TUESDAY.. ACGUST . ISIS. ZH RESULT. The returns from the election for mem bers of the Legislature prove the correct ness of the'opinion we expressed Bome two weeks ago. We said that while we would doubtless lose in some counties and gain in others, oar majority on joint ballot in the . new Legislature would not materially vary from that in the old, and so the event proves. a As will.be seen from the returns, we have lost one member in Alamance and Guil ford, one in Alexander, one in Cabarrus, one in Cabarrus and Stanly, two in Cum berland, one in Moore, one in Orange, one in Robeson, one in Rowan and one in .. Wayne. On the other hand it will be seen that we gained one in-Franklin, three in Granville, one in New, Hanover and Pen der, one in Pender and two in Wake, a dear loss of only two members, counting all independents as Radicals, which in practice will.by no means prove true. There are several things worthy of note in this connection. The number of inde pendents elected is small, two Senators and four members of the House of Repre sentatives, that is to say if Mr. Ttbhxb can be called an independent. Nor does the party seem to be in much more danger from regular Radicals, for while we have had four members beaten by straight Radicals, we have in turn beaten eight The footing up then furnishes but little food for joy to those who had been anticipating a disin tegration of the Democratic party. The Democratic party to-day is as strong and as solid as it has been for years, and the men who baild their hopes on the loosen ing of the ties that bind it together, will find that they have built upon the Sand. The handful of independents will be as powerless, whether in or out of the caucus, as unborn babies. A party that has a majority of near seventy on joint ballot, over both Radicals and Inde pendents, need not fear anything that a half dozen Independents can do, no matter how evilly disposed they may be, and to be afraid of them is to be like the child who is afraid of bugaboos. The solidity of the Democratic party and its organization and discipline as a party will be as much be yond question in the next Legislature as its majority is fixed and assured. The members know the wills of their constitu ents, and will doubtless pay proper respect thereto, both in caucus and upon the floors Of their respective Houses. . Another thing to be noted is the ease with which the negro vote can be transferred by Radical kadera to the most obnoxious white man when it suits Radical policy so to do. But a short time ago there were perhaps not two men to be found in North Carolina more obnoxious to the negroes and to Radicals generally than Moexs A. Blkdsok, of Wake, and JosuH Tukszb, of Orange. Yet on Thursday, Radicals of every hue, without regard to age, race or previous condition of servitude rallied to the Blxdsoi and Tcb kxb banners and fought under them from sunrise to sunset with a zeal worthy of a better cause. The lesson was not indeed needed to show our Democratic friends the folly of trusting to disorganization and supineness in Radical ranks.' The day of election never finds them disorganized or Bnt Mr. TmrtnrR.''" or the cmier or the Brindletafla, to give him a title that is as much his due after the election as before, does not owe - his election to Radical votes alone, for unless there was 'great fraud, ; which has not been charged, he received near eight hundred Democratic votes. And this surprises us more than alL We had . not supposed that eight hundred Demo crats could be found in Orange to go back upon the regular nominees of their party, gentlemen in every way worthy of their undivided support, and we would not be lieve it now but for the returns lying before ns and staring as boldly in the face. But there the fact 'stands. Eight hundred Democrats left the Democratic banner to fight with the Chief of the. Brindletails. And the question that at once recurs to all thinking men is, how far those eight hun dred Democrats have determined to go in support of Mr. Tumors. Any man with that Democratic following can of coarse command the Radical support for Con gress, and there is nothing in Mr. TrRXXE's antecedents to prevent the tender or accep tance of that support. Oran ge county named the opposition candidate for Congress when she elected Josiah Tubhxk to the Legisla ture. The Democratic majority in this Congressional District in none of the elections in 1876, reached as high as 1,700. With these figures it is very easy to see that Mr. Trams is the most formidable man to the Democracy in the District if he has a permanent hold upon his Democratic following in Orange. Nor is there any reason to doubt his use of that following 'to defeat the party in the Congressional District as he did in the county of Orange. Indeed he has already been announced as a candidate for Congress. Another thing in Mr. Ttjbhkb's vote worthy of notice is, that large as it is, it illustrates the fact we have often stated, that is to say, that an independent never appeals from the edict of the constituted authorities of his party to the party itself, but he appeals to the entire body of his enemies, reinforced by a minority of his former friends. It is true Mr. Tubsxb got eight hundred Democratic votes, but these eight hundred votes constitute only one-third of the entire Democratic vote of Orange county. The bulk of his support Mr. Tubsxb drew as a matter of course from the Radical ranks. It is needless to attempt to disguise the fact that the result in Orange has a material bearing upon the status of affairs in the Congressional cam paign now about to begin. The best way to overcome what difficulty there is in the Premises is to meet it squarely on the threshold. Mr. Tubkzb's election to the Legislature, in which we have a control- Intr nurirwttv mtK fw n . his election to Congress may be anything else but a small matter. j . Bo much for the political aspects of the case. As to the personal aspects we can only express our regret; at the loss to the State involved in the defeat of the candi dates in the; counties referred to. Nor will others feel themselves underestimated when in this connection we say that the loss of such a man as Col. Thos. M. Holt to the councils of the State will be specially felt . . . . . abb inarkate Democrat has entered I nnnn in twmt. M. i. 1 t . good paper, faithful to its convictions and wue to we Dest interests of the people. We i are pleased to see it announced that it I win soon be issued cftcner than occe a I LXT US MAKE SO MIST A KB. The unprecedented vote given to Mr. TuBKxsby the Democrats of Orange is un questionably due not to any conscious fall ing away from their allegiance to the Dem ocratic party, but solely to feelings of personal sympathy for a man whom they have come to believe has been exceedingly ill used in the service of the party. Mr. Tubsxb it is said has been most persistent in his appeals to the people of Orange, and they felt that in the present condition of affairs they might safely indulge their impulse to right what with the, lights be fore them seemed a great wrong. Two years ago Mr. Tuknks made the same ap peal, but then the absolute control of af fairs was not assured to the Democratic party, as it seemed to be last Thursday, and then the appeal was unheeded. All this proceeds, of coarse, upon the assumption that the great aim of the Dem ocratic party has been accomplished that is to say, the restoration to the people of the right of self-government, in comparison with which all other purposes seem of such small importance that men may safely dis regard the stricter requirements cf times of doubt and danger. Of course this is all wrong. Eternal vigilance is the piice of liberty, and what is the same thing in this State, of Democratic - success. Want of constant vigilance tends directly to a re turn of Radical rule, and if Radicals shall ever regain power, they will as surely re turn to oppression, corruption and extrav agance as a sow will return to her wal low or a dog to his vomit. A greater mistake was never made than to suppose that the Democratic party, en trusted as it is with the preservation of (he liberties of the people of North Carolina, can afford to sleep upon its post. There is another campaign before us, and a most important one. The legislation that is to bring relief to the country must be Federal legislation, and the men win, in behalf of North Carolina, are to take part in shap ing that legislation, are to be chosen at the close of the . campaign, that is soon to be gin. We cannot afford to indulge personal preferences, or even to right private wrongs until public affairs shall have been put upon a proper basis. Indeed the coming Congressional campaign prom ises to be one of extraordinary interest, and of the gravest importance. Issues that involve the weal or woe of the coun try for years to come, are to be met and disposed of by the Democratic party in accordance with the prevailing sense of the people, or the party will lose the hold it now has upon their affections. That the party will promptly meet every issue that may arise, as the best interest of the people and of every class of the people may dictate, we do not doubt. This has been the history of the party in the past, and will be its history in the future. Heretofore devoting itself to the duty nearest its hand, the Democratic party has sought before all things to restore to the people the right of self government. That is now accomplished and the party must presently address itself to the task of perfecting such legislation as shall heal as speedily as possible the wounds in flicted by Radicalism upon the State inxits material prosperity. This legis lation, as we said, must come from our national councils. It was federal poison that did the damage and it will take federal remedy to undo it. For one we are unwilling to trust the preparation or administration of JhjgTemedytoany nm Democratic hands. We cannot for get that even now as we write a sister State, if not our own also, might now hear the tramp of a ruthless Federal soldiery. We doubt not that but for the bounds, set to the President's power by a Democratic Congress. Judge Bond would to-day be in South Carolina backed by the entire strength of the Federal army, and all because the State Courts of South Caro lina insist upon their right to try certain Federal Revenue officers who murdered a citizen of that State, peaceable and inno cent of all crime. This is no time then to grow lax in our vi gilance, or in our discipline, or in our .efforts to perfect our organization. The Demo cratic party stands ready and willing to do all that the best interests of the people de mand. TUX UXIYBRSITY XORXAL 8CUOOL CLOSING BXBRCISBS. The closing exercises of the University Normal School last week were of excep tional interest. The concert on Wednes day night by the members of the vocal music class gave' great satisfaction and pleasure, and showed most careful in struction in music by the Messrs. Wilsoh. The kindergarten exercises on Wednesday morning showed that the children, nearly 'sixty in number, had been trained to a degree wonder ful, considering how short a, time they have been under the charge of Miss Coe and her assistants. On Thursday a grand procession of Noi malites and visitors moved to the Chapel. The welcoming address wasi made by Prof. Ladd in a most happy style. Kev. Air. Heitman, of the Methodist church, offered the prayer, and the hymn was sung by the Normal vocal class. Af ter these Mr. A. J. Jones, President of the debating society, it request of Pro fessor Ladd, called out the speakers according to the programme. The "old est inhabitant" avers that never were better speeches and essays on the com mencement rostrum. Some very good reading of selected pieces, by members of the school, chosen by Prof. Owens, was uxewise done. . After the conclusion of th exercises, Prof Woodbotjbn, of Hender son county, on the part of members of the Normal School, .in a felicitous style, presented a cane to Prof. Ladd; and Miss Marshall, of Raleigh, on the part of the tadfes of the school, and of the village, presented a dock to President Battlx, which elicited short tod appropriate speeches from those gentlemen. The address of Miss Mabshaix was par ticalarly approved by the audience. The school was closed by Hon. P. C. Camxbo, President of the Board of trustees, in the absence of the Governor, in his usual forcible, earnest and happy manner. The closing bymn, composed by Mrs. C. P. Spxhceb, especially for the occasion, was sung with much spirit. The Normal School of 1873 has been a wonderful success is numbers, in the variety and character of instruction, in enthusiasm, in good effected. We pre dict that the school of 1879 will be still grander. t AT venice, when a stranger dies at a hotel, the number of the room : h n A tr . inthe lottery. When the late Sir Wilua I bTXKLTSQ Maxwell died at Dajsixll's, all the hotel semnu played the Bombers, of his ariartmenuv which won. '- NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE. Correspondence of Ths Ob.mekvik.1. Nxw York, July 30, 1878. In alluding to Judge Francois Xavier Martin, in my letter yesterday, I intended to mention his History of North Carolina, but was interrupted. His law books were all, so far as I know, published before he left North Carolina, and included, if 1 re collect anght, a volume of Reports, a Re vis&l, a Collection or the I'nvate Laws, and a Vade Mecum; but his History of North Carolina was published, and proba bly written, long after he went to New Orleans. I think it appeared in 1830-'31, for a number of copies, which he had sent to me to sell for him, were burnt m my office in the great fire of May 29, 1831. For some reason the book did not sell, and I doubt if there are a dozen copies now extant. I have . not seen one in many years. Histories of our State have not been paying works. Lawson's, William son's, Martin's and Hawks', all failed to find an appreciative public, though a copy of Lawson's, believed to be one of only, two then in the State, wa3 sold at auction perhaps twenty or thirty years ago, fer $65 (if 1 recollect anght,) and the State ordered a new edi tion of it. Williamson's and Martin's were poor books. Dr. Hawks woufd have -made a valuable work if be had not been pre vented from completing it by a want of public appreciation and by the war. Judge Murphy and Gov. Swain collected valuable materials for a History, but neither under took their embodiment and publication. No doubt some bod v will Derform that dutv at some day ; and if so 1 hope he and his publisher will fare better than those who nave heretofore essayed to accomplish it. 1 once saw a large. . octavo of perhaps near i,iwu pages, Deing a History or a town in Massachusetts, of which not one person in a thousand out of that State had Drohablv ever heard Med way I think was the name of the town. . What the town was noted tor 1 never beard : but its people had pa triotism enough to look into the book for its record, whether of good or ill. The "baby -carriage case" has been de cided, and of course in favor of the baby, which will hereafter be wheeled to itt heart's content over the fifth floor of the fashionable apartment house in Madison Avenue, whether Mrs. Pool, of the fourth floor, likes it or not, and Mr. Pool pays the costs of suit and $10 to Mrs. Higgin sonas damages. And this case being disposed of, eight persons have come forward to "injunct" a nuisance in the shape of four dogs kept by a widow lady named Bassford, one of the complainants making affidavit that he and the neighbors were kept awake by the howling and barking of the dogs. Mrs. ttassford, on the contrary, says that the dogs are all pets, kept in the house at night, and seldom bark except in the dav lime. "As for Fido. a poodle aged 14, he never barks except when he sees a cat, and then his little bark is the sweetest of music." Here are more pickings for the, lawyers. Clouds obscured tbe sun yesterday during he eclipse. I saw the little of it that was visible. Passing along the street at' 5:30, I noticed that the clouds were very thin near the sun; so 1 stopped, and in two minutes the eclipse was plainly visible. about one-third of the sun's surface being obscured. In one minute more it was past. I had seen the last solar eclipse that my eyes can ever behold, for another will not occur during the 19th century. In the west, where tbe eclipse was total, the "envious clouds", did not interpose, and the view was perfect. There is an amusing case in court here. which has come up before a referee daily for two or three weeks past, in which a Mrs. Cooper, as she is called by one side. and Mrs. Marshall by the other side, and by the papers as uooper-juarsnall, has been too much lor tbe lawyers and the court. She is as sharp as Mrs. Capt Jenks before the Potter Committee, and smiles and laughs at everything. 8be keeps a board ing house, is pretty and dresses well. Her controversy is with Cooper, ber first hus band, from whom she claims to have been diverced before she married Marshall, and who contends that she is still his wife. though they never look at 6r speak to each other. (Perhaps some cynic will say that this is prima fade evidence that they re ally are man and wife. But let that pass.) n yesterday tbe following forms Dart of uao eTuience or a witness : "The first I remember Cooper saying to me was that be loved his wife and children, that his wife wanted a divorce and he thought he would give it to her. Some time she might see her folly and come back. to him." At this Mrs. CvXper laughed heartily, wita me cnu oi nor tan in ber mouth. "Do you remember one Sunday morn ing wnen Mrs. uooper called a', your motuer s bouse r "Yes." " Wherei was Cooper's room? "Next to mine." "Did you hear anything ?" "I was awakened by somebody crying; u was a lady s voice, and 1 beard her say ing somewing snout "n hy don't you stop the proceedings agaiust Marshall ? Cooper said if Marshall would give him $25,000 sne coma nave nun, and be would never bother her again: if Marshall wouldn't give mm roe money ne wouia take ber back and he wouid be a good man and she could be a faithful loving wife." Mr. Ten Eyck said : "Then, as vou un. derstand it, Cooper was trying to sell his wiie i "Yes. "What did she say?" -"I didn't hear her say anything." This is the highest price for a wife that has been heard of. I remember that one was once sold in England, with a rope aiuunu ner nccK, ior a smiling. U. Nxw Yoek, August 1, 1878. A friend of mine, who is in his eighty second year, writes me such an account of the delights of country life in the western part of this State, to which he has gone with his family for the Summer, as to make me almost wish I were not fastened to the tread-mill of work, but had liberty to join .him. and to renew some of the many pleasant hours I have spent in his family circle in his city home. Perhaps jrour rcaucrs wui not ooject to a moment s contemplation of the pleasant picture he nas sketched. Hear him : "In substitution for brick walls, stone. lvea Bueeu, and rumbling sounds, we have green trees, grass-covered lawns, and uuioeicaa nignu. , instead .oi sewer, gas. uu uuicr disgusting city smeus, we have the perfume of fresh flowers ana the odor of new-mown hay; fresh cnurned - butter and , sweet butter- mijK aa tuuum : and cream in our mrTt The vegetables, direct from the garden to the kitchen, have a different flavor from those we get from the green grocer. Here is a combination of rural attractions, and tney are enhanced by tbe affectionate and unremitting attentions of mv witVa and grand-nieces. Then we have a little boy and girl, grand children, 7 and 9 years Ui ge, smiaoie, oocaient and intelligent. sunDeams in the house. If I were an old norae irom the city, who had been fed all winter on corn-stalks and musty hay, I would say (if I could talk) I am not only freed from the harness but am in fields of clover, with no whip to urge me onward or whoa" to stop me. ."Miss M. has a Sunday-School in the town three miles distant, consisting of fourteen girls, 10 to 15 years, children of trades-people and mechanics. Most of them had never had a ride or even been a mile from town, and none of them had ever been inside of a parlor or handaomelv lunusbed house. M. invited them all to meet at the clergyman's house. She hired a pic-nic wsgon, into which they were all packed, the clergyman following. They were all in white dresses, and it was quite a picture as they drove up to the door. They first took a run on the lawn i ksn in the garden, and ; indulged in chil dren s sports, iben all came into the house and it was pleasant and amus ing to. mars: mem as they , were shown pictures,! statuary, minerals and every variety of ' Me-a-brae. Then all re paired to a long table in the dining room, with a scat for each and a separate bou quet on every plate.' . M. took the head of the table, while Miss W. (daughter of a waited on the guests our young ladies CUeSta. The Clcnrvmnn asked a blessing, and well he might, tor the viands were luxurious and bountiful. After the table, they all assembled on tbe jTutzzi and joined the clergyman in a hymn. It is said that our greatest happiness is de rived rrom the Knowledge that we impart happiness to others. If this is so, M.'s cup must have been filled fourteen fold. It was tbe inspiration of a benevolent heart, with no expectation of any requital." Did I not say truly, kind reader, that my venerable friend had sketched a pleas ant picture ? I copy it because it is one that we may all contemplate with profit. It was not written for publication, as were those interesting letters which he wrote from across the ocean to tbe Fay etteville Observer eighteen yews ago. And as to the lady whose thoughtful liberality provided so rich a feast, mental and bod ily, for her poor neighbors, she would "blush to find it fame" if she were ever to see this as she is not likely to do. There are some queer specimens of preachers in this Northern section. A sermon has been published, preached in a New England city an Sunday, from the text, "Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to his edification." And to what use-does the reader suppose the preacher applied ibis text ? -Why, "to introduce a few thoughts upon the new Opera House," and a general eulogy of the stage 1 I find the two following paragraphs in the same column of a morning paper : "A kind father, of Southboro, Mass , s man well to do, took his sick son to a doc tor last week, and told him if he could cure the boy for less than the cost of a funeral to go ahead, but if he couldn't the youth must take bis chances." "At Pittsfield, Mass., last Saturday, in a suit involving $21, a father and two son testified against the wife and mother and the other two sons." " Hurrah for Massachusetts ! But for the smallness of the sums involved, they might claim to be the equals of the Van derbilts. But they do things on a larger scale in Montgomery county in this State. A man lives up there who owns immense bodies of lands in that section. He lets them out in small farms whenever he can. He is said to be 't hard man," like the greai merchant here who was asked by ajxnn debtor "if he had no bowels of compas sion," and replied, "Nary bowel." When tenants get tired of paying the rent he asks, they move off, and for.hwith a house or a barn is set fire to and destroyed. In three years he had twenty-seven such fires, involving a loss, including other depre dations, of $70,000; for four years he has had detectives at work, endeavoring to dis cover the incendiaries; and yesterdays man was arrested in this city who is believed to be one of them. He came from that neighborhood. He was committed for trial, in default of $25,000 bail. It seenu that there exists a regular society among the tenants, by which all these outrages are planned ; and" there are newspapers there which encourage and defend them. Now if this were only in the South, what howls should we cot hear over the plan tation manners of the Southern people ! The further hearing of the Cooper-Marshall suit Las been postponed till the 17th September. It has been going on daily for about three weeks, and I shall miss its morning instalments of fun. One of the latest developments was the testimony ol Q-ooper that bis wife paid him $500 (his asking price $25,000. but like a regular norae-jocaey, ne leu room to tall) for bis consent to her getting a divorce from him with a view to her marrving Marshall I fehe accordingly got the divorce and mar ried Marshall, and now Cooper claims that she is stilLbis wife ! which claim she is re sisting with all a woman's zeal and perse verance. Who pays the piper, otherwise the lawyers, doubtless they know. From the descriptions of the woman, it would seem that there is "A laughing devil in her eye yea, one in each eye, and five others else where about her, which Cooper and Mar shall com Dined have not been able to cast out. Another queer suit has been commenced. 1WO eentlfeinpn n. hrnL-pr ami o General, hurrying along the street, brushed against each other, the broker wore a long watch chain, in which the buttons of the Consul's coat became entangled. The watch was pulled out and the coat torn Tbe broker offered to pay for mending the uoai, out me uonsui demanded a new om. a demand w hich was refused. And so the lawyers eo at it, hammer and tonga H. I.KTTKU FKO.VI WAKE COr.lTV. Oorrc.-iouU-iice of Til v. Orskrtkr. Wake Cocstt, July 20, 1878. aiKSsiss. bDiTOKS: We would like to ask by what authority did our County uonveniion, on thezad June, appoint dele gates to tbe Congressional Convention ? As we understood it, and as staled in the call for tnat convention published bv the very excellent chairman of our County Executive Committee, it was h2ld for the purpose of nominating our county candi- uates. mere had been nothing said in me papers, or in private conversation about appointing such delegates, and we minK this action was a supnse to nearly every one. It was not then generally B.uowa wno were candidates tor the uon gressional nomination, and as the District uonvention had not then been called, the people had not given the matter much thought. It is true that Nash county had already instructed her delegates to vote for r. iavig. and Johnston for lien Out but we have heard oersona f rom ew h of (nose counties say that this action by each vi inese conventions was a surmise, and was not entirely satisfactory. We do not wish to appear as meddlincr with the affair of another countv. and therefor will not presume to make anv surarestiona io our inenas in iMasb and Johnston. uuk wc uo imna inai nere, in wake, com mon fairness and lust ice demand either mat another Convention be held for the express purpose of apDointinir delegate. or that the different townships hold meet ings and instruct their delegates who are already appointed. "We desire onlv that the will and the with of the people may be uiy auu miiy expressed and no honest Democrat can object. All the ffentlemnn wuo nave oeen SDPBxn ot as Confess on.il i. i " aspirants are worthy of our confidence and support, and we feel assured that any one a i i . . r oi iuem woma spurn a nomination wherein the wishes of the people were not fairlv represented, we ao not intend to inti a tty . mate that our delegates were annointpil hv trickery or fraud, but we do itsist that our invention had no authority to appoint kucui, iuu iuat meee ueiecates ma v. anri men again they may not, represent the wisnes or our people, and ihcir wishes can oest oe ascertained in one of the mrvw arjove proposed. By doing this we avoid any pretext for grumbling after the nom nn : t i i i . luanuu us imuie anu win secure lor our nominee the hearty and united support of tuc wuoie pany, inus ensunne bis election over any independent, onndletailor bolter. What say you to this fellow Democrats ? Mast Citizens. LOUD DUFFEBIK'S MJCCESSOIt, A Sketch of tbe iTJarqulv of jLorue, From the New Tork World. July 88, A cable dispatch from London snva that the papers have announced nnon official authority that the Marquis of Lome had been selected by the Ear! of Beaconsfleld to succeed Lord Dufferin in the Vice-Re gency of Canada, and that the Marauis had accepted the office. The Marquis, who is the eldest son and heir of the Duk of Argyll, it will be remembered, was mar: ried in 1871 to Princess Louise, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, that being the uii uiauuice oi tne marriage or a subject mi UK utugmer oi a reigning sovereign. ine marquis has been in pubi c life for ten years past, for in 18G8. when he was only three-and-twenty. be was returned to Parliament as member from Argyll shire. When his father in 1868 went into omce under the Gladstone administration as Secretary of State for India, the son acted as his Private Secretary. The Duke of Argyll, whose titles descend to his eld est son, is the most powerful of the Scot tish noblemen.. He if hereditary master of the Queen's household in Scotland, chancellor of the university of St. An drew's, a trustee of the British Museum and hereditary Sheriff and Lord Lieuten ant of Argyllshire. His political service has been long and active, and he has also written an. elaborate book entitled "The Reign of Law." His son is also an au thor, and published several ' years ago a volume of poeaut . - . i hair LESTER rnO.M lO.VrGOJlERV. Corrcsiiowd'-nce of Tu Obskkvkr.1 Ti:oy, July 29th, 1878. Messrs. Editoks: Let the eye of the thousands who read your valuable and popular paper glance at it whenever it may and it never fails to see letters from all sec tions of the State, from Currituck Cherokee; and still a communication from the old county of Montgomery is seldom seen in(priut. This' is not as it should be. So exceedingly quiet and reserved have the people of Montgomery been all the while that the rest of the world may conclude that she is without education sure enough, without ente rprise and industry, without patriotism and a hearty co-opera tiou in the present and future welfare of our common country; but the county Montgomery will compare with any point of education, in point of hospitality and enterprising ciuz -ns, and in her ad herence to law and love for the common wealth of North Carolina. This beinz our first attempt' to give few sketches from this county, we would like to enlarire upou its history; to speak of its mines, minerals, mills, agricultural interests all of which she can proudly boast of, but for the ielief c f yoi.r selves and readers, a lengthy narrative these facts is omitU d, and sccne3 and in cidents of recent occurrence are presented Montgomery county is a place of gayety md amusement as well aa of toil and lalor. Pic nicsare in vogue, two have just passed H, and another just ahead. 1 he one Butler s F. rd, ou Little river, was an en lovable hff.ur. I'kasantly situated, near a cool spring, where bubbled up as pure crystal water as evi r gushed from moun tain side, surrounded by a beautiful grove. amid whose leaves lingered the soul cheering notes of delightful music. ind to which melody all those of Terpsichorean faith were bound to "trip the light fantastic. All hearts seemed hap py. Dancing sets and and courting sett seemed to alternate with each other toper fection. The dinner was excellent. The 'able knowing what a tremendous load would soon be placed upon it, at the simpl thought ot it, broke down beiore even biscuit had touched it. Here was found dUGh a variety of good things that the most tastidious epicure cculd have oeen satisfied All learned one thing that brandy peach es are too good to carry to a picnic. goodly number of the jovial crowd pro ceeded to Troy late in the evening, where they were entertained at the house of that deve and hospititile hotel proprietor Jesse Smitberman. Esq. At night the crowd assembled in the court bouse, where they made a display of their best and fanciest dancing, and at tbe proper hour gave the finishing touch to this, as out among our many picnics. Friday wouud up the canvass in this county, the last precinct be ing Troy. There was consequently large and enthusiastic candidates, over fifteen did not discuss any crowd. The in number, political is sues. Sorry to say, if the Democrat of this county do not stand firmer they will soon be swallowed up in the slimy pool of lladicalism. The only sharp shoot' ng on the campaign has been be tween Democrats running lor the same office. There are two or three Democratic candidates tor nearly every office, and for the same office never more than one lie publican candidate. If the love lor Demo cratic principle continues to wane in Mont- gonicry county, if they cease to hold con ventions, as they have this year, and at tempt to break down men- of their own political faith,., they may expect nothing more than to-be ruled and governed by that same oppressive Radical power that has sat so long and defiantly upon its throne of corruption. It is conceded by all that Al. . JVlarun, Democratic candi date for the Legislature, will bt elected. Mr. .Martin is a quiet and unassuming man,out a mere honest and more faithful member cannot be lound in the next Gen eral Assembly than "M. S. Martin.' The next Sheriff will probably be Re publican, there being two Democratic candidates against one hot-headed Radical For four years we have had a Democratic Sherld, elected to the office in the darkest times, elected two years ago when all other Democratic candidates were defeated, and this man who is so popular and has such utter confidence placed in him by both parties ia the presi-nt incumbent, Sheriff Y. ii. Waikins.. He was pressed to run for the Legislature or othci office, but cir cumstances unavoidable compelled him to dechuu. lie bus served his two tains in credit, and unlike his predecessor, will re tire in credit. In 'the future, no matter how hih the suniicg waves uf Re,ubli canism may roll, no matter who bis oppo nent mty be, should Sa-'iiiT Waikins claim the suffrages of his fellow-citizens, the victory will be bis amid the shouts oi triumph of his many friends. Ou Saliir nay ionownm the speatmgon friday, was an epoch in our county long to be rcuicm- bert-el, especially by the colored popuia lion. The oldest citizens said there never were as many negroes in the town of Troy ueiore. i he came trom Richmond, Stanly. Anson, 'Randolph aDd Moore to hear O. 11. Dockery speak on Education and in the interest of an Academy which they propose to erect in Troy. Tbey were to have bad a big barbecue in connection with the educational speeches, but tbey ate it up before reaching tbe grounds. Tbe Kev. Mr. Wright and Jerre Luther, Esq., made speeches. Two colored friends delivered themselves of declamations which had been in soak so lone tbev had somewhat soured. The first one who purports to be from South Carolina based his speech up on the riy mouth Rock, and we can t see why, unless it was for the purpose of se curing a good loundation where he could successfully blast the "King's English. Jf this was really his sole object we con gratulate him upon his success. Then came Ihe orator from Bertie who choked down on his Latin quotations, while the white people escaped choking up with difficulty. mii closing speecn was by uoi. u. 11. Dock ery, who steered from politics better than we expected. ISot satisfied with this, he and Aden Jordan seated themselves in the court-house in the evening, had the bell rung, proclamation made for a political speech, but be it said to the credit of the darkies, they had come to hear educational speeches and not politi cal harangues. Shey soon rallied to the Court House, not to hear Dockerv nor Jordan, bat each one with his partner to knock the tones that echoed from the banjo and fiddle in the good old scamper biyie. a. ll wno could appreciate breakdown," and it takes a man of taste to do it, could here have feasted his soul with laughter. Some estimated the crowd of darkies at seven or eieht hnndiwl o.ners at a thousand. Strange to av there were no fiehts. and although A noiav and lively crowd, still the day passed off mbouwji j uicui sou wim credit to the race, but with no honors due those who wished to run their political machine i me same time. "Ichabod Cbanx. A Shakk Chaeming as Alligator: At the plantation of Mr. Turner Lake City, Fla., a most singular scene oc curred ine charming or a thirteen-foot alligator by a rattle-snake.' The snake first bw me aiiigator, ano wjtn bis rattles at tracted the latter's attention. Then began the charming process, which lasted fullv V. '11 II- J ubu " uuui. iuc alligator at nrst turned his bead once or twice, but waa immfx aiateiy called to order by the rattles of th snake, t oward the end of the half hour with fixed eyes, the alligator moved slowlw toward bis terrible enemy until within striking distance, when the sruk himself more compactly, and with all the Birengtb be couid muster; struck the alli gator. Jor a moment the alligator shook tremulously, and then, as if by magic, made a semi-circling backward movement peculiar to the species, and brought his tan down upon tbe snake with fatal enect. UUce uay ta. Reporter. Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Iienewer is no new preparation for the public to ex periment wiui, ita success is unparalleled for restoring gray hair to its natural color, promoting its growth, and producing un on bald heads. - - r . w; will Take Ayera Pills for all the dui noses of a purgative, for Constipation, Indigestion, Headache and Liver Complaint. ; By uni versal accoru, iney are ine Dest of all pur gatives for family use, 1 LETTER FRO.H WAKE CO I J ST V. It'orrwpoiKlvnce of Til Obskkvbb.J Wakk CorsTY.N. C, July 31, 78. Messrs. Editors : So much has been said, pro and con., on the Senatorial ' ques tion that il tubtless ere this the people are getting tired, if not disgusted with the controversy; but as the election will close to-morrow, if it be still continued it can not affect the general result to say the least. The writer of this makes no pretensions save that of an bumble farmer of Wake; he is no polilican to intrigue either for present or future promotion; he has no man's axe to griud, but . being a na tive of the county and all his interest being therein identified, he does claim to know something of the sentiments of the good men of the ; county. In your issue of the 28th inst., over the signature of "Videns" appears an article in reply to your correspondent " Wake, " (both of whom are unknown to the writer of this. which we feel constrained to notice in some particulars. ' Videns starts out with the broad assertion that Wake countv is solidly, or at least five sixths for Merrimon ! Surely he, in stead of Wake," is "the recent settler, newspaper correspondent," disappointed aDpiicant, future aspiran" or whatever else he may be termvd. to assert this. The friends of Gov. Vance in Wake ounty and elsewhere have n mained si.ent, dur ing the campa'gn just closing, solf y for tbe good of tLe D;niocia ic Conseivative party. They know, too well, the weal or woeoftbi8 entire country depends upon the unity that of party, and if tbe choice be tween Vance and Merrimon be presented to them at the November election "Vi dens'" wilt see who Wake county will be for. The writer ot this has no animosity whatever towards benator Mernmon, ad mires his ability, aiid with the great body of the Democratic party, freely admits that he has made a good Senator ; but be has only .done his duty, and for this does he deserve any more consideration than numbers of other Rifted sons o! the old North State? The truth is, he was elected . to his exalted . posi tion mainly by bis enemies, not by his friends, and the alternative was presented to him, either to go over to Radicalism. body and soul, or be extra zealous foi Democracy. II is good sense, patriotism. or policy chose the latter. But the masse of the Democratic party, not only in Wake bit from the mountains to the sea-shore. regard his election as the height of party insubordination, and that tbe numerous- independen's all over the State are but the outcroppings of bis teachings. (We need not be surprised if we bear of reverse from to-morrow's work in some places.) He will be rememjiered when the time comes to elect his successor in office. But the cry is raised that the Legislature was and is being packi d : Have Chatham and Johnston counties packed their members. because when at -the late election, they all having bolted the caucus, are now told that that policy will not be tolerated. "Videns" seems to think that Gov. Vance will be rather slow in acquiring influence in the National Senate ! Has he not m national reputation second to no statesman of the South? Did he not make a name in the lower House when a mere boy; and before hardly any of us, trom the centre and east, had ever heard of Judge Menimon, though they are both nearly of the same age. And then he (Videns) sagely asks, has Vance "the rea! ability to o re with the great men in the Senate ?" Shades of Solon 1 Ye immac ulate admirers of Senator Merrimon. stop calling ou Eno to be our next Senator, and place the name of Videns at your mast head. As his name indicates, he see? what few ever did or will see, Messrs. Editors. The people of Wake, the whole ttate. feel towards Zeb Vance as tbey do towards no one else I Born and raised in their midst and of them, every pulsation or their hearts beats in unison with bis. He is their representative man, and they intend, irovidence spares his life, to send him the successor of cenator Merri mon to the United States Senate, and Wake will give him a rousing majority in November, if submitted at the polls. This is, a', least, the candid opinion of a farmer of W ake over forty yrars old, who has lived in the county all his life. , Pastukb Braxch. - The nwcm Railroad. Froni the Fdyetteville Gazette. . Only those who have had an intimate ac quaintance with the operations of this road have any idea of the great wnrk which it has accomplished during the past ten or twelve months. In that time the line has been completely surveyed, over a broken and dimcult country, from Greensboro. Two enurely different linos, challenging sepa rate interests, have been gone over, necessi 'atitigmany preliminary surveys in differ ent directions, with a view to final loca tionand the company is now prepared to go on with the grading of the roadbed for the greater part of the distance between the present terminus and the point deter mined by the charter Greensboro. The convict labor granted to the Wear- era Railroad by the last session -of the uenerai Assembly has been productive of great results. The tract in extension is now ready for the iron to a point in Chat- uam county mree nuies bevond the On f auu iuu worn so iar uone is perfect. .4 . 1 1 . i - ' ve regard, the. extension of the road now to ureensboro. either bv abort line by Ore Hill or by the factories in Ran- ooipn, as almost certain. The Board of Directors are working all the time with unceasing activity and consummate iudg ment to pusa the work forward, and rhir ciAuika are ueing crowned with the most ..a . . 7 " gratirying success. Un the aid ult.. a verv important mppt ing of the Directors was held atFranklins- vuie, in nandoiph count thp wntw about which ate clustered five flourishinir wtwu uiiua, aim orounu wnicu lies one of the finest agricultural sections of North Carolina. The people of Randolph have long shown a deep interest in th iiAtiAn ; 1 1 ,1 1 1 ... 3 of the Western Iiailroad, and a natural de- ire nas ueen mam rested to have the line pass along Deep River at a noint nnr Columbia, in order that the manufacturing interests on that stream might receive the ueuem tnereor. mere would be. howvpr to accomplish this end a defl infirm nf eight miles in excess of the shortest route oetween igypt and Greensboro, with on additional cost of something over f 100,000, the figures, as we have obtained them from the official report of the engineer, bein as Egppt to Greensboro by factories, 61 9-10m, $516,822 Egypt to Greensboro by direct route 53 9-10m, $406,730 Difference, 8m $109,093 ii was proposed m the meeting of the directors to locate by this route, provided metxjuniyoi ltanooiph would " subscribe the necessary $100,000 to make up the ex cess iu cost. As only one-half of this sum was pieugea on tne part of the county by prominent citizens then present, it was deemed best to defer the location for the prcseui, ana tne loiiowuig resolution was luirouucea ana adopted : Resolved, That the location nf k wt Prn t ? q i 1 rcti A A r . . , the route by Ore Hill, to a point near Mat thews Cross Roads, and that the further location from said point to Greensboro be W1CI1CU. The President forthwith to the construction of the bridrP ov.oBO AA.-ep ruver, and measures were eaaeu uy wniCO tbe iron will ha nPn,i - . .- ot, ..1 uvui uu '"J 1US luc irat to me UU1X. v The building of this bridge is in itself uiaiusroi uie greatest importance to the uumucoo iuiercsia oi tne town of Fayette ville, as it secures the snmis mn..; i the Gulf, and that alone Buuuiu nouung else be accomnl ahwin:it greatly increase the trade of this town bv bnnmncr to no all k i : . .. . "J 7" o uuametia oi mat im mediate section. Which now ot l?I:u and Cameron. ,,su The DTOSnect Ir nnv fvirrht K ..." n the near future the Western Railroad, growing to completion from ita significant proportions, will be one of the Kicak uu uounsning raiiwnv linoo .k- Booth, and with its extension our trrto grow, our prosperitv win k rootn and a large part of the business latterlT diverted from us will be returned. ' Trunks, oarasola. nmhnna T? n K, ' valises, rubber plothing, &c., always tobe imtnA .ft . a 117-.. r . ".TJAniftFD 0ICK, BUT OUT A UlTL,n , Some men are . fastidious in selecting wives. Others are not at all nice in mat ters matrimonial.' But a breach, of prom ise taw in Arkansas, in general, is too rare and serious to leave a loophole for a laugh to come iu. Mr. Johnson Topp moved from Tennes -see across the Mississippi into Arkansas. He was a man of means and a bachelor. He was not wholly averse to matrimony, but he had a fear of widows. Grass widows especially were a terror to him. He had moved from East Tennessee to Middle Tennessee, and that section to West Tennessee, and finally over into Ar kansas to escape from real or fancied mat rimonial danger arising from enterprising, perhaps charming, Tennessee widows. That being Mr. Johnson Topp's history, it surprised his friends that he should ap pear as defendant in the case of Dublin vs. Topp; suit for breach of promise. But the Circuit Court docket forCrittenden county lisclosed the fact of the suit, and the affidavit of Mrs. Melinda Dublin set forth he particulars. The plaintiff was put on the stand to tell how wickedly she had been led inu- false hopes by the middle-aged baehelor. 'I live at heme with my old dad," she aid, 'Vd -his feller kept comin' round har m k bel'eve he wanted to trad mules. After he tiaded a time cr two till chat was plave d out, he come wantin' cot ton -e J. . .I knowed he only wanted a: xcuse to get to see me. and I told Por when he come again to bring him in and see whether he'd talk turkey or not if be iiad a fair chance. And that was jutt what be wanted. You never see a man -t up to a w.iman pearter than he did as introduced us, tellin' oon as ever Pop urn, "This is my dirter, Malindy." H at the offset ; but let as poweriul shy iim git fairly started on mules or shoates. md he was dead sure to end with spar-kin. And it appeared like he couldn't wait more'n a minit for a woman to say yes. 1 lidu t fool with tbe man ias lots do, but J aid yes ; and about the ! next thing tha! lappened he was trj m to jcrawfish. ThalV tbout the whole story. . t But her lawyer did not think it was the jvhole s'ory, and he was right there wa nore to be told. "Will you s.atelo the jury how it hap pened that tbe defendant, Topp. went back his word after be had asked you to narry him ?" ? "Well, as I said Ixiforc, he was the most ineasy man'unlil he got his answer, which vas yea. The Toerth day of Jily, J diowed, would be soon enough for tbe redding, day, but be couldn't wait till hen it w:is impossible. I told him to call Pop in and talk it over. I went ovei o the kitchen to git up a squar' meal, and -tbow the man I could do the tallest cook ;ng in Arkansaw, when I let myself out or it in dead earnest. "And what happened when your father md the defendant. Topp, talked it over ? Before I left 'era I told Pop the man as on the marry, and I reckined it was ill right.' Pop allowed they'd best have Omething to take. I set on tbe whisky tnd sugnr, and told them thar was cookin o do ; if ihey preferred mint in theirs hey knowed jist where to git it. When I came back I saw things was wrong. The first thing the man said, and he lookin' so oerin' a funeral : 'Curnel Dublin, I allowed your gal, Malindy, was a single gal till thif minit. Is she single, or is she ever beer. narried afore?' And Pop he told the rTuth, lookin' him plump in the eye. "She s been married onct, but enly a little only a little.' And I said. 'That's so: he's talking the Gospel facts only a little. I be man lit out then mighty suddent ; and me and Pop thinks if thar's any law in Arkansaw he orter pay." . The defendant urged that he didn't want a wife who had been married ever so little: He thought be bad been deceived. Tbe jury saw it differently. A little married didn t count in Arkansas ; he must pav. and he did pay. LET1EK FHH.H f HE WEST. Correspondence cf The Observer. CCLLASAGK P. O., MaOON Co , N. C, July 20, 1878. ' Messes. Editoks: I have enioved the reading of one of the letters of your edi torial exjirespondent, ia which he sketched some of the lovely landscape pictures amio tne Carolina mountains. Among these, the one that captivated me is the one your correspondent saw from "McDowell iiiil. ilis naming that hill revived in ray memory a volume of incidents connected with my early history, reaching back sixtv- yeara into past time. How could it be "otherwise after three years of my life hav ing Deen spent near Asheville at an academy? I left there in the year 1814. in my 19th year, and I returned to the place in the year ?874, a space in time of sixty years. Of all my school fellows there was not one who then survived, and among the citizens there were but two, and one of these was a black man. . I spent the summer at Asheville among strangers a new generation composed of the child ren and grand children of my friends of sixty years ago. All things looked and felt strange and unfamiliar to me all ex cept the distant lines of blue mountains: these were the verv same aa when T last beheld them. Such experience aa thin onH. dened my heart, and 1 resolved a day to my departed friends of tthe long ago," and 1 passed the day in the cemetery reading the inscriptions ontheiornhatnn. and then I pasd on to the cemetery of the old academy, but alas ! there was one particular grave I had not found. Disap pointed and sad, 1 started back toward Ashevilie. On the way I met a venerable ujock man, whose hair was' whit na t ton and his face a nest of wrinkioa hut deemed by bright and intelligent even Hp gave his name as "Manuel Clayton." I remembered him as the body servant of one of the friends of my youth named David Clayton, and he also remembered me, and then we two old men had a happy time on the road. We briefly PTfh a n fforl our histories, and I informed him how I had spent the day among the tombs. "But Manuel," I continued, T have failed to find 'Sarah's grave." He replied; "Sarah was not huriod i any of the grave yards; she was a girl of peculiar notions, and requested to be buried on a hill belonging to the old homestead. J ou can find her grave on a hill betwixt nr. vv. JJIClJowell'a honw ami iho .. x lluouiwveiV PTHROPrl the rlH J . . , WMW El TCI. hand and exclaimed, "Manuel. God hl you; and with a relieved heart pursued mv way to Asheville. ' sakah's grave." Next morning at 9 o'nlnct T vroa ot ing on a lofty hill top that overlooks the vallies of the French Broad and Swannanoa nyere, anu near to "Sarah's grave." The circumstance, as well as the surrounding ,, . f : . umpiring, and tbe following is a transcript ot what I there icn auu saw: An j our hearts have preci wuo memories tnat cause tears to uow wmcn are not of grief; and ima wona nam landscape scenes so grand and lovely as to cause breasts to ueavc wnu emotions no km to pain 1 Such memories are now revived and such a gntnu picture is now before me while on this lofty stand-point, (McDowell HilL as I now stand hard by "Sarah's Grave." i c w iu uraw a picture, nrst, from a South west view, and what do we see ? In the picture's fore-ground we behold two lovely mountain rivers meanderinff amid their uuiet vaueys covered witn homeurffl nH grain fields, while not more than a mile owajr iuwaru tne .-west tnese rivers join, ana their waters mincle in a nnn n.hr and then flow quietly away toward the i.iiuwcu quietly ? unly for a while ana men get into a deuce of a brawl kir tvfnr thaw Taoa KT o ; o . &saoo iv mill in n ira nam. 7 -axysuire ana .Durham blood finish the picture's fore-iyronnH t kw - i . rC""6- uwure ground commences with a wide campagna of bold blue hills-toward th sif u ,7rL. as they recede seem to grow in amplitude ik.Bui, as wen as aeener blue tint. nr awaroutonthe Southern horizon on m these shoots ud a Dvramidal ton tht i. uauicu juu i lsiran a son or Kish i ho i rom tne shoulders and tinwnrH tnii,. uuuBuum leiio wa i - This is one picture you see f rom Mc Dowell Hill, but it la but a part of tbe panoramic view. Toward th wt , -n . ... - North, lines of mountains risw hoh;n,i Mn, other and seem as an ocean mwmi with bold blue waves, while .way out on tbe verge of the horizou they allsccm to melt into the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountain chain. This is rather the way the thing looks from "Beaucatcher" east of Asheville. The alKve is my story of "Saiah's Grave." After this, when centuries 1 ave run into future time, who knows but that this story of "Sarah's Grave" may then survive as a sensational legend wit bcut a particle of truth but her name, when iome fond Pyramu8 and Tbisbe of that age will stroll off by moon light and seat them selves by "b'arah8 Grave, and the old legend may prompt the question by that, fair one, "Who was Sarah T To prevent falsehood attaching to tbe legend I will answer part of that question now. Sarah was the caughtrr of a substantial honest fanner named. Daniel Smith, and at that time owner of ; that lovely homestead, which until recently, belonged to W. W. McDowell. Tbe writer first met ber at school in the spring of 1812, then a mod est school girl in ber blushing teens. We met in after years when she was not a girl ! Memory drop the curtain, the tale grows sad! Ctjllasagk. Sheriffs aud C lerk Elected. ' Cleveland - B F. Logan, -Sheriff, Dcm. Cabarrus N. S'ough, Sheriff, Ind. , Jas. C. Gibson, Cl rk, Dem. - Granville. R. Garner, sheriff; T. D. Clement, clerk, Democrats. Moore J.. J. Wicker, Sheriff, A. n. McNeill, Clerk, Democrats. Pender A. H. Paddison, Sheriff; W. l Banmrman, Clerk, Democrats. Richmond Z. F. Long, Sheriff, Rep , Ougald Stewart, Clerk. Dems. Wake Jeremiah J. NowelL Sheriff, Charles D Ucliurch, Clerk. R-p3. Warren. N. R. Jones, Sheriff; W. A. White, clerk. Democrats. Wayne D rantham, Sheriff, W. T. Yelverton, Clerk. Dems. Wilson-K. H. Winstead, Sheriff, H.C. Moss, Clerk. Independents. Mb. Orchard, of Cabarrus, the solitary "National" elected to the Legislature, is said by both Cabarrus papers to be an excellent citizen and most estimable man of 'age, brains, and prudence." A story of the recent campaign will bear repeating. He was charged -with being an agrarian and Communist. He said be hardly thought that was true ; in fact his impres sion was that it was untrue. He was, lie said, the largest taxpayer in Cabarrus County, and if he knew himself be was not just then ready to divide out all around and begin even with everybody else. Tbe charge of Communism and agrarianism was quietly dropped. - Superior Wagons, Carts and Buegies. manufactured at our works. Repairing done in best manner. All work warranted first class. Jrurs Lewis & Co ; J ' Raleigh, N. C. Location of Shops. Ilargett Street, im mediately in rear of the old city cemetery. . August G wit fri&sun. The new light-running American Fcw ing Machine has nore good points tn it than any machine. A few of them are self-threading, se-lf setting, needle running backwards without breaking thread, more room under the am,. a new and sinipk- de vice for winding the bobbin without rt moving the strap from the balance whcrl. without unthreading the machine, or with out removing the work : does not skip stitches, and several more that other ma -chines have not. jel2 dlaw-wlm paid. Yadkin College, N. C." This vry cheap, good school costs only $40 to $r0 per term, 880 to $120 per session or 10 months. Cheapest school of the grade in tne State. The next session opens last Thursday in August. jy 3-w8w. A Trcb Bill. It is said that the pas sage of the silver bill by the late Congress has wrought much good in various ways, but Barbam's Infallible Pile Cure has dene more to relieve the sufferer from that ter rible disease known as Hemorrhoids or Piles than anything else ever yet discover ed. Send for a box. We guarantee a cure. Manufactured by the Barham Pile Cure Co., Durham, N. C. . jy 23 If "Our Own."' If 1 had known in the morning How wearily all the day The words nnkind Would trouble mv mind 1 said when you went away, I had been more i-arefn!, rtariirp, Nor given you needless nam ; But w vex "our own," With look and tone We might never take back again. For though in th quu-t evening You may give me the kiss ot m-swe. Vet it might be t That never for me The pain of the heart ehonld cease. How many go forth in the morning . That never come bome at nighi 1 And hearts have broken Por hard words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right We have care rul thoughts for the stranirer And smiles for the sometime suc-st Bat oft for -our owu" t 1 he bitter tone, . J.,,0,a8,, we toTe "nr ow" nc bf-st. An I Hps with the curve impatient : Ah ! brow with that look ,.f m; mi T were a cruel fate, Were the night too late To undo the work of morn. "Where Haul Then Cleaned T "Where hast thou gleaned to-daj ?" For somewhere all must glean. Either where Satan walks or Uod Is seen O brother, say ! "Where hast thou gleaned to-lay ?" "Where hast thou gleaned to-day?" Where nettles stand and ting, Or in the broad, full gr&in-nelus of the Kins-1 O Chri'tiau, say ! "Where hast thou gleaned t day T" "Where hast thou gleaned to-day ?M Ah! thou shalt know at last. When God requ res th past! When thou shait face-thejndgraei.t s stern array Ah ! thou shalt know it thenT "rraJ Thou and thy fellow men, "Where thon hast gleaned to-dav ! ; . Anr O. Chatter, in the BoangelUt. Ruth ii. 19. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Mi may 1-D3m sautoes & wSm SPECIAL NOTICE, John r.1. Walker, OF HOBTH 0AB0LINA, BOOTS AND SHOES, uahing Houseof ' 100 au" 1 u(- E. J. IIALE & SON, 17 Murray Street, N W YORK' .I . win oe pleased tn WIlAMk 1 . ... . " them. And hew i ; V kTV' " ,e nrt to serve mh-dw-U. keaHl " win cm kmri.iik...i: " 1 " rvf5-:i I ebsi-diy wed an -wij

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