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VOLUME 5.
SMITHFIELD, JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 26, 1887.
NUMBER 37
CAROLINA CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
FRANK THORNTON
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A GRAND MARKED-DOWN SALE!
mounting to more than a Quarter o fa Million Dollars
YKAKSTAST IT HAS BEEN MY CCSToM TO HAVE A URE4T CLEARING
r stl'K yrU'T to my annual -nventorv. Owing to had weather and other reasons, the
anu .miKvinet A of the beginning of this diltEAl1 ICEDUtJTIOJf in prices has been de
lavcl noW-
COMMENCING
This Offering will Continue
UOTIIf FEBRUARY 1, 1887.
T:l0 ,liject of this reduction ia pricees is not to work oft old goods, but simply to reduce
Mock. This may be considered an
from the fact that it includes ZIEGLER BROS' SHOES vwl other lines of oods that hare
never before been offered at less than regular prices.
Tol'C-in I ina'i J th; following prices in
8 pieces at 49-cents per yard, former price 7-3.
) pieces at G2J cents pr yard, former price 85,
11 piece.? at 82. cents per yard, former price 95.
7 pieces at $1.05 per jard, former price $1.25.
3 pices Black Silk Rhadamc reduced from $1.40 to $1.10.
4; pieces Black Silk "ricotine repuced from $1.75 to $1.25.
3 pieces Blrck Sa;in Duchess reduced from $1.85 to $1.43. .
.-3? These goods were all good value at the original prices.
COLORED DRES3 SILKS.
In thes'j gnods I show a full line in Solid Colors, Striped, Checked and Brocades, and
will -oil them at a price that you will be wiliina to pay. Call and see them.
ALL-WOOL DRESS GOODS.
In this department it will be impossible to'give prices of anything like the ci.tire stock, but
to live you an idea of how i heap I am offering these goods 1 will mention : All -wool Tricots
fHneliPS Wide, 4- cents ; regular price 00 cents. All-wool Tricots, 54 inches wid, 80 cents ;
lfjul.ir price fl,')0. Oriental Silk somgthia J new this season, aad agods thit can be worn
all the year round, 32 cents : worth 50 cents.
I consider it only necessary to say that the entire st -ck of Dress Goods including Black
Cn!iniere, Silk AVarp" Henrietta Cloths, Camels Hair Cloth. Diagonals, Satin Berbers, Serges,
O.ipe Cloth and all the low priced Dress Goods will be sold at pvices reduced in proportion to
tliwje I have mentioned.
227 piites White Flannel from 8 cenfs to the best. 132 pieces Red Flannel, including the
fery best Medicated Twjlleil. It pieces Gray Twilled Flanuel. You ma- never have ano'her
iuch opt ortunitv of supplyinsr vosrsclf with these goods.
If IL ANIONS.
The largest assortment ever shown in the State, and while these goods are worth a pre
mium I have marked them down to correspond in price with the balance of the stock.
. uorb lina qf pver 200 pieces in aU grades, prices reduced to figures that .ill astonish you.
LADIES, WRAPS.
A good assortment of New Markets, Short Wraps and Jackets with the price taken off.
The assortment in both quality and sizes lias been kept up through the .'eason in his de
partment and I can supply any demand and at the same rodiicjion jn prices ns in other lines
fit ?:T:il
HAMBURG EDCEftlC AND LACES.
1 have more of these goods than I want. Coins and .select what you want an 1 I will make a
price t? suit you.
complete line of he best Corset, jn botlAmeripan anJ French "skes, Prices reduced
jHtoiscry
In tliN department the stock is complete in all lines. Ladies", Misses', Children's, Men's
aiil l!'y,s. I'rices low.
Ready-Made Clothing.
Tlii-; sweeping reduction in pi ices takes in mr entire stock of Readv-Made Clothin
iM "' CELEBRATED PEARL SHIRT
NOTHING IS EXCEPTEP. THE WHOLE STOCK GOES,
SAMPLES AND ORDERS.
"ur irtcllities in this line of dealing are unsurpassed. Orders by mail and requests fo
auij.les have attention the same day they are received, and we solicit both.
FRANK THORNTON,
FAYETTEVIUUE, N. O
WHERE TO BUY
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TH2 OLDEST DBUG HfctfSS IN SMITHFIELD!
ti l remind my friends (hat his Ijousc js now filled with a fejecj sfocl( pf
Ml IB I1CS, PATES'
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lOiLET A Rl'lCLES, BOOKS,
ICKCOLDSODA AND VARIOUS MINERAL WATERS,
I HAVE THE AGENCY
B. SEELEY RUBBER TRUSSES!
UDARANTEE A PEUFEGT FIT IN THESE GOODS
l' YOU ARE THINKING OF PAINTING SOON, CALL AT MY STORK
l) (' K f A COLOR 811 EET AN D EXAM INE M Y LARC. E S iOCK OF
white lead, oils and colorp.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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CIGARS AND TOHACCO,
FOR THE CELEBRATED
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AW ACROSTIC
To His Excellency, President
Grover Cleveland.
BY MRS. MAMIE HATCHER.
Praises and honor ! O, President
C!
In this we offer
Our 'Iejiiance to thee ;
Resolvent to day, and always, are we
Noble republic,
Blest land of the free,
Exub'rant, exhaustless, the fount shall be,
That flows with love, and
Our reverence for thee.
Swift pinions, all tipped with "frijon"' and
light,
Rcarinjr the mcssa.se,
"Aye, dare to do right,"
Imbibed with a firmness, that nothing can
trite,
Are sent by thy fingers,
Thro' Fantasy's sleight,
Day-time aud night-time, from site unto
site,
Portraying thy wisdom,
Our people's delitiht.
Emblem of liberty ! flag of the brave
Over our Union
Ever proudly shall wave,
Nothing to daunt us, no hand to enslave,
But, in the river
Of freedom we lave,
Trusting cur all to tht Master, who gave
Such a good ruler,
Our country to save.
Golden the day-spring in National skies,
Queen of Aurora !
Triumphantly rise ;
Repeal the last arrow of passion, that flies
From subject to subject,
W here falsity lies :
O, write on thy banner the sufferer's cries,
With penants of mercy,
And pitying sighd.
et'rans are cheering, the cast and the
west.
The nrth and the south,
And all of the rest,
Embracing thy precepts, a shield and crest
Gainst all apprehension
Of future unrest.
Ruler of mercy! with thee wo are blest,
Cleveland, dear Cleveland,
The bravest and best.
Clouds, before sunshine we welcome thy
wife !
The sweetest of blisses
In onG short life.
Loyalty always, a stranger to strife,
A haven with love
And constancy rife,
Endearing her smiles and ac ;cnts for life,
Blessings upon her !
Our President's wife.
Vesper, blow softly o'er love-trodden bow
ers ;
Flora is scattering
Her daintiest flowers ;
Enter, sweet Venus, with Naiadis show'rs ;
A esta, Minerva,
Just in from your tow'rs,
Lest you infringe on her Majesty's pow'rs,
Make your obeisanc,
Sweet France is ours.
Atigolif
watch over that "
and spare
White House,"
It from
slsiaster.
For we are aware
No place is freedom from trial and crc,
May ":obcs of the righteous,
Our ' honored oneu" were ;
pcus vabieum, hu mansion to share,
Is now and forever
America's prayer.
P. S. The initial letters of iho long
lines iu the above poem will give the name,
"President Glover Cleveland."
Forest Home, N. C, Jan. 25, 1887.
The Bud will please copy,
PHESIDC3ifT CLEVELAND'S
riTURE.
"What will the President do
when he returns to private life ?"
asks a reporier 01 tne tsun, to a
Wall street man. "I can tell you
precisely," said the other "He
will not go bac& ta Buffalo, but
wiU make his home in Albany
or in New York city; more likely
the latter, from his sayings while
in the White House. He will
purchase a large, handsome house
in the eminently respectable and
not too fashionable nart of the
city! pephapi Gyameroy Park.
Mrs, Cleveland will continue her
social career in a manner not en
joyed by any wife of an ex-President
since the days of Dolly
Madison. Mr. Cleveland will
fit up for himself down town an
elegant law office, in which lie
will spend very little time . and
r-eailjF do very little work, as he
will only desire a nominal place
at the bar. He would not ex
pect very much of a very lucra
tive practice. But what is he
going to live on ? That's the rub
of the story to which I was
about to come. He will be made
the presideut of one or two,
possibly more, large new bus
iness corporations, to whom hjs
name, his habits of industry
and reputation for good common
sense and strong will power,
will easily be worth anywhere
from $10,000 to 25,000 a year.
In short, he will repeat on a lit
tle larger scale what Secretary
Manning has been asked to do."
READING.
A SERMON PREACHED BY CLAUDE E.
GOWER IK THE MISSIONARY
BAPTIST CHURCH IN
SMITHFIELD, JAN.
30th, 1887.
Furnished for publication, and published b
Bequest."
"Give attendance to reading."
I Tim. 4:13.
"For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doc
trine, but after their own lusts
shall they heap to themselves
teachers, having itching ears ;
and they shall turn away their
ears from the truthand shall be
turned unto fables." II Tim. 4-
3:4.
Paul's solicitude for Timothy,
like the pastor's solicited for his
people, or the father's anxiety
for his children, led him to give
to his son Timothy (his spiritual
son, or son in the ministry) and
to us good advice. Paul studied
the welfare of Timothy, and
knew what would be to his best
interest, so he advised him to be
diligent in reading.
The Holy Ghost knew the
time would come when people
would not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts, would
heap to themselves teachers hav
ing itching ears, turning from
the truth unto fables.
Before that time, and during
that time, and after that time,
the preachers must "preach the
word; be instant in season, out
of season, reprove, rebuke, ex
hort with all long suffering and
doctrine."
Part of the preacher's duty ift
sometimes 1 To exhort the peo
pie to read, 2 To tell them what
and how to read, 3 And,also warn
them against dangerous and per
nicious literature.
1. Our first text is an ex7ior lo
tion to read. "Give attendance
to reading." Paul wrote to Timo
thy in an age when there war4
comparatively little to read; yet
there was too much to lose its
benefit. The man or woman, boy
or girl, in this day who does not
read, or hear others read for them;
loses much of the highest pleas
ure of human mind is capa
ble of enjoying. God pity any-'
one who thus stands in his own
light ! But I think I am preach-1
ing this morning to a reading1
people ; if I did not think so I'd
urge you, by your love of pleas
ure, not to neglect it ; I'd exhort
you, by your desire to be useful,
to cultivate the habit of reading;
I'd intreat you, by your love of
self, your love of society, love of
country, and love of God, that
you heed our text and give at
tention to reading.
2. But it is of great importance
that we be informed as to what
to read, when and how to read it.
A great deal of precious time is
wasted by readers because they
do not know how to select their
reading matter and' are not in
formed as to the order and man
ner of reading. 1. Need I say
anything to urge anybody to read
this wonderful library called the
Bible ? Must I exhort anyone to
possess and study the library
called by Sir Walter Scott on his
death bed "The Book" and look
ed upon by so many thousands
since as the "precious Bible, book
divine ?" We all need light every
day, here it may be found, and
I trust that all read at least one
paragraph each day. The best
way to study the Bible is to take
on book at the time and learn
what is in it ; then you have that
much of the library that will
harmonize with all there is in it.
Try the study oi tne JtJible in
this way, and it will do you good.
Uy all means read, tne isiDie m
some way, and neglect not your
daily business,
8, Next to these I would place
history as most important read
ing. One of our best and most
learned men nas said, "it you
would know man, study man in
history." For a short course in
history he recommends "Rawlin
son's Manual of Ancient His
tory" and "McKensey's History
of the Nineteenth Century," For
a through course iu history the
list oi l3Q.Qks i large, but all are
muoh better worth reading than
trashy novels and many news
papers. 3. But the Bible and standard
histories are far from being all
the books that should be read
by the masses. Bunyan's "Pil
grims' Progress;
should be stud-
ied b.y every christian ; and the
Ijiblical Recorder should be read
by every Baptist who can read.
Jt ter these there is a long list of
good books that should be inevery
household. No man can afford
ty bring up a family without
surrounding them with .good
hooks and papers. Standard his
ttrical works of fiction may be
r?ad in connection with the his
tory of the period upon which
the novel play was founded. Un
derstand me: I say standard his
torical novels in connection with
the history of the period upon
;hich the novel or play was
founded. Occasionally a good
fi ctitious story may be read when
we have good reasons to believe
it teaches some useful lesson or
may contain some valuable in
formation. This leads me to the
main object of the present effort
to do good.
III. I think the time has come
when the press, teachers, preach
ers, and every well intended man
id woman should lift a warn
i g voice against the dangerous
f id pernicious literature that is
Doding our land. As I travel
fer the country and here the
3ople tell of the once bright and
a vppy young school girls who
T ive been made human wrecks
t f novel reading, I think it is
gratting time to cry aloud and
spare not. As I think of the
young men who have been dis
qualified for the real duties of
life by this great evil in the land,
I feel called upon to lift a warn
ing voice against tne river oi
destruction that is flowing along
our railroads, through our cars,
and overflowing: our towns and
country.
I live in what is called a "dry
town," but liquor is made and
sold in the county, I'm sorry to
say, and some is used in the town, ;
and its evil effects are to be seen
in proportion to the quantity J
ued ; but, I honestly believe that
novel reading has been doing
more harm in Mocksville than
dram drinking, as much as it has
been doing everywhere. To il
lustrate this evil I might take
many cases from among both
male and female ; but one is suf
ficient. In one of our leading
towns fifteen years ago there was
a young man who held a position
that I almost envied. I was well
acquainted with the young man ;
and if he had any bad habit ex
cept novel reading I didn't find
it out. But this was enough. It
disqualified him for business and
he lost his position : and now
when I see him driving a hack
or acting as footman upon the
hotel buss for a living, I think
how he stupified his energies
over the blighting novel and I
don't wonder at this part of the
result. But this is'nt all, nor the
worst. When I think what he
was and what he is, what he
might have been and that he is
now a white man working for the
black feeding stock and wash
ing houses, driving busses and
receiving wages, in this way, I
feel called upon to warn the young
men that I love. Think of it ! a
white man working for the black
man one of our race waiting on
the race that we have been look
ing upon as "hewers of wood and
drawers of water" and all this
because of novel reading!
I have had some little person
al experience in novel reading
myself, but I soon saw its folly
and quit reading newspaper nov
els or anything else that did not
give me information or in some
way improve the mind. I have rea
sons for not reading any novels
except good historical novels and
the best of moral stories (and
these classes are small.) I think
these reasons are good ones and
well worth consideration.
1st. Novel reading is a waste
of time. Life is too short, and
means too much, and contains
possibilities too grand and far
reaching to be wasted. There,
are too many great authors and
good books to read trash. The
man or woman, boy or girl, who
does read novels in preference to
good solid literature acts very
much like a man would be act
ing who would take copper cents
in preference to gold eagles be
cause both are money, and there
is some little resemblance in
color. A new copper cent looks
fine, bright and attractive ; and
we would excuse an infant for
taking the copper cent in pre
ference to the gold eagle. But
what would you think of a school
boy or girl who would do such a
silly thing ? If a business man
should make a practice of such
rashness w& would all think that
he needed a guardian.
2nd. Reading high sounding
sentences over-drawn descrip
tions, and pictures of life, men
and things unreal and exaggera
ted will soon cause truth and
reason to seem stale and com
monplace. I believe novel-reading
will make almost any stu
dent dull and stupied ; for to
him, the lessons are dull and
stupid, stale and commonplace.
To preach to novel-readers is in
deed a hard undertaking ; becaue
truth does not interest them,
reason does not convince them,
and appeals do not move them.
The reading of books worth read
ing is to the novel reader a task
nardto perform. To think of
serious, important matters is al
most impossible. Oh! young
man, young woman, r beg you
to throw down and burn up that
novel and take up something else
before you get so you can't. .
3rd. Novel reading makes life
itself seem dull, monotonous
and full of disappointments. If
there was no other reason for
novels this is sufficient. I won
der sometimes if parents think
of this when they allow their
boys and girls to read such books
as ".fecJrs Bad Jov." And wlien
their children try to iminate
Peck's bad boy, I wonder who is
most to blame, the parent or the
child ! Children are great imi
tators, and it is no wonder they
try to do that which looks to
them like something smart, es
pecially if they learn it from a
book. Most children are like I
was when a child they think
that everything they see in print
is all right, and if they can do
like the smart boy in the book it
is in them very smart. I have
never read "Peck's Bad Boy,"
and never intend to, but I know
the effect the great evil of all
this class of literature. I would
keep it out of the hands of my
children as I would a razor or
any deadly weapon.
That man who, a few years
ago, stopped the western outlaw,
Jesse James, in his wild career
of dishonesty and death deserved
to be praised and rewarded ; but
if he could have prevented the
press from telling of Jesse James
& Co.'s extraordinary exploits,in
such glowing, fascinating colors,
the result would have been much
better for the welfare of our whole
country. I have never read out
of these books claiming to be a
"Life of Jesse James," but I have
talked with boys who have read
them, and if you have never
thought about it, you would be
surprised to know how many
boys, after reading these books,
wish to be such a man as Jesse
James. I have talked with them
and heard them tell on one an
other until cornered, and then
some would frankly confess that
their highest ambition is to be
like Jesse James. Oh! father,
mother, snatch all such books
from your boys as you would a
serpent.
One of the brightest boys I
ever heard recite a lesson in
school, while there wasted his
time, fired his imagination, and
dwarfed his intellect by novel
reading, until he committed in
tellectual suicider He quit school
whjen he could have graduated in
a few more months if he had
gone on as he started. The last
time I saw him he was dressed in
novel style with two bottles in
his pocket. I don't think he
will ever be satisfied until he
tries the romance of the fron
tier, and there he will not be sat
isfied, for he will not find it there
as represented in the novel. This
young man is no very rare case,
though, perhaps, a little peculiar.
Boys and girls, men and wo
men, married and single, are to
be found in almost every commu
nity who have been made dreamy
and discontented, wild and un
happy by novel reading. That
reader who spent last night in a
state of excitement over some big
lie, the fruit of somebody's im
aginary brain, isn't fit for wor
ship, the Sunday School, or any
thing else, to-day. The same is
true of every day in the week. It
mignt do to live in imaginary
scenes if life was not real and
earnest ; but to walk upon Brus
sels carpets, in some fine palace
or castle, with some rascal who
is stealing money by the thousand
j and expecting a million, is not
calculated to make a young man
j enjoy honest labor and practice
' close ecouoiny. The novel pre
sents a picture that is unreal, and
it disqualifies the reader for that
which is real in life. No wonder
some are unhappy, and think
themselves poor, their tasks hard,
our country desert-looking and
life monotonous. No wonder to
some girls mothers' carpets seem
shabby, papa's business dull, the
servants stupid, and brothers,
sisters, boarders, and even lovers,
poesy. No wonder, for they are
novel readers, who try to live in
an ideal world. No wonder some
men can't find a wife to suit
them of an ideal beauty, with
thousands of dollars and no im
perfections. No wonder so many
men and women can't do all their
work, attend to their christian
duties and read the Bible and
the many good books that ought
to be read by them. The great
wonder is that the condition of
affairs is not worse.
Now hear the conclusion. Be
as frugal of your time as you
ought to be of your money, and
waste none" in reading trash ;
then you can find a way or make
one for reading good books and
papers. Then, instead of finding
life dull and monotonous, and
full of disappointments, with
truth and reason stale and com
monplace, you may hope to be
useful and happy and have some
of the highest pleasure the Tin
man mind is capable? of enjoying.
TEXAS.
A BOLD CHALLENGE FOR
THE LONE STAR STATE.
THE REPUBLICAN SENATE HAULED
OVER THE COALS.
Austin, Texas, Feb. 19. The
Hon. Gustave Cook, criminal
district judge of Galveston and
Harris counties has memorialized
the legislature on the outrage of
the United States Senate in ex
amining into the Washington
county alleged outrages.
The memorial is as follows :
"To he Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of
Texas :
"As a citizen of the state I beg
to memorialize your honorable
bodies and respectfully urge the
passage of tne following joint
resolution as the expression of
the people of Texas. Beit
Resolved, By the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
state of Texas that the action of
the majority of the United States
Senate in causing a committee
to investigate the charges against
the people of Washington county
upon the instigation of the dis
reputable renegades who are fu
gitives from justice, if not from
prosecution in Texas as well as
in every state in tne union, is
unwarrented by law and without
the scope of the Senate's author
ity. That being so, any appro
priations or expenditures of
money belonging to the United
States for such purpose, is a fraud
ulent conversion thereof without
the consent of the owner, and
is embezzlement and felony un
der the law, and its author should
be punished by confinement in
the penitentiary for not less than
two nor more than ten years.
And be it f uther resolved, that
it is the sense of the Senate and
House of Representatives of
Texas, that this conduct of the
United States is actuated by par
tisan motives and promoted by
a class, whose every pretension
to patriotism is evinced by hatred
and malevolence towards the
people of the South, whom they
have persistently persecuted by
every manner and means of ex
pression they could invent since
they have felt fully assured that
the Southern people wera help
less and unable to resist their
tyranny or resent their insults.
And be it further resolved, that
in our best judgement, no citizen
is bound to obey their pretended
authority in tliis behalf, and the
civil aathorities are advised to
interpose by all lawful means for
the protection of our citizens
against this unlawful and high
handed usurpation.
(Signed) Gustave Cook.
The legislature has taken no
action upon the memorial, and
the members are in a quandary
as to what disposition to make
of it, there being a diversity of
opinion. There are those who
believe that while the outrage
investigation is in progress at
Washington action upon the
memorial would be ill advised ;
others want to bury it, while
others agree with Judge Cook
I and may make an effort to bring;
it up tor disposal.