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iVtfiT'iiWiiiin 21 dhatlam Juro.;! H. A. LONDON, Jr., OF Knrror and rrtoi'RisrroE. ADVERTISING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: no 4'ufy, win yr, - - fl.tQ Ono ropy ,sii myfciM ,oo Oueotpy, Um numUu, - . . Uu. qoir, on. luwrUoa, One wiuare, two Insertions,. On square, one month, - Sl.M La VOL. II. riTTsiioucr, Chatham co., n. lvmakcii 4, isso. NO. 25. Cte mtfixit. mm Steamboat Notice! - - - J ' I'l' niunutuvBb UfJUlUl- uy mil run aa follows from the first of Octobel uutil furtbor noticu: Bteamor D. MVIiCIil.SOX, Capt. AIonzaGar riso:i. wi.l I,avo Fa.ettcville every Tuesday aiirt Krlii?v nt 8 o'clock A. M., and Wilming- J'"""1) "ui.uiiouaj anu iaiartay at V O clock i . M. i?i!i!tir-r WAVE, r.nt v l t-i loav-Fiyot'.tvillo on Monday's and Thursdayi tUvs -! f. ,.,K.y-.:;t 1 nVlcck P.M., COnneoCing vri.h thf. ..-!.,r it .i:,oa-l at Favetteville on .7. r. TTT.K.l.W to. Agents ui Fayettoville, N. 0, 65 BUGGIES, Rockaways and Spring Wagons At I'rlic In Still I In- Time, Made of tlio best materials, anil warranted to giro cut m r attraction. toxsii.r yen n wjr.v ixtebest, liyiviag tin a call heforo bnyiug. Abo a full lut of Hand Made Harness, A. A, Mc-KETHAN .fc SON'S, orl4no3m t'liurttevtlle) X. C. JOHN M. MQRINC. Attorney at Law, .luiiiHnvilli-, f'linlbnni ( o., N. C JOHNM M'n-.Xil AI.FIIEI) A. M01UN0, Of Chatham. Of Orange MORINC & MORINC, A. ttoruoya , t Xi a. -vr. 1M IMI A l, . f. AU biihiuoxs iutruated to them will reooivo prompt attention. THOMAS M. CROSS, Attorney at Law, PITTS110KO', N. c. Will praotiso iu Chatham and enrronn ouutiei. Collection of claim a specialty, ding Certain and Reliable! HOWARD'S lNFAI.T.IRLE WORLD RE NOANF.I) 11KMF.DT FOR WOI1MS la now f ir sale hv W. I,, f.ondnn. in Pitt.boro'. All thmc who np annoyed with tbnae Post! re adiii'J to call nml xet a package of this valuable rniflv This cumtiound ii no hum bnp. but a prAii l snrivm. One agent wanted in evrr Mw:i in t: sunt. For parlipnUra adit,.-. en"'n;nt; .1 cent atamp. lr. .1 II, HOWAfiH. ML () .i.e. Warn count., M.C. H. A. LONDON, Jr., Attorney at Law, ' inn Ia,l t. NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO., RALEIGH, 5. CAR. T. H. CAMERON. VrtH Put. Vf. E. ANDKKSON. l l'rtt. W. II. I1ICK8, Srt'y The 011I7 Homo Life Insurance Co. in the State. All iu fund loaned out AT IIOMi:. mid unions our own people. Wi do not tend North Carolina money abroad to build up other Bt;ius. It is one of the most siicccasful tom panica of its au'O in the L'uHcil Slates. Its as set are amply Bullleient. All losses paid ;iro:nptly. Ei'lit thoiikand dollara paid In the liial two years to families in Challiaiu. It will cost a man ascd thirty yearn only live centi a day to Insure for one thousand dollars. Apply for further information to H. A. LONDON, Jr., Gen. Agt. PITT8BOKO', N. C. JACOB S, ALLEN. PltED. A. WATSOX, of Chatham. JACOB S. ALLEN & CO., n Ai, Kir; ii, n. c, Building Contractors, and mnnufacturors of Sash, Doors. Blinds, Mould ings. Brackets, and all HuJh cf ()ru;tu.t i)tnl. Scroll nud Turn d Work; Wiuilon- iui.1 D jor Frames made to Order. " (iivo us n call before ordt ring. Shops located i.n Hirriugton iitreet, where it crospes tbe It ilcigh anil Oaston Jtsilrond. J. J. JACKSON, ATTOR NE Y-AT-LAW, riTTSISOKO', x. c. t"AU buaincsa entrusted to him will re. eeive prompt attention. W. E ANDKRSilX, P. A. WILBT, I'ranldeui. Caahler CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK, or R.n.Eirai, x. c. J. D. WILLIAMS & CO., Qroeors, Commission Merchants and Prodnce Bnywa, FAYETTE VI LLE, N. O. A Choosing. " The child if mine," said the daylight, "For she is most like me; So get thee hence, thou gray night, We've naught to do with thee' Her eyes are blue as my skies ; Her looks are like tbe sun ; She shall but sleep 'neath thy skies, When my glad hour are done." " Not so," then spake the night-time. " She's lair as is my moon ; And her voice is like the love-rbym My own bird sings in Juno; Her eyes are like the star-gems Set iar above the sun; And her breath is sweet as the blossoms That open when thou art gone." "Choose thou me," said tho daylight, " For all the world is mine; The birds sing in my gny light, Like gold tho waters shino; And mine are all the best flowers That over the wholo earth grow. And mine are all the blytbo hours Wherein men conic and go," "Nay, be thou mine," snid the night-time, "For I, too, can give thee gold; Palor indeed is my bright timo, Fainter, and somewhat cold; But the lover lovo's my fay-light; With me the poet's sine best: While the toiling children of daylight Can use me but lor rest." Then ahe answered, " Whilo flowers sunlit While the birds and the humming bee, And the eyes ol my playmates fun-lit, Are joys enough lor mo While burdens are light lor bcuring, While sorrow is loth to stuy So long, beyond all comparing, I will love thee best, oh, day! " But when I shall find a gladnoss To all but mysoll unknown; And when there shall cornea sadness I needs must endure alone; When griel is too great lor weeping When bliss cannot bear tho light "Tis then, while the rest are sleeping, That I'll watch with thee, oh, night." Bath Times. A PLESANT LOVE. 'I have got Borne news for you, Mag gie,' he 6aid, one day. about eighteen months after ho hud gained his cotntuiti Hion. 'Guess what it is?" They were walking along the grteu lanes of Perlock, listening to the cease less mnrmnr of tho si a, as nt intervals l hey had walked and listened ever since they conld remember; nt any rnte, she was six years younger than her former playfellow. 'Ton are going to be promoted,' she said. Promoted, you littlo goosel No one ever gets promoted iu tho British army. Guess again.' 'Yon are going to marry sn heiress.' There was a lump in her throat as she said it. 'Wrong again. No estimable young person with grocn eyes, a turn-up nose, susceptible licr.rt und fifty thousand a year has turned up yet. But its some thing nearly as good. I'm ordered to Chins. 'Oh, Alicl' she gasped, and burst into tears. It was very foolish of her, but then she was only sixteou, and had not yet acquired tho praiseworthy art of concealing her feelings. 'Why, whatever are you crying for?' he asked, and kissed asvay her tears. Ile'd kissed her ever since she was live, and thought no more of it than if she had been his sister, or th cat, excepting perhaps that it was nicer which it was no doubt. 'I shall only be away five years at most, and when I come back I'll bring you a pigtail, and an ivory toothpick, and a whole lot of things, and' 'Yen,' she snid, listening attentively. 'But then you'll be a young woman I forgot and 'out,' and all that sort of thing, and won't condescend to speak to a 'poor lieutenant;' yon will have all (he squires and fox-hunters abont the placo at your feet.' 'Oh no, indeed, I shall not Alic, she said, eagerly. 'But I tell yon yon will. I believe yon are a born little flirt, and I shall come back and find' But she burst into tears again, and put up her pretty littlo hand as if to stop his teaiing, which sho conld not bear just then. It seemed so cruel of him to laugh and joko when he was going away for five years, lie did not seem to cars a bit, and sho could have broken her heart on the spot, and would have gladly done so, and thrown the pieces away so as never to be bothered with it again. Then, seeing her mourn ful blue eyes, he was merciful. 'I believe I shall como back and find yon just as groat a little darling as yon are now, and if we've got any money we'll get married and live happy ever after, and if we haven't we'll get married and starve ever after -unless, of course, the heiress turns up.' 'Oh, I hope she won't!' said Maggie, I ko a truthful little idiot. 'Khali you ever write to me, Alio, dear?' 'Yes, of course I shall, and I shall expect yon to write back six pages crossed, and all that sort of thing, yon know.' Maggie was twenty years old when her father died, and the creditors did pounce down, and she and her mother soM cut. Mrs. Dtinlop wos offerod a home in London by a sister who was well off and bad-tempered, and it was hankfully aooepted. JIaggio went as governess into the family of a Mrs. Marshall, of Woolwich Mrs. Marshall's daughter by her first husband was really mistress of the estab lishmcnt, for Maria Patterson had n strong will, and she was an heiress. 'A very nasty heiress, too,' poor Maggie thought, and sho was right, for Maria was skinny, and thought herself sarcas tic, and always said nasty things to pco plo who did not dure to say them back tigain. One evening when Maggio had been about a year at Woolwich, and sho v.-at, silting alone in her school-room as usual, for her pupils had jti9t said good-night, and been delivered to the tender mercies of their nurse, Miss Patterson wulked in very much dressed, and rather flushed and excited. 'Miss Duulop,' she said, 're shall have a few friends this evening, and I know ouo or two of them like on im promptu dance; will yon be ready to como into tho drawing-room nnd play if wo should want you?' In tho evening sho put on her shabby black gown and stuok a spray of white tlowerH in her golden hair, and waited patiently for tho summons. When it came, with a roll of music under her arm. a flush ou her innocent, frightened face, and a sacred, almost hunted ex pressiou in her eyes, sho descended and timidly openod tho drawing-room door, nud there stood still for a moment, staring in astoniKhuiPut. There sat the heiross, with an eager, pleased expres sion on her fa ie, and leaning over her, talking and laughing, and more hand Homo than ever, and, sunburnt and soldierly-looking, was Alio Granger. The color rushed to Maggie's face, as if to say a hurried good-hye, and then left it altogether. Sho recovered self pos session, however, and walked with what sho flattered herself was great dignity towards the piano. Sho felt rather than saw him rnise his head and look at her, and tho next moment she saw him by her side. Maggie my dear Mnggiul Why, fauey you beiug here; whero did you come from? I have beon trying to find you out for months.' I thought you' aud then she did not know how to go on, so added, almost pitionsly, 'I am the governess here." Are you? Oh, I see, then, that is the reason 1 have not seen you before, I Htippose.' Do yon really know Miss Duulop?' the heiress asked, coming up and speak ing in her coolest manner. Maggie wished sincerely f-ho conld sink into her sh-os and burv herself. 'Why of course I do; we have been plaj fellows tver sinco we weto born haven't we, Muggit?' ud Maggie, feeling she was backed up, nuswered bravely : 'Yes.' 'Oh, indeed, how interesting!' then turning to Maggie: 'Will you be so good as to begin a wal'z, Miss Dunlop? This was to be our dance, I think,' to Alio, and sho sailed off with him triumphantly. He came to her directly after the dance was over. I went down to Perlock to try and tiud out where you had gone to,' he said, 'but nobody know.' 'It didn't matter,' she said, huskily, letting her fingers wander vaguely over tho keys to make believe she wasn't very much interested in what ho said. 'Yes it did it mattered a groat deal. Why, I've got a box full of curiosities for yon -clubs to fight with, and a little heathen god or two, and a statnte of Buddha nud all sorts of things, I told yon I should bring you thtin home. Do yon live hero I mean iu this house?' lie said those last worJs under his breath, for the heiress oamo up, nnd the noxt miunto ho was carried eff to dance wilh Mrs. Somebody at the other cud of the room, but not before Maggie had nodded a reply to him. Soon after this Miss Patterson c.tmo up to tho piano, and sayinir she wished to play herself, and that Maggie looked tired, dismissed her without being able to get even auother look at Alic. Tho next morning, to Maggie's very great surprint), Miss Patterson came into the school-room boforo the children had assembled. Miss Duuiop,' sho said stiffly, 'I should like to know where you suy you met Mr. Granger.' At Perlock. His undo lived next door to my mother. lie is a very old friend, indeed' 'Thank you. I merely wished to in quire, because, of course, you must be aware that it is not usual for any one iu yonr position to tnako herself remark able by haviug long confidence talks with any gentleman who may visit the houso.' 'I don't know what yon mean, Miss riitterson!' M iggio said indignantly. But Miss Patterson had swept out of tho room without deigning to reply. Then Maggie went into her own little room, the one place she had in the world entirely to herself, and cried till her eyes were re.l and her head ached. Tho lessons did not progress that morriug. Maggie was thinking of Alic, who was no doubt strolling about the common listening tc the band and making love to tho heiress. The chil dren were more than usually stupid, too, and all the world seemed upside dowi, and all its waya turned crooked. Suddenly, at about 12 o'clock, just when Maggio was in the middle of expound ing as lieht she could tho eccentricities of tho French grammar, there was a knock at tho school room door. 'Come in,' she said. Tho door opened, and there stood be fore her nstonished eyes tho form of Alio Granger, and behind him was a man evidently his servant with a box ou his shoulders. 'All right Tom, put it down; that's right; now bo oft. There I'vo brought the curiosities round, Maggie; I thought you'd like to see them. Ohl What will Mrs. Marshall nnd Miss Patterson say?' said Magge, in consternation. 'Nothing to you for tho next half hour or so, for I have just seen thorn safely on their way to Woolwich, and thought I should just get a quiet chat with you. My dears,' ho said, turning to Maggie's wido-eyed, open-mouthed, pupils, 'I'm quito sure yon'd like to be let off your lessons, so I'll let you off for an hour; run along, my littlo do:irs;' and ho opened tho door for them, and shut it after them. 'Oh, Alio!' she said, infear and tremb ling. Oh, Maggie!' ho answered, mimick ing. 'What do yon mean by going away from Terlock, and not leaviug any ad dress?' 'I couldn't help it, and you never wrote,' she ausweaud helplessly. Nj, I never write letters: don't know how to ppell well enough. But I have been hunting for you all over the place, and never dreamed of finding joi here. Now we'll unpack tho box. 'But Alio, they'll nover forgive me.' 'Never mind, it doesn't matter, be- eanse if yon aro good I'll take yon nway next week. Besides, they'll forgive me nnythiug. I saved the Colonel's life when he was in Hong Kong at least so he says. Thero now what do you think of theso for fighting with? Got em at Java on purpose for you,' aud ho held ap a pair of heathenish-looking club and branished theni over her head, and then proceoJod to pull out the rest of tho contents of the box and to decorate the school room with them. Tliere's Mr. Buddha, and there's why, what's the matter, Maggie?' Nothing, only you will got mo into dreadful trouble you will indeed: Miss Patterson came iu this morning and soolded me for talking to you lastnight.' Never mind, she's only jealous,' he laughed. Now toll mo how soon you can leave here.' 'What for?' she asked iuuoceutly. 'Why you haven't forgotten that we agreed to get married when 1 carno baok, hnvoyou littlo coquette?' and he puts his arm around her waist just as of old, aud was not reproved. It was so very comfortable, she thought. No but you are engaged, are you not?' 'Yes, of course I am to you.' Oh! but Alio Oh, but Maggie' and then he stooped and kissed her, nnd nothing more could be said, for the door opened, aud there stood tho Colonel, and there stood Maria Patterson. Of course there was no rejoicing on tbopartof Maria, but notwithstanding Alio and Maggie were married within a month. Colorado Mining Interests, la and about Lsadville, Colorado, mining is the only thing that is thought or talked nbout. Even tho children re sort to miuiatnre mining operations in their play. Tho latest rich strike on tbe Lead Chief track was made by two little boys, who pnt np a small windlass, hung a bucket on it, and with their small picks and Bhovels began operations iu earnest upon the stubborn soil. They worked faithfully and progressed well, and soon were rewarded. At the depth of iour feet they struck a large, blind lead, the ore from which is richer than anything yet fonnd on tho claim, al though the voiu upon which the ownors are working is a splendid one. Tho new strike is a well-defined fissure, running larallel with the first and about fifty feet distant from it. Tho now mine hns been called the Little Chief, and the owners of the Lend Chief having loused it, they are taking ore from it yielding 800 ounces of silver to the ton. A Mirage Phenomenon. Tho Morris, Minn., Tribuna says: 'A mirage, a phenomenon o immon iu this locility during certain seasons of the year, was unusually distinct lastSunday morning, especially to the east. The timber aud olearings in tho Holmes City nnd Alexandria woods, distant somo forty miles, was very plainly seen from this point, and the smoke from the houses iu Alexandria could also be seen for a short time. The condition of tho atmosphere was snch that there was a double reflec tion, the first inverted aud the second erect. This, we believe, is caused by the reflection and refraction on the den ser medium of air. To the west the coteaus or bluffs aloog the Dakota liu were quite distinct, and looked to be only ton instead of fifty miles distant.' L;fe is but an empty dream to the young man who makes himself aick at the stomach with loo much enjoyment. Accusing His Motliei Keninrkable Story. In a New York court recently Mrs, Sophia Lyons, a sUlihhly-attircd wo man, asked to have her son, a ragged boy, sent to tho House of Ilfifutjo. Whilo tho worn u was speaking the boy changed co'or, and toirs ran down hiB cheeks. Whon tlio Justica asked him what he had to say, the boy inquir ed, 'May I Nil you the wholo truth?' and, on being told that he would be heard, said: 'That woman is tho wife of Edward Lyons, the burglar. Ask tho detectives who ht is ami who sho is.' Tlio boy spoko iutell'goutly and iu a cloir voice. 'She horsalf,' ho e'jntinno.l, 'ia a thief who has doue time ' Tho woman, pulo with a'lgor, spraug toward him nnd strnok him a hard blow inthofaco. Twj policsmm interfered, and the Justice ordered the woman re move.!. When tho boy had boeu told to goon, he said that ten years n;jo his father aud mother lived iu a line house at Madison avenue an.l 110th sroe:, Now Y'trkj ono night tliaro w,n grout confusion in the house, an 1 polieanv.ui cam s iu nu l ar rested his father aud mother nud some men. Tuoy ware taken to court and the boy was sout to R tu toll's Island. 'One day, the bjy coutiuuud, 'I was saut for aud was take-u to Detroit, where I met this woman, who said that my name thero was Ribiuson. In tuo house wero lots of jewelry aud silks and luces uud clocks. My father, I learned, wuh then in prison. Mtuy men cume to see my mother, and I often heard them talk of robberiea.' He went on to tell of his b id treat ment aud how lie llually wont to New York und sold flowers aud sang iu saloons for a livelihood. 'I met my mother iu Ninth avenue yesterday,' ho continued, 'for tho fk.-it time in mauy mouths. She tol.l me to cume homo with her, and she would buy me a uuw suit of clothes. I weut with her to i; li'mso whero there was a strange man. I told last night all I hud done. To-day sho toll mo that she was going away.' Justice Murray, having patiently lis tened to the boy, recalled tho mother. Tho woman's manner was changed. Iu whispered wjrds she acknowledged to Justice Murray that she was known as a thief, the wif) of a burglar. Ne.l Lyouf, sho admitted, once under a twenty years' sontenco, mantgod to escape from the State prisou. She was at that time a prisoner, and hor huslmul, a few months after his oxa escape, returned and assisted her iu escaping. Then they went to C.tnadn, and ho opono.l a bro ker's ofliijc?. When re-arrestod ho had $23,000 in bonds upon him. Tho woman completely broko down when she confessed that her owu mother was a thief, and that sho hersoif, twenty four years ago, whon a child of six years, was arraigned iu E-nexMirket Police Court, ao3tised of picking pockets. Sho told how Justice Oiborao tojk her on hisknoo aul quostioaed her. Justice Murray told her to go home and ho would see what ho ojuld do for the boy. After court tho justice sent for the boy aud again questioned him. The justice then a-ikeJ tho boy to sing for him, aud ho s:tug iu Luiu tho 'Ave Marie.' Alderman Shells offorod tofiud himagjj l homo. Juuicj Marruy, hiw- ever, will o. infer with Father MeCllynu, of St. Stophen's Catholic Cuurch, and endeavor to get tho boy a homo where he will be under Father MjGIynu's care. A Learned Cat and a Wise lien, Mrs. Augustus W. Brooks, of Eist Eliot, Me., has (or did have about a year ago) a cat thirteen years old, which he brought from Bjitou, ami for which she has been vainly offered $.10. This loarued pussy will st.md up at tho word of oommand, bow slowly or quickly as directed, walk arouu.l tho room on her hind legs only, dauco, turn somersaults, go throngh the motions of holding a jewsharp to hor mouth with ouo paw and playiug ou it with tho other, mew whou ordered to spe:ik, kiss her paw to visitors, hold a s.mcer of mtlk ou her fore legs and lap tha mili, aud st uul ou her hind feet aud with her fore paws csteh bits of bread or meat thrown to her, like a base-ball player, ner kitten, a year old, will turn somersaults. The samo lady has a hen which always wipes her feet ou the mat on entering the house, and if aske 1, 'How do you get your living, biddy ?' will scratch on the A tor, look to tee if ahe bus scratched outauything.snd then look at the ques tioner to see if tho answer U correct; this hen despises the wooden, chalk and porcelain cheats, which some people palm ofT ou hens for nest eggs, tumb ling them out of her nest as often as they are put iu. A roster will also scratch tho floor when usked how ho gets his living, but ran ut bo niado to wipe his feet, A life insuranoe policy is of no nse to a man who does not intend to die before the company fails. It is som thing like a glory wlrch comes to a mitiUry corpse ou tho field of battle. Tho life of a washerwoman is not one of unbroken happiness because her lines do not always fall in unpleasant places. Ladies as Mock Speculators. A privato stock exchange exclusively for tho use of ladies has been opened in New York. Circulars were sent out ad dressed to prominent ladies, many of them tho wives of gentlemen wLofc names are familiar iu finance and in the professions, ajd sot forth that the ex change was 'under the immediato man agement of a lady of standing, who hut; had a lor g nud successful experience i stock speculations,' and did business in Wall street 'through a widely-known house of bankers and brokers of large capital aud unquestionable solidity.' 'Many a woman,' said a gentleman, speaking of the document, 'may bo led to pledge her diamonds or to coni pn.niiflo her settlerjcnts or her biu bund 's financial standing, wilh tho vague promise of u fortune thus held out b her.' Mrs. Favor ntatf:s that she merely issued a business circular, not differing matorially from those usually issued by snch establishments to parties likely tn become their patrons. Tho Exchange, she said, was opened a few weeks tigoat the urgent solicitation of ladies of large and independent menus, who Lad spec ulated iu Wall street for years, and ha f ten met with losses because their facilities for information were not equal to those of men. She, Mrs, Favor, whi- siiiply the salaried manager of the con. eern, aud had no share in its profits or responsibility for its expenditures. Lubos of the highest standing married and uumarried some with fortunes iu their owu right, and otLcrs tho wives of prominent lawyers, doctors nnd even bankers dropped iu during busiuess hours, and gave orders to buy or sel! according to the st tto of the market. Andrew Jackson's Affection. Tiie deep affection felt by President Andrew Jackson for his wife iH illustra ted by nn iue'uleiit related by tho late Nicholas P. Trist, who was for some time his private secretary. 'One even ing.' writes Mr. Trist, 'after I had p.ut ed w'th him for tho uight, levolviut! over tho directions he had given about some h tters I was to prepare, one point occurred o:i which I was not perfectly sitisfii.d us to what those directions had been. As the letters were to be sent (ft ourly next morning, I returned to his chamber dour, niui lapping gently, in order not to awake him if he had got to sleep, my tap was nuswered by 'Gjme He was nn Iressed, but nut yet in bed, ns I had supposed ho must be In that time. Ho was fitting at the littli table, with his wife's miniature a ver largo one, then for the first timo seei: by me before him, propped up against some books, aud between him and the picture lay an open bonk, which bore the marks of long use. This book, as 1 afterwards loarLod, was her prayer-book. The miniature Le nlwnvs wore next his heart, suspended round his neck by a strong black cord, lho last thing he did every night before lyiug down to rest was to read iu that book with that picture under his eyes.' Dr. Holmes on the Tress. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes reads th? newspapers religiously. He said yonr ag) : 'We must have something to eat and papers to read. Everything else we can give up. If we are rich, wo can lay down in our carriages, stay away from Newp rt or S.irat jg i, aul adjourn the trip to Europe niui: die. If wo live iu a small way, there aro at least new dres'es and bonnets nnd everyday luxu ries that wo cau dispense with. Only bread and tho newspaper we miu-t have, whatever else we do without. The time may come wheu even the cheap public print shall be a burden our means can not support, aul wo eiu only listen iu the square, tuitwm onco tho market place, to tho voices of those who pro claim defeat or victory ( this was written during the war ) Tuou there will be only our daily food left. When we have nothing to road aud nothing to eat, it will be a favorable moment to offer a compromise. At the present wo have all that uatnio absolutely demands we can live on bread and the newspaper.' Outdone Hy a Boy. A lud iu Boston, rather small for his yeurH, works as an errand boy fr four gentlemen who i?o business there. One day the gentlemen wtre ehiiffiug him a little nbout being so small, aud said to him: 'Y u never will amount to much; you never can do much busiuess, jou are too small.' The little follow looked at them. 'Well,' said he, "as s mall in I nm, I can do something which none of you four men ciu do.' 'All, what is Unit?' Biid they. 'I don't kuow as I ought to toll you,' ho replied. But U.ey were m xions lo know, and urged him to tell what he could do thnt none of them were able to do. 'I can keep from swearing!' snid the ltttlo fellow. There was some blualios on four manly faces, and there seemed to bo very little auxiety for further information on the point. Chicaijo has a harrowing divorca case 'Plows vs. Plows.' Opinions are divided, share and share, alike. 1TK.WS OF GENERAL IMERES A royal order has been issued fixing the legal rate of interest in Cuba at eight per cent. The commissioners to ereot a court house for Grant oonnty, Ind., report thnt seven out of fifteen bidders for the contract offered bribes. Tho Arkansas Manufacturing Com pany will erect immediately a cotton seed oil, cotton compress and cotton fac tory and a railroad car factory, at Little Itock. Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, gives 500 to tho relief of her starving sub jects, and ono American citizen gives 5100,000. Judge Key soys the pontofflce depart ment tins not adopted tho double postal card because tho devfee is patented, which can not be used except by pur chase, which the law prohibits. Of the 5,000 flour mills In this country, 10,400 nre located in the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minne sota, which nre capable of turning out i'2,000,000 barrels of flour per year. A bar of gold weighing 2'!5 ounoes, valued at nbout Si,600, was brought to Halifax, N. S., recently from Monta gue, it is tbe result ol three weeKa work of fenrteeu men. The mo.-tt exteusivo bee farm in the world is probably near Boston, Canada. It covers four acres, aud last year the owner secured 7o,000 pounds of honey from his l!) 000.000 little workers, Brit sh steel manufacturers aro wait ing anxiously for tho passage of the Cove:t bill, reducing the taaiff on steel rails from 828 to 810 per ton, so as to ruise their prioe lists proportionally. They will do that every time our tariffs aro reduced. Au Act to prevent and punish the in termarrying of rucjs, passed the South Carolina Lfginluture, provides that any person so offending shall be subject to a fine of not loss than 500, or imprison ment for not less thau one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. A bill was introduced in Kentucky legislature, exempting from taxation for the term of ten years so much of the capital of every manufactory, either in dividual, firm or corporation within the State, as was on the 10th day of Janua ry, 18S1, invested in material, tools nd mocluuery. Tho New York Legislature is asked for the establishment of a Bnreau of Ltbor Statistics by the State, the aboli tion of the convict contract labor system, the enforcement of the eiyht-hour law, tho suppression of tho tenement-house cigar making, aud tho passage of an im - proved mechanics' lien law. Tue lines of the new French Cable Company, connecting the United States with France, extend from Brest, France, to St. Pierre, Cape Brenton, Newfound laud, and thence to Nunsett Light, Cape Cjd. From St. Pierre there is a con nection to Louibburg, Canada, and from Cape Cod to New York city. The Supremo Court of Tennessee has decided that all judgments or deorees not satisfied or new suits brought on tbe same within ten years from the rendi tion, are fully uud effectually barred from nforcemeut at tho option of the defend- ent. The decision wipes out judgments aud ileciets, involving millions of dol lars. Tho new factory which the Sibley Manufacturing Company propose to erect at Augusta, Ga., will contain 24, (.00 spindles, consume 12,000 bales of cotton annually, pny out $175,000 year ly to its operatives and odd at least 85,- 000 people to tho present population of that city. $500,000 will be raise within ninety days. When President Torter recently sat dowu to dinner with the other members of the Yalo faculty and their guests, he was astonished to learn thnt the dinner wss attached by the Sheriff. A shrewed Bjstou merchant had taken the oppor tunity to force a New Haven hotel keeper to pay a debt of $500, and the money was paid before the dinner was eaten. The new constitution of Californa to.ik effect last New Year's day, one defect was disaovered before it was half a day old. The colo of civil procedure provides for the issiu of marriage licen ses by tho clerk of the county court. The new o institution abolishes the county court. If there is no court there can bo no oonnty clerk no mar riages withont punishment nnder the penal coile of the state. The population of Memphis is now JO 927 against 43 497 last year. But while Memphis has lost iu population she has hud quite u gain in trade, her receipts in cotton aggregating 50,000 bales more than last your. Tho very evi dent determination of the authorities to push tho sewers to completion at an early day, has iuspired a great deul of confi dence among all classes of citizens in re gard to the present business prosperity. Daring tho year 1879, forty-nine ocean steamships all but four of which were constructed of iron, with water tight compartments; thirty-seven of which had been bnilt since 1870, and four of which were less thau a year old were lost at sea. In addition, 45 ships, 146 barks, 48 brigs and 277 sohooners were lost iu one way or another, and the sum of these disasters in money value is given by underwriters at $15,000,000, and in human lives at 511 souls.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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March 4, 1880, edition 1
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