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Wateh Maker and Jeweler,
Greensboro, N. ,
NOTICE.
Th« undersigned .having been appointed,
county Examiner for Alataancr couuty noti
fies aU teachers of pnblie schools that he
, *"• Attend to the ex ami nation of applicants
for teachers certificates, on the 2od Thurs
day of August and October, as the amended
requires.
A CIIRRIE.
County Examiner.
MISS joamoN'a PLAN,
Froc. the X«*w York Timet.
Otie of the mcst striking characters
istics of woman is her cheerful perse
verance in looking nuclei; the bed for
It riian. No man in his ibises ever
looks under the bed for a woman, but
there are millions of woman l n this
country who Would find it impossible
to sleep in attv bed under which they
had not ptdVloUsly searched for a
conbtjtied laati. iftpsiieiico is lost
Upon them. The average) Unmai'ried
Wottian of 40 years of age has ttsttally
ldoked Under the bed At least 7,f160
times, without once finding the
expected man, but she is not in the
least discouraged by so long a course
>1 failure; and it would be easy to
3nd women of 80 or 90 years whd
Hill nightly search for the man Whom
Ehey have neVei found.
Miss Johnsron, of Evanstou, will
hereafter be famous as a woman whose
lonij pl ; esevei-anie hH3 been signally
rewarded. It would be delicate to
inquire into her precise age, had 6he
not described herself, in a recent affi
davit as having been born in the year
1834, and we may therefore take it
Tor granted that she is at least 43
fears old. If we assume that she be
?an to loch tinder the bed at the age
if 15, it follows that she has perform* 1
;d that eeidmdnjr more than 10,000
Limes. Until lost Friday nighty she
never found tbe smallest flagrhonX of
i man under her bed, but on that
jventful night her perseverance was
rewarded; and the ldng-songht man
greeted her astonished gate.
Miss Johnson being ah unmatried
lady, not wholly unconnected .with
the milliner's trade; and lull of wo
manly independence, resides entirely
ilone in a small hottse containing but
three rooms-a kitdhehj sbdp and
t>ed-roiohi. Dogs she despises and
:ats she mistrusts) While as for men,
she regards tlletfl dS poor creatures
ivhd mtty possibly hate their tises in
times ot drought, when water must
1)6 Carted from the creek,but who,as v
rule, make ir ore trouble about a house
than their eecks are worth- Holding
these views; It natuhtlly follows that
Miss Johnson lives alone, and the
cool bravery With which she locks up
hef boiisfe at uight and seeks her soliV
tary couch, no matter if a first class
thunder storm is iu progress, has for
years been the admiration ot the
more timid of her so**
It Was about 11 o'clock last Friday
i.ight When Miss Johnston stooped
dowMttfid looked under her bed for a
possible man, precisely as she bad
done On ten thousand previous nights.
Whether she vfr/t* or was not ajfeipr
ished at perceiving a large-sized man
lying under (he bed With the back of
his head toWard he°r/ wlff never be
kuOwn,- bttt,- at any rate.- she gave no
sign of astonishment,- and did not
etefl inforrtl tbe tttM that she saw
him. On the contrary/she restimeu
with great deliberation the fioctwrnal
twisting of her back hair* and even
.Krttfy htitfltHefl '-Hold the Ftfrt," with
as tAhch distfndes* a? be e±*
pected Of a Woman while holding a
comb between her teeth.* Met back
hair being finally finished; she opened
her window, tritned down the lamp
until it gave torth a dint and modest
light, and then stepped gracefully into
bed, but not to sleeps
That sagacious woman was per
fectly well aware that tbe man tmder
tbe bed, not inspecting' (ft*t he bad
been discovered, would creep forth
with a view ttf plunder tf soon as he
tound that sire was asleep. *#he beds
stead stood iu tbe corner of ibe room'
and from the position of the man ft
was plain that be would creep ortt at
the side of tbe bed. Misa Johuson,
therefore, changed her usual manner
of composing heraeit to real, and lay,
as she expressed it, "flat as a pan
cake," with her bead projecting over
the side of the bed at tbe precise los
cality where she expected the man to'
appear. For at least bait ai} honr she
lay perfectly still, watching for tbe
man with a stealthy vigilance that
weald have done credit to an estate
and experienced cat. Not a muscle
er a hairj-in ot her frame moved, and
her breathing was aa slow and »eg
nlar as that of a profound sleeper.
£t length the man, confident that she
was asleep, soWy began to worm
Mtrneli from tinder the bed, moving
after the manner prescribed by way
of penalty to the orignal aerpent of
the Garden of Eden, little did be
imagine that a pair of pitiless gray
eyes were waiting for tbe eppesotobe
of his head, while a pair of tttfaftiAixi
nervopa bamhMrere- ready to petfoce
GRAHAM, y. C, t TUESDA.Y, AUGUST 28 1877
upon his ears. It was not itlany mins
utes, however, belore each ear was
suddenly caught in aft inexorable
grasp, and his head began to oscillate
with remarkably speed between the
floor and the edge of the bedstead.
Von Moltke himself could not have
surpassed Miss Johnson's tntitlcs. She
had the man completely at her mercy,
and be was as helpless as though his
head were in the stocks. At first his
I captor maintained a gl-iiti silence, but
after she had biimped him sufficiently
to ease her mind, she addressed birti
upon the wickedness and folly of
seeking to rob her; Jn vain did the
mfttt protest that his ifiotives were in*
noeent; that he had mistaken the
house, and had merely intended to
take a quiet nap under his own bed
stead, whare the dies could not find
him. Miss Johnson sternly told hiitt
that faß could not make her Ofcliveany
such nousensej and that she Would
"let him knoWj" and wotild also
"show him." These thFeftta were
tarried ottt by ft 1-eneWal of the bump
ing process Until the inan yelled for
mercy so loudly that the neighbors
were aroused and rushed to Miss
Johnson's bouse with the firm convic
tion that a gang of burglars had murv
dered that excellent woman,, and
were quarreling over the division of
her spoils. It was uot until a strong
force, armed with clubs and hatchets,
had recklessly entered the room that
Miss Johnson surrendered her captive
with the remark that the sooner they
took themsßlves off the better, and
that if any other man would like to
hide under her bed* she was entirely
ready to knock a little sense Into
him.
Thus this intrepid woman not onlv
defended herselt with the most signal
success, but she pointed out the true
way to deal With the man under the
bed. Most women would hate tried
to poke the man out with a broom, a 1
the same time requesting nim to
"shro." The rfeault would hate been
to expose themselves te an attack at a
very grept disadvantage. Miss Johns
soti*B plan, on the contrary, places a
man Under the bed entirely at the
mercy of a cool and coitrdecdds wo>
itlaiij And those women who ma) at
any time hereafter find a man under
theit respective beds will do well to
imitate her example, and share her
well earned glory.
ACHANCE VOR TUB POOREST.
[Philadelphia Evening Telegram 7th."|
Ilere is a little matter of fact which,
rightly considered, has its meaning
for strikers and sympathizers with
strikers and other hungry men out of
work and wages- Two or three years
ago a laboring man irom the coal re*
gions of this Btate (for aught we
know, one of the "ten thousand
slaves wh» sicken in Scranton
mines") put his a farm
wagon, and found Ids' way down
through Tlrginia to the lolty table
land of the Blue Bidge, in North
Cnroliua. There kind was to be had
almost for the asking. He grubbed
up tree* built a log hut. planted his
little patch; Instead of digging at
starvation rates in the coal to-day, or
helping to 4ood tttfues and makA
good bis title to a cell in the jail, he
sits among his rotast toys and girls
and looks over bis fields tff waving
corn and fultorcbards to as fair a
prospect beyond as the word has to
ofter. He is not a "slave of any cap*
italist," but a man of weight aud im*
portance in his neighborhood.
There is no earthly Mason #hy onf
surplus laboring papulation should
not trim to the vast tracts of untitled
land waiting lor them, other than
their diseased love of excitement,
tbty would rather strike in a crowd
for ten cents more in the day than
earn a dollar more in tbe quiet COUIIN
try/ Krow all quarters come, de>
minds for farm laborers, but the ar
my of tramps continues undiminished
aud unfed;
For men,- by the *ay.- Caff wotfk
and are willing to work, there is no
better field open than these unem
ployed lands of the mountains of
Virginia and North Carolina. La
boring men dread with reason the
malaria ami tke grasshoppers of tbe
West. But the air fn these neigh*
boring Stales is so ptfre and invigor
ating that sanitariums have beeu es
tablished by New England men on
the heights for tbe cure ot consump
tives; the soil lies bl*sk jrnd soft three
feet deep, tbe accretion of
of rotting forest growth j (be streams
are toll offish, and UfetorMtof fetm j
potatosbugs, grasshoppers, aod mos
qdtoee are ftnknorvttf. The best land
may be bought for from $1 to $3 per
acrß. Thb sparse population aro an
honest, kindly, slow-going folk, easi
ly wakened by Northern energy, and
glad to be awake.
At Walhalla, in the South Carolina
hills, a swarm of hardy Germans have
alighted and made the desert blossom,
if not like the rose, like the qaiiilcst.
cleanliest, thriftiest of villages in the
Zuyder Zee. At Highlands, in Mas
con county, North Carolina. S. T.
Kelsey (well known to many Phllrt.
delphians as a noted fruit-grower, in
the West, who, a few years ago, as
tdniuhed oitr horticulturists with 'lib
display df apples ttild pears from
Kansas) Htik Established his nurseries,
deeming both sdll fliid climate better
suited to thb prddiiction of fine fruit
than ailv otliei-in the States, His
fartH has become the nucleus ot an
industrious Northern colony—-men
who do not care to expatriate them •
selves in some Western praiiie thous
ands ot miles from from their old
homes, men. too. who begin a colony
by building a school house. Whon
the railroads aro finished which are
fast approaching this little city in the
clouds, there is no doubt that its cors
tier lots will doable in value as last as
any iu Chicago.
We instance these efforts to show
how. easy is success and how near
tor who are not afraid of work
and who Will wot-k. There is abso
lately no reason Who any man willing
to use his hands should want bread or
stifle in foul alleys when just next
door to us is air pure enough to create
a toul under the ribs of death* pastur
age, fuel and water free, and a soil
that is bounteous as Aladdin's lamp
and will yield whatever ia demanded
of it- But efen Aladdin's lamp re*
quired industry in the owner,, and
wouUkgive nothing back to iddle fins
gers.
80IHK tv THR iddtHkMiv
WOBKINd WOMKft OF MB#
YOBKy
Washington Cabilal;
When the war-clouds cleared ■
from tlje southern lafad one tast ♦reck
lay exposed. Houses and lands,
stock, all were gone; and
Poverty, the grim -fifing; ruled the
South. Tlien it ♦AS that theSotttherh
women, throwing the traditions of
the past behind them; arose to the
dignity of work afid wedt forth with
rasolule hearts to m(Jet their strange
destiny  Nerer were Warriors on
the battle field blaver than thes*
women who wt re tow called updn to
fight the great hard battle of life.
Undaunted by distance, or tbeloneli'
ness that they knew must oWaU them
iu strange cities; they scattered them'
selves over the United States; going
wherever they thought tbef Could
earn an honorable maintenace. While
many sought employirent in Wash
ington a number wended their foot
steps to the great city of New York,
and took up cheerfully whatever
their hands tound to do. Among
those who are a 5 work In Gotham
we may mention £the follow*
ing:
Mrs. McNeil, of Sonth Carolina, a
venerable and lovely lady/ has estab.
lished herself in a very successful
boarding-bouse.
Mrs. Sadlier; of South Carolina, a
daughter ot Hon. Goorga Buist of
Charleston, keeps a popular boarding
house,- well patronised by her
Southern friends who Hammer in
New York.
Miss Florence d« Tfe tills, «hose
father tu tbe lion. Biclntrd d«
Treville, once Lieutenant Governor
Of South Carolina,also preside* over a
popular bctofilkig hcttfsA. Forgetting
that she was a petted society, belle In
ber native city* with «
tfourage and energy most fefarirable,
she went heart and soul to work, and
tfuecess crownqpi ber efforts. Young
frail iit iornt, dehtMe i tt health/ lor
years she fought a gtariocts fight—as
glorious as • hero evsr fought on
tbe tented fields of battle —and 7 aha
has coma off victor.
Mrs. Edward Whice, the/ wife of
Col. White, of
sides over aa edacaticmal
ment for joang huKeft. Fc* this her
*ecomptt«hmetfte eminently fit her,
and be# Murray Hill home is the
abode of nflwmwit and culs
tore.
Madame le Grand Coulson, the
genial and accomplished wife ot Dr.
Rowley Coulson, of Virginia, in*
structs classes in the freuch lan*
guage.
Mrs. Patton, the widow of Mr.
Tameri Patton a lawyer Of Asheville,
North Carolina, and daughtet df Rev
Dr. Chapman, is teaching in the
school of the sisterhoddj established
by die late Jtev. Dr Muhkn
bufg:
Miss Alice Simmons, the gifted
daughter of the late Dr. Hume Sim
mons, of Charleston, South Caraliaa,
and great niece of Washington Al«
stcn, the celebrated painter, teaches
in one of the public schools of New
-York. "Jhis Young lady also writ3s
for the press. Reared amid the re.
fiuements and what may be termed
the exclusion of that proud city,
Charleston, ahe came to New .York
and, like the reat of her Southern
sisters, plunged into the thickest of
the fight, making her way witii a res
olution and energy which places her in
the foremost ranks of indomitable
wddMtti
Among thdse who hate entered
the training school for nurses at Bell*
evue Hospital we may mention Miss
Lute, df Arkansas; #ho has received
her dipldmij and Miss Ldborde of
South CJofdliiM;
Mrs. Jordati; the' widow of a physi
cian of South Carolina Came to New
York to better her fortunes. She
established herself as a dressmaker,
having a peculiar aptitude for her
work. Her success has been moot
complete, and "Madam Jordan" is
nd* one of the celel-rated "glasses of
fashion" in Now York.
Miss Mary CbeeSe borough la a
daughter of the late Mr. John W.
Cheeseborough, a prominent shipping
merchttht of Charleston, South Caro*
lina, and sister of Jobh Cheesbors
odgli, for tflany years cashier of the
Bank of | Charleston. As an
artist she has met with much suo
cess.
Among the Southern ftittieti toho
hate ettterfe'rl the field of literature in
New York turty be mentioned Miss
Sallie Brook, of Virginia, whose
name appears in "Southland Wri
ters." Mis 6 Bfofclc was Connected at
one time, perhaps still itj with One
of Frank Leslie's publications.- She
has also published t#o novels; and
k>ntributes to man/ of the leading
periodicals.
Mesdames- - Sallie and Emily
Battey, of Qeorgil, wield most auc«
cessful pens as reporters and fash
ion writers.
Mrs; Stu»-gis, formerly .'diss
shur, of Virginia, khown in literary
circles as "Fanny Fielding," is a for
cible and-pleasant writer. She came
to Mew York to make hsr way with
the pen, and tell into the meshes of
matrimony. She writes for various
publications Hsr article on the
Florida Murats, contributed to the
Galaxy, was widely ftotiee.
Miss Carolina Adam* is a daugh
ter of the let# Rfev. Jaspar Adams, an
Episcopal clecgyman, Who was at one
time President of the Charleston, 8.
C., College. Full of energy And jet
i severance, she never faltered in the
task she had undertaken. With a
resolute will she set to work to con
quer fate/ and baa succeeded. She
is connected #ith Deroorest's publi
cation, and is the fashion correspond
denf of aeretal )Ofdhi£ne#gptfpers.
Miss & B. Cheese borough i«
younger sister of the aatiat of the
saine name, and is a native of Chan
leeten, 8. C. Her name appeals in
Buchanan Head's "Fertile Poets of
America," "Woritota c it the Stttth
Distinguished in Literature,-" pub
lished by Derby £ Jackson, of New
York, and Jn "Southland writers."
For many yean «fte* the War she
edited the Darlington (S. C.) South
•mgr. She is no# the proofreader
in the office of the Family Journal
and Pulpit of the day , New Ybrk
city, and Contributes to these and
other publications.-
These, then, Ate a f*w of some of
the>"la£y Southern women" of whom
#e have often heard. Are they lazy?
Let their* wo As speak for them.
Theirs is a record of which they need
not be ashamed, .bora, as most of
them trfei-e to luxaiy, when the God
of Battles derided against them they
did not sit down afad fold their hands
i* upeleM repinings; tJUt Starting out,
filled the workshops of America;
and to'day sfcahd feitlfe. by side with
their Northerii Sisters, not ashamed
to be classed among tho working
women of the laiid;
Tha lato John Panner, whose faths
er was a bill-poster, and wno had oc
cassional ly practiced in the same
humbk hereditary Occupation bittself,
being on* evening struting in the
green room with a pair of glittering
.buckles, a geutleman who w»
present frettiitrked that they really
resembled diamonds. "Sir," said the
actdf *ith frahnth, "I would havrf
you know I never wear enythiog
except diamonds!" "Uek yonr par
dom " t-feplied the gelitfeman, «I re*
membef the time when TOU bandied
« great deal ttf paste." This produce
a good laugh, which was heighten
ed by Bannister's jogging him on the
shoulder, and dryly saying, "Hang
me, why don't, you stick hint
sgaittflt the wall?"
9iAllansd an ouiDneTßßßj
. [NeUdn (Ky.) Record.]
This is an age of progress. Jamed
Parton, the Biographer, married his
stepdanguter, John Downs, of JVelsod
county, married Ms stepmother, but
it was reserved fof Dode Cfiestor, of
Walton s Lick; Washington couutv*
to duigtHp them all In a ffialrimoira
feat; Last Week he tUartibd his grand
mother. Dode Chested is 25 years
of age, asonoffiev. J; 8. Chesher
the well known baptist, and grand*
son of Wm, Ohesber.—Some yeaia
■go the latter died, leaving a buxom
widow of forty-five summers, and
now his grandsdn has done ptobably
fcvhat no man ever did fcefore—marry
his step-grand mother,
A pfoiWsioiull ilfatfj returning to
his office one day after a substantial
lunch,' mid complacently to' hi* as 4
sistddt: "Mr. Peetkiii, tho world
looka different to a man when he has
three inches of tutii in him." "Yes,'*
replied the junior, without a mo
ment's hesitation, "and he looks dif
ferent to'the wodd."
A certain trim asked his grocery*
man the other day if he sould change
a ten dollar bilL ''No," said the
grocery man, *but i can ftredit your
account" The tflan with pae bill sud
dimly took With a violent ebughing
spelj, which huted until he was out Of
sight;
The total number of postage stamps/
of all kinds and
stamped envelopes and newspaper
wrapper*, issued by the Po*t Office
Department dating -tiro fiscal year *
eniiag June 30, was 1,060,353,909/
the value of which was $26,525,036,-
47.
I i si, ,
itumorpaysin this oountry. It
someiiflMs enables * man to marry
a rich gW. itark Twain pays taxes
in Hartfoftd (fti $06,650, and tbia il
but a tithe of his health. Twelve
yeaft igo We 4tht editing the Dailg
Ihamidtlc lieviaui id Bkn Francisco/
a mere theatus programme—at a
salar} of S3O | M Week.
Cfail Hamilton, says a correspon
dent, is thirty-nine. She looks con
siderably younger, however, owing to
her email statuo, expressive features,
wd Vivacity of manner. Though
plain the is not at all homely.
Worth's callage, near which
"the old often bucket" swung, is
;carefully preserved by d descendant of
the poet. The bucktt #aa sold long
ago, but the cleaf,- (Sold weH remains.
A Gal test el! ttatu was married and
divorced *ad Married again; but the'
diVofce proved invalid, and be com.
floriittid Suicide after hfa bridal trip/
the estate of $89,000 thereby going
to his wife.
Mary L. Booths gets. ss,ooo per
annum for editing Harprr's Bazar,
N0,25
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