' " k T (Vi i Til TTT (Ti , ' This A ryii, o'er the Vote's Jitghts doth a Eternal Vigil AV A'o Southing Strain f Aaa' .So cat Lull hit JIu mlrel l,e ta S! rj." i i WADESHOllOy N.C., TIIUKSDAV, Willi 1 , 1S75. AI 4 i . .. 'H" nrn, lU ail u; i sect promise rife. lioupVti to bear. wr tL.it,. . 1 7.e.V ' t T to ful d for rat, grow i . 'ray tho uuna rccau ' ,7 f y na is Lorahower trod, I t ry nappr noor .urer Gou. Chamber' $ Journal1 t from BUbop Plaice. --AnSehind time with t: " . I resume: jHin possible to at--; vthe scenery on the -to Sacramento. Here at. Nevada desert with its .nd 'sage brush a lonely 1 UieBieVra eyaila'iuoun 1'rutkee river with its shoals NY uridgef and. the road asceud ,enlig lubliiig on its track VHIettiit , If iuinph ? of engineering 'viiyJubor. Here too wo have j' 'wfVranfaii tunuels V. -y njiit but au anuoying i r risww of the traveler tnf f wonders about biin. Here CaPIorn a curve in the .iis you tusIi aToTIgfvexJ?!-, Mhiiusand Tret. To get a road--hey have economized space) ' workmen wen let down from ropes and held while they . "a to find foothold stauding y difficulties which would (.ern inau disappear before it ' fill of the dwellers on the uw mill towns dot the line "wl they are denuding the it timber with great rapi ' eeteru slope we enter upon mi, and it is curious to see falls . where Mammou 'au early dayk Tho tea have filled up the ae rainy seasou, they Js and well nigh ruin ' myself were way-laid rmon. and were -u4si before we d list olt&aecrt. M I next morning, inaugurated our ij,nu. We accepted the prorijse and paence., I 14ft in City 'where I . had hurchn Sabbath. 1 reach d and-ba- and parted for nigutjBR'M tor sixty 'lV;jolted "ours we were nu jarreu s . gorges -over mountains 'Jirough the grandest fesover i ri vers along Ti i- 'rcesoa-'-Hio euge oi Vn sivges and awful soli ' ',tieh ridel. It was - pter ' i i ' my - d i versi fied travel . friend stood k like; a EerU f',N Iloseburg , about daybreak stage O46 Which was happier, i do not know. ? It jl good if Jjof us, wheiv'cntered the motion we ;ho change was xpression. JXeitn- xq the sublet fx vntta. .'" , f.'.' . - -..venr'.-. v. i t -. P JS0W,( A .l 1 i? emd climate all niarvelloua. If Southern people will move, let them go to Oregon r ua"VvtiTcrcnc was held oo a camp ground twelve miles from Salem. "We had a pleasaut time. Here the Dr., and I planned a preachiog campaign which took u to every important point. We be- uV'r----T''in While there, an oppor- river at hico M the cascade. I aovcr en '9JtC. . med ajauuta I did this. The weather fiifcenerj awe inspiring tho 'river the wii utrnuLLiui' uia , uufc nu uusujb nt on toe conUuenti-tbe object! of nfriV ""lumert.bla. when l wu a dot. . - b w . a I read Vi't-jton Irving'a "A$toriaH and v,,, ,-. t it aeeraed likfM'geod of aome far off' mvthical reelon. Jf:J and weird, where v'Jnff;?fc,v-.-jc.4oliire dwelt alone withy bird and fita " TTr!0 l'i1 I niwl turrnl tntmiV am! ol!(4rr tr'anher "t""" - 7 ' 7 ' i i here and there the oulr human iuhobi tant j and now, u the illusions of fancy fled awar and I, a pilgrim from the East, stood in the presence of this river and these mountaies, I was hardly conscious of my own idculitj. It seemed as though the magical wand of imagination was still playing fantastic tricks with toy memories and ideas. Ah me! this Methodist kiny erant system tosses men about very strange ly. , But for this, I never should have seen the natural wonders that ravished my vi siou as the proud steamer ploughed the bosom of the grand Columbia river. At night I preached, by courteous invi tation, iu the Methodist Episcopal Church Portland did not impress me favorably as a place of residence. I prefer Salera, We returned to the latter place spent a day and night Here the Dr. and I parted fur a seaeou, to fill our respective sppoiotments arr.uging to meet at certain places. To tell tie whole truth, we were never long apart, and our meetings were occasions of well, mutual eratulution. lie was a great romfort to me, and I have thanked his ' wife for a three months loau of Lim. We preuched day aud night, right through the heart ot the country fr two hundred tiud seventjr-Uve miles lrtluuil to Anhland. We had many incidents, rare aud racy, to freshen our spirits aud beguile our weariness, but I have uo time to write itn tne memory oi uua stage riue in re - SS.fa our hearts (and ai to that, in other parts as well) and with its fear before our eyes how we should get. back to California was a very serious question. The Dr, was strong ly inclined to the boat and the ocean ; I favored ' the stage. So we took counsel. We arivued with every new comer we met, with this result. If lie came by steamer, he advised us to take the stage ; if he camo by stage, he advised us to takethe steamer. This was uniform. " 'There' as no help to either side. Q kick the beam, I plead the chanco to stop and preach. So "we took the stage again, but relieved ourselves by stopping to preach. We took the stage by vustulmehU, aud'aade the trip with com parative -comfort. The last'uight I shaJl uuver forget. It wes raining th'e heavens were black as ink the a'u: dense with fog Qd darkness the road the most perilous on the whole trip but on we go "vith six large horses two feeble Jfjaps to light our way-Ti weeping in a gallop, in curves around the mountain summits, whirling whizzing on the ,ery edge of abysmal depths.. The Dr. was eoleain-r-I kept si lence and in the midst of it -all nature asserted her rights and we slept. , .Afbout two, hours after midnight, Hve lauded Redding, the terminus of the raij Jroad Sacramento., I never felt a livelii Igafet iong meun- tains. ' The first stancWlfi?, e Saul, ahead aud : shoulders abo. lJe brethren him I saw at a distanci t Shasta I was near, both troinsr an and the le siiiht wasr arid js an ag From h; asVto top 14,450 fijsy'is head is heavy, with pj ual Byfrtna the atmosphere fijoirty round attests his icy donfjja. On mi return, as we sta ange, &&F A&Fr wrapped dcjr o1une in fetS(J:onvul- 9 . V t ir jjweVaswe started the clouds we're rifled by a gust of wind, rthe sun beamed full upon his white locks, and his shining face, all unveiled, was turned upon us like a benediction. At a turn in. the road the Dr. got another glorious glimpse and Was wrapt'iu poetic frenzy. . He begged me t f VV.TiJ...'.Vn''v l 1,1m iUa nf w" - -.1 'mrrL : mipii. ana i uucu w gnd unmixed forever. Tit lingers yet as . -' . r,irrv and a blessine. 1 ' 1 v ' G. F.'FtEKCS " 6V Tom Wilson's Scare. After an absence of about half an Lour Tom appeared staggering under the weighl of a fine fat doe, which was soon dressed, and a portion of it broiling over the coals for our supper. This over, we threw our selves upon our blankets, and, while enjoy log the cheerful light of our camp firs, Tom related his experience with the first gristly be ever saw. "You see when I first came op to this country, I didn't know much about it; bjit Goueral Garland alloecd ( was the man he wanted to scout for him, and. so I entered bis sarvice. ' When he was a travcliu over the country, I nsod t make it a p'int to look round considerable? when in camp, so as to get acquainted with it like, because in my business a feller had to know it pret middliug well. M I'd heerd a good deal about griuly's, though I'd never seen one, for they don't have 'em up in Kentuck', where I come from, or in Texas either ; but when I heerd old trappers talking about 'em, and tellio' how savage aud strong tbey wu, I always allowed that there waru't no kind oft b'ar that I was afrd of, and' I didn't know there was either. You see, I didn't let 'em know that I'd uever'd soed one of the criU ters, for I in ado up mymind that if ever I come acrost one, tI'd haveka tussel with him, and be shouldu't get away from mi neither, though I must confess that I felt a little skeery of a critter that could crunch a man or kill a buflalu as wj as I could break .an egg. Still; I ta.ked big, 'cause talk is cb-y, you know. " Wellmie day we was to the north ot tbis.rgemped ou the San Juan Iiiver. TbetXTley was eight or ten miles long, and perhaps a couple wide.with the lig gest oaktrets growiu' in it that I ever seed growing anywhere ; some of 'em would measure twenty foet round iie butts, and the General said he reckoued taey was mor'n hundred years old. " I got tired of sUyiu' rouud camp and doiu' uolhin'; so I walked down to where the auimals 'if as feediu. aud talked to the herder a while, aud then went ou down tiie valley, lookio,' at the rock aud xuououuus and trots, till I got a long ways from camp and calculated it would take uie a good hour to get back. After startiu ou the back trail I happened to notice one tree, which Blood a little to one side of my track, that looked so much larger than the others, that the idea came into my head to just examine it. I had a stout oak stick in my hand, aud, as I came pJb the tree, I hit the trunk two or three blows to see if it was souuJ, you know. Then I thought I'd see how big round it was, so that I could tell the General how many steps it took to circum navigate it. So I stuck my stick in the grouud for a m irk and started. - g ' " When I got about half-way round, I happened to look up, aud I'll be blest if there wasn't a grizzly as big as an ox, with in two feet of me, a-settin' on hj haunches, and watchin'me out of is hcjSJi the slump of that tree. " I brought up prett ilen, I tell you, and took one good I itn. He loon- ed meek enough sight, but in a iitTv he fixed bis f me, and bis great mouth, which wasWlfopen, with his white teeth, looked waterish like, as though, it was just achin' to git hold of me. I see him kinder half raise one of his paws, and then 1- started. I heerd him give a lo wheezy kind ergrowl, as be startS3rai'ter me, and I didn't wait to bear any more. ever a feller run, that feller was Tom ilsou. ' . ' ' 1 ' ' I reckon I thought of. every stny'I'd ever heered about grizzlies ; bow savage they was ; how thev could beat anoss run nin' any time, the more I thought, the 3ter I ru Q-tn d the plainer I could hear ng after me. . , v are I never knowed it was in me tf iirso.- I throwed on - pretty nigh all. jf clothes I had on, and was doiu' jest my evel- best, when suddeiitly 1 tripped ohWjv suapping her finv eomethiu' or other, and went .down. Then I knowed 'twas, all up with me for . A sieklyVGtag man about five feet certain, and I expected every minute to high, yjjsfmammoth comforter tied feel that b'ar's paw On to me. ; ' arojts ears, obeyed her beck and was ; " I remembered how I'd heerd Nat Be&lL'ced as her future husband, say, that if a grizsly thought a man Vy'Do you love her?" inquired the court. dead, he'd dig a hole aud bury him. ,hThs . out Jwtiu him any, and after a day or twpfould come back and dig him up. $o I jAid still and held my breath, waitiu' fer tjfo bar to bury me. . ' ' , . . r yf" I could hear him diggiu the hole, and, though ray eyes was shet, 1 could see jest how he looked, s he handle them paws of rlilW , , J , Y l .f r L 1 t:oiiuu w iu iuat a. laiu mere uu TxielA'?M!Skfor nigh an hour, expecting every miuutSVBjiie b'ar roll me into the bole. : After a7ilS"rtured to peek out, and, would you btuJkC; there want "Ijost picked myself up mighty sudden and made tracks for camp, aud I nckon if tv er a fuller felt beat that feller wu me, then aud there. " It was a Ion? time before I said any thing about my scare iu ramp ; but, at last I told the General, and I thought he'd split a UugbiuV , 4 Well, Tom," said I,Myou must bare been pretty badly frightened." ' " Frightened I I jet tell you, sir, I wu the worst seart mau this side of the Ban Juan, and I didn't git over it neither in a hurry, a u re's you're born." rTbat had become of the bear?" ask ed I. ' M Why. Jou 10 wa lecP t that hole, and when I lhurapel on the tree with my stick it woke him up. As a nat'ral consequence, his curiosity was ris, and be poked bis bead out to see who was a-k nock in; but," added Tom with a laugh, " be fore be could say ' come in,' I wu gone. I've always owed grinlie's a grudge siuce that scare." Frew "An Adventure with a Qriuff," by Samuel oodworih Gt$eu. The Detroit Polloe Boalntss. f" TOO MUCII TALC. , ' "I don't care a cent for your crow-bars and your cross-cut uws I want to know what I'm in here lor 1" exclaimed Orlan do, Jackson u he came out. Be gentle, behind, be patient," an swered his Honor as he looked over bis papers. . , ; M You've ng.jight to keep me in here, and you can't do UP continued Orlando. " Ah I .here's the paper the . charge is drunkenness." M It's a lio I" shouted the prisoner. His Honor laid , the paper down and looked at Orlando for a loug minute. You could have heard a suow-flake fall. "Come, hurry up with this nonsense 1" exclaimed the prisoner, putting his bat on his head. Iu a low, sweet voice, umningled by a single passionate strain, his Honor replied: , Iui4ko it three months, ami ifyiu Jou't take off that hat I'll bavettijati take all your hair off with it 1" ' Well, I hain't 1" The court raised his baud, pointed to the corridor, aud Orlando was drawn in among the saw-horses aud oil cans. A FLEETING) BIIOW. "Guilty of bting drunk, and I want to go ui- three months," said Thomas Fayof Jiie stepped out. Iliilonor nodded, tho.prisoner retired, aii ill was over in sixteeu seconds. . THE MISdINQ BRIDE. "AVhy, where am I?" inquired Augusta Peters, a dame of forty-five, as she stepped out. Amoag thy friepds, noble Countess of Wyandotte," replied the court. " Wbylwhat happened 1 Is this a hos pital ?" s!i voutiuued, as sho gazed around, apparcntlyVVuch astonished. " We ofti;i make people sick," replied his Honor, oYlie opened the warrant. ; " I must hn-re fallen down in a fit. Ah I'remember now I" she said as she tied her bonnet strings, '. "Come, 'GuBta, no more fooling," he re plied. " You've bewi here tweuty times, and you can't throw sand into my eyes by any such nonsense. This paper says you were on a royal spree last night." '. " Oh 1 your Honor, I was I own up I'm sorry never any more oh 1 I feci so bad." ' .".v;..v '';;';. " Didu'l I warn you last week ?" ; u You did oh I you did but I'm going to get married to-night to MrT Jackson and you must let me off." -"' " I'd like to see you married off And oc- ehpylug a five-story residence," continued the court; " but justice, cries aloud for vengeance, and I shall make it fie dollars or thirty days." i " Here 1 come here "jdnnwaA A lirvnii. t some one in the Kiwd. ' ' V" Kinder !" replied Jackson. . " Welljjw'll have to pay her fine or see her go upj&r : Mr. Jackson pulled out a very large wallet, took a loug time to look it over, and finally laid down three ten-cent pieces and four coppers.. ' : . "Cau't'do it 1" called his Honor, as he turned away from the bouanza, " the bridal feast must wait!" "Oh! Judge Oh! darliugOh "l you dear manl" wailed Augusu, but she was wafted away to a seat in the Maria. " Diilurbing the peacq," said Lis J ' ,-:rr, as Samuel Lewis, colored, stood on t'..e line. " Sturbing the peace, eh ?" " Yea, sir; you are charg-d with throw ing a stone through a'saloon window." M Frowing a stun, eh?" ' "Yes, sir; throwing a stone and then running away." Mtunniu'awsy, eh?" M Yes, sir ; what have you got to say for yourself?" "Dry say I froda a itua, eh?" "And that I run away?" W "Yes, sir." " AnddatI wu cotched?" " Yes, sir." "An J dat I wu fotched here ?" "Yes, sir; do you plead guilty or not guilty?". '. The prisoner buttoned up bis coat, shifted aroaad to face the audience, and then stretched out Lis ana and demanded : ' "Whar's de man who says I frode a stun?" No answer. 14 Whar's de man who uys I run away ?" Painful suspense, - Whar's de accuser?" Tho officer ia the cue had failed to put in an appearance, as well u the "Witnesses, and tbe prisoner wu dUcharged. He left the court room with dignified step, and as a crowd assembled around him at the door be wu heard saying : ; , . , , ', " 'Sposen I badu't stood up and made dem spcochesl Whar'. would I be now ?" Aud tbe cold north wind moaned around the gables, tumbled over the house-roofs and sadly echoed: " Wbar'l" From the Qctroit Fre Pnu. The tale-bearer aud the tale-hearer should be hanged up both together tbe former by tbe tongue, aud the latter by the ear. Frize fighters have suuk so low iu the estimation of the people of the Far West ern Stuts that they have great difficulty iu saving themselves from being sent to Con gressrT':?"''-' """" Wheu an affoctiouate man in Mount Ver uou, Illinois, published a " pciual" solic iting correspondence with " yo cultured lttdk-s," the type fiend set it A "colored ladys" aud the poor fellow is in trouble. At a priuter's festival lately, the follow ing toast was offered : ' " Women Second ouly to the press iu tbe dissemination oi news." The ladies are yet uudeeided whether to regard' this as a complimeut or ether wis. At an anti-monopoly convention in Io wa, receutly, some fellow bawled at .the door, " Candidates are requested to step down stairs u few minutes." Then every body went down stairs except one deaf bid fellow who wanted to run for jailor. I won a beauteous maid, Or rather thought I bad ; But when I asked her dad He got so thundurin' mad, I felt afraid. And when she bade me " stick," I did but with arowu He suatched me- by the crown, " A nA vtaritrasl tin arA Aim&fc . Ami tbMm.H(tW fj I-" dusted" qur 'i at New Prices, AT P. J. COPPEDGE & CO'S. WE respectfully invite the attention of our Old Customers AS1JTHB PUBLIC G EXE E3LLV to the fact that we are hOW RECEIV ING large and well selectedstock of - STAPLE AND FANCY! Dry Goods, 1 Notions, Ua V : ' Ready Made Clothing, . "; Boots emd Shbet, ? ' Hardware, Wood and Willow Ware, Tin Ware, Crockery, &addUi.,!cc.&c.,d:c. Also a full line of 4 SWT x Always on baud and at reasonble AgenU for W. P. RUSSEL & C ::.(; : : t. ..i i Tuition: Pri i. iry 1) ; nrt i.i-jn o 11 w ' f-'.iU " liitcn. !!' " lllirtu r I'i Mnl I.m $ 1H W tO t-1 M, f K !!. ItnoH run t.liti;tM-t nt fnionftlde rate Cf)llTuU-n to lli !. V. 1). it 1 1.1 I f IT!, rrlne'rt!. For further putts . r .'lrrs lr. J. A. Melt, tlwti'iuau, J'.mir.l tf irustn, Vhlto Kton-. Aiiw-ii fn., N. C. JU, lll, l!i J-U oil) p. I Special Notice! Tio.k iM!.nrr.DTo im. v.. a. rov lntrU V! 1 t tl.o f rn fif Ii. Af-li" .V Covin uton am tu n by iioiitWtl to iM w i 'i out delay a furtlirr lii'ttilfTu- ws.l ?.! b given. Atuii tuviuiu;;. 40-IX 1)0 YOUWAXT Gootb Cheap? Try GadJy& lillanm, who always ki a Rood Stock rt evcryllilnir nuStfd to th'' Farmer, the Ms li"K ami the Ij!im, n, Copartnoraliip. ; R. B. G ADDYJ J. M. "WILLIAXIS. TTAVINO this day purrhaid th lntcrtli 11 et of L. L. 1'oU in Uie late firm - f ti Polk A Caddy, ire olTlr our present toc;i!!tr to make room for onr New Qoods now dally arriving. 1 ' mis warcii sfitn, ihh. G ADD Y & WILLIAMS. , VAKCISaBUHWELL. ' CHARLOTTE, N. C. ' ' milE SENIOR WILL IIEREAPTEIir Cl.SB I brine! 1 avvvuva auv vvuiti v AUvu wuur: , . regularly. , u January 1st 1875-40 tf , . t SktvAff lha Atiafst sw s rbaw bT ntiMr Air a.. ii i. ;,. on- R. P. GImmons, w";.1 I AliiUr AWSU?I VIL.L.rJ, bas. -it I i .1 ' n t nr.j.i 0lJfc loruiewiioauu reiwinuK o miu , ri-'i,..i es snu viocas. , He returns bis thanks to his fric1 ' ).Vri. former favors and enrages to do al',"- ' i . in bis line promptly and on reat.,,' Cl. ,i terms, . iixi a u Vliiiui ur-nu , y . t ir v x ' M . rmM m m i a k. -. i . . . - - xegs permiSBiou to .uiurui uxt friends and tbe publio generally that aha is at all time (prepared to furnish first clus board and lodgings at reasonable rates. Her place of business is between 2d and 8d Market Bt. Wilmington N. C. FALL NEW li'Jl i I V and WINTER Cr awford & Crovdcr, f . WADESBORO', N. 0. rTJU STOCK Is now full J of Merchandise, Every week brings fresh arrivals ouablo Uoous, anu our ' AMD . WINTER STOCIl) Comprises avery Toll Assortment of GENERAL MEECIIANDI ft w ,-n i i . ii .i a - i i XU lUYi'a mo uiicuuuu ui kii. erv etlort will be used to uleaso c tomers. and articles not in oar line will, ordered at once from the1, most rellr houses Iu Northern cities, , . HONESTY, INDUSTR AND POLITENESS V ARE OUR WATCHWORD; , COUNTRY Produce of every tlescrl tlon taken la exchange for GOODS, " . '.Highest Market R;'.tc- DON'T dispose of your Tro ' -co 1 ' t giving ua a call. . , . WKmaybe fou.I t Rose stand, opposite r. J- -i l'l"' Oct. a. ' .... & (iADDY . , .1, t y mutual cons , c.iil aiitl settle, eii! with JL. L Tolk at i'1 A)" . wwm, or witu it. u. Oad, rOLK & GADDY. V in, March 80, WE KEEP ALWAYS fi t of Fresh, water-som,,! . i om up couutry corui-at-at- aI Gxmnw wii.li a: r J ! 1 Iv t 1 V9 S oo ve A COD -ry k dlltj uiity..aB.-; our beat; ; ,.ture. tb- t''or q' " . A id t bentfloL ' ! ave th uble an .'lstity t J, and c y Sif C , U:. a'. It at m

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