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Wife l-'tti : - joSETfl k HARRIS, Publisher.' i . ' ' . ! j -f-V ; . , ' ' ; . ' 1 : 4 : -J---4 1 FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. , i -i:":' V MRSJ 0. P. SPfiNCER, Editor. V ,j vol in. ? r r .; CHAPEL HILL, X. C. SATURDAY, JULY lit, 1879. XO. 11. ! 1 ; X &EXTIST, Will vipit pel Hill two or three titics dnritJg e session of College, and jT N-OtlOp Win uiwaja uo givcu iu lliib )" K. J- I. Ftrninnehtiyj jccaiea in imxiam ana itly Iccited r jlii-cl Ilitl tlve days of each month, fro the 22d. jA.HlS SUl'TjIIGATE, .ill i.ene Tttiitimttnt Agent, PVRHAM,. 21. .C. .L-ircre 1 ues. of i.Inshrance placed . at vUoTt notide in first class Companies. " IVra po. licies on Dwellings and Farm Ti-rerty, Bpdcialty. . r i:tk vits Ol THE PEOPLE. I bos leave tb again can tne attention of the people or Orange Connty and all rations of the. country to my N PORTRAITS, ir'ifch can; bo -enlarged to any desired nil of Small Pictures. lr.Ct'-iv'.iEC v.-ni x uuiugrapiiH, sterns. Ml . ' 1 T 1 .. A 1 -T (i.a r.iEruerrec)rypes. urease, rm or v - T-v " I 1 T" L vket PiCtnrep; and finished in the fin est style of Crayon. Drawing, and finely SilOj inches,; Half Life !Size 13; Ijife Hize. S20.50. Send in yonr then enlarged small pictures and have 1 LTGEX E L. HARRIS, Artist, ; Chapel Hill, X. O. llC S. ITjcK. BOWLES, rL'.MEPERJ BRICK-MASON and SER ,iim: KS'AHER, is now ready to do rori r t tliort aotice. All of his work, is cnarauteed to give satisfaction. Call cu U ra abU hate your work done neatly, KrTtTS to ci zens of Chapel Hill. 1 HOTEL, STKEtT'S SATIOXAL RiLEIGH, N. C. S. P.. Mr SouV Owners 'and Prop's "GASTDX IOXJSE. NEV-BEEXE. N. O. ' . fc. R." SmEtT A: Son, Proprietors. Tjeiitiarrsi gned having purchased the -N u-.c-iial I Hotjel propert v at Raleigh, rreaf-d March -loin, 1879, that well rnovni House to the public under their natagezjjent. i They refer to their past fLagenijc-nt i tne wiston House as a jruiraute that the traveling public will the.XstiJnal in their hands, up to ti:e standard 0f a first-class Hotel. The se-i r, Mr. Samuel R. Street, will re main in charge of the Gaston House. The j:or, Mr. Wn.-J. Street, will conduct -.National Hotel.. ill S. R. STREET & SOX. 44 linr jnjiromvjir I th'ora S DUXSTON, FITTED UP EH 1 iSAjRBiCR. SALOON I j . '! ox I ranklin street. in thiiraot improved style, and will be t Fce h s customers any time. He Cnanfntces-c bod work. : i ! - ! i i-VlEg,! . R r culting -rirfiGoing. 15 cents. 25 23 Re'ha? a lipot-black always in attend- ve-hiia n cill. VI 09 f WEEK ia' yonr own town, and no frL cf I'ital risked. You can givtstke bus-. M 'Bs a trial without expense. The 1 l-ix to kork. Von should try none elieun- -U; -i-. iJ'ir jf.IirSjPlf what vnii run rin at th 1ms- jf. r. CS'o room to cknlain lipr. Yon can 'ir lime or onlv vour srnr time ta the v i' l "1f great fayfor every hour that you i ' J lnitn 1ralie as much as men. Send for cpe- a auci particulars, which we mail ree. Don't complain of hard times u h a chance. l 11 Lave h LLKTT & CO.. Portland, Maine. TO $ f.OOO A YEAR, or $5 to $20 a day in your own locality. No risk. Wo- J" lU.'lkl riiOlO Ulin Ihnnniiiit ilmr. Un ' 0l. Jj,,rto pake money fast. Any one can do " l. ' iiou Tau mae from 50 cts. to $2 an honr T j our eveuincs and Fpare time to the bus- , I-' V ! ,)St8 iiothinjj to try thebusineR8. Noth- it- tor (loney making ever ctffered before. s jv. asubt and strictly honorable. Iteader.if T"- l;f to know all almn'tha Kct nrina tmnineBS 'H l ulilic. send ub vnnr ariflrpBH knd we will I J''U Mill fiarticnlarn nnrt nrlvf terma free: ' '. ortli $3 also free; tou can then make up 'r f-'ir.I for yourself. ( STIXSON & CO;Portland Maine . i K i 1 I- ! i S 500 S30I0 A MONTH guaranteed. $12 a day at home made by the inJ dustrions. Capital not requir- ttrI,Vl".i,ya"d f iris make mouey faster at work 3 " tli-.1i r. ...... .I.; rw.. - . I ijv.4 1 111 r Miijiuinj else. luevon nugumiju vv' '! T"':,n,l f 'It'h as aity one can go right at. Those -it-w pi:" lull liUllLo wui bcuu . z ouoj and ee foe themselves. Costly Ont- Now is the time. Those already te layincr m liriro btittih of monev. Aaaites TRUE & CO., Augusta, Maine. Fulfilling the Law. By & hand unseen & eeed was dropped In the rich, red mold of a human heait, Aji the new life quickened , & thrill of pain Shattered its shell from the germ to start Upward it pressed with inherent power; Upward through darkness, uncertain of right, hooting its fibrous roots lower and lower veacning its tendrils to climb into light. . Hopefully, painfully, . Struggling slw, Up throngh the mold Does the young plant grow. nd the rich mold yields to the mystic force, wmch draws new . life from her . quivering veins, -,- Herself at once the sea and the souroe Of ,the rivers that water her numberless . plains. i' , I But high in the dome that encirclea her form. A burning, pitiless sun shines dorn ' That threatens with fervid heat to sere And blacken whatever it beams upon, j Yet ever upward Into its light, j Tresses the germ ; j That is hidden from sight. For somehow it feels, that the burning sun, Though it threatens destruction, is still its God;' v j ' That the dull blind pain of its etrueeline life Will cease when it reaches above the scd; When it clambers up into light and air, Where its Btifled breath may be bold and free, The pale greon germ, by the sunlight kissed, Will rise in its etrength to a stately tree. Trustingly Btill . -J Obeying the will And fulfilling the laws Of its mighty cause. m For Nature implants upon all she present, The immutable law, which an Infinite Hand, Vith a pen dipped in life's glowing current has writ, .With a power of decree that no force can withstand. Th srerm crows by law in the mold of the heart; ' . And reaches by law toward its Sun God . above, ! By law all its blossoms of beauty shall bloom, And by law it ehall ripen the fair fruit of love. So, growing ever, Fainting, ah, never! ' lleart do thou etill I Thine own sweet will! DONNA BIANCA'S VAIL. I should probably never nave seen this costly bit of flimsinees and feminine vanity had it notf been for Darwin. I am a naturalist. 'ana' Iarwin is an ac quaintance of mine. But lest my fa miliarity with' a great name may have a boastful sound, it may be well to ex plain at the outset that Darwin was Brazilian monkey that 1 met at the vil lage of Santa Maria del Campo, on the Amazon. a I I had stopped at the villago to study beetles. There was no hotel; but the natives were hospitable, and competed for the honor of entertaining me. They followed me while 1 sought my beloved beetles, and anxiously inquired whether I ate tnem' raw or roasted. Tne only individual in the procession that acted as my escort who seemed to intelligently appreciate my investigations was Dar win! He joined enthusiastically in the search, and brought . me several new species, ueiigntea at tne iaea oi nav- mer a collaborator. 1 ascertained to wnat family he belonged, f nd took up my residence in companv i with the little monkev. - ' I had the honor of givmg mm nis name, wnicn lie accepted witn grave ap f mi al DrovaL and to which he did credit. Everything which he did was performed i with the. seriousness oi a pnnosopner. Hial wizened little face maintained at all times the most intense seriousness; his wrinkled brows and' scanty fringe of gray whisker about the lower part of the visacre ; added to tiie general expression of astuteness, and rendered it almost impossible for me to regard him as a . . -i-r J XI . mere beast, ne seemeu raiuvr. wuio enchanted gnome or dwarf pf the human species. . I had one otner mend in tne numoie home under whose palm-thatched .roof I had been allowed to hang my ham mock, and this was the monkey s own er. iPhilomena. a black-eyed, silent girl, who sat all day over her lace pillow, and worked as though her life depended on the ' fleetness with which her fingers traversed its meshes. I learned after a time that her life did depend upon it in a measure. I had not been in the vil lage long before I was informed that Donna Bianca Camilla, daughter of the Baron Domingo. Vasquez del Campo, the gTeat man of all the country round, was to be married to a Portuguese noble man. She had made an announcement to all the girTs of the village governed by her father that she intended to be married in a vail made by one of the girls of her own country, as she had a fancy to carry some of their fine work with her to Lisbon to compare with the old Spanish point which her husband's family boasted amongst its heirlooms. Six months were allowed for the com pletion of the vail, and then, upon an appointed day-, the work would be ex amined by Donna Bianca, by the baron ess her mother, and by the abbess of the convent of Santa Maria del Campo, and a prize in money was to be the re ward of the maker of the handsomest vail. " Philomena was a skillful worker. Moreover, she needed money, for she was betrothed to a worthless Indian, who would never be able to furnish the small sum necessary for the installment ofj their simple menage. She told me that she was not at all sure of winning, for there were all the girls at the con vent, who could go to the abbess for pat terns, and the nuns themselves were fine 1 -. : was so disappointed that she gave np at once,aP kfppe of winning the prize, but Ee thought that, while alio was there shemigM as well offer a prayer before mo snone 01 at. sras to keep her from Bueezing tnrougn tne rest of the ,vear. muuo Kneeimg sne could not help no ticing the altar cloth. It was very dirty nuu jeiiow, put it was lace; not trimmed around the edge, but one solid piece of laca, mied m with a pattern of palm branches about a cross. Philomena had seen a great manv ralm branches, and she wondered how any one who had hot seen them for she guessed that this lace wa$ made in old Spain could have' caugnttne cuive and dip of the long feather-like sprays so exactly. The ab bess had .sent for all the lace in the ves try, but here before the shrine of St. Uras, m the main part of the church,' was tne nancsomest piece of all. Philo mena looked and looked, until it seemed to her that she drew the pattern! in through her eyes and stamped it on her brain; then she went home and set to work. A part of the pattern was made with a narrow strap of lace-like tapej doubling it and curving it backward and forward, and then working stitches be tween the loops with a needle. She had a' quantity of this narrow strap-work on nana, and she began from early dawn till at once, working late at night. Every few days she would go to the go to the church and take a peep at the altar- cloth, generally taking Darwin , with her, for though he left her willinglv for an entomological expedition with me. he howled like a verv demon when left behind by her. She reported Darwin as alwavs behaving remarkablv well at - church, holding one end of her rosary and gazing up at the lace with his head on one side, till it was all she could do to maintain her gravity. She copied the border of the altar- cloth exactly ; but there were two heavy brass candlesticks standing on it which she did not dare to move, and she told me that she intended to fill in the cen ter with sprig3 of orange blossom of her own device. The vail was not finished when I left Santa Maria to continue my voyage up the river, but I promised to stop on mv return and attend Philome. na's wedding, for I was certain, from what I had seen of her exquisjite work, that the vail could not fail to obtain the prize.' - Her silent intensitv of purpose filled me with enthusiasm and faith; and when I next knocked at the low door, it was not with any expectation of seeing Philo mena, for I was behind my time, and I called only to inquire for her. f I was startled, however, to see her mother fitting on the ground in the shade of the hut. her arms locked about her knees, and her forehead resting upon them, her lank hair falling about her, and her whole attitude that of profound dejec tion". When I spoke to her she burst into tears, and the storv which she told me, after becoming more 'composed, was sad enough. The vail had been com pleted in time. Philomena had tried it on the night before she had taken it to the convent, to the admiration of the whole household, Darwin included. Philomena's . lover had been present. They had stood up together, as they honed soon to do before the altar, and the poor woman declared that Philomena! had made a far handsomer bride than Donna Bianca. who had been married it seemed the dav before my arrival. Yes, the vail had taKen me prize, as; .T- mi ! we all knew it would. JJonna jjianca had herself placed a. silk purse full of eold nieces m fhilomena s hands; out. the next day the officer of the law had mm, had taken awav the money, and nut Philomena in prison. Thfl rason civeh was that the altar-! cloth had been stolen two days before. The padre had at once suspected Phi-j lnmPTin.- when they showed him the! vail, the stupid creature declared that it; was the missing bit of ecclesiastical; finery. This was all. I sat down quite: stunned, to think it over. A whine of; loneliness came from the interior oi me hut. Wliv? that is Darwin IV I exclaimed.; Why have you chained him? j TTrt ran awav. and was gone an uay, iust before- Philomena, nnisnea aii.' ren ied the woman. -no js-iiow no. was doing-wrong, for he stole into the: ft whinned cur when he re- erl. He. is in penitence now. 'The thing is I said, 'to find the real! hief. I have heard that monkeys were; excellent detectives. If you win un- chain him, I will spend a day or , twoj o6king up the case. I 'I let him out a while yesterday; ; said; he woman. .'He went to me cnurcn with me to see Donna J5ianca marriea, and stood upon my head to have a bet ter view of the sacrament, ne was so gay afterward, with his chattering; and his antic3, that I tied him up again, the heartless creature and Phiiomen in prison 1' . - .... liarwin remembered me pencuuj, and overwhelmed me with caresses, l determined to keep a sharp watch on all his actions, but while seating my caia-j bash of farina he slipped away. Aicer; the supper, Philomena's mother told me hat she was going to the cnurcn iqr ner nraver-book. wmch she had left mere ai t.hfi weddino. T walked along with her, trying to' cheer her with hopes that all would come right. At the porch we met! he baroness, who had been there pro- bably to pray for her daughter, lace-worfcers, . and could help' Jhem if they chose. Down the rive$ a little way was the old mission San Igriacio. Some one told her that there was some fine lace m the vestry, and Philomena pad clled down to the church, only to learn from the padre that the lace capes and surplices and other sacred vestments had all been sent, by a special dispen sation, to the abbess of the convent of Santa Maria del Campo.. Philomena roor woman r she said; it must be a terrible thing to have one's daughter came a away for a crime. - lint shadid no wrong, cried Philo mena s mother,, wildly; and I explained that I knew that Philomena had copied the altar-cloth, and obuld not have, stolen it.' .- s Who, then, did?' replied the baro ness, coldly. j .We had reached the inside of the Church by this time, and the. baroness stivtod and seized my hand, for from the reeiy door a little figure in a trailing white robe flitted up the steps of the high altar, and knelt as . her daughter had done before. I looked for a moment and then a priest entered, and the little bride sprang up in terror; the white robes dropped, and Darwin came leaping toward me. The priest picked up the white thing, and brought it to 'us; It was the stolen altar-cloth, and Darwin Was the thief : he had fcaken it the dav he had been missed. Wlien the padre jcame to compare the two pieces of lace, he saw at once this was j the true altar- cloth, and Philomena was released. She did not receive, the prize again, how- ever. ior it naa been given to another girl; and Donna Bianca I had carried an- other vail to Portugal. I purchased the vail of Philomena; it is a wonder of beauty, j Mv own' bride shall wear it some ; day, i I ever ; win her; but the only jewels I can give her will be a parure of Brazilian scarabs, or l am a poor -entomologist still, and l ihave two mouths to fill. For when Dar- win's sentence of death was commuted to banishment for life, I could not - de cline taking him with me. He is not as skillful in arranging a cabinet as in cap iturmg specimens, ana is naraiy an m- f ducement to a ' housekeeper, as he ishares my sanctum with the insouciance 'and ingratitude peculiar to philosophi- jcal exiles; but share it he shall, say I, for the rest of his days wife or no wife. Hazar. ! Bismarck as an Orator. 1 The. following- pen-and-ink sketch of j the German chancellor delivering his great speech in the reichstag on thecus- itoms tariffs is from the Berlin Tagblatt: 'Hush I Bismarck is speaking.' With i these words vou ai'e ushered into the ; reichstag. And it is so. Before even ; hearing a word you can tell by tne as- pect of the chamber that it is the chan- r cellor who is speaking. Y With thwr . bodies- stretched out and ears wide open, everybody leans forward to listen. The pencils of the short-hand writers fly over the paper with the ra pidity" of lightning, and you hold your breath involuntarily that you may hear better. From below is heard a feeble voice one of those voices which, by its nervous tone, puggests excess of intel lectual work. The words come by jerks, each sentence being laboriously formed. The orator is sometimes hurried, some times hesitating in his speech. Here- calls each sentence, twists it and turns it about until he has eliminated all the points which an adversary might attack. It is then onlv that he abandons it to the house. In listening to him you experiences strange excitement, for while this strong man continues his speech you are mo mentarily feeling that Ihe will suddenly stop short in the middle of his discourse. Not that ideas are likely to be wanting, but one fears lest the weakly voice which issues bo laboriously from the chancellor's robust frame may fail in the midst of a peroration without the possibility in the hurry of picking, up the broken threads. The chancellor' himself looks ill at ease while speaking: his tnm, white hands fidgeting now with one, now with another button of his modest, dark-blue cuirassier's uniform. Then they catch feverishly at the long pencils so much talked about, seek refuge on the table, and at last rest on the glass of water t which stands on the tribune. You might fancy it was onlv this resting place was wanting, for presently his speech grows firmer, more severe; words flow -from his lips with greater clearnesr ; his thick eyebrows are lowered; still more : upon the gray eyes, which seemed to pene trate the ranks of , the deputies. It is now evident that the orator is approaching the end of his speech; the sentences are becoming shorter and more m. -II 1. '11 vigorous. And then . the cnancsnor draws himself. up to his full height; his voice, so weak at hrst, gams a clear, hard ring, and he throws his last sen tence like a bomb into the midst of the chamber, resuming his seat amid' the loud applause of his friends. More Thau She Bargained For. At the Brown Street , market, Phila delphia, an old ! Irish I woman approach ed a fish stand and appealed to the pro prietor for help. He declined to give her -, anything. She jnoved away, but not out of the building. Unobserved, she went behind the stand, where a large tub covered with canvas attracted her attention. Cautiously lifting the cover, so as hot to make any noise, she ran her hand into the tub, andithen she yelled. The tub contained several snap ping turtles, and! one! had caught hold of her finerers.causiner much pain. 'Och! mister! take the crathur off; do, please,' was her pleading remark to the owner of the snappers, j It1 was found necessa ry to kill the turtle, before the fingers could be liberated, j An American writing from Spain urges the shipment of labor-saving im plements there, j Spanish farmers plow with the end of a piece, of wood about five inches thick? as was done in the mid- die ages, sowing and I reaping machines are unknown, ancj. gram is .not inresnea. Oxen trjpad it out, - and it is winnowed by women, who (toss it into the air to scatter the chaff 7 , , Rescuing His Child. a f Jbe Buff,' a Montreal,' Canada, saloon keeper, has in the cellar of his place two full-grown black beats and two cubs which he, is in the habit of exhibiting to strangers. One day recently some cusr tomers desired to view the brutes and the trap-door was thrown open. While Joe went into the bar-room his litll boy, six years old, went too near the edge and fell into the den. The ' old bearsi were in a dark corner, but onej of the cubs at once , ran toward the child, ,who had, uttered a frightened Ecreb.ni. The cook lay down on the floor, andj reaching down caught he little fellow and raised him. up. The shje bear had heard the child's cries, and with a, growl pushed toward the trap-door and seized the child just as he was being lifted up. The 1 little fellow was in an! instant dragged inio the den, encircled by tneelaws of the old she bear, Joe hearing the noise which the fearful sight caused came to the oor and asked what was the matter. Seeing his child, as it wrere, in the ; jaws pf death, he did not hesitate for a m6ment to think, but leaped from the floor into the pit, lighting on the head of one o the bears. He managed bv a frantic effort to tear his child from .the savage monster and threw him behind.' In another instant he handed the little fel low up among the almost paralyzed spectators. The men around seemed po 'suddenly struck with terror that they ,nniri n tiiWi n iirf .Toa whn'liid placed himself in such imminent dab o.pr , i , - - The moment the child was out of the pit the she tear growled fiercely and sprang on Joe, who had no arms wth which to defend himself.! "lhe savage brute seized him by the right knee, throwing him on his back. His teeth were driven fully an inch deep into his flesh. He was then completely at the mercv of the animal, whose tameh6ss had disappeared, it being enraged I at having the child taking away. . The men looking on still seemed powerless jlto help, though one of the visitors had a revolver in his ' pocket, j did not lose his presence Joe, however, lof mind, tjut seized a brick which lay near mm and struck the bear on the snout with all his might. The brute let go her hold and Joe quicklv got I on his feet. The old he bear had not ! shown fight at alk but when Joe shouted had slunked back; to the dark corner; . The! she bear now stood off, showing her teeth,' but he con tinued to ehout and she also went back. Joe was then rescued ' from the pit, his leers being- covered with blood. The trousers which he had on were torn to shreds and his stockings' were "saturated with blood. The child had not been injured at all beyond a slight scratch ion the head. . 1 Discovery of Silk and Safin. I The discovery of silk 'is attributed ! to one oi tne wives oi tne emperor oi China, Hoang-ti, who feigned abdut two thousand years before the Christian' 1 il .1 ! i - 1 era; ana smce inau urns i a special-- spoi has always been allotted; in the gardens of the Chinese royal palace to the culti vation of the mulberry tree, called m Chinese : the 'golden-tre, ' and the keep ing of silk-worms. . The; first silk dress mentioned m history was made, not for a sovereign nor for a pretty woman; but for the monster in human shape Hepo gabalus. '' . "' . . 1 Fersian'monks who came to uonstan- tinople revealed-to the Emperor, Justin ian the secret of production of: silk and gave; him some siiK-worm?. xrom Greece the art passed into Italy at the end of the thirteehth century. When the popes left Rome to settle at Avignon, in France, thev introduced into that country the secret whichThad been kept bv.the Italians, and Louis XI. estab lished at Tours ; a manufacture of silk fabrics. Francis I. founded the Lyons silk-works, which to' this day have kept the first rank. Henry II. of Franco wore the first pair of silk hose ever mdide, at the, wedding of his sister. J The word 'satin,' which m the origin was applied to all silk stuffs in general, has since the last century been ttaed.to designate only tissues which present a lustered surface. This discovery of ithis particularly brilliant stuff was accidental. Octavio Mai, a silk-weaVer, finding busi ness very dull, and not knowing what to invent to give a new impulse to j the trade, was one day pacing to and fro be fore his loom. Every time he passed the machine, with hp definite objfcfc in vie ff, he pulled little! threads from the t?arp and put them in his mouth,, which jsoon after he spat out. He found the little ball of silk later on the floor of his workshop, and', was attracted by the,bril- liant duality of the threads; He repeated the experiment, and by fusing.', he'atf and c srtain mucilaginous preparations, f suc ceeded in giving new luster to his tissues. The ; Difference, t Did vou ever notice,fthe broad, (com fortable, shady-looking (Leghorn hats in the milliner's window ? Just buyjyour wife one, and the first thing she will do with it will be to double up, her dainty fist and punch a three-cornered dent on the "right side; then she will pinch the front rim down and the back rim up, and then stave in threej or four more big dents at odd corners, and when it resem bles in shape ! an old jtin pan that has been a target for a stone-throwing match, she will remark uponthe 'elegance and? grace' of the affair, j But let Jdhnnie serve his new Btraw hat in the same way, and he will be stood up in a dark; closet and forced to go without strawberry shortcake for supper, j ' V A parishoner was asked what the color Of the parson's eyes wasj . He didn't really know, 'for,' he said, 'when he prays his eyes are shut, and when he preaches l generally snut mine. , j , . . - ITEMS OF GEXERAL INTEREST.' There are over 30,000 known criml -n? Is in New York. , Out of 536 missionaries in China 3t0 of them are women. : ' 1 - ' ' - .'- . Middle Tennessee has 300 brandy dis tilleries in operation. The new Webster's unabridged i con tains ove!r 118,600 words. .' j ' . Six beavers were captured by a party of hunters near Meridiim, Mi&si Some 32,000 Welsh miners have agreed io accept ten per cent, less wages. Never !say fail until you have j bor rowed all the money you can get. The Buffalo driving park association has paid $488,000 in premiums ihe. last fourteen years. ; t General Longstreet had hi4s pocket picked of a gold watch and chain in Gainesville, Ga., a few daytfago.l The Augusta Ohrpriicle says a recon cilement! has been effected between. Senator Hill, and Alex. H. Stephens. When) a woman challenges, another woman'sj vote in Wyoming, there is a ' scream, a rush, and 818 worth of milli nery is raked up and carted away. A $500 fee"out of $1500 damages re covered for a poor Irish woman, who broke her leg on an icy sidewalk last winter, has caused two Boston lawyers to be censured for unprofessional con- duct. . , ! ' ; When Mrs. E. Heath, of Sherman, Maine, was born, the house took fire; at the time of her marriage the house' again took fire, and last Sunday, at thoj birth of. her first eon, ' the house again! took firej .".('. Last year not a pound of cream of tartar wa,3 imported. A few years ago millions of pounds came annually from England? and France. Manufacturers at home now supply all that the country needs, and prices : are thirty per cen't. ' lower than formerly. '- ' Sarah I Bernhardt the, great French actress, is creating unusual enthusiasm , among the fashionables of London, where she is the center of. attraction, in. the gorgeous drawing-rooms. Single . seats command from $10 to $15 when, she is announced to appear at the thea- , ter. She states her intention pf vcoming to this country next year. ! i ' Every ! girl who passes through the Boston schoolsiiow receives three years' instruction in various kinds o needle- work, and is capable of being an expert seamstrees. It is said that the benefits resulting from this instruction are seen in the improved appearance of the chil dren's clothing in the schools and are felt in thousands of homes. , . - A son of a New York millionaire was. an inmate of the homeopathic asylum for the insane, at Middletown. While there he formed the acquaintance of one of the attendants, a young lady of a slight, ";. delicate land pretty face, fell in love with and married her, and his aristocratic relatives sensibly received her. as his , wife and treated her according. i .' ' A Baltimorean carelessly filled a pipe with loose tobacco from a drawer, lit the contents; and sat himself down for a com fortable smoke, when the . bowl was t blown to atqms and he narrowly escaped, losing his" 1 eyesight. Investigation, showed several pistol cartridges had been thrown in the drawer, one of which he had jammed in his-pipe. The investigation of Ludlow-Street- j ail; New York, discloses a state of af fairs disgraceful to the metropolis. it seems as if the warden had been in-the habit of .running the jail as a hotel for those who could pay for extra accom modation; that he has sold , liquors to his boarders and got drunk with them; and that women have been allowed to Visit male prisoners in their cell. This . is the hotel where Boss Tweed formerly had quarters. . A student of Princeton college, be- -m . 1 11 commcr convinced that ne. couiu neTer . recover from a paralytic stroke, conclud -ed to staive himself to death, and took, rio nourishment save a little water for ninety days. At the end of that time, becoming more hopeful he concluded to live, and is now recovering from his emaciation. His mind has been evenly balanced throughout his long fast, and he claimed not toave snffered greatly. ? Mr. William Bartlett, whov lives near Lumpkin, Ga., has a hen that has po-f .' ciiliar notions about laying eggs. She lays every day like most other hens, but eyery other egg is as large as' a goose egg; the others are, ;of ordinary size. One of the larger sizo weighs three and a quarter ounces and measures, six and a half inches around the shortest cjr- ' cnmference,tand seven and three quar.' ters the longest. . The same hen laid -similar eggs last season, ' At New Orleans a double-barreled shotgun, carelesely- placed -against thq wall in a fyouse fell, and in' discharging f killed an infant in the arms of its mother, . Mrs. Roberts. The baby's head was torn to pieces and the mother sprinkled . with its blood. The mother was also wounded in the breast and arms, and her little girl, Myra, received three .Bhots in hjsr breast. It was feared that : their wounds would prove fatal. ' The owner of the gun also received parf of the load in his leg; ,. . Stock faieers report terrible ravage among young. pigs . by the, hog cholera in Southern Wisconsin and aleo in4 Davis county, HL A v Galena dispatch says that hundreds are dying, and the disease not only spreads from drove to, drove, but is always attended with fatal results. The disease has raged for some months in Grant county, Iowa, and Lifayette county, Wisoonrun. In Daviea county, . III., and Dubuque county, . Iowa, the loss is" simply incalculable, some farmers ; having been ruined and ' pthers are much discouraged, - -" . ' j. .; t; t.;..C-...,..tw -' - -mm
The Chapel Hill Ledger (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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July 19, 1879, edition 1
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