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! THE WILSON MIRROR PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE : One Year, 2.00 if paid in advance, 1.50 HENRY hLOUNl. : GEO. W. BLOUNT, : : : Editor. - - Proprietor. WILSON, N. C, DEC. 9th, 1891 DOAT'T DESPAIR. The crops in this section are short ; the prices are very low, and hard fortune is throwing its roughest rocks and sharpest thorns before many already sore and tender and bleeding feet, and making it seem almost impossible for them to gain the promised land of plenty and prosperity. The times indeed are hard, the skies are very dark, and a gloomy ap prehension folds its rayless pin ions oyer many a dark and shadow ed heart, and shuts out the sun light of hopeful cheer and promise. But do not surrender to despair. All will be well. The clouds will break, and through the rifts the sunlight will stream again. Dis appointment comes and we know from sad experience that disap pointment is hard to endure, but divine comfort comes with it, unless in our blindness, we thrust the blessed angel from ,the door. And heavenly comfort is so rich in experience being held close to the heart of Christ and consoled by his sweet love that it more than compensates for the sorrow. It was the Master himself who said : "Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comfort ed." He certainly meant that God's comfort is so great a bless ing that it is well worth while to mourn just to enjoy it ; that those who do not mourn miss one of the richest, sweetest beatitudes of di vine love. Night draws on with its darkness and we dread its ap proach, but when it deepens over us ten thousand stars flash out ; the stars are rich compensation for the darkness. So it is when sor row comes ; we shudder at its, coming, but w,e pass under its shadow, and heavenly comforts, which we had not seen before, ap pear glowing in silver splendor above our heads. In the bright summer days clouds gather and, blot out the beauty of the sky, and fill the air with ominous gloom and fiercest lightnings and terrific thunder peals : but out of the clouds rain pours down to refresh the thirsty earth and to give new life to the flowers and the plants. So it is, also, with the clouds of trial whose black folds often gather above us in our fair summer days of gladness ; there is compensation in the blessings they bring to our lives. So let us therefore, in this chilled wintry season of gloom and disappointment and depression, look up tp Him who doeth all things well. The past wecannot re call, but the present is ours, and we can make the future radiant with the rose tints of promise and beauty, if we will only take up the paint brush of high endeavor, and burnish the scenes that are passing before us. Let us then turn away from the past, and for get all save the lesson it taught. Let us go to our various works with renewed zeal, let us throw in to the dry prose of duty the very inspiration of the poetry of enthu siasm, let us strive to make our homes more pleasant and attrac tive, let us strive to throw over them the blessed halo of enchant ment, and tune up the old songs of affection's ministry, so that as soon as we enter our own made Edens the outside world, with all of its jars and jolts, will be unfelt, and life itself be written out anew in the rythm of splendid dreaming. Let us then hold up onr heads and look the present full in the face. The past belongs to eternity, but the future is ours and we can either gild it with sunshine, or clad it with gloom. And let us make it bright by remembering that we have so much yet for which we should feel grateful, and that our lives should be for ever sending out the precious fragrance of a luxuriant and full blossomed cheerfulness. All nature teaches us to be bright and cheerful. The glittering dew-drops at morn, which are but the tears the night hath been weeping, as soon as divorced from the sombre shadows, smile gloriously under the imprint of golden sunbeams, and in their sparkling radiance they bid us to smile too at our own transient and fleeting shadows, and forget the gloom they brought. The danc ing dimples of babbling streams are but the pretty playthings of wrestling light and shadow, and in the musical rippling of their silvery currents they bid us pass down the channel of the years with a bright and merry flow of feeling, and thus send out the music of melodious cheer to all within our reach. THE SPEAKERSHIP. On Saturday afternoon in Washington City the Democratic members of the House of Repre sentatives met in caucus for the purpose of deciding who should be Speaker of the House. On the first ballot the vote stood as follows : Crisp 84, Mills 78, Springer 32, McMillin 18, Hatch 11. As II4 was. necessary to a choice there was no election and seventeen other ballots were cast without effecting'an election. On the seventeenth ballot the vote : stood Crisp 94, Mills 91, Springer I7, McMillin i9. Hatch 5. The caucus then adjourned to meet again on Monday at iO o'clock. On Monday morning the cau cus reassembled, and the balloting began, Crisp received 94. Mills 90, Springer 17. McMillin 19 Hatch 5. With but little changes the balloting continued for some time and each aspirant held on with unabated ardor and enthusiasm. On the thirtieth ballot Fortune threw its radiant sunlight on the banner of Crisp, and lit up its folds with the effulgent gleamings of a brilliant triumph, for when the votes were counted the result was as follows : Crisp 119. Mills 104. Springer 4, and as 114 was necessary to a choice he was de clared the nominee of the Caucus. All the North Carolina delegates voted for Crisp from first to last. Judge Crisp was born in Shef field England in 1845 where his parents were on- a visit. He en tered the Confederate Army in May 1861, was captured in May 1864, and imprisoned in Fort Dela ware till the close of the war. Was admittted to the bar in 1866, appointed Superior Court Judge in 1877. He was elected to Con gress in I882, since which time he has rendered his country con spicuous service and now takes a position for still loftier heights of honorable duty. THE NEW SENATE. The Senate of the Fifty-second Congress is composed of forty seven Republicans, thirty-nine Democrats and two Alliance men. The Republican, Mr. Felton, has succeeded Mr. Hearst in Califor nia. A Democrat, Gen. Palmer, has succeeded Mr. Farwell in Illi nois. Mr. Peffer of the Farmers' Alliance, has been chosen from Kansas in place of Mr. Ingalls. Mr. Gibson of the last House, takes the place of Senator Wilson, of Maryland, who is dead. Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, follows Mr. .Blair. David B. Hill succeeds Mr. Evarts. Mr. Hans brough, of North Dakota, suc ceeds Mr. Pierce. John L. M. Irby, of South Carolina, takes the place of "Wade Hampton. Calvin S. Brice follows Mr. Payne. Ex Secretary Vilas succeeds Mr. Spooner, and Mr. Kyle of the Farmers' Alliance, has been chosen in place of Mr. Moody, of South Dakota. These are the new Senators. On any reasonable tariff-reduction measure the Democrats are sure of the votes of Peffer and Kyle, and on such special bills as a measure for put ting cotton ties or binding-twine or coal or certain ores on the free list the vote against the high-protection Republicans will be furth er increased. In the first place there are the three Senators Pad dock, Pettigrew and Plumb who voted against the McKinley bill. To these must be added Mr. Hansbrough, of North Dakota, who is pledged against all high tariff legislation. These four transferred from the Republican column to the opposition will make the vote for a reasonable reduction of tariff taxes 45 and the vote against 43, while there is a strong probability that Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, will also desert his party in favor of a tariff bill that brings relief to the "Wes tern farmers. There is strong ground for predicting that there may be some tariff-revision bills passed by Congress during the coming session notwithstanding the fact .that the Republicans hold the ; Senate. The only ob stacle between the people and at least some small measure of re lief is the veto power in the hands of Mr J Harrison. BEWARE. The wide awake Daily State Chronicle , sounds an alarm of warning in the following timely and sensible and pertinent and well tempered article : North Carolina Alliancemen are warned to beware of signing petitions pledging themselves to vote for a Third party. The Radical party is desperate and is making a bold stroke for the South in the Presi dential campaign. it would spend any amount of money to get the electoral vote of North Carolina, directly or indirectly. There are men in the Alliance who would sell it out for the money if they could. Such men as Macune have shown that they are for sale, and we have no doubt they would sell out the farmers to the Radical leaders if they could thereby feather their own nest. The Republicans would willingly pay a million dollars for any service which would give the electoral vote of North Carolina to their candidate for President. They know that North Carolina people will never vote for a Radi cal candidate for President, and they see that their only hope is to get the Alliance to vote for the Third party candidates. What is the sneaking means now proposed by the conspirators? Is it to have a fair discussion of measures and candidates? Is it to vote for the men and the party that will best advance the inter ests of the people ? Not a bit of it ; but to idduce credulous and thoughtless Alliancemen to sign a pledge that they will vote for a Third party ticket in 1892. They are not willing for the Alliance men to wait and see the ticket nominated and the platform adopted ; and so they seek by sneaking means to have them sign away their independence before they know tne frill effect of such pledges. v 11 v v 1 1 I it 11 --n It US lh,7 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. To meat the is uirementsn the trave r.g pnUic, raUs at t'.ls lintel arc m!iuJ i, ,,., and upwards. -"ivt accomrnHt.on o o here s no cheaper 1 otel ... tK- United St.. s . Iinn,s with It,,-, a-,d F I llh. OKIOV c. furnished with ev.. modern appliance for the c.mfoa and o-nu-.a, t. f," guefts, imluJn.ff Ous E v..tor. Electric Lig) ts, Steam Ueatinj;, Ac, tf J. E. MONTAGUE, Manager Meals oo Cts. 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Bargains in a lot of ALL SILK RIBBON. flHSS ERSKINE notice: Bv virtue of an order of the Court made in the sjiecial " entitled Priscilla A- Dixon a:il fJr N. Bvnum, executor of law.w - ex parte. 1 sliaii on me J lOth day of Dec, I8if the Court House ioor-ii (J xt- t thf highest t,,,,,;j before Cash, that piece, parcel or i in Wilson, corner of Uarnw a" streets, containing one-fourtnc' more or less. The lot has a f (C-, brick tenement, with ni;t& houses, near the business 1'" town, and only a block and Depot This property gilu tion. A. . coS G. W. Bixtjnt, Att'y. . Wilson, N. C, Nor. 4, k.
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