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. : n HT : : - : : : - : : H i ' . . . . ... . r r I. f M last, tha long day's tasylng Cone, . h - ' .. .5? 'V V 1 " Sx , 1 i V " ' ... , . . , i - - - - mmY ' ,i :it s;v;OT . i-frm : -hose asd romziGr topics. - , At last, tha long day'a haying done, . I turned to leave the fragrant meadow, vlu'r on the grass, the setting gun ' lirfore me cast iny lengthened shadow. I utrnck si narrow path that ram ' py Lorell's farm, c crooked y--waj WliU'h somewhere thereabouts began. And ended on the flufcty hlyhiir. Ii readied thdr barnyard first of all. Then wandeml through a wooded hollow, A ul dartfd pant an pld stone wall, v- if luriting you to follow. a climbed a hill where all the day Tiie crows rehearsed a wiuute Babel ; I I crssfl a brook which flowed that way, i ht'H f!id beneath onr barn's brown gable. A hhurter cut it was that led i fi to our homestead from the meadow, Au'l I fidlowed it Instead, And-on before me-went my shadow. , Tii n iieuring Novell's farm, I heard Vuc white-homed a;ttle faintly lowing, ; i.il -, bubbling, in the bright piula stirred The raillc from welj-fllled udders flowing. ; plain cl beyond the burhyard wall, And tlievis at Katy milking "Speckle," i.'.u' favorite row amonjt them all, Her line cuat flecked with many a freckle. n iriif Katy so by that I knew liev milking done-rand straightway Tli'' while my heart went pit-a-pat .tine toward me through Uie open gateway. i'he s,ui droppctl down from out the sky, A !(! 1f t tie west with rich, gold laden ; An awkward country lad was I, Ui'l Katy but a simple maiden. il'-r '' met mine as if by chisnee. Not kwyiug who it was; tlien shyly,1 'Neath drooping lidn, withdrew their glance, Tiiej lai-k again to mine stole slyly. JlTLITJS Bonitz, Editorj andprpprietdr,:1!: For i r ' T:. "r : '.''- , us, Principle is Principle Right is Right yesterday, J today, to-morrow, Forever." VOL. IV.---N0; 20. Published Semi-Weekly. 'i v. ' iUith.it last lok my courage grew ; I Maid-it may have been I swore it iic wiis the sweetest girl' I knew, And told her how 1 loved her for it. vriiap she gave me no reply, i'erhap.i it was the night's gray curtain. ' falling from the twilight sky, - Which left her answer so uncertain. But you exoect to be one snmpdnv V laughed Hugh. Charley rose with a toss of the fringy gold ringlets, as if she wonld throw otf the subject. j : n Lot us go out and look at the new croquet-ground," she said, "while! the sun is still above the horizon. And I WAnt you to advise me about the shape oi the verbena -borders on the south side of the houso." Ardori obeyed, like a dutiful chevalier; but Jue could not help feeling within himself a slight pang of disappointment at the light way in which Miss Kyle soomed to pass over his wishes, so plainiy expressed. Ah '. how Jittle can men comprehend thei mysterious workings of the feminine heart'. All the time that Charley Kyle was talking idly about croquet-groun Is ana nower-teas sho GOLDSBOItO KORTH' CAROLINA,- TUESDAY, -NOVEMBER 23 1869. I : i . eye fell on the forefinger of her left hand, and saw that the "engagement-ring was gone. t "1 i C-liTolmitatUy pBarleyf glance fol lowed the difectioa of- his,nd for the first time she became aware of her loss. " You have 'lost j something ?" courte ously questioned Mr. Erskine, observing her look of perturbation. " Yes a ring. j O Mr. Erskine! will you excuse me V. j I must look for it at once." , ' 1 ; ! 1 "Cannot I help you?" he asked, as she rose and, stood clasping her hruids nervously. .? ; -. - " Uh ! no, no ; pray go !" And thus Mr. Erskine was sn ir m rvri 1 v- dismissed, while Charley flew . tfp stairs to sco if. bv anV-fifift.Tift ; Uf r,;. . J iwwy wa.'w V1 VUiAt rinS might ibe lying on hex dressing table or among the folds of her laces or ribbons. But her search WjUI in vain welnling homeward, torn with doubt toa-l.s trilltnl their firm rnnvifti. . with deep bass shout. h')are and loud m Aoutradiotiou. :iti i!iivh frogs. was rasolvinrr. m her inmost volition, that the very nexjt j It must, have slipped off my finjrer day she would conque ber diinclm.CrId ifomlf prI Mmt, neve """i uunu iuuj Hie KllCIiUil, there to concoct such a loaf of bread as should, effectually convince Mr. Ardcn th:it she was mistress of the situation. 'VFor, of course," thought Cuarley, " it's the easiest thine in the world to i i..' katydids pronounced hoth ways : " !;U i;ii t!i moon was one hour older, r :.t le neatli its silver raj-s With Katy.'s head upon my shoulder. A LOAF OF BREAD. make bread; or else what are Liobig's ChemUtry and the cookery-books printed for?" ! " Dear heart alive, miss !" said Joanna, the cook, when Charley descended into the lower regions the next day, with her sleeves rolled up and a bib-apron pinned, around her trim waist ; " is there r.ng about the orders for An August afternoon, still and sultry, tii ih air full of languid heats, and Imtt. 'lilies dro mine fhr.; vi'i-v ve!- ii i - mey novered over geranium on the ' in , ntis s; sts in ar.- la-vs in : ;i ti -zoncl s re-axi'd,. tyinrly of U'ifl in the Through S Oi vol v -i t'irv ' i i e ts oi scarlet - ;neh an att rno jn as one dream- tae tropics, where e-reLh Wm..na 1 ives sway idiy to an 1 fro, and the uikIs ot the passion-vine glow tiir .ugli the dusk of tancled do, once in a, way, have the calendar, of our tom island diys when niture as it were, and we think those who dwell the year vicinage of the eouator. the ereen. tran sin rent awn vine-leaves the sunshiue wove its net-work over the cream-tint A j'liina matting which - covered the big, mj! room, whose white muslin draperies jail furniture of light b nnKj conveyed Mvh'-au airy impression through all the $rlow of the subtle August lie its; and a s eiicler-iieeked vase, full of white car nations intermingled with mignonette, jtood just wheie the faint, delicious jemts blended pleasantly with Hugh Aril, m's day-dreams as he lay on a chintz-i';-v red sofa with an ; open book under hi . hand. . II.-was till and rather slender witV. i Its a; hazel eyes ringed around the iris ;gray, and reddish brown hair iieitliei- noticeably handsome nor par t:.t;dt:ly jdun-loolving. The world is lint peopled with Appollbs any more thin with Calibans and our hero be- Lnnged to the great average column of huui.inity. Yet there was" a something . iu Ids maseuliue individuality that had won fho heart of the prettiest girl in the count Charlotte Kyle. As lie glanced up from his Tionk, tlo lotus-eating strain of whoe sentences - - i l .n .lj.- J., iiormnnj' tVlf laV an i in - neur, lie saw a lair picture frajiii-d in the door-way ClTarley Kyle herselt', in a white muslin dre-s that fluttered round her like .a snow-wreath, ajjid a braii ted coronal of golden hair cavling her head, while in her hand she earned a' small j ipanned trav laden with dark crimson jelly-gl isses. , j Charley Kyle was a blonde one of ' those decided types that there is no pos- sb.lity o'f mistaking her fair forehead cbvered with floating rings of misty g 'Iden hair, after tne style ho much ait. et ;d by the Girl of the Period, and her transparent . temples outlined with fiint blu-:? veins. As for her long, sleepy yes, what shall we say about them? Purple eyes are certainly not the color tjhat po ts rave about, and yet Charley Kyle's eyes were neither more nor less t!ian purple, full of deep, limpid lights, an.l shadowed with golden lashes. As siie stood there, Hushed and smi ling, with a knot of fern-leaves twined ijn her braids, Air. Arden thought and Hint altogether without reason that he h i I never s h n so exnuisite an im promptu Vabbau in his life. M " Theresiid Charley, with . a little ( ! hoi of her pretty head " what do you .think of th.it.'" t It',; jelly, isn't it?" said Hugh, try ing to speak with judicial gravity, j " Yegfc it is jelly." "What kind?" " Grape, oi course !" Charley answered ; : ; and I made it myself." II ugh Arden took the tray out of her hands and deposited it on the table. J' You sje," said Charley, sinking into a low b:vket chair, with a soft, willow .;like ripple of draperies around her, " I'm I getting to be quite a domestic char ' racteri" ."" I' "You mem a jolly-productive char I ter:' bujii; thing? it is " Vv'ell, isn't it the . " Not exactly." " Hugh," said Charley, with a slight contractiom of her brows, " you're a mo n Jinamac on the subject of houso keeping," " No, 1 am not," said Arden, stoutly. " I nly inist upon what I have always asserted that no woman is fit for the 'are of a household untilvhe understands the grand art that Soyer and M. Pierre Blot have, made 'sublime." i smiled, but there" was no answer ing snorkle in Charlev's violet eyes. "But that's all nonsense," she said, aft.-r a brief troubled silence. "Your ideas, if earried systematically out, would mak; mere drudges of women." " Household ' industry needn't be drudgery that I know of." il '' "lean make jelly," said Charley, de murely, 'A very excellent qualification but "ne can't live on jelly. You see, Charley, I still maintain my original theory, that 'very woman ought to know how to fi 'ike a loaf of bread." - Charley pouted a little. "I4 don't know how to m ike bread." " Then," said Hugh, calmly? " you ''I'-dit to learn." ' Caarley glanced down at her lovely ; "huplofl han lswth a diamond solitaire nng shining on the left one, and thought, wit:i a little grimace, how they would "k manipulating dough. " Do you really think so, Hughr" she kou, with somewhat ot indecuaon in " I really do think so, Charley. Not, i course, that it is a matter of necessity or housekeepers always to make their ' wn. oroiitt ; but they should at least un ' Tstaud how, in case of emergency." "I am not a housekeeper," said Charley W1th a slight elevation of her eyebrows anything dinner '? "Nothing that I know of, Joanna; but I am going to make bread." " Jo make bread, "miss ! And what for should you be makin' bread, when nere s my xwo Dig rea nanas at your service r cried Joanna. "Ohl for fun!" ; Charley' answered, coloring a little. "Just bring me the flour, Joanna; and the milk and all the other things, and I'll be tlirough in no time ttt all." Joanna wonderingly obeyed, j and stood by, marveling, while her . young mistress dipped and stirred and mixed and kneaded with an enthusiasm worthy of a more romantic, if not a more sensi ble cause. "There" said Charley, pie-entlv, as she stopped to breathe and rub the flour off hT hands: "don't you think that will be nice bread, Joanna, when baked r" " Well, and indeed, miss, I don't know," siil Joanna, oracularly. "Bread is queer. iSonie folks has got the knack of makin' it, and some hasn't." j " Oh ! but that is nonsense, Joanna," said her young mistress, patronizingly, " It all depends on the chemical elemen, you know, and the proper state of fo mentation. There's no such thing as chance about it. And why, what;s the matter r" j For Joanna had seized her elbowwith a smothered shriek. ' j " You ain't a-puttin' of it in the oven, miss r " Yes I am why not r" ' " It ain't riz !" gasped Joanna. i " Joanna, what do you mean ':" " It s got to stand two Honrs and; rise, miss, with a clean napkin over it," enun ciated the cook, with a grave lace. " Oh ! yes, to be sure I forgot," said Charley, guiltily. ' No, don't touch it. Joanna: I want to do everything my self.' i - ho Miss unaney sat; uowu o th firo to hum her face and to torment Jo anna with questions, until that faithfu servitor's life was temporarily rendered a burden to her. ( Nor did her tribulations end after the S)an was safely deposited in the oven, lalf a dozen times, at least, Charley fluttered up stairs and down before Jo anna, stern mistress of the lower de partment, would allow her to open the cast-iron doors to view the result bf her labors. But when at length the portals were unsealed, and the pan of frfeshly baked bread drawn forth, Charley turned scarlet with mortification and dismay. For,' instead of a light, aerated jmass, puffy and fragrant, and deliciously in viting, such us Charley had confidently expected, on the strength of Libig and the cookery-books, lo ! behold ! the bread lay fiat, and hard, and unpromising a mass of dough dried into desiccation a mummied parody of what might have been ! Charley burst into tears. " And 1 had so set my heart on having it for tea, with cottage cheese, and black berries, and cream '." almost sobbed poor Charley, averting her eyes from the shriveled failure. " 1 here, tase it away, Joanna!" " Won't I cut it, miss r" " No, throw it to the chickens." " O miss ! but that would be a pity !" cried thrifty Joanna. "There's a basket of fruit and some early vegetables to be sent to the widow Hepsy Barnard under the hill. She's poor and friendless, and we often put up somethin' for her, WTiil I pack this loaf of bread in? I'm as sure as sure that it's sweet, anyhow." T)o what vou like with it," said Charley, spiritlessly, " only pray take it OUt OI my Slgm. 1U luiua mat aiwi those lectures on practical chemistry, I can't so much as make a loaf of bread 1" " It a'n't worth while frettin about, miss," said Joanna, soothingly, j "You can try again to-morrow, and we 11 be sure to" get it right." J But Charley was in no mood to listen to the cook's words of encouragement. She had tried to make bread and she had failed. Was not that enough i At the same moment Dita came down the pretty young girl who dusted the bedroom, did up fancy laces, and r tended door" with a card in her nana jor ja.is er TJnViarrv Erskine's card. ChaTley looked at it half hesitatingly. In the days ot old Deiore kub passes into the rank and file of engaged young ladyhood she had had many a delicious waltz and sly flirtation wnn fuoarry Erskine ; $ but since her engagement things had changed. Hugh Arden dis liked the soft-toned exquisite, and Char- , i i: xr-.w ley had respectea nis prejuiiices. however, she was glad of any excuse to escape the Jfemesis ol culinary jmisnaps. " Tell him I will see him, Dita," she said, and ran away to get rid of the bib apron. - , ... 1 aont suppose ne win kiajr.xuu, nbft thought : " and any companionship is better than none at all just now. So it happened that when mr. nugu AttIcti BAimtered in that aiiernooii found hi fair-haired Jianree with Dubarry Erskine. Roino . man. he was Vuiinir a mArtal Vl O was exacting: and dark frown corrugated his brotvs, which Charley could not but see. She half rose from her chair.. L I am interrupting you, I see," he said, coldly. "Exouse me. I will not detain y6u." - - v " Hugh, don't go Scried Charley. But he turned inexorably away. And : i-Ko UQmr in atari t tbftt he turned hi SUBSCRIPTIONi S3.00 PER ANNDM. Charley hid her flushed face on his shoulder after onebriffhtuDwardelance. " O Huirh ! and I tried so hard to make it good, but it iwdd fall down in the middle, and dry up like a hideous little mummy "' j .Never mind, darling I he whispered, the tiny rings of hair stirring beneath his breath. " But I do mind, Hugh and I shall certainly try again." j .Miss Kyle kept her word; and her next loaf of bread was white, light, and sweot as housekeeper's heart could wish. 1 don t 6ee why thi is different frorh tho last," puzzled Charley. " I am sur they wero made exactly in the same way." "Not precisely, said Mr. Arderi. gravely. " In the second loaf the dia mond ring was left out "' ' jj he Ute-a-teU unreasonable ; a nevpr removed it roluntarily. - Oh V what shall I do ? What will Jlugh say " uiie iwuuueia tune unarley sought through all the nooks and cor ners of her little white-draped sleeping room, only to cry anew : " What will Hugh say ? And he was so vexed, too, at seeineDubarrv Erskine. How could I be foolish enough to admit him, when I knew' so well what Hugh's ieeaings were about him And Charley Kyle fancied herself the most miserable little country girl in ex istence. , . ; liut she wa? not a whit more miserable than Hugh Arden as he stalked down tho woodland path, which made "short-cut" from the Kyle homestead to tne high road two miles distant. " I have been an infatuated fool," Mr Allien muttered to himself, to "believe m any woman alive! And Charlotte. Kyle, with her innocent eyes and baby fresh mouth, is no better than the rest of this world's coduettes ! A man can't very well help believing the evidence of his own senses : she has deliberately re moved her engagement-ring to mislead Erskine and lead him into a flirtation, for which he is m no way disinclined nut sue nas miscaicuiatea m this in stance ; fool thoueh I may be. there is a limit to my fatuity, and I will be trifled with m this way by no woman alive. O Ivharley : rmy golden-haired bttle treas ure, it l can not . believe in you. then there is neither truth nor verity in all this world !" His mouth and chin seemed to be carved in granite as he stood' in the shadow of the leafy chestnut trees look ing out into the blue distance of the August landscape,' with eyes that saw only a dead past and a shattered dream. For Hugh Arden : had loved Charlotte Kyle very dearly, and the faintest doubt that had crept into his heart was sharper in its sting than any serpents tooth. The widow Hepsy Barnard peered curiously at: him through the silver cir clets of her spectacle-glasses as she la boriously drew up the sweep of her old fashioned well, and poised tho dripping bucket on the curb. Splash went the bucket over the edge of the curb; as Mrs. Barnard leaned a little too far forward in the fervor of her curiosity ; and the widow gave a little shriek in , spite ot herself. Hugh Arden turned round and saw the situation through the1 leafy screen of foliage which separated him from the widow Hepsy Barnard's dQnryfc,vd . "Widow Hepsy was old, and she was a woman two all-sufficient claims on Mr. Arden's eouatesy. He stepped forward in an instant. " You have spilled your water," he said, pleasantly. " Allow me to draw another pail for you." And belore widow Hepsy could frame a reply, he had lowered the bucket into the well once more. " I'm sure I'm dretfully obliged t' ye," said Mrs. Barnard, looking down at her bespattered dress in some embarrassment. " Won't ye set down a spell in the shade r" Hugh sat down, wiping the beaded perspiration from his brow, for he had been walking fast, and the day was sultry ; and the widow Hepsy, having filled her iron tea-kettle from tho bucket drawn for her by Mr. Arden, went back to her work, which was unpacking the identical basket sent down a few minutes before by ' Joanna, the cook at the great house. It was a little one-story cottage, with asters blossoming under the windows rather picturesque than otherwise the ideal cottage of romance, with a stone door-sten. nd a little wicket-arate half hidden in feathery southern-wood and sweet-brier bushes; .but the widow Hepsy was by no means the model old woman of jliovel lore. She was old and she was rheumatic;; but there the paral lel ended, f She was neither grateful nor pious, and she did not quote the Psalms of David, j nor count up her blessings when she was alone. On the contrary, widow Hepsy Barnard was ungrateful and discontentedfc;and decidedly trying to all her friends, j " You seem to have a basketful of good things there," said Hugh, trying to be polite, as he sat fanning himself with the brim of his straw hat. . " Humph !" sniffled the widow Hepsy ; that's as neonle ; mav choose to think about it. Ta'n't the fast folks send to mQ but there! ii suppose they thinks anything's good enough for a poor old body like me. i " I declare to gracious !" she went on, with a little scornful laugh ; " I want to know if this is what they call bread 'i I should think rich folks would be ashamed to send sneh stuff iout of the house." The widow elevated poor Charley Kyle's "failure" in the air with a con temptuous sniff, designed to work upon Mr. Arden's sympathetic feelings, and then she broke the collapsed little loaf m two. Gracious V she ejaculated, staring at it, " if here a'n't a ring." "A ring Hugh Arden glanced up quickly, d, catching Jhc loaf from the widow Hepsy's hand, saw imbedded in the grautof the bread the very gage T a mow he had given Charley Kyle scarcely a month before. It was nothing before h made hini $elf its owner. He would take b u k the rescued ring to Charley, and give her one more chance j for, somehow, he, him self could scarcely; have told why, a new hope seemed to rise up within his breast, growing brighter at every sparkle and scintillation of the jewel he held in his AJTEUICAS TnUGANDAGE. THE GRIZZLY. Califtrala Tale. Westcra Itobbera Sixty Years Ao. ' A correspondent of the Natcht t Lourier gives an interesting account -f some of the hijrhwav robbers and mi derers who were celebrated half a Cv tury or more ago in what was then far Northwest. " In those times," sivs the writer &a the Courier, " the western men brouffllt their produce down the river in flat. V.ni l j.i i i . , - uuiiLn, uuu wuen iney soui out meir car goes they would return in large coifi panics together by land I once noticed that three men made their appearance here, one of whom was remarkable for his very ferocious appearance. He had a scar of a deep sabre cut across his brow. They were dressed like backwoods farmers, and mingled freely with the boatmen. They " chaffered" a good di.al about the priee of a great many art icles, but nothing seemed to satisfy them. Having made themselves acquainted with all the boatmen, and caroused with them a good deal, they at last disappeared. " About two months, after these ruffian had disappeared the whole country was startled by the news that a large eom p iny of of Kentuckiuns had leeu rdbbed by a band of robbers upon the Nash ville trace. Shortly after thr.e gentle men, a tather and his two sons, started to Kentucky, and w.ien thev had eot pretty well into the wilderness they. too, were met and robbed of every thing they had. This excited the c immunity to the highest pitch of indignation. Sitting in the luxurious apartments of my noble mansion on Fifth Avenue, I often recall a scene in my life the very thought of which fills me still with horror. I was not born to riches. I was well educated and extremely poor when I commenced life. At that time, just when I was seriously debating whether I should teach school or open a retail grocery store out West, the startling tidings came of the great gold discov eries in California, which set on fire the brain of a world. I yielded to the po tent influence of the gold-fever at once, and was one of the very first who went to the new." El Dorado. , T ani 1 r1 m, Kin a vend which, from the hold to tho 1 toadies, was literal W . r T Ji , J - njKm. OT&ttU UU the embryo city of San Francisco with scarcely a rag on my back.. I hurried off at once to 'a place just then discovered, and whither a large crowd of human beings the representa tives oi neariv everv Tfatimi nnil heaven had already assembled. Des perate characters they were, to be sure' Convicts recently escaped from prison, ana DioKen-down lawyer; ticket-of-leave men from Botany Bay and Norfolk Island, with impoverished clergymen; retire! organ-gr.nders, with graduates of European universities all were there. I marvel now at the coolness with which i ventured into the midst of such crowd of desperadoes. But I was a desperado. I those, after a long search, a place in a remote canon as the scene of my labors. Here I made my rude hut and proceeded to dig. There were neighbors around me. In fact, it was difficult to avoid neighbor?, even if it had been desirable. No matter where a man might go, some one would be sure to track him. So I made the best of it, and put up with the presence of others. Take them all in alL my neighbors were about as villainous-looking a set of men as I had evt r seen out of jail. One was a megro of enormous proportions, black as a coal, with the expression of an untamable savage in his brutal fea tures. Another was a long, thin, cun ning miscreant, who (as I afterward learned), had been confined for twelve years in the Sing Sing prison for an atrocious crime. Another was a short. thick-set man, with a heavy beard which a myself lhey besougut Governor Claiborne to-! abnost concealed his features, but added bring the power of the government to Itn l.U f..w.... .rr,.,: u tne mi auventuiera wnom l nan en- bear and arrest the robbers. He occord- ing offered a large reward for them, dead or alive. "Great was the merriment made by Mason that was the bandit's name and his men when tliey read the Gov ernor's proclamation. They laughod and ridiculed it. How long he could have defied the authorities no one knows, if there had not been treachery in the band. The old adage, that there is honor among thieves, did not hold good in this case. One night they were sitting around their blazing camp-hies. They had just made a successful raid upon the settlements, and Mason was distributing the booty. Little Harp crept up behind him and buried a tomahawk m his head. Mason fell dead. The conspirators then chopped off his head and brought it to Washing ton, the seat of government, and claimed the reward. When it was noised about thzrfc tlic grMt rbiic 33atinn. wsui It tiled, and that his head was in Washington Lfor identification, all the people rushed to see it. Many who had been, victims recognized it at once and swore to it. The men who had done the deed were hailed as public benefactors. " Now although the Governor hal promised a large rewurd, yet unfortunate ly when he called for the money he found the treasury was empty. Of course the captors of Mason were delayed in getting their pay. This led to the deteetion of the conspirators, for it so happened that the old gentleman and Lis two sons, who had been robbed, were among thejnum ber who came to look at the robber's head. The moment they laid their eyes on Little Harp they exehangt d glances. The father slipped out, and in a little while appeared with an officer, liaising his voice and pointing his finger at Lit tle Harp, he said " 1 charge you, sir, as being one of Mason's band of robbers." Little Harp was seized, and his aeeom pUce also. This was almost as startling to the crowd as was the sight of Mason's head. '? At that time there was a little town in Jefferson county near the Chabley's fork of Cole's creek, named Gieenville, in honor of of General Nathanel Greene. The original site was bought from the estate of of Odom, was afterwards added to from the estates of Abiiah Hunt and Ferdinand Claiborne, and the following named men were its trustees : D. W. Brazeale, H. Downs. A. Ellis, R. McRay, adn Robers Cox. " This little town was then the county seat : thither Little Harp was conveyed, and was reeularlv tried and convicted. He was hung, and the band of Mason being deprived of its leader and its most skillful lieutenant, dispersed and was never afterwards heard of. " The story of Little Harp' bas al ready been written in a little book call ed 'Hall's Leeends of the West.' It seems that there were two brothers of that name who were the most dar ing robbers that ever infested Ken tucky. They were called by the way of distinction, Big Harp and Little Harp, on account of the difference in j their size. The people of Kantucky bjcaine exasperated at their outrages, and de termined to hunt them to death, j The pursuit was carried on with tne patience of a sleuth-hound, until at last they were overtaken. Big Harp was pursued by a eiarantic Kentuckian. lhey had aj run ning fisht for hours on horseb u-kj until at last Harps horse tell; then came a hand to hand fight. It was a tremen dous struggle between these two western oriants, but at last Harp fell mortally wounded. He died, bis head was severed from his body, and was stuck on a pole in the cross-roads in Kentucky, and the spot was for a long time called ' Harp's Head.' While the bigger brother was being thus hotly Tjulsued the little Harp escaped and came down and joined Mason's band." were altogether so re Thcy went respectively " Nigger," " Sing Sing," t hand. . "Char lev! sv. nre itfin p- rrviner in the vino uui " ' r j c- shadows by the window as he camoupon her with noiseless footsteps ; she started nervously up. ' ' ' "Here is the ring, Charley. I have found it"? "Where?"- V ' " .. Ha Wiierhed as he tossed the ring into her lap, -and took both her hands in his. " Buried in a loaf of bread, at the '-widow Hpesy Barnard's." In Tnrkev there is to be universal ed ucation, and it is to be compulsory where neoesnr; Each child, while getting a general education, is to be instructed in ths faith Of its parents. Turkey has an area ot nearly two minions ui txuan; milea; or nearly two-thirds as much as th United States, not counting its lat est annexation. The population, now ever, is larger forty millions. Schools were established throughout the Em pire in 1847, but the present law is thorough and compulsory,; and the Turks, both Mohammeaan ana v-uns-tian, will soon be universally and high ly educated. countered, none pulsive a3 these, by the names of and " Pirate." I tried to get away from the neighbor hood of these men, but a fatality seemed to attend my efforts. On three different occasions I removed to new places, and actuaiij-, each time, 1 encountered these men, who had moved on before me. It looked as thougli I wa3 actually follow ing them, r'o I tried to get rid of my aversion, and turned myself to work. At the last place to which we came there was a very remarkable man, who had been bving there for some time. He was a Spaniard, was tall and well- tormed, with a wonderful expression of resolution and daring in his face. His liie.' wis pnlc, his eyes dark, and his cren- eral appearance eomnwadod involuntary I em on the side of a neighboring hill. This place he had selected for a residence some time previously. He was never seen digging anywhere in particular, and it was generally surmised that he had some mysterious diggings in the imme- I diate neighborhood of his cavern. j I dug on patiently for some months, ! and gaim-d barely enough to supply my self with the necessaries of life. I began to be" very gre itly discouraged. One evening I sat moodily near the place where 1 had been working. I had lo.-t all hope. For tlmre days I had gained absolutely nothing. " Eu nos dias, Senor." Looking up I saw the Spaniard. I bowed and was silent. " You have a very deep hole there," he said. 1 I should think so," I replied. Are you encouraged, Senor Pardon mi', out vou iook nisneartenea, j. uuns. I have reason to be. I have gained nothing. I must leave this place." The Spaniard's eye lightened up. " No, Senor, do not." Do not -' why should I waste my time longer V" "One must be patient, henor. " Yes. but patience has its limits." The Spaniard gave me a look of the deenest meaning. oenui, iie on in, i juu me wise juu will wait and work yet longer." I looked inquiringly at him, but he turned away, and before I could speak had gone. As I looked up I saw close beside me the trio before mentioned. They had evidently overheard our short conversation. They were exchanging glances. I turned away and began to whistle. In a few moments I was at my work again, and they had gone. I had scarcely given more than a dozen blows with my pick before 1 heard a loud cry. I recognized the Spaniards voice, it was in me airecnon oi u hut. To seize my two revolvers, and to bound forward in the direction in which heard the voice, was but the work of a moment. There stood the Spaniard with the three men around him. He held a keen knife in his hand, and stood at bay. Thev were all armed with axes. Help, Senor . 6aout d the ftpamara. Back, you infernal fool '." cried 44 Sing hrng, waving me on. i oumur lerous vulians . i cxciaimea. levebng both revolvers. 44 If you don t make tracks double-quick you'll never leave this place alive 1" The men fell back cowed completely by my terrible revolvers. The Spaniard sm led sarcastically, bowed to me, turned away, and disappeared among the trees. The men walked otf scowling and mut tering. I, too, turned away. A week passed. I worked on. At last tha hour came. Great Heavens! can I ever forget tb4t time the moment when tho hopes of years, tho longings of a lifetime lay fulfilled before me ! It was sunset. Tho cloudi were all aflame. The river rolled gloriously by. The trees tossed up their branches in the eveninr wind as thouerh bidding the day farewell : from the forest came a burst of melody. Thero i stood, a rousrh. ragged miner. in the bottom of a deep, wet, muddy hole. -There I stood with thrills of rap ture shooting through me. All my soul pnTranHi. all mv p-aze riveted on one glittering mass at my feet. . I was master of wealth untold ! After the first burst of joy a revulsion found mv treasure, but take iff Or, if I did not carry it away, where should I bide it ? These thoughts flashed with the ra pidity of light through my mind I stood now overcome with perplexity. I heard a movement above me. Look ing up suddenly I thought I saw a dusky figure glide among the trees. " Is that Nigger - I thought. It was a lonely place. There were the trio and the Spaniard no other neigh bors were near. The first were danger ous, the latter helpless. My strength lay in myself. My resolution was soon formed. I would bury as much of my treasure as I could carry in my tent, cover up the hole, and watch all night. It was ten o'clock before I had buried all that I wanted in my hut, and covered up my hole to my satisfaction. The in tense excitement of the occasion already began to have its effects. I fancied I heard footsteps. Amomentafter I reachedlorth to get my revolvers, which, m my hurry and agitation, I had left in my teat some hours before. The weapons were gone. A cold sweat buret out upon me. I rushed back to the hole, hoping to find them there. A tall figure stood there. He had my pistols in his hands, display ing them with a triumphant gesture to two others. It was Nigger," with " Ring Sing " and 44 Pirate." 44 1 am lost !" I groaned. 44 To stay hero is death, to go back to my hut is destruction. I am unarmed.' These men would think no more of killing me than of crushing a fly." The thought came and passed in a moment. Where should I go Y I could only think of the Spaniard. Without giving another moment's thought I tumW and fled. My -movements were seen. I was discovered. With a loud and savage shout they ran after me. Six bullets whistled past my heal, but fortunately none touched me. If ever fear lent wings it was at that moment. I bounded along the path and down the hill and up on the other side toward where the Spaniard lived. I heard them call on me to stop. 44 Never mind," cried another voice, which I recognized as that of 44 Pirate ; "well get them both together this time . On, on I ran. The clatter of footsteps was close behind. ith the tury of desperation, I rat tled at the Spaniard's door. My pur suers were close upon me. 44 Let me in ! Save me V I shouted. Hurried footsteps sounded within The bars rattle!.' I heard a heavy sound, I was pullel violently inside, the uoor was Dangea to ana secured jusc as the eager blows of my pursuers fell upon it. ' . " " Just in time !" he murmured, breath lessly. 44 Up stairs, quick !" He hdd a lantern in his hand. ' By ii i ngui i saw a ruae laaaer wnicn as cended to an opening above. I clambered up as I was directed. The Spaniard came up alter ma 44 All right," said he, as he gavo 1U3 meaning glance. I he men below had dealt some tre mendous blows at the door, which yet held on, however. I hoard them eagerly shouting to one another. They said not a word to us. 44 No quarter " was their motto. A tew minutes of silence elapsed. lhey had gune off. lhey soon returned. ! 1 A Wonderful MAchlnc. " f The pin machine is one of the closest approachej that mechanics have made to the dexterity of the human hand A small machine, about the height and size of a ladies' sewing machine, only much stronger, stands before you. On the side at the back, a light belt descends from a long shaft at the ceiling that drives all the machines, ranged in rows on the floor. On the left side of our machine hangs, on a mall peg, a small reel of wire, that has been straightened by running through a small compound system of small rollers. The wire de scends, and the end enters the machine. This is the food consumed ly this snap pish, voracious little dwarf. He puUs it in and bites it off by the inches inces santly 140 bites to the minute. -Just as he seize each bite, a saucy little ham mer, with a concave face, hits the end of the wire three tiSe and "-ttpaeta! it - W bead, while ho crips it in a counter sunk hole with his teeth. .With an out ward thrust of his tongue he then lays the pin Sideways in a little groove across the rim of a small wheel that slowly re volves just under his nose. By the ex ternal pressure of a stationary boon theaj pins roll in their places as they are ear ned under two series of small files, three in each. These files grow finer towards the end of the series. They lie at a slight inclination on the pins, and by a Ties of cams, levers and springs are made to play like lightning. Thus the p.ns are aroppea in a little shower in a box. 1 wenty-eight pounds are a day s work for one of these jerking little au tomatons. Two very intelligent ma chines reject every crooked pin, even the slightest irregularity of form being de tected. Another automaton assorts half a dozen lengths in as many boxes, all at once and unernnsrlv. when a careless j ' - operator has mixed the contents of boxes from various machines. Lastly, a per fect genius of a machine hangs the pins by the head in an inclined platform through as many slots as there are pins in a row of paper. These slots converge into the exact space spanning the length of a row. Under them runs the strip of pin p ipr. A b irb-like part of the ma chine catches one pin from each of the slots as it fills, and by one movement stick them all through the corrugated ridges in the paper, from which they are to be picked by taper lingers in boudoirs, and -all sorts of human circumstances. if A Canning Do A detachment of. cavalry, during a re cent expedition against some bandits in the province of Naples, arrived about daybreak at a small wood in which they had reason to believe that a number of bandits were concealed, observed a bttle dog, which had been evidently placed ou the watch, rise up and bark furiously, at the same time running about in all directions. The soldiers, perceiving the animal was giving the alarm, hastened forward,-but only found in the interior of the wood traces of the recent depar ture of the party of which they were in search. The officer in command vexed at missing an important capture, drew his' pistol and fired at the four footed senti nel, which with a howL rolled over on its back and lay completely motionless. The soldiers continued their march ; but a quarterfof an hour later one of the men. nappenmg to turn round, observed the The brittle wort, or tingXs cell plant, visible only by the xnicrosoopea, ax so numerous, that there is hardly a spot on the face of the earth where they may not be found. . The authorities ' of Guegcnr hre granted permission to run, experim total ly, oinzabusee drawn by patent road steamers, with india rubber taxes, through the streets of their city. '. The GeuetU ds Franc states that among the dishes composing - the bill of fare of the' dinner given by the Sultan to the Empress of the French, on her arrival at Constantinople, was one composed of the brains of ostriches. - : An English paper says that photo graphic portraits can now be printed with printer's ink. They are as per manent as a printed text, and so easy of production that 12,000 may be produced from a single plate in one day. During the last fiscal year 760,000,000 of letters passed through the. United States mails forty millions more than i during any previous year,' and an aver age of twenty for every man, woman, and child in the land. Tea, silk-worms, and oil-plant culture are thriving in Eldorado, CaL, , under the auspices of a colony of Japanese. There is no good reason why tea should not flourish in certain sections of this country, as well as in China and Japan. - It has been computed that 13,000 cubic miles, of water are evaporated every year from the surfaces of seas, lakevxiyers and wet lands cf the globe. The same quantity necessarily falls again in the form of dew or rain. - -1 . Pagliari, an Italian chemist, has in vented a kind of paper in which car bolic acid is so thoroughly incorporated that the paper, when used to pack an imal substances, preserves the same in a fresh state - without salt or any curing whatever. The duration of human life in the principal countries of Europe has re cently been estimated as follows : Prus sia, 41.2 years ; Belgium, 41.5 ; France, 44.2 ; EngLuid and Wales, 45.4 ; Sweden, 49.5; Denmark, 52.5; Schleswig-Hol-stein, 52.7. Calico derives its name from the fact that it was first evportod to Europe from I lUe City OX VyIUlCUb. uauvm weu? uok seen in England in 1631. . Calico print inr was known and nracticed .in India twenty-three hundred years ago, for the fact u mentioned in the campaigns oi i Alexander the Great. The art was alsol practiced in Egypt in Pliny's time. The Trustees of the Boston Public Li brary announce their intention to forxnl a snecial collection of Frankliniana as a; memorial to the fame of Benjamin Frank -j lin, to embrace every edition of his work or anv one part of them, every book written either wholly or in parti about him, every magazine article, por trait, broadside or momenta of any kind relating to him. Massachusetts has a company which deals in metallic compressed castings. By the processes employed, the metal is taken from the mould, not with a rough surface, as in all the heretofore known modes of casting, but as smooth and per- fectly finished as a coin or meoai sirucit bv a die. and this at no considerable ad dition to the cost of casting by the' old process. Among their exploits is mak ing stereotypes from brass, which afford a clear and beautiful impression. Turner Stetson, who died at Detroit on the 21st of October, aged seventy four years, was 6$ feet high, and of pro portionately massive frame, so that his nhvsiaal nower was immense. He was once able to scarry upon one siue wiw j ease an anvil weighing eight hundred j and fifty jiounds, anl even within a few years could shoulder and walk off under ' the axle of a brace of railway wheels. In his prime, he could carry upon his I shoulders and back a quantity of iron which constituted a good load tor a dray j and its horse. - j W. I. Trafton. of Manchester. N. H. is " This 11 fix them," said one. A moment after a terrific blow, as dealt by some huge beam, struck the door. The hinges yielded-- But in moment a tremendous growl sounded out and drowned every other sound. It was a wild, deep, terrific roar. My blood ran cold within me. I had heard the sound before, but never w near. Then there arose to heaven shriek af r shriek, and piteous calls for mercy. The only answer was thj terrible roar whieh had first sounded, and sounds as of breaking, crushing bones. In a few minutes all was still. The Spaniard de scended. He was not gone long. "It's all over I" he sud, returning. I descended. There on the floor lay the mangled bodies of the three wretches, and in the corner was the gigmtic form of the largest grizzly bear tuat I ever saw. I left the hut and never saw the Spaniard agdn. In a few weeks I hid my gold all sale iu San Francisco, and was preparing to return to the East. ... . . 11,... a A- V a' I-aTa. A 1 1 1 r i i inf w iiui iiiitr. luiifkru iut t Tiir i .. . . -a I.. ;r making the smallest possible specir as if to watch theta-T "" U ' trees in tho rear The animal was captured and found not to have had a hair touched by the shot fired at it ; it had evidently feigned death in order to be able to continue its func tions of viddjtto. The prisoner's life was not only preserved, but the captive was admitted into the regiment, and will be taught to render service in discovering the naunts of its former masters. Semi-Detached Wire4. A married man, after a time, appears to forget how mueh a woman, and especi il ly a woman who is a la.iy, desires small attentions, to the very last. He seems to believe, at any rate, that his wife does not care for them at his hands. Womn do not forget the season of court ship ; and it would not be too much to say that an ideal marriage should be a constant courtship, or else the romantic theory of marriage falls to the ground altogether. But supposing a man mar ries a fiool, and doesn't discover the fact for some time '? Then it is well worth his while to try and improve the fool in to a tolerable companion; for even a foolih wife cin make herself excessively unnleasant to the wisest and most philo- sonhic ot husbands; and in successful cases the women will be grateful for the teaching. The man who wants to win his wife to at least sense (or nonsense) enough to love him has often all his work before him, even alter he has ulaced the marital ring on her finger. She mav then only be a semi-detached wife. We can give no definite recipe for the curative process Circumstances would demand a constant change of in gredients. The shrew should be tamed, if nossible. bv soft means ; but she should be tamed. The indifferent woman, with her soul occupied only with thoughts of the miilinery hung upon her body, should but we can not advise on these loints, and, besides, it is more probable that the balance ot incompauuuiiy in clines to the side of the husband. V oman hould not be difficult to win when once wed, although, strange to say, it has hap pened to many a woman to live and bear children to a man without a stronger feeling for him than one of duty or of gratitude, perhaps, for social conse quence. For men who UJte uieir wires semi-detached there is nowung to ue said; there is no accounting lor taste, and it is possible at least to conceive a gentleman of cool disposmon resenting the familarities of a wife as a chum for nrivileges not contemplated by him when entering upon the married state. They run a risk if their wives are young, as there is sure to be a revolt sooner or later. The present production of White Pine mines is about $546,000 a week, and for the whole district about 100,(XX a week. In a month or two the P0" v. : Jt ua tp of 6.000,000 a UC lUGICiUCU w "- - - " c The Franking Privilege. It is rumored that the report of Post master-General Creswell will recom mend the. abolition, or at least restric tion, of the present franking privilege. It is argue 1 that every reason for its use is now obsolete ; that the newspapsrs spread the messages and public docu mentsall that are worth distributing more surely and speedily than can be done in any other way, while every eventof pjlitical moment occurring at the capital is at once transmitted by the telegraph, which is so freely used by the vigilant army oi press reporters. It is al eged, too, that franks are begged from Congressmen by the hundreds o'f thou sands every year; that they are often used for improper and purely personal pur poses ; taat the mails are loaded down with tons and tons of franked matter, which would never be sent at all if it was sent at individual expense; and that the Postoffice Department will never be a paying institution till frankinir is abolished. This reform has b .-en carried so far in England that the Queen must put her own head to her letters her hand will forward them free no longer. Railroads in the United States. A total of 45,255 miles of railroad have been completed in the last forty years and are now in operation in this country, besides 15,000 additional miles which are now in progress of construc tion. In a short time this list will be swollen to 50,000, which, taking $44,000 as the average cost per mile, would make the capital invested in railroads in tl country alone $2,000,000,000. The 15.r 000 miles of railroad which England owns cot an average of f IbO.iKJU per mile total, $2,500,000,000; while the whole of the 45.000 miles in this country only cost $2,000,000,000. So, whde wo have three times as many miles of rail way as England, we have paid $500,000,- 000 less than she paid for hers. In the last year, too, our earnings foT the same number of miles w.re fully twice as mucii a those of our English neighbor. San Fu an Cisco Tea. In San Fran cisco, lately, an old tea-drinker was attracted-by the'appearaace of tome neat ly put up packages bearing the name of a favorite tea, and. buying some or. the game he took it home and made a draw-inB-'' thereof. hotin to find it all hi o t- . , . fancy pictured it. One cup maae nun violently ill ; and subsequent examina tion showed that the entire package wss made up of the leaves of the ordinary California chaparral, which was prepar ed so as to resemble in appearance and smell the best black tea. mm. . l had found mv treasure. how could I secure it r How could I year the yield for 1 t is cont carry it away unseen '( Where should 1 1 dently believed, will reach $10,000,OW. The Colorado lltrald of September 22 has this paragraph: "Anna Dickinson n.unsationin Georgetown, yeter- Axr hv mounting a Urge horse astride. and riding away for the range, at nVlork in the morning. She was a aa ; Wnnrnw and wore a gentle man's overcoat ner delicate little foot .r. ninplv turned ankle were incased in BtiWAntial boots, with buttons up the sides. An eye-witness gives the number of the boots at two-and-a-hall. structed out of a silver halLillatv boiler is to hold about eight drops water ; but with four drops the engine can be worked for several minutes. When finisheTl it is to be placed under a glass case three-quarters of an inch in diameter and an inch and one-eight in height. Some parts will be so fine and delicate that they can not be made with out the use of a magnifying glass. The "Flower of the Holy Ghost" is a South American production, whioh peo- pie in this part of the world are trying to raLe and naturalize. The flower ii a creamy white cup, nearly as large as half an egg, and extremely beautiful. What constitutes its extraordinary char aetcTYvand its wonder as a natural floral growth, is tho fact that in this flower is a pure white dove, with pink bill and eyes, and its head turned as if looking over its back. Its wings, feet, bill, etc, are a-i absolutely perfect as those of the living dove, whose counterpart this won derful mimic vegetable kind is. On the east bank of the North River, in Hampshire Co., West Va., is perhaps one of the greatest curiosities in the State. It is literally an ice mountain, from 400 to 500 feet high. The western side of a this mountain is covered with loose stone of a light color from base to summit. By removing the stone, pure. solid, crystal ice can be found in the warmest days of summer, ana it nas oeen und there as late a the middle oi rsepu It may exist throughout the entire year, it racks were removed to a sufficient depth. What seems strange is. that the i side of the mountain wnere tne ice u fonnd is extiosed to the sun throughout . . . - 1 Al n A rv. .m I the day, and it is saia ww uu have as much effect in melting the ice as continuous rains. Stories of Emperor Nicholas continue annear: The latest is that he was rrmminfr about the barracks incog... one ovpninir und i&w through an open door one of his best officers sleeping with his head on a table and with a manuscript! before him. The Czr stole in and found! that it was a ch account, of which the! debt side was double the credit side, and. contained among other items 1000 roub-j les as a pension to the officer's mother J The debt surplus - was 3000 roubles, and was followed - by the query, " Who will V rw l - this sum T over whicn inewnoei evidently pusxled himself to exj haustion. The Emperor quietly wrote "Nicholas," as an an-wer and went away. The young man awoke, asto ind f. ed at the dread autograph that met hu eve. and on the following day received an imperial letter with the 3000 roublei An improvement in - the process of ..H trtunrbetweenmenand women is O - ... , , , proposed by the 2rft,louuaeoupou the custom of certain countries in North of Europe. This custom is for the mar riageable youth of both sexes to dc caiieu. together at stated seasons, when each one writes on paper tne naiue i dividual of Ihe opposite sex whom he or she de ires to marry, ihe papers then committed in confidence to a com mittee of two discreet persons, ana ii. on looking over the names, any two are found to have declared a mutual regard, the fact is announced, and the marriage follows ; while in every other case, where .H.Am.nt xriear. the papers are destroyed without the secret intrusted to them. It is to be questioned whether there is any b iow boysandgu-Kwepp "IZFVyZZe T U seliom any luif take as to what they are.
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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