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DULANY & CO. stationers' and B«»«k>»ellers* Ware house* SCHOOL BOOK'S A SPECIALTY. Ptationery of all kinds Wrapping Paper, Twines, Bonnet Boards, Paper Blinds. 131 W. BALTIMOREST., BALTIMORE, MD B. J. A R. 15. BEST, WITH HENRY SONNEB'IRN k O., WIIOLFSALE CLOTH'ERS. iO Hanover Street, (between German and Lombard Streets,) BALTIMORE, MD. H. HONNKBON, B SLIMLINE 4t-ly C. WATKINS t I W . 8 ROBERTSON O. L. COTTHELL. ( \ A. S W ATKINS. WATKINS, COTTKKIj k CO., Importers and Jobber Jo • HARD , 1307 Main Btreet, RICHMOND, VA. Agents for P»irbauk.-.'s Standard Scales, and Anker Brand Uolting Cloth. Aaguit 2S, 1880. JNO. W. HOLLAND, WITH T. A. BRYAN k CO., Maaafacturers ot FRENCH and AMERICAN OANDIKS, in every vaiiety, and wholesale dealers in FRUITS, NUT?*, CANNED GOODS, CI GARS, #O. .19 and 341 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md •"* Orders from Merchants solicited. "%fi_ WILLIAM »*VKI*S, WILLIAM R. DKVRIKS. • BtISTIAD UIVUISS, Ot'S., SOLOMON KIMMKLL. WILLIAM DKVRIKS & CO., Importers and Jobbers of Foreiga and Domestic Dry Goods aim Aetlous, kit Vest Baltimore Street,(between Howard and Liberty,) BALTIiIOKK. To Inventors aud Mechanics. PATENTS and how to obtain them. Pamphlets of 00 pages free, upon receipt of SUajps far Postage. Address GILMOUE, SMITH & Co , Solicitors of Patents, Box 31, Wathing'on, D. C J. &. ABBOTT, OP N C., with WINGO, ELLETT k CRUMP, RICHMOND, VA., Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, &C. Prompt attention paid to orders, and satis ffccliou gauranteed. Virginia Slate Priton Qoodt a tpenaUy. March, 6. m •7* A WEEK. SI 2 a day at home •asi lt made. Costly Outfit free. Address Tioi A Co., Augusta, Maine JAMES D. CHAMBERLAIN, —WITH C. W. Thorn & Co., WKOLMALZ AN* RETAIL DIALERS, Biohmond. Vs., Special attention give* to orders, and satia fcet lon gaaranteed. Jane ltth, IST*. «** J. W. MENBFBB. WITH PEARRE BROTHERS 4 CO. Importers and Jobbers of Dry Good*. KIN'S WIAR A SPECIALTY. IT«a. I and 4 Hanover Street, ▲•faatt ) 1 •*—!«. > ALTIMOKI. BANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1881. GREETINGS FOR THE NEW YEAR. "May ever forrow. buried deep, Blossom in fruit for Inter hours; And all your scattered deeds of love Return lo you in perfect' flowers. May you beneath Love's shelter sit, And about your portal! shine : •»nd it you ind a better wish. You may be sure that it is mine." "Time visits not thi tree in vnin, The perfect 'ruit is in his train May thou but 'e-l his touch to find Hope's s,veet fulfilment left behiud '' ~ 5 Jamie's Goo3-Kight. At a latti hour the other night a poor old man, weak with hunger nod stiff with cold, entered the Central station to ask for lodgings While he sat by the ; stove to get warm they hoard him groan | like nite in distress, and the captain a«ked : "Areyousick or have you been hurt?" "It is here," answered the old tnßn, as he touched his breast "It all came back to uie an hour ago as I passed a window, and s«w a bit of a boy in his night gown. I wot,ld to God that I were dead !" "What is it f" inked the captain as ho sat down beside the uian. "It is the heart-ache—it is remorse," the old uian answered "I hivi bad them gnawing away at uiy life for year* 1 have wanted to die—l have prayed for death—but life still clings to this poor old Irauie I aui old and friendless and worn out, anil were to crush uie it would be an act of mercy " He wiped his eyes on his ragged sleeve, made a great effort to control his feelings, aud went on : ' Forty yetrs ago I had plenty A wife sana,in u, y home, and a young boy rode on uiy knee and filled the house with his shouts »nd laughter. I soupbt to be a good man and a kind father, and people oalled uie such One night I came home vex-d I found my boy ail ing, and thut vexed me still more. I don't know vtliat ailed me to aei so that Jjut it. *e»med as if everything went wrung. The child had a bed be side us. and every night since he had been able to speak, he had called lo Die before closing his eyes in sleep, ' good night. uiy pa !" Oh, sir, and 1 hear those words sounding in my ears every day and every hour, and they wring my old heart until I aui Taint " For a moment he sobbed like a child, tl'en he found voice to eoiitinue : "God forgive uie. but I was cross to the hoy that night When he called to me good night, I would not reply "Good night, my pa?" he kept calling, and fiend that I "as, I would make uo answer. He must have thought me as leep, for he fioally cuddled down with a sob in his throat. I wanted to get up and ki.-s him. but I kept waiting, and finally I fell asleep. ' Well 7" queried the eaptain, as the silence grew long. "When I awoke it was day. It was a shriek in uiy eirs which broke my slum bers, and as 1 started up my poor wife called: "Oh ! llichai d ! Richard! our Jamie is dead in h,» ned !" It was so He was dead and oold There were tears on his pale faoe —the tears h* hsd shed wheu ha had called : "Good-night, uiy pa !" and I had refused to answer ! I wat dumb. Theu remorse came and I was frantio I did not know when they buried him, for I was uuder restiaiot as a lunatio Fur five long years life was a dark midnight to me. When reason returned aud I went forth into the world 1 my wile slept beside Jamie, my home was gone, my fiiend* had forgotten me *nd I had no mission iu life but to suffer reo orse. I cannot forget. It was al most a life time ago, but through the mist of years, across the valley of the past, form the little grave thousands of miles away. I hear the plaintive eall as I heard it that night: "Good-night my Da 1" Send me to prison, to the poor house, anywhete that I may halt long enough to die! lam an old wreok, and I oar* oot hjw soon death drags me down." . H* was tendered food, but h* could not eat He rocked his body to and fro and wept and sobbed, and by and by, when sleep came to him, they heard him whisper : "Good eight, my boy, go id-night, my Jamie !"— Detroit Free Preis Meadows n.ay be pastured in the dry Miaon after the orop has been removed, but never in the early spring nor Ist* in the fall. Col. IngersoiPs Peroration. Colonel lugersoll oonoluded hi* ureal \ New Y'.rs lecture in 1876, *iih tbe lolloping eloquent peroration : "Wo have touuht aud huteii enough Our country is piostiate Libnr is in rags Energy has cuipty hands The wheels of the factor) are still. In the safe of prud 'nee money lies locked by the key of fear. Confidence ia what we need—o rtfideuoe iu •aoh oilier— confidence lu our institutions, iu our form of government, iu the great future confidence iu luw, confidence in liberty, in progress and lu the grand destiny of the gn at Republic 1 extend lo you each and all the olive brauuh ol peaee Fellow citizens of the South, I beseech you to take it. Hy the memory of iho»u who died for uauglit, by tho charred remains of your remembered homes, by the glory of your statesmen dead, for the sake of your daughter and yet to be, I implore you to take it with loving, aud with loyal hands. It will cultivate your wasted fields; it will rebuild your towns and cities ; it will fill your coffers with gold; it will edjeate your children ; it will swell the sails of your commerce ; it will cause tbe roses ol jay to clamber and to clluib over the broken cannon of war; it will flood the cabins of the IreoJmeti with light, and clothe the weak iu more than a coat of mail, and wrap lhe poor and lowly in measureless coureut. Take it ; the North will forgive, if the South will forget Take u ; tho negro will wipe from the tablet of memory the strokes aud scars of two hundred years, aud biur with bappy tears the record of hi* wrougs. lake it; it will unite our Nation ; it will make us brothers ouee agaiu 'lake it, and justice will sit in our courts under the outspread white wings of peace. Take it, aud the brain aud the lips of tho future will be Iree. i Take it; it wilt bud an i blossom in your hands and fill your land with fragrance and joy. Take it, aud wo have parsed the midnight oi our political history, and the star of hope heralds agaiu the rising suu." The late Etuperor Nicholas happened one day to be engaged in inspecting a Slate penitentiary in oue of the provincial oats of gin eminent, aud took it into his head to qoesti ia some of the convict* respecting tho nature of the offences fur which they were suffering punishment "What are you here for?" he asked of oue. "lam imiooeut, Imperial Majesty," replied ih« prisoner, Islliug on his knees; "a victim of falsa witness! A church was robbed —a beadle knocked on the head—tbe peasants cnuglit hold ol uie, and 1 knew nothing about it." Similar replies were given by other prisoners The Emperor, obviously bored by these successive protestations of guiltlessness, cast a glance along the line of prisoncts until his eye fell upoo a ragged, wretched-looking gypsy, whom he beckoned forward with the words, ' Ol course you, too, are hern on a false charge"Not a bit of it, your Majerty," replied the Tsigan : "it is all fair and tqusreasfar as I am concerned I I stole a pony Irom a tradesman " 'Stole a pony, did you f" said the Caar, with a laugh ; and then, addressing tho governor of the prison wiih well-assumed sternness, "Turn that good-tor nothing rascal-' instantly out el doors. I cannot allow him to reuiaiu a minute longer in such honorable and virtuous company, lest he pervert all these good, innocent people 1" How to Treat a Frightened Horse. A man who has had much experience in managing horses, says: "Whenever nervous horsemen notice their horse directing his ears to any point whatever, or ludicatiug tho slightest disposition to become afraid, let them, instead of pulling the rein to bring the horat toward the object causing its nervousness, pult iu ou the other side This will iustautly divert the attention of the horse from that which 16 exciting Ins suspioion, aad mukty-nino oases out of a hundred ih« horse will pay no more attention to the objeot, from wliioh he will fl> away if forcibly driven to it by pulliug on the wrong rein. the practice must persons i have of forcing a horse up to tha object Ingbieuing it, is daugerous aud useless." Water Proof Cement. Boil one pound of best gluo in two quarts skimmed milk instead of water. This will be proof against damp or moisture Another good cement for this purpose is made by boiling a pound in weight of linseed oil, stirring in quicklime till a good thickness, then pour out on a flat slsb or tin plate, keeping in the shade.; the cakes will soon beoouio hardened and easily melt like common glue. Is England to be Americanized ? London bas five feet of snow in the streets, and the drifts in the country are fifteen faet deep Nothing like it ha> been seen ainoe 1814 Eating between meals is not so unhealthy at drinking between drinks. Tho Cottyn King. THE LARGEST PLANTER ANP ONE OF THE I.AKOESX MANUFACTURERS IN THE WORLD. * Mr Richardson. of Cresson, Mis*, is the largest cotton planter in the world, ! ■ind is the cotton king of America He ; tuts worked hard all hii life, und ia still i work rg He is p >i>tiiar with tho missus, nod pecially so vrit'i hi* coir.ted labor era He is generally belisved to h ire J accumulated troui 815,000,000 to 8 JO,- j 000 000, tn ide in the South, the poor j South. Eight hundred hand* nro em ployed in the factories, three-fourths of | whom arc women, gathered from tho oar rourfßrng country, good. 'sitfjnl, ind-us \ iriouM aud intelligent. The rrmiitiing : fourth are men and boy*, gathered Irom various places, a lew Iroui the N rth aud a lew froui Scotland, who work -tUO looms and 18.000 spindles In cottou these j mills cotihU'jie duily (iom eighteen to twenty bales, besides an enormous quan- ! lity of wool, obtained from tho Florida ! parish a of Louisiana on Lake L'ontehar traiu Tho prices of the products of these mills arc kept down to rock but torn, and those mills beiog situated in tho Southern cotton belt and in the wool producing districts, and no freight u pay ou cotton, their facilities'for buying j the raw material ate without doubt uu surpassed and they can thus undersell ail others Their savings in freight, having to pay none at all, amount to seven or eight dollars per bale. Those goods fiod , a ready sale iu all the large cities. The j mills nro now ruuniug day aud ni!rt, using the 15rush electric lights, making ; the buildings as bright as day. The night hands are separate and distinct j from those who work in the day. All ! hands work harmoniously together. [ There has never been a strike nor aay ; threats of such a thing. There is no , colored lahor employed, except, five men , as fir*tuen. This labor cannot be utilix- j ed to manage tbe looms and fpindles j The monotonous humming and droning | of the machinery, it is claimed, would invariably soothe the negro to sleep and I tat the looms run wild and the spindles foul. Hence be is uot considered avail- i able as a laborer in cottou factories Creasoo is a very thriving town and itt. ; population orderly and temperate. There j is ho. a grog Bhop in the town. Sunshine. From an acorn weighing a few grains, a tree will grow for a hundred years or more, not only throwing off many pounds of leaves every year, but itself weighing several tous. It an orange twig is put |in a large box of earth, aud that earth is weighed when the twig becomes a tree, bearing luscious fruit there will be very nearly the tutue amount of earth iroui careful experiments made by | different scientific men, it is an ascertained | lact that a very large part of the growth jof a tree is derived from the sun, from 1 the air, and from the water, and a very little from the .parth ; and notably, all vegetation becomes sickly unless it is freely exposed to suushiue. Wood and coal are but condensed sunshine, which contain three important elemeuts, equally essential to both vegetable aud animal life—magnesia, lime and iron. It iH the iron in the hood which gives it its sparkling red color and its strength. It is the lime in the bones which gives them the durability necessary to bodily vigor aliilu the magnesia is important to any of the tissues. Thus it is, that the more persona are out of doors, the more iical hy the more vigorous they are. and the longer will they live Every human being ought to have an hour or two of j i-unshine at noon in winter, and iu the i early tor- noon iu summer.— Hall's Medical Adviser. Justice in Hungary. A Hungarian peasaut, named Jinr.sz, being convicted of stealing, was sentenced Ito receive fity blows. Thejudge carefully ; explained to Janosx that lie might appeal : to the Ober Tribunal ahould the sentence strike him as too severe. Janosz took advantage *f this right. Meanwhilo, however, his honor caused the prisoner to be strapped down to a bench in the court, and personally supervised the full execution of the sentence. A lew weeks later the Oner-Tribunal reduoed the puuishment from fitly to five andtwenly blows. Forthwith the judge summoned Janoss to court, and ordered him ts lie 1 down agaiu on the bench and submit to the mitigated punishment. In vain the j wretched appellant protested ; "for," observed bis honor, "the decrees of our superiors must be fulfilled." An Englishman visiting Sweden, noticing their oaro for educating children, who are taken from the streets and highways aud placed in special schools, inquired if j,t was not oostiy. He received the suggestive auswar : "Yes, it is oostlj, but not dear We Swedes are not rioh enough to let a child grow up in ignorance, misery and crime, to become a scourge to society as well as a disgrace to himself"— Burnet Monthly, VALENTINE —According to some ec- j olesiasliesl writers a bish'.p. uccoidtng to ; '*li.rs a presbyter, who was beheaded at \ ' Kioto in the j dius (A D 270), and was early maoniz ed Wheatley-says that S'. Valentine I "was i man of most, admirable parts, I | and so famous for his love and charity, i that the custom of choosing Valentines j , upon his festival (which is still practised) I took its rise from thence" Others de- j | lived the custom from birds beinpr sup ; i posed to select their mates on this day; j I others again from a practice prevalent in j ancient Homo at th« festival of the Lu- j percalia, held during the month of Feb ruary, when, among other ceremnuies, | the names of young women were placed | in a box, 'rotn which they were taken by : ytfu':;g men, ncc Jidiug us chuneo direc «d The pastors of the curly church, finding | it impossible to extirpate this pagan ce retnony, changed its form. As once I practised, it. was tbe custom on the eve | of February 1 t, St Valentine's day, to | have the names of a select number ol i | one sex put in'o some vessel by an equal number of the other , and thereupon every one. drew a name, which, for the time beinn was called his or her Valen tine. The custom of choosing Valentines | exia'ed very early, ami was much prac- j used ia the houses of the gentry in ling- I la'id There »re frequent references to | it in Sliakeapfaaie. Bait HH a Fertilizer. A aorrpspondent of the Country I Gentleman, residing in Massachusetts, | contributes an article to that journal on the subject of salt as a fertiliser. In 1 tha course of bis remarks he says: "1 | have used salt as a fertiliser for a scorn lof years, and with uniformly good i success, especially upon c-jbbages and ! potatoes. Appl.ed at the rate of three or ! lour busnels to tile acre on pasture laud, it gave the grata a luxuriant growth aad | deep green color, at tho same time { exterminating weeds. Cattle evidently ! preferred the gra.-s grown uu tbe saUed | portions of tbe pasture, probably | because it contained more salt It is well known that the quantity in plants ; | varies with its abundance in the soil, and : . seldom does vegetation furnish sufficient i i to satisfy iha demands of our d imeslic animals Wheat aud other grains do i I not appear to be so much benefited by ! Bait -exoept in ihe strength it gives to !be stems. Oats having a very flexible stein, and therefore iuclined to tall, are specially benefited "Mm loli"wing is the r.sult ol an experiment by .Mr. Jobnsou, .uitiur of J the "Farmer's Encyclopedia," in ihe use of salt ou potatoes: Produce per acre 1 without fertiliser of any kind, one | hundred aud twsuty bushels; with ! twenty bushels of sait par acre, one . | hundred and ninety-two bushels; wiih ; | twenty Uada of stable manure, two j hundred and niiietseu bushels; with ! tweuty loads of manure and twenty bu»hels of salt, three bundled aud tweuty-four bushels" Purity of Character. Over tho outer coat of pluui and apricot, there gtows a bloom more beautiful than the fruit itsvll, a soft, dslluate powder that overspreads its rich colors. Now, if you strike your hand over that, it is at onoe goue ; it is gone forever—it only appears ouce. llie flower that hangs in the morning euipearled with dew-arrayed iu jewels— ones shake it, so that the beado roll off, aud you may sprinkle water over it as you please, yet tt can never be made again what it was wheu the d«w tell . genily on it from heaven On a frosty morning you may see the panes of glass covered with landscapes, j ui nnt.iins, lakes and trees, blended into i a fantastic ;ici«re. Now lay your band | up >u the glass, and by the scratch of | your finger, or by the warmth of tho , palm, all the delicate tracery will bo , obliterated So there is in youth a beauty and puiiiytf character which, when once touched and defiied, can never be , restored—a fringe more delioale than frost work, wbich, wheu torn aud bruken, | can never be repairnd. ".Newspaper Talk." The protest against the Passion Play was newspaper talk, but it was effective The objection to taking theCentiai Park i for the great exhibition was mainly | newspaper talk, but tho park is not to |be taken Tbe a-s»ult upon Tweed and > his gang was mainly newspaper talk, but it saved the city of New Yoik from ! a revolution. The renown of great actors and artists of any kind is largely i newspaper talk, but serves the purpose I The public man who cnnieuius tbe newspapers despises the best means of ; learning what he most needs to know i the ooudi'ion and movement of opiuiou I What degren of influence hu shall concede to it is his own affair, and his own sagacity must determine the relative i value of various counsel — Harper's i j Weekly. i I A true test for egtis is to Jr p them in wat j-, and if the large end comes up ! they are uot iieeh. NUMBEK 35, I Worked and Earned It. A fi-w weeks ago, n gentleman living in an Eastern town was culled out of his bed one morning by teveral vigorous raps upon his front door. Hastily dress ing himself he responded to the call, and found standing upon tbe step an un ootith, roughly olad b >y. with an axe on his shoulder, who hastily thrusting bis , hand into his pantaloons pocket, drew ■ out a suiall roll, and handing it to J udgo I II , said : "Theie'l seventy Gve dollars, that I ' want you to put in the savings bank," > und hastily started away. Th« Judge, slightly disconcerted it ; the curious proceeding, scarcely knew | what ,to say, 'ill ut length, reeovoring his witr, lie cried out after the buy : ■'Stop, come back here ! How did yoa couie by this money !" "I worked and earned it, sir. My time was out last night, and I got my money. I've got a j >b chopping which I begin j on this morning aud I thought I'd leave j the money with you as I weut So work, | and theo it wouldn't tako my time this I evening, when I want to study." "What isyour came, uiy boy ?" asked i the Judge. ' I wrote it on the paper that T wrap ' ped tho money up in, shouted the little I woodchopper," us he passed oo to his work. j That boy's njte for » thousand dollars due ten years hence would be as good as ■ gold, aud if he has his health, he will he worth doable that then. He i beginning in the right way The very day his time was out for the sum mer he entered upon another job, and ; immediately placed the money he had worked for where that would work for ; him ; and will an economy of time which | is more to be praised than h;s wise fore j thought with regard to money, be oouid not endure to have a uiotupnt devoted to > anything but his Oooks when the long i evenings cane. Five years from that day. with a good ! education, with good habits, with a few hundred dollurs, which he has earned by work, his ohauces for a place in the bes ' mess and political world will be far | greater than loose ot the spendthrift boy who, boru with fortune, begins without knowing the use ol' money, and instead of going up goes duAQ— Hearth and Home. Got Evon With Him. N 'ver mind what the lawyer's name was Sutfice it for us to tell you that I e \ lived in > ne of the Hudson river eoun ! ties of New York, aud was more noted for those qualities of both head and heart that make a man disagreeable than for | the qualities of a true gentleman. An unoffending, simple minded witness in his hands for cro-s-exainination was, for the time far worse off than in stocks or the pillory Ouce upon a time, however, j our legal courage met more than iiis j match. lie was driving through Duchess eonn ; ty in quest of a certain distrioi where he , had important business to transact, and when he believed he must have nearly reached his journey's eud, he stopped ut a p lor farmhouse by the wayside where he saw a woman harnessing a shabby i looking horse to a still more shabby looking wagon. "Look you, woman 1" he cried, in his u e ual rough, uncouth manner ; "can you I direct me to borough ?" 'T am g'»ing directly by the road that leads straight there, so, if you'll follow on you can't miss it" •'All right," said Solon. "Bad com pany is better than nous on such an oc ] casion." The woman jumped to her seat and drove off the lawyer following on behind. At the end of five or six miles the lawyer began to thiuk that the way was . tediously long, sud bailed tbe woman 1 and asked her it tbey w.;re near the road ! lie was to take. "Why, bless you 1" she replied," "we ! passed your road four miles back; but : thinking bud compauy might be better than none, 1 kept you along with me t ' FOLWELL BUXTON'S MOTTO —"The longer I live the more I am certain thai tbe great difference between men, be tween the feeble and the powerful, tbe groat and the insignificant, is eueigy, invincible determination, u purpose onoe tixed and thon death or viotory Thi» quality will do anything that oau be don* in this world ; and no talftt», uo circum stances, no opportunities, will make a iwu legged creature a man without it." There, write that upon your eouls, young meu ! Let it be a text oo whioh you may preach to yourselves, and take care to pay the preacher thu best compliment that preachers can receive—let your con duct, by embodying the text, do credit to the sermon. ! "Marie," said a pious husband toliis ' wife, "i'hem wicked Smiths are allowing their children to play in the yard on ( I Sunday. To morrow I'll set the dogs on i their chickens. fhe vengeanoa of* God 1 must be visited on 'em some day."