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DEALER IX _
Grave Stones
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MONUMENTS,
' N. C,
POETIC V,
n:a.:. am> .ior,
0:.i.v.,; wendell jiolmes.
Conre dear i ll o v>u and I
H ill st-Ui! :ii lioni* fro:i! days gone by—
Til:: fiii i.ig when life was lien - .
And all wes bright with morning dew—
The Ui.-ty da\s of long ago,
H'hcirvou we.o bill an i . wa.' Joe.
Your nil:, e tiif-y 1 II n ir • ilcoittrail,
I'roud us ;; cockei el's rainbow tail.
And mint 1 as brief appendix wear
As Tain O'Shantci's '.aeUl.jss mure;
To-day. old friend. remember still
That I inn -Joe and you arp Bill.
You've w>:l the great wpild's enviea prize.
And grand you look in people's eyes.
With If O , and L 1.1).
in big bra-ve Uturs fair to sea—
Your flcst, old till >w! oil' they go!
llaw are yon, lii-.l? Jlow are you, Joe?
You've won the judge's ermiited robe,
You've taught your name to half the globe:
You've sung mankind a d jathless strain,
You've made the d;v.d past live again,
The world may C;ilt yon what it will,
But you and I are Joe and BUI,
The chafing youngjfolka star.c and say,
' ''Scetheso- oM buffers, bent afMl sfat h*-
Tl:ey talk like fallows in their teens!
Mad, poorohl hoys! that's what it mjaus,"
And shaks there heads; they little know
The throbbing hearts of Bill and Joe.
How Bill forgets Lis h!jur of prid?, f. ,
While Joe sits s ui'iii/at his side;
How Joe, in spite of time's disgtii«3 1;
Find the old selio >huat9 iu Lis eyes—
Tho.see.thn stern eyes that mou an 1 lill
As Joe looks foiully up to Eill.
Ah, pensive sehollar, .what is fame?
A titfyj tounguu of gleam iugtlaiue,
A giddy whimvind's tickle gust,
That lifts a piueh of moiia'i dust,
A few swift years, ahd who can show •
Which dust was Bill and which was Joe?
The wary idol takes his stand,
Holds out his bruised and aching hand,
While gaping thousands cofne and go—
How vain it seems, this empty show!
Till at o;uie his pulse* tin ill—
':Tis poor old Joe's "God bless you Bill!"
And shall we breathe in happier spheres
The names that pleased our men tal earn,
In some 3wee£ful of harp and song
For e.irth horn spirits none tio long;
Just whispering of tne world below j
Where this was Bill and tli it was Joe?
No matter; while our ho nt is here
No sounding name is half so deai;
When fades at length our lingering day,
Who cares what poinpin tombstones say?
Read on iii hearts that love us still,
ilie jacst Joe! Hie i Acet Bill.
A* I'MRONNOI DEI'AUI.TKR.
The Downfall nncl Ailvtnlurra of a
•'» > UKltvl M'-i'vaiit,
The following account of (lie adven
tures of J. Miller, alias Woodruff,
would seem to corporate the old say.
ing that truth is stranger than fbtion.
From the Martinsville Courier we learn
that this adventurer is a native ol
Lynchburg, where he flow has respect
able connections; that he was at one
time employed by the firm of Rucker &
Ilcctd, of that city, that he married a
respectable lady there, and by her had
reveral children; and that he left there
some years ago, under a charge of em
bezzlement, leaving his family, and
nothing was heard or known of him
until the discovery of his swindling
contained in the following story was
made public:
[From the New York Sun, Oct. 12.J
At Sutter and Jones streets stands
one ol the superh residences in all
San Francisco, it is nearly new, anil
built of wood,like most of bouses here,
but ie imposing in architecture and mag
nificent in finish, it strikes oueas being"
the residence of a gentleman of unlim
ited means Mid refinement. Event bin*
about it is nea". The furniture i# gich
ant) elegant, but quiet in design and
color; the library is filled with well se
lected boi ks, and. the pictures are works
of art. The only effort at display that
srcm* to have been made it observable
in a carriage block which vtands on the
curb in front Of the grand do rwav.
This block is of and bears
it) glaring gilt a N taslef'ullv arranged
monogram, formed of the letter®.
•'J M."
" J. M." slands for .John Miller, late
Secretary of the Contract'and Finance
Cou'pany, whose remarka le defalca
tions, running through a series of ycy»rs )
havje been the tajfc of the Pacific coast
for a month past.
In many respects Miller is one of the
roost remarkable criminal* on record,
and certainly one of the most audacious
scampa ever fostered by the Pacific
coast. Scraps of history hare from time
to time been published, but nothing like
a complete narrative of his viliiany has
yet appeared. lie livd lived here from
eight to ten years, highly respected and
courted bf the best society. lie was
gentlemanly in his manners and in bus
iness a perfect giant, He ww a pillar
3RAH VM, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1875.
ii one of our leading- churches, and a
lew weeks bef-ire the crash came which
hurled him froty hispedestal, was ehos
en Superintendent .fits Sunday school,
lie had worked his wav from a clerk ot
the Contract and Finance Company to
the office of Secretary, at a salary o!
SIO,OOO a year, in gold, ami Was re
garded, in a business point of view, ah
the peer ot Stanford, Hopkins, Crocker
and others who form the (A'Piral Paiiie
combination.
Besides his SIO,OOO income, lie was
known to be rich, and to have., married,
a lady h£ Sacramento who lflid likewise
a large fortune. Hence li s luxurious
Home and the evidence of wealth ai omul
him excited no other comment on the
part of his neighbors than that Miller's
lines were cast in pleasant places.
\ Sl l>!>;.\ on ASH. ,
One day there came a little voice into
Iceland Stanford' 1 private office which
spoke a word or two inlo his ear. He
fore the evening )f the next day Mi.
Stanford knew that John Miller's name
was not John Miller but A. I!. Wood
rull, (hat he had a wife living iu Lyncli
burg, Va., and that his wealth had
every dollar of it,- been stolen from the
Contract and Finance Company.
Such a revelation created a Uutter in
the Central Pacific office-, but the secret
was yreil guarded. Stanford and Crock
er at once went to wo; k to investigate
the actual extent of Ujjj defalcation.:—
They noped to do this without arousing
Miller's suspicion, but fsu!eu. One day
he came to Mr. Stanford and said cjuifcl-
Iv that he yyss pot feeling well and he
believed he'd run up to the McCloud
river and catch SQiue trout.
Repairing to his mansion he packed a
small valise and asljed hit wife to make
ready to accompany him as far as Sao
ramento, . 'f!ie next morning both went
to Sacramento.
Meanwhile an examination of Miller's
accounts was begun, and Ihe Hist tiling
I lie expert struck was u false entry of
£IO,OOO. Then Stanford knew that the
flailing trip was a blind. The telegraph
was set to lyoj-k to capture lie fugitive.
Every train on cvcfv road under Ctnr
tral Pacific control was boarded, but for
a longtime Miller could not be found.
—Accident, however, brought him in
contact with a baggage master at Miry
sville who knew him, and pointed him
out to the conductor. His arrest quick.
Iv followed, lie took matters very
coolly > saying he guessed there must be
some mistake. He was taken to San
Frnncissco and confronted wi'h Stun*
ford and Crocker. Atter a brief inter
view, he asked to see his wife. An offi
cer was detailed to escort him to hjs
house. Arriving there, Miller asked
permission to retire for a moment.
When he returned he whispered a
word to his heart-bi'oktn wife, and she
quietly went out of the room. In a
moment she rptijrned, and to Miller's
great disi))ay exhibited and gave, to the
officer a package containing 813,000 in
greenbacks, over $75,000 in United
States bonds, and a lot of valuable pa
pers belonging to the company which
he had taken from his person and told
his wife to secure. After this evidence
that Mrs. Miller refused to be a party in
hi" crime, Miller sunk in his chair and
meekly asked to be taken back to the
railroad office.
lIEAVV DEFALCATION.
The Clue oucc struck, the expert at
work ou Miller's books rapidly unearth
ed a deep mine of rascality. The origi
nal SIO,OOO defalcation grew in an hour
to SIOO,OOO. The next day it swelled to
$250,00, and the a flair became the sen
sation of the hour. Finally Miller con
fessed all and set about making restitu
tion. He turned over hundreds of tliou
: sands of dollars, but still the daily re
i ports of the experts called for more. Fi
i aallv the new house went, and block af
ter block ofcity real estate, improved
and unimproved, was made over to tlit
railway company. When the c* i »«rt had
finally finished his work it was found
that the extent of Miller's pecula'ionp
| exceeded $1,900,000 in the space ol five
years. The amount of property offered
in restitution exceedingone million and
a half, but aa most ot it was real estate
in rapidly inj||roving localities, the com.
pany accepted it in full reimbursement
for their loss. They also, so Car as was in
their power, granted immunity to the
defaulter,, tlijs being done- lo prevent
the possibility of exposing the aflairs of
the Contract (Mid Finance Company in
court —an event likely to prove dii-a*-
trous to tnorc than one reputation on this
, coast. -v-
THE ROMANCE OF MILLERS CAREER
Thus far the history of this defanlter
di tiers but little from that of other gen
i try of he same ilk. But |ti other
crynes— bigamy, and that of living for
' years under a bogus identity—Miller's
case surpasses that  f any other in cool
audacity and boldness of design.
Simultaneously, with the discovery of
his peculation came that of the fact that
his name was not John Miller but A. R.
Wood i utl. Mid that lie formerly lived in
Lynchburg, Ya,. where ho had a wife
and one or two children. Ilis family
were in ignorance that he was living in
SanTYancisc >as John Miller, but- be
lieved that as „•(. R. Wood in IF, ho was
a pty- lerotis wool-grower in Australia,
lor every Australian steamer brought
Iheifi !\ le terlull of love and affectio i
and N ti (Vy [HMUKI note. By means of
a friend in Australia, Miller kept up
this deception without difficulty.
IIIS TWO WIVES.
One day he and his w'fe No. 2 were j
returning froiu LakeTahoe. They had
a compartment in the palace car troui
Summit. The station there is iu the
sn>w sheds, and Iheiuforc the in tenor
of the car Wa j , somewhat dark. The
train ran down the mountain for an
hour or so and presehtly-lett the snow
! -lieds behind and ainerged int) light,
t Miller left the-compartment" to get Ids
wife a glass of water. As he pa-sed
through thecal- iie saw in a section wiie
| No. 1 with father and sister 011 their
way to San Francisco on u pleasure
i trip. The recognition was mntal.
Wife No. 1 nearly fainted with delight.
Quick as a fla«h, Miller formed his de
termination what to do. Iwo circum
stances favored IjJ 111 Wife No. 2 was
in her stateroom reading a book and
out wf sigljt.. Nub idy iu 'lie car knew
Mm, and this fortified him.— lie ki»sed
wife iVb. 1 with great su dor and shook
hands with the old gentleman. Then
he went to wife No. 2 and soon made
an excuse for another brief absence.
Then lie went oack and sat down by
wife No. 1 and a happy reunion was
enacted, He sajd he had arrived from
Australia only a few days before.
That lie had some business with some
Californa wool men which hid detain
ed hi 111 lor a few da*s; that he was
then going home to surprise and delight
nis wife and make her happy for the re
mainder of her days. He hnd'not writ
tcij-her because ho wanted to .surprise
her.— He had got rich in Anslralja, but
still lie had to return as soon as possi- j
ble. Her coming to California was a
most foluiiata circumstance, for no\v
ho could see her withou g >ing Ea st.
They could be happy fur a week or ten
days, and then he could sail on the
same steamer he camel on instead of
waiting for the next which left amouth
later. Wife No. 1 dmnuiTjd at this, but
Miller knowing that he could not keep
up the deception for a mouth, insisted
that lie should sail in ten days.
EVADING WIFE NO .2.
As the trail! sped along Miller, white
chatting wjih the coolness of Mophi-to.
pheles, was hatching a plan to get wife
No 2. out of the oar without wife No l's.
seeing her. Wiie No 2. wanted to sto[i
at Sacramento and go to San Franc'sico
by a later train. He mentally resolved
that wife No 1, and her party should
not go to San Francisco at all if lie could ]
prevent it. So hp at once told her that
he had some important business in Sac
ramento, and must stopover theie that
night. Ot course she and hei party must
stop too. Wife wo 1. consented. Wife
No 2. was managed just as skilfully.—
The train makes a scop of twenty min
utes at Sacramento. She was asked
to keep her seat in the compartment
until lie could get a carriage to take her
to a friend's house. When the train
stopped Miller hastened wife No I,
and party on: of the rear end of fhe
car, shoved thein hastily into the car
riage, and told the driver to take them
to the hotel. Then he got wife Ko 2.
, out, pnt her in a carriage, and rent her
to her friends, saving he would call
for her at train tiim.—Thi* gave him
a breathing spell, which he employed
pi perfecting his plain to evade detec
tio 1. Tins • were subsequently carried
out and so well was everything managed
that wife No 2. never suspected any
thing an j wife No 1. never dreamed
that her,husband was anybody but A*
it. Wood roof, and that his Australian
story was not true.
Miller's house was just finished when
this occurred, aud the next two weeks
were to be occupied by wife N0,2. in
getting the home furnished. He told
her ihat he would relieve her of his
presence by going off for a week to the
To wife No. 1 he said tnat
before going back to Australia he want
ed to go lo the Yosemite, and a»thev
would doubtless like the trip, lie would
take them. They all went, and on the
trip or soon after. Miller made wife No
1 a present of $60,000 in Uuited State s
bonds—"a part of the fortune he had
made in Australia." '
ANOTHER NARROW ESCAPE
But the presence of wife No. 1 was
still fraught with more danger. On
their return from Yosemite, mid imme
diately before wife No. 1 returned to
the East, she insisted upon staying a
few days in San Francisco. Miller was
very anxious to hasten her departure,
but still lie had to give and take her to
San Francisco. They put up at *heLick
House. Fortunately wife No. 1 did not
like San Francisco, so to Miller's great
relief she ctjt her stay short. Before go
ing he took her to a dry goods store and
bought hcr?sl,soo worth of goods sub.
seqneiitly the bill was sent to Miller's
house, and fell into the hands o/wife No,
2, to whom it was a cause 6fgreat alarm.
But Miller quieted her by saying that he
had only ordered the goods tor the wife
ot n friend of his in Portland, Oregon,
and the bill was made out iu his name
; by mistake.
And so Miller struggled to maintain
his position. Hit fa I) was a terrible
blow to the pride ofStanfbrd, Hunting
ton, Hopkins, and the rest of the Centra 1
ling,
A .11II1KOIC I \ 'MI K 7IOOX,
A most remarkable discoverv is re
/ •
ported from the astronomical observa- j
tory established by the Russian Gov-j
ernmcnt, several years ago, at Pamla-'
teska, the highest point with one excep
tion, 011 the Himalayan range. For
several months a peculiar bright spot
' had been discovered, shining from the
ex'treme edge of tho moon's disk, at a
point where no mountains break the
continuity of its perimeter. The light
suddenly disappeared and remained in
visible for nearlv twelve months, it
has lately reappeared in greater bril
liancy than ever, and the immense
power of the telescope attached to the
above observatory, to well known in
tlje scientific world, has dcveleped the
fact that the light proceeds from some
huge burnished substance acting as a
mirror, which must be at least one hun
dred feet in diameter. The most aston
ishing thing in the matter is the almost
complete proof that this "is actually a
mirror ot artificial cen-truction, and the
the theory of tho savaus at Pamlateska
i«, that it is erected tor observations of
a scientific character, principally to ob
serve the phases of the earth's surface.
Ii is well known that the immerse
height of that porijon of the moon
which is turned toward tho earth, not
only through the well known laws ol
graviation, keeps that portion of her
surfaao presented toward us, but also
renders it uninhabitable. It issupposed
that the side turned from us may .have
an atmosphere suitable for animal life
and that intelligent beings observing
the halo of light shed around its horizon
by reflections from tho earfn may have
taken thismaaiis to ascertain the eatisc.
Some ingenious device to place a mir
ror i t a height where animal life could
not be sustained was the result. It is
to lie hoped that this discovery may
lead to others in regard to our interest
ing satijite.
'• WASHINGTON CHAIR."—When we
lived in Fdonton, N. C., there was in
the posesion of the Masonic Lodge 11
splendi d chair, said to be the one u*ed
by (ion. Washington when Master ol
the Lodge in Alexadria, Va. The tra
dition is that this chair was sent to
Edeutou, N. C., for safe kcipiug. at the
beginning of the revolution of 1770. it
is known to have been iu the posessioh
af the Edeutou Lodge since 1778, and
the Lodge of Virginia has twice de
manded its restoration. The matter i*
now being investigated and should the
tradition prove true this chair will be
come a valuable addition looune iteii
nial furniture. It is of inelf a valuable
relic of the past age,aud great curiosity.
W# hope the masons of N. C., may es
tablish-its high claim to a place in '»ur
temple.— Biblical llacorder.
liKMK!>V KOR B,VU>-1 1E AUXK«S. —This
item is current:) A man .in Bolton ha>
discovered a new remedy lor bald
heads. It if to •,'> bareheaded. lie lias
tried the remedy for two yen)*, and
w hcreas lie was bah , his head is now
covered with hair. He claims that the
heat at the sun nut only promotes the
growth of hair, bnt strengthens the
brain. He says to any and all who are
troubled witli fbe lack of hair or weak
brains try it—it cost* nothing and saves
the expense of a hat.
The line of conduct cbosen by a boy
during the five years fiom fifteen to
twenty will, in almost every instance,
determine his character for fife. As he
is then caieful or careless, prudent or
imprudent, industrious or indoleut,
truthful or dissimulating, intelligent or
ignorent, temperate or dissolute, so will
he be in after * ears and it needs no
prophet to cast' his horoscope or calcul
ate his chances. *
NO. 41,
AMtCS KTVrilßß'i
MtepWnn mill Knudelpli—Dying
TwfiilT Vrnr«— 1 t'oimr«-»»iiii>ul Rom'
la l»C;ll(T-«,V Victory OrrrGrow,
[N. J. Mercury.]
A dispatch from Georgia premataic
ly amuMMioi-My thut this venerable, errat
ic "renins was suddenly attacked by
dangerous diseat-e, and was in aii-itical
coudition, furnished our correspondent
an opportunity to relate, from experien
ce, some impresting reminiscences of a
remarkable man. Aleck Stephens has
been, like Randolph of Roanoke, dying
f»r nearly thirty years, and yet contin-s
ued through all this time, and in spite of
his moribund condition, to take an im
portant and prominent part in all the
grave public events tl»at agitated the
country. It is ftiw more than twenty
yeai s since 1 fist saw htm on the floor
of the * House of Representatives at
Washington. His physical weakness
was so marked that everybody spoke
about it, and all doubted his ability to
live through the session, which ended
March 4, 1857. But (he hackmen and 1
undertakers in the city knew mat bet
ter. They a)l said that Stephens was an
impostor in the mattor ot health, that
lor ten years previous he had pretended
to bodying raising the hopes ot the un
dertakers and cab drivers for lucrative
employment at a congressional frtneral,
but had always cheated them out of it
by ever seeming to be dying and ve c
never dying. He has thus lived on ev
er since, passed through the fierce con
test over slavery, secession and the war
and managedso well .that, although
Vice-President of the Confederacy and
author of the celebrated manifesto that
'•slavery was the corner stone of the ne*r
Confederation of America!) States," he
yet, of ail Confederates, attained the
mjst popularity at the North, and was
the first ot them admitted to a seat in
Congress alter the war, and treated
wjth the highest regard by Republican
| members though not acting with their
party, Butallthesi things are rt*
cent history, ami well known, and hence
tliev need not be repealed here. But
one of his conflicts in the House in ante
war times, and in which a member from
the State of New York was personally
concerned, is worth telling.
Orsanuis B. Matlcson represented the
Utica l istriot, and served on the Com,
mittec on Pensions.. A Mr. Trinplctt r
a pension agent at Was>hingtou, had
compiled a volume of the laws and
illations concerning pensions, and of de
cisions of Co.irts relating thereto, and
this book he was anxious to sell to tiie
Government. Congressman Mattcson
exerted himself strenuously in favor of
Tripplctt's work, and tie-carried through
Congress an appropriation for its pur
chase, at a fixed price per volume. It
leaked out subsequently that this price,
was a trifle higher than the retail price
at which the book sold at the stores, and
ti at the excess went to Mr. Matte,
son as compensation for his labors.
Charges were preferred on these facts,
and a committee appointed to investi
gate them. Aleck Stephens was the
Chairman ol that Committee, and Galu
*l.a A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, ouo of
the members.
The committee made two reports, ono
by Stephens, to expel Matteson tor cor
ruption, tlic otlicr by (trow, to censure
liim only for careless conduct in allow
ing himself to be fouinl out: This oc
curr.ng in 18£7. Grow was a new con
vert to Republicanism, having changed
over from a Democrat only iu a previ.
ou> Congrew on the lvHusas-Xebraska
troubles, and he determined to win his
»,»urs as one ol the leaders ot the new
parly in conducting the defense of Mat
teson, also * Republican. The contest
in the House rested solely upon Ste"
l*liens ami Grow, a aud thev wore we!j
matched. They are both, when under
excitement, exceedingly passionate, the
voice of each shrill and piercing their
oratory aggressive and even violent,
i but Aleck bad the best of it, as lie fought
on the side ot honesty against bribery,
j JVever did the most robust and power
ful man shine brighter iu debate than
j Stephens on that occasion, though the
• hand of grim death seemed already upon
him. The denunciation of the turpitude
ot Mattesou's crime was a burst of such
j fiery eloquence as is seldom heard in
Congress. His litfcfe like tranie shook
' nervously, and appeared as if falling
■ asunder, as ho turned his brilliantly
beaming eye upon Matteson and point
ed his lank, bony finger iu
scorn at the accused. The Republicans
bad a majority, and Banks was Speak
er, yet all the efforts of Grow were vain
Stephens carried the House with him
and Matteson was expelled. It was ono
otthc nmst ex**aordiiiary parliamentary
triumphs ever achieved, and will belong
remembered' by those who were preaeul
j at the time.