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"Our Jim trill be, the People's Right 'JUairJaiji,
Unatced by Power, and Unbribed by Gain.'
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19th; 1890.
VOL VIII.
NO. 52
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CHRISTIAN UNITY.
SOME SWEET UTTERANCES FBOM
BROTHER KINGSBURY, THE AC
COMPLISHED EDITOR OF 1 HE
WIUIIXGTOS MESSENGER. .
The Melodious Mingling; or tne Mel-
louest Chiming of the Mellowest
Christian Bells, Only Heard In
Temples ITnere True Relig
ion Dwells,,
We intended to reproduce an extract to
day from Bishop .Randolph's admirable
speech at the Hoge celebration in Rich
mond, relative to "Christian Unity," but
unfortunately trie part we needed was torn
oS by a servant. He does not believe in
that unity that gathers all denominations
under one corrtmop name and organiza
tion, but he believes in Christian unity and
liberality. But our mutilated copy leaves
.us the privilege of .using the foUowing
catholic, truly Christian sentiment. The
good and eloquent Bishop said: "You
see around you Methodists and Presbyte
rians, Episcopalians and Baptists all sing
irtg the hymns and joining in the worship
and listening with attention to the words of
the preacher. It has. been said that there
is - less of denominational jealousy, and
more of the broad, sweet spirit of Christian
unity among the churches in the city of
Richmond than in the majority of com
munities in our land. A blessed thing it is
to say of any community for its civiliza
tion, for its lights, its education, its Christ
ian manhood and Christian womanhood
it is blessed if it be so. "Why should it not
be so? If men can do business together in
the same offices, in the same stores; if wo
men can mingle in the same circles of so
ciety and family life in a thousand homes,
cannot they worship God together? Can
not they listen to the preaching of Christ's
'gospel together?"
It is very absurd to talk of one denomi-
,, miicm Orrorch monopolizing the intelli
gence, learning, ability, zeal, and piety of
the world. The religion of the heart is
what God likes according to . His own Book
of books. It is sincere piety, devotion to
Him, holy living; in a word, character, that
God regards It is pleasant to see the be
lievers in the dear Son of God, the Lord
Christ, the Saviour of sinners, and the Ad
vocate and Intercessor, bound together in
the "unity of the Spirt and the bond of
peace." Some of the denominations hold
ing opinions, policy and tenets very similar
have got together. Others not very unlike
in doctrines and church government are
; talking of marrying. The different branch
es of Presbyterians and Methodists are
cooing and billing. If churches can unite
. without a sacrifice of principles and honest
convictions it is well. We should be glad
to see the branches in the churches that are
nearly agreed completing the nuptial cere
monies, and those heretofore separate united
in the bonds of an alliance that sh'all be
perpetual and blessed, and from which
shall come forth nobler sacrifices and com
pleter devotion and grander achievements
for Him who poured out his precious blood
for the redemption and salvation of lost
and ruined sinners.
The spirit that animates Bishop Ran
dolph is the spirit of love. His example is
worthy of emulation. His sentimertts are
noble and Christ-like. A caustic English
man once wrote: "Men will wrangle for
religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it;
anything butlive for it." There is the
rub. Some think when they are zealous
for the church they are zealous for Christ.
The true unity that of love may be now,
but the perfect unity of all religious people
may not come until the Master returns.
The eloquent and sublime Milton, in one
of his splendid prose passages, as the well
read man of letters will remember, says
that "Truth came once into the world with
her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape
most glorious to look on." It was divided
and her "lovely formV was "hewed" "into
a thousand pieces." They are not yet re
united, and will net be as yet. Says the
sublimest of poets in his grand prose essay:
We have not yet found" all the. pieces
all the dissevered members, "nor ever shall
do, till the Master's second coming. He
shall bring together every joint and mem
ber, and shall mold them Into an immortal
feature of loveliness and perfection."
The great question with every soul is
n "Is my church right, but am" I saved.
Am I a son of God:" "Now are we the
sons of God," said John the Divine "One
thir 1 now that whereas I was blind now
1 see."
two ways or ritoposisu.
You Fay Yonr Money and Yon Take
Your Choice.
Here are two styles of "proposing." This
one is the kind you read about, but the
other is the most popular in the realm of
fact: "My angel, I have long waited for
this opportunity. You roust have detected
ere now the growth of my love for you.
From the day I first met you that love took
root, and to-night it is strong and sturdy,
unwavering, undying. Your sweet smiles
have lighted up my life, your every word
has been to me a note of exquisite music,
thrilling, enthralling me. You have filled
a place in my heart, in my affections that
no.one before has ever occupied. My life
long happiness depends upon the answer
you give me. Say you will be mine to
love, cherish, idolize through time and
eteinity, and nuke me of all men the most
envied. But if you ref oh, I cannot! I
cannot! The thought is madness. You
will be my wife? I see the answer of
your heart mirrored in your.lustrous eyes;
you know I love you. as no other man ever
has loved you or ever can love you, dar
ling. I know you cannot thrust me off."
The angel assumes a stereotyped really-thls-is-so-sudden
expression, .and assures
Mr. Wordie that she would derive great
pleasure from being his sister.
THE OTHER WAY.
"Maude, I've been thinking seriously
lately."
"Really, Fred, you ought to be more ju
dicious than to do anything so rash as that."
"Yes, I know it is a heavy tax on my
mental capacity, but then I was always
reckless that way. This time, however, I
think I have been thinking to some pur
pose. In fact, I've been thinking you
wouldn't object to having your name
changed."
"When?"
"Just as soon as possible."
"At home or at church?"
"Church, of course, we want to do this
thing up in style."
"Have you asked pa?"
"Certainly not. I don't want to marry
j our father."
"Well, I know; but for form's sake."
"All right, dear; for form's sake I will
see pa, and maybe you had better prepare
ma for the ordeal."
"Oh, she won't mind it."
Deep silence reigns again, save as it is
broken by the soft sighing of the tree tops,
swayed by a gentle breeze. Gleefully the
stars twinkle; the rrioon looks beamingly
down from heaven to earth and discovers
on a vine-bowered piazza two forms with
but a single chair.
THE HEART.
Throb, throb, throb. Never sleeping,
but often tired, loaded with care, chilled
with despair, bleeding with wounds often
inflicted by those w ho do not understand
it, burdened by afflictions, it nrust beat on
for a life time. Nothing finds a lodgment
in its chambers that does not add to its la
bors. Every thought that every mind gen
erates steps upon the heart before it wings
its way into the outer world. The memory
of dead loved ones are mountains of weight
upon its sensitiveness; the anxieties cf the
soul stream to the heart and bank them
selves upon it, as the early, snow drifts
cover the tender plant; love, if it loves, fires
it with feverish warmth and makes it the
more sensitive; hate, if it hates, beats it to
desperation and fills it with conflict. Still
it works on. When slumber closes the
eyelids, the heart is beating beating be
neath all its burdens; it works while we
sleep, it aches when we laugh. Do not
necessarily wound it; Jo, not add to its
bleeding wounds. Speak a kind word to
cheer it; warm it when it is cold; encour
age it when it despairs.
THE FASTEST TIME OX RECORD. ,
The fastest time on record, for the world,
for a long distance, was made on the Penn
svlvania R. R.; between New York and
Washington, on Monday last. The occa
sion was an entertainment to be given in
the latter city for the benefit of the Actors'
Fund, by the Madison Square Company.
The object was to play in Washington City
in the afternoon and at New York at the
usual hour at night, and it was accomplish
ed. The distance between the two cities is
227 miles and this was accomplished in 4
hours and 17 minutes coming South and 4
hours and iS minutes on the return. It
was a special train consisting of three cars
and a baggage car and it was pullrd by the
biggest engine on the road. There were
So people on board. Flagmen were sta-"
tioned within sight of each other along the
227 miles of road, so that the engineer had
a signal always in yiew. The average run
ning time was 54 miles per hour for the
454 miles covered and at times the speed
of the train reached 70 miles an hour. The
receipts 'of the benefit amounted to $2,-x43-5-
These facts are gathered from a
very interesting report in the New York
Star.
A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUPH03T
OCSLT ELUCIDATED.
Ifamerons Newsy Notes ana ZXany
Merry Morsels Pararraphleally
Packed and Pithily Pointed.
Not a bad riot A patriot.
Two of a Line Twin calves.
A jet of water The inky tide.
Minister of the interior Victuals.
One for ascent A penny balloon.
False modesty lying in concealment.
A barrel organ The Cooper's Journal.
Economy is the father of a fat bank ac
count. .
The man most looked up to The one in
the moon. .
An unnatural curiosity The calf of a
cow catcher. j-
It is said there is no color to the report
about a paint trust. V
As soon as a man commences growing
bald he stops growing hair,
The dishonest butcher is always willing
to meat his customers halfweigh.
A capitalist refers to the cradle of his 6-months'-old
heir as a little boy cot.
It is curious how sweet ahoney bee is at
one end and how bitter he I3 at the other.
"Is this swarm enough for you?" buzzed
the queen of the new colony, sarcastically.
."Money is nothing to me," said the tat
tered tramp as he turned his pockets inside
out. f..
A synical bachelor feels assured that a
bashful man doesn't Mis? much in this
world.
If a bachelor's wits need sharpening, let
his rasp them down with ah old maid's
tongue. f
The wife who carries on her husband's
pawnshop after his decease is truly a "loan
widder."
With all its millions the Senate has not
money enough to bar its doors against pub
lic opinion.
The bachelor plays in a lone hand, but
he gets euchred in the game of life as often
as the other fellow.
A bed that changes to a dinner table in a
twinkling is out. Just the thing for bach
elors who rise at noon.
The Ohio Legislature has redistricted
the State, giving a majority of Congress
men to the Democrats. Correct!
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Patti will not sing at Kansas City prices,
and the newspapers of that city have just
discovered that her bleached hair is turning
gray.
When Ezra Cornell opened his first tele
graph office in New York he was so poor,
it is said, that he could afford but one meal
a day.
Secretary Tracy has recovered sufficient
ly ftom his recent severe aflliction to be able
to resume his duties at the Navy Depart
ment. Mark Twain expects to go to London to
participate in the reception to Stanley, to
which he has been invited by Sir Francis
de Minton.
The persistence w ith which the average
mature girl sticks to her undertaking makes
the old bachelor think leap year has a glue
me outlook.
General N. P. Banks began life as a bob
bin boy in a Waitham (Mass.) factory. He
afterward became an editor and then a
dancing master. j
Russell Sage, the New York million
aire, is said to pride himself on keeping
more ready money on hand than any other
man in the world.
The last surviving signer of the Texan
Declaration of Independence, Colonel S.
W. Blount, has died at his home in San
Augustine, Texas.
John P.' Gray in South Carolina last
year made twenty-eight bales of cotton
five hundred and five pounds per bale on
twelve acres of ground.
The falling off in the high tariff vote in
Mr. Kellej-'s district ought to be a warning
to ambitious Republican statesmen. "Rob
bery under the foims of law" must go.
A philosopher declares that the reason
why newspaper men have such clear and
sensible ideas on all subjects is because
thev are never wearied or broken down bv
the cares of wealth.
A Louisville, Kjn dispatch says Aaron
Kohn, a noted criminal lawyer of that dty,
and Judge Hargis; a well-known jurist of
Kentucky, have been retained by Kin ca Id's
Kentucky friends to defend him in his trial,
. Roscoe Conlding once said of Jay Gould:
"Had he not gone into business, but instead
had taken up politics, he would hare been
the master politician of the country, and, I
think, the greatest diplomat in either con-
tinent" .
A Havana special- says, that "Owing to
the persistent draught, all the sugar cane
that was planted during the spring and fall
has been either destroyed or injured to such
an extent that next year's crop must be se
riously affected."
The mail carrier between Smlthville and
Sparta reports that a barrel was found float
ing down the Caney Fork River and caught
at the mouth of Indian Creek, containing
a live baby about a week old. It had
floated about seventy miles. V
Vessels coming in to Nqrfolk, Va, from
Roanoke Island say the coast Is literally
lined with bluefish. One seine fishery on
Thursday caught over 600 shad and 30,000
herring at one haul. The pound net fish
ermen are also doing good work. ; t
Some of the Republicans in Iowa are
crawling about the prohibition amendment
they put in their Constitution .last year
They say that the State has decreased in
population -because' of it, and the people
who remain are all turning Democrats.
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Ex-Crongressman William Preston Taul
bee, of Kentucky, who .was shot in the
head by Charles. E. Kincaid, correspondent
of the Louisville Times, at the east stair
way in ' the llouse wing of the Capitol, on
the afternoon of Friday, February aSth,
died last week at Providence ' Hospital,
whither he had been removed soon after
the shooting.
The Democratic Governor of Iowa says
in his inaugural address that the people of
Iowa demand "cheap clothing, cheap food,
cheap Implements of labor, in brief cheap
necessaries of life." About the only cheap
thing the farmers in some sections of the
West have is cheap fuel, corn which is too
cheap to sell, and cheaper than coal, which
they would have to buy.
Judge McComis, who signed the warrant
for the execution of the famous John
Brown, at Charlestown, Virginia, died in
Kansas City last Wednesday aged 74
years. He was Lieutenant-Governor of
Virginia at the time John Brown was
hanged, and the signing of the warrant de
volved upon him in the absence of Gov
ernor Wise. For some years Judge Mc
Comis was editor of the Chicago Times.
m The New York Herald makes a great
sensation over the defenseless condition of
this country, proclaiming in big, bold type
that we are "at the mercy of an invading
foe." France has had a notion of inyading
England now for centuries, but has never
crossed the channel yet. Until that has
once been done, we need have no care our
selves. There is about the same probabil
ity of it as that the stars will fall. They
might, you know. A
A dispatch from Christiansbury Virginia
says: This community was startled by a
strange phenomenon this afternoon between
4 and 5 o'clock. The moon was rising and
the sun was visible over a mountain. Sud
denly three distinct suns appeared in the
West, each completely encircled with a
rainbow. Each rainbow showed distinctly
the seven prismatic colors, but the outer
and inner edge of each was red In the
zenith there was another sun surrounded
by another circular rainbow. This is on the
summit of the Allegheny Mountains, and
this may account for the very unusual phe
nomenon, but many peop'e are frightened.
Scientific men think it may have been a
mirage or combination of solar and lunar
rainbows.
Six million seven hundred and nine
thousand five hundred and fifteen bales of
cotton came into sight up to March 1st, and
of that quantity there were exported 4,025,
000 bales. Northern spinners took 1,551,
753 bales, and Southern factories 331,000
bales. The stock on hand were 602,000
bales. The Northern spinners have taken
only 36,000 more than last year, the South
only 6,000 more than last year, while 540,
000 more bales were exported than up to
March 1st, 1SS9. It is understood that the
mills of this country would need quite an
increased supply over last yer, but they
don't seem to be buying freely. When
they do go in to obtain their supply for the
summer months, they rruy find the price
somewhat stiff.
STATE NEWS.
rCOH THE DEEP CLUE SEA TO Til Z
GRA9D OLD JIOCTTTAUr.
An Hour Pleasantly Spent vritn Orir
Delightful Exchanges. ,
There are one hundred hands at we.-k
on the cinal at Weldon. ,
The fruit crop has been damaged all over
the State br the recent freeze.
A wagon factory with a capital cf $30,000
Is to be erected at Greensboro.
Work will begin on the water works at
Henderson in about sixty days.
Governor Gordon will be commence
ment orator at Davidson College.
Gov. Holden has had another stroke of
paralysis, and is in a critical condition.
There are 2,000 visitors at Ashevill who
spend on an average six dojlars a day each.
Four hundred convicts are at work on
the C. F. & Y. V. railroad above Ml Airv.
s
The Greensboro Patriot and Winston
Sentinel contemplate issuing daily edition
shortly. .
A cow hear -New Berne gave birth to
three calves recently. All were well de
veloped. .A $300,000 saw mill plant is to be put
up soon at Morehead City by. northern
capitalists.
The Toisnot Rural Home, ftethei Voice,
Jonesboro Leader, and Goldsboro Progress
have suspended publication.
There are county organizations of the
Farmers Alliance In every county in North
Carolina except New Hanover.
Forty-six white persons left Kinston last
week for Waco, Texas. All of them were
under contract to work as farm hands.
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. The Board of Directors last week elected
W. R. Crawford steward and Mrs. Ann -
Goodloe matron of the Insane Asylum.
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The Durham Bull fertilizer factory was
burned last Wednesday. The building was
valued at $10,000 and the stock at $20,000;
insurance $17,000.
The contract for grading the Onslow and
Burgaw railroad has been let to a Tennes- J
see Construction company, and work will
begin in a short time.
CapL Edwin R. Page, of Trenton, a
prominent and well known citizen of Jones
county, died at his home in Trenton on
Wednesday last. Aged 42 years.
The Greensboro Patriot of this week
publishes a list of the new enterprises start
ed in that city within the past year, from
which it appears that $2,000,000 were in
vested. The nomination of A. W. Shaffer as
postmaster at Raleigh has been confirmed
by the Sena e notwithstanding the fight
made agains: him by the Loge Harris
faction.
We learn a ith pleasure that the Rev.
Thomas Hur ie, D. D., Professor of English
in our State University, has accepted the
invitation to deliver the annual address be
fore the Franklin Literary Society of Hor
ner School, Oxford, N. C.
The Danbury Reporter states that sever
al parties from Virginia and West Virginia
have been in that locality recently looking
up the iron properties and report them
selves well pleased with the result of their
investigations. It is said that some of the
iron which they inspected is superior in
quality to the Cranberry ores.
The Franklin Literary Society of Hor
ner's celebrated military school at Oxford
has awarded a gold medal to the following
cadets, who will deliver original speeches
during the closing exercises: J. D. Bel
lamy, Wilmington, Debater; J. E. Ingle,
Henderson, Essayist; D. N. Cowles, Wash- .
ington. D. C, Orator; A. H. Banker, Col
umbia, S. C, Final President.
The latest development concerning the
Baptist Female University muddle, as re
lated by the Raleigh news-gatherer for the
Durham Globe, surprises no one: "It i
stated here by prominent Baptists that the
matter of the Baptist University mar be
said to be indefinitely postponed
certainly for a year or so. This is un
fortunate in many senses, fust when ab
solute unit) was a vital necessity, fatal dis
cord came. The division and strife engen
dered have put the matter off, for as things
now are it is said it would be only a local
affair wherever It might be established'
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