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nui ni Devoted to the Protection of Home and the Interests of the Comity. Vol. II. Gastonia, Gaston County, N. C., Saturday . Morning, AriiiL 30th., 1881. No. 17. Tlio Htory of the Oato, Actqm thfl pathway, myitlu-fringcd, Under tho maple, it whs hinged The little wooden prate. 'Twh. there, within the quiet gloom, When I had strolled with Nellie home, I used to pause and wait. Before I said to her "good night," Vet loth to leuve the winsome sprite Within the gurdvn pale; And there, the gate between us two, We'd linger, as all lovers do, And lean upon the rail. We'd talk in fitful etjlo, I -wean With many a meeting glance between 't he tender words and low j We'd whii-per some dear, seet conceit, Some idle gossip we'd repeat, And then 1 moved to go. " Good-nigLt," I'd say; "good night good bye.'' " Good-night" from tor, with half asigh; "Uood-night!" " gooil-night!" and lhi; And then I do not go, but stand, Again lean on the railing, and : Begin it all again. Ah! that was many a day ago That pleasant summer time although The gate is standing yet; A little cranky, it may be, A little weather-worn like me Who never can forget. ! The happy " End P" my cvnic friend, Prat save your snce r there was no ''end." Watch yonder chubby thing! That is our youngest, hers and mine; Seo how he climbs, his legs to twmo . About the gate and swing "JOSIAll." "I never kin forgot the day That we went out a walk in', An' sot down on the river bank - ' An kept on hours a talk in'; He twisted up my apron string An' folded it together, An' said he thought tot harvest time "Twas cur'ut kind o' weather. i"'- V i " " The tun Vent down as we sot there ; Jotiar seemed uneasy, An'ti.othershe beg.in to iall: Lower zy ! oh, Lowerzy H An' then Josiar spoke right up, As I was just u staitin', An' said, Loweczy, what's the use Of us two over partin'?' " It kind o' took me by surprise An' yet I knew 'twas eomin' I heard it all the summer long, In every wild bee's humuiiti'; . I'd studied out the way I'd act, But law 1 I couldn't do it, I meant to hide my love from htm, Hut seems as if he knew it, An' lookin down into my eyes Ho must a seen tho lire, An' eversince that hour I've loved An' worshiped my Josiar." THE -GALLANT TARS Who Inhabit the Old North State. A Trip Through North Carolina Discloses a State Rich In All the Elements of Greatness. Whose Woods are Worth theMilllons of Colonel Sellers. Special Correspondence Constitution. Raleigh, N. C, April 21 Without making ariy speciul fuss about it North Carolina is moving ahead in natural devel opment at a pace not urpared probably by any Southern State, at'd equal d by none, if we except Georgia and Texas. A hurried run through the Sta'e has astonished me no litile. The press of the H'aie, first-clans in muny respects does not handle practical questions with scope and enthusiasm enough to give the general pub lic an adequate idea of what is being- done in the way of progress. On every side I have seen a thrift - and earnestness that I e- peaks careful and well directed work, and la the departments to-day I find the most abundant evidei ces of the results of that work. North Carolina has a range of climate not equali d by that of any Southern State. On a map showing the mean temperature for the various sections I noted that the southern part was marked C6 degrees, which is the isothermal for Mobile and the gull coast, while the northern wirt of the Utate was marked 49 degrees, which is the isoth ermal of Portland, Maine, The Stete is thus lodged between the two -pines that cover the continent. The most outobleei j ample, perhaps, ot the advantages of cli. mate is that North Carolina has a larger variety of woods than any two S'atea in the onion. Of the 23 varieties of . oak in America, 19 are found in North Carolina. Id a one-mile stretch on the Blue Ridge lope there are more different woods to be found tbuo io half the territory of any other f'.ate. I went through the museum today with Prof. W. C. Kerr, the State Geologist, a wliy man of science with boundless energy, a ttenorous voice and happy, practical turn. Be exhibits a line of woods that is simply marvelous. Among others was a block of persimmon, a wood that is in great demand io the eastern part of tlw tata for the manufacture of shuttles. There wss juniper and cypress, that is sold in great quantities for telegraph poh ; a block of chinquepin, two feet Mwra ; mot tled cherry and finely grained walnut, T! e cherry, which poinds beautifully, grows. I orn informed. it grovs of a mile or two in length and breadth. There is it growing Interest In hard woods, and mills ure being erected in vurious parts of the State get ting out blocks of wulnut, poplar, cherry, etc.. for shipment North, to furniture and piuno factories. Professor Kerr is very hopef:)! that the hard woods of Carolina will soon come into universal repute, when they will yield an enormous revenue. Wherever there ore factories in the State working In wood Irotn axe-helves up to furniture, native woods supply (almost the entire product, und there are considerable exports beside. There are several gold mines fcattertd through the State, but I judge investments in them mus be specu lative for some time at least. There are fine specimens of mm hie in the geologist's canes, bat it has been impossible si far to discover nhethtr or not it can re'foui d in Kiiffu'ient quantity to quarry it profitably. The iron inteirstg are being developed, no tably, by General Hoke and his associates. but the great wealth of North Carolina is in her forests of hard woods, as the coming years will show. The commissioner of agriculture, Mr. Mont ford McGehee, t most competent and devoted tflker. in formed me that the cotton crop of last year in Carolina amounted to $100,000 and that the area of cotton culture hud Keen c-x'ended twenty miles further north than the supposed limit of the cot Ion bell. The tobacco crop was 552,000,- 000 pound, worth in the aggregate aboti' 66.C00.000 Ojja firm, 1$ ackwi II & Co.. of Durham, paid 600,000 Inst year for govi n mt lit et t: nij e clone. In Mudison county the finest tobacco in the world in rained Di d the county cri p of lust year aggregating l.OOd.COO pounds averaged twenty five cents, pt-r pound, while the ovmifje in the State was probably one I.', cents. The tobucco area of the Suite has more than doubled f-ince the war. The introduction ol upland rice lias added u new source ol revenue to general farms and the county of Hade now produces as much rich as waajaised! lore -the war on the Cupe Fear valley, where alone it was con sidered possibly to raise it. Thepet indus tries ol the commissioner and his most effi cient ossistunt, Mr. P. M. Wilson, ure grape . culture und wine making, there being seven or eight million winch produce, many ihou uiids of gall- ns of wine annually and s:lk culture, for which the climate is ad mirably adapted und which i rapidly be coming an important industry. The mul berry tree grows in profusion throughout the siate and as good silk is made us can be produced in France. The agricultural bureau of Noith Caro lina is organ z-d upon a mote liberal scale than that of Georgia its expenditures run ning over $25,000 a ytur. About $5,000 each is given to the geological survey, the fish commissioner and the' experimental farm, and Ii.tlf as much is devoted to the cause of immigration. The bureau is sup ported by a speciul tux of $500 levied upon ach br.uid of fcrliliz-r sold in the state. this takes the phie; of the inspection fee system of Georgia. From this source about $30,000 is received, every dollar of which goes to the agricultural bureau. In Geor gia $60,000 is realised from the inspection of fertilizers and et the agricultural bureau id pinched the fish commissioner works tor nothing the immigration commissioner throws up his place in disgust after work ing two years fur nothing, and the geologi- cul survey, after b lug half perished, is abandoned. Much a penny wise and pound foolish economy will be apt to show its dis advantage in a contrast with the progress made by Carolina uuder a more liberal administration. Of all the states of the union North Cei- olina shows by the census the largest pro portion of native-born population surpass ing even the old New Knglund states in this regard. It is a curious fact in addition to this !hat there is a large proportion of persons born in North Carolina and now living in other states, than of any other state. Besides sending out so many of her natives, she raised her own population from 1,000.000 to . 400.000 in the past ten years which facte testify to a strict atten tion to business on the part of her remah-s, and the quickening influenotigof her dim te. The larger portion of ste idy.going In mi lies, rooted to the soil for generations and stub, born of opinion changing sentiment slowly, has given a conservatism to the character of her people that implies both prudence and strength, There was in N'ortb Carv olina, for insUnoe, none of the enthusiasm over secession that swept the neighboring states out of the union. The real sentiment of the people was for the union and a com promise hi the anion, but after the war become inevitable the flue acise of love of the soil, tho pride of tradition, and the strong local ofT.'CtiotiB, put the old state on her mettle, urulslie filled more confederate gruves than any southern Btatn, as the rec ord show. S-nator Vane put it strongly if roughly, when he said ut Richmond in a speech : 'North Carolina did not agree with Virgina in her ideas on secession, but after Virginia had seceded mid the war was u lion us, she put her hand in Virginia's and stood by her to the last and there'd have been a d d small war if she hadn't 1" In a tulk with Mr. Fa bins II. Bushee, one of the most prominent young men in the state, and the head of t e Hancock eli-ctorul ticket, I g lined a deal of person al and special information concerning the state and its leaders. Asking him as to the relative slienglh of Vance and Ran som he said: ' I think no man hns ever had the power in North Carolina that Vance has enjoyed for the past lew years. Ransom is a more eloquent man I think, and stronger in some respects, und before the people woul poll morn votes thun Vance as the latter liuenianyGe.ee enemies who would vote for Hansom and Ransom would carry the parti vote besides. 1 don't think Ransom gets full credit for his power as an orator. He is the most eh.quent man, possibly excepting Ves', in the senate, and yet he speaks seldom, preferring the real work ol legislation to the display.' '.Where was Vance born ?' ' He is a native Carolinian, which goes almost without saying. Our public men are ulmost without exception Carolina born. At oi e time every member of our congressional delegation was a graduate of Ihestate university, a thing that never happened probably iu uny other states He was a very brilliant youngster, entering congress when lie was only 20 years ol iige. Ileh-id previously Kerv. d a-tc iuuiy attorney auu .iiemrmr ol the legislature. IJ; w is re-elected t.i ongrus when lie wan 2S, und then entered ibe iu ny. Hj ro t the rank ol coloii.-l, and wu l lieu id ide g v r uor, taking his SL-ut ut 3i, the youngest governor we ever had.' ' Is ihere uny new leader in sight in Car olina?' ' None I think., Tuu.rein wi!t i rwv;r remain In the hauls ol the present L-Jaders. Ju ge .M -rim in win) b ilu'd Hie dem teratic nomination several years a,'o und bjal Vuiiee lor the senate slill imlls u strong position in the siate. IK' h is u f ilKnviu.' that is devoted and that llui j'ti frae; io.i.il jn itself .is large eiiough tJ carry tlu stite either way if it were put u.ider indepeinlcn t truiuin;;.' ' 'Is there uny probability of Mahone's split being followed iu your st.ttii ?' ' No. In '.hi.' fir.-t place we are not divid ed by any debt issue.und iu fact by no other issue of enough importance to jutit'y a split . It is doubtful if any nun is sir eig enough to lead. off uny considerable-' body of demo crats on a sioiple qn".sti.iii of patr inau or personal ambition. There is no one bold enough to try it afier the terrible position into which the prolonged debute iu the senate has f rced Mahoue. I consider the south ' solid, r ' in a political sense than it has been in years, and the senatorial debate has made it so. North Oaroliiu would probably be one of the first southern states to feel such a movement, for several reasons. We have a strong union elumeut in the state, and we have never been able to muke republicanism disreputable as it has been iu other southern states I am sure, however, that there is no hint of trouble in the party ranks in this state. Touching Judge Tourgee's book ' The Fool's Errund," I asked Mr, Rtisbee what he thought of it. ' The incideut on which the book is bused are literally true the inferences drawn from these incidents are too swe p ing, It is no use to deny the truth of facts so demonstrable us those Judge Tourgee hns related. What we had better do is to correct them, and to'show that they were exceptional in the past and will be impos. sible in the future.' 'Did Judge Tourgee leave the state with a foul record V ''According to common report he did, but there is no proof bf what is charged r certainly nothing to show personal dis honesty. The stories ubout Tourgee Imve been told so often that they are genrr.illy believed. But the main trouble with him was that he came to the state thoroughly out of I a no with the general sentiment aud utterly unable to adjust himself to any compromise or to even control his aggressiveness when he was raging over a wrong -that had no real listener. He is coming back to Ureensbtiro to live ami will probably continue hi. M.maeliiish ! fight defeating his own purpose by his im practicable prejudices.' Mr. Busk'e is enthusiastic over the rapid development of the state, and especially ot j's special iudustrits S lid be I The bright tobacco of which jpu hear so much, is one of the most lucrative crop that cm be grown in America. I h-ard a man say that he lived on a hill inGranville county, one of the counties in which this funcy tobacco is raised, ami could from hi" house 8ee the houses of neighboring plant ers from whom lie could borrow 8100 000 in cavli in the ngsregate without impairing their current work.' In anRwer to an inquiry as to whit had become of the Henry Uerry Lowery pan, Mr.Burhee gave m" a qi -er piece of histo ry. ' A few years ugn,' said he, ' an anmnes ty bill was passed by the state intended to givn pa'don to men engaged in certain political A-uViJn order to prevent the probability of its being stretched to em brace the Lowery gang, they were excepted by nor.e. In reciting the members they omitted one who was u desprate outlaw, covered, with crime, and for whom there was a reward of $1,000 He was shortly afterwards captund and. his cantor col lected through Dnrtch, a university of Georgia boy, the S5.000 reward. He then plead the amnesty act and was released under it. The state having paid $5 0i 0 to catch a man Tor the purpose of officially turning him loose again. Another point of interest is that Noith Carolina under the lea! of Busbee as elec tor, is the nnlv State that cas'e its vote for ' W. S. Hancock, of New York.' All thi ol her demncra'ic electors voted for ' Han cock of Pennsylvania,' ulihough he was distinctly nominated by Mr. Dougherty a a New Yorker, and voted in New York. II. W. G. Bill Arp Returns To Quentinnii that Interest the Ptople Atlanta Constitution. Winter has left us at 1 ist a hard old winter hard even on i.s in the sunny soii'h and inei ciiess on our northern breth ren. For about seven mom lis they Lave been snow-bound and ice-hnund penned up in fir z"h homes, and the ice is just now brciikii g up, and great floods are overflow ing them, and slill they are afraid to move to this blessed laud afraid of ku-klux and barbarians. I'm sorry for 'em, but f don't cure enough atMntAjt.ti '-r J;" myself. We eun pet along very well with out 'em. We've been calling 'em kindly ever since the war, and given welcome to those who did come. -and now I'm opposed to the calling .business. I'm willing to say howdy and muke a passing remark uhout the weather, but that's all. No more I u fly , no nt'-re honey und 'sugar. We want to be hoiieid 8' me cm selves. It's hi en a one sided game long enough,' We've sold 'em our sugar, and cotton, and rice, and tobac co, iu d syrup, and sweet potatoes, and cubbirs, and wa' rmelons, and bought tin ir patent rmdicihts. and fly-traps, and doll babies, and yai kee not ions, and picture books, and dime novels unit Butieriek's patten s, i.nd ail their tunifooli rhs and gone to all their circuses and monkey sbowe and paid. nut thousands of dollars to hear 'em peddle and sing and j'linp around and they go buck und chuckle and tell their nabors how much they madc, ft of us, aixl now because Gi iflio expressed her indigna tion in un rpgsplOsive manner the whole yunkee nation is mad about it Our people have long s nce recognized slavery as a dead issue, und they nt'eJcnt 'be sending Uncle Tom's Cabin down here to revive' it and teach our children a lie, and I reckot. the GrilTui boys took the most coi.vincin way of proving that it was an eggstinct institution. We ure getting along pretty well and we want em to let us alone. It looks like them fellers tip north just keep our people und our sunny land as n sort of nest egg, and if they come across a bad one occasionally they onghunt to grumble. If liny cant get all that we make one way they will unother for they have got the money, and uion y is a power that will buy or seduce most anybody. Now here is the gnat railroad combination this tripple alliance that has run the Central and Geor gia stock awuy up yonder and the people say bully and look on aud wondir and it's made some folks rich all of a sudden but the plain truth is the whole business is a selling out to the yankees to norilitrn railroads n:onopolies, f.T the stock iu ull these gigantic corpora tions is owned in New York, or up there somewhere, und the tripple alliance hadent been made three days before the freight agents mt in Ciucinati and raised the tariff forty per cent at a jump. Fretty good raise for the first meeting wusont it, aud I reckon they will unsJ-ajjain before long! and we the people are to pay for it. The old ru'e wan that those nhodai ce must pay the fiddler, but these fellers dance all night nJ ,k. b)8lllluK.r8 for wking on. n)f nuns ueu 4 get 10 iniuKiug about the gr.-ed and giip of them million air. s up north and how they keep insinua ting their o'aws into our country, I get alarmed aud wonder bow long they will let me keep my land and live in peace and se clusion, 011J if they Joi't qit it by some hokus pokus before I die how long will tbey let the children keep it. But still I am hopeful for they hove got to die ul! the same like the rest of us, and death scatters things amazin' soon for Its u law of nature, that a Man who lives to make money and nothing else, raises a pas sel of children who live to spend it. Wm. II. Vunderhilt is on exception, but there ain't many, and I reckon his children will make it fly if he has got any. The differ ence in the happiness of mankind dnc't de pend on the amount of money Ihey have made by no means, and I never saw the day I would change places with A. T. Stewart, ho worked all his life like a dog, and his gieatest pleasure was to break down a rival and break him up, too, and as soon as he died a man no kin to him gobbled up his fortune and some thieves come along one night and stole his bones, and nobody cared; and, if that ain't a ser mon on striving after riches I never knew one, but you might as well preach it to a dead horse as to Jay Gould, or Jim Keene or Armour, or any of them fellows who would see a nation parish to death for bread and meat if it put a few millions in their pocket. Corners is the word now. Get a corner on something that is get the people in a corner where they can neither b.ick nor squall.'' saw the other day that they had got up a corner on peas cow peas, and hud bought em all up on the sly and was holding em at $2 50 a bushel by the car-load. I may be mistaken but it seems to me a little higher grade of happi- ntss ' to look out upon the greeu fields of wheat and the leafing trees and the blue mountains in the distance and hear the dove cooing to her mate, and the whippoor w i II sing a welcome to the i ight, aud hunt flowirs and bubby blossoms with the chil dren, and make whisths for 'em and hear 'em blow and see 'em get aft' r a jumpiu' lrog or u gar'.er snake, and hunt heus nests, and rjaddle in ill branch and get dirty and wet ull over, and watch their pet iteiit and subdued txpressiou when they go home, as Mrs. Arp looks at 'em with i'tn.z?mect and exclaims, " Metcy-on me ; did ever a poor mother i. scl 1 Wi 1 I ever get done making clothes. Put these on right clean this morning and not another clean rag in the house ! Go get me a switch, -right, straight, go I I will not stand it !" But she will stand it, and they kuo'v it, Especially if I remark, ' Yes, they ought to be whipped." That saves 'em, and by the time the switch comes the tempest is over, and some dry clothes are found and if there, is any cake in the Louse they get it. Blessed mother! fortunate children! What would they do without her? Why her very scolding is music in their tender ears. I'm thankful that tlure are some things that corner in the domestic circle that Wall street cannot buy nor money kings depress. Bill Arp. .-i hist ton niE yvusg. Sidney Smi'h, iu one of the ablest of his essays, says : "1 know of :io principle which It is of more importance to fix in the habits of young people, than that ot the most deter mined resistance to the encroachment of ridicule. Give not up to the world, nor to the ridicule with which the world enforces its dominion over every t rili ng qutstion of manner and uppeafai ce. Learn from the earliest days to insure your prii ciples against the peri! of ridicule, if you think it right to diir r from the times, and to make a stand for any valuable point of morals, do it however rustic, however antiquated, however pedantic it may appear do it, not for insolence, bit serious'y and as a man who wiars a soul of his besom and does not wait till it shull be breathed into 1 1 i in by the breath of fashion. Let i.ien call you mean if you know yon are Just i hypocritical if yon are honestly religi' us ; pusillanimous, if you know yoa are firm. Resistance soon converts unprin cipled wit into sincire respect; and no after time can tear from you those feelings which every man carnm within him who has made a noble und succes(ul execution in a virtueujs cause." GLAD HE Dlfi.X'T KSVir THEM ALL. The legal profession is one in which mnny happy lots are made, and they arc generally ut some b dy else's expense. Consequently when a good joke is told on a lawyer it is enjoyed with a great--dca' of gusto. A Winstoi lawy.r recently cl. Sed a cast and his -client inquired the amount of the fee,. Well," said the dealer in law, as I knew your father and mother I will ouly charge you $20." The client paid it cheerfully, remarking, I am thankful that you did not know my grandfather and grandmother and the rest of the faurily .' A vigorous iflbrt is being made to develop the oil country in Kentucky. NUT THE KIND SHE WANTED. 'Are these young chickens?' asked a lady of a market woman. 'Oh, yes, indeed, lady. They're nice and tender as fine as any you ever 6aw,' said the woman. . 'Tbey don't look like it,' remarked the customer, pinching one of them critically. 'It's the honest Christian truth I'm tell ing you, lady. I raised 'era myself, and could give you their age to day if my old man was here, for he put it down in the a'manac the self-same day they was batch ed. And Utey'nt nice od fat, too, UJy see,' holding up the choicest in the lot. ' You're quit sure they are not tough then? Young chickens are sometimes nearly tough as old ones, you know.' ' Yes, yes ; very true. But I'm certain you'll fiud these tender. I bad a couple out of the same brood for dinner, Tuesday, and they were as nice as could be-' The customer opened ber purse and took out a brand new trade dollar, and the market woman bustled around with a feeling ef charity io ber heart for all hu manity, as she prepared to fill what she believed would be the' biggest order of the morning. ' You'll stand by all you've said about those chickens ?' queried the ludy, pausing with the coin in her hand ; ' and I believe you are here every week, ain't you ?" " Ob, yes, lady ; I'd sooner have every one of 'em spile on my hands than to say a single word that wasn't true, and if you don't find it j iat us I told you, come back and get your money.' ' They won't do for me then,' said the lady, putting back the money end pickiog up her basket, ' I want a fowl that'll do to make soup of for a couple 0' days with out falling all to pieces, and then do for pot-pie afterwards Times are very hard, and it takes close figuring to keep boarders now-a-days without losing money.' The market woman stood with her hands on her hips and watched the landlady iu speechless wonder Until her figure was lost in the erowd, aud then she huddled back to her wagon. ' w uy oiun 1 1 suck to the truth and close out the lot to her. She may search this market and not Sad atrjlhinsr that ever wore feathers that can Etand bilin' like these old roosters will. Well, well; honesty's the best policy after all, but it dou't always look that way. Here you are, lady chickens? Just the thing for boarders. Three years old last fall, and tougher'n a bootblack.' . TALK AT HOME. Endeavor al ways to talk your bes' before your children. They hunger perpetually lor new ideas. They learu with pleasure from the lips of parents what they dream is drudgeiy to learn from books, and, even if they have to be deprived of many educa tional advantages, they will grow up intelli gent if they enj y in childhood the privilege of listening daily to the conversation of intelligent people. We sometimes see p rents, who ure the life of every company which they enter, dull, sileut, aud uninterest ing at home among their children. If they have not mental stores enough for both, let them first use what they have for their own households A silent home is a dull place for young people, a place from which they will escape if they can. How much useful information, on the other hand is olttr given iu pleasant conversation ; and what uncon.-ious, but excellent, mental training is lively social argument T Cul tivate to the utmost the graoes oi conver sation. HO IV TO MAKE FARMERS OF THE BUYS. A New Jersey letter to the Examiner lays the blame at the door of shiftless tanners for so many farmers' sons leaving agriculture for other pursuits. He says; That the fault of all this ua with the patents themselves is plain, from the fact that with the thrifty furmers the number of sons who leave home and foifeit their birthright is small indeed. By the sole use e f an acre of ground, a pair of horses whirl) ihey can call their own, or perhaps the eutire -elrafge of the pouJiry. they be come interested, and the arm is made to have attractions for them. Let good agricultural books anj papers be furnished them, and their education encouraged iu every proper way ; the waste places ou the farm be planted and made fruitful, and and croeked fences be made straight. Let everything iu and about the garden be done decently, aud the front yard be kept io order, and long before the sons of thesa farmers become. of age they will learn that agriculture is the most oertain source of strength, wealth and independence.' The Czir lives withia the ioner circle of a sextuple cordon of soldiers. The nihilists have issued a mauifeslo decreeing bis early death.
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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