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Year: 1874

May visit people but TO advance
The true life philosophy Of our race,
That is spreading its tenets now apace
So The Great Father, His creatures will teach,
That thus far, their pow'rs inventive may reach;
When the Babel they build He will o'erthrow,
BY sweeping ire, or tidal flow


Till vain man has learnt on His strength to rest
And in harmony be forever blest.
Year: 1874

The New York Herald's Opinion.


The following is from the Herald of the
third instant:


Whatever else may be discussed, so far as
the South is concerned, one point is beyond
discussion, that we must have peace
and order; that the black man and the
white man must alike be protected in the
enjoyment Of 'life, liberty and the pursuit
of ofhappiness." This principle underlies all
measures of reconstruction; we never see
such outbreaks and strifes as are now seen
in Mississippi and Arkansas without mourn
ing over the madness that seems to animate
the Southern people. Is there no wisdom
in all the lessons Of the war2 Is there no
possibility that the lessons of that tremen-
dOus contest will ever be learned? Is it too
much for a revival of that brave, proud,
statesmanlike, far-seeing Southern spirit Of
the past, when it's SONS were the leaders of
the Union, and which would lead the peo-
pie to q true conception of their duties and
responsibilities in the Union, to recogni-
ton of the fact that slavery is dead, that
another secession war is impossible, and
that the constitution grants all rights to all
men, and that the South will only win its
greatness again by loyal recognition of
this, and an earnest, manly resolution to
consolidate that greatness by industry,
patience and courage!
Year: 1874

A Wilmington correspondent informs the Phil
adelphia Ledger that "flve miles OF road from
Lswes to a new summer resort at Rehoboth
Beach, will be promptly extended by the lessees,
making that place popular resort. 1t has one
OF the finest beaches on the Atlantic coast"


We cut the above from the Ledger of this date.
Should the Philadelphia, Wilmington Il Bali
more Railroad Company extend the Junction d
Breakwater roed as proposed in the above it will
prove one of the greatest. improvements yet made
in our State at the same amount of cost, and de
yelope region of country that in few years
in the summer season will teem with life and
prosperity.
Year: 1874

1t has been already suImsed by most of our
readers that the number of licensed houses iOr
the sale of liquor would be largely decreased by
tie court at the present session. Bat 10 what
extent the court will go Is not yet known. IL has
arge discretionary power over the subject and no
doubt will be Influenced somewhat by the loss Of
revenue to the State through the dminutionlo the
list Of licenses.
Year: 1874

The Court OF Oyer and Termner win reconvene
20 morrow, with Judge Barrett on the bench. No
important cases are on the calendar, out in the
interval to the holidays effort viii be made 70
tighten the present heavy criminal calendar.
Year: 1874

NEED For FIRE DEPARTMENT.-Iti ia
the way of the world to get most of its in
formation from personal experience rather
than observation and the experience of
others. When it is raining the weather is
too bad to fix your roof and when it is clear
it dosen't need fixing, and so We go. We
have frequently called the attention of our
town authorities to their impotency in the
case of fire, but it was necessary for a fire
to come to satisfy them. 1t has come, and
had it not been for the accidental presence
of a fire extinguisher IN our midst, the very
building in which we are now writing
would probably have been in ashes, along
with scores of others and thousand of dol
lars worth of property. sEs


Tarboro' needs good hand fire engine
and hook and ladder apparatus The
Little Giant doubtless did good work, but
it did it more by the water It discharged
than the carbonic acid. AS general thing
the nozzle of the hose cannot be brought
near enough to fire to make the gas effec-
tive and the principal result is from the
water simply. asa.


We hope our town authorities will pro-
cure a good hand engine and hook and lad
der apparatus and organize fire depart
ment under the charge of discreet person,
so that at fires some one may command
with authority, instead of having the mul-
titude of self-constituted generals that al,
ways flock to fire.
Year: 1874

FIRE-INTENsE ExCITEMENT-NARRow
EsCAPE.-That portion of Main Street ly-
ing between Church and st. James streets,
was the scene of the widest and most in
tense excitement last Monday that has
been experienced in our town for years.
About half past ten o'clock a smoke
was seen issuing from the kitchen upon
the premises of Mr.. R. A. Sizer
and Immediately the alarm of fire was
given. In an incredibly short time a
large crowd of people, white and black,
male and female, had assembled on the
spot with laudable zeal to do all they could
for the arrest of the fire and the prevention
of destruction of property. Fortunately
Mr.. ]. E. Nash, agent for the Little Giant
Fire Extinguisher had left one of his en-
gines here which was soon on the spot and
actively at work, assisted by a Kitchen
force pump and scores of water buckets.
1t was soon ascertained to be impossible
| to arrest the flames upon the burning Euild-
ing, which was an old pine structure and
burned like tinder, and all attention was
directed toward the residence which was
within fifty feet of the burning building
and in the most imminent danger, a stiff
wind blowing almost in the direction of it.
The streams from the engine and force pump
were turned upon the house and numerous
buckets conveyed water to the garrett
After vigorous work for half an hour un-
der the most intense heat, the flames began
to subside and the water was again turned
upon the burning mass which was easily
extinguished.


The heroic conduct of our citizens on
the occasion is worthy of remark. Had it
not been for their vigorous work and self
abnegation and fearless daring, our town
might to-day be lamenting the loss of a
hundred thousand dollars worth of proper
ty. To Messrs. John W. Gotten, Sam1 s.
Nash, ]. c. Allen, H. NJ. Williams, and
others too numerous to mention, our town
owes deep gratitude. Our colored citi-
zens too did their duty with their usual
zeal, working actively and cheerfully
where they had but little personal interest,
and deserve the thanks not only of Mr.. 81.
zer, but of the entire community.


The fire is supposed to have originated
by carelessly leaving in the kitchen store
piece of wood which was too long, and
which having burnt in two fell upon tht
floor aud caught the house on fire whil'
she cook was out


The loss occasioned by the fire wal
small. Four or five hundred dollars per
haps being the limit.
Year: 1874




The funeral services of Gov. II. I. Clark
came off on yesterday. At 10 O'Clock the
bell of Calvary Church began to ring and in
short time large crowd in carriages and
on foot, had assembled at the late residence
of the deceased. After short interval the
procession of the Masonic fraternity, of
which the deceased was an old and honor
able member, arrived, and the. sad cortege
began its march to the place of burial. At
the Church the burial services of the Epis-
copal Church were read and the body was
then conveyed to the grave where, after
the completion of the religious services,
the impressive ritual of the Masonic frater
nifty was used. The number of Masons
present attested the esteem in which they
held their deceased brother.


The crowd in attendance upon the fu-
neral was, perhaps, the largest ever assem-
bled on similar occasion in our commu-
nifty. Every place of business in our town
was closed, with not one exception that we
are aware of, and everything was done to
show honor to our deceased fellow citizen.
Year: 1874

Hon. w. A. MOORE AND THE GRAND
JURORS FOR SPRING TERN OF EDeECoMBE
SUPERIOR CoURT.-We respectfully call
your attention to the fact that the Com
missioners of this County have not publish
ed the annual receipts and disbursements
for the county for several years past, and
believing there is corruption among the
county officials, we deem it but just that
they should be indicted for not carry
ing out the law in the past and be compell-
ed to do so in future for the general public
good. TAX PAYERS.
Year: 1874

FEMALE AcADEMY.-The attention of
educators is directed to the advertisement
of the Tarboro' Female Academy, Mrs.
Gen. Pender, Principal. We hope our
country friends will consider the merit of
this school and patronize it. 1t is folly in
us to send the young daughters of the
county off to boarding schools while we
have one in our midst much better perhaps
in many particulars than the one to which
they are sent.
Year: 1874

CIsTERNs. is argued qy medical men
OF eminence that large proportion of the
endemics of Eastern North Carolina is due
to the impure water that is used, and that
if cisterns were in general use the sickness
would be greatly diminished. Cases are
quoted in our own town where cisterns
have been used and there has not been a
case of chills for seven or eight years. If
it is fact that cistern water is 50 condu-
Give to health it should command the at
tention of our citizens as well as town au-
thorities. .....


If the town would subscribe half the
cost we doubt not the balance could be
raised by private subscription to build a
10000 gallon cistern on the Court House
square. Mr.. Teel's building, as well as
the Court House, could perhaps be made
subservient towards supplying the cistern,
which would furnish surface enough to fill
it in short time. Let the matter be can
Vassed
Year: 1874

THE SEABoARD s. RALEIGH RAILROAD
The SURVEY COMPLETED TO RALEIeH-
The RECEPTION OF THE ENGINEERS BY THE
RALEIGH BOARD OF TRADE AND BUSINESS
MEN.-We take the following in regard to
the survey of the 8. & r. r. r. from the
Raleigh News of the 13th inst 1t will be
seen that the entire route has been survey
ed, and that there is an energy on the part
of the projectors of the enterprise that
augurs well its successful issue. We have
no doubt that there is a considerable lack
of interest on the part of good number of
our people from want Of confidence, but
they cannot deny that the road would be
of considerable benefit to them if compile
ted, and hence they should give the matter
attention. They could perhaps SUBJ
scribe their stock in such way as to defer
payment until the road was completed
through their vicinity. The enterprise is
certainly worthy of attentive consideration.
The News says: .-aa. .


An article in our paper of few days
ago announced the arrival in Rocky Mount
of Maj. Henry ]. Rogers, Captain D. P.
McCorkle and Captain Poiteaux, topo-
graphical engineers, who are engaged in
surveying the line of the Seaboard and
Raleigh Railroad. The engineers left
Rocky Mount about ten days ago, taking
the shortest practical route to this city, a
distance of about forty miles. Friday
Maj. A. G. Lee, of the Raleigh Board of
Trade, went out to meet the engineers, and
found them in five miles of the city. Yes
terday they rushed through and reached the
city limits about 81 o'clock p. m. The
engineers seemed particularly well pleased
| with the section they passed through from
Rocky Mount to this city, and found only
one person that opposed the proposed rail-
road; that person was an old lady who
knew her chickens would all be killed by
the cars, and strenuoutly opposed any sur
vey through her premises. The farmers
all along the route not only favor the road,
but are willing to lend their aid and mite
to complete it. At Williamson, Tarboro'
and Rocky Mount, the people were almost
unit in favor of the rosd, and seem par
| ticularly desirous of an immediate railroad
connection with the Metropolis.


We spent two days in Tarboro' the past
week where we met large number of far
mers and other business men. We con-
versed freely on the subject of the new
road, and we have yet to see or hear of the
first man that opposes its construction
From these facts we are led to believe that
with the hearty cooperation of our bust
ness men, (who are more to be benefited
than any one else) the Seaboard and Raj
eigh Railroad will soon be in the course Of
construction. The people along the line
want the rosd; they desire connection
with Raleigh, are willing to aid in the con
struction of the road and reasonably ex
pect Raleigh to subscribe its proportional
share of the stock


As above stated, the Engineer Corps ar
rived within the city limits yesterday eve
ming when they were met by q deputatiol
of our citizens and escorted to the Yarbo
rough House. They were accompanied b.
Messrs. Moore, Pender and Daniels, O
Edgecombe, as Assistants.
Year: 1874

TEATs BRIDGE GoNE.-Teat's Bridge,
or rather the one recently built in lieu of
that, was carried away by the recent high
water in the river. We are informed that
the bridge was so insecurely fastened, the
piles by which it was supported having
been driven but short distance in the
mud, that it washed away before the
water was within four feet of the floor of
the bridge. The entire loss is attributed
to the constructor, VIM. Cook, colored, by
whom it had been recently built at con-
siderable cost to the county. Bridge com
missioners should be more careful in re-
ceiving bridges,
Year: 1874

READ THIs.-Gline's Patent Slate Roof
ing Paint claims to be fire proof as well as
water proof. Would it not have been
comfortable in the late fire to have felt as
sured that no flying sparks could injure
Won?
Year: 1874

SorREE Bailey, whose dancing
school is still in successful operation in our
midst delighted q large conceruse of our
young folks with most agreeable soiree
last Monday night. All we have heard
speak of the occasion allude to it as a
most pleasant affair Mr.. Bailey expects
to give another on next Monday night,
and asks us to inform the young people of
the country that they would be most glad
ly welcomed
Year: 1874

LUDICRoUs.- Babcock and Gardner
Fire Brigade did its duty, but it was ludi-
crous to see the working of its extinguish-
ers. A dozen good pop guns would have
been about as effective. We recommend
the town authorities to dispose of them as
scrap brass.
Year: 1874

SHARP TRIoK.-Our people are up to
one sharp trick that we approve of. About
once in every six months they start report
of mad dog in the community and occa-
sion the death of host of CANNES. 1t
might be we'll to circulate the report more
frequently.
Year: 1874

FREsHET. river has been on a
rampage for the last week. The flats are
flooded, and water marks indicate it but
two or three feet below the great freshet
of the 18th of June 1857 The season is
not yet enough advanced for the high
water to do great deal of injury, but the
heavy rains must have had upon the fresh
ly plowed fields anything but beneficial
effect. The water has however rapidly
receded and is now nearly within its
banks.
Year: 1874

They have arranged to have arrive Month ly, a complete assortment of such goods as the people of Arizona want, and they Can Sell them at Wholesale and Re- tail Cheaper than they can be Afforded from any other

 Market, Not excepting the much extolled Guay-

 mas route.
Year: 1874

GRAND OPENING The Great Eastern Show ot New Will Commence Saturday, August 2o.

 On Which Day LORD & WILLIAMS

 C WILL DISPLAY FOR PUBLIC IN Largest and Most Attractive Stocks of Goods ever before Brought

 to this Market
Year: 1874

| have always wondered what some peo-
pie have best rooms for. 1t really is mys-
try for they always keep them closed and
dark-no ray Of sunlight ever peeps through
the curtains or falls upon the carpet or pic
lures. Everything is cold aud stiff, and
sort of awe-inspring atmosphere pervades
the whole room and you feel involuntarily
like raising your hat and making profound
bow when you enter.


A few times a year the apartment is air.
ed, and two or three times opened for "grand
company" But how uncongenial every
thing is One feels like walking on tip-toe;
the children are sure to talk in whispers,
and there is pervading feeling that the
carpet is too nice to walk on, the chairs too
easy to be enjoyed, the pictures too beauti-
full to be commented upon, the books too hand
somely bound to be looked at and read. So
you sit bolt upright and talk politics and
theology until you get as rigid as your
surroundings.


Now, | don't like such rooms | don't
believe in having things that are too nice
to be used ; they always make one nervous.
If | have a nice dress | want to wear it; if
| have nice, pleasant room | want to en-.
joy it when have leisure, and not when
1 have a roomfull of company to enter
tain.


always think soft carpets are to walk
upon, easy chairs to loung in beautiful pic
lures to look at and admire, handsome books
to read and talk about.


How | love to throw open the "bcst
rooms" now and then and spend a quiet eve-
ming there have father and brother put on
their dressing-gowns and slippers-mother
bring her knitting, and sisters their crochet
and embroidery; have some one read
good entertaining story, or a sketch from
some favorite nuthnr,-then play an inno-
cent game Of some slrt, laugh and talk Just
as much as you please, or sing a pleasant,
CHEEKY song, with a piano for accompani-
ment.


Presently father will begin one of his
long, thrilling storios of his early life in a
new country mother will look complacently
around upon the family group and think
what happy change time has wrought
How bright and happy those faces are
around that hearthstone Soon the clock
gives warning that It's an hour past bed
time-and where has the time fown2 Hap
py good nights are spoken, and happier
hearts think there is no place like home, and
there isn't.


Now, this is what call enjoyment,
and putting our " best rooms to a proper
use; and | am confident that if more par
ents thought so, and would labor to make
home the happiest place on earth, there
would be far less dissipation and crime
among our young men than there now is.


There is nothing that sheds such a glow
of warmth through the soul as the feeling
that there is one place on earth where we
can lind rest and that is home; place
where we can enjoy the society of those
most dear to us, and where all is peace and
happiness.


Parents, open your best room occa-
sionaly, when only your family is to grace
it, and see how much comfort you can take,
aud how great an amount of happiness you
will afford those over whom you have con-
troll.
Year: 1874

For the benefit Of others who may wish to
engage in the exciting sport of bee hunting
we give few directions for finding the
abode of wild bees. Go as far from the
tame bees as possible as the wild bees are
seldom found in their proximity. Your out
fit should consist Of some strained honey, a
piece Of comb, and a box or cup in which to
catch the bees, Place the comb containing
some honey, on a stand where the movements
Of the bees can be seen, and then place upon
the honey bee from some neighboring bios
som. When this bee has filed his sac, it
will rise, describe a few circles, aud take a
bee line for tho tree, in few minutes re-
turning with reinforcements. This opera
tion is repeated, additional reiuforcements
arrive, until hundred may 60 to work.
The bee hunter estimates the distance be-
tween the tree and the stand by the time the
bees are gone from the latter, and by the
number Of bees at work on tho honey. Af-
ter good line is established, obtain cross
line by moving the stand either to the right
or left.


Later in the season after the frost has
killed the flowers, the bees are attracted by
burning comb. For this warm, still day
is best. Supply tin pail with some ashes
and live, hardwood GOALS; on this put bits
of comb sufficient to make good smudge,
which will draw the bees TO the stand in
search of honey, when they are lined as
above. A few drops Of the essence of arnica,
dropped upon the comb containing the hon
ey, will induce the bees to work more rapid
ly and increase much fastsr,--BufalO Lire
Stock Journal.
Year: 1874

Hot alum water is recent suggestion as
an insecticide. 1t will destroy red and
black ants, cockroaches, spiders, chintz bugs,
and all the crawling pests which infest our
houses Take two pounds of alum and dis
solve it in three or four quarts of boiling
water; let it stand on the fire until the alum
disappears; then apply it with a brush,
while nearly boiling hot, to every joint and
crevice in your closets, bedsteads, pantry
shelves and the like. Brush the crevlces in
the floor or the skrting or mop-boards, if you
suspect that they harbor vermin. If in
whitewashing a ceiling plenty Of alum Is
added to the lime, it will also serve to keep
insects at distance. Cockroaches will fee
the paint which has been washed in cool
alum water. Sugar barrels and boxes can
be freed from ants by drawing wide chalk
mark Just around the edge Of the top Of
them. The mark must be unbroken or they
will creep over it, but a continuous chalk
mark half an iLch in width will set their
depredations at naught. Powdered alum or
borax will keep the chintz bug at respect
full distance, and travellers should always
carry package of it in their hand bags to
scatter over and under their pillows in
places where they have reason to suspect
the presence of such bediellows.-JOundl Of
Chemistry.
Year: 1874

A great deal has been said by our FARM
ers' wives and daughters about our duties.
Some think outdoor work is not duty, and
that it is degrading for ladies to soil their
hands with such work. Some do not.


What is duty for one, may be far from
being duty for another. 1t depends alto
gether upon circumstances, as you will see.
My father was sick, and and my sister
have done great deal Of out door work.
We have taken the whole care of horse
and COW, and sometimes of pig and hens,
for one year. Have planted corn and pota-
toes, mended fence, piled up eight cords Of
stove wood, drawn hay to the barn and
slowed it away in the loft, dug potatoes,
husked the corn and taken care of it. Aud
in the winter we have drawn wood, been to
mill, swept snow and shoveled paths, and
when snow is from one to three feet deep it
is not light work.


We have spent great deal Of time now
and then trying to find some one to do this
work for US, but of course Number one "
must be looked out for no matter for 9TH
ers. And if once in great while we did
find some one for day, he would charge us
as much for one days work as he would 9th
ers for three. And so we have done all this
because it was our duty" and 1 do not
consider myself degraded in the least. l
have no father now, and [ shall never regret
having done what l could for him.


ALLIE.