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T 8 Collie . "
TO ri'BLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS,
Tli!' Superintendent of Public
s rjiools of Franklin county will be
in l.ouifeburg on the second Tburs
of February, April, July, Sep
; . -I i lie;-, October and December, and
r. inaiii for three days, if necessary,
for t lie purpose of examining appli-
nits to teach in the Public Schools
f .-f t his county. I will also be in
:,ouisburg on Saturday, of each
,ovk, and all public days, to attend
t.) any business connected with my
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( , r ui v i 1 1 , Warren and WakeCountJea, also the
hupn-uae Court of North Carolinp, and the U.
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J. E. MALONB.
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drug store, adjoining Dr. O. L. Ellis.
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the Surreme Court of North Carolina. Prompt
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Frank Wjlliains conveying jas, Strickland to home of aged and infirm 100
C H Pearce making one gate stock law " - ,100
C B Ellington one ox for home of aged and infirm 25 00
A H Moore keeping rafts from Simm's bridge 1st quarter 2 50
George Winston amt cash paid bands on bridge at Williams' mill 9 59
F Parrish 2 pair of blankets for jail - 2 75
Peter Collins repairs on Collins' bridge 5 00
R D PinneTl board of prisoners, &c .. - 80 45
F N & R Z Egerton goods furnished to jail 13 20
B B Massenburg, CSC amt of acct for April term 1892 : 83 0
Henderson HazTewood services to Aprii term 1892 - - - - Q 50
- Crenshaw. Hicks Sc. Alien goods furnished home of aged and infirm tjft.7
' Crenshaw, Hicks & Allen amt of acct furnished court house- - - 26 62
' A D Ellis & Son bedstead and mattress for home of aged and infirm 4 25
A D Ellis & Son one mattress for jail 2 25
Egerton & Ford 2782 lbs. corn for home of aged and infirm 31 30
i Q Beasley one day juror on road from Tucker's, to Dement'a 1 50
Sandy Littlejohn board for 11 jurymen April term 1892 2 75
Edwards & Broughton notice to list takers 65
jW Evans supplies furnished home of aged and infirm 4 90
3 W Evans part pay on salary at home of aged and infirm 25 00
j C Winstc n cost in case State vs Handy Timberlake 6 00
H C Kearney amt of acct for April term 1892 33 20
' ' WD Harris 9 days crier to Court, April terra 1892 18 00
j C Baker 4 days officer to grand jury, Apr term 1892 8 00
W M Boone making stock law gate 2 00
W K Martin amount of account filed . 12 20
j A Burt one eow and calf for home of aged and infirm " 20 00
Arthur Arrington 8 shoats for home of aged and infirm to be deliv'd 14 00
W j Johnson 10 days otflcer to April court 1892 20 0O
E Dorsey 3 months, Mch, April and May, outside pauper
B Medlin and wife "
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Willis Mitchell "
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Matilda Edwards " " pauper
Ella Dickerson " .
W H Tharrington " '
Nancy Bell " " 44
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Ursulie Dpchurch " , "
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Chas Harris
Rebecca Perry " " "
Geneva Faulkner " " "
Isabella Williams " " "
Mary Alley "
Ellen Alley
Berry Wester " " "
j M TerrellJ& children
Nancy Davis " " "
Ben Faulkner and wife "
Frances Hines " "
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Nancy Chavis " ' "
Priscilla Dorsey " " "
Caleb Dancy " " "
Nadeh Bryan " "
Mary Jane Moye
Martha Dunston 3 "
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Sidney Dickerson 3 "
Mrs B B Ham 2 "
Mrs.Emily Jones 2
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John Powers 1 " panper
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J E voodard. solicitor
F S Spruill, mayor
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O L Ellis, j. p,
W W Perry, j. p.
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Millie Sandiing
Charley Green
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Henderson Egerton
Tip Williams
Geo Wright
Junius Gill
Matthew Eaton
R H Bailey
8andy Loehart
W B Tharrington
jim Rogers
Ike Harris
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Louis Solomon
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Robt Rod well
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' E M Hale
Chas Green
Singleton Ford
J T Mosley
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Hanry Ellis
Anna (Massenburg
Thad Hayes
Mariah Hayes
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W Y Cash keeping rafts from Chavis bridge one quarter
B j Blackley conveying Frank Murphy to jail
WP Kearney conveying Geo whitfield to jail
E J Lanier 456 rails on stock law ienc
R R woodlief part of 83.61 repairs, on Simms bridge
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B B Massenburg, CSC blanks for hisnoffice . -.
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A NEW YEAR'S- HYMN.
New life and light! new rapture and new JoyB!
. New hopes, though all these fail, to light my
'days.
Oh, take my heart's delight In these thy gifts;
My thanks and praise; O Lord! my thanks
and praise!
Dusty the way has been, and long and dark;
Even now I scarce dare hope, for hope be
trays. -
O faithless heart, to him who cares for thee.
Give how thy thanks and praise! thy thanks
and praise!
Surely the sun will shine throughout the land;
Surely her miracles will work the spring;
Life stands revealed where all seemed drear
and dead.
O heart! my heart! thou mayst give thanks
and sing. . .
Sing and rejoice! Ever give thanks and etng!
Life rules!.' Death Is.-not, though it seem
to be!
Love sleeps not! God is an eternal king! -His
thought shall reach even to my heart
and me!
Philadelphia Ledger.
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"Here's yotir newspaper. Uncle Nat,w
said Gladys Fane. 'Tve aired it my
self , to make snre that there isn't the
least particle of damp about it. And
your slippers oh, here they are! Is the
screen just in the right place? And now
111 go and see about the coffee I have
such a nice French recipe for making it
that Louie Alden sent me from Paris. "
All this time Esther Ellis stood quietly
by the window, looking out at the snow
which was falling falling, a cloud of
blinding, eddying white, blotting out
the tall fir trees, thatching the gate
posts with eider down and covering the
carriage drive with a mantle of velvet
softness.
Esther was tall and slight, with
dreamy blue eyes, brown hair brushed
back from her temples, and a delicate,
nervous mouth. She had none of her
cousin Gladys' dimpled beauty nor trop
ical richness of complexion and she felt
the contrast painfully in her heart.
"Pull the shade down a little, Esther,"
said Mr. Fane sharply. "Don't you see
how the light is blinding my eyes? But
you never notice things as Gladys does."
Esther obeyed hastily. -
Tou needn't jerk it so," said Uncle
Fane. "Now shut the closet door it
has been squeaking these five minutes
on its binges in a way to set a man's
teeth on edge.
"I didn't observe it, uncle."
"That's exactly what Fm saying you
don't notice my comfort or discomfort as
Gladys does. Gladys, now, is really
fond of me. Look at these slippers: she
has crocheted them for me while you
were sitting dreaming over your novels."
Esther opened her lips as if to speak;
then she closed them again. .
The slippers had assuredly been
Gladys gift to Uncle Fane; but was it
possible-Gladys had concealed the fact
tnt she (Esther) bad done all the work
at Gladys' coaxing request?
She was too honorable to betray the
little diplomatist, who just then came in
with the tray of coffee and eggs, but all
the same she felt the injustice in her
heart.
Uncle Fane was rich and childless. He
bad taken the orphan, Esther Ellis, to
bring up and his brother, a keen Phila
delphia lawyer, had sent Gladys to make
him a prolonged visit on the chance of
her being able to ingratiate herself into
the affections of the rich old man.
"Oh, papa," pleaded Gladys, "it will
be worse than Egyptian bondage! I
hate old people!"
"But you don't bate money do you,
Glad? And there's no reason you -shouldn't
be this old man's heiress as
well as Esther Ellis."
"Oh, Esther Ellis! I can cut Esther
Ellis out easily enough," said handsome
Gladys, with an exulting laugh. "And
she wouldn't know bow to spend it if
she had it, the poor spirited thing!
Well, I suppose it's worth a little hard
work to get hold of old Uncle Fane s
shekels, and he certainly can't last f or-
everr
So Gladys had come smiling and
sweet voiced, to the old stone house,
and Esther's affectionate little heart was
sore with jealous pangs, all the more
bitter because they were unuttered.
""Uncle, darling, can't we have a New
Year's party at the old house?" Gladys
had suddenly burst out oneday. "The
down stairs rooms could be thrown into
one so beautifully, and I could find such
lovely spruce and hemlock boughs in
the woods to decorate the doors and cor
nices, and this is just a nice distance by
railroad for people to come. Please, un
cle, say that I may!"
"No. my dearT said Mr. Fane, setting
his lips together in that Napoleonic way
he had . when he particularly ""meant
things. "I hate' parties and confusion,
and when my poor wife died, from pneu
monia, brought on bx Sitting in a draft
at somebody s paltry" birthday party, I
rowed a tow that no such foolery should
ever go on in this house."
"Yes; but, uncle, we won't"
. . Nor said Uncle Fane!
And even Gladys had not the audac
ity to press matters further. -
"It's too bad," pouted Gladys to her
cousin Esther. "He's a perfect old dog
in the manger. Does he suppose no
body ever is to be young any more be
cause he is old?"
: "He has a right to his own way in his
dwn house, Gladys," remonstrated Es
ther, .. -
j: You are as bad as he is," said
Gladys. -
On this-particular day, when the
breakfast was removed, Esther, brought
in thettleCwriting desk, besteewn
with "papers, Vat which she ordinarily
wrote c to " her uncle's dictation, but the
ld man waived her impatiently away,
Vi "Call Gladys," said he.- '.'She is a
Quicker 'amanuensis ' than; yon are, and
she writes ; a round, clerklike hand.
.TllhaYe Qiadys do the copying for me t
nencQiorwara. - - -..
Gladys flashed a triumphant glance
across the table at her cousin, and Es
ther, meekly replyingr "Very well, un
cle, went
room.
Tpr, shy and reticent as she was in
her" manner, she really did love Unclo
Fane. '
"He's failing rm sure he's failing!"
said- Gladys to Esther. "He went to
sleep twice while I was writing that te
dious nonsense about stars and paral
laxes and asteroids to his dictation and
slept a good long time, and he's actually
going up to Philadelphia to read that
mass of four syllabled dullness to some
scientific convention or other. When I
heard that I made up my mind and
wrote off a lot of letters while he was
napping to some nice young people I
know." -
"Letters, Gladysl What for?"
"To invite them to a merry gathering
here to the Old Year out and the New
Year in," laughed Gladys. "I told Su
sie Lapham to order, the supper-from
Datori's, and I authorized JlmLe Cou
vray to engage a pianist and two violin
ists. Now don't look so horrified. Uncle
Nat will be none the wiser, and hell be
enjoying himself at his scientific con
vention, so why shouldn't we. go in for a
bit of fun too? And if you know what
color is most becoming to you, Essie,
youll order a heliotrope dress for the
occasion. You are quite decent looking
in heliotrope"
"I shall certainly countenance no such
affair, Gladys i" said Esther decidedly.
"Nothing is further from my thoughts,
than openly to disobey Uncle Nat."
"But you won't betray me, Esther?
You wouldn't be so dishonorable?"
"It would be still more dishonorable
to deceive Uncle Nat!" protested Esther.
"Promise me, Gladys, to abandon the
whole affair!"
. And to her great relief Gladys prom
ised, pouting and ready to cry, however.
Going to Philadelphia was a great
event in Mr. Fane's life. Twice three
times Gladys had to capy the somewhat
prolix paper which he proposed to read
before the members of his scientific club,
and at the very last it was taken out of
her hands and sent to a typewriting
young damsel in the neighborhood.
His portmanteau was carefully packed
and repacked; a score of directions was
reiterated to every one in the house, and
at last he went away, tucked carefully
up in the sleigh, with fur gloves, silk
mufflers and arctic rubbers without end.
"What a dreadful oldmolly coddle he
is, to be 6ure! said irreverent Gladys.
And when the cutter came jingling
back from the station she beckoned to
little Caesar to stop.
"I'm going to the station myself," said
she.
"Oh, Gladys, what for?".
"io 6ena nan a dozen telegrams or
so," said the city young lady composedly,
"to hurry up matters about my New
Year's party."
"Your New Year's party 1 I thought
you had given it up, Gladys.
"Not L If you don't want to come to
it, Miss Stiff -and-prim, you needn't. But
I mean to have it, all the same!" and
Gladys danced merrily off to the sleigh,
and whirled away like a laughing sprite
into the brilliant winter sunshine.
New Year's eve came, and for a won
der it neither rained, sleeted nor snowed
The roads were like firm, beautiful ala
baster; the sky all studded with glitter
ing stars; the air jnst cold enough to be
bracing and. invigorating. The -Fane
house was illuminated from garret to
cellar, tBe band was clashing out gay
music, and the train from Philadelphia
had brought a goodly number of youn,
people in gala array, who "were to be re
enforced by the neighbors, all of whom
were bound over to secrecy.
Gladys, in a blue silk dress, draped
with clouds of azure tulle, which had
been charged to ""Uncle Fane's account,
was receiving them most graciously,
and the tide of gayety was at its high
est when the head waiter came to ask
her if it was her pleasure that the Bup-
per should be served.
"Let's go down and look at the table,
Jim," she said to young Mr. Le Cou-
vray, who seemed to act as her regent in
chief, "to make sure that it's all right
before we mvite our friends to eat.
drink and be merry."
"Who's that old cove just coming in
at the opposite door the caterer- him
self, said facetious Le Couvray, "or
some tramp who has saelled the Trying
oysters and chicken croquettes under
the kitchen windows?"
Gladys dropped her escort's arm and
grew pale as ashes?
"Uncle NatP' she gasped.
"A happy New Year, my dear," said
Uncle Nat, chuckling. "You hardly ex
pected to see me here, did you? A fine
supper this you have prepared, m just
drink a cup of coffee and eat a little of
this -very excellent chicken salad before
I go up to my room. You see, the old
man isn't quite so ignorant of what is
going on as you supposed he was.
"Esther has turned spy and inform
er!" cried Gladys. 4,I never, never will
forgive her!"-
"Not at all, my dear; not at all," said
Uncle Fane. "But I chanced to find
among the pages of my astronomical
manuscript a half finished letter from
yourself to some city friend, in which
you described in a very spirited way me
and my household, and your intention of
outwitting both me and Esther Ellis by
giving a New Year's party in defiance cf
hs both. Esther, you said, was too loyal
lo the old fogy to hear of such a thing,
but that you were going to have your
1 1 wn wayinspite of her. Very well, my
fear; you've had it. But there's Another
tiling yon haven't got. and won't have,
and that is one Solitary, single cent of
the old -fogy's money! Hu?h! What's
that? Ah, the bells in the village steeple
ringing in the New Year!"
:At the. - same moment little Essie,
dressedin a gray flannel wrapper, came
running down stairs and' flew into Mr.
jfane's arms.
NEW YEAR CUSTOMS.
CHANGES THAT HAV5.TAKEN PLACE
- IN THEIR OBSERVANCE.
Xh. Old Time Round of CaUlag and.
Drinking No Longer Fashionable la Xxr
York Country Frolics Xro Now Popu
lar A Bad Story.
There was a time, and that was not
too many years ago to count upon the
fingers, when New Year's day was the
"maddest, merriest day of all the glad
New Year." for every man put on his
holiday manner and his very best clothes,
and called on all the women he knew.
In towns and cities where this custom
prevailed each house wore a festal air,
and each housekeeper spread her tablo
with such attractive viands as could be
partaken without ceremony, for there
was no time for sitting down to eating
and drinking with a list such as many
men had of several hundred calls to be
rushed through in that one day.
In New York the custom became at
last a tax. There was no real sociability
made evident in a hurried handshake
and greeting, followed immediately by
an equally hurried -farewell; and yet
there was time for nothing more, and
even with all this haste few men could
finish the calls written upon their lists,
and omissions were apt to give offense.
Pushing young men took advantage of
the hurry and flurry of the day to call at
houses where entry under other circum
stances would not have been- possible.
Even if they could only bow to the en
grossed hostess they could pass on to
some of the young women receiving with
her, who would naturally suppose them
friends of the house. Their arus would
be left and possibly included among the .
guests to be invited on other occasions,
which was the end they hoped to gain
by their assurance.
Another evil which right "thinking
people took a grave view of was the
promotion of social drinking which the
custom fostered. Men. who could not
stop for a bite did manage to pause for
a glass of wine or cordial, or even a stiff
dose of brandy and water, "just to keep
the cold out, you know." The result of
so many tastes was apt to become disas
trous before the day was out, and there
were incidents and scenes which were
sad to witness. '
Worse than all was the fall of some
who yielded against their better judg
ment to the pleading of Circe as she
sparkled and beamed and threatened to
frown on the young man who refused
the glass she held to him in her white
gloved hand.
I know a white haired mother whose
sad lips refuse to smile because her only
daughter is hopelessly insane. The gill
was engaged to a man to whom liquor
was a terrible temptation, a hereditary
craving against which he had silently
fought a good fight and triumphed. One
New Year's day, the first of their en
gagement, his fiancee made a point of his
taking a
refused, she insisted not knowing his
weakness and at last declared that if
he would not yield to her pleasure in
such a small matter his affection could
not be what he pretended. He could not
resist beyond that, but that one glass
opened the gate to his enemy, and the
passion for drink conquered him and
was never overcome, liner ana remorse
deprived the gay, thoughtless girl of
reason. That is only one story. There
are thousands as pitiful, and, feeling tho
danger which attended the pretty cus
tom of New Year's calls, one can hardly
regret its disuse.
In New York and Philadelphia, and to
a limited degree in some other places,
it is fashionable to make up country
parties, leaving town on one of the last
days of the year and spending a week
in such amusements as the hostess can
invent. If she owns a country house
she will open it for:her guests, or lack
ing a house she will hire of some farmer
all the rooms ha can spare, and turn her
entertainments into an institution of
some of the primitive frolics in which
our ancestors were supposed to delight.
Barn dances for the evenings and
straw rides for the day light are among
the amusements offered on these occa
sions, and for varietur the Halloween tests
or ceremonies are introduced, and the
gay visiters toss apple skins, float ap
ples, name chestnuts and eat hard boiled
eggs with salt, filling the cavity made
by taking out the yolk, agreeably to th?
old tradition that a dream would follow
in which the thirsty one's lover would
bring a drink.
For those who stay at home the fes
tivities which belong to the day are not
overwhelming, being generally confined
to a family dinner, and possibly the the
ater or a reception in the evening, jl?
is not a day for family gatherings, liki
Christmas or Thanksgiving, and, as th-
usual avocations are relinquished, time
seems unoccupied and the day is not al
together enjoyable.
But the Nw Year deserves a form c f
celebration as well as the other annivei
saries, and those who mold and lead. so
ciety should inaugurate some especial
entertainment or custom by which we
may enliven the 4y. New York Re
corder. M
. Sow Y4eurs Soiy.
. Comevdywvr year, '
And strff pale roses or thy sister's bier!
Loves are turned cold that at her birth leaped
hitch. ,
When i lion art old, thou, too, forgot, shalt lit,
Witn all thy golden klories faded, here.
Comeiew year!
Sleep,4ead j erl -For
dear delights art fltovru. and days are drear;
For ok, Uit, ph. bleak tie tbliUls and bare;
TVoelame w wfriter is every where: ,
With eyes that eor, ran thai never hear,
bleep, dead year!.
Sleep, dead ysarL
. -' '. Comeiew yearl
Eutsilenttyi;L!ttalnofoolfclitear
Uncle Nat! Oh, Uncle NatP she :" Tor cankering cane, or grief. Joy gonoby.
cried. ' m onjeau mastyieiaioagttaca change. aqaia
"Here's one who is glad toee me, 'at . With past Joys cbertdwa, perished, days one
all events," said Mr. Fane, a slight quiver j -.T
In hi voir. A New Yearlo votl. J " -
Essie! ; And; well , keep it together, you p.-484re! j gS -
ann L all the rt of tCe years that dodV
Purple wtdguld, her tender treasuring.
flackl the first roltin. singi sg loud and rleer
I Come, new year! .
Aaack. Uerard ia Iloa Tfca&f7xitU.
gives met And of all the presents that
I could have - your love and constancy
are the best and sweetest! 'Saturday
VNight. v-.--...'
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