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"Our Aim will be, the People's Right Maintain, iiu.w j j iy 11 c , unu tisi vum. rl yOL. VII. WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9. 1889. NO. .45 j u I Jt il 1 : s I J' i ti . i J-' WINTER'S WEALTH, H ST.V.S AND DESCRIBED BY 1IEXRY BLOUNT Tbe Wilson Mirror Three Years Af0. aud Re-Printed Now by Urgent On Friday it began to rain and sleet, j soon thereafter every tree beg?n to be itself in tlvat stainless ermine so ra- idiently woven with Winter's shuttle in rcticr looms, ano to place around its ache a shining necklace of those glit- r;n.T iewels dug only out of the bosom of -oj-erIimcs. The .weather was, extrava- 2-'jr lavish and profuse in adorning every ,ect with its wealth of splendor,' and hen .Saturday dawned, Wilson .looked e some crystal foresl full foliaged with eJazzIing leaves of the most sparkling liancy. . Every housetop, every cupola. erv spice, every tree, every bush spark- j with a lustre richer and brighter than gashes of sunbeams shot from the well id bow of cloudless noontide, while iinles streams of shimmering billows of robbing radiance poured flood after flood rough flittering cliannels aver every and left a veil of silvery spray of Bering splendor. It was a scene tinted ;th the drippings of sublimity and was onously grand and beautiful, and be nd the pen's delineration. It was word- ,s. It was awe wrapped. It was God- e, for it was perfect. In its stainless Lritv there was nothing of earth about md it reminded us of the shimmering ircson those. Celestial temples on high ich lift up there white-robed summits,and mt tne spirit of adoration to higher enes in worship. But the trees couldn't it up under such burdens of splendor and e unhurt; and ever, and anon, a terrible Ashing of a limb was heard, a magnifi er shower of crushed and broken els would fill the air with their corrus- :i brilliances, and by night fall every eft in town was strown with shining baches of dismembered trees. Aud as J i J; i i i 7 Kprr-in fr 4ai -a ire c V -?" vec fk m rr t leearth the scene changed from that of chless beauty to one of appal ing gloom, those ice-wrapped tress seemed white and passionless monuments I: 14 S. ;i n I i: V I! I1 :t n i: - V 1! i r j r i i ii t v j; j . 1! I 1 I 1 1' 1 1 t . 1 I ! I! 1 ( J I Il J .!! ' i 1 fading o'er a cold and pulseless world. en the stars, like timid children afraid of rr ghot-Iike thing, hid themselves be- i intervening clouds, and 'not one of m dared to look out and smile upon the ful scene below. It was a dismal night ; morning dawned at last, and the scene he dav before had grown in beaut v and ?ndor. and the glory of Got! was stamped m everything. Everv twig caught the iant smile of an approving Angel, and i it trembling there. It was matchless ts brilliancy. Even the luminous God Day, tire-eyed as he is, and whose, burn- channels of light send warmth and 7 t0 millions of worlds in space, seemed 'his own vision was' dazzled by the hn& sheets of blazing streams of brilli- F.? which were sparkling beneath, and long he wore his specticles qf clouds "ade his vision from the comrhingUng bating of the world below. . Iibw vuScently grand, how exquisitly sub--.how entrancingly lovely, how thrlll- ! radiant must Heaven be when this nng spectacle was only a little shadow aown from the everlasting temple of not built with hands eternally in the fang aside now the prismatic hues of stic metaphor, and donning the "pun robe of sober fact, we will pro- in all candor and truth, that no 0n earth ever looked prettier than 011 did on Sunday. As we said above Jiimbs had been torn from the trees, tered here and there in magnificent nzlincs "Ihf ir t!i!mmpriii( mass h( CT . a icicles presented a glittering lin- PaWechevaldefrise, and overwhlfh J but tlc -snow-nursed winds of FR were allowed to creep, i he scepe- I "'scnption, and language limps nat.e to bear such glories up. The f-,ft.h Methodist church looked nlKmy ringer of some icy inonach, he t.vc 0iowt.j j. lo jt$ hat-pened 1 1's lla7zlin'T nhnt mHwniv lrnk. hjf . o . . . . ' Was tri in.. ..u, . ! Imn 'nsr ihe verv walls of Heaven raph wiies became long silver Of "'HIT rn.-.. ...... . . ' t a-a in ine uts(ance,'and seemed ! 2s of f,rc as straggling sunleam ' fell upon them. . Rut we ha e done. We can't describe a scene whi:h was Deitv conceived and Angel painted, and photo graphed for mortals with Winter's glorious camera. No, no, no. So we drop the pencil in despair feeling that our attempted description is a poor and ill shaped and bad ly deformed abortion. WITH TIIKF. If I could knowvthat after all These heavy bonds have ceased to thrall We whom in life the fates divide Should sweetly slumber side by "side That one green spray should drop its dew Softl alike above us too, All would be well; for I should be At last, dear loving heart, with thee! l . Hov sv.eet to know this dust of ours, lingling, will feed the self-same flowers-" The scent of leaves, the song bird's tone, At once across our rest be blown, One breath of sun, one sheet of rain Make green the earth above us twain! Ah, sweet and strange," for I shall be, At last, dear loving heart with thee! But if there be a blissful sphere Where homesick hearts, divided here,1 And wandering wide in useless quest, Shall ind their longed-for heaven of rest, If in that higher, happier birth Wemeet the joys we missed on. earth. All will be well, for I shall be, At last, dear loving heart with thee ! True. Had the Republican party let the South ern States take care of themselves, as the Northern States have alwavs been left to take care of themselves, race feeling, strong as it will always be, might not have resul ted in such strife and peril. For the negro is kindly and rarely strikes unless stun by some wrong, real or fancied, or is aroused by the cunning inventions of some rene gade of the other or more authoritiv race. Bu t what is most deplorable is the proba bility that this riot in ' Mississippi will not be the lat of these race conflicts in the years to come. Many men who love their country and who wish to see peace and prosperity preserved within its bounds will begin to ask seriously whether it is possible for two distinct races to dwell under exis ting conditions on the same soil. They will reach these conclusions regardless of sentimental fanatics afar off and shriek out their wild and impracticable theories. Two races have rever dwelt together ave where one was subject to the other. Can they succesfully dwell together in harmony and unity and equally share the same Gov ernment and can their sons have equal voice in determining its conduct and its course. A Mtrange Bird. A curiosity of exceeding rarity, and ones that will be of peculiar interest to Golds boro people, has just been added to Mr. Will Hunter's growing and creditable museum at the Hotel Gregory. Itisthe head and neck of a Tujuju, (pronounced as if the j's were y's,) 'an aquantlc bird of the heron species. The" thing was killed on the Island Joanes at the mouth of the Am. azon river in South America by Messrs. Nick and Richard Washington, who are engaged in business there. The bill meas nres iS inches, and in life the bird stood six feet high and measured nine feet from tip to tip. The boys shot it five times be foe they could bring it to terms. It was killed in October, and was such a rare cap ture even out there that they sent the head and neck home and Mr, Hunter has bor rowed it" for the miration" of his museum visitors. The Argus. The editorial writer of the Journal as on the field, and was afterwards a member of the Board of enquiry appointed by gen eral Lee to pass on the conduct of the Gettysburg campaign. ' General Lee did not see proper to publish the report of that Board, but we take the liberty of saying that I'ettigrew and his men were fully vin dicated. Longstrect and Stuart w ere criti cised, but their general conduct was con sidered as deserving of applause. After a week's patient investigation not a single charge was prefered against ani Officer or oldier of the army of Northern Virginia. , CoiiNimiptloii Surely Cured. To the Editor-Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By it timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy iirf.k to any of your read ers w"ho have consumption if they will send me their express and post -office address Rqspcrlfully, T. A SLOCUM. 31. C, Si Pearl St.. v York. A MIXTURE. editorial irrciiiMi.s EIPII6M orSLYEIXCIDATED. Nnmerons ICewsjr Notes and Many Merry Morsel Parajrraphleally r a eked and Pithily Poltned. t The cream of society icecreaif.. . A pair of tightstwo drunkards. ? Candid people seldom give away taffy. People who live too fong are not fit to die The pilot of a ship ought to wear a hel met. He vho is in love - with himself has no rival. The beat way to kill a falsehood i to let it lie. Speaking of blowing people up, the ker ocene can. All the wards of a la'ch-key should be home-wards. . - The strongest tied in the affairs of men is marriage.. The lay of the land is what darkness broods over. A firm resolve and agrement to go In to partnership. A police miss apprehension arresting the wron girl. Extraction is an out and out remedy for the toothache. J Man) a mart, has been burned in the last heat at the ntctt. ! Led bv the' nose having a pistol ball graze your proboscis. The spider is happiest when his life is hanging by a thread. Bills that did not pass Congress are not necessarily counterfeit. The peopie of Pitsburg wear the same soot all the year 'round. The rise and fall in standard securities never affect alpenstocks. 1 he man who gets left dpsen't believe that "what is, is right." People think it funny that the gas col lector is never suffocated. j i Pardoxical: A man always feels put out when he is taken in. A barber who" talks too much is often given to cutting remarks. The Czar receives " King William in his every day boiler-iron shirt. Work and play are necessary to the actor, and they should be mixed. All heirs are interesting but the most in teresting is the million heir. Corn dodgers men who have been kicked for stepping on them. A touching sight A small boy investi gating a newly painted door. . A matter of some weight proposing to a two hundred pound widow. There was liitle perfumery in. America during the old Colognieal days. There is too much shotgun to th,e squsre inch in the average idea of justice. Boston inebriates never see snakes. They have ophidian hallucinations. The arrest of a criminal is usually guar anteed, at least there is a warrant for it. The deadhead at the theatre, is like a succesful prediction he has come to pass. A poet wants to know "where tlje flccy clouds are woven." In the air-loom, of course. - , I There ought to be a law passed that railway restaurant keepers shall date their apple pies. New faces, new experiences, hew asso ciationsdo they compensate for the loss of the old ones? Never, with the true and faithful heart. The old gentleman with the scythe and hourglass, makes the' mile in 2:30. He "gels there" everv time, and the trouble is you get there, two, right with him. Lord Salisbury threatens not to send a Minister Resident to the United States. Alarming! Well, il England can stand Mich foolishness, surely thi country can. "The warmest relation exists between us, and we are cemented by the closest of tics' as the fellow said when Jic vainly tried to let go of the handles of a magnetic bat tery. First they are called boxes, next coffin--, then caskets, now mortuary receptacles. The former undertaker is now a funeral di rector. Tilings funeral have, it would, seem, about obtained the apex. .Irony a new tonic. Even if haste makes watte, the ordinary messenger boy will never come to want. "Why wouldn't 'The. Unbrclla' be a good name for a magizine?" asks an ex change. Because it might be "put down' for any liberalllty of expression, and in that event it would 6ccn be "used up. Frank Howard, the song writer, made three thousand dollars in one year off of 'Only a Pansy blossom ;" but nobody jdares to sing the song any more, without insur ing his life or encasing himself in armor. Governor Hill, of New Yoik, lias just ap pointed George B McClelland, son of Little Mac, an aid on his staff. This makes young McClellan a colonel at a jump. He is one of the w all-street reporters for the New York Herald. A young lady killed herself not long ago because she thought she was too homely to live. We have heard of votine ladies who thought themselves "too sweet to live" but never of one before who thought themselves too homely. Mine. Gaston deFontillat nee Mimi Smith, a sistej of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, has joined the Roman CathbHc Church Her husband is a French nobleman. She made her first communion in New York at the Christmas midnight mass. "The Emperor of Austria has learned the American game of poker, and the edict against that game which is now in force in Austria, is to be rescinded. Per haps after Francis Joseph plays a while he will issue a new edict or a loan." The Republican scale of prices for voters in the last election in Indiana is said to have ranged all the wav from $ioto $75. Indiana is the home ofsuccessful candiated 1 larrison. Yet he carried the State by a small majority, despite all the boodle dis pensed . The Emperor of Germany has no fixed salary, but there is an annual fund of a million dollars he can use if necesary. As King of Prussia he has a salary of $3,550, 000; but this is found insufficent and the Reichstag will be requested to increase that amount. - We once knew a good man who when cornered would alwavs say, -'change the! situation and you change vour mind." A little while ago Republicans were insisting on the rigid enforcement of the civil service law, now Democrats see charms in it thev never saw before. Everv one who reads a newspaper be comes familiar with the business houses whose name appear in it, and naturally they patronise'them. , Merchants who advertise make many friends through the columns of a newspaper, as " their names become as familliar as household words. It is improbable that the Southern Base Ball League will be revived, but effortr are being made to establish a gult league, to include the cities of New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola and Selma. In Mobile great interest is taken in base ball, and the num ber of those willing to put up money to support a club there is surprising. Lebanon, Ky., claims the champion old woman Aunt Til Purdy, aged 121 Her mother, Charloote Schuch, who died three years ago, was 135, and the Bible of her former owner is put in as evidence, as ther in is recorded the birth of Charlotte Schuch in 1750, and the, birth of this daughter in 1767 wcn the "mother was but 17 years old. It shows how. rreat men will bother themselves with trifles when we are told bv a great metropolitan journal that Dr; Gatling. the inventor, had a warm discussion with an elevated road ticket-seller a few days ago in that city. The point at issue was the amount of change due the doctor. He got the worst of the argument, and is now devising a gun tor use in such emer gencies. When he completes it the station men will probably step lively. The doctor ought to make a diagnosis of the Haytian question instead of quibbling -with street car conductors. A resolution endorsing the Blair bill has been the cause of some speech-making in the Georgia Legislature. No action has vet been taken, but the resolution has caused much talk about the lobbies. State School Commissioner James T. Hook, in expressing his sentiments on the subject the other day. said: "As an individual and native Georgian, I strongly desire to see this bill become a law, so that the Govern ment's liberal contribution, added to our own, shall put in circulation a Urge fund to educate all the children of the State and otherwise benefit us as a people. I speak for myself or.lv in saying thi " Tr STATE NEWS. FttOM;TIIE DEEP BLUE SEA TO Tilt. UIIAXD OLD aolXTAIX. An Hour Pltasaatly Spent With Onr Delightful Exthtsret.- The Legislature will have, abou 1,400 justices of the peace to elect. Durham's Black well's factory shipped 274,125 pounds, of tobacco in four days. Stamps cost $21,951 In the death of Richard B. Haywood, of Raleigh, one of the mot admirable of men, and lovable of character is lot to the State. We see from the Plant that Durham : going to build a $200,000 cotton factory. Well, Durham can do mot anything when she makes up her mind. Capt. Swift Galloway declines to be a candidate for Reading Clerk of the House. He says in the Raleigh News-Observer, that "he is for the boys." Miss Mollie Bailey cammitted i,22 verses of Scripture and won the handsome prise offered by Mrs. Judge Reid to the Presbyterian Sunday school - The North Carolina Baptist Almanac for 1 SS?,' edited by Rev. T. C. Daily, of the Raleigh Recordor, is a useful publication for the Baptists. Pages 56, price 10 cents. Mr. A. II. . Christian, a son-in-law of Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, has bought the in terest of the Yates heirs in the Charlotte Democrat: Mr. Christian has been a resi dent of California and engaged in journal ism in that Stae. The big hog owned by Mr. J. H. Mills, which we mentioned some time ago u slaughtered the week before Christmas. The gross weight was 860 pounds and the. net weight 716 pounds. This is the largrat hog of the season. Pitt county as usual takes the lead in porkers. . ; Nash county has nearly 200,000 acres of wood land, the Jarger portion of which is the finest pine timber. Only about one third of the area of the county is in culti vation. On nea'rl y every farm there is pine timber which in the near future will sell for much more than ithc Kind can now be ... . bought for. . Under the election law, the returns are to be opened by the Speaker of the House of Representatives on the first Thursday after the assembling of the legislature, after which acorn mittee will arrange for'the inau guration.. A prominent feature will be an "inauguration ball", under the auspices of the "Monogram club" of Raleigh. During i8S3 in North Carol i.ia there were two agricultural impliments works built; there were six brewries erected; nine to bacco aud cegar factories ; forty-one cotton and wol ten factories; eight electric light plants; twelve mining and quarrying com panies; three oil mills forty-five water works: five railroad companies organised. This is commendable and. encouraging progress. The New Berne Journal, in the course of its new year greeting says: From Ten- ' nessee to the Atlantic it is a goodly heri tage. , In bur mountains picturesque America is seen in its most gorgeous maj esty. The interior resounds with the rush of varied industries, and the East rejoices in the abundauce of its vegetables and the multitude and variety of its fishes. The sea kisses the shore, and roars for the com mercial crown unjustly denied to her. In order to shorten the time between Raleigh and Wilson, and points North via. the Atlantic Coast Line, there has been ar ranged a quick schedule via. Wilson and Selma, connecting at Wilson with the train for Petersburg, Richmond, Washington, New York and all points East. Through coaches will be run between Wilson and Raleigh and Pulman Palace Sleeping cars between Wilson and Washington. Balti more, Philadelphia and New York. Another important decision affecting rights under the homestead law of thi- State has just been rendered by the Su preme court. It is held that the right ot homestead ends wiih the death of the judgement debtor, where there is no wife or infant child surviving. A docketed judgement, the cause of action occuring before 1877, has a lean subject to the right of homestead, and where the' land i con veyed, although the homestead had not been laid off, the conveyance is subject to the lien, w hich can be enforced to the ex tinction of the homestead rijht. r f J r-
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