"Our Aim will be, the People's 'Right Maintain,
Unawed by Power, dndUnbribed by Gain."
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 2. 1888.
NO. 7
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TRUE HEROES.
10OSE
WHO FIGHT THEIR BAT
t Heap Their Glorious Triumph in
Blissful Immortality. :
through the town on their way South then,
and like a flash I ketched my muse. Most
of the boys in blue were goin to Dixie's
land, and I just took the inspiration on the
I jump ana wrote up my song about "Way
Down South in Dixie's Land." "Well, sir,
she took from the start, and in less'n a
week everybody, and especially every sol-
Tnthe thronged thoroughfares of busy, dier, was a singin'.her.
i r A tVin eilont- noorth. I ..TJ ..t T I ' - t 1 J
Ipitating me, aiuuuu n.v. ..-.-. n.- uui mc &u..g a in prouuesi oi is "via
1 e and in the noisy marts of trafic, tu- Dan Tucker.' I got 'er from a Georgia
ultand competition, we see mem, await- nigger not exactly as fie told.it to me,
.1ot;nr -larinn Deal nor thrillinp" I Ytwt witH tVlf main tnnrrf-rlienfe Vrtiii-f
ino-nosuuiu""" r o q -w, ..w.,v., v,..
. ,,npt blast to prompt to auty ana nero- jMoney." JNo, never made a cent out of
ic struggle. Alone ana unaiaea tney piot nor: not a red. Jiut I had lots of fun
rd nlan and fearlessly cnarge tne toe Lordy! how: the boys, the old timers
jjq Hie Out IliC uikiuui iu n itiivao iuv. i irnok Ui ,.n uv.au aitu gvilv HUn U3CU IL?
m.rirding, and no whisper ot approval save sing her in the 'walk-round' at the close of
that of conscience, iney marai iunaru, uic ouo. jnt psnaw, i ve Deen on earth
rinrot who may follow to swell the three times, 'an I wish I could make a
C-lllo ' . . . .. .. . . .. .
ranks and intimidate tbe foe; the plan is tourth trip if 1 could have the good ole
theirs, the toil is theirs, and the victory or days back again. When I wrote 'Sich t
defeat will be theirs, and little they reck Gitten Up-Stairs' an' I give her to the boys
whether the world's huzzas or jeers re- an they sung her the first night I'd a-flew
ward the sacrifices, lhere are martyrs up in the air only for being held down by
whose anguish heaves are never written, for my gallusses. Among other songs I turVied
manv triumph that win no garland of ivy out was 'Old Joe 'Goin' Over the Moun
or itiurci licit- 4ti- w w l wv wiwm uiju Aanu
world's dull ear through silver trumpet. Jim.'"
Meet vou never in your daily perigrina
L-inn fnrms with calms brow and Be ..Kind to the Agretl.
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misty eyes and Druisea nearts, ana see you The loneliness of age! How few think
A-MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUIIIONI-
OUSLT ELUCIDATED.
Nnmerons Jfewsy Xotes and Many
Merry- Morsels Paragrapbically
Packed and Pithily Pointed.
The age of a tree Is determined by the
number of its rings, but it is not safe to ap
ply this rule to the bejeweied overripe
maiden or the overgrown monopoly.
Physician (to patient): "Your case is a
very serious one, sir, and I think a consul
tation had better be held." Patient (too
sick to care for any thing): "Very well,
doctor; have as many accomplices as you
like. : " - , ; .
r-"I began with nothing," boasted a mil
lionaire who had made his money in crook
STATE NEWS.
FROM THE DEEP BIXE SEA TO TIIF
GRAND OLD MOUNTAINS.
Beef-canning is a put up job.
A foul tip A rooster's comb.
A shady set A groap of trees.
A paper hanger sticks to his business, ed ways. "And that is the condition in
The last thing in shoes The wearer's which you have left those who dealt with
heel. ' ' you," was the blunt . response of a by-
Out on a btrike-A defective lucifer stander- , -
match. . , I A beautiful efrl in San Francisco has
three days. 1
These
pretty girls turn out to be mighty wide
awake sometimes when their eyes seem to
be shut.
"What is your employment?", asked
his Honor of a prisoner arraigned for va-
Song of the emancipated debtor-"Ye Srancy the other day. "Walking, sir."
do not sneak as, we pass by." "Where do you walk?" "Well, that's ac-
"All roads lead to roam," remarked a cording to which way the policeman is
tramp, studying a guide board. coming from." . -
The mathematician's favorite season is "How many of you are there?" asked
the sum-mer. The milkman's is the spring, a voice from an upper window of a party
The cold wave flag carries a black of "waits." "Four," was the reply. "Divide
-The telephone operator has a perpetu- n sound asleep for seventy-lhr,
alholler-dav ' WeI1 don,t fool with her, boys.
: j
Sleepy Hollow "Good-night!" ov
the telephone. . c ,
For weighs thatare dark commend
us to the coa locales. .
This is for blonchi-
lozenge in the centre.
tis. - . - . - .
A sailor is a lightning change man.
In a twinkling he can" turn into a ham-
little here below."
that among you," said a voice, as a bucket
of water fell, like the gentle dews from
heaven, on those beneath.
An Austrian Major of cavalry writes
to a prominent American soldier, that it is
believed by every body that war with Rifs-
I sia is iust ahead. He savs thev are all
zero too otten lor . . -
sleeping on their arms and any night the
buffle call of boots and saddles mav sound.
See that vour animals are made com- , . . '
tastes have naturally . v . . ' -u, Hls best Slrl vas out walking with
the currents of love and. reason? Who in grown apart. They share but little in th rQ Jnt - : f him, and he shot a beautiful -plumaged
tearful supplication clasped. the hand of the common with others. The future of this ie zero Poln , , . bird. "Oh, John! how could you kill the
old physician-and importuned for the po- life ha8.jiothingQ .inspire their ambition Afie P" l,, dear creature?" kWh.y, Susie.. thought
am? in snencc is uener uwu sue vs-iu iut.
.no hmmai fnr iw loct vimi on(i u-hicnor. ,L . . i i . : . i etn a tart reniv. - urtLi .. j u..ur..i n..-
iui o" " i me energies oi omers nas no inspiration . ' t i-um juu ucm, gwa, muuguuui icuun.
ings of the grave-clothes told that the for them. They necessarily, to a great ex- "Don't dance" young men should par- General Adam Badean must have ob
coras oi lire were loosemngr woman, tent, iive in a world of their own, with aKe o1 "noP mueis. . u migm luoncaw that even if Bacon did write lhe
this is your pathetic ministry of love and which those around them are not familiar. their limbs a little- : nlavs of Shakespeare he did not jro around
mercy, and we know you by the sorrow- The communings of their hearts are A Greek's wedding ceremony lasts all after the latter's death claiming the work
brand, the lustreless eye and bowed form. Uvith the scenes of the past and the com- day. The duration of the divorce cere- as his own, and demanding a w hack at the
We know vou, too, with your, mask, for pani0ns of other years who have long ago mony isn't stated. profits. Notwithstanding his name Bacon
were seen those inward weepings that pasSed away. Lover and friends have The do is not much of a pedestrian, never did act porkv.
leave no impress upon feature. We have been taken from them, and their acquain- but he can make an unlimited number of Tf . tK.f nrek aH.i.
tances laid in darkness. The forms they lans in ,i vprv short snace. . - . ? .t... .
.r ... j iv nnanciers. ims is iust aooui an iruc
nothing, and hear you naught but the din o this and treat with due tenderness and
of the great life tumult around? Ah, consideration those who have out lived
young man, who .was it when worn with their generation, and wohse early compan
. rt J cf 511 t-t Hrl v vicri 1 wir I ' j j . i . .
ioii anu ".t"" -a- j i ions anu inenas nave oeen taicen trom
fevered couch till the lamp in Heaven I them! Unable to engage in the activities mock.
went out and rosy flushings in the East of life they are no longer brought in con- . CMan wants but litt
warmed up the hills and valleys? Whose tact and sympathy with those around But he ee'ts it below ze
gentle nana sprcuu uic ;Sut uiaHcijr lu them, and no tie of common interest and comfort
shield the burning orbs when lever ragea mutual dependence binds them together.
and wild delirium threatened to stagnate Their views and
Who in
neara tnose smothered sighs and groans
that never well up from the great heart- admired and loved are gone; the eyes, that
deeps when you look down silently upon looked into theirs with the tenderest affec
me nome where pearl atter pearl you are tion, are sightless, and the voice that
missing from the love chain. Go on with Uheered and stirred their souls have long
your patient, ceaseless toilings, , though been silent. Their early world, of hope
earth s wise and great ones cannot see the and jQy has become a desolation, and they
gadiational conflict. Your dumb lips tell sit in -silence contemplating the ruin that
no tail of weariness, want and woe, and has been wroght. They have but little to
men cannot see through the sunshine that interest them in this world. They are
is Hooding the world how footsore and .0nly waitinr till the shadows
nandweary and heart wounded you are af-
When a fire in a kitchen stove goes as the statement that all crows are white.
out it often leaves undone those things Hand a five-dollar bill to the fair occupant
which it should have done. of a bazaar at a church fair, and see how
An investigator has come to the con- much change you get back. O no, wo-
rhiKion that women have a larerer oronor- men are not financiers! O no.
. A
tion ot Drown eyes man men. rvrriA r,A A -ith to-rinr.
" VS 111V w mmmj j
Thousand-dollar clerks who live at the Grindstone," gaid Kiljordan; "the bill of
rate of ten are the ones from whom the fare will just suit you. Calves brains is
safe combination should be kept. the principal dish." "I'll come, Kiljordan,"
"That remains to be seen," is what the said Grindstone, "in order that you may
Are a little longer grown,"
ter so many battle shocks. It is well they to pass on to the reunion that awaits them, young laby remarked when she left some- have one man at the table who can eat
cannot see the end "of the Ions working and the fflad srreetinzs of those thev love, thing on the plate "for manners." calves brains without making a cannibal
w wi a mi i - t i
ana waiting and doubtinsr, but ansrels see it
all ar.d are satisfied. There will be more
sapphire dawns and sunset revelations for
the gay and happy before your toiling is
over and you pass behind the veil; rest a
little now in the noontide heats and wait
for the cool of the eventide. Work, work,
work; twilight's shadows are settling upon
thf errant ...
- L ii ill I T m n i l-n n m h -. . A . n n v
Who would not do what he can to cheer
the loneliness of age, to smooth their path
way, and comfort them in their declining
years.
A Big: Dinner.
A "tropical dinner" which cost $175 per
cover, exclusive of wine and music, was
toiler are too weary to do more now than Siven hY one of New York's millionaires
-it don by the wayside and fold your hvh wanted to make a sPlurSe- Twenty
urea hands for that lon rest you are need- courses were served. 1 nere was no ciotn
There is nothing under the face of the 01 "mcii.
skv that can be quite so stuck up as a sheet a ladv sent a luxurious easv chair
of postage stamps when it ties to. back to the factory three times to have the
It is a great honor to be a rear admiral seat made "a little softer," then "a little
but, curiously enough, we never hear of a harder," and so on. Finally it suited her
reer general or a rear high private. exactly, and she paid for it. The chair
1 . m,,cf seal nau not ueen loutucu. ims is uic
elapse before the next row of three fingers
will stand in line designate the year.
The coat-tail flirtation in the latest. A
way our mothers fooled our fathers when
their shirts did hot fit.
The colored voters in West Virginia
lng.
DAX EMETT, THE MINSTREL.
Pleasant Recollections of His Early
Days.
Dan Emmet, the once renowned and suc
cessful minstrel is living in Chicago in pov
erty. An emissary of the News of that city
ho called on him a few days ago found a
i ver-haned old gentleman-whose face is
"Kdw-ith crow's feet, whose nose is be
Jning.a bit pinched, and whose hands
have grown yellow and thin. He is se v-enty-three
vears old, and he began the
gger business" nearly sixty years ago.
"an Emmet is the author of -'Dixie," and
., 16 follows the account of the orisrin of
inspiration: .V,
Ane way I come to write that song was
ethis: Along in the fore part of the war
bod mmstrel ,busmess was at the top. Any
yho could sing a 'nigger song was
lUre of Rood money. I was with Jere
Rant's Minstrels in New York in them
7S on Forty-second and then on Forty.
tUrth street. - Weil, one night Jere came
me and says: 'Dan. vet mp nn a new
nS; make her catchy and noisy.' I told
"im I CQnl J V ; j' 'a.! 1 ' T
on the table; a palm leaf fan was laid be- means, "I have spoken to your father."
fore each guest, and on these the plates There is a certain corset factory that
restetl. The individual decorations at each turns ont two corsets a minute. This is a
plate cost $30; the favors cost as much striking illustration of haste making waist.
more and, the menu-cards cost $10 each.
A bouquet of ten strawberries, costing $ 5,
was placed before each guest. The truf
flies were imoorted from France. There
was a miniature lake, with gorgeous tropi
cal trimmings, on the table. Roman
punch was served in oranges hanging'on
an orange tree, the pulp having been so
wrinkled coat-tail bearing dusty toe-marks are said to be in open revolt because of the
failure of their white Republican allies to
recognize them. They have determined
to act independently. An address has been
issued by them. There are 10,000 negro
voters. Independent colored clubs are be
ing formed in many parts of the State.
Miss Hampton, daughter of Gen.
Wade Hampton, says Harper's Bazar, has
joined the ranks of the professional nurses
in New York. She is said to be unusual-
An Hoar Pleasantly Spent With Onr
Dellffhtrni Exchanges.
Durham county jail is tenantless.
The prospect for a good wheat crop are
encouraging.
Winston wants to hold a local option
election in June.
The jail of Carteret county has been
empty nearly two years.
The late freshets have done considerable
damage all over the East.
The next show of the Wake county Cat
tle Club is to be held May 15.
The Raleigh Stone hurled at editor
Hearn intensively became his'n. - - '
The Lumberton Light Infanty lias
been assigned to the 2nd regiment.
. There are thirty-four inmates of the
Thompson Orphanage near Charlotte.
A hundred and fifty dollar cow died In
Clinton from overdose of raw potatoes.
The State Medical . Society meets this
year at Fayettevillc, on the Sth of May.
In one night in Wilmington $S,soo were
raised for the Y. M. C. A.; at that place.
Nurserymen in Guildford county sold
$goo,ooo worth of fruit trees this season.
Salisbury brick making factory is turn
ing out from 25,000 to 30,000 brick a day.
The Cumberland Agricultural Society is
out of debt with a balance of S 189.25 on
hand.
On Thursday last fire destroyed twenty
thouaand dollars worth of property in
Wadesboro.
- Seven million six, hundred and fifty-six
thousand cigarrettes, valueti at $25000,
were shipped from Duke's factory in four
days.
The Wilmington papers report that the
khad catch in the Cape Fear is thirty-three
and a third per cent larger this season than
it ever was. '
All stations of the A. & N. C. road w ill
soon be connected by telephone with the
general offices at New Bern for the benefit
of truckers.
The District Conference of the M. E.
Church South for WaTenton District will
begin its session in same place on Wednes
day the 16 of May.
The Sunday school conference of War
renton District, M. E. Church, South, will
convene in the town of Littleton on the
7th day of June next.
Alice Brown, a colored woman, will be
hanged at -Whiteville, Columbus county,
next July, for the murder of an oktnian
known as Esquire George.
Mr. J. M. Price, who lives in Rocking
ham county, ten miles north of Madison,
has discovered gold on his land, and is ju
bilant over the pospects of a fortune.
We learn that the Grand Jury, of Moore
county found a true bill j-esterday against
the editor of the Sanford Express, charg
ing him with - libel against Judge Fred.
Phillips.
We learn from the Raleigh Visitor that
the Clerk of the Superior Court of Frank
lin county, Mr. A. W. Pearce, was indic
ted In fdur or five cases, charged with era-
deftly removed that the guests could pick any doubt,
their own fruit. The dinner is the talk of When you see two dogs growling and
uppertendom. getting ready to fight, remember that it is
' ' - ' . ',. only a joint debate, and the liveliest dog
Couldn't See It. will get away with the joint.
t u u ;r,nr t n Honkev L It was'the young tailor who said, rc-
a iicai w ui t o -
Of all dark traits that disfigure the hu
man race, that of wishing to belittle or de
grade the character of another is the low
est. -
Sometimes it is hard to tell whether a
man U firm in orincinle -or simply obsti-
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nate but the man himself never expresses Mj capaoie, ana nen sne nmsnes ner
I . 1 1 lf J A .1 O t
course mere sne wiu return 10 mc ouuui,
party at B 's," said a Parson ville man
"Are
to his neighbor.
"So I urderstand," was the reply.
you going?" '
"Of course I am," said the Parsonville
man; "thev couldn't have the party with
out me!"
And he couldn't make out what the oth
er fellow was laughing' at.
Could do her. and after the shnur T
seyed home thinking about what I'd
n e- The soldier boys were marching
The girls have formed .a "kiss trust,"
and now the boys are talking of, prosecu
ting them under the law which prohibits
the forestalling of necessaries of life.
ferring to a rival for tne anection or a
young lady, that he thought he knew
enough to be able to cut him out.
Yes," said Smith, "when the United
States gives away lands to railroad corpo
rations it sinks to the level of a colporteur."
"How is that?" asked Jones. "Because it
becomes a tract distributor."
A girl who weighs one hundred and
twenty pounds and has thirty thousand
dollars in her own right, no matter how
homely, unattractive or cross-tempered
she may be, is worth her weight in gold.
where she will not only practice her pro
fession but instruct in the art of nursing.
Perhaps the most curious battalion in
any army is the Norwegian corps of ska
ters. These corps are composed of picked
men aimed with rifles, which they use
with great precision. The skates used are
admirably adapted tor traveling over
rough and broken ice and frozen snow, be
in six inches broad and between nine and
ten inches long; The soldiers can be
manoeuvered upon the ice or over the snow
fields of the mountains with a rapidity
equal to that of the best trained cavalry.
As an Instance of the speed they attain it
is stated that a messenger attached to the
corps has accomplished 120 miles in eigh
teen hours and a half over a mountainous
country.
bezzlement.
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The water in which potatoes are boiling
should be salted and drained off from them
the moment they are cooked through. If
this is not done the potatoes absorb the wa
ter and becomes soggy.
A tenant of Mr. James Taylor planta
tion ciught in Deep River a few days ago,
a mud turtle that weighed thirty-two and
a half pounds, wliich sold for 75 cents a
pound. A fine dish Indeed and equaled
only by the magnificent price paid for1 it.
Four years ago a wagon factory at Hick
ory, N. C-, had a capacity of 500 wagons a
years. It is now turning out wagons at
the rate of 6,000 a years and is successfully
competing throughout the South with the
products of Northern and Western facto-'
ries.
The ghost at the white house U said to
walk half of every night, but he could do
double that amount of work, if he was'nt
afraid of the morning air, and knew that
Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup cured all kinds of
troublesome coughs" and colds. -
She stood at the gait in the late Spring
twilight, and when she said good-buy, she
felt i.euralgia kiss her rosy cheek ; but she
only smiled, for she had Salvation Oil, the
gratest cure on earth for pain.