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.! V0L' IY; ! CHAPEL HILL. N.C.. SATURDAY .T A XTT A "R.S .-1. IRSO. , 7. ' - W). 16.
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j Entire. NEW Stock, i
HOW CRUEL IS FATE
AT THE LOWEST PRICES-
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A Choice Assortment of
Styles and Fabrics at Very Low Prices.
Great Success
Prices Further Reduced to Suit the Times. Everything
Sold at a Bargain, and no "misrepresentation.
rCpect fullf" invlt a loolc from all rliobuj- First-Class Coods.
DRESS GOODS A SPECIALTY.
Black
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SUk
and Fancy Silks from FIFTY CENTS upward?.
LAWNS. GRENADINES, ORGANDIES, DRESS LINENS, PERCALS,
KID CLOVES! KID. CLOVES
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1 , I am Headquarters for Kid Gloves.
WHITE GOODS.
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Piques IrU& Linen, Bleacnea Lromcsuc ouccuuk, at., iuu mi.
CCr-SETS. 'fiOSIERY and KID GLOVES-
I offer many new attractions in this line' this season.
There was a young man with a shaddock,
Who met a young maid with a haddock. ;
He thought, "How I wish
She would give me that fish, ;
In legal exchange for my thaddooli!"
The maiden who did not like haddok, j
Thought -Oh what a beautiful shaddock!
' If I were not so iby,
.' I ehould e'er: ainly try
If he'd give me that fruit for my haddock."
He went on hii way with his ahaddoak; f
She went on her way with her haddock;
And bo cruel is Me i
That, until t was tco late, Sl
Neither one of them heard '
That, by speaking the word,
2T m'jtht just as well have had haddo k.
And she might as well have had shaddock!
A Spy In The Camp.
yew Df?lgns
NECK WEAR AND NOTIONS.
n TftfUes Ties. ! .
White and Colored Zephyr Ties, &c. '
Ribjon8, ans, lress juuu,
Silks, Fringes.
. t . mnrT t a i VwAit. Desi?n and Celehrated mak.
rATlASOLS ana L,uit, - -
GENTS1 SHIRTS AND 0A8SIEIERES.
Uoidrted nll Cntabadrhd ShlrU Fine C..lm.re3. uonx... .o u
j sold v ery low,
Carpets,
Matting and Floor Oil Cloth;
nd Second to none in the State,
AT.- I ii r f tTincA ("Inn da is Enual to any a
.'IV UIMfc VI - ....
id I Guarantee my. PRICES A luu.
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-BRUSSELS-
an
Magnificent line of tapestry,
-All New Designs, for 75 Cents per yard. j
" MATTINGSj Red, White and Checked, some the
Xew and Beautiful Designs in Kugs, loor iuai. ,
Hoor 01! Clotlik'in the Best Extra Quality, j
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!S- 5amp. Llled Frc with pleasar. ."UP 00 ff
. P nr nartles desmnff to purcnase.
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Prompt Attention
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J. N. GAMMON,
off! IFasiioBi!
MAIN
STREET,
TVortl Carolina,
TThen Viola Adair's father died, his will
contained one clause which' many people
considered extremely singular.
He desired his daughter, then eleven
years old, to become, on completing her
twenty-first year, the wile of Elbert Duane,
then aged fourteen. i ,
Various conflicting reasons were given1
for this curious stipulation. Some persons
affirmed that in early life old Mr. Adair haid
been a hopeless admirer of Elbert Duane's
mother. Others stated with roundest posi
tiveness of assertion, tbat this was com
pletely untrue, and that the clause in the
will sprang entirely from a strong friend
ship ouce existing between the dead lathers
of Elbert and Viola. With the other gos
sipy reports we will not concern ourselves.
Viola Adair lived in a great country
homestead that had been in the family a
great number of years, and principally oc
cupied herself, at the age of twenty iri
speculating upon what a fine time" she
would have in the future. ' )
Elbert Duane was always the subject of
much dreaining3. ' ShVhad never sten bim
he having lived since babyhood among
foreign English relatives, and consequently
the possibility that he might not be the most
channiug of young denii-gods wTas changed
by Viola into tne decided "probability that
hp "was thus divinely favored. Viola's
great aunt, Sirs. Marksley, lived also at the
homestead, but being eighty, if a day, and
so deaf that it would not have disturbed
her repose a partical had she slept over one
of the most popular New. York shootin?
galleries, this estimable lady, as may be
imagined, aid -not contribute any special
diversion to her niece s daily life.
Viola's only rdal companion was a certain
Miss Butterby, a lady now about forty years
old, who had been engaged as Miss Adair's
governess surely twelve years ago, and who
still retained her position, though it was
every day growing more and more of a
sinicurc. v . "
It would be hard to imagine a more charm
inz elderly spinster than Miss Butterby.
She was literally, 'fat, fair and forty."
Iler plump face seemed never tired of dimp
ling itself with the heartiest and happiest
mirthfulness. Viola adored her, and re
peatedly declared that existence would be a
One day, about three months or so before"
the completion of Viola's twenty-first year,
Miss Butterby came running into the room
where she was seated, with an expression
of fright and anxiety by no means natural
to the governess's usually merry face.
"Oh, my dear Viola!" exclaimed Miss
Butterby, ''such a dreadful thing has just
happened down at the gate. A gentleman
has been thrown irom nis uorue auu
killed!"
Viola's sapphire-colored eyes opened to
their widest as she jumped up from her:
seat, almost shouting: : .
"Good Heavens, Butterby, dear, do you
mean it? What have you , done? I hope
you called James and John right off. Via
you sec him thrown? : , ,
"No, but just as I got to the gate I heard
a croan, and there ne was jjmg "7
with his eyes nearly; closed and the fiend
of a horse tbat bsd thrown him was graz
ing sere r. l vardo an as quic-U as a lamb. ;
Well!" questioned Viola, deeply inter-
pated "Goon. Yvnateiseiiappciiw. ;
in .t vnshed un to the poor creature
and asked if he were mucn nurt anu uw
had hurt him- He pointed towards
fho hrsft and then murmureu,
I felt like firing the largest sired stone con
ceivable at the beast. xoia. ior- -u
treat such a beautuui young ,
such a manner." j ? ,
"Was he beautiiui;. mquircu
but he opened them the moment Miss But
terby said: . '""' ' -
4 'All, here you are Viola I "
And then our susceptible young 'heroine
felt the voice of her inward spirit immedi
ately murmur, "Butterby was right. He
is a seraph an Adonis a prodigy of good
looks." .L. 1
He waa1 nothing of the ' sort. He had
brown eyes of much brilliancy, and a brown
silky mostache, and an extremely creditable
complexion. . But to the eyes of Miss But
terby and her pupil his general - physical
suggestion of gentlemanliness, polish ana
grace made up for all minor facial deficien
cies. .-" .' I :.
Viola now spoke, rather embarrassedly :
"'"I aft bo sorry it happened, sir," she be
gan; and just then James entered the room
saying:
"Dr. Fitchjs here."
Dr. Fitch was a young man -(not older
perhaps than the sufferer himself), who
had recently completed a course of Eu
ropean travel, and had settled as a practi
tioner in an adjacent town. Mrs. Marks
ley, Viola's great aunt, had taken him up
not long ago, and declared that he had done
her rheumatism more good in a week than
old Dr. Cobweb haddone in five years.
Dr. Fitch took the patient's hand in a very
kindly way, and after holding it for a few
moments, politely requested the ladies to
retire, being evidently desirous of closely
examining the mjured limb.
Viola and her ex-governess waited with
no little anxiety for the decision. It came
in about ten minutes. There was a severe
contusion of the bone with name unpro
nounceable, which would prevent Mr. Del
mayne (such was the gentleman's name)
from walking at all for at least a fortnight.
After the doctor had gone, -Viola Bat down
by Mr. Delmayne. :
"I hope you'll make yourself quite at
home here," she began. . " You've got to
be here a week, you know."
"Thanks," he said, with what Viola
thought a very sweet smile.
And then he told her that he had no
friends nor relations in this part of the coun
try, but was making a horseback journey
f rom l (a distance of many nines), into
New York, being passionately fond f
absence -"James, 'my man, I jthmk 1 11 go
up stairs.1 It's sort of of dangerous aown
here,' don't you know? Any of the servants
might pop in here any moment. lm glad
lTve let you into my secret, James, because
if I hadn't somebody near me who knsw
the whole thing, I shouldn't be able! to carry
it through." I j
At Uhis moment Viola dashed into the
parlor. . ' , ' S V j . .
; You abominable fraud!" : shea began, in
th! e most successful melodramatic of screams.
"How dare you enter a respectably family
in this shameful way ? Who are you?
What are. you! To think that I've been
actually wasting pity on you, and came
home from the fair in this broiling sun to
-to nurse you! Oh, it's enough-to turn a
lady's mind with rage! . ,Please leave the
house directly. I doubt believe your name
is Delmayne at all! i I dare say it's Smith
or Jones! Ugh! you wretch; you!'?
f ! The pseudo individual was standing very
penitently now before his fair anrjihilator,
having more or less recovered from his first
shock of amazement at Viola's unexpected
entrpe. ' '..:-" "
ij!"My,name isn't Delmayne," he said,
with meekness, "nor yet Smith, nor yet
iTAnPfl- Tt is but ! suppose vou'd; rather
not know?" j ' .
I "I don't care one way or the
cried Viola. "Why should I
awav from this house! You're
poster!" !
"I'm sorry you think so," was the gentle
care?
a vile
other!"
Go
1m-
"because I'm - I'm
Elbert
SAVE'
MONEY'
IliARBEE'S DRTJG- STORE
IS HEADQUARTERS
For Pure Drugs, Genuine
Medicines, &c
E V Ell Y THING
USUALLY KEPT IN A
"TIP-TOP" UBUG HOUSE.
horseback ridins:.
. And then Viola told .him a great deal
about herself a great deal more than he
told her on a similar topic, and a great deal
more than there was any necessity for tell
ing, i '
James and John carried him upstairs
that evening, and he groaned considerably
while they were doing so. Poof "Viola
found herself crying great tears while ehe
listened to thi3 unstoic proceeding on Mr.
Delmaysp's part, ard Mis Butterby stood
near her pupil, the picture of plump dis
tress. On the following morning ihe ladies sent
word by James (who acted as their guest's
valet at present) that they would be de
lighted to see him as soon as he was ready
to receive their visit.
Delmayne was presently quite prepared
for them, and the ladies entered his apart
ment. "Viola and I are sorry that we must leave
you ! alone to-day," Miss Butterby an
nounced; "but the fact is to day takes
place our grand church fair over in D
nnd we've each cot a table, you know"
"Why, of course -1 understand, penect-
v " said Mr. DelmaviK-, as Miss' Butterby
paused a moment. But- he spoiie wnn a
certain mournful politeness that was by no
means lost upon v lola. '
When they got to the fair that - morning,
after quite a long drive in the hot July sun,
Vioi.i decisively expressed to Miss Butter-.
by the sentiment mat sue wisaea siiu nacui t
come. . !
"Just thinlc of that poor sullerer nome
here, all alone!" she added, with much
pathos of tone. "1 ve a gooa mma
. 1-J i. M,h 4Ka ennf Anna ATlOO
liUt SilG (II U nob 11 111 oil IUC DgiitvuL. m.-v
.. 11 l 12. -T A
Rntffirln. however.; meaiauy nmsueu 11 xoi
her,1 and about an hour afterwards she whis
pered to Viola: ; .
"Cornelia unggs is ujriug tu
table of yours, vvny aom you iet uw,
and": , , .
"And what?'' asked V iola looKing very
meaningly at the speaker. i
"Go home to tue poor Bunerer, , umou
the sympathetic "Butterby. "He will be so
pleasantly surprised! If you don't think it s
proper to sit alone, by the poor fellow, wiiy
you can persuade your aunt to leave her
nu'vu .
response,
Duane! "
These simple words were to poor SViola
like the bursting of a bombshell,' whilst she
stood before this man in a condition of as
tonishment even greater than .that which
had resulted from the first discovery of his
imposture. j. . I
. He hurried up to lier side and began
speaking rapid words : I
"Forgive me; but after all, is there very
much to forgive? Whilst Dr. Fitch was
abroad last year, I met him. and. as, he.
t thought of settling so near you, we Arranged
this little plan together. It wasn t mere
vulgar curiosity that led me to do it, I as
sure, you. It was because I wanteel -to see
a little of my future -wife before she became
mine, and provided I loved her, try to win
he reciprocal love without any thought of
prudence and policy; directing the attach
ment. Imav have been Quite wrong in
deliberately deceiving you; but -h Viola,
don't you understand what I mean?"
: ! "No, I do not" exclaimed Violajsudden
ly bursting into tears. "I shall think you
a wretch, and I intend breaking poor pa's
will: you just see If 1 1 don't!" ' ,
1 Butf she did no such thing. Shej forgave
Elbert, married him the following year,
and to-dav is one of the happiest little
wives' living. !
interested than ever. ;
"Oh. 6plehUiai xjuijusi,
.M him. He's in the sitting room now.
cot James and John to
you
; 1
hpln him in, ana
UU W w A
sent James imrneaiaieijr uuu.Bwr.
Dr:Indbishe hurt so very much, Butter
by!!T aL vnow. It's his leg, you see,
and be groans u K
and then, and all that.
Tttl rrrith llim nOWf
uary -o" his eves were shut
onlTfi nS,Tut bVdidu'J appear to
1VtVMa1'nearly ten minutes before
It tOOK VIOU u J ,, eDoagt
OIlM f I IIiaiUC.1 V'-
If I tUUiov
if her
ser
J ofaira
lv. had been to the M needed, n ,
MissButterby's thorough
redtln,
ing a periecv ;nd-nerredchsh-auburn
ribbon at heTthrr&lla and temples
hair curling J$ fashion;
in the most ar , "serable unless
m 'LU,.iriit. TheeufEererwa.
The Devil In tlie Breeches.
As for me, I can go
mate-
bed-room,
Itopt x-nii rompanv.
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home m tne irigg
Of course Viola accepted inis propu&iuun
and surrendered her table to the beautiful
Cornelia Briggs. 'ine nae uacii
homestead was several degress hotter than
iw.;riA thprpfrom had been, liut vioia
LUC . , - l.t-l,-j
didnt mind the heat rnucn, inougu Bmj uu
considerably whilst oeing
driven to D Circumstances so
-:n- oitpr rnses sometimes.
On reaching tne nomeitau, xvu. .
lower hall quite as quiet as she had antici
pated. Something caused her to enter the
large, seiaom-useu pai 1 , "'- o
stairs to' the "poor sufferer." Or, rather,
it would be best to say that something
caused her to have such a desire only, for
when she reached the threshold iola
PaThe door was partially ajar, and tne par
lor had two inmates, neither of whom had
observed her soft approach, although any
moment miht reveal to tbem her presence.
Viola lifted her hand to her eyes, and,
for a brief space, actually rubbed them, to
persuade herself that she was not dream-
1D Bight in front of the mantel, with his
hands underneath his coat-tails, andlns
lees well stretched apart, and a lighted
ci-ar in his mouth, stood 3Ir. Delmayne.
The "poor sufferer" had been suddenly
and miraculously freed from his torments.
Viola felt as if pure astonishment was gradu
ally! ossifying her while she stood and
watched him. ,
Tames." he now remarked to the other
-indnt of the room, who .was standing
.,, onrl who hadasain and again been en
Coined by Viola and Miss Butterby "never
w aisht"of the invalid during their
Dr. Thorn was a pastor by hi Jiself. He
was thin as a lath, lank as a June shade,
and solemn as a tombstone. He had no
'features and seldom lifted his eye from the
book. H screwed to the floor .he could hot
hate been more immovable. -Hej worked
daily like a ditcher, and got his living
mainly from his farm. W hen jhe took
his charge, his senior deacon struck the
key-note when he said: "The Lord keep
you humble and h will keep you poor."
The minister kepi his carm and his farm
kept him. He Ave. t Ir m the bayfield to a
funeral, and was batk again at work before
the hearse started, i He called his'-clerical
garments 'regimentals, and kept them
hung up in the garre. His breeches were
made of wash-leather dyed biacK, lasting
through a generation: Into these enduring
and never-yielding habiliments thej dominie
was shook at the beginntng, and they never
stretched ; so much room, and no more.
One Sunday morning Mr. Thorn went into
the garrett' to areay- himself. The bell
tolled from the old tower, and the parson
had no time to spare. Mercy 1 what a
sight'! A colony-of ..wasps in the good man's
breeches f The farmer preacher had had a
contest now and then with this insect. He
knew how savage and how venomous a
colony of wasps was. The bell was slow
ing, nearing the end, and . something must
be done. A long stick' and an adroit mani
pulation ejected the intruders except two
vagrants who were on a foraging in the
seams.' The pastor entered the church on
the last stroke of the bell, 'and the I sermon
was reached without disaster. Then the
trouble besrau. and the waps intimated that
thev were crowded. UJie staid and- siui
dominie began agile. He clasped his hands
BRIEFS.
George Elliot U now fifty-nine
years old, and has earned $250,000 with
her pen.
The value of church property of all
kinds in New York state Is estimated at
$117,610,000. L .
''The cotton crop of America this
year will be fully 500,000 bales more
than ever before.
Mr. James Russell Lovyell's house
Cambridge, Mass., has been rented for
the winter by Olo Bull. k
The brewers or Cincinnati propose
to unite allTnterests In one great com
pany, with a capital of $8,000,000.
. The average salary of a certificated
school-master In England Is now S93;
that of a school-mistress i3 $353.
K. Weber, the German chemist, has
shown chat vinegar will attack pure
tin, as well as alloys of tin and leaJ.
When the United States becomes
as densely populated as Holland, it .
will contain 837,433,019 Inhabitants..
A cotton broker of New York
claims that I1I3 commissions on one day '
business recently amounted to over
$7,C00. - , .
Charleston, S. C, lias had its nr3t
fall of snow; in ten years. Hundreds,
of school children had never seen snow
before. Every kind of leather of oak and
sumac tannage' is produced In Cincin
nati; there being 30 tanning establish- t
monts there. -
vThe sixty-five thousand dogs of
St. Petersburg bring J.6 the city treas
ury $130,000 per year, $2 being the tax
upon -each dog.
Mr. Claude Bernard Bhows by ex
periment that plants; like animals, may .
be placed under the Influence of ether
and chloroform. j .
Rev. George Randall, of Yancy
countv, N. C, has killed, 575 ground
hogs 'this season, and preached two
sermons every Sunday.
Mexico was colonized just one hun
dred years before Massachusetts. Tho
former was settled by Spanish knights,
the latter by English Filgritns.
The number ot recruits to be levied
next year for the Russiau army hai
been fixed at 322,500 a larger quota
than has been raised in war time.
-On thft surface of the earth but lit
tle more than one-quarter .Is' land j the
rest being water. The area of the laud
surface is 54,000,000 square miles.
Selwvn. a full blood
ed Sioux Indian and a son of a leading
chief of the Yankton trioc, nas uceu
ordained pastor of the church at Yank
ton. . . .
General Sheridan, who was ill for
two weeks with a severe cold, border
ing on pneumonia, has almost recover-
ed, and is again busy at 111s uiimmjr
headquarters. ,
The damage caused by Arcs in.itus.-
skVin the month of August is Comput
ed at no less a sum than nearly $15,414,
000, Urkutsk alone havhig. suffered to
the amount ot $n,7i,uuv.
The exports of domestic provisions .
and tallow from the Unlt-d States lor
the month of October, 1S7'J, tooteup
$7,88G,G27 in value, against $Gf 797,105
lor the same month last year.
The Tich borne claimant, as a pris-
' 1 1 .1 . . X r V. r WY a
oner, nas asKeu iu uo i
Macaulry's History of England, and
Gibbon's History of Rome, but the au
thorities have denied his petition .
In splitting open a log hauled on
land ,irom the Susquehanna Jver at
Marietta, j Pa., three handjome bass,
one weighing five pounds, were found
in a cavitv in the centre of the log.
The new Pullman palace car3 arc
very luxurious, costing each j?S'
Ordinary passenger cars cost fi.uuj,
drawing-room cars. $S,000; mail and
baggage cars, $2,000; box cars $400.
The total production or noney ih
the United States for some years paw
has averaged about 5U,uuu,uuu pouim.
annually. It is estimated that the pro
duction thi3 year will not exceed 25,-
000,000 pounds.
Indiana nas tne jarcst
of any tttate in the Union. It baa f V
600,000 iu school property anu ,wv,
000 lu the State Treasury, a total of
cnuu ai
on his side, leaped from the floor, skipped
from side to 'side, and gave other) signs of
his annoyance and I agony- He saw . the
sjritation. for the " people thought i he had
gone stark mad sure enough. Imploringly
he raised his hands, and cried out : "My
dftar hrethren. have pity on mc. idont
know what'she matter. I know the word
Af thr'-Load is in mv mouth, but I'm afraid
the devil's in my breeches r
A. baffacleus Doc.
i--RvYu!-Tift - at the British Association's
mp.etina- at Dublin read a paper oh the in
tpllprt of animals. I He cited no case so re
markable as that of Cunchino?s dqg, which
lives on boat. This, and the steamer
which, runs to . Desenzany fifteen miles
aw-, nt the southwest corner of the lake
ctart fmm "Rival- at the north end of
Garda. The dog was familiar with the
crew of both, and with the other craft, but
he had never made a trip by her. For a
long time he watched her course down the
other side of the lake, and saw her drawing
farther and farther away, -until sh was
hidden by the projecting point, pne day,
his mind f ullv settled to its theory,- he pro
ceeded to verify it; - He marched delibe
rately over to Desenzano, tookj passage,
came safely to Riva, and went back to his
famihac kitchen with an air of satisf acUon.
He could not be induced to make another
trip by that boat. He had "done" it, and
hud no more y ords to conquer Id that di
rection. He had reasoned out a plan of
ar.tlon. and had louno nis reawjiuug m
rect. ''
000
i20.GOO.000, or $70 to every
tending the puonc ecuuuis. j
Shipbuilding cn the Clyde was
never so active as now, 70 vessels be
ing on the stocks in the thirty-five
yards. Twentyrthree new keels-were
laid In October. The French r.-ansat-lantic
Company ,1s having eight nciv
steamers constructed.
The grave of Rob Roy, in the lone
ly churchyard : at Balguhidder, Scot
land, is marked by a flat stone about a
century old, on which is carved a fir .
tree crossed by a-i sword and support
ing a crown, but without any name.
It is proposed to erect a better raemoe
ial ol the old chieftain.
'A wedding occiired at East Ma
chias. Me., the other ilzy where the
bridegroom's age was 71 and the bride s
6S. Jiiigut persons pi
the newly wedded-pair, aggregated in
age 600 years. TJe oldest was Mr.
William Elsmorei 93, and tile youngest
of the eight was G3 years old.
It is now - estimated that there are
15 000 carriage manufacturers in the
United .States, who employ P'
100,000 hands, pay out Irom $25,OW,vw
to $31,000,000 for labor annuaUyrand
produced during the past twelve months
upward of 1,00,000 carriages, amount
ing in val ue to fully $125,000,000.
The women of Boston vote for tho
School Committee at the next Munici
pal election for the first tlme, lhe
Board or Aldeimen, at a recent meet
ing, passed an onier prohibiting smok
inginand around tue. polling places
from the time Of opening uie puu uu
noou, to give the lames -
vote early.
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