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i, , V V THEFlOmRSCOLUCTiOa Gazette. 1 VOL. I. CARTHAGE, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1881. NO. 33. f CAKTHAGE, N.JC. J. II, MVHOVElt. ...... Subscription t One copy, one rear One copy, 'six months One copy, three months. : , Editor. .$l.r.o . . '75- AdTrrtiitiii Knlesi One (square, one inch, one time .11.50 One square, one inch; two timns 1.00 One square, one iuch,"oueniuiith 2.00 Liberal raoea for-con tracts and standing ad vertiaementH. , God bless yon, little woman, ' In the work you have to do, . And may His grace be with you, And may He kelp you through ! For we love you, little wornau, With heart so true and brave ,. Who dare to be courageous, In Jhe shadow of the grave. rGod bless you, little woman, With your heavy weight of oar", If onr hands could give anoiKrauce , Many millions w ould be there ; . Onr hearU are beating. for you, And responding to your own, And beside -your hutthand'a bedside Yon are watching not alone. ! (livl aye you, little wouian ! rod save ynur husUiud too ! God save you lmlli unto us ! For we love both him and you. fitaud by linn, little, woman .' Wand firm and brave and true! And remember, little woman, We will alavs stand Iv vou. ST. JOHN'S EVE. "You surely don't mean to go on to night. The distance is a good twenty miles." ' "Yc3," Raid I,.. "I must catch the Ehine steamer at Kr lac-hen in the morn ing." "But," objected the landlord, "there is no conveyance." -. "Yes, there is," I replied; "a good, serviceable pair of Tegs. I haven't footed it over three parts of Europe to In frightened by a score of miles over a good road." "But," he persisted, "this is St. n's eve." ot it. It is likely to be a particularly nasty bit of properly, by the looks of the sky." ' "Don't jest," he' replied, earnestly, "especially if yon insist upon pursuing your journey. The road has a bad rep utation. More than one traveler, as brave as you, has repented the hour he set foot upon it to the day of their death." 4'I suppose you mean that it" isfre quented by light-fingered gentry," I answered. "However, I have nothing to fear, since Thave nothing to lose." "It is said to be haunted," he said, "especially on St. John's Eve, by the specters of a gang of marauders who were hanged upon the scene of their -crimes more than fifty years ago. You : may still see the rusted chains hanging from the trees. Their bodies -decayed into nothing long ago. For years these , villain had infested the road, robbing . and murdering defenceless travelers. The laws in those dayB were not strictly executed. So long as no one of note suffered at their hands, they were un molested ; but growing bold with im munity from justice, the scoundrels committed an enormity which speedily brought them literally to the end of their rope. "A nobleman of, the neighborhood was about to marry a beautiful fiirl of a wealthy and distinguished family. The wedding was to take place on St. John's Eve. It was a stormy night just as this promises to be. Preparations had been made at the count's castle; the i guests had assembled, the tables were spread, and the bishop was waiting to .unite the noble pair. Nothing was wanting but the presence of the bride, who lived at some distance, and who .. . was to arrive in the family coach. But -v-she did not corue. Hour after hour ' passed; the guests grew uneasy; the expectant bridegroom distracted. At length, unable to bear the suspense any longer, the count saddled his norso, and with a party of friends set out to search for the absent girl. They found her within a mile of the castle. The postillion and her father and sister were found with their brains knocked out, and she was discQveredlying in the ci A.'-ro, .'t'l. u-i nmuiu jew- els, witn a dagger wound in her breast, ueaa. fM What the count felt, no one ever knew, for he never spoke of it. But all night long.he and his companions scour'd toe woods, and at day-light the six ma rauders were swinging in chains beside the spot where their victims had suf fered. It is said that on St. John's Eve the phantoms of the robbers and the wedding party rehearse those dread ful scenes, ft may be true. What do I know? But not for millions would I travel that road to-night." "A very pretty 6tory." I replied, "and doubtless absolutely true. I f I encoun ter any of the interesting personages connected with it I shall treat them with due respect for your sake So saying, I shook the worthy man's hand and left him wagging his head dubiously over my temerity. The road was gqpd; the air cool and bracing, and fprjhe first tour I pro ceeded at aa Winging pace. At this point the sonn which had been threat- oning all the evening bnrst upon, me. The rain poured down jn sheets, drench ing me to the skin and converting the road into a muddy torrent. The wind roared through the leafless branches of the treeB with a weird, shouting sound far from pleasant to hear. The darkness grew bo intense that I Lad great difficulty in keeping the track, and more than once floundered into the wet ditch besido the road. I kept up my spirits, however, and plod ded steadily oiward. Near midnight I arrived at a point where the road divided into two branches, which led off at right angles to each other. 1 paused, in dibmav for ought -to take' '. While I was. debating the question in a very uncomfortable frame of mind; I heard the snnnd of heavy f ootsteps in the road behind me. Delighted at the opportunity of inquiring the way out of my dilemma, I waited at the side of the road. far the approach of the trav elers. , They came on at a quick pace, and as they neared me I could see that there were six of them, all men dressed in the German forester's costume, a traditional attire which the peasantry are fond of assuming on occasions of holiday fes tivity. They appeared to be armed ; indeed, I was certain that I saw a gleam of a deer knife in the belt of the one nearest me. What struck me at first as some what odd was the perfect silence with which they walked. They uttered no exclamation nor exchanged a word, but tramped on like mutes. As I had hitherto found Germany a perfectly safe region I had no reason to doubt the good character of these men, in spite of their mysterious movement's, I hailed thorn andinquired which- road 1 ought to take in order to reach Er lachen. To my indignation and aston ishment they paid no attention what ever to 'my words, but marched steadily onward, as if I had not spoken. I re peated my request in a louder toue, with the eamo result. I was now thoroughly angry, and went up to the nearest one with the intention of shouting in his ear, when a perfectly unaccountable sensation kept me dumb. U was not fear, nor any explicable feel ing; but a species of terrible 'inward shrinking, as if my heart were contract ing. - At this instant I noticed another startling phenomenon, i 1 was now They gleamed as white as chalk in the obscurity perfectly blank uud colorless as the faeas of the dead. I could see the dark circles of the eyes, though the pupils were invisible. The effect was altogether ghastly and corpse-like. I refrained from attempting to hold any fnrther communication with the.m, and waited in considerable mental con fusiou until their footsteps died away in the distance. 1 presently shook off my unpleasant sensation, and concluding that the men had probably taken the main road to ward Erlachen, I followed after them. I had gone perhaps a hundred paces when I detected the creak and. rattle of some heavy vehicle behind mc. Look ing, back, I knew that it must bo some sort of traveling carriage from thtwo lamps that were upon it, which were shining like two red eyes, and casting a broad glare upon the wet road. The horses were going 'at a furious galop, und I could sec the steam from their bodies rising like a cloud into the damp air. The spot where I stocd was" excep tionally dark and rough. Tne postillions seemed to be acquainted with it. for they presently pulled in their horses to a cautious walk. As soon 4s the equi page drew near enough I hailed the postillion upon the foremost horse and inquired th way to Erlachen. I was sure this man must have heard me, but he. made no reply, neither did he turn his head in my direction. By this time the coach was abreast of me. I walk ' along, keeping pace with it, and reHaret any inquiry t j the guard upon the box. To my rage and amaze, he too neither made' reply nor . looked at me. I wondered if 1 had come by chance upon all the deaf mutes in the country out for an airjtig. . I turned mv attention in tbr. and perceiving dimly that it was occu- pied by a number of "people, I shouted into the window, which, strangelv enough, I found to 'be without glazing, and reiterated my question. There was no reply, and apparently no notice taken of me whatever. I now began to perceive something extraordinary about tb n-i.i i . . . -. i . j n i . ti t h i u L LIU Wnole ! equipage. Jiy the strong light from Bv the the lamps I saw that, th tici. Lt the horses were rotten, and nearly fall ing apart. The dresses of the postillions I vrere f De fashion of half a centnv before. The velvets, trimm J win, ri . iv. ..nu tUHl and lace, seemed dropping from their : limbs with age and decay. Th ,...i. itself was of an antiquated pattern and very riuuous. ineironwor was rusted in holes, and the leath er iWpnn V .. .3 peeled into tatters which Happed in the wind. " All this was th ! K Miiee the crest of a noble familv was vim me upon me panels. Wv ama7AmAnt . -vuiv-ul Wtt3 augmented as my sight lecame better accustomed to the obscurity. The mute postillions had the same terribly white faces, the same corpse-like expression which I had seen 7 OncrXi1 WV - itrn sirongiv "F"" -" vvur oi me one upon the rear horse, I wasjiorrified to see that it was absolutely and undeniably the face of a man lone dead. As I reeled' back from the intolerable shock of this discovery, my gae rested upon the occupants of the mteMor of the coach. Those consisted of an old than in an ancient court dres. wig and nifties, a voung girl of twelve or four teen, and" a ladv, some years her senior, attired in white eilk, a lo"g e and a profusion of jewels. -11 three sat in opposite corners of the fipacicms seats, bolt upright, ami scann uianj into each other's eves with expressi-!-less. dead -White faces. I WgniMt by some inner sense rather than Vy sight, that these three shapes, like tl)e of the nostilhons. were those oi Dems loner dead. k-r - t .-! 1 t . i i 1, n IT lif t which that grotesque ami .gnasuy as sembly remained before my fascinated gaze. The next instant the 'equipagre passed1 by. leaving me reeling and tot tering in the road. But this was not the finnii- of the dreary drama of that night. The ve hicle had gone beyond mo hardly its own length when there was a; terihe confusion of sounds, cries, curses and groans intermingled, and the coach was overturned into the road wih a tre mendous crash. The lights still continued: "to burn, and in the glare I saw a number of dark figures, which I recognized asho men in foresters' dress who had paed me a few moments before, engaged -oi a des perate struggle with the pci'lillio'ns. Heavy, sickening blows wore dealt, fol lowed by awful cries of agony, aJid pres ently I saw the three servanfs, out stretched and bleeding, in the snad.. In a moment more the; coach door was torn open and I saw its occupants dragged out. Then began another hor rible struggle. The old man was struck down and the younger of the two girlu quickly suffered the same fate. The elder of the two seemed to make a more desperate resistance.- I could see- her flying hither and thither amt.ng the men, her w,hite dress and white face gleam ing phosphorescently in the semi-dark-ness. I could hear her awful cries and see the downward blows of the-glitter-ing Iknives. At last she was seized ; there was a renewed stmggling among j the dark figures, a long shrill scream that seemed to sail away in mournful echoes over the barren tree tpps,and when I saw her again she was lying upon the ground with a red gash in her breast Will anyone ask me why 1 did not in- rnose or make some effort toward jrefi- ghostly iigures with their JvhifcTafV writhing in and out of the darkness, would have paralyzed a braver manthaii I. I was spell-bound and frozen ; I could neither move hand nor foot, nor utter a syllable. I could only stare with fascinatedfgaze at the weird and dread ful scene, quivering as if with an ague. I knew then as 1 know now, that I was witnessing no mortal combat in which living beings were engaged and humm creatures were sinning aud suffering. It was an unreal struggle among the dead, and I had no power cither to in terfere or to rly. - The whole scene occupied but a few seconds. While I stood petrified the sounds suddenly ceased, the lights wont out. and the dim figures of the men.au.l the two girls vanished in the winking of an eye. Whore they had been, noth ing was now visible but the wet and shining road and the black background of the forest.. Then the spell seemed to leave my muscles. I spring forward toward the spot, only to be stricken a havy blo full in the temple and to fall insensible j in the road. j When I again became conscious it was . broad davlight and the sun was shining in my face. 1 arose, stiff and, sore, and looked around me bewilder edly. The events of the previous night were still fresli in my memory and I in voluntarily looked for traces of the ter rible scene I had witnessed, lint none ... 11 i Hwere visible; no wrecked coacu, no blood stains, no tattered -garment-s nothing but the rain-smoothed earth, marked only by my own footsteps. My head felt very painful, and putting my hand to it I found that I had re ceived a bad cut on the temple. Ou searching for the cause, I discovered a number of rusty ohains defending fjp the tree over my.litfffiVOuiPwith lV. liuks, hung a little 'lower than the others, in a line with my forehead. It was this which had given me my wound. 1 h:ul lallen directly beneatn tlie treeimariied life a man still clings to his where the robbers had been hanged fifty wife tiiroUirh love." I.t ( 'Uarirari. vears lefore. ! Call it mere coincidence, and say that , what I saw was the reminiscence of my ! landlord's story and dreamed in the de lirium caused by my hurt explain it ' upon any natural ground that . yen choose, I shall still adhere to my opinion of the matter. J The largest tone slab ever quarried ; in the United States has recently been placed before the new residence of Mr. , W. H. Yandcrbilt, on Ffth avenue, New York. The stone measures twenty-live feet two inches by fifteen feet, and is , eight inches thick. It weighs abont 44,000 pounds. It was quarried at .tSarreville, Sullivan eountv, N. Y. and ,the block from which it was cut is de- scribed as perfectly level, and about 1., , J r-. t : Ulj 19 UCT uuirt-j. icci iuuBuu uiutrit-eu icet iu c width. From this surface the bock was cut out and then raised by wedges- . A man walked into the City Bank yes terd av and nnnirrl "An. rnn h. teller?" "Yes." "Well, what do vou teller?" He dodged, but the clubhit him in the head and he was i mt on a shutter. Eotftester Express. FOPULAK SCIENCE. It has been found by Mr. P. Hoglan that calomel is slowly changed id the human system by the action of water and the temperature of the body into corroshe sublimate. This decomposi tion is aided by the presence of citric acid, chloride of sodium or sugar. Dr. Kirk has determined with accur acy the plant which yield.yfhe best East African India rubber, snd has ob tained seeds of the species for introduc tion into India.' It occurs in great n 1 HI ri il .i ulriTiiv flirt nnn'lv.maila n . 1 from Dar-es-Salaam, in a west south westerly direction, for about a hundred .jJUiieK toward U;tt interior tt Afrira. Jhioucrh the AYazamaro countrv. , It is apparently but little affected by the reckless mode of tapping employed. In many parts a native can still collect about three pounds of rubber daily. There are rive species of the tree, but -oulv one of them is considered woith tapping. What are the effects of different kinds of intellectual work ou the cerebral cir culation V This question, M. Gley, a French physiologist, has attempted to answer by experiments made upon him self. When lie applied himself to a subject which he hail a difficulty in un derstanding thoroughly, and had, there fore, to concentrate .all his energies upon it, the rhythm of the heart was far more accelerated than when he took up some matter with which he was well acquainted. A novel pair of scissors has been de vised by Herr Sievert, of Dresden. The blades are re presented by two circular steel knives, which slightly overlap at the edges aud are pressed together by two spiral springs. The knives are fas tened to a puff of wooden rollers, with India rubber rims, which grip and guide the coth or paper as it passes between the knives, so that the latter may cut straight. These cutters are carried by two handles, or levers, which are held in the hand, and the cutting is effected by pushing. the scissors forward so as to acuse the rollers to revolve. , French Cynicism. Men cling to their wives lor various reasons. Through mere love of comfort, as one is attached to a good kitchen uten sil. - Through habit, :WiC-bke9 the cosv th e one riHade7bn cjinfomc Through economy ; you could not hire a Beryant who would not cost you .twice as much and serve you half as well. Through pride just as one persists in refusing to reconsider a foolish choice one has made lest people should talk about it. Through love of peace : A separation, would cause so much scandal and create so much trouble. Through fear -of public opinion : What would the neighbors say, ami her friends, : nd above all, her relatives? Through imitation : Everybody else sticks to his wife, so one must do like the balance. ' Through instinctive attachment to the children one has had by her. Trough force of character : Just as a great, .soul bears a catastrophe without a wonl of complaint. Through virile dignity : One must respect one's name, you know. Through legal compulsion : There is no cause to-offer for a Miit, there are no faets to justify it. Through philosophy : All women rc semble each other. Through a spirit of penitence : "It is my fault, all my faults, my most griev ous fault.' Through petty vanity, because every body savs, "Oh, what a splendid wo man r 1 hi e ugh remorse of conscience : 'Poor little woman, it is not her fault that I am tired of her." 1 Through spite : "So, I have been ; caught in the trap sh! let others fall into it also ! ' And aow, ye untrustworthy apostles of liwmestic worship, that I have summed up these variations of conjugal atta hwet, find me the household-that I haw ieen looking for, lo ! these twenty years, in order that I tnay be abie to add - -" "Somelimixj aftr ii finv months nf Calile l.aiing in South America. Cattle raising on the Biver Platte, in Seutli America, has made a great ad vance within a few years past, and in the south of the Bepublic, particularly, th business is fast extending. Pres ent prk-es are said to be unprece dented and to cause suqirise at the rfadim ss rith which they are accepted. Breeding was comparatively new to the raiFS as late as ls7G, and was confined' then to the hands of a few persons who coufi uuora, ii necessary, to lose sev- erM iii" isaud nead of cattle by Indian depredations and epidemics. When the Indians finally disappeared, small cap italists confidently entered the field. j i " 1 ; na .""unue growth then followed. During tbe r.ast vear tho innreiun xcaa .r . . ; , .. . g:- iu anv iormer one. and tnis in spite of the dist urled condition of the cmHitrv. Still mnr imnmnnont is looked for in the fisures of the year . inst paVins'. Dnrinu iha lact flm rn tnp i me rnzs stwt un it irt u toW - m i,c, $l,25;i,y20 rnlc; in ' 1' J'5-M rule; in 1878, $8.27,- ttF-: ,m ls".S10.517.580mlc.. and .: in lx70,sio,517,580mlc, and ls,005,8o7 mlc. inl FOR THE FAIR SEX. T- Home Dfrnaninkintf. Now that lace, for trimming all kinds of material, is having its dav agaifi after long disuse, people who have ancient, lace-bedecked finery laid away, will do well to resurrect tho obsolete garments, and rip off the trimming to use again. No feature of white lace is more highly valued than the jeculiar creaminess which is given by age ; so it is no mat ter if a score of years has passed since it saw the light if time has spared its strength, it is all the more desirable for the use of to-day. It is not a very long time since imitation laces found no market in . America. Our English eis- forsTiavornamented their pretty even ing dresses with them freely for the last half-dozen years, but here we have eyed them with scorn and suspicion, till of late, imported dresses of undoubted style converted us to their use. This season dealers offer us fully twenty-live varieties of imitation lace, many of them exceedingly pretty, and some exinmsivo enough to demand consideration from those whose admiration for an article is governed by its cost. A dress worn at a Saratoga hotel by one of the- visitors recalls a hint for making such a dress, given a long time ago in these articles. The present fancy for lace makes the idea even more wor thy -of attention than when' first men tioned. While the slight cost of the costnme, as mado at home, will be it$ recooimendation to economists, there is no reason to believe that the drpss which was admired at tho watering place was inexpensive ; on the contrary, the probability is that it was inqorted for the wearer. The dress was made of white Brussels net, it was once called, but the nearest approach to the fabric sold as such then is now the fine mos quito lace, not the coarse stuff with the square bar, but a net with mesh, like in kiud, but not size, to tho cane scats of chairs. The overskirt was darned in a showy pattern, such as is frequently seen upon tidies, with linen thread. The back of the skirt was covered with three w ide ruffles of the lace, bordered with a danied pattern, and the lowest rutlle extended all "around the bottom of the dress. The waist was thickly cov ered with stripes in the darning stitch representing inserting, and '.he sleeves were decorated in the same Tay. The underdress in this case was V white, Surah satin, sleeveless aud low8( neck, but ssny old iwhitc, or pals r- 3. sTCTreaTr used with&tVfta defects being percepti- Die inrongn tne runting and figuring 'of the lace. Darned tidies are so easy to make, aud have been for a long time such a popular stylo of fancy work, that most young ladies have had some ex perience in that line, aud if a handsome evening dress happeusto be the desire of any young lady's heart, she w;ill not shrink trom the labor involved in get ting up a dress like tho one described. The cost will be next to nothing, if the edge of the overskirt is finished by deep scallops run with several rows of linen, and a deep hem turned on the lottom of the ruffles just below the darned bor der. Countless yards of rullled -lace added to the dressiness ot the costume just described, but to many tastes the simplicity of the finish just suggested would give the dress a charm besides making it much easier to wash-if itever needed to pass through that process, which is doubtful, as lace does not catch dirt as easily as other fabrics. French writers predict a rc -entrance into fashion of striped materials. They were considered fut of date last season, and merchants reduced the prices of those on hand so much that some great bargains are still to be secured. Black silks have been out of favor for the last few years, in consequence of the popu larity of satins and brocades, but there is no danger of their staying out of style any great length of time, and now is the time to purchase them, for both the French and those ef American manufac ture are being sold very cheaply. A black silk dress is always handsome and desirable, and for people who rarely buy a rich dress, and must of necessity make that dress last forever, there is nothing to equal a black silk,' for it goes triumphantly through the changes of fashion as no other garment can. Even if more showy styles prevail, the wearer of a well-made black silk dres can be certain, under all circum stances, of being ladylike in appearance. This is a time when dressmaking is at rather a standstill in most families, and people are generally at leisure to do other things. In houses where ready-made underclothes are not the rule, the time can be well applied to replenishing the stock. Better cloth is usually put ir4o the home-made gar ments and where nightgowns and rhe mises have given away- at the yokes and sleeves, the lower portions will le worth making uj into children's undergar ments, pressing sacks or sacks to wear in sickness can also be made from the i .i-;-ta nf .nrant night-dresses, and VcQ ronntK: nui l.ir.i, mr, u.. ; m!1,ifl of half-worn underclothes in f-rn. ilies where a sewing machine w used. Of course it would not pay to spend time in sewing by hand upon any but new muslin. I ..... ,-..,a r 1. ,r. 1 oirance i saiu mr. oiuiin, as ivirs. i Brown concluded the tale of her terrible : i neasickness : "strantre that eointr on i ! the water should have made vou so sick. i I'm nevpr sea-sick." "Aren't von f t rpmifirt Mrs. Xirown. "l suPDOse von ; are an old sailor." ".No, indeed," Mrs. Smith responded, "I ntiver wis on the I water in mvlife." Mrs. Brown-"Oh!" I water in mv ' Doston tr Transcript. its. ITEMS OF INTEREST. There aro over fifty nes gii Is selling papers in the streets of Chicgo, in vio lation of tho rity statutes. St. Louis gamblers aro astonished because the police are enforcing an act recently passed niaking gambling a felony. Tho American Bible Society, haa pro cured a stop cylinder press upon which an entire copy of ,the, Bible can b6 printed every minute. George Williarj Curtis says there are . no professional beauties in this coun try, and Dr. Mary Walker says he is a professional liar. - a 1 n aTt the mines" in gre.t 4ft ftaitf there are, it is estimated, U78.151 "er sons employed, and the length of under ground tunnelling in which they Work is 58,745 miles. A pretty woman lying dangerously ill at Bising Sun, Ind., was promised a 'physician that he would cure her. ifj she would desert her husband anrc elope with him. It is asserted that " the bargimi w as carried out on both sides. The latest Yeneznelau army list con tains tin; names of :tl!,2'J"2 generals. As , the regular army of the rcpubic consist of exactly 1 I ( men, each Venezuelan soldier may count upon nearly three generals to convey to him, individually, his instructions in the field. The Pullman Palace "Car Company owns 1,000 acres a few miles from Chi cago, at Pullman. They employ 4j000 men in a very methodic manner. The pay roll of $175,000 monthly furnishes the living cf 2,000 persons. No whisky shojis are allowed on the, premises. Old vulcanized caoutchouc may be recovered if cut into pieces and brought into contact with steam sufficiently heated to volatilize -the sulphur. The caoutchouc melts and is then collected as a liquid, which may bo found useful in making water-proof covers. .r Marrying in a Forclgu Land. The question of marrying in a foreign land is becoming decidedly complicated. A woman recently sued a man in Nurem-bm-g, Germany, for a breach of promise to marry her. The case went on appeal to the Court of Supreme Judicature, which smisscd it on tne strength oi, a .wlmpfl .trilinantA . nnliHabfid nil .f j VgHgtHll' jft rtiA Bhall take placo in the tmco of at .leafit two male relative or two other impartial men, specially "Alt P.lfmin f-r-nV- " -4 -v - called in as witnesses, who, incase ot j need can testify tn tho engagement." The defendant in the cause alluded to . proved that only women wero present k at the engagement, and this was deemed sufficient for dismissing the ' ease from court. Complications, how ever, anso no less from tho .variety of the marriage laws in,this country. Thus ho legal marriage can take place in Bhode Island save before a clergyman domiciled in that state. AU persona about to conclude a marriage must be sure of satisfying the local law on their part as woll as the law of tho state or country ,!; which they desire to have their raiirniges considered valid at law. ' In Bhode r land, for initance, a mar riage betweea'blacks and whites is ille gal.' The law everywhere protects the . -clergyman or civil officer 'who joins people in ' marriage, pfOrided he has obeyed the law, while tho persons mar- -rying assume nearly the whole respon sibility for th legality of their act. Nor is this wrong in principle, mar riage being essentially a contract be tween 'two parties, of which the clergyman or civil officer is - lit tle more, in the eye of the law, than a public and official witness. The marriage ceremony between for eigners, or i ersons from different states, or an American and a foreigner, or two Americans, may be legal on the part of ttheortieiating person and yet illegal on he part of the contracting parties. Chinese Life. A ieep into the Chinese quarter is well worth taking. Here they fairly swarm. The streets are dimly lighted. Colored lanterns are strung along some of the balcooie, or are hung from the windows. Bed and black sign's in crooked characters are everywhere, and from all sides resounds the echo, it Heems, of a hundred unknown tongues. Lights stream from cellar flaps, creep through ojen doors and window chinks, but the shops are only lighted by a suc cession of dingy oil lamps. Discordant noises of rasping fiddles, gongs, and sundry unknown tifneless instruments mingle with the clatter of strange tongues and loud, discordant laughter..' lhe shop:! to the Anjencan eye are sin gularly uninviting. The butcher! wbo is a general merchant as well, sells Jom j stiqks, teapots, tobacco, and score of nrVicr tln'r,rc T-T Asinlm hia iljvir nn either side with hnge carcasses off slaughtered hogs. They are not quar-j tered and jointed in civilized fashion bnt are hacked, hewn, and torn asunderi just as the meat is wanted, and presenl a mangled, shapeless mass, sickening tl look at. , Split chicken and birds ar W i L.. , uaiientni wuv ue utria i un-jer, naihfd aeainst the walL Delicate tl bits, steeped in oil and dried, are up like cherrv bobs across the windo and iw-ores of oilv cakes, like lnJBDS. veiiow soap, are lam on ueuenra. u, liers most ia,ortant fanctiODJ among the Chinese are ereryirh Within a radius of half a miLMhefe no less than fifty of them atrruf I -41 I: I 7 J . I anl I i I wi S .I 4 i i i j.. 1 s
Moore Gazette (Carthage, N.C.)
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Sept. 22, 1881, edition 1
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