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Morris tribune., 1885-10-14

the people of OrtonviIle, we hope that
when this company reaches that place
it will not at once enter into a pool
and thus derive the people of two
thirds of the benefits which the new
road should bring them.
We now wish to hear from our de-
linquent subscribers. We have watt
ed long and patiently for some of
them. Now all kinds of farm pro-
duce bring fair prices and there is
no one in this county 80 poor that he
can not raise the small amount of his
Indebtedness to this paper. Further
more, we need the money. We can
not buy ink, paper and pay help in
promises but must have cash, We
hope that each person, who knows
himself to be indebted to the TRIBUNE,
will consider this paragraph as adj
dressed to himself and that lie will
promptly pay what he owes us.
1t is the opinion of well Informed
farmers that the very dry weather
since harvest, while making fall plow.
ing hard and slow work, has been a
blessing in disguise to the country.
Heretofore much Of the fiat lands have
| been plowed too wet, although oui
loose loan soil will bear great deal O.
water, and the result has been seer
very forcibly this season--the low fla
lands having everywhere produced
poor crops of wheat and corn. Plow
ing the land as dry as it has been, will
a winters freeze, will greatly benefi
it.-Le Sueur Sentinel.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-10-09
Tie was Oniy a Chimes Cook ..Ah~ vs. .
wealthy Cnhfernia Beauty.

Several weeks ago IA yellow skinned
young Chinaman, who gave the name of
sing Ham, Went To Oakland from san
Francisco, and sought employment as q
cook lie MAS about III years Of age and
talked English fairly A. Sing liam pro
duoed good Recommendations from Gen
/: Horton and other prominent citizens of
San Francisco, he had little difficulty in
securing a situation in the household Of
James G.. duncan. wealthy resident Of
Palm street. His elegant residence is we'll
known a. the abode of l1xury and art
and his family occupy leading position
III the society of Oakland, and are well
known III San Francisco. Mr. Duncan :
son John Is young lawyer, and his daugh
ter Myra has been /, relsning belle for two
seasons.
The young lady was Il years of age ON
ner last birthday, and is the possessor of
remarkable beauty. She is a voluptuous
blonde, with full blue ewes, white teeth.
and the smallest feet in Oakland sociai
circles. Miss Myra is an accomplished
pianist, and speaks Spanish like native.
Many young men of the city have been
suitors for her hand, but they made little
or no progress toward capturing the heart
of the young heiress. Sing Ham had not
been long installed in the House of Mr..
Duncan before he gave general satisfac-
ton.
Mr.. Duncan said that he had never eaten
such a breakfast as Sing Ham served up,
and young John Duncan expressed the
opinion that Hams apple dumpings were
the finest in the market Miss Myra did
not say much, but she began 10 visit the
kitchen at all hours, and told her father
that her highest ambition was to become
a good cook Mr.. duncan was pleased AT
the interest which Miss Myra took in Gull
nary matters, and expressed his entire APP
prONal of her course.
Mr.. duncan was astonished when he
came down to breakfast one morning to
discover that there was no fire in the kitch
en- and that Sing Ham was absent His
clothes were gone, too, and there was
nothing to tell why he had taken SO alb
rupt departure. Miss Myra did not ap-
pear at her usual time, and Mr.. Duncan
went up stairs and called her. There was
no response, and he entered the bed room
Miss Myra was not there, but Mr.. Duncan
esped a note upon the bureau, and he tore
it open with trembling hands. 1t read:
DEAR FATHER: Sing and knew that it
would be useless to ask your consent to
our marriage, so we have ruu away. Do
not look for us. as it will be of no use.
Your loving MYRA.
Mr.. Duncan SWOoned from the shock
When he recovered his son was hastily
summoned, and Il search for the elopng
couple began.
a mlkman had seen them cross the
ferry to San Francisco at an early hour in
the morning. He recognized Miss Dun
can, but supposed that the Chinaman, who
accompanied her. was a servant who was
taking her to the train. 1t is believed
that the young lady is secreted in the Chi
nese quarter, and the search will be VI gor
ously prosecuted. If Sing Ham is found
it is probable that he will be used to dec
crate lamp post
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-10-09
No Girls, You Can't Vote Yet.

The poet, John Boyle O'Reilly, discourses
follows
''You ask my opinion of woman suffrage.
| cannot see why YOU distinctly mentioned
''Roman Catholic and Protestant women. .
In the question of voting, they are neither
Catholic nor PrOteStants. | think woman
suffrage is the dream of a spiritual realm
unSulted to a coarse, material, masculine,
civilization. Women are better than men-
and weaker. They ought to rule, but they
can't. They would make ideal laws, and
men would break them defiantly; and the
open trampling on law is anarchy and
cEaos, the issue of which would be again
the rule of the strong.
Women are better than men because
they are spiritual. while men are intellect
ual The spirit follows what is true and
gentle and good; the intellect follows only
what is pleasant, successful, dominating,
strong If women could rule, civilization
would be a poem With men, it is a mix
ture of compromise, cruelty and, contriv-
ance.
In our present intellectual and spiritual
condition, woman suffrage is humbug,
a hypocricy, a sentimental disease. No-
men at present, or at least those who want
to vote, are as unfit to vote as men are.
They would degrade themselves by coming
down to the commonplace level of the
masculine motive. They would bind them
selves to believe that the world can be
bettered by political machinery instead of
by social equity, by the patchwork of man
instead of the order of God. | believe that
some time in the future mankind will have
a social order based on justice and not on
expediency, in which the spiritual virtues
of generosity, mercy, kindness, truth, and
sacrifice shall be as publicly respected as
the intellectual virtues Of shrewdness, sell
fshness, thrift, ambition, and boldness.
And because | believe that woman is the
spiritual reservoir of the human race, that
her physical weakness is some time to be
the true measure of manly tenderness,
dislike and detest a premature movement
that would cast away the higher power of
woman and send her into the ring to
struggle muscle for muscle with the selfish,
grasping, organizing, unjust, intellectual
brute that civilization has made Of man.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-10-09
Very ClOse.MOuthed.

"We're bound to be equal to you men, "
said the Mason's wife, 1--WE formed secret
society of our own last night
Indeed, said the Worshipful Master,
composedly, then | hope, my dear, your
project will be successful. Is it a benevo-
lent socity or what p
''That's none of your business. It's a
secret society and we've sworn by solemn
oath not to divulge anything relating to
it,
Every good, my dear" observed the
WorShipful master, returning to his paper.
IN sure | do not wish you to violate
your OATH"
cit wouldn't matter if you did.
wouldn't. You keep your secrets close
enough-and to think of that stupid Mrs.
Furbelow, she could neither recollect the
grip or sign. 1t took US an hour to teach
her. When / gave her the sign like this
(suits the action to the world she would
make it this way, ha! ha. Her stupidity
would have been exasperating if it had
not been ridiculous, and as for her learn
ing the grip, why, she would have it that
it was this way-give me your hand a
minu1e-there, she would have that way,
while it was this way, and the pass word,
she could not keep in her memory for two
minutes Over and over again | said it
was BE just and fear not, and she would
have it Swear not at all or Do unto 9TH
ers as you would be done by, ha. ha! we
almost despaired of getting it in her head
but we managed to make her understand
at last. Oh, yes, we are going to have a
flourishing society and We can be as secret
about it as you men are about Yours.
The lady then went off to attend to her
household duties and the Worshipful Mas
ter hid his face behind his paper and
smiled.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-10-09
The New York Mugwumps.
From Charlotte Observer


1t cannot be denied that the ludepen-
dent, or mugwump, vote in the state OF
New York, was largely instrumental III the
election of President Cleveland.
But they came into our party without
even an invitation. and as the recent nomi
nation Of a Democratic ticket don't suit
them, they have gone back TO walloW il
the mire of Hepublicanism.
Let them 90.
They made trouble in our political house
hold
They quarreIed with or about everything
that did not suit them in our camp
They have expressed dissatisfaction and
and contempt with every effort We made
to please them
They seemed to suffer with a sort OF
chronic political Indigestion
They brought into our ranks a bad cas-,
of the politically diseased liver, which the
best known patent medicine seemed pow
erless to alleviate.
They could not assimlatc or affiliate
with us.
The Pearson remedy was tried br Pres
dent Cleveland, but without avail.
1t is now an established fact that the,
came to us from purely personal reasons,
ard not from any spirit Of fraternity, sym
pathy, or community of principles.
They wished merely to serve spite!u
and selfish ends, and administer to Mr.
Blaine malignant spirit of revenge.
They are led by the New York Times
and the Evening Post.
They are gone.
They are supporting the regular Eepub
lican ticket.
They have driven, or will drive, dissat
istied Democrats back into the folds of the
party, and make Gov. Hills election only
the more assured.
They wanted to lead the Democrats, bu,
the Democrats wouldn't be led by them.
They wanted the whole world.
They disdained the theory that they
We're neophytes and converts.
They wanted to be generals, and colo
neI>, and majors, and captains.
Their demands were cheeky.
The Saratoga convention rebuked them
and laid them out on the shelf.
Lot them go.
Splah
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Probably an Old Well Caviny In.

Raleigh Cor to Charleston News Courier
RALEIGH, n c., Oct 3.-There is great
excitement i'll I.ongacre township. Beau
fort county, III regard To an alarming nat
ural phenomenon which Is rapidly devel-
Oping itself. On the night of SepteInb Der
18th shocks of great violence were felt in
that vicinity. The scene of the disrur-
bance is in the vicinity Of Shiloh Church,
the central point Of the shock \ reliable
colored man who lives near bv, who was
awake on the night above mentioned says
he felt trembling of the earth very per
ceptibly, and on the following morning it
was discovered that a mysterious chasm
had made its appearance directly across
the public road, near the church, mcasur-
ing a foot in width and "A hundred wards
i'll length. From every indication the
surroundings seemed to be in An unset led
condition. The news soon spread in the
community and a number of excited per
sons were present III a short time Ii WAS
observed that the chasm was gradually
widening and extending its course. show
ing that some unusual CONFUSION of na
ture was IN progress As there wao no
further violent agitation at that time the
affair has remained comparatively quiet
and the public at large have just been
made fully aware of its magnitude. The
So-called rent or chasm Is n'H assuIning
very serious proportions, Is continually
widening and frightening and actual y
threatens disaster of the surrounding sec
ton. 1t has now deviated from It's for
mer course, which was easterly To "A north
erly direction, crossing a small eutbank
ment and running in zigzag line about
fifty yards from the church. Several AT
tempts have been made TO obtain It's depth,
but have been unsuccessful owing TO the
shape in which il runs. There are vari-
Gus conjectures to the origin Of such AN
unusual state of things. Some attribute
it to an lpheayal eff the earth and some
pronounce it the precursor of the APP
/ preaching day of judgment.
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Fortune Telling.
Selah.

Down in Jones county lot of Gypsies
have pitched tent, and by telling for
tunes are raking in the hard earned nick
les OF the colored folks. The Jones county
CORE, ,pondent of the New Berne journal
says
The Gypsy camp has in it three Gypsy
men, one negro, four women, fifteen chill
dren, eight horses, five wagons two dogs
and one Bantam rooster which keeps the
camp alive with mis- almost continual crow
ing. | find them all ignorant, with little
or no education. But have always no.
tced that it took such characters to make
good fortune tellers. They have two or
three wagons out on the different roads
looking up work they call it, they
certainly are coming money mostly from
the colored people when they lind family
without money they tell them they will
take seed cotton which they carry to Tren-
ton and turn into cash. They have sew
erstl OF their number suffering with chills
which all of them call dumb ague. | sup
pose when they gather up all the money
and produce which the ignorant whites
and blacks have in this place they will
move to new place.
80 With one dimpled hand on her leaf
lard and the other on her base ball club,
Chicago draws herself up to her full ma
jestic height, and, in the language of Cor
nelia, proudly exclaims ''These are my
jewels
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-10-09
:PRO AND con-:
One Cores pOndent Thinks One Way An
other Thinks Another Way.

MR. EDToR:-I notice disposition on
the part of some TO run down the Agrlcul-
al Department, and especially the lmmi
grafton Bureau, presided over by Mr.. Pat
rick, on account of the Crofter immigra-
ton failure. ! wish 70 state that Mr.. Pat
rick IS not responsible for that failure.
The history Of the Scotch immigration Is
as follows: Miss Margaret Mcleod Of
Dundee Scotland, who visited her rela-
tiveS in Robertson county some eight or
ten years ago, seeing the great destitution
among the Crofters of the Western Isles,
conceived the idea of sending some of them
over TO this country in order to better
their condition, thinking also they would
be beneficial to our farmers. To this end,
sometime III the summer of 1888. She
wrote TO Mr.. Jas. l.. Cooley, of Richmond
county, suggesting such a movement. He
thereupon called meeting of a portion of
the citizens of the county to consider the
matter
The movement was favorably received,
and arrangements were Immediately put
on foot to bring them over The first thing
to be done was to furnish the means for
transportation | went before the Board
of Agriculture and immigration at their
regular meeting and presented the subject
for their consideration, and asked for suf-
ficent funds to bring 30 families from
Liverpool to Portsmouth, Va Capt Clark
&. z. & F. Agent from Portsmouth, via
Hamlet, to Wilmington, generously fur
nlSflng free transportation from Ports
mouth to Laurinburg. The Board granted
5000 to be used for that purpose. Mr..
Patrick having charge of the funds, they
together with what Miss Mcleod was able
to raise from the funds of the movement
III Scotland, sufficed to transport that
number from Scotland to North Carolina.
The Croftcrs arrived and were distributed
among the farmers of RObeSon and Rich
mond counties. Being fishermen, they
proved a miserable failure, with a few eX-
ceptions, and they have all returned to
Scotland except these few. You ask how
they got back, = don't know but back
they went. | have no doubt that better
class of immigrants would have proved a
success. These Skye CrOfters are a good
deal like the Irish land leagues hard to
satisfy, and not worth much after being
satisfied. Respectfully,
y. F. MCEACHERN
Mill Prong, n. G.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-10-09
What TiIdem Would Have Done as
President.
from New York Tribune.

If Mr. Tilden had become President in
1876 he would have set the Democracy
upon its feet for years. He would have
postponed problems of politics and the
tariff. He would have checked wild ex-
periments in finance. He would have har-
monized and drilled the clamerous factions
of his party without too scandalous an
abuse of the patronage. He would have
organized campaigns without quite turn
ing the Treasury into machine shop. He
would have transacted the business of the
Executive office with punctilious care, and
observed its forms and ceremonies with
irreproachable decorum. He would have
been respected; and when at last he re
tired he would have passed for perhaps
the very ablest administrator who ever
occupied the Presidential chair
The ''Favorite Prescription" of DR..
Pierce cures "female weakness" and kin
dred affections. By druggists.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-10-09
OFF FOR DAVENPORT
The MuywHmpS of Brooklyn Get Them
selves All Ready aud Start.

From New ork sun
The Brooklyn Mugwump Committee of
One Hundred met III that city, to declare
their attitude in the eamraigL They
agreed, by some peculiar reasoning among
themselves, that the best way to help
Cleveland was to hurt Hill and so they
voted to support Davenport. They re
solved that Davenport would be likely to
admins; er the office Of Governor as a
public trust, although they felt called up
on to condemn the Republican platform
''for its confusion of dead with living is
sues, and of State with natl )nal and sec
tiona! questions, and for its exaggeration
of the mistakes of the national Admins
tration, while it is silent as to its great
triumphs for good government.
Mr.. Bowker, one of the speakers,
thought there was danger that Davenport
would not get the whole Mugwump vote.
They could not be expected to vote in a
nay which could be interrupted rs against
Cleveland. and Warner Miller and the
''Tribune" were all the time saying that a
great majority for Davenport would sink
Clevelann out of sight Mr. Goodlcy, a
colored Mugwump on the committee, said
the colOred people of the SoG We're be-
ginning to regard Cleveland as a second
Abraham Lincoln.
Beecher. who came over from the Ply
mouth Church PRAYER meeting, said that
Cleveland was singularly wise, cautious,
and honorable man, and that he (Beecher]
was going to vote the Republican ticket to
help him along.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-10-09
Co.Education of the Sexes.

In endorsing the action of Yale College
in throwing open its law school TO the gen
tier sex, the Charleston News and Courier
says:
Il. IS an interesting experiment. and is
well worth a trial at Yale and elsewhere
The effect on the college can scarcely be
otherwise thar beneficial in high degree
and Ill many ways. Proper restrictions
upon the association Of the sexes will
have to be ordered of C curse, but as "a mat
ter of fact there nee be no association
outside of the class room, except such As
shall be consistent with the strictest rules
Of propriety The case would not be then
different from what it is at present, AS
college boys do go visiting sometimes in
the homes of college towns, while the as
soclatiOn of the class rooms would prove
a powerful stimulus to the ambition and
good conduct of students of both SEXES.
The girls are fully as capable of utiliz-
ing the advantages of a higher education
as the boys, to say the least of it, and they
are as much entitled to avail themselves
of such advantages. And what if a we'd
ding shall occasionally follow graduation
Is girl any the less likely to make a wise
choice among the educated young men of
her acquaintance for being equally well
educated herself and for seeing them pit
ted against each other i'll mental exercises
year after year, instead of remaining in
ignorance of their attainmentS and dis
position, and of their manners and con-
duct in daily life 1t would seem, indeed,
that acquaintance founded on the obser-
vation and experience of class association
would lead to the happiest results in mar
ried life, so that any objection that may
be made against the proposed system on
this account need not be regarded as con
elusive before trial
At any rate, the course of events at Yale
will be watched with interest everywhere
The main difficulty, we apprehend, will
be found to be that no true American girl
will be willing to rank as a Senior for
even a year, for the paltry consideration
of winning diploma. 1t may be neces-
sary, therefore, to violate all college pre-
cedent to the extent of continuing the
Freshwoman, or the Junior Glass through
out the entire term, and to devise besides
some honorary title of distinction an,! re
ward other than the CORE latiVc one of Old
Maud Of Arts or Learned Spinster of Laws
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-10-09
Five Hundred Dollars

is the sum Dr. Pierce offers for the detec-
ton of any calomel, Or other mineral pois-
on or injurious drug, in his justly cele-
brated Pleasant Purgative Pellets They
are about the size of mustard seed
therefore easily taken, while their opera
ton is unattended by any gripping pain.
the mouth, and jaundice, yield at once
before these ''lttle giants" OF your
druggists.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-10-09
engagements in England.

English girls seldom marry before the
age of % or %. Some marry well at the
age of 30 A marriage in England is not
arranged in a few days or even in a few
months. A young man of about 20 en-
cages himself to a young lady of, say 1S
and the lovers remain engaged for three
or even five years. These are the women 5
good times During the engagement she
enjoys almost all the sweets of married
life without any of its troubles, and she IS
free. Sometimes she does her best to make
the engagement last as long as possible.
She prefers to murmur words Of love to
her betrothed, to shut herself up with him
in some semi detached cottage wherein to
bemoan the high price of bread and but
ter and coal On the day she is married
she is settled as they say in England; that
means she is established. | would define
this word settled more correctly by saying
that her business is done for her. | do
net wish at all to convey the idea that
women find no happiness in the English
household, nothing is further from my
mind | think, on the contrary, she can
enter it with more confidence than can her
sister across the channel, because she as
sumes much less responsibility and be
cause her mother has invariably versed
her most thoroughly in domestic economy
Women in England know nothing at all
about their husbands business, no more
than clerk knows about the private af-
fairs of his employer, and it is even diff
ficut matter for her to say whether he Is
making a fortune or is on the verge of
bankruptcy. When her husband dies an
English woman who has no fortune may
become a gOverness, or a housekeeper or
a nurse That is servitude. An English
man gives his wife so much a month for
household expenses and so much for her
wardrobe, her wages as it were. She
evinces no surprise when she learns one
fine morning that ;,er husband is taking
her to a sumptuous abode, nor when she
learns that they must Rove some evening
in the dark without making any noise.
She goes with the furniture, in a double
scene.
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\ South Carolina court has ruled
that it is mot crime to steal watermel-
ons from the vine" There is very large
colored population in that town and the
Judge is candidate for reelection.