SmithfieiJd V 1 Tl 7 ERALD VOLUME 5. SMITHFIELD, JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 26, 1887. NUMBER 37 CAROLINA CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. FRANK THORNTON - . 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 - - T JL o R 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' f 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. " i7j 9 YOUR DRUGS - W9&Wo . HOOD, DViV m. , urn CIGARS AND TOHACCO, FOR THE CELEBRATED UMI 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.