The Greensboro patriot [May 8, 1884]

              THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT.
ESTABLISHED IN 1825. GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MAYS, 1884. NEW SERIES, NO, 9(M>
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The Wealth iil'ihc PreaMeats.
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ii. < irant is estimated at 9200,-
000, which makes liim tbe richest
ex ['resident since Bnchanan. n.
Ii. Hayes is no! rich, though in a,
well to do condition. Andy .luhu-
IIHI Abraham Lincoln each left
000. Frank I'II rceentered the
White Bouse poor, but went back
to Concord worth 160,000. Mlllard
Pillmore made a snug fortune ont
law, inn! was comparatively
■ lie became oar ['resident.
In n Taylor saved bis army salary
in independent circum-
» I rii elected to tbe Presi-
He held the office hardly
iid n half, and left property
b -".II.noo. Tyler was n bank-
M lien the death of Harrison
him President, and be mar-i
Ibrtmie in Mi.-s Gardiner.
nut of office a rich man.
became a leader in the Con-icy,
and bis property was
rpncral ruin occasion-
; he war. James K. I'olk bad
opportunity to make money
Ins elect ion. and be » as an
mist by nature. He left 1150,-
Martin Van r.uren was the
i nil our Presidents, his
. *timated at 8800,000.
Hi made money as a lawyer and
i politician, and bil real es-purchases
became immensely
lable, luit his money lias been
- i n tirely wasted by his heirs.
Am, It B as not a inoiiry
ng nun. lie lived nine years
pil ition nt bis term of
. and left only a large lauded
i Mini;,only known as the
Hermitage. John (juiucy Adams
a methodical business man
ami an economist, He left about
Young Meu. Head Thl-..
In the current number of the
York Independent Kev. Teodore L.
Cnyler, D.D., preaches a plain,
practical sermon to our young
men on •'Where Do You- Spend
Eveniugs!" lie says: "It 1 were
a merchant, and a young man ap-plied
to me tor employment in any
responsible position, one of the
Oral questions that 1 would ask
him would be: Where do you spend
your evenings! The answer to
that question would go very far to
ward determining whether he were
the man to be trusted or not. In
the rural regions evening common-ly
signifies a quiet fireside after the
labors of the simp or farm, it is
of young men in the cities and the
large towns that I am thinking
now. Some of them are living un-der
a parental roof; tens of thou-sands
are in boarding houses; le-gions
of them are 'on the road" and
lodging in hotels. For those who
still reside at home, the parents are
still responsible. The primal duty
of every father and mother is to
make home attractive to the. boys
anil girls. When a boy begins to
dislike bis home and seeks to es-cape
from it, be has very often
reached the iirst mile stone on the
road to 'the bad;' and for this dis-like
his parents may be more than
halt' responsible. 1 entreat every
father and mother to see to two
things. The one is that there own
dwellings be made just as attrac-tive
as possible and a bright, open
Children in C'liurrli. from (tie
At tbe conference of Congrega-tionalists
in Philadelphia last week
a lay member asked why so many 11Qt f ^stockto, <■„, 8nllka
of tbe children of chitrcL members I
are leaving tbe Church. Was it
f.ood Water and Good Fuel
Same Well.
.s.n Fraro-inoj Bulli-tin.l
Cutler Salmon, of French Camp,
the fault of the Sunday school! or
ol parents? or of the minister!
We might extend tbe question, and
ask: why does a boy. or a girl,
brought up tinder tbe influences of
any church, stray away as soon as
iHlnlt age is reached and become
indifferent to religion! Either the
parent or the minister or tbe Sun-day
school is to blame. They have
had unlimited charge of the child
during the whole period when be
is most susceptible to influence,
anil when an impression once made
will last for life. Why is he indif-ferent
to religion or quite as often
annoyed or disgusted with it! Our
readers who are parents and pro
well with a seven-inch tube to a
depth of about 840 feet and struck
a copious stream ot excellent water.
Desiring to learn whether he could
increase tbe flow by going deei>ex,
and fearing that, should he con-tinue
the well the same size, he
might injure the quality of the up-
, per strata of water, Mr. Salmon hit
' on the plan of staking u four inch
tube inside of the seveu-inch one,
i and thus making what might be
1 called tbe experimental well four
; inches in diameter. This inner one
i he bored to a depth of 1,250 feet,
j and then came to water again.
; This lower stream came to tbe sur-j
face, and, indeed, rose in a tube
twenty-two feet above the grouud.
The last water found was uuflt for
less to be Christians can have no j drinking:, and but lor an accidental
more important subject to con
aider.
They have their boy or girl for a
very limited period. When tbe
child is a baby they start with in-numerable
theories about it; it
seems as il they had limitless time
before them in which to carry these
theories out. But hardly have
they settled down fairly to work,
when, presto! the child stamis be-side
them a man or a woman, with
its own ideas and theories, and
their chance is over forever. Of
course, the father and mother be-lieve
that the one sure basis for the
lire will pay ten-fold more than it i child's life is faith in Christ. Hut
costs as a 'means of grace" to your I »■■• B«ve they actually done to
family. The other is, be careful
bow you trust your boys with a
night key. If you itnoir where he
is, very well; if you band him a
night key, and do not know what or
care whither he goes with it, you
may tind out one of these days to
your soirow. N, sagacious father
said to me yesterday: 'The anchor-
»./' of my children has always been
a bright, happy home.' That man
has never seen one of his sons
wrecked on the rocks of riiiii-
Thousands of young men really
sum, James Monroe was so
in his old age that be bee
Il - Hill in law, Samuel
I., (iotiverneur, in this city, where
,iil. Madison was more sue
eessfnl in taking care, of his money
and left his widow a property which
enabled hei to live handsomely in
Washington till the cud of her
days. Jefferson passed his last
days in much distress and was
really afraid that his place would
be sold by the sheriff, lie was an
, l of public charity ami sub
i - opeuod in bis behalf
in this city, but Ins death occurred
0.000, which at that time was a have UO home except the parlor of
a boarding bouse, and no domestic
property except a trunk in a third
Story bed-room.
"But however a voting man may
be situated, the evening hours
bring to him certain temptations
and perils. The day's work is over
and nature craves recreation. No
one understands this natural neces-sity
than the devil, and be makes
the most of it. The evening in his
harvest time; then lie opens his
numberless doorways of tempta
give it that faith! At the most,
probably, taught it its prayers
when it was a baby, told it the
stories of Joseph and Samuel and
the rest, sent it to Sunday school
and to church. But how many
mothers make themselves at home
in a young girl's heart, know her
hopes and longings, her fine, sen
sitivc fancies, and bring her to the
living Saviour, who can answer
them all, to put her hands in His !
How many fathers are intimate
friends of their sons or would ven-ture
to say a word to them of that
one helper who can make their lives
strong and worthy I There is a
strong reticence in most familii g, a
reluctance to speak upon this sub-ject—
the tenderest and most pro-found
of all. Yet the nature of
every educated, thoughtful hoy
and gill goes through a period of
groping uncertainly, of intolerable
loneliness before it finds its place
and work for life. Who is so tit to
stretch ont a guiding hand, then,
as the lather or mother? If the
discovery of its wonderful proper
ties might have been considered a
nuisance. It was found that t'lere
was a large amount ot gas in this
water from the lower depth. This
came bubbling to the surface, mak-ing
one think of a gigantic soda
fountain.
Some one suggested the idea of
seeing if the gas would burn. A
coal oil can was put over the top of
the tubing, and, having a few holes
punched in it. an improvised gas
fixture was at hand. Only a match
was required to complete the pre-parations.
The match was lighted
and applied to a hole in the can,
and flames shot up three or four
feet in the air and burned steadily.
The gas would burn. Mr. Salmon
had tire and water coming out of
the same hole in the ground. The
tube of the outer well, that which
was only 'S40 feet deep and furnish-ed
the good water, was tapped, and
sufficient water for all domestic
uses and lor the stock, &c, was led
off in pipes to the house and other
localities. A curbing was built
around the twin wells in such a
way that it formed a reservoir for
the water from tbe 1,200 foot level,
and that portion from above which
was not conveyed away in the
pipes. All through this water in
the reservoir came bubbling up the
gas. generated somehow, some-where
down below. When Mr.
Salmon next went to Stockton he
had a gasometer made with a stop-cock
in the top. and this he took
home and fastened over his wells.
The bottom was beneath the sur-face
of the water in the reservoir,
and tin- gas speedily tilled the bell-shaped
receiver. The next thin
Artlvlty In Cotton .Mill Building at tlie ' Srleure and Religion. Where do we Gel Our Sabballi I
s«»ih. When one observes the Iriendlv At the regular weekly meeting
.,,, !M"""ff;,,r'' R«OM.. | and co-operative relations which of the Baptist Ministers in New
,J-.l. ' 1 ?° i. up ln tue "I"* ; maintain to day between the pro- York last week. Rev. Dr. Evarts
fmiinlts a„mii tSberSeiFilar— "ew cotto" i tenors of religious truths and the read a paper on "Where Do We
mills at the South
taltS* r ," q * r"U,U,ber of ' ••»<>« while ago the advocates of
important enterprises of this kind the one side and the other were at
mills and the enlargement ot old I investigators, f science, it Is almost j Find Our Christian Sabbath !" He
the I impossible to imagine that but a | said that it was an admitted fact
have taken shape. The Durham
Cotton Mill Co., of Durham, X. C,
have placed au order for their en-tire
machinery, including 8,500
spindles; the Columbia Cotton Mill
Co., of Columbia, Tenn., have com-menced
work on a $175,000 mill;
negotiations are now pending for
the machinery of a $50,000 mill iu
Trenton, Teuu., and for oueof 3,000
spindles at Y adkin's Falls, >.'. C.
The Nashville, Tenn., Cotton Mills
have decided to more than double
their capacity, and have given or-ders
tor about 4,000 spindles and
other machinery ; while the Char-leston,
S. C, Manufacturing Co.,
are increasing their spindles from
10,000 to 21,000. The Mouutain
Island Mills, of North Carolina,
lately purchased by Messrs. W. J.
Hooper & Son, of this city, will be
enlarged and about 4,000* spindles
hitter war with each other. It is
not so long ago since the publica-tion
of the results of an investiga-tion
whicli differed with the pre-vailing
notion of the existiug order
would cause the publisher to be
branded as an infidel and an enemy
to society. No matter how thorough
or how sincere the investigations
of the author, his publication wag
at once placed upon the index ex-purgatoriiis,
and he was held forth
to society as a dangerous man.
The scientific man. finding himself
placed in opposition to the religious
Sentiment, convinced of the truth
of his researches, maintained his
position, hurled his arguments of
tact against his accusers, and be-littled
them as shallow scholastics.
This led to skepticism and suspi-cion
of the logic of scientific les-soning
on the one band, ami ag
added, making 8,000 in this mill nostieisiii ami rationalism on tbe
by the fall. If. Morgan, Laurel! other
Hill, X. C, is enlarging his factory The two were at daggers' points.
and putting m weaving machinery. | Hut the truths of religion and of
C.wyi). Harper & Co., Patterson, science are too mighty to be sue.
N. C, have made large additions cessfullv resisted bv' man. All
truths are of one family, ami cauuot
be kept separated by the efforts of
man. As the keen edge of animus
iiy began to wear off, the apparent
inconsistencies became explainable,
turn. fben he lights up his places parent has kept in sympathy with u.ls ,„ attach a gas pipe, and con
of enchantment—brings out his
dice-boxes, and cards, and chain-ii
thai the benevolent effort I pague bottles, and billiard tables.
required. Old John Adams and roulette boards; then be tnnes
II estate worth $30,000. Wash-1 horns and violins, and flings wide
iugton «as ii rich man for his day, open his crimsoned andchandelier-ilis
wealth being solely due to mar rd gateways to sensual indulgence.
Mount Vernon was not a It is in the 'black and dark night'
re property, but Mrs. Cos-1 that the shameless wanton prowls
tis brought him a large fortune, the street in quest of 'the young
which she inherited from her first man void of understanding1—yes.
husband. Viewing our Presidents ■ and of some gray-headed tools like-merely
pecuniary estimate wise. So successful are these vari-ous
baits of the tempter that if all
the young men who have spent any
one evening in dangerous places
could be mustered the next morn-ing
in a mass meeting, its size
would be appaling, and the compo-sition
of it would strike many a
parental eye with honor. After
thirty one years of close observa
tion of city life, 1 am no' surprised
that so many a mother's son is led
astray; 1 only wonder that soinany
escape destruction.
"The best antidote to all danger-ous
places and pleasures is to find
safe ones. Where and what are
they! A wholesome home, of
course, stands first. As long as
there are huiidiids ol men in New
l ork fit) . each of whom could buy
out lii • whole ol them. When one
contemplates their true worth, how-s
how utterly poor
mi ie wealth bee is in compari-
\ Cienulue l-'ri-e Trader*
Trllei.
A grocer who had announced
himself as a candidate for the Leg-islature,
and who was trying to
egro votes by explaining
free i rade would benefit the
-si I.ice. called old John into
Store one day and said :
•Look here, old man. 1 regard
i kind leader among your
people—a kind of Moses, in fact."
■•Bleeged ter yer, sab, fur de
compel ineni." removing his hat and
bowing with that half-comical
gravity so characteristic of an old
"You cannot afford to pay exor-bitant
puces for the necessaries of
life." continued the grocer, opening
dint" up key and closing the
i door. ■■The [tepablicans
,out friends, yet they
il in favor of free trade, ai
though thej know that it would
• I) help j on."
■•YesseTs in fnber o' free trade,
ilcll.
"Yes, anil 1 am going to run for
I in- Legislature mi that principle."
"(Had ter know it. sail, an' ef
■lilt's ile shine yer's gwine to cut, I
■ j se'i dal ef trade wuz a
i dar would be a better
fur de po' folks. Wall, er
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-■lii-liicmhcl
John."
-1 I lb."
.lust us the merchant turned
. | l.iini look up a small sack
■ HI. held I in froill of him and
il -low I) loward.- the door.
chant observed the move
and exclaimed:
luld on. there!
ids grown child as he was with th
baby, and if his own laitfa is real
and warm to him, he will bring it !
like water of life to this thirsty,
struggling soul. If he does n t.
who will ! Vet in nine cases out ot
ten he shifts his responsibility to
the Sunday school ami to the
church. Let us see now how tlicy
perform their task.
We have no wish to call in ques-tion
the general usefulness of the
Sunday school, especially to chil-dren
who have no religious train-ing
at home. There is an admira-ble
system of routine teaching in
use; large sums of money are col
lccted from the children lor mis-sionary
work, and tin- discipline of
teaching is, no doubt, helpful to
the young teachers, lint is Ibis
mechanical system likely to • o
more at best than to give the child
a parrot like knowledge of histori-cal
facts and theological dogmas ,11
the Bible? Is it likely to awaken
any fervid, actual wish in the boy
and girl to lead a pure, truthful.
devout life! What leal feeling of
charity and brotherly help does iI
gain from the penny dropped in
the box for the vague, invisible,
unreal heathen 1 Are the young
what I hive said.
you are tethered there you may
live in happy ignorance ofmanifold
things which a pure heart should lads and girls who as a rule, teach
not wish to know; tor blessed U '" ,lie Sunday -school persons to
the youth who does not know /„„ vrl.om parents would confide their
much. No matter how plain or , important busiuess affairs 1 It not.
cheap your boarding quarters may »«* U*J "\»« '"' [i"' ,'1'"'1 c»8t°
be. my young friend, if TOO have d.ausot a child a soul, or to direct
plenty ot good books yon may its opinions and beliefs for life on
spend many an evening in company the most momentous of all ques
1401181 Ilia word, is any parent
who is a Christian justified in turn
ing over its child to the Sunday
school for religious instruction '
But, the parent answers,there is
the church, with its services and
sound teaching. Let us come down
at once to hard facts. How many
sermons are preached iu the course
of a year which would interest, or
could even be understood,by a boy
or girl of 10, I- or even 1.1 \ens of
age! Let out ministers answer to
their On n consciences. ((lie of our
clergymen, now a venerable old
man. has been iu the habit of
preaching once a month to the chil-dren
of his palish. But so unusual
was the custom and so welcome an
innovation that these sermons of
his are published and known all
over the English speaking world.
We know other exceptions to the
general rule. The boy or girl goes
Iroiii Sunday school to tin'church
and sits during the wearisome dis
fit for a king. Shim every book
that stirs lewd passion, or that
shakes your faith in your mother's
God, as you would slum a rattle
snake. Don't ask to be cveiiast.
iiigly milu.scil; it is the mark of a
bad mind when a young man
cares for nothing but Inn and frolic.
"As for the whole matter of re
creations, 1 will give you one
wholesome rule. Everyamusement
or creation which makes the body
healthier, the mind stronger, the
heart purer, is right. Let the oth
ers alone. Whatever you think of
with a twingle of conscience or an
Ugly lisle in your memory next
morning, never do. It is a good
rule never to spend an evening iu
such a manner that you cannot pi iv
with a clean conscience wbell you
go to bed.
•T pity the young man win is
without acquaintances among the
other sex. Spare no pains tn put
one or more female friendship be
neot his home-made gas machine
with the bouse.
He put a pipe perforated with
small holes across his large open
lire place, turned on the gas; ap-plied
a match, and the problem of
cheap fuel was instantly solved.
After that gas pipe was pat into
the lire box of the kitchen stove,
and now the meals are prepared
with the new fuel. Mr. Salmon
has also used this gas for illumina
ting, but it iloes not seem to en-tirely
till the bill, although it is a
great improvement on a tallow dip.
It has been suggested that, as this
gas seems to be almost pure hydro-gen,
it might tie earbuietted and
its illuminating quality improved.
The gas throws off a great amount
of heat, and, without doubt, such l
a well would supply a large num-ber
of families with tbe means ot
warming their bouses and prepar-ing
their tood.
Southern l-'i-tilu anil Vegetable*.
•.MiiU.Mi.l.in Pre* Mar l»i.]
• I •caches! Well, hardly yet,"
said a fruit dealer ill front of the
Fifth Str.et Market, when asked
when expected to receive a stock
of the favorite fruit; •'because, you
see. tbe weather has been iinusus
ally unfavorable for their ripening.
Last year we received the first
crate on May 15. This year it will
be a week or ten days later. Of
course, that refers to field grown
fruit, and not to the hothouse vari-ety,
wuich does not possess that
delicious natural flavor. Come
to their machinery; the Athens,
Ga., Manufacturing Co., have late-ly
received considerable new cotton
machinery; while a number of other
Southern mills are increasing their
capacity.
At Kockiugham, N. C, the new
Itobcrde! Mill is just getting 3,000
spindles and 100 looms into posi-tion.
A $100,000 cotton and wool-en
mill has been organized at Tal
ladega, Ala., and one with a capi
tal of •126,000 at KnoxviUe.Teun.;
at Fayetteville, N. ('., a hosiery
factory will soon be started ; and
at Columbus. Ga., two mills are
proposed—the Eagle ami Phosnix
Co. having voted to build a $700,-
000 mill, and a number of other
capitalists having decided to erect
another mill in that town. At
l'ulaski, Tenn.. a company with a
capital of 8100,000 has been organ-ized
to purchase and greatly en-large
the cotton mill now in opera-tion
there. Roauoke, \ a., has rais-ed
within a few thousand dollars
(and this will soon be forthcoming)
of the required amount needed for
a $200,000 cotton factory, and
Lynchburg, in the same State, has
about made sure of a 8400,000 mill.
Selma, Ala., has received a propo-sition
from Northern capitalists to
put $L,00,0(MI into a mill in that
city, provided tin'
Secured in Selma ; and offers of tin
kind are now before quite a number
of other Southern cities There
are also a large number of impor-tant
woolen maiiufactniiiig enter-prises
that have jus! been organiz-ed.
This .summary is uierrl.v of w hat
has been done iu less than two
months, and from it some idea can
lie gained of the activity in enlarg-ing
old mills and the building of
new ones. If we were to include
all the cotton mill enterprises in-augurated
at tbe South since Jan-uary
1st. they would represent
more ban double the capital re-quired
for the building of the mills : organized in the city of Baltimore,
,.;. ,.„ j„ ||,jg |j„t. j and Thomas Coke and Francis As-
! bury were chosen its Siipeiititen
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The "Pnor Heathen."
According to Mrs. Knox, of F.l-mira,
who delivered an address
that man required one day of rest
in seven. Among the Hebrews,
the most historical people of the
world, seven was always held as a
sacred number. Noah waited seven
days before sending out the dove,
and again seven days before leav
ing the ark. Job's trieuds watched
with him seven days and seven
nights before opening their mouths
in words of counsel. Jacob served
for the daughter ot Labau twice
seven years, and Jacob's sous ob-served
this Sabbath period of
mourning for their father and agaiu
for their brother. Seven weeks
were reckoned from the Passover
to the Pentecost, and at feasts
seven lambs were offered a day.
The Feast of the Tabernacles and
of the Atonement fell on the
seventh month. Seven days for
purification, seven days for lament-ing
the dead, seven for celebrating
marriage. Seventy went down in-to
Egypt. There were seventy
leaders of the tril»es, and tbe exile
into Babylon lasted seventy years.
Seven notes compose the musical
scale, seven colors the prismatic
scale. The Sabbath is so wrought
into the nature of man that its
elimination would efface the divine
likeness ami mar his entire being.
Tbe Sabbath day is a permanent
institution. The Seventh Day was
and the complementary natures of in totea until the day of our Lord.
religion and science understood.
until now it is universally admitted
that a thorough scientific searcher
must be a religious man, if his re-sults
are to have a permanent in-fluence
for the benefit of mankind.
Tbe man of science is a searcher
after truth, ami iu order to be pro-perly
prepared for this adventure
he must be equipped With a Chris-tian
courage and fortitude which
fear no obstacles and hesitate at
no consequences. The battle is a
hard one; for the precious truths
are reluctant to come forth from
their biding places, and only
submit to him who has tough't.
bravely and manfully for victory
who has turned neither to the right
nor to the left, but who has been in-spiral
only by au enthusiasm to
learn Cod and nature. The temp-tations
are great, tbe byways ninny
and fascinating, and it is iu pro
portion as the investigation is im-bue.
I with religious sentiment that
his results am valuable to mankind,
ln return for this valuable aid
which religioi
same amount is | latter gives to religion the advan
tagesof its investigations to make
clearer and brighter the great
truths of the universe. This great
change which has taken place in
the relations between the profes-sors
of religion and of science is
remarkable when we consider the
comparatively short time in which
it has been brought about. Their
present harmonious co operation
speaks volumes for the liberality
and progressivenrss of the age-
The >lnhodl-.T Gesaral rtiufereiii-e.
Onw hundred years ago next
December the Methodist Episcopal
Church ot the United Slates was
The resurrection the tlrst day of
the week was the signal for the
transfer of worship to that day.
As the Lord of the old Sabbath tlie
shadow was buried with him. The
first day sums up the threefold
celebration - the creation, tbe re-demption,
the resurrection. It is
not strange, therefore, that the
churches following the teachings
of the Lord, His holy Apostles and
holy spirits, everywhere gradually
substituted the first for the seventh
day.
IV i i.l IJfc
last week before the Presbyterian |
Women's Foreign Mission Society, j
in New York, the whole of Chris
teudom gives -only $(i,ooo,000 a
year, or six tenths of a cent each, j
for tlio conversion of the heathen."
It seems to us that six millions a |
year is far from an insignificant
sum. It is, indeed, an etiori is
contribution toward the conversion
! of the heathen, and must represent j
a vast amount of individual self-denial.
Instead of speaking contemptu- j
ously of this magnificent offering,
I Mrs! Knox had reason for astonish
incut that the great Bow of money
I'ensriU
Ufodara Asa
It appears from the gathered
statistics of the world that women the East
have a greater tenacity of life than
men. Nature worships the female
iu all its varieties. Among insects
the male perishes at a relatively
early period. Iu plants the semi
mite blossoms die earliest, and are
produced in the weaker limbs. Fe-male
quadrupeds have more endur-ance
than males. In the human
race, despite the intellectual ami
gives to science, the I physical strength of the man, the
' woman endures longest, and will
bear pain to which the strong man
succumbs. Zymotic diseases are
more fatal to males, ami more male
children die than females. Deverga |
asserts that the proportion dying
.suddenly is about 100 women to
780 men; 1,080men iii the United
States, In 1«7", committed suicide '
to 38S women. Intemperance, ajai
plexy, gout, bydrocephalu", utl'ec
lions of the Ii -all or liver, scrofula,
paralysis, are far more fatal to
male than females. Pulmonary
consumption, on the other hand, is
more dead)} to the latter. Females
in cities are more prone to c.oiisiimp-lion
than in the country. All old |
countries not disturbed by imigra
tion have a majority ot females iu I
the population. Iu royal families i
the statistics show more daughters
than sons. The Hebrew w. man is ,
ptlOlially sllol! lived. \
The married state is favorable to ,
prolongation of life among women, j
Dr. Hough remarks that then are j
from twotosix percent more males
born than Centals, yet there is more
than six per cent excess of females
in the living populations. From !
which satistics we conclude that |
all women who can possibly obtain |
one of these rapidly departin.' men
ought to marry.and that, as men un-likely
to become so \er.v scarce,
they cannot lie suflicicntU prized
bv till' othc: sex.
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Tao maay Pages.
IDatrohFreePrto.l
Three or four miles out of East
Point, Ga, a negro was taken very
sick a few weeks ago. A brother
of color, who bad bought himself a
cheap medical treatise, volunteered
to cure the patient for four bushels
of sweet potatoes. He had not
doctored him over three days, how-ever,
before the patient was cold iu
death. A white doctor living in
the town happened to JC passing
and was called in. When he had
tasted the medicine, which was in a
gallon jug, he asked:
"What disease did vou doctor
for?"
'•Poll-evil, sab."
"What! Who every bearofa man
having poll-evil 1 That is ahorse
disease."
The other at once opened his book
to page 79, and said:
''Beckon you'l find it right dar,
sab."
"Yes'" said tbe doctor, as he
thumbed the leaves over, '-but the
diseases of man are not found iu
this department. This is beaded,
'Ailments of Live Stock.'"
'•Fo'de Lawd!'gasped the negro.
a* he snatched the book and hur-riedly
turned the leaves; '|„- ,|c.
Lawd if I didn't turn over five
pages too mrny! 1 meant to hit
him for consiiinpshun au billyiu
fever."
A <;enerimh senalur.
iv -ii:. WaaUastea i.
While talking with Senator Wade
Hampton last evening a daughter
of the lute Keverdy Johnson came
up with au autograph album iu her
hand. This book was for tbe names
only cf United states Senators.
The purpose of this lady is to raise
a little contribution towards I In-founding
ot a hospital for helpless
Southern soldiers at Richmond, a
work so laudable that it would be
like an offense to argue the duty
and glory it. This book is to be
sold when filled to an\ one who
will pay tin- most for it I'.ach
Senator has subscribed $,".. But
the one thing which the beautiful
lady with radiant face came iu
baste to tell Hampton was this:
One United Senator—was he from
the North ! was he from the South '
ir the West ? it was a K
cut and a precious one and sacred
—this Senator modestly set down
the little $o,UOt Willing to be know u
as giving more than some ol his
fellow Senators who are not rich,
and then slyly handed her a check
large enough to set two decimals to
the right. Ah! there is heart in
this world after all, and don't you
despair for humanity.
dents or Bishops. The newly or
1 ganized society numbered at that
time 14,988 members, less than two, ,..,Ceptionallv long bv.d, lln eolol
thousand ot whom were north of ,.,, ,„.,„ (,X(:,.,,tionallv short live.
Mason and Dixon s line, 84 preach
around in a month from now and to spread the (iospel in the heathen
you can see some peaches, and | J^^contTnued'lo be"ao"great',
good ones, too despite tbe stubborn refusal of
Other fruits were, found to b«-
rather high priced. Choice Bart-let!
pears, although going ont of
market, sold at twenty-five cents
each without any trouble. The
sweet little seckels were scarce,
and what few could bo found com
niandcd "I'.Icents a quart. Jamaica
oranges seem to have become fa-vorites,
even over the sweet Flori-das
or Mcssinas. Sixty cents a
dozen is the pi ice asked. Straw
beirics are iu demand at from forty
to seventy live cents a box, accord
iny to ripeness and reputation. The
Llewellyn variety holds first place.
Tlmrc an- no new apples in market
yet, and old apples from New York
State—Baldwius, pippins and the
like sell as high as 40 cents a half
peck.
In the vegetable market prices
uniformly high- Georgia
heathendom to be converted.
Bather let her ask, What are the
results accomplished by means of
so vast an annual expenditure!
Are these millions so laid out as
ta produce the best effect, or is
much of" the money squandered be-cause
it is devoted to the mainte-nance
of the missions of rival re-ligious
denominations and the
teaching of more or less conflicting
riligions doctrines! How many
genuine converts are actually made
yearly among the heathensl
Besides, paganism i« uow spread-ing
throughout Christendom at a
most alarming rate. Infidelity is
menacing tlie Church iu Europe
and America as never before. It
seems to US. iheiefoie. that Chris
tiatlS have their bauds full at home.
Take New York, lor instance;
ers and 40 circuits. During the
present week the General Confer-ence,
which is the great legislative
body of this church, meets in Phila
delphia for a five weeks' session.
It will witness the most marvelous
growth as the result of the work of
a century ever accorded to any re
ligions body which wrought bj
such methods and insisted on its
rigid requirements as prerequisite
to church membership. Its four
teen thousand members have grown
lo a million and three quarters and
its eighty four preachers are suc-ceeded
by nearly twenty five thou
s-.uid. The few scattering places
of worship of a century ago are
succeeded i>y nearly nineteen thoii
sand church buildings, valued at
seventy millions of dollars. Its
Sunday schools, unknown as a
brunch of the church work at that
time, contain now nearly two mil-lions
ol scholars and teachers. To
these amazing figures should be
added those of the Methodist Epis-copal
Chinch South, which seceded
from the parent body on the slav-ery
question and which c prises
in the neighborhood of a million of
communicants, with preachers,
houses of worship and Sunday
sol Is in proportion
l-'a\rtlt-tille'k IIIMHH.
-HI,
Messrs.'!'. C. Worth, lepicsenl
ing the Worthville Cotton Manu
fad II ring Company, Mr. Did.--.
representing a Cotton Factory at
or near Baudleman, and .1. W.
Scott, of the Enterprise Uanufac
luring Company, were all in town .
Saturday. I hey came down to
perfect arrangements for buying all
ibei cotton from this place hereaf-ter.
They say :
•■ We can afford to give 75ceuts
more on the bale, for cotton, in
Fayetteville, than iu Wilmington;
or in other voids, we simply save
7,"> cents pel' bale, which with us is
no inconsiderable item."
What greater evidence of tbe re
turning prosperity of our town
could be shown! she is fast re
gaining her old friends and custn
luers of Moore, Chatham, Ciiilfoi'd,
ltaiiilolph, &C
Evidences of the benefits that
ar.se from our Southern exteusion,
ills . present themselves every day
Even the old croakers will have
to admit that we an- verily on a
boom—a good, solid, lasting boom.
Wiiilrrlii;jMu-p|i uti ** il«i lliilim*.
.K»yHuvii!« Obmrvar.]
A few days ago while conversing
with Mr. N. G. Wade, who lives
about 14 miles front Fayetteville,
we learned that he had that day-sold
a flock of sheep iii this market,
and at satisfactory prices. Upon
further inquiry he informed us that
be pastured his sheep all the win
ter in a large field whicli was liter-ally
covered with ••wild onions."
He stated that this kind of food
was not only highly relished by the
sheep, lull they "keep fat''on it all
the time. Tin urns gn-w during
the Fall and Winter, a.ul the tops,
which is the pail the sheep eat, die
down on approach ol Summer.
Thus solving a much mooted ques
The present General Conference ,j(lll. how |„ furnish cheaply slice])
will have before it some very im w,||, green food during the winter
portant subjects relating to tbe months. On one acre enough on-future
policy of the chinch. j0)ia ,-an be raised, (for they spread
siale Normal School.. rapidly, and never di I unless
The list Ot the normals in the plowed up)
State is as follows: University, sheep. The
to winter about fifty
only possible conjee
'I Ii,' l.ri-jl l:n^ti<li I'rcurhci -.
[Prof. Mattaein m i!„ Hal
All American who has been ae
cii.-tomed to bearing the great rep
rescntative preachers of his own
country iu the largest cities is SUI
prised lo learn that, With a few ex
! ceptions, the ablest and most elo
qilclit divines ot' England lire ttot
to be found ill the pulpits of the
great metropolis. Within a few
years there has been a decided de-cline
in the pulpit oratorj of Lon-don.
Thomson, Magee. Alford,
; Goulblim and lioyd have been lost
{ by cathedral or church elevation;
j the Bishop of Peterboio, the most
eloquent of Episcopal preachers,
has gone to the North : It W. Dale,
tin- ablest and most scholarly ol
the Congregational preacher-, is at
Birmingham: Mr. Maclaren, the
most thoughtful and polished ol all
the Baptist preachers, is at Man
cheater, ami Mr. Martiuean, the
most, powerful champion of I liita
nanism, occupied, till be ceased
preaching, a pulpil in Liverpool.
The .Mlton^ Hi,nin.
..-,ili-i.urv Wal
There an- 395 stamps I'or crush
ing ore in North Carolina, and in
addition, Other crushing or reduc-ing
machinery equal to Mil stamps,
total nowel for ore reduction
fabei o'free trade! Co'se yer did
au1 I thought I'dergree widyer. A
1 not bin' whut's free.
I use In kain'. Ef I'd cr
wanted tei steal I'd er tuck one o'
Ls 'stead o' dis little
Didn't want ter ride a free
Il i death."
.ill a policeman and
have -,il."
"Wh '( .,-: Van u free-
Yeisc'l's de wus'
win;.- in.iii I tbei seel. Ileah.take
Cot crickets an1 bugs
in it, do how." II nil reaching the
il ' he lui ii il and ad.led : -Tti I
dal if yer gits my vote yer's
llillg me down an' take it
Ii
social gatherings will anchor yon
from drifting away from your moth-ei's
Bible and liom I be faith of
your childhood. Finally, reinem
bcr.niv young trieud.that what you
earn during the day goes into your
pocket: but what you earn during
the evening hours and Oil I lie Sab
bath got* intu your chorm'•''•"
llioiiltl 111 Te»a-
Advices from western Texas are
lo tbe effect that cattle are sutler
ing and large numbers dying for
the want of water and grass, the
drouth having been very severe in
that section. Myriads of caterpil-lars
have appeared and are de
stroying all kinds of vegetation.
Whose fault is it
During fifteen years the child's
thoughts, affections and soul are
before parent, teacher and minis-ter,
like soft and virgin soil, wait-ing
ready for the planting. If they
remain barren, if at the end we
find tio crop such as we desire, ii
is not the child who is to blame;
nor God, who promised tbe increase
when we did our work faithfully
about the size of the caput of an
alleged Aztec. Brussels sprouts—
a vegetable something like spinach,
and tar tastier—sold at forty Cents
a half peck. Tomatoes were in fair
demand, but for tbe most part
t hey appeared over i ipe. The price
asked was twenty live cents a
quart.
in the poultry market business
learned that Kev. Mr Mendcnhall.
an orthodox Quaker, has been
preaching al Kcnansville, Duplui
county, with very signal effect.
The correspondent ••never saw a
more zealous preacher, or one less
sectarian." ••The members of all
churches united, and it really look
ed like the dawning of the milieu-iuiii.
On one occasion in the morn-
•■ was brisk'and prices hardly varied I ing every person in the house who
-To show how prolific carp are, a penny from the quotations of last , was not a professed cl.ristain was
it is stated that some gentleman week. Turkeys, •£! to 2.-. cents; a penitent at the altar,
who put twenty one carp in a pond i chickens. S-i cents; duoks, liCcents:
near l!alei"b. in two years took geese, 25 cents: and tame squabs,,
out the original number and eight , which, strictly speaking, come i.n- j there were many conversions. Ml.
hundred young ones, leaving six , der the bead of poultry, sold at ' Mendcnhall was assisted by Rev
bendrcd fish in the pond. I seventy five cents a pair. Mr. Gibbons.
Many young
ladies ami young gentlemen of the
best families were penitents, and
schools: Fayetteville. Frankliiiton,
Plymouth, Salisbury and Kewberu.
All these have regular terms. The
white schools are what are known
as "summer normals.'' This year
the Peabody fund does not go 10
the normals but to the graded
schools. So the iu .ai.ds depend
entirely upon Stale aid this lime.
I be fund is small and terms will no
doubt be shortened. The fund will
be about #.")ili» a school.
—Half the peppermint of tbe
Coli.
—Tin- filibustering movements
against the government ol Cuba are
instigated from Spain, and a dis
patch from Madrid states that the
recent expedition of Gen. Aguei.,
was aided and encouraged by cer-tain
Spanish Radicals, whose agent
was scut to this country for that
special purpose. The ulterior ob-ject
is not the annexation of Cuba
to the United States or the abs.i
lute disconnection ol the island
Loin the authority of Spain, but to
bring about a separation akin ti-
Stti? festiveK'Ser;.»! i
bound by no lilies, but have all
lauds for their owu.
thus assuring to the Cabana an in
dependent home government.
cry, and if the other rouuties keep
abreast of her the above named
figures will reach ovei a thousand
dining 1884.
—The State board ofmeilic.il ex-aminers
meet in Raleigh the Ittlb
inst.. and from day to day theieaf-
; ter until all the applications fur li
cense to practice medicine shall
one been passed upon. License
from this board is necessary toena-ahle
physicians to legally collect
fees. Applicants must be HI
Of age and pro-luce
certificates of good moral
character.