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J'/iO Fh'SStONAL CAIiDS.
JNO. W. GRAHAM,I- - i JAS. A. GIUUAM,.
Hillsojro, N. C. Graham, N. C.
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Practice in the State Mid Federal Courts,
il attention paid to collecting.
J. I). KERNODLE,
Attorney
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Practices in the State, and .Federal Oouris
'Will faithfullyj»t'.d promptly tttttfid to all uuni •
•,'iess intrusted Co him
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AV'ill attend regularly the Superior Courts of
Ala n i aucc,.as vuil LPew aj % Ch at li gin an d Kan-.
:«rifpl», and tj»e Federal Courts at O#c»ti«iorp.
business entiSioted to him shall have faitlilul
•atMition- w&ht "
6-1 80. ly.
Dr. J. W. Griffith
DENTIST
Graham, N. C» 5
U fully prepared to do any and all "kinds of
work pertaining to the profession.
Special attention trlven to the trcatmdut of
of lhC;MOUl'll.
Cai.ljS Arrssngn i* Town or COiintrit
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NSHb ipRACTITIOXKR
OF
Medicine ana Surgery
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Fare and fresh jirngs always ou hind.
4». 1. 80. ly.
T. B. Eldridge,
Attorney at liair,
GliAllAM, N. C.
Practices in the State and Federal Court's.
All business intrusted to him shall receive |
prompt and careful attention.
. ADVERTISEMENTS. 35
Just Received.
Uemiine Farmers Friend Plows, - all num
bers. . .
Plow Points, Land Sides, Mould Boards, Bolts
and Clevises. - *
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T. E. JONES
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Livery $ Feed Stables
firatota, N* C.
Gdod horses and buggies for litre at reasona
ble rates. ,
Horses fed at 25cts. per meal.
1L 15. 80. ly. '
Prices reduced
-Perfectetl Farmers Friend J'loirs made In
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One Horse No. 9 Price
i'wo Horse No. 7 "
i wo lior>e No. 7>£ "
f*o Horse No. 8
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i T lo*e 'Av'now-l .ini, fracrar.t
| tho tfnwors, 100, have their birth—
I Thp hfrds returning GWeeUy sing,
And resjrr.'c.:io;i comes to earth ;
I ll.en in the daisy-spangled lane,
j tiiesjlvcr moon and gtar,
I court iny (jiicenly Marv Jane,
j And t.c off ai and eatanU. "
I summer .vjth its glow*
[ Fjf then villi Marvj>y my side
i I sit upo'a the portico
| And a-k her if she'll be my bride;
And aishci, blusl jug, answers yes,
Ipouuje upon the'little miss •
And in the darkness steal away
• A little truant maiden kiss. •
i I love the autumn—be it sere,
{ And let tlie winds be ere so ehill—
| My bridal and my bride are near ,
I I love!, I love tjie autumn still—
I Though iinuve Wear a somber nticp, ,
And all her creatures seem to wane—
'Tss autumn gives to me my queen,
j My own, my precious Mary Jane!
I hate the winter with its snow—
It is the bane'of wedded life—■'
I've drunk the very dregs of wine,
For Mary .(atie u now my wife ;
And ba it e'er so cold and drear,
Each mjjrn, at sii o'clock, or prior ;
My darling whispers iii my ear •,
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S&i iAiYTOjNi Si APPLE; CM.
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' I'liev don?t iiave apple-etiJs nowadays
liiic they did twenty years or so ago,' said
the Sheriffj as he peeled a big greening
with his jack-knile and ilrrew (l.e peel
nrgs 011 tlio stovo.
'Apple-cuts,'said Uncle Ira. 'They
don't huvo apple-cuts nor anything else
sensible these days. If Ihe young fellows
(bat run* things now can only cock a lin
eup on "heir heads and get a suil of plaid
olotheSfJircy'ro hflpfvv and don't care lor
sti'.h things as app!e Unless it's ihe
jniectof the apple,' continued Uncle Ira,
after a pnise. cuts some Ol
'em tin pretty bad, oltcuer than is good
io,Ti).f A ' cfovr
•We usty h(*V (Utfcs lothem
applc-cut6 ; Sheriff,' said the Old Sdhire.
'Dance all. niglil, sure, and liafi" the next
d»v if ihe fiddler Jrcld out.' * ■ - r
'I gucs I never told you about Sal
La-ytoji's apple-cut, did I?' asked (lie
Sheriff, dropping llio core of hiJ apple iu
the sleepy dog Cresar's ear.
'Humph!'grunted Uncle Ira. 'Heard
you (ell it more'ii a luiniired limrs, aud
you've told it so much (bat I'm blamed
if I don't thiak yru bcliev ij yourself.'
That slory is a cast-iron fact,', said Ihe
'and too good to be lost. I'll tell
it again.'
'if there wasn't snap -in' iho boys o'
twenty-ffye years ago, this court don't
know llscll,'lhe Sheriff went 011. 'We
neyer calculated to got left when (here
was any fjjit going on, aud IT we did you
tail lnufcoHip your mind that 011 (hat day
ihe thermometer was very low. We
w-oro always ready for a light or a dance
lor a singing-school, and came out par"
tioular strong 011 protracted ruuotings.
There wis a dance about every night
from tho time cold weather sot x» unlit
the canal opened i?i IliO spring and we
used to make (he I*ikc county woods
just bowl. There was a family named
Lay ton lived tip iu ihe hills back of'Lack
awaski Tho old man had pi'ied a .-piece
of ground out from itiidef tho stones that
protccled the soil iu that gardeu sj ot ol
thai township, iuid Stuck a shanly in
one corner ol itt The house was - lound
on a rock. That rock, I believe as much
as con be, had an outcropping 111 China.
o>ving to tliis rock, Layton had to build
his cellar aiicut forly rods away, by
scoO[.itii! a hole in a side hill ami putting
a door ol hcui'ock sjabs to it.
Sul Layton was a uica girl. She was
the old man'« only daughter, and could
cook a slap jack or butcher a pig with
skill and grace. Sal had n big gawk ot
a lellow named Utibe Calkins, ilo was
terrible mussy—one of these lick-myt
weight in wilca(sßort of fellows who ul-
went to cleat;out bar-roonjs when 3
ever ihey gel oultide of three drinks ot
whiskey. 1-had a side -part
iii)i' Burned Keeveß-~Sid iteeves. lie
was a learn, lie neyer walked his shoes
off* to got where there was a fight, but if
liq (fought one would be likely to come
his nlf liii'd wait all day for it.
There was a bill at (lie Marows oue
night. Sal was there with liube, aud
Sid had oar girls, liube. primed him
self nith ihelicbt 1 lie bar afforded, and, as
usual swore lie would never be happy
until he had cleaned out cvcl'v man iu
the bar-room. Well, the upshot of it
was that Sid had lo drop hint out of the
window. This made a little linrd feci
, ing between Sid, and when
j Sal made up her miad (0 give an npple-
I cut, a lew weeks after Card, Sid didn't
got any iuTite aud aeit-lier did 1.
GRAHAM, N. C., MONDAY* JULY 11, 1881.
Sal haii bacn djing to givo an npplo*
cut for ft long litnc, hut the tronblo was, i
(lie only ovcharJ on the old man's placo
was a wild gooseberry bush, and there
were no apples in the old man's cellar,
lie raised soiiie potatoes and a little buck
wheat and managed to fatten a pig ev
ery lull, but how llicy could give nil ap
ple-cut on such products ol the soil was
something thai neither Sal nor the old
(oiks could wrestle and' get the upper
holt, lint one lucky day S d's dud was j
over to the Falls, and who should be j
there but soiue Jersoyman who had a
•bag ol apples that lie was wi'ling to
trade off for buckwheat. Jf Bobby Lays
ion didn't freeze to that bag, then a
snapping turtle won't snap. 11a took it
home and put it in his side hill cellar
and the invitations were given for (ho
apple-eut. As I remarked. Sid and my.
Self got the grand-gosby. But we kept
mum. -■
About three miles from Sal's thero
lived a couple of girls that Sid and I
used to go and seo onco in a while.
About a week betore Sal's dad got the
apples those gir's had a Wailing bee,
and didn't injrite Sal. got back
at thetu by slighting them in tho apple
cut. Sid and 1 went up to see tho girls
and we made it up to have a little nps
pie cut of their own. Their old man
didn't have any apples, either. Apples
were scarcer that winter than scales on a
catfish, So wo fellows agreed
to skirmish around and get the fruit lor
our rival festivity. We concluded to
have our parly on the same night that
Sal had hers, and, the night before tho
apple cut, Sid and 1 hitched up to a sled
and took a ride. We didn't have much
(rouble in getting nil the apples wo
wanted, and we had a roaring old lime
at our apple cut.
"The next day I met one of tho fol
lows who had been to Sal's party.
"'Well,' says I. 'how'd you enjoy
yourselves last nighl? (
" 'Wc busied up in a fight/ he says.
•''Fight!' 1 says. 'How's that?'
, ".'Well,' feajs.he, 'afier we all got to
Sal's and had sot there a spoil, talking
and laughing, Sal says to the old man:
" • 'Tap,' says she, '1 guess ye had
belter go and fetch (he applos and we'll
git to business. Oh. wait till ye see
(hem pippins,' says she. 'They arc good
oijcs, and there's plenty of thorn,' says
she.
" 'So Bobby goce out an' fetches in
the bag. Sal had got a big tub an' sot it
in the middlo of the fl>or to put the ap
ples in. Bobby come a luggin' the bag
in on his shoulder, ah' we all piled
around the tub to see the pippins. The
old man ontied tho bag an' dumped her.
May I hope to die el Bobby didn't dump
that tub lull o* turnips! Two bushels o'
thundoriu' big flat turnips, an' not the
sinei: of a pipp.n I"
"i had to lay down in tho road and
laugh," said the Sheriff. V
" 'Turnips,'i says, after a spell. 'Not
turnips?'
'*'Y-a-a-s, turnips!' snorted the fel
low. 'An that wa'n't tho fun o' the
tlmif Vj You know Stub Wagner was
(here,feiiVit'sonly a monlli ago that he
was ket'Jhed comiri' out o' Decker's pas«
ter with'otie & Decker's 6heep. Well,
when (he turnips was tumbled in the tub,
Sal looked at her old man, an' the old
man looked at Sal. If an earthquake had
a fell in (hat place they couldn't a looker
scarcter. Nobody said a Word for about
a minute. Then Bobby woke up.
•'•"lkin lick the hide ont'n any
sheep thief as has gone an' busied this
apple-cot!" he holiowered.
'•'The old man didn't havo 110 more
to Slub Wagner than he did to
the man iu the moon, but Stub peeled
hisoself an' howled:
" "'I wouldn't let my own father call
the a sheep thief!" he yelled "An' lto
bushwacker as tries to put turnips off on
ine lor pippins kin do it an' uot fight.
" 'He swep' the old man around that
kitchen like a house-a-fii'e before we
could gft him loose. liube Calkins
chucked Stub out througk. a winder, and
I got out o' die back door an' clum ou
the fence, iu Ifess'n two miuules the
party was fllin' out o' that shanty an'
tnakiu' fur hum. Sal's apple-cut were
busied, an' if 1 eyer find out who done
it ril toake 'ein sweat!'
"Well sir," said the Sheriff, "do yoil
know that Sal always kind o' thought
that Sid and I played>hat on her? But
nobody ever lound out who did take the
apples, aud 1 believe my mother la won
dering to this day wlio in the world over
carried off that bag ol nice while turnfps
she had out in the woodshed.
'I think,-' said an impecunious irtaii ]
bftdn't seen a farthing for a long
(im?—'l think that n«y change that
should come to me would be for the btt
lef.'
Making Butter.
A man who resides in the suburbs of
Oil City recently purchased some oleo
margarine. Ho didn't know it utiiil
after lie hid calou it. That made him
mad. Ol course it did. I'ooplo don't I
.ike to eat baiter aud ibeu find out that
il was oleomargarine.
Well, lie swore ho would uevor bo de
ceived 110 moro, no never.
He would make his own bulter.
He bought a cow.
He milked the cow.-
Thal is to say, his wife did, bit as man
and wife, iu reality lie milked ihe coiv.
Iu (line cream roso 011 the milk.
It rose in goodly quantities and was
collected by the wile.
On Saturday evening as tho man was
slatiing- out (o.spend tho evening the
wife remarked: vj ,. v
•You must corae home early, so as to
get up early iu morning aud cburu the
bulter beforo going to church,
lie said ho would.
Ho came home early in (ho morning.
About two o'clock.
His wife remarked, distinctly:
'Now, sirj 1 want you to prepare-—'
•Two pair hie 110 good.' ;.
That was siifllcient.
She soon after rose.
He retired without the formality of re
moving liis boots.
She was siad.
He was sleepy.
Being mad she churned the buffer and
pnt it away, loaving the b'lUcr-milk in
the churn.
Being sleepy ho did not bear her.
Before leaving for church sho wiped
the outside bf the churn, concealed the
buUcr a»d left the buttermilk in tho
churn.
She also left a note tolling him tho
churn was already for him to commence
operations,
lie said:
•D—d—d—da6h"er ohnrri.
It was a dasher churn,
lie feared his wife, as all good men
do, and commenced churning.
He began at nine o'clock.
At 9:80 110 looked to sec if It was
'coming.'
It did not appear lo be.
At 10:15 lie looked again.' '
Result of inspection not encouraging.
At 10:40 perspiring freely, he happen
ed to think ol Ihe botfio ol brandy kept
ill the house fot medical purposes.
TIIO butter was not coming neither
tfas his wife.
But the brandy was forthcoming.
He drank heavily.
At 11:45 ho stopped again and made
another inspecfion.
Result was to warrant another driuk.
He was getting Iliad.
At 12:3U ho look a lunch and coiit
tinned churning.
At I.*lo he looked to lie wife
was coming." -?▼'
She was not, nor rtras Ahe-buUor. ,?
At 2:30 he could tiland it no longer.
Aud tberoforo took aiiolhcr driuk.
Then ho churned five minutes.
He then swore a few minutes.
Next he took his gun and loaded it.
At 3:30 110 had dropped down com
pletely exhausted.
Ton iniutilos later he had demolished
the churn with a hatchet, aud was jilsf
going out to shoot (be cow when his wife
caino in > aluiost breathless aud put him
to bod.
Carolina Cherokees.
The Eastern Band of Cliorokees has'
its own peculiar government, the bead
beiog Chief or Taa-la te-hei Ho
is by virtue of his office, entitled to a
salary of SSOO, but this sum has never
been paid him by his pedple. He is 44
years of age, was bora in Cherokee
county, aud has been chief just a year,
succeeding to the position 'upan the
death of L. 11. Welidi, who for many
years held it. Once a year the people
of the Eastern Band assemble at Yel
low Hi.l, the seat of tho Indian Gov
ernment, in Swain county. Cliief Smith
presides at these grand councils. They
are interesting ceremonials, though a
triflo strange, partaking of the na
ture of a legislative assembly and that
of the purely primitive "pow-sfow" of
the noble red mail.
About one half oCtlie Indians df the
proper sex and age are voters, and take
a lively interest in pclitickl matters.
The others do not vote, and are apathet
ic on question* of the day; TM! subject
|of education has recently b>gun to te
much discussed among tliern. Hereto
fore, when left to their own resources, I
they have paid but small attention lo
e lucational matters, A fund ol f 10,000
lies in vVashir.gton in charge of tlie In- I
dian Commissioner, to their .credit. In J
January last two Indians seiit as mes
sengers by the great triho of Oheiokeen,
now in the Indian NdtVHtj came at en*
voys to their brothers of lU>; Eastern
Band. They were sent to endeavor to
in luce (he Ilidians in North Carolina to
move West, following (lie example of
that part ol tlreir tribe virhich wenktlnre
so many .years ago. But tbb C'hnokees
are couti lit and will not deserc the
Stite, About eixtj enrolled themselves
as consvnting to go but most of these
will not make good their promise;
There is no fund to psy the expenses
of removal, but the . Cherokeos in the
nation are enJeavoring'to obtain from
[ Congress an act to defray such charges.
There are some hundreds of Cherokees
and a few Catawba's and Creeks iu the
oortuern portion of Georgia, but (.hese
1 ever attend the Councils or the Eastern
Band in North Carolina, nor are they
uii'ler tho rule of Chief Smith.-
Tho Indians at-j, «a is ever
th ir wonc, extremely simple iu their
uabits. They live in leg houses mainly
and dress in the plain costume of the
mountaineer. Gone are Uia plumes of
eagle*' feathers, the necklaces of benrs'
clawa, while war pfUnt and the toma
hawk are as much th :».gs of the past as
cbatsof mail or maces are to lift. The on
ly indication of that passiouate love for
personal adornment which is a ch«rac
teristicof tho savage is fonnd in the gny
turbans worn.occasioually by some aged
member of tlia tribe. The health of the
Indians isiu the main good and iu that
pure air and glorioui* woodland where
tliey dwell should be perfect, Bitt oc
casionally diseases become epidemio, &nd
in 180§ smallpox played ha»oj with
them. Last year pneumonia slew num
bers. They knew .no treatment for these
diseases, but are rendered liilpless - by
fear of tbem.
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What's the Matter.
Ahout a week ago Mr. Crumblo, a
suburban resident of Cleavoland, Oliiof
dissovered that the water of his well
had a peculiar taste.
"This is undoubtedly »ulphur wa
ter.*'
"I wouldn't be Surprised," replied
Mrs. Crumblo, 'for-yott know that fa till
er found a mtlphur well on hit place
once;'' * i 4 "
"Now li'ere, Mary, if you are going
. .
to express an opinioti, express a sensi
ble ona. Oo you suppose that because
your father found a sulphur well On his
place, that all of bin children aro likely
to find fulplinr wells? Don't let anyone
hear you talk that way. They'd go
away and say that I'd found a sulphur
well simply because your father  Once
foun I one."
* 4 I was just'agreeing with you. Bui?
Uncle James discovered a suljihur Well
and—"
"That'll do. I don*t card auything
about your Uncle James; bat I believe
that wo Jiav« a genuine sulphur wellj'V
He invited neighbors ovurj who, when
they drank it pure snlpHiif.
Tliey took buoketsfuli and de
clared that Crumble would have que of
the finest summer resorts in the State.
"This water gets stronger and stronger
every day,' remarked Crumble to a neigh
bor. "The vein must bo very large.
Why, if it keeps on improving, wo can
go down and dig up the sulphur with a
spade.'
Crumble had several ofiVrs fo sell, and
although be had previously thought of
selling his house and lot, lie refused .to
take t*ice its former valiie, , 1
"She's boiling With .sulphur now,"
said Crumble, yesterday.
"I doa't like it so strong," replied his
wife; t t J •
"No; for you don't know wiiat good
water is. You'd rather drink water
without any taste to it."
He went out to the well arid dam*
back with a pit«her full of the valuable
fluid. He poarod out a glass full
drank about half, gagged, turned away
an I remarked; "She'll ba 6uo by A week
from now:" However he went away
and hired a man to go down and sen if
he could not sorapo up soniy of the iiul»
phur.
''See any!?" yells Crumble.
"Oh yes," answered the wad.
"Genuine is it?"
. "Xfli-s-w-6
, " WJial's the matter?"
By this time tie nrrived at the top
atld thresh out a yeliow dog and an old
bbot. Crumble turned away, and heaved.
His house «nd lot can be hfttijlH. a t half
price 1
NO. 19.
"Let Rivalry With fnry fame and fret
On North Carolina's trade oar aim is set!"
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tiood Goods brorow udt frtlni hollow name}—
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Jobbers & importers op
GREKB BOK O f N. C.,
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Special attention aivan tothe WHOLE
SALE TRADE. All orders shall havd
our PERSONAL ATTENTION, auJ
will be prompllyexeedieay "...
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' SpeciiiTaftehtidii given to ladies am* ehii
drop's hair. Cail and g«U bottte »f Wjlier'i
dandruff cure. It is a sure remedy and wil
prevent hair falling oil.
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