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"Our Aim will be, the People's -Right Maintain, Unaiced by Poicer, and Unbribed by Gain." WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 12 1888. NO. 23 LOOK AHEAD. sjjOBT SERMON BY HESBY BLOUNT. ' Sot to the Past Wit n its Gloom 1 d badow, But to the Future and r n mad To-Morrow. Sans""- . :c nevervise- to live in the past. There o; t0 be made of our past which are Poland which bring blessings. We i remember our past lost condition, to Cu humble and faithful. We should .u,n?i5t mercies, that we mav have .dence in new neeas or inais m tne Zt We should lemember past com- hat there may bestars in our sky i, nicrht comes again, out wnue mere t-rese tru uses of memory we should against living in the past. We tis'd draw our lifers iuspirations not from I orv but from nope; not from what ie, but from what is yet to come- L jjatr the things which are behind we uid reach forth unto those things which t before. Take a single point at preseut: Te should forget past sorrows- There are -sov people who live all the while in the lysi of their past griefs and losses. Leonid we say of the man who should -Hi house for himself out of black stone jsilnt all the walls black and hang black over the dark stained windows, ad pat plack carpets on every floor and ocnthe chambers with funeral crape uV c situ jdciuita uu in'- nauauu aau ooks oa the shelves and should have no nvwhere about his home? Yet that is the Rf some people live. They build houses If their soul like that. They have mem- ries like sieves, that let all sweet and joy js things through and retain only the sad and Vitter things. They forget every ieasait thing, but the painful events and occurrences they always remember. They cnte!I you troubles by the hour troubles they had many years ago. They keep their o!d wounds unheald in their hearts- Tat have photographs of all their sor row and calamities, and of all their ' lost jqis. but none .of their glad things do they keep in mind. The result is that living in these perpetual glooms and shadows all the brightness passes out of thei r lives they even lose the power of seeing jwoos and lovely things. ' The lesson is that we ought to let the dead bury the dead, while we goto new &5es and seek new jovs. We cannot get back what we have lost by weeping wthe grave where it is hurried. Besides' sdnessdoes not give any ' blessings. It es no heart softer, it brines out no fehire of Christ-likeness; it only enters Pent joys and stunts the growth of all iuuful things in our souls. And they not bloom in the darkness, they must re wneshine. ' THE SADDEST SIGHT. The Downward Coarse of One Wa Once a New Boy hat is the saddest thine, centle reader. TJ n tlink of the most pathetic of TOUcan cnnrpivpJ W11" savs On? is, perhaps, when two persons who sincerely loved and have been joined noiiest of bonds, and, it may be, Jve had children over whom they have wept, and smiled, afterwards, me intervention of some fell sin, come 9iu , ... - "icuaiea, turn aside trom each I. - go each his several and lonely 1 - , , - it, that in sickness God would give life, and j that amid all coming temptations he would keep her baby , pure, and rocked him to sleep so many, many times' by night and by day, and especially as the evening shad ow's have gathered round the human home, so sweetly, tenderly crooning the old cradle-song. "Hush, by babe, he still and slumber, Angels guard thee in thy bed" it is, we say, when after all this when after nameless and wearied self-denial she has succeeded in rearing this child from cradle nothirgness to manly power the latter, by disobedience, cruelty, neglect or bru tal vice, disappoints and grieves that mo ther: when, by getting at naught her coun sels, defying her well-known wishes, and trampling on her prayers, he ruthlessly crushes that true and noble heart forever. uAh! can it be," she mournfully cries, "that this is the boy I once so fondly cher ished on my heart,, so long, so tenderly, and so proudly nurturned? But no-v is he going, after all, to bring down these gray hairs in disapointment and sorrow to the grave!" And yet just such tragedies as these of disapointed hopes and of Droken hearts such as might wring tears of sympathy from adamant are of almost every-day ocenrence in this, our fallen world, thh scene of sin and sorrow. A MIXTURE. EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUPHONL OUSLT ELUCIDATED. Greene Couuty Democratic Conveu- - tiou. TV J aius is indeed sad a dream, mean ly to often realized in real life, anl uc enough, trul7 the very angels p over. The loss of Paradise were 5 enftu . a, out as long as the guilty pair to one another stood by each other "ocency and in sin, in prosperity . ter all hUie wear and tear of earth's trials ress or some great temptation, af- Others, and souls that have stood fji rough many a night of storm, ces f l-v asunaer, no wonder tne ta- t-e henceforward towards the fu- Psaii.. WI stony despair ana tnat a 5' looks on with an unfeighed njj. grief! And yet there is to our HwhSadder scene b ar than this even- -. "en a rnrtK I i . . r . t t "wu' uas Drougnt lorxa ner Tt K . rsH. ""eaitoa her bosom and ca- eeksa canied It for long and weary oij! monthsln her arms, has been her babe and proud of it as her a ?atched b-v its bedside through bent in agonizing prayer over Pursuant to notice the Democratic hosts of the County of Greene assembled in the town of Snow Hill on Saturday the 25th. George W. Sugg, Chairman of the Execu tive Committee called the Convention to order and requested John W. Blount to act as Secretary. On motion the temper ary oiganization was made permanent. The Chairman explained the object of the meeting and counselled and urged harmo ny saying that with unity of purpose and concert of action on the part of the Con vention followed by a well-planned, earn est and vigorous campaign much could be done towards relieving the county from the clutches of the Republican party. The transaction of business was then an nounced in order, and after several ballots the followinar most excellent ticket was nominated, viz: House of Representatives J. P. Mewborn; Sheriff, John Sugg; Treasurer, R. H. Hardy; Register of Deeds, C. A. Lassiter; Coroner, Dr. T. E. Powell; Surveyor, J. A. Edwards, Sr. The following resolutions, introduced by Geo. M. Lindsey. were adopted, to wit: Whereas, The Legislature of 1883 passed the Stock or No-fence law for the county of Greene without submitting the same to the qualified voters of said county, and, Whereas, the question of the repeal of said law has been agitated in every cam paign since the passage, and continues to agitate the minds of the people. Therefore be it resolved by the Demo cratic party of the county of Qreene, in Convention assembled that the Board of Commissioners of the couuty of Greene be and they are herely pitioned to order an election to be held under the same rules and regulations and at the same time as is provided for general elections to ascertain the course of the qualified voters of Greene county upon the repeal of said law. Resolved, That if a majority of the qual ified votore shall vote for the repeal of said law there and in that case these resolutions shall be an instruction to our members of the next General Assembly to use all hon- erable means in their power to repeal said law and shall further operate as a demand of the Democratic party of said county up on the General Assembly for the repeal bf said law. The following resolution, introduced by John R. Dixon, was adopted to wit whereas the laboring class of this country is the support and stav of this government and that the wealth of this country is the Nation's labor therefore be t resoivedt t hat our Representative elect ot tne nex General Assembly exert himself for the enforcement and passage of all laws that look to the interest and future welfare ot the laboring class of this country irrespec tive of color opposition in life. And be it further resolved that the Agricultural in terests of the countrv be protected from all trusts and all monopolies that look to the embarrashment of the farmers interest. The Secretary was requested to forward proceedingg of the Convention to the Mir ror, the Advance and the Argus and re quest publication of the same. No furnished business appearing the Convention, on mo tion, adjourned. - . Geo. W. Sugg, ' Chairm. J. W. Blount. Secretary. Nnmerons Newsy Notes and Many Merry Morsels Paragrraphieally Packed and Pithily Poltued. Dom Pedro has returned to. Brazil. King Humbert of Italy is forty four. Germany has 205 iron establishments. Canadian cast iron pipe works are very busy. Christiue Nilsson has retired . to private life. We like hot weather best when it puts on airs. Song of book worm "Sweet, sweet tome." The big Paris strike has been settled by arbitration. The Sultan to Tnrkey has ordered several typewriters. 1 There are only three factories in this country where cornets are made. What the wheel said to the blacksmith: "You make me tired." Evidence is the only thing a stingy man can give without repining. The ship-wrecked sailor generally has a raft of things to look after. Bismarck is allowed but two dishes at his dinner, by order of his doctor. The Scandinavians of . "Minneapolis, Minn., have a workingmen's society. The knights of labor have established a co-operative farm at Glenwood Springs Col. Ex-Empress Eugenie has given instruc tion to have her body cremated when she d:es. The Pittsburg glass factories have resumed work, giving 7000 operatives employment. The American Minister at Pekin says that wages in China at the highest are two cents a day. , v . Knowledge without . discreation is like force without direction never useful but by accident. It cost the Empeor of Austria $600,000 to entertain the Czar for three days at Kremsler. "Miss Lucy, a zephyr is moving our lovely curls." "Dear me, Mr. Snoberly please knock it off." The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will expend $285,000 in building shops at Altoona Penn. The Brooklyn farmers have decided to fine all of its members a day's pay who work on Labor day. The New York Legislature have passed a law to establish a school for instruction in ship building. The Queen Regent of Spain seems to touch the hearts of the popnlace at every turn of her heel. The Emyeror of China goes to bed at five in the afternoon and gets up at three in the morning. , The most inveterate letter-writers in Congress is Representative O' Neill, of Pennsylvania. Algernon Sartoris, Nellie Grant's hus band, has become rich through the death of his brother. Cdeif Justice Fuller wili carry his mus tache to the Supreme Bench with him in spite of precedent. Mr. Gladstone gave to a poor church the sum he received for his recent contribution to the Ninteenth Century". Senator McDonald, of Toronto, is at the head of the largest dry goods house in Canada, and is also a Metodist preach- er The new rifle recently adopted for the British army has been withdrawn. It was condemned by "all practical men." The population of Roam grows at the rate of 18,000 or 20,000 a year. At the begin ing of the present year it was 382,973. The "one thousand foot tower" at the Paris Exposition will be only 9S4 feet high. It wili take 2,500,000 rivets to put it up. The King of the Belgians is immensely rich, but speculation on the Congo has compelled him to mortgage some of his estates. The Czar proposes to visit his new Asi de possession. He will go to Merv, and there receive the Ameeas of Khiva and Bokhara. The returns now show a total of 2,Si5,- 000 hogs packed in the West since March 1 st, against 2,825,000 a year ago. "Stand by the sheep," urges Rural Hone. A sheep comes up every six months and pays its bills; it does not die In debt. The contingent of recru ts of the Rus sian army this year will be 250,000 against 235,000 men called out last year. Two seamen have arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, who drifted 1300 miles, in an open boat, after being wrecked. Mr. Parnell demands $250,000 damages in his suit against the London Times brought in the Scottish courts. j 1 The new oil pipe line from Lima, Ohio, to Chicago is in successful working order, the oil now flowing at the rate of 333,000 gallons a day. The mills of Lowell, Mass., use nearly $90,000,000 worth of cotton annually, and send out more than $100,000,000 worth of cotton goods. The Pacific ocean cable will run from Vancoaver, Brittish Columbia, to some Australian port, and cost from $15,00,- 000 to $20,000,000. "This butter is really offensive to the smell," observed the two-dollar-and-a-half boarder. "Well, what's that got to- do with it?" remarked the landlady. "Sensi ble folks eat butter and don't smell it," "Taltc of mothers-in-law and sons-in-law not agreeing," remarked Titmarsh. My mother-in-law agree. She says I ought not to have married her daughter, and I coincide with her." A little girl in Lewiston, Me., wIo was ill the other evening, called her mother to her bedside aud said piteously: "Mama, 1 am awful sick ; I just swallowed upward," and her mama sympathized with her. Judge Thurman has arrived at his home in Columbus. He is greately pleas ed at the reception given him at every place on his tour, and expresses himself as feeling much better physically than when he left home. The republicans of New York last fall tried the experiment of putting the "son of his father" at the head of their ticket with disastrous results. The experimen tal test of the republicans this year with the "grandson of his grandfather" will turn out the same way. The people of the United States, are bur" dened with debt amounting to fifteen bill ions of dollars, bearing interests at six per cent., and productive labor pays to the leading classes yearly nine hundred mill ion of dollars for the nse of money. Cleveland and Thurman will carry all the States this year that Cleveland and Hendricks did in 18S4, with Michigan Cal ifornia and Nevada, and probably Iowa and Minnesota added to the list. The Re publicans on the other hand, will have to contend by the hardest for Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Illinois and Ohio. One of the latest converts' of Democract is Hon. Edwin Packard, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Packard is a man of large means, President of the Young Men's Christian Association of his home city, and was a delegate-at-large from the State of New York in 1SS4 to the Republican National Convention. An Iowa man poured some coal oil on his trousers and applied a length match to them in order to show his family "how to act when a person's clothes take fire." In about two minutes he was acting as if he was in intense pain and covered with a new crop of cuticle in about two months. We suspect the experment was a failure. Per haps he didn't use the right . kind of a match Surgeon General Hamilton said to-day in regard to the yellow fever in Jackson ville that there have been 131 cases to date, of which fortv have recovered, ninet een have died and seventy-two are ander treat ment. Dr. Starbuck, of the Marine Hos pital service, at Fernandina, Fla tel egraphs to Surgeon General Hamilton that that city was never healtheir or in better sanitary condition than at present, and that there is no truth in the rumor of recent death there from yellow fever. Mr. Thurman, the greatest American statesman has commenced his campaign When It is finished it will be. regarded as the most remakable campaing in th last three decades of American his tor. From his home in Columbus to the city of Tol edo, was one magnificent ovation. All Ohio turn ed out to see her matchless statesman. Matchless in ability ; matchless m public service, and matchless in the hearts of his countrymen. STATE NEWS. FROM THE DEEP BLUE MEA TO THE GRAND OLD MOUNTAIN. An Hoar Pleasaally Spent With Our Delightful Exchange. Ashville, it is said, is f ull of visitor. The taxable properyt of Durham increas ed last year $429,836. The reports from the crops throughout the State are favorable. The number of covicts in the penitentia ry and farmed out is 1,365. They have a furniture factorv in New Bern which is turning out very fine work. The Charlotte Democratic urges the next legislature to pass a law against .the use ot barbed wire fences. It is reported that the Superior Court Clerk of Irde'.i eloped, leaving the county minus of about $12,000. The editor of the Clinton Cansasian says he saw In that town on Tuesday lau a stalk of rice seven feet and six inches high. The gauge on the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad has been changed to to Murphy, N. C. The cars can now run from Murphy to Atlanta, Ga., a distance of 560 miles. It seems that cotton bagging can be made from pine straw. A bale was re ceived at Wilmington last week covered with this material and successfully stood the action of the compress . Fred Gebhard is said tn h crriniuk- ill He is suffering from melancholia lU'ha' been cut out of the good graces of the i-angiry, is reported, by a fast-livine swell from California. Hence, ;erhap$ his mind is diseased. The Evening Visitor says that Mai. W. A. Hearn, who for sometime has been in the government printing ofnee at Wash ngton, will become an editoral writer of the Wilmioton' Messenger. A stock company has been formed w ith a capital stock of $30,000 for the purposes of putting the Charlotte Chronicle on a , sound footing. It now looks like it will be the leading daily in tha portion of North Carolina The Farmer's Fame. The bagging trust has been the theme amongst farmers, and country merchants, for the past few weeks, and various and sundry resolutions have been passed, and much fuming and frettingmd the bag ging comes in all the samte, and so does the cotton, wrapped in bagging. We sympa thize with those who are affected Injurious ly by any and all combinations intended to interfere with the supply and demand principle which ought to rule prices, and would favor any measures consistent with honor to thwart the nefarious designs of such speculations, but what we want to say now is, that when one gets into trouble it behoves him to get out the best way he can, and there is no use of fretting, threat ening and resolving, unless there 1 ability to put in execution the threats. Know well your ground before you throw down the gantlet of strife else you may come out second best, and ground arms. The farm ers have the ability to carry out any of their schemes if they will but act in con cert, and prepare themselves. This bag ging was formed in April last. The alli ance of the farmers ought to hare begun to put themselves in readiness to meet the threated trouble, but ir stead of that their emissaries were going about over the State forming counsels, telling state anecdotes at the expense of the lawyers, trying to make the ignorant farmers believe their greatest danger were from the lawyers who would get them in trouble about tholr cows and milk the cow while they are "la wing" and all the while the factories of . the trusts were making the bagging to cover the cot ton at their own prices. And so we see such has been the torn foolery of thtir proceeding and so strongly have they wrought up the rank and file against the lawyers, that It is prob able a few sharp fellows arohnd the capi talists will control legislation, or let it go to wreck with incongruous work. They tried the same game a few yean back and it took all the diplomacy and parliamentary tac tics of the few lawyers then in the Legisla ture to save Agricultural Department. Our advice Is t j buy the foreign bagging pay the duty if the President will not sus pend the law, and so shift as to leave alone the trust bagging. A. Farmer.