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Si . " . m ' fcenti'i'titl. BE SURE YOU AEE RIGHT ; THEN" GO AHEAD.-K, Crockett. VOL. 54. TARBORO', N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1876. : NO. 50. asm tan ii ! K6! uh i h v ifi fci ti ' tti v h rj nil' n m m m m w n il mi m k 4Kr lmnivhrarvT xanvir tahv-3KTr GEJSaA-Ii DIRECTORY. TAUBOUO'. Mayor Fred. Philips. Commissiosbrs -lesse A. Williamson. Ja cob Feldeuheiuier, Daniel W. Uurlt, Akx. lieCabe, Joseph Cobb. 8SCKITA.BT k Treasurbr Kobt. Vv hite burst. Chief op Fomce Jolm W. Gotten. Assistant Police J. T. Moo c Jan. E. Siuionson, AUiniore Macuair. COl'MTT. Superior Court Clerk and Piolatt Judff II. L. Statou, Jr. Register of Deeds Alex. Met'abe. Sheriff Joseph Cobb. Coroner Treasurer Robt. 11. Austin. Surveyor John E. Baker. Standttrd Keeper J. B. Hyatt."' School Examiners. H. 11. Shaw, Wm. A. Daggan and R. S. Williams. Keeper Poor House Win. A. Duggan. Commissioners Jno. Lancaster, Chairman, Wiley Well, J. B. W. Norville, Frank Dew, M. Exeia. A. McCabe, Clerk. HIAII.si. ARRIVAL AND DF.PART I'RK OF MAILS NOH 1H AND SOUTH VIA W. W. U. R. r. T.rhnmM.kilrl it - 19 A.M. rrivo Mt l'rl)Oro' ( JllilV) t - - S 30 P. M. WAIIINiiTOX M A T U VI GREENVILLE. FALKLAND AND SPAIM'.V. Lwive Tarboro' (uilv1 at - - 6 A. M. Arrire m Trbie' (ilailv) at 6 P. M. i.flBiir.5. Ceacrd R. A. Chanter N f, N. M. U renct!, Hih Trie!, VUsonie Hall, rr.ontbly eonvoction8 nrsi laureday in evury ututut 10 o'clock A. M. Csnconi Lo.ie N. 5, Thomas liaUiu, Master. Masonb- Hal!, meet tirt FrMay nibt ir T 'i-!oi-i P. M. and third Saturday : 10 o'clock A. H. in CTt-ry month. Kopitoa Encampment No. 18, I. O. O F., 1. B. Pa'amonutain, Chief Patriarch, Odd Fc Iswi1 Hll, Meets every first and third Thur? ,!ay of each month. F. i.'woml).; Lodire No. 50, I. O. O. F., T. W. Toler, N. O., Odd Fellows' Hal!. nt-iii -7;ry Taesday nij;Ut. EfjreconiVt Council No. 12-, Frier.dt ol re.Tir'r!jee, rat every Friday r.h:ht at the ')rtd'Fei:-s' Hall. dvnef Lodt'e N'. ?S, I. O. (1. T., leet? r-tsrr VTcdaesday ni'bt at thers Hail. ZtnaaU Ld-e, No 20T, I. ). B. B., meet a 8ret and third Monday nijl.t of every poa'h a: Od Fellows' Hall, A. Wbltloek, r'residrfut. cm nciir.. Frite-opnl Church Serviee everv Sandav if 10 1-2 o'clock A. M. and 5 P. M. Dr. J. B. Cheshire, Rector. ''ho'Ust Church Serviec;: every Fou-th 5r.nr.iy ot every month, morning aud niLrht. Sanday at nifjht and 5tb Sunday at uit;ht. f.tv. Mr. Swindell, Pastor. I- rtshyitrian Church Services eTcry 1st, ?f.lndS'h SabbUlis. Rev. T. J. AMison. rator Weekly Prayer meeti:, Thur day night MUston-Tf Hfi'.Ut Church Service? tb 4h Suiiity in every inoith, Kiorninp and Eiirht. T.W. T. II. O'ntn, Pastor. Primitive SoptUt Church Servk-c fir?t Faturdayaad eunday of each month at 11 sYlwek. HOTELS, Adams' Hotel, cornr Main ai Pitt :s. O. F. Adams, Proprie.or. Southern Express OfTiee, on Hain 8tre.et, t!o crery inorninjr atO)' o'clock. N. M. Lawrinti, Ajcnt. ?a 1 g oaai PBOFUrilONAL CUIUS. pKAKK POWELL, Attcrasy and Counselor ti La-w. TARSORV, x. c. Office next door to the Southerner olllce. July 2, 1875. tf J OS. BLOUNT CHESHIRE, JR., ATTORNEY AT LAV, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. ET"Offle at the Old Bank Buildintr on Trad Street. je25-tf. e OWAP.D i PERRY Atteraefs and Conn&dlrc &t Lav. TARBOKO', N. C. Prdc.ic in al! the Cju:- Slats s.r.d Fu?ral. 0T.5-ly. w, H. JOHNSTON, A-ttaraty ttd Ccaaselor at Lr.w, TARUOHO', K. C. Attends to the tra!iacti.-n nf busi iu al! tli CoarLs, State and Federal. Ja"ov. it, IbTo. 1 v OKEDRICK PHILIPS, Attorasy ad Comselor ,t Law, TARUORO', N. C. iT Practices in Courts of adjoining coun U, in th Fderal and Supreme Courts. Jov. 6, 1676. ly Y7ALTEE P. WILLIAMSON, ATTOE3NEY AT LAW, TARBORO'. N. C. fTill Mact Ice in the Courts of t!, 2nd udicial Dist t. Collections made in anv pa' t of the Man. fcgT Office iu Iron Front Building, Pit f ir et, rear of A. Whitlock & Go's. Jan. 7, 187C. tf JACOB BATTLE, Counsellor and Attorney at Law, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. &W Practice in all tLc Stale Courts. March 24, 1570. j J, H. & W. L. TnORP, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, ROCKY JIOUNT, X. C. PRACTICES in the counties of Ed?-e-eouibe. Halifax, Nash and Wil.-on, and I" the HiiDieine (Jourt North Carolina, also In the United States District Court at Raleigh. DR. E. D. BARNES, Surgeon Dentist, ?Iuiu Street, TARBORO, N. C. All work wan anted to give ontire Mtisfaction. feb.l8-lf. Dr. G. L. Shackelford, EES 3XT "37 X $3 U. TARBORO', H. C. '-'fi:c uppoi-U Adams' Hotel, over S. S. Kash ( Co's Store. ... . tuuureu leeiu ana rialeworka. Marciil7th, 1870, ly NEW A D V E R TJ5 S ol ?. M 73. 1 a day r.t home. Affcnts v,-iited. I Md Outfit and terms iree. TliUK & CO-, Augusta, Maine. READY rou AGKMTs 'I'll II GEHTEHHifiL tXHiSiltysi iSCKiiiJEX ANi lLX.USTiAVim. A graphic eti pieture of its history, jrraud biildiiijs, wonderful cxhibilB, curio.-iiiee, gr.-at days, etc. Profusely i'lustraied, thor oughly popular, and'very cheap. Is selling immensely. 5,000 Affents acted. Send ler lull particulars. This Is the chance of 100 years to coin ittoney fast. Get the inly relialde history. Hubbard Brothers, Pubs., Too Sacsora St., Philadelphia, Pa. f l TJI FfclVfBenot deceived by VyJSJ 1 Iiyil premature books assniuing to be "official," aud telling w!:.t will happen in Anjjust and September. O T Extra Fine Mixed Cards, with name, ,W') 10 ct., post-paid. L. Joins u (Jo., Nassau, N. Y. iZr'r'0 Cl"!'m? a Week to Agents. Sam Vr O Pi- FREE. P. O Vick eri", Augusta, Maine. 5 it O )f per day at 'i-irne. Hauiiiles w.trth V free. Sl'lN il'lNSON i C'J.. l'ort- laud, Main. ""5 A fmilT Men to h-ell to 7 V 21.1 A liU Merchants, $'.) a month at U travelling expeures paid. Geiu Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo. The Little Rock and Fort Smith RAILWAY iUJ F i: luin l.and. (traziii g Land- ra- i Vine Lands, Coa! Liiui, Wood L-n;ri-. Pra'ric Lands, Botti iu Lands, an,! U t oa terms to suit, the puoeha-er. iK , :nt-ieston deferred pavmt i;. Ten p. iM'unt lor cash. For fuil parties -Si"-and jamph!i-ts, apply to VV . 'u L( K. Coiuiusiouer, Liuie Rock, Arkatisa.-. m yotsr own tu ii. and it outfit free. 1!. ii iii-:: Portland, Maine. . u, : a e'- 1UC '.::iit, : iit .' c i t i. nd 520,000 ifi GOLD, AMlOi IJKU TALI ABM! S'ii!: 5 2 1 MS GlKi.S TO THOSti WHu crk For The Times. rtlUE Cincinnati v,.t y Tini'-s, JL for :ii! ears. h a National ciii er ;iiid e end . ;.-s of influence ith Territory iu t atrot;. in every : : L utu'.i, and oi all prtll' !Cr fcvery p -trou of (lie Tiiiies ia presi .; ed fr:e wfcbvre. r,'i an Iliu-tratnl Yt oix ol valuable in.form..i:tn, for lS-77,ulu- w orth he price of ihe paper. Kcvalvcr WITn.EVIlX CHAT BE KS d.ipted for the pocket; lo i.U removuiLT t':e cvmi.Ii r. which r- voi nitoinutic .,'y whev the hariiiinr '- r:ii'-d. It is ni'.d- of the h-t stetd, silver-plated, and lias a lour, aociirau The retai' price of this Revolver is i but bv the publishers of the Weekly Tim special airangeuient v, itu Ire ininn:.c:urcrs, are enabled to send it, post-nald by mail, to u l who subscribe 'or the Weekly Times, at a trille over me wholesale price, i;an.ei, ?4. vtiii h will pay for loth the ISevo'ver and 1 inies. Or, any one vuo I mae up a clu'i'of 15 sul-seriliers for the Times, at 1,('0 ea h, slrill reeeive a Revolver for his s :v'jy i suij)f () y t the Timts, v, i h I i iu.-Li ated List of Premiums. ai:d o'.h' rdoc nieut-i, will be sunt free on application to CISflX.XATI TI.TIES i , 2 West Third St., Cincinnati, Obio. NOTICE ! mllE ADAM3' HOTEL, formerly the X " Edgecouibe Hov.se," is still ope n for the accommodation ot tbe traveling public at the low rate of Tvo Dollars per Day. The Proprietor will state to the euiz -ns of Tarboro, that he does not intend to bo run o2 wnh regard to private board, that he pro poses if he c-.n jet a lot of regular boarders by the wtek', payable weekly, that 1 o will board them for S3.50 per Week, strictly cash at. the end of the week lor table board and $ 1.50 each per week lor man and wife, with t'ood room they furnishing their own lights and luel. Those wishing Board at these ratc can be accommodated O. F. ADAMS, Aug. 4, lS7ll.-tf. P-. opricior. PRSVTAS loaning ,ouse. :hi if a nouueee I hat she has Dinned ve.te Koardlnir (oue in Tarboro, on tbo c; ot B.ink an'i Pitt Stnts. rucr Gootl I .ire. I'lc&amiiit KOn:e, fv:aor luble ltt-J. lieard i'loi.traie. Feb. l'J, ! 75. lv C. J. AUSTIN'S WHOLESALE & RETAIL G-JROCERY, Low Down for tr Ati for PETERS AMMONI ATT Dl.SOLVKD HONE, tn-iate 1 expre'y i lol Cotton. rnru-.l: 1-ly. llanhood : Wm Lost, liaw ,)pst nublit hid, t '-c-w edition 2 Oi bll. CTTI.VKRWI LP'S CKLE bsatkd Kssay on tb radical Lure (without nied;. ii,e) of Spermal orihoea or Seiiiinal Weaknpvq Iiivoluiitio y Seminal Loshcn, lmp"tei,cy, Mental and Pbysicai In c;apacity, Iuipe liinonts i-.i Manage, 'tc; a so. Cons'ini't:n. Epilepsy and Fits, indue oil by t-e'i-i-'du-enc or scxu-il extrava 4'ance, Ac. rsv i'ltce, iu a sea..! ei:v-tope, our,' six cents. The ee'ebrated author, in this udmiralilo Essay, clearly demonstrate?, from n thirty years' successful practie, that the alarming consequences of self-abntie may be radicallv cured without the dangerous use of interna medicine or the application of the knife pointing out a mode of curs at one simple certain, and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no matter whit his condition may be, may cure himself cheaply, privately and radically. Z 'iT Thin Lecture should be iu the hands ol every youth and every man rj the land. Sent uiidr seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, post-paid, oa receipt of six cents or two postage stamps. Address the Publishers, CI1A.S. J. C. CLINE & CO., 127 Bowary, New York ; P. O. 3ox, 4566 MISCELLANEOUS. .A.. WRENN Manufacturer of and wholesale dealer iu CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, FARM WAGONS, CAKTS, WHEELS AND AXLES, HAR NESS, COLLARS, HAJHES, SAU DLES, LAPKOBKS, HORSE CLOTHING, WHIPS. Ac, Ac. Also a large Stock of Carriage Materials. Nos. H, 16, 34 and 26 Union Street. Norfolk. Va. April, 7 1876. ly. Old Reliable Jewolry Store, 48 YEA"S ESTABLISHED. STILL IN FULL BLAST. Arthur C. Freeman, SUCCESSOR f 160 MaiE S'.., Norfolk, Va., ofl'ers tc the citisens of Edgecombe ant sur- rouudiiig cocMtrv a full tjue of Diamonds, Plain Gold --A ling : i. ment Ring, llridal Prse.tr, e.e. M v laciiitie are sueli that being ?or.i:eet- rd with one of the br.rest Iw-orlii; Hd'iscs in this Country, and having ercluiiveiv for cash, enabl-.s me to o3"-r SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS. Send your orders to i:i-, and rou will save 15 to 2u per cent. Should the goo-ls not suit lilonev will be refunded. Address, ARTHUUC. FREEMAN, Jewtier, Norfolk, Va. Hight-t Important. I employ none but the most, skiiifu' Workmen i:i the Repairintt of Watches and Jewelry, and if you w ish to have your watches repaired properly n.nd satisfaction iriven, send them to me by Ex press carefully packed in cotton. FURNITURE 4 la -g- lot for t lc cheap for cash. Ah !l Furiitture m .o - to order, by' .J. 2J. S xMMONa, PI TT ST., .'AUKORO', N. C. tjw Call and se beiore you purchase. promptly attended to. IJe?p3 on baud ajid makes to order, Maho any, VVa!u;t, Poplar aud Pine Coffins, Also on hind a full line of MET ALIO GA SES. Hearse for hire on burial occasions. fx " Tei lus ca?h. Jan. 1, 1870.-ly. J. E. SIMMONS. BAKERY ! rHIS OLD ESTABLISHED BAKERY IS now ready to supply the people of Tar boro and vicinity with all kinds ot Bread, Cakes, French and Plain Candle?, Xuts, Fruits, J-c, Jrc, embracing every th ng usuf-lly hept in a First Class Establishtiit nt rf the kind. Thankful for the lib, ra! patronage of the past, the undersigned asks a continuation, with the promise of sati f iction. Privafn Fana:le can Jilwnvs liuvo tbeir Ciikei ltakr,-l Jirr nt iiort est iiutfic. k4 Balls promptly filled. Call and nex' door to Bar: .f e-.i xtimiiK cur utock, I binover. ACOB WEBER. Nov. 4.-1 v. RESTAURANT Boarding House. SEALS at 2ii HOURS 4-JiYSTElv SE11VED IN EVERY STYLE. If A good stock of C Ai'.S and TOEACCO always on band. Soliciting your patronage I ours respect ifu!! S. E. Sa Good accoiumralition for Customers i;id Table J'.oarders. Tarboro', Sept. ls li75 bPIEU. Transient THIS TArEIl IS ON PILE "WITH Wliare Advex tlsing Contra eta can lo maiVo. W. T. TAYLOR, Ma; ufacturer of WIX&jW r'UAlES, DOGES, Plain Pa'.uis of every style mm FRAMES, WIXLOffS, SASHES, BLINDS, MANTLES, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, SCROLL WORK AND Tobacco Box Patterns, Whitaker's, N. 0. Also, contract to pat up buildings, furu- Ishing all material, eompleta turn-key jobs, or otherwise, a parties may preler, all with Kilu-dried lam her. March 24, 1870. iy 9 faxxhovB mntbmxtt. Friday Dae. 22, 1376 Two Songs. I murrnrtr not wheiv heart-break is my lot, O love forever lost ! I murmur not. Though diamoud-rtidtance clothes thy form ia light, There falis no ray upon thy heart's black night. That knew I long, I saw thee in a dream, And saw the darkness through thy bos- s m s'leam, And saw the worm w'uic'.i feeds upon thy hert ; And saw, tuy love, how sorrowful thcu art. Yes thou nr wretche l, and 1 murmur not ; My love, we shall be wretched thou and I! Till of each aching heart death breaks the knot ; My love, we shall be wretched, thou aud I. Upon thy mouth, scorn its light traces le Lives, I see thine eye3 I see the pride Sas'.i out defiantly, i!h which, thy bosom heaves, Yet, wretched ar as I. thou, love, wretched, Uusceu the smart about thy mouth's un rest, Concealed tha tears which dm thy lucent eyitc, Scciet the pa'n which wrings thy haughty breast, I'erennial angu :-h, love, is mine aud th'nc. l'KCTATOi:. cub un:ve33i:t lsptss. Ciiapul i I ill, D. c. 11th 137G. Dear Southern En: The term a'osed last Thursday and by Fri- da 7 all of the f indents tmd leic ex- cept six v.';o are f:o.p.g to spend trie vacation 'aere. The working of this term has hid many good cfl'ects which tend to prove hat the rcsu cixation of the University is not a men venture, bat a settled -indwell retrulated Institution. Iz is one of the industries of the stat, convert ing crude brains and dormant pow ers into active intellects and re sistless energies. The only tiling needed to raaksNorth Carolina first among the states 'a Education. Education is of flow growth but it burys with it the hum of industries ho are o;p. and awakens the prostrauu erter- The present ses sion nas witnessed aM;uons to the Faculty A President and two Profes-'ors to the students and to the appliances of instruction; ti e standard of scholarship has been raised in nearly all the departments, and the mamfi dd dcticiencies of preparation, apparently inherent in the first students of any newly or ganized College, are gradually fill ing up with solid acquirements. President Battle has since his appointment uevolcu Ils entire at tention to tie best interests o e tj e University. His address. 4:T!.e relations oi tne university to the Agricultural wealth of the State'Me- fines fuljy the position cf the Uni versity with respectto the education of practical and theoretical farm- fl.C 1 : Fl .'1 ! Under his adrainistrtition the (.1 ... best interests of the University will 1 T U 11 be d pea ana eareruuy guarded Mr. Smith, the new professor, ly aig-aercd during J e- D O has been active the past session wun Ds classes in Physiology, Mineralogy and Zoology. His method of teaching is by lectures, text book's and experi ments. He has dissected several subjects, among them two horse,?. Flip excitement over the horses wis intense. There was a general ex' tins of the College to the woods when the dissection was going on, and bojs sufficiently listless under the inspiration of Greek roots and Algibraic symbols brandished tbetr dissecting- knives in a manner that would do credit to Buffalo Bill in bis palmiest days. Prof. Smith is now occupied in re-arranging the i . i i ranous museums ana tne mineral cabinets cf the College. As yot no specimens have been received in answer to his caK but it is to be hop ed that a deep interest will be evinced in this department of the University by those who have it in their power to do much to advance the practical work of the Institution. Prof. G randy, who is assisting in Mathematical Jfnstrution, will, it is said, devote his attention next ses sion to the Chemistry department. The Physics hall has been newly fitted up, and the new apparatus edds much co the interesting fea- turcg of the uepaftmsnt. During the present session 103 students have entered the Universi ty, and of these 50 are new comers. Two new students have applied for admission next session and if the numerous applications for catalogues may be taken as a sign tnere will he a large increase over our present number. There are certain customs among the students of Northern Colleges which ought to be adopted by the students of our Southern Colleges. In nearly every Northern College each class has its class officers President, Orator, Poet &c, and once a year they meet and have a supper if they wish. By this means the members ef the classes are brought together and become better ac quaintod and better friends. The custom of having a class sapper was I commenced on last Thursday night, J Dfcc. 7th, by the Sophomore class. Considering the short time for pre paration, 5 the supper was a splen did affair." Lest any bad impressions may arise I thick it due to the members of that class to state that tbey strictly prohibited the bring ing into the room liquor of any kind and to exclude from their number any oae affected with spirits. The table was' set and ready by seven o'clock, jvlfter a. short address by Mr. P. Winston, who was elec ted President of the occasion, the meiibars "f the class begad to mtike deep hiro;sli.wvtb.e turkeys, chick ens, Opossums, piekle3, Cukes, Pie.-;, and in short everything imaginable that is good and palataUe. The toast were respon ied to af ter singiag the Sophomore Song which is as follows. AiR "Tire rumour We fill up our glasses with collee not wine, Ati J criuk to tha health of our class '70. Now Hist to our IPs our glasses will rattle, And driuk to the health ot Prof. Canow and Rattle. Nxl to our irwir glasses, we'i! fill. And di ink tu Dick Hoiulerson, Ward and Hi.i. ToJali!i and Jim JIitr;io; our repec s we wm pay, And to Pe:n;r ao 1 Jo Pule we'll d Cafe. To our good iook'ug men our g! Ai.d to the Leallh ot Uob Bliau ;ses we'll tip, e and Stubbs we will tip. We'd fill up our g'asses to him that is gone, H.tid drink to the health of good Nu.tt.uy Vaughan. We now close oursong but hold ere we do it, We drink to J. Taylor, and Winston our p-.,et ( The firs: toast was the 41Oeeas by the ion" stud was respouded to President as follows: This occasion should be one in which the sparkling of ::ic)i eye is but a gleam of friendship, the throbbing of each heart a warm and heated impulse of love. On this occa-;ion we should en eivor to find in his more durable than iron isti: than virtue the a!i-i more affections and sympathies of our classmates. Lot this occasion be the means of instilling into the hearts of each of us, a high and p'.ra regard for each other such a regard a? shall last not on y tarugh out- connection duri pleasant sjiourn anions the our hon r-if- ed hills and groves, bat also in tcr life. May fond recollections of this meeting be perpetually embalm ed in the recesses of vour rni'uiory and may it bo the means of creating with in the breast of each ol'u; a lofty and ennobling love for our class a pure determination to stand by our class to perpetuate its name and render most sacred its memory. TUB UNIVERSITY. The University received the fol- lowing e-ood wishe3 from S. T. Pender, ot Tarboro. May her c ro- i pent y be only equalled by her de serts. May her reputation be wor.u wid-.; an i may this her fi-st S oph , moreclass.te the meaus of establsth- ing for hr an everlasting reputa tion. ZE3 VANCE. To that pure, patriot, whose annus awakens it responsive chord in the breast of every North Carolinian, John M. Manning. of Chatham, P'.id the following ttibute z.May Zob Vance's progress on Fame's ladder increase as his raven locks are siU verod. May his glorious victory bury in an ignominious grave the loul carcass of radicalism and may he never weary of his toils uatii the bright banner of lieform spreads over North Carolina's sunny land. May iNort'i Carolinians appreciate his merits and may the name, ' Old Zeb," be handed down to generation as the watch word fo deeds valor and patriotism. the old north state was responded toby II. W. Stubb. of Martin, as follows Carolina, Carolina, the p- triots hotn?, God's fairest children od they shores do roam Their sons the first to sound fair freedou's blast, With noble hearts defend thee to tha last. The cradle of liberty the birth of tha brave , Thy Fons have filled hone else bat honored graves. May spotless robes they fair image bin 1, Thy brow wilhjustice and with truth ba twined. Brave classmates now will consercrr.ta anew, With thiobbing hearts with purpose strong and true. A strong resolve our nobis) Stats t save. In freedom's bath her feantaonslinabs to lave. THE LADIES, by J. S. Manning, of Chatham, May their enchanting smiles ever delight the victor s eye, their deep sympathies renovate the despond cnts hope, and impel him forward with increased determination, their jrentletoueh ever waken the dormant energies, their timid, -'yea" the po tent want ot tlieir influence ever exalt and guide us. Now let us drink in coffee not wine, To the beauties of the Southern clime. THE BAR was responded to bv Robt. Strange, Jr., of Wilmington, in the following handsome style What is law? ll is the fear of the rich; the safety of the poor; the restraint of the strong, the protec lion of the weak, the enemy of the oppressor, the friend of the oppress ed. :'The good need fear no law It 13 Lis safety, and the bad man' awe." under the shadow of the great name, the small man walk3 the earth aa boldly as ths giant, the white winged bark flies' over the ' ocean's pathless wster as fearlessly - as the mighty man-o-war. In her .might she has a limit to the restless ambi tion of many a Ceasar, and has car? bed the mightest monarchs of the earth in their corese" of aggrandize ment and tyrany. May we see its exporent in our own 'beloved., old State, the judiciary the very foun tain of all law and justice, once adorned by a Badger, a Battle and a ItufSn,' now degraded by a Cloud, a llaade and a Pearson, again 1 raised to its former high s standard of honor and integrity, and deco rated with the names of the wisest and noblest in our land. the medical fraternity. by K. P. Battle, Jr. To the guar dian angels of man who minister to his distress in the hour of tribula tion and who hsve it in their power to perform the functions at once of preacher and murderer, the Doc tors. May the ranks of the Frater nity be filied with the best of men, whu will advance its interests and may their bretfs be wreathed with crowns ol gold at the hands of their grateful fellow cicatures. TO TnE SOPH0MOBE CLASS. Mr. W. J. Pule, of Jackson, re sponded ia his usual happy and graceful stylo as follows: The Sophomore year is that hap py period when just having im inerged from the horrors of Fresh manism, we begin to drink indeed of the Pierian fount, whose waters once tasted are never to b9 forgot ten. Other year may be remem bered but that to which our minds will always recur with pleasure will ho th.- Snnlifir.T.irrt a enn full r.e j " ':.'., " t ui yv tiLil. Ji id 1 luuijuiuus. AOiV s. the present Sophomore class 1 it , r ti wouiu say, iaonr mav you wave. May your course be not like that of .me meteor bright Hashing across the midnight sky, out you like some m, rise slowly and grow brighter and brighter, until having arrived t the meridian ot your gtory you ink slowly down, when it must be that you must fill the destinv of all m unkind. May the twilight of your niluence still be felt by those you l ive :e:; oeniuu. -A.s ior my uart have lived here a Sophomore a aonaomore 1 saa.l quit the Uru- ersitv, and to the antiquarian war,r -lerin amonsr the vine clad hills and assy slopes of old Northampton a ombstont? thai! appear witn tins in scription : ' He died a Sophomore.' THE SOUTHERN BRAVES. To the sainted memory of our ha!- owed Southern dead, V. S. Hill, of Duplin, paid the fo'lowing trib ute : Never has such bravery baen re corded in history as the Southern hero-is displayed, iu late most lameata- blo scruggle between tne ISorta aud the- South. Tiiey wout to battle with few men and lees money, but went with a aetermination to conquer tho enoiuy about to drink the life bl od of the last infant clinging to tho icy bosom or its slaughtered mother au I to preserve the rijnts which bad been givon them by their forelathprs. bee- inf the dan&eroua condition of their beloved country, they voluntarily en listed under tho Southern banner. They contended with en enemy al- mjst tea times their number, aud tho ast sad gcene of all Appomattox when tho Southern bars and chiv alry woat down botore the thousands buried against tnem. Then it was they displayed such bravery as the world ha3 never known. dBut alas! they wero conquered not wilhoutleave ing; a monument that time will never radicate, and now their bones lie bleaching on the b&ttle fields of Vir ginia, and their graves watered by tho tears of their widows and orphans. Yes, may we ever be able to 'say When hope s expiring throb is o'er. Aud despair c.in prompt no more ; Our country s lay shall be the g rave, Of tho lorft fond few, Who vainly btave hie for the lind they cannot save. MATRIMONY. Rich'd B. ffendcrson, of War- ren, said : The bliss for which all mortals sigh, Was ordered from on high, To those who make the better half, These biimming cups we quaff. We are sorry not be able to give "The Professors," as responded to by J. M. Tavlor, of Chapel Hill, and " Vacation " by J. F. Hill, cf Duplin After a long supper and a g,od time the class adjourned first meeting of the -. ft-a t-n f.-, oliowioij; toa;t to HOME, . by F. P. Barrow, of Jackson, Last but not least to onr homes let m drink, The places where taught from our craiies to think, While there's pleasure abroad may peace be at home, Let us hurry aud be met with plexiure alone. COMMENCEMENT , 13 long time off, but at the begin- mtii r.t nnTt 9painr I will writo you the names ot the commence .1 M . t S j miu,e- gramme o ment officers and the Pro T? : I! . , ,. . -ni t ;air ladies of kdgecombe, yei ' J is presence at our next tommen meat. Come all ot you. Wqs surely give you the most enj time you ever had ia thia St More at another time. Yours trurjji. a a cat Why is cur young de uiout nsnr .because he has than brains. ; -. .H Oar Washington Letter- From our Regular . Correspondent. ; Wasihgntos, D. C, Dtc. 13th, .1876. , I opine that' you care very little bow a-days the social and fashion able frivalities of the- National Cap ital, tt least wc care little' far them here.' Every subject becomes con temptible in presence of the momen tous 'r political questions peering above the horizon of the second cen tury. .Aie majorities to rule, cr jire the office holders strong enough to declare their tenure perpetual ? N well informed person doubts that if it were not for this clasp, from the cabinet campaign minister, down to the postmaster who edits a county newspaper, the country's demand for a change would have been respected and conceeded, and that now, instead of anarchy and industrial paralysis, tho country would be healthfully engaged in merchandise and agriculture. Jn talking with leading Democrats, the most alarming and sickening thing is the hopelessness with which they seem to regard all appeals to the constitution and laws. Their hope lessness is not expressed iu a pro nounced manner, hut it is never theless apparent. The Republicans mocked the constitution and laws in the planetnde of their power, they will not respect them now in their desperate death struggle. Thadeus Stephens said: ''to hell with the constitution," and the President of the United States has in the last week expressed his. con tempt for the si pre ao coartof one of the thirteen original States, in lan- i cruasre coarser hue not les3 em ph at- ic. it may oe very wen ior us as Democrats and patriots to fortify our ccnciences, and plumb our souls, r . i i n with abstract right, precedent, and constitutional law, but let us at the same time realize that those who have clutched the government, look upon the constitution as tin effete instrument, and know no Jaw but inig-ht. Jn rtr cernirig ses like tni, notnmg clo the men whom fantastic fortune has made t' e arbiters cf our fate can be utiiri-cresting. The President has supplemented the ig norance of politics, cf which he boasts in his last message, with ig norant and mediocre advisers. Sit:ce Bristow and Jewell were kicked out there remains scarcely a first rate man ia his cabinet. il's consfku i tional advisers arc net Statesmen, they are simply partisans an 1 cro nies. The most influential among them are Mr. Don Cameron, Sec retary of War, and Mr. Chandh-r, Secretary of tlu Interior. Of the Senators who b.ve the confidence of the president, Mr. Conkling is the only one who has claims to Statesmanship, but his visirs to tht Whitehouse are few in comparison with' those of Patterson of South Carolina, Spencer cf jilar.ama, and Boutwell of Massachusetts. Sena tor Patterson, who represents Chamberlain (not South Carolina) at the White House, is a native of Pennsvlania, and a pvo'e;' cr rather puppet of the Cameron's. The influence of the Cameron's in national politics is immense. Cam eron pere superccd Sumner in shap ing cur foreign policy in the Senate, and C irnerrm flls dictated tho Re publican presidential nomination. Among the Senators who have come to tho front in this complication i3 John Sherman of Ohio Hereto fore he has' 'not been conspicuous, for anything bat thrift and stature. The average newspaper reader knows little more cf him than that he votes with hi3 party, anil has be come, in some way, enormcrasly 1 wealthy. The name is eminently respectable, and so is the &enatorvk Tito name is historic; it carries back to the heroic days of the Y public and wo' equally assor with the New England Siat of that name- Bi:' let U3 If misled by coincidence of s nor Hayes had been elected J Cities mm would have had 0,'i.as for jjreater even than he v gher- putting money in bis rfds nonw man wag the first to Cameron, ination, and to himced for his n : : . i .t Liayva is vuienj StUHy tllfiSC l.iti-liuav j litiac 1 Wh vey to -the par relations we h a.rirriiojn"' tizansmp ol ttj Louisiana, and tcr in his rerfo3titutioa of the the lisgracoitioui young Sec army bv tb I know -Senator retary of it is pot easy to de Shermar;or ho i3 "neither hot scribe l)ut negative and medi nor celery thing' except averice coretion. .e is most narked anrj.rjst.ic is caution, he ha3 of ch at his back, but he keeps be fa them and the observer. jere jg-iittle news here that you no. j)ave recejveti D telegraph" 11B I"" iwavuco uu. ALIO LHOL j, r becominrr day dv day more trans- ,wnt. ,rfhh Wnq api -. . - disclosed and the barbed tail is un folding Why ha3 the general dis tinguished for his raid on the Louis- na Legislature, and by the "all of is appro vin?: disnatca ot Gen. nap, been ordered to take charge of this military department, and why has Gen. iZancock been banished to the Pacific slope? Does any ono doubt that Grant medi tates the rolo of Cromwell with the British parliament f Bonaparte wii,U the council of five hundred? But why cross the Atlantic for pre cedents LiZas ho not tried the ex periment with success, two years ago in New Orleans, and two .weeks ago in Columbia? , . ,C. A. S,; ,., Would to a Clerk. -. , (Louisville Cemmercial.) , , - A retail dry goods dealer on Sixth Avenue had a couple of visi-. tors the other day, where he expec ted a couple of customers. A wo-" man, appearing to be about fifty years old, entered the store in com pany with her daughter, a thin-faced o'd maid of about thirty-and when the clerk slid forward the mother said : 'Not any dry goods for us today. Where's the owner ?' 'Do you wish to see the proprie tof?' asked the clerk. 'He's the man.' They wero shown in the office. The merchant supposed they owned a village store and desired to stock up, and he welcomed them with a winning smile. 'My daughter Minerva- Miner va Bolton,' said the lady by way of introduction. Mio'rva and the merchant Ehook hands, chairs were placed, and as the two sat down the old lady said: 'She's one of the best girls in tho State of New York.' 'No doubt no doubt, madam.' 'After she has been in the store one month you wouldn't part with her for 10 a day,' said the moth er. 'Ah- yes yes.' 'She's smart ia figures, honest as an old-fashioned winter, and she wouldn't be giggling 'round with the clerks.' 'J.h ! But I havo no vacancy just now.' , '7 don't want any vacancy. I want Minerva to be a clerk. She's just as smart as a wolf, and if she comes here I shall do all my trad ing with her. I don't know but I'd take some bed ticking home with me to-day, for they say ticking is ou the rise.' 'Yes but but ' 'I know how you feel,' she inter- upted, 'but you can depend on her. Our Postmaster 'Squire Johnson, and heaps of others, will rccom-i mend her ; she has got a character, , that girl has. You. might leave million dollars with her and " " pericctly safe, sold four yards cents a yard, h Minerva, if. of factory n ill tin w much wou1' . iieie ming come to; tcA n e ,nlvd rorty cents, ct course, ; to?' Minerva. .claim 'See there see there L h clerk ed tin mother. iave ,gures as m the store wl o canre" qu i.-tk as that ?' 1 'Uut J have ail j. jn want,' he managed L tht crosa. 'l ou might discjcrejand -7e eyed young man (e for her lifV this poor girl a cu ghe docsQ.t pleaded the mot certainl fi0 in get a plrce she to a decline a: c.3 kufou gold four bunch 'Miuervaor g;x cenr-3 pCr es ot h ip-piC'a money -would you bunch, ho Scc .our cents, any fool '-wf? replied the daughter, knowsfc beat tlat ia this store?' t(jlflquired tho mother. 'If Pro' her you can depend on y'Vue's always home uitzhts. is "Moarty cater, can put up with nv en, arid 1 know your wife fd :ike Ler. ; She can sort o' do scwork ia the morning and after and so you 11 be kilhn: two virds with one stone.' 'I can't take her no no. Got all the help I want !' replied the mc-rchaat. 'Three dollars a week and board takes my daughter,' persisted the mother. 'Can't can't do it. 'No no !' 'That settles that,' remarked tho mother, as she rose up. 'I see your object. You want me to come down to $1 a week, but i'll seo you hung first. Come oa, Minerva, I did think of looking at some bed-ticking but we'll go up the street. I'll get yeu a clerkship where you can look right down on thi3 store a3 a horse looks down on a grasshopper.' Much has been said about tho go-aheadativeness of the Western people, but there i3 many a man in the region of Chicago who has been known to stop short in the midst of an important job ju3t to -watch an Illinois girl trying to clutch a hay stack. The laziest man is on a Western paper. lie spells photograph, (4to graph.' Thero have only been three worse than he. One lived iu Kansas, and dated his letters "llworth;' an other spelled Teanessee "lOaO." and the other wrote Wyanotte 'Y&." Renew your subscriptions, only 02.00 a year.