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i3& Ohntham Record. JSf If Of V H. A. LONDON, Jr , kditou ami rnorKiKTun. OF ADVERTISING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: oii.M - i v. noi;ir, .po tin'-o'.v ,siv ni'iiiilis . - - - .. 1.00 luo uipj", tliivc mouth.. - .50 One square, ono Insertion, One square, two Insertions,- Ono square, onu mouth, 11.00 1.50 VOL. III. NO. 24. PITTSBORO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, FEBRUARY 24, 1881. H. A. LONDON, Jr., Editor and ftMisfeer. For larger adrcrtiscuients liberal contracts will u sf III rl II Where Is Yesterday! Mother, some things I want to know,' Which puzzle and contuse me bo. To-day is prewnt, as you say; But tell uio, where is yeoterJay? I did not see it as it went ; I only know how it was spent In piny and plenuro, though in rain; Tbeu why won't it come back again T "To-dtty the sun whines bright and clear; But then to-morrow's drawing near. To-day -oh, do not go away! Aud v anish like dear yesterday. " Tis whon the sun and all the light Has Koue, and darkness brings (he night, It seems to mo you Mini away And change your ntuno to ye3terday "And will all time be just the same? To-day the only name remain? And shall I aNays huvo to say, To-morrow you'll bo yesterday ? " 1 wonder, when we go to heaven, II there a record will be given 01 all our thoughts and all our ways Writ on the laco of yesterdays ? 14 II so, I pray (Jod grant to me That mine a noble lile maybe; For then I'll greet with joyous gaze The dear loot faoo ol yesterdays. A DUEL OR A WEDDING. I nm an ardt-ut admirer of female beauty. I ought to have bi en an artist or a sculptor but I am neither. I was bookkeeper lor Brown & Co., wholesale dealers in hides and tallow. Henry Bower, a young man ot very lively dis position, was employed in the same office. We boarded and roomed to gether. One night Henry and 1 attended one of the lyceum lectures in VV . We had hardly been in the hall five minutes before my attention was fixed upon one of the ladies upon the Iront seat. She was a little to the rieht of me, but as cue was talking very earnestly to the lady next to her, her face was turned toward us; and susceptible as I am, I could not but be impressed with the beauty of it. Indeed, I couldn't withdraw my gaze rrom 'the beautiful young lady beiore me. She had golden hair, and her bluest of eyes swum full of love and sweet ness. Her nose was small and straight, and she had just the prettiest dimple among the blushes on either cheek. And then such a mouth! What red lips! teeth of lesirl, Hushing between the roses. Her forehead was smooth and broad, and her neck, I saw, as the fur cape drooped low on her shoulders, was white as alabaster, and smooth as n ar ble. In brief, I did not hear a word of the lecture. A month passed without my seeing anything of the beautiful stranger. But about that time I received an invitation to visit my friend Mrs. Segard in M . She is a widow of forty, and is the mother of a certain Miss Seward, familiarly called Clara. I knew that Mrs. Sogard had tried to bring about a marriage between Clara and myself, and 1 believe I was not much opposed to the match. Clara was a good girl, every body said ; a very pretty brunette, with flashing black eyes and hair, but he r form was short, thick and dowdish. I admire a handsome form quite as much as a handsome face. I might have married her I really think I should, but for a little affair which happened at IT. The morning I started for M , Bow ers accompanied me to the depot. While I was buying my ticket I noticed an other gentleman come into the waiting room. My first thought was that it was my shadow that I saw before me. He was about , ruy height, had a light complexion like mine, and eyes of crizzly gray, and one of them turned in, just like mine. He had on a tall silk hat, tipped on one side of his sandy locks, ind so did I; and furthermore, be carried iu his band a small carpet bag, with a tag marked "J. McD.?'tied to the straps. So did I. I looked at him, and he returned the compliment. "1 say, sir," said the stranger, look ing down at the carpet bag that I held, and examining the tag, 44 are you John McDolan, or ami?" "My name is McDougal . I hope you arc an honett man, lor you see if you should happen to rob a bank, forge a note, pick a pocket, or cut someljodyV jugular, I might have to Buffer, perhaps swing for it." " I cangive you reference as to my character," 1 answered. 44 Yes, that's very good. But, Mr. McDougal, which way are you going?" " Down. Ibave bought my ticket." " Then I'm going up. I don't think we'd best travel together. There's the train starting now. Good-bye, Mr. McDougal, I wish you success, and for my sake don't spoil your character." To get to M , which, by the way, is a rather out-of-the-way place, a small, one-horse- town, with one tavrrn, two churches and a poorhousc, I had to leave the cars at T . and then take a private conveyance to M , five miles distant. I could have gone by the stage, but that only leaves U once a day, at five o'clock in the morning. So when the cars stopped at U I took my carpet-bag in.my hand, and got out upon the platform. Th re was quite a large number of people at the statioa, but I took no notice of any of them, except a tall, brawny man, in a brown overcoat and slouched hat, who started for me as soon as I stepped off the cars. I was about to move away, when the slouched hat laid bis hand heavily on shoulder. You're a villain I" "Sir?" I repeat it you're a villain!" " A miserable scamp 1" said a corpulent gentleman, coming forward and scowling fiercely. Now, I felt that I was a match for the latter, but as to the other one, I didn't doubt but what he might work me up into shoe strings in less than three min utes Will you explain yourselves, gen tlemen?" I asked, trying to smile. 44 Yes, I will," answered the big one, putting great stress on the will." "Certainly," growled the corpulent gentleman, with a grim smile. " Come this way, you rascal !" said the tall one, drawing me along with him. His companion followed us out back of the station, where we were out of Bight and hearing of the rest of U ' Now," said the tall gentleman, turn ing and confronting me, ' I'll introduce myself. I am Captain Augustus Boy ton. This gentleman is my father, John Boy ton. Do you know us now ?" 44 Well, really," I replied, wondering in my own mind what the deuce was toming; 44 really, I don't know any hing more about you than what you've just told." 44 Hush!" said the captain; and he bent down and hissed in my ear, 44 1 am Carrie Boyton's brother." 44 And I am her father," growled John Boy ton. 14 Ah, really, do you say so! " I could not help smiling, the whole affair seemed so ludicrous. 44 Give my re gards to Carrie." 44 Ha! you laugn at us, do you, vil lain P " cried the captain. 44 Look 'ere," said he, lowering his voice to a horrid whisper . " Look at these." I did look; for just then he drjew from the pocket of his brown overcoit a handsome case, and opening it, displayed a pair of splendid silver-mounted duel ing pistols- 44 Take your choice." A cold tremor ran through my frame. Was I to be murdered? 44 Choose quick," urged the captain. 44 Sir," said I, in a tremulous voice, while the cold drops of perspiration stood out upon my brow, 44 there mu must be so-me mis-take. I'm book keeper for Brown & Co., dealers in hides and tallow. My father was Norton McDougal, my mother was Mary Mc Dougal, my grandfather was " 44 Confound your grandfather! Either marry my sister as you promised to do a month ago, or take one of these pistols and " "Oh! help!" 44 Dry up, you whelp," and the cap tain clapped ihis broad hand over my mouth. Choose quick, youngster," said the oldet Bo$ n ton. 44 1 won't fight," I cried. 44 Then marry my sister, or we'll drag you through the mill pond." It was hopeless for me to remonstrate. I could not convince the enraged father and son that I was not the villain Mc Dolan. I dared not cry for help. What should I do? Marry a woman whom I never saw before, whom I knew nothing about? I had little time to consider. Life was sweet to me, a ducking was disagreeable, and as to a duel I should have been a dead man at the first shot. ''Choose," said the captain, giving me a kick with his boot. "I'll mar marry her." "All right." And the captain smiled grimly as he returned the pistol to the case. The elder Mr. Boy ton went atter the carriage; but before I had ceased to trembie he returned. i he captain helped me in, and then seated between the chivalric father and son, I rode away. There were plenty of people on the street; but I was warned not to shout, if I knew what was healthy for me. We rode at a smart trot for about two miles I should think; and then the cap lain drew rein before a large two-story whiie bouse, that stood near the road, surrounded by a high white fence. There was a gravel walk up to the front door, and several large cherry trees stood in the front yard. 44 Here we are," said the captain, get ting down, and motioning me to follow. The door opened jurt; as we reached it, and who should fall into my arms but the identical young lady who had made such a strorg impression upon my heart the night ot th lecture in W . 44 Oh, John! I knew you would be true," she cried ; and the captain snick- ere a as he led the way into the parlor. But once there 1 succeeded in convinc ing Miss Boy ton that I was not Mc Dolan. Her father apologized, and so did the captain and the upshot of all was that I consented to stop over night with them, and I am happy to state that I passed a very pleasant evening indeed. I learned, too, that this John McDo lan, for whom I had been taken, was a gentleman of wealth and leisure, with only one fault, and that was promising to mrirry every pretty woman that he became acquainted with Then I told my story, and both Mr. Boy ton and the captain seemed pleased, and so did Car rie, especially when I offered to stand in McDolan's Shoes. And well, my dear reader, I did about a month after ward. We had a great wedding, and Clara Secard wa? one of the bride- maids, and Henry Bower was grooms man. And I am very well satisfied that McDolan took the up train instead of the down. In a war of words the dictionary gets the best of it. AN OUTLAW'S LIFE. Career and Eml of a rioted Defc- perado. There died a day or two ago since at Peach Orchard, Clay county, Arkansas, a man who was by odds the most daring desperado that ever lived. He was known and dreaded all over the South- western border, where the news of his death will.be received with general satisfaction. His name was . A. Gray, but he was familiarly known as Kete" Gray. His deeds would fill a volume, and his history is full of romance and mystery. He was born in Tennes see, where his parents, wealthy and re spectable people, are yet living, At an early age he developed wayward pro pensities, and many there wete who sagely predicted that he 44 would fetch up on the gallows." When only eighteen he fell in love with the daughter of a Baptist deacon by the name of Mary Wells, a gentle, lovely, flaxen-haired, blue-eyed girl, who loved him in return. But her father was obdurate. 44 Mary should not wed the young ruffian," he said. Coercion was resorted to, but locks and bars failed to change the young girl's fancy. She regained true to her first and only love. The trouble which it brought her, however the knowledge that it had estranged her frcm her parents- told upon her health, and she slowly faded away. Yet she would not cunsent to give him up. Perhaps the dream was sweet to her even in affliction ; at any rate, she hugged love's chains more tightly than ever. But the color faded from her checks; her eyes shone with unearthly luster; her step lost its elas ticity; and without a murmur she went to the grave, dying, as the neighbors affirm, of a broken he irt. Perhaps, had she lived and become Gray's wife, her influence miht have saved him, for after her death he grew utterly reckless. Yet his grief at hci loss was profound. We were shown ai onscure paper published m the neighborhood at the time of the occur rence, and in it noticed a tew stanzas Gray had written upon her death. One passage read thus : Can I forget those halcyon days .Lre my trui'lm" slur lml t'u l? Or the poimint pain which smote my lieurt Wlieu thy told iuu thou weri detid? showing that there were traces ot poetic genius mingled with his way ward nature. After this event, how ever, he went from bad to worse. His parents made every ffort to save him, but, at last, even they were compelled to turn their backs upon him and leave him to his fate. Wherever he went he stirred up strife; wherever he went he left the stains of blood. At last the country in the neighborhood of his old home became too hot to hold him. He had shot and dangerously wounded a score of men, and carried his lite in his hand. In addition, warrants were out for his arrest, hence he decided to seek other fields, and came to Arkansas, lie inaugurated his advent into the State with the murder of Fayette Fletcher, at Walnut Ridge. His victim was re spectable and highly connected, and the murder was unprovoked and cold blooded. It created intense excitement, not only in the neighborhood, but all over the commonweattn. it was thought that Gray would hang; but to the surprise of every one, he succeeded in cheating the gnllows, and after a brief term ol imprisonment was set free. But public opinion ran high against him, and he fled from the State going to the Indian Territory. Amid the wild and lawless people of the border he was in his element. Here he was joined by another ruffian, 44 Comanche Jim who was almost as bad as himself Together they inaugurated a carnival of blood and set the law at defiance, openly boasting that there was not an officer in the Territory who dared lay a finger upon them. While dividing some plunder the two men quarreled, and each swore that he would have the other's life. The dis pute was settled by an agreement to fight a duel. Arming themselves with derringers, they measured oft the ground upon a lonely spot of the prairie, and stood facing each other just as the sun disappeared beneath the western hor izon and the shadows of night fell slowly upon the landscape. When the word 44 Fire !" was pronounced Gray sent a bullet crushing through the brain of 44 Comanche Jim.1 who fell on the earth and died without a struggle or without a word. Gray had escaped without a scratch . Fearing the vengeance of the friends of the man he had slain he fled from the spot, and never halted until in Ar kansas, miles away from the scese of the tragedy. Perhaps the thought of the rigid, blood-stained race lying prone on the prairie acted as a stimulus and forced him to put all forcible distance between that ghastly object and himself. Be this as it may, it is cei tain that it did not change him. In Little River county he was arrested, but while in the court room and while his preliminary exam ination was in progress, he snatched a pistol from one o his captors, shot and dangerously wounded the sheriff, jumped through a window and escaped, though the town was full ot people. Heavy rewards were offered, yet none of them secured his recapture. In an affray with a man named Alexander Chenowcth, at Peach Orchard, in Clay county, he met his doom, as he was mortally wounded in the encounter. Chenoweth was also badly wounded. Gray lived six days. Skillful physicians attended him, hoping to save his life so that he could be brought to trial and jjunished for bid many crimes. Gray told them he never meant to die with his Jxwts on. 44 You are getting better, Gray," said the doc tor, noticing what he 'thought to be a favorable change in his condition. Doctor," Gray responded, 44 1 wasn't born to be hung iiko a thief!" With these words he turned his face to the wall.and soul and body parted. Chicago limes. The Western Metropolis. A summarized statement of the busi ness done in Chicago during 1833 shows the following : Hundreds of new indus tries have been established, and thou sands of dwellings and business houses erected. Manufactures have in some cases more than doubled in value and amount. Bank clearings have increased over last year, which was the heaviest in the history of the city, by $330,000,000, the total for the year being $1,693,000,- 000, and the banks give a flourishing financial exhibit. But the chief increase is in the trade. There have been re ceived at.the elevators, of grain, 161,000, 000 bushels, against 133,000,000 in 187'J, and 60,000,000 in 1870. The increase of this year over last is in corn and oats, the other cereals showing a falling off, owing to the corner of 1879, which brought out heavy quantities of old grain. In 1879 the receipts were 3,370,000 barrels of flour, 34,000,000 bushels of wheat, 64,000,000 bushels of corn, 17, 000,000 bushels of oats, 7,000,000 bushels of rye and barley. This year the re ceipts were 3,000,000 barrels of flour, 23,000,000 bushels of wheat, 75,000,000 bushels of corn, 22,000,000 bushels of oats, 7,000,000 bushels of rye and barley. The shipments this .year were 156,000, 000 bushels; last year, 126,000,000. The prospect for the winter and spring is the brightest possible tor a continuation of the increase in the trade of cereals, as well as for a general business revival. In nearly every other commodity dealt in on 'Change there has been a marked increase in the amount and in the price paid. Thus, there were 52,000,000 pounds of grass seed against 46,000,000 in 1879. There were 188,000,000 pounds of flax seed, against 118,000,000 ; 65.000.00U pounds of butter, against 54,000,000; 68,000,000 pounds of hides, against 54, 000,000. In the provision trade there has been a forward stride for the year. Ending November 1, 1880, 5,375,000 hogs were slaughtered here, against 5,( 89,000 in 1879, and this in the face of serious labor disturbances lasting through the better part of the packing season. The average dai ly capacity of the packing houses i3 100,000 hogs. Ths business has all grown up since 1853, when the first hogs were slaughtered here to the number of 22,000. The aggre gate weight of this year's killing was 1,100,000,000 pounds, valued at $02,000, 000, an increase of $20,OOj,000 over the hog crop of 1879 Receipts 7,000,000 hogs, 1,351,000 cattle and 329,000 sheep. Shipnients-860,000 cattle and 1,380,000 hogs. Census Figures. jne census returns show that our aggregate population has advanced from 38,555,983 in 1870 to 50,160,000, in round numbers. The number of States having over a million inhabitants has risen from 15 to 19, but there is no change in the relative position of the first eight, which are New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Massa chusetts and Kentucky. Iowa has risen from eleventh place to ninth, Michigan from thirteenth to tenth, Texas frois nineteenth to eleventh, Georgia has dropped from twelfth to thirteenth, Virginia from tenth to four teenth, Nortii Carolina from fourteenth to fifteenth, Wisconsin from fifteenth to sixteenth. The four States that have passed the million line in the ten years are Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and New Jersey. The number of cities having more than 30,000 inhabitants has increased from thirty-six to sixty-four. The number having over 100,000 is twenty against fourteen in 1870. New York, Philadelphia and Brooklyn hold their relative position at the head. Chicago has risen from fifth place to fourth, and St. Louis has fallen from fourth to sixth. Boston has come up from seventh to fifth, and Baltimore has dropped from sixth to seventh. Cincinnati continues to hold the eighth position, and San Francisqp takes the ninth, crowding New Orleans from that to the tenth. Those which have passed the 100,000 line in the ten years are Cleveland, Pittsburg, Jersey City, Detroit. Milwaukee and Providence. Swiss Criminal Laws. The criminal and prison systems of "Switzerland are as diverse as the can tons of which the Confederation is corn- nosed. Within the very wide limits laid down by the Federal constitution every canton is a law to itself. While in Geneva the utmost punishment awarded to murder is twelve years' se clusion, the penalty for the same crime in Zurich is imprisonment for iife,and in Zug death by decapitation. In Schwytz, the most primitive of the primitive can tons, which recently, like Zug, has re established capital punishment, the only jail is an old farmhouse, where prisoners are placed is charge of a rural policeman and an aged man, the latter oi wnom accompanies mem ou pngim ages.takes them for walks in the country, and trusts to their honor not to run away. The canton most in advance in these matters is probably Vandl whose reformatories and penitentiaries might well serve as a model for neigh boring States. A IUYEK OF FIRE. Volcanic Itruutloii In Ilawnll-Tlknndar- Init ISiploHlons White Hot llocka and Flowing Klame The Hawaii Gazette gives an account of an eruption of the volcano of Manna Loa, exceeding in violence any ever be fore known on the island. The grand outburst of fire is described as follows; It broke out about 7 p. h. on Friday, about six miles north of the summit crater of Mokuaweoweo on Manua Loa, and flowed down the elevated plateau lying between Mauna Loa and Kea, sending out two branches, one from near its source toward the old crater of Rilauea, and another branch further down, tending toward the east. On Wednesday the flow could be seen distinctly from Hilo winding its way toward Puna, with a small branch stream running toward Hilo. The stream running toward Puna was about thirty miles in length, and from 100 to 200 yards in width, with a depth of about twenty feet. A correspondent of the Gazelle accompanied a party to view the grand sight, and they climbed the mountain side Soon, he says, as the fog gradually cleared off the sides of the mountain, we saw a tremendous river of fire pouring down the steep sides. We could see it distinctly down the slope, till it ran into the fog bank, which had settled like a huge snow bed all over the lowlands. The fire was an intense white light and was running furiously downward. They then went toward Puna to see the molten river by night, and, he adds, the moon set, and still it was light enough to see to read. Away above us in the heavens shone the brilliant fountain head, and thence to the end was a con tinuous stream of liquid lava. There lay a river of fire beneath us at least thirty miles long, every inch of which was one bright rolling tide oi fire. There was not a stogie break in the whole length. The whole front edge, being about three-fourths of a mile wide, was a most intensely brilliant light, and as it slowly advanced and rolled over the small trees and scrub, bright flames would flash up and die out along the whole edge . Then there were giant ex plosions, vast and terrible, as if the earth was being shattered by earthquakes, and all at once a huge dome of molten lava was thrown up about half way up the mountain side, and continue i to flow over like an immense fountain. The next day the party crossed the old lava beds for bout 1,000 feet. Nottwentv feet distant was the immense bed of lava slowly moving forward with irresistible force, bearing on its surface huge rocks and immense boulders oi tons weight. The whole front c'ge was one bright red mass of solid rock incessantly break ing off from the towering mass and roll ing down to the foot of it, to be again covered up by another avalanche of white-hot rocks and sand. The mass was at its front edge from twelve to thirty feet in height. Along the line oi its advance it was one crash of rolling. sliding, tumbling red-hot rock. We could see no fire or liquid lava at all, but the whole advance line of red-hot stones and scoria. There were no ex plosions while we were near the flow, only a tremendous roaring like ten thousand blast furnaces all at work at once. Some tears of the safety of Hilo arc still entertained, but the flow seems turning in another direction. A correspondent of the Honolulu Press, writing from Hilo, says: The sight on Saturday was indescribably grand. All day, vMi or without the glass, our eyes were turned toward th mountain. A fountain of liquid lava w;.9 pouring up from the summit line of Mauna Loa. Two fiery streams were distinctly visible coursing down its side, one toward Mauna Kea, the other nearer Hilo At night the sky was a glare of light that made objects distinctly visible in the streets and in our rooms. Wednes day night the sight of the mountain was most glorious. The broken clouds lying around the summit sides were irradiate'4 and shone in wonderful splendor. The force of the eruption seems now dixnin ishing. A Railroad on lee. A railroad is to be built on ice in Rus sia. Cronstadtis five miles from the coast, and eighteen from the capital. In the summer communication is easily and cheaply maintained by means of steamers, but when the Gulf of Finland becomes coated with ice, Cronsladt has to depend for transport to and from the island upon a number of rough little sledges, never trustworthy and always dear. The inconvenience of this y tern has led the Baltic railway company to obtain permission of the government to throw a light line of rails across the ice to the island. The undertaking wil not be beset with any serious obstacles, and it is believed that it can be successfully accomplished in eight or nine days. As soon as the ice is re ported sufficiently strong by the engi neers, gangs of laborers will proceed to lay down sleepers on the flat frozen sur face, freezing them into position by means of a few buckets of water. The rails will then be fixed on, and light trains will convey -passengers and goods direct to their destination. The only real difficulty about the enterprise is the ability of the ice to support heavy weights, but as it is rarely less than yard thick in this quarter of the Gulf of Finland, and is supported at intervals by sandbanks, the engineers themselves anticipate no trouble on this score. Gathering India Kabbcr in Africa. Having passed fully three years on the southwest coast of Africa, as trader for an English firm, I will endeavor to describe the manner in which india rubber is procured in that country, as india rubber formed the stapie produce cf the district where I was located. The natives are in a very rude, un civilized condition. They have no cur rency, and do all business by bartering the native products for manufactured stuffs. Their wealth consists chiefly in the number of slaves they possess, who fish, hunt and keep their planta tions in good order. When rubber has to be collected from four to ten slaves get their flint muskets in order, each carrying, in addition, a long sword-shaped knife called a ma chete, a number of calabashes or jars to collect the juice of the rubber vine and little food that has been cured in smoke, as they can find plenty of sus tenance in the bush without carrying it about with them from place to place. The vines are in some cases near to the towns, but generally the natives have to go several days' journey into the bush before they can sit down and commence business. The vine itself is of a rough, knotty nature, about as thick as a man's arm, and grows to a length of fullj two hundred feet. Its leaves are glossy, like those of the South American rubber tree, and a large fruit, much liked by the natives, is gathered from it. I have tasted it. and found it very palatable, being slightly acid. This vine (what its scientific name is I don't pretend to know) yields several grades of rubber, each of different commercial value, the best quality being taken from the high est part, and the poorest from the bot tom. With their knives, or machetes, the natives slash the vine in several places, and put broad leaves directly under neath the wounds for the juice to drop on, and which, being of a 6trong, ad hesive nature, none of it gets lost. When the top part of the vine is bled, cala bashes, or jars, are placed with their openings to the wounds, so that none of it may drop on the branches of the tree, and so get lost; but it is not often they trouble themselves climbing, un less the vines happen to be scarce in the vicinity . The entire day they devote to cutting; next day they gather what was cut the day previous, and so on. Each evening, 'after collecting, they put all the juice they have into several iron pots, or earthen vessels of native manu facture, and boil it; at the same time they can greatly improve the lowest quality by adding a little salt, and the more they boil the juice the bet ter it becomes. When sufficiently boiled the water is poured off and the juice is allowed to cool, when it is fash ioned according to the grade ball, flake, mixed, or tongue and is ready for the market. In this way about twenty or thirty pounds a day is generally col lected. It is then taken to the factory. and there exchanged for guns, cloth, rum, etc. When it is received at the factory it is carefully marked, classed, weighed, and put into casks tor ship ment. It contains so much water that twenty per cent, is deducted from the weight of each cask, as that is about the amount of shrinkage on the voyage. This is. however, a loss to the native, as it is deducted from him when selling. This vine, from my personal observa tion, is to be found in the south, but along the coast line it is rapidly becom ing extinct, as the natives arc so careless or rapacious mat in many cases tiiey completely sever the vine, thus killing it, instead of simply bleeding it.- Public Era. Advice to Young1 Husbands. The Rev. C. C. Goss, during a lecture in New i oik on "The Honeymoon, and How to Perpetuate It," said: Look out for your habits, voung man. Don't get into the habit of neglect ing the little courtesies of lite in your home. Just see the young men in a bobtail horse-car sit forward on the edge of the seat, and when a pretty young woman enters the car they watch for the first chance to put her fare in the box. Why don't you watch just as eagerly to wait on vour wife P Again, my young husband, you and your wife must cultivate mutual confidence. Distrust of each other is the bane othuman society everywhere. Of course, you and your wife ought to ho'd different opinions. I was forty years old before 1 married my wife, and I knew a thing or two before I knew her. When we were married we did not empty out our brains and become fools. When she comes to vote I want her to vote on the side opposite to me, because if she votes just as I do what's the use of her voting P She might have just as well voted through me as we do now. But don't fight. Husbands and wives do fight and bite and claw each other, and pull each other's hair, and all about a little thing that they would be ashamed of if tney hadn't got heated. Cultivate the habit of cooling down. Finally, be honest and upright with your wife, young husband. You ought to be honest in courtship, but if you have had an outside for your girl to look at, and you have all the time kept a bit and bridle on your passions only to be a brute after marriage, then you have deceived her. Be as innocent to your wife as though she was a little baby. You wouldn't hurt a baby. Stand up for your wife if any one says anything against her, knock him down. Well, I'll take that back you can knock him down in your own estimation. ITERS OF INTEREST The Lcadville (Col.) product for the . vear will be about $15,000,0091 This will bring down the figures for the State to about $24,000,000. California has now seven legal holi days, Admission day, September 0, hav ing recently been added to the six already existing. The tea crop of India this year is esti mated at 700,000,000 pounds, nearly double the yield of 1878. Ten years ago it was only 14,000,000 pounds. It is letter to praise a man for his vir tues, although they may be few and his faults many, than to condemn him for his faults and forget his virtues. A lioness kept in confinement at the Dublin Zoological gardens was the mother of fifty-four cubs, and she suc ceeded in raising fifty of them . A family never becomes extinct in Japan. If there are no male descend ants, a young son of another family is adopted, and takes the family name. Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, takes a deep interest in M. da Lcsscps' Panama canal scheme, and was ono of tho first to subscribe to tho stock. 44 Money placed in it will reap fortunes," she tells her friends. Mrs. United States Senator Logan superintends her husband's correspond ence, dictating to a stenographer for hours at a time. She also' assists the Bcnator in collecting materials for re ports and addresses. General Garibaldi's health has been entirely restored by his residence on the Genoese coast. He frequently visits the villages along the shore in a canoe or small boat. His friends believe that he will live ten years longer, at least. The bonanza kings of the Comstock mine, oi .Nevada, are assessed as fol lows : James G. Fair, $42,200,000 ; Jas. C. Flood, $36,550,000; J. C. Flood &Co $10,500,000; J. C. Flood & Co., trustees lor John W. Mackey, $21,322,500. A firm at Winnipeg have received in structions from their London agency to make preparations f jr the reception of sixteen Irish families, to be sent out, with a good farming outfit, by the Duch ess of Marlborough, in the spring. In 1611 Holland offered a reward of 5,000 guilders (about $1,(00) for the discovery of that northwest passage which Professor Nordcnsltjold, the Swedish explorer, has at last in our day accomplished. This offer was long for gotten, but it was never recalled ; and it is now probable that Holland will pay the promised reward to the suc cessful explorer, little though he dreamed of the possibility of such com pensation when he started on his entei prise. They fish now by telegraph in Nor way, stations nave been mini aiong; the coast, and during the herring reason which is at its height for about six weeks, a sharp loofcout is kept for shoals. Whcrocr one is sighted word is sent along the line, and tho available fisher men promptly give chase. The old way was for the fishermen to cruise along the shore, trusting to luck or the reports they might hear to come upon the her ring. Wow, every moinmg aunng uie season, the position of the shoals which are watched is noted and posted at the principal telegraphic stations. . POPULAR SCIENCE. Platinum is the heaviest of metals. A series of experiments described in a German chemical journal indicate that the mellowness of old wine is not so much due to a decrease in the propor tion of tannin which it contains as to an increase in the proportion of glycerine. Gold is the most ductile and the most malleable, iron is the most tenacious and titanium the hardest of metals in their native state. Titanium, discovered in 1791, is rare and little used in science or industry. There is no uniformity in metals, as regards weight or specific gravity. While platinum and osmium, which are the heaviest bodies known in nature, are twenty times heavier than water lithiuum, potassium and sodium are lighter. When potatoes are irozen the amount of sugar they contain is doubled, the Btarch undergoing a corresponding dimi nution, while part of the protein passes from the coagulable into the soluble form. During the process of rotting the potato loses halt its nitrogeneous con stituents and the whole of the sugar. By passing air through a fermenting mash E. C. Hansen has observed that the number of yeast cells is increased twice or thrice as much as when no air is bubbled through, and that about twice the quantity is fermented. A constant supply of oxygen is, therefore, very favorable to fermentation. The cable to Europe has enabled geographers to fix definitely and with almost absolute precision the longitude of six places on the eastern coast of South America -Para. Pcrnambuco, Bahia, Bio de Janiero, Montevideo and Buenos Ayres. These observations show that the longitude of the Brazilian coast, as determined by a French expedi tion twenty years ago, was about two thirds of a mile too far east. A Philadelphia man has perfected an invention whereby, sour-kraut can be boiled in the house without any of the inmates smelling it. The invention con sists of a small liver-like pad of lim buiger cheese worn under the nose. m i ; IT M'P SI m lib 4 h :t ft 1 i' .aA Tl '.V, i; 4 '1 I'M ;: - )' ! ' 1 i MM till i1 MM m :tm ' .LA I Mi 'n - 1, ?
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 24, 1881, edition 1
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