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VOL XII. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY APRIL 19, 1901. ' NO. 7.
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BILL A HP'S LETTER.
- This month did not begin right.
April means to open, but it did not
open. It waa an April fool. Noth
ing shows in my garden but the peas
and onions. The flowers make no
progress. There is no sweet south
wind to breathe upon them no sun
Bhine. On Monday the grandclhil
dren imposed upon me with their
Hindoo pranks. They gave me a cup
of chocolate with whipped cream on
top, and it was nothing but soapsuds.
I pretended to be fooled, but I wasent;
I paid them back in various ways.
The Hindoos started this childish
custom away back in the ages, and it
still pleases the children. And now
Easter day is at hand and that is an
other name that came down from the
Pagans. Ostera. was their goddess of
spring and it was corrupted into
Estera. How these old heathen
names do stick to us. The names of
the days of the week and of the
months came from them. So did the
planets and the constellations. Even
the prophets and Job had to take
them from the Egyptians. But the
Scotch people don't call it Easter
They say Pascha day. or passover day
They won't pattern after anybody but
John Knox, and he said Pascha. But
there is a reason for calling it Easter,
lor the coming ct spring the open
ing of the earth and the flowers is
emblematical of the resurrection 'the
opening of the Savior's tomb and His
return to bless and comfort His peo
ple. This day corresponds closely
with the Jewish passover, and so they
observe it.
Now I want the young people to
know that Lent is another word that
means spring. It is preceded by that
foolish festival called mardi gras or
fat beef and continues forty days in
remembrance of the Savior's long fast.
and it ends with Easter, and the com
munion and other rejoicings. As the
'Old-time almanacs would say, "about
this time look for Easter hats and
flowers and finery." Christmas is an
other festival day that is common to
all Christian nations. There are
many other days dedicated to the
saints, but in course of time it was
found that there were not enough
days in the year to go round, and so
'the Pope stopped the sainting of so
, .nany and had one day set apart as
.All Saints day. The next day after
' that is All Souls day, on which mass
is said by the Roman Catholics for
the souls of the dead who are in purg
atory. It seems that about 900 years
ago a pilgrim from the holy land
found a hermit in Sicily who told him
of an opening between the cliffs of
the mountains near by that commun
icated with hades where Pluto lived
and that he could see the sulphurous
smoke rising and hear the groans of
the lost souls who were being tor
mented in hell and he had known
some of them to escape through the
prayers of the priests, and this made
the devils very mad and he could
hear them cursing the priests with
awful imprecations. The pilgrim told
all this to the abbots and monks, and
they had a day set apart to pray these
lost souls out ot hell or hades or pur
gatory or whatever it is.
Besides these international days
there are national days in every coun
try. Here we have the Fourth of
July and Washington's birthday and
Decoration Day and some others.
Germany celebrates the birth of Cal
vin and Luther and the kaiser. Scot
land that of Sir William Wallace and
Bruce and John Knox. In old Eng
iland they celebrate the queen's birth
.day, Magna Charter day and Water
.loo day and May day. May day is the
.happiest of all'and has been long re
membered in verse and song and in
dancing around the May pole. Tenny-
:son wrote a sad, sweet poem called
the "May Queen." Mexico cele
brates all the Roman Catholic days
and has one other that the rabble call
Judas Iscariot's day. It is the next
day after Easter. On the beautiful
trees in the plaza or nark they sus
rend pasteboard images of Judas
Iscariot images as large as life, with
little holes bored in them from head
to foot and in every hole is fastened
a cannon cracker. At a given signal
the fuse in every cracker is lighted
and all of them explode nearly at the
same time and such a terrific popping
was never heard outside of a battle
field, and poor old Judas is torn and
rent into a thousand pieces. This is
just a sign of what they would do to
him if they had him there alive, but
I reckon it is more for frolic than
anything, for they shout and laugh
and dance the hornpipe and make all
the racket they can.
Ben Franklin said that man was a
bundle of habits. He might have
added "and superstitions," for most
all people have some belief in super
natural things. Two hundred years
ago almost everybody believe in
witches, Shakespeare wrote about
them in "Macbeth" and Burns in
"Tarn O'Shanter." The Puritans
drowned many irnocent women from
mere suspicion of being witches. The
. conceited, self-righteous rascals never
accused a man ot being a wizard. It
is the woman who have suffered in
all ages. When I was a boy the
young people were more afraid of
ghosts than they are now.
Ghosts are very scarce in these ,
dayg. I havent seen one in a long
time. In my early youth I was the
mill boy and I remember that one
evening in the early twilight as I was
astride my horse and grist and going
slowly home I neared the country
graveyard of . Fairview church and
saw, or thought I saw, a ghost ahead
of me in the big road. It had arms
and legs, but had no head. It was
white and going slowly from me. I
started on again and got a little
closer. Still the form was headless.
Broad shoulders and arms akimbo.
Nearer and nearer I drew to it, but it
made no sign. My horse pricked up
his ears as if alarmed. The road
forked not far ahead, and I had re
solved that if the ghost took one road
I would take the other, when sudden
ly an old man stopped to cough and
took the sack from his shoulders and
laid it upon the ground. I knew him
instantly old Uncle Tom Wilson, the
hunchback going home from the
mill with his grist across his shoul
ders and his head bent forward so
that I could not see it in the dusky
twilight. Now, if both of us had
reached the forks of the road and had
separated 1 should always have be
lieved I saw a ghost.
The old mill road and church and
graveyard made lasting impressions
upon, and so did the mill and the
pond and the spring-board and big
wheel and the soothing sounds of the
water falling over the dam. We had
various adventures with the country
schoolboys on the way, for they did
ent like the town boys and they
don't yet. I remember that it ' was
on April fool day that I saw in the
road just beyond the schoolhouse a
package done up in brown paper, and
as I had met a man in a buggy a little
while before, I supposed he had
dropped it. I stopped my horse and
got down. Picking up the package I
untied the string and took off the
wrapper and found another wrapper
and another string and then another
and another and at last two big black
bugs, whose odor was familiar. That
kind of bugs that advance backward,
and you can't tell whether you meet
'em or overtake 'em. Just then a
score of boys jumped from the bushes
and yelled and screamed "April
Fool I" I was so mad 1 could hardly
mount my horse again, but I never
spoke a word. I took it out in think
ing and hating. West Point hazing
wasent any worse than that April fool
was to me. But boys will be boys.
Bill Arp.
Difficulty flTIakliia a Will That Can
not be Broken.
"Among the legal fraternity there is
considerable admiration for a piece of
verse entitled 'The Jolly Testator Who
Makes His Own Will,' " says the San
Francisco Argonaut, "To them the
humor of the lines is perfectly apparent,
but they seemingly forget that a will
drawn by a skilled practitioner is often
equally defective. It is proverbial that
a will made by a lawyer, seeking to
devise bis own property, will not stand
in the courts, provided the property is
worth dragging into litigation. Nor
is the wil' of a rich man, drawn by the
most skilled attorneys, any more
valuable. Six years ago James G. Fair
died, leaving a will that had been
drawn with the utmost care to
meet his wishes. The estate is still
in litigation, and it is still an open
question whether the will is to be held
good or not. The most important part
of the deed is what has become famous
as the 'trust clause,' passing the property
into the hands of trustees until the
death cf the three children. In the
meantime, three were to share the in
come, amounting now to f4o,(HJU a
month, e qually between them. Charles
L. Fair has only a life inteiest in this
income, the two daughters and their
heirs being made residuary legatees.
Upon the death of Charles his wife and
children are to receive nothing under
the trust clause. The validity of this
clause ia now under consideration by
the Supreme Court, and, until it is
decided, none of the children will
accept any of the income, because such
acceptance would be equivalent to an
acknowledgment of the validity of the
trust. The accumulated income now
amounts to more than $2,000,000, one
third of which belongs to Charles.
Should the trust clause be declared
val'.d by the Supreme Court, he will
receive only one-third of the income
during his lifetime. There is an
opportunity for him to realize more
than this amount immediately, however.
It is reported that certain insurance
companies are prepared to pay mm
between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 in
cash for his interest in the estate."
Reflection of a Bachelor.
New York Press.
If she thought no one would hear the
average woman would talk to a cock
roach.
When aman gets caught in anything
his first instinct is to lie out of it; a
woman's is to have hysterics.
The first sign that the honeymoon is
over is when a woman begins to think
she likes to comb her husband s head.
A woman feels terribly . unhappy
when she really wants to use a hand-
ke chief and has ODly got her best lace
one with her.
You very seldom see a woman that
haa the strength of, mind not to get mad
at a man when she has had to sneeze
right when he was telling her some
thing romantic.
SAM JONES LETTER.
Since writing my last week's letter to
The Journal I have swung around the
circle considerably. The liveliest sec
tion I have visted is Arkansas. I lec
tured in Hot Springs last Thursday
evening, and in spite of the immense
ou'.flow of the gambling fraternity, I
had a packed house. I was told that
500 gamblers left Hot Springs the day I
lectured there. They are leaving the
state like rats leaving a sinking ship,
Those that have not fled the state are
roosting very high. Tne anti-gambling
law passed by the legislature of Arkan
sas last week and signed by the gov
ernor, fixes the penalty at $500 and
gives half the fiae to the person in
forming on the gambler. And I tell
you as soon as it was known that the
Governor had signed the bill there was
consternation among the diamond Btud
ded fraternity. Gamblers in all the
states have ceased to fear the perjured
official whose duty it is to enforce the
law; they could pay the black mail
levied upon them and go ahead, but the
new Arkansas Uw no longer leaves
the matter with indifferent, inefficient
or bribed officials, but it pays to any
party one-half the fine, which is $250, of
the $500 fine, for the testimony that
will convict. Talk about "prohibition
not prohibiting." The law prohibiting
gambling in Arkansas prohibits, not
only prohibits but it ships, the profes
sionals out of the Btate. How I wish
the whiskey-soaked, whiskey domina
ted Georgia legislature would pass a
similar law on the Bale of whiBky in the
dry counties of Georgia.
Fine every keeper of a blind tiger
$500 and give half the fine to the wit
ness who bought the liquor my, mv,
blind tigers would be as scare in
Georgia as gamblers are in Arkansas. I
hope the good people of Georgia will
organize and begin work now and put
men in our next legislature who will
gives the dry counties the relief they
seek. Georgia can have a model legis
lature if the good paople will take half
the pains and do half the work in pri
maries that the whiskey devils have
been putting in on their Bide for the
past 20 years. I note in the Georgia pa
pers sent me from home that already
there is talk of the church people or
ganmng for a temperance move in
Georgia, and already some little editors
have begun to howl about mixing
church and state. It makes me tired to
read such rot. England mixes church
and state, and England s way Of mix
ing them was the only way we de
murred to. and declared against. That
was to levy a tax on the people to pay
big salaries to the pastors and churches
I am opposed to the state levying
taxes to support the ministry, but
when it comes to saying that because
the church people have grown tired of
the "rascally rule and red-nosed rum
miea," and declare that they will only
vote for decent, sober men for office,
to say that ia mixing church and state
is but the wail of the gang who knows
that when the church people begin to
vote like they pray and work for the
election of pure, clean officials, then it's
good by to the gang that has run Geor
gia for the last SO years and soaked
it in whisky to the disgust of every
member of the church who is not a
whiBky-soaked hypocrite. I don't want
church and state mixed until we can
clean out the gang called the state,
but if we had good God-fearing men in
all official positions executive, judicial,
legislative and ministerial, then I don't
think the church would be hurt by
mixing a little with the state.
Hoorah for Arkansas and Jeff Da
vis, her Governor, whom we all laugh
ed at for a while but it now looks
like he is going to make the best gov
ernor Arkansas ever had.
.From Arkansas L came into Texas.
I've traveled from Texarkana to Hous
ton, and from Houston via Waco to
Abilene. I see the cotton yards of
Texas are not so full as they were a
few weeks ago, but there is still much
cotton in the state.
I am glad to say that -Texas does
not seem to be pitching an immense
crop of cotton this year. Her wheat
crop is largely a failure. Some wheat
lands will be put in cotton, but the
drop in price of cotton will prevent
as large acreage as she planted last
year. Texas corn is up and she has
millions of acres in corn. I note much
cotton up also. Texas is" wild on oil.
I think they will be boring for oil all
over the state in a few months.
What Texas does do she does with a
vengeance. What an empire this state
will be in a few years. Land this
far west 20 miles from railroads
selling for twenty dollars an acre.
It seems to me that I have looked on
more good land in the past week than
I ever saw before in any two weeks
of my travels. If I was a young man
in Georgia or any of the old states,
I would come to Texas as soon as I
could marshal my assets.
The Texas cities are not growing a
pace with the towns and rural districts.
Business is not done out here on small
scale or contracted lines. A little mer
chant in some of the towns who does
not seem to have a car load of goods in
his house will sell $25,000 worth of
goods in a year and a Georgia boy
whom I met to-day told me his firm
sold $300,000 worth annually. Money
is the cheapest thing m Texas that is
the people care less for it. If you have
anything to Bed you can get their
money.
This is a great cattle country out
here, and all cattle sections are pros
perous now. Big cattlemen in Texas
are numbered up into the thousands,
and they are big-hearted fellows too.
The people out here flock to hear me
and shake bands cordially and smack
their mouths and say go on, don't stop.
1 generally lecture two hours to them.
The average Texan is a big hearted,
whole souled fellow. Tbey are the
most hospitable people on earth, and
charitable to those in need. They do
not attend church and support the
churches like tbey do their lodges and
fraternal organizations. The average
Texan wants a good time here no mat
ter what becomes of him hereafter.
The devil will get a majority of them, t
am sorry to say.
Ihere has been marked improvement
in the railroads ot Texas ia the past
few years. These Great Trunk lines
now have splendid roadbeds and fine
trains, and. the freight traffic these
roads move would astonish the nation.
.It is now 7 o'clock in the evening,
central time (Atlanta time), and the
sun is shining in my window. That
gives you some idea how far west I am
as I write this letter. I take in Colo
rado, Tex., tomorrow night and El
Paso next night, and back to Midland,
Tex., Saturday night. Then east into
Mississippi and Albania. We begin
meetings in Anniston April 14th, 3
o'clock p. m. Yours,
Sam P. Jones.
P. S. I see our noble old governor
has been mad again, but glad to note
he did not cuss this time. S. P.J.
Nolle Prosequi Entered
Charlette Observer.
The casea against the Democrati
registrars, who were indicted in the
United States District Court at Green
sboro, were nol proossed yesterday
District Attorney Holton and Judge
Boyd spoke becomingly on the occasion
and are to be commended for the
language used and the course taken
The cases were nol proased with leave
to reinstate them, but this is the form
as we understand it, in nearly al
criminal cases, and the particular
language signifies nothing the cases
are, to all intents and purposes, as
effectually and finally disposed of as
they had never been brought. Thus
a number of election officers are qnit of
a lot of trouble and expense, to say no
more. Some of them may have been
guilty of technical violation of the law
and, if the cases had come to trial, all
of them might have been convicted aud
sent to the penitentiary, for verdicts o:
juries are proverbially uncertain
They will feel much more comfortable
in the knowledge that they do not have
to come to trial, and on every accoun
there is reason for personal and general
congratulation on the termination f this
proceeding. The conservative people
of the State are to be particularly
congratulated upon the fact that the
unworthy Democratic effort, made at
the last moment, to goad these Repub
lican court officials into extreme
measures, lailed. Ihey resisted the
provocation to partisan action, and
mereoy a gooa many or our people are
saved the liability of terms at Sing Sing
or Alban7.
The KaiiNa.H PliiloNophcr.
Not one man in fifty reaches the age
of bO without becoming a "problem"
to hia relatives.
A man never knows until about six
months after the wedding iuet how
many of his wife's relatives he did
marry.
Isot every one of us is rich enough to
have a procession wedding, but the
very poorest of us will have a procession
funeral.
After an unsually agreeable caller has
gone her hostess recalls that she
borrowed all her new books and took
them with her.
Lota of us are better off than Carnegie:
he may not live to realize his cherished
amtntion to die poor: we know that we
will.
Every one knows there is no use
expecting to find an old head on young
shoulders, and yet eery one is looking
for such a phenomenon.
When a crurch member wishes to
create a great deal of excitement, ebe
can do it by going to the theater on her
prayer meeting night.
When a widower walks into a pub
lic place with a woman, there is a buzz
that can be actually heard. And if the
woman is a widow the buzz becomes a
roar.
The man who brings in -coal and
water for his wife and sweeps off the
front porch is quoted more than Shake
speare in his neighborhood, no mat
ter if it is a literary one.
It is as much as a man's life is
worth to marry a second time, if he has
daughters; but sons, particularly mar
ried sons, usually realize that if there ia
any punishment coming to the old man
because of the folly of a second mar
riage, the socond wife will provide it.
Editor Coranada, of the Discussione,
a Havana fire-eating journal, came out
on Good Friday with a cartoon re
presenting Cuba as one crucified bt -tween
two thieves, which it labeled
President McKinley and Gin. Wood.
Under the cartoon was written, "Will
destiny reserve for us a glorious resurrec
tion?" Gen. Wood had the editor ar
rested and the office closed at once.
Mr. Ben N. Duke, of Durham, will
build ft stable that will cost $20,000.
LETTEB IN SEA NINE YEA US.
IVIiss
Griffith of Newark Threw
It
Overboard In a Bottle.
New York Sim.
A message which had been floating
in the Atlantic Ocean in a bottle for
nearly nine years has found its way
back to Miss Ada I. Griffith, of 402
Mount Prospect Avenue, Newark.
Nearly a decade ago Miss Griffith, who
is a daughter of T. W. Griffith, waa re
turning to this country from England.
To vary the monotony of the voyage
she determined to try the experiment of
casting a messaage a drift in the ocean.
She used an English telegraph blank
and penned a note to the late W. W.
Byington, a former Newark man, who
had been one of the party in Ireland.
On the back of the note the young
woman wrote:
"Miss Ada I. Griffith, Mount Pros
pect avenue, Newark, N. J., will pay
$2 for the return of this telegram."
When the vessel waa in the middle of
the Atlantic the bottle was dropped
overboad. After Miss Griffith returned
home days, weeks, months and years
passed without Mies Griffith hearing
from the message, and the incident had
long since passed from her mind when
on last Thursday Bhe received a letter
bearing a foreign postmark. Inclosed
in the inner envelope was the identical
message of nine years ago. With the
message was letter dated "Kriatian
sund. N., Norway, March 22, 1901."
It read:
Dear Madam: My reason for ad
dressing you is the interesting 'find' of
the enclosed telegram which apparently
you desire returned to you. It was
picked up at sea in a bottle by a poor
Norsk fisherman off the coast of Smoe
len, an island near the town of Kris
tiansund, N. He brought it to a news
paper office here and I, as the only
English lady in the town, have transla
ted it and also offered to return it and
claim, on his behalf, the $2 promised in
writing to the finder. The man being
very poor will be glad and thankful to
receive the kind reward. If you care
to send it through me I will Bee that it
comes into his hands and obtain a
signed acknowledgement from him.
"It would be very inten sting - at the
same time to hear in what year (un
fortunately illegible) this telegram was
consigned to the sea and where dropped,
as many who have read of the little
incident in the town paper would like
to know bow long the bottle was in the
water and where it came from. Yours
truly, Ada E. Bodtker."
To say that Mis3 Griffith was de
lighted when she read the letter would
be superfluous. She proposes to reply
to her correspondent in Kristiansund
at once, but instead of sending the
poor Norsk fisherman $2 she will for
ward a pound note, as, to -use her. ex
pression, "the reward has been floating
around long enough to have earned in
terest." Those who know Bay a pound
note will be a pretty good haul for a
Norsk fisherman.
Sailors Turn Cannibals.
A London newepaper tells under
Singapore date a ghastly story of eanni
bali8m. It says it was brought to Singa
pore by two survivors of the Nova
Scotian bark Angola, which leftCravite,
P. ., on Oct. 17th.
The vessel was wrecked on a reef on
Oct. 23, as has already been reported.
The storv is that seventeen of the crew
built two raits, one or which, carrying
five persons, disappeared the first night.
The other carrying twelve persons in
cluding Capt. Crocker, drifted for
twenty-five dave.
The men were without food or water
aud their agony was terrible. Thev at9
sea-weed and chewed their boots. On
Oct. 25 two of them went mad and
plunged into the sea.
The next day a Frenchman killed the
mate with an axe and dnnk his blood.
He tried to eat the brains, but his com
rades threw the corpse overboard to pre
vent it.
On Oct. 27 the Frenchman tried to
kill the captain with the axe, but an
other man wrested the weapon from
him and killed him. When night fell
the others ate parts of the Frenchman's
body. Oq Oct. 28 Capt. Crooker died
and his body was eaten.
The cannibalism was repeated until
the two men who tell the story,
Johannsen, a Swede, and Maiticornu, a
Spaniard, were the only survivors.
Finally the raft drifted ashore on
Soubi Island. The natiyes there were
friendly and put the two men on board
a junk bound for Singapore.
Suicide by the Guillotine.
San Jose, Cal., April 8. "Death
resulted from a cut in the neck, made
by a guillotine, and operated with
suicidal intent." Such was the verdict
rendered here to-day by a coroner's jury
thai had been impanelled f inquire
into the facts surounding the death of
John Connelly, whose body was discov
ered hia morning. Connelly had
rigged up a guillotine and cut off his
own head.
He swung a rope in such a position
that when he cut a a cord the axe would
fall across his neck, which was stretched
on a block of wood conveniently located.
The plan worked effectively, and death
Ws probably instantaneous. TL.3 coro
ner's jury fixed the date of the suicide
about March 27, aa the body was much
decomposed, and it was about that
time that Connelly was Iapt been alive:
He was 57 years old and unmarried.
The Dissent Tnut Yet Dreamed oC
New York, April 5. Reports that
huge railroad combinations are ia - pro
cess of formation were widely circulated
here to-day. Detailed statements con
cerning the plan already published
looking to the combination of all the
great railway Bystems of the United
States under the control of one com
pany were given, but as a general thing
prominent railroad officials and bankers
decline to discuss the matter. Accord
ing to all accounts the enterprise in
volved the greatest combination .- of
capital known, in the history of finance.
It was said the company would be
formed under the laws of New Jersey
for the purpose of conducting a general
freight and transportation business
throughout the United States, that, the
company would hold a controlling in
terest in all the great railway systems
and that the management of the road
would be vested in the controlling com
pany. According to the proposition
each road would preserve its identity
and corporate existence, but the new
company would control the affairs of all.
By this policy it was claimed large
sums of money could be saved as a
result of economy in management and
the stoppage of rate cutting. The
names of men like J. P. Morgan, Wm.
K. Vanderbilt, James J. Hill, Edward
H. Harriman, George J. Gould, John D.
Rockefeller, Jacob H. Schiff. and James
Stillman were freely used. One report
stated that the first step in the proposed
plan would be the securing of control of
the stocks of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy, the Erie, the Great Northern,
and Northern Pacific, and that provision
would be made for the acquisition of
other properties in the immediate future.
Butler's Latest move.
Raleigh, N. C, April 5. Democratic
leaders have for several days heard
that the cases in the federal court
against state elect'on officers have been
8 topped. It ia learned tonight that ex
Senator Butler has gone to Greensboro
to stop the nol prosse of these cases.
The question now is whether he,
District Attorney Holton, Marshal
Milikin and other office holders, or
whether friends of Judges Furches and
Douglas, ex-Governor Jarvis, Frank
Osborne, B. F. Long and other demo
crats will have more influence. Ex
Chairman James H. Pou was aeked
about this matter. He said he had
heard such rumors and felt completely
indifferent as to the result of the battle
between the forces above described;
that if tt s cases were tried there would
in all nrnh&hilitv he an Rrniiittjil and
r j -j ,
in case of conviction there wouII
certainly be anew trial and quashing of
the indictment in the circuit court of
appeals.
Ex-Senator Ransom declared that no
federal statute applied to these cases.
Pou Bays he has carefully examined the
federal Btatutes and cannot find a peg
on which these prosecutions can hang;
that it ia only a question whether they
J will stop them now or have them stop
ped later.
THE CASE IS SOL FROSSED.
Greensboro, 9. Just before the ad
journment of Federal Court, thia after
noon, the cases against the Democratic
registrars, which were Bet for trial at
the present term, were nol pressed.
Trinity Commencement.
Durham Herald.
The approaching commencement of
Trinity college which will be held the
first week in June, promises to be one
of the greatest eventd in the history
of the college. The commencement
speakers have been decided upon and
these alone will attract .many pople.
The annual baccalaureate address
will be delivered by President John C.
Kilgo on Sunday evening, June 2, at 8
o'clock.
On Tuesday morning June 4, at 11
o'clock, the annual sermon of the
graduating claes will be preached by
Bishop Charles B. Galloway, of Missis
sippi.
The literary address will be delivered
Tuesday evening, June 4, at 8 b'clock
by Mr. Hamilton Wright Mabie, of
New York city.
The alumni address will be delivered
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock by
President Dred Peacock, of the Greens
boro Female College.
Gov. Aycock Criticised.
Biblical Recorder.
The new Judge, Mr. Winston is a
well known politician. In hie appoint
ment the Governor waa evidently indif
ferent to the elements supposed to be
essential to that quality designated as
judicial. Mr. Winston waa a member
of the General Assembly increasing the
number of judgeships. Ordinarily thia
should debar one from being appointed.
Governor suffers a distinct loss of pres
tige by this appointment.
Safe Crackers Held.
Wadesboro, N. C.t April 5. The
two men who were recently appre
hended and are charged with cracking
the safe of M. H. Lowry & Co., of Mor
ven, were given a preliminaay hearing
at the latter place today. They were re
quired to enter into a justified bond in
the Bum of $5,000 each for their ap
pearance at the September term of the
Superior court. In default of bond they
were recommitted to the county jail.
The defendants gave their names aa J.
H. Traver and George Ellsworth.