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WAX JOS. A. HARRIS, Editor. FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. $1.50 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. VOL. V. CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1880. NO. 21; (( MYff I in 1 1 1 1 1 1 Hi i - ONLT. Ouly a baby, you cnt but kia ; Only nch&l, mother would miss. Only a toy and just what ha teems, Ouly a' youA, l.ving in dreams. Only a man brare and true : Only a father, with feeling bo new. . . Only a grawljta waiting for rest ; Only a mound, ty dewdropa caressed. A Woman's Sacrifice. Wilt' W" mizht da better, John." It ViLma spoke fret fully, as if the v :hi her by her pnty son was not -nt for her to hear. . . - " '-Piter. mother r,c : v- ' , !- What it ringing clear voice it was. ' So strong and hearty, as if to match the tall, stalwart figure; the bright brown eyes am! handsome, sunny face of John "Wil liams. - ; "Better!" And now a hearty laugh rang out.,' As if there lived a better woman than Hannah Coylc!" - "But John, she is only a shop girl." " She won't be a shop girl when she is my I am not a' rich man, but my salary will make a comfortable home for all of u. "She will turn me out of doors like en ough." ;.- ; ".Mother, " cried John with a quiver of anger funning through the surprised re Imach of his oice, you should know Ilan nauCoyle better than that." j 31 u. Wilhani's conscience gave her a sharp Vwinge, for she did know Hannah Utter ttuu to1 think she would deprive a crippled oi l woman of her only home. But Mrs. Williams, like many a fond mother, had nursed such high hopes for the future matrimonial prospects of her boy, that she felt only a rude shock of dis appointment when he told her of his. en scribe the desolate home to which this news was carried. , They never doubted him. even in the face of all the overwhelming evidence tha-; had condemned him, but Heaven seemed to have deserted them when they knew the result of the trial. Hannah Coyle was not pretty. Her fea tures were plain, her eyes soft brown, and she had a sweet mouth,, that could smile bravely md light her face for the invalid's eyes in their darkest hours. But she had one great beauty in long, heavy masses of hair, of a rich dark brown, and of which she was fond and proud because John ad mired it. . ; ' "It is my only beauty," she would say, when old Mrs. Williams exclaimed at its i profusion, n44-xsnst kep it glossy and pretty for John's sake. Uc must find his wife unaltered waiting for nim when, he Air. Cobleigh and the Mouse. comes home." gagement. C Purely, she mused, after John had left Iht for his daily routine of duty, . "surely John might aspire to something higher than a mere shop girl. He was well educated, well connected, acd occupied a responsible position." Just one week later Hannah Coyle came o Mi1 house, where she j was to have had n.dcing wtleopic as its mistress, and en-.iLa-' soitiy went to the crippled woman's .hair." CrxuJLed down among the cushions seeming to have shrunk jto less than her act ual .:ne in her misery, wfcs the fond, proud ,eivJ cr, her fi-nrce shivering in convulsive it -" ac same. C:, John, my so , my good son ! Oh, livr.dy FatLer, lei-me die!" She lad been aa one long night -so rnoan- . Bobtimrutteriy. desolate, utterly :-", " -1 . : -1 n t can sheiJoii'3i, ihe trusted clerk, ups proud Ji-ver, was lying in a cell. 4 v ! Won arrtf t-.'d for passing a forged i ten in tup tery act of attempting v.-. at tne iani. j ; .'Ye i'. ry 4c told of its possession was so r te that it will further injured him, I personal revenge an additional ' '. ,r his punishment. . He said that i Jd Somers, the son of one of ttfepart s of the firm, had si'nt him to the bank with the check. . . It scarcely needed th oung man's in dignant denial to contradict this story. A friend in the same employ had gone to 'mother and told the-news as kindly and A ax4fr fcad &-yc pride had kept Vrh"atTVU? during iliat trying inter A w; tut oxx-e-5 wa5 i''ie, she crouched in the culdorii .tf her OnAr and moaned . out in the uitefIiierr of, hrr heart. There wa110 strong arm to lift her to her own ruom,,at ! Tlicri'."3 no bcarty, ringing voice to bid Ler gi"mornlD? v.t; the feeklc voice, freighted with ita bur-n ot anguish, moaned its sad refrain, . doer opened and Hannah Coyie X- . .t A. 1 A o in yi naa uroKen me news geniiy 10 I"- .-kib "irirl. - .J "ii thy ttiK came rudely on her from the columns of the daily paper. It was not in one hour, or two, that shs could conquer her own grief so 03 to leave iue nouse. iut when the lirst battle wa3 over in her le-rt."?h- went a. once where sLjii Joia would have ler go. h' faint with her long night ; th? - mother la moaning, a kind ai placvd upon" her shoulder, and' a ' cur and strong, but sweet with wo teuderness, spoke the dearest word h: therl looked up with hazard, bloodshot bd saw bending over her a face that . . ity, and deep, muiterable tenderness afi transformed into positive beauty. ""Mother," the sweet, clear voice said "tins is not what John would wish. " The mother's tears, the first she had li, j!owej fjt at 8onnd of hex son!g ;w i J !i 2:r"-.T'wd,.her voice Thls was before tire crushing verdict that ended the young clerk's trial. fortunately the old lady owned the little home-in which she lived, her sole legacy from her dead husband ; but as the weary months crept slowly along, poverty showed its ugly face in the humble home. Hannah worked faithfully at her old post until Mrs. Williams was taken very ill- Sorrow and anxiety began to have physi cal as well as mental effect, and the mother bowed down, aged more in one year of separation fronher son than she had- ever been in ten-of their loving companion ship. It was impossible to leave her alone, and the situation was resigned. Nearer and nearer crept the gaunt wolf poverty. ' Little articles of furniture that could be spared were sold; little comforts were de nied ; extra hours Were given to the poorly paid sewing that replaced Hannah s work, and yet actual hunger was staring them in the face. . Nearly two years had John Vfalliams slept iQ a convict's cell, when one morning nannan uoyie, leaving her scit-imposed charge sleeping, went to one of the fash ionable hairdressers. "I have come to sell my'liair," choking back herteare, and thinking "it will grow out again before John comes home." The proprietor led her to the hair-dressing-room, and hid his amazement at the supurb profusion under a hard, half-contemptuous smile. When left, only three shillings had been paid her for her closelv cropped head: yet j that would keep life a little longer in the feeble frame of John s mother and Hannah was thankful. She was rapidb walking home, when she was attracted lor a moment by a ero wtr and her feet seemed paralyzed as she heard a man say: "I eaw his face. It is Gerald Somirs." 'Is he much hurt?" "Fatally, I should say. One of the horses put his foot on his breast." "Gerald Sommers ! Fatally injured ?" Hannah ne0er paused to contemplate possibilities." She forced her way through the crowd into the room where the young man lay waiting for death. "You cannot go in." .a uiui j iu, aij ;uu. ii is a mat ter of life and death. I must see him be forehedies." something in the white earnest face moved the man's heart and he opened the aoor. un a sofa, covered with a sheet, lay the handsome, dissipated son of the merchant prince. Kneeling beside him was the father, and the physician stood at the head of the couch. lneynaa thought consciousness dead, vvucu aucoi yuilc djjvivo mi uying man s name. Gerald Somers." He opened his eyes wildly, and the clear voice spoke again in words of most solemn import. As you hopevfor mercy in the next world tell the truth of John William's in nocence.-" " , He gasped convulsively, while his father looked inquiringly at the intruder. "John Williams," the dying voice said feebly, 4was innocent. I did give him the check, as he said. I wrote the signa ture." something, bored it - rtuoLvt c.iil, her eyes fiash-v-. Jr -vhceks jrrowing crimson, V.'&ow can you put the words to v.l "Ton know I know that he is in Di'cent.'? "But he is in prison. He will be tried I" This was the first conversation that drew tlit hearts of the two women together, but tlie bond that knit them 'during the months Wfct followed was that of suffering and sor w, that would have torn the heart of the ;an whom they Joved and trusted" during m darkest hours. for the trial ouly separated them more s'rj.ly and terribly. j th :lve intelligent men, after hearing all evidence, pronounced a verdict of guil T, and John Williams was sentenced for years. It is not in the power of our pen to de- "Gerald!" cried the father, "is this true?" L "It is true, as I hope for God's mercy." - -There was a moment of silence, and then the old man turned to Hannah. 44 Who are you?" "John William's promised wife. Go. I will do him justice. Leave me with my son. She bowed her head, and went Elowly from the presence of the dying. James Somers kept his word. He was an upright man, and sacrificed the name of the dead to right that of the living. He would not take John back. -The sight of liis face was tso exquisitely painful, but he paid him his full salary for the time of his absence, and found him a lucrative position. "It was the day of the home-coming. " Mrs. Williams in her own chair was smil ing upon John as he caressed Hannah's cropped hair. , Very grave and pale his sunny face had become, but he. smiled as his mother said : 'It was for me, John', she sacrificed her splendid hair. I can never tell you all she sacrificed for me, but that speaks for itself." Clasping Hannah in a close embrace he asked : "Do you think now, mother, I might do better?" "Not if you could marry an Empress." She thinks so still, aid John agrees with her, though he has been married four yaars and Hannah's hair is as superb as ever. The strength of many polltlcans lies Mr. Cobleierh had gone to be. Mrs. Cob leigh had been canning berries all day, and a tableful of cans showed that it had been a aay ot industry. So she had gone to bed,. and to sleep, leaving Mr. Cobleigh up to read the paper. While he was thus en gaged he thought he heard a movement in the kitchen. He stopped to listen. ! The sound stopped for an instant and then re sumed, it came from the rustling of pa per. JUr. Cobleigh made up his mind that a mouse was about. He walked softlv to the doorway leading into the kitchen arid stopped to listen again. The sound continued. It was in the dish closet, and appesred to be close to the floor. Mr. Cobleigh got the light and crept softly into the kitchen and to the door of the closet. There he saw a paper bag of and knew that the mouse j had way into it. As softly as he had come lie moved away after a weapon. He saw the broqin, and immediately- chose that article. He sat the lamp on the ta ble, in which position it shone, full into the cjoset. : Mr. Cobleiegh got the broom, and cautiously approached the bag to dislodge tne mouse, it was at. this juncture JVlr, Cobleigh realized how importent' was the broom to briug out the mouse and slay it, too. A mouse is very quick in its move ments. Mr. Cobleigh stood wondering how to compromise to advantage when he heard a'step and looking up saw his wife. She naa awaKeuea ana goi up, to see wnere ne was. lie made known to her the situa tion, and suggested that she stand 4on a chair and move the brg with' another broom, and he would take position on the floor and when the mouse scud across the room he would fetch it a disastrous wipe with his broom aud drive it against the oppositewall with sufficient force to destroy any spark of life that might remain in its body after the blow. This seems like a very great parade over the killing of a mouse.- Mrs. Cob leigh stood on a cliair placed near the closet, and reached over with the broom to prod the paper bag, in which she had gath ered a number of crusts for future .bread puddings. Mr. Cobleigh took the position he .had indicated. It was a remarkably formidable position too, and calculated to distress a mouse, just to look at it.: He had his legs braced apart to a distance of fully three feet. His body was settled Jwell down into his loins. The broom was clutched by both hands and raised enough to give it considerable force in the descent. ; "Now!" said Mr. Cobleigh in a - sup pressed voice. Mrs. Cobleigh gave the bag a sharp pod, "and cried "Shoo!" The mouse jumped into sight, paused a flash, and! then "' mto t m Kitcaen: Uo wa same . i. . i - ' i - me uroom in a- iremenuous sweep, and bounding from the floor tor.? around lin circle with such velocity as to nearly throw Mr. Cobleigh s back out of joint, and to duite throw him from his balance, r and wound up by catching under the project ing end of the board on which stood; the cans of berries, and throwing it and its precious treight to the floor as if both had been no more than so many straws. iIr. Colbeigh being on his back did not have as full a view of this calamity as Mrs. Cobleigh got by being dri a chair. 'Other wise he might have fainted dead away the very ins'ant she did. The mouse cowardly fled. . About Lore. j It has been observed: - 1 That the boy who is most afraid of girls is the first to be corralled in matrimony; ; That the little boys prefer boys! to' girls. That they soon change, never to go back tQ their early love. That the little girls love the girls best. That they don't get over their prefer-. ence as soon as the boys do some of them never, : . That women love men because they love everything they have to take care of. That men love women because they can't help it. That the wife loves the husband so well that she has no thought for other men. That the husband so loves the wife that he loves all women for her sake, i That girls who have given over; all hopes of matrnnony, or who never had any, love to flirt'. with married men. I That the married man is apt to think himself all killing among the fair sex simp ly because he has found one woman fool? enough to marry him. , ' That homely husbands are the best. ThejSf never forget the compliment paid them by their wives in accepting them. I 4 That homely wives are the truest. They know how to make the most of what they have. Lightning seldom strikes in the same place, and a homely woman feels that a similar law governs question popping- , That the man who marries Tate in life does welL . ' ; That the man who marries young does better. That the man who never marries is to be pitied. ; ; That the woman who marries does'- well. That the woman who does not marry does better nine times out of ten. That. the young man who prattles about the "daisies" would turn red as a beet and tremble like an aspen if one of them should but look at him out cf , the corner of her That the fellow who makes ithe most conquests has the least time to brag. That the man who thinks the girls are all in love with him is happy after his way. . 1 hat the man who loves his wrife may still love other women. That the least he says about his love for other women the smoother will be his. matrimonial career. That these same old people would like to be young kovers again, even if they had to act like fools too. That it is a mistake to say a person."falls" in love. Love is a long step upward to ward heaven. It is heaven. I Freabs of a Fair. Near Dublin, Ireland, one day in May last, Mrs. Eliza Redington, the wife of a ."small farmer, "was visited by a dar-faced. young woman, who introduced herself as one of the ''ood people," otherwise the fairies, with whom she said she resided on terms of the closest intimacy, in an old fort John fetched a policeman, who arrested Mrs. Kedington's visitor in. a neighboring cabin, where she was engaged In propitiat ing the fates by further incantations. S j The lawyer, looking up the authorities on the matter, found that it had beenlaid down once upon a time by a very eminent Judge that a pretense of power, whether moral, made with the t ," Physical, or supernatural, ma uwiv,umb wwiiou lT"J object of obtaining money, is ah indifctable offence, in this way the intimate mend mil Lamar. ; A census taker called at aq old prospec tor's Cabin in Southern. Nevada, aud tak ing orit his big blank book, proceeded to put the miner thorugh the entire category of questions about as follows: "What street do you live on?" "Don't live on any street; ,1, live yer in the rocks." "What's the number of your house?" asked the interrogate still adhering to. the text of his blank forms. "The number of my cabin?" quizzed 4he miner.' "it's No. 1,1 reckon." "What's your name?" "Bill Lamar." "Are you white, black, mullato, Chinese or Indian?" , , rr "Wal, neow," said Bill, slightly ruffled and rising, "I dn't know what yer driving at, stranger, but 1 want you to understand that 'round this yer camp I bears the reper tation o! being wliite." "Are you male or female?" solemnly in quired the questioner. "Me? me?" shouted Bill, taking astep nearer his visitor and starting ' to roll; up his sleeves "Me? I'm a man every inch Still pursuing his duty, the governmen tal agent continued: ; "Are you sick or tempoarily dis abled?" ' 4 "Sick?" disabled?" roared Bill, danc ing wildly before the young man with ithe big book "ypu blank fool nor1 j "Blind" , "Hot much!" hissed the .niner, with eyes flashing. "Idiotic?'' i ; Wild with rage and glaring like a inad- man, at mis quesuou, diu ouuv. wi bl under the agent's nose just as the latter looked mildly up and Innocently followed up his queries with ; "Insane, crippled, Deanaaenj - j This was to much. Bill's fist came down on the census-taker's untortunate neau iikc a rock hammer, while at the same lime m number fourteen brogans sought sucn a leverage under the poor fellow's coat-tails as lifted him clear out doors, book and all. . J The amazed enumerator gavaone glance back at the advancing form of. the most lookinsr human being his eyes had ever rested on, and started for a gulch a hundred yards away, where he ruDoea down his bruises, and, seating himself on a rock, opened his great book and after the name of "Bill Lamar , wrote ine worua. "Maimed, crippled or oinerwiae abled?" "No!" "Insane?" "YES!" 1 That as we. are commanded to love our neighbors a Yourselves, "we should see to it that qur neighbor is a charming young woman. 1 ! That it is time, to stop, for fear our read ers might become lovesick. ' Cautions In Eating. dis- 1. Of course don't eat too much. The digestive fluids are limited in quantity. All above enough is undigested, irritating and weakening the system, arid often caus ing paralysis of the brain by drawing on the nervous force more rapidly than it i's generated. ! 2. Don't eat between meals; the stom ach must rest, or it will sooner or later break down. Even the heart has to rest between the beats. " i 8. Don't eat a full meal when exhaust ed. The stomach is as exhausted as the rest of the body. 4. Don t take lunch at noon and eat heartily at night. The whole digestive system needs to share in the rest and re cuperation of sleep. Besides the tendency is. to put a full meal into a weakened stom ach. j 5. Don't substitute stimulus for food- like many women who do half a day's work on strong coffee or tea. As well, m the case of a horse substitute the whip for oats. i 6. Don't have a daily monotony of dishes. Variety is necessary for relish, and relish is necessary to good digestion. 7. Don t eat blindly. There can be nothing in the body muscles, membranes, hones, nerve, Dram wnicn is not in our food. One article furnishes one or more elements, and another others. We could starve on fine flour. Some articles do not nourish, only warm. 8. Eat according to the season one third less in summer than in.-winter In the latter, fat meat, sugar and starch are appropriate, as being heat-maKers ; in the orniRv, jnuk, vegetables, and every variety oi ripe iruit. y. Lut with cheer. Cheer promotes digestion ; care, fret and passion arrest it. Lively Chat, racy anecdotes, and innocent gossip are better than Halford sauce. Wny.eti Didn't. them to offer her assistance on certain terms to prevent the loss of Mrs. Redihg ton's husband, which was imminent, like wise the loss of some of her four-footed beasts. Poor Mrs. Redington, with many humble courtesies, received her mysterious visitor in fear and trembling. Th? fairy wore a hat, with a dissipated-looking fea ther in it ; she was young and fat, and, altogether, quite a substantial person fdr a fairy. But the f arrrier's wife had no dCubt whatever that she was in fact what j she represented -herself to be. How could she doubt it, when the 'good woman" men tioned the names of some deceased' Red ingtons, and told her that she had had a long interview with their spirits in refer ence to Mrs.'Redington's worldly affairs, which they considered required immediate looking after by the "good people." Pro ceeding to business, she surveyed the. ex terior of the Redington cabin, and gave it as her opinion ' that it was built in a very unlucky place Mrs. Redington's coun tenance fell upon hearing this, but the fairies' confidant cheered her up by prom ising to keep a special eye on the premises. ."Where's John Redington ? -' asked the visitor, taking off the hat with the dissipated-looking feather as she re-entered- the house. Mrs." Redington, awe-stricken at the supernatural knowledge that enabled the woman to call her husband by his" bap- tismal name, though she" "had never laid eyes on him,", replied that Johnswas not at home ; he was at the fair of Ballinafad, trying to sell two orthree pigs to pay the rentL Then the prisoner three times de manded to be' provided with a handerchief. Bridget, the servant girl, who was gaping in tlie qorner, supplied a- handkerchief, in which the weird woman tied three knots, and giving one end of the handkerchief to the farmer's wife, comilianded her to pull with all herinight. Mrs. Redington pulled, then the woman breathed three times on the handkerchief and placed it behind her, saying that Mrs. Redington's troubles would not be of long duration if the knots dis appeared; when the handkerchief was again exhibited to mortal eyes the .three knots were gone I Whereupon the farmer's wife said her prayers, and Bridget, the servant, turned her face to the wall and made "the sign of the Cross" oniher forehead; Then and trusted, agent of the fairies at the. fort came to stand in the dock at Sligo Assizes charged with swindling the farmer's wife. and in this way did the farmer's wife and Bridget, the servant, come to tell in public court, with tears and smiles and blushes, the story of the supernatural swindle by the flaunting "fairy," who, in the harsh,; unpoetical language Of the criminal' law, was described as a"rogueand a vagabond." The jury convicted her, and the learned judge, in sending her to prison to pick oakum for a term, got off with great suc cess the alliterative joke that in' our days fairies 'and fools are usually found together. She Didn't Work. A JCJoiorado Miner tells the following story. I dropped into the 'Carbonate Sa loon" to see the proprietor, an old friend whom I had known in Montana years be fore, and it was while . sitting talKfng over early 'experiences wihhim that the incident took place. '"The boys" were scattered here and there over the room, some talking "leads" and "prospects," some reading late Denver papers and others endeavoring to ascertain by games of cards who should weigh out the dust for the drinks. Se veral poker games for com were in full operation. and the clicking of the ivory checkfc, the ringing of silver coin and the musicalclink of liquor glasses blended in not unpleasing melody. Suddenly a' six-foot individual swaggered in, whose brand new buckskin suit, and general "fresh" appearance, at once gave him away to the crowd as being one of those lunatics just from the ttatcs who imagine that bray and bluster will at once gain for a newcomer the reputation of being "a terror" and hoist him rigtjt up to the top notchin the estimation of every one. 1 The stranger reeled up t , the! bar,, and - drawing an enormous six-shooter, slammed it down with a-jar that made the water cooler danceand remarked : " Whoop ry The barkeeper skipped to his post of duty, set up a glass with an artistic flourish, and asked : "What'll ye have?" that her palm should be "crossed" three times with, gold or silver gold if possible. The farmer's wife said that she had neither gold norsilver, and suggested half a dozen of eggs. The weird woman grew angry, as any respectable fairy might reasonably become at such an unworthy proposition. "Tknow you have paper money, ma'am," observed the fairy, in a tone of severity,, which appalled Mrs. Redington, who, in telling the story, said she "felt she had no thing for it but to give her the money ; " so she went into her bedroom and took from under the tick a pound note,. (a part of the little store which John had put up Jo' pay seme taxes,) and gave rit to the woman, which mollified her much. She performed the handkerchief trick igain, and then asked for another pound note." Mrs. Red ington pleaded that she was very poor, and said that John would be enraged if his Down name th rpvolvpr crtn Mm. ihf woman PVt.pnH in or Tipr TianH Hpmon'HoH I " ' j . ' f " uluuuv paniea wiuijS v , "WtlOOpi 7VV HA-A-A-AY I I : Then turning to the crowd the hew- comer aid: "Don't one o' you fellers dare to wirik or breathe till I swaller my pizen, or the Walls '11 be spattered with blood! I'm Mowhn' Sam, the bloodsucker o' the Gunni son Range, an' I allers leave my path strbwn with bleedin'corpesl I'm a tornado, turned loose to destroy the univarsel Whotipl I'm a-4-" A little, dried up old fellow, not Oyer five, feet four, stepped up, slapped tornado socially on the back, and said : 1 'Pard, take a friend's advice an' softer suppress yer enthusiasm. Jist tonelj it down a little, ye know. I've bin in these mountains fur goin' on fourteen years, ian hev seed some o' the savagest destroiin angels that ever struck the mines. N?w, f 'rinstances, thar was a case a few mouths money was all taken. Upon this the agenU ag0. A feller went into Sandy's saloon !an' from the raincs'rort reproved her soleinnlv from the Fairies' Fort reproved her solemnly for, as she said, "flying in the face of the good people for the sake of a couple of paltry pounds." Mrs. Redington handed over the second pound, and was assured by her mysterious visitor that it was the best spent money she ever paid away, for that if it had not been given,Mr. Redington and all the four-footed stock would inevitably have .come to; serious harm. Biddy, the servant, with staring eyes and mouth agape, witnessed .all this, and her the woman warned to "keep a silent tongue in her head," for that the penalty served out by ther"good people" to those who spoke of such matters, was of the most direful kind: in Biddy's case, the punishment for blab bing, she said? most likely would be her instant transformation into a four-footed beast. Then she directed Mrs. Redington t6 take special note of the date of the month, the day of the weelr, and. the hour of the day, for on that day three weeks, precisely at that hour, a "wee woman" in a red cloak would call and hand her a red purse containing ten "sovereigns, three notes and one shilling, fene was to give away the shilling and keep the rest for herself. She next announced that she had "threft wish es" in her gift, and that it gave her much gratification to dispose of them for the benefit of the farmer s wife. Thev were announced thet he was the identical Devil Jack, the Man-Eatin! Imp o Wyoming Gulch; an' one o' the boys tuk his nstsTan' beat a tatoo on the bloke's face, till ibis head looked like somebody hed bin a playin' football with it in a slaughter house 1 'Twant but about a week arter thet afore the Texas Hyena howled out his lijtle speech at this very bar, an' when the cor oner cut him down up thar in the gulch the buzzards hed free-lunched ofl'n ham till he looked ' wass'n the devil ecurctly Worth burryin' I Then the Tiger Cat taet hed jist drapt down outen a thunder clolid raised his gentle voice in Fatty's faro roojn, an' old Tom Bilson sot down on him iso heavy thet his own mother couldn't ijia' ' recognized the corpse. He wa'nt scarcely under the ground afore we hear'nTa 'whoop! from the'Iower country stage las it drawed up to the hotel, an', when tho whooper, called fer his gin he re Deck full v informed us thet his christian name war Cannibal Bill; thet he lived on human flesh an' war hungry, an' perposed ter try an' make ont a dinner ofl'n the fust mn thet refused to drink with him I The boys poured coal -ile all over him, an' touched a match to him,' an' he run back o Aleck There was a case in Justice alley Detroit, good pnes, and cheap at two pounds, viz : recently in which the lawyer for the plain- "Heaven and Salvation, A Happy Death, tiff had a sudden drop. It was a matter of trespass, and the defendant's only wit ness was on old man. . He stated that he rode along a certain highway with de fendant, held the horses while defendant, got down, but he saw no act of trespass. "You say you rode down to the corners with him?" queried the lawyer. "Yes." 1 "When he came to plaintiff's farm he got but, didn't he!" -V "I think it was about there." "And lie entered a field?" . ; "I dont know. . "You don't. Wasn't it broad daylight?" "Yes, sir." ' : "Did you turn away your head so as not to see him?": v "No. sir." "Was your face towards him? "Yes, sir, - . '. "And yet you testify that you didn t see him enter the field?" "No, I didn't see him." j ' "Did you want to?" 'I did." ' Then why didn't you?" "Because I am blind!" and a Favorable Judgment." She said she had nearly forgotten to mention a small matte of detail, namely, 'that under a cer tain tree near the house Mrs. Redington was to dig in the twilight in three weeks' time until she found a gold cup filled with gold. Then, resuming her. rakish head dress, she scratched three .crosses On the wall with a thimble, breathed three times on the head of Mrs. Redington. and with the invocation. "God be with all in this house of man until we see them again," trotted away, presumably en route to fairy land. Mrs. Redington and Bridget stared in stupefied silence at one . another for a long time. Then Mrs. Redington began to cry, and Bridget blubbered through sym pathy ; then they both said all the prayers they had ever learned, and 3Irs. Redington sprinkled "holy water" all over the house, r While the women were at these exer cises John came home from the fair. When he learned from his -weeping wife that a fairy from the fort had called, taken all his money, and lefther blessing, there was a good deal that didn't sound hke prayer heard under that humble roof. Not hav ing the fear of the fairies before his mind, Uavis gin-mill an' fell inter the wood pilb an' sot it afire. Aleck was the maddest man you ever seed, an' would ha made trouble if the boys hedn't paid him fur the wood an' hired a Chinaman to drag the car cass away Take my advice, Howling Sammy, an' sorter begin easy an' tern Derate don't crow too loud on the fust acquaint! ancei" , i The stranger stooped down and wins pered in the little man's ear : "Say, take this five dollar piece an' ax! the boys up to drink, an I'll slip out. If! any of them axes you who I , am, tell 'em I'm atravelin' Bible agent from. Massachu setts, an' wouldn't harm a flea. , Kinder keep 'em cool till 'I kin git out o' town, you know!" , : . Ten minutes later he was making about five miles an hour over the grade toward the next camp, frequently looking back over his shoulder and muttering : : "She didn't work, an' I reckon this howlin' hurricane hed better blow over fur the present, or else be sure of a camp afore it falls again it!" ; . mm Because strawberries are small, It does not follow that there are more of them to the quart, for the quart li fre quently made smaller to match rthe strawberries. ; . Thk little peach catches the j early market. "- Jn the fact that they keep Mum. 1 ft
The Chapel Hill Ledger (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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Sept. 11, 1880, edition 1
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