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WILSON. NORTH CARLINA. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 14. 1888.
NO. 32
A BLESSING.
Editors.
Once linnn 'n t!mo ,Kf tlj.
S?EBF co,JXTENAXCE- an unusual occurrence. Editors
rarelv ever die. TVipv ronerti.r k--..--
l? m miUionaires before that
Au&picious event winds up their earthly
. ......In, itnia Is fn tVi I Career. But in thi InttnnrA a fool ctwoV. '
i C()Uilkwliiiww io fcv vnw uiu i - w, oaiw-
i k kaonfifitl nrA 1-,-t- I in-. Hvfnf. hrfltllln cr (rpnnlnp r??f nT- rvoU
wersl or the roseate and crimson and the debt of Nature Oh, how his other
ted colorings to the skywhen some creditors did envy Nature! Well, a few
' . V,,tk .Ian- tir. daVS after th -funeral tl-i
.(jana o i .......
5 nulent glories to gild and beautify w "P suui, ana prepared lor ms nnai
. i..j., v.-f li'a i-. I iournev to his allotted nhrH nftr awhilo
isles oi ciuuus ""- - it - ' ' -
!ocean of space. It is like the songs of he drew near to the outerjgates of Hades.
their orecious strains come rip- Here he knocked loud and long. Finally
AHUV" i ' I
'.'in weetest wavelets from throats Gov. Nick came to the gate and aked
Himself did ttme to glorious notes what was wanted. The editor told him
"I I 4 1 l 1 1 1 1 . j r
sness and of gladness, it is like timt "c "au ocen evicted irom me upper
jd and mellowed and chastened radi- woria 0X1(1 wanted a home where rent xs
0f a cloudless moonlight night, when lree ana tuel cheap. . 1 he devil" eyed him
.hadow wears on its bosom that suspiciously for half a minute and then
' ..... ... cl-ad Um iUnfk.J f i
tf ;ilverv lustre which seems like .muniau uccu piuicbsiun up
jrri t
'...tenins eleams of radiance flung laoove.
13 ' . I ' nr.:..i.. M i j ..r
Heavenly splendors. Yes, next luur ajciy, taiu our iner.a, -i am
I!J.U ' , I -r-. ... - .
B cnnliht of heaven is the sunlight of an tflIlor- or years l have been
"Lrf.il face. There is no mistaking "You can't come in here, then," said his
e bright eye, the unclouded brow, the "j- FiwFoc
' emiie all tell of that which dwells conunue so- -an 1 Jou see inai vour
Who has not felt its electrifying aaveni insiae mis gate wouia De aai
- I t i j: ji. t t.
? One glance at this face lifts us 8CIUU4 luc Pcatc u uigiy my sud-
.Mrrpnutof the arms or despair: oat oi "" w "
J-"',,' I v u : i i
-,T'Vj and shadows, away from tears U1U" l lllc" FaFcl ulc " I1C,C au
into the beautiful realms of puu "uulu "ut uc ilcir a wc5 UCM,reJou
would commence dunning them, and
would cause dissensions, discords, and the
final disruption of my kingdom."
"But if I promise "
"No, sir! you can't come in here. Go
joyous:
rerr
A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUPHONI
OUSLY ELUCIDATED.
"Physician, heal thyself !" is an injunc
tion promulgated centuries ago, and now
some of the older practitioners are pretty
well heeled.
Ex-Gov. Albert G. Porter, of Indiana,
is a partly looking gentleman of medium
STATE NEWS.
mow THE DEEP BLUE SEA TO THE
GBAXD OLD MO TNT A IX.
Numerous Newsy Notes nd Many height, with a well kept grayeard and the An Hoar Pleasaatl j Spent Wth Oar
Merry Morsels Paras;rapbleally
Packed and Pltntly Poltned.
it.
London contains 120 hospitals.
A great tail-bearer the peacock.
From pole to pole A clothes line.
A circus tumbler should never be full.
A bov that is lost is a waif from home.
If a ship arrives a second late they dock
has been
The deed record con-
air of a banker.
a tracK ot land containinging 1,000,000
acres in Aroostook county, Me.,
sold for $1,000,000.
tains 25,000 words.
Eza French; engineer on the northen
Adirondack, left his engine for an hour
one day on a recent trip, and on returning
brought a fine deer, which he had shot.
There died In Havana recently, at the
ae ot 114 years, a nesrress. Nercelinal
Compos. She leaves a 90-year- old son, and
a 1 2-year old great-great-great-grandson.
Uncle Elias Gibson, of Kilbourne, Ills.,
who is nearing his 90th year, has -the dis
tinction of having killed ninety-two wolves
The temple of Diana was four hundred
feet high.
Gout has good Lord Tennyson by the
foot again.
Bismarck has a mania for getting weigh
ed frennentl v.
I ma tU. 1 1L.1 ii
since me ai, n icturu LiutL no uuier
1 he poei w ho is always a musing is not jUinois man can even aDDroach
I
necessaniv iunny.
goose
1 r rt
je. One cheerful face in a household
rikeep everything bright and warm
ricin. Envy, hatred, malice, selfishness,
fcpondency and a host of evil passions
avlurk around the dobi, thej' may even
It has been found that a poose can
Many an old book has to be ' bond over stand the weather until the thermometer
. y. it, : . 1
tufcCCH uicpciLc. . troesto 6 ders helnw 7Prn ThPn hr
The Koran says all flies shall perish, feathers w'on.t save her. Wild ducks
save one, the bee fly. can go 12 degs lower and come out on
Alexander Dumas is said to be the rich- top.
est writer in the world. More that a sixth partof the land of the ciuriiCu ai me raie ot i,ooo a day.
1 mi
Saratoga is famous for spring water and Slobe and nearlVa part of the popu- Ane n was above the average.
Dells; tit fa 1 Exchanges.
Some farmers in Stoke are feeding their-
hogs on tobacco as a preventive of cholera.
The Cutchbent machine shops of New
Berne were burned last week. Loss 2,
000; insurance $1,000.
Mr- J. W. Reilly, formerly connected
vrith the Catholic Mirror, is now on the
editorial staff of the Charlotte Chronicle.
The Star say the white leaders of Re-
pnblican cohorts in Wilmington are
already caucussing over the division of the
loave and fishes.
At Kenansville last Thuedav Mrs.
Rebecca Brown, one of the most prom
inent ladies of the State celebrated her
hundredth birthdav.
Capt.Will Dobson, of the C. F. & Y. V.
Railroad fell from a box car on to a flat
car yesterday near Fayettexille and was
seriously and probably fataliy hurt.
A small mill run was made at the
Mann-Arrinton mine a ftw dm
I it it i.s J .1 .1 :i :: i
. . . . I tVo rolocti'il fit-tr i(fVir mil 'ill find 11
friie there; the cheerful face will put v,v ";w,v- " "
all to shame and flight. It may be a ?our Pa3'mS suosencrs ana no aeaa-
rr plain face, but there is something in "unuiucrcyuuuu uu m pcac
He feel, we cannot express, and its ano ine neart ot tne eaitor was giaa.
deery smile ends the blood dancing joy tuny ne turned asiae irom ine gate,
tough our. veins for very jo v; we turn wended his way up the golden stairs to
Sirard the sun, and its warm, genial influ- enter upon his just reward, where unpaid
ccerefreshes and strengthens our fainting bills troubleth not and delinqueut subscrib-
Ah, there is a world -of magic in ers never come.
cheerful face : It charms us
with a spell of eternity, and we would not
eicfee it for all the soulless beaut r that ou think you need a wile, young man,
erergraced the fairest form on earth. It do you ?" said Mrl Kajones, as he looked at
be a very little face : one that we nestle "e agitated youxn wno was suung on uie
renour bosoms or sino to sleen in our edge of a chair and nervously twirling a
gets.
pain.
A Lougr 'Want.
Niagara for fall water.
Lawyers ought to be good poets ; they
write lots of "versus".
Rosenthal, the Romanian painist of note,
came over on the Aller.
The places of Rome, each accommodat
ed about 350,000 people.
iviany a man has a pale appearance
after leaving a bucket-sHbp.
Mary Anderson arrived at New York
from England on Saturday.
lation of the world are under the control of I The Supreme Court ha sustained the
Great Britain. Russia ranks second in ludgement of the Superior Court In the
territorial extent and the United States murder case of "Bud" Anderson, Wayne
third. county, and he will therefore be handed
Without the House of Representatite I Henderson captured part of the tobacco
the Radicals cannot carry on their high- exhibit at the Richmond Exposition last '
handed deviltry, aud cannot dragonade week. Mr. John D. Cooper was awarded !
the Sonth as in Grant times. If we only first premium, S250, for best fancy bright
had the Senate, Harrison wpuld have to j cutters.
behave himself. ti n CW C: .vm 1 .-a AITS .& At . L
number of her big factories are working
without a nogro in it. No darkey- is allowed at night. Winston began work early in
hat, "and my daughter would fill the bill,
would she ?"
"She would, indeed, sir," replied the
voung man, wii h a ghastly attempt to ap-
t household, binding each heart together Pr at. ease. "As the men who start
a tenderness and love and svmpathy! newspapers some times savin their pros-
Shdows may darken around us, but some- pectuses, she would fill a long went fault
t t-r u. a I mean, of course, a weng lont felt or
" una CVCl blllUCb UCLCCII, clliU lllC I '
ns with a low, sweet lullaby; but it is
sea a bright, cheery face ! The scintilla
of joyous spirits are. flashing from
fverv feature. And what a power it has in
;ag is so bright that the shadows can
3t remain, and silentl v they creep away
io the dark corners where the cheerful
& is gone. It may be a wrinkled face,
tt it is all the dearer for that, and none
lesss bright. We linger near, it and
e tenderly upon it and say, "God bless
a happy face!" We must keep it with
rather a long lent wait no, a wrong font
Welt indeed she would, Mr. Kajones, per
sisted the bewildered youth, "though
should have said, of course, a feng"
"George," interposed Mr. Kajones, com
ing to his relief, have you said anything to
T oo vo3"
liUUl j WW
"No sir: I thought I ought to speak to
"515 !nnr oc t- uv Uca I VOU first."
father, kindly, "take myadvice if you
can't get that prospectus untangled before
you see her again, you'd better send a more
experienced canvasser.'
Cuchof its brightness when the sweet faec
5.e. And after it is gone, how the re
nounce of it purifies and softens our
ard nature. When care and sorrow
snap our heart strings asunder, this
kled face looks down upon us, and the
tension grows lighter, the way less
j - o . - - o w
7, the sorrow less heavv. .
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The vain man wears tight boots and to stoP there. All the servants are white, the season and has been working full forces
W hue girls are hotel and house servants. I all the summer.
Itis called Cullman, is a German town Mrs. Fannie Morse. of South nnrt 'i,,.
mainly, and is in Alabama. snf t th .p... . f. tr:i,: ,r.
w w it ii llllllLUil JUtS"
senger a sweet notato that weicrha nil
" - a i
must acknowledge the corn.
It is regarded as a death warning in Ger
many to hear a cricket's cpv.
A real, live princess keeps a millinary
store in Fifth avenue. New York.
tngiana-nas experienced since 1079, and pounds and measures 24 inches in
the coolest since iSoof In most Darts of circumferenre
Mr. KODertionnerpaio.ur. vviman the country the sun did not shine more
1 r 1 I 'll ll- A T 1 O I
v anueruiit u.uuu iui ..iauu o. th avera-e of four tn four and a half
English papers are particular wrathful hours a da v. In Scotland the daily aver
over the Lord Sackville's dismissal. I are was about five hours.
W. S. Gilbert, the English librettist, has At the hrst election of Mr. James Madi
dramatized George Eliot's "Komola." SOn he was beaten in his own State of Vir-
The State Grange of North Carolina
Patrons of Husbandry will meet this year
in annual session in Kinston, Lenoir coun
ty, begining on the second Tuesday, the
nth of December.
Mr. W. T, BlackwelL the fou ruler of th
The Tapuya Indians in South America ginia by Mr. Pinckney. At the election of Blackwell Tobacco Cbmoan v and the nri-.
say the Devil assumes the form of a fly. Mr. James K. Polk he was beaten in his natoro the Durham BuI1 gmoking tobacco
Ti,icicMn.,-K;n, r-otiVi own State of Tennessee by Henry Clay. uj -..,i it , .
m t ir.t.v., 1. 1.-. kunivutu uiiuci nnr miniiry
Allege urc liic uun iiimuul in our iiiv
Waman.
Xot Oansrerons.
"Julia, perhaps I am staying too late.
that your father tapping on the floor !
"es, Arthur, but don't so vet. He
v mn until Vi crnce. tfnr-
5 alonar the 1-mll ViHr nn trio nld
Tautological.
Teacher What is tautology?
Repetition. . -
sacner Give me an example.
We are going to have sheep's head
J tinner, and my sister Elsie's beau is
to dinner, also.
cher-Gouphead.
Newspaper Obituary..
e following is an extract from the
Ty riOt?f o V--- -aircna-pr
m another paper of the same
Th -1
ne pen is silent; the otlice scissors
The stillness
'C rAn 1
tf 1 iaia away to rust.
UBlll. - .
DrPVlflac. .1 -. nfmvntioro
nce the hoarse voice of the devil
C0Py!' or whatin'thehellisthis-
As
was want to resound. The paste-
SOlir4 1 . . 1 . 1.
ttiaM w me wnat-not: ine cou.-
toiier 1S eatinS the composition off the
t$I?ndthe blue-bottle fly is dying in
ueds of the printer's towel."
True, she can not sharpen a pencil and
outside of commercial circles she can't
tie a package to make it look like anything
save a crooked cross section of chaos ; but,
land of miracles ? see what she can do
with a pin! She can not walk so many
miles around a billiard table with nothing
to eat, and nothing (to speak of) to drink,
but she can walk the floor all night with a
baby. She can ride five hundred miles
without going into the smoking car to rest
(and get away from the children.) She can
- 't i. .1.S
enjoy an evening visit wunuut smuMJig
half a dozen cigars. She can endure the
distraction of a house full of children all
day, while her husband sends them all to
bed before he has been home an hour.- A
boy with a sister is fortunate, a fellow with
a cousin is to be envied, a young man with
a sweetheart is happy, and a man with a
good wife is- thrice blessed more than them
all.
Consumption Surely Cured.
- 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 ofpour read
ers who have consumption if tfiey will send
me their express and post office address.
fiRespectfully,
T. A SLOCUM, M. C,
181 Pearl St.,. Y-v York.
This old-fashioned china, for practical
purposes, is not what it is cracked up to be
The loy who was kept after school for
bad orthographv said he was spell bound.
In China the highest recommendation
a man can have is the fact of his having a
wife.
A prescription is something that the
druggists puts up and the patient puts
down.
George Meredith ig greatly enamored of
verse in his old age and has just put a long
poem into print.
Kaiser William has given orders that
the public celebration of the victory at Se
dan should cease.
M. Paul Bluent, "Max O Rell," is pre-
narin- a lecture on amencans for a tour
x -
of Great Britain.
Robert J.Burdette the Humorist,has been
licensed to preach by the Baptist Church
fo which he belongs.
An endliss railway train, consisting of
400 platform cars, is to be one of the attrac
tious at the Prais exposition.
Dective John' Lowenstein, of Chicagot
was fatally shot bv his wife in a quarrel
caused by jealousy yesterday
General Boulanger has resumed his dai
ly receptions in Paris and the agitation in
his behalf has been recommenced.
Capt. Samuel Brooks, of the Arizona,has
made 600 trios across the Atlantic, and
has sailed 1,830,000 nautical miles.
Frank Halt n, the ex-postmasUr Gen
eral, has drifted into buisness as the Wes
tern agent for a newly invented store.
Father Schleyer, the inventor of Vola
puk, is dead. A fund for a moment to his
memory will be raised by his followers.
Cheif Justice Fuller is far from tall, but
his new grown of office took more silk In
construction than the dress of a society
woman.
The buisness portion of the town Deland,
III., was destroyed by fire Wednesday.
The losses aggregate $35,000, with a little
I insurance.
tory.
Sam Jones received 743-06 for his eight
davs' work at Nashville, Tenn. A coll
ection was taken up to purchase the build
ing in which the meetings were conducted
and Sam gave them $1,000, or $258 more
than he received. In other words, he gave
them eight days of labor and S258 in
cash.
of Rev. Sam Jones at Durham.
John W. Graham, trustee of the sink
ing fund of the North Carolina Rail
road, gives notice that the mortgage bonds
of the company which matured November
1 st will be paid promptly at Burlington.
Tne New Bern Journal says that sports
men in that vicinity are out hunting every
day and seldom fail to bring back quan-
It is stated on pretty good authority mn of wiId Same and in Sreat variety.
that Sir Charles Tupper will succeed Lord A gentleman living in that city has recen-
I A 1 1 1 ? ' 1 1
Sackville as British Minister to this coun- UJ one on inree "unung cxpeaiuons ana
try. Lord backvule has been formally
cut off from diplomatic relations with the I The capacity of the Eastern Asylum
administratien and will probably return to I for colored insane, near Goldsboro, is be-
England in a few days. He is worth $100. ling considerably increased. There is a
000 a year and will probably be able to find I noticeable increase in the number of col-
consolation. oaed insane, particularly in the central
A Calvinist in the N. C. Presbyterian section ot the State. The addition to the
thus gives his impressions of Sam Jones, asylum buildiug is almost completed.
He says he is totally ignorant of systematic Last Sunday was a T)ig reaping day for
theology, he is totally devoid of fear, he is the Durham churches. -The Plant reports
chock full of fun, he has a tender sym- as follows: Members "received at First
pathy for the man who is down, he can en- Baptist 39 by baptism, 10 restored, and
force the claims of Christ with wonderful 4 by letter total 53. Blackwell' Baptist,
power. He knows every evenue to the hu- 8 baptism. Total Baptists 61. Episcopal
man heart; and especially he knows the 15. Presbyterian 45. .Carr Methodist, 29
importantance of keeping his audience in a by profession, and 8 by cretificate -total
good humor. Rather than not have them so 37; Trinity Methodist, 9S by profession
he tells anecdotes that would be more appro- and 8 by letter total 106. Total Methodists
priate in the circus ring. But while their 150. Total of other denominations 121.
hearts are merry he will put the most ten- We it announced that george 11. IVan-
der and earnest piea tor tne Master.
A rather servere writer in The Satnr-
day Revi w Jcondemns the modern Eng
lish eirl in the following terms: "Neither
derbilt, grandson of the old Commodore,
has invested largely In real estate in and
around Asheville in this State. It is said
he owns about one thousand acres on the
1
the moral nor physical training of a modern I Swannao river, a mile frm that, town,
English girl is such as to justify the hope it is said that he intends tp establish an
that she will be invariably above reproach, indutrial and mechaical school for the
The lives they lead, the aim set before training in useful pursuits of such young
them, all lead to degeneracy and deteriora- people as are without means to pay for
tion. They are permitted, as they grow their own education. Civil engineer, and
up, to develop all the vainer elements, o landscape grandeners have been employed
study to show off, to traffic on their charms to lay out and Improve the grounds,
for charity, for popularity, for notoriety, Rooms have beon secured atone of the
and their ambition is to become professional hotels at Asheville for William K. Van
beauties or something equally poor and ob- derbilt and faimly, who will accompany
iectionable ultra fast land fashionable George to Asheville in March for a stav
women.
of two or three months.
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