North Carolina Newspapers

VOLUME XIV. Reporter and Post. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT DANBUHY. N. C. PCP PER k SONS, Pubi. * Props ■ITU OF •IBJKKIITIOJI I •aa In), paaakl* la adtaace •! » •Ix M.alk 7 * ■ATM «r A9THTIIIKO : • Saaare (t«n line* ar !•»») 1 tlm» »1 j® far each adulllanal liwertlon 40 O.nliaot* fkr langrr tlim# armor. .pate can ta mrn4m inD»»»»i ti»* (• the above rate*. TntimiDl ad»«rtUer» will he eil •ci ted t« remit ■mr4l>i «• !k«M r.iti nttk. lima th.y .tu.l U L!H!«J MRTIAW WU? k* tkarfW WF«r C*nt. klgk.r »«i *„*» Car*. fill k* laa.rlod at Tan Dollar. P»T ftDBIB. m J — J PROFESSIONAL CARDS. W. F. CARTER, ATTQ&XMY-aT'La r. JiT. AIRY, SURRY CO., N. O Practices wbaravav li ia aervlcaa ara wanted JI X, 17 A YMOBB, ATTORN EY AT LAW lit Airy. N. C- Spoaial atWution ijivcu to tbe collection ol eliuaas. ' '" m B. V. KING, WITH JOHNSON, SUTTON* CO., DRY GOODN, KM. JT anil M SaoU sharp, Street, r. W. JOHMON, * M. SUTUON■ i. ■. *. BRABBI, a- J- JOHNHOJt. pxr, ALBEBT JONES. 9* T©aa©o* manufacturers ol lAIPtWY.HAtSISS.COU.AM.TRI'NII >• U« W. Balti«>re »treet. Baltimore, AM IT A. Taeher, Jl. C.Smith. B.S. Spi aßg»t« Tucker* Smith * Co*' Maßafaetarhre A wholesale Dealer* In £•613, SHOES, HATS ASD CAPS. Ha. YA BaltUnere Street. Baltimore, Jfd. * H. E. LEST, %nm iwborn 4" Co., E CLOTHIERS. mGerint*i» A l.oiab;u«l SUI MO HE Ml*. B. BUM LI If* L. H Blair . 11. MILES, WITH EN PUTNEY SCO. H hulrnalr draltrt in .s, Shoes, and Trunks, P419 Mam Street, *l. RICHMOND, YA. U K I.EPTWI K.' with WIKCt, ELLETT It CRUMP, RICHMOND, VA., Wbolesalu Dealer* ia BOOTS, BHOBB, TRUNKS, «rC. Prampt attention paid to order*, and salis t lieu gauraateed. pg- fir/lata Stall /"ruoa (Jtodt a tfmttlly March, (. m aoaaar w. rewaaa. *MAS D. TAYLO . 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All ordars will bat* oot myi aiMatioa. J 1 SUBBCRIBK FOR Your County Paper, -=The Reoorter and Posti- OF THK PKOrLR I FOU Til K rKOIM.!.: »F THK PKOI'I.K ! F(»H THK I'l ul l.!.! OF THK PKOI'I.K! FOlt THK I'EOPKK ! OF TH& PKOI'LK ! FOU THK i'KOPLE ! ONLY $1.50 A YEAR! iIIBXC'RIBE SOW It is your duty to aid your county paper. Wo propose puMiahing a good family paper, and Holicit from our friends and from tho Democratic party in Stokes and adjoining counties a li boral support. Make up clubs for us. Now go towork.aud aid an enterprise devoted to your best interests. Read be following NOTICES OF TM I: PRESS: Tbe REPORTER POST is sound in policy and politics, and doserveg a libe ral support.— ReidsciUe Weekly. Tbe lianbury REPORTER AND I'OST begins its thirteenth year. It is a good paper and deserves to live long and live well.— Daily Workman. The Danbury REPORTER ANU POST celebiates its twelfth anniversary, and with pardonable pride refers to its suc cess, which it deserves.—A ews and Ob server. The Daubury REPORTER AND POST is twelve years old. It is a good paper and should be well patronized by the people of Stokes. It certainly deserves it.- Salem Press. For twelve long yours tho Danbury REPORTKR ANU POST has been roughing it, and still manages to rido the waves of tbe journalist;.: sea We hope that it will have plain sailing after awhile. Lexington Dispatch. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST has just passed its I'Jtli anniversary and uudor the efficient management of broth er Duggms cannot fail to increase in popularity with the people of S'-okes and adjoining counties. Wins/on Sentinel 'J'ho editorials on political topics are timely and to the point, and the general amke up of every page shows plainly the exercise of much carc and pains taking. Long may it live and flourish under tbe present management. —.Moun- tain Voice. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST has entered tbe thirteenth year of its ex istence, and we congratulate it upon the prosperity that is manifested througli its columns." To us it is more thau an ac quaintance, and we regard it almost as a kinsman. — -Leaksville Gazette. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST last week celebrated its twelfth anniver sary. It is a strong and reliable paper editorially, it is a good local rind gener al newspaper and m all rospects a credit to its towu aud section. It ouelit Jo be well patronucd. — Statesvillr Landmark Tbe Daubury REPORTER AND POST bos just entered its 13th year. We were one of tbe crew that launched the RE PORTER, aud feel a d;ep interest in its welfare, and hope tlut she may drift on ward with a clear sky aud a smooth sui face for as many more years .—Catwell JVern. Tha Danbuiy REPORTER AND POST has celebrated its l - ith anniversary. The pa|ier is, sound in policy and polities, and deserves tho hoarty support of the people of Stokes. It is an excellent weekly and wo hope to soo it flourish in tbt future as never before. — Winston Leader. Tbe Danbury REPORTER AND POST oame oot last week with a long editorial, entitled, "Our Twelth Anniversary" and reviews its past history in a very entertaining way. Go 011 Hro, Pepper in your good work; you get up one of if not the best oouutry paper in North Carolina.— Kernersville J\'ews. That valuod exchauge, published in Danbury, N. C., tbe REPORTER AND POST, has entered upon its liilb anni versary. Long may it live to call the attention of the outside world to a coun ty wbieli is as rich, we suppose, in tuiu erals as any in tho State of North Car olina, and to battle for correct pclitietl measures. — Dnnvillt limes. "NOTIIIIN'G HIJCCEEIW laiiE SUCCESS. DANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 25, issi;. , I?f SPITE or Al* Ijovo is utter folly. Love lasts but .1 day, Lovo in melancholy, So the |Mwts say. Love's .in airy bubble, liove's a flckte flnnn*; But, dewilu it* trouble, Pleasant all the same. Love with woe is freighted, j Love Is constant care, Love's tbe conned!rated Essence of despair. Love is never lenient; Hut it lias been found Love's a most convenient Thing to have around. —Minnie Mudileru in tho Rambler. Jake, the Cowboy. BY BELLE C. GREENE. It was a cold, uncomfortable day. The wiud blew iu gusts down tho chim ney of our littlo school-house, putting out the fire ltid making tho rjuostion of keeping warm a hopeless one. Tho half-naked children huddled about the stove and patiently conned their lessons. Poor things, they were so used to cald and suffering, that even the dreary school-house was comfort compared to their miserable homes' | I missed my big boy, .Take. If he were only here, I could send him to tho woods for fuel. lie wa9 always our de pendence in a cold or raiuy day. lie ; had wonderful !uok with the rickety old ; stove, and could make the fire buru i when nobody else could. I Jake was my favorite scholar. Ho j wa* only a rough cowoboy, and had borne a terrible reputation , but he al ways behaved himself ill school and was so kind aud helpful, that 1 had come td rely upon him as my right band man. On the day I opeood my school ho came to uie, aud, tuckiug an enormous ! quid of tobaoco away in Ins cheek, said I awkwardly. "1 wan'ter jino your school. ; 1 ain't not!un' but a cowboy, but I've j tuk a notion lately ter learn to road. I | reckon I should like to know how to read," bo added, with a wistful glance , ! into iuy face. His evident earnostness and his sim -1 | plieity touched mo, and I answerod cor- I dully. "I shall bo glad to have you , | come, and I have no doubt y>iu will i ■ learn to read very fast. 1 will do all I . can for you, und you must help no. Wo will help each other. lio seemed embarrassed; dropped his I j eyes, shifted his quia, then spat dex j trnusly into u corner of tho room, ami I wiped his lips on the back of one great | hand. "1 reckon you hain't nnvcr beam o' me," be said, finally, with an uneasy laugh. «I ain't ginerally counted much good rouud here.'' "Hut 1 wouldn't wonder," Im eon- j tinned, looking mc over with the air of i a connoismir about to bargain for a pup or a horse. "I wouldn't wonder no«?, ! if you'u luc tuk to ono another, toacb jer." j "I think wo shall," I said, good na j turedly, «and you look as if you might I be a frienJ worth having, if you chose. He was a noble, great fellow, fully six feet tall, willi limbs like tho trunks ; of trees, and the head and of | a young II ercules. At my remark he blushed a tawny red, up to the roots of his hair and made 1 a sudden movement as if to offer me his I hand ; than drnw back and choked, ; struggling to tpeak. j -'I can be, an d I will be !" he mut tercd at lastj hoarsely, and strode away ! to a scat closely followed by his dog— a savago, ugly-looxing cur, which seem ed in.eparable from his master, and came to sohool as regularly from that day. The dog's name wus Tige, and 1 noticed that Jako waa alwiys consider ate of him, sharing his own dinner with him when he w»s so fortunate as to havo I any; any once, when the poor brute came in wet and shaking with tho cold, ■ 1 he gave up his oan warm place by f the fire, muttering byway of apology, ' as his eyes mot mine, that "the lit— -1 tie cuss was gittinold." There seemed , to be an almost human sympathy bc ■ iween thorn. ' One ufterno.ni Jake enine in covered " with blood. Ue had evidently been ] j fighticg, and what was more remarkable 1 , had pot worsted ; but he went coni j poaedly to bis seat as if nothing had happened. Indeed, quarrels wore so common among tbo scholars, that if they did not bring tlieni into school, I took hut little notice of them. Ho ou this occasion I said nothing, hut I saw Tige crawl to his rooster's feet and look up into his face with a questioning : whine. He had been dozing comforta ble by the tire ail the noontime, and so j had not shared his master's trouble, ; whatever it was, Receiving no attention, lie finally I squatted down in front rf him aud pa- ' tiuntly watched bis angry, downcast face; nor did ho eavo U- l.itcu lung. Jake suddenly lifted his eyes and j Sashed a lightning glance at a boy who j sat opposite him on the other side of (he rooni' Then, clearing the distance with one bound, the dog was at the offender's | throat! Aud I know it wa-> with him ' —Tom Caiats—that Jake had quarrel ed. "Call off the brute !" gasped tho fel low with a terrible oath. Jake spoke to tho dog. who rvluc antly loosed his hold, and rising to his ' feet, stretched out one brawny arm to ward his foe; !'I call hiin off.' he said, j "because you'n me will settle our owr. ; little diffikilty. It Inys'twixt you'll me j —not you'n tho dog—and I'll have i' I out with ye and soon, too !" with a ) threatening shake of his fist. I heard no more of the matter ; but a I few days afterward Jake was absent from school, for tho first time ; and T j missed him, as 1 said in the beginning of this sketch, I tuado inquiries of the , scholars, but uo ono knew anything j about him. Tim Carncs was also ab sent, but I thought nothing of that, as he was always irregular ill his atten dance. My oldest scholar among the gills— | Jmmy by name—she was the brightest j and most advanced pupil I had. The other girls both hated and ad- j mired her, seeming to regard her super-1 iotity as a reproach and insult to them selves. Judging from her appi ~.yiec Jinny must liavo been at tha*. time eighteen or ' twenty years of age ; but she did not j know hnw old she WAS, nor did she ! care. " 'A'hut's tho odds V sho said, with a | shrug of indifference, when I questioned j her in regard to the matter. Sho had tho pale, sallow complexion ! ominon to her class, and her speech i nnd manners were uncouth enough, but' there was a charm about her, after all. I There was a wild graco and freedom in | her movements, a magnetism in her ' dark eyes when sho turned them full j upon you, a consciousness of power in her saucy, defiant ways that fascinated | all who canto in contact with her. ! myself was strongly attracted to j her ; what wonder then that .lake and Tim Canes became her abject slaves. 1 had often amused uiyself watching tho threo, feeling about the tame kind i f.l interest—half amusement, half fear ' --in their fierce rtido love-waking their jealousies and quarrels, that I would 1 in the gambols of a trio of wild ani- 1 mala. Tbo days passed on, but my two big boys came to school 110 more. At last 1 began to wonder, if Jinny had any thing to do with their absence. J'ivi dently there was something wrong with j the girl; she seemed sulleu and de-| pressed, and sat in her seat frowning silont; and when 1 questioned her »hc shut her teeth fiercely together, and an swered not a word. Hut soon iliero came a change ; ono afternoon I noticed that she was terri bly restless and excited, and her great eyes, no lunger defiant, sought mine contiiiua'ly, with an expression of uiutc appeals, such as wo see in tho eyes of a dumb animal when in pain. My heart ached tor her, but I had beon so often repulsed, that I thought best to wail for her to speak. When ! tho scholars wero dismissed sho Itn- j gcrcd behind, and as tho door closed on | the last one sho sprang forward, and . throwing herself at my foot, with tears j and groans and incoherent cries, made known the cause of her wretchedness. "I've, killed Jake,msrni! I've killed Jake!" sho luosucd, rocking herself widely to und fro. «• How—lww it that!" I naked, re coiling from hoi instinctively. "Why, 'twas me Jnko anil Tim lit over, that day tluiy came in kin-red with | blood! I set'»iii ut it, snd landed ter see it go on. Then a few djjs ago they begun again—and I might u' stop ped 'cm with a word, and I Jidn't —! Somehow 1 oouldu t. Hut I wish t j had ! Oh, bow I wish 1 had ! If it I it was only Tim a djiu' now, instead 0' Jake, I wouldn't caro!" sho muttered fiercely. '*l atlers hated Tim— allurs!" "Uut, Jinny," said I, wishing to di vert her, "ate you qui 0 suro Jake will die ?" "Oil, yes inarm, they say so ; and 1 fear it liore," laying ti T inn I on the heart. 1 made inquiries as to the na ture of Jake's injury, but could gather nothing definite, except that it was a wound fi-orn a pistol shot, and that for some unaccountable reason he had made scarcely any show of defending himself according to '.nose who witnessed the encounter,'lis seemed all at once spilin' to get killed." "Perhaps you would like to go to him ! ■' 1 suggested. ' Oil, 1 would, I would," h'ic exclaim ed eagerly, "i hain't seen him yot. 1 hung round the place al! last uiglit, fearin' to go inside. Vos, 1 will go !' sho orie l, wit k sudden vehemence, her palo cheek flushing, "and I'll die with him, too' One gravo shall kivcr us— me and Jake An idea occurred to me. "I have had seme cxpetienco with such wounds," I said, "1 might do something for him. Shall I go with you ?" "Oh, yes, yes. Come !" She hur ried uie out and led the way along a cross road tlnough the woods. Never a good walker, I soon began to feci weariness, aud Jinny noticed that 1 lagged behiud. "Mebty yott'ro a tired, inarm," she remarked. "I dou't mind miles o' trampin' myself. I'm used to it. Lent 1110 kerry ye, mum." And before I could remonstrate sho picked mo up and shouldered JIO as if 1 had been a sack of corn, " i'ears like it'll do uic good," she muttered as sho strode along seem ingly little Encumbered by her bur deu. At last wo reached tho miserable hut that Juko called his home. We pushed open tho door and looked iti. A very old woman crouched by a smoky fire, and ou a rudo bed 111 a corner of tho room lay Jake, his immense proportions sharply outlined through tho scanty covering. l'igc, tho dog, crouched at his feet, and took uo notice of our approach. A handsome ritle aud a brack of pis tols hung against tho wall beside the lied ; for tho cowboy of the Southwest is seldom so poor that lie docs not own Handsome firearms. As we entered, tho old woman, who proved to be Jako's mother, got upon her feet with great difficulty, aud came toward us. Hut Jinny laid her fingers on her lips and glided swifrly past her to the bed. Clasping both hands tightly behind her, sho leaned over Jake, softly call ing his home. At tho souud of her voice ho opened his eyes aud gazed widely about, with out seeming to soc the face so near his own. He turu«d his head and caught sight of me, and kiur.v me. Hrushing bis hand slowly across his eyes, ho said : •'I didn't know I'd fell asleep, uiarm," evidently thinking lie was in school. Jinny dropped or. her knees beside Li ill and clasped his hands 10 her bosom. "Oh, Jake Jake!" sho cried in ago ny, "don't ycr see mo • Don't yer know your poor Jinny !" Then his bewildered eyes met hers. "Why, why, Jinny, gal, how's this, bow's this »" be muttered , then seeing her tears, he smiled strangely. "Cry- In'?" ho mud. "1 alters kno.vcd you hail a kind heart. I kuowed it, Jintiy ; Ihur thai - , soothingly. Hut that wun't no sigh tuat you liked 1110, was it 1 1 see it all now. Hut somehow, tlut day when I found 'twas Tim, for sure," raising his voice and moving his head restlessly on tho pillow, ' why then I jest laid oil and let liiui kill me, as it were. What's life to me without Jin ny says I tcr myself." The girl seemed suddenly to have lost, all power of speech. Sho was still kneeling besido him with her faco buried in her hands, but no longer sobbing, and as motionless as if she heard him uot. 110 turned to mo. ''Can you tell mo, inarm," he said, with great earnestness, •'if so bo there's dueotions in the book —tho Testiinent, you know, that you give me- -for settlin' such difficulty as mine was .' I looked, but 1 couldn't find po word—no orders." "If I could only o' gone by tho book.'' he repeated, wistfully, "but as it was wc had tor sottlo it in the old way- pis tils and bowio knives. Hut what's tho use o' tslkin', it's nil square now." lie sighed wearily, and closed his eyes muttering again to himself, "all ! square'!" I laid uiy hand on his head and tried ;to sooth hi iu. 1 told him '-hat Jinny ; und 1 had ooiuc to nurse liu.i and inaku j liitu well again, and that I hoped all i would come right. 11c put out his hand aud touched i Jinny, hut shu made no movement Jiu j ny, and use'tcr talk sometimes, : u.arm," said lie slowly aud painfully, : "wa uso'tcr talk, that wo might go to gether .somewi|ar', fur from this place, i aud do bettoa. Try tor live worn liki folks, and 'cordin' ter the book, yei know. Give up all this fightin' no swairin', »n these poor, miscr'ble ways, I and have a boms together. But tliar, ; what's the use o' talkin ; it's ton late | now—too late !" A sharp, passionate cry burst from j Jinny's lips, aud broke the spell that I was upon her. She sprang to bet feet, | and leaning over Jake oneo again, clas ' ped both hi.s bands tightly in hers, and fastened her great magnetic eyes upon ! his own bewildered ones. I "Jake! Jake!'' she said, "1 say 'tiant' too loto ! We'll have a home : together yit—you'n me! Do you hear Yes : at last he understood. Ilis j face flu-lied, brightened. With a niigb ity effort, brightened. With a mighty ! effort ho threw up both Ins arms as if to clasp her, aud fell fainting on bcr breast. Jinny uttered a stifled cry, and at that Uioment 1 saw a stream of fljod trickling from his side, staiuing the garments of both as thej lay clasped iu each other's arms. The exertion had opened hi* wound afresh, and I feared lor him exceedingly. ! .Yut to my surprise, I found ou examin ! ation, that the wound was not mortal— j not even a severo one ; and his weak ness an 1 prostration were probably tho j results of cxeitcuient and loss of j blood. ! Thanks to my hospital experience I was able to dress the wound poperly, and had tbe satisfaction of assuring his old mother and Jinny that with good nursing he would soon recover. When he retuined to consciousness Jinny was bending over him. He spoke her name, but sh», smiling, laid her linger on bin lipj and shook her head : "You want ter get well, don't yer !" she said soltly. '-I aouio hero ton-ight tor die with yor, but I reckon its better for us both ter live."—Boston Travel er. DIFFICULTY OP ACCUMULAT ING A MILLION. Millions are talked about glibly in times without a clear understanding of the enormous sum represented by the $50,000,000 left by joruelius Vandcr hilt, the older, or the $'200,000,000 left by William II Vanderbilt to his sous. A Chicago preacher helps oue to rcal | ino the magnitude of such fortunes by ] liguiing out that if Cornelus Yandorbilt j hail been born at tho beginning of the | Christian era and had saved s'-'.5,00 a j year ever since, he would not have ' made up bis fortune of $50,000,000 . and that, if William H. Vunderbill tad been a coiitciupnray of Adam and had saved at the same rale of $'J j,OOO per j annum, ho would still have been tar | short ol* his two huudred million dollars j ut tlia ti'Jiu of his dcr.th ,he would still ; have ha*l tv toil and save for ~,110 J years in the future before ama>»ing hi j fortune of two hundred millions dollars, j That ealculalion is based on the usual j chronology. Without such examples ti; ; give one .\ measure, it is difficult to i form a proper conception of such enor ! uious sums—Detroit Free Press. j A.—"l toll you that mathematics it I an aoienco ; in fact il jis logic itself! For instance, suppose J it takes otic uiau twelve days to builil I this wall, tneu twelvo men can finish il | m ono day." B.—"Certainly ; there | fore 288 in an hour, 17,280 in a minute 1 and if 1,036,800 men set to work the wall will be up in a second, i.e., before j a single atone can bo got into its ' place." I A good day for 'em.—"What lucl did you have fishing yesterday, Pen | nybuuker?" naked an Austin gentlcmai of a well known impecunious charactei , who owes everybody "Spleudid 1 While I was out on tho wharf twent* j men with their bills called at my hous J tn collect money."—Texas Siftings. j An tins lin an physician has publish j ed a work telling how to prevent scars • A treatise on minding one's own busi ' ness, most likely.—Chicago l^lgcr. 1 It fI'JWERS eoLLECTIC NO. 38. CRl'Um OF II CM OR.. FROM otrit EXCIIANGI*. All the rage—A inad dog. A worn glove is the image of its paw. Justifiable homicide—Sleighing girls. As a general thing, what a uian sew* he rips. If a mm is to die by iuches bo wants to lie tall. An open question—Are you "oiog to lit OJC m. . , . Be ever ready to assist any one who seems anxious to rise. A snow-piow is like a bad habit—A good thing to cut adraft. Tones has urgent business in Detroit; t» wit, to woo. The thermometer gains notoriety by degrees, so to speak. "Why to your nose like a rose!" Uo cauee it won't stay blowed. Boast not of your charity, but rather show it by your actions. it isn't much of a dog that cant make a man go mad by biting him. Thero is no excuse for shiftless wom an when uiuslin is so cheap. When a girl is being courted she sets a great deal before a young man. It isu't much of a dog that can't make a man go mad by biting hiiu. The cnrdauion seed eater deceives no one. His breath speaks by the oard. As was predicted, the winter has been very open and lots of cold weather got in. Advertising is a good deal like ma king love to a widow it oau't be over done. The next worst thing to going to a dentist is going to a photogra pher. lie that, would sooth sorrow cnuit not argue on the vani'y of the most deceit ful hopes. Courting is sometimes called sparking because the roal firo doesn't communco until after marriage. Joues- "Can you always tell a fool V Brown—'-If ho doesn't a«k too much. What would you like to know ?" No effort should be spared to sup press the small-pox. A single case of it is an opideinic to the uian who has it. Some people can ask awfully silly questions. Wo are askad if a dog's tail dragging through the snow makes a waggiu' trnek. An exchange says the "fall of the skating rink h;>s come." Well, it is time. The rink has caused enough falls in its time. l'iiitcring the asylum fur inebriates, ho asked : "Do you treut drunkards here?"' "Yes, sir," " Well, I'm one. Where's yor bar ?" Dio l.ewis says that hot water will cure all complaints. In that case im provident meu ought to be extra heal thy, for they are always in it. When a girl ot sixteen looks Into tho fu'iiro it seeuisalmost an eteruity , when a woman of thirty looks into tho future it seems as brief as a rabbit's tail. The young man who imprinted a ro i spcetful kiss 011 the fair forehead of his I best girl told his friend next day that ; he had been hiving a hangup tiiun. i James Lynch, of Atlanta, has mar j ried Wc are glad it is not tbe"Jud/fe." . The is n bad men, and ought not to bo allowed to have a pardner. ' ''Papa, says ala 1 tho other night af ' ter attentively studying for ioino min utes an engraving of a human skeleton, "how did this mau manage to keep hit dinner V , An Knglish company lias been or i | gamzed for putting telephones into sick chambers. 801110 ol tlw instruments 1 in this conntry need doctoring pretty badly. A giftod poet writes : "The devil - arose from his little bed, and washed 1 his face ana coined his head." Wa r hope not to be considered profane if wo ask wherd in hell he got his water. The Kinston Itemiicr has smpond ed. Tim has been and is still to bo, from all indications, a bad year ou newspapers that have not hceoras - throughly and permanently establish' ed. 1 -