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J. L. T. Snood, Publisher. VOLUME 8. STATE NEWS; NEWSY GLEANINGS FROM OUR . EXCHANGES. Choice Clippings For Our Many Bu6y Reader. Tarboro Southerner: Several emigrant agents arrived Satur day and will carry back with them to the "Lone Star" State an other contingent of negroes from this place. There was a slight falling off in the number of deaths reported vesterday, but as the Signal Service Bureau promises us warmer weather for the next twenty -four hours, there is little hope of relief from the "grip." It is not much of a disease, but it hangs on like grim death. N. Y. Star. Clinton Caucasian : The Caro lina Veneer Works is over run with orders. We understand from the superintendent that the factory is now filling an order from Jacksonville, Fla., for 6,000 crates and 200,000 berry baskets. They have a standing order for as many butter dishes and orange boxes as they are able to turn out. Rocky Mt. Plain Dealer: To night at seven oVrlock as Sydney Owens was leaving the hotel he was shot by an unknown party who was concealed behind a tree near the hotel. Suspicion rests on John Hatton a young man who some time ago bad a difficul ty with Owens. Hatton is now under arrest and it is feared Owen's wounds may be latal. Considerable excitement in town. New Bern Journal: Probably tea thousand colored people have left this State since last August. A train packed with emigrants from the Halifax section passed through Goldsboro yesterday. J At Goldsboro a large number have been patiently waiting for several days the arrival of 'Teg Leg" Williams, who is expected to make arrangements to take them away. "Peg Leg" arrived yesterday. Married.by Justice S.H.AUen.at Massenburg's Hotel, Monday night, Mr. Charles C. Day, of Philadelphia, and Miss Belle Newton, of Red Bank, Missis sippi. The parties had never seen each other before the ex pectant groom came on here it is said. Some time ago the lady advertised for a hnsband which led to a correspondence with Mr. Day. An engagement followed and by agreement the couple met here the young ladv having a married sister living in Vance county, and were married. Henderson Gold Leaf. Baltimore Manufacturers Re cord : The gread steel enterprise at Greensboro, N. C, has been a surprise to many people in the North who would not believe that there was any steel making iron in the South. Even such a prominent manufacturer as Mr. Carnegie said in a speech a few davs ago that he understood there was a little Bessemer iron that had been discoTered in the South. He did not seem willing to acknowledge that the supply was inexhaustible, in spite of the feet that his own firm had tried to buy certain Bessemer ore. properties in the South. The Manufacturers' Record has al ways claimed that the deposits of fine Bessemer ores in North Carolina were too vast and too extensive for the world to com prehend or believe. Goldsboro Argus: Quite a distressing accident befell Mr. John Faucette, one of the em ployes of the Goldsboro Lumber Company, at their mills in this city yesterday morning. He was orv-ratine- a larue planer when by some inadvertence his foot came in contact with the machine and was cut off. Prompt stir iriral aid was rendered by Dr Jas. Spicer and unfortunate man is doing as well as couia dc ex n-fpfl under circumstances. Some of the farmers after having had short crops aie losing their meat by the warm weather. There are peach trees near the city in full bloom At length the farmers of the section have ceased interesting themselves in the negro exodus and are giving their attention to farming opera tions for the current year. SAM GREEN. THE BILL ARP OF JOHNSTON COUNTY. Mr. Eeitor : "0, yes ! O, yes ! all you good old Democrats of 1776 come up and have some of Wiley Pope's brandy one of whom I am which." Now Wiley Pope "was a politician in the good old county of Wake and thatwas the way he used to treat his friends, always putting in himself with a "one of whom I am which." All this was in the away back, long, long time ago. I love to h.-ar stories and jokes of the people of those times. Their ambition was small and their wants few. They had lit tle and didn't need much, they were happy and content with their simple lot. But how is it now? And what do wo anl? Well, "'tis quite different, that is all. I will not find fault with these present times or the way we live and do and the money we spend. This is an age of pro gress you know and it would be old fogyish to say anything a gainst the times. I am a pro gressive man, myself, and don't believe in old things and old fashions. Oae horse can make about as much now as two could before the war. One woman can spend as much now as five used to do and then they think times are verv hard, indeed. A doctor will charge you more to attend your family a few times, more than you used to make in a whole year. It takes a sight for us to live on, a sight for us to wear, a sight for us to spend in money and there is the preachers to pay, play things to buy for the children. Then there is the cook and the washer and extra pay for scouring. All of these are expenses to be taken out of the crop besides the expense of mak- mg it. How do we make anv- thing, at all? Well we don't! when we have such a crop year as our last one has been. We don't make one thing aud hardly come out even, nvervtmng is all the same and as Esq. Jones said to me the other night, at his oyster supper: "We find too much fault anyway and fail to do our own duty in a great many cases." les, the Esq. gave a big ovster supper to all of his neighbors and thev seemed to enjov it. It is a pleasure for the farmers to meet at each other's Louse and spend a few hours in this way. It costs but little and is a good way to create a feeling of good will among them. That is what we need more than anything else. Come together, organize and act in harmony. And if we don't burst the bands, trusts and and combines of this country, why I'll say stop. Above all my farmer friends don't quarel or fall out with your farmer brothers. Live in peace with, and consult him about all farm and neighborhood matter that should exist between you both. Be friendly, visit oc casionally. And you will nnd that you will be a better man both at home and in your own neighborhood and every where else. Oh! the merchants, did you ever hear them abused so by the poor farmer? It is right amusing to listen to the gab of some of the lower classes that call them selves farmers. But really they are not and if you can't class a poor man under the head of a tarmer, when he makes grass, fodder, a little corn and a little cotton, yes, if you can't call him a farmer what will you call him? Well I don't know myself. But this is the class that I was speaking about abusing the merchants so. And on the other hand the merchants abuse and curse them also. I was right well amused at what I heard a merchant say the other day to one of his slow men, that had been giving him a tight smart of trouble, "les, says the rich merchant to the poor one 'gallus" farmer. "Yes, you'll eat up creation and drink Jordan dry. I shall force things to the last extremity. I shall skin you alivp and null the very hair or e j- wool off voiir head, if you don't come immediately and settle up " 'Poor" "who made you noor?" "And what has that to do withiustice. truth and hones tv? The cause is your big CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S DLESSINC stomachs and your little cotton patches. It is your eternal get ting and wanting and buying and too lazy tc work and make anything to pay your debts. And making big mortgages and buying all the year eating.di ink ing and chewing and spitting and loafing and when pay day comes, you say I broke you up. You know that you are telling a lie every time you say so. You made the mortgage, you eat up and worn out the goods and yon never paid for them. Now settle up an I stop this eternal slandering and whining around raid pay up and be a man. "You eat too much, you don't work enough and how can you ever expect to be any better off?" Poor, one "gallus" Johnny, he sees a hard time." Whipped by the yankees and cowed to death by the mortgageman. Mercy! Mercy upon us!! Johnny says he is about driven to the wall, says he has been whipped one time but this time he is read v to die. He don't see any difference in a Democrat, as president, and a Republican, johnny sees a hard time we all must admit and whether he can be kept under foot and ground down as he has been, is a ques tion for the future. Sam Green. Higher Education of Women. Tfco OM lIoitHxtteml. One of the most importaut social questions of the day is the higher education of women, upon the expediences of which ihereisa great diversity of opinion. But while some universities are discus sing the ad visabilitv of extend- in" the educational advantages enjoyed by men to them, and others are strenuously opposing the same, the uuiversitv of Lon don, setting a great example, to its compeers, has thrown open its doors and placed women on the same educational basis as men. The result of recent cxami nations at the same university piovcs that given tic same edu cational advantages, women s capabilities for the acquirements and retention of knowledge are equal in every respect ofthestern or sex. It has !cen admitted that however enip'o-cd, as healers of the sick, as cashiers, postofiice clerks, or compositors, in every situation requi.ing mental appli cation, the duties of the several occupations are as well performed by females as males, and only in employments which require great physical strength is woman in ferior to man. Mam are opposed to what they sometimes term "the en croachments of women on the privileges of men," and reason absurdly enough that women should remain subservient to and receive an inferior education to men. "Why should women enter our professions, indeed?" they indignantly exclaim; or, "have they not enough to do to look after their domestic affairs? is derisively asked. The forniei may be held to be a sign oi wcaKness, ior it may be argued that if no fear existed th it women would sometimes lead in the professions, there would be little or no opposition to such education as should fit them for the same. To the latter it may be answered that as the female eltnent predominates over the male in point of numbers, so women cannot an enjoy tnat domestic felicitty for which they are so eminently adapteu; and this being so, she would better her condition rather than sink into the despised condition of old maidism, whose only solace is the proverbial cat. WThat better course, than an earnest endeavor to fit themselves for some honor able occupation? Goethe has said; "If there exists an actual necessity for a great reform among the people, God is with it and it prospers. There has loasr existed the necessity for the higher education of women, and at last it is given her; the change we have so long looked for has taken place, and it prospers. "In a just cause the weak subdue the strong," wrote Sophocles, and the exclusive right of penetrating the great, my sty lahvnnths of knowledge is no longer held by man ; but woman, his co-heir, in all things shares it with him: and according to a great man's speech notion-; ago, bestows grace and bughtness on the hitherto dull rontine of the schools. SMITHFIELD, N. C., JANUARY In demanding educational re form women but obeyed the im pulse of that higher nature, tend ing ever to the pure and good ; she would soar with man into the highest regions of thought and culture, iustead of standing in the valley watching him gain the summit of the hill. Far too long she has been sometimes the slave at best the upper servant of man. What wonder that she should crave for a higher, purer existence? She would be his friend, intellectual companion, and helpmate. in the fullest and noblest sense of the term. Honor to women ! to them it is given, To garland the earth with the roses of heaven, sang fcchiiier, and it is wen known that women do much to make or mar the world much to make or unmake human hap piness. The more reason, then, why she should become as en lightened and cultivated as possi ble. Cultivation of intellect is, too, a great" personal beautifier the beauty of the mind beams from the countenance; this is exemplified in the inhabitants of large cities, where there are edu cational facilities, having a more refined caste of countenance than those of villages with but recent educational advantages. The question atises, does the highest possible cultivation of women's intellectual powers un fit them for womanly duties? Not so. It must give them a higher appreciation of the sacred duties of wife and mother. The infant receives its first and most important education from its mother; by her the foundation stone of the future moral charac ter of the man or woman is laid ; to her is assigned the responsible position of training the infant to take his or her place in the great battle of life : for, ps "the infant is the lather oi the man, so is its early training indelibly stamp ed on the after character. As wives, too, in their homes, the greater amount of scientific knowledge a woman has, the better for the the health of the occupants of that house. But w f -w e 1 lancv l can hear some misera ble old bachelor object, where will the stocking-darning, the cooking, dusting, and washing be ? there will be no time for all that. Wrong, indeed 1 for the natural effect of education is re finement: and her scientific ac quirements will enable her to reduce all these to the minimum labor required for each, saving time in execution. It will make her economical in knowing the exact amount of nutrition to be derived from certain foods. In short, the higher education of women, the mothers of future generations, means the higher education of those generations means raising the moral standard of man, a better and more re fined order of things, and, finally, the elevation of the whole order of humanity. M. W. C. Held Secret Till Now. WILKES BOOTH'S LAST WRITING A SUPPOED LETTER. An old resident of Fredericks burg, Va., gives to the public a copy of a letter which has been hidden since shortly after the assassination of President Lin coln. It was written by . T. Wilkes Booth a few hours before he took the Pi esident's life. "Right or wrong, God judge me, not man. For, lie my motive good or bad, of one thing I am sure the lasting condemnation of the North. I love peace more than life have loved the Union be yond expression. Forfour years i nave waited, nopedand prayed for the dark clouds to break and for a restoration of our former sunshine. To wait longer would be a crime ; all hope for peace is dead. My prayers have proved as idle as my hopes. God's will be done ! I go to see and share the bitter end. I have ever held that the South was right. The very nomination of Abraham Lincoln four years ago spoke plainly war war upon Southern rights and institutions. His elec tion proved it. ' 'Await an overt act." Yes, till you are bound and plundered. What lolly me touth was wise. Who thinks of arguments of patience when the fingers of an enemy press the trigger? In a foreign war, I, too, could say, ATTEND HER!" 18, 1890. "Country, right or wrong;" but in a struggle such as our, where the brother tries to pierce the brother's heart for God's sake choose the right. When a coun try like this spurns justice from her side she forfeits the allegiance of every honest freeman, and should leave him untrammelled by any fealty so-cver, to act as conscience may approve, and justice, people of the North to love liberty, to hate tyranny, to strike at wrong and oppression was the teaching of -our fore-, fathers. The study of our early history will not let me forget, and may it never. This country was formed for the white man, not forthe black, and looking upon African slavery from the same standpoint held by the noble framcrs of. our con stitution, I for one have r ever considered it one of the greatest blessings, both for themselves and us, God ever bestowed on a favored nation. Witness hereto fore our wealth and power; wit ness their devotion and enlighten ment above their race elsewhere. I have lived among it most of my life and have seen less harsh treatment from master to : man than I have beheld at the North from father to son. Yet Heaven knows no one would be. willing to do more for the negro race than I, could I but see a way to still better their condition ; but Mr. Lincoln's policy is only pre paring the way for their total annihilation. The South: are not now, nor have they ever been fightmg'for; the continua tion of slavery. The first battle fBull Run did away with' that idea. ' Their causes since then for war have been as noble and greater far than those that urged our fathers ou. Even should we allow ' they were wrong at the contest, cruelty and injustice have made the wrong become the right, and they stand now before the wonder and admiration cf the world as a noble band of patriotic heroes. Hereafter reading: of their deeds Thermopylae will be forgotten. The South can make no choice It is either extermination or slavery for themselves worse than death to draw from, know my choice. I have studied hard to discover upon what grounds the right of a State to secede has been denied, when our very name, "United States" and the "Declaration of Independence" both provide for secession. But this is no time for words I write in haste. I know how foolish I shall be deemed for undertaking such a step as this where on the one side I have many friends ' and everything to make me happy, where my profession alone has gained me an income of more than $20,000 a year, and where my great personal ambition in my profession has such a great field for labor. On the other hand, the Soul h has never besto w- ed on me one kind word -a place where I have no friends except beneath the sod ; a place where I must either become a private sol dier or a beggar. To give up all the former for the latter, besides my mother and sisters, whom I love so dearly, though they so wideiy differ from me in opinion, seems insane, but God is my judge. I love justice more than I do a country that disowns it; more than fame or wealth: more heaven pardon me if wrong than a happy home. I have never been upon a battle field; but, oh! my countrymen, if you could all see the effects of this horrid war as I have seen them in every State save Virgi nia, I know you would pray the Almighty im create in thh North ern mind a sense of justice and right, even if it should possess no seasoning ot mercy, and tnat lie would dry up this sea of blood between us which is daily grow ing wider. Alas ! poor country, is she meet her threatened doom? Four years ! I would give a thousand lives to see her remain as I had always known her powerful and unbroken and even now I would hold my life as naught to see her as she was. Oh! my friends, if the fearful scenes of the past four years had never been enacted, or if what has been was but a 'earful dream from which we could now awake, with what overflowing hearts could we bless our God. and pray for His continued favors. How I have loved the old flag can never now be known. A few years ago the entire world could boast of none so pure and spot less, but I have of late been see ing and hearing of the bloody deeds of which she has been made the emblem, and would shudder to think how changed she has grown. 0! howl have longed to break from the midst of blood and death that circles round her bids, spoiling her beauty -and tarnishing her honor; but no, day by day has she been dragged deeper and deeper into cruelty oppression, till now, in my eyes, her once read stripes seem like bloody gashes in the face of Heaven. I look now upon my early admiration of her glories as a dream. My love, as things stand today, is for the South alone, nor do I deem it a dishonor to attempt to make for her a prisoner of this man to whom she owes so much of misery. If success attends me I go penniless to her side. s. They say she has. found that "last ditch" which the North have so -long desired and been endeavoring to force her in. for- gettidg they are brothers, and that it is impolitic to goad an enemy to madness. Should 1 reach her in safety and find it true I will proudly beer permis sion to triumph or die in that "last ditch" by her side. A Confederate doing duty on his own responsibility. J. Wilkes Booth, it requires tact. A Woman's Position Between Twenty nre and Thirty. Caleeco Man. "But there is something to be said on the other side, said a woman of twenty-six to a le porter. -'It may look like very smooth sailing from the outside, but one can have but litle idea how much tact it takes to steer straight Si the narrow path o five years that lie between 25 and 30. In the first place a woman at that age hardly knows where to place herself. She is neither young nor old. She is what Julian Haw thorne calls young, and the little adjective adds ten years at stroke. If a woman who is only 'till young, takes the kittenish role, she makes herself immortally ridiculous, and deservedly so. She has sometimes even to fear to let herself be spontaneous and natural, lessts some one would dub her the 'girlish old girl.' To be older than her years makes s a prig of her at once, and men and gobs will shun her. "To the very young man she must be grand motherly with out hurting his dear little vanity by superior wisdom and patron- age. lo the. middieaged man she must'respond with a mat urity of judgment that matches his own, and yet she must con tinually suggest the innocence of sixteen. To the man between the two she may perhaps be nearest her natural self and yet even with him she has continually to remember that she must never assume the quality of knowledge or experience or judgment which she is sure she really possesses. She is oftener true in her judg ment andjwiserinher conclusions than he is; must never suspect it. She may be cleverer than he, but she must be clever enough to conceal it. She must follow him always but, like little lulus, it must be ,with unequal footsteps, or his vaniety is wounded. From twenty-five to thirty a woman has the most difficult part of her life to live. She has to dissemble in the present, remember from the past and borrow from the future. She maybedehghtlul, but she is far from being delighted. Do yon bgin to realize it? The harvests in the country for the last few years have been so poor and nnrenumcrative that many ot the tanners have become completely discouraged and are see King notnes in new pieces ana employments which they hope will oar them better. In bampson, Duplin and Pender counties many of the farmers have not made expenses for several years,and are migrating to the larger to wnsand cities and even to other States with the hope of bettring their condition. This exodus of whites from the counties we have named has deen going on to a limited extent for two or three years but this year it mds ta:r to as sume much larger proportions than m any previous season. Subscrlptio n 31.50 Por Yea NUMBER 29: NEWS ITEMS, j. GENERAL INFORMATION OF TUB WORLD. t Happenings in This Bustling Lsad' Oura. DaughterIsn't it a queertitle tor a book mother. "Not LiU Other Girls?" I wonder what she ' can be if she is not like other girls'? ' iuuuicr-iaon,t know, unless she . goes into the kitchen and heln mother, instead of staying in the urawing room to read novels. . Y . Ledger. Senator Voorhees noured hot shot into the Senators' ears yes- teraay in exposing the Dudley . bribery scheme at the last Presi- " dential election in Indiana. His .. exposure of the action taken by " Harrison to shield Dudley from the conseauences of his pn'mo made the Republicans wince, but they had to grin and bear it.- Syracuse Courier. j. James S. Clarkson. it is said. will resign the Assistant Post-master-weneralship. Having cut off all Democrat heads that fee can reach and carried the sooUa system as far as he possibly can', ne is reaay to return to his oWruf burry West nnrl -lirhfh L f. tion on the benefits of part x government.-RochesterMorrl t Herald. . frf f 1 1 After all, buisncss isthebigf 3t thing in this countryi When,; princes of commerce and ukJuj: j say to the politicians thait tjjr must let dangerous experiments alone they will be heard pd obeyed.The South is no longer fcn alien territory to be left to the mercy of bad government and rapacious carpetbags.- It is tho richest and most inviting se.tioa of the Union, and a policy tat injures it will injure all. Poli ticians may talk, but business men will control and domi nate the destinies of this common sense country. A few extra mejm bers ot Congress, a Governor -or even a President, are nothing when weighed in the balance with the maturity of the rising South. This is the tvay enlightene Repulicanslook at it, and they will not sanction any legisation rhat smacks of the reconstruction Period. THE GARTERS COST AIM fj.ooo' How a pawnbroker Was victimised. New York World There is one pawnbroker in this city who has registered a sol emn vow to never again do the. gallant for a pretty woman ven though she be in dire distress. Hist last experience in that line cost him two thousand dollars worth of jewelry and a big row with his wife. A few days ago a remarkably pretty girl, richly attired, walked -into his store and said: "I am stranded in this city. I am an actress and would like to borrow a little money?" "Certainly," replied the broker, smiling, "what security, have you?" "O, I forgot," said she. and si deep crimson suffused her cheeks- may i retire a moment!" , r The door of a private office was opened and the beauty en tered. She noon came out and held a jeweled garter, in her hand. It was worth about $50. A lit- . tie conversation, and the pawn broker advanced $10. The irirl - started to go. She got as far as the door, turned, aud, blushing fiery red, said: "If you pleas. have you a piece of string? My my stocking is coming down." He furnished the twine and she again retired, emerging in a mo ment, the door was reached again and she turned. "The string's broke," she mournfully said, ''and I can't .go out upon the street. Won't you go next door and get me a pair of elastic garters. The unsuspectincr pawnbroker took , a dime and entered tfie nearest dry goods, store. The girls at the counter.. laughed at him, and as soon as possible he pusnea me garters into his pocket and hurried back to his store. It was empty, and. about- $2000 worth of diamond rings and watches hud been taken. He forgot the paper parcel . in his pocket and went home a . poorer and wiser man. " That night bis wife found the garters in her husband's pocket. There was a scene in the household.
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