Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1882-08-19
STATE NEWS.
Or. Craven is improving, but YER,

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the Y. ). Senate, is visiting friends
in Fayetteville. 1, is said he will
shortly marry a North Carolina
lady.
Charlotte Observer: A new in
dustry in town is the sale Of peach
seeds. The street gamius gather
them up and sellthcm at the drug
stores for 50 cents per thousand.
Raleigh Neacs- Observer: The re-
ports from the cotton now are more
favorable, and many farmers declare
that the rains have doue no damage
Of moment. Upland cotton is mag.
%nif1cen:, perhaps a little too weedy.
The lowland cotton has been rather
too much soaked with water.
1t is stated that six young ladies',
ranging between twenty-five and
sweet sixteen, are tramping it alone
from Mt. Airy to Asheville. They
are Maryland and Virginia girls,
pupils of a high grade seminary,
and daughters of we'll known bust
ness men. They say they are not
afraid. [They had better be at home
making biscuit
Wilmington Star: Some ex-
change started the "whopper" that
there were Sc mountains in North
Carolina over 5000 feet high. 1t
put the S before the 6 and thus adj
ded so more than there are. The
number is 6, and here they arc
Black Mountains-Mitchell's Peak,
6,707 Cattail Peak, 6,611 ; Patson
Cove, 6,671; Hairy Bear, $50
Bowlcn's Pyramid, 6,34S; Roam,
6,306.
Greensboro Patriot: Some months
ago, a family by the name of True
blood, left this county for Indiana,
taking with them on the cars dog
which they thought great deal OF.
about a month after arriving al their
destination they missed him and the
most diligent search failed to give
them any clue as to his whereabouts.
In the course Of time, however, the
family received a letter from friends
in this county stating that the dog
was back at his old homo, safe and
sound, but looking a little thin after
his tramp.
Chatham Record: Deputy Col
lector Moore has thus far issued Ii
censes to twenty persons TO distil
brandy in this county. This being
q good fruit year there will be :
large. amount of brandy made. We
would remark in this connection
that Gen. Cox introduced a bill into
Congress, during its present session,
to abolish the tax on brandy distil-
led from fruit, but the republicans
defeated it. If Gen. Cox's bill had
passed any farmer might distil as
much brandy as he wanted, without
obtaining q license and paying q
heavy tax.
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Died, in this County On the ]4tl
day Of July, Martha Maria, daush-
ter Of Alex. a. and Margaret {.
Smith, aged II years, 6 months and
II days. She vas q member OF the
Methodist Protestant church, a,
Chestnut Ridge. Thus the awful
reaper of death has cnt down in all
the bloom OF early womanhood this
beloved onc OF earth's children, and
sad would be tie thought that a lite
SO full of promise, OF usefulness and
happiness, should so soon end, bu,
for the faith that teaches us to look
beyond, and see that thA Christians
death is but the real beginning Of
life, a life immortal life of happi
ness-and SO free from all the trou
b,es Of this earthly one, that we may
stop and question with ourselve:
whether it is not a selfish love tba'
would recall those who have gone
who have already entered into thai
life, promised by Christ to all hi!
faithful followers. Yet sorrowinl
hearts must mourn, and we are no
forbidden to grieve for the loved
ones taken from our midst. "Jesu1
wept" at the tomb Of Lazarus, ant
we too may weep at the tombs o
our dead. But when assured b,
the lips already pa!ed by its ap
proach, that, death hath lost hi
sting" and that the change woul,
only be from earth TO paradise, a
'dhis-our Sister in Christ-did i,
her last hours, then oh sorrowine
ones, from whom she has been TAX
en-, listen with comfort to the cheer
ing words Of Him who only can as
suage the tempest Of greet in s,r:ck
en- hearts, Il am the Re~surrectio,
and Il. lie, he la, ~bclicseth on Ne
though hs were dead, yet shall b
live"
She is st rest in God. Let he
friends who are left behind serv
tina, God she loved. and be prepa,
ed TO meet Martha in the bette