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THE WARRENTOH GAZETTE, A DEMOCRATIC WEEKLY FAMILY NEWSPAPER. Rates of Subscription : The Oazittte ia published every Friday on the following terms: ' ra One Oopy, one year. nn six months 1.00 Club Rates: Five Copioe, to one addreja..... . m TERMS INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. THE WABBHROH GAZETTE. Adrertlilm IZmtft (Is Ltjm caTLxas CtyTTtTTt F.T0 ARRENTOI Oa 8rra, eee Ustt-c Oa " rtt'l"0 1"U3-. PM eo taotk, II CO . law Oa lOD'l Oa UmDoOli Uaif eoiuaa. cc yr l"b as?i ixj3tm4 e f a ce at. VOL. VII. WAERENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1879. NO. 21. Gazette. Winter. Who does not love the winter, The hop, the song, the play; The jolly, joyous winter, The j ingling bells and the sleigh ? Who does not love the winter, The white and beautiful snow ; , The gay and festive winter, Where we can pay as we go ? Who does not dread the winter Its misery, cold and gloom tJ The bleak and dreary winter The fireless, comf o'TsSes room ? Who does not hate tne winter, Its frost, itsjM, and its snow ; Mercilesgygfuel winter, Whence can't pay as we go ? to be of that opinion, for they eyed him closely, and for several days treated him with more respect than ia ffenerallv 0 j shown to a common sailor. But after we had rmt to sea an evr.t occurred which shook their faith in his had some recollection of him. I knew nothing of his conversation with Man- ley, and the mate's surmises. All these matters were related to me'aJU rwarJ. Up to this time Johnson' ignorance of seamanshiD had been retraxded with A that the sailors under your command bad just cause of complaint, Oapt, Bunker murmured something ! about the necessity of maintaining dis cipline on board ship ; but, it was ob served that the next time the Endymion respectability. In the morning watch, much leniency, and the mates had taken put to sea she had a new captain. just alter daylight, a raft was discovered some pains to instruct him; but after to leeward with some live object upon his consultation with Mauley, under it. The captain was called, and, after cover of the darkness, a suspicion was examining it through his glass, he gave harbored by the captain and mate that orders to port the helm. . his awkwardness in handling a marline- There is a man there from Hom spike and roUinflr up a too-trallantsail "Hunters" at an Eagllah Show. The show of horse was very largo THE NEW HAND. I had been ashore on liberty at Val paraiso. Oar ship, the Endymion, oi Nantucket, was nearly filled with sper maceti oil, and, as the crew had in pros pect a good swag at the end of the voy age, there was little fear of desertion. That peril had been encountered earlier in the voyage, and several of the crew had made good their retreat, though vigorously hunted, at" the islands and at Payti. The moon was up, and I was walking leisurely on the margin of the wooded valleys back of the town, indulging in such reveries and glowing anticipations of the future as the moonbeams and shadows of foliage engender in the imaginations of those who are still too young to realize that "all is vanity." At length I began to fancy that I was not alone. It seemed to me that I could pereeive a dark body which might be man or animal moving stealthily among the troes and underwool at some distance below. I came to a halt, not caring to be taken by surprise, and endeavored to penetrate the gloom and ascertain whether I was followed or not ; for I had heard many stories of robbery and assassination .in that neighborhood. I had scarcely come to a stand when voice came up from the deep, dark hol low, which sounded like "halloo I " Owing to the niultitudino j 3 echoes which seemed to accompany the hail, it was impossible to determine whether the language was English or Cholar. I had in my hand a stout cudgel, which I fancied might do me good ser vice. I "waited long for the appearano of the speaker, expecting to see hin come crawling np from the thick um brage of the valley ; but I saw nothing till I was startled by a brisk slap on th shoulder, and as I turned to see wh had eo familiarly saluted me, my ear: were greeted with a hearty langh. ' " Ha ! ha 1 you are not so well ac quainted with these dingle and moun tain passes as I am," said the stranger. "I have come upon you unawares. If had been a robber J. wouldvhave hac you foul." " And a precious little you would , have got for jour ains," replxd I, feel ing re-assured by the gentlemanly ap pearance of my interlocutor and by hit mode of address. "You belong to the Endymion?" , queried he. ' "That you may be sure of. My shabby appearance " "Testifies that you are near the end , of a long voyage. What usage do you have on board that ship ?" " I will only say," answered I, "that we are short-handed, the best part of the crew having deserted. We shipped a few beach-combers at Oilm, but they left long ago." " All that implies that your men are dissatisfied with their treatment." , "I cannot deny the justness of your inference." The young gentleman became thoughtful. I wondered at the interest which he took in the subject of our dis course. As we walked along toward the lights in- the shops of Valparaiso, he be became lost in his reflections. At last he seemed to remember that he was not alone, and turning briskly toward me, he said :- j " I take some interest in that ship of ' yours. When do you sail ?" I confessed my ignorance, but told the young man that it was not probable we would Btay long, as port expenses were heavy, and the owners of whale ships were stingy fellows, lie turned again toward me, surveyed t , mo closely, and I thought there was a r queer smile on his visage. i You think so, do you ?". said he, at last. " I have always heard so." "Well, I've not time to investigate r the matter, as I turn" off here, by the calaboose. Good-night." We parted. A few days after this event the cap tain of our ship brought , on board a couple of men whom he had shipped for the remainder of the voyage. One of them wore a neat bine jacket and pants the other looked as if he had slept with "his clothes on among the shavings and sawdust of a carpenter's shop, or he might have been hidden in an oven, like Catherina Alexowna, before she became empress of Russia. As the plight of the latter was what might reasonably have been expected, I took no further notice of him than to perceive that he had a very large and crooked nose; but the spruce appear ,atfce of the former led to the suspicion that he was some officer of a merchant man who had quarreled with his cap tain and deserted. Ouf mates seemed wreck, likely enough," he said. Accordingly we squared the yards and ran down to the raft. It proved to be a man wearing'nothing but a ragged pair of canvas trousers and something that passed for a shirt that is, fragments of I an7 duty, the officers or green baize fluttering in the wind. He I reprimanded him sharply. was assumed, and that be pretended to be a green hand only to divert attention from his schemes. a a Aocoraingiy, wnen jonnson made a mistake, or bungled in the performance the captain He showed wore no hat, but his thickly-matted hair I surprise at this change in their deport- answered all the purposes of one, except that he could not have lifted it in re spectful salute to a mermaid if one had chanced to cross his prow. A few Mother Carey's chickens followed in his wake, and two huge albatrosses wheeled above his head as if half inclined to pounce npon him. We had on board a sailmaker named Baldwin, who had belonged to the navy, and as soon as his eves fell noon the m a i stranger he pronounced the name of " Mauley!" The lone voyager was taken on board, and said that he had been cast away in a brig. Baldwin smiled, and afterward told our second mate that this man Mauley was a noted beacli-comber of (Jallao, whom no captain would ship, and who, having visited the frigate to which Bald win belonged, had been ignominiously driven on shore, and .forbidden ever again to set foot on board that vessel. " He has a very bad name," added the sailmaker, " and he is suspected of hav ing murdered the carpe ri tcr cf onr frigat at Valparaiso." In fact, the personal appearance of Mauley was much against him, and eo no one believed that he had been wrecked. It was thought that in putting to sea on his slight raft he had taken that desperate method to get on board some vessel. - " Keep an eye on him," said our cap tain to his first mate. The mate did keep an eye on the deso late wretch, and soon detected him in close and confidential - couversnilon with Johnson, the spruce seaman whom he had shipped just before leaving port. It was the mate's watch, whih Johnson belonged to the watch of th second mate; yet Johnson had come oi deck for the special purpose of speaking to Mauley. The two men stood forward of the windlass, under the shadow of the fore mast, apart from the rest of the watch. and conversed together in a low tone. The mate got as near to them as h S " ! couia witnoui oeing oDscrvea, dui n caught only the words : "Rsmember this must be a deao secret between you and me." It was but a year before that the terri ble mutiny on board the ship Globe hai taken place, and when the mate heard the words which I have quoted, he passed softly down into the cabin, and finding the captain awake, told him what he had overheard. "That man Johnson! Are you not mistaken ?" demanded the captain. "Why, Johnson seems to be quite a gentleman. Must have been somebody else," " Yes, sir," replied the mate; " but whjit secret should anybody have with that Mauley, whom all the crew keeps clear of in broad daylight ? Whisper ing with him in the dark that's the pint, sir. Baldwin swears that the fel ler's a murderer, sir." " I'll have no plotting and whisper ing in the dark on board my ship 1" cried the captain, suddenly and unac countably breaking forth into a tower- ment toward him, and at length he mani fested feelings of resentment. " I do the best I can, and I am only working my passage home, said he; I expect no pay." " Do you answer back, you rascal?" cued the captain, who had overheard the words of Johnson, which were ad dressed to the mate. "Mr. Russell, can't you preserve better order among your men! "I am no rascal,' said Johnson, throwing down the rope which he had been trying to splice, and confronting the captain. Several of the crew Mauley among them were standing near Johnson at that moment, and all but Mauley turned pale. The latter looked steadfastly at the captain. "You, too, I suppose," said the cap tain, between his teeth, and with a coun tenance turning pale and red by turns. Mauley fell back, but Johnson smiled contemptuously at the captain's boiling wrath. ' Have you not heard," said tho lat ter to Johnson, that only a few months before you came on board 1 triced a hand np in the rigging and gave him two dozen lashes for only looking at me as yon are doing now ?" ever neard ot it unta now, an swered Johnson, compressing his lips and shaking his head. "It is a usefnl piece oi information " The man's a fool," jaid the captain. and very fine, no fewer than three hun dred and fifty entries appearing in the catalogue, and hardly one absent from the stalls. In the hunter class alone there were over eighty; and eighty. such a . m . norsea, n is quite saxe to say, as were never seen together out of England- high-bred, mettlesome, clean-limbed. strong-boned, glorious-looking animals. in the finest condition and tho finest spirits. There were twenty-six fonr- T11ELT TOriCS. The eommisaioners have foo'M np a lota of $10,572,&OT to Ne Oileaos by the yellow fever. Andrew Jackson's old Iron clock that used to mark time for the White houje was dLtcoTered the other day in a hep of rubbish and sold to a patriotic Wash- ingtonian for twenty-nine dollars. There are over 7,000 Americans study ing in German schools and nnivertitica. The American consul at Wnrttabcrg eelimaUa that oter 81,300,000 arathn annually expended by Americans in Germany. Think of what an agricultural fair must be in California, with cabbarea five feet ia circumference pumpkin THETOEIIUCHIOX. JkIinU9fa lav 3tekl le lYo- A enrropnndeQt of the "Peoria (111.) 7.oncr;;, aays that Mr. J. Cbellew, of QUaford, Peoria coacty, is st work on a machine for prodndcg baa! by me chanical tacaoa. Mr. Caellew tau : "That it is well known that Leal as a kind of Tibratioa or motion of tic mole cules of matter, and that, therefor, i was possible to produce it by mechani cal means. Iron, for icUcre, can b male hot by Lam merit it : Lett can be prodaced by robbicg two aticks lege th er, and many other iUostnticn of alsl lax fialare may bo given, all Loncp that beat vm a mectscical eccV Starting with this idea he went to work t? construct a tatcbisc which wocid prodac beat. Ilia first attempt wa a sneer: the weighing a hundred pound, cucumber year-olds in the ring at ono time and a ytnl loD anil Pche and peart ss machine produce! a low !e jrreo ct heat their examination occupied nearly four hours; first nine were thrown out, and then ten, and then came a contest of nearly two hours, between the remain ing ones, at all paces, under different riders, and with the most careful and critical examination, and evidently very far from an agreement in tbe minds of the judges. When, at last, the colors were assigned, and the winners rode out of the ring, it was plain to see that the successful animals were quite worthy of their honors, bnt by no means clear that injustice had not been done to their equals. To one having a real fondness for fine saddle-horses, the temptation is strong to go on and fill column after co'umn with descriptions of individual animal. where thlre were so many of astonish ing excellence, but my purpose being rather to givo the impression of tbe agricultural show at Bristol npon an American farmer, as a farmer, I must leave this branch of the subject with tbe simple remark that the breeding of the hunter is. with many farmers, a regular branch of their b-'ineaa, suc cess in this breeding producing a capi tal profit. Even an ordinarily good hunter is sure to be worth from $500 to $700, and $2,000 or $3,000 for perfect, strong, weight - carrying horses, well trained and with good temper, is by no large sa your head. An immense grave or vault is being made in the cemetery ot Fere la Chaise, m Tans, in which to place the remains of all the 'forgotten combatants of the war of 1870. It embrace an area of 100 square feet, and will be surmounted by a monnment, the design of which has cot been chosen. turning away. "Mr. Russell, put An 'Indianapolis (Ind.) man has ap plied for a patent for his air ship, which. though buoyed np like a balloon, is con nected with the BTonnd over which it travels. His aerial car ia to.be seventy five or one hundred feet long, is to ac commodate more people than a railroad coach, and he is going to ask tbe city council for permission to exhibit it on a experimental line between the city and tho stock-yards. Home Spanish newspapers have an nounced thn raarrisge ot King Alfonso with the rrinceis Christine de Mont peiiMer, e!det Mter of the late Queen Mcrcfdci. Other journals have denied tho report. Tbe Itpoca, however, seems to contlrm it in announcing that the king will remain some time faithful to the memory of Qicf n Mercedes before fulfilling the duties which are imposed npoa bitn by the exigencies of tbe monarchv. means unusual. Incidentally, the farm ing passion. "Now I recollect that this Johnson has once or twice shown a rebellions temper when Mr. Pease has ordered him to scrape topmasts or slush hem down, or tar rigging; but I thought it was only because he'd never been nsed to such dirty work." "If we don t look out he? 11 be en gaged in dirtier work than Blushing top- tarring down rigging," said masts or the mate. " Catting our throats, eh ?" " It's unaccountable, sir, this plotting and having secrets with Mauley; it's so much like the way that Smith says the mutiny begnn aboard the Globe." " That's true, answered the captain; " I've a great mind to pnt them both in irons." " Mebby we'd better waitra little, and see," returned the mate; " and 111 keep a sharp lookout on both on 'em.." The captain was silent, but he shook his head threateningly, and the mate went on deck to stand out the remain der of his watch. Before morning there was a " gale of wind." Sail was shortened, and we lay to under close-reefed main-topsail and storm-staysail. But; in spite of wind or weather, the first mate was observed all him in irons, and feed him on broad and atr for the present. " Johnson submitted iqnietly "to be handcuffed, and wan fed on bread and water for several days, by which time we had approached Capo Horn, and his service were needed in working the ship. He was set at liberty, nis. or derly conduct puzzled the officers, who began to be curious about his antece dents. He told them that he fell down from Jupiter at the same time with the great goddess Diana, of the Ephesians." "He's crazy," said the mates to each other. Soon after, I hinted to him that 1 be lieved he was the same man whom I had seen one evening, iu a far different rig, among the hills, in tho rear of Valparaiso. " What if you did f You don't know my namo, I suppose ?" demanded he, rather impatiently. Nothing important occurred after we doubled the cape until we reached the equinoctial line, when our captain knocked the cook down with a hand spike for some trifling offense. " Captain Bunker, you'll be sorry for that," remarked Johnson, who was standing near at the time. "I'll serve you the same way, you mutinous rassal !" cried the captain, with flashing eyes. But he didn't. He ordered the mates to put Johnson in irons again, and to diet him as before. We reached Nantucket, and anchored outside the bar on ' a fine afternoon in July. The anchor was scarcely down when the owner of the Endymion stepped on board. Seeing Johnson sit ting on the windlass, the merchant gave an exclamation of surprise, rushed to ward him, and grasping his manacled hands, cried: " Why, Edward, my son, what does this mean ?" . " Oh, this is a trifle, father," replied the son of the owner (known among us by the name of Johnson); "this is nothing compared with knocking down men with handspikes, seizing them np . - I 1 il M in tne rigging ana Hogging meiu iur looking at the captain, with many other pleasant performances of the like nature. It is true, then, what I have heard," said the merchant, turning to the cap tain, who was at his side and seemed bewildered by what he had seen and heard ; "it is true, Capt. Bunker, that you are a crnel tyrant toward your crew. I I I didn't know that this young gentleman was your son, sir, stammer ed the captain, as he hastened to knock the irons from the wrists of the young "He did not intend that yon ahonld know it," replied tne owner; "you knew. I presume, that a son oi mine w er Gets out ot the breaking and training of his young horses a great deal of good ruling which heotherwiae could cot auord, for to succeed well in this bnt ness one must be a good cross-country rider, and show his animals in tho front flight of the field. llarptr' Moga-sins. Churches. so many churches New York New York has not as is generally supposed. The common notion of the number is about 500, wbih would cot be many for a city containing over 1,030,000 ptople. While cbnrcbe have steadily increased here.it is thongl.t by many of the orthodox that they havn not increased nearly so rapidly as they should have done; cot, indred, in pro portion to the growing population of tbe metropolis. The churches at present number 375, divided among the follow ing sects: Protestant Episcopal, seventy-three; Roman Catholic, fifty-four; Methodist Episcopal, fifty; Tresbjte rian, forty-one; Baptist, thirty-one; Jews, twenty-five; Lutheran, twenty- one; Dutch Reformed, twenty; African Methodist Episcopal, nine; United Presbyterians, seven; Congregational, six; Reformed Presbyterian, five; Uni yersalist, five; Unitarian, four; Friends, three; miscellaneous, twenty-one; among the last, one True Dutch Reformed, one On th 5th of October. Mr. George T. Walker, ot Santa Oars, C.I., gave Mr. William Hood a cote, secured by mortgage, for $1,850 at aix month a ; ictcre&t at the rate ot three per rest, per month, to bo compounded and add ed to the principal if not paid at tbe end of each month. Mr. Walker went to Mexico beforo the note became due, s&d wLen he returned a few weeks ago his creditor sued him and got judgment for $0,000,000. The motive power beicg the works cf and old 8eth Thomas clock, the trtmMe with the macsine u thai the vibration were cot regular, hence the low degre ot heat; bnt he felt encouraged ; that heat could be produced by a machine was evident ; with better machinery more heat could be produced. He then purchased as good a Beth Tboma clock as he could fin J, having a compensating pendulum and other improvements, and went to work on a new machine which ha calls a tbermacbiou; it beicg one the writer discovered Lin at work npon on a previona occasion. He was very ret icent in showing this thermachtoo, aa he wishes to secure a patent on it ; bnt I can asy that it is a wonder f ol machine. It consists of a plain wooden box about two feet square and three feet high, snd attached to one side, like an adJition, was a box made out of thin boiler pUte, beicg the aame height and width as the wooden box, and alont a foot deep ; ia the wooden box was the motive power, in the iron box the heat was generated. The essential part of the Leal-prod udsg ap paratus was a plate, which Mr. Cletlcw calls a "model plate. Mr. Cheliew re quested me to insert a small wire through a small Lola in the iron box. previoasly starting the works. Ia a few seconds I withdrew the wire, snd it was too hot to touch with the Lands ; he then took t small tin cap ot cold water and pnt in the iron box ; in two or three minute he withdrew it boiling hot. Of course it is ss yd very im perfect, beicg deficient in many detail. The highest degree ot beat yet attained -iih it is about 250 degrees. Bat Mr. Heat ef Is tern L. Did yon ever Lear a peacLblow I Always ia faLko The h tie rl Always at hoes -The Lie jriscter. There U ia the Ohio lactic aylsa a yonzg lady who is Leiitaa to $TCO,0.X Faihica item: This aeiaaaa, aa last. Limp wiU bs trimmed with sleara, A river U the oast secjulive cf tii> It mas away from even its own eoart. Up to the rreaeal time over 23,003 iltcr mine Lie been located la Ari- XDCX. Aa exchange fays thai oaaa average umaa eV aaacally .eight bailed cf beat." If there b "no f acd?iaa tat the toriea," whiff to become cf the rent of the hoae ? Is green wall paper healthy V a la a medical jaare!. Not if it Is eetra fried. Nothing ia healthy that la fried. A errtpcod.t explains why he Ladat written V fore by say icg be could cot " get mosey esomgb, teethe r to bay a postal card."" The total eadowmest of the pablio schooU of the Unite! Kute is t,0O0,- 000, aai it is cntimttod that the a re rage daily alteadaace is 1,500,000. My dear, said a wife to berhne Uand, 1 really think it is time we t4 a greenhouse.- " Well, my love, paitt it any color yoa p!cae red, white cr green will salt nf." A very enrions plant is the tUrm&li lum ffyranj, cr moving plant. It Is a tali ve ot InJis, and is enricrct from the rotary movement ef the lc-e, which, daring the Leal cf the day, are ia coulct mo tion. Maa may be the tobleat nork of erta- tioc. bat he dorsa't tbi&k about it, and he doeaa'l lk it, when, on Le arisg Lis name called ia the street, Le tarts and rnJs that it is oa'y somebody calling Lis dog. The saa sh;cei everyday ia the year at Denver, Colrrado, eocord;tg to a cewpper o laai Ciiy, wtuca nana that sa U reaidttt, who Las kept a record cf the days Ltn the saa was viable or iasia.ll fcr a camber of years, fialt tee period ia Lis acontU where there Lad bea uaobarare! roa ahise for 5-C5 ecaKmtivc Jays. Ah, by Oeore," groaned yoarg Mr, llhereJ, sinking wearily irt) aa cLm chair, "ah, by George, my Lead ache ferf ally.- PosjuLU t asled Us cm- clover, oil Mr. Hardfax. w.th a LxA Cheliew expects, that when ccrUia im provements he is now experimenting oa I canons intereat d sympV.hy. Tbe observatory of Trof. ralmieri, tho courageous savant, who baa devoted his li'e to the stuly of Mount Vesavins, is situated on a long and narrow ridge of rock cn Mount Contaroni, almost at the foot of the actual cone ot the volcano, snd about half a mile from the hermit- are attached, to show fXKJdegrrea oi heat or perhaps higher, snd with other improvements and diacoveriee, to gen erate heat to any required degree. The same instrument will prod nee a high or low degree of heat aa mty be repaired, which will be controlled by a regula-tor.- It is extremely pottable, sod a there is no smoke or jras emitted from it, it can be placed iu any ruoo. Tbe ex pense of running Is nothing, execy t the ordinary wear of the machirery. It can iblo? 8m?thbg mat have gotitto it,- And Ihen t t a long time nobody aaid anything, and the room aeeaed lo grow about Cf te-ea degree co!er. age ot San Salvatore the extreme point to which carriage can ascend the taoun- be adapted to any purpose for Lich Leal ju spue oi me rutaine proiewaor i is required. Il may l used ta cookiag or heating ; being so portable it may be taken from one room to another. Il msy also be nsed for generating steam for any engine; and who can say the amount ot saving it will eSTcclt tain. Las remained at his post and chronicled features ot the eruptions of the last six years. In Germany school children are in structed to distinguish the most com mon noxious from beneficial insects, and to collect and destroy the former. In the district of Begeberge, Holstein, the number of May beetles taken by the children last season amounted to 14,196 kilogrammes (about 31,250 pounds), XarrUge Ansae Isdlaa. An interesting account ct bow Indiana marry and tre given in marriage is given by Commissioner UtyL He ssys that at present there are no vaii 1 mar- Swedenborgian, and one Greek Catholic besides 500 poinds weight of tbelarv,r fage. among ihe I ndisca, except where. It often has been said that there is a orKTnb9 otthe same insect. Taking ia te,w ice. a marnaSe cere- mosque here, and also a joss tempi o to which Mohammedans and the Chinese resort; bnt this seems to bo one ot tbo facts of imagination that so abound now- a-davs. There may bo a plaee where the Manhattan Celestials worship, bnt it is not worthy the name of a temple. The churches give, according to the population, about one to every 2,800 in habitants; but a very large proportion of these do cot attend church at alL It is said that thoro are in the city well- nigh 2,000 licensed liquor or beer shops, or one to every 500 of tho popu lation, which would go to show that tho cumber of beetles to tbe kilogram me at 920, we hsve the astonishing number of 13,000,000 ot these enemies I of the farmer put out of tbe way of doing harm. A Carious Bit ef Old History. The Springfield (Mass.) Gazette, un der the date of June 4, 1782, give the following account of the attempt of a woman to enlist in the Continental army at that place : On Friday last a certain person sp DearinK in a pnblio house in this town and offering to serve in the Continental bodily thirst for alcoholic or malt liquors I for the term of three years, was eu- is nearly six times as great as nnnger or Hated by the name of Samuel Smith tne soul, .uui m great ciues ute worst i nd on the same day was presented to is always on the surface, and appear ances frequently fail to represent reality. Xqo York Paper. day running bullets in the cook s ca boose, greatly to the surprise of the crew, some of whom asked: " Have there been any pirates heard of on this coast ?" In the meantime there was something about this Johnson, especially his voice, which reminded me of somebody I had seen before. I noticed that the captain looked sharply at him, and observed al his movements attentively, as if he,' also, had been several years with a merchant of Valparaiso. This is he. When the time came for him to return home, I proposed to him. 'by letter, that he av - should work, his passage in the Endy mion, fox :Jr had heard strange stories about your cruelty to the crew ; but other shipmasters and mates had assur ed me those stones were false or ex aggerated, and I was determined to investigate the facts. My son tells me "Pith and Point," A compositor becomes a pros&man whenever he hugs his sweetheart. Why is half a pie like a natural vacuum . .a 1 - 1 . in a pine Doarar .uecaueo it ia anot hole. The fellow who "makes no bonce about it " is evidently not a professional grave robber. Now who can tell how much the horned horse gnu T Nobbs says that whenever he goes to harness his mare, be takes a bridle to her. Thus runs the world away, but si . i t our janaiora bucks me snoemuers wax. When the mountains strive for prizes, the Alps will draw a Blanc. OI course yon never saw anybody the officer of this post for mustering. After many inquiries this adventurer (although artfully dressed in man's ap parel) was discovered, and soon after conducted to jail. This discovery pre vented the payment ot eighty dollars bounty, which ahe was to have received for her promised service, after having been duly mustered. 'Since her confinement her acconnta of herself have been many and various; at one time she assert this to be the first scrape the devil ever led her into; at another, that ahe had been a soldier, and in actual service for three months, undiscovered. It ia known, however, that her name is Anne Smith, originally from Aahtord, in Connecticut, and lately from Ash field, in this Bute, that onr heroine began this route with stealing a horse at Aahfield, that she swapped him for another at Northamp ton, sold the last to a tavern-keeper about five mile from this place for a dram at dinner snd an old coat. mony is performed oy the scent. Tee custom among the Oftage ia about the sam a among other tribes n t fully civilized, and is somewhat ss follows : A man who desire to marry goes to the lodge of tbe woman he propones to marry and sits down outside cf the dor, awaiting an invitation to go in. At flrt be sends a present of one pony, and if in response to the gift there is no invi tation to come within the lodge, Le sends another pony as a present ; if the second does not answer the purpose, a third, fourth, fifth or even a tenth is sent. Wben tie cumber of poaie is satisfactory to the father of the woman the donor i invited into the lodge aai the bargan is completed. If it ro Lap pens that he takes the oldest girl ia the family, he is entitled to take all her younger sisters to himself, or if Le doe cot take them for himself he bargains with any after spplicant for their pos session. The whole proceeding is a mere matter of bargain and sale, in which women are disposed of without their consent snd very much like cattle in the market. There ia nowhere any limit to the camber of wive, aa they are called, which aa Indiaa may Lave, and by their ens torn he can change the occupants of his lodge aa often a be choose. "As our cavil rati no Is op posed to polygamy,-says the coram is sioner, " some decisive action shcmld be taken regulating and establishing mar- and proper marriage laws for Indian tribe." Fsahion item: Gentlemen who would be considered av alt In matters of dreaa, will cot roll np their pants al the heel. ' She acted the man to perfectly well I aa formerly, bnt all around. The roll swallow a barn, and yet yon probably I through the whole that she might prob- ahonld cot extend above the hem, ex often saw a birn-swallow. Nevt York I ably have passed, had not the want of a cept in severe caae oi mad, whea two Kewt. 1 beard lead to detection.- rolls the width of a bexa ia sdaisaible. TTathlsrtes Crmpssst Newspaper row the abort iqaare oa Foartetnth street between F street aid the aveaae, where the corrttpcadesU Sec were onco all located La pasted intoLUtory. The rrt-'gariou Impais that bronghl them together ia close proximi ty co longer exist. Perhaps tt as aa ispalte of x'.f-i rvlce'-ca tnd raalna! vaUnce that gathered tbee men ia a dTtea contiguous trc, acd thai enr rived from the time when the pre was weak and the politicians sirccg ; bat however this mty te, it is felt colccger, aai the corref pec deals have one by one left the row aad found quarters elsewhere, until the oaly signs that still adorn the bn;ldicgs ot the row are those ot the New Ycrk Worli, the Cin cinnati GaxL'e and the Boston JferaLL. The corner of F aad Fourteenth street is still the central point, however, and none of the oce are more than two aqaaxesdistaxL Formerly it waslhocght ceccsAiry that a correpondent'a cSoo should be cn the ground floor, bat the New York Herald violated this tradition five years ago, and ether paper fol lowed its example from motive of econ omy. Now nearly a dozen Lave quar ter np sUir ia Corcoran fiso new building facing the treasury. Without stopping to count them, I ahonld say that there are about thirty correspondents ccc withia sight of the Fourteenth and F corner. There ia scarcely a daily paper ia the country cf any prominence that doe cot Lave a representative in one ot these oScee daring a aioa of Corcgreaa. In the recess cot a third cf th men remain la WaahicgWa. The others scatter eose to wcrk ia the heme c2cc ot their pa per, some to travel a specials, and some to mUieate st the sea-e Lore or la the country. Lea lhaa a dozen papers keep their correwpondeat here the year round. . A Washington correspondent cos is a much more attractive place than most lawyers' odce. There are usually two or three connecting room, well carpeted and f nrsUhed, with wall Long with caps, and picture, Ia th firs room are file of the principal new-rp-perfof the cocntry, which visiters are free to make use of. A colored messen ger I on guard here, ready lo answer the bell of the corree pond eat, whoa Often there is still an inner sanciuza for conaalta lion or for work thai will not admit of Interruption, Most newspaper fel a pride la makisg iheir Waabirgtoa of fice attractive. Th editor will work ia dingy den at home, and will tpead xaoaey liberally for TJrsaaels carpet and Laadsom fartdture fcr the branch establishment at the capital. itr. SmaUry, in CLertland Herald.
Warrenton Gazette (Warrenton, N.C.)
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Jan. 10, 1879, edition 1
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