North Carolina Newspapers

fye (!jihaiR jjucoijii. (ft djfratham JjtftonL H. A. LONDON, Jr., XDtTOB AKD TKOrBIKTOR. 01 ADVERTISING. sue One square, one insertion. One squaro, two insertions, One square, one month, ft.tt 2.W TEBMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: orr.Brr' 4toiCT. tareenionttis. 1.00 VOLUME 3. P1TTSB0R0', CHATHAM CO., M. C, DECEMBER 9, 1830. NUMBER 13. For larger advertisements liberal contracts vltf made. Railroad Schedules. TIME TABLE Caps Fear & Yailin Valley I 1 To take Effect May 9, 18S0. Leave Fayotteville at Arrive at Gulf at : UtTea Gulf at : Arrives at FayettevtUe. Pally except Sunday. : : .00 p. M. : ,.ss p. u. ; 6.00 A. M. : : 10.20 a. M. L. C. JOXE9, Sup't. Carolina Central Railway Comp'ny. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, I WlLMlKGTOJi, May 11, 18KO. f ON and after May IS. 1KSO, the following schodule will bo operated on this Hallway: PAK8KNOEII, MAIL AND ExntESS TRAIN : i Leave Wilmington at 6.00 p. M. Arrive at Hamlet at 1.27 a. m. Arrive at Charlotte at 7.00 a. m. (Leave Charlotte at 7.25 p. m. ! Arrive at Hamlet at 12.3-2 P. si. j Arrive at Wilmington at 8.30 P. K. ! No. 1 train id dally except Sunday, but makes no i connection lo Raleigh on Saturrtaye. ro. a warn w lally except Saturday. Sleeplug-car accommodatlona on through trains to and from Charioue and Wilmington. There will alao be through lee4er9 run to and from Charlotte and Wilmington. y q J0HSS(ISf , way 37 tt General Superintendent. Balemli & Anpsta A.-L. R. K. Co. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. SFPEUINTENDENT'S OFFICE KaU'lsli. N. C. June 5, 179. I ON and after Friday, June 6, 187. trains on the RAlelirh Augusta Air-Line Railroad will run dally Sundays excepted) as follows; No. 1 Leave lUlelgh, 8.00 pm No. 2 Lonve m Hamlet 2 SO a m Oary. 8 31 p m Hoffman Key er lllUO'3 Manly Cameron Sanford 0gd Moucuro Merry Oaks New Hill Aiex 3 14 a m 3 37 a m 3 54 a in 4 13 a m 4 56 a m 5 41am Apex New Hill Merry Oaks Mono u re Oegood Santord Cameron Manly tUue'a Keyiier 8 S3 p m 9 14 p m 9 3d p m 9 M p m 10 17 p m 10 44 p m 11 27 p m 12 TO a m 12 a m 12 48 a m 114 am 6 02 a m ! 6 25 a m I 6 12 a m ! 7 00 a m 1 7 23 a m 7 5lJ a m Hoffman Cnry Arrive Hamlet, 2 00 a m Arrivo itulelgh, B30am Train number 1 connects at Hamlet with C. C. Railway for Charlotte and all points souih. Train number 2 connects at ltalelgh with the ltalelgh & O&etou Railroad for all jtoiutt north. JOHN C. WINDER. Superintendent. Raleigh Business Men. M. T. N0SR1S & CO., GROCERS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Raleigh, PI. C. SOLE AGENTS FO SOLI, ..BLE SEA ISLAND GUANO AND BALDWIN AMMONIATED DIS SOLVED BONE. TH STCHdWALt. COTTON PLOW AST) AtLAB Tciuf Plow. FARMERS SUPPLIES. We have lu store and to arrive : 1,500 Bus. White Corn. 800 Bus. Choice Seed Oats, 600 Bus. Choice white Bolted eal, 35.000 lbs. Prime Fodder, 58.000 lbs. Prime Timothy Hay, 20,000 lbs. Bulk Clear Rib Sides, 3 Our Loads Choice Family and Extra Flour. 1 Car load wheat brand and other goods to fll out a complete stock which wo offer as low for cash or on time as can be bought anywhere. Call and se us before purchasing. Will make It to your advantage. Very respectfully, fabH-tt M. T. NORMS k CO. TO THE IB IF m AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. 7T. S. & P.. S. TTOS38, are now offering their Fall Stock SILKS, SATINS, VELVETS AND DRESS GOODS, RICH BROCADED SATINS IN Newest Designs and Colorings. A magnificent lot of Ladles Cloaks. The largest etock l men's wear. Cloth. CasMmeres, Kerseys, and Kentucky Jeans ever exhibited. And large supply of Domestics, Plaids, fcc. 4-4 JJomesiics, suitable for Hour sacks. SOOTS & SK03S, The Largest Stock we evor had. Carpetings and Rugs. All goods sold at the lowest possible prices. W H Jc R S TUCKER. O T Raleigh. V a BOOK ANDJOBPBINTING. IT Is scarcely necessary for us to say we are bet ter prepared (or work in this line than any office in the State, for our work is known throughout Xorth Carolina, But we wish to call attention to the fact that our facilities are such as to enable us to competo with any bouso North or South In good work and low prices. We have The Bent Book and Sab Presses, The Largest Variety of Material, The most Completo Assortment of Paper Employ the most Competent Workmen, and therefore rarely Sail ot giving our patrons erfecl satisfaction. rug. We rehind books of every kind In the neatoet etyle of tho art. BLANK BOORS f every hlzo nnd quality made to order on short notice. Wo have a complete bindery in charge of a thoroughly comietont man, Accord Books, Dockets, Iudex Books, Ledgers, Day Rooks, ic, &c. MADE AT NEW YORK PRICES. Sfind us your orders, and we wiH glvo you satis factory Jobs ltna prices. Edwards. Broughton & Co., Nov 11 Raleigh, N. C. Poetry. EARTH'S SENTINELS. bt fhask b. corr. We are Sentinels all. on the hills of Time, In evory station and every clime Xu fluttering youth and in manhood's prime Even Old Age, With Its scribbled page Watching for something without Its cage I Watching the suu with Its golden glow ; Watching the shadows that come and go ; Watching the tide in its ebb and flow , Wand' ring the while Over many a mile Of mystic waste, with a frown or smile. Watehlng the birds as they flit away ; Watching the curtains of closing day, Golden and crimson, around us play Wond'rlng how much Of the brisht and gay Of life will fade at the lighest touch. Watching the clouds as they steal along. Watching the Gingers, whose plaintive eong Murmurs the arches of Life among ; Wond'rlng, per chance, If in fate or dance, These singers exulted when ihey wore young. Watching the ladder that swings to Fame, Watching wlih torment an humble Name, Menaced by foes with a dart of Shame ! Wishing the night, With lie sombre light. Drifted away from the aehtng sight I watching the crucible melt the gold : Watching the silver wlthiu the mould, Telling us Badly wo're growlug old ; Counting the years, With tkelr crowding fears. Filled with their phantoms of graves and biers. Watching for something we know not what 1 Rooted and fixed to a narrow spot ! Present and future a mocking blot 1 Watching each day. On life's crowded way. Something, when found, will refuse to stay I SELECTED STORY. THE TELEGRAPH ROBBERS. Tf wn! ?n n. vailwnr rnr tint niv vi-l a-vis, to while away the time-we )bliged to wait, owiim to a bro-! were oblk Ven ra:,l t,o4l tlf following et vV uT E Jir.e TrStnJ' operator at a small town in New Jer-1 perato t my situation, and taking an agency. I S sev, out my nealtli tailing, mi traveled westward until I reached i c.t i Ti .1.. x- oan xrancisco, wuere l iudk a iitucv... , .,, v , . , to visit the mining regions ; so select-1 lhan wlth Mongoliaiw) which ing suitable goods to sell among the ! fn a chl11 me whenever I met miners, I went, satisfied mvcuriositv, 1 thejr gaze. made a little mon.v, and was return j l$one ,of 10 fa"V1.y wc01lded m; ing in the stage-coach, when the in- cidents I am about to relate occurred, or at least began to occur. ' "There vera besides mvself three ,,.o . ni,rflnnnmo i of sixtv, and two ronshlv dreaed ' men apparently miners. These two sat at opposite ends of the coach, not apparently knowing each other, while the old gentleman had a heavy tin or ! iron box between his legs, which ho j seemed to be anxious to keep out of ! sight. "After a short conversation with him on general subjects I allowed myself to drift gently into a dose ; and while in that condition my ear trained as it was to the intelligent sound of the telegraph instrument, caught a faint tic, tic, which resolved itself in the following words : " 'Bill, the young one is going to sleep, and I will tend to him while you pitch the old one out orer the nrpmmm wlinn T n.jiTr the sinrnA.. ! and secure the box.' i "I was now as wide awake as if Ij I h-d hopn csilled hv .in onerator to re-! ceive a message,lut I pretended to be still dozing, while I listened intently. Then I heard the coach window rat tie, and it read : " 'All right. Bob. We will bo to the Big Jump in twenty minute?, and then give the word and out he goes.' "Taking a cautious look from be tween my eyelids, I saw that one of the villain 3 was telegraphing by vi brating a knife blade between his teeth while the other used the win dow for the purpose, neither of them j appearing to notice the other. appearing "I knew the precipice to which they referred ; a terrible place, where a miner had once jumped off in a fit of despair at his bad luck, from which it was known as the Big Jump. How to communicate to the old gen tleman I was at a loss to determine but finally I took out a newspaper and underscored tho words in a lengthy editorial, which if read con secutively, would read : " Be cautious, sir. The two vil lains intend to kill and rob us in ten minute?. "When I arise you attack the one with the moustache, and I will take the other. Kill if necessaiy.' "Then I handed the paper to the old gentleman, saying; 'Have you read this sir ? It's a most excellent editorial.' "He took the paper, put on his glasses and began to read. Soon the underscored words drew his at tention and he began to study them Then I saw him grow pale and feel for his box with his foot. Handing me back the paper he said signifi cantly : " 'Do you believe that, sir?' " 'I know it to bo true, sir,' said I. " 'Horrible, said he, slipping his hand in his breast pocket, a stern look coming in his face as he added : 'I believe that I'd feel like shooting some one.' "I saw I had a man of courage to help me, so I cared little for the vil lainous smile which his remark brought to one of the ruffians. I saw we were near the Big Jump and were going down a steep grade at a lively rate, when one of the villains telegraphed : "Now. "The next minute I -was on him knocking him senseless with my re volver. The old gentleman did equally as well, the ruffians being taken completely by surprise at our sudden attack. We had passed the precipice now, and calling to the driver to stop, and the one outside passenger helped to bind our prison ere, whom we left inside, while we climbed to the top. When we ar rived in Sacramento wo found the robbers had released each other and dropped out along the road. "The old gentleman introduced himself as Mr. Stamford, a Sacramen to banker, and insisted on my accept ing the hospitality of his homo, ing that I had saved his life and a large amount of money. I consent ed, and was driven with him to his handsome residence on the outskirts of the city, where I was introduced to Ins wife, and two daughters, the former a kind, motherly woman and the latter a handsome brunette and a pretty blonde. Three weeks' stay at Rose Hill, Mr. Stamford's home, with its lovely walks amid a wealth of tropical flowers mid the society of Ella and Blanche Stamford, lovelier if not more beautiful than the flowers that bloomed around them, only served to make me wish for a longer stay, and when Mr. Stamford offered me a posit ion in his banking house, I most gladly accepted it, not failing to take courage from the evident delight of the fair Blanche, whom I thought the lovelier of the two sisters, when I told her of the offer and decision. "About this time Mr. Stamford, at his wife's request, replaced two Irish ! servants with two Cinnamon, much to the former's violent denunciation Mrs. Stamford was loud In her praise 01 1101 lxew nellN Vino secmeu lO uc;m savxug a uuiumu ui ami j0 adve' ordc$; f-llo3 J!1 ready, always willing, and alway, always l A 1 1 l i V . l il De iouna at rueir posis. -To these two spoon gobbles,' as fte Ih girl called Ah U ng and An jjee. i somenow conceivoa a uo- cu d. "- , Th 1 thf0 sm'sl1 ' 100K u lueu k"3- . " .i"1, ' seemed to he rut less on tho bias each cromer his own wav. o have Sf11 , ,fmf.', T BlaTaJ. WJ)0 ,s0Temed uuk 1 dd wluch 1 accepted as another ..of1?nng?1f;fc x1111.,110681 attributmcf it to dislike to the Mon-1 SoImn as a race- "One quiet, summer night I had retired to my room in the second story, ana lay t muting oi tne nappy possibility of Blanche Stamford re turning the love 1 telt lor her, when my attention was attracted by the rattling of a window. There was not a breath of air stirring to produce j forty acre lot it will require one mile such a sound and I was about rising ;of fencing; if one hundred and sixty to ascertain the cause, when it ceased, '; acre, two miles ; if six hundred and and a wmdov4on the next floor be- J forty, four miles. The cost of s-plit-gau to rattlo. Then I caught the ' ing Vails here is about forty cents pr meaning of it. Someone was tele-Ihundrod, and this will make your graphing with the sashes. j fence cost you forty dollars per mile, "1 listen? d, and presently tho sec-j not counting your lumber as worth ond story window telegraphed : anything ; then to haul and eroct the "Everything quiet up there, Bob 7 "Quiet as a stiff. Old one blowing his horn. How is the yonker down there? answered the upstairs window, " 'All quiet on the Potomac. Are Al t 1 ll 1 you ready aslied tlio upstairs Win- dow. " 'Not quite yet. When I writo 'Go,' thou do your best. Dead men tell no tales. As soon as you finish your man, then come up here and help mo with the wonion.' 'It was our old stage coach robbers at work again no doubt. How they had gained access to the house I wan at a loss to account, for it was guard ed by a burglar alarm and a watch dog. Arising and partly dressing, I took my revolver, and stepping soft ly out into the hall, approached the whitlow, where I found Ah Lee standing "What are you doing here?' I de manded. " 'Come to lookee sec. Think hear some mans hoppeo out the window,' ! said he blandly. "Well,' said I, 'you go down stairs and feteh me a glass of water and a lemon to my room.' "All litel, my will,' said Ah Lee, as he glided down tho stairway. "As soon as he was out of hearing I took hold of the window and tele graphed : " 'Yonker is awake and coming up stairs. Go hide in the closet till he comes back.' " 'All right,' answers the upstairs window. "Then I went upstairs softly in my stocking feet, and quietly turned the key in the ha'l closet, after which I telegraphed to the downstairs win dow : " -Keep quiet down there. Yon ker is up here talking to the old one. Hide in the lil r rr, Mil he comes back and then goes to bed.' "Does he suspect anything ?' cams back from downstairs.' 'No,' I answered. 'He is telling the old one he is going to Frisco early in the morning. Hide ! He is coming downstairs.' " 'All right,' came back. "And arousing Mr. Stamford I told him how matters stood, and we de scended downstairs and turned the Ikey in the libary. Tho desperado heard the click of the lock, and be coming frightened, raised the window to jump out, but I loaned out of the hall window and ordered him back. For an answer ho turned and fired on me, the ball grazing my cheek and slitting my ear. Here the narrator pointed to a long scar on his left cheek and his cut ear, and continued ; "The next minute I fired, and the villain fell headlong into the garden. Wo then returned upstairs and se cured All Whig, from whom we strip ped the paint and other disguises, revealing one of tho stage coach rob bers. Ah Lee, whom we found in the garden dead, proved to be tho other one. "The ladies now to ado their ap pearance, terribly frightened, and ere an explanation could be given, Blan che rushed to me, her face pale with fear, and catching mo by tho cried : arm "Oh, Charles, are you hurt V "Only a scratch, Blanche I in a low tone, but she did not said, hoar me for she had fainted iu my arms. "The next day we notified the au thorities, to whom we delivered our prisoners, and gave bonds for our ap pearance in regard to tho killing, from which the coroner's jury exoner ated us by a verdict of 'justifiable homicide.' "It was nearly noon before I again saw Blanche, and then she tried to avoid me ; but, drawing her arm in mine, I led her to tho pretty summer house and said: " 'Blanche. I love you ! Do you I love me in return ? "She hid her face against my breast and whispered : ' Oh, so much!' "Three months aftoi wards wo were married, and I never hear a window rattlo without thinking of the warn j ing it twice gave me, being the means ! ing me a lovely and loving A'ife. j 'This, gentlemen, is a true story, 1 oiishli wif liAnt ju l iu huUUi fear, for the names I have given you are fictitious, it not being necessary to give tho true names." Such was my fellow-passenger's i l t ii i j ; not met since, bu being reminded of his story by a rat thng window, I have j endeavored to give it just as ho told I rt' Bftmes and . No Fence Law. A prominent fanner of Halifax county has written the following com munication to tho Raleigh News and Observer in regard to the no-fence law: " Suppose the land you till shall all i lie in squares, so as to tiiko tho leat ; possibl e amount of fencing, and you ! fence in a ten acre lot ; this requires i one-half mile of fencing : if it be a ! same will cost from twenty to forty dollars per mil (in addition to the splitting of the rails), owing to the distance the rails have to be hauled. Placing tho estimate at the lowest rate, wo have sixty dollars per mile, or thirty dollars for each ten acres fenced , that is to say, three dollars per acre. Each year tho fenco must be repaired. I now refer to a legal fonce. In building fences five feet high they are more easily pushed or blown over. This is a constant item of expense. Your neighbor, whose lands are assessed lower, but who asks just as much per acre for his land as you do, is not compelled to fence his untillod land at all. The law relieves him and adds to you. How 1 If his lands were producing thore would be more wealth, thereby decreasing your rate of taxation, and if his lands were tilled they would be assessed as high as yours, again lessening your rate of taxation. It stops not here. Penalties are attach ed. A renter on the lands of Mr. A farms ten acres with a steer. He will keep twTo or three head of cattle, and not "less than six or eight hogs. He pastures out. His half-starved stock break in on you all the year, but par ticularly after his " crop "'. is laid by. If your fence at any point aroimd your enclosure (perhaps a fence three or four miles long, often,) is found to be less than sixty inches high, you have not a lawful fence, and if your crop is destroyed you cannot recover one cent in damages; if his half-starved stock gorge themselves and die, he can recover damages from you. If thre is any justice in this I would like some one to show wherein. If the State can show the justice of making Mr. A build a fence sixty inches high around his land that brings to the State a revenue by cul t'.vation, an additional revenue be cause it is assessed higher than un opened land owned by Mr. B, besides giving employment to laborers, I should take it as a favor if it were done. If the State can say you must build a legal fence to keep out stock owned by men who pay little or no tax (at least seventy-five per cent, do not pay as much tax as it would cost to fence one acre,) if the State cau say fire feet, why not ten feet ? Why not say, to add to tho wealth of the State, j'ou must erect iron fences ; they may be costly, but they are du rable. The State has inexhaustible fields of iron and coal, and if iron fences are used manufacturing will spring up in our midst. Suppose, too, we go one step further, and say there shall none be used unless made from iron ore mined in this State. The State arrogates to itself that it is its duty to protect men in doing that which is morally and legally wrong. It protects a large class of its citizeus by legalizing theft, and then in holy horror wonders why the negroes will steal. The State protects the.n in it. If A buys land, pays for it, pays his taxes on it, all are agreed that it is his. The State says by legal en actments, post your land, Mr. A. Trespass is wrong. The State does not pretend to make it wrong because of its enactments, but we enact for your protection laws, so that when the wrong is done the offender can be punished, and we limit the amount of fine or punishment. No man, if you object, has even the right to walk over your lands, but you must fence against his stock full five feet. No man can fence against "slip gaps," and it's hard to fence against the " vest pocket series " of pigs that we have here. The State further provides that if a man enter upon your lands and cut down any tree growing there on, it is a trespass, a misdemeanor; if he romove the timber so cut, he is guilty of larcency. The two acts' just referred to show that tho State concedes that the land of each indi vidual owner must be protected, and yet the present fenco law leads not to protection but to ravages. If it is illegal for mo to enter upon your premises aud cut growing timber, is J it not equally illegal for me to cut and remove grasses found growing! thereon '? Will not tho constant pil fering of tho forage that right fully belongs to you impoverish your lands j making you poorer ? If so, is it right, j morally or legally ? Can a law be just or constitutional that imposes burdens on one citizen and relieves another? Does a legal enactment that gives you the legal right under the law the privilege to destroy my lands by running a horde of btock on them year after year make it right or just, or is it honorable for you to do so ? If you have no right to trespass on my lands, how is it your stock has? If you have no right to cut and ap propriate my timber, how is it you have the right to appropi iato my pastures ? If it is a trespass, a misde meanor, or larceny in one case, how is it that it is not in the other ? No man has the right to keep or make a nuisance. No one has the right to keep stock that are a nuisance j to his neighbor. No man has the j right to keep stock that he does not I provide for. No man has any right to expect his neighbor to furnish pas ture, thus dejileting his lands with ! out compensation. Lot tho present Jaw be swopt from our statutes. Let us have a law that will aid the farmer and not curse his labors. Make it illegal for stock to trespass, just as the law makes it illegal for their owners to do so. If stock is found running at large, and damage a crop, let the cattle be held for the damages. Add to the school fund by charging against the cattle so much per head for each time they are found on the lands of others. More than half of the States have this law now in force. It may be said that in some sections there are large bodies of Stato or public lands, and that these could not bo pastured if a fence law were passed. There are individuals that would be affected to their detriment by a no fence law, but because there are a few, shall the State oppress the many? United States statistics show that ouv fences cost more than twice as much as all our stock is worth. This is evidence sufficient. There could easily be made exceptions in favor of Stato or pubhc lands, so as to give those living near all the ad vantage they now enjoy. As to pri vate lands, no man ought to ask the Stato for protection in taking what he knows is not his own. If the owner is willing for you to pasture your stock on his lands, he would al low you to pasture just as soon after the passage of a 'no fence law' as now. Without his permission, you have no moral right to do so at any time." Cure for Cramp. Thoso of our readers who ever suf fer from cramp, and also those who do not, ought to read the following that we copy from the Elizabeth City Economist : "Kind reader, gen tie reader, readers of all kinds, did you evei encounter a cramp. It is always a most unwel come visitant. Iu tenacity it is a con centrated bull dog, without a bull dog's openness. When it takes hold it can not be beat off. No kind coax ing relaxes its grip. It has all the slyness of a cat with all the voracity of a dog. Its objective points of at tack are the calf of the limb and the thigh of the limb. It will unman the stoutest heart and most intrepid reso lution. Humble resignation will not tame its ferocity, strenuous effort will not dislodge it, ignoble flight cannot escape it. But nature is al ways a kind restorer and stands ever ready to relieve those whom it chas tcneth. Simple in its operation, quiet in its work, slow but steady, tardy but sure, and ever impatient of interference, nature works its way and furnishes its remedies as needed from the abundant resources of its own nat ural materia medica. In the wko and beneficent . arrangements of nature, man's intricate machinery is automat ic in its restorative power. This is the general rule as to the ills that flesh is heir to. But general rules are strengthened by exceptions. Cramp is the exception. A man with a cramp in the caf of his limb, or (shall I say it) in the thigh of your leg, is deserted of nature and left alono to fight it out in the dark as best he can. Ho is worse off than the graphic picture of a strong man struggling in a morass where fach step sinks him deeper. But while nature has failed to furnish the hu man machinery with the internal cor rective of this dread scourge ; fortu nately, oh most fortunately, she has scattered all around us the raw ma terial of a specific for the malady. Cotton is King, and a cotton string is king of the cramp. We feel that we have discharged a great philanthrop ic duty to humanity in making this disclosure. We have wrestled with cramp, lo ! these many years. We have lost sleep for it. We sometimes violated the decalogue for it. We have appealed in vain to the groat store house of tho vis medieatrix na ture for relief. It has always been the skeleton at our bedside And now, after long years of painful endurance and philosophic resignation, relief has at length como in the shapo of a sim ple cotton string of nine strands. Turn not up your noses ye stiff neck ed and proud' meu. Toss not away your giddy heads, ye incredulous maidens. Its true, Chauncy Mee kins, of Roanoke Island, told us of it last week Wre doubted. Measuring great suffering by sturdy remedies, and knowing that a cotton string was not commensurate with one big wrestle with a cramp extending from tho tip of your toe to tho socket of the femoral artery ; we disbelieved. But knowing is believing, and we be lieve it now. For three happy weeks we have known no cramp. We are fortified against it by a nine ply cot ton string tied between the kneo and the calf of the limb. Try it, and bless J. C. Meekins." HUMOROUS. Even if a boy is always whistling"I want to be an angel," it is just as well to keep the preserved pears on the top shelf. Floe asks: Does time fly? Yes; and fly time has also flow. Wo know jut when the last fly flew, Floe. Kokomo Tribune. A Connecticut four-year old, spy ing thi gray hairs on her mother's head, said: "Oh, mamma, youvo got a lot of basting-thread in your head." Professor: "Mr. M., what is tho answer to the second question ?" Mr. M. (after waiting in vain to be prompted): "Nobody seems to know, pro fessor." College Mercury. The Now Haven Register has as certained that we breathe 588 differ ent species of orgunic form into our lungs with every breath, besides suck ing a peanut shuck into tho wind pipe occasionally. Wo havej'eceived a work entitled "The Importance of Style in Pen manship." Wre shall, in the future, wear kid gloves, a white cravat and a silk hat, while engaged in writing. Keoluck Gate City. A "young naturalist" writes us to learn "how he can catch a liva wasp, for scientific purposes, without injur ing it,?' Right by the tail, son; right by the tip end of the tail. Squeeze hard, the wasp won't mind it a par ticle, and if it seems to be injured any that you can see, send us the bill and we'll pay for a new wasp. 'Bur lington Hawk eye. At breakfast a remarkably light omelette souffle is served, at a mo ment when every one is engaged in a deeply-interesting conversation. The omelette is neglected and begins to settlo down from its appetizing airiness, to the enormous disgust of the little daughter of the house, who exclaims ; "Oh ma, do hurry ! Tho omelette ia eating itself." The baker's cart was standing by the door, minus the baktr. Little cherub climbed up, and, looking into the boxes, feasted her eyes on cookies and jumbles innumerable. "Oh I I'se a god mind to take a cookie." "But that would be vory wrong," said nurse, reprovingly. "The baker won't see me." "But God will," sol emnly. "I know; but he'll never tell the baker !" A little girl in Belfast. Me., recent ly dropped her doll and broke its arm. The doll was a favorite one, anil tho accident was to the child a c damity of the severest nature. The tears started, the little lips were trembling with grief, when a bright thought struck her. With a beam ing lace she exclaimed : "Papa, I don't know as I care, after all. Pec haps it .will be put in the paper." Natnral objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, at tracts, delights, merely because it is nature. State Xtffews. Kinston Journal : Col. J. T. Whitford of Jones county has a pear of this year's growth that weighs one pound and nine ounces. Tarboro Southerner : Luke Tanna hill, a colored cropper on the planta. tion of Dr. Jos. H. Baker, made 25 bales of cotton to one horso. Goldsboro' Messenger : A negro was found dead on Sunday morning about half milo below Mt. Olive. We learn he had been at the village the evening before, and had drank to an excess. Ashboro' Courier : Sheriff Moflitt informs us that tho new Factory of the Enterprise MTg Co. has started and is now in full blast doing good work and giving entire satiskction to its energetic proprietors. This Factory is the lowest on the river, being situated about 5 miles below the Columbia Factory and near est and most convenient to the great ootton belt of country. Warronton Gatette : Mr. Walter Parker, who has recently returned from a business trip to Nash and Edgecombe, tells us of good crops and bright prospects for the fafber. Turner Battle, Esq., has picked . six hundred bales from as mauy acres. Mr. Ellias Carr made seventeen bags to the horse. A Mr. Everit, of Nash, has picked twenty-two bales to the horso, and will get moro. Mr. Par ker says this is no exaggeration, and the figures are accurate. The farm ers in that section have already raked up thousands of loads of compost in fence corners, and will bo ready in time for the new crop. Goldsboro' Messenger : A sad sui cide occurred at Mouut Olive, ia this county, Thursday morning ot last week. Mr. Willie Southall, son of that excellent citizen of Duplin county, Geo. A. Southall, Esq., pro prietor of the Hotel at Magnolia, de liberately shot biinsef in the fore head with a pistol, killing himself in stautly. Decased was only 23 years of age, aud had for some months been employed by the Singer Sewing Maehine Company. He had driven into town with his machine wagon only a few minutes before the sad af fair and appeared to bo perfectly calm and in his senses. Financial embarrassment is supposed to have induced him to so tragical ending of his career while on the very thres hold of useful manhood.' Charlotte Observer : About 5 o' clock day before yesterday afternoon whilo tho South bound pa&senger traiu was approaching Groenville, S. C. at the rate of fiftymiles an hour, a figure on horseback was seen by the engineer attempting to cross tho road. It was but twenty-five yards ahead, and in an instant-before the lever could bo reversed the horse was struck dead and thrown of! the track Tho rider disappeared. When tho train was stopped ho was found on the pilot, still in the saddle, stone dead. He was an old man, gray haired, and was afterwards recogniz ed as George Martin, a respectable citizen of Greenville county. When they had removed his body and were examining it, a string was found around his neck to which was at attached the neck of a stone jug. Small as it was, the fragment emit ted an unmistakable odor of whiskey, and, those who were there and saw the whole occurrence had no doubt as to tho cause of his reckless attempt to cros3 tho track with its fatal con sequences. Monroe Express : Mr. and Mr. William Missy, of Matthews, with two small children, were returning from a visit to relatives in South Carolina, and when some Fcven miles south of this place Mr. Massey got out of the buggy to walk, being very cold. Shortly afterward the horse became frightened and started to run. Mr. Massey caught the bridle rein, but thi3 broke aud he fell, the buggy passing over him. After run ning for something near a mile Mrs. Massy, who was holding the lines; was thrown out and the horse was now free from any restraint, and the children were aluno in the buggy. Fortunately for them they crawled under one of the seats and horse kept the road. They were thus saved from harm. After running some three miles the horso was stopped by Mr. Amos Helms. No one was seriously hurt except Mrs. Massy, who receiv ed by her fall a severe cut over hejr left eye and an injured ankle. Elizabeth City Economist : An old mau of seventy years passed through this place Thursday of last week, on his way to Edenton ; from which place he ran away, a bound boy, fifty seven years ago. When he ran away from Edenton, he found his way to Long Island, where ho has since lived and prospered. The old in stinct of going home to roost, "like young chickens" has prompted him in his old age to revisit the old place from which he went a penniless boy, mere than a half century ago. Alas:! ho returns, full of the excitement of old memories: to find none living to greet his coming and to offer .con gratulation upon the worldly bless ing that fortune had in keeping for the vagrant boy. He will walk amid a living solitude, over the graves of all who knew him, and the few voiced less vestiges that remain to assure his identity, will utter to his mourn ful heart but one sad language. Gone, gone, all gone !