ONIA V-'t?1 S3 7yote(J. lo tJic -(Protection of Home and fic Interests of the County. Vojv. II. Gastonia, Gaston County, N". 0., Saturday MoiiNiNGj October 1, 1881. No. :39. ARP'S AVERMENTS (On Several Matters Of Current Discussion. il Jhte Not See the flood Ttmla of Some of Our Hrceit tiimilitf Th hand Full .fifjitrrowful llomitt, M'iono Grief in Stirred to Jin Votarteit the Flood of Suicide. Atlanta Constitution. H he president is dead, find J reokon the .nation had better do like King David b!n .be lost his xhild get up ond wash iier face und think of something else. It's all very bad and very sad, I know, but there are thousands of homes in this happy land where death was a. visitor ut the bt' same hour, and the grief was as great for Jhe, loved and lost. There is a skeleton in ,6T:ry closet, and death bus nailed bis sign Aver every door, and it -has seemed to me from my own experience that when such a .trouble came I wanted it all to, ay self and y Jiuuily, and the less the fuss and parade .and ceremoiiV about it the better. There ,is a kind of sweet consolation for death in (the household when we cau slwtit in and iook out the world, and huve the misery all to ourselves. Even the three friends of Job were considerate' enough to set afar off in respectful silence for several .days, "for Umy saw that his grief was great." A ation in tears is a very grand and affecting tableau if there is something grand and affecting to cry about, but there is n sense in overdoing the thing. I don't know what Mr. Ciai field has clone us a stuteeman, a soldier, or a patriot, .more than ten thousand other men. I don't know what notable thing would justify us in saying as Duvid did of Job, a great inun has fallen this day in Israel. Not many moths ago I know he was denounced ub abud man and dangerous to the welfare of the country., I didn't believe it then, and 1 can't see the propriety of denouncing a man as a devil while he lives and adorning .him as a saint when he is dead. I wish ouii people would pit the like of that. It destroys confidence mud keeps up political strife QiJ bitten ess. ' J don't know much about Mr1 Arthur, and 1 don't care il I don't, I'm not afraid of him. If he can dome any harm, 1 can't free it. Jf fit' is goiiig to t ut up and abuse o down south, we can abuse him just as iad. He cau 'I run over congress's much, ior defy the will of the nation which. will is now for peach i.id harmony and co operation. I believe. Mr. Garfield was u: better man and a greater man, but the death of one man, however great, .can't stop the wheels' of government from rolling ob i nor brine a shock to its acustomed notion. A government that stood the (est of four years' war, and the asBase nation of Mr. Lincoln, (peace to his memory) end the election frauds of Mr. Hayes can stand anything and it doesent mailer at all whether Mr. Arthur was bora in the United States or Canada or the Feejee Wands, it's all the same. The constitution is a sort of India-rubber thing anyhow, : and can accommodate itself to circum stances sorter like our " in Ucorgla llmt lias tolerated two sessions in a year, and I reckon we'll huve a third to redutnet the state. Let's jvait and see what Mr. Arthur dou before we pitch into him. If he is a good-hearted man he is a coward, sod won't dare to defy us ; so let him rip along. As Cobe soys, we will all krow by waiting. My wife and children arc well, my corn is pretty good, my cattle are fat, and the barn is full of hay. My n'ibors are kind, and Sunday comes once a week as usual eo let him rip. What w the matter with the people any how. Some folks are killing one another for little or nothing and some are killing themselves. When I was a boy I never, hardly ever, hecrd Of a suicide. It was considered a most extraordinary circum f land, We lead about em over io France and wondered that there was such a people. It's an every day affair with as now. FoUi jo a week. Four sane men well to d') in the world, Burrounded by good associatioiB. I dont understand it and it worries me. I was a talking with Judge Underwood about it and says- he, solemnly, " Hill William Mr. Arp, my friend, you have known me for thirty years, and I tell you pon I've seen a eight of trouble and aggra. vatioo and vexation of spirit looses and crosses and disappointments, bat if you ever Jjear of my being found dead undir peculiar CtrcuiUBtanccs, don't you utop to examine to see whether I killed myself or not. but go at "nee and hunt for the feller tha done jt. I tell you, William Arp, I'm not agoing o die I hay way." What is the mutter with the men f There are no suicides among the women. Well, there is one now and then at long intervals and they are always dro ,n drowned in a well or a mill pond. Nobody er heard of one using inz r, or a pistol, or a rope. When a poor woman kills herself thje wants to hide. Ol pouree, she dou'l know bow to use a rut r. or a pistol, bat she might 4iaag heraelf. reckon sli is afraid somebody will see her in a disheveled condition. The record-i set down ten men to one woman as suicides, and so I reckon il must be on account of whisky or disappointed ambition in making money or nwuesing riches. Women ure not concerned in such things. They are wrnpt up in raising children, and they love 'em too good to leave 'em. Domestic pleasures have a tendency to calm the mind and keep it well balanced. Kvery day brings its care and trouble, but it brings Its comforts and pleasures too. There nothing like living for a day : that is by the day and for the day. Blessings on the man or woman who gets up in the morning resolved to get as much happiness before night as possible, Enjoy the day. Be content. Don't be always hankering after socjethiog afar off, that may never come Don't deal too fpuch in futures- I don't mean of course, for a man to be like the average nigger who takes no thought for the morrow, but there is a middle ground to occupy. Some men say they are work ing for their children. They are straining themselves day and nielil for their children Well, that is a lie. They are working to gratify their own ambition. If they thought as much about their children as they ought to they would pay eai more attention They would stay with cm more and talk to emjuore Speaking about the indifference of the niggers reminds me or my good naoor Freeman, lie has a lot of nigger tenants, and after being gone from home a few weeks, he came back and found every ras cal of em gone iff to meeting. When they returned snys he : " What you been to meeting for, boys ?" " Well, boss, we is been dar to pray." " Pray for what?' said he, " Well, boss, we know it's most too late in de season to pray for rain, for de crop is dun gone up, but we been pray for de Saviour to put us all thro' de win ter." " Well, dat Bint hit adzackly," said another one. " We goes to meetin' to fix for de nrt world. You white folks done got dis one, and if we can squeeze in ahead of you on de mxt we is gwine to do it, dat's lill." Nabor Freeman says it won't be a month before them darkies will be trying to make a saviour of him, for he has carried 'em all the year while they were running rover the country and going to preaching. v Calvin Lewis has quit his crop and taken to the pulpit says lie henrd de'fird call hint while he was in df field, and Uncle Tod, 'says he : " Calvin dat is a lie if you hear anybody call you it was.de devil, and you is sendin round de bat for, him every night, and dese niggers round here is quit wnrkin, and some of em is gwine to school dut ort to be in de cotton patch ; and de next thing a school nigger do is to quit de country and go to town, and de next thing is to steal something aod get in the chain gang, and goto work in decoal mines whar Governor Brown wants em. 'Dat's whats de matter. Dese white folks knows eizackly whar an edicated nigger is gwine to land. I never knowd one to come to any good jit. You can't make sheep meat out of coon or chicken out of crow. I don't care what you feed 'em on." Uncle Jeff ays these young niggers will have to be long to somebody yet or quit de country. .Well, the darkey is a conundrum aud it's hard to guess him. Bn.L Arp.' TAKES IN. Uncle Pleasant Uatkins, of Richmond, Va., is sixty and his wife seventy-two years old. The other day a friend said : "Uncle Fleas? nt, why io the mischief did you marry a woman nearly old enough to be your mother ?" And this is the way he explained it : "You see, bo ," be replied with a sigh, "I was wurkio for Long John Freeman in Hanover, when I was jest 18. and Susan Ann Buss, old Mrs. Russ's eldest daughter, was thirty if she wur a day. At every quiltin' she nsed to cbuse me for her partner and everybody said it 'pcared like she wur a cotirtiu' me. She gim-me four pair cotton socks and a heap of thin. s, but still I didu't have no notion "of her. Well, one Christmas eye, I w.eni lo the old woman's, und had hardly sot down before Sary Ann brought me some sweet pcrtato pie, which she kuowed I was monstrous fond of. While I was catin' it I head the old woman op stairs a count. in' silver dollars. Now, thar was no plaster lo the sealin, and the up-stuirs floor had cracks in it as wide as my finger. So you see I could hear the jingle of the money just as well as if 1 had been op thar rnysclr. When she hud counted 6 I drawed up to S irah Aon and popped the question. In course she said she'd have me, and the mxt Thuisday we was married. Now, what do you think I fiund out Hie next day? Why, llmt the old women didn't i ... at.:.... l i .i. she counted Via owr and over jest to fooH me. Don't marry for money, boy, specially I..- ,l..r .l..ll..r ' TRUST YOUR WIFE, A man who has mode a few hundred dollars e'ear of his business was afraid to id vest it, and equally afraid to tell his wife he had such a sum. Bo he bit upon the ex pedient of hiding the wallet which con taint d it in an unused parlor stove, and feeling- sure that r.o one would molest it, went about his business with the feeling that it was safe. But one day hie wife made a fire in the stove to burn up an accumulation of rub bish, ond, happening to mention the fact to her husband, was astonished to see bim jump up and mn round like one possessed " You have ruined me, ruined me J" he shrieked. " All the savings I had were hidden in that stove. Oh, what idiots wo men are !" " I think yon acted more like en idiot," answered his wile calmly, '' first in not tell ing me you had the money, next in putting it in such a place. Had yon trusted me that money would now be out on invest ment instead of being burned op." The man wrung his bands and groaned and made life a burden to himself aod fam ily, until he finally quieted down and ac knowledged that he had no one to blame but himself. Then bis wife gave him a bankbook with the amount he bad lost credited to him. " It was just by the merest chance that I found the wallet," she said, " and then I felt hurt and indignant to think you could not have trusted me with even u knowledge of your savings. If I am not fit to re ceive your confidence, I am not fit to be your wife." Peace was restored and it is safe to sur mise that the husband never again failed to trust his wife. Women, especially those who have had ittle contact with the world of business, are not unfnquentty gifted with larae in stincts, which give them a quick insight into business matters. No man who has a proper appreciation of bis wife will sell a cow or a horse off bis (arm without con sulting ber. No merchant will buy a stock of dry goods without exchanging ideas with the partner of his life ; trust your wife, not feebly and with restrictions, but fully, in whole measure. It is said that men are what their mother's make them. Many a man who has gone down into the depths wpatd have been saved from moral and femporal disaster if he had only trusted his wife ; not in the day of adversity, but n the day of prosperity. "Sho! What do wimmin know aboul business ?" says some Solon to his household. Not much exper imentally, it may be, but as the most dis astrous failures are always made by men, it may he possible a woman . might at least have a position as look-out on the ship to signal " danger ahead." The men who have become famous in the wot Id have always relied upon the judgment of their wives. A French writer savs that when a man has toiled step by step np a long flight of stairs be will be sure to fbd a woman at tfe top. Tlu man who distrusts hia wifa'n intelli gence is to be pitied. The man who iguores it as beneath bis dignity is a fool. THE WORK OF J HE HEART. An English writer says : We may form some conception of the enormous energy of the human heart when we reflect that a good climber can ascend only 9,000 feet in nine hours, tbat is, of course, continuously for any length of time, while the, work done by the heart is equivalent to raising its own weight (ten ounces) 13.8G0 feet high. Aid we may put this even more strikingly by pointing out the most power ful eugineevei made by man, the "Bavaria" locomotive of the Vienna and Trieste rail way, can only raise iUelf through 2,700 feet in an hour ; tbat is, its energy is less than oue-Sfth of that of the human heart. Of courte the actual amount of work done by both engine aod climber is much greater than tbat done by the heart ; but relative to weight the energy of the heart far exceeds tbat of the other two. Of over 7.C0.0OO square miles of timber lands in this country, tbe south owns 4G0, 000, or ueaily two-thirds. Four large cotton seed oil mi. Is in ?m phis, baye been running all the year aud three will be started this full. The forest acreage of North Carol iua is probably greater than three or four of the northwestern states combined. The woolen mills company, of Char lottsville, Va., during the past eleven months have sold 120,837 worth of good. Two gentlemen in Now Oleans have succeeded in nuking a first rate article of butter from the oil of cotton seed. There arc two regular licensed colored '" F-"-n " " Brcnham. Oue of them U employed in live divorce caes. GOOD MANNERS. It is a mistake to regard manners as something external or distinct from the na ture, to be put on or taken off ut will. The bearing to which we mslinctly accord re speet is the outward blossoming of an in ward growtn, and bears the same relation to character that the flower docs to the plant, not absolutely necessary to its exist ence, but a graceful expression of internal qualities which give it strength and vigor Some foreigner once said of Abraham Lincoln that be was a grand gentleman in disguise. In him the outward expression, though far removed from a Chesterfieldian polish was still eo true to qualities to which the world accords its highest respect that it be came a good manner of its own, and thus proved the truth of the assertion in regard to growth. A fine manner presupposes a certain force of character and firmness of purpose which invest the owner with composure and self-respect. A eertaiu equipoise which enables him to possess bis soul in peace, where a mind that is not so ballast ed goes careering about to every breeze, a source of discomfort to itself and all who behold it. It also presupposes a Kind heart and a quick sympathy for others. There are native characteristics wanting which a smooth exterior is of little real value. Shall we not then cultivate good manners ? May we not ucquire a gentle courteous demean or to which we may not haye been bom? Most assuredly, but unless we conform to the law of development just expressed, we shall achieve no success worthy of the name. Let us suppose a harsh vindictive nature assuming the gentle manner of one who feels aod lives unselfishly. In a moment of forgetfulness, and Euch moments will come, the mask drops tff and discloses the real man that lives behind it. For those who behold the disclosure there is to possibility of forgetfulness, and for them the mask will not ooly fail to do its work, but will produce a sense of incon gruity that will give absolute discomfort. Duplicity never succeeds to any great ex tent. A greater amount of thought and force must be given than with a higher motive would be necessary to insure the genuine feeling whose outward expression we desire. If we feel kindly we shall act kindly. MEN WHO MAKE JOURNALISM. It has been remarked that very few men who "ct into journalism start out with such intention. They drift in accidentally, arc prompted as they develop capacity. Money, wealthy parents and iuflueuce are of no sort of service in getting a young man a place on a newspaper. There is no business tbat is so entirely independent of all these considerations as this. A wealthy father can easily get bis son a location to read law or medicine, or push him forward in almost any rank in life be may select ; but be IS llttPrlji ruMsartpaa tn (tn onuthinfi for him in a journalistic way. To be jure be may buy a newspaper, aud set him up in that way, but unless there is something in him called "journalistic knack," a natural knowledge of what to write aud how to write it, he will be a failure in that line, and all the money and influence of wealth and perhaps powerful relatives will count for nothing. Some fond parents educate their sons with the special view of making journalists of them ; but it is rare that we hear of these young men afie a few yeurs. Meanwhile, some youth born among fhe hills, having nothing .more than a common school education, and the knowledge scraped up in a couutry printing office, will advance to the fiont rank in the profession. He has Ihe journalistic knack, and forces recognition because he has it. He gets into a good posjUon, not because he has wealthy pareuts to influence the proprietors of leading newspapers, but because he knows what to jf rite and how to write it. His articles go io because they supply a demand, while perhaps the elaborate essays of a man educated on two continents are cast into the waste basket. Men arc as cold as hot as fire to falsehood. ice to the truth New Orleans owns 552 vessels, with a tonnage of 85,31 0. Twenty ouc are occean steaiiK-rs. Twelve hundred and Uliy-five vessels entecd t.c port ef .New Orleans in the past business year. About one-tenth of Arkansas is covered with Ihe yellow pine, which attains an .enormous siz.1. The consumption of grate and stove coal io Nashville has doubled within the pait two year?, while the consumption of ale-am coal bus trebled BALTIMORE'S LAST SENSATION. The Supponed Dead llutband Return to lAfe a Reformed Man and ILLrli Mer chant A SurprUed and Happy H le. Baltimore Special to the N. Y. Herald. Particulars have reached Baltimore of an exceedingly interesting and romantic case in Wilmington, Delaware. Thomas Patterson, brother of United States Dis trict Attorney Patterson, who disnppeared from Baltimore after bidding his young and lovely wife adieu some fifteen years ago, and was long supposed to have been dead, has appeard at Grand Rapids, Mich igan. 'Mrs. Potterson is the daughter of Mr. E. L. Rice, Jr., a wealthy citizen of Wilmington. Patterson's absence, after saying "good-bye" to his wife, was unex plained until bis relatives read in a news paper the description of an unknowo man who had been found dead in Erie, Pa. The body was subsequently identified by a brother of Patterson as that of the missing man, tbe letters T. P. in India ink on his arm being to him sonclusive evidence. Tbe body was interred in the family lot in Wilmington, and tbe tomb cared for and adorned with flowers, which were tenderly watered by the tears of the supposed widow. The discoveries just made show tbat Patterson, after falling into disrepu table habits, went to Texas nnd was cap tured by the Indians. He subsequently escaped and made his way to Michigan, where he amassed a comfortable fortune. A short time ago Mrs. Patterson, who stil resides with her parents in "ffiiuituniuu, was surprised lo receive an envelope bear ing the postmark of V, rand Bapids, and at ouce recognized the handwriting of her husban I. Tbe discovery at first seemed like a dream, but when the seal was broken and she hurriedly glanced at the signature her tond hopes were ful y realized. It conveyed the joyful intelligence that' -Mr. Thomas Patterson is a prosperous mer chat of a large city in Michigan; the communication further stated that the writer had years ago discarded all his bud habits, was leading the exemplary life of an honest, temperate man, and tbat by strict attention to business he had accumu lated u fortune. It is understood that he willl reteirn to Wilmington. Mrs. Patter son is still u beautiful womun, and has bad many suitors for her hand since the sup posed death of her husband, all of whom, of course, sho declined. HOW. TO TREAT RROIllERS. Girls, be kiud to ycur brother?. Don't be afraid you will spoil them by showing them plenty of sisterly atteution. They are tiresome chaps sometimes, consequential and over-bearing, treating their sisters like inferior beings. But nevermind that, girls; carry with you the two bears bear and forbear. The consequential age generally passe8eff with the growth of the incipient moustache, and when real manhcod dawns upon them, they will realize bow gentle and kind their sisters have been. Make home jjicttaui iu u.eui ; ili inetn see auu teeiyou enjoy their company sometimes equally as well as that of some other girl's brother. If you siug or play ou the piano, do your best lor brother Will or Bob, or w atever his name may be, aud reward bim with a smile when he turns over your music or gives up his Feat to you. j'.ist as you would any other gentleman. Lay aside your work or book to Lave a pleasant chat or iono cent game with your brother; draw out of him with whom and where he spcuds his evenirirs outside of the family circle. En courage him to speak of his a;Sociutes. A sister often has more influecce w ith a brother tl an a parent. If he can confide iu bis sister regarding bis friends aud amusemtnts, you need have no fear of how be spends his time away from you. Let him see that you take an interest in his studies or his business When he uks'you to sew ou a button or mend his glove, don't put on an aggrieved air.; do it cheerfully, willingly. He will reward you in bis secret heart with a wealth of brotherly love, though lie prny uot show it, for some think it unmanly lo elisplay uXection. Treat bis friend j with politeness, even if thry are cot your sty le. Throw all the safe guards you possibly can around your young brothers, by sisterly kindness and forbearance. Try to make home the happiest and dearest place on earth. InlcHifzt'iKcr. la D.illus county, Alabama, Fayet'.e Wright, u negro farmer, who had become thoroughly disgusted and tired of li'e be euurc of the dtst ruction of his rrop by worms, committed S'licido by 'jumping iu the rivtr at the en ssing near the M.itthew-. place. He stripped himself on the s mtb bank of the rivir atid deliberately walked in until he struck deep water, when he sack out of sight. He made no outcry. Seven negroes six of them convicts cere killed by a sudden slide in a ruilro.id cut at which they were working near Lex iugtou, Va. RELIGIOUS NEWS- From Sunday's Raleigh Observer. Wake Forest College opened with 97 students, and every day has added to the number. The Methodists of Goldsboro nre build ing a new parsonage and a new chnch, both to be elegant. The First Baptist church, Richmond, Va., raised last year for all Duroosea S3D . 000. It has 8G0 members. There are 591 conversions reported from the North Carolina Conference in the last issue of the Christian Advocate- The Western Baptist convention will meet at Franklin, Macon county, on Thurs day before the third Saobath in October. A single Mothodist college, the Ohio Wesleyao University, is represented by two mi sionaries in Japan, sjx in China, three in.India, one in,Italy, two in South America, and one in Mexico. Rev. William S. Bynum, an Episcopal clergyman. from Winston, N. C, is in Mor gantoo with bis family,nd will make that place his headquarters, and will be engaged as visiting minister to the churches in that section. The Freedmen's Aid .Society of the Methodist Episcopal Cnurcii is nuking ar rangements to establish two high schools for tbe education of teachers in schools for whites. They will be situated near Chat tanooga, Tenn., and Little R)ck, Ark. The seventh church congress of the Pro testant Episcopal church will be held in Provideuce, Rhode Island, on Sunday, October 25, continuing four days. Among the subjects to b-j discussed, seemingly very inappropriate, is that of "Civil-Service reform." The ninth triennial conference of Young Men's Christian Association of all lands met in London July 30. About 500 dele gates, representing nearly 3,000 associa. lions, attended. One of the most important aeldrcfses was made by the Early of Shaftes bury who was the first president of an association of this kind. The Southern Presbyterian Church has two churches. in the province of l'ernam buco, Brazil and two other .congregations. A third congregation bus baen broken np by persecution. It has iu all about forty members, but has harJ work i i making headway. The conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church in South Carolina have established Allen University at Columbia, b. C, for the instruction of colored -youth io the Southern Slates, as teachers und . ministi rs, whoaie not able to go to the more distant institutions of the denomina tion. The Ecumenical Conference met in Lon don on the 9;h. Elaborate preparations have been made for the conference. Tbe Southern Methodist church has eight men on the programme pf exercises, namely : Bishop McTyeire, Dr. McFerrin, Dr. A. w . vv iisou, ui- a . a.. Vw., Andrews, Dr. Marshall, Dr. Potter and Miiler. HE HIT HIM ON THE HEAD. In one of the Justice's Courts the other day a farmer was defendant in a case qf assault and battery. The plaintiff had no witness, while the defeudant had his wife, and the plaintiff's lawyer in.de up in his mind that it was u gone case. He was bracing up, however, To do his best, whep the charges was read to the defendant. Tbe wife was deeply interested in every phrase, and her face changed from sober to serious and from serious to horror as the reading went ou : '-Did then and there and with u.ufcis aforethought beat, wound, bruise, assault and greatly dam " ' Hold ou !' she cried at this point, 'spy husband never did tbat in bis life. I was right there and saw it all. All be did was to jump out of tbe wagon and hit the man a clip ou the eye and knock him into the ditch.' ' That'll do there ! there!' put in ber husband's lawyer ; but she went on : 'He just hit him once and inly once1, and I'd s.vear to it ! Half an hour later, after her husbanj had paid $13 fine and costs, she wus beard to sigh : ' I'm sorry. John ; but when the'y went on with that beating aud pounding and malice and aforethought, I was sure you weuld gel twenty years in prison, and it broke mo down. You cum sell my cow this full te make up for this.' Nashville is to have a iiiaiiiolh manufac tory of barrels, hubs spokes, uxe handles, etc. ' Forty three wool growers iu Tom (Jreeue county, Texas, sheared the past spring 1 'l 10 pounJj of wool.