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C., P!t A THAI. 11 '* K F " WATCH Av " J EW ELLEU DEALKK IN FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY, a Sterling Silver, and Plated TFare, PINE SI'UCTACI.KM, aud everything el«e in my line. tfciT Special attention given to the repaiiinj; and tilling (»f Fine Watches anil Regulators. I offer you every possible guarantee that whatever you may buy of iue shall be gu.ii Ine aud ;ust as represented, and you shali pay 110 uiore for it thau a fair advance on the wholesale cost, Good; ordered shall be fur nished as low as if purcuaetni iu person at iu;. fjunter. I have uiadd* in the handsomest manner, llnir l»nln». lAir leni'lr;. Oinmoiiti iiuil Hrdiiinx ICiuzfu. nil ItinJn of Fine Jfwclrf, iiuil «*ilr«ir Wn'ch etc., etc. My machinery and other appliances for makintr tne different parts of Watches, is pci haps the moet extensive in the State, eou- I can guarantee that any pat l of a watch or oiocU esta be replaced with the uu most facility, i fc3" 1 guarantee that my work will com pare favorably in cliiciency and tinish with '«u v- io ttie Land. »JOHN CHAMBERLAIN, Watch Maker and Jeweler. Wreeusboro, N , hmIMBS The Dpad 1 deal in American and Ttalian Marble Monuments «*nd. Headstones '•• # ■ I would inform the public that I am pre pared to do work as C 'heap as ny yard in the State, ANI» GUARANTEE PFRFECT SATISFACTION. bvVcfdhlr'tS *l* distance will save money DRAWINGS for "ST aid ,"»V.VS„..s;rar,"br kl ° i! ° p • Most, liberal induce ments, •nd on application will forwaid desiens 4c,, or visit them la peiaon. ' i Am y kind of nMrketnble produce' taken ia exchange for work, s. c. Robertson, ORKENBKORO, N. 0. |, A l»OOR RRIJA rioiv, I Eveleen Blake was a school-teach' er. Rather a laborious and ill-paid life it wns for a young girl ot nineteen; but the little herioue knew she had her living to "Mini s une how. There wasn't any inkling of romance iujier ) life, except what she lial U'tconsci | ousjy absoibed but of novels in the i circulating library. Her two sisters | were both mariled —Mrs. Siinou Svkes and Mrs. John Smith—and ! eacn one ot them looked out indus l triously for number one. I 'Eveleen lias had an education,' ■ sai l Mis S>te«. 'Let her take cure other-elf. Ol course one wants to he sisterly, and ail that sort of thing, I but when dear Simon married me he i did not intend to marry the whole family.' ;j Oi course no!said Mrs. Smith, j 'She can't expect us to support her.' tf Eveleen was mending a pair of gloves one October afternoon, by the j window, when Mis. Simon S»kes i walked in with a great ru-tling, and smell of patchouli. Mr*. Siinun ! Sykes— nee Bluke —was tall, huge and ro y. Eveleen was on the petite scale, large, limpiu eyes, very liulc color, and straight blown hair which shone like-Stain, in the level rays of the sun Dear me,' said Mrs. Sykes, 'how good that teapot smells. And I am tired out with mv walk.' •Would you like a cup of tea,' said tveleen. MVell, I don't mind,' said Mr». >ykea. unpinning her shawl; 'that is, if you've a bu • n or a l»iscuil,or some tiling to nibble witn it. Tea alone :ives me »lie heart burn ' So Evel 'en went industriously to work and brewed a cti|> ot tea, and brought out a plate of rusks, which were to have made her own iVu s al lueui. 'But I can eat a biscuit or two,' thought self-denying Jlti]■ Eveleen, as soe watched the rusks disappear before Mrs. Simon Sykes' appetite. »'ve had such a turn,' said Mrs. Svkes as she held out her cup for a second replenishing. 'A turn?' saiil Eveleen, enquiring'. IV. "Yes,' added Mrs. Svkes• 'a visit from a poor relation. I dare sav she w 11 he here next, but I advise you to send her a out her business, as 1 did ' 'Who i 6 it?" asked Eveleen in *ur prise. 'lt's >lary Ann Blake. Wants something to do, expects in to take her in, and give her a home until she can obtain a situation.' There's the little hail bed-room that you don't use,' hinted Eveleen, who h,>d a sort of instinctive sym pathy loi the houseless and homes J || Sg I *i wain I'l iifiT .Mr. Sykes' when tiiey come to town,' said Mrs. | S>kes. a single brother with property, and a married sister, with no children, who is very well off' indeed; and it I didn't want it, Ido ft propose to open a free asvlum for every old maid that comes along ' mm what will she do?' 'Do I Why do as other folk* do, I suppose. Go to a lodging house. T ere's plenty of them I'm sure*" •BUT she hasn't got any money/ 'Then she's no busi iess here.' said aristoc-atic Mrs. Sykes. "Win didn't she »tav where her frieuda could take care ot her?' hasn't any friends.' •Then she certainly must be an un nesei ving character,' said Mrs. S\ kes shaking the ciumns dowu upon Eve hen's in ally swept carpet. •Oh, here's Selina Smith, as true as the world.' Mrs. John Smith came fluttering ill —a ibin- sharp-te 'turpd little woman, with snapping blaek eyes, am) • new hat all a quiver with ar ificial as- ' ters. . * , t | 'Oh/ saM Mrs. Smhh. *vou're here are you. Debby? H.w do yun do, Eveleen? Well, since voa're taking tea. I will have a cup.' 'Heard the news? a« she sat herself down. - '• Abe "it Mary Ann Blake?' 'Yes, of course,' answered Svkes the loss of the head. 'Site's been to see us; but I sent iter about her busi ness.*' 'Well she certainly can't ex|>ect us to provide for her,'s iid Mrs. Smith, beginning to crumble up tne reserve ' of the b'scuit that Eveleen had brought with a sigh. 'Smith's •alary ain't larg», and I'ra • good GRAHAM, N. O, TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27 1877 sized family of my own. 1 told her y pretty plainly that that as far as j wa« concerned, she ' needn't expect , anything. Ido hate these genteel . beggars! I hope you will give her the I cold shoulder. Ilush! 1 here's a j knock now. I fit shott'd be her!' 'lt's a good thing we're Iteie to advise her.* saM Mrs. Svkes as Eve leen went to fiie door. 'Eveleen ig so ( unsuspecting! Anybody cotild impose • , upon her.' / I Both sisters noiMed frigidly at the . approach f a tall nervous-looking female, in poor black, followed bv > Eveleen. who drew out the softest . easy chair tor her accomodation, and > ueutM untied her wliispv bonnet strings. . y Do sit down,' said Eveleen; 'I 8m . sure yon are tired. Let me give you a cup of tea at once.' , 'Ye- 8ii«l Mary Ann Blake I inking , apprehensively trout Mrs. Simon Svkes to Mr . John Stni h, 'I am l tired- I've been walking a good , wav.' •I hope you've got a situation!'said I Mr« S uithj icil*. , Bin Mary \rni shook her he ul I "It »vas very loolish of vour couij.ig , here at all, wasting your m uiev mi . an expensive jouruc ,' said Mrs # , Sykes. 'Why couldn't you go to I AU'it Pamela?' Now Aunt Pamela was the rich old . aunt who systiinaticalK ignored her , nelces and kept ipouev in bonds » ins end of investing it in Mr. Svkes I wholesale grocery, or Mr Smith's insurance company. 'I id,'said Mary Ann, dejectedly,] 'hut she declined to assist me.' f 'Stingy old harridan!' said Mrs. . Skves. 'She has a right to do as she pleases , with her own, I suppose, said I Eveleen who was making some tea i for the pale guest. 'No she hasn't,'said Mrs. Smith. People get so miserly.' ' 'Sykes thinks we might some day ( slap her into the lunatic asylum, and • put the monev imp th • bands ot oi trustees, for ths use of iter t ela , lives,' said Mrs. Sykes. I don't konw about that.' said Mary Ann Blake I know -he w uldn't , give an> thing. An II do not know what to do. You are iny cousins. Perhaps—' 'Oh. indeed wo can't do auvtbing for vou,'said Mrs. Sykes becoming more fri id in her demeanor, while Mrs. Smith-Irew herself up aud_set her thiii lips together in a threa I of car mint. 'Better go back as quick and as last as vou can,' added Mrs Sykes. 'By all means,' said Mrs. Smith with a toss of the the artificial astors. * 'And do tell that old lady that she's a deai better able to provide for you than we are. •No,' said Fveleengentlv. 'Cousin Mary A nti shall stav with tne. There's plenty of room on my little bedstead - foi- two, and I can go ou' .villi her to look f>r a situation, after school hours. •Eveleen, you're crazy!' said Mrs. Simou S\kes, uplifting both her banns. - 'You're a tool!" politely added Mrs John Smith. liut the strangers lips quivered. 'God bless you. child I' said she, rising up, and putting aside the veil ot Worn lace that dropped on her lace. 'And now girls, I ma> us well tell you that 1 am Aunt Pamela.' 'You? Aun; Pamela?'shrieked Mrs. S> kes. •yes, I.' •But -you are rich.' Say so.' 'Then gasped Mrs. Smith 'why do you come hero in the guise of a beg gar I' ' I o try "the hearts and natures of my three neices,' said Aunt Pamela. 'Dettorah calls me an old harridan; Selina refuses to help me by so much a«a penny; but little Eveleen is willing t • share lur scanty all with i me. Wiiat money the old woman has to leave shall be Eveleen Blake's' Mrs. Simon Syk v § and Mrs. John Smith lot ked at each oilier in dismay> but it was too htia to apoiigize now. And litfli Eveleen was an h4ire-s, after all. Mr. Archibald Forbes, the famous wai correspondent ot the London Da.ly Newt, has been invited to Bal moral Scoilaud, by Queeu Victoria. The Czar has decorated Mr. Forbes *with the cross of St. Stanislaus for the courage he displayed while at tending the wounded under the fire of the enemy. rwecusiMOF irenßitt, The streets of New York—en 1 of almost anv large city as well-at night present, a spectacle more saddening, more pitiful, more fearful than any picture to he found in Daute's Infer no. Beneath the gas-lamp, from dark until long after midnight, wander unceasingly thousands of young girls. Their eyes are fixed. They stalk like shadows. Thero ir no merriment in their gait.; no jov, no peace, no happiness in their look. However well dressed it is the smiue whited sepulchr*. For mile efter mile these sad spectres hurry along. At each side-street they carry off their vic tims. 4 Who are these desolate ones that fill the cities with their ceaseless tramp? Do they come forth a night because tliev are not tit for the society of their mothers and fathers un I sisters? Alas! no. These ones have uo homes. They »re aloue in a great worl i, too busy to notice the n or their misfortunes. Without a know I edge of the world, they are driven into the midst of its vices, and forced to earn a living by the only means that is within their power. They know not the horrible abyss of shame, the amplitude of suffering, the depth of the distress to which that first step 'ends. Anil so having begun, they are carried on by the swift current of crime about ihem. Do tliev ever seek to escape! They turu blindiy for the meaus, but on every hand they seem shut iu by a high wall separating them from the respectable world. There is no recourse, aud so, year after ye«ir, they fall lower and lower, and their despair grows deeper, until death takes them for his own, and their poor bones are laii away in the potters' field. There is another class of women in our cities. They are not as numer ous as their miserable sisters. Tbev have wealth. They live in couiforta ble homes. They have husbands and happy children. Their time is almost a burden on their hands.'*' With the ar.ival of each day, it is a question «tow .shall the hours be passed. I bey tOok out into the night and liehohi die closely wrapped female figures hurrying bf in the darkness. Th» sight means nothing to theui. It does not even excite a shudder. Tliev themselves are comfortable. Many o them nre highly intelligent ladies, who long tor a vocation. Tbey do not kuow wmtt to do with their tiiue, I'bey think of devoting themselves to art or to literature. Ob! women, who seek a higher sphere of life, who mng for something to do .for some field of usefulness,for something higher nnd •letter than a lite of idleness, enters lainmem and novel reading. Ob! wonftn, you have before you the op pori unity. Tl.e»e are your poor er •-iug sutcri passing your doors at avery hour. They need your assist ance. it' you have compassion, pity them. Do not condemn, but weep for them. You have the power to save. Your wealth and position give it to you. Qo out among them. Uently, patiently labor to briug them to a uetter life. If you succeed iu a whole life-time of labor iu raising up Out one aur.h, you will have perform ed a graud charity. Do uot complain that you have nothing to do. That you are- dying ot ennui. Here is your op[>ortuuity. Embrace it. Go. .r>ave. r Saying smart things does not ir may gratify your apite at first, but it is better to have friends than ene mies. It' you cannot make people happy, at least refrain from adding to their misery What if this woman is not your ideal of womanly inflection, or th at man your model man? Your mission on esrth is not to remind them of the tact. E«cb of us have faults of bis own or her owu; in cor recting them we shall find ample occupation. A "sting" or a "dig'" never did anv good—never helped any one to be better. One whofalU in'o the tisbit of giving them soon looks ill-natured. It is not always possible I to joiu the Mutual Admiration So> ciety and la a good member, but at laaat erne MM kald one's league. THE f OLUItTICEIt I'OVNSBII I From the True Cifii-n ] JF-liii Taylor was licensed, when a youth of twenty-one, to practice at the bar. He was pool but well edu cated, and posessed extraordinary H?nius. lie married a beauty who afterwards deserted nitn for anotlr» -•r. On the ninth rfAtignsf, 1811, th* Court liou«e at Clarksrille, Teias, was crowded to averfloM lug. An ex citing case WHS to he tried, George llopkius, a wealty planter, offered p gross insult to Mary Allison, the young a nil beautiful wife of hisovei* seer. The tiushand threatened tn L chastise him for the fbutrage, when Hopkius went to Allison's house and ahot him in the door. The murderer was aiVested and bailed to answer tha charge. Ihe occurence produced great excitement, and Mr. Hopkins in order to turn the tide of popular indignation, had circulated reports about her character and she sued him for slander. Both suits were pending —for ...urder and fbr slander. The interest became deeper when it was known that Ashley and Pike, of Arkansas, and S. S. New Orleans, bv enormous fees had been retained to def:md llopkius. t llopkius was acquitted. T'lie Tex* as lawyers wsre overwhelmed by their oppuncuU. It was a fight of dwafsagainst giants. The slander suit was ready for trial and the throng of spectators grew in number, as in excitement. Public opinion wa6 setiing in for Hopkins; his money had procured witnesses who served bis powerful advocates When the slander case came up. it was left without an attorney—all had withdrawu. "Have vou uo counsel?' inquired Judge Mills, kindly, ofihe plaintiff. 'No, sir, they have all deserted me and lam 100 poor to employ any more,' replied the beautiful Mary, bursting into tears. 'ln such a case will not some chivalrous member ot the profession volunteer?' said th Judge glancing around the bar. The thirty old lawyers were silent. 1 will, vour honor,' said a voice from the crowd behind the bar. Hisclothes looked so sliubb. that the court he*i tated to let the case proceed under his management. 'Has your name been entered ou the rolls ol the Sti.te?'demanded the Judge. 'Jt i> immaterial/ answered the stranger, hi - thin bloodless lips curling up with a sneer. 'Here is my license from the highest tribunal in America.'and be handed the judge a broad parahment. The trial went ou. He suffered the witnesses to tell their own story, and aJo wed the defence to lead off. Ash spoke tit st. followed by Pike and Prentiss. The latter brought down '•.a bouse in cheers, in which the jurv joined. li waft now the stranger's torn. Lie row be Cure the bar. nut behind it, and no near the wondering jury thai be could the foreman wiili . id* IOIIK bony finger, lit proceeded to tear to piece* the arguments of Ash le\, which melted away ai bis touch like frost before a sunbeam. Every one looked surprised. Anon he came to tin dazzling wit ot Ilia poet laws ver, I'ike. Fuuii the curl ot Ids lip ttrew sharper, his smooth face began to kindle up, his ayes to open/ dim and'dretirs no longer, but vivid as lightning, reu as fiie globes and glar* iuK as twin Hieieura. The whole soul was in his eyes; tlie full heart stream* ed oui of Ids lace. Then, without any allusions to Frentiss, he turned short round on the perjured witness es of Hi iikins, tor* their testimoiiy into shreds, and l.ur ed into the ! r faves such terrible invectives that all trembi'd like aspens, and two of then* fled tlie Ouurt house. The ex citi mem ol (lie crowd waa becoiniitg tremendous. The r united seemed to hang opt n the burning tougiM ol the stranger, and he it'spir* ed tbeia with the power ot passion, lie seemed to Imve stolau nature'* long hidden »ecret of attraction. But his greatest triumph was to come. His eyes began to glance at the assassin Hopfcii*. aa his lean, taper Angers assumed the same directio . lie enclosed the wretch within a wall of strong evidence and impregnable argument, cutting off all hope of escape, lie nug beneath the ianr derer's teet ditcuea ot dilemmas, and held up I • slanderer to the scorn aud contempt of the populace, ilaro iug thus girt about him with a circle 1 about himself to the work of massa* ere Ob! than it was a vision both glorioua and dreadful to behold the orator. Hi actions, too, became as impetuous a» the moti us of an oak in a hurricane. Uia voice became a trumpet filled with whirlpools, deafening the ears with crashes of fewer aad yet iatarailagjsd. aU OM NO, 38 while with iho sweetest cadence. Hl*forehead glowed like a heated * fnrnace, hf« countenance was hazard like that of a maniac, and eter am! anon lie flung .lis long, bony arms on high as it grasping alter u tbumleiw bolt. He drew a picture of mtfrder In appalinv colmn lhatin comparison hell itself might look beautiful; he painted the slanderer so.l>la k that the sun seemed dark at noonday when shin ing on such a monster. And then, fixing both portraits 011 the shrinking Hopkins, fastened taem there forever. Ihe agitatio-. of the audience amounted almost to madness. Al. at once (be speaker descended from his lofty height. His voice wiled out to the immlcrod dead, and llv Dg— the beautiful Mar}- every moment as ber tear- flowed 'faster and faster—till men wept and sobbed like children. He closed by a strong exhortation to the jury, ami through them to lite bystanders; the panel, after they should brig a verdict for the plaintiff no to oiler violence to the defendant Imwever richly he might deserve it— in oilier words not to Jvnch the vil« la'n, but to leave his punishment to God. »liis was 'heirtful trick or all and was calculated to insure veu> geanco. The jurv rendered a vordict of fllty thousand do.la:s, and the night 1 item aids Hopkins was taken oot of hi-* bed b> the lynchers and beaten almost to deatb. As the court ad*~ jotirned Ihe slianger said: 'John Taylor will preach hero at early candle light.' He did preach and the hoase Wat crowded. We have listened to Clay, Webster and Beecher, but never heard anything in the form ot sublime MOrds even approximating to the eloquence ol John Taylor as massive as a mountain and wildly rushing as a cataract of Are. Benjamin L. Frrjeon, tbe author who married Joe Jefferson's daugh ter, sometimes gets intensely wrought up in his books, and it is related 'bat he fell in love with his heroine while he was engaged en 'Joshua Marvel/ and when she died, which became necessary in the finale ot the story, as lie finished ihe sentence lie fainted away,' and remained unconscious for an hour. When he awakened it w«s with the words,a ddressed to a broth er whe was stauding beside hitu' '1 loved lier.' v T jtfTiT 1 rriT .1 "Madam, aaid a polite traveller to a testy old landlady. ''lf I see props er to help myself to the milk, is titer* any* impropriety in it? , "I don't understand what yea menu; but if you mean that there ta Anything nasty in that milk, I'll give you to understand you've struck the wrong house. There ain't the first hair in it, for as aoon Dorothy Ann told me the kitten was drowsed in the mild. I went right straight «ud strained it over- Yet another warning: Joseph Bates, of Vermont, falls dend while carrying in an armful of wood. Show this paragraph to your wife—nay, cut it oot and pin it to the wood-shed door. • A drunken legislator said that he was a "self made roan." "That fact" said Mr. Greely "re lieves the Almighty of • great res sponsibility." A Man's wife is his best lawyer, [ his best counsel, his beet judge, his best adviser, and also the cheapest and most reasonable. Ihe most joyous and gladsome natures are those most keenly alive to impressions of reverence, wonder and awe. « Tbe other day a train on the Cana da Southern Railroad ran 111 miles in 109 minutes. One mile was ran in to seconds. Although a girl may be aa proud aa Lucifer it doesn't always follow that she makes a good match.—Asw York Weekly, And now they call it tbe "lull delity" Savings' Bank. Cornell University haa 400,000 aces* of land lu Wisconsin. A pleasant peal of Belles la a peal of laughter. 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