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' - I . 1 ! , I - : ....... - ' . i x-. ,!"'!''' . Vi , , ' ! ! - ' v. :. . ,f. ; , j .. . .:;:.- v : :.. i- v ..-,- i , f ,. ' ' ' - . r ; - .- .- - if1- . . j "Xi . - f tvtl- SUUSCRIiTIOX Tlie WKKKLV LEDGER U furnlaheU trt subscribers at pne dollar hik! fltty ct nts pT copy per annum, invariably instance. j vx inontlis, one dollar. Elo"n i"op.,'o"ear, fifteen dollar. f wriity-two. copl, one year, . thirty dollar. ' iAIrr nnler! 'to -'Hie WEEKLY LKIMJKIf Chaiel 11111. X C ! KKWGOODS.i -i ' ? StoM -f lls now" t-omplete in Kve ry Department, ami wilj be sold at i : . . BOTTOM 'l'laCEi FOK CAS1T. or to prompt paying ensiomers. Hi Stock eonsbts in part of , CASSIMEKES, CLOTHS, COTi TOXADES.L XEN DIULTxS lor rant and Suit, Ac I- Full Lie of iMinestie 10-4 bleachel ami u n bleached S II E ET I N O. PILLOW c:SE JooR LAKE GEOHOE . A. II KAVY fill En II XG 4-4. LONSDALE CAMHKIC. A Full Line of t FIGURED AND PLAIN LAWNS, .A . ' ' ' LIXKX FOU LADIES SUITS ' ! : . ami TRAVELLING DRESSES. .1 ; I T r . HAMBURG EDGINGS, In every style i i from 5 cents up. LINEN T0W1ELS and ; u : CRASH. MARSEILLES QUILTS,' a lar$e lot. "KEEPS SHIRTS and COLLARS," a frill lint, r MILES axi) ZIEGLERS hand mads Shoes in every Style, for Or tlemen. lilies. Misses and -Children. Also a large lot of other gooil aiirt popular makes of Miocs. . i ' J McCAULEY'S " ---I- i I He dquArter for i HACON, LAUD and GROCE- RIES, CANVASSED & SUGAR CURED HAMS W hand all the time at Bottom Prices. . ; . , -. N. U HAMS and I SIDES at lOcts. ! . GOOD DROWN SUGAR at lOcts '.' . I ! . ! . ' Cash. GRANULATED, CUT LOAF and best DROWN SU- GAR at iowpst prices lUT.Sau.l HOtllXY nlxvv on h;ii ul. a vi.i, i.ixk or FI.SH. X. c. (A i- IIMRUIXG. MTLhETS, I r.Lui: iTsii. a--. ,! "' BEST rriiAMOLASES and'PPRE HONEY! DU1P SYRUP. PURE CIDER VIXEGAR'and a . FRESH RICE. A foil Stock of Farmer's Friend Plows Points and Bolts, always on hand. i SWEEDS RefinelJ Roil, Square and Round Iron on , hand.' of all the differ ent jnze it the lowest cah price. COTTON HOES in all the latest and JmpmveU tyle: HORSE and jMULE SHOES . and NAILS.' CUT aivl FIXISI1IXG NAIIJ-ot everv ilie. , , ! - , ; 1 (SRAIX and GRASS BLADES. . " i i ' In fact, everything ;in the Hani ware L!nf- ; i "v . A beautiful Hue of t ; LADIES', MISSES, and CHILDREN'S .TRIMMED and UNTRIMMED HATS. RIBBONS. RUFFS, CUFFS and COL- . LARS In every Style. ; A full Line of Gentlemen and Ladies' NECKTIES. I - Gentlemen 'and Bovs FELT and STRAW HATS, hi nil the latest anil newest Stvlesy " A full line of Men and Bov' READY MADE CLOTHING at prices that can- noi ue neat. . , UMBRELLAS and PARASOTJS that beau them all. from 15 cente to S3. If you want to save money, come to 1CUAUI.KY"S1 wliere votl will Jinu what you want at prices to suit every- . uouy. i i Thanking the public for. the liberal patronage given me heretofore, I pledge myself In the future, a I have tried to lo In the pat, to treat every bod v right and give them the worth of their money Very respect full v. , D. McCAULEY. Chapel Hill, X; May 18, 1878. CHAPEIi UV MAKY MACKINTOSH. Perhaps you think a hero A niHiiof giant might, A warrior iii armor. A champion lor the right. Who through the world goes boasting That wrong shall be no more ; The glory oi whoso exploits - Is sung trom shore to shore. Ill olden time a hero Was siu'h a man. I know; ;Ile went to battle aided Ry javelin ami bow. VYou all have heard of Ajax, " Of Priam's valiant son. And of the great Achilles, Who many battles won. But now 'to. 1m? a hero f - Is quite another thing ; Ami he who earns the title Is nobler than a king. f. Ti he who follows duty, j. ' Who scorns to be untrue ; j Who's guided by his conscience, . , Xot by what others do. 'I . i And you may be a hero, i By doing all you can I To free the world from error, i And aid your brother man.- . And though no blast of trumpet Your greatness may proclaim, j With heartfelt benedictions Mankind will j breathe your name, j MY PIBST'AN l LAST BET. . BY JUDGE CLARK. i I In this1 fast-going age, when the events of last week belong to An cient History, going back to 1852 seeing like a recurrence to antedelu vian times. Yet that was the year it happened.! . Jack W. was the fastest youth we lad in the . Miami valley I don't mean morally, but physically the faatost. He had made his iiunareti yards in a race in 9 999 000 seconds, or thereaboulsj-the watches, like those that timed Goldsmith Maid, .u-Aren't: exactly agreed oh the fraction, i ! One evening a belated stranger ap plied for quarters at the farm-house of Jack's father, a worthy, genial gentleman, of whom Mr. Donner has often heard as the man who first in troduced to the ted pacer in the public the most nvf world.. Of couise. the wayfarer was ks pitably- received. From Jtfr v 8 door, none was ever turned empty away ; and the uniform invitation to all who leli'it was "to call agaiu. if they chanced to j come that way." J' I forget by, what name the stranger introduced himself Squibbs comes near enough t o it. . He hailed from Kentucky ; and the latter Circum stance was' itself sufficient to bring host and guest 'into active sympathy. The old gentleman's soul warmed on the subject of blooded stock, and, on (hat theme! what Kentuckiau's were ever cold ? ;On it the v talked away the hours till bedtime, the youthful stranger modestly j acqui escing in the matured opinions of his host, and gracefully suffering' his own f to stand corrected in several points. j Next morning Jack was tryiug an early run over his father's training track, just to keep his legs in, when Squibbs made his appearance. ; 44 You run a pretty good lick,"he remarked, as Jack came to a halt, and bid him good morning. . J- 'Oh ! that'M1 nothing," said Jack ; MI wasn't half tryiug. "I used to do a Httle that way myself,'1 hinted the other; "bat I guess you could beat rie, easily." "Suppose we. try ; it'll give us j au appetite for breakfast, said Jack, chuckliue at the astonishment j in store for the stranger. ? j The latter bad no objection. A hundred yards were stepped off, a fair start was takeh and, as Jack had anticipated, Squibbs was beaten ;out of sight. In fact. Jack felt a little ashamed of beating him so badly. It looked like a breach of hospital ity, and the stranger seemed to take it to heart soi . j Like most beaten men, Squibbs was full of excuses. He ' wasn't in plight, was out of wind and practice, etc., etc.; but if Jack had a mind to r.;, u h'.I rnme back that way tin a i I HILL, i N. C, SAT . I '. 1 ' - ! rnonin or six weeks, ana , run nun a hundred, yards for two hundred and fifty dollars. . Jack saw the stranger was excited and not wishing 'to take advantage of his father's guest, he privately hinted at his own previous' exploits, never doubting but the information would cure the other of his folly. On the contrary, it seemed to pique Squibbs. He insisted that Jack should either accept the challenge or "back square out." I r That word settled it. Thcjy ad journed to the house, and i after breakfast the preliminaries were ar ranged. Old Mr. V.f as Jack had done, tried to reason with the stranger, but finding him incorrigible lelt him to. take the consequences. The five hundred dollars Jack's father furnishing his half were de posited in the hands of-a neighbor, for whose trustworthiness Sqibbs expressed himself satisfied to take his host's assurance. A time and place were fixed for the race, and the; rash and headstrong Squibbs de parted. Jack went into rigorous, training ran a mile every morning before breakfast, ate raw beef, and wore lead in the soles of his' boots, that his limbs might feel the lighter when the weight was removed. It was on the ame principle, I suppose, that Demosthenes sought to give suppleness to his tongue by declaim ing with his mouth full of gravel Not that Jack felt the slightest ne cessity for these precautious, so far as aquioDS was concernea. it was not Squibbs he felt solicitous of beating, but his own "recorded time. He only regretted that, in stead of an obscure? lantagonist, it wasn't Shultz, life renowned profes sional foot-racer, Aio was . pitied against. A beaut 1' plain adjacent to the town o H 1-, then a rural village, no a flourishing "city of the second class," bestriding I lie Miami between Crncinnatti and Dayton, was the place Rejected for the race. it early dawn on the day ap pointed, the rural, population began to assemble. They all ' knew Jack and liked him, and determined to add what eclat they could to his vic tory, by coming out i fogce to, wit ness it.' But when the ten o'clock train from Cincinnatti came, it brought a crowd that fairly astonished us. We had no idea that the' people down .hat way took so lively an interest in an affair we had previously looked upon 'as purely local. A glance at the new-comers added ;to pur sur prise not a little. Such odd-shaped hats; flashy vests, and queer cut coals we had never seen before. Thimble-rigr "chuck a-luck and rou lette establishments sprang up, as ifl by magic, on every hand. There was one' peculiarity about .all these games all the strangers seemed to win at them, and all our people to lose. ; I Eleven o'clock was - the time fixed for the race. Prompt to the minute, Jack made his appearance at the starting-post and his bow to the judges. The ground had been meas ured and a lane opened through the crowd; Betting had been lively all the morning. The flashy strangers backed Squibbs. Our folks, who knew Jack's record, smiled 'at their simplicity, and not only took the proffered bets, but offered odds. They had no idea city people were so green., "I'll bet you," said a snub-nosed individual with a harelip, one eye,! a red blotch on his face and complica ted stripes on his trowsers. "I'll bet you fifty dollars,'' he said, accos ting me. without ceremony, "Squibbs wjns the race." , - I "My dear sir," I expostulated, "you're carried away by your feel ings. Mr. Squibbs may be a ;friend of yours; but J am posted, and hap AY, JSTGV. 30, 1878.. pen to foipw he has no more chance of winningthau you have." I add ed, with a downward glance at the 1 X ' 1 j gentleman's highly ornamented but rather stumpy and bandy legs. "Bet or flunk V he " retorted. "Guess you're afraid, aflei all, to back your judgment." j I had just recei ved a fifty dolla r retainer that morning, and had no particulaij objection to doubling it, seing th4 st ranger was "bent on iL Besides, my local patriotism was tip. "Enough said," I answered, and put up the money. Jack's appearance was hailed wit h an enthusiastic shout. He looked in prima condition. In his brilliant costume,! kvith his golden locks float ing in thj breeze, he seemed ; the pid ituj-e of njanly lgrace.and agility, f IWouia Squibbs come up to the 1T7' iL-li" ! 1 ' 1 - - ' 1 1 scratch? i y e iiau ieareci ne wouiti stay away was evidently not. Td the" most pensible thing he could do. In thJ midst of tliese conjectures the subj ct of them 'stepped forth, no one i w from whence, and after snaking ands with his competitor, took a i sit ion at his side. . j Squib s, it had to be admitted, was, a ,'iry looKing ienow,. uut, pshaw ! he wasn't to be compared wiin Ja , and in point of dress, lie looked abby beside him. ir First ie two trotted gently dtwn the tracH together and back again. hand in hand. Then K taking their respectif p places, they stood ready for the brd. ! Whe itr was given, you could have hci rd '!! pin drop. Jack shot ahead U ;e lightning, and was half way down the track before Squibbs had mair-a oaTtefj of the distance. Loud - huzzas rose from our side. Surbbs seemed to give it up. From the violent effort evinced in the first twenty yards, he subsided into a sort of despondent dog-trot, which called forth Ijeers of derision from ; Jack's friends But stay there is some- thing very strange about ihat sling ing, wabbling trot. It looks to be little fasferthan a walk, but the d's- lance between the runners is rapidly ishing. . 1 dimin ''Hook it, Jack! hook it !" begins to be shouted anxiously. Jack 7"hook it,'' but all in vain. A moment more, and the tremen dous slinging strides of the stranger not only carried him past Jack, but to the end of the race, while Jack had yet a good ten yards to go. It was, the opinion of many, that had Jac i made as good time before as he did after passing the goal till he got c ut of sight, he would have come a ffood deal nearer winning the race. "Hurfah for Shultz!" rose in a wild; ye L from the flash crowd we had, till now, been pitying for their greenness. . j "Hur-aK for whom?" I inquired of the prepossessing individual I had lost in y money to "I thought the genttettian's name was Squibbs." Squibbs be bio wed !" r-torted stripes. "It's nobody else but Bill Shultz, Mie fleetest ruuner on this or any othjer continent." Mortj money ' was carried fiout of H-4-r- that night, it is safe to say, than w 6nld have paid the town tax for a year. But I can vouch for two good results : Jack never ran .another race, ; And your bumble servant never made another bet. Some Chinamen in San Francisco are greatly troubled, because, a few days! ago, when they unearthed the dead body of one of their compatri ota, intending to take it back to the Celestial Kingdom, whither all good Chinamen long to go when they die, the1 found the body turned to stone. Fou - panies keen different theatrical! com- which started put in Septem- ber in high hopes have mei the Sherifil and been gathered in. HOW THE CADETS FOUGHT. Vs North ' Carolina' had a good many boys in the oTd Lexington (Va.) Military Institute, the follow ing account written by a Yankee soldier, will be read with interest. It was at the battle of New Market, in the Valley of Virginia: "At prompt 1 o'clock the Confed erate skirmishers advanced and opened fire, the Federal skirmishers falling back; and a few minutes later the Confederate line of batt Ie hi which were conspicuously, seen the Lexington cadets with their institute colors waving --over them, all boys from fourteen to eighteen years of age, going for the first time into battle, came into view.: about a mile distant. The line was over a mile long, and they, marched steadily and quickly forward, keeping well- dressed west to east and every few seconds giving utterance to the well known "Kebe! yell." ; ! The Federal batteries waited until the distance bet-ween' the opposing lines were reduced to less than halfa mile, and then all at once opened fire. The fiist "round appeared 'to stagger.theni, but they quickly ral lied, corrected the confusion, and charged straight for the batteries, in the meantime pouring in a close and concentrated fire. The Federal runs now opened upon, them ' with grape .audeannister, and the infantry began to pour in its musketry fire and in a few moments one of the closest andjnost determined battles of the war,' according to the numbers engaged, was under headway. It' was observed that the Confed erates made but . one charge in this battle, and that was" the.. first. ' The most - heroic efforts on j the part of the Federals could not .break the impetus of this charge. ' The Con federate line, it is .true, halted sev eral times, but only to pour in a more concentrated musketry fire. The artillery rden of Carlin's battery flitted through the smoke and flame of their guns like demons,, while at every discharge of their pieces the earth would quake, and immense gaps be torn ' in the Confederate lines, but they would close them up again with military precision', the living, stepping into the, places of the dying and the dead and once more march on, while above all the roar and craze oi the fight could be heard the shrill rebel cry of the Lex ington Cadets. Fully one-third of these brave boys were killed orr (car ried from the field severely wounded. "Rockingham South. j HOW IT HAPPENED. "A Hamlet correspondent of the Wilmington Star says that in a giave yard near that place; the-bodies 'of five murdered men lie buried within fifteen feet, of each other." And some people might suppose that this, too, was a slander on Ilam let, but it is not, when the real facts in the case are understood. It is true, as this correspondent says, that the mortal remains of five' murdered men lie "moul icring in the' clay" (sand) near Hamlet, but this must not be considered- as indicating that the place is boisterous or dangerous, for it is not; We do not kno w how came the five men to be murdered, but suppose! that it occurred in fthi8 -TT ' 1 ' -l. way : iiarmei was a new piace, wu was without a grave yard, which it must have to complete its claim to being a city. Being located on a high sand ridge, it w'as so ' very healthy none of the inhabitants would die, so these five poor fellows offered themselves up a sacrifice for the good of Hamlet, and, were slain tor no other good reason or purpose in the "world than-that a grave yard for the place might be started. We make this explanation, ik justice, to Hamlet. . i r Subscribe to the Chapel Hill Ledoeb. Only $10 per annum; One square, ne insertiori.' bn. do i One. square, each suAeojuent Insertion,' ' Si ec- d contracts made- or larger Adver- . ; ' tiement I, .;, ;.! At! vert isemcnts . should her s sent In by i i 'lliurstlay lielore each day: of issuey . ' t , 11 - - FALLEN FROM ; IIEIf in6l. Onr of the frequenters w,ay is a woman In ipoor of Broad garments. with her effects in a:) satchel on her arm, but titled a countess by mar riage, She belongs to a good New York family and went to Madrid when a girl, where her brother wa. consul. There she mcl and married " a French count and for se veral years led a gay life at Paris. Excess of wine ruined her, and though a fu.e musician, a painter In oil ' mistress of" several iangitages and elegant In con ' versation, she comes : back . homo . lo sleep in the parka and slatiotvhonseii and spend .what she can . earo r and bg-for drink---.---r:-...-.j,-. A companion piece is fijiind across the North Hiver In Hoboken, where an Italian duke fa making money keeping a. restanranU .The dnko came to New York - and flourished ! in fashionable society lil Ms frioueyi was gone. . Then he went to 'a Ho- ; boken restaurant as cook. Dally fee- came waiter and ia Xun saTei enough money, to boy otrt th placo wjieji the landlord died. On one occasion a : uistinguislied ltaliaii whom the duke had known in hi native land was a guest at the place'4 The ! proprietor sen ed at snpper'as waiter, but was not recognized until after the raeal was over, when ho came back in evening dress with ' a . diamond order on Iris lappel. Tho duke serves up fine ' dislves arid is no w a rich bachelor;. if J Bastou AdvertHefvf MApE INSANE BY A FRIGHT I IN A GRAVE YAH J. -A feV weeks ago, , a German by the name of Siarbeeker. employed in the lorge department of HioHJo' ver Stamping j Company,' at k Cam bridge, was made the j victim of a practical joke that has since resulted in his becoming insane and being in carcerated in the lunatic asylum at Worcester. With the, design-, bt J frightening hi mf one of the gang ot his fellow workmen told 3tarbeekerwr that jn a certain cemetery in Long- wood there; was a grave in which several thousand 'dollars were buried. Starbceker went to the graveyard one dark night and was kneeling by a tombstone, when a fignre clothed in? white arose from the grave. The- German started to run, when another figure, dressed in. black, crossed his pate. The poor fellow foil in a fit. Since then he has-been insane, and on Saturday last he was taken to the asylum. I Gooi BitEEDiNoiThe man who is scrupalonsly polite and respec ful to all women j in public, but habitu ally coarse ; and , Tufir to his owp. wile and daughter; is no gentleman. He is only, an impostcr. The young' man who oils his hair, puts sweet odors upon Ilia handkerchief, and bows with cliarming elegance to his lady friends, and goe home to treat his mother with familiar discourtesy, is a pinchback imitation only, of a gentleman. Gennine good manners and gentle breeding begin at home. As a rule, the meq in j a eomtnunity who are the most trusted, are the best men at home. Wfcem a man . ; ... rl i . . . . I opens the front gats- to meet, his wife's facie at the door radiant with pleasure, an rl hears the shout from the eager children, "Papa is com ing!" it is safe to believe him au honest man.i . -! An agent who had sold a Dutch man some goods j was to deliver tbem j in the afternoon at ; the resi dence of the purchaser. "The Dutch-; man gave him the following direc tibnst "You -shoost goes behind he Mhoger, and turss to the right till you comes to a fence niit a bole in it; den yoo taras up to the right for a while till you sees a house init a big hog in he yard. Dot's me." . . . i - ..r I. v V A , -v :.-. ,; Ami 1 1 1 1 . l; m : - i: r 1 1 A'A