"Our Aim trill be, the People's Rigid Maintain,
Unawed by Power, and Unbribed by Gain"
WILSON. NRTH CARLJNA. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1888.
NO. 23
TWO-FOLD TEST.
INTERESTING STOUT.
MlrrAP bT F.arneit
'ffBte Hart.
few -weeks had elapsed after
e old man cannot account for.
"Hello things look black," echoed a dozen
voices. x
"Oh ! I don't know," whereupon Zeno
would make a pretence of quelling the
inquiries that he had provoked.
With two such active agents it is a small
wonder that the name of Henrv Al.
ti-ff Aiw" . i sion mat nan nirnprtn hpn rinthMf n
Mr. Wilson having occasion to look thfi immael!atft VMtnrA Af . ,
,t" . . u: k ,t,.,j I r " .w
' sOIflC pipers 1 ut, ; mwcu ah
r that was accustomed to some
. J .n ftnrutr Hr9wr
recess m a mw v.
rT" thjntr was instantly removed from
I ksk and a thorough search made but
and truth should be loaded with the lags of
Infamy and disgrace.
And what, shall the dishonored name
of Henry Alston be linked with the hea
venly Innocence of Alice Vincent?,Heaven
thw missincr article could not I . . . .
jjpui-"- - ixorDia.
foucd. " ... . . One after another of the girl's friends
& old genucmou, vv ui uaa ycu u.c 8UspectIng the reiation that existed between
. . , them would with the utmost kindness en-
l which to defray the expenses of his
r-w 4. eAeisA tew Vi Qnm
. I Vio r9rfr TirViAro 7prrt woe
cn'ercu j'ww' ..a
Iiraiting him with a look of uncontrolable
Uish visible on his aged tace.
I i can't do a thing to-day Zeno, I have
' 4 nearly a thousand dollars in hard cash
has been taken from my room," said the
i - i . - i x: . 1
I., ftip noorest laborer on his extensive
tons.'"
"What does this mean?" askeed Zeno,
aj never knew you to lose a cent you
treat her to break off all connnectlons with
Henrv Alston.
Alice wo aid calmly reply: -Henrv has
dore as much by leaving without my
knowledge nor have I the slightest idea
where he has gone."
Yet she did not for one moment doubt
the fidelity of her lover nor did she believe,
notwithstanding the evidence against him,
that he was guilty of the heinous crime
with Which he was charged.
Having known and loved Henry Alston
for vears and hnvincr found him n rrnA&
didn't acconnt for before. Indeed you q vhtue ghe deemed ft u
ip I nv eiLCCUiui r uuiui iuuiui,! ouu i . ... . .
' . - " iincompauDie witn nature to commit so
aoata ago you lost your vaiuauie occre- . , . .
liness of her character loved and pittied
while all censured and cbndemned.
Still there was one among her friends
who belived, or professed to believe in the
innocence of Henry Alston.
"Do not heed these reports," he would
say, "they are false. Henry was truly
a. noble ooy and justly worth the love of
any woman."
Among the multitude of Henry's accus
ers when she found a man who knew and
trusted as she did, who consoled and com
forted her in her grief, was it more than
natural that she should come, to love and
arr and now this sum.
Ah! I'll be even with the theif, I'll
atch him," and Mr. Wilson clenched his
teeth with desperate determination
I fear you will not succeed as well as
... i r 11 -J T tirst 1 1 1
TOU UunK ior, saiu mrs. vv usou wnu iiuu
heard the above conversation in an adjoin
ing room.
The theif is well out of the way by now
(or the money w as taken a month ago as
sere as 1 am named J-.ucy Wilson, l was
re witness to the theft.
"What do vou mean ? You, my wife al
low me to be robbed without opening your
lips," said Mr. Wilson springing from his
cbir in a passion of unutterable fury.
-Tell me the rascal who dared "
uHeary Alston" calmly interrupted his
itife. ' - ;: - v
"It is false, I will not believe it though
joe are my wife," replied Mr. Wilson.
'Your are at liberty to use your own
peasure, answered Mrs. Wilson tuning
leave the room.
"Stop, stop, come back, I spoke too
tastily, forgive me dear and give me an ac
cost of the whole affair," said Mr. Wilson
tis temper perceptibly abating.
Well it is not much when told and
ould never have aroused the least suspi
caa had not Henry suddenly disappeared
fcdthe monevbeen linarrmintnhlv lost."
w J
"On the day you, Henry and Zeno left
is house .together the boys walked down
street while you rode into the country,
ifcw minutes later Henry returned, and
:'.ered the counting room. I ws in the
""ary and the door between the rooms
T Fly open, he did not see me, but I
ed him for several minutes, he gazed
into the drawer, then taking some
out," placed it in f is pocket and
left the room."
"It it asKea eno. .
il'00ks dart T mncf nnnface " elA Ua
' aa shaking his head dubouslv, 'but
oDie,manly boy, I am loath to . believe
Loath
A MIXTURE.
EDITOSIAI. ETCHUfOS EUPHOJfl-
OUSLT ELUCIDATED.
ICnmervaa Hewar Sot wl ISmnr
Merry XXmtmIs Parrrsphlellx
Pack mm Pitbllr Poitnl.
London is to have an electric railway.
Carl Schurz is still at Kiel, Germany.
The crops m France exceed all expecta
tions. " :
The rye crop of Europe Is considerably
short.
Congress adjourned on "Saturday and it
was the longest session on record.
STATE NEWS.
m -
x nere is a row in trie domestic camp
of the BUine family. MrsJ. G .B. Jr. , is I rBOH THE DEEP Binr SEA TO THE
about to sue her fath-er-in-law for alienat
ing her husband affeetions. She claims
damages in the sum of $100,000,
It is the history of presidential elections
that the more dty tickets there may be in
the field the greater will be the vote that
Is called out, every ballot carrying the
national candidates) as well as the local
nominees. It will be so In iSSS, and all
the better for Cleveland and Hill
GXXAXD OLD XXOFSTTATX.
Aa Hoar PUasaatlx Bpat With Oar
Dllshtrl
The apple crop i reported short.
Davidson College has 92 students.
The dome of the capltol has been paint
ed white.
confide io Zeno Wilson as a brother ?
TO BE CONTINUED.
SAM JONES OX MARRIAGE.
A Few Thoughtful reflections.
tO believe it." unrrroA Mrc Wil.
'H,.. t ...
c 1 ever told you a false-
hood ?"
"Keep things quiet. I am the
, - "ijurea. 1 can not expose him
ri'0ve him oc : 1 ... .
. lL Ilc were my own sort
great temptation and he was so
But ...
. ""withstanding Ir. Wilson's in-
10 Keep things quiet, his wife with
cf'J? t0nsue of gossiP confided to each
. maie acquaintances the disgrace
, "inner in Avhirh Hr,-, a i t,'
her husband's kindness and -gener-
uUca -Mr. Wilson has nQ ins.ght fa-
aCter but "jnever take my advice.
earned him of this a. thousand
.or Zeno he would " unhesitatingly
" Als1 tHe Club; "ur old Uow Hen
r he0n is dreadfully missed. Wonder
tatfc u no: g'-e us a farewell address.
ern , a most deplorable condition
iosSesn
Cats esr would be the imme-
"It is putting money above manhood
and womanhood. This is a besetting sin.
When a father puts a premium of a hun
dred thausand dollars upon his daughter
the. young man esteem the fortune abo'e
the girl, and wherever money is put above
manhood vou weaken the whole buisness
and let down the foundation upon which
society rests and happy married life must
be based. The old father says: My
children shan't undergo the hardships
that I did.' The old goose don't know
that the hardships he underwent made him
what he is. Take the average girl. She
will get up at 9 in the morning and call her
servant. She will tie one endjof her corset
string to the bed-post and get the negro
hold of the other end, and see-saw until she
gets herself as near as shs can into the
shape of a wasp. She goes down stairs;
the breakfast is all over, and it disarranges
everything for her to have her breakfast,
and then it not as good as the other break
fast, and she will raise cain with the house
girl, for she has the disposition of a wasp as
well as the shape of one. She has thrown
herself out of shape until her vital organs
are no more where God put them than if
a'Chinaman had built her. And by and
by this girl, along with the money her
father gives her, gets married, and she is to
be a mother to the boys and girls of this
country, and by the time she is thirty she
is pale and haggared and worn out mental
ly and physically. Then she spends the
balance of her time making her husband
unhappy and her home unpleasat.
"The" girl marries if she is let alone the
fellow she loves, if he is a bootblack or
her father's carrage driver. More boys
are hunting rich girls than' girls hunting
rich bovs.
Mormons are flocking Into Wyoming in
great numbers. r
There are only three crutch factories in
the United States. '
Three million women in the United
States work for money.
5
If you want high taxes you can get it by
voting a Republican ticket.
The honey crop of the Country is below
the average,this season. V -
A Chinaman is refused naturalizatiou pa
pers by St. Louis Judge.
A canal will soon be built between the
Black and Caspian Seas. . ..
Inventor Edison says he has found a
sure cure for yellow fever.
If you want low taxes you can get it by
voting the Democratic ticket.
Heavy lesses have occurred to cranberry
growers from the server frosts.
The Czar and Czarina have declined
to receive Queen Natalie of Servia.
"The epidemic is dying out" is the glad
message that comes from Jacksonville.
An eagle carries off the six-year-old
child of a Kansas farmer and devours it.
There are about 25,000 persons engaged
in the manufacture of cigars in New York
Citv. ' ?-. 1.
The Brotderhood Lomotive Firemen
have decided to amalgamate with the
Knights of labor. ' ,
There are 2500 persons employed by the
131 firms effgaged in the wagon making in
dustry in Philadelphia,
Cuban troops are under arms to suppress
arexpected riot among the 25,000 striking
cigai makers in Havana.
On the pay rolls of the Pennsylvania
system of railways there are constantly
the names of 50,000 employes.
Republican principles illsutrated at Chi
cago: "Reduce the poor man's loaf that
rich men may loaf in buisness."
' The baskets for peaches are made in
Laurel, Del., and the workmen and work
women get eighty cents a hundred.
It is said that when Blaine heard thai
Hill was to reply to him, recollection of
Ben Hill overcame him, and he had to re
tire for refreshments.
Mr. Blaine admits that Indiana is the
closest Northern State. But this don't
begin to describe tne situation. Indiana is
tumultuously Democratic.
It is a little monotonous every day that
the Democratic prospect is brlgnter, but
we must vindicate the truth of history and
stand up to the racket, monotony or no
montony.
Harrison is disgusted with his own town,
the city , of Indianapolis. At the great
Republican mass meeting all the honors
were paid to Blaine, and Harrison became
disgruntled and left without ceremony.
Wilmington has been directly exporting
Americans have the good habit of go- cotton. ,
Ing to college. It fs said, as to the learn- Wilmington seems to be troubled . with
ea nations, inai m tnis .country one man I
UUl itA.1 a.
in every 200 takes a collegs education;
n Germany one m every 600. The grade
of general intelligence h higher in the
United States than In any other country on
the globe.
New York politics are all in a muddle
and nobody can tell what the result will
be. Grant is the nominee of Tarn many
Hewitt of County Democracy, Erhardt of
the Republicans, and Coogan of Labor.
Nevertheless all the eyidence go to show
that the city will vote overwhelmingly in
favor of Cleveland and Thurman.
We failed to note that Rev. J. L. M. Cur
ry, late Minister to Spain, had been re
elected General Agent of the Pebody Ed
ucationa Fund. He is . an able man, a fine
speaker, an eloquent preacher, and if Jhe
will not stick to the ministry, of which he
is really an ornament, we are glad to. see
him in charge of the Peabody Fund.
Tha aberage price paid the average
Iowa "schoolmam" by the year is S2 1 2 45.
Presuming that her board and washing
The premium list for the Silver City fair
bout. j
The Raleigh street car lines are being
extended.
Work is being pushed on the Wllkes
bororoad. A tribe of wild Indians b promised at
Rocky Mount Fair.
Around Lexington heavy shipments of
dried fruit are being made.
In and around .New Berne are forty
manufacturers employing 500 hands.
Senator Vance Vpbke to five thousand
people in Charlotte Saturday night.
A private letter from Surry concludes:
"We are going to down Brower up here."
Hurrah for Surrv.
Old Rockingham has fallen into line.
and reports say she will give Morehead
an old fashioned 800 majority.
At the Durham Exposition there was
a re-union ot r.x-iontederate veterans
costs her about S3 perweek and her cloth- especially of the sixth regiment.
ing and incidentals $50 more, she will
then have a surplus of $645 to build up a
bank account, which in twenty years of
hard word would amount to a little more
than $i2o.
There are about twenty millions of work-
The shipments of fish over the A. & N.
C. R. are so large as to necessitate the
running of an additional fish car. -
One of the most successful farmers of
Iredell county, N C,is a Russian nobleman
who was exiled in iSao because of his Do
ing people in this country, and only about mical principles
one in every imrxeen 01 mem nnu em- t
ploy merit", in- highly "protectediduslries, , The political news form Nash is of a:
and they get lower average Wages than cheering character. It is believed that
those who are at work in the unprotected the. enUre Democatic ticket will receive
industries. Does high protection protect, majorities varying irom 50 to 300.
then? Yes, it protects but not labor or
wages. It protects the capitalists, like
Carnegie, and makes their exorbitant prof
its solid.
There are still on the pension rolls of the
Government over 800 men who served in
the war of 18 1 2. That war ended seventy-
Carry the news down the line.
Many of the Democrats of old Guilford,
who wandered astray, after false gods in
'86 are returning to their first love.
Charlotte is the only city in the world
of its size that has a self-supporting street
railway. The steet car service in Char-
three years ago, and there were about 50,- iotte is efficient, and reaches just about
000 men who were recognized as having everywhere,
had a pensionable part in it. Taking these
. u t - Track laving has begun on the Durham
fitruies as a basis a Boston newsoaoer man
calculates that if the same proportion of end o the Durham-Henderson railway
me uurnam anu orinern, as is cal
led. Some twenty miles of the Henderson
veterans of the war of 1 S6 1 survive for a
like period, there will be as late as 193
some 16,000 survivors. ,
end have been btult.
Consumption Surely Cared.
"Pk . c irom the club.
y He
nr.v Alston, I loved him as a
4mJ -
nearly a thousand dollars j
To the Editor-Please inform your readers
that I have a positive remedy for the above
named disease. By its timely use thousands
of hopeless cases have been permanently
cured: 1 shall be glad to send two bottles
of my remedy eree to any of your read
ers who have consumption if they will send
me their express and post office address.
Respectfully,
T. A SLOCUM, M. C,
1S1 Pearl St., New Yonc.
Less than fifty years ago there was not
a photographic camera in the world; to-day
there are 15,000 photographic establish
ments, to say nothing of the thousands of
amateur outfits, in the United States.
Gradmother Heaton, of Virginia, 111
is doubtless the only person living in the
United States born in the famous Tower of
London.' She is eighty-one years old, and
her parents were employed in the grim old
prison when she was born. " . ,
Probably the happiest period in life most
frequently is In middle age, when the aeger
passions of youth are cooled, and the infir
mities of age not yet begun, as we see tha
the shadows which are at morning and eve
ning so large almost entirely disappear at
midday. ,
Father, the paper says you officiated
at the wedding clad in the traditional garb
of the clergy." What does .traditional
mean?" "Traditional, my son," replied
the poor minister, as he looked at his cheap
uit of black with a sigh, "refers to thin
that have been 'handed down.
A negro preacher of the Baptist De
nomingtion, who claims that he was capt
tured on the Congo1 river, in Central Af
rica, onlv eight years ago where he had
hitherto lived the life of a Cannibal, has
been lecturing on Africa and preaching
in the colored church in Seaboard for the
There have been three great centers
whence life has radiated; three metropoli
tan exponents: Rome left ns a legacy of
law that is even yet the basis of the code of
the most enlightened nations. Greece was
the mother of arts, eloquence, and the mo
dels fche left are the standards to-dav. But
from Jerusalem and Jiidea went forth the past week
grandess conceptions of moral and religi- J The North Carolina Conference of the
truth, before which all ethical teachings Merhodist Episcopal Church South will
p'ales its splendor. All other systems of meet in New Berne on the 2Sth day of
morals or religioo shine, at best, like ' the Nov. and be in session one week. This bo
moon, with a light borrowed from the sun. dy is composed of about two hundred and
Peach farmes in Deleware not infrequen- fiy ministers and one hundred lay dele
tly contain 15,000 trees, and some years &te makinS a total o three hunJred
ago one farmer alone was said to own 100,- and fifty perKns.
000 trees. Benjamin Biggs, the governor The hying of iron on the Scotland Neck
of Delaware, owns at least a dozen peach and Greenville road has reached Goose
farmes in Delaware and Maryland.- The Nest, about three miles from the William
great shipping point on the penisular of ston and the trestles are nearly all finish
Delaware and Maryland is Wyoming, ed. Contrasts have been made for the
a village of Kent couny, Delaware, and of grading of the road to Greenville and w e
the chief growers is the Rev. J. S. Willis, learn that it is the intention of the Atlan
a muscular Methodist preacher, famous tic Coas Line to complete the road to the
for his fine physique, his daring pulpit ut- J latter place at as early a date as possible.
terances and his love of horseflesh.
Mr. Blaine's Detriot speech was unwor
thy of his high position in the country.
It was more dimagogical and less intellect
ual than any of his previous utter inces.
It had not even the merit of a single start
ling expression. It was simply an address
that would have disgraced a speaker at a
ward meeting. It lacked even originality
or audacity, for it was a mere rehash of
current falsehoods and calumnies which
Mr. Blaine must have known to be false
and calumnious, unless his brief journey
ing abroad has rendered him . oblivious to
current events at home.
The distance is about twenty-three miles.
Work on the Chowan and Southern road
is progressing very rapidly. The contract
for the bridge across Roanoke river has
been made and work is now being done
preparatory to building the piers. Great
trees are being driven down in the bed of
the river for foundations. One hundred
mules have been taken down to Mr. Alex
ander's farm near Palmyra and will be
used in building the embankment on this
side of the river. A large number of
hands is also employed. They have gone
into camp and expect to remain in camp
six months.