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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1893
Page
2
A 1892 Hillsborough North Carolina paper presents the motto John to be happy though poor and publishes典 brief quotes on happiness by notable figures. The piece references Oliver Wendell Holmes James Cardinal Gibbons and a sermon on the Mount as paths to contentment.
The Williams Settle case is declared impregnable by attorney A W Graham as the last evidence is ordered printed. August 18 is North Carolina Day at the Chicago Columbian Exposition, chosen for Virginia Care’s birth anniversary. Mrs Grant and Mrs Davis will meet daily at Cranston’s near West Point, with Mrs Grant hoping not to disappoint. Despite tight finances, investors remain confident in the Southern states with new textile and mill expansions announced in North Carolina and Virginia. Baltimore Manufacturers Record lists new cotton mill concerns.
Records show 2,228,672 bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption sold in the United States from March 1891 to March 1892. Each bottle carried a money back guarantee if results were unsatisfactory. The Savannah Ga ad cites 50 cents, W A Hayes Drugstore, with customer Samuel Cherry testifying to P P P’s miraculous effects on Mary Ingraham.
Edward Everett Hale argues a life of simple habits and virtue leads to health and peace. He says happiness comes when not pursued directly, and contrasts French and English outlooks on blessedness with references to the gospel.
The author argues happiness rests in temperament, not wealth or environment. Wealth can coincide with misery, while poverty can accompany joy, and inner quality of the soul surpasses circumstances. Noted contrasts include Dives, Lazarus, Marcellus, and Caesar to illustrate lasting joy amid fortune or famine.
President Cleveland announces the appointments of R. B. Glenn as District Attorney and Kope Elias as Internal Revenue Collector for the Western District of North Carolina.
Durham county commissioners plan a county wide convict system as calls for reform echo in Greensboro and Warrenton reports. Other notes include fire losses at P. H. Hanes & Co and a mail route mileage claim by J. M. Watson. Also features deaths, antiquities drive and Waldenses settlement hopes in North Carolina.
Corrected market list shows prices for wheat corn oats meal and more. Included are bacon hog round eggs butter and various dried fruits and wildlife products with per unit rates and notes on best produce for cash.
A jumble of old war era calls and domestic scenes. The piece urges Georgia colonels to return home as the White House doors supposedly swing open. It mixes a Kentucky town tale with a freedman exchange about temptation and a preacher’s eloquent defense of religion amid forms of punishment.
An advertisement proclaims a salve as the best in the world for cats bruises sores ulcers fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded with a price of five cents per box sold by W A Hayes druggist.
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