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Poetry.
If I Should Die To-Night.
H I should die to-night,
Iff frlwid would look upon my quiet face,
Bator the? Ukl it hi Its resting-place,
And dtmu that death had left It almost fair j
And laylnf snow-white flowers against my hair,
Would smooth it down with tearful tenderness,
and fold my hands with lingering caress
Puor hands, so empty and so cold to-night 1
If I should die to-night.
My friends would call to mind, with loving thought,
Home kindly deed the Icy hand had wrought,
Some gentle word the frozen lips had said,
brands u which the willing feet had sped;
The memory of my selfishness and pride.
My hasty words would all be put aside,
And so I should be loved and mourned to-night.
It I should die to-night,
Xven hearU estranged would turnonee SNfC Is mo,
Beralllng other days remorsefully;
The eyes that chill mo with averted glanw
Would look upon uie as of yore, perchance.
And sofitti In the old familiar way
Joe who wouM war with dumb, unconscious clay?
Mo I might rest forgtvea of U to-night.
Oh, friends, I pray to-night,
Hep not your kisses for my dead, cold brow;
The way Is lonely; let me feel them now
ThWk aemUy of me, 1 am travel-worn.
My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn.
Forgive, ok. hearia estranged 1 F rgi vo, 1 ploiul I
M'hou dreamless rest Is mine I ahall not need
The tenderuess for which I long to-night.
Selected Story.
THE MILL CHIHXEY.
THE 9T0SY OF A BIIICKLAYEK.
"Twas when I was courting Katie
that the accident Fm going to tell
you about happened. But for that
same accident I don't think Katie an'
I would be man an wife tliis day, for
you nee my father was set again' the
inatch, Katie being only a laborer's
daughter, while he himself was fore
man in the mills, getting good wages,
and thought a great deal of by his
employers. An it it wasn't for Katie
I don't think Tb be here now to teU
you about it, for it 'twas she that saved
lay Ufv through hitting on a plan that
never once came into the heads of me
or my comrades ave, or those you'd
have thought would know better than
any of us.
I was not brought up to my father's
trade, having been taken, when young,
by a brother of 1113' mother's, a 'master
bricklaver living ill the town. When
my.tinde ttied I came home to Lis
garven for a bit, just to see my father,
snd finding that they were at work on
the new building at the mills, I look
ed for. employment there, an' got it
at once. Li-garveu mill is a flour
mill, an' a pretty place it was in those
days, with the river running just by
the old red brick buildings an' the big
water wheel always going around an'
round. The river falls into a larger
one a little lower down, an' the tide
cornea up as far as the mill, so 'tis in
boats that most of the corn is brought
in" an the flour carried away. 'Tisn't
half bo pretty a place now, there are
big whitewashed buildings alongside
of the old brick ones, the big wheel is
topped, au' you hear the whirr of the
engines instead of the sound of the
water, but they makes a power of
money there, an' gives a deal of em
ployment. As I was saying, I got taken on as
a bricklayer. Katie's father was work
ing there, too, and I used to see her
bringing him his, dinner, and, after a
bit, I began to think that I'd like to
have her bringing me mine, too. She
was as pretty a girl then as you'd see
anywhere she's good-looking to this
day an' I soon became that fond of
liar that I'd have done anything al
most to get her. She herself was
willing enough ; 'twas my father that
made the difficulty. He was a proud
man ; as proud in his way as any gen
tleman, an' he was right down mad at
the notion of my marrying a labor
er' daughter. To be sure, I was
earning good wages, an might have
married without asking any one's
leave if I been so minded, but I didn't
like to go again' the old man that had
always been good to me. Beside,
Katie was just as proud as himself,
-im"WOuld"hnve nothing to say to me
Unless ' he was satined. I got the
owner to speak to him, but sure 'twas't
' a bit of use. .
. Jfow would you like, sir,' he says
t oihe 'owner, if I had a daughter, to
' have Master Philip take up with her,
1 an' wouldn't that be the same thing?'
If believe that the owner didn't
IJiink it would be at all the same
' iSiing ; but my father : wouldn't hear
the reason from him any more than
from me ; so Katie an' I had just no
' thing for it but to wait in the hope of
I his comin' round; an very little hope
we had of that same.
Aa we, were putting up a steam en
gihe in the mill,1 we had of course to
nave-a big chimney, an we got a man
down frojr town to build it one of
them chaps' that builds chimneys an'
. nothirig.else, and thinks nobody knows
Anything about it but themselves. I
was' working alone with him, an' in
deed, 'twas I that built the most of it
-fmd a right good job it was. 'Twas
finished by ,Chiistmas ten years ago
this Christ mas 'coming on all but
thvrih4nmg conductor, and' that was
not put up owing to the ownei's want
ing to make inquiries when he'd go to
tgwn,an' to see for himself what would
be the best land to use. The pro
prietor was a scientific sort of a gen
tleman, an had ideas of his own
sometimes they'd be better than oth
tr people's, sometimes maybe not so
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good.
At any rate, there was a de'ay about
the conductor, an in the meantime
the engines were at work, an' the big
clumney was smoking away like blazes.
Mr. Bi o .vn, the strange workman, had
gone away, saying, very condescend
ing like, that he was sure Jim Forde
(that was me) would be able to fasten
the rod to the chimney as well as he
could do it himself. He took all his
scaffolding M'ith him, but, before he
went away, he fixed a beam with a mil-
ley in it into the top of the chimney,
an leit a long rope Hanging through
it, so that a man could be hoisted up
at any time ; an' there the rope hung
dangling week after week, until the
owner came home, bringing the rod
along with him.
Once it had come there was no
good losing any more time in fixing
it, so one Saturday afternoon in Jan
uary, up I went on a plank, slunn- se
curely at the end of the rope, my tools
aiong witn me, an settled myself
astride on the stone cooin?. 'Twos
rather late in the day, but the mom-
1 1 ...
mg naa oeen too wet an stormy to
work, an' the owner was as impatient
to get the job done as if it hadn't been
himself that was hindering it all this
time. I was as much at homo nton
of the chimney as I was on the ground,
an a worked on witnout once looking
down, until my job was finished, an'
I was putting up my tools. Then, all
of a sudden, I heard a rattling noise.
an' looking over, I saw the ilank go
ing down very fast. I called out:
"Hullo, there I send that up again, will
you? but the only answer I got was a
loud laugh, for all the world like silly
Jerry the natural's ; and sure enough
there he was, standing by the wind
lass, jumping an' clapping his hands.
I looked about for the man whose
business it was to manage the wind
lass, but no sign of liim was there, an'
j in a nnnute I heard the rattle of the
j pulley again, an' saw that the- rope
was running through it in the wrong
I direction. I made a grab at it, but it
j was jerked out of my hand, an' be
I fore I could catch it again the end
had slipped through, an' there I was,
more than a hundred feet from the
ground, not knowing how in the
world I was to get down, an' Jerry
dancing an' capering below, calling
out:
'Come down an' thrash me now,
Mr. Forde, won't you V
Then I remembered that a few days
before I had found this boy annoying
Katie, an' had Given him a cut with a
! switch I had in my hand. He had
j slunk away without a word at the
I time, but it seems he remembered the
j blow, an' took this way of being re
venged.
"Well, at fiistl was scarcely fright
ened, expecting somehow that once
! the people below knew of the fix I
j was in, they'd find some way or other
J of getting me out of it. But, when I
j came to think of it, deuce a bit of a
way could I hit on myself, an' sure I
j knew more about chimneys than any
J one else in the place. 'Twas getting
ilate, too, there wouldn't be much
1 more than another half hour of day
I light, an' the wind was rising I
could hear it whistling through the
trees.
By this time people knew what had :
happened, an a crowd was collecting ;
I could see them coming from all parts,
for of course I had a view all about.
I saw a boy go up to the door of the
counting house, an' presently young'
Squire Philip came running out
running as if for his life. "When he
came, he took tbe command like an'
began giving directions, an the peo
pie, who had only started at first,
now ran here an' there as he sent them.
First they brought out a long ladder,
an' fixed it ' on the roof below the
chimney. I could have told them
that t'war top short knowing as I did
the length of every ladder in the place ;
but somehow, though I heard their
shouts plainly, I could not make them
hear mine ; it seemed as if the voices
went up like smoke.
Then there was a great delay while
they went for a longer ladder, and
this, too didn't reach half way. A
man ch'mbed up it, however, an' call
ed out to know had I a bit of string
in my pocket that I could let down. !
Not a bit could I find I had a big
ball only the day before, but I had
taken it out of my pocket an' put it
on a shelf at home. I took off my
braces, an' fastened them an' my pock
et handkerchief together; but they
didn't near reach the top of the ladder,
so that the plan had to be given up.
All this tune the wind was rising,
and I was getting numb with the cold,
an' stiff and cramped from being so
long in the one position. There was
a big clock right over the gateway
just opposite, an' I saw that it only
wanted twenty minutes of five, an'
oncethe darkness set in, wrhat little
hope I had would be gone.
The young squire seemed to have
gone away by this time, but there was
my father among the crowd ; an' who
shouldl see standing next to him, an'
holding on by his arm, but Katie !
They had forgotten everything but
the fright about me, an' he seemed to
be talking to her, an' comforting her.
After a bit I saw the young squire
again ; he had a big thing in his hand
looking like pocket handkerchief
stretched over a frame, an I saw that
it was a kite, on that they meant to
send a string up to me in that way.
But you never in your life saw such
a i unman aged kite. First 'twas too
j heavy, an' then 'twas too light, and
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them the time thev seeml to Ioha
j making a tail to sternly it ! I heard
: after that part of that same tail was
I made of bank notes Souirc Philm
took out of his pocket when he could
get nothing else quick enough. He
got them all back later, for not a, wo
man or cliild in the place would have
touched one of them when they saw
him using them in that way.
"When the kite did go up at last the
wind w as so high that they could not
manage it properly. It came very
near me once, an' I made a snatch at
the string, nearly over-reaching my
self, in doing so ; but I missed it, an'
just then there came a terrible gust of
wind; the string broke, an' the kite
was carried away, an' stuck fast in
the branches of a big tree behind the
proprietor's house. I looked over at
the clock to see how much time was
left me an' I found that I could not
see the hands any longer ; the dark
ness had come on the last few min
utes. Then I gave up all hope, for I
knew I could never hold on till morn
ing. I tried to think of death, an to
make myself ready for it, but I
couldn't not a prayer nor a good
work cou'd I call to mind, only go
ing over again in my head the way
'twould all happen how the people
would go away one by one, how I'd
be left alone iu the darkness and the
howling wind, an' how at last I'd
not be able to hold on longer, an'
fall, an' be found in the morning all
crushed out of shape. The people
below seemed to have given up all
thought of helpiug me now, an' wore
standing, quite quiet.
Twas so dark by this time that I
could not distinguish the faces at all;
I could just make out Squire Philip
in his dark suit among the white mill
men, an' poor Katie. She wascrouch
ing down the ground now, her apron
over her head. All of a sudden I
saw her learj up with a great cry, an'
clap of her hands, an' call out some
thing. Then there was a confused
j
sort of a shout as if every one in the
crowd was saying the same thing at
the same time, an' then Squire Phil
lip making a sign to silence them, put
his two hands up to hi mouth, an'
sang out in a voice that came up to
mo above the noise of the wind :
"Take off your stocking and ravel
it; the thread will reach the ground.'
At first I didn't understand him,
beirg dazed like, but then the mean
ing came on me like a message from
heaveu. I got off one of my socks
with some trouble nice new ones
they were, too, of Katie's own knit- j
ting, that she gave u.e for a Christ-1
mas box an with the help of my
teeth I loosed one end of the thread.
It gave readily enough after that, an'
when I had a good piece of it rip
ped I tied my knife to the end of it
to make it heavy, an' let it drop, rip
ping more an' more of the sock as it
went down. Then I felt it stop, an'
presently there came a shout telling
me to wind it up again. Very slow
ly an' carefully I did it, fearing the
string would break, an' when the last
bit of it came up, there was a piece
of strong twine tied to it. The twine
iu its turns brought the rope I had
gone up by, an' then I felt that I was
afe.
I managed some how to put it
through the pulley, an' to haul up
the plank and as soon as they had
fastened the other end to the wind
lass below, they gave me the word to
come down.
I was so numb an' stiff that I could J
not fix myself on the plank, but I
managed somehow to cling to the
ropes with my hands. Down, down,
I came, every turn of the windlass
making the voices below seem near
er an' when I was within a few feet of
the ground there were a dozen pairs
of arms ready to catch me, an' a score
of hands held out to me, an' a hun
dred voices to welcome me. An'
there was my father waiting for me,
an' Philip saying:
"But for the girl he'd have been
up' there still. Not one of us would
have thought of the stocking; 'twas
the brightest idea I've come across
this many a day. She has saved hi.s
life, Forde, and you can't refuse
your consent any longer.
But when Ilooked'roundlorKttie,
she was nowhere to be seen. She
must have slipped off as soon as she
saw I was safe.
The young-squire hurried my fa
ther an' me away, I didn't quite
know where, I was so dazed, but in
a minute or two I found myself in a
warm lighted dining room at the
master's house, an' Master Philip
shaking hands with my father. As
soon as I could, I made my escape,
an' went down-to Katie's cottage. I
hadn't been there five minutes when
there was a knock at the door, and
in walks my father. He went straight
up to Katie, holding out his hand.
Katie, my girl,' he said, I've come
to ask your pardon for anything I've
ever said or done against you, an' if
you an' Jim are still of the same
mind I won't hinder you from mar
rying. 'Tis you have the best right
to him, for you've saved his life
'And 'tis proud an glad I am that
I was able to do that same, Mr. Forde,'
said Katie.
'And youll marry him won't you,
my dear ?'
'If you're satisfied, sir.'
'I am, my dear, quite satisfied.'
And with that he kissed her; and
from that day to this, he and Katie
have been the best of friends. He
lives with as for the latt vcar or no.
for he was getting a little past his
nu ilia proprietor pensionou
him off. He is very hapnv with ns.
an' he w never tired of telling the
cniiarentne story of the way tiat
their mother's cleverness tavedmy life.
Uarileld Denounced.
We wish to call attention to the
manner in which Gen. Garfield has
been denounced by men of his own
party, and to show by the testimony
of republicans that he ought not to
be elected President. It is said that
a man is best known among his
friends and neighbors, and so let us
see what Garfield's neighbors and
fellow-republicans have said about
him. After he had been nominated
for Congress in 1876 a large number
of the republicans of his district be
came so dissatisfied that they held a
convention at Warren, Ohio, on the
7th day of September, and adopted
the following resolutions :
Be it by this independent conven
tion of liepublicans of the Nineteenth
Congressional District of Oliio,
Jtnst. Kesolved, That dishonesty,
fraud and corruption have become so
common, notorious and obvious in
the adnunistration of our national
--rv-Wii.-v4- w. - 1, 1 1 : 1
fiuiwuiuKuii io lw ul; nuii uiiiv Humili
ating and disgraeef ul in the estima
tion of every honest and intelligent
citizen, but to imperil the urosneritv
of the people, if not the stability oi
tne government itselt.
becond. Kesolved, That this de
plorable condition of the administra
tion 01 our national government is
largely duo to the election to ofHee
and continuance therein of corrupt,
dishonest and venal men.
Third. Resolved, That it is useless
and hypocritical for auy political par
ty to ueciare tor reiorm in its plat
forms, papers and public addresses,
while it insists on returning to high
official place and power men who
have been notoriously connected with
the very schemes of fiaud which ren
der reform necessary and urgent ;
that to send those to enact reform
who themselves need reforming to
make them honest, is worse than set
ting the blind to lead the blind.
Fourth. Resolved, That there is no
man to-day officially connected with
the administration of our national
government against whom are iustlv
preferred more or graver charges of
corruption than are publicly made
and abundantly sustained against
James A. Garfield, the present repre
sentative of this Congressional Dis
trict and the nominee of the republi
can convention for re-election.
Fifth. Resolved, That since he first
entered Congress to this day there is
scarcely an instance in which rings
and monopolies have been arrayed
against the interests of the people,
that he has been found active in
speech and vote upon the side of the
latter, but in almost every case he
has been the read' champion of lings
and monopolies.
Sixth. Resolved, That we especially
charge him with venality and cow
ardice in permitting Benjamin F. But
ler to attach to the Appropriation bill
of 1873 that ever-to-be remembered
infamy, the salary steal, and in speak
ing and voting for that measvu-e upon
its final passage ; and charge him
with corrupt disregard of the clearly
expressed demand of his constituents
that he should vote for its repeal, and
with evading said demand by voting
for the Hutchinson amendment.
Seventh. Resolved, That we fur
ther arraign and denounce him for
his corrupt connection with the Credit
Mobilier, for his false denials thereof
before his constituents, for his per
jured denial thereof before a commit
tee of his peers in Congress, for
fraud upon his constituents in circu
lating among them a pamphlet pur
porting to set forth the findings of
said committee and the evidence
against him, when, in fact, portions
thereof were omitted and garbled
Eighth. Resolved, That we fur
ther arraign and charge him with cor-
rupt bribery in selling his official in
fluence as Chairman of the Commit
tee on Appropriations to the DeGol
yer Pavement Ring, to aid them in
securing a contract from the Board of
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lumbia ; selling his influence to aid
said ring in imposing upon the peo
ple of said District a pavement which
is almost worthless at a price three
times its cost, as sworn to by one of
the contractors ; selling his influence
to aid said ring in procuring a con-
tract to procure which it corruptly
paid $97,000 "for influence ;" selling
his influence in a matter that involved
no question of law, upon the shallow
pretext that he was acting as a law
yer ; selling his influence in a manner
so palpable and so clear as to be so
found and declared by an impartial
and competent court upon an issue
solemnly tried.
Ninth. Resolved, That we arraign
him for the fraudulent " manner in
which he attempted, in his speech,
delivered at "Warren, on the 19th day
of September, 1874, to shield himself
from just censure in receiving the before-named
$5,000, by falsely repre
senting in said speech that the Con
gress of the United States were not
responsible for the acts of said board,
nor the United States liable for the
sir? Ifr'f
ft I J I
debts created thereby, when in truth
and in fact, as he then well knew, the
said Board of Public Works and the
officers of said District were but the
agents and instruments of Congress,
and the United States was responsi
ble for the indebtedness by them cre
ated Tenth. Resolved, That we arraign
him for gross dereliction of duty as
a member of Congress in failing to
bring to light and expose the corrup
tion and abuse in the sale of post
traderships, for which the late Secre
tary Belknap was impeached, when
the same was brought to his knowl
edge by Gen. Hazen in 1872, and can
only account for it upon the suppo
sition that Ins -manhood was de
bauched by the coiTuption funds then
by him just received and in his own
purse.
Eleventh. Resolved, That the law
of 1873, known as the act demone
tizing silver, was enacted in the in
terest of gold rings, bondholders and
capitalists, and against the interest of
the taxpayers and without their ad
vice or knowledge. That this act, by
a single blow, has seriously crippled
our power to resume specie payments
or pay our national debt in coin.
That no sufficient reason has yet been
given for this legislation, so dishonest'
and palpable in its oUscrimination in
favor of the small creditor class and
capitalists and against the great
debtor class and the industrial inter
ests of the country. That James A.
Garfield, during the last session of
Congress, was the conspicuous de
fender of this crafty attemot to sac-
m X
nfice the interests of the people to
bondnolders and toreign capitalists.
That when it was proposed to restore
the old silver dollar, to the place it
had held during our history as a na
tion as a legal-tender for all debts.
public and private, he denounced the
attempt as "a swindle on so grand a
scale as to make the achievement ill-1
ustrious," and as a "scheme of vast
rascality and colossal swindliner."
Twelfth. Resolved, That neither
great ability and experience or elo
quent partisan discussion of the dead
issues of the late war will excuse or
justify past dishonesty and corrup
tion or answer as a guaranty of in
tegrity and purity for the future.
Thirteenth. Resolved, That believ
ing the statements in the foregoing
resolutions set forth, we cannot, with
out stultifying our manhood and de
basing our self-respect, support at
the j)olls the nominee of the Republi
can convention of this district for re
election, nor can we, without surren
dering our rights as electors and citi
zens, sit silently by and see a man so
unworthy again sent to represent us
in the national legislature. That,
strong in the conviction of right, we
call upon the electors of the district,
irrespective of former or present
party attachment, who desire honest
pui cjijuutiiu, iu uiiiuc y j. til us in nil
earnest, faithful effort to defeat the
re-election of Gen. Garfield, and elect
in his stead an honest and reliable
man."
The result of this exposure was a
majority for Mr. Garfield of twenty
nine hundred and ninety-one votes
less than the head of the Republican
State ticket received in the Nineteenth
District. Garfield's majority was
3,569 less in his Congressional Dis
trict in 1876 than Hayes received in
it for President. .
The City of Chicago.
Mr. "W. A. Guthrie, of Fayetteville,
N. C. has recently visited Chicago,
and has written to the Fayetteville
Examiner the following interesting
sketch of that wonderf id city :
"Chicago is appropriately called
tjie "Queen City of the West." Her
population, according to the present
census, is five hundred and six thou
sand, and daily increasing, and where
it will stop nobody knows. The mile
and a half of the city, from Chicago
river to Lincoln Park, which was
burnt down a few years ago, is now
all rebuilt, and the city does not look
like it ever had a fire. The rapid
growth of the city is almost like an
Arabian Night's story. In 1833 it
was nothing but a prairie bordering
on Lake Michigan, and could boast of
only two or three log cabins, and was
called Chicago in derision, which
means 'skunk' or 'polecat.' The city
of the present day is the growth of
about thirty years, and I was told
that many of the older citizens used
to enjoy the sport of shooting wild
ducks on what is now the Palmer
House Square.
The waters of the Lake have been
so far encroached upon now by arti
ficial means that not only the Palmer
House is located on made land, but
between it and the present lake runs
tne wide waoasn Avenue, also a
closely built square of buildings and
the Michigan 'Central Depot, with
those of the principal railroads lead
ing to it along the present shore of
the lake. The land on which the
Palmer House is built cost a million
of dollars, the house two millions,
and to furnish it half a million more,
so that the aggregate cost of the
house is three and a half millions.
On the opposite corner, between it
and the lake, is Keith & Co.'s large
wholesale store, - which rents for
thirty thousand dollars a year.
There are fifty-two railroads run
ning into and controlled by Chicago,
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branching out north, south and west
like a spider's web, amouuting alto
gether to over eleven thousand miles,
while the shipping trade on Lake
Michigan on the east is immense.
Well authenticated statistics show
the present number of manufacturing
estabhshments in Chicago to be over
two thousand, employing sixty five
thousand men, with a capital of $100,
000,000, and making products to the"
value of $250,000,000 a year.
While taking a pleasant ride along
the shore of Lake IGchigan out to
Lincoln Park we stopped and exam
ined the city water works, which
differ from anything of the kind I
ever saw before. They have no res
ervoir, but the water supply is pump
ed from Lake Michigan up to the top
of a high tower, and thence conveyed
in pipes to every part of the city. A
tunnel was run out from ashore shaft
under the present water-works build
ing under Lake Michigan two miles
in a straight line. At the end of this
tunnel, beneath the bottom of the
lake, a lake shaft, called a 'crib,' was
sunk by means of a coffer-dam sunk
in the lake. Through this big tun
nel the waters of the lake, where it is
clear and healthy, beyond the filth
and garbage of the city, flow into the
great well under the water-works
building. The water is then pumped
from this great well up to the top of
the tower before mentioned by the
means of four huge engines of 1,200
horse-power each. Thu3 you see the
supply of water at Chicago is really
inexhaustible, for its source is Lake
Michigan, which is an inland ocean.
The Chicago river is a deep but nar
row stream, issuing out of Lake
Michigan rather than flowing into if..
and crossed bv inniimemhlA w
bridges. "We had the novelty of
driving through a tunnel under the
river on our return from Tiinnln
Park.
The parks around Chicago rSout.h
Park and Lincoln Park) are pretty
dux. new, ana to visitors who have
seen Fairmount Park in Philadelphia
and Central Part in New York they
look rather insignificant. At Lincoln
Park, however, you see quite a me
nagerie, including buffaloes, black
and grizzly bears, wolves, badgers.
foxes, prairie dogs, &c, and a variety
of birds.
The public buildings in Chicago,
including the United States Postoflfice
and Custom House in course of con
struction but not yet finished, are
very large and of a superior order of
architecture. The land upon which
the Postoffice and Custom House
now stands cost the government over
two millions of dollars, which is more
than "Uncle Sam" originally received
for the land upon which the whole
city is built, as he originally sold it
out as other pubhc lands are sold, at
one dollar and a quarter per acre.
The grain trade and pork and beef
packing business of Chicago are too
well known to the world to be men
tioned here. All the nations of the
earth are beginning to look to the
great Northwest as the granary and
smoke house of the world, and Chi
cago is the door through which the
meat and bread to feed the world is
received and distributed. For push
and go-aheadativeness in business
I have never seen anything equal to
Chicago."
Betting on the Election.
Philadelphia Chronicle.
One of the prominent features cf
the Presidential campaigns of latH
years is the betting on the result cf
the elections. In 1876. it will be re
membered, a very large amount of
money was staked and the late John
Morrissey reaped a harvest of com
missions. X'ue following propositions
have been made public through the
New York World:
New York. Aucr. 30. 1880 FiVkL
I will bet $2000 and upwards against
even money that General Hancock
will be elected and inaugurated next
President oi tne United States, if he
lives.
Second. I will bet $2000 and up
wards that General Hancock will
have 20,000 majority over Garfield.iu
tms otate.
Third. I will bet $2000 or upwards
that General Hancock will have 225,
000 of a popular majority over Gar
field in the United States.
Fourth. I will bet $2000 against
$4000 that General Hancock will have
a larger majority in the State Of New
York than the combined majority of
Garfield in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Indiana, New Jersey and
Connecticnt.
Mau and money can be found be
tween 8 A. M. and 6 P. M.; at news
stand, Northeast corner pulton street
and Broadway.
The writer of this letter was called
on last night. He certainly means
business, and is ready to back up his
propositions with money. Although
the same offer has been nnblished
frequently during the last month, no
takers nave yet appeared. The gen
tleman in question has made a study
oi election returns durmg the last
niteen years, and lias been very sue
essful, having won $1000 by his bets
on the result of the last Presidential
election and a less amount on the
election in this State last year. As
the result of a canvass of political
opinion in this city he finds that there
is a defection Of at least ten per -cent
in the Republican ranks, which will
accrue to Hancock s strength.
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Who Was He !
A man from Chatham was in town
yesterday with a pair of suspenders
on which he had worn a week, an
which had been knit by his wife from
this year's cotton. Raleigh News
Au Old Couple.
Mr. John Heath, of Jones county,
will be 80 years bid on the 26th of
this month, and his wife 81 on the
day before. They have been married
59 years, and their children, grand
children and great-grandchildren
nnmber 125. Kinston Journal.
Killed by Lightning.
Patrick Crowder, a colored man
employed in Biggs' mili at Scotland
Neck, while at work on Wednesday
last, was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed. Several other : hands
were employed in the budding; ". bat
none were injured. TarboTo' South
erner. Good Memory
Some children are endowed with
wonderful memories. "We learn that
a little girl in the Presbyterian San
day School recently recited eight
chapters in the' bible at''ohe''tuneT
That is more than a great many
grown persons learn from the bless
ed book in a life time, Winston
Leader.
Asheboro Statistics
Asheboro has two hotels, 2 bar
rooms, 3 churches, 300 inhabitants,
200 dogs, 4 stores, 1 tin-shop. 1 mar
ket house. 2 newsDapers. 2 school
buildings, 2 buggy factories, 2 black
emim snops, z shoe shops, 1 cabinet
shop. 1 tannery. 1 sheen. 1 water
melon patch and 1 pound of butter;
mat is, ii all the tables are equally
freighted and ours has its share.--.
Asheboro Courier. . .
Editors' Troubles.
An editor would alwava ba in
trouble if he would allow himself to
be. Very few items fttroear in This
paper, but what somebody gets angry
at. We do not recollect of, a minah
issue of our paper but that some one
complained of "a certain" piece whioh
was printed. Though to publish a
newspaper to suit everybody is one
of the impossibilities of life. Frank
lin Times.
Sickness in Lenoir.
There are more sick people within
fifteen miles of Kinston than there
has been at one time since the - war.
In some neighborhoods newlr maiw
other family has sickness; in many
families nearly every member is .pros
trate; the doctors are travelling
night and day. and the druggists
can hardly keep in medicine; The
disease is generally malarial fettc,
and so far has not proved very ma
lignant It is doubtless caused by
the heavy rains early in Ausmst. fol
lowed by the present calm, hot
weather. Kinston Journal.
A Mean Rogue.
For a long time Mr. R. L Hunt, of
Oxford, has kept on his counter, sfor
the benefit of the orphans, an iron
man, who held out his hand for mon
ey, which he put in his pocket as
soon as received, and made' a oolite-
bow. Occasionally this Docket waa
opened, and the money entered on
our books. A few weeks ago the
iron man disappeared. Later, fee
was found in Dr. Tavlor'a i field i Jwt
his iron pocket was broken, aad all
his money was gone. Oh that mi could
tell the name of the wretched rogue
mean enough to rob poor orphan's!
Such a man would steal the pefeter
f om the head of a negro's caue.
Orphan's Friends. , ? 3
Attempted Suicide.
There was quite a wide sensation
yesterday at a place on the line' of
the Wilmington & Weldon R. It,
caused by the attempt oi a beaniifal
young married lady to commit Wi-
ciae. one had provided herself with
two phials of laudanum, one of whinlt
she swallowed. Her husband soon dis
covered her situation and alled 3
physician who succeeded !in, neatrkU
izing the effects of the drug and ta
iDg her life. The lady is youag.
beautiful and accomplished, sdomrl
"by her friends and idolized by her hris-
oana, wuo nas aiwavs Peen lovinw
and devoted to her, and the attempt
was undoubtedly the result of a fit of
mental aberration caused by miai
matic sickness. Wilmington Retjew.
A Queer Detection.
A juvenile thief was detected 3b
his misdeeds in a singular way on
Thursday. He went put .to . the gun
club range, where the .club .were
shooting at the new potent smoke
balls, which explode with- qhite' an .
amount of flame and some noise when
ever struck a violent blow, t iTfrft
young rascal stole a ball and hiditin
the top of his hat. Along came anoth-
Ar llAOTft ttnA inntvant tf ik L .(J.
abouts of the balL struck fcbe; thief
on tne nead. instantly there was'tta
explosion and the hat was hfted ; by
a rush of flame and smoke. . The
negro thinking his time had come,
sans te tne ground with fear, while
the explosive material burned alUhe
wool off a larcre natch on: ih . v
J his cranium. Observer. T-