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AN ABORIOIN.I I, CU4NT.
What time the glittering rays of mum
O'er hill and Valley steal,
Chief Joseph's squaw with dog and horn.
Prepares the ludi«u meal.
And if, with wild rebellions shout,
The pappoose shall appear,
The Chieftan leads the bad child out
Clutched by the Injine oar. *
The breakfast o'er, the daughter strolls
Down gleu and shady dell;
While gay young braves, from wooded knolls,
"Look out f >r the Injine bell.!"
Each stricken brave she turns and leaves
Her coyness to bewail;
Her drilling blauket stirs the leaves
The well-kno\Vn Indian trail.
A Slack Hill miner, scalped r nd dead,
tJpon the ground is found, "
Gsim speaks tho chief; "There's been I'm
'lrald,
An Indian summers round - . "
What time lie rideth forth to shoot, _
His favorite horse the dapple is;
And when ye want a little fruit
Goes where the Indianapolis.
Whert finished are his warlike tasks,
\Vith hrazen incongruity. .»
For overcoats ar.d food he asks,
With charming Indiauuity.
t ai.;ht, before his bad he 'll scc"k,
AVit i countenance forlori, i".'
He takes his scalping-knife,*and eke
lie trims the Indian corn.
BurlingXtn Haickeye.
. ■ - - ■ .
mißva i,oveikTTifß,
'SujpuAvon't raarry llawkins Jo«»
-stjpßpaid Squire Befgamot, knitting his
blaok etebrotvs together until they form
ed an ominous black bar across bis fores
luad, and nearly irightcned his briglit
eyed daughter out of her senses. But
Maty Bergamot stood bravely to the guns
of her little citadel.
'No, father,' said she. 'O, how can
you ask me, lather,-when you know 1
don't love him, and never can?'
'Never is a long while.' said the
squire.
'Yes, papa, I know that,' said Mary.
'But indeed, I mean it.'
'Yen mean it, do VOH ?' saidtho squire,
in low and measured tonos. 'Now, let
me tell you what 1 It isn't that you dou't
like Hawkins Jessup, but that you have
been goose enongh to go and full in love
tvlth that youig idiot, Uporge Lake I'
Mary turned very red.
'Papa!'
'There's no use mlucing matters,' said
the irate squire. 'An artist,indeed! Why
don't lie go into whitewashing aud
(minting, aud get a decent bring?'
'But papa—'
'Needn't attempt to argue wi'b mo.
Miss!' said Squire Bergamot, sternly;
'l'll have noiio of il, and so I teli you if
George Lake comes into my house, he'll
be prtt out very quick J And so you may
tell him.'
So saying, the squire strode out of the
room. Mary looked after him with soft,
sorrowful eyes. She was a delicate,oval
faced girl, with sonny brown hair aud
straight features, as atilike the rotund
aud positive sqnife's as light to darkness.
But as she put down the irou with which
she was 'doing up' her father's shirts-
Squire Bergamot would have thought it
a crying sin to employ a laundress while
his daughter enjoyed her ordiuary health
—she leaned up against the window
whero the arrowy sunbeams came in
through the tremulous veil ot heartNshap
ed morning-glory leaves, and drew from
her pocket a note writteu iu a strong,
masculine band:
MY DKABEST MABT:— I lo,vo you.
W ill you promise to be iny wife, spite
of all opposition? Will you tell me so
with your own lips?
'Ever yours, faithful to death,
GEOKGE.'
Jlow her eyes glittcrdß as she read
and _re*read the short and simple lines,
preasiug them finally to her red lips.
'I do love liim! 1 will bo his wife!' she
murmured. 'And I will fell him so the
vnrn first chance I get. On!y p ipa!'
A momentary cloud stole over her se
rene brow at this, but it was transient.
'I dou't believfc in clOpencuts/ said
Mary Bergapiot, still riveting bar eye*
on die sheet of paper hi her .hand. *1
never did. But it p-ipa still persists lu
opposing our marriage, I wHI leave ray
home and go out into the work! baud iu
hand with George.'
Just as this revolutionary thought
passed through her iniud the door creak
ed on its hinges. A heavy, well kuown
footstep sounded on the threshold.
•It's papal'cried Mary,
ID her consternation our'poor little
heroine conld uot find the entrance to
her pocket in the multitudinous folds of
her dress. Eor sfco'ud she was in im*
minent danger of then she
hurriedly thrust the incendiary docu
ment iuto tbe yttwniug'inoutb of a paper
graham, ». 0.,
bag of choice deed corn, which hung by
the window. And tho next instant
Squire Rorgnmot was in the room.
'Marry,* said ho, 'go up stairs to the
left hand corner of my middle bureau
drawer and get me a clean pocket hand
ktfrohlef.'
And Mary went out with a dubious
glance at the nail on which the bog of
'Early Sugar Corn' hung.
tVlieu she returned the rQom wai
empty, and Sqnire Bergauiot was jus',
climbing up into his lumber box wagon
in front of the picket fence.
'Bring it out here,' said the squire,
■l'm going ore.r to Miss IMIy Pepper's
to got my (! emply cidfr cask- She might
have had the sense to return it herself I'
He stowed the pockol hauderchicl
away in his pocket aiul was just taking
up tho reins when Mary rurhod out
again, crimson to the foots of her hair.
' Father, that bag of seed corn V
'O. it's all right—it's all right? said
the squire, placidly. 'I promised a little
to Miss Polly Pepper, aud this is already
shelled.'
'But, falher,'«a6ped poor Mary, 'let
me tio it up first.''
'Nonsense,'said tho squire; 'I just
folded over the top, aud it'll go as snug
as a thief in a mill, right atop of my
bags of meal.'
Away be rattled over the stouy road
as he spoke, and poor Mary ran back
iuto the kitchen to cry herself into a
second NioJjo.
'O, my loiter!' sobbed she; 'why
i such an idiot as to put it there 1"
Miss Polite Pepper, a gaunt spinster of
a very uncertain age and a very certain
infirmity of temper, opened the bag ol
seed corn as the squire drove of!.
'Might have brought it beforo,' said
she. 'Promised.it to us last fall. I do
despise these folks that are alwaysputtiug
off things. Mercy upon us 1 what's this?'
as she drew out the nete; 'some rr coipt
that that shiftless Mary's tucked away
hore to get it outol t:.e way 1 No it aiu't.
i it's a lofe letter!—aud to me—'My
dearest Mary,* and signed ot the foot
George Washington BsrgonApf and that
is his name. Well, Ido declare! Aiu't
ho far gone? 'All oppo ition.' I s'pose he
means Mary and my two
law, that think a woman over tody
hain't no business to marry! Bat I'll see
'em fuider afore I'll let 'em overturn my
matrimonial prospects— see if I don't.
'Tell him with my own lips.' Of course
I will! I'll go right over there at once
Delay is dangerous! And if he really
it in such a harry—'
Miss Pony's Augers trembled as slie
took her little cork-screwy curls out *of
their papers, ami pinned on a fresh
collar tied by a blue ribbon.
dolor of love,' said she to
herself, with a sij&pev, 'it was so roman
tic of dear Geofge to tliiuk of proposing
in a bag of seed-corn!'
The squire was at his supper when
Miss Peppor walked iu, flushed with her
long expedition on foot.
'Sit down and have a bite, tvon't yon?'
said the squire. 'M»ry, fetch a clean
plate/
Miss Pepper took advantage of the
momentary absence ot her step-daughter
elect to proceed to business.
'George,' cried she, almost bysterl
*r.lly, 'I rm yonrs!'
'Eb?' said the squire.
'Forever and overt'said Miss Pepper,
tinging herself upon the collar of his
coat.
'Are you crazy?' saiii the squir;,
jumping up. V «.
'You asked mi to bo your wife,' fcaid
Miss Polly, meltingly.
•I didn't?' said tha squire jumping
a?- .
'Then what does thfe lerter mean, cb?'
demanded Miss Polly. 'lt's as clear a
declaration ot love as ever was writ.
And good ground to,sue on.'
The squire stared at the sheet of
paper as Miss Popper waved It triumph
antly over Ms head.
'But I didn't write it/ gasped the
squire.
'Then who did?* demanded Miss Pep
per.
Just at tlis moment Mary, entering
v\ ilb fresh tea and a cleau plate, caught
sight of tbe letter.- •• .• •-
It's mlnel'she eried- with a sodden
dyeing of the ebeek and glitter ot the eyos.
•My letter! Ilow dare you read it, Miss
Pepper?*
•I got it ont of a bag of seed-corn,
protested the spinster.
'And it there for safe keopiug,'
blushingly acknowledged Mary Berga
mot. And Mary conlessed, "George
Lake, papa/ '
Miss Peppor went bonne, crying very
heartily, with mortified ffkfe and dis»
appointed expectations. Aud the
TUESDAY JUfY 16 1878
squire came to the conclusion that true
lovo woul t have its way iu spite of all .
dissenting of tho parent.
•Papa,'said Mary, -please may I have
George?'
. 'I don't care,' said the squire.
A ltd that in his case passed for an affir
mation. Bu! t io squire r mains a wi lew e •
still, and Miss Pepper's chances grow
•small by degrees %lid beautifully leas.'
WHAT IS A "TEAJI, 1 '
The Court of Queen's Bench were re
cently called upon to give a legal defini
tion to the word "team." A tenant ot
ah English duke had agreed, as a part
of his rent payment, to furnish at sun
dry times "oue day's team work with
two horses and one proper person,."
On one occasion the dukeV manager
desired the farmer to *seud a
fetch coal from a railway station
ducal mansion. The farmer
furnish two horses and a man, but in
sisted that the duke should supply tliW
cart. "There can't be a team' without
h cart or wttgon," said the manager.
"Oh, yes, there c.»n!" replied the farm
er; "the horses are thfc team."
Both parties were honest, and both
were obstinate, and so the law was asked
to decide which difinition of a "team"
was correct, the duke's or the farmer's.
A jury said the duke's, but the farmer
asked the Court of Queeji't Bench if tha
jury was not quite as incorrect as was;
the duke.
The Court heard learned lawyers ar
gue, and alro discussed among them
selves. What is a teamf Poetry and
lexicons were appealed to. One judge
quoted these lines to show that the team
is separate from the cart:
•'Giles Jelt Was sleeping, in his cart he lay,
Bome wagish pllf rers stole his team a*ay.
Gllss wakes and cries: 'Oda bodkins, what is
here?
Why, hew now; am 1 Giles or not?
If he, I've lost six geldings to my Smart;
If net, Ods bobkius, I've fonud a cart!'*
Another judge quoted a line frcm
Wordsworth:
"My jolly team will work alone for roe."
Horses said the learned judgo, might
be hut a cart cannot. Where
upon, the counsol for the duke gave the
judge "a Rowland" for his "Oliver" by
citing Gray's lines:
•'Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
Their farrow oft the sturbborn glebe hath
broke;
How Jocund did they drive the team aflolfejt-,'
How bow'd the wood beneath their sturdy
etioke!"
But . the farmer's lawyer
that quotation with several citations
from the Poets." From Spenser : 1
"tkoe a plough Han all unmceting found,
As he his toilsome team that way did guide,
And brought thee up a ploughman's state to
. bide."
From Shakespeare:
*'We fairies that do run,
By the triple Hecate's team,
From the presence at the sun,
Following darkness like u dream.'
From Dry den:
"Any number, and passing In a line,
Like a lonsj team of snowy swans on lilgfc.
Which clap their wings and cleave the liquid
ek y-'
The judges decided two to one that
tlie farmer'* definition of "team** wag,
correct; knd then, as if to add another
to the many illustrations of the "glori
ous uncertainty of the law," said they
would hear the case over again.
The case shows the importance of!
putting down in a written agejmont
just what is agreed upon, and of eschew
ing al! ambiguous word*,— Youi/Ss
Companion.
■. • ,ii i aii S" rijffir iff/ft—
A MMKiHrri MOBV,
A WHnt
iutd "by several skillful physicians, and
we understand has puzzled them all. He
was continually using all the devices to
warm himself that a man might who had
been e tilled by exposure to extreme cold
sitting near rousing fires, enveloped fc in
blankets, and the house closely shut op,
and this though the weather was at sum
mer heat. It is said that he would
•it by the fire And bold his head to it
and almost roast it.in the effort to get
warifi. It is a fact that be pot cloths on
his head to protect the scalp from
* W
actual burning while doing this, and the
cloths have been set on Are by the heal
ho subjected them to in endeavoring to
warm fiis h«ad. Some time ago he made
a visit to Livingston in tiro hope of be
ing benefited bjt, tho artesian wafer,
when Dr. Webb, of that place, saw his
case. Lately, he had determined to reN
turn and try again the
waters, and again consul tddDr. Webb,
going to his office for that purpose. lie
seemed as one suffering from extreme
cold, and asked Dr. Webb if he had any
fire in his office He told him he had
not, and that it was tao hot to have fire
and be comfortable. He said he could
not stand it, and ran out of the office
into the street for tho benefit of the sun
shine to warm himself. 'Hie iyext day
Dr. Webb had him in his office again to
make a more critical examination of his
case, ind had a rousing fire. lie care*
fully tested with a-thermometer £l»e de
gree of animal heat ho Carried, and found
it near normal. With all of this trouble
he lost little flesh, and kept a gopd ap
petite for food, and preserved rather a
healthful look. On Friday he started
homo again in a wagon, with a Mr.
Meadows drlviug it. He had not gone
far out of Livingston before he wanted to
return, complaining that he was freezing
to death, and wanted to get somewhere
to warm. Meadows insisted on contin
uing tho journey on home, and drove
forward. Knox jumped out v,f the wa»
gon, and ran off into the woods. Mead
ows pursued him, and compelled him to
return and get into the wagon again, and
drove on. He got as far as Mrs. Per
teet's—Green Grant'* place—with him.
Mrs. Perfect had observed Meadows
driving slowly along the road, and,know
ing he had gone to fetch the tick man
home, went out to the gate to make in
quiry. When Meadow* drove up and
'stopped, to lier inquiry ho saii be be
lieved Jim Knox was dyirig. He lay
stretched helpless on the bottom ot the
wagon, and after it h;ul
gasped a few times and died, apparently
freezing to death last Friday with tho
thermometer at neat 9$ deg. f:
«... g>s*.
InfPl the New Tort Sun.]
Wo understand that Miss Jeanette
Bennett, sister o( Mr. J. G. Bennett, is
about to bo married to Lord Bossmoro,
Mr. Bonnet', is to arrivß in New York
on July 6» The wedding of * Miss Ben
nett is to take pl&ee in this city. Baron
R >samor6 (Derrick Warner William
"Western,) of Boas more Park, county
Monagh an, Ireland, is the fifth>%aron of
that Ittaroe. BoiDg also a peer 'of ike
United'Kfngdom, he M#" Bea * in the
House of Lords. He Wln his twenty
sixth year, uid held formerly a sub-,
lieutenant's commission in the First
Life Guard* fie succeeded in the
peerage to his brother, Henry Cairns,
who-died in 1575, in consequence of a
fall while riding a steeple-chase at Wind
sor, Miss Bennett's fortune is estimated
at about two million of dollars.
lu Great Britain el#ht persons k own
; nioio than 220.000 acres of land each,
and fortysine persons own jpiore than
100,000 acrejs each.. The bugpsst land ■
holder, according to a recent report, is
the Dufee of Sutherland, who owns 1,-
, 260,425 acrcs ol Jai»d in Scotland. The
Duke of Bouceieugli and Qncciigbirrg 1
owns 438,200fccres, Sir James Mafheson
406,070 acres, Earl of Breadabano 872,729
acres, Earl of Leafield 806,891 acres,
Duke of Biuhmoud 286,407 acres, Eirl of
Fife 237,652 acres, and Alexander
Matbcsou 220,433 acres. According to
the latest returns there are 1,173,724
owners of land in great Britain, but
253,438 oftheso own less than one acre
The Amount or Mossy Cowed.—The
amount of nioney coined in tho mints
$81,118,7?!. The Treasury Department
has resumed the buying of silver bullion
to aoiii standard dollar* under tho pros
visions of the silver bill. Five buuilrcd
and fifty thousand ounces were bought
in New York the other day at flfty two
and a h i|f pence perounco, payable in
standard eHvcrdollars. The cost of this
bullion was $635,860, and it will coin
711,111J11 standard dollars.
In the commencement exercises of Ihe
Western Female High School, in Bsltf
raoie, the Rev. !){. Wilson pvayetl i «Gli
{:rant that none' of ttase young
lad it* may be the victim of Ahrequitted
k»te
N0,19
SSltartiutis.
—— Tu'Vi'll"rrf'^'i'
So.mi dj»l raifre their hirfids in h >ly hi>rr>r
and sa)d that his oonrse w.,uld ruin the Dem
.cralic parly, but wo notice that the pirty hne
ieei\-#trenjr*henMl .ince hit has made his bril
liant record on hi ( xro tin Senate Cham! or
A the Uuftud States There isn't a political
firing 1,18 (and. we affirm it. without
•ear oT successful contradiction)) hat «fould*nt
have gladly under the circumstances stepped
into Mr. MerrimOn's aboes. It ia the fashion
now with some newspaper cortespondents to
class all those as disorganizes who favor the
re-election of Mr. Merrimon. We are Very
sorry to he ao considered, but we Tare happy to
~tate that we are in a very numerous and
highly respects pie crowd. NSWBK** Coa-
RISRO.VDKNT OY RALZISH OWUSRVEBI F
Macon (Ga.)Mx»awroei: Dr.'Cf .wford W,
r.ong. a prominent physician of Athens, died
laat weel f«ed 03 j He had practiced
medicine forty years, and was the flj «t mad
ical man In the world to diseoy«r and apply
maesthetihes In He was
justly entitled to tie rewardjof IStOy.OOO offer
ad'by the Government for the discovery, but
not being born on the right aide of the line
of course never rccieved It. • .J!
Honest mert' a;e opposed to packed conven
tions under whatever semblance they aj«pe«-
aod to instruct is to pock. In all matters f
this k)nd lot us have s free and open express
ion of the will Of the people, and no one need
fear tho r«sult.— LIXOOLXTOJI Paooaea.
f .. . • . , j
Thj man who follows the plough from inorn
till late at eve, and the man who works in the
shop from ' bell ring-' In iho morning tijl the
same in the evening, demand hearing—it must
and has oome. The day has come w.ien
* 'every man ahall stand on his j)wn merits,
rise or fail.. This is what ivery reasonable
aian shOu d ie»ire.—CAaTiLioß.TUff , ,
Profusaor—"what is a monarchy? " Fresh
man—"A people governod by a king." Pro
fessOr—Who Would reign if the king should
diet ''Freahmao—»The queen," And if the
queen should die? Freshman—"The jack."
coffect! • V,.
College professor (to junior who has been
taking adrantage of his absent-mindodnets):
r.tuifg man I flud on looking oyer the reaords
that this makei the fifth time duriag the laat
two years that yOn have been granted leave
of absence to attend your grandmother's fun
eral-HAErts'a Baz Aft.
•"■Sir Edward Coke was the author of the
Mowing dictum, which Jinf
beyond number wherever the English language
ia spoken: They (me ani ng Corp9f»U»i
tions) cannot copjnait. treason, nor be outlawed.
nor excommunicated, for they have uaßOulf^
• *4 witness OQ being cross-questioned lately
swore that he was in habit of associating
with every grade of society, from lawyers up.
The lawyar ftfat had tim in hand" gasped out,
That's »11, acd sat down. ,
.
Th&Jtaleigb OBS*UVER says that E.Cole, «
pnpll oKtfce Kaleigh graded school, lias com
ploted *» excellent map of the State. It is
drawn in exewieat proportions, and the water
courses and railroads are accurately marked.
TUB RIVXESAXO
are'included In the $9,871,000 appropriated
at the_re,pent session of Congress, for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, in this Sta'e: -
NOHTII CAKOUSA Cape Fear, 81 •0,000;
French liroad River, SIB,CO), S upernong River
2,ooo;9«rritutk Sound and North River bar,
•20 00(05 Neuso River* 40,030; Eden ton Harbor
»40.000^toUM|2lI,000.
Wtufo wine was boing pawed around during
the administration of Uie sacrament at Miono
appolis (Minn.)chur«;h the fther Sunday, the
congregation was, electreflod by the su Idan ex
clamation of a little boy: "Ma. IU take bcerf
Govenor Bradley of Nevada, was recently,
asked whether he would run for anoth r electro i
aud he replied, '.Waal yon bet, my son; I'u a
going* to stand in with the b*ya a :iri. Ef
they want ma and f think they does, I'll stand
them a racket. . *,%*£ -
An honest ignoramus, who had averted a
great peril by -an act of heroism, was mneh
complimented O • his Iravery. One lady eaidi
"I wish I could have seenyour feat."
H«biu»hed and stammered, aid faa'ly
pointing to his pedal extreroetiee, said:
Well there they be mum. '
A lHIle boy beafkigaoino W9 remark that
nothing Was quicker than thonght, said:
know something that is q-ticker than thought.
What is ft. Johnny? asked tiia pa. Whfotliiig
said Johnny, w)Mn I was in school ynferday
I whistled belora I thought and got liukjd for
it, too.— CISCI.VATI SATTJRDAT Niour.
Two of Brigliam Young's sons have entered
West Point, and a thir;i ia applying Jor adujiaa
100. W hat are Ike other 214 dofiig?
The fact that Gaorge Washington's wife never
anked him where he bad been whan he came
home late at goes a great way toward
accounting for his extreme truthful nee*. —Feu-
TON TIMBS. &
Josli Billing's; Before a man didiberafely
n.akes up his roiad to be a rascal hu ftiould e* •
amine himself closely ko accertaiil if ho ii not
belter condti'.uted far a fool.
The yoo-ig man who boastel fiat he oouW
marry any girl be pleased urnoU lie Gould not
lUaf* any.