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JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
GftEENSBiOBO, N. C.,
PRACTICAL K B
WATCfp AND
JEWELLER
-• *f>%* * f 4 f " * 0 W
DEALER IN
FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY,
" Sterling Silver, and Plated- Ware,
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and everything else in my luie.
Special attention given to tlwj repairing
and timing of Fiue Watches and Regulators.
I offer you every possible guarantee that
whatever you may buy of me shall be genu
lne and ;ust as represented, and you shall
pay no more for it than a fair advance on the
wholesale cost, Goods ordered shall be fur
nished as low as if pnrciiuefd in person at my
counter. I have made in tlic handbomeat
manner,
Mnir Chain*, (lair Jewelry. (Minuend
«**«•• nil kind*
of Fntf Jewelry, C«ld and*
Silver Wm'ch CBH», 7
etc,, etc.
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My machinery aftd apnUatices for
making the different parts of Watches, is
.ptsrhpnp the trtoHt extensive in the State, con
sequently I cau guarantee that any part of a
watch or clock can be replaced with the ut
most facility,
®* 1 guarantee my work will com
pare favorably in efficiency and finish with
any in the land. " * 1 '
» t Watch VakerandJeweler,"
Greensboro, K. ,
ISTOTIOE.
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Having qualified as administrator upon
the estate ftf jV.ai. 0. Albright; 1 hereby
notify ay perse na having claims' against
said estate to present them to me, on or
before tha lst'day of July 1878, or thisno
tjee will besteaded in bar of their recovery.
All jxirabna indebted to said estate will
payment and save
costs, * •-
JOHN O. ALBJEtIHT,
- Adms. of VVm. O. Abright.
.Graham V. C, June 11th 1577
■ -j*X> ,1#.,.
ißaetrjr.
e||X riwo IKODKU,
They are sittinic around upon barrel's nl
chairs.
Discussing ilmir own and their neighbor's
affairs,
And the look of content tljat is seen on
each face
Set-ins Jo say, t' l have found iny appro
l'fiate pince." ' I
Sitting around.
Tn bar rooms and groceries faintly they sit,.
And sertnely chew borrowed tobacco, end
spit, ' W
While the stories tliey tell, and the jokes
| that ihey crack, 1
Show their hearts have grown hard and
undoubtedly black,
While sitting around.
The "sitter around" is a man of no means.
And bis face wouldn't pass for a quart ol
white beans,
Yet he somehow or other contrives to exist,
And ia frequently seen with a drink in his
fist,
While sitting around.
The loungers they toil not, nor yet do the)
aipin.
Unless it be yarns," whjle enjoying their gin.
They pre people of leisure,' yet often, 'tis
true,
They allude J-o the jy.qrk thov re intending
to do,
While sittli g around.
They've a habit of talking of other men's
wives,
As they whittle up sticks with their horu
liandled knives—
They're a scaly old set, and wherever yon
li"
You'lllind them in groups oj; strung out in
a row, '
* W bile sifting around.
[Detroit Free Press.]
JACK BIiLLEIK BRQKKN ,
* i>pRT.
A Inquired inen were digging for
gold, amj had named the piac.s VJoe
\Vliite's Dream." *
Singular mure, bill they were sins
gnlar men—brawny, rough, mizzled.
and.|guj£ of tiiem wicked- They
were men Iroiu (he del
ving in a sort of frenzy, fpr the golds
eu wealth of California.
On this day all work had ceased.
The mtn formed in a circle on the
gras?, and in the center was Jack
Bnllet. IJib hand 9 were tied behind
him. there was an old blood slain on
his face, and from his woifhh eyes he
sent murderous glances from one
iacc to another, aiid a' lust called
out: "I wjsli I had knifed sonic ot
ye!'' 'i..
None of the men replied. /Some
of the men were pale, others »e» VOHS;
ami some seemed to relish the busl
ness on haftd.tvhich was thV hanging
ot -Tack BilileU i Bysand-b/ a ilieqk
and humblblwlfing man named Eld
er Graves I>v4m boys, cfKered the
circle, and sending vPitli one hand on
the prißonei ,, B*iß6ulder he began: f
VJa#k this is a ao}pio)i
morning tfy us alli! Here is the rope
—-there is Uie ffliib*—and we are all
gathered foul You oame to
Joe weens ago, poor
hungry. arid ill. YV-tNed and nursed
you, and when you were well enough
to work, a full,claim was staked out
for you. J low repaid us,
Jack rialUfVoiron .Imye stbhjij dust
| from broygty djscord and
I jealousies among us, excited
and riots, and last night you were
detected when about to murder yoiy
partner and 6teal his few hundred
dollars. We try to be white in this
camp and use all inen right, but we
can not turn you loose to prey upon
some pjUfr party. The men are go
ing ty hang j ou!"
J "Let'em baDg— l can't die but I
Ojuce!" sulkily replied the pria^nQ^.
"Jack IJ\il!et," said the Elder, '.'l
am a praying man, and I want to
pray with yon before .you ewingr. }
am sorry, for you are a strong
and yoti arc to die like f dog. ~ Maybe
you have a mother in the East, or
you may have wife and children.
Gyd help them!"
The Elder sank down on hU knees
before the prisoner and prayed such a
prayer as t bedrocks have never echoed
again. Before he bad finished there
were tears in the eyes of halt the men,
and Big Sam beut over to Cqrly Jim
and whispered.:
•?Now that's what I call rcliginm—
real old bang up reUgluni aoch as we
used to git way back in Ifew Hamp
shire."
■m en the pi aver bad euded a new
spirit came to the men. Tfcey scan
tied Jack Bullet's face and saw it had
softened, |n J as Elder Graves steps
• • A ,
GRAHAM, N- C„ JULY 3 1877
ped asiijo thg president or tho camp
cut Jack's bonds and said:'
. "We don't want your blood tljotigh
you sought ours. You ape free to go,
Jack Bullet, but don't you ever cuter
t/oe \Vbite's Dreain again.'*
, Tho reprieved mail moved away
without a v'ord", nor did be" look back
as long as bo was in view, lie
had disappeared from sight the min
ers returned to their work, cticli uno 1
so busj with his thoughts that but i
few wordß were spoken." That day I
two weeks a man caino up from |
"Cardboard City" and reported that
J«ck Bullet bad beeu eaten up by a
grissily. Every niau in camp felt
glad that his town had escaped die
disgrace ot u banging, atid in the af
ternoon we saw Elder Graves should
er a spade t»nd turn down into a lit
tle valley. It was a beatitul spot, al«
ways lull of tl,o mellowest sunshine
and the prettiest flowers. IFhen the
beys had knocked of! work for the
day they all descended into the place,
lor what reason no one knew, but by
a sort ot common cptfsent. In the
center ot the valloy the earth bad
bee if heaped up like a grave. At its
head was a board—at its f >ot a wild
rose. On the board Elder Graves
had cut wit It his knife:
JACK BULLET.
AGED FQKTY.
Men may not give him a chance,
BUT GOD WILL!
You jvoijldtj't think these rough
men in their hearty,
butihey saw through the Elder's mos
lives in an instant, and the roughest
ujen ijj tho lot stooped down and
carefully re-arranged one of the
sods.
Three wecKs more went by, an 3 one
evening Jack Bullet came into Joe
White's Dream, alive and well. lie
stood on the little square in the cen>
ter of the town, and si id not a word
till the wondering men gathered
about him. Then he pointed to the
grave in the valley, his eyes filled
with tears, and said:
"JJoys, I sneaked back here this
morning to kill some one in revenge,
but I cum across that—that grave
down—thai*, and—and !"
lie held out his hands to the men
and the tears blinded him so that he
could not see a face. Elder Graves
went down on his knees again, every
n.an with him. and there tears
and a prayer so beautiful and tender
and true that Jack Bullet sobtyetj like
a child. Ilis heart was broken, and
all the Satan in his nature was driven
,Out in a moment.
Joe White's Dream w as a mining
camp tor many months after that,and
Jack Bullet was one of the best men
in it. The headboard grew gray as
the rain beat down and the sun shone,
and tiie wild rose grew till it covered
all the grave, but no one disturbed a
sod. The gra.ve \yp p sign—tftaacon
light, as it were, and perhaps^the
miners were right when they said of
our town;
•'Tbcy.ve had .a reyiyol up Jhay, an'
they are the best chaps an' hardest
Workers on the slope."— M. Quad.
FIMII R1 OpiKS,
,'Bro. Lafferty, of the Richmond
Advocate and his Presiding Elder,
Peterson, on their way to a Sunday
School celebration, "spun yarns" on
Pamunky River boat. The former
say»:
"The Fumunky reminded roe of a
fish story. So I told it to Bro. Po
terson. It Went this wav : A shark
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came up that J liver. A citizen saw
it, took a sturgeon harpoon, went out
in & canoe, sent the steel barb into
the shark. The ehark darted. Tho
cord .to .the harpoon hung in the bow
of the boat, and that end of the ca
noa started under the water. The
man jumped to the st.rn and leanef
back over the rudder to keep the boat
front from dipping. The shark was
doing Uis best, making (say roughly)
fifty miles an hoar. The fisherman
could not go forward to unhitch the
cord, for the boat would go right
under like a mole in a plowed field)
but quicker.—§o the man had to
'rare' back, like he was driving a fast
home iu a sulkey before his sweets
heart's house. Hie neignbors hailed
him from the banks, but he hadn't
time to talk. They went 110910 and
told their wives, and wondered.—
fhe boatmen on the river shouted at
hint as he skeeted by. He was going
too fast to answer. The shark turns
Ed out of. the Pampnky into the York
—Capsized in a river three miles
wide, hijil a in id shark close fov was
u gb' thought. The man wished lie
had been from home the (}ay the shark
name by his house,' and was {regret*
fjl' generally, 'i he bharjf yjadu a
wide circle in the York, and returned
up the Paiuniiky, and, nearly oppo»
site the starting point, suddenly
stopjied, rose to the top —dead. 'Hip
liiHii was glad.
Kow, this is not aflrnaij jstory. It is
of the Centennial Krtipp tiun Cali
bre. I watched Bro. Peterson. He
(UU'nt seem to give way under it as
i liked. He took a fresh bito of
tobacco, and said : 'I know a bigger
one. 1 Tell it.' 'I will. »In Charles
ton harbor a fish swallowed the
anchor of a. schooner put out and
dragged the vessel under.' 'Oh, : said
I, 'that's Vpochryphal,—Mine was a
true story, jDr. Leroy M. Lee vouch
ej for it.' Bro. Peterson shewed
briskly a second or so, and said: 'I
heard Bishop Wightnian say that he
knew mine wt\a tme.' A schooner
against a canoe, a Bishop aginst a
Presiding Elder, the odds were too
great worse than the 8 to 7;' it was
no use 'to attempt Gibralter with a
pocket pistol.' As at appouiattox
'yielding to superior numbers and
overwhelming resources.' I quit."—
Christian A.dvocat»».
TBIBS TO I.KABp
'>" MOMitTHINfI, "
The other day Bilkins was reading
his paper, and he came across the fdo
lowing:
FACTS WOKTH KKMEUBEKING.
A geueranon is thirty years.
Two persons dio every second.'
Tliero are 1,760 languages.
Four thousand eight hundred and
nine feet on each side make ft square
milo with an inch. ...
A barrel of llonr weighs 1% lbs.;
a barrel of pork, 200; a barrel of pow
der, twentystivc ; a firkin of butter,
lifty»six; a iu!j oi butter, eighty*
iouj. '
A standing aymy in Prussia, in war
times, numbers 1,200.000 men; France
1,900,000* Russia, 1,000,000/ Austria,
825,000; Italy, 200.000; Spain, 100,s
000; Belgium,9s,ooo ;Eugland, 75,000;
United States, 25,000,
'Yes,' said Bilking, 'those are facts
worth remembering, and. by Jove,
I'll learn ' in, so J can say 'eui as
straight as a string: it's high tiuje I
began lo learn soiqjething.'
So Bilking started in, l]irityul fills
ed with golden visions of ultimately
becoming a walking encyclopedia to
yvhom every tyody go wlienov
er they wantel to find out any thing.
About an hour later his wife happen
ed into the room, and Bilkiqs
.'My dear, I've been learning some
lacts worth remembering. Its very
astonishing how
one can acquire in a short time.'
'Pin Very glad you have,' she
replied, 'you never did know much,
tell me what you've learnt.'
.'All right,'said Blkins, "1 will. A
generation is thirty second*; two
persons die every year; 1,750 feet on
each side, m.ike a snare nrle in 4,809
languages. A barrel of flour, in war
times, numbers 1,200,000 i»unds; a
a .tub of butter in the Unitsd States
25,000; jii Austria, 825,000; a standing
army in a barrel of pork is 1,000,000;
ill Italy, 200.000.'
"Why, Bilking, what do you
mean ?"
"Well, perhaps that i*n't exactly
right, litn it's near enough for all
practical purposes; and., anyhow, 4j
-809 feel on  a side make a standard
•i my in Belgium, and a barrel of
powder will kill twobersons in a sec
ond, and spread 'cm over a square
mile witliin au Inch/
i 'Now, John, yoa stop; get
ting excited.'
'No I ain't, either; you let me jilone,
I'm all right now? A barrel of flour
weighs 196 pound to the square mile;
two persons die every 'second' in
England in war times, and a tub yf
butter eighty-four year old has a
generation every thirty second.'
'John,'l'm going to seud lor the
, policeyou're crrfzy ?'
f Well, you may "; but I'm going to
learn this straight, U I never learn
anything again, before I go to my own
funeral.
And the benighted man began over
again and got as far as "Spain, 200,-
000 firkins of butter, 4,809 on each
siito o( a square would make two
persons die every thirty years within
an inch of 1,750 languages everv
second,', when he saw on his front
walk, coming up with his wife, a
man wearing it brass coat with blue
buttons, or something like it, so
Bilkins jamqped his hat cjowii over
his ears'and 'started foj- the office.,
muttering, '/another half day gone,
and nothing really fixed in my mind
yet. just because my wifo woujd not
let mo alone. I'll bo eteraily ding
blasted jt ever I try to learn any thing
tigain.' X* u
"OJVA pniCACQ (iIRL FIXED
N mnf,
"Will yop do something to oblige
me?,'shyly asked a beautiful young
woman ot a timed gentleman whose
acquaintance she had just made at a
small social gathering on West Adams
street the other evening.
"Anything that I cau in honor,
Miss," he replied, blushing,
"Well," said she, "come into the
back parlor, where it is dark, and sit
on the sofa with me, and let me rest
my head on your shoulder, and yon
pretend to whisper in my car—only
don't blow because that tickles and I
can't laugh, lor this new dress is very
tig't—and when anybody looks you
cau draw your arm away—l forgot to
say I wanted yo# tt> put it"round iny
waist—and I'll prateud to blush."
"But, my gracious, honored Miss,"
stammered thfltyomig man, aftef has
tily dividing 4 into 1g74 and finding
that it wasn't leap year; "iny good*,
'■ess, before all these people—and I
am already engaged—and yonr father
must weigh-—-—"
"Hush, 1 know what I'm up io,"
replied the artless girl. "I am en
gaged, too, to that young man talk*
ing to the waxen-laced thing with
somebody else's hair over there. I
want to stir him up—to bring him
down to business— make hio? come UD
toh/s tljat'd all." V
The young man said that a load had
been lifted rrom his bosom, and aided
her to the best of his ability, 80 well
indeed, that in three quarters ot an
hour the true betrothed got his girl
?nto the library, demanded an expla>
nation of her Hliameless couduot, was
softened by her tears, called himrelt
a brtite, and asked if she could ever
forgive him, and promised to behave
bettei iu the future. And how did
the young girl reward the young man
who had helped her to this happiness?
Why, she never said a word to him
all the cyeiiiiig. in fact nipvei; men
tioned him except to say to her res
conciled lover, :«Alonzo, could you
havo been so stupid as to tliink I
could see anything to admire in such
a mutton-headed olam as tiiat?" (),
women, hours ot e^.—Chi
cago Tribune.
KESOI.IITIOM RBU.IRDINO V. »,
iriNITIAD,
JUF.EXSROBO, N. C., June 23, 1877.
To the Editor of the News:
Sin: At a meeting of the citizens
of Greensboro, lieKl in the court
house 011 the 21st of June, 1877,
Charles G. Yates, Esq., was called to
tho chair and 1 Dr. R. K. Gregory
requested to act as secretary.
The chairman explained the object
of the me meeting to he to give ex
pression to our views aud withes in
Regard to Colonel fc. s! Winstead, the
collector of internal revenue in this
the fifth district, after which Mr. Jesse
H. Liudsiiy moved that a committee
of (5) he appointed to preacnt
suitable resolutions. The chairman
appointed Jesse H. Lindsay, Thomas
McMubon, Robert M. Sloan, John \V.
Paj ne and J, \f. Scott, who thiough
the chairman reported the following
resolutions", viz:
WIIEBKAS, We the residents of
Greensboro, have heard with regret
that possibly % change of officers in
this collection district may bo made,
therefore, be it
Jletoh-ed, I. *rtiat we, irrespective
of regard tbo present inca'ai*
bent, Colonel C. Sf- Winstead, as a
gentleman of ibe highest character
both as a citizen and officer.
11. That he has discharged the
duties of his office impartially and
satisfactorily to * all concerned, and
that he holds the confideiice and
esteem of all with whom be comes in
coutact.
111. That we pray bis Excellency,
the President ot the United States, to
coutinue (Joi-p;S' \y instead in his
piesent position by 'so doing be will
bat express the sentiments and
and feelings of all parties and classes
in thfe section of our §ta(e.
IV. That our yportliy Itepresetila
tive, Gon. A. B|.Scales, be rcqncsto
to present to hjs txcellency, ibo
President, this expression of o« r
business community. , , . '
It was ordered that the proceedings
of this piceting ue published in the
Italcigh and Greensboro papets with
the request that copv.
C. G. YATES. President *
IT. K.GRKGOUT, Secretary .—Kalcigh
New». - r - "
- SATUBDAV N|«IIT.
llow many £kiss has been gjych \
how many a curse; bow many a ca
ress; how many a kind word; how
many a promise has been broken;
how many a heart lias been wrecked;
how many loved ones have been lows
ered jj»to the narrow chamber; how
many a babe has gone from eai'tli to
heaven; how many a cradle or crib
stands silent, which last Saturday
night hHd (he rarest ot all the treas«.
urea ot' the heart.
A week is a Hie; a week is a histo
ry ; a week makes sorrow or jriad •
liess. "
Go homo to thy family, man of bu
siness; go Jjoart-teuring wan
derer; go home to cheer w|iat awaits
you, wronged waif of lite "a breaker:
go home to those von loVe, and giv£
one night to the joys' anil coprfofdjfl
fast flying by. Feavo'your booki
with Complex figures, your dirty
worktop, yojir bl»sy store; rest
with those you love, for God only
knows what the next Saturday night -
may bring.* 0
Forget tho world of care aud (ho
baltlo of life, which have furrowed
the week, and draw close around the
family hearth. Saturday iiigtit has
awaited your coming with the bitter
est tears and silence.
Go hozae to those whom you Jove;
and as you bask in the loved presence
and meet to return the loved em*
brace of yoqr heart's pets, strive to Do
a bett6r man, and to bless Gcd tor®
giving jus weary children so dear a
stepping stone in the river to the
eternal Saturday night.
SAND.
AM6AXOB CHILDREN,
[Wilmington Review.]
From a very reliable source wg
learn of one or rather two of tl»o
most singular phenomena of the «ge.
Near Yalrlonta, Ga., are two chilv
dren, known aa tbe "Alligator
Children." Tbe upper of
their bodies is ia every respect hu
man, while the lower part has the
appearance of an alligator. Tbey
have never been known to assume an
upright position though they are
between the agea of 23 and 26.
Strange to say tbey are Dot
twin childrep, and like tho alligator
tbeir habits arte amphibious.
The last time >Kol>in*on's cfreus
was through fhat'ctnntjfttOld
saw theui and
ments to the pui nnra^M
the parents who are in very d
circumstances and obscure origin.
Tbe ' Alligator Children" are idiots
and when seen by RoMnsoh were
lying in a pool of water. ' t
facts have been furnished us
by a gentleman in this city who was
recently at Valdosta and who himself
saw these strange .creatures.
PLANTING WHITK SKIN ON A BLACK
MAN.— There ia a coal black negro
man iu onr vicinty who will s6on
have a stomach covered with as
whke Democratic skin as ever grew
in Edgefield. This is no doubt ;
sounds ridiealomr and alarming, but
we yiH explain. Some weeks ago
Dr. Walser Hill aiid W Wallace
Blaud cut from the stomal of thu
negro a huge tiijnor weighing many
pounds, and upon the large bare spot
lelt by the operation they have plant*
®d numberless lit Je stars of >ekin
n-.pped from their own arms. These
stars have taken root and are fast
spreading out.to Meet each other, so
that the black man will soon have a
white stomach outside. Skin is about
all the radicnlß and negroes bave left ■£
us, and to be thus generous with it is
csrtainly very magnanimous.— Abbe
ville [B. C.] Medium.
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