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"Our Aim icill be, the People's RigU Maintain,
Unaiced by Poicer, and Unbribed by Gain." '
VOL VII.
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY.-AUGUST 15. 1888.
NO. 22
Ml
ON THE WING.
ivTERESTIXG JOTTINGS BY THE
!- WAYSIDE.
Wilson nan Ope's Wide His Eye,
aDd Sees All Things In Passing: By.
It is no v.' 2:30 p. m., and we are at Tex--iana.
a thrifty village of good population,
tt'sin it5 name from the circumstance of
-;c'ose proximity to the Texas, Arkansas
'd Louisiana lines. It is just 153 miles to
r destination, Tyler, Texas. This section
livery much the appearance of the red
section of North Corolina. Abandon-
3 fields are grown up in sassafras and pine.
We note in the forests thick familiar growth
oak, black jack, sweet gum, willow, pine
caple, dogwood, hickory, &c. No poplar,
"rit is said there is not a tree to be found
e,tof the Mississippi River, unless plant
ed there.
From Texarkana to Marshall, a distance
cf -4 miles, at every depot we seesaw mills
cd stacks upon stacks of pine lumber; in
deed these mills are trie back-bone of all
villages, for without them they would
sorexist.
At 9 p. m. we reach Troup where we are
to spend onr first night in Texas. The
hndlord, a sloshy looking fellow from Ala
bama, meets us at the door, assures us that
he has elegant apartments for our party
(among the party a lady with ten children),
tfe are all invited into the reception -room
utile our rooms are being set in order. We
nd ourselves surrounded by several Tex-
:s stretched out on the many cots around
the room, the thermometer then standing
at 90. When the landlord returned he
found that we had retired to the piazza to
keep from disturbing his sleeping guests.
Having stowed away the lady and her chil
dren, a traveling companion and myself
v.ere taken to our rooms in each of which
was a single bed, a straw mattrass and
chair, and just wide enough to touch with
outstretched hands either wail. It was
soon manifest that he proposed to put us to
ted by string matches to afford us light
Vsiie undressing. I asked very meekly if
is had as many as a gross for each of us;
is apologized by saying that the lady had
t-e only lamp he had. As I saw by the
fix light enough to satisfy me that we
irould either melt or be carried away by
Tens bed-bugs, I asked if he would not put
a couple of quilts on the veranda for us,
which he did and secured to us a good
right's rest I forgot to sav bur landlord's
o
entree dress consisted of a pair of pants and
cotton shirt, and w as the 'only cool look
individual we met that night.
v e arose with the sun and began to take
w the town while we were awaiting the
tain for our departure, 6:20 A. m., for Ty
A still twenty miles further on. which we
reached at 7:50 and just in time to miss
H,"Mt i 1 roUD,
iVier,the county seat of Smith, has a
Ration of S.ooo'is beautifully laid out;
ton the Court House, as a centre, broad
2rues lead to each point of the compass
torn it. The "square" is oblong about
:o yards. Around it as in all Texas
"S, business centres, a short distance
om either corner of the Court House are
built v
the
u"der
'i in
y neat and substantial offices for
county officials. The buildings are al
a neat enclosure. Around the fence
unoccupied Dart of the square
eludes are packed and horses coralled
VK hose coming to town to trade.
, se-i at one time as manv as five
c-v- t
" -vuiiured horses tied closelv
the
or
together
inclosure. We nntp rtuite :
nge from our North Carolina stvle o
lecture.
The private residences are
showi- o'i : - ii
1. ti-iv-i un v chichi. jjcuci ttin
Jfwaa those in Wilson. It is not
'n, but this circumstance, I think
. nothing fjomjis beauty. They
System of waterworks that afford
putude of good water, with a
aiScient to put water over the top o
o.iujuse m tne cll indeed so
is the pressure there is no necessity
engines, nd thns aciHties or ex-
-0 '"cucequai io tnose or any
the State of its size,
if. f'ectric lights and telephones too are
c for il is not a town to be left
5 C?oId- II railroad facilities are
i3o T".,COuId be desired. Up to two years
:4oi f d aboul niidwar on the west
Utol I11 isosoles triangle made bv three
large
here and gives employment to a
number of mechanics.
Fruit canning is a large interest here. I
visited one a few days ago that employed
200 hands, that was putting up from 5,000
to 10,000 cans daily.
The Tyler Lumber Company is, per
haps the largest concern of its kind in
Eastern Texas.
We were so forlunate as to reach Tyler
in time to attend their annual Fruit Fair,
which was very fine indeed.
I will close for the present, and later
will, if I can find the time, have something
to say of the prarie country.
A. W, Rowland.
Trip Abroad by the Proprietor.
A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUPHOXI-
OUSEY ELUCIDATED.
Xamerons Kewsr Notes and 39a nr
Merry Morsels Parasrraphlcally
Packed and Pithily Pointed.
A job lot Boils. .
Judge Gresham is in England.
The farmers' share The plow share.
A writ of attachment---- love letter.
A crown jewel The bump of consisten
tly
ha
now has two othersone of
tt$ ire . .
rLsa lc"mnai here, while the oth
reain f 3 vsle Too miles in length,
Wfnalfarnorth as' Vzirc, Ilk The
,lne Cotti
n Belt Line, tvs its shops
Not out of the realm but' away from the
dust and dull cares and duties of home,
way up the country. On Tuesdav eve
ning, with Knisrhtlv oanoolv. we hiedawav
' & A. L J I W"
o meet with "the gallant and magnani
mous representatives of the Order in
m .
Grand Conclave, in Winston. From the
seaboard to the mountains they were there,
and with waving plumes and glittering
steel, the uninitiated were struck with
wonder and admiration ; at least we felt
so, and most everybody would, judging
from the way we strutted and put on airs.
The Sir Knights and citizens of Winston
received the visitors with that cordiality
which always characterizes the chivalrous,
gallant and progressive city of Winston,
and right royally did we enjoy it.
No more delightful retreat for a stranger
han Winston and Salem one all bustle,
push and energy ; the other quaint, quiet,
yet progressive and enterprising.
The Academy where the mothers and
daughters of ten generations have been ed
ucated st'll flourishes and invites to its de-
ightful shades the daughters of our land.
The arrangements of the buildings and
grounds are the result of years of experi
ment and, to the casual observer, seem to
be perfect. The study parlors, the dormi
tories, the dining hall, the wide airy corri
dors, the play grounds with swings, jegog-
lers and other, appurtenances for pastime
and exercise all point to a most delight
ful resort for girls seeking education, and
were reminders of our escapades of thirty
(or more) years ago, when we boys, law stu
dents, then at Judge Pearson's would vis
it Salem and cousin the girls and "cozen"
the teachers as well.
Through with onr "Conclave" business
I left the scenes so full of tender interest
and hied me to a place with far more ten
der attractions to the society of her whose
wifely ministrations for nigh onto thirty
years have sanctified affection's hallowed
charm.
With the facilities offered by the most
systematic of all railroad systems, and with
the urbanity of the most elegantly courte
ous of all railroad officials of the Rich
mond & Danville Railroad, we sup
ped in Winston, and took breakfast in
Hickory, and withall enjoyed most refresh
ing slumber aboard the Pulman Palace
Sleeper plying between Greensboro and
the Hot. Springs. The service is so admi
rable arranged that we pass the various
stations without having our slumbers
disturbed and even change roads from
the North Carolina to the Western North
Carolina is effected without knowing
anything about it. The road bed is firmly
ballasted, the bridges and trestles substan
tial, and the transit safe and -apid. Then
the waking, just at the foot of the moun
tains, is glorious to be appreciated it must
be experienced ; it cannot be described, and
we are glad to know many 'Down, East' are
availing themselves of the opportunities
offered of visitingour everlasting hills.
While in Winston we visited the Grad
ed School building, a monument to the en
lightened liberality of the enterprising pub
lic spirited people of Winston in furnishing
the "sinew s of war," and to the "intelligent
energy of Prof. J. L. Tomlinson in plan
ning and executing the design. The build
ing itself is a monument. The outcome
from it in the education and enlightenment
of the rising generation will outlive the
massive structure, and live when its hali
have crumbled iuto dust. The capstone of
the structure is the Library, collected, ar
ranged and dedicated, in perpetuam to
the use of the school by the' efforts of Mr.
Tomlinson without the expenditure of a
single cent of public money. I was told
by persons who ought to know (and exam
ination satisfied me) that the money value
of the books alone was near, if not exceed
ing four thousand dollars. Oganized,
equipped and in splendid working order,
the Winston Graded School is indeed a
blessing to. that community and to the
State.
cy.
A stringed instrnment The clothes
line. Jasper, Tenn., will soon ' have a rolling
mill. 1
A sonny retreat A boy's orphan asy
lum. A fool is better than a knave, and less
fool, too.
In Boston the horse-fiddle is called the
"equine violin." '
The topmost crag is a soar spot for the
American eagle.
The Minneapolis labor temple will be
finished thi. year.
When an aeronaut smokes in his balloon
he takes an aerolite.
The gratest hard-ships in the world are
England's ironclads.
A middle man appears t be a central fi
gure in trade circles.
The fellow that is hard up is apt to be
come a man of note.
Key West, Fla., furnishes employment
for 9S70 cigar makers.
The Brittish Order, of Odd Fellows
shows a membership of 52,000.
The most successful dentist must expect
to run against a snaj occasionally.
There are 9134 journeymen carpenters
and 2420 appearentices in Scotland.
A National Trades Assembly of Clerks
and Salesmen is in course of formation.
The Englishman who said that hugging
was
ful.
"armless" was
wrong.
It is 'arm-
Attorney General Garland writes from
Rock Enon Springs that he is much bet
ter.
Laurence Barrett's daughter Gertrude is
to wed Miss Mary Anderson s brother
Joe.
To write a good story for the public a
man must have a good upper story of his
own.
The barber who dressed the head of a
barrel has been engaged to fix up Vhe
locks ofa canal.
A two-year old boy can be kept quiet
for a minute and a half if you give him a
hammer and a mirror.
A wedding ceremony should'nt pass off
too smoothly. For instance, there should
be a hitch of some kind.
Mrs. Partington claims that there are
few people nowadays who suffer from
"suggestion of the brain."
Three members of the Garfield Cabinet
ex-Secretaries Blaine, Lincoln and Win
dom are now in Europe.
The semi-annual report the San Fran
cisco savingi banks shows a total deposit
of $76,000,000 in nine banks.
It is denied that Harrison, the boy
preacher, is the grandfather of the Repub
lican candidate for President.
The average voung man who
goes
The news from China is that the Celes
tials are preparing to fight England and all
concerned on account of excludin? Chi-
f
nese from British colonies. The Chinese
army is estimated at 13,000,000.
The State authorities of Florida have
ordered that the entire village of Plant
City, in that State, be burned to the ground,
including all buildings furniture, bedding!
&c., in order to stamp out the so-called
yellow or malarial fever there.
The Democrats beat the greet magnetic
leader of the republican party in 1SS4, till
he didn't want any more of "it. Now Mr.
Cleveland installed the office and warmed
to the work, if they can't beat that little
blue blooded aristocrat Bennie Harrison
they can't beat anybody.
It makes one laugh to see the republi
can platform pledge the party to get rid
of Mormonism. It first made that pledge
in Philadelphia plat form cf 1856, when
Fremont was nominated, and has repeated
it in all the eight succeeding platforms.
It is a party of great promise.
The republican platform formally reads
mugwumps out of the party. That action
is entirely unnecessary, the mugwumps
have been out of that party nearly four
j-ears, and out to stay. In this respect
the republican party is like unto the man
who locked his stable door after the horse
was stolen.
To lower the tariff to a just and equit
able basis is not free trade. The objects
of the Mills bill are to reduce the unjust
profits of monopolists and boss manufact
urers, and to prevent the accumulation of
vast surplus in the natinal treasury. The
man who asserts that to lower the tariff
means free trade or any tendency thereto
insults intelligence.
The railroad from Buenous Ayres to the
foot of the Andes has on it what is prob
ably the longest tangent in the world. It
runs 211 miies on a "bee line" w ithout a
curve, and during the distance there is not
a single bridge, no opening larger than an
ordinary culvert, and not a cut -nor" a fill
exceeding three and one fourth feet.
It is said that Mr. Morton, the Republi
can candidate for Vice-President, spent
$500,000, on the election of 1S80, to cor
rupt voters. If he spent that much for
others, how much will he spend for him
self? He has shown great wisdom, if it is
true, in refushing to let Col. Dockory and
his greedy supporters have any to throw
away in Democratic North Carolina.
Keep in mind that Ben Harrison never
carried Indiana on the popular vote. He
is very unpopular with a large section of
his own party, is particular obnoxious to
old greenbackers and the labor element,
It s all day with little Benny. He received
the empty honor of a nomination, through
the' obstinacy of the Blaine mer, but it will
prove his political winding sheet.
The republicans who worked the rebel
debt racket in 1S84 without success, now
turn to'that tree trade racket, a thing just
as sensless and untrue. The theory upon
which the "free trade" racket is based is
simply that American working men are
fools capable of believing every kind of
political falsehood and clap trcp, but there
are already signs that it will not work this
year.
Chinese Hallison is the author of two
declarations that will damn him politically
with the laboring men in the West. He
said if he was Govrnor he would shoot the
strikeis if they did not go to work. He
said further that "a dollar a day and two
meals are enough for anv workingman.''
He said these things. He does not dare to
deny them.
There are now 406,007 U. S. pensioners
drawing aunually $52,824,641 23, Butthey
are growing. For the vear ending the
30th of June, 1SS7, the amount paid was
$74,815486 85 more than it took in 1S60
to meet all the expenses of the U. S. Gov
ernment: Since iS6o the people of the
United States have been taxed to pay in
pensions $883,440,298 36. The average
pension is $130 10.
The proposed bridge over the Hudson
River at New York City is certainly the
most stupendous undertaking of its kind
vet proposed iu this county. The cost is
estimated at $42,000,000, or nearly twice
as much as that of the Brooklyn budge
The bridge proper is to absorb $16,000,000,
of this, the approaches $14,000,000. There
is to be be one span over the stream, which
STATE NEWS.
FROM THE DEEP DLCE SEA TO T1IF
GRAXD OLD MorXTAISR.
abroad "on pleasure bent" frequently
comes back by pleasure broke.
Never before in the history of the coun
try have manufacturing establishments
changed about so much as at this time.
The Society of Associated Carpenters
of Scotland, has been in existence twent
six years and reports ta membership of
SS77". ..
In Lancaster, Penn., there are three
cork factories. The annual production is
150,000,000 corks, or one-half of this
country's manufacture.
Pet dogs in Paris are now clad in man
tles with pockets for holding lumps of su
gar, bracelets on their paws and a string of
little silver around the neck.
Garfield had 214 electoral votes; Hand
cock 153. Blaine had 1S2 and Cleveland
219. Mr. Cleveland stands a good chance
of getting Orgon, California and Michigan,
with a showing ir other States. If he gets is a good deal wider at its narrowest avail
the three named the vote, will stand Cleve-! able point than the East River at its broad
land 243, Harrison 15S. j est.
An Hoar Pleasantly Spent With Our
Dellg;htrul Exchanges.
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The joint canvass between Fowle and
Dockery will not commence until after
the 24th of August. Then you will sec
the fur flv.
It is now understood that Richmond
Pearson will be an independent candidate
for Congress, but will support the Dem
ocratic ticket.
Rev. G. W. Sanderlin is making a rep
utation with almost unparalleled rapidtv.
He is known already as "the second Vance
of North Carolina."
Presiding Elder Cuninggim, of the N
C. Conference, says the Third Party move
ment is the most impudent orgnization on
the face of the earth.
40,000 baskets of grapes have already
been shipped fro-n the vicinity of Raleigh
this season, and those engaged in it will
greatly extend the industry.
We regret to see that the bright, newsy,
handsome Asheville Sun has ceased. It
did not nay. which is sufficent even
for the course of the proprietors.
The Democratic Congressional Conven
tion of the First District Tuesday at Eliaa.
beth City, nominated Thos. G Skinner
for Congress by acclamation. Geo. II
Brown, of Washington, was nominated for
elector.
It isanuoancedthat Jno. Spclman an old
wellknown journalist of Raleigh, will in a
few weeks revive the State Journal. Its
politics has not yet been stated but it is
thought that it will be in the interest of
John Nichols.
The southbound passenger train which
left Charlotte last Sunday afternoon on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Agusta road,
was wrecked at a point 22 mjles south of
Charlotte. The engine encountered ob
struction that had been placed on the track
and a fearful wreck ensued. No one on
board the train was killed outright, but
five people were wounded, one of whom
has since died.
Dr. Richard M. Gatling, inventor of
that famous but dangerons war arrange
ment known as the "Gatling battery gun,"
was born in Hertford county, North Caro
lina, on the 12th of September, 181S. He
is nearly 70 years old. I le has constructed
another gun that will shoot 1,000 times a
minute and in any direction. He lives in
New England now.
Jumbo, the fat man stopped several
aavs at oncoro tnis weeic lie is a
whale, a big man we mean weighing nearly
700 pounbs. His vest was buttoned around
Esquires Wiliford and Carter at once,
and neither of these are small men. He
sent his clothes to a colored woman to
be washed, and one of her little girls got
lost in one of Jumbo's socks and conldn't
be found for some time.
Mr. Julian S. Carr, of Durham, is tear
ing down a residence which cost $22,000,
and putting up one which will cost from
$70,000 to $So,ooo. One of Mr. Caries
neighbors remarked recently that Mr.
Carr is worth a r jund million of dollars,
and the richest man in the State. 'His
profits frcm the operation of Black well's
Durham tobacco company last year ere
said to have been $ 1 25,000.
The reports which have reached us so
far proclaim the glad and re-assuring tid
ings that Fowle, our silver-tongued staa d
ard bearer, is meeting with rouing recep
tions by enthusiastic and great crowds n
every placed The fact is significant. It"
show s to all that the Democrats of the
upper Piedmont section are on' their metal
They mean to do what they did in years
yet fresh in memory, cover themselves
with glory on the fourth day of November.
We are glad to be able to quote from
good authority that Co Chas. Price has
signified his intention to support Hon.
Daniel G. Fowle for Governor. We look
upon this as a ten strike for Judge Fowle
and the Democratic party. Col. Price is
one of the brightest lights, Intellectually,
in the State, and could have received the
nomination at the last Republican conven
tion for Governor if he had suffered his
name to be run. He is assistant counsel
for R. & D. Railroad, and is one of the
ibest lawverin the State.