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"Our Aim tcill be, the People's Right Maintain,
Unatced by Poicer. and Unbribed by Gain."
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21r 1889.
VOL
VIII.
NO. 22
HEART DROPS .
IS THE DREAD PKESEXCE.
al Fender t the Death-Sbortonred
f ' tonch of Ills Anjrel Child-
Ves the shadows have fallen, and the
' . t !
;ht of her brief existence nas risen oe
j .i.. -,rk cloud of sufferine and death.
vor.s -'iv- "
Pre tr.e novci u . r
hfore the heart had
orinz-w",K '
eti biacseneu, scatcL w.. &
. ... -rtr Ar th hloom of woman-
Kir.a oi m"" -
hood had mantled ner cneeic, in me nrsi
Varm blush of infancy the north wind
;tc -ithrincr blight, touched our
cirr." "ii.it r o
beautiful bud, and it laded; ere tne gram
had lifted its graceful head into the bright
s-nshine of the Summer of youth the reaper
Death .came and laid low the casket in
vrhich our heart's treasure had bloomed
and brightened, and left only the still, cold
miniature of her who had been our comfort
and peace. We sit by the side of the cold
and lifeless form of our little jewel, in our
last earthly watch so cold, so still, the
little hands lay in all their matchless beauty
toon the faultless breast, a tiny curl falling
down upon me uwumui witntau. -
merry peals of laughter, the sweet smile of
childhood's innocence now lives in memory
only; the tender look of childish affection
will :eet us never more in lite, we gaze
lor. and tenderly upon the beautiful fea
tures of our darling from whence all signs
of pain had fled,, and behold a perfect sem
blance of refreshing sleep. We can but ask
our own heart, Is this death? Is this the
end? Is this annihilation? Then a still, small
voice whispers away down in the most se
cret labrinths of our soul, "I am the res
urrection and the life; he that believeth in
me, though he were dead yet shall he live;
and whosoever belie veth in me shall never
die." Be'.ieveth thou this? Away with the
false theories of man, the pet hobby of so
cild science, the vain sophistry of this
world for in the presence of the dark
Argei of Death the soul speaks forth only
in the language of its Creator, and the rr.indt
loosened fro n its moorings, soars to the
great Beyond, pierces the vail and invades
the sphere of that other life which will flow
on peacefully forever where time shall be
no more. So our jewel has left its tene
ment of clay, and by power divine it has
thrown off the shackles of sin and sorrow,
pah and death, triumphed in the last bitter
struggle, and entered upon a higher, holier,
nobler existence. A voice from our heart
bears witness that this form before us, now
sD white, so still and beautiful, is but th2
shell, that mortality has pnt on immortal
ity, that corruption has been overcome and
that incorruption has taken its place in the
spirit world. The beautiful spirit.moth,
the chrysalis, has left its earthly tabernacle
burst its bonds and now roams the golden
streets amid the jasper walls, or wanders
through the Elysian Fields, where everlast
ing outh and spring abide, ard never
withering ilowers "Bloom and blossom
bright and fair, load with sweets the anbi
t air." The little feet will never totter
I'Or.g life's pathway more, but rest, sitting
entranced under the broad blaze of the
g-ory in the presence of the great White
Ihror.e, under the approving smile of her
cruciieJ Redeemer, surrounded by all the
e'.i: hosts where faith' meets with full
fruition, and time is lost in the vast cycles
i Eternity. Those little fingers so lately
ck?ed in a delirium of fever and agonv
new tremble with celestial skill as they
to'-cti v.-th infinite grace the strings of
Heaven's golden lyre, awakening chords of
esquij;:e harmony never heard by mortal
whos-. mellow cadence wilf vibrate in
err.al echoes throughout a vast eternity,
andvhoie sweet tones are made alone by
heaven's own choristy. And on that brow,
co'.d and still here, bat peerless and beau
. t:re, rests a crown resplendent, not
Jn23-d or sordid jewels, not of silver, but
ned by the Great High Priest, who has
throned it Himself and burnished it with
His Own lt- . ,
- i'ltcwus nioou, mai us translucent
ravs
may neer be dimmed bv the passage
of
countless ages.
CALIFORNIA TRAGEDY.
Judge Field tried a case in which the wife
M-dge Terry was plaintiff. On render
hi, decision adverselv to her, she,
orr.an like, could not hold her tongue in
e court-house, and the Judge ordered her
fai? U'en frm the court room- A ruf -h'V
,s- Marshal was about to rudelv
wr.ui on her when Judge Terry de"
QdeJ that he should not touch her-
Whereupon judge Field had Terry im
prisoned for six months for contempt of
court, and the wife rudely seized and taken
from the court room. On meeting him
afterwards in a public, dining room on Au
gust 14th, 1SS9, Terry slapped him in the
face, whereupon Field's henchman drew a
pistol and ''shot Terry dead on the spot.
Judge Field, though a Judge of the U. S.
Supreme Court, had no more right to carry
around with him a man to fight for him
than any other citizen, and when he em
ployed such, and without proper justifica
tion, and his fighting man commits homi
cide it is murder, and the Judge and his
aiders and abettors are guilty as accessories.
RESIGNATION.
There is no flock, however watched and
tended,
But one dead iamb is there;
There is no fireside, howe'er defended,
But has one vacant chair.
The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead;
The heart of Rachel for her children crying,
Will not be comforted.
Let u be patient; these severe afflictions
Not from the ground arise,
But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.
We see but dimly through the mist and
vapors,
Amid these earthly damps;
What seems to us but dire funereal tapers,
Mavbe Heaven's distant lamps.
There is no death; what seems so is trans
ition. This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portals we call death.
She is not dead the child of our affection,
Has but gone unto that school
Where she no longer needs our poor pro
tection, For Christ himself doth rule
In that great cloifter's stillness and seclu
sion. By guardian angels led,
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pol
lution, She lives whom we call dead.
Day after day we think what she is doing,
In those bright realms of air;
Year after year her tender steps pursuing,
Behold her grown more fair.
Thus do we walk with her, and keep un
broken The bond which nature gives,
Thinking that our remembrance, though
unspoken,
May reach her where she lives.
Not as a chile shall we again behold her ;
For when, with raptures wild,
In our embraces we again enfold her,
She will not be a child.
But a fair maiden in the Father's Mansion,
Clothed with celestial grace,
And beautiful with all the soul's expansion
Shall we behold her face.
And though .it times impetuous with emo
tion And anguish lohg suppressed,
The swelling heart heaves, moaning like
the ocean.
That cannot be at rest.
We will be patient, and assuage the feeling
We cannot wholly stay ;
By silence sanctifying, not concealing.
The grief that must have way.
PRAISE.
A child sat on the door sill sobbing, when
a shrill voice rang out, "Come in this min
ute, you good-for-nothing thing." And the
the little onejroseand murmured, "Always
blamed me," and with reluctant steps she
entered the house. Just across the way a
beautiful little girl was chasing the butter
flies, when a charming woman appeared at
the window, and in a voice as silvery as the
rippling brook, said "Come In mother's
dirling!" Oh, what a world of difference In
those homes! One of the workhouse of
unrequitted toil, the other the blessed hab
itation of paradise! Praise Is the expression
of the soul's beatitude. "Praise the Lord,
ye heavens; adore Him, praise Him all ye
Sons of Light." There is no land without
its fens, its chasms and its precipices, but
who thinks of presenting them In "pano
rama, while silver lakes sleep unobserved,
and landscapes flecked with golded grain,
delicious fruits, and beauteous flowers have
no place in the picture.J3ring out the good
and beautiful and sound the loud timbrel.
Praise our land ; sing praises, all ye ptople.
Salute the morning with exultant" song, and
over night's dark sea send rippling waves
of melody. Let no man be content to live
in State or city he cannot praise. There is
no t;ooi there, and he himself breeds infec
tion. You will spoil your child with praise.
No, indeed, noi with judicious praise. Praise
everything that admits of praise, from the
atom that floats in the sunbeam to the
Creator of the Universe.
A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS E CPU ONI
OUBLT ELUCIDATED.
Numerous Newsy Notes sad Hanj
Merry Morsels Fararraphieally
Packed and Pithily Pointed.
The corn crop is abundant
The baby has a rattling time.
On the safe side The cashier.
London contains 90,000 paupers.
Canadian Industries are prospering.
A swell affair A bullfrog chorus.
There are 342,000 miles of railroad.
She Shah is still the rage in Europe.
A bill sticker A determined collector.
The barber's motto Cut and come again
The debt of New York city is $SS,ooo,ooo
It is the dog watch whose bark is on the
sea.
England Is constructing filty-two war
ships. Ex-Congressman Rice, of Minnesota, Is
dead.
There are now 101 geographical societies
in the world.
A 44sweet potato Trust" has been formed
at Baltimore.
About 30,000 people a day go up the
Eiffel Tower.
A chemist's affairs are always in a state
of liquidation.
There are 9,000 women doctors in the
United States.
Coal is $iS a ton and gas $S a thousand
in Venezuela.
"I smoothed everything over as the
laundress said.
Iowa has paid off her last dollar of State
debt $90,000.
Even a small barber may be called a
strapping fellow.
Yellow fever has broken out on the Isth
mus of Panama.
The themometer gains notoriety by de
grees, so to speak.
The number of dogs licensed in New
York city is S,o32.
People who wear pepper-and-salt suits
are always in season.
"Buffaloes are bred fn Kansas," it is said.
They are meat elsewhere.
The Willmiansburg, Va., Gazette, etablis
hed 1S29, has suspended.
Hon. Chauncey Depew, of New York
dined with Gladstone last wetk.
.The selfish man has most presence of
mind He never, forgets himself.
A diamond is hardened enough not to
feel cheap, even though it is cut.
The population of the city of New york ,
by the latest calculation, is 1,753,610.
"Sofa so good," remarked the young man
who couldn't get too close to his best girl.
"This is my sphere," said a happy wife, as
she patted her bald-headed husband on the
pate.
The value of all the boots and shoes man
ufactured in the United States In "1SS0 was
$166,050,352.
"Brass bands are on the increase through
out the country." Even the dogs wear them
on their necKs.
A rue that works both ways When
a fleet goes out on a cruise the crews go
out on the fleet.
Can the sound in a man's head, when his
w ife hits him with a rolling pin, be described
as a "marriage ring ?"
The Georgia House of Representatives
has passed a bill making Robert E. Lee's
birthday a State holiday.
When a young lady tells a young man
that she will not have him, does it tie him
up In a beau knot, as it were?
"My motto is 'Live and 1 et Lrve, " said
the soldier as he turned his back to the
enemy and fled from the battle-field.
"Would you like to be lynched?" asked an
exasperated Missouri farmerof a horse theif.
"No, 1,11 be hanged if I do," was the reply.
I will now proceed to extremities, rem
arked the fond father, raising his right foot
and aiming it at the flying form of a young
man.
What is the difference between preacher
builder, and the architect of a church?
one Is the rector, the other is the erector,
and the other the director.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage was arrested In
Minnesota last week on an order of arrest
in a dvfl action for $2,500 damages for a
breach of contract to deliver a course of
lectures last rear.
John L. Sullivan, the. champion prize
fighter; has been sentenced to one year's
imprisonment in the penitentiary for his
recent fight in Mississippi with Jake KI1
rain. The latter has alao been arrested, and
will share a similar fate.
There is an Indiana man in Washington,
an old friend of President Harrison and
Attorney General Miller, who is said to
have made a good living since March 4 In
troducing office seekers to them at $ 10.00
for Hanison and $ 5 for Miller.
Now comes a sweet potato trust, recently
organized in Baltimore under the name of
Sweet Potato Supply Co. The Capital stock
is $22,000, and divided into 220 shares of
$1000 each. Ever' day adds to the already
long cstlogue of oppressive combinations.
So Tennessee is to celebrate the 103d
anniversary of the rustic but once famous
David Crockett. He was a Tennesseean,
and was in the United States Congress.
He was ignorant and unlettered compara
tively, but was of heroic mould and a great
hunter.
Extensive preparations are being made
to celebrate the 103d anniversary of Davy
Crockett's birthday on the farm where he
was born, near Limestone, Tenn. Among
the guests will be R. P. Crockett, of Cran
berry, Texas, the only living son of the
frontiersman.
A syndicate, representing principally for
eign capitial, has issued a circular letter
proposing to purchase all of the leading
cotton mills in the North; the ammount
already subscribed is stated to be more
than sufficient to buy the whole cotton in
dustry of America,
There is no truth in the rumer that the
Shah of Persia and the Sultan of Turkey
are about to embrace Christianity. It is
"Christian Science" that they believe in.
They prefer it with the bowstring and sack
attachment, which wojld not be out of
place applied to males of the Worthington
tribe.
Gen. Estes has lost his ;pofition in the
P. O. Department. Leach, Quay's private
secretary, said he gave General Estes $5,000
before the election for campaign purposes,
aVid that Gen. Estes failed to account for it
afterwards. Upon this charge Quay re
quested Wannamaker to remove General
Estes, and it was done.
The striking miners of Illinois are stared
in the face by actual starvation. Their lot
is indeed a hard one. If they work at the
wages to which the present s stem has re
duced them, they half starve; if they refuse
the wages they quite starve. The solid vote
of Illinois miners will nevertheless probably
be driven by the bosses into the protection
ranks at the very next election.
It Is said that a deal is now being effected
in New York whereby the Hon. Chauncey
M. Depew is to be the successor of Hon.
W. M. Evarts in the United States Senate.
He will turn over the presidency of the
New York Central Railroad to Cornelius
Vanderbuilt, and enter into active politics.
He has accumulated great wealth, and is
anxious to get back into politics. He will
run as an anti-Administration candidate.
Governor Seay, of Alabama, is not to be
trifled with. He will see to it that mad du
elists do not violate the soil of Alabama.
He will make a demand upon Governor
Gordon, of Georgia, for Williamson and
Calhoun, and it will be honored. We hope
the violators will be punished, and that this
will be a warning to all hot-brained fighters
that States- may not be invaded with im
punity for murderous purposes.
The movement to prevent an organiza
tion of the House by the Republican caucus
seems to be gaining, according to the Her
ald Washington correspondent. Some of
the shrewdest politicians in the South are
taking a hand. B Dth white and colored are
dissatisfied with the small share of patron
age they have been getting, and a combina
tion is said to be forming which will em
brace both white and black leaders, and is
likely to control a number of Southern
Congressmen. Among the leaders of this
movement are Chauncey I. Filley and T.
B. Keogh. A slate for the House ofEcers
has been fixed up, and as these oScers re
ceive in salaries the handsome sum ofi
S;oo,oooa vear the prize is worth fishtinz!
for.
STATE NEWS.
rnon the deep blue kea to tii e
GRAND OLD MOUNTAIN.
An llour Pteasaatly fipesit Wltn Oar
Delightful Exchanges.
Hon. Thos. L. Ciingman is 70 years old.
Statesville is to hare a public building.
A local board of health has been organized
at Raleigh.
Winston b trying to raise $100,000 to
build a fine hotel.' j
There are said to be four hundred in
habitants fn Burgaw.
Steps have been taken to secure a cotton
factory af Murfreesboro.
They have a colord building and loan
association in Wilmington.
The shipment of grapes from Raleigh is
averaging 4,000 baskets a day.
The people of Stanley county are mak
ing a brg effort to get a railroad.
The N.C. Tobacco Association will meet
at Greensboro on the 26th current.
Dr. E. Porter, of Rocky Point, made
$7,000 last season from his strawberry
crop.
A million dollar stock company has been
organized in Wilmington with Wm.
Latimer, President, for the purpose of
manufacturing pine fibre bagging.
Prof. Perry, a balloonist, was killed at
Mt. Holly last week by falling from a bal
loon 400 feet to the ground. He was giviug
an exhibition and the balloon burst.
Secretary Bain, of the grand lodge of
Masons, reports a membership of the order
in the State of thirteen thousand, and the
increaese Is more rapid than ever before.
Matthew Gibbs supposed to be the
oldest man In" North Carolina, died at his
home near Center Sunday morning. Mr.
Gibbs was 10S years oldranddied of sheer
old age.
Mr. W. H. Smith, of Goldsboro, a close
observer, and whose opbortunitles are excel
lent, says the corn crop in Wayne county
was never better and the cotton crop will
be better than last year.
It is an astounding statement, neverthe
less true, that for about eighty sub-ordinate
positions within the gift of the collector of
internal revenue in this district there were
about two thousand applicants.
Durham now has sixteen passenger trains
a day. When the D. & N. puts on another
passeijger, to connect with the fast mail
now on the Raleigh Sz Gaston railroad,
and the Lynchburg road is put in running
order, there will be no telling how many
trains she will have.
The first printing press erected in North
Carolina was brought from Virginia to
New Berne by James Davis during the year
1749 and was used until the year 1765 in
printing the laws and proceedings of the
General Assembly, when he began the pub
lication of a weekly newspaper called "The
North Carolina Magazine or Universal In
tellingencer," the first paper ever published
in North Carolina.
The following is as far as known a
complete list of the Fairs which are to be
held in the State this year: Fruit fair, Win
ston, August 21-22; Mt Holly, August 5-io
Newton, September 9 10; Hickory, Sep
tember 24-27; Cabarrus county, Octobtr 14
16; Burlington, October 9-1 1 ; Northamton
county District Grange Fair, October 9-1 1 ;
Warrenton, October 9-1 1 ; Raleigh October
14-19; Goldsboro, October 22-24; Weldon,
October 30 to November 1 ; Rocky Mount,
November 13-15; Fayetteville, November
20-22; Siler City, November
Opium & Liquor Habits
Cured Without Nerv
ous Shock or Distress.
Oar Doable Chloride or Cold Remedies
for the Care of the Ont'M and Liqi or Habits,
have fr-een on the market lor 1 0 VEARS,iaris;c which
ti-ne they have never failed to make a Core of either
Habit, where they have heea sriven even a ir.eagTe
chance. IVe wilf Cure Om.-M Patients at their own
horar in froj 4 to 6 weeks, r-a:n!ei!r, and without
1 of food, sleep or ccenpapon. Ve easilr Cnre
DitfjrKENN'EssinsiJe of Thiee Weeks. Fall proof
of th- above f ornished, and Literature for the Cure
.-f either Habit fent free on application. Address.
THE LESLIE E. KEELEV CO..
D WIGHT, I.IVINOTON- CO..
ILLINOIS.