Our Aim will 6e, the People's Right' Maintain,
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VII.
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 28, 1888.
no. 3o
fHE SUNNY SIDE.
SIMPLE SOBER SERMON.
is as nearly like the nettleweed as it can be.
or like anything else that grows in gloom
and darkness. A cheerful Spirit is one rf
the most valuable gilts ever bestowed upon
humanity by a kind Creator. It is the
Sunshine ana its sweetest and most fragrant flower of th
Spirit that constantly sends out its beauty I Jtfu
and fragrance, and blesses everything
- morning as we reluctan.lv left the within its reach. It will sustain the soul
7 -
A MIXTURE.
.r'a Blewed
Uesplendent Blessings.
EDITORIAL ETCXXIXCS EUPHONI
OUSLY ELUCIDATED.
... a AcWfrhts and comforts of our I in the darkest and most Armrv nlarpe'nf
.rflS"uw o I J t w
4
rerous Xewsr Nates wt Mmxy
Kerry Honeli Paraarrapufeally
Packed and Pithily Poitaed.
excellent boarding place, and stepped this world. It will hold in checkTthe de-
Sash street we noticed that almost I mons of despair, and stifle the power of
: f il- - I A . j 4.1. I . . . M 1 . V.
1 one was on uic tuuyj iuc, auu ia.- uiaiuuiigcmciiL ana nopeiessness. it 'is
vantage of the blessed comfort of the the brightest star that ever cast its radiance !
ij SUIibeams that came so cheeringly over the darkened soul, and one that sel
irt from Heaven- The few who walked dom sets in the gloom of morbid fancies
C a. shady side, shivered and suffered and foreboding imaginations. Cultivate,
Cid the chilly shadows, while those, who J then, a cheerful spirit, and cheerish it as
1 .1 A UnnoAn I Gfn0fKff1or o O r-l IV.A iV. - - I
I uon wnbeans fell in all their comfort giv I "Rejoice ever more, and its light and
f-beauty and radiance, dashed along with blessedness will ever fall upon the path
lrancy an elasticity of expression and way like sunshine from Heaven.
I Jement that told of that joy and vigor There Sball be no Xiffbt Tbert.
L alone in the happy wedlock of bright-
t feelings and perfect health. And that
'rjhas suggested this train of thought. It
. . x cunnv siflf In all tViinorc
Je feel the wisdom of it to-day. And yet
see some who remain on the cold bleak
ind walk shiveringly there, while the
i-fering could be so easily mitigated by
other side. It is strange but
- that of all animated creation man is
jsonlv being who does not always take
2 sunny side. He is endowed with in.
gence and reason, which should make
a best promote his own proper enjoy -
ass: but the instinct of the lower crea-
X3 fives them a philosophy that man's
ason often denies to himself : and man
hanniness. with greater onnortuni-
is for its posession, than any of the other " . ' oniy recreation 01 arainai uiorons.
nnrt forms and trades of life. The I J
w"- n " J
i ju . u . j u I your craaie ana snine upon our grave, ana
to owl and the mousing bat and the K , .. . . .
tiiiit watcii you ait 111c wajr uciwcca, pan
"And there shall be no night there." And
there will be no need of any, because there
I is no weariness in Heaven, and none ever
long for darkness to fall so that the heart
ache may be relieved by unseen tears. But
what would become of us in this world
were it not for night? Night is all that
renders life endurable to half the world.
j
They are able to bear the day, to drive
through its heavy laden hours only by the
sure knowledge that night, blessed night !
draws on. The keen, hard day ; the blaz
ing, blinding, unmerciful day would drive
them distracted if it lasted longer than it
does; but just as heart and flesh are failing,
Daily on the racks Hats.
. -
A misgiving A wedding.
Popular lays Hens' eggs.
Moody, the evangelist, is fifty -one.
General Harrison wears a No. iyz hat.
Next to nothing a dude's undershirt.
General Sherman is a famous diner-out.
err . stale bread the crust of the
earth. .
The rubber boot now covers a multitude
of shins.
Always over head and ears in business
The driver.
Nothing-strikes oil more effectively than
light-ining.
Only whisper a scandal, and its echo is
heard by all.
Pleasant recollections collecting a bil
t he se cond time. .
There are 2000 music teachers in New
York and its suburbs.
The Prince of Wales has learned to make
speech in Magyar.
We may not like hotel keepers, but we
have to put up with them.
P resident Carnot's tour through France
a
down rolls the soothing, solemn, shielding will cost the nation about $50,000.
night, and ail are comforted. The stars
Walking is the favorite and almost the
avigc beast shun the sunlight and make
iiness hideous with their weird and
scordant language; but there is not a
weet bird of song, a beautiful flower,
1 fragrant shrub, a fruitful tree or plant of
earth, or vrarbler of air, or sportive inhabi
tact of brook or sea, or other thing that re-
xsds to the kindness of man, that does
not take the sunny side of life. Most of all
ismanywoesof men are created by them-
and a vast preponderance of them
R provoked by shunning the sunny side
cd studiously wading through the sha
ows and the sloughs and brambles which
could and should be avoided. The sturdy
cakof the forests reaches out to the sun its
latest branches and greenest-verdue, and
1 sober lichin and scars point to the chilly
swth. The creeDino- vine that clinrs to
o o
ft trunk and branches throw all its varied
rauty to the sunny side. All of nature's
Fiadeur. from the shrinking daisy to au-
ann's gorgeous panorama of gilded
rave and mountain, are the pictures of
"te, and the dancing dimples of our bab
2g streams are the pretty playthings of
tling light and shadow. Every rising
a b greeted with eratitude bv all that
the world brighter and better,
tman; and he, the lord of all, to whom
e created thing are made subject, often
sthe song of thanks from heaven's
Masters in listlessness or clouded forget-
ss, and the flowers which gratefully
fme the air whence , he draws his life,
ently, like the eyes of angels. And the
moon, sweet, pure moon, that never
scorches nor blinds vou, calms and cools
you with her soft light that falls like conso
lationon the spirit. There is melody in
in the words: "No night there," but well is
it for tired and hnnted mortals that there
is night here.
The new Jopanese Minister at Wash
ington is a man of uncomman culture.
The proposal to have a London beauty
show is being put into a business form.
Mrs James K. Polk, wnidowof the Presi
dent, Is now in her eighty-seventh year.
Suftant Muley Hassan, of Morocco,. is a
handsome man. with a calm imposing man
New York stands at the head of the mo-
iocco trade in the United States. During
he busy season, 10S0 goat skines are daily
turned into morocco.
Gen. Mahone and Senator Quay threa
ten to appeal to the courts, to prevent the
issuance of errtlflcatesto the Democratic
electors of Virginia.
There are 133 industrial establishments
in the city of New York, wichgive employ
ment to 227352 persons and the value of
the output is $427,926 437.
One thousand million steel pens are us
ed every year m the in this country. Most
ox mese are no me made, ana tner are
better than the Imported pens.
Vice President elect Levi P. Mortonpent
Wednesday in Washington for the pur-
STATE NEWS.
rsoa the deep nLUE sea to the
GRAND OLD XI OUST A IX.
Hoar Plcasaatly 8pat XT 1th Ovr
DlifftitralJExebanff. ,
Wake Forest Cblleg has 202 student.
Salisbury has established a Knitting fac
tor with capital of $12,000.
One hundred and fifty -eight new pot-
offices were established in North Carolina
last year.
The latest proposition noted in railroad
circles is to extend the Roanoke Southern
railroad from Winston to Charlotte.
pose of inspecting his new apartment house The vote of the socalled third party in tht
now in the course of erection. State feU ghort ol expectation. It is now
The Reading Railroad Company has thought that it will not go over three thou-
notified its employes that they will be sub- I and.
ject to dismissal if they fail to meet pe-1 Granvilie county has now seventy-four
cuniary obigation which they incur. miles of railroad. There was not an inch
Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, who o track in the same territory less than ten
is considered the richest banker in thf I years.
ner.
My Love.
You'd know what she is like the one I
call my love? -
Ask me an angel to describe-the sun, the
stars;
The calm sea's evening smile: tha silv re
winding stream,
Athwart whose bosom fall the new moon's
golden bars ;
Like unto all of those, nay, like a
dream
Is she my love.
Hnu-sinprs mv love, vou ask? I know not
- o ' -
how, but when
Her voice is mmsrled with the evening
- -
breeze, the birds
Are silent! Ave. is hushed the rustling
leaf;
All listen to th' harmonious cadence of her
wdrds,
Whose melody could wake the heart that
died of grief
Thus sings my love,
How laughs my love you'd know? How
laughs the sunny brook
How
a n h.u: - ' - .
"lUCn SPrn1-frc 1 nrnfucinn nf hplllttf Wl. i-tirraH H ir rtfi'miic hrPPTP f
his pathway, awaken no praise from J laughs the waving corn
to whom all the beautitudes of earth When kissed by smilling skies? When soft
F: tribute. It is not wholly poetic li- winds breathe upon
that has eivhk us that nalnful reflex Mow lauorhs the vellow grain in autumn's
t I r - "
in inp rtrr nnnrpn nur nine rrrinn mornr
&
res in thi rn nnntprl hit little
Jed lines, which tells us of nature, that
rer7 prospect pleases and only man is
r,ie- The man or woman who always
or safelv throup-h life in snite of
y 0. ...
opposing power. Smiles will ban-
ftedarkn
ess that gathers
about every
Wh and the snnlight vtill fall 'upon
r- y, wnerever a cneenut
j wo.
Thp sunlvams will melt the
,
7"? and dispel the darkest night that
( rooded
spirit
fc.
aess rf u. -a. j 1 s 1
- uuaiaauj, ana onug imgui.-
over the world, and so a sun-
will scatter the coldness and
inrt ki i . , . i t
ii uicing 10 tnose aooui iu it
jj. arything repulsive about a human
it is a fretful spirit and a sorrowful
' I there is anything utterly . repel
and disgusting, it is the sour-visaged
-lQo,Who cannot smile or wear a cheerful
who continually broods over his
rtunes, and so keeps on the shadowy
w-ver,vthin Go's sunshineis not1"
'4V ' an-V more than the sunlight of
tVlS l the PiMnous nettle-weed un-
How laughs the purple vine when bathed
in rip'ning sun ?
So 4aughs my love.
Nay, ask me not the light of her soft azure
eyes
Fenimore Cooper's only daugnter still
lives at the novelist's home at Coopertown,
N. Y.
A Kansas City girl has committed sui
cide because she thought herself too ugly
to live.
Since thevar of '70 France has spent
$1,541,000 besides the "ordinary esti
mates.' Prairie fires in Dakota have caused
heavy looses to farmers over a wide extent
poet's of country.
Samuel Normen, the millionaire Wash
ington bank President, was once a Govern
ment clerk.
The CrownPrince of G reece dislikes pub
licity, and often travels in the third-class
railway coaches. '
Mrs. Burnett's works sell better than any
othar of the woman writers Charles Eg
bert Craddock next.
Alderman Whitaker, who will be in
stalled Mayor of London next month is a
fan-maker by trade. ,
The King of Belgians hates tobacco,
never wears gloves, and goes bareheaded
as much as posssible.
Emperor William of Germany has in
timated his intention to visit London be
fore the close of the year.
The last census of India indicates a pop
ulation of 68,982,000. There are 6,000,000
more males than females.
Millionaire Flood was once worth $40,
000,000, it is said, but his present fortune
is estimated at $15,000,000.
Lady Dudley ,the famous English beauty
United States, is a man of extraordinary
modesty, and is rarely seen in public
places.
There is a report that Senator Gorman,
of Maryland is manuceuving to have Presi
dent Cleaveland appointed President of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad after his
term expires.
An Industrail Home for Girls, at Chilli
cothe. Mo., will be opened in the fall. It
will be conducted on the family or cottage
plain and will receive girls from seven to
twenty years of age.
The largest salary received by an Amer
ican bishop is that of the Bishop of N. Y,
which amounts to $10,000 a year. The
iJisnopoi Aiaine, wno receives 31300 a
vear. has the smallest.
President Cleveland has written Captain
Anson of the Chicago Club a letter, indors
ing baseball as the national sport of Amer
ica, and the letter will be used in advestis
ing the game in Australia.'
The Baltimore & Ohio Company s is hav
ing a heavy engine constructed, which will
The head and chief of the anglers, in and
about Elizabeth City is Gip Sawyer, a deaf
mute whose business and support is fishing
with hook and line. - 1'
The converts in the penitentiary, and on
the various railroad, turnipkes etc have
reached about thirteen hundred There are
only seven womon among them.
A full-blooded Cherakee Indian was last
week put in the penitentiary. He is Tom
Chiabilla, and he both murdered and
robbed another Indian. He gets 20- year
at hard labor.
On February the iSth, 1S89, the doors of
the State University will be opened to
teachers who desire to take special courses
instructions. For further particulars ap
ply to Hon. Kemp P. Battle, President.
During the ministration of Rev. Sam
Jones in Durham, the citizens paid him $2,-
000 in cash paid the leader of the tinging
$100 and gave $400 for "Sam Jones'
Orphanage," besides paying $400 for the
expenses of the meeting.
A large force of laborers is rapidly lay-'
ing steel rails on the Atlantic and North
run from Washington to Baltimore, a dis- Carolina railroad between New Berne and
tance of fortr miles in forty minutes, mak- Morehead City. In ninety days at most
ing three stops on the way. the w ork will be completed, and the road
Montreal, Conada, has thirty boot and wi'l be in better codition than e er before
shoe manufactories. Four thousand per- Silk cnlture is an occupation peculiarly
sons, all over fourteen years of age, are suited to the industry, patience and mani
employed. Wages average $12 per week pulatlon of the deft hands of females. It
for men and $7 for women. has made some progress in our State of
If the Republicans in Coneressor aanize late Jears' and U is omething tt merit
a o C7
earnest consideration.
Fowle's majority 13,444. The legisla-,
ture stands as follows: Senate 37 Demo
crats and 13 Republicans. The House 83
Democrats and 35 Republican; 2 Indepen
dents. Democrats on joint ballot 125, Re
publicans 4S, Independents 2, Third
Party o.
We learn that the names of Mr. A. Lea
zer, of Iredell, and'Hon. C. M. Cook, of
Franklin, are already prominently men
The aureole that hovers 'round her saintly has insured her life for $5000,000 for the
beneht 01 ner youngei cnuaren.
Henry Villard says he attributes his suc
cess as a railroad man to his knowledge
brow
To paint to draw the graceful lines of that
dear face.
The sweet, proud curve of those chaste
lips, when mutely bow
The mases, lost in contemplation of
grace
Of her my love.
Consumption Surely Cured.
the
Ww of the slimy rock, or dense
His dwarfed and selfish spirit
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. I 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,
S i3i Pearl St., r-nr York.
of human nature, gained by newspaper
work.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -composed her
beautiful little poem: "The Land of Nod,"
while rocking her baby brother to sleep in
the cradle.
There manufacturing of shose, in Lynn
Mass, is decreasing because of the cheaper
production in country towns where less
wages is paid.
It is stated as a positive fact that Mrs.
George Hirsh. Navarro county, Texas, has
had six children at one birth. Four are
boy and two are girls. The mothers is 27
vears of age and had previously had three
children. The new arrivals are all alive
and doing well, but the father is almost a
maniac.
tne next House ot Representatives, it is
more than probable that the Speaker will
be a native North Carolinian in the person
of Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois.
Reed of Maine, prominent for Speaker,
says "if there is any surplus" when the 51
st Congress meets the Tariff will be re-
duced. l hat saving clause "it will pre-
entlhe credulous from believing.
The richest widow in this country,
if not in the world, Is Mrs. Moses Taylor, Uoned in connection with the speakership
whose fortune is estimated at $40,000,000. cf the House in the next General Assem-
She lives in few ork, Long Branch bly. Either of them would make a most
and several other places, as the mood suits J excellent presiding officer.
4 a iiui iiiwiii gviiiivwvii w av www a wasv
Harrison voted and spoke against the at bouthern Pines More county, says he is
Blair bill. He also spoke in favor of the preparing land at that place for the purpose
Civil Service bill and voted for it It will of testing the culturs of grape for raisins.
be interesting to watch and see what he will He feels confident that the climate there
do with the Blair bill when it comes up for lis adapted to the growth of this grape
his signature, and how he will execute the I and its manufacture into raisins.
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Civil Service law.
Miss Florence Nightingale is now a con
firmed invalid, and is a patient at St. Tho
mas's Hospital, London. Her services
during the Crimean war injured her spine.
and she has never recovered from the ef
fects thereof. This illustrious philanthro
pist is nearly sixty-nine years old.
There will be four ex-Speakers of the
The provisional board appointed in Sep-
1 tember last by the Christian denomination
of North Carolina to locate their college.
has chosen Graham, Alamance couhty, as
the site, that place having offered the best
I inducements in the way of an eligible lot.
t The building will commence earlv next
spring.
The 58th session of the Baptist Conven
tion, which closed in the city of Greens-
House in the Fifty-first Congress provided boroon Saturday last, was the most bar-
they all live and get their seats to which niou and successful ever held in the
they are elected. They are Carlisle, of history of that denominatkn. It was found
Kentucky.Randall of Pennsylvania, Banks that the BapUsU now marshal the vaU
of Massachuetts, and Cox, of New York. arm of I5o,ooo white members in the
There are . three others living, namely sute of North Carolina to war against
Grow, of Pennsylvania, Blain. of Maine, ignorance and vice and for God and hu-
and Keifer, of Ohio. manitr.
According to the New. York World's The jury in the case of Mr. J. T Edm-
newsfrom Indianapolis, Harrison is to play mundson against the R.& D. Railroad for
the part of national healer, and therefore, I damages by reason of injnries sustained in
nei'her Blaine nor Sherman will be asked
to a seat in the Cabfnet. Harrison thinks,
so runs the special, that their selection
would not tend to allay factional discord.
From Augusta, Maine, the news is that
Blaine really desites to be Secretary of
State. - ,
the Rifles railroad accident while on route
for the State Guard encampment at Ashe
ville three Summers ago, and which ha
been on trial at Klnston court since Thurs
day last, returned a verdict yesterday
afternoon in his favor for ten thousand
dollars.