"Our Aim tcill be, the People's Right Maintain,
Unaiced by Poicer, and Unbribed by Gain."
WILSON NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1890.
NO 28
VOL IX
ORATORY.
SOBER SINCERE REFLEC
TIOXSBVHESKY BLOUNT.
t, Senator's Random's Magnetic
Poncrs an a THrllllng aud InipaM-
sloned Orator.
Rockingham Rocket thus com-
.s. xhe Wilmington uebseugci
Us4V Senator Ransom among the orators
of North Carolina. Of course there are
Terences of opinions, but it is the first
t:e, we believe, that we ever heard Ran
dom 'accused of being an orator."
Whether our esteemed Cotemporaty
ever heard Senator "Ransom accused of
beh- an orator" or not, we are bold to say
that he is an orator of very rare powers;
for if oratory is that mein, that expression,
that action, that fire that must express
anJ delineate and emphasize the thoughts
that are contained in the uttered sentences
then Senator Ransom is unquestionably an
orator in the true sense of that often mis
applied expression. According to our idea
the true oSce of oratory is to portray in
living manner, and give individuality to
thought just like the actor does when he
takes the creatures of some writer's brain,
and clothes them with all the beautiful
habiliments of a graphic and striking and
fascinating individuality. vBy mein, ex
pression, energy, emotion, passion, fire,
soul-work the meaning of the sentences
must be translated, and this glorious and
thrilling interpretation is born un
der the knightly fatherhood of a genuine
and glowing oratory. Oratory is indeed
an irresistible power. It is like the sweep
ot the ocean. It is like the thrilling and
inspiring strains of nature's music, whether
we catch its melody in the warble of birds
in leaf v bowers, or in the chant of the bil
lows as they break upon the shore.or in the
murmur of the zephyrs at the dying of the
day, cr in the hoarse breathings of the bass
voiced thunder, when the lightning string
ed harp of the storm is swept by angels'
fingers. Yes, it is a thrilling and irresistible
power for it can move the senses, and woo
and win and charm and enslave and thrill
and enchant and intoxicate, and make the
very senses drunk with the lulling pota
tions of its inebriating witcheries. If ora
tory were onlv the communication of in
formation or the statement or presentation
cf facts, or the recapitulation of statistics,
the newspaper would soon dispose of the
orator. But all this is but an element, a
material of orator)-. It is not merely the
statement or the argument. Nor is it only
a rhetorical, or passionate, picturesque ap
peal. 'But it is all these, penetrating and
glowing with the power of iiving speech.
It is called magnetism. Nothing is hard
er to convey in desciiption cr in words the
meaning of eloquence, which is the name
for the deepest charm of speech. Where
it lies is not to be said. It is the most elu
sive of secrets. It is the spell of the mag
ician, but it is not in the wind nor in the
words. It is the voice, the mein, the move
ment, the tone. It is the song of the
enckoo, "the cry, which made you look a
thousand ways in bush and tree, and sky."
Now if we are right as to our views of
theotHceof oratory then we respectfully
insist that Senator Ransom is a noble and
gifted and true and brilliant representative.
We remember so well the first speech we
ever heard him make. It was at. Snow
Hill several years ago. We will never
forget the impression it made. His man
ner and his delivery are as vivid in our
recollections now as the moment he kind
led those dramatic fires of flaming oratory
and left their splendors glistening there.
We had read of the iniquities of the op
pressive tariff; we had read of the heavy
burdens the fettered poor did bear upon
chafed and blistering shoulders; we had
read of the malfeasance and corruption
which had saturated the Republican party,
and blackened its record with shame and
chshonor;wehadreadof the atrocities of
the Kirk reign of tyranny and terror, but
fcever had we seen those things in all (of
eir glaring horrors until the thrilling
Ransom kindled o'er them the fires of ora
T. and made every bosom feel the
armth of those flames of passion that
burned down into the heart, and left eter
al headess scars upon its covering te
ir' .Serve as a monument to that glow-
g Passion that once had burned so bright-
.nere' then it was. unr t,
'an2aswediJwewi.1
the truths which he burned down into our
memories with the fires of his oratory.
Yes, for two thrilling hours he stood
like Codes at the bridge and hurled back
the Marmalukes of misrepresentation that
had assailed the record of the Democratic
party; and as he thus stood, with every
fibre of hi3 being quivering with the raging
heat of the burning fires of dramatic pas
sion, and his lips tremulous with the roar
ing current of one of the grandest streams
of eloquence that we have ever heard
leap from the fountain of the tongue we
were reminded of those grand and sono
rous and cannon-throated thunderings of
oratory "that trembled over Greece to
Macedon, and shoke Artaxences throne."
His apostrophe to liberty was the magnifi
cent crowning of magnificent effort, and
it dazzled the senses with its glowing sun
bursts of eloquence even as the eye is daz
zled with those flashing streams of elec
tricity when the 6torm cloud groans with
eternal agonies, and vomits out its forked
fires in all of their quivering brilliances.
Some of his thoughts were exquisitely
poetical and bewitchingly beautiful, for
they bloomed in the fertile soil of his lux
uriant garden of richest fancy, and blos
somed out with all the beautiful tintings
of poetic inspiration. His sentences were
grandly eloquent, and shot across the
sky of his discourse like some of those
aerial visitors of light, that pass in metoric
streams of effulgent brightness o'er the
bosom of the night, and make a world
stand still to watch and gaze in awe and
admiration at the beauty and splendor of
their radiant passage.
It was unquestionably one of the strong
est and most powerful speeches that we
have ever htard. It had the sweep of an
avalanche down a steep mountain side. It
had the rush of the waves when ships are
stranded. It had the force ot the storm
when forests are rended It. was a tornado
of logic wild, set free and unbridled in
the grand exercise of its most massive
powers. It was a cyclone of argumenta
tion brushing away- everything in its re
sistless sweep and magnificent march to
overwhelming conviction. It was ever
and anon fully ablaze with the grandest
sunbursts of eloquence as it arose in lumi
nous waves of beauty over the orient hill
tops cf dramatic passion, and thrilled all
hearts with the gorgeous streamings of an
effulgent splendor. At times he stood
like Vulcan, hammering out truths that
would out live the ivy that grows upon
the tomb of time. At times he stood like
Ajax, defying the thunders of malice that
were pouring out their bolts of slander
upon a brave and noble peeple. And in
vindicating our glorious South-land from
the cruel aspersions of hell owned villians
he stood like Jupiter as he hurled from the
clouds of his righteous indignation the
thunder bolts of his withering maledictions
upon those who would spread riot in this
beautiful sunny land of ours. At this
juncture his manner, like the thrilling and
bewildering glory of the lightning's quiv-ering-flash,
was indiscribably grand and
glorious, for his thoughts, his passions, his
soul caught on fire and flashed out with all
that quivering splendor of Intensity of ut
terance that words cannot describe. Suf
fice it to say that speech was the re
gal crown of royal eloquence, all studded
with those flashing gems of beauty, that
will live in the richness of the brilliancy of
their own imperishable worth and lustre,
and its fervid and impressive and thrilling
delivery stamped him as one of jthe most
magnetic orators that ever enslaved an
audience with the resistless spell of his con
quering powers of witchery and delight.
THE S IT E ET EST AME.
If there be one name sweeter than an
other to a believer's ear it is the name of
Jesus. Jesus! it is the name which moves
the harps of Heaven to melody. Jesus!
the life of all our joys. If there be one
name more charming, more precious than
another, it is this name. It is woven into
the very warp and woof cf our psalmody.
Many of our hymns begin with it, and
scarcely any that aVe good for any thing end
without it. It is the sum total of all de
lights. It is the music with which the
bells of Heaven ring; a song in a word; an
ocean for comprehension, although a drop
for brevity; a matchless oratorio in the
syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs
of eternity In five letter. Yes, it is the
nam: that calms all fear, when death's
dark shadows draweth near, for it .doth
speak of Heaven and rest, and sweetest
bliss amid the blest.
A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUPHONI
OUSLT ELUCIDATED.
Numerous Newsy Notes aud Many
Merry Morsels Paragraphlcally
Packed aud Pithily Pointed.
Most miseries lie in anticipation.
No news is bad news to editors.
England has 45,000 women printers.
Car builders are rushed with orders.
Without love there is no knowledge.
The noblest motive is the . public good.
There are 1500 carpenters in Milwaukee,
Wis.
The English Race After American
girls.
Ventilated cars are in great demand for
fruit.
Use not to-day what to-morrow may
want.
Harber not the viper of malice In your
heart.
The Bank of France employs 160 female
clerks.
Where there is no combat there is no
victory.
Locomotive builders are getting all they
can do.
Eighty-three thousand Americans are
miners.
The Duke of Edinborough is a clever
violinist.
Strive to be, not to seem ; one is truth,
the other dream.
. The only woman chiropodist in London
hails from America.
A good horse meat dinner can be had in
Berlin for five cents.
Why is It that people with good Impul
ses are generally lazy?
The man who marries a widow knows
he isn't marrying amiss.
Senator McMillan, of Michigan, is the
best dressed man in the Senate.
The striking switchmen on the Union
Pacific road have resumed work.
Frank Talmage, son of the Brooklyn
preacher, will enter the ministry.
The average earnings per year of wage
workers in Massachusetts is $419.
Every dog has his day and the cats seem
to be quarreling over the night's.
E. P. Sargent has been re-elected Grand
Master of the locomotive firemen.
It is well to make the best of the world,
for you'll never get out of it alive.
The bears are probably responsible for
the squeezes on. the Stock Exchange.
At a marriage curious people watch at
the church door to see the tide go out.
The present Sultan of Zanzibar is only
one of fifty-seyen children of his father.
The impress of Austria is charged with
smoking from thirty to forty cigarettes a
day.
The gold beaters of New York city
have won their strike for an increase of
wages.
The miners of Staffordshire, England,
have declared in favor of the eigh-hour
working day.
Bishop Newman, of the Methodist
Church, has given $5000 toward a univer
s'ty for Japan.
An English svndicate has offered $400,
000 cash and $200,000 stock for the Nova
Scotia steel works.
The Southern Pacific road allowed an
advance of $10 a month to breakemen and
$25 to conductors.
Mr. Gladstone estimates that a century
hence thepopulation of the United States
M ill be 600,000,000.
"VVhydo they call Africa the Dark
Continent?' "Because there's so mnch
blark ink shed over it."
When a man 6ays he has nothing to say,
t is safe to sav that there is a barrel full of
facts back of his teeth.
The ministers conference at Halle,
Germany, has adopted a resolution in favor
of founding a miners union.
Delegates from forty unions recently
held a session at Sydney, Australia, for the
purpose of settling the existing labor
roubles.
The relic hunters are paying fancy
prices to the hairdresser of the late Cardi
nal Newman for cuttings of the great di
vine's hair.
About two hundred colored girls have
taken the places of striking cicakmakers
in Philadelphia. They went Into the shops
partially organized.
Some U. S. Inspectors seized all the
Issues of last week's Atlanta Constitution
going into Alabama that contained a lot
tery advertisement.
Field-Marshall Count von Molke will be
nlnty Tears old in November, and the
whole German army and the schools are
to celebrate the dav.
Ex-Vice President Hannibal Hamlin,
who lives at Bangor, Me., is probablv the
most ardent, out-and-out, indefatigable
fishermen in New England,
Queen Victoria is said to be partial to
men. She gives eight "levees" for them
during a year and only two "drawing
rooms" are held for women.
It is said that more than 6000 women
work around English mines at surface
jobs. The wages they receive scarcely
give them the necessities of life.
The United Labor League of Philadel
phia is making a determiaed effort to have
the city authorities adopt the eight-hour
work day on all municipal work.
The Pennsylvania Rail Road Company
recently posted a notice in its shops at
Pittsburg announcing that nine hours
would hereafter constitute a days work.
Hon. John E. Massey, ex-Lieutenant
Governor, of Virginia, has gone to Geor
gia to wed Miss Mattie McCrary, an ac
complished young lady of that State.
The Republican Congress haspent$54,
000,000 more than the last Democratic
Congress, New York's share of the in
creased cost is over $5,000,000, or nearly
half of its entire State taxes.
Texas is wonderfully prosperous. From
all sections come reports of increase of
capital and arrival of well-to-do immi
grants. The moneys invested fcr the
school fund and the lands held by the
State for the same are estimated at $60,
000,000. It Is rumored out in San Francisco that
W. E. Sharon, Frank G. Newlands and
H. M. Yerington are starting a movement
which they hope will result in preventing
the re-election of Senator Jones in Nevada,
whose term expires In 1S91. Should the
rumor "pan out," Nevada politicians
would strike "rich leads" between now
and election time.
Mr. John D. Rockfeller says thai his
donation of $1,000,000 to the Chicago
University will not be the limit of his aid
to that institution. He intends to make it
the equal of any educational institution of
the country. His daughter is the wife of
a Baptist minister, and it was through her
influence that his attention was turned to
the idea of founding a great Baptist Uni
versity faculty.
Hon. C. P. Breckinridge, who was re
cently ousted from Congress by the un
scrupulous Republican majority, is now in
Arkansas seeking a vindication at the
hands the people. He is opposed
by the Rev. Isom P. Langley,
formorly a Democrat, but now a candidate
of the Union Labor party. A vigorous
canvass is being made of the white district,
and the democrats are hopeful of carrying
the election. Congressmen Mills of Tex
as, and Breckenridge, of Kentucky, will
speak of the ousted Democrat.
So much mortgaged land in Western
Kansas has come into the hands of the
hands of the loan companies, through fore -closeures
and the exodus of farmers, that a
syndicate of the mortgages has been form
ed, known as the "Syndicate Lands Com
pany," to dispose of or cultivate the sur
rendered acres for the benefit of the com
bined owner. Their holdings are said to
be very large. Probably no other case in
landlordism quite so big has grown out of
the Western mortgage business.
Like many other great preachers, Cardi
nal Newman was only strong when he
used his pen. Says a careful critic in the
Expositor: "All his manuscrip, and when
the pen was out of his hand his felicity of
diction quite failed him. He told me him
self he never saw the congregation he was
addressing a fart which, I suppose, by
itself, shows he had no oratorical gift. But
when he read with slow and musical enun
ciation the exquisite sentences he had penn
ed in the privacy of his room there was
something almost magical in the effect,"
STATE NEWS.
1'BOM THE DEEP BLUE SEA TO THE
GRAND OLD SOrXTAIXS.
An Hour Pleasantly Spent fltb Oar
Delightful Exchanges.
Asheville is to have a new town hall ,to
COSt $21,000.
The town of Marion ha voted $10,000
for street improvements.
A poor circus exhibited In Tarboro, Kin
ston and Goldsboro last week.
A new paper is to be started in Hender
son ville called "the Allianceman."
Mr. Thomas W. Harris, late owner of
Panacea Springs died last week In his Sist
year.
The knitting mills at Oxford have just
been completed and will begin operation
at once.
There are now 2,160 Farmer's Alilance
in North Carolina, a gain cf 3S9 since last
January.
Mr. Will T. Rogers, of Raleigh, a native
of Kentucky, died in that city Friday in
his 59th year.
The Asheville Journal says that the city
has n,S34 inhabitants by the count of the'
directory agent.
The work at the Ilaile gold mine Is turn
ing out well. The output is now about
$9,000 per month.
Near the mouth of, Neuse river, on the
sbuth side, bears are reported very numer
ous and troublesome.
The Raleigh Visitor is In its 12th year,
and is enjoying the patronage which it de
serves. It is an excellent city and local
paper few better
The Republicans of the Third district
have nominated G. C. Scurlock, a colored
man of Cumberland county, as their can
didate for Congress. ,
At the last term of Randolph Superior
Court Wheeler, who killed one of the
guards at the convict stockade, was con
victed of man slaugher.
Rev. Dr. Pritchard, is to preach the
sermon at the dedication of the beautiful
Memorial Baptist church of Greenviile,'N.
C, on the 10th of Oct.
Not far from Nonotla postofSce there
lives an Indian gaintess, not quite twelve
years of age, who weighs over 200 pounds,
and continues to grow in size.
Steve Jacobs, the Croatan desperado and
outlaw of Robeson county, was to have
been hanged Saturday, but for good reasons
the Governor respited him until October
10th.
Cards are out for the marriage of Thos.
Atkinson Jones, a talented young lawyer
of Asheville, N. C, to Miss Josie Myers,
of Wilmington, N. C-, on Wednesday Oct.
Sth, at St. James church.
It Is now stated that Col. Al. Fairbroth
er, editor of the Cmaha Bee, who some
months ago married Miss Mamie Hatchett,
of Henderson, N. C, has purchased the
Durham Globe and will take charge Oc
tober 1st.
We hear that Hon. F. M. Simmons of
Newbern, ex-member of Congress on the
Democratic side from this district, well
known and highly esteemed In this place,
is going to Winston to locate, make his
home and practice his profess the law.
The Raleigh State Fair officials offer
$25.00 In gold to the person guessing near
est the population of North Carolina
much better award the memory to some
excellent feature in the agricultural exhi
bition, or tr some meritorious peice of in
dustrial hand work.
Rev Jno. W. Moore and wife, of Char
lotte, who embarked at San Francisco,
August 1 2th, for Yokahama, reached that
port August 2Sth, after a pleasant voyage.
The point of their destination U Kochi,
Japan, where they expect to labor as mis
sionaries in the southern Presbytenan
church.
Nine ladies of virtue and respectability in
Iredell county visited a liquor distillery run
by a man named NeiL and politely request
ed him to disccntinue the business, as- he
was selling liquor to minors, and debauch
ing the youth of the community. Being
treated with insult and contumely, they
proposed- to adopt harsher measures, and
distinctly gave Mr. Neil to understand that
he must leave the neighborhood in ten
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