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Mrs. W. 8. Moore, of Greensboro, has
opened a branch of ner extensive busluess,
In this town, at the
Hunter Old Stand
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under the of Mrs. R. 8. Hunter,
where she has jost opened a complete as
sortment of,
BONNETS, HATS, RIBBONS,
FTIOWEUS, NATURAL HAIR
BRIADSAND CURLS, LADIES
COLLARS, AND CUFFS, linen
and lace CRAVATS, TOILET
tffflTS, NOTIOJVB, and everythihg for laties
of the very latest styles, and If you do not
find In store what yon want leave yonr or
der one day and call the next and get yonr
goods.
i fled.
T. MOORE A, A. THOMPSON
|g: Moore & Thompson
Commission Merchants
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r RALHIC3II, N. C.
Special attention paid to the sale of
COTTON.
CORN,
FI.OHR,
r> ORAIN,
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BIITTBR,
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i I POWLR AC,
OHBIGNMENTS SOLICITED, HIGHEST
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PRICES OBTAINED.
Refer to
Citizens National Bank, Raleigh, N. C.
For Sale or Rent!!
■ The brick Store liouce in tho town of Graham
on Main Street formerly occupied by John R.
Pugh s Co. Itlß conveniently located, near
•the centre of town.
For terras apply to the undersigned.
I will also scil,
a LOW, FOR CASH,
tnc remainder otthe stock of goods now on
v hand belonging to said firm.
ELIZABETH D. PUttH.
, , o , D __ . * Graham N. C.
Aijg 18 1878. 1 mo.
New Drug Store.
If yon pure fresh Oran, Chemicals, Pat
ent Medicines, Medicinal Llqhorp, fine Clears
chewing and smoking Tobacco go with the cash
■ to the Southeast of tpe Court House sunaro to
. DR. LONG'S DRUG STORE.
jpP F. 8. Dr. Long's office Uat tho Drug Store
where he will examine and prescribe for tho- e
requiring hi* services.
Aug. 18, 8 m.
lIITT V THORHCR HI I V,
"We might mortgago the plac9," said
Miss Hitty, sighing.
•'And retire to the almshouse, eh?"
returned hor pister.
"But what alternative is open fo us?
Shall wo allow Tom to come to griuf?"
"Tom richly deserves nil the grief
that will fall to his share, poor follow.
Such a schemer! Expected to make a
fortune for us all, forsooth, that we
might flaunt in our velvets, drive our
sprfli, and fare suinpcuously every day/
One dollar foi us, and $2 for himself, I
reckon. 'What should auch a boy know
about speculation? It's'the old story oy
er and over. Speculating with other
people's money is' a little indiscreet, to
say the least. I should have chosen Back
cloth and ashes rather than velvets worn
by such means."
"Certainly, But, now that Tom is
involved, nothing but money will extm
cato him. There's my watch, tho lieir
loom from Grandma Pentecost; there
are fifty diamonds bedded in the case, if
there's one—"
"Rose diamonds too. every spark of
them." f
''Not to mention the pearls and einers
aids."
"Doubtless and split pearls, I dare
say."
"You are so discouraging, Liddy! We
must have the money. I don't suppose
that the watch "Would bring a tenth of
the Bum, but it wonkl help, Doar! dear!
there's Hannah do Rothschild with
$2,000,000 of income, while you and I
can't raise $6,000 though ~we should
break our hearts—not even te save an
old and honorable name from contempt
and a foolish young fellow from ruin.
Alas! alas!"
"You know, Hitty, it might have
been different," suggested Liddy, hor
eyes wandering toward the old fashioned
square ntantion crowning the hill within
sight, with its fringe of elms and its Rpi
cy orchards beyond. "You might have
enough and to spare, Hitty—enough to
keep Tom out»of temptation."
"And it was a temptation to poor
Tom, no doubt," returned Hitty, ignor««
ing the allusion, "seeing so much money
lying idle, and such a chance for daub
iug it over and over, as he fondly belov
ed."
'"Pshaw! A Thome had no business
to be tempted. Waa ' our grandfather
tempted at the time of the embargo,
when he could have had false papers
made out, as everybody was dojng, and
saved hia fortune, and left us all inde
pendent? If we mortgage the place, it
won't bring $5,000; and who could we
call upon to take the mortgage, and
what should we do afterward—live in - a
tent, gypsy style? Oh, Eitty, if only yon
hadn't been so headstrong about Searle,
all this would have been spared us!"
"Don't speak of it, Liddy; it hurtp me
still. How could I know what would be
best?" and Misa Hitty, pacing the long
room head bent, paused at the
casemen, and saw the sunset reddening
upon Searle hill, and touching the wins
dow panes into jewelry. The twenty
years of happiness which might have
fallen to her share op yonder had prov
ed twenty years of Silent endurance
merely. She had watched the seasons
as they had passed over the hill with an
interest which she had hoped would dip,
but which had only strengthened with
the years—the lovely dallying of the
spring»time, the summer's overflow of
bloom, the splendor that autumn wears,
the white magnificence borrowed from
winter.. If twenty years ago. Hitty had
loved Anson SeftHe well enough to die
for him, if need be, she had loved little
Tom well enough to happiness
and children and love for his Bake, and
to live on through the barren hopeless
days without a murmur. Tom had
come to her arms a forlorne and helpless
2-yeai old baby, without a father or
mother when Hitty was 18, and her
love had sprowik with her growth and
strengthened with her strength. Tom's
mother had eloped with her music"
teacher, and had broken hin father's
heart: and when the old gentlman died
he had left a respectable fortune, the
interest for the benefit of his two living
daughters, the principal falling to their
children; and only in case Liddy and
1 Hitty died without leaving direct heirs
GRAHAM, N. C-,
could anothing more than tho merest
trifle revert to poor little ,Tom. Hitty
had been engaged to Anson -- Searle a
year when old Mr. Searle off the
mortal coil and this unjuit will came to
light, and Searle himself was at that
time a rising young lawyer wrestling
with cirou instances, with no great a
mount of funds at his oommaud.
"And nothing for Tom but this paU
try hundred dollars!" groaned Hitty,
when the will had been road and the
estate administered.
"Of course I shall never ma.iry," said
Liddy who was plain and old looking
for her years, and whoso pne lover bad
jilted lier years ago, when the bloom of
youth, at lpast, liqri been hers. There
was'nt the silliest danget that Liddy
would threaffin Tom's interest by mar
rying.
No you may never marry. Liddy,
sighed her sister, "but I—l lovo Anson,,
and ohl I love little Tom, too —my lit-,
tie, motherless Tom! I cannot rob him
of his patrimony, and I cannot live
without Anson. How can I rob Tom to
pleasure myself? What will he havo to
go out into this hard worll with, If—
if—
'Hash, yon silly girl; ho will havo his
head an hands, like other men; and then
—you may never have any children to
*stand in his way.'
■Bat how unhappy it would make me
to sco them enriched at his expense;
to see him earning his bread by the
sweat of his brow, while they tarod like
the lilies of the field: to have Tom envy
and perhaps hate thorn, and feel bittar
that life had bean rendered so much
easier for thiem by injustice 1'
'Perhaps ihoy would fchare with
Tom.'
'Ah, it wouldn't be quite safe to
to that pleasant'perhaps.' v
'You ought not to suspect your chils*
dron of being less gcuerous tliau yours
sell.'
'But their mother must have been
ungenerous lirat you see.'
'You have Ausou to think of, Hitty hi
this aflair, as well as Tom. It you don't
love Tom better —' •
•I don't—l don't; but the will has
made it impossiblle for mo to marry An
son with a clear conscience—to marry
him and bo happy. If he were sure
of earning a fortune, with which we
could make amends to littlo Tom, it
would be different. But I cannot
count upon such au improbably contin
gency. As you say, Tom will havo his
head and hands to push his way, but
the best head and bnsiost hands do not
always compel fortune; aud, if any
harm should 'come to him for
from want of capital—if ho would be
temptod to sin from lack of money, I—l
should havo to ansvor for it; it would be
my guilt.'
'Nonsense, Hitty your conscience is too
tender. Marry Ansou aud trust to fate
-that's my advice. Supposing you retuse
and he marries somobouy else, and—little
Tom doesn't live to grow up.'
.'I shall not have wronged him.'
'But you W[U have wronged Aus
son.'
'Not if he—if he marries—another.'
Many would, perhaps approve Hitty
Thome's conduct at this crisis, more
would condemn; but she walked accord
ing to her light in thoso cruel days. It
was no easy task she had set herself.
She was. to reccivo no meed for hor '
sacrifice, except self-approval—nothing
but reproaches. Conld she have seen a "
that would happen, she might have
spared herself this cruelty. And how
much can happen in this time! how much
to make our wisest forethought assume
fhe aspect of improvidences! Property ,
changes hands, values shrink, children
gtow up with willsot their own, people
die and make room for remote heirs, or
thoy outlive the sharp edge of sorrow
and anger, aud learn to bear the burdens
of their mistakes. Miss Hitty bad faded
in the meantime, while AnsOn Searle
wore his years liko garlands. The
fortune of which her 'not impossible'
children might have robbed little Tom
had dwindled to the merest pittsnco
through the kuayery of the man to
whose wisdom it had been intrusted,
while Ansou Searle bad unexpectedly
stepped into the possession of the Searle
eutate, with its old stone mansion, its
orchards and outlving meadow lands
aud tho iucome that had beeu rolling up
sinccT the Searles first set foot upon
Plymouth rock. Twenty years before
there bad beeu uo . doubt ot such a
possibility, no dream ot it iK Anson's
mind or another's. Two healthy lives
bad barred the -way against hrnj. but
Death had eftcotcd a breach.
TUESDAY AUGUST 27 1878
'What a mistake Hitty Thorite made!'
people commented these half dozen
year*. 'She might have been mistress
at Searle HIU if she'd had a mind t> risk
marrying a poor man. Folks got their
comc-uo once in this world sometimes,'
with the usual charily commentators
bestow upon the motives of otheis.
k.nown the true cause of
IlittyflHfbsal to uiarry Searle. It had
been the town talk, to be sure—a ridJlo
which no otio had solved. She had not
even confided her reasons to her lover
Me would overrule them, she feared
wcnld call them absurd, anil only
make her task moro d'fllcult, and
perhaps grow lo halo littlo Tom—and
I soino lime Tom need his good
| win; who could tell? Ansou Searle had
I not borne his dismissal with tho fortiludo
ot an early martyr, but he had sworn ho
would nevor.askher twice to marry him
and 1M had kept his word. But perhaps
| after his anger cooled, and ho watched
horsaddonin£ year by surmise
that her behavior had not been dictated
by caprice or any pretty motive grow
upon him, and obliged hitn to render her
tho tardv justice of appreciation. And
a potty return Tom had made her—spec
ulnting with his inoney, and
threatening the family prido with dis
grace. Unless $5,000 wore forthcoming,
there was only a fortnight betw eon him
and ruin. •And Tom WHS only 22. Thoy
must save him. Hiss Hitty was one to
stand by hor guns; where thcro was a
will there was a way, and she followed
the only way she knew If Mr. Searle,
tumbling about for tho reasons of Hitty's
conduct toward himself, had at length
stumbled upon tho clew—having an intN
mate knowledge ot licr fathers will nl
ready—and if lie hid not boon quite he
roic onough to forgive her for preferring
Tom's welfure to his own, ho must baye
found a grim satisfaction in tho turn that
Fate had ordered, in seeing Thome
property shrinking day by day, Till there
was hardly enough to butler their broad
—till it was plain that Hitty's saorifice
had been for naught. But whoo did ever
sacrifice prove futile? Though it fail of its
direct purposo, does it not onrich the
soul not only of the one who sacrifices,
but of all beholders?
It was near twilight of an autnmn day
that Miss Hlfly put on ber worn bonnet
and went slowly, with a certain reluc
tance, up the bill toward the Searle man
sion ; she pulled tho brazen knocker tim
idly, and stepped into a house that
might havo been her own like any bog
gar. The dead Searles looked down
from tho walls of tho oaken hail with
cold quostionings in thoir eyes;
in the great drawinff o rooin v tjhe wood fire
snapped with a good will, ;«nd glinted
gayly upon bronze and upon
quaint mirroissot in garnets, upon the
yellow irory keys of tho old piano. Ans
son Senslo rose to recieve his guest with
a flush of surprise.
'ls it— you —llitty?' _ he cried
'you' I
'Yes. You did not expect mc ?
'Expect you! No. Have I had reason to
expect yon?' ,
We sometimes expect without a rea
son. I have come—expecting you to
grant me a favor/
"A favor?"
Yes. It strikes you odly that I should
bo brought tp beg a favor of you, docs
it not? But there is no other friend upon
I can make eveu so shadowy a
claim as on you. Do you think I would
ask anything of one whom I have served
1 so—so ill—if I were not 1H extremity ?
"I hope you will ask anything ot me,
Miss Hitty—anything you want."
"I have become mercenary, Mr. Searle
I want money, Liddy aud I have made'
up onr minds to mortgage the place;
we must have 5,000 without dolay; the
' the place is not worth so much, I know,
but I—l thought perhaps you would
take it for security, as tar as it would go,
and then—Liddy aud I are not too old to
work, to earn money; aud there's Tom;
and we would all strive to make it up to
you, sooner or later, interest and princi
pal. lam nnbusiness like,
perhaps; but what can 1 do? And I must
have the money. Icau't live—l can't die
it. Do I make it clear?*
"Youmake it clear that the Thorne
fortune has all leaked awav. lam glad
of it. Pardon, bu£ I hold a grudge
againjtfthat same property; it has cheat
ed ine out of tweuty years of happiness.
Yes, Miss Hitty, you shall have the mon
,oy. I have pienty; lam rich iu evervs
taing butone thing I coveted. Bui 1 cans
not take the mortgage; you shall have
tlie. tnouey aud weioomc, but I cau't. aes
cept a mortgage on tbo old place, Miss
Hitty; it is too sacred to me. Think of
mprtgagii}g the old apple trees where wo
awl|i"K in the hammock together, ot
bringing the garden where we dreamed
in the summer eveuings into a business
transaction! But all the samo you shall
havo the money, Miss Hitty—'
•But, oh! you know I cannot take the
money nnlesifMinlcss— 1 '
'Unless you tako the owner wltli it?
Was that what you meant to say? I'm
sure it wasn't; but for Heaven's sako.say
it, Hitty. Don't you knew I vowed nev
er lo ask you to marry mo twice? Do you
want me to break my woid, oh? Now it
is your turn to do the asking.'
'I should think I had asked enough,'
said Hitty, the great tears standing in
her oyes "Youare not in earnest, An
sou Soarlo. You don't want to njan-y
rae?an old maid liko roe! Sec how fad
ed and gray I em.'
'And if I
yon, what will you say?'
'I shall say, thou, why don't you do
so, Mr. Scalo?' She stailed through her
toari. 'What will Liddy say when
she hears that I've asked yon to marry
me?'
'She will say you havo done your dnty
like a maul'
'Well, Miss Hitty "Jhorno always had
an eye to tho main chance,' said her
neighbors. 'She jilted Searle when lie
was poor, and now ho is rich she marries
him. What a fool a woman can mako of
a sensible man—otjly it usually takes a
young one !•
AN OPINION AS is AN OPINION.— Our
Supreme Court has adjourned. It has
filed Its last opinion and that opiuiou has
been digested; so we must sock them
elsewhere. It Is a common expression
that "they do things differently in tho
States," and it has truth in it. especially
when we livo in the States. But thoy do
things in a queer way in tho territories.
Amongst other things their courts of last
resort, tqrow off tlie idJe fripperies that
hedge in the gravity of our stuid f ribu.
n#U and render judgements iu accord
ance with the wishes and temper of the
people and clothe tbom in territorial vers
nacular. Foi proof! road tho fallowing
opinion of tho Supreme Court of Arizona
which we take from tho American Law
Review:
Silas Tompkins vs. The Common
wealth. The opinion of the court was
delivered by Avlo, J.
The defendant was found guilty of
tho gratuitous murder of a mother and
her ten children, under circumstances of
nseicßß and offonsivo barbarity. We
were quite prepared to hoar his counsel
arguing that the conyicllon was errone
ous, and their client innocent. It is
always so in aggravated cases. But
with the innocence ot Tomkins, we as a
court of error, have really nothing to do
Law Is tho hypothenose of a vigbtanglo
triangle, ol which logic aud moral
philosophy are the other two sides.
Though it touches them each at one
point, its genera! direction is quite dis
tinct.
With the law of this case blono it is
our province to deal. We find here the
usual parade of exceptions and joints
and assignments of error, and a pater
book eucrustpd with authorities like
barnaclos. Everything that tho ingenuity
of counsel could suggest has beoli done
to confuse and complicate the decision of
the case, in the hope, perhaps, that the
prisouer, concealed by the dust of
argumentation might escape in a sort of
legal disguise. But the eyes of justice
are too quick tor that sort of thing, and
hor ministers, will block any such
gamo without remorso.
The plaintiff in error, in the first place,
complains that he is eharged, in the third
couut of tho indictment, with committing
the alleged murder by means of a 'clasp
■knife of the value of six cents,' whereas
the proof was th%t be destroyed bis
victim by strychnine infused iu lagei
beer. We know nothing of this from
tho record. The verdict was gnilty on
all the eotfuts, which menus that he
killed the motaor aud children, or some
of them, iu some way, and this, tor
aught, we can tell, may have been both,
by the kuife aud the beer. There is
nothing iu the law to restrict a man to
one mode of homicide, a» there is in
respect to duplicity in pleading. At any
rate it is a matter in which tho commons
wealth alono is interested, to the extent
of the valuo of the knife as a doodand.
We caunetstop the administration of
justice for six cents.
The second error is, perhaps, some
what more deserving of consideration.
Thtf prisoner, it appears by the record,
was asked wheirhe was called up for
seuteuce, "what ho had lo say why
judgment should not bo prououuccii,
etc.," Instead St whether lie had any«.
tiling to say, etc. We are unablo to
discover, in the preseut case, any very
important variation fVom the established
nsago. It is true that the tortu used here
is rather abrupt, aud contains, peibaps,
N0.25
an implied scarcnsin. Still Ihe meaning
was substantially conveyed, and tho
needs o( jusiiee sufficiently served.
The other error* are merely supernu
meraries, joined to the principal
characters in ordee to give them an air
ot fictitious importance on tho stage.
We shall do the no wrong in
disregarding them. A criminal, at his
trial, pitch ami-toss with the law lor his
HTc, and, if ho loses, he must pay the
stukes. It is too lato to contest heie tho
minor points of tho gamo, which ought
to have been settled as it went an. Judg
ment affirmed.
A Terrible Tragedy Under the luflacncc
of the BclifN,
(St. Loni* Globe Democrat )
In tho dark path of the Into eclipse
across Texa?, 116 miles in width, there
were thousands of ignorant people, both
while and black, who hud not heard that
auything peculiar was about to happen.
Many of theso people tho eclips? surpris
ed at work iu their fields. Many ludi»
crons scones are reported. Especially on
tho plantation of United Stales Senator
Coko, near Waco, was it that tho ne
groes wont to praying, believing verily
that tho day of judgement had como. A
terrible tragedy iu Johnson comuy mar
be set down to the eclipso. Ephraim
Miller, colored, with his family of wite
and four children, lived near Buchanan,
In thai county, whither ho had removed
from Tennesses six mouths ago. On. the
morning ot the eclipse lie , said he had
heard that the world was coming to an
end thai ovouing, and it so, ho intended
to be k) sound aslocp the trumpet ot tho
Angel Gabriel could not awaken him.
When tho eclipse commonced and tho
darkness of totality came on he ran from
the liold to his house wi( h a hatchet in
his hand. Ho was followed by a negro
woman named Nancy Ellison, who also
thought tho world was coming to an end.
As she got to the house Millers wito
rushed sut under the same delusion, and
looking up at tho beuiiful coroua of lights
around the blafcic moon, (-creamed, ''Como
sweet chariot I" "at the same time rushing
across a cotton field ringing her hands.
In the meantime, Miller, wishing to take
his ten year old boy with him to the oths
er dido.of Jordan, raised bis hatchet and
split his son's head open. Leaving tho
latter weltering in bis bloed and strug
gling iu tho last throes of death, tho faths
er, on a ladder, ascended to the top of
thohouso. Here with a new razor he
cut his throat from oar to ear, and he
fell to tho ground a corpso. His two lit"
tlo daughters escaped by hiding uuder a
bod.
BHALL BOY •KTQBAt'CO.
Tobacco grows something like cabbage,
buj I nevor saw uouo cooked, although I
have oaten boiled cabbage and vinegar
on It, and have hoard mou say that cigars
that was given them on election days
for nothing was mostly cabbage leaves.
Tobacco stores are mostly kept by
wooden Indians, who stand at tho door
and fool the little boys by offering thorn
a bunch of cigars which was gluqd in
the lujun's bands, and is made of wood
also. Hogs don't like tobacco; neither
do I. I tried to smoke a -;igar once and
I felt like epsoms salts. Tobacco wai
invented by ajparff named Walter Raleigh
When thejitiopla- first saw him smoking
they was a steamboat, aut
was My sister Nancy in a
gal. 1 don't know whether she likes tobac
co or uot. There Is a young man named
Le ,- oy, who comes to soo her. Ho was
standing on tho slops one night, and he
bad a cigar iu his mouth, and said he
dtdn't know as she would like it, and
sho said, 'Leroy, the perfumo is agreea*.
ble.' But whon my big brother Tom
lighted the pipe, Nancy said, 'Got out of
the bouse, you horrid creature; the sutell
of tobacco makes me sick.' Snnli is
Injun meal made out of tobacco. I took
a little snuff ouco and thon I sneezed.
TBS WBSTs|.- -
[St. LonU Globe Democrat. J
A facetious brakesuuu on tho central
Pacific Railroad cried out as the train
was about entering a tunnel, "this i*
ono mile long and the train will bt> four
minutes passing thro»gh it." The train
dashed through into day light again iu
four seconds, and the sceue within the
car was a study for a painter. Seven
young ladies were closely pressed by
seven pair of masculine arms, fourteen
pairs of lips were glued toguther, aut
two doze u inverted whisky flasks dabbed
in the air.
Kearny to the Heathen Chinee: "By
the heavens above and the stars that
are in it; by the moon, taat |w»le empress
of night; by the sun that slimes by day;
by the oarth and all it# in habitants, and
by Hell beneathe us, Chine.se must
go. Heathen Chinee to Kearny; you uo
Melican man; dustee you'selfee \—PhilL
i im«# } Irvl.