,DAILY REFLECTOR.}D. J. WHICHARD. Editor.Subscription 25 cents per Month:Entered as second-class mail matter.=We dare say that no one eversawsuch s ridiculous spectacleof legislation as was exhibited inthe Legislature Friday on the billin reference to Magistrates. Thebill provided for increasing thenumber in eacr township by appointing six additional ones andnot to furnish them any laws bywhich they might be able tu knowhow to decide cases. Those whovoted for the bill actually got upimmediately and said havnTt weplayed the fool? And everybodysaid yes. They reconsidered thebill, reduced the number to threeand gave them books.=SorteWeare sure. that the reportthat the Populists in the Legisla-ture have called a halt is not ineorrect because their actions forSthe past few days has shownthis They helped the Democratskill the bill to change the charterof the city of Raleigh whichwould have turned the Capitolover to the control of the negroes.They also voted some amend-ments to the County Governmentbill which makes it less objectionable than it was in its originalshape. Itis said that they willalso demand. some amendment ofthe election law. They shouldlook well to this.The Republi-cans want this bilf passed sothat they can control the electionin this State. The bill as it iswill give them this power and itbehooves! any man who lovesNorth Carolina to do what hecan to save the States from theclutches of a party that has been_ tried and always found wanting.prem_ffand your supscription to theA ad rs. Fiby those who think to win theirHowitt isin Life. ..~.A rooster flies up on the fence,His satisfection is immense,His self- on is intense,His lusty lungs giye evidenceThat this is so.Another rooster sees him there |And hears him crow eaeWith flapping wings he cleaves the air.~Tho fence top is too small to share,And so they fight and scratch and tear,Tiil down they go.So *tisin life. When any manGets eminent,Some jealous riyal tries to planSome way to down him if he can,And if he just ursets the planHe feels content." Oakland Printer.= asIt Does Not Pay.As an exchange says, mefch--ants have been known to'take adYyantage of customers in weights,measures or by putting in an -in-ferior article at the price of agood One but it does not pay-Farmers have been kuown toadulterate whet they had to sellby mixing lard with butter, dirtand chips with turpentine or byputting water or rocks into balesof cotton, but it does not pay. ~Some young men starting inlife for themselves get in. debt atseveral places and -think theyhave that much money, but itdoes not pay.All these things are wrong andbesides they do not pay.oThe homely virtues of indus-try, fidelity, piety, are surestpledges of success. Thoughscouted sometimes as sentiment-al and goody goody, aud scornedway by consciencelees dash, ef-froutery, selfishness, a carefulsurvey of the lives of men willdiscover in the long run there is)nothing so sure as thorough-goingall-round honesty to secure solid_ John Hatton Stabs a Man. -Newrort News, Va., March 3."M. J. Eastman, a prominent . con-tractor of this city, was seriouslystabbed here to-day ina difficultywith John A. Hatton. The affairoccurred on Twenty-seyenthstreet, opposite Hotel Ivy, andwas the result of a quarrel thatarose between the two men overa baby carriage belonging to Hat-tcn, which was kept in the: hall-way of EastmanTs house and ob-structed the passage. Eastmantold his agent to request Hattonto vacate, as the other occupantsof his building complained verymuch of the obstruction. Hattoncame into the real estate agent'soffice while Eastman was there.and renewed the quarrel, sayingthat he would skip him alive ifhe touched his carriage again.Eastman inyited him out, andHatton followed him, going to abutcher-shop near by and bor-rowing a knife, Hatton returnedto the stieet, calling Eastman aYaukee" ", and began to slashhim with the knife. Before. thetwo meu could be separated Hat-ton had stabbed his victim tentimes, three on the head and face,two on the left shoulder, and fivein the left side. Hatton imme-diately gave himself up, and isnow in jail, having been sent onto the grand jury this evening atthe preliminary examination.The physicians that attended thewounded man stete that he willlikely pull through all right, al-thougi: one of the cuts in the leftside may prove fatal. Hatton is@ married man about 30 years ol:l,and is employed in the furniturestore of Barclay & Williams Hecame here from North Carolinaabout two years ago." RichmondDispatch.mereHik EiFS FELLsuccess.�oHonesty is the best policy.�|When the 6 per csnt interest!bill passed the legislature it ~wassaid that it would goin effect aton:e, but this was a mistake.The bill failed to -state ' that itshould go into effect..from ~thequence of which omissionT it. willie{date of ratification, in» ;conse"}not be in force until thirty: days}:afcer the legislatare adjourns...Paiauae