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I I I PUBLISHED, EVERY THURSDAY. GREENSBORO, N. C, Offi.c Dmrt SowtA oj Bentnno Houa, South Elm St. TERMS s . . . . . . .ta oo . . . ; ... 1 00 : i.t.i' SO One year,.. - Six Months, r Tun Months, TfrVARIABLT IN ADVANC. - ! pfTPofAag prepaid atthvt Office. J 1 letter aMreed o 77ie iVbrffi State," wiU rtrrire prompt attention. OUR GOVERNMENTS. OFFICERS OF THfTfEDERAL GOVERN MENT. THE KtECCTTVE. Rutherford B. Hayes, of ohio' presWent of tbe United States. William A. Wheeler, of New ork, ice Prtulnt of the United SUitcs. XITE CABPTET. William M. Eart, of New York, Secretary of State. , . John Sherman, of Ohio,; Treasurer. Gree W. M- McCrary, Secretary of War. Richard W. Tbonii-Hon, of Indiana, Secreta ry of the Navy. Carl Schurz, of MUwotm, Secretary of the 'Interior. Charles Deveus, of Massachusetts, Attorney General. . . David M. Key, of Tennessee, Postmaster- GeneraL THE JUDICIARY. MJPREME COUBT OF THE UXIitD STATES. Morrison Y. Waite, ot Ohio, Chief Justice. Nathan Clifford, of Maine, Noah II. Swayne. of Ohio, Sarancl J. Miller, of Iowa, David Davis, of Illinois, Stephen J. Field, of California, William M Strong, of Pennsylvania, Joseph P. Bradley, of New Jersey. Ward Hunt, of New York. Associate Justices OUR STATE GOVERNMENT. EXECUTIVE DEFAKTMENT. Zebulon B. Vance, of Mecklenburg, Gover nor. . David M. Vance, of Mecklenburg, Private Secretary'. ., . . . Thomas J. Jurvis, of Pitt, Lieutenant-Governor. Joseph A Englehard, of New Hanover, Sec retary ot State. John M. Worth, of Randolph, Treasurer. , Donald W. Item, of Wake, Chief Clerk. T. C. Worth, of Randolph, Teller. Dr, Samuel L. Love, of Haywood, Auditor. Thos. S. Kenan, of Wilson, Attorney-General. John C. Scarborough, of Johnston, Super i ntendent of Public Instruction. Johnstone Jones of Wake, Adjutant General. J. McLeod Turner, Keeper of the Capitol. Sherwood Haywood, of Wuke, State Libra rian. JUDICIARY. ' STTPEEME COUKT. W. "ST. H. Smith, of Hertford County, Chief John H. Dillard, Thos. S. Ashe, Associates. W. H. Ragley, of Wake, Clerk-of Supreme Court D. A. Wicker, of Wake, Marshal. Business Directory. Attorneys at Law. KEOGH fc BAUHIKGER, ATTOUNIfcS AT LAW, OHce In Corner Building, over Xohth State office W 8. BALL. GEO. 11. GREGORY. BALL & GREGORY, ATTOUNEYS AT LAW. Office over Wilson 4 Shober's Bank. Will practice iu State and Federal Courts. One of the ft- ta can always be found iu the office. Watches and Jewelry. B. FAURAR, , WATCHMAKER. JEWELER, ENGRAVER and Optician, under Benbow Uouat-, keeps constantly oa band a full stock of Jewelry, etc. OHK CHAMBERLAIN, WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELUY, in Book Store, under Benbow House. Dry Goods, etc. w B. BOGART, Wcit Market St., between Greene and AtLe. OUELL, It AG AX & CO., DBY GOODS, HARDWARE, BOOTS ; SHOES. East aide of South Elm Street, near Depot. W It. Ml'BRAY, DRY GOODS, CARPETS, BOOTS, SHOES, &c. East Market street. Books and Stationery. CHAS. I. YATES, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, and dealer in Music and Fancy Articles, uuder the Benbow House. Miscellaneous. SERGEANT MASUPACTl'RISG CO., MANUFATURERS OF STOVES, PLOWS. Portable Saw Mills, Castings of all kinds. Shop be tween Washington street and N. C. R R. G. CARTLAN D & URO.. TAILORS AND CLOTHIERS, SOVTlI ELM STREET, under Benbow Hall. Greensboro, N, C. J IS. O'STJLXIVAIV, STOVES, HOLLOWAEE, TINWARE, &c. South Elm street, next door to Odtdl, Ragaa Co. Physicians. DR. R. W. GLENN, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN SURGEON, jean be found at R. W. Glenn k Sous' Drug Store. Hotels. PLANTERS' HOUSE, Mbs. L. A. REESE, Proprietress, East Market treat, near the Court-house. ptKDMOXT HOUSE, I" J. D. Sublett, Proprietor. Corner of MarVet and MeADOO HOUSE, W. D. MeADOO, Proprietor, South Elm street, ear the Depot. OFFICES OF DANIEL F. BE ATT Y, , MANUFACTURER OF THE DAfllEL F. BEATTY'S PIANOS AND ORGANS. R FATTY plAJf GRAND SQUARE Wtn ' 1 1 SSWSSSSi AND UPRIGHT and BEATTY'S CELEBRATED GOLDEN TONGUE PARLOR ORGANS are the sweetest toned and most perfect instnuneats ever before manufactured in this or any other Country. The world is challenged to equal them. Best dis counts and terms ever before given. Rock Bottom panic prices now ready to jobbers, agents and the trade in general. An offer: These celebrated instruments (either Piano or a s ' w "u ouippea anjwnere, ou live tO nitfiAn Hilrc oe c r 1 i . . ;lmghtcharges paid both ways if in any way rasafasftory. FtSlVarranrxHi for six years as MncOy fc -cLm f EXTRAORDINARY LIB- S??0UNJ'S 8iven to Churches, Schools, Lodges, Halls, Ministers, Teachers, u mwfder to bve them introdoced at once where I hawna agrntarr Thousands BDm use. New niubtrated ADVERTISER. Cata logue Edition),, .with list of twtiriKJiiials; aow ready, sent free. Established in 1859 Address, DANIEL F.-BEATTY, ' 13l-ly s i. ,i:ka WstfOunctonl N J s -IRESCRIPTION FREE! '! ifnKP Cure of. Seminal W?kkTlSi ianneolaMdallifatAn4r hn.,.h. cZlJruvL t. eretlOl or 1wrmm A rv i J? naatheinare. , it :rlk-. VwV - UN. AO. l; . . . . I, .j ...... cm m ti .... i , i i . THE FEDERAL UNION IT MUST -AND SHALL BE JIiSEIllZELD-AxvMKV Jacxsos.) j i , i 1 ' i i i . . i ' 1 . i- - - ' ' - , L, - , .. "VOL. 8.-NQ. 7. GREENSBORO, y.-Cf'THOTiSD AY 187&. NVIIOLETSO: 308. Tlie Old Year mid the New. BY KIT. A. J. KIAX. How awirt tbey (to ! lAbs'a many yeara, With their wind of woe And their stonna of tear, And their darkest of Xighta whose ahadowy alopea Are lit with the naahea of etarrit bopea. And their unhiny days iu who ealm heaven loom Tha ckmda of the teaipert. the abadvwa of gloom. And. ah t we pray. With grief ao drear. That the yeara may etay When their grivea arc near; Tho the brows of T -morrowa be radiant and britfbt With love and with beauty, with Ufa sad with light. The dead hearts of Yesterdays, cold on the bier. To the hearta that arrive thetu are evermore dear. ' For the heart ao true To the Old Year cleavea. Tho' the hand of the he Flowery garlands weaves; But the Aowera of the Future, tho fragrant au4 fair. With the-Paot'a withered leaflet may never compare, Fer dear ia each dead leaf--and dearer each thorn- In the wreaths which the browa of our past yeara have worn. Yea, men will cling With a love to the last. An wildiy fling Their atiua round the past I Ab the vine that cliiin to the oak that falls, Aa the ivy twines ruiid the crumbled walls! For the dust of the Pat some heart higher prize Then the utars that flah out from the Future'sbright skies. And why not so ? The old, old Years, They knew and they know. All our hopes aud our feare; We walked by their side, and v etold them each grief As they kisKed off our tears while they whispered re lief. And the stories of hearta that may not be revealed. In the hearta of the dead years are buried and sealed. Let t'ue New Tear sing At the Old Year's grave. Will the New Year bring What the Old Year gave 1 Ah ! the Stranger Year trips over the knows, And his brow iu en wreathed with many a roe. But how many thorns do the ruses conceal Which the roses when withered shall so soon reveal? Let the New Year smile When the Old Year dies, Iu how phort a while Shall the smiles be sighs ? s ! Stranger Year, thou hast many a charm, Aud tby face is fair and thy greeting warm, But, dearer than thou in his shrrucl of snows Is the furrowed face of the year that goes. Yet. bright New Year! O'er all the earth With song and cheer They will hail tby birth; They will trut thy word, in a Mule hour, They willluve thy tace, they will laud thy power. For the New Year has charms which the Old has not, And the stranger's taco makes the friend's forgot. Her Child's Cry. concluded From Belgravia. "After a while Langtou went across the room autl stood ovt-r her like a sen tinel liou. Then Le said iu a low, kind voice that made me think more cf him than ever I had thought before, " Did the little fellow feel the cold ?" " 'I tried not to let him,' she answer ed, looking up for a moment. 'I am always afraid to leave Lim behind, my buby son. I am afraid he,' looking fear fully at the door, 'might come find steal him away from me. My own ! My own?' " She bent and absolutely gloated over the little pale uleeper, until a queer kind of dead pain came into my heart. " Ther is no fear of his doing that,' said Langtou. ' It is the child's money he wants, and not the boy himself.' " She rose to go. Liangdon conduct ed her to the door as though he wi re the first gentleman in England, she the finest womiwi in London, the first lady iu the land. 'Good day,' said he. 'Good day,' said she, and she was gone. " Langdou came back and stood look ing gloomily into the fire." 'What a scoundrel!' he cried; ' what an arrant scoundrel!' He drove his heel into the coal, and repeated the words. " Tell me about it said I. "'Easily enoagh, he answered. 'He was a clerk in a stock-broker's office two years ago, and earned just enough to live on in some umbrella manufacto ry. Her people had been comfortable once, but lost all tbey had at her fath er's death: and two years ago. as far as she knew, she was the only survivor of her fa mil. She was then about n;ue and tweutyyears of age,and very plain looking, so that I dare ay she had uo hope of ever marrying. She lodged in some place off Stamford street, Black fri ars Kridge, and her nearest friend was her landlady, to whom she paid three and sixpence u week for her attic. Two years ago this Ityland came to lodge in the same house. He was "the .geutleraan" of the plaee, and rented two rooms on the first floor; dingy and dismal as the street was, the . rooms were large, and, owing to the locality, cheap. From the very first he began paying attentions to this woman, aud iu the end he made downright love to her." " ' Yoa may fancy how this poor crea ture, do longer youug, who had never been anything but ugly, felt flattered by : he honorable approaches of ''the gentleman on the first floor." "Well, to cut it short, in a few months they were married; she, in the full belief that he loved her for some subtle charm of mind which he told her he had discov ered he was too consummate a liar to say he loved her for her looks; aud he in the full consciousness that she had been left, a year before, about five thou sand pounds by a great-uncle who died after. coming home from Jamaica, Mud of whom she had heard little or noth ing all her life. The money . had been devised to her father and his heirs ab solutely, and had been advertised.- Thus he got scent of it and hunted her down. " 'Sharp as he was, he counted with out the law. He thought that things were still, with regard to married wo men's property, as they had been long ago, when the busbarjd could say to the wife, What's yours is 'mine; what's mine is'rnj own." He showed his hand too soon. 5 After a week he grevr care less 1 'of ! her." This nearly broke 1 her bearf.' Id a month he told 'Tier about the legacy, and' steps . were taken to realize. Seeing bow the thing was now, the landlady penetrated the .whole de sign. The ''-good woman's husband brought MrsV H viand ornately to rnTe, Wheri lie found this 'but. be " turned threats to the most atrocious and inhu man ,cruelty. To sum up, we proved the will, got the money, aud I invested it in stock. By this time I found ont that he owed a large sum of money; be had been speculating through another, aud had got heavily . let in. He con tinued his bad treatment of her, and at last, just when her baby, was about to be born, we gave him two thousand five hundred pounds to take himself off aud leave her in peace. All I coo id do would not induce her to have a legal separation. She seemed to think that such a step might in some way, good ness knew how, injnre the future statu of her unborn child. I may ell you that for a whole month I resisted ifiv iug him the tuouey uuUss I obtained from him aouietuing more bindingthan a written undertaking not to go near her or molest her in, any , wayr . 1 4d not consent autil I saw that to bo4H out any louger would be to imperil her life. Of course, the undertakiug giveu by him has no more legal value tbau the ashes in that grate. Her whole soul, her whole uature now seems ceu tred in that child. When she had made up her mind that no man would ever woo her he came. He was above her station at the time, handsome, as you saw; accomplished, asl know, and fas cinating' as yon may have guessed. He became her sweetheart, and she knelt down and worshipped him. He be came her husband, and spurned her as she knelt. He told her he thoughtless of her than of the lowest of her sex, aud she drew back from him after an iliact of inhuman abusu and violence; one only dream of life gone forever iu to the world, a vile waste of dead hopes that festered in a sickly sun. She would have worked for him, given him her heart's blood: but he told her he did not want her presence, and that he loathed the very street she lived iu. He deri' led her folly for ever supposing that any man such as he. could dream of enduring the presence of such a frightiul caricature of nature as sfie. He heaped every insult 'and contumely upon her, but he did not break her down; for, Baird, she knew she was soon to be a mother. He might leave her, aud did leave her, but the baby came; in the "Winter of her life, in her worse than widowhood, the baby boy came. She had given money to the husband to go away, but the baby had i come instead, and lay in her arms all day and all night, sweet for her kisses, sweet for all her love, the companion of her worse than widowhood, the un couscions confidant of all her sorrows, the antidote- which, when pressed against her bosom, healed her of her memories " " 'Get me back my child, or kill me here." "I sprang up and turned round. The womau was stuuding in the door way. Both ber arms were stretched out toward Langton. Her eyes were stariug and fixed, addressed to him me chanically, but not looking at him. She was rigid as a statue, aud at each cor ner of her mouth appeared foam. Langdou had turned round, but did not approach her. We were both pet rified with fear and surprise. " ' Get me back my child, or kill me here !' she repeated in the same tone as before, a tone that made us shudder. There was no passion in it, no anger, no entreat', no command. It seemed as though her heart had died and her lips w ere mechanically repeating its dy ing wish without owniug any human sympathy for the dead heart. "Still she stood rigid in the doorway. Langton looked at me in consternation, and whispered, "This case is now one for you. Go to her and speak to her." "I approached her and took one of tbe outstretched hands. It was damp and cold. As I led her into the room I slipped my finger ou her wrist aud look ed into her eyes. The pulse was low and weak; I had expected to fiud it high, and strong. The semi-transparent, rub3 -colored flaws in tbe eyes bad dilated and gathered deeper tire; tbe expression was one of intense subjec tive occupation. Perhaps I may better convey my meaning by saying that it seemed as if she were dealing rather with tbe formula for an idea than with the idea itself. At a rough guess I said to myself, 'A shoek has numbed tbe perceptive power of tbe faculty, but has left uninjured the power of pain. She has the sickening sense of want und tbe formula for ber loss, but she does not acutely appreciate ber. loss as one who contrasts, bitterly, the memory of possession past witb ths realization m . a-lt a oi present dereliction, one tias do well-defined notion of what ber child or death is, but she knows she wants either: that less than either will not quiet - the nnusual clamorings ia ber heart." . r . 1 "Death or her child, it was all one to her; the" peace " that" 'was gone with ber baby, or the peace that was to come in tho grave. 1 A bad' case I thought to myself; 'the child and the image of the child are gone; this alv?ys means insanity. This woman will bo numbed as she is now until either the child' ia returned to her arms or the' image to ber mind.' How did ibis happen T 1 1 asked of ber in as gentle a Voice as I could. ' " He waited, for tne outside.' He took, the. child ltrom'e-Xi((;p,bt let it go nntii itcried until it cried un til I knew be hurt it.? Well, it cried, and I IetU b.Tbere svere "people around, and I asked a policeman to get me back mj child. But lie said he was my busbaud, and that tbe ; child was bis. Tbe policeman asked me was be m j busbtijidJ and , was the child his f and, I eLswered, Yea, . Tbe policeman shook hip bead and walked away. Then 1 you 'understand what I Bay; " He got into aeabdaa arora away wiu itntyi child in his arms you odU A&rd to. understand? I don't, (or. I felt bin) dq it I felt it there in 'my ' breast, "wiere my child used to lie asleep-1 'felt tbe child drawn out of my! breAst-.aiid--i Sir, while he drote ajay as there 'is a God above me, jDjyr-chjld.; criedas he drove away drove .away. You find it hard to understand.'Sir; Vat my child cried as be drote a,way drove "I dropped her ImndV and, having left her, whispered to Laogton,' .'Is there iwjy means of compelling that scoundrel to give tip the child at onct?' "He shook his head und muttered a malediction. " ' Theu,' eaid t, 'ynti had better Send her home in chqrge ot gome one " ' ion don t think sheil do violence uprjo hermit T b whispered. " No. But some oua . should alwavs be with "her until the crisis arrives.' " ' What do you expect to follow the crisis ?' " ' She will either be cured or grow violent.' " ' My dear Baird, I can't leave here just now. Would you see her home, tell her landlady to get some one to look after her, ree her own doctor, and ayk them to send all bills to me?' " I had nothing very particular on hand, so I did as he requested. "We got a sober, honest, elderly wouiau I knew to look after her. I found out her doctor, and we had a chut about her; he promised to take particular care of her, and to let me know from time to time how the case weut ou. As soon as I had made all as comfortable as I could, I came back to towu aud called upou Langtou, knowing he would like to hear how I had got ou. ' When I arrived-at Laugton's outer office the clerk beckoued tome, and said, ' Our client's husband is inside again.' " Without stopping to knock, I turn ed the haudle and went iu. Kylund's back was toward me, and Langtou. as formerly, stood on the hearth-rug. This time, however, there was uo strad dle. He stood upright, with his feet and his lips close together. He was deadly pale, and, I could see at a glance, iu a deattly rage. Iiylaud was soeakiuer as I entered: he bowed with great politeness to me, paused, and theu resumed : & - , " As I was p&y ng, Mr. Langton, the boy is uow in Safety, quite as safe as if he were with his mother, and I am come to say that I am prepared to answer for his safety until the money twelve hundred pounds is paid ever to me.' " So,' said Laigton, with a great ef fort to control his rage, 'you propose charging an additional two hundred pounds upon the estate for the success of your last infamous trick, you sorry swiudlerl' " ' As a lawyer, yon ought to know that 3'our lauguge is illegal and ' " 'Take au action; do,' cried Lang ton, uow losing all power over his an ger. 'Take an action, and go iuto auy court you please, and I pledge you my word as a man and a lawyer that there isn't a jury in England but woaW lynch you, and not a Judge on the Bench but would applaud them; and by heaven 1 if you don't get out of this instantly, I'll not leave tbe job for Judge or jury, but do it with my own bands.' " He seemed about ta spring on the man. Rylaud slipped his baud behiud him, backed toward the door, and said, 'Dou't come ntar me, Mr. Langton. Well knowing the violence of yourtem per, I was compelled to be a little un English, and conie-r armed.' Uu-Euglish V shouted Langton, striding over to hit). 'There's uothiug human, not to say English, in your cor rupt carcase. Get out, man, or they will be hanging yoa for killiug me, or putting up a statue to me for having killed you. Get out ! Tbey pay for killing .venomous reptiles in Iudia why not in England too ? Get out, man, I say, or I shall be claiming blooc1 money before pight.' t. . "With the leyolver held across bis waistcoat, and poiuted at nothing in particular, llyiiud backed out of tbe door, aud was gone." So far as there was anything of mo ment connected with this affair, I beard nothing more from Baird that night. I did not sep Baird again till tbe week after Christmas. He then con tinued the history as follows;? -;. 4 " For some weeks after those scenes in Laugton's oQce .they beard .bo more of By land. t tearing baf timecbia nn happy wife continued in jbe same msnt ai lethargy, repeatedly t asking for Jw?r baby, but betrajing, no, .emotion and giving no sign of, violence.., X looked in at her lodgings abont .twice a week.- Her doctor, Dr.) Sherwood . Freeman, and 1 1 quite agreed as to r tbe case.' There was little or no hope of a mental rally until either the child wa4 restored or ber mind received some shock jffbicb should counteract the one . occasioned by its lossv -In tbe-mean tie-Xangton badj aa soon as possible, instituted legal proceedings against "Bylaud. I jlon't know what "the nature ctbese" pro ceedings war, but be lielddnk1 (Slight hope of speedy relief; tbe case, it seems w&a one fnll of difficulties at best, add the block in the Courts filled 'bini' with aespair.r . - ? . r " In abont sirJ weeks frorn 'tbe'day I was in Langton's ofScejBylana wrote; to sayu tbe cbild was ilf, adntiatlie would deliver it up on condition bf get-; ting a thousand pounds. a t . k M Ab V: eaid Langton' tdnle; the evening be got tbe letterso tbe threats of law bave already beaten bldtdown twb hundred." The' illnesa is k lie ' to force ns to terms. J shall 'nofanswer i "Wet I, Melton, as you may guess, I was by this time greatly interested in the cases, legal and medical. In a week I called again upon Langton, and to my astonish merit found Mr. Bylaud there, " The explanation was Very sitriplei The cbild bad really been ill of scarlet fever, ell possible care bad been taken of it, but nevertheless, it bad died, aud was to be buried that day; and Xang-j A . I v ion, anu ine,vacnn,-eyea woman were setting off now to the cemetry. Ryland wonld not allow the mother to approach ber dying child, but when it was dead be Beemed to think he might mu some ogly risk if be did not allow the 'mother's attendance at the interment,' atid Langton and she were uow going. I examined her closely, but could observe no change; the chan nels of her reason were frozen np, and iu precisely the same condition as on the day of her bereavement. " May I go?' I asked. " ' Certainly,' said he; and in a little while the threu of us got into a cab and drove to the cemetery Byland bad named. "The same unbroken shadow of mental gloom huug over the uuhappy woman. Duriug the whole drive she never spoke a word. Her eyes were cust down. most of the time. On the few occasions when she lifted them they sought Laugton's face, but there was no question, no excitemeut in them. It was plain from their appear auce that reason was an exile, bat the land reason had left behind remained still unoccupied by anything save the spirit of the void. " Wlien we got inside the gates of the cemetry, we ascertained that the body of the child had not yet arrived. " Lington turned to me and asked, What do you think will be the result of to-day ? . . " 'I think,' I answered, 'that it will bring about the crisis, followed by per fect sanity or violent insanity; but there. is uo telling which.' "After awhile a mourning coach drove in. I will not drag you through all t lie small events of the interment. It will be sufficient for yon to know that the father of the child wus not present, and that during the whole time it oc cupied she never altered in the least. " I felt greatly disappointed. I had been quite confident of the lifting or development of the affeciiou now par alyzing her brain. " When it was all over, we returned to tbe cab as sober as could be. I had been greatly deeeived, and I could see that LuugtonV last-hope was gone. " Wheu we had got about half way back she suddenly looked up iuto Langtjn' face, and said: " ' We have left somethiug behind ns.' " Laugton and I looked round the cab. The three umbrellas were all right. " ' No,' answered Langton; I don't think we have left anything behind.' " 'In the cemetery ?' she asked. " ' No,' I said. ' No.' . " We have,' she said. ' I know it, I feel it. As bo drove away, I beard my child cry. As we drove away now, I heard my child cry. Ah, gentlemen, let us go back and take my child up out of the wet grave. If you givo him to me and let me bold him against my breast he will get warm. Ab, geutle meu ! let us go back for my darling 1 My baby son ! My own 1 My own I' " She threw her arms out toward us with the anguish of a mother's broken heart on her face, aud the knowledge of her childless fate in her eyes. Theu all at once her body began swaying slightly, and with a low moan she buried her face in ber bands and burst iuto tars. "She had lost her cbild, but bad re gained bis image, and her brain was healed. She bad lost ber child and re gained bis image, and ber breast was broken. The mad live long and bowl about our paths; the broken-hearted creep quietly into the shadows and silently dig their own graves, and in a little while crawl into tbe earth witb gentle sighs and gentler smiles. " There is uow no beat in ber, poor breast to warm ber poor babe. She has been dead a week. "Fonr days ago I saw Byland bnyiDg gloves dark-green gloves, a very quiet color in the Strand. He was looking very welL God bless me, Melton 1 but sometimes this world is too much , for mel",, . - - ' . ' ' : , ' ,t Hi: i'l 'J Hb Saw TtexnGxMS. He is a promi nent -newspaper. man. and 3 parts bis: hair in the middle. u Tbe - part , is over five inches wide, .which gives him an innocent east of countenance. To those who know him not be might be considered verdant in appearanee. He was riding in a sleeper on the Central Pacific Railroad, and fell into an inno cent little game of pedro witb a Colonel, a Professor and a .Doctor. Uanng an animated.conversation and a quiet deal, three aces were thrown on bis .side of the table, after wbicb one of .the three gaily remarked, with the greatest cool? ueas, Vl wish that we were playing po ker,. I don't know' that L- bave been favored with such, a hand; for years." OarT editorial ; friend, paw , the i game, looked op (innocently,- and je marked: fXbave been- favored,? alao. ,I have a ! j. . . i i j i , i pre j goou ijucx. w t ;jkm. The: three, looked at each i other as be continued thoslv:? 'Tbey. call jroo Pro fetwrlI Yes.! IwTbey calljoo Color aeLr.'YeaJ' Yoa are from the East, I believer.. ."Yes.-. WfelLgentlemen.' be continued,; rising, "yoa : had better take tbe next train back., We , meet it jnst the other aide of Battle. Hountaio, Yoa can't make a oant at this. Tbey have been teaching it in tne Sunday it in One of Lincoln's 4 Utile Stories.' In Scribner Mr. Nonh Brooks prints a number of new anecdotes of Lincoln. elicited bv his Lincoln reminiscences in tbe March and Febrniry numbers. The following is one of themi f . . "A jonng gentleman in Tennessee was once . traveling a country road, mounted on a fine black racing horse of great valne. ; Hi easnal companion was - a shrewd ' 'old fellow, who' was known in those parts ae.a Yankee, and rode a rack-o'bonee of a horse, appa rently hardly able to stand on his feet. Tbe Yankee-bantered the Southerner for a borse trade, . which of coarse tbe Southerner indignantly declined. The Yankee however iusisted that , bis was a very remarkable horse, cf what was known as the setter breed, which sets for big gnme as a dog' sets for ' small game, and that as animals of this breed arc very scarce, his horse was accord ingly valuable. Th6 Yankee soon had an opportunity to demonstrate the troth of his statement, as his horse bad the peculiarity of dropping on all-fours when touched in a certain spot by the spur cr heel of tbe rider". Tbe Yankee seeing a deer on a knoll not far away, touched his raw-bones in the tender spot, and, sure enough, down he went on all-fours, assuring the Southerner that there was game ahead. The would be horse-trader told the Southerner that there must be game ahead, for bis borse never "set in that way except when on the scent of games Immedi ately after, the deer made its appear ance to the Southerner, who succeeded in bringing him down, and so much pleased was he with the wonderful I in stinct of the horse that be immediately swapped with the Yankee, on even terms. Soon after they came to a stream which the Yankee, mounted on the Southerner's fine horse, crossed in good style; theu stauding ou the oppo site bank, he looked back after his com panion. The " setter horse " bad sunk, bis head being hardly above water; his rider was dismounted and- nearly drowned. Beaching the bank and blow ing the water from his mouth, be ex claimed: " Here, you infernal Yankee! what kind of a horse is this to drop on his - knees in the middle of a stream ?' ' Hush ! hnsh !' replied the Yankee, ' keep perfectly qnict That's a setter horse; be sets for fish a9 well as for deer, aud I tell you there'sgame there!'" Electric Spark Pen. A new invention in the art of graving probably suggested, by the familiar electric pen, has been brought bu t i n ParisT" A copper pTklesnpre pared as for engraving, and over this is secured, in some convenient manner a thin sheet of paper. The plate is then connected with one pole of a Rubrnorff coil. The pen (presumably ; a simplo insulated metalic rod or peucQ with a fine point) is also conuected by means of an inBtd ited wire with the cod. Then, if tbe poiut of the pen (which is bare) is touched to tbe paper, a minute hole is burned iu it by the ppark that leaps from the poiut of the pen to the plate. By nsiug the pen as a pencil, a drawing may be made on the paper in a series of fine holes precisely after tbe manner of the electric pen, except that in one case the holes are mechanically punch ed out and iu the other case are horn ed ont. When the drawing is finished tbe paper may be nsed as a stencil. ; A printer's roller carrying au tily ink is passed over the paper, and tbe ink penetratiugf the paper throngh the holes reproduces the drawing in ink on the copper plate. The paper may; then - be removed und the plate submitted to an acid bath when the surface will be cut away, except where the ink resists the acid, and those parts will be in relief and thus making an engraved plate ready for the priu ting-press. By this ingenious device, tbe artist, drawing upon the paper with the spark-giving pen, performs two operations at once. drawing tbe pictnre and engraving tbe plate at the same time. Scribner. Every few weeks the public prints record the death of some manor wo man reported to have reached 110,115, and sometimes 120, years. They are also very, prone to furnish accounts, periodically, of persons who are still living at astonishing ages ss great sometimes as 130, and even 140. We have even seen lately a detailed recital of a negro in Baltimore who has passed his. one hundred and forty-ninth year. It is observable that all tbe persons re ported to have attained such wonder ful -longevity !are ignorant, bumble, comparatively unknown, and that no body can, in consequence, contradictor correct their 4 statements. They may think that they tell the troth probably tbey do1 think so i but very ignorant people, odd. as it may seem, do not, . as a rule,-know their age, and have no perception pf the passage of time. They are very apt to exaggerate. 'When tbey are 90 tbey imagine they are Over 100, and becoming objects oi cariosity, theii vanity is stimulated to represent them selves, much older than tbey are. They tell their tale so" bfte.i that " tbey, soon come to have' faith in it themselves, and they inspire others with i faith in it by force, of assertion ? A- large proportion of the Metboselabs of tbef day arene groes who, nnlcas edocafed, have very seldom any- notion of : thehr iagei"' e never have any account of a matf or wo man of intelligence or position who has lived for 120. 130, or 140 years; for men. and women do pot reach any such age. The extreme limit of human life is said opon good authority, to be 103 and 105, which is altogether exceptional ; Ths j man who claims have gone far;, beyond U either deceives himself or otbers-J- per haps both. " Col. Lahrbusb, of the AdvcrtUIn Hates t 14e.'istm. sTlS. I 4js.1X tl 0 tl W J C !4 f t tvtcl, S a - 1)1 I m; eot 4 no ?M . is so; M IS J 99' 4M' IIS, 96' 3 o. le eo 109 4 an' ao' ltw 1 tj isaet io It ' 14001 I too ia oo L99, I Ooart K9tke(. six weeks tlU); llagistmes few weeltp0lna4taBe4 . t 111 Adminiat Tearty advw faemmtt changed rrturtcrly bT2 hL; iQ j'4iA Tnnw nt advertlsgnechi reriUtaft4 vance. Yearfa , k4raraWxac&ts otJATtcrtv la ' r.i since, assumed to bo'IlS: bni the tacts , proved that he was'" at least 10 years 1 younger. p'Tihh&jlfd-1 nnrse of GeonWaahtngton, was rep resented bj Barncm, for tabwxnMfi purpose, M7 161f bat post-mortem t examination Showed ber ta have : besa -only 75 or 80 Tears old. V The. sfory of v Thomas Parr lasting 152 years! s$d 6t his epgaging in a lote intrigWat ICJ,1 has long ceased to be credited. Qeta I sisted that such was the' : fact a Jaecaasa belief ia so remarkable longevity aug- mealed his self-import iince; bat he was ' either mistaken or ery parti mbnioas of truth. All the stories m drenlatlori 1 of people raorePthah" 105 oiTICG are baseless,' and even many of tho stories of persons Irving ao. long at thiartasst be received witbnlloirnnce.-ii'ctfi; Torfe limes. . . . iM V STATE Good field bands hire for ,t( per month and board in Halifax county. Mr. Mernmon Webster, of Alex andria county, was killed by a falling ' tree. ' v. - ' - Bev. 6. ilenclelsobn has been re elected rabbi of . the Temple of Israel, Wilmington. - Mr. W. P. Batcbelor has sold Sihm Weldon New to Messrs. L M. Loc and W. W. HalL , v..,. Mrs. Nancy Call, an aged and in sane lady, was found dead near her resident? in Wilkes county on the 3d inst, frozen to death. '-' - - Gen J. C. Gorman retires : from the editorship of the Asheville Pioneer, that will be temporarily suspended. Gen. Gorman has made a good paper. Harvey Farrow, colored, was drowned near Newbern. He was attempting to walk from a schooner to the shore on the ice, when he broke through, , : Will Cannon, a fourteen-year-old youtb, of Burke county, was killed on the 7tb, by being thrown from a wagon, the horses running away, u.c.:im j The administrators of the late L G. Lasb, Sf-Forsytbe, distributed $160, 000 amoug the legatees on last Taesdsy as the first installment. J v The tobacco factory of Mr.W. H. Wicstad, of Boxboro, Person county together with its contents, was de stroyed bf fire a few nights since... Drury Bocock, a citizen, of Stokes j county, while on a visit j to his brother in Henry county, Ya., made an attempt to commit suicide by cu with a razor. TEev7Mr. Kearney, of ting his throat . theJEpiscopalT Church iu Elizabeth City,, preached recently on the secoud coming of Christ i upon earth. - He pointed to 1882 as just tbe time. 1 - --v!MiS;.V", Capt A. A. Mitchell diVT suddenly' of heart disease on the evening of the first inst., in Cincinnati,1 Ohio.1 Capt f Mitchell ia said, to haveibeeaS native of Caswell county,, and lived iq Yancey i ville till some five or six years ago. lis . was sixty -two years old. ' ," L . r ' A - sad accident occurred 'in" the Dalton neighborhood of Stokes 'connty, ' lately. Miss Westmoreland, : daughter ' of Dr. Silas Westmoreland, while epos f an ice-pond, slipped and - fell, her head: striking tbe ico with such violenceas to. produce almost instant death! Mr. Samuel J. Warren has 6 new gold mine npon the lands of IXr. itooeri oimpson, eleven mues east ox Cbarlottefn CnearCrektownshipv;He , has just received J3x& report from Tr, Rae, tbe soperintemlentof those works, in which be says'tbat the ore aisay at the rate ef $21.60 per ton. r'ad 11 The Charlotte bankshave just elected' their officers for the yeari BY!Ia-& Aden was electedPresidentot tbe First: National Bank; J. H. McAden, of the, Merchants' and Farmers' '.National . Bank; 8. P. Smith, of tbe Traders National Bank, and C. lowJ of "Chi ' Commercial National Bank,) JiJ tzzdt. A, man named :;Hjghtowe;.v JrCSa Greenville,, S..C. was knocked in. the : head with the breech of a, gun and killed, while altting by the fire aJeepi at a house hear MonnUinPageChuTch, s in Henderson, countyr onSonday nigbti before , Christmas, by either FamsT; Forest or Charles .ikbertson.. Jaat. previously .ihey iiad haL& quaxreL' - . The Wilmington, SUxr9 learns from Capt Garrison, of the steaner IXr March isoo, that the river bad rixea feet at Fayette vflle, bat had com ratr-ccd to Tall a few minutes before IhellarcLU, son left. Capt Garrison reports thzJL ai fjopd many cattle were drpwned by tba freshet and that many more will prc.lv ably be, as be passed several kzzZi'cx submerged islands, ' from e whknyJ would almost iceTtalniy WsTrrpt L7 the) "rapidity of the,ciirrect;-ciJ zj-'ftethhhi ' . The fools are not all, dead, bet t"J3 are being rapidly , thinned out , .Thf Litest case is reported' byj the' 'WiZtiexk as havirigoccured in "Witkea ioityT1. I where a young thda c4n!ed Slbsrtari ascertain if bis gun was loaded, fi?4i his, toe npon the.,bammer aod.blew down tie muzzlHU toe slipped d the hammer felt ' The gun iBi U-zZ? but the youth did not live lahncc to fiadLitijoot. il-e. V'Ji3? c?l - tsi" -. JiCL,BhcJUdtvJnJfcds Cai cultivation of tobacco- in Baesor-H i 1869, e has sacceedelelLlTe'I-Jl sold one crop for $3,000,, and h&J Uli premiums at several fairs.- ThePW.V f roar wbicb we gather the above; tz'sti At least half a , million pf dollars; :ri2 be realized by onr section for thi crcp r alone this year. Ia a fewyears we Jxc-j" to see factories' springing up ia every part of this section, f and at Lzzl to Asheville end Western. North Cbrclr reap a golden, barrest by? th;s Tr?V. II4M t I tit tithl! J M TW ' I 14 99 19 - It ,l0tt 14 SS nw i o ym . 44 teo 9m ''l'f I1 Sot iito a cab anoV drorc away
The Union Republican (Winston, N.C.)
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Jan. 23, 1879, edition 1
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