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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
An Umpires Valedictory.

And umpire went sallying out into the
east,
Out into the east ere the sun went
down.
He thought of the club that loved him
least,
And the quickest way to leave the town.
But men must chin aud boys must cheer,
And the umpire's lot is hard and drear,
Along with the crowd and its groaning.
A man stood up and called out Foul!
And called out Foul. with an angry
frown;
Then made for the gate with a sudden
howl,
While the mob with bricks tried to knock
him down.
For men will fight and boys will jeer,
And luck IS best when the gate is near,
70 escape from the crowd and its groan-
ing.
A doctor Was working the best he knew
how,
The best he knew how, as the sun
went down.
He thought as he plastered the broken
brow
OF the awful yells and the missiles
thrown.
For clubs will play and mobs will fight.
And the umpire's lucky If he lives till
night
10 escape from the crowd and its groan-
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06

the town, just far enough for a
morning, (or evening) drive.
The water of these springs is said
to contain properties Of great heal
ing power, especially to dyspeptics.
Hon. w. H. Kitchin, with the
writer and other visitors, enjoyed,
in the homes Of the Littleton peo-
pie, hospitalities unequaled if pos
slble on any similar occasion any
where. Among the families that
opened wide their homes to the Wis
itors were those Of Messrs Brown
ing, McCraw, Shaw, Rasberry,
Spruill, Ferguson, Perry, johnson
and others whom the writer could
not have the pleasure OF visiting.
1t was the. writer's pleasure to
share, with ,,Messrs. Biggs, Bailey
and others, hOspitalities in the well
furnished hotel Of Mr.. Spruill.
Littleton has its pretty girls in
numbers and gallant young men not
a few. There are fine prospects
before the churches and community
there, with the good pastors, Mr..
Bonner for the Methodists and Mr..
McDuffie for the Baptists. Prof.
L. w. Bagley will soon open a
school for boys and young men,
also, which is quite all acquisition
to the town.
Littleton is the most pleasant
summering place 1 have seen east
of ihe mountains and the writer
thought, as he bade the good peo-
pie farewell, that it was a most fit
ting place and time, and among the
very people to end a summers
travel and VacatiOn'S rest.
f.. f. HILLIARD.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
CHOLERA CURE,
Gen. Clinsman's Remedy.

GLEN ALPINE SPRINGS, July %
EDITOR DEMOCRATS BY a let
ter received from one of my sons
| learn that great number Of hogs
in the Scotland Neck section are
dying with cholera. Casually men
tioning this in the presence of Gen
Clingman i'm Asheville, a few days
ago, with much animation, he eX-
claimed: "Fools, why don't they
cure them by drenching them with
tobacco juice -
My reply was, that perhaps they
had never heard of the remedy, and
if they had many put no faith in
it. He then asked me if [ would
send his pamphlet upon the ''To-
bacco Remedy" to my nearest
newspaper and request the editor
to make such extracts from the tes-
timonials as would bring the rene
dy to the knowledge Of those who
were suffering from this scourge.
In accordance with this promise
made to him, l send the pamphlet
by to-day's mail, with. such parts as
refer to this subject marked, which
you will please copy and publish.
Gen. Clingman is too well known
to need any endorsement. [ am
confident that what he has pub
lished Oh this subject has been in
the cause of suffering humanity
and not for emOlument.
Very truly &c,
RICHARD SMITH
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
A Close Run For Ii.

Girl will look at your ham,
mocks, please.
Dealer-Yes, Miss. Now, there
is something nice. Not expensive,
and at the same time pretty and
strong.
Girl-It doesn't look very strong.
Dealer-I will gnar antee it to sus-
tain a weight Of three hundred pounds
Miss.
Girl-Let me see-one hundred
and tive nty and one hundred and
sixty-five would be just two hundred
and eighty-fve-very we'll, will take
that one.-Neao York Times.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
Very truly &c,
RICHARD SMITH

The handsome young lady and the
awkward man of pretended senti>
ment sat on moss s-covered bank.
All day he had annoyed her with
attentions.
"Miss Mabel, do you not like poe.
try?'
"Yes."
81 worship it; live on it. See
the pick.nickers, out there. They
shout and romp as though the air it,
self were not full of sentiment--of
soul breathings.'
s.What business are you engaged
in?'' she asked. She knew but
wanted to hear him say.
'My business is perhaps more lu>
crative than congenial. I operate a
bone MILL
"What!''
Eyes. grind up bones. The pull
verized bone is used upon the land.
1t makes the flowers brighter. the
corn more luxuriant. Miss Mabel.
you remind me OF spring.
"Why?"
"You are so gentle"
"You remind me of spring." she
said.
Il do?" he leaned forward to catch
her words.
"Yes; you are so green. ."-Arkon-
saaU Traveller.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
READABLE PARAGRAPHS.
Culled from our Exchanges Through
out the Country.

"Have you an extra umbrella
could borrow?" asked man in a
friends office. Il have an umbrella, -
replied the friend, pointing TO a
weather beaten, rock-rjbbed piece of
rusty calico in the corner, but don't
think you will find it anything extra
He spoke the tt nth, but the umbrel-
la never came back all the same
Merchant Traveler.
"Yes,'. SAID Mrs. Catchem, "those
are my daughters over there on the
sofa; they have half million be-
tween them" It was not until after
they we're married to those daughters,
that the two young men who over
heard the above remark found out
that Mrs. Catchem referred to the rich
cid codger who sat ON the sofa be.
tween the girls. Mrs. Catchem
couldn't tell fib, but she knew how
to speak the truth advantageously.-
Boston Transcr ipt.
On THE INsTRUCTOR.-As sharp boy
at a commercial college had address
ed letter to a firm as Scents"
"You mustn't do that said the
instructor.
.Why not?" asked the boy.
because Gents is vulgar. Don't
YOU know that invitations to negro
balls are alwaya addressed that
way"
"Nell no I never got one" replied
the boy. with such significance that
the instructor blushed and hurried
on to the next DESK Merchant Trav
eLer.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
NOT ENOUGH WHITE FOLK.
So they Turn and Rend One Another.

Il amt gwine ter stay in dis heah
country nc longer den l ken hep
remarked an old negro, whose gen
eral good humor and satisfied condi.
ton rendered mis- observation signi-
ficant.
"W hats the matter, Eli?" some one
asked.
"Neber mine whut's de matter,
kahn stay in dis country"
"Anybody been abusing you?"
"Yas, sab, da is
"Infringe On your riglIts?'
sSah?''
'Trample upon your rights?'
"Yas, sab, da did. Tramped on me
wld boffeet."
Tell me about it,
"Wall, yer knows, sab, dat Use Ell
mighty ham fur chillun. I'se got
some twelbe or fifteen at my house,
yer know. Dis mawnin' while da
wuz all out in de yard it stuck me
dat dar wuz er powerful chance O.
them, so l 'gunter count. Wall. sah
counted twenty three. Look heah
wife, ST, how come all desc chilun
In heah?' She sorter 'vaded de sub
Jeck, but at las 'knowleaged dat de
extra chillun 'longed ter her sister
"hut wuz dun run away. Now, boss
how long does yer reckon 1 had beeu
er toatin' dat extra load?"
Il have no idea"
No, sab, doan 'spose yer has.
IA been feedin' dem chillun fur two
munt's, sab. thought dat it tuck 8
poWotful chance ter eat, but l didn
mink, sab, dat my wife wus er stuff
Ill oe ballock box dat er way. Nor
'ah, amt gwine ter stay heah.' -
Arkansag Traueler.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
The Arlll-Cllltcll.

.sOh, shame where is thy blush?''
A few evenings since, while wend-
ing our way toward home, it was our
fate to meet young couple affection.
nately Joined together with the SO
called arm~clutch. We were shocked
beyond measure. as we knew the par
ties to be respectable. A stranger
would have properly thought other
wise. We interviewed the young
man when next we saw him and ask,
ed the question direct as to &wnat his
feelings would be should he casually
meet his own sister in the Identical
predicament. He Indignantly ans
wered that his sister had never nor
would, under any circumstances, do
such thing.
Much has been said by pulpit and
press relative to this reprehensible
and,we might add. indecent practice,
and we are glad to add that but few
Girls in our midst have the temerity
or the natural disposition to further
defy the laws of propriety by con-
tinuance Of this indulgence. We
have before commented severely, ,edi.
torially and otherwise, in regard to
this shocking exhibition Of female
frailty and we had begun to con-
graduate ourselves that the last yes
t.ge of this gross improperly had van
ished from our midst. But alas we
found that our fond dreams of reform
in that particular we're not absolute,
but only partial. We regretfully find
few yet remaining utterly regardless
of maidenly modesty and public opin
ion, expressed through the agency
of the pulpit and press, who still wan ,
tonly persist in defying the rules of
maidenly proprlety by unblushingly
permitting this familiarity. Young
woman, do YOU know what you are
doing? Do you know that you are
tottering on the brink of precipice
from which you may fall? Are you
not aware that one familiarity, sub.
mitted to on your part, engenders
smother in an advanced degree?
Are you not aware that the very
identical man with whom you submit
to this privilege would never ask you
in sincerity TO be his wife? Are you
not aware that the most precious jew.
els possessed by woman are modesty
and virtue9 Can you afford to jeo-
pardize either?
We will now dismiss the subject by
adding, in conclusion, that the waltz,
racquette, and other round dances
are bad enough, but the disgraceful
armclutch should be forever banish>
cd from good society. And if any
persist in the continuance Of this
disgusting practice, they should suf
fer the consequences of their folly,
even to that extent of ostracism from
society.-Ga. Republican.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
The SMALL Boy UP TO SNUFF.

The SMALL Boy Up TO SNUFF
A New York Sunday school teacher
told her pupils that when they put
their pennies into the contribution
box she wanted each one to repeat a
Bible verse suitable for the occasion.
The first boy dropped in his cent,
saying "The Lord loyeth a cheerful
giver.' The next boy dropped his
penny into the box, saying: "He
that give Tito the poor lendeth to the
Lord.'' The third and the youngest
boy dropped in his penny, saying {:
"A fool and his money are coon par
ted"
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
The Presidents Policy.

The office.seeker has gone. The
President has at last worried him out
and all that is how left is the echo Of
the anathema. The President cares
nothing for this. The aim of his
whole course is to keep company
with his mugwump allies, and so long
as these appear he cares nothing for
the heart>burnings and disappoint>
N ents in the Democratic camp. He
is now moving slower than ever He
is not inspired by party consideration
or personal appeals he is seized of
the estate for four years. He knows
1t we'll, and has mapped out course
which he thinks will build up the tru~
ly good into god and morality party
The President has a positive con>
tempt for Senators andRepresenta>
tives. He would rather keep this
class in suspense than grant their re>
quest. His aim is to ignore the
Representatives in Congress, so that
if they antagonize when Congress
meets by holding them off they may
be glad to come to him submissive.
On his table now are number of
unsigned commits sions. These he
holds until he can see the appolntee 8.
His aim is to see those to whom he
gives the places SO that he can weak
en- the Congressman's influence by
having it appear that the beneficiary
is not under any obligations to any
intermediary. The new party, whic h
the President is anxious to build up.
will indeed be strange one.
His plan seems to be to have a
grand army of political eunuchs.
That is, he takes the faithful work
er in the Democratic party, and when
he gives him an office emasculates
him in political sense. He tells
him not to be "offensively partisan"
Or Il will flip you out" A party
thus recruited will have as much fore e
in a campaign as would a blowpipe
against the Rock of Gibraltar. Not
to mince meters, such a course. If
adhered to, will weaken, if not de-
stroy, the Democratic party. There
are those who have the faith that he
will yet change front. The President
gives no evidence that he will, but,
on the contrary, that he will not.
Yet they hope on. hope ever, and
crawl up to the White House in pur.
suit of phantoms. It is an astonish-
ing fact that not a Representative in
Congress has been able to control the
patronage in his own district. 1t is
moreover fact that for the smallest
favor received. the congressman re.
ceiving it is made to understand that
it is not favor from the Democratic
party, but rather from Grover Cleve
land. More astounding, indeed, is
the fact that the leaders of a party
who draw inspiration from jefferson
and from Jackson are content to be
dcnominated by new dispensation
of Democracy patented by the pres
ent Democratic President of the
United States, who was never elected
to any Office in his life solely by
Democratic votes. To all and sin
gular who growl and kick, Mr.. Cleve.
land with arms akimbo says "What
are you going to do about it?''-Spe-
cial dispatch to the Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
Not long since a small partrids

Not long since a small partridge,
not much larger than ones thumb,
was noticed following an old hen and
chickens at Mr.. Ezekil Sells, which
remained several days, but the cat
found it and took it for her own
The next day another came up
with the hen and was also "taken
in0 as a breakfast for the cat
While with the hen they seem to
be perfectly at home.-Kernersvtte
Nesos. u,
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06

"A workman by the name of Brad
ieS' while repairing the tank at the
'Festle bridge over Contentnea Creek,
'n 'he Railroad below Wilson, Mon
asy' s 1ell and seriously injured him>
na. ne,'' The attending physician could
no' oeclare what the result of his fall
lo:s as oe, but the injured man was ia
on he 10 his home in Toisnot, and we
'pe Is recovering.-Advance,
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
They Had Better Stay Away,

Il like TO know about some Office
under Cleveland !" he said, as he
beckoned lawyer across the street
from the door of his saloon.
"Well, what is it?''
II like to know if / vhas to haf
some office. My blaze vhas head>
quarters last fall for some Cleveland
CLUBS, and all der boys tell me 1 vhas
sure Of something fat.
"Then you are looking for some
thing.''
"Vhell, [ dunno. When Cleve-
land vhas elected der boys begin to
drop in here, One Of 'em he says ::
What POSTMASTER you will make
for Detroit. By George, l wish I
vhas you!' Vhell, dottickles me,
you know, und I treat der crowd to
beer. Pooty soon anoder crowd
comes in, und one of der poys calls
oudt: Let dis convention come to
some order. We vhas now in der
presence of der next boss of der
gustom-house. I calls for dree
cheers for Karl Dunder!'
'Vhen he says dot I feels goot
all oafer, und it seems right to set
oop der peer.''
"See."
"Vhell, almost eafery night gang
comes around to my blace to shake
me by der hand und somepody he
says:
Hip! hip! hurrah Karl Dunder
vhas solid nit der coming admins
tration! He picks oudt der fattest
offices for himself und he remembers
his friends NIT der lean ones!
"Vhen somepody talks like dot
I feel shmily und soft, und 1 tap
a new keg of lager, Now, I like to
ask you i'll vhas right. My poy
Shake says I doan' get so much as
shmell of Office, and my old woman
says der poys make Q fool of me.''
II guess they are right"
"Don't you belief vhas get der
gustom>hOuse?"
"No sir.'
'.Nor der bost-office?''
"No, SIR
''Don't l half some blacc at $4,000
a year?''
Il doubt It,
Wasn't l even envited down to
Washington to see Cleveland go nit
der White House?"
"'Not unless you invite YOURSELF
"Vhell !vhell SO Shake und der
old woman vhas right, und der boys
vhas putting some soft soap on me?
Say"
"Yes."
DOT vhas all right, but like to
say something. und doan' you forget
him! Tonight cot same crowd
comes aroundt here, and somepody
will begin to hurrah for der next
postmaster. You oughs to be here
Der dog Will be loose, und I shall
haf two CLUBS handy nnd you will
see fifteen men in sooch a hurry to
to get oudt doors dot you belief
some earthquakes vhas shaking oop
Detroit Shust come aroundt and see
how disabbointe1 Office seeker
Will handle two CLUBS und a pulls
dog !''.-Detroit Free Press.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
ASTRONOMY.

Astronomy is 1derful,
And interesting, 2;
The ear 3 wolves around the sun
Which makes a year A you.
The moon is dead and can't res
By law of phys6 great;
It's = where the stars alive
Do nightly scintills.
If watchful Providence be0
With good inIOtions fraught
Did not keep up its grand design
We soon would come to o.
Astronomy is wonderful,
But it's 2 80 4
1 man 2 grasp, and thai is why
I'd better say no more. e
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
LABOR.
Honorable in the Sight of Our
Maker.

WRITTEN FOR THE DEMOCRAT
God has so arranged and ordered
the destiny and course Of the hui
man family that large majority
must and ought to cultivate the
surface of the earth. Therefore He
has honored that profession above
all others. In the beginning it
was not so indispensable to cult
vate the soil for a living as it is
now. Then the earth belonged to
the few inhabitants who would
take and possess it, and the
natural productions, fruits, grasses,
grain, and wild game, furnished
without labor more than supply for
the demands Of the world. And
vet while there was no immediate
necessity for man to cultivate the
lands, God decreed that from the
earth he should get his living.
From pastoral and plantation life
God has almost invariably taken
those he constituted his types, and
shadows of things that were to be.
From this same class He chose His
Prophets'and Apostles, and Disci-
pies principally. And even i'll this
day of civilization, christianity and
advancement not many of his truly
called and great ambassadors are
taken from other professions and
other callings. He has time and
again called man from the field to
command his armies and lead them
to victory. In short, His eye, His
loving kindness, and His ever-last-
ing mercy is on, with and around
the honest hearted tiller Of the soil.
Therefore we say, He has honor
ed and exalted the calling OF the
farmer above all other professions.
Still we see young ambitious men,
as well as indOlent worthless young
men, running from and flying from
the noblest, most manly, dignitied,
honorable, independent profession
among men. Stop young man, con-
slider your ways. 1t is no more hon.
orable and manly to fill the chair of
state, sit upon a throne, or be
crowned a King in the eyes of our
God and good men, than to hold
the plOw handles, to work with
your own hands for an honest liv-
ing. God decreed in the outset,
that all men should slabor with their
own muscles and brains for a COM
potency, and that it should be no
disgrace but glory to Himself and
all honor to man.
He also decreed that he who
reaped without sowing, or he who
reaped where others sOwed, or
gathered his substance from the
toll Of others, either by cheating
detrauding, stealing OF spOng-
ing upon others, should receive His
condemnation, and the cOndemna-
ton of good men in this life, and
without repentance, crown Of
eternal darkness in the life to come.
From the very nature Of man, and
the very structure of the earth, all
men of common intelligence must
see and know that Providence de-
signed men to labor. In the sweat
of his face shall he eat his bread,
said the Creator Of all things.
Then why trim, why dodge it, why
not face the music like man, and
work, that your days may be long
and prosperouss The man who
labors lives longer than man who
lives in idleness. He lives easier,
happier, and more honest, and
nearer to his God e; and when he de-
parts this life his chances for a
crown in the kingdom above is
ninety and nine to one, for the III
dolent, the laggard, the drone.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
The Lesson Learned by Experience.

At a negro wedding, when the min.
lister road the words ''love, honor.
and obey" the groom interrupted
him and said:
Read that ag'in, sab read it wunce
mo-, SOS de lady kin ketch the full
solemnity Oh de meanin'. Use ben
married befo'.'- York Sur.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06

Greensboro has had a disastrous 8
fire. Loss about $40, O,0OO,-FrGnk-
linton Weekly.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-10
MINERS CRUSHED TO DEATH.
-Four Men Killed and Six Badly Injured
While Descending a Wilkes
barre Shaft.
GWilkesbarre special. ]

At the Oakwood shaft. just outside the
city limits, the property Of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company, the men employed
in the mine were going down the shaft on
the carriage, as usual, to their work, at
o'clock this morning. The shaft is eight
hundred feet deep aud ten men are let down
at time. A cage load was descending,
aud had almost reached the foot of
the shaft, when a rafting sound was
heard overhead. and Immediately after
a large rock crashed through
the sheet-iron covering of the carriage,
killing three of the men outright aud so
fearfully injuring another that he died
shortly after being taken to the hospital
Several others were slightly injured. The
names of the killed are: John j. Martin,
q miner, aged about 35, unmarried, and
living with his widowed mother in this
city. James Kearney, a laborer, aged
about %, unmarried. John Peterson,
miner, aged about 26 married, and living
at Parsons. Thomas Jenkins. q laborer,
about % years old, single, and living at
Miners Mills.
Those injured are: Patrick Smith,
bruised inside and on the back; Patrick
Pursell. slightly cut in the back; Patrick
Kearnsy, slightly bruised in the hip and on
the right leg below the knee. The last
named gives the following description of
the accident: "Going down the shaft, was
standing almost precisely upon the place
where the hole was broken through the
roof of the cage by the piece of rock, but
when heard the noise of the rock coming
down against the side of the shaft above.
and the smaller pieces striking the roof, 1
somehow stepped to the center and under
the cross-beam which supports the
roof The others were running back
and forth to find a place of safety,
and oil knew what the sound meant. The
position saved me, as pieces of the rock
struck the roof and crashed down through
on the other side. My lamp was put out,
and as the carriage struck bottom made a
step and went into the hole that had been
broken in the floor. One of the smaller
pieces of the stone hit my hip. / got out
Of the place and half fell off into the gang
way. My presence of mind had not de-
serted me, and my first thought was for my
brother Jim. l called to him but there was
10 answer. Then we searched the wreck.
found the bodies of the others all mangled
and bleeding, and finally Jim, his feet on
tie edge of the carriage and his body and
head lying over the edge in the water of
the sump, dead"