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7: r 1 i PQE THE PUBLIC GOOD. $1.50 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. t VOL; IV. I j CHAPEL HILL, X. C, SATURDAY. JANUARY 17, 1880. NO. 14. 1 f . : ; '!..' ' : - v ' i , . . : : ' l i r - ,i i .. t '.!... . . . 1 - ' " $0 Jjlpp; ; : i Vfj . - ' 1 1 ' , , ., ; . - H iin. ii ii j A-.'. . ' .ktM ! ill Entire NEW FALL GOODS AT THE LOWEST PRICES- f " A Choice Assortment of 1 j . . i j Styles and Fabrics at Very Low Prices. 1 Great Nueces. Prices Further Reduced to Suit the Times. Everything r. So.ld at a Bargain, and no misrepresentation ' ' . I rcpeclfiiHr inritc a look from all ybo buy First-Class Goods. ; DRESS-GOODS, A Dbck Silk and Fancy Silks from LAWNS, GRENADINES, ORGANDIES,:DRESS LINENS, PERCALS, Jcc. i KID GLOVES! KID CLOVES , I am Ileadquarters for Kid Gloves. -. . i : 1 ' . WHIT.EGOODS; !..- riquo, Irish Linen, Bleached Domestic Sheetine, &c, a very full lot. CORSETS. HOSIERY and KID GLOVES. L,.:7er many ner attractions Injthls line this season. ; T NCK WEAR AND; NOTIONS. ' Xcw De.lgn In I adleV Ties, ' ! . White and Colored "Zephyr Ties, &c. I i Ribbons, Fans, Dress Buttons,. - f I Silks, Fringes tc.,'Ac, Ac. ! FARASOliand UMBRELLAS In Newest Designs and Celebrated make. . GENTS' SHIRTS AND, OASSIEIERES. j Lurried L Unlaundried fJ CT Bought to be Carpets, Matting and Floor Oil Cloth. Mv Line of Ose Goods is Equal to Jy knd. Second to none in the State, ' . : and r Guarantee my PRICES. AS LOW: . A Magnificent Line of Tapestry. ' 'BPrFL 11 New Designs, for 75 Cents per yard. mSJh White aSd CbocUj, some of the best grade, .mported W I'd Beautiful Design, in Ru Door MaUof the Best Fnbr.cs, and Fl-or Oil Cloths in the Best Extra Quality nL Mailed Free with pleasure! and promptness on application to -P Mailedacep3X, Pdes,ring to purchase. J rrompt Attention GiTcn to Orders. J. N. GAMMON, EiilpoB-iEM !of IFasliioiij MAIN STREET, ttttt yt A. TI North Carolina. ' ' -- , i -II; ! . I ' .. ' .1 SAVE YOUR MONEY BARBEE'S DRUG STORE IS . HEADQUARTERS Vol Pure Drugs, Genuine Medicines, &c .EVERYTHING- USUALLY "TIP-TOP" l)RUG- HOUSE. (Stock SPECIALTY. FJFTY CENTS upwards.. i i i t ! t KEPT IN A t ' - A LITTLE DOT'S THOUGHTS. 1 tCai.OTTA PEKKT. t I thoughfhen I'd learaed my letters. That all of my troubles wero done; But I find myself much mistaken Tliey only Lave juet begun. Learning to real was arful, . But nothing hke learning to write; I'd be sorry to have you tell it, Bat my copybook is a eight. Tfco ink gets over my fingers; Th pen cuts all sorts of shine, And won't do all as I bid it; The letters won't stay on the linos. But go up and down and all over A though they were dancing a Jig; Tcey are there in all shapes and sizes, ' "Medium, little, and big. The tails of the gs are so contrary, The handles get on the wrong si 3 e Of the ds and tho ks and the hs Though I'vo certainly tried and tried To make them just right; it is dreadful, I really don't kaow what to do, I am getting almost distracted; Mr teaoher eays she is, too, There'd I some eomfort in learning If one could get through; instead1 Of that, thre are books awaiting,;, , Qjite enough to craz my hsai. t There's the ultiplication table, And grammar, and, oh, dear me There's no good place for stopping, ' When one has begun I see. My teachtr eays, little by little , To the mouataiu tops we climb; It isn't all done in a minute. But enly a step at a time; Sbfc eays that all the scholars, - All the wise and learned men, Iltd each to begin as I do; If that's so, where's my pen? -From. Widt Awnke. PLODDING JIM. "Jim Dunn, do vou know your le6sbn yct?'f . ' i ' ! The question, uttered in an irritated tone, carae: from a voung man who had been j readina: a newspaper, waiting tor the tardy f bov of his class. i t'N-nosir; 1 don't believe X do, quite!, V was tht hpsitntin ronlv. " ' ! I O i j I "Arc vou aware what time it is ? n 'One o'clcxk, sir," said young Dunn. TT 1 A 9 A ' T T k He Knew ii:at wcu enoucru-. naa not liis eves lingered on the tardv hands bf the old moon -faced clock, and thence gone hare ? And then he was so hungry ! ' "Jim, come here. I can't understand what makes you so tlupid !' said the mas ter ; and taking the book, he proceeded to hastily review point after point. j "Db vou understand this?" he asked, "and this and that?; j Jim's brow lightened. He was more pleased with himself that things looked clearer, and certain doubts vanished, and his hearty-'4 'Oh, thank you, sir?" made the teacher smile. j "'You're very slow, Dunn; very slow. I don't think I ever saw a fellow just like you; but I guess what you learn you learn. That was just it what Jim Dunn knew he knew thoroughly. .. J "Well, if here isn't Jim, just at dinner is done!" cried Ins sister Anne. i "And 'every bit of the pudding gone,' said Oscar, the next oldest brother. , ; "I made sure you'd stay all day.'' "Poor boy !" siched his mother ; ''he' al ways seems to be. behind in everything. Ever since he was a baby lie has been slow." Jun sat down, however, and ate the scraps. Sobod' seemed to think that Tom would care. . "I don't know what we shall do with that boy," Dr. Dunn often said, when talk ing over the prospects of their children. Ckarley inclines to the law, and Oscar will iw rWtnf ! but what ability has Jim 'for anything?'' lie is so slow and plodding, . so little ambitious, that i am discouraged when I think of his future.' 'Poor Jim !" said Mrs. jDuun, half sighing, half-laughing: "he is the black sheep cf the family. When he was a little fellow, I used often be startled by the owl- like wisdom oi nis -0... then that it was dullness. He can t help it. His motions are slow,his mind is tardy, but Jl hope he will make his way m . the world." ' - , . , . .. Jim was the butt of all the family, .but it did not seem to anger him at all. He knew he was slow. Charley could play brilliant ly, ssing a song with excellent effect, play Sscarrhisoungest brother, was famous for his compositions and his power of elo cution. All the rest excelled, ou stripped him, and vet he plodded on patiently, "Goingtothe theatre" to-night?" asked a well-dressed young man of Jim, as they W the store together, Thb was Jour years. Hter and Jim was one of the clerks in Dol SS'&DoW. S-at establi nd and undemonstrative that the other ci;Swerelilwayschaffihghin,JIeM for a moment, rattled some iuu. were in his pocket, and said : ; ; ItHave you ever been?" queried the 0tJm looked it him in lus usual ddliberate wav; and replied : "No.' ; "'Then you don't know anything of We. "Then I don't want to," responded Jim. "By the way, where are you boarding asked his friend, pulling on a pair ofvery ticdit "-loves. Jim never wore gloves -S Glen's, in Holbrook .Street,'? said JiOh, you're stow. Why that's way down town." . , J . , 4lThnt's why I oobiu iucic, wmv four dollars a week. Good i eve- onlv pay four dollars mng. ffillow I ever saw, mut- tcred Dick Dalton, as he planted his fany cane as heavily as its fragility woud permit Jim cVuned hia boardinsr house, a tall rusty-lo-kiri'g tenement, in the fourth story of Vhich was his room. It was a very dei-olate-looking apartment,; for, save in the coldest weatner, j im never naa a nre. There wee three shelves, full of excellent books, ana at a table at the- side or tne room stood something that looked like wooden arm chairl . Bits of pine, a few tools and a paper filled with saw-dust, kept them core pan jv Of course Jim got frugal meals in this nlace. A widow and her daughter keDt the hvv letting nearly all the rooms ta lodgers; bu; Jim's quiet ways and pleasant face had v.' on an entrance to their hearts. and they took hirii to their table for a small consideration. Jim ran up stairs as soon as he reached the house. He never ran Up stairs in any otler place, but there was an attraction there which was better than the amusements to which his fellow-clerks devoted them selves. . " -. Ko sooner had he seated himself at the table and taken up a screw, than some one knocked at the door. At the low 'come in," his eldest brother presented himself, dressed in the height f fashion, handsome and even imposing in appearance. 'Well, Jim, so these; are your lodgings, my boy. " said the jroung man. "Not much style, I must say. " ? 'Not much, "said Jim, cheerfully. "Have you just come from home ?" ''Yes, and everything is going on about the same. Father is miglitly pleased that I have got my shingle up." r'And are you propspermg?" asked Jim, with a sidelong glance upon the ivory cane, the kid gloves and the gold chain. hOh, so-so. Of course it has taken a good deal of money to furnish my office." . ' 'I. thought f atherady,anced you five hun dred dollats," said Jim. ,"So he did. Ihe old gentleman was very good to mortgage the property for I sup pose you are -intormed of the fact but things are so horribly expensive." r ' I" What things?" asked Jim! drily. ( . "Everything all things. To get business now-a-days, a fellow must make a show." j"And so 3'ou smoke ten cent cigars, give a supper now and then, treat your compan ions, and frequent the theatre," said Jim. j"Oh, hang it! Your blood's water, Jim ; and besides, your position is different from mine. Things are expected from me. I must go into society. By-and-by I shajl get a case that will pay me richly for all these sacrifices." "Sacrifices 1" repeated Jim, in a tone that made Charley's blood move faster, so that he said to himself, with the addition of an oath- brains thai; an ox.'' " ' 1 4 'You are still at the machine, I see," he said aloud, a moment after. "Oh, yes; it costs next to nothing; and if it never succeeds, it gives me something to think about." L"You don't say that you ever think," was the sarcastic response. Ck" Well, now and Jhen." was the slow re joinder. ' ' ' -! : Charley rose, &iuntered back and forth for a few moments, and then stood still, his hfunlsome face reddening. ! "I say, Jim, can't you lend me ten dol lars? : i'm absolutely out of cash." j "I never lend," said Jim. ' ! Charley's breatu grew short and quick Some insulting speech was on the end of his tongue, for he felt both rage and com tpmpt; but Jim, rising quietly, went to a desk and lifted the lid. - 1 "If five 'dollars will do you any good, you are welcome to them,'! he said. .'They are all I haye by me," ; "Jim, vou're a good fellow!" gasped Charley, his tongue, yet hot with the words he had intended to'say. , i Jim went once, or twice to his brother's office, and did not like it. "Why should the young lawyer spend a hundred dollars in pictures?" he asked himself indignantly ; "and why does he! keep the company of such men as 1 have met there V ; One day Jim received a letter from his brother Oscar : . ' - i- Deau Old Jim : I expect I shall have to 'ave college. Things are going wrong at home! I don't suppose any one has told you. They seem to think you have all you can do to take care of yourself ; and so you l,nvp snnnose. Charley has been an aw ful weight upon father, and this year the crops have all failed, and latner is aisauieu fromvrork by rheumatism. I don't care ii, oiwvit mvself: I only studied , medi cine to please father, and should rather be almost anything else. j I think "i could write for the newspapers. Can't you get me a place in some store ? and I could write evemngs, ano live wnu yOU. I lUnK It Over, 1U1 Aiu auiu xamti w going to Jose an ms properiy. vuaucjf plays billiards, and I'm afraid cards. Write me as soon as you can what can bq done for me. ' ' . I Jim wrote in less than a week. His em. plover wanted an under salesman. Then he "set himself to look carefully into his fa- I Everything there was going to ruin.- The farm was to be sold; his father and mother w iie.irt-broken. and no one timno-ht ftn- a 'moment of looking to him. iUVUnv v-' A ----- pr he laid his nlanS. To nv thp mnrt.frfL&e was ' quite impossible, VUl UUVi " v old house where he stayed, sold what he could from the stock of the tarm, nao tne necessary furniture brought to town, and t not aiiori" iiit father and mother in a com- Th months' nassed. The xjx tauiw iiuuiw . a . old folks learned to depend upon him, and ciefnr frmnd n situation as bookkeeper. One day a gentleman 'called upon Jim, and was invited into his room. "You've at wnrk tiftften years on this machine, vou ?" remarked the gentlemen when J " a. Vio Uu( fvfiininetl it. i . The epeaker was- a business man, whose favor was almost, equal to a fortune. Jim. nuietlv : "I was ItO. Pill . iv-- 7 X j t 'Well, you ve piodoeu to some yurpw:, , was the answer, j I am very sure there's money enough in it to roake you a rich man. Jim grew very red, and the room seemed to go around for a moment. i "Thank you," he made reply. "I should like to be rich for the sake of others, f And so, eventually, plodding Jim won the race, and became the practical, efficient and prosperous man of the family. Leaning Towers. The most remarkable leaning tower in Great Britain is that of Caerphilly Castle, Glamorganshire Being but between 70 and 80 feet .high, it is 11 j feet out of the perpendicular. The castle of whi,ch the tower forms a part was built about 1221, and. the canting of the tower is said to have been caused by an explosion of hot liquid metal used by the occupants of the castle to pour on the heads of their enemies at a siege which tootplace in 1326. t There are also leaning" towers at Rridgenbrth Castle in Shropshire, and at Corfe Castle, in Dor setshire, both caused by the use of gun powder during the civil war between King Charles and his Parliament. Of churches with crooked spires, the most noteworthy is the famous one at Chesterfield, In Derby shire. It leans 6 foot toward the ' south, and 4 feet 4 inches toward the west, and its height is 230 feet. So pecnliar is the distorted appearance of this steeple that it is said to appear as if falling toward the spectator from whatever point he ap proaches it. There aire several traditions extant respecting this singular architectural deformity. One Jjs that the builder a na tive of. Chesterfield, agreeing to erect a church, did so, finishing the tower without erecting a spire, j The authorities of the town, not being satisfied with the structure, appealed to the j Attorney General, who gave his opinion; that the spire was as much a part of the, church as the tower, and that consequently the builder must fin ish his contract by its addition,! The sub ject was, however, fully discussed at a meeting of the Institute cf .British Archi tects in January l855, and it was ascer tained that the oak planks on which the framework of thej spire rests arp much de cayed at one side, which is sufficient to cause the diverge"rice from the perpendicu lar. . The timbers: also have the appearance of having been used in a, green and un seasoned condition. The action of the sun upon the spire wojuld therefore ' cause it to become crooked, and this may account for the distoration without attribu wig; it to design. f"01d Potatoo Top. ' -w'Aodwfld avenue car going TteS?m&& Ti with a hand-trunk of ancient make walking in the middle of 'the street. He cur went to the railroad inquired if the trackt and then got aboard. There were several; passengers in tho car, and as; he stood in the door, he looked from one to the other and said : "If . I am intruding don't hesitate to tell me so. I like people who speali right -out, and I am used to plain talk;,," ; J No one objected, and he took , a seat, crossed his legs, and said to him'self : ': "I'll bet they never built this bar for less than $50 ! I amj glad the old woman isn t here, If she should see how it's fixed up she'd never let up on me till I tacked one to the house. 1 41 never I ride on a woou wagon again when I cani jog along in a chariot like this. It's got mote windows than a bee-hive, and I wduldn'tj dare to spit on the floor if I was dying to spit ! " As he made no move to pay nis iarc ine driver, rang the belL ."Got bells on here, eh ?'" mused the plain man. 'ViNOW, WrttO d a-inougni uey u nave gone to such an expense, as that ! Folks here in town are rignt on.tne siyie, uo mat ter .what it costs!" j I; 1 ne driver rang a.iu nuu osfIU ing.that it did no, good, Ike, finally opened the door and said : j fhft miner there vou -i;in'f nav vnnr fare !" "Iv fare ! Why, that's so xiaugcu it 1 Were if I had'nt forgotten all (about 3'ou ringing that bell forme?!' "That's ton bad ! Whv didn't vou open that door long ago and say to hie : 'Here. vou old nOtato top, if you ,uon t pass up your ducats, I'll land you in ;the mud!" T'm q Tiioiri mail and i never rei uiiueu retain talk. Take the damage but ot this half dollar." Salt Oysters as Medicine. Dr. TJawrence. of Hot Springs, Arkansas... ardently urees cuisumptives, asthmatics and jail ' persons suffering with bronchial and pulmonary ills) to eat . raw oysters. He states thajt so It py sters, es pecially when raw, or frfesh direct from the BilOII, SUrelv excite iuc fiLvrj luuvuvAw of the mucus follicles ; belonging to the ,-ocriritm-v track! and tends to re- W lXji.j it. jji.w.j v.. i lieve irritative action. The delicate bivalves that contain the greatest amount of phos phates and saline-properties blended are most active in jawakening th(j secretions. Good salt oysters may he obtained along the martrin of the "Western Auntie' coast, from New York, Delaware 'and Galveston bays. In a low state of vitality, when the lungs are threatened, format rje neoplastic deposits tubercles from engorged mucus and ' parenchymatous structure when "phthisis pulmonalis'- is portending the agreeable? "valvular huks" are. prompt in nutrition and desirable food. Asa regimen, oysters supply material for brain and nerve, matter, and are good diet for those suffer ing with nervous affections, j Some tem peraments are: much more susceptible to the stimulous on impretes than others, and muco-tracheal and mueo-bronchial secre-. tions are soon aroused after free indulgence in eating oysters. Statistics, he thinks, will support the statement that the mortal ity from consumption is less in the percent- age in proportion to tnepopuiauuu w .www where salt oysters are abundant and freely used. U. S. Fractional Currency. The origin of the fractional currency, has been in the past few years surperseded by fractional silver, is somewhat peculiar and not generally.known. The appearance of this currency, which at first was always spoken of as "postal currency," was due to the premium on specie. In 1862 small change became very scarce. Gold being up and taking with it silver, these coins disap peared from circulation. Stockings were brought out. and the precious metals found their way to their heels and toes. It was more than a day's search to find a flrecent silver piece or any other small denomina tion or that coin. People could not find exchange for small transactions. In buying a dinner in the market change had to he taken iri beets, cabbages, potatoes and what 'not. General Spinner was then Treasurer of the United States. He was constantly appealed to from all quarters to do some thing to ' supply the demand for small change.! He had no law under which ho could act, but after buying a half-dollars worth of apples several times and receiving for Ms half-dollar in change 'more or less different kinds of produce, he' began to' cast around for a substitute for sjnall change. In his dilemma he bethought him of the post age stamp. He sent down to the Postofflco Department and purchased a quantity of stamps. He then ordered up a package of the paper upon which government secun ties were printed: ! lie cut the paper into ' various sizes. On the pieces .he pasted stamps to represent different amounts. Hp thus initiated a substitute for fractional silver. This was not, however, a , go vera- , ment transaction in any sense. It could not be. General Spinner distributed his .im provised currency among the clerks of the department. They took it readily, and the trade-folks more readily. The idea spread; the postage stamps, cither detached or past- . edupon a piece of paper, became tho medium of small exchange. It was dubbed "postal currfney.' From this General Spinner got his idea of the fractional cur rency and went before Congress with it. That body readily adopted it, and - but a short time after General Spinner had begun pasting operations a law was on the statute book providing for the issue of the fraction al currency which became so popular. Th facsimile of postage stamps was putoncacV piece of currency, "and for a long timo i' . was known as "postal currency." . The in troduction of postal stamps as money en tailed considerable loss to those who handled them. In a short time they became sc wnrn and disfierured that they would not take a letter on its way, and were therefore worthless. ' - - ' J AH Pan. ' "Kow large sbouia you sij-.,n, ot which you sp( was?" ' 1 "A four-quart pan, I should say. "What do you mean by a four-quart pan?" ' ' "A pan that holds four quarts. "Wine or beer measure?" ' "Wine, no; beer, I guess its beer, I wont be certain." "But you think it's beer. What is the shape of a four-quart pan?" "Round." "Like a bail?" -"No, like a like a barrel." "Round like a barrel." "Yes." -"Well, is a four-quart pan tall or short?' "It don't make any difference." ' "If a pan was four .inches across the bot tom and twelve inches tall?" . "It wouldn't be a pan at all. It would be a pail.'' . "Then a pan can be a pail? "Why, no." ' "But you just said so. Was there 9 hole in this pan?" - "Yes, a little hole." "In the bottom or top?'' "Of course there wasn't any hole in th top." , ' . "Then, how could anything be poured into the pan?" ,.,!. "Oh, I forgot. The top is all holo. "And the'fo'ttom?" "Is all pan." "That will do." "You see, gentlemen of the jury, tha witness has no idea of a four-quart pan at all," and the jury having been awakened by the sheriff, nod off again In acquies cence. " f ' - Ironsides. Perhaps the most notable military organ ization which the world has ever seen was the famous cavalry regiment' raised by. Cromwell to which the name of "Ironsides has been given. .They turned the tide of many a battle, and never fought without being victorious. From the very outset of the'eontest Cromwell forsaw that the Par liament could not contend against the king, unless it should have in its service men cap able of meeting them on some ground of principle ; and so, against the spirit of chiv alry which actuated the Royalists, he pro posed to direct the religious spirit of tho Puritans. He unfolded his scheme to Hampden, who thought it "a good notion, but impracticable ;" Cromwell thought it quite practicable and proved by acts that he was right . He recruited his regiment with io;np irin that it should be composed ' of religious men. . There was not an officer in it that was not as capable oi icaumg nu men in prayer as well as in battle. Reading; the Bible was as much their occupation as was the study of military tactics; yet so thoroughly were they disciplined that, they became the finest body of troops which the V world has ever 'seen. This regiment was composed mainly of freeholders, or sons oi freeholders, residing in Cromwell s own neighborhood, so that almost every roan of theni was personally acquainted with almost every other man. . All. writers, both friends and enemies, unite in bearing testimony, to the valor, discipline, skill in arms, religious zeal, and freedom from military vices of these famous "Ironsides." m m The Government has ordered the Sau Francisco Mint to coin f 5,000,000 in eagles and half eagle?. I. ; i 1 i ' r I I ;. tered Dick Dalton, as he planted his fancy . f . . '-...-! . , .. V . . : . . : j . -' - -. . :, ; r . ,- .- : ., - . - - ' - -- ' . . . r-f , !
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