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VOLiUMB XI. LENOIR, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1886. NUMBER 43. STATESVIL1.E. NEW YORK. WALLACE BROS, General Merchandise ANI PRODUCE DEALERS, AND Headquarters for Med icinal Crude, Roots, Herbs, Berries, Barks, Seeds, Flowers, Gums & Mosses STATESVILLE, N. C. -tot- WALLACE BROS!, General Produce Dealers -AN! Commission Merchants, 304 Greenwich St.," Kilters the system from uAlcnown muu. mt mil ncmmonm. SUtton the Herri, Impair Digestion sao" fcmeeoiea me aucic. J u DE5TT0IIIC-; Quickly sad nncnae and partitas Um biooa, uznouw in i petit, and stranctbsiisth nraaoUs and narres. It doss not iojnra the teeth, nw headeetae, Prod tie constipation XAr row msdicinuda. J1TB i nava tuea Brown's iron sinm wu u set aatiafantim f Malaria, and a a prerantlT OhiUa and lika " and will alwara kII it OB hand aa a Tna 1 r friend." . ... Gannina has abors trade mark and eroaaa a red Unea LaDOM Hajtd Booa-wfal and attraetitw, con taining list of prizas for rocfpoa. information aboot eoina, ate, (Ivan away by all dealer In medicine, or Mailed to any address on receipt of So. stamp, mi CatholieDMM, f Artaneae. aaje? . n x. i. cna nanus ana huuwv of CLINTON A. CILLEY, Attornev-At-La7, Practice in All The Courts. FODKO FTR TEN YEARS. k Millionaire's Son OiscowBd as a York Policeman. New Howard in Su.i. y World. Here is another old story. Ti ne as gospel, too. On a recent trip to tho West I met one of the great manufacturers to whom agriculture is indebted for a huppyV wielding of science and capital with enterprise, lie is short and natty, bright as a dollar and Sharp as a pin. e met in the house of a friend at dinner. Toward the latter part of the evening he said. "You haven't a very good eve for fares, Mr. Howard," which was rather a staggerer, for I have always prided myself upon that precise faculty. -Why r I asked. "Be cause," he replied, "although it is fifteen years since we met, our busi ness was of -such importance and so J a uliar that upon an ordinary mind, it seemsto me, the impression would be everlasting. " W ithout rejoining that pos?ibly it was of more interest to him than it was to myself, I ac quiesced, with the simple remark i hat I hadn't the faintest recollec tion of him, whereupon he said. "And you don't remember Bt-n Ap pleton !" The film fell from my eyes and a romance unrolled so full of extra ordinary incidents that I resolved then and there to tell it, changing names a trifle for obvious reasons. ', ' Forty j years John Appleton and his j wife lived in Milwaukee, Wis., their family consisting of one son, then ten years of age. Mr. Appleton was an inventor, and like a majority of that class, poor, struggling, yearning always. Eleven years prior to that time he, the son of a wealthy mill owner in Eng land, had offended his father by marrying one of' the factory girls, a bright, beautiful, ruddy-faced lass, and stung by continuous reproach turned his back upon the old home stead, and with his bride sought a chance in a newer and more liberal . country J Their little boy was born shortly after they, reached Milwau kee, bringing a ray of sunshine into an already happy home, over which, however, there was always a shadow such as attends broken relations with those we love. They were ten hard struggling years, but Appleton was a man of self-reliance,; of inde pendence, and his wife was cheery, alt hotigh somewhat wok by what is now called, malaria, but which in the then Western wilds was recog nized by the more familiar term' of chills and fever. A CHANGE IN THE TIDE. A black-bordered letter with a riot very familiar postmark for in ' all those years Appleton had heard from home but twice, and then from his mother, since dead brought the unexpected news that his father was dead, and that immediately preced ing his death, he had destroyed a will disinheriting him, and had" made another leaving to him his immense estate. The following day a letter j delayed on its passage, came from the family solicitor, enclosing a draft for a thousand pounds, and requesting that, if at all possible Mr. Appleton would at once close up his American affairs and return to the land of his birth, the scenes of his childhood and the immense property awaiting his control. They packed up and started by the then tedious conveyance for New York, and were among the earliest guests in the now far-famed hoscel ry, the Astor House, then kept by Senior Coleman, possibly aided by Stetson, who didn't come . until a year or so later the best known hotel man for a third of a century in this country, Mr. Charles A. Stetson. Mrs. Appleton was prostrated by the fatigue of the journey and really unnerved, ( as day after day she thought of the change in their cir cumstances and looked forward with the anticipations born of girlish recollection, matured by womanly reflections, of what she was to see and whom she was to meet and how strange and odd it would be Ap pleton himself, a thoughtful taci turn, quiet-mannered man, walked the room, and his wife, soothed per haps by the monotony of his pacing, fell into a deep and restful slumber. But little Ben, : looking3 from the, window on Broadway, his eye at tracted by the gaudy sign3 and the fluttering flags and the ; bewildering banners that made Barnum's Muse um, then standing where the Herald Building stands today, a marvel in his youthful eyes ; looking out on Broadway up and down whose cob ble pavements rattled the old-style omnibus ; looking out on Broadway saw the end of the park where now the postoffice stands, with its beau tiful trees, its iron fence, with its huge iron posts, its tempting grass and "its sparkling" fountains, and begged, his papa to take him for a walk, i Pulling down the shade and darkening the room without distur bing his wife, Appleton took . the little.fellow by the hand and walked down the longnignts 01 steps ituer were no elevators then) past Room 11, in which Thurlow Weed, William H. Seward, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, General Winfield Scott, Tom Corwin, of Ohio, were wont to meet and talk, each with his own 'friends and col leagues, until t hey reached t he stone steps, past which the tide tlien ebbed and flowed as the tides do today, though m smaller volumes. Yield ing to his son's request, Appleton took his little boy to the museum, where they spent the ensuing hour. THE CITY HALL PARK 40 YEARS lUO Then crossing Ann street thev walked over towards 'the Park. The place was new to the father as well as to the boy, and the former did his share of looking. . The present generation can know little about it. i for there are ery few pictures "in existence of the Park as it then was It was a beaut i fill spot. The wide sidewalk in front of the posioftic.' ; Building, as well as all the spin-, from the curb back to the City 11a. I, was unbroken save by fountains and trees It was a continuous giecti sward, nicelykept, and a delightful place' for sauntering for resting, marred only, as one approae.'iod it from the south, by a huge culvert wln-iv now the drinking fountain 'stands, opening, .perhaps ten feet, long by two feet wide, an unsightly picture ; but otherwise everything was beautiful, though not perhaps so useful as Mn its present condition A gust of wind it was in Octo ber, when everything was in its ininie blew little Ben's hat off ami the father ran after it. He quickly caught it and, returning, laughed as he panted. But where was the boy ? Where was Ben ? At first Appleton thought the lit tle chap, who was full of fun and tricks, nad hid; behind one of the trees near tho end of the Park. But no he wasn't there. He called! him. No response. A crowd gath ered, attracting the attention of one of the old-time police, who, peue trati g, asked the cause of tho gathering. Appleton explained that he was there but a moment before with his boy, chased a hat, returned and the boy was gone. j Everybody felt sorry, but what could bz done ? . Heavy-hearted Appleton returned to the hotel and found his. wife in the room looking from the window upon the street. "Where is Ben ny ?" stie asked. Appleton sat down and big tears rolled down his face. "I don't know," he said, "I have lost him, but the policeman says he will of course befouudand taken to the City Hall. I came in to tell you and I will go there at once.' "j His wife begged to go with him and as it was only a few steps he Consented. She hurriedly dressed for the street and together they went to the office of the Chief, then in the basement of the present City Hall, where they met Chief Matself. The old man sat behind his desk, huge, with his massive spectacles, his kindly manner, and listened while Appleton told his story. Then he consoled the weeping mother and the apprehensire father by saying that such occurrences were a daily incident in city life and that the boy would undoubtedly turn up in the hands of the police before night fall and would at once be sent to the Astor House. The steamer was to sail the fol lowing day. The long hours of the afternoon passed wearily ; the sun went to rest. Darkness began to mantle the town and that peculiar time of day approached when the folks at, home listen for familiar footsteps. The time of day when death is felt, when absence is mourned, when he who doesn't come and can never come is missed more certainly, more absolutely than at any other time. So they listened. So they waited. The diuner.bell rang. No appetite. The steamer Mas -to sail at C o'clock in the morning. What was to be done ? Had it been possible to worry Matsell's patience and to exhaust his kindness Appleton would have succeeded that evening and that night. No word came. A general alarm produced no satisfac tory result. , THE WOMAN REMAINS AND SUFFERS. It was absolutely necessary, im perative, that Appleton should re turn to England ; and after consul tation with his wife, who was nearly wild with fright, it was deemed a wiser plan for him to take the stea mer and for her to remain and fol low in the next with dhe little boy. Pretty tough on the mother ! Pretty tough on the father, for he not only had lost his boy, but felt the necessity of cheering his wife with words of comfort and consola tion which he could not feel were genuine. The big ship steamed away the following morning, and on her deck; apart from the rest, away from the merry groups with waving handkerchief and hand kissing adieus, stood a strong man, shak ing, crying, broken-hearted, while in her gloomy roomwith her face buried m her hands in the pillow, lay a fragile woman shaking, crying, broken-hearted. ; : The next steamer followed two weeks thereafter, car rying with it this shaking, crying, broken-hearted woman alone, all hope having vanished. Not a word had. been heard, not a hint obtained, concerning the fate' of the boy. . : ' ' ' OAKEY HALL TO THE FOBE. One bright July day in 1871 1 was sitting in my office when Oakey Hall , . p entered with his customary jaunti ness of manuefv and after a charac teristically cheery saluto introduced an elderly man of strongly marked features and great native energy, as "Mr. Appletoti from theother side." "Mr. Appleton,'' said Ma or Hall,, "is on his way to the West.where he bus large interests. He brought let jers to me from London friends and has told ine of j a remai kablv inter esting personal experience l.e had when here some -years ago.- I was 6o much in erested in it that I beg-gi-d .him to -oine over here with me and to ,t-ll .it to you.' The old gentleman was visibly af fected. . - H told the story substantially as I loive told it.-Jaddhig th;i' his wif.-wi-m" iuio ;i rapid dieline almost - immediately upon her return, and that he h;id wished ten thousand times they had never left their hum ble home in Milwaukee ; That he had longed W'1) thousand times f.r the comforting presen.-e of-hU lov. of whom he always thought as a Ini!" fellow, never imagining for a 'm"i- nieiit or dreaming of him as a man. Then the old gentleman sat back in an easy chair, and it Ix-came neces sary for the Mayor and myself to chat on other matters to give time for the bereaved and broken-hearted father to recover himself. You j might think that by the lapse of a generation one's, grief would be blunted and that "mitigated mourn ing" might be worn, but the cir cumstances attending the loss of that son were; so peculiar and the j man's nature had been so severely, so rudely shocked that time had in no sense softened the poignancy of his foritow. Of course I was inter ested, and said, turning t& Mayor. j Hall : - "Why don't.. '.yon interest Jonrdan ? There is no certainty that this boy died, no certainty about it oue way or the other. He may have been kidnapped, he may have been held for money, lie must be a grown man now. If he was ten years old hen he knows about his early surroundings. He must remember his father, his mother and the fact that they were taking a trip abroad. It seems to me it was rather stupid" and then, turning to Mr. Appleton, I said, j"Why didn't you advertise ?" j ' But the end of it yviis we sent for Jourdan, who made ample notes, and we four went to the end of the Park together, where Mr. Appleton described the scene as it occurred, after which Jourdan said he would take hold of a search provided Mr. Hall would guarantee the payment of expenses! incurred," which of course was instantly done, and Mr. Appleton left really cheered by what must seem to the ordinary reader as a very weak peg on which to hang the garment of expectancy. -j But contemporaneous sympathy w-as, after all, the poultice, and that -lie had. THE SEARCH BEGUN. Attached to the headquarters at that time was a detective, Patrick Carey. As a boy he had played around Mulberry street. Ho knew everybody thereabouts. Harry Hill was fond of 1 him. Superintendent Kelso regarded him with extremest favor. Matsell in his latest days spoke of him as the most promising man on the force, and he had been repeatedly spoken of as a man for whom promotion was not far distant, and hiselevation a certainty jn time. He was sent for and, in the presence of Mayor Hall, Jourdan gave him the case, hopeless but possible of successful outworking. The Mayor said to him :i "Yon may offer a re ward of $5,000, Mr. Carey, to be paid by the Mayor of the city for the production of any man who can prove that he is the lost son of Mr. Appleton. There were certain phy sical marks upon the boy which will render imposition impossible, so we need fear no tricks. It will be a feather in your cap if you succeed and nothing to your discredit if you fail." I knew C arey very well and was delighted to see that he entered up on his duty j with enthusiasm. He inserted advertisements in two New York papers and in several of the leading Western journals. Thirty days had passed who$ the following note came : Mayor's Office, Sept. 15, 1871; My Dear Howard : It is the ; unexpected again. I have a story to tell which would make , our hair, if I you had any, assert itself vigor ously. Come over at lunch time and bring your ears and underrtand ing with you. As ever, V ; Oakey. Mayor Hall was a practical joker and verj fond of su rprises of all sorts, still tnere was an atmospnere of substantiality about this particu lar airy fabric, and I went at 1.30, with my curiosity sharpened as well as my appetite. In the back office I found the Mayor, with -him Mr. Appleton, who had returned from Milwaukee Mr. Jourdan and De tective Carey. " "Mr. Appleton," said Mayor Hall "What did you tell, me were the pe culiar physical marks upon your son's body ? Howard, won't you take a piece of paper and write f " ; THE EXAMINATION. W The old gentleman rested himself ( on his cane for a, moment, then said, with great deliberation : . f,'0n the outer edge of the right ear was what appeared to be' a' cut. in the shape of a V, very clear and distinct, pre cisely like a cut in the ear of my fa ther." I wrote : "Cut in the right right ear, V-shaped." "On the forefinger of his left hand, between the upper and second joint, was a Sear, the result of a deep cut by sickle." I wrote: Sickle cut fore finger of left hand." ''And he had but four toes on his left foot." I wish you could have seen Carey' face. It was a picture." He was a short, " bright quickeyed. nervous,1 restless "fellow,- with a sn-tll mustache. b--:ri -1 1 f n 1 teeth and a face indicative of energy and determination and ?m mense will power. The Vayor tapped a bell. His messenger entered. "John," said he, "won't you take Officer Carey) into my private room and bring his father, whom you will find there, here ?" The detective retired. FATHER; CAREY COMES IN. The door opened and Mr. Carey, senior, came in a laboring man, with furrowed cheeks and warped hands, with ai line of beard from ear to ear under his chin his face other wise clean shaven, apparently hard working, kindly natured, ignorant person. "Walk in Mr. Carey," said the Mayor. "Gentlemen, this is Mr. Carev, the father of the offi- a ' cer who has just retired. Take a seat, Mr. Carey. Where were you born ?"'''. I "In Limerick, sir." "What" are yon doing?" "Nothing at all, sir. The boy supports me and has for ten years past me and the old woman. "Where do you live?" "In Houston street, sir, near Bleecker."' I "Is Patrick Carey your son?" - "Is this a court, "your Honor?" "A court of inquiry," replied the Mavor. 1 "Yes." :. "No, sir, he isn't my son," " hat were vou doing in the fall of 1855?'! "I was working jn the sewers your Honor." "Well, now are you very fond of this boy?" j "Indeed, indeed, you are right, your Honor." "You will be glrsul to have a great fortune come to you?" J , A light dawned upou us, but it seemed a light of absurdity. s Was this oine of Oakey Hall's fan tastic jokes ? ' If so it was misplaced, misjudged, mistimed. But no, Oakey yas too kind-hearted, too thoughtful, too manly, too womanly a nature to joke at such a time and on such a subject. What then could it mean ? "Mr. arey, I want yon to tell these gentlemen the truth about Patrick. I want you to tell them precisely what Fa ther Loughlin was told by your wife and what on her death bed she asked him to use if- ever it became neces sary in the interest of this boy." Well, if the roof of .the City Hall had blown away and its foundations had opened with a yawning gulf be fore us greater amazement, greater astonishment couldn't have seized us than this ; preface caused. HOW'S THIS FOR A FACT ? t "Well, sir,"said the old man, while every eye in the room riveted upon him, arid Mr. Appleton, senior acted like a man n a trance. "Sure X was in the manhole at the end of the park looking at the lining when there came a sound frightened me, arid, moving slowly along, bending in the sewer, I groped my way with a bit of candle and" I found, crying as if his heart would break and frigh tened, a boy a little boy whose face looked so much like my dead boy that I grasped him, shrinking, too, as if he was a ghost. I hushed his tears and tried to cleanse him, but the place was dirty and the wicked thought came over me and yet not all wicked, I will keep him. We will have him for our boy. He cried and he begged, but I was deaf to him and I waited a long past the time before I dared go up, and when the darkness came I hurried along Chatham street and up the Bowery and home, and I took him to the old woman and I said, "Here's another Paty." She took to him at once. We washed him and we dressed htm in our little boy's clothes, and we kept him in the house and then we mov ed far up to Harlem Flats till six months had gone, and then instead of going to our old home on eleven th Avenue we went over on the east side of Houston ' Street, where we knew no one, and we sent1 the boy to the public school, and he grew and grew around us, and every body liked him, and he swung the incense and he grew as we thought and hoped that he would be a priest. He was always so quick and so bright. "i But savin' your presence, that great man Matsell took a fancy to him and" he was always a round with the , police and gradually he got in' with; them until he became one of them, and that's the whole story. Now, what is it? Sure all these years I have been kind to the boy. ne not only had my son's name, but roe son s place in our hearts and home. If good's to come of this the Virgin be praised. If harm, I can never hold up my head again.", ' .- - u Well, I wish you could: see old man Appleton, $ His jaws ; dropped and bis eyes became lack lustrous. Wo thought Le w is a go n to die then and there. But jov rarelv kills. 1 ! 1 COINCIDENCES ALWAYS ON HAND. Anoihei call. I "Tell Officer Ca rev to come here.' ;ic. I with his eyes as big "Air. Carey." said . In he came as naucers. "Mr. . t arey. Oakey. -S'oti heard the . peculiar ma: kV which Mr. Appleton avs his son had?" " "Ye, sir." ; '';.'. ; ,.:"; "What did you think whde he wiis enumerating i hem?"' ':- " ell,l thought it was very funny I had the same thing." "Let me8ee your ear." The V was there. ' j j . -: .. "Let me see your finger."! The sickle mark was there.. 1 I . "Takeoff j'our shoe and stockiug." The little toe wa- not there (Tab lean.) THE END,-AND ALL AS TRUE AS GOSPEL. - Five thousand dollars haviug been given to old .man Carey, Mr. Apple ton, $r.,!and l:eiijamiu Appleton. his son, went west. A vast property interest, including the nucleus of what is now one of the largest man ufacturing establishments in the West, was turned over to. Benjamin, who, after a stav there of a few weeks, went to "England with his fa ther, lived there five years, making occasional trips! to this country al ways calling upon Mr. Hall and my self, and poor j Jourdan until he died, and then, at the death of his father, ; inheriting the enormous property he owned in England he determined to settle permanently in this country, making his"trips" to the other side for "temporary tarry ing and devoting himself with his spirit, enterprise and zealous desire to be a man among men in : this country which was his home as it was his birth place. ! ' He is marriEd and has a family of two boys and three girls, but so dis guised by his beard and mustache and somewhat stoutened in figure that I am not surprised to find I did not recognize him. No more hospit able home can be found than that presided over by Mr. Appleton. j No more comfortable existence was pas sed than that of old man Carey, nntil he disd happy in consolation and presence of his sympathetic "son," and when a few days ago while sitting in jMcViekae's magnif icent theatre in Chicago an usher brought' me a card on which; was engraved Benjamin Appleton, ; and writtenVplease come to our box," I went to the other side of the house and was; presented to Mrs. Appleton and sa w the reciprocity of feeling between her and her handsome hus band, and chased a thousand thoughts quickly one after another through my mind, born of the ro mance and melodrama of Appteton's career. I thought I say "all of: this would have beeu lost had Oak ey Hall been a gradgrind, had he been devoid of sympathy, h .d . he not been steered in this as in ten thousand other' cases less conspicu ous, by kindly feeling and by (gen erous impulse." " ; Queer btory, isn't it? But true as gospel. A Goodly land. ! To the Editor of TTi Lenoir Topic: I never go to Ashe and Watauga without being reminded of some of the Bible descriptions of tho prom ised land, "A good land, a land of' brooks of water, of fountains; and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and ; barley, and vines and fig trees, and pome granates, a land of oil olive,! and honey : a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness ; thou shalt not lack anything in it ; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig bras" Now if we substitute rye for barley, and other fruits for some of these that are semi-tropical, and remem ber that by brass is meant what we call copper, the description will be almost perfect ; and we may add as literally, true that it is a "land flow ing with. milk and honey.'' There is nothing that attracts more atten tion from; me that the. abundant springs of water, so many of .which have been rendered still more con venient by pumps. : I have seen va rious arrangements and contrivances in various parts of the State for bringing water to convenient places. I have seen it brought through pump-log3 and pipes from . far np the side of the, mountain. I have seen it drawn up from wells by hand and by steam ; I have seen it thrown np by water-wheels, and by "rams." I have seen it. "wade the" creeks," and cross the valleys in the hand of ' a ten year old girl j 1 have seen it drawn up by all sorts of windlasses and by "the old oaken bucket" at tached to a sweep ; but recently for the first time I saw the water "walk a footlog over Buffalo creek, at the hospitable home Mr. U. H." llay.1 '- A i . C a'" a ' a-fl'-Tt , n.h my ursfc entrance uuo iisne x found Mr. W. :F. Jones, erewhile a photographer, doing a growing bus iness at Wagner on Roan's creek. ;"':: Ore Knob looks desolate. Evi dence's of departed bustle and thrift are everywhere. The buildings are falling to ruin under the - influence of the gases from the furnaces, ; the machinery looks rusty, the houses look desolate, the people" nave de partedjl'biit the Knob and its copper and its'wind's remain. : ' ; ? ( Jefferson Btill sits quietly at the A Sluggish Liver Causes the Stomach and Bowels to be come disordered, and the whole system . to suffer from debility. In all such cases Ayer's Fills give prompt relief. 'After much suffering from Llrer and Stomach troubles. I have finally been cored by taking Ayer's Cathartic Pills. I always find them prompt and thorough in their action, and their occasional use keeps me in aperfectly healthy condi tion. Ralph "YVeeman, Annapolis, McL Twenty-live years ago I suffered from a torpid liver, which was restored to healthy action by taking Ayer's Pills. 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Sold by all Druggist and Dealers in Medicine. foot of Negro Mountain, its streets lined with four rows of cherry trees loaded with fruit. The Mountain hotel is still where it has long re freshed the weary traveler. Mr. J. K. Kestler, of Iredell is teaching a flourishing school in Jefferson. James Eller, Esq., lives at the mouth of Horse creek on the North Fork. The department has just es tablished a postoffice there called Berlin, though there are no Germans near bv this new canital of the Ger man Empire. Mr. Eller is a pros- pciuuu xivituci nuu uuiiiauit, ivuu u zealous friend at education. One of his sons, Mr. A. II. Eller, was pre pared for college aP Moravian Falls Academy, graduated with distinc tion at Chapel Hill, is now studying law with Col. Folk, and hopes soon to get license. Another son was prepared for college at Moravian Falls, and a third is now following on with credit to himself and his friends, while two more are waiting thetr turn with what patience they can 'command. Eller being a' com mon name in Wilkes and Aslie, their father thought to give them distinguished name3, and so states men, soldiers, orators, and philoso phers have their name-sakes. Here are I Augustus, Adolphus, Albert Sidney Johnston, ( iceroand Plato. At Creston I found David Worth Esq., who for 51 years has been j do ing business at one place, while for 47 years he and his estimable wife have united in ministering elegant hospitality to their many friends. Passing Sutherland's Academy where Prof. McEwin was occupyjng his yacation'with a grammar and.wri ting school, I inquired for Trade, but failed to find it. I made my first visit to Tennessee, traveling two miles on the upper waters of Roan's Creek, and then crossed over to Wa tauga. Zionville being" a much younger place than Trade, I did not enquire for it; but found it without inquiry, a thriving village on the head of Cove Creek, having already more than a dozen houses. j At Cove Creek Academy,' I found Mr. Julius Martin of Wilkes, closing a prosperous school. Interesting exercisesof declamations, recital ioiis, compositions and song-swero closed with four excellent original speeches. The audience were s profuso with their flowers that the visiting speak er feared there would be nous . left for him ; but he h id no reason J to. complain. ailing attention t t too prevalant disregard of authority he urged increased reverence for the authority of parent" of teachers, of the laws of the land, and of truth. . ... , Boone is nestled among tins ht'Ih busily making ready to entertain a large Normal Sch6ol in rprincely style. '.". ' :l ' ' . .. On Meat' amp I found. -Mr. Jev my Greene, (whose wife is quite low with fever,) enjoying a-hale old ajt. 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