to excess is the dromedary.
"My first purchase is my ' last said a
cobbler, who was just starting Id business.
The average pill re embles B;mquo's
ghost in one particular. It will not down.
The advent" of the base bail season
opens .again the quickest avenue to fame.
. --It. doesn't-abbreviate a three months
note to have the endorser make a minute
of it.
The burglars who raided an entire
town seem to have had. an eye on Congress.
If there is any one who should be
"wrapped in slumber" it is the man who
snores.
Vermont Republicans are strong for
Blaine. The tattooed man is coming to
the front.
Baltimore has just organized a line of
steamers to plv between that city and
Charleston.
Men who love the piping time of peace
should inflate their lungs in their utmost
fullness now.
The plea of the woman's rights wo
men is that women may be everywhere,
safe at home.
The silver lining to the obstructionist
cloud obstructionists generally get in
their own way.
Territories will' be admitted on their
merits when Congressmen are elected on
the same basis.
Henry George's display play for posi
tion is play for what Henry George seems
to need most of.
They say that Depew will make a dif
ferent speech every night if elected on an
after-dinner platform.
Should Mr, Blaine land in this coun
try exactly at convention time it would be
by the purest chance.
Blaine men in New York political
clubs show a disposition to renew the fight
against the mugwumps:
Bitter strife prevails between Milwau
kee brewers and their men. In other
words, they are at largerheacts-.
If the pen is mightier thaw the sword,
we wonder why it doesn't turn orr some of
the poets and stab them to death.
Mrs. Amanda hwlambs, of Atlanta,
whose fortune is estimated at $400,000, is
the richest colored woman in the South.
King Humbert has signed a decree o
establish Italian consulates in Denver, Col.
Philadelphia, Pa., and New Orleans, La.
Nothing is more annoying to a youug
man who has a bunch of keys at the end
of his watch chain, than to be asked wha.
time it is.
First critic: "Did you hear Mr. False
note break on that hih tone just now?"
Second critic; "Yes: that's what I call
I murder on the high C"
Representative Mills has gone to For
tress Monroe and Old Point Comfort for a
few days to recuperate his health.
People who complain that the world
grows no better are generally those who
are doing what thev can to make it worse.
MUs Cora Belle Fellows, a white wo
man of Washington. D. C has married a
Sioux Indian. We hope she is Sioux -ted.
' A special dispatch from Montevideo
reports the loss of the steamer Rio Janerio.
The steamer had 1 20 passengers on board.
The little girl who was told that the
white cow gave the milk was justified in
asking didn't the brown cow give the choc
olate. A case is before the New York Su-,
preme Court that was hegun in 1S14 74
years ago. It is about an insurance com
pany. In the tender relations of cultured
men it is but seldom that deeds can com
pensate for words or a tone for offences of
speech.
Captain Paul Bovnton on Saturday
started on an 800 mile swim down the
Ohio from Wheeling, W. Va., to Cairo,
Illinois.
Dr. J. G. Armstrong, of Atlanta, is to
appear in a new role. He is to organize
classes for the study of dramatic literature
and oratory.
The man who has not anything to
boast of but his illstrious ancestors is like
a potato -the only good belonging to him
is under ground.
-In the decis'on of political questions
majorities rule; but, unfortunately, the
majority of votes often represents the mi
nority of brains. -
John A. Logan, son of the late Gen
eral, has been arrested at Newcastle, Penn.,
for shooting a striking quarryman, an Ital
ian, named Nocera.
Attempts to hold land league meetings
in Ireland led to serious conflicts between
the police and tenantry, in which many
persons were injured.
Men are moral alchemists; it rests
with themselves to change their momen s
into golden hours or to let them burn out
the slags in a furnace.
The famous breeding stallion, Hambie
tonian, owned bv Joseph Woods, of K'nox-
ville, Tenn., died in Fimira, N. Y-, yester
day, aged thirty vear.
- The failure of the Republican Senate
of New York to assist Gov. Hill in re
forming the quarantine commission is dis
gusting the New York public.
Customer (in the restaurant): The
last time I was here, waiter, I found a hair
in my soup. Are you sure this is all rijht?
Waiter (confidentially): Yes, sah. Idon'e
took 'em all out.
Any head of a house, who has ever
stepped on a piece a wet soap at the top of
the cellar stairs, will thoroughly agree with
all the conclusions drawn by Darwirt in his
"Descent of Man."
STATK NliWS.
FBOM tiit nr.r.p ni.rr. re a to tup
CillAXD OLD noi'XTAIXM.
An Hour Fleaftantljr Nnent TTItn Oir
Dellcutful i:ictiaaKf.
more
On the 15th of July next, a scries of
public services Will begin at Marietta,
in commemoration of the establishment of
the first civil government of the North
west Territory a hundred years before.
The late J. V Drexel paid at the rate
of $14,000,000 per acre for the lot of land
on which stands the Drexel building, cor
ner of Wall and Broad streets, New York,
and yet it proved a remunerative invest
ment. Judge Clark has written a letter to Dr.
W. R. Wood, of Halifax, declining to en
ter into the contest for the gubernatorial
nomination. This narrows the contest
down to Lt. Gov. Steadman and Judge
Fowle.
William A. Stuart and his son Henrv,
of Russell county, Va., now have 3,500
head of cattle on their great Russell ranch
45,000 acres, and sell from 1,300 to 1,400
head every fall. They have 2,200 acres in
blue grass.
The" first State Democratic Conven
tion of 18SS has just been held at Pendle
ton, Oregon. President Cleveland was
unanimously endorsed, and a delegation
solidly in favor of his renomination will be
sent to St. Louis.
During the past year $93,000 has been
realized from cabbages shipped from
Wythe county, Va., in car load lots alone.
In addition it is estimated that the rail
roads realized about $24,000 from "the
freight on the cabbages. This is a hand
some sum to go to one county for an In
fant industry."
There is now 2S Farmers' Alliances in
Cumberland count v.
The oidest grave in the Moravian giavc-
yeard, isaiem, is dated 1770. .
It has been definitely dociJed to hold the
Muifreesboro fairj November 6-9,
The Riedsille Weeklv savs wheat has
not been so low in one hundred years.
The cornet band at Lexington have re
ceived a five hundred dollar set of instru
ments.
Among the curiosities at the Newbern
fair was a family clock of Gov. Tryon 150
years old.
TheTwin-Citv Daily wants the people
of Winston to prepare for a big tobacco
fair this fall.
In the River and Harbor bill the Cape
Fear River gets $100,000 and Beaufort
gets $35ooo.
The Wadesboro Improvement Associa
tion is the name of a new organization in
Wadesboro. Great benefit is expected to
come from its laborers.
Judge Clark declines to allow his name
to go before the State Democratic Conven
tion as candidate for Governor. He has
published a letter to this effect.
Mr. Fred Stowe, of Gilford county, who
was bitten by a n.ad dog las: week, sent to
Charlotte for a madsxne and applied it to
the wound with satisfactory results.
Durham last week shipped: Smoking
tobacco, 69 855 pounds, worth $23,297.14;
cigarettes, 10,034.700, worth $33,114-41.
Revenue receipts for the month of March
Summer tourists .are expected to be
numerous in A&heville this. Sum.-
mer than ever before, and applications for
rooms at the hotels and boarding houses
are already pouring' in., i .
(
Adjutant General Jones announces thst
he has secured rates over .all the roads in
the State two-thirds of a cent per mile,
round trip, for the encampment of the
State Guard this summer.
Wake's board of education apportioned
$24.13800, that amount being equal to
$1.50 lor each of 16,092 children. This,
we believe is the largest appointment ever
made in any countv In the State.
Jacob harp, the New York boodlcr,
has cheated the law and made an apeal to
a higher court. He died about 9,20 p. m.
on the 5th inst., thus checked in a vicious
career, and his punishment, incomplete,
was a significant warning to others fri the
same stripe.
'"
The annual meeting of the State Medi
cal Association will be held in Fayette
ville, begining on the 8th of May. A call '
has been sent out to the leading men in
the State who are interested in microscopy,
to meet at lhat time for the purpose of
forming a permanent organization.
Cardinal Gibbons will go to Ashville,
N. C, to attend the conference there and
at Hot Springs on April 25, of Southern
Catholic Bishops to discuss methods of
promoting migration to the South- The
Western Catholic Colonization Society Is
in sympathy with the movement, and will
do all in its powej to make a success.
Acting on a rumor that the Richmond
& Danville railroad contemplated the re
moval of the workshops of tlieir system
from Manchester, the chamber of com
merce of Charlotte have offered a donation
of suitable gronnds, $20,000 In money and
the exemption of the property from all
municipal taxation as an Inducement for
their removal thither.
James Spencer, formerly of the Ashe
boro hotel, attempted to foard Uwharrie
last week while it was verr high- He had
a twelve year old son with him who dis
played true heroism. After they had been
carried down stream some distance, and
the horse drowned, the boy got ashore, but
seeing his father unable to twim, he went
in after him and succeeded in saving his
life at the last moment.
Hermann U up to many trick ; but he
wili never take in as much, as Dr. Bull's
Cough Syrup in its big raid on coughs or
colds.
We indorse all the proprietors have said
re'aiive to the merits of Salvation Oil. It
Is nonparieL