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tl: i I v. 3? .The News axd Observer 3 PtTBUBHID DAKT (EXCETT MONDAY? AKB WpWfcT. 17 THE ySWS & OBSERVED COBlff SUNDAY. .MARCH 23, ! 1884; 4 1, ill, oba mall. nnatnatA i X.H Ot six monthi. 1. . . . .1. . M " thr L. 1 T VMUl.OMNIt. " J-. I 00 " aUlBOfith, " . i oo Wo Mine entarxl without payment, and up paper nt after tne expiration or urns pate ipr. asvhtisins a atm. I one tawre (on Inch) one day . - . . , . . . two da r i " three uaya..4 t -- toor daja i five dayt.....i " ilx dayi 1 M 1 BO 1 00 3 60 i 00 M .aar-Oon tract for adTartlaiag for an; ipaoe or lima may be made at tue office of TBI '.; 4D OmiTn. No. 413 FaTettertlle 8u j S. A. A1UE, Editor. LOOlMJlPnuTCnEIIT. i Oar situation in North Carolina i such that we may cot expect any marked de velopment at particular points nor can we hop that an; of oar towns will ever be come large cities. The tnnditions seem to bo against inch a probability. Cities are the outgrowth of manufacture and orth Carolina will hardly beoomethe seat of such enterprises. At least' there Is no present prospect of 6ueh a growth, j But year by year oar popalatiop iaoreases and every neighborhood becomes more thickly settled. It is in -the country neighbor hoods that we most look for, substantial progress. In the olden time the jfarmi were relatively small-bat as the Slaves owned by suooessful planters became! more numerous, some fifty years ago many of these small contiguous farms Were cbnsol-i idated into large plantations. 1 - j Standing on the steps of the mansion of the Strawberry plantation Ha Pender oounty, one could formerly see seven pother residences, ail of which hare passed away. The larger plantation swallowed j the smaller ones. The same has happened 'to some extent in every county and m all the older neighborhoods. But, since the war the reverse has take place. "Many! large plantations have been eut up into -small farms. The increase in population de-' minds this, and it is well, j When the! owner tills the soil himself perhaps , the farm ought not to run over two hundred acres. An average of that si Would generally produce the best results, jSmall farms will be the rule in the future, aid small f arms will admit of a more thor ough cultivation will induce a higher skUl and will result is more profit, f Be- aida. small farms will rermii a eonoSntr V ai a. ffra. ! -uoavi uu vwoin. . io7 -eu pweu clobex together. Their residences ' can be grouped into hamlets -little country vil lages, with a postoffioe, general store, physician, blacksmith ebon, cbureh building and school house. ,, When that poiit is reached Beoial improvemBni will become rapid. Country ; lite will not be so winded. The family will -not piss its days in an unbroken, even mode of living. There will be s quickening of life. The energies of the people will be redoubled. Old Bio Van Winkle will arouse himself u from his slumber and showlsignsl of ; a Tits'ity heretofore unknown in the sleepy honows of North Carolina. The line of development which we urge is just' here: that the people shall live together more than they do. We wish to see these) little hamlets forming in every neighborhood. It will level the people up enduring Sthem more enjoyment, more culture,' more social advantages. There will be, felt seed for improvement, and when people feel a: need for improvement, they will make efforts - to supply the want. Henoe will mmlt more ' activity not merely of muscle but of brains. There will be a .straining to '' accomplish self-elevation, and sueh labor swill not be la vain. There will be evolved men and women, not more virtuous, not more lovely, hut of a somewhat different j type,! with brighter faculties, a keener appreciation of life, stronger thought, more energy;' posh and vim. We therefore look jwith jmuoh favor on the present operation.of reducing the sue of farms and recommend that the nrghborhoods shall cluster f closet and closer together, centering around the school house and the church, "whence will radiats influenoes that cannot fail; to bo most beneficial ia their results; j Mb. W. H. Younq, the president of the Eagle and Phenix mauufacturing company, of Columbus, Geofgia, owning the most successful cotton mills in the South and perhaps in the ! world has written a letter in which he says unhesi- . latingly that the proposed reduction iin the tariff would have no effect whatever on the cotton industries of the South! The gkrath, he says, now manufactures heavy weight goods, which are sold both a the jSouth and at the North. We quote from his letter as follows : . j "A reduotion of 20 per eent on the tariff wou'd not enable Knglaud to j com pete with this oountry, Worth pt Houth, . these heavy weight goods, but if th tariff on (all articles entering into the obst of manafaotare in this oountry were also re duoed 2U per cent, then the manufac turers, North and South, would be bene fitted, and if the duties on all suoh; goods entering into the cost of manutaojtaring were made free, then the North andlSouth " CI CpjUd wmpetejsith Englandift marketl otthTworld. "The tariff as it now stands of 'course shuts out all foreign competition1 with manufaeturing productions inlhia country, exoept a few specialties of fine goods for the wealthy, and it locks in their produc tions and thus confines them "to the home aemaad. and as a oonsequenoe toere is now a glut of Roods. To illustrate my position. The company over whiolj I pre-; side eonsumes about fifty bates of f cotton per day. A New England mill ooogumtcg that amount of cotton wonld 'have to pay 350 per day more for it thaa it coets thin company, and a mill in kagland would have to pay more thaa that. ; i The advantages are so great tbtit the tariff, if entirtly removed, would not cna ble England to compete wuh jthia abuotry . on heavy wei'sht goods, and Uf - thef tariflf was removed on all articles that enter into the oobt of manufacturing, thin thiscuau could ooumand the markets ot the the Buprexnaoy "of EiisUnd ud three times and have iavestigated the cost of labor com pared with the South and found it more or higher than here, and yet our oper tives were in a better, condition, from the fact that food costs less with us and cloth ing s'so, as our climate does , not require suoh heavy clothing. I think labor at the North about the same as in England. "I a1 investigated the oost and selling price of heavy cotton goods and concluded I could scU ia England at a profit, but to do so I must adopt their pecu,;arities of style, and I prefer a borne ma: ct. "I believe if all our custom houses were abolished that this oountry would find in E iglaad a large market for our manufac tures of cotton and woolen goods. Now this country is heavily taxed with almost everything that enters into the oost of pro duolion, beginning with maob:iery and ending with baling the goods with Scotch burlaps. "I believe the manufacturing interests in this country with . their natural advan tajes, if iree from all tariff legislation, would soon make the United States the great manufacturing centre." These views are substantially what we have often expressed on the same subjeot, and it gratifies us to know that the lead ing! manufacturer of the South agrees with us so thoroughly. j Bodes butter has been creating quite a stir in New York. An investigating com mittee has discovered the adulterated stuff everywhere. Out of thirty samples of alleged butter purchased by the committee in Hew lork, only ten were genuine. Bogus butter is largely purchased by sa- loons, boarding-houses and second-class hotels. The oost of manufacture ranges from 12 to 18 cents, the average being 14 oents. i The manufacture is largely carried on ia New lork and Brooklyn, several concerns manufacturing over Mil,vw) pounds each out of tats brought from the West, from France and from Italy. The bulk of the bogus butter is, however, manufactured in the West and sold in New York, i The damage to the dairy products of that single State is estimated at from uve million! to ten million dollars yearly. The use of nitrio and sulphuric acids in deodor izing adulterated butter is particularly condemned. The living oow, assert the committee, cannot compete with the dead hog. Pore oountry butter will soon be come a thing of the past. o m i.e That there has been considerable pro- gress in JMortn uarouna is oeyooa qaes- tion. Prior to the war no money crops were planted in the southern part of the State, exoept a few groundpeas and a little rioe in New Hanover and some ootton in Anson.' There was soma eotton grown in Jfidgeoombe. Jiaavy Diaox tooaooo was cultivated in Warren and in half a dosin counties to the westward. These were all the "money" crops. 'Now rioe is grown in tne nortneast. vowon is cultivated from Catawba alone the South Carolina line and up to Halifax, covering one-half of the State. Tobacco is grown in nearly all the rest of . the State. The mines of the West are greatly developed. Our money j crops are worth fully ten times what they were before the war. And yet we accumulate no wealth. farming is hardly more profitable than it was before the change. One of the reason U to be found in the high rate of interest which the farmers pay on their advances; To correct this evil the far mers ougut ;to make tneu own sup plies; buy nd provisions: live on the products of 4 their farmland have the proceeds of their cotton and tobaeoo crops ... i n i . .ti . , r as tneir surplus, xi uxey wiu ue uus, they' will lay up money. Until they make some suoh Ohange they will be poor. They cannot be prosperous while paying heavy interest Tne question does farming pay has been intelligently discussed all over tne oountry. and tne answer is invariably the same, it does pay more certainly thaa any other business, if one is prudent and does not permit bis suDstaaoe to co ior interest, government bonds bearing 3 per bent are above par but the farmers pay fifteen to twenty-five per pent when they buy on credit and give a ! lien on their crop. To be sure under these eireumstanoes they are only working that others may reap the fruits of tneir toil ; Thx illness of the Hon. . M. T. Hun ter, of Virginia, it is feared will terminate fatally, He is now well advanced in years, having been born in 1809. Eater' ingpublio life in 1833 half a century ago he has ever been a consistent Demo erat, a dignified gentleman and a man of unsullied reputation. In 1847 he was elected to the United States Senate where he stood among the very foremoet of American statesmen. In 1861 he was Secretary of State of the Southern Con federacy and afterwards represented; Vir ginia in the Confederate Senate. A few veara ago he ,was elected State Treasurer of Virginia, bat the Beadj asters turned him out He is one of the grand old men of the past, and like Hon. A. H. H Stuart, of Virginia, lingers on the stage to remind us of the generation that has passed away. Thu Northern papers are filled iAlMAssi&6ilitj. aooounU were the only kind of news that the people oare about This is vicious journalism. The people will read and f enjoy better literature than disjointed items of this low character. The exposure of crimes may often lead to the detection of criminals and perhaps to the prevention of similar offences, but even this suggestion does not justify a newspaper in filling its columns with mere statements that somebody or other had killed somebody else in Texas, or New Hampshire, &o. matters of no earthly interest to the general reader. Tnx Richmond Whig comes out eqaaroly in favor of Mahone's follower dropping their designs and calling tm sele Republicans. Thet'b right.. There J ij,. . i ;aii IS uo halt way grouaa to scana on. au 'ho are not Democrats are Republicans. In thin Slate the ' sfrmation is not dif- ireut from what it ik In Virginia, and those Who antagOoixathfoemocratio aomi- noes put themselves within the ranks of the Badisal party. It' must be remem bered, however, that some of those who acted with the Liberals last year an nounced that on all national issues they were Democrats, and sines then have re turned wholly to their former political status. For instance, we learn that Qen. Leaoh has recently expressed himself as heartily in favor of Mt. Bayard for Presi dent Littli Sam Cox uttered the senti ments of millions throughout this broad laid when he exclaimed in Congress the ojier day that the party to which he be longed "is the party of the poor man, as distinguished from the party of wealth," and "give me , defeat again and again rather than victory gained against the toil, blood, sweat and comfort of my fellow nun. "I would rather," said he, "be eh the side of right than have suoh a vic tory." But while Sunset was correct in expressing these sentiments, we can't con cur with him as to the application of the argument. The Democratic party will deserve success and will aohieve it. It will have a warm support in New York as well as in Ohio; in New Jersey and (Jon nectiout as well as in Indiana. There is no oooar'n for the suggestion that one would prefer to be right and suffer defeat than - to have vio- tory for being right 'we will have the victory. Washington is the last place where one heed expect to find a cool judgment about passing events. People there live in a sensational atmosphere and often fail to take a logical com view of the situation. Others away from Washington can usually form a more oor reot judgment ror our part we see nojthiag disheartening in the present situa tion of affairs. We have thought that the passage of the Morrison bill would strengthen the Democratic party generally: but even if it fails to pass the Democrats will occupy a much batter position before the country than the Republicans. It $eenu to us that, considering the po $itton of the tw parties, there can be no, doubt that with a mm like Bayard of our candidate toe will carry a large majority of the electoral votes. Ovx of the new f angled swindles has been unearthed in Cincinnati. In many papers has been appearing an advertise- mint of "Life loans at 4jser oenL princi pal never to be paid solong as interest is kept up.etc.insumsof fromflOO to$500. send four oents for particulars. The ad dress was given, and the modus operandi was on receipt of stamp to forward a plau sible circular stating that loans were riven only to subscribers to the Cincinnati Zrtdger, a paper never before heard of in that city, at $1 a year. The swindlers have received thousands upon thousands of I letters and reaped a rich harvest Those four cents count up. i m IiA8T week the House . of Representa tives had before it a resolution to pay pension to this granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson? to whom the world is indebted for the immortal Declaration of Independ enceand although she was in great need, the members felt constrained to decline to support her at public expanse. However, a subscription has been opened in her behalf ia New York and it is hoped that a sum will be raised somoient to maintain her decently during her life. Ahd now somebody or other suggests Judge Eager as a proper man for the Democrats to nominate for'tne Presidency. Judge Buger we hope we have got his name right is a parson that the people don't know from Arabi Pasha. If nomi nated, doubtless the party , would vote for hint generally but he could create no enthusiasm. The people know nothing of; him. We want a people s candidate a man who is near to the popular heart, and in whose election the voters would take an interest iTui growth of the postal service keeps pace with that of the oountry. Last year the number of postoffiees footed up 47,- 858 now it is 48,993, and the prospects are that shortly we will ' have a round 50,000. 1 i ,-as ejaa i - : , Ik Columbus, a small New Jersey town, there are six men absent without leave. Unsttled aooounts and other little irregularities were the moving cause. GnbernaktorlaJ Timber i Cor. of Thx Nzws usd Obsxbvxb. J08ZPH hakvst wilsoic was born ia Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in 1810; was prepared for col lage by his father, Rev. John M. Wilson a celebrated divine, well known in his day and generation: graduated with distinction at' Lexington, Va., when only fifteen years of age; was president of the senate in 1866-67; is now and has been for many years the leader of the Charlotte bar: gentleman of fine personal appearanoe, an admiiable debater, and greatly admired by people of all elasses for his devotion to principle, his unspoikiijAlOWtafr-ti IT ia wtrxt m itanrlMaf sa t9 rVt A aAKaa sf i aav m asvv sb vMiwwmw vi vuw y iww va Governor, but if nominated would carry the fall strength of his party, and if elected would reflect honor upon it and the 8tate. ! Thanks te the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Children, the kind of candy sold ia Brooklyn under the name of rye and rock has been analyzed. The qtiite startling discovery is mads that two pounds Of it contain fasil oil enough to cause death. School children have been in the habit of buying this vile stuff in large quantities. This action of the society should be followed by determined steps to check the sale and manufacture of so injurious an article. The name of the flavorisg material used is said to bo "es sence of whisky." ftoralord'a Acid Pboupbate, Beware ! - niltatlAtte. Imitations and counterfeits have again appeared. Be Sure that the word "Hon fold's" Is on the- wrapper. j?one are genuine without It TROUSERS WITHOUT TRIAGE. ftprlaa Fathieiit for Gentlemen 1 be new fau-ti-Colorea i;spm. New York Journal Early spring fashions have made their appearanoe upon the street Jockey caps are the most notioeable feature. They are made of silk and are green in oolor as a general thing, although every sbaxH in the rainbow is represented. These caps are worn by men of all ages It looks rather out of place one of these parti colored caps on' the bald head ot some solid citizen, but custom will soon aocus tom them to the public eve. Taken by themselves they are gems of beauty. The visor is of patent leather. The knob on top is a big brass button, and ridges run from the top to the lower circumference of the cap. This stjleof head -gear is the legitimate successor of the English cloth hat which took the town by storm last last winter. The jockey cap will occupy the fashionable field until the reign of the straw hat and white derby. Then the yellow pantaloons, which were hinted at a month or bo ago, have re solved themselves into reality. They are built all one siza from end to end. A false waist is supplied with each pair, be sides whioh the original waist is detach able. That is, there are four distinct pairs to eaoh pair of trousers two funnels for the limbs and two body parts. This enables the owner to reverse and revolve his trousers, preventing them from fading. It also precludes the possibility of their bagging at the knees and divides by two the risk of the bottoms becoming frayed. Skillfully concealed hooks and eyes at either end of the detachable parts are the eoup - ling facilities. These trousers are not favorites with tailors, but they are the outcome of a public necessity. The tail ors take their revenge by charging a price and three-quarters for these trousers. They are already worn by many club men and it is only a question of time when they will be common. Allre by Night and Dead by Day. Fbanklin, Maroh 16. One of the most wonderful cases of suspended anima tion in a human being ever heard ot is now puzzling the doctors 'of this oounty They have been treating the oase for the past two months. The subject is a boy, o years old, who resides with his parents near Egypt, Cranberry township. Both the parents are healthy Germans. One of the physicians, on being interviewed, said "Two months ago I was called to attend the boy, whom I had previously treated for whooping cough. What was my sur prise, when the boy's parents told me that their boy had been in a comatose condition all day, and they were afraid he was dead. He had Slept all night they said, and at sunrise had oomplained of Bickness, after which he fell in a stupor from whioh they failed to arouse him. "lie had no sensible respiration, no pulse, no motion of the heart, no feeling. A convulsive movement of the right eyelid eonvinoed me that the child was not dead, and I applied suoh restorative remedies as 1 had at hand, bat they were of no avail. I worked until the sun had disappeared from the horizon, when the boy recovered his senses by degrees and arose' without any symptoms of his having been ill. was puzzled and resolved to ascertain the nature and cause of the death-like stupor. ; "That evening 1 took other doctors in consultation, and we visited the house together. We remained with him until 6 o'clock in the morning. He slept very tranquilly through the night, and shortly before daybreak we awoke him, made him speak and amused him until the sun began to arise. The little fellow was very happy and laughed heartily at the stories we told him;until the first glimpse of sunshine appeared, when he suddenly said, 'O, mis ter, I'm so sick,' and lay down upon the bed and immediately assumed all the ap pear asoe of death. We pricked him with a pin and applied a galvanic battery, but without creating the least impression. "I forcibly raised one of his arms, and it remained in an upright positionjthe mem bers were soft like wax and were covered with indentations we had made with our fingers. The child remained thus until the sun disappeared behind the hill-tops, when symptoms of returning animation were noticed, and after a while he rose as on the previous evening. , He was raven ously hungry and ate very heartily of a meal, after whioh he romped with his brother until bedtime, when he again went to sleep. Thus the boy has lived and died every day during the past month.' During the sun's asoendanoy the ibani mate boy's limbs were plastic as elay, and the dootor bent and twisted taem as he pleased without evoking the least sign of consciousness from the child. Crlmea mud Casual ties. Wilson Advance. J Mr. Hilliard Thomas, a well-known citi zen of Wilson oounty, committed smoide by shooting himself through the heart with a gua. No one was .in the house 'at the time the shooting occurred, bat his eon, who was in the kitchen, ran into the house in time to see his father die. , After his son reached him he never spoke al though he was not quite dead. Mr. Thomas had shown symptoms of insanity of late years and there is hardly any doubt but that he shot himself while in sane. He had all his life been an honest, " WUOlwWaVlV LflVlAU t t g- W " ' sixty years old and leaves a wi?endfour children, all grown. .London Wise, colored, was killed in Nash oounty, Bailey's township, a few days ago by reter and Willie Saunders. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death by his neck being broken, it ia supposed, by Pe ter and Willie Saunders. The murdered man was dead drunk and the others were not sober. Edenton Enquirer. Mr. Samuel F. Nixon walked overboard at the Norfolk Southern railroad depot and was drowned. He is from Perqui mans county, and was fireman on one of the engines of that road. The Jewish communities of Southern Russia are excited by the appearance of a reformer named Joseph Babmovitch. He declares' Christ to have been the real Messiah, supporting his theory by oita- tiom irom the prophets. He is an en tbusasitio preacher, and is winning many proselytes, but the Jewish papers de nounce his teachings. - A STOKy OF THX SXXN AND THX UNSIXIT IX. It was Lady Mary who had oome into the vicarage that afternoon when Mrs. Bowyer supposed some one had called. She wsndcred about to a great many placss in these days, but always returned to the scenes in which her life had been passed, and where alone her work could be done, if it were done at all. She came in and listened while the tale of her own careless ness and heedlessness was told, and stood by while her favorite was taken to another woman's bosom for comfort, and heard everything and saw everything. She was used to it by this time; but to be nothing isj hard, even when you are aeoustomsd to it; and though she knew that they would not bear her, what could she do but to cry out to them as she stood thfre unregarded? Uh, have pity upon me I, Lady Marv said, and the pang in her heart was so great that the very atmosphere was stirred, and the air could scarcely contain her and the passion of her endeavor to make hersell known, but thrilled like a harp- string to her cry. Mrs. Bowyer heard the jar and tingle in the inanimate world; but she thought only that it was some Chan table visitor who had come in, and gone softly away again at the sound of tears. And it Ldj Mary could not make her self known to the poor cottagers who had loved her, or to the women who wept for her loss while they blamed her, how was she to reveal herself and her secret to the men who, if they had seen her, would have thought her a hallucination 7 Yes, she tried all, and even went a long jour ney over land and sea to visit the earl who was her heir, and awake in him an interest in her child. And she lingered about all these people in the silence of the night, and tried to move them in dreams, sinoe she could not move them waking. ' It is more easy for one who is no more of this world, to be seen and heard in sleep; for then those who are still in the flesh stand on the borders of the unseen, and see and hear things which, waking, they do not understand. But alas 1 when they woke, this poor wanderer discovered that her friends remembered no more what she had said to them in their dreams. Presently, however, when she found Mary re-established in her old home, in her own room, there came to her a new hope. For there is nothing in the world so hard to believe, or to be convinced of, as that no effort, no device, will ever make Jou knownandvisible to those you love. dy Mary being little altered in her character, though so much in her being, still believed that if she could but find the way, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, all would be revealed and understood. She went to Mary's room with this new hope strong in her heart When they were alone together, in that nest of com fort which she had herself made beautiful for her child, two hearts so full of thought for each other, what was there in earthly bonds which could prevent them from meeting ? 8he went into the silent room, whioh was so familiar aad dear, and waited like a mother long separated from her child, with a faint doubt trembling on the surface of her mind, yet a quaint, joy ful confidence underneath ia the force of nature. A few words would be enough, a moment, and all would be right; And then she pleased herself with fancies of how, when that was done, she would whis per to her darling what has never, been told to flesh and blood, aad so go home proud, and satisfied, and happy in the ac complishment of all that she had hoped. Mary came in with her candle in her hand, and closed the door between her and all external things. .She looked around wistfully with that strange consciousness which she had already experinoed that some one was there. The other stood so close to her that the girl could not move without touching her. She held up her hands, imploring, to the child of her love. She called to her, "Mary, Mary I" putting her hands upon her, and gazed into her faoe with an intensity and anguish of eagerness which might have drawn the stars out of the sky. And a strange tu mult was in Mary's bosom. She stood looking blankly around her, like one who is blind with open eyes, and saw nothing; and strained her ears, like a deaf man, bat heard nothing. All was silence, vacancy, an empty world about her. She sat down at her little table, with a heavy sigh. "The ohild can see her, but she will not oome to me," Mary said, and wept Then Lady Mary turned away with a heart full of despair. She went quickly from the house, oat into the night. ' The I pang of her disappointment was so keen, that she could not endure it She remem bered what had been said . to her in the place from whence she came, and how she had been entreated to be patient and wait. Oh, had she but waited and been patient I She sat down upon the ground, a soul for lorn, outside of life, outside of all things, lost in a world whioh had no place for her. The moon shone, but she made no shadow in it; the rain fell upon her, but did not hurt her; the little night breezs blew without finding any resistance in her. She said .to herself, "I have failed. What am I that I should do what they all said was impossible ? It was my pride, because I have had my own way all my life. ; Bat now I have no way and no place on earth, and what I have to tell them will never, never be known. Oh, my little Mary, a servant in her own house I And a word would make it right 1 bat never, never can she hear that word. I am wrong to say never; 8he"wftr-tnftaL when shei is in heaven. She will not live tot S loolish, like me. She will go up there early, and then she will know. Bat I, what will become of me ? for I am noth ing here, ahd I cannot go back to my own place." ; A little, moaning wind rose up suddenly in the middle of the dark night, and car ried a faint wail, like the voice of some one lost, to the windows of the sleeping house. It woke the children, and Mary, who opened her eyes quickly in the dark, wondering if perhaps now the vision might oome to her. Bat the vision had: come when she oould not see it, and now re turned no more. x. Oa the other side, however, visions which had nothing sacred in them began to bo heard of, and Connie's ghost, as it was called in the bouse, had various vul gar effects. A housemaid became hyster ical, and announced that she too had seen fcdy, of whom she gave a description, exaggerated from Connie's, which all the household were ready to swear she had never heard. The lady, whom Connie had only seen passing, went to Betsy's room in the middle of the night, and told her, in a hollow and terrible voioe, that she oould not rest, opening a series: of communications, by whioh it was evident all the secrets of the unseen world would soon be disclosed. And following upon this, there came a sort of panic in the house noise were heard in various places, sounds of footsteps pacing, and of a long robe sweeping about the passages; and Lady Mary's costume, and the head-dress whioh was so peculiar, whioh all her friends had reoognised in Connie's j de scription, grew into somethiog portentous under the heavier hand of the foot-boy and the kitchen, maid. Mn. Prentiss, who had remained as a special favor to the new people, was deeply indignant and outraged by this treatment of her mistress. She appealed to Mary with mingled anger and tears. "I would have sent the hussy away at an hour s notice, it 1 had the power in my hands," she cried; "but, Miss Mary, ft is easily seen who is a real lady and who is not Mrs. Turner interferes hereon in everything, though she likes it to be sup posed that she has a housekeeper. i "Dear Pnntiss, you must'nt say Mrs. Turner is not a lady, she has far more delicacy of feeling than many ladies," cried Mary. "Yes, Miss Mary, dear, I allow that she is very nice to you; but who could help that ? and to hear my lady's name that might have her faults, but who was far above anything of the sortin every mouth, and her oostoome, that they don't know how to describe, and to think that she would go and talk to the like of Betsy Barnes about what is on' her mind I think sometimes I Bhall break my heart, or else throw up my place, Miss Mary," r rentiss said, with tears. "Oh, don't do that; oh, don't leave me, Prentiss 1" Mary said, with an involuntary ory of dismay. "Not if you mind, not if you mind, dear, the housekeeper cried. And then she drew close tohe young lady who wore ananxious look. " x ou haven t seen any thing t she said. "That would be only natural, Miss Mary. I could well under stand she couldn't rest in her grave if she oame and told it all to you. "Prentiss, be silent," cried Mary; "that ends everything between you and me if you say such a word. There has been too much said already oh, far too much: ! as if I only loved hsr for what she was to leave me." "I did not mean that, dear," said Pren tiss; "but " "There is no but; and everything she did was right, the girl cned with vehe mence. She shed hot and bitter tears over this wrong which all her friends did to Lady Mary's memory. I am glad it was so," she said to herself when she! was alone, with youthful extravagance. "1 am glad it was so; for now no One can. think that 1 loved her for anything but her- Beu. The household, however, was agitated by all these rumors and inventions. Alioci Connie's elder sister, declined to sleep; any longer in that whioh began to be called the haunted room. She, too, began to think eke saw something, she oouldunot tell what, gliding out of the room as be gan to get dark, and to hear sighs and moans in the corridors. The servants, who all wanted to leave, and the villagers who avoided the grounds after nightfall spread the rumor far and near that the house was haunted. XL In the mean time Connie herself i was silent, and said no moro of the lady. Her attachment to Mary grew into one of those visionary passions which little girls so often form for young women. She followed her so-called governess wherever She went. banging upon her arm when she could, holding her dress when no other hold: was possible following her everywhere, like her shadow. The vicarage, jealous and annoyed at first, and all the neighbors in dignant top, to see Mary metamorphosed into a department of the City family, held out as long as possible against the good nature of Mrs. Turner, and were revolted by the speotaole of this ohild claiming poor Mary's attention wherever she moved. But by-and-by all these strong sentiments softened, as was natural. The only real drawback was, that amid all these agita tions Mary lost her bloom. She began to droop and grow pale under the observa tion of the watchful doctor, who had never been otherwise than dissatisfied witbj the new position of affairs, and betook himself to Mrs. Bowyer for sympathy and infor mation. "Did you ever see a giil so! fal len off?" he said. "Fallen off, doctor I I think she is prettier and prettier efery day." "Oh," the poor man cried, with a strong breathing ot impatience, "you ladies think of nothing bat prettiness I was I talking of prettiness ? She must have Host a stone sinoe she went . back there. It is all very well to faugh," the doctor added, f rowing red with suppressed anger, 4?but can tell you that is the true test That little Connie Turner is as well as possible; she has handed over her nerves to Mary Vivian. I wonder now if she ever talks to you on that subjeot" "Who? little Connie?" " K "Of course I mean Miss Vivian, Mrs. Bowyer. Don't you know the village is all in a tremble about the ghost at ; the great house ?" "Oh yes, I know; and it is very strange. I can't help thinking, doc tor " "We had better not discuss that sub ject ut course x uoaa puva Huuneuts faith ia any suoh nonsense. Bat girls are fall of fancies. I wantyou to dnd out for me whether she has began to think; she sees anything. She looks like it ; and if something isn't done she will soon do; so, if not now."l ! "Then do you think there is something to see," said Mrs. Bojwyer, clasping jher hands ; "that has always been my opinion; what so natural - " (!As that Lady Mary, the greatest old aristocrat in te world, should come pad make private, revelations te Betsy Barnes, the under housemaid," said the' doctor, with a sardonic grin. I "I don't uean that, dootor ; but if she oould not rest in her grave, poor! old lady "You think then, my dear," said i the vicar, "that .Lady Mary, our who was as young in her mind as ai nL us, Ires body and soul in that old dark V i hole ef a vault T "How you talk, Francis 1 what can a woman say between you horrid men ? I say if she oouldn't rest wherever she is because of leaving Mary destituto, it wonld. be only natural and 1 should think the more of her for it," Mrs. Bow yer cried. ; The vi oar had a gentle professional laugh over the oonfusion of his wife's mind. But the dootor took the matter more seriously. "Lady Mary is Safely buried and done with. I am not thinking oi ner. he said : "ant l am thinaine Ol Mary Vivian's senses, whioh will not Btand this muoh longer. Try and find out from her if she. sees anything ; if she has oome to that, whatever she ssyS we must have her out ot there." . Bat Mrs. Bowyer had nothing to report when this oonolave of friends met again. Mary would not allow that she bad seen anything. She grew paler every day, her eyes grew larger, bat she made no oonfes sion. And Connie bloomed and grew, and met no more old ladies upon the stairs.' (Tboe Continued.) . Ho Mernaene la Cleveland. Shelby Aurora, j It is stated that fifteen Mormon disci, pies had left Cleveland oounty, N. C, for Utah The author of the legend lies un der a mistake whea he stated that Cleve land, the land of tin and mica, and one of the most progressive and oest counties in this State, had sent fifteen persons to Uuh. Cleveland county has not been troubled with the Mormon elders sinoe last May, when a Urge party armed with shot guns politely asked them to withdraw, and the three Mormon preaohers in hot haste retired. It is true that a party left Whitaker's, S. C, last month under' the guide of two Mormons, but they were f rom South Carolina, mostly York oounty. Two Cleveland men joined the party and will go to Colorado, but one ot the two, Mr. James Rippy, who had $300 in cash, expects to return to North Carolina. Several of our exchanges have beets led astray about the Mjrmons in Cleveland oounty, yrhioh repudiates everythingjthat has a tendeaoy to Mormonism. A Jadfe Wn ww m the War. j Charlotte Observer, j Judge MeRae, who is now riding this judicial district, was a wearer of the grayi and a most gallant fighter throughout the war. While holding the courts hameets many of his old army acquaintances and when off the- bench talks over the old war times with considerable animations - Last week at Mecklenburg oourt, J. H. Potts was one of the jurors, and Judge MoRae recognized him as a comrade, attheftrst battle of Bethel. Judge. McRse loaded the gun with whioh Mr. Potts shot: and killed the Federal Colonel Winthrop ia that battle. They had two guns, and Potts would do the shooting while the Judge lay in the ditch aad loaded them tor him. It was with one or those guns that Judge MoRae had loaded earetolly that Potts took deliberate aim at Colonel Winthrop and shot him down. After this Potts asked the Jadge : "Don't you want to snoot a iicue oit r nm j uage jucxum, lying in the ditch, convinced him that loading was heap the hardest work, and Potts oontinued shooting. A a trance Blan Dead. Newton Enterprise. Nelson Sherrell, Sen., died at his home near SherriH's Ford on the 9.h instant He was the last one of the old Shernlls who lived in that section that oonneots us with the 18 Ji century (exoept one female! Mrs. Sarah Sherrill, who is now 82 years years of age.) Nelson ha 1 his coffin made and brought home soma months ago. He had it made without nail or screw. He' had inscribed on the coffin, "Once to live, once to die, then lay me by." , Wkal Haiti ax Can now at the Kxpoel ilea. Weldon Jtfews. . In one respect at least Halifax oould lead the State. The Messrs. Garrett of Ringwood, could make an exhibit of na tive wines equal to those of California in quality. They ship and sell annually over 50,000 gallons of wine and there is hardly an acre of land in the oounty whioh oould not be made to produce grapes of every variety as abundantly as the vineyard of these gentlemen. It may be remarked, parenthetically, that a very fine, grade of ohampagne is made from the wine manu factured at frinzwood. Take little annoyance outofihi way. If you are suffering with a cough or cold, uae Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup at onoe. This , old and reliable remedy will never diaap- ' nlnt. vnn A I rair , .ll if n. OK cents a bottle. The best ylolory is to vanquish one' heart. ; Henry's Car belle Ha Ire. The beat salve used In tie world for Cats, Brulsea, Pile. Sres, U coM, Salt Kaenm, 'fet ter, Chapp 1 hands. Gtoi. blalns, C rna and aU kinds of okln Eruptions, Frckles and flmplse. Tbe aaire la guaruteed tori re perfect aaUafeo vlon In every case. Be sure you get Hnry'a Carbolic 8alv, aa all otaera are bnt linliatioaa and couuterfeita. s Psabck's Soda. Wilson's Wafers, But te, Pilot, Boston, Lunch, Milk and Hlh Toast Crackers at W. C&A.B. Stronach'a. DR. WILL. fl. BOBBITT, Wholesale md Retail in . PURE AND BELIaBLK DBUGS, . MEDICINES. C11EX1CALS. CHOICE PEBFUMEKIES, Toilet articles, A-c, , j0 No. 10 fit. MARTIN ST., BaiiOH, N. O. Cciil'j Miii & Pajra 8u polled at bottom prices. PBE3CEIPTION3 CAREFULLY" COM. POUNDED AT ALL HOURS DAY AND NIGHT. T SODA & MINML I71M ' " ' i Keep constantly on draught, and dis pensed from the hand-tomejt soda ap paratus in the city. . jPare whiskies; Wines, Brandies, do., for Medicinal purposes. '" Fresh Garden and Field Seeds. Fine tdu. uuram ana i anunn. 1 11 ia. xtnin 60., Ac : . .. "AnTmUcB wiH receive prompt attrar ana ooaou pnoes. ; w. U SOI M nurl4dlm s I - i n A - ' - J ' r.
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