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GKAHMrN.C, THUESDAYv MARCH 13, 1884.
NO. 5.
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30: W QRAIIAM. - JAS. A, GRAHAM
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i-Tftctleftltttlie State nJ Federal oiirts,' v.
' .tySpeci ll Attention paid to collecliug.
There are three les oni I would write
" Three words a with a burning pen,
In tracing ot eternal liht.
Upon the hearts of men. .
Have hope. Though clouds environ now,
And gIudiie9S hides her f ace in scoru,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow
No night but hath its mora. ; "
Have faith. Where'er thy bark 14" driven
'. The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth
. Enow this God rales the host of heaven,
The inhabitants- of earth.
Hare love. Not love alone for one,
But mm as mm hy brother call,
And scatter like the circling sun n.
Thy charities on all. .
lhus grave thCi'e lesson on thy soul r..
. Faith, Hope and Love and thou ah:lt find
Strength when life's surges radest roll,
, Light when iboa else were blind. .
EATEN BY A LION.
LOUI K0U8SELET.
JT 1); KEKNODLE,
t'rwticeVin the State '-and ; Federal urts
wi'.l faiihfully and promptly attend to all buei
' Jess intrusted to him ' "
Si'.
FasJwtnable lailcr.
' It prepared to m)Tii Clothing for every
body. Bee bis samples of Fall goods and styles
tor oo. , t,:'
. mart 'S?t . . ';.r.''''"'L-
,
iiXhroitxUii full P roat oort, iM
' 5AathrtthdbtfQlcpathooeUUaiMto
imnr, -lottl ana iuiubuu vi iw ,
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C!t WITTIER pWVfeJ
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SHIPS
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rST.and'. BRAN
' r twf-M . hand In any quantity, and or
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t S Tato STroIingeii -
- p---Ds . your order .Of vcome to the
Mill andget what yoa want. tr " -Ifeb'y
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fall of snakes and crocodiles ; thenr fur
ther back, the ground is covered with
forests so thick that you can scarcely get
through at nil. But then, those forests
are full of the finest birds in the world.
On the whole, the Gabon coast is the
Worst place I ever- struck. The inhabi
tants are so laiy that they grow noth
ing, and keep no provisions on hand, flj
we had to go hunting every day for some
thing to eat just as they had to do them
selves. I tell you it was pretty rough
apprenticeship that I had to go through.
We were nearly all . the ti
in those great woods, where we were sur
rounded by all immaginable dangers.
"One day, when our provisions had
run short, a negro came to tell ns that
about a league from t he camp he had
seen a great heard of those big antelopes'
Holbeck and I went after them but th"
savage had deceived us at least so far
' as the distance was concerned ; for we
were more than 2 hours running through
woods, tumbling, over rocks and stumps,
and wading through marsh-grass, and
weeds before we found the beard at last
It was composed of just th reft animals
and no more, and they were grazing in
the middle of a great open space, about
three hundred yards away from us.
They seemed to be very wary so that
t was no use thinking of trying to get
any nearer to them." !
"Holbeck, who wore spectacles theu
just as be does to-day, could not have hit
a mark fifty space's off. So I had to take
the chance myself. I went ou my k nees
took a long aim and fired. To our great
joy one of the antelopes made a tremer.
dous leap into the, air and fed dead on
the ground. Asl had only a siugle bar
rel gun I could not attempt another
shot. -
We proceeded to cut the antelope up,
and finding it impossible to take the
whole away with-us we selected three
fine pieces as big as we could conven
tently carry. Holbeck and I each took
a piece, which we fastened on our ghoul
ders, and the negro who accompanied us
took the other.
"As the evening was advancing, we
started for our camp as fast as - was pos
Bible, considering the weight of our bur
dens. We had already made half the
distance when all of a sudden, when he
tra versing u thicket, we heard suddenly
right behind us, a moat awful roar.
"At last we have got to the lion," cried
the audience.
f "Yes, it was the lion," resumed Bar
barous with his cuntomary phlegm, and
I would have liked to have seen - you in
my place. When I first noticed the lion
he was only ten steps away from me, in
the very middle of the path ; and I as
sure you that the mght of him -did not
make the laugh ; for I immediately re
membered having been silly enough not
to reload my gun. .But I did not have
much time to meditate. Holbeck who
was behind me. fired his gun at the lion,
who immediately leaped at me with a
the good-natured face of Holbeck, who off on a tear, git out of money before, i
Was bending over me, and crying like a Trusht me, soor. Is it a twenty ye want? '
child : O, my poor Barbarous ! O my Here it is. Will ye have drop before ,
poor Barbarous ! Then I tried "to get up ye run ?" 1 ...$ .J ; - J t
and what was my surprise to find that I But before any further explanation j
could do so without any difficulty I Once i could be made the Chief Justice had ;
on my feet I began to feel my arms, my grabbed the money and was running ,
head, my chest, my legs well, wer they across the street. In some way the tick ,
all intact 1 I had only a few scratches et agent had learned of his blunder du
no serious wounds at all I , ' . t , ring the judge's absence, and was all po-
"This revelation was received by the liteuess when he saw the money. Mr.
audience with loud : murmurs of lucre- Waitt barely made the train, but be has
Julity, and one of the captains, iuak- not had such a shock to his dignity since
ng himself spokesman for the general he went upon the bench of the Supreme
teutiuient of discontent, cried out : ! , Court. Washington Letter. .
"What sort of a yarn do you call that, , s . .. ., . . j
Barbarous? You must have been Cold Days.
dreaming, and that lion simply knocked !
you out of his wav and went by."
IT LEADS ALL
No other blood-purifying medicine is mad,
or has ever been, prepared, which so com
pletely meeta the wauls of physieiana awl
the geuoral publio as , , , ..
Ayer's Sarsaparilla.
' It leads the list as a truly seientifie prepara
tion for all blood diseases. If there is lark
Cponri'l a tag thrt of Scrofula about yon.
pbriurULA Aykh's Saksapasilul wiU
dislodge it and expel it from your system.
For oonstitutieual or scrofulous Catarrh. ,
fli-rsnnii Ayeb's Sabsatabilul to thai
UHlHftUrt
true
remedy. It has eared ,
nuraberleM eases. It will stoo the nauseous .
catarrhal discharges, and remove the aiekeu-
. lug odor of the breath, which arc inrtloattmn '
of scrofulous origin. . - ,
'l!irr&nni "Htto,Tsepk,u8it ' ;.
ULlLfSJUO "At the ate of two yean one ot .
Ortnro mv ehlldrcn was terribly afflicted)
OUilf-0 with uloorous runnlns sores oa its)
u At she same time It
face and neck.
Its eye
very sot.
"That where you make a big mi-take,"
tid Barbarous. Eveything happened,
just as Hold you ; so that when Hoibock
ret urned from the camp to look f jr my
remains he actually saw the lion eating
me as last as he could. The br a te only
left me when he saw the torches ap
proaching." "Aud what else?" asked thi sailor's
hearers, quite nonplussed at this affirma
tion. ., . . ; '
"Why the thing is asplain as the nose
on one's face," said Barbarous, in a mod
est sort of voice. "When I was knock
ed down I had falle non mv face ; and
the lion imagined he was-really eati-ig
me, when he was only eating u splendid
quarter of antelope meat I had tied on
my back."
A storm of applause greeted this un
expected conclusion : and all present
rose, glass in hand . to . toast the sailor
with a Ionjj shout of "Bravo, Barbarous,
hurrah for tbe Marseillais, traveler.''
But Barbarous simply answered with
a smile of triumph :
"Well, I told the truth at the
didn't I?"
start,
Justice Waitt's Dilemma.
AN AM17SINO ADVENTURE OF THE
OF THE 8UPBEME COURT.
HEAD
' -"Yes, gentlemen, I assure you again
that I, Jean Barbarous, now sit ting here
was once devoured by a lion, and if you
will not believe me, here is my friend
with the golden spectacles, Dr.Holbec
who can tell you . whether I am telling
you the truth ? the pure, unadulterated
truth. ..
At those words air, eyes ! were turned
to the man with the gold spectacles.
He-cbntented, himself however, with
one of those smiles which leave it im
possible to divine whether the smiler ac
tually refuses to sustain the assertion
referred to ' him for authentification, or
whether he simply declines the honor of
being regarded the hero ' of so extraor
dinary adventure. ,
The aitdienCe, so bolsterous but a little
while before, had become, perfect ly quiet.
All awaited , with visible euriosit y the
recital of the wonderful story suggested
by the declaration of the Marseillais.
Barbarous, quife satisfiod with the re
sult of his words, sat down again, and
without further preliminaries began as
follows ; ' ' , '
:, "It was about ten K years ago either
in .1872 or J873 but the date does'nt
matter. I had served my full time on
board the Juno. ; and thanks to the rec
ommendations of my Captain. I easily
procured a situation as tra veling agent
for the Mennevals, the largest Persian
house in the commerce of feathers and
stuffed birds for the millinery buditiOM,
in the Rue St. Denis, at the sign of Cas
oar (-ta?soway). The Mennevals send
their traveling agents to all parts of the
world to buy up ostrich plumes, mara
bout feathers, andv rare birds. They
sent me for the first time, in company
with Holbeck who you see -before you.
We were ordered to the African coast in
search of a certain kind 'of little bird,
like a bfack bird, which has its breast
covered with feathers thai look like-! terrible roar, aud felled me to the earth,
gold, very pretty iudeed. Our employ, j "Just as I fell I caught a last glimpse
ers wanted to place these on the market of Holbeck au'l the negro, running away
as a new ornamental design for ladies' I as fast as their lees could carry them,
bata ; and w were ordered to procure i and then I lost all consciousness,
all that we could find or buy. ' " I "How long I remained senseless I do
"Holbeck had already traveled a great not know ; but gradually I found my.
deal, while I was merely a new appreu- self coming back to life. At first I bad
tice in the business, that was whv they ! onlv a v&2ue idea of what had baDoooed
sent him out with me. Since then we ,, to me, aud I made a painful effort to rise nave money'
have always keen traveline toiether. when a deen irrowl came in nnwftr to! The Chief Justice glared.
Holbeck and I are now Inseparable as - the movement and I felt myself nailed
the cloth of a coat is from the lining. down to the. ground by an enormous
"But to come to my story." , j weight. The lion was lying upon mr
"We both started from Bordeaux on a
vessel which took us to Gabon. As soon .every limb, but that was nothing to ; Mrenjtbened. ineCnier justice aasn
m vta vnt thaw wn hiinrjvl tm rionia h h.f t u,t.an T r tui .t. I ed out of the station hoiue to see if he
. . o r ... vrf tthmv a av. t v nuvu Jl luuuu tiut bUV 1CIV
best nlc
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I tt is a on oi coincidence mat tne com .
. et upon which Napoleon's soldiers gazed
; seventy years ago, when they were mak
ing that dreadful march for Moscow,
which resulted in the death from cold ;
and exposure of 400,000 men, Bhouid be
accompanied on its reappearance with a '.
bitter cold spell of weather. - When it '
swept from sight the world witnessed an
unusually bevere winter. The incident,
as well as the present cold snap recalls '
otner severe winters. 1 In October, 763
and February, 764, the denizens of the '
cities of mosques and minareta were as- j
tonished by a cold spell of weather, and
the two seas at Constantinople were fro
zen over for twenty days. In 1063 the (
Thames was frozen over for - fourteen
weeks. In 1704 the cold was so intense .
in England that all the small birds per-
were swollen, much inflamed. .
O.nii-riir Physicians told as that a no.
OUKt tltd erf ul alurati vc medlalnc mast '!
be emploTeo. They united in reooramendlBg ;
ATEK'S b AaSAPA&lLLA. A few doM pro -dueed
a perceptible imprOTatMnt, which, by
au adberenoe to your dlreotions, was conHu- .
. ued to a complete and permanent cure. No -vldenoe
has since appeared of the existence
of any scrofulous tendencies; and no treat,
ment of any disorder was aver attended bj
more prompt or effectual results.
lours truly, B.F. JoanO.,... . ...
rasTAaasBT i-vj.'";.. .. J'
Dr.J.C.Ayeroi Co., Lowell, Miw, (
Sold by all DrugfUta; 1, sU bottlas foe a
. '. "'V. f . ' - ,
COMPANY SHOPS, K. a
Clocks, Watches, Jewelry,
Having an imperative engagement in
Baltimore sometime ago, Chief Justice
Waitt of the Supreme Court, hurried to
the Baltimore aud Ohio depot teu min
utes before the train started. As he was
about to purchase his ticket he discover
ed to hi horror that he bad only a few
pennies in his pockttd. He looked around
for a friend, but fiuding none he resolv.
ed to use desperate me inures. He filed
up in the line to the window. As be
reached the agent he smiled an awful
smile across the full width of his enor
mous mouth and asked the ticket agent
if be knew him. X C ,
"No, I don't," snarled the agent ; ' 'and
what is more,! don't want to. What do
you want ?" . : ',
1 have a lar?er and Oner Una of WATCHES .
and JEWELHY than ever. j ,,,
CLOCKS TO 8UIT EVERYBODY.
SPECTACLES AND. EYE-GLASSES
; OFEVEBY VARD3TY.
Uan aad ex-
oc 25 Sm
Watch renalrino- a. nmrlaltr
t J , I. tJAntl..1 i At.- . r
laueu, auu m iioo(iue lurgu iuwib ui tue i amine my gooos.
air wprfi drivAii hv then tfirrihlft mid into i ' - C P. NEESS.
the towns and cities of Germany.
In 1863 the winter was so severe in
Flanders that the wine distributed was
cut with hatchets.
The year 1858 was noted for cold
weather in England. Thousands of for
est and shade trees were split be frost
birds and slock perished, a line of stages
run ou the Thames for several weeks(
Stones on the Road.
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Commercial Travelers at a Wayside Ian
Something to Put in a Grispsack. -
"Gentlemen, I almost envy your posit'as
you fill ; your experience of the world ; ir
knowledge of business ; the cbanirW si h'n
yon set, aud all that, yoo know."-
inn wanniy expressed regret fell from, ths
and shop, were built on the ice in the I "nd was addd ts!ch!Sa of1-
m . pwi I ..1 1 a i . J . . 53
middle of the Thames
. In 1601 the wolyes were driven b7 the
cold into Vienna, where they attacted
men and cattle in the streets.
In 1810 quicksilyer froze in the ther
mometer bulbs at Moscow, One ,pf the
lal ItiralaiM aafaH u, a. - m
dell Hotel, St. Loais, Mo.
"Yes,'' reepoodeda New York represeEta
tive of the profeseios, -a drummer isn't witha
oat bU plesurcs, bat he runs bia risks. tK
risks oubdtie the chances of railroad collhuo-a
and steamboat explosions. -
"What rUks for instance V -l-
"TLIs. for instance." ald Vr. W n, v.
illn. who was then traveling for .ia'Ei.?-
most remaikable changes in temperature boue and is known to merchant in all
, . . t I of the country s "The risk which trri!
nna witiloaaArl at. Ttnrnv unit Him. w.ua-u' .K.a.
was witnessed at Hornsey and
mersmith, near London, in 1867. The
thermometer was 31 below zero on the
dyspepsia from perpetual chance of diet n "l
water and from havinir no fixed hours for c'a'
Inif and sleeping. I myself was an exarar'e
r. .......... . i . h1.l.
4tn oi January, ana seventy-two noure "No discount an jour digestion rbrokah
later it had leaped to 55' above zero.
With respect to America, some of the
remaikable cold spells were as follows v
In 1730, aud again in 1821, New York
harbor was frozen over so that teams
were driven across the ice to Staten Is .
land. The neighboring State of Indiana
saw wenth.r cold enough to congeal the
mercury in 1855. The
itcaro drv foods traveler. llrhtl-- ki.
; afresh, , " ' "
"Wot a Quarter ner rant Rut 1 1. j
ap tr veLna for a while. Tba dyspepsia rud
my pape-. Finally I came across aa aiT--tiaement
of PARKER'S TtlNIO I tried it B 1 h
xnerauBothiaoa
fixed tne up to perfection.
rartb. in my opinion, equal to U
Htf rnra!i
Mussrs. Hiscox A
as a curs
of Nrr VnrV
proprietors, hold a letter from Mr. Frai
siatlne that precise fart. PARf-EnVS T( MO
us uixcaviun, cures uatariai severs, H
winter of 1RR1 V.r",J'? na ail cnrotiicdi.e
Winter or iel e, f tlie Liver .nd Kidueva. Put a bott -n
was made memorable by cold weather. ; 7 ' rricea, 60o, and 1. coas- i
"I want a ticket to Baltimore and re-
. I-4. t CA.I lS. 1
turn. I am the Cbier Justice of the Bu- un tpe itn ana zdii aays oi January
preme Court. I have no money with many deaths occurred from the intense
me. It w purely accileutal. I can give cold, and the residents of Mobile saw
you my personal check," replied the rep the thermometer sinktotero.
reseutative of justice. ! A record of cold sieges would be very
"Oil, I know you, 1 know ail the important withouta mention of the ter-
bloods. But that dodge won't work on i riblv sudden storm that sweot over the
me. I hive just bad two members of country in 1863, which has gone into his
the cabinet to try to bilk me outuf tick- tory as the cold New Year's. A dray
ets, ond no chief justice dodgo gets me. j raau was frozen to death in Cincinnati
Take your ugly mug out of tne window J while driving along the street ; a man
nni out. nut. nf thA wav at np.or.lii who ! climbins a fence in Minnesota froze to
e - i :. i . i . i i .. . . i , i
J while the loss of human and animal lives
He - could I in all parts of the county was' immense.
not fine the young man for contempt of 1 " V 1:1 '
court. He felt worse than if he had Take Ayer's Snrpaparllla in the spring '
been a retl fraud and'he blushed ant 1 1
This discovery made me tremble in PerflPired 80 thtt- the agent had his belief action, and rt.tore the halthly tout and
vig'r ui iuc nuuic yuyoKixi jucvu4.11--
jlflSflPlDi
;er on the coast, and he said to . cious brute was actually eating me alive.
us: ".My children, it you want gold" I beard my owil bones -cracking in bis
birds you'll have to work pretty hard to mighty jaws, nevertheless a strange
find -them ; there are none- left here, phenomenon ! nothing hut a horrible
You'll, have to go up the rivef tothe iu- sense of weight and oppression. Then t
terior just asfaras yon can' and we rmembeed of having read or heard
started up the great river of Gabon. somehow that men or. animals iu the
"All along9 our route we stopped at the clutches of beasts of prey are subjected to
villages, and at every village we had to a peculiar and providential species of
kfUIo.I8tt?"'!Jefi-Par'' -.'torpor, which exempts them' from al
leys which 'sometimes lasted ' several sense of pain. . "
hours all to-obtain a few dozen bird v "When I came to It was black night
skins. - ' ' ! , : . and there was a rinir of netrroes standimr
"Finally we'decided that in order to round me with torches in their hands.
complete oar stock we should "have to On first opening my eyes, and Heeing
leave the river altogether, and travel in-, their grimacing Wack laces,'. lighted by
th? JQnown countiy- ' : : ; r. flames, I began to think Iwas in bell or'
. "Ah f let roeLtell you about that coun f ,
try.'. It isn't the sort of counUy oho at lea8t iu or dld
would like to retire npon one's income ; member ..having ..done.- anything yery
could not find some one to ido itify him.
He bad only five minutes left, r It was
too short a time to run to ,Xh,e Capitol,
lie saw uo one. Across the street there
was a saloon and au eating house. . .The
Chlf Justice made a rush for he place,
but stopped at the door. Spying a pri
vate entrance he rushed in and accosted
I She Made no Answer.
I A lady of uncertain age looks unnttera-
bleoo Chestnut street at a gentleman.who
thereupon ventures to offer his umbrel
la. ' , '
"How dare you speak to me, sir?"
sb e demands in apparent anger. ,
"Iheg you do. nut be offended, I
the proprietor with the frantic inquiry of MU,dnorreiist offefing you ft imple
"Do you know me?" ; -n hereplies, -you look so much
'Yer betyefbeadl do, your Honor," : ,.. othe-.it . -r
said a short-baired, freckled-face man Somehow she scuds along alone with
behind the bar ; "ye are the boss of the , look that wouJd have token the
snprame coort. I see ye 1 very day going offft Btone jr. ,
by here on the cars." , - , '.' ' 'T
"Will yon cash my check? I have'no i fuYoung Alphonso, "Mercy, child you
Hm to 4nla.n Herts the Jnsf irw e-rnh. "" uo" "ueu your new wax 0011, Will
time to explain. Here tne justice grab- rojn lu infant TerrihJe, "Ruin it how?"
bed a piece of .paper and pen Upon a ; Young Alphonso. "Why, one drop jofwa
desk near by. and began to write bar- te would spoil its complexion." Infant
jtcrnuic, ii tuat luuuv r iuvuoil and
kidneys, neither excites nor irritates th it
ion;
The Want of a tUUable Dinrotio,
iv men, wnue actios; as a stimulant Of 't
Was
Stomach
the requisite di
: these omas.
ana is, tberetore, far better adaited for
purpose than unimdicated exr.iLint of - r.
resorted to. DTe)i, fever and ague,
Uudrvd diseases, are all cored by it.
. l'orsale by aU DTOCTitttii Jealar ' -jrencrallr.
supplied bv liostetu-r s
This One medicine ex r
l derree or sumuhition ui)u
s, Without prodactnar irritati;-.-'.
J. Southgato & Son,
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Liiie ana .r ire idsui
DURHAM, N.C. :
Large lines of insurance plaooi in Us
ompanies,
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