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THE WI LN MIEHOB, "Our Aim tcitl be, the Peopli'a Eight Maintain, Unatced by Power, and Unbribed by Gain." IfOh VII. WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1889. NO. 47 fW0 LIFE PICTURES. lSflOlirSKTIMEXTALSERMOX BY Broken Heart Strings, and the liioom that Round Them Clings. Xiiev were warm, sincere, devoted, affec rk Upvalued her friendshiD i!;3t.c . .. of the rarest and sweetest and most . . . f . . a l 1 j r a tu in return for this priceless bless- - he built around her shrine of excellence ,3 goodness and loveliness the purest and warmest and brightest fires of adoristic juration and esteem. He entwined .Dund her precious image the heart-woven oval sceptre of the queenliest witchery, he reigned in perfect majesty over every -tte heart-throb, and every emotion was one tribute to her virtues. .With hand la-ped in hand, and with hearts meeting in pe sweetest of sweet communions, they :roI!ed together many an atternoon witn hat eay freedom which made life for each ther so beautiful and so delightful. Many . . . . . . . i iH evening iuujiu iiicin m uujuwai. u uppiest conversations. They had nothing o conceal. They met soul to soul. Their ynoms were iike an open book, and each jne read the other's hopes and dreams and fears and apprehensions. Their confidence in each other was perfect, and they trusted each other with the sweetest of sweetest icons implicit faith. She was his sunlight, W hrr hrirrht smile lit im with luminous iheer the dreariest shadows that ever fell lcro-s his pathway, and made them glisten ;th a radiance like that which ripples down the silvery slopes of night. Hut alas for them! The glad, bright, joyous Sum mer time of their hearts is gone. The dowers, which bloomed so sweetly, are withered and dead ; the vase, which held .ac:u. i MUiucieu, illlU iiuiiiiug uuw mw can be found. The birds of joy have stopped their 6ong-wavcs, and have flown o sunnier climes Their happv carols are only sung for hearts that always are: in tune. The iciest Winter of coldest estrange ment has come upan them, and beneath the icy incrustations of its chilling snows the cr.ee beautiful flowers of sweet and kindred emotions are hid far out of sight, and steep, in Winter's darkest night. These two meet a strangers now upon the rugged and rockv banks of the cold and freezing river of embarrassment, and they shudder when they meet, for briars only strike their feet. And though she is still most dear to him et he never speaks her name, although it is written in living characters of eternal re membrance upon the sweetest and holiest tablet- of hi heart, and with warmest ardor orhi;ped there, and never i:entioned .-ivt- in prayer. After looking at these twoad pictures, craped with all the sombre pathos of the ;'.ckt-t human sorrow, we have been led to ret'ect that in this earth-life of ours, swept a- it is, with the fiercest of human ?2io:, clouds of suspicion frequently rise often darken the sky, storms of anger n:rt forth from their blackened bosoms, under those drenching torrents of accu tun and animadversion, which come pouring down in such pitiless fury, the faret and sweetest and most beautiful "ower- of friendship that ever budded and -osomed, and whose delightful and ex cite perfume made earth seem fas if it 1 U.S i reathing an atmosphere almost as pare ;md sweet as that which broods o'er Paradise, are beaten from their stems with "Wrtle-s pel tings, .and fall down, broken ar-d shattered, with all their beauty gone, their perfume wasted, into the mud and ire of eternal wreck and ruin. Yes, it "ctimcs happens that friendships of year.V existence, in which mutual cor.fi nce have poured their strongest cement, Jnd brought about a union so close and so perfect that a pang to enc would pain the ther. yield to the first tonch of the frozen p"eah of a misunderstanding and a miscon 'truction, and in a moment, in the twink 5 of an eye, the warm channel of feeling t blocked up with the ice ot estrangement, nd the current is checked in its flowing. ad, sad, very sad, but it is one of the Mournful evidences of human frailty, and ows the evanescence cf all things earthly. it hows that earthly love and sirthly friendship are saturated with sin, and a"e therefore subject to perish and decay at 3n.v moment in life. Yes, all earthly Mrenes of joy and bliss based upon earthly love and friendship can fade away as easily as the dew-drops that sparkle so radiantly in the petals of the flowers, and yet die at the very first kiss of a trembling sunbeam. Yes, friendships in this vale of death and of change, are broken as easily as the bubbles which float so gracefully on the current of the river, and then die at the softest caress of some sweetly-wooing zephyr. Only on the fadeless hill-slepes of eternity and in the purified atmosphere of immortality, and under the precious beamings of the effulgent sunlight of God's Own Presence, will the seeds of the flow ers of love, that-are sown down here, spring up in an eternity of vigor, and there they will grow in everlasting bloom and beauty, and sweeten Heaven with a fragrance that will never fade away. , Most beautifully indeed has it been said that love is on earth a troubled guest; at times deceived, at times oppressed ; it here is tried and purified, but hath in Heaven its perfect rest; it soweth here mid toil and care, but the harvest time of love is There. For The Mirror. LETTER FROM 1)11. IIEIUUXU. Highly Interesting and Character istic Reflections by this Learned and Accomplished lhyslcian. Being a big man does not necessarily make folks know you.- Dr. Hammond has been itt Washington City more than six months, and with all the inquiries I could make'it took me two days to find him. The first impression on gettingin his presence was that I had suddenly confronted a big, friendly bull-dog. He is big, literally being almost a giant. He is building a big house to live in, and an hospital besides. I counted ten chimneys on his dwelling, and he told me that himself, wife and two cats were to occupy it. I found him clever enough in his way you know the balance. He told me that he had given sixty grains of quinine ata dose, and that there was no limit to doses in certain cases. I tried to make him tell me what kinds of sickness, or to name the disease Lucv had, and he said "the most important thing is to cure the patient, which you have done; names go for little, save with the ignorant." I bade this medical autocrat good-day, and was glad to shake the Hammondian dust off my shoes, which happened to be mud. Art Barnes was with me, and he puffed and bio wed and cussed about "led tape," and sicru To be a big doctor means many things. To be a small one well, it means to be bandied about, to be picked up and put down at the caprice and whim of patrons who think all the obligation is on their side, who gets more and better attention for their money, and who appreciate your honesty of purpose and skill less than any set of people on earth. The big doctor plays a high game forrr.onev. He gets it. The little doctor tries hard to cure his patient, or to save him from worse than death. He often succeeds, and is dropped. The tone of the profession is clearly up ward. They are here from'all ports of the country, trying to get more knowledge. Old men, gray-haired and spectacled, sit round the clinics daily, picking up morsels for the benefit of 1 heir patients. New York is the great centre for medical teaching in this countrj. It is worth while to come here occasionally to see what is going on. One fellow is here from Alaska. I met a Dr. Williamson from Alabama, whose im mediate kin live in Wilson county. He is a nephew of Garry Williamson. New York is a sight-seeing place for others oesides doctors. The most perfecNand extensive optical delusion I have ever seen is a paint ing called the ''Battle of Gettysburg." It is a microcasm, in which the whole pano rama of the deadly strife is presented to the view, and is said to be so real that soldiers who went through that battlecan locate their own positions, and recognize many incidents of the fight. It is a bloody horror, at which no man can laugh. Picket's last and gallant charge has prominence overall other efforts. I am boarding with a South Carolina lady, whose husband lived in Raleigh ten years ago. and paid one visit to Wilson. His name is Heald. N. B. IIkrkim;. Opium and Liquor Habits Cured Without Xer you Shock or Dlntre. Our Dot-in.K Ciii-oridk of Goi.itJlF.T.tr.MES for the Cure of the Opium and I-iCiok Hahits, have been on the market for io years, during: which time they have never failed to make cure of either Habit, where the'y have been jrvtn even a meagre chance. We will cure OrifM Patients at their own homes in fro.n 4 to 6 weeks, painlessly, and without loss of food, sleep or occupation. Ve easilv cure Drunkenness inside of Three weeks. Full proof of the above futuished, and Literature for the Cure cf either Habit sent free on application. Address, The Leslie E. Keeley Co., Dwlght. Livingston County, Illinois. A MIXTURE. EDITORIAL. ETCHINGS EUPIIONI OCSLY ELUCIDATED. 5ameroDi Jfewsy Xotes and Many Merry Morsels Paragraphleally Packed and Pithily Poitned. Boston has 101 clubs. A ticklish place the ribs. Causes a rise in flour yeast, Poor quarters English shillings. Skating U in full swing in Paris. Berlin is to have rubber pavement. Oregon apples are shipped to China. Brooklyn has 80,036 school children. In France last year 701 wolves were kil led. The Patent Leather Trust has suspen ded. The English cavalry are wofully short of horses. There are, 3,000 "professional tramps in L California. In iSSS 623 persons died in Connecticut from old age. There was a decline in tonagc last year on the canals. Only eight counties in Kansas are now without railroads. The Virginia peanut crop is almost a total failure this year. A good many dough heads are still found among the upper crust. There is a charming elasticity about a girl of eighteen Springs. The winter in France has thus far been the severest in 15 years. Over a million tons of pig-iron were made in the South in iSSS. The Southern Pacific Railway earned about $47,000,000 last year. There were nearly fifteen thousand wed-1 dings in New York city last year. ; You may be incinerated in Philadelphia now after you are dead for $2S. Maine's mackerel catch for last year is in the neighborhood of 25,000 pounds. Ice was artificially manufactured by the use of chemical mixtures as early as 17S3. Before the new year was fifteen minutes old murder was committed in New York city. France is excited over the attitude of the United States on the Panama Canal ques tion. - Some folks arc so peculiar that they will not eat salt fish unless they know it is fresh. Lawrence Barrett is lYiicted with a glan dula swelling that is likely to prove se- rious. The next Legislature of North Carolina will have about 1,400 justices of the peace to elect. Three hundred and fifty-one patents were made out in Washington in one day recently. In a school of lish the young idea U doubtless taught not how to shoot but how to swim. The man who finds fault when his news paper is damp is equally dissatisfied when it is dry. The records of Kansas show the amount of land mortgages in the State to be $235, 000,000. A town of Oklahoma boomers grew from fifty inhabitants to five thousand in sixteen days. The origin of the expression "raining cats and dogs," is probably the same as 'Hail ing omnibu$c." The United States hog cholera commis sion is traveling through the South seeking for information. The musical colleges of Chicago are said to be unsurpassed by those in any other American city. There will be sixteen Republican Repre senatives in the next Congress from the Southern States. The belief that fish is brainy food is ac counted for bv the fact that fish are alwavs found in schools. Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrel are to receive $20,000 cash for seven perform ances in Louisville. Rose Conghlyn is making an extensive tress is appearing in her new play ot "Joe- lyn" to crowded and fashionable audiences. NewJersey has 1,615 public schools, em ploying 4,121 teachers and giving instruc tion to 3S7.846 pupils. The value of the agricultural products of the South in 1SS8 was Soo,ooo,ooo, against $570,000,000 in 1SS0. It is said that Joseph Jefferson intends to engage both John Gilbert and C. W. Coul dock fcr next session. Careful estimatas place the number of people living. within ten miles of Boston Common at 1,000,000. Eastern markets are overstocked with apples, and a great quanity is going to waste for want of sale. It is deemed a flattering sign of the times that seats in the New York Stock Exchange are now held at $21,500. W.J. Florence, the commeduin, is con templating a big revival of one of Shakes peare's plays riext season. Sioux City will send a special "corn pal ace" train to Washington at the time of Harrisson's inauguration. The London papers are unanimous and enthusiastic in their praise of Henry Irvins impersonation of Macbeth. The Supreme Court of Indiana has deci ded that railroad; stock is taxable in the county in which it is held. It is a curious fact that one of the most prolific of insects is ncyer more than than an ant to her own children. . . A geologist has come across evidence in Scotland to prove that the earth lay in a liquid state for 150,000 years. M. Carnot, President of France, is a first class carpenter, and can handle a saw and plane as well as any mechanic. The bank clearings at our thirty-seven large cities for swelve months of iSSS ag gregated about $49,191,000,000. About 154 deaths during the last four years is the record of slaughter at railway grade-crossings in Philadelphia. Over 3S3,ooo immigrants landed in New York during the past year. This is about 12,000 above the record of 1SS7. George Routlege, the London publisher who died the other day, printed and sold 600,000 of "Uncle Tom'a Cabin." The Russian Czar delights to show his good will toward France by delicaie atten tions to her distinguished citizens. Wilson Barret, the English tragedian, will play four weeks at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, next season. When in popular language a thunder storm "clears the air" it is because ozone is generated by the electric discharge. Dom Pedro of Brazil; is the oldest reign ing soverign now living, He mounted the throne in 1S31 at the age of six years. The two most punctual men in the House of Representatives are Buchanan of New Jersey, S. V. White, of Brooklyn. "Jack" Haverly, the ex-amusement King is w ielding a pick and shovel in a mine at Trinidad, Col., and is said to have struck it rich. "I'rancesca da Rimini" an oper3 bv Cag noni, first brought forth in Italy ten ears ago, has just been revived with favor in Milan. Animalcule which escape the eyes, and which almost elude the microscope, cannot cseape the all-searching power of the elec tric flash. Miss Helen llastreiter sang recently in Rome in an opera by a Greek composer, Spiro Samala. It was a very gorgeous spectacle. Henry Irving's production of "Macbeth" in London is pronounced the most gorge ous thing ever seen on the tagc. It cot over $20,000. - Sioux chief nauvd Lame Wolf ays that .William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) is the big gest coward of a white man who ever rode over the plains. h.x-Iotma-ter-Gcneral Frank Ylatton, who has just bought the Washington Post, was the youngest citien ever called to a position in the Cabinet. Richard Quay, son of the Pennsylvania Senator, is a partner of Senator Cameron in the ownership of a splendid ranch, eight miles square, in Mexico. Congressman Martin, of Texas, U sixty five years old, the father of nine children and the owner of 10,000 head of cattle and 10,000 acres of ranch land. A French burgeon has known of five j cases where men. with squeiky oices cut . 1 1 t 1 j tlieir throats in ineir inroais in aiiempung suiciae, naa lhcm sewcJ up again and ever after their tones rt ere likc the bellowing of a bull. f STATE NEWS. FttOM THE DEEP BLUE SEA TO TT2Z GUANO oed noinrrAix. An Hoar Pleasantly Spent With Oar . XtollKhtfol Exchanges. Mr. Sam C Harris, a prominent citixea of Hallifax Co., near Sunnyside, died sud denly of a congestive chill last week. I We are glad to learn that Dr. Mangum, of Chapel Hill, is so much improved as to be able to ride out and walk out with a cane. Ninety hands and' fifteen teams are em ployed in getting out and hauling granite to he depot from the granite quarry near Mount Airy, for shipment to Greensboro. As to silk growing North Carolina, is in the lead of all other Southern States. In six months the factory nt Wadesboro has been enlarged three times, and its capacity will be doubled during the next sixty days. The Newberne Rice Mills have been burnt, including $1,500 worth of rice in the mills. The main building was a splendid one with entensive machinery. Estimated loss $9,000 to $10,000, partially covered by insurance. . " - The State is to be congratulated on the return to the ranks of its journalists of Gen, Johnstone Jones, who is now editor of the Asheville Citizen, we see. The gen tlemen in question is a very accomplished newspaper man. The announcement of the great champ ionship game -on February 52nd between Wakd Forest and Trinity College is already creating great interest all over the State and will to all appearances draw a large at tendance from a distance. We learn from, the News &' Observer that there are now six hundred hands at work on the High Point & Asheboro rail road, and that the road will be completed by July. Cars, 'tis said will be running to Trinity College by commencement. George Vanderbilt, the young New York millionare, has purchased about three thousand acres of fine land near Asheville, N. C. Mr. Vanderbilt w ill notjtalk for pub lication concerning his plans but there is a report which" he does not contradict that he is about to establish a woman's college there. Rev. A. W. Mangum, D. D., being still disabled from a second stroke of paralysis, President Battle of the University, has in vited Rev. W. B. North to Mil temporarily his chair of English Literature in that in stitution, and he has accepted. This is quite a compliment to one so young, but one who will doubtless prove himself worthy of it. Near Seaboard, in Northampton county, on Thursday of last w eek, a young boy, aged about fourteen y ears, a son of Mr. Bass, was under a cotton gin, run by horse power, while it was in motion, and in some way became tangled in the cog-wheels and was terribly mangled. He was taken home and, though everything possible was done for him, he died the next morning. The Clinton Caucasian says: "Johnson factorv is now a scene of busy industrv. About twenty-five boys and women are making the dishes and crates, and when all the machinery- is put in-place and work commences on berrv baskets, the factorv will employ about seventv-five hands, Sampson labor." It i gratifying to read such items as the above in Norfh Carolina papers, i , Big hogs are an interesting topic. We have noted in our exchanges the following reports for the winter. There have been slaughtered many big porkers, but not "such large ones as we have seen in some other years: Catawba 450 pounds: Halifax 461 ; Stokes 515; Richmond 550; Robeson 630; Wayne f"6o; and Forsythe 72S. So For syth takes the pigtail. We anxiously aw ait other reports. Mr. Neill" S. Stewart, one of the most prominent citizens of Harnett county, died at his home near Averasboro.about 4 p. m. last Friday, we regret to learn. Mr. Stew art was a man of large means and great be nevolence. He was one of the most popu lar men in his county. He represented the Ilarnet and Cumberland district in the Sen- -ate and Harnett county in the House, per haps more than once in each cae. When he ran last they say he got every vote in to.vi.ship, democratic, ndical, negro and all. He wat very much respected and beloved.
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