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New Millinery
Store.
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Mrs. W. 8. Moore, of Greensboro, has
opened * branch of her extensive business,
In this town, at the
Hunter Old Stand
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FLOWERS, NATURAL 18 MR
•j BRIANS AND CURLS, LADIES
COLLARS, AND CUFFS, linen
and laco CRAVATS, TOILET
SETS, NOTtOJVS, and everytbihg for la ties
«.f the very latest styles, and it you do not
find in stor* what you want leave your or
der one day and call the next and get your
• fled.
T. lIOORB A. A. THOMPSON
Moore & Tompson
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Commission Merchants
BALEion, m. c.
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Special attention paid to the salo of
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CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED, HIGHEBT
PRICES OBTAINED.
Refer to . . „ .
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Knitting Cotton & Zephyr Wool, at SCOTT
A DONNELLU
E. S. PARKER,
GRAHAM N. C.,
Attorney at Law,
Practice in Alamance and adjoining conns,ti
'■ and In the Fedaral courts.
GET
mmmmi
m >S .4. 9. lam now prepared
'° ma^e to order
tbooto, shoes and
gaiters from the very
best stock and at the
lowest prices—
TO°'t?0 F (» O
FROM°ta , .W f fIO TO
•4.00, GAITERS FROM t5,50.T0 #7.00.
A good fit is guaranteed. Mending promptly
nid cheaply done.
CTI have a few pairs of good gnlteH of my
own make on hand which I will sell cheap.
Graham, N. C. W. N. MURRAY.
May 7.1878, ly
TUB OtLDKN Birrs AT MISBBV
" Vl.tT. . \
'Do, Lowizy, git dewb off that stool,
and quit rummaging iu that burey draws
er.'
Lowizy, from lier p6r% on the stool,
only tnrnod her sloo-back eyes toward
the cot whereou lay the invalid whose
faintly querulous tones arrested her at
tention, and answered: '
'Pears like you're Man
dy. I ain't a rummaging; Tin hunting
tor a piece of that stripped ticking to set
a patch in Mike's overalls.'
'Well, do git down and shut that
drawer,' persisted the sick woman;
'there ain't a speck ot that there ticking
left.'
'There is too.' interrupted the girl,
holding'up a large scrap,-'and here it is.
so, there. And what's more, here's a lot
of new calico. Sakesl where did you
raise so much?*
The woman's eyes brightened and her
tones cheered perceptibly as sho answer
ed hurriedly:
'Well, shut the drawer and git aw«y
from there, and I'll give you one of them
pieces for a new dress. You can take
your choice, the lay lock and green or the
speckled pink. Do git down. Right
there by that wiudow, too, and most
t ii*i3 for Alike to be a coming. *
At that moment Mike himself enterod
the door. His not ill natored face cloud,
ed over as he observed Lowizy cooly re
placing the prints in the drawer, and he
stopped hastily forward as if to arrest
her farther progecss. A significant glance
from his wife caused him to turu towards
the cot instead ot the Korean.
•Never mind it,' whispered his wife
soothingly,'she hain't spied out nothing.
Site's only poking after a bit of stuft to
patch youroveralU. Ifyou flare up like
ly she'll suspect something. I wish iu
my soul we'd never taken a hand in it.'
And Mandy buried her face iu her pil
low and began to cry.
•You'd better take yoqrqu|nine, Maij
dy,' said Lowizy. 'You've been a gap
ing and a stretching all tho morning, and
now you're bawling. Your ager's com
ing on, sure. There's your dinner, Mike,
on the fire. Lift it yourself, can't you?
I want to dose Mandy and and fix these
yer overalls before I eut.'
Mike lifted his dinner and eat it in sis
lence, \yhile Mandy took her dose and
Lowizy's nimble fingers plied the needle
npon the torn overalls. When Mike had
finished his repast she looked np from
her work and said ;
'1 am going over to Bixlerville pretty
soon to get Miss Naylor to cut out my
new calico. Yon better not go over the
slough. Mandy 'll need yon round
home. There's them late peas to brush.
They're sprawliu' terrible. And there's
that hanging shelf in the kitchen—why
dou't you tinker, thai up? Aifd be sure
yon don't iorglt to bring the dugout ov
er to the shore tor me along about sun
down. I'll be there, I reckon, long 'fore
you will. Want me to call the doctor for
Mandy?'
'Doctoring, does small good,' answer
ed Mike, gloomily. 'Misery Flat's no
place for a man to live in. If a chap
could ever get a hold of a claim over
yonder on the hill—but there's uo use a
trying: fever and ager and hard luck tor
ever aud ever 'll take the go out ot any
man.'
'Oh, you are blue to day, Mike,' laugh
ed the girl. 'I dunno what's got you
and M»ndy here lately. After the cots
ton's baled and sold you'll chirk up.
Miser;' Flat cotton beats the hill to noth
ing.'
'Yes,' said Mike, a bit more heartily;
'and it we just could get a cabin and a
few acres on the bill white we could
live, I'd work the Flat plantation, and
ask no odds of any man. But there's uo
t use—'
'A grumbling,' interrupted the girl
cheerily. 'Bymeby you'll rastle out of
tbis, and get yotir home totber side qf
the slough. That is, if you don't fume
yourself into the ager again. There,
there's yonr overalls. Now I'm going.
Missouri Fist is one cf the many is
lands that dot tho Mississippi river be
tween Cario and New Orleans. River
pilots know it by its proper number, its
local name, Missouri Flat, being given
to it by tbe small colony of humble folk
from the State of Missouri who. in tbe
hopo of bettering tbeir condition, bad
settled on tbe island which, like many
others, was luxuriantly feitile, produc
ing at small expenditure of labor atytud
ant crops of tbe finest cotton, as weil as
grain aud vegetables. As usual, where
exurberance of vegetable life is found,
there also is found malaria, and the un
fortunate settlers on the Missouri Flat
came in time to deem the name flung at
their island in the ironical speech of pass
ing boating no misnomer.
Mike Flynn, a bright young man of
GRAHAM, N. O,
Irish parentage, with his yonng wife, a
rosy, healthful Missouri girl, bad come
with the small colony to tho island foil
of the hopeful enthusiasm of youth, and
bad set about tbo work of cultivating the
soil and building up an honest home with
commendable zeal. Before they had been
a twelvemonth on the island they
found out that wealth could only be
gained on Misery Flat at tbe expense of
health. Over on the rolling lauds of the
main shore it wap healthful. If only
they could securoa home-there I To ac»
complish this Mike toiled early and late,
carefully boarding every dollar of his
earnings. Bat sickness and death—three
baby forms were laid away in the neigliN
borborxj graveyard ou tbe hillside be
yond the slough—had brought conses
quen t expense and loss, and Mike's hoard
increased but slowly. Mandy's health
gave way at last,and then ail things seem
ed to go wrong.
Mike,-by nature, thrifty and saving,
grew close, even covetous. It troubled
Mandy to witness the growing change.'
When they had first come to Misory
Flat they had found but one plantation
on the island. Its owner was eager to
sell out his claim to Mike for a small sum
of ready cash. With the plantation he
turned over to the Flyiuis a child of about
seven years of age, with but the excuse
that she was 'none o' their'n,' aud as she ]
had come to them "tbout being sent for,
so sbe mout stay tbar 'tliout none ot his
fotchin' t away.'
Of the cbHd*s history he knew noth
ing. Only be 'allowed' she'd been lost
off some steamboat. One had burned to
tbe Water's edge on the opposite shore
only th£ Might preceding (be day oil
which the little creature had made her
appearance at his cabin door. In his own
phrase, 'he'd keep her along till this
present, bnt he didn't allow as any
call to tote her round the kentry.'
Mike and Mandy, *ith true, warm
hearted hospitality, took the little Waif
into their home, and treated her, if not
as their child, at least as their sistor,
teaching her to read and write and figure
respectably, and to perform household
dutien quite creditably,- She learned al
so to paddle a skiff and, what was far
more dlfllelt, to manage a dugout and to
swim in the river. At fifteeb Lowizy
was, as Mike phrased it, a girl worth
somebody's while to look after. Aud
truly, somobody ot late had seemed to.
be looking after the unknown in a way
that wa6 causing Mike no little concern.
Upon the night robe iu which the lit
tle waif was clad at the time of her ad->
vent upon the island tlie planter's wife
read the name which tbe child said was
her own, Heloise Masson. It had been
modified luto Lowizy. Of the little one's
simple recital they could make out only
that sbe was on a big boat going to see
papa, and that mamma rocked her to
sleep in her lap, and when sho woke sp
she was all stuck fast in some bushes,
and wet and muddy and hungry; and
that while she was looking all around to
find mamma and sister she came upon
the cabin and sought its friendly shel
ter.
After Lowizy,s adoption into the Flynn
family tbe little girl was always men
tioned by Mike in his ra re visits to Bix
lerville by her real name,and Bixlerville
good folk knew that Flynn's Lowizy
who came now and again with her bright
face aud merry,.sloe black eyes to fetch
tbo doctor.' or to do some errand lor Mis
ery Flat folks, was really and truly Ile
loise Jfason, tbe lost child of some un
known persons.
Que day, a few weeks previous to the
opening of our story, Mike returned
troia a visit to Bixlerville with two lets
ters, which, iu Lowizy's abseneo ho read
to his wife. One was addressed to the
postmaster at Bixlerville, and entreated
him to ascertain, if possible, tbe where
abouts of a young girl, Heloiso Jfasson
i by uame, wao was lost off tbe steamer
, in tbe 18—. and supposed to have
been drowned, but of whose existence,
and in Bixlerville neighborhood, recent
circumstances had excited strong hopes.
The postmaster, upon seeing Jfike
turned tbe letter over to hiaa, with also
one enclosed, addressed to ifiss Heloiso
Jfasson. As be did so he said. tf
'lt's your Lowizy, Mike. L bave no
doubt of it. Jfaybo there's myiey in it.
if yon manage it' Sharp. Jfothing like
looking ont for number one. you know.
Jforo'n likely these jtfassons 'H pay yon
for her keep ancf so on. LeastWays
you're her guardian, and as such yon've
a right to see what's in that letter before
sbe does. May be you can make a good
thing ont of it. Who knows?*
In an evil moment Jl/ike yielded to tbe
temptation. The letter to Ileloise con
vinced him that the girl was indeed the
one sought for by parents who had
monrned her as dead through all these
years. Jnst how to make money bet of
TUESDAY JUNLY 2 1878
his knowledge he did iut quite clearly
866 ■
'They'll take lief .away, that's sure, as
soon as they shes here,' he said
to his wife. ' Aftd how a»« we to get ou
without Lowiay.fr
' What would you de,JTike? Keep the
letter from her? Sure, you've no right;
and it would be far from doing as you'd
be done by 4
'Bight P echoed Mike, crossly, ignoring
the latter part of Malidy's argument.
'Who's a botter rjgl'it than him that's
fed and clothed her' these seven years
gone I Who'll pay me for her keep?'.
'Sure, she's paid as she'B goue, Mike.
Lowizy has been as mnch to us as we to
her. Yon can't deny that. Don't do a
mean think Mike dear. It isn't like you
and it'll bring übJuck, though you may.
think so.
But Mike was blinded with lust of
luore. lie hid tbo letters iu the bureau
drawer, and bado Mandy not mention
them. He determined within hiuiselt
to not go seon again to Bixlerville. He
grew moody and irritable and, Mandy
seeing the chauge, only became worse,
and cried oftener on her weary pillow
and not even Lowizy's bright wits could
account for the change that had happen
ed to tho pair.
''O Mike. Mike, I can't stand it any
longer," sobbed the invalid upon tbe
day that Lowizy, with her pink calico,
hadstartedto Blxlervillo. 'IPs killing
me keeping the sinful secret. It's stealing
itnd lying, and cheating all at ence, and
aqd there'll never be a light heart in me till
the sin is off my conscienco. You're not
the lad you were since the day you
brought tho letters, and it'll come to no
good. 1 was afraid she would bluuder
on to tbem letters this morning that I
gave her tbe croasest and meauest word
ever I spoke to her, in my linrrv to get
her away from the drawer—and she
just the mainstay of tho family. It cuts
mo to the heart. Give it up Mike. Let
us live and die on Misery JTlat, if God
will, but don't let us blackeu our souls
with a sin that is sure to cry out against us
when we least expect it. Could you
be happy in your homo on tho bluff, if
you hadjftyenowing all the whiie you
was out ot home and
schooling aud mother-love and all? Ah
Mike, have you dear forgot the motto
you said should be ours whon first we
came to the plantation? You know you
laid then to the neighbor that we'd all
live by tho Goldeu Rule at Missouri
Flat> and then tliere'd never come hard
feelings. Dear Mike, go and pray to the
good God to take away the evil spirit
that troubles yon and give you strength
to square your life as k used to be by
the best of alt rules."
She pushed him gently from her as
she turned away her head end ceased
from pleeding. Mike Without a word
went out.
'Lowizy, said Mike, about sundown,
as the girl balauced herself in the wait
ing dugout, 'I waut to tell you some*
thing. PveTjeen a keeping it back for
some time, but it is your right to know
it. Likely as not you'll be mad that I
haven't told yon before; for it's good
news for you, although it's bad enough
for Mandy aud me. There's a letter from
your folks in tbe cabin. Yon'U have to
answer it and then, of course, they'll
come and get yon and take you far
enough from Misery Flat and make a
lady of yon. No doubt iu a few years
you'll be that fine you won't like to re
member that tbe rough and the
aud tbcf plain folks on the island. But
Mandy and I'll never forget you or
cease to wish you well. And 1 want you
jnst to promise me one thing boforo we
touch the shore, and that is that you
won't hold spite against ns for keeping'
back your letter. Twas wrong, and I'm
sorry. I hated to tbiuk of partiug with
you, and—and—
Here Mike's voice grow husky and bo
blushed with shame, but ho went on,
thoQgh with a great eflbrt.
'I couldn't see bow we'd ever get a
home over yonder if wo let go of you,
and I was tempted Lowizv, to do a mean
thing and try to get money out of your
folks. Mandy wasn't to blame. Sho
frowned upon it all the time. Just say
vou'll forgive Lowizy. Can't you?
'Oh, bush up, you with great big silly,'
laughed the girl, her eyes blazing with
eager joy. 'l've seen 'em all I Father
mother, and big sister and little brother
that looks precisely like me. They're
all over .to Bixlerville tavern, pretty
near crazy, every one of 'em, and all
about me. Ain't it funny though? My
but they're fine folks too. Just think of
me belonging to them and going to live
with Ibem. But don't you mind.' she
added hastily as she noticed the look on
Mikes face. 'l'll go with I hem; I'll have
to. But I ain't going to,leave yon and
Mabdy in no fix. You'll see. I told
them all about ypu and Mandy, and how
you couldn't manage without mo and
they said what could they do for you and
1 just up and told them. 'Buy him a
bit Of land over hero on the healthy
shore,' I says, 'and thou I'll bo
willing to leave them. Once get Mandy
And Mike where they can live, aud I'll
risk theift for getting along without any
girl like me.' You just ought to have
heard ray folks 'They praised me
up to the skies for bolngso loyal—what's
(hat I wonder? And my father—how
Aitmy it does saund—my lather promised
fialr and flat that he'd buy you land, and
he's gone this minute to see Lawve r
Dixon about it. Now, what do you
say.'
Mike could not take in the overwhelms
ing intelligence.
'How did yon fiudihem out, Lowizy
he aske dazedly. #
Oh Miss Naylor, she gave tho meieat
look at my new pink callico and grabbed
hold of my hand aud said 'Lowitzy, if l
don't miss ray guess you are in luck*
There's folks fine ones, too over at the
tavern hunting for a girl Just your age.
and name. They say they've sent letters
but never had any answer, and they're
so shure the girl is somewhere in this re
gion roundabout and they've just come
themselves to search the whole oouotry.
Thoy've got it all iu the Bixlerville Post
and Herald and it's plain to my mind
you are the girl.' Sure enough, there
they were. Miss NaylOr marched me
straight up to the iaveru and {put word
to the folks. They knew me in a minute
by those marks on my foot that Mandy
said came from a scald sometime when I
was a baby . So they did, my mother
said. Aud then I look just Jike my
father and little brother. You'll seo to
morrow when they ail got bore. My I
but they hated to bave me leave 'em, but
I told'em I most. Mandy eonldn't get
supper and you'd be at tho dugout and
aud g> I would. So here 1 am. Hurry
up for there's lots to do, and they'll all
be over here to seo you to-morrow. We
must get Mandy up aud fix op the oabia
a little slick. What is the name of sense
are you crying about? You're going to
get your borne on the hill right off! Good
timos are coming to Jflsery Flat, Why ,
don't y*u hooray?*
The morning came and with it the
Jfassons, who clearly provod their right
to Lowizy, aud were able to explain the
long sealed mystery. J/ike was , made
happy by the deed of gift of the choicest
bit-ou the hill shore, and Mandy was
supplied with the means of procuring
mauy a desirable comfort. Lowizy with
her new-found friends, quitted the old
life and old home ut Misery Flat.
Mike and ifandy, too found a new
home in tbe neat cabin on the hill, and
found there all that Misery Flat lacked
pure air free of miasmatlo vapor. There
they coultk hope to live and toil and
add to the world's products, blessed with
health and vigor. Misery Flat plantation
was not gi veil up, but worked success
fully, and as tbe years went by and Mike
came to be known as the man who
oftenist sent the first aud finest bale of
cotton to tbe market. Mandy would
make answer to the congratulations of
friends in words whose lull meaning
were only understood by Mike hira»
self.
'Yes, it is prospered we have been,
although we bave seen dark days. Sure I
never got a letter ftom Miss Masson, our
Lowizy that was, and hear ot her good
life too, without thanking God with all
that we squared oar lives by the Golden
Rule at Misery Flat."
WORTH
It is tho penny saved more than tho
penny earned that enriches: it is the
sheet turned when tbe first threads
break, that wears the longest; it is tho
damper closed when the cooking is done
that stops tbe dollars dropping in tho
coal bin; it is the lamp or gas burned
lew, when not in use, that gives you pins
money for the month; it is the carc id
making the coffee that makes three
spoonsfuls go as for as a teacup ordinari
ly; it is the walking one or six blocks,
instead of taking a cab or omnibus, that
adds strength to your body and money to
your purse: it is tho careful mending of
each weeks wash that gives ease to yonr
conscience and length of days to yonr
garments; and last of all, it is tbe con
stant care excercised over every part ot
yonr household, and constant endeavor
to improve and apply you- best powers
to your work, that alone gives peace and
prosperity to the family.
"The United States Snpren-e Com t lias
held a railroad company liable for inju
ries to a passenger riding on a free pass
which specified that tho company was
not liable.
One candidate in Tennessee promises
if elected to give one fourth of his official
income to the public and private schools,
while another pledges himself to give tbe
entire proceeds to an orphan asylum.
NO,IB
f idtanittfl ?♦
It it a bad religion that makes us hate the
religion of other people. f
An Irishman complained to his physician
that he atuflfed him ao mucn with drugs that
h» was sick a long time alter he got welL
The oldest Presbyterian chnreh in America
(s at Jamaca, L. L It waa established la the
year 1662.
Tom Evans says that with two presbyteri
ans on the Supreme Court bench, the lwjera
had better rob op on the shorter catechism •
and let poetry alone.
A Sunday School boy, of Maysville, Kj.,
was asked by,the superintendent if bis father
was a Christian. ''Yea, sir," he Replied, "but
be la not working at it much."
Horace Qreely said the aad Jest period in •
young man'a life is when he makee np hie
mind there la an easier way of getting motley
than earnestly earning it. That's what's the
matter.
A demoralised saloon-keeper while bewail
ing to a Mend the bad state of hia business
looked toward a new spire creeping heaven,
ward, with a wave of the hand said; Them's
tqe things thsts ruinln' the country.'
lurjJtTiAb—New curate (who wishes to
know all about hia parishioners): "Then do I
understand that your aunt ia on your father's
side, or yonr mother'®!" Country lad:'
"Zometimes one and sometimes the other
ceptin' when feytbet weeks 'em both, air P .
An old Highland clergyman, who had re
ceived several calls to parishes, naked hia
servant where he should go. The servant
said, "Go where there ia most sin, sir.* The
preacher concluded that waa good advice, and
went where there was most money. . Vj . ; .
Messrs. Blackburn, Stenger and Reed have
been appointed as the sub-committee of tha
Potter committee to visit Louisiana, aod will
leave after the adjourment of Oonfpesa.
From present appearances the committee will
not finish Its-labor* for at least a month.
A boy at a city street crossing having begged
something of a gentleman, the latter trild him
he would do something as he eame back.
"Yonr honor would be suprised if you knew
the money,! have lost by giving credit that
*»y"
A little girl, when her father's table was
honored with an esteemed guest, began talking
very earnes ly at the first pause in the con
versation. Her father checked her very
shnrply, saying.' "Why is it that you always
talk so much?" "Tauas I've dot somesin to
say," was the innocent reply.
William Cullen Bryant never entertained a
very high opinion of Henry Ward Beeeher.
Even when the latter waa at the zenith of
his fame and in fluence the poet regardegjpim
as a rr an without positive religious convictions
over foud of applause, and at heart thoroughly
seftbh. He once remarked to a friend visit
ing at Rosylin in the summer of 186& Hr.
Beeeher would make a good actor? he is ont
of bis pl4cq in the pnipit
ReliitaHts'the tie that connects man with
his Creator, and holds bim to hia throne. If
Udt tie is sundered or broken bo floats awav
a worthless atom in the universe, its proper
attractions all gone, its destiny thwarted, and
its Whole future, nSthing but darkness, desola
tion and death.—DAKtet Wsmtsb
w _
How TO 3cava Omaaliuns. —'"Yes,
•aid Mi. Hayes to the delighted applicant for
office, "I am a devout Sunday school man and
a follower of the tea can, so that I cannot my
self in my individual capaoity as a President
tell you a lie. I will not'promise you an office,
but I will tarn you over to one of the Cabinet
who I have selected for this worldly purpose.
Amen."—Nsw Yoa* H«*AL».
•She editor of VanitjhJLir (London) write*
daily assailed by »y friends who,either
on their own account or on account of some
body else, implore me in the ' name of friend •
ship to 'keep' such and such a thing 'out of the
paper. Being of an amiable disposition, lam
alwaya inclined to indulge them: but really it
must have a limit, for If it goes on I will either
have to present my readers a handsome blank
page, or else I must take the advice oneegiven
to aa editor, to haveno friends and live in a
collar .r.
A Comtwn Faiums— A doaen men were
aittiug in a saloon recwtly, when a female
voice was heard from an adjacent doorstep.
Well, good moring Mrs. Blacx, If I had any
thing on I'd go with you." Thews was a mad
rush f«r the door, an eager expectant crowd
with ontstrcched necks peering over, each
other's shoulders in the direction from whence
the voice proceeded, and then a retort to the
vacated chairs, white one of the party aaked
"What good does it do for a woman to lie in
that way anyl»o» T"
LVi'K AND LABOR,
Labor is ever waiting for something to turn
np; lebor. with keen eyes and strong will,
turn up ?omcthiag. Luck lies in bed and
wishes the post would bring him news, of a
legacy; labor torus out at six o'clock, arid
with busy pen or ringing hammer lays
foundation of a competence. Luck
and labor whistlus. Luck relies on cliawa
Labor on character. Luck slips down to in
duKgenoe, Labor strides upward to indeooa
dence.
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