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UNION', THE C0NST1TI I'lON AND T II E LA W S-TI1 E GUARDIANS OF OUR LIBERTIES.
Vol. XLVII.
HILLSBOROUGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ,4 1867.
No. 2404.
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HOW TO BECOME CONTENTED WITH
r;ONEJ OWN HOUSE. .
Nut long since a gentleman who owns a
country residence, became dissatisfied, and
concluded thai it was not the place that
suited hi hi at all," He talked with his wife
and she gradually arrived at the conclusion
that the .lawn was not what it should be,
that the trees were not sufficient! umbra
geous, and that various details were want
iug?to make the place acceptable. The
couple having reached this unhappy frame
of wind became daily more dissatihrd, and
it was finally concluded that the estate
should be offered at private sale. '
After some delay iheowoer accidentally
met Mr. Samuel A. Walker, the well kuown
auctioneer, and infoimed hi in ol his inten
tion, stipulating:, however, that the adver
tisement should give a full description of
ttic place. ; ; - '
" You know," he continued, "that!
don't want Tom, Dick and Harry running
down to inspect the place Trout mere curio
aity, and as my wile says she will nut con
setlt to a public auction, 1 propose to sell
it at private sale." -
1 understand." said Mr. Walker. " I
will announce it in such a way that, with
out naming the locality, it wilt attract the
attention of any one in want of such a
country seat, and then they can ap,.ly at
my i.fiice."
That it exactly what I want," replied
the jenllrnun, and you had better drop
down and dine with me and look it over,
o that you can give it a good tlescrip
tion." No need of that." replied the auction
eer, " for yoa forget I sold it to you, and 1
described it then, and 1 nevei :orget a
place I have once seen ; f course I shall
allude to its present condition, v
Certainly, replied the cenueman,
"and i leave it entirely in yur hand.
though there is no immediate hurry, lor I
caftaot give possession at present."
In the ceorse ol a few davs the gentle
man took op a newspaper and read a de
scription ol a place winch Mr. w alker had
sdvrtised. It was in the peculiar style
1 1 the auctioneer. After pcruis it care
Mir, and making note of the " grasy
slotte," the "splendid vistas," and the
conveniences which irate the country re
sidence of a gentleman of wealth and re
iiii'iiieot," he read it aloud t his wife.
That is jut the place we want, she
said.
My idea to a dot," added the husb-nd,
"of what a place should be. I will call hi
at Mr. Walker's and inquire about it this
my day."
Mr. Walker, received his visitor, and.
anticipating some congratulatory remarks,
asked hi ui to take a seat.
M Mr. Walker," said the gentleman,
yu have 'advertised in today's paper
jot the place I want."
"Just the place you want to sell," added
Mr. W.
No sir, the very place I want to pur
cha, replied the gentleman.
Which one do you mranr" inquired
Mr. W, handing him a paper.
Why, this one, to be sure ; don t you
Mippue'l tesd it r"
The auctioneer adjusted his spectacles
and locked broad at his la'est literary pro
'uction. His spectacles leu iroin leir
VUce to the tip of his note, and peering at
his visiter, he burst into a laugh, exclaim
imst, " Whtr, my dear roan, that's your
jlace.
My place!" reiterated tho astounded
'reri m placet let'i see. 'Granv
lopes, beautiful ista,' 'conveniences f
ii grntlemtn ol wealth,' tic."
"Why, yes j haven't you i charming
'iew i.f the ocean, don't you look from
ruur dining room window upon the mmi
aotiful lawn you ever saw f" queried Mr.
Well, to I do." added the wprised in
' i ft i.l ii I a.il .flAH m MAMAk.. La!. .a!
e ssid i ' Just make out your bill for ad
rrtninz and eipenses, for, by Georze. I
Wouldn't sell the plsce fur three times what
gmiortt," ; Doslon Journal.
THE POWER OF THE OLD BIBLE. 1
A Virginia banker who was the chair
man of a noted infidel club, was once tra
velling on horse back through Kentucky,
having with him bank bills ol the value of
twenty-five thousand dollars., When he
came to a lonely forest, where robberies
and murders were said to be frequent, he
was soon lost," by taking a wrong road,
The darkness of the uight came quickly
over him, and bow to escape from the threa
tened danger he knew uot. In hi alarm
he suddenly espied in the distance a dim
light, and urging his horse onward he at
length came to a wretched looking cabin.
He knocked and the door was opened by a
woman, who said that her huvband was out
hunting, but would shortly return, and she
was sure he would cheerlufly give linn shel
ter for the night. The gentleman tied up
his horse and entered the cabin, but with
feelings which may be better imagined than
described. Here he was, with a large sum
of money, alone, and perhaps in the house
of one of those robbers wlmae name was a
ter.or to the country.
In a short time the nun of the house re
turned. He bad on a deer skin hunting
shin, a bear skin cap, seemed much fa
tigued, and in no talkative mood. All this
boded the infidel no good. He felt for his
pistols in lua pocket and placed them so as
to be ready fur instant use. Th man ak
ed the stianger to retire to bed, but he de
clined, sty in: that he would sit by the fire
all night. The man urged, but "the nmre
t'e mhdel was alarmed. He felt assured
that this was hialat night on earth, bu! he
determined to sell hi life as dearly as he
could. Hi infidel principles gave him no
comfort. His fears grew intu a perfect
agony. What was to be done r
At length the backwoodsman rose, and
reaching to a wooden shelf, he took down
an old book and said: v
Well stranger, if you wont go to bed,
I will ; but it is my custom always t read
a chapter of holy Scriptures before I go to
bed."
What a change did these word produce!
Alarm was at once removed tro.ii the skep
tic's
mind! thouli avowing himself an in
fidel, he had no con fid nice in the Kible!
He fell sife. He fell that a man who kept
an old Kible in his home, and read it, and
bent his knee in prayer, was no robber or
mutdrrer! He listened to the simple pray
er of the good man, at once dismied all
his fears, and lay down in that rude cabin
an-1 slept as calmly ashedid under his fath
er roof. From that nijht he ceased to re
vile the old Uible. He became a sincere
rhiioian, and often related the story of his
journey to prove the folly of infidelity.
A Dead Lady brocoiitvo Lire. An in
teresting and astonishing event ocrurred
on the 2d ult., at the(houte of Mr George
Chandler, a farmer living near the Lowel
road, .Mass. A physician. Dr. Stoinki,
stopped on the afternoon of the day men
tioned at Mr. C.'s houe to feed bis horse.
On entering the house, Mrs. Chandler in
formed the Doctor that her daughter, Su
aan, died on Saturday, and that the body
had been placed in the coffin for interment
on Sunday. The Doctor on looking into
the coffin, remarked that the girl was n t
dead, but only in a fit. He ordered a re
raoval of the body and placed it in a warm
bath. After a Ion struggle, the girl was
brought t life. Leaving some medicine
the Doctor took his departure. On the fol
io ing day the one assigned for the funeral
'the'resuscitated lady voided a tape worm
measuring twenty eight feet in length ; and
m-tead of burying Mis Susan Chandler,
the parent interred the caste of all her
troubles.
The following anecdote of the war we
have never met before:
" During the war lady watdistributing
tracts through to the occupants of the ward
ol a hospital, sod was excessively shocked
to hear one poor fellow laugh at tier. She
topped to reprove the wretched patient,
Why, ma'am' sayi be, you have given
me a tract no the tin of dancing, when 1
have got both legi shot oflf."
13 YOUR HUSBAND LIKE THAT.
: There was a poor woman who had fallen
into a melancholy and murmuring frame of
mind. Her minister tried in vain to tea
son her out of it. She persisted that the
had nothing to be thankful for. At last he
poke to her of her neighbor's husband, an
intemperate man, who wasted his money
when he was out, and ill-treated his wile
when he came home.
" Now," he said, " is your husband li ke
that .
" No," was the reluctant answer.
" Well, then, should you not thank God
that you have a kind husband ?"
She was forced to admit this, and pro
mised that she woald thank God every
night and morning for his mercy. Some
days elaspsed before the minister re-visited
her dwelling ; but when he did so, lie was4
struck with her bright look, as she greeted
him.
' " Oh, Sir," she exclamed, " I have long
ed to see. you ; I have so wished to thank
you ! ror a morning or two 1 did as I
promised, but I did not rightly feel what I
said. But the next day when I was thank
ing God that I had a kind husband, I
thought I should also thank him that I had
healthy children ; and when I was thank
ing Him for that, I thought I should thank
Him that I had clothes for them to wear,
and a house to cover their heads ; and so,
sir, when 1 was thanking God for one thing,
another came into my head, and another
stilt and now I know not where to stop,
or how to thank Him enough ; and 1 feel so
happy!"
So will it be with you, my reai'er, if you
will only try the experiment. For grati
tude increases with its use. The more
thankful we are, the more thankful we shall
become, and the more we shall have to be
thankful for.
A Fan-urn. Wife. A touching scene
was enacted upon the Market Square this
morning, calculated to impress the beholJer
with a high elimaiirn of a woman's patience
and her unswerving affection. A staid
couple, somewhat advanced in years, ar
rived from the rural districts with a toad
of tome description of produce calculated
to contribute to the sustenance of the city,
and the old gentleman had wandered off to
one of he numerous places of entertain
ment for man and beast surrounding the
market, intrustnig.the mercantile inierest
entirely to the charge of the old lady.
After disposing id the load the good mat
ron prepared to return home, and started
in pursuit of her truant lord, whom she
found near at hand, stretched at full length
on a bench and under a total prostration of
his mental and physical laculties, as if
from a fit ol apoplexy or sun stroke. Ten
derly raiting the inattimated form in her
arms, the good wife conveyed him bodily
to the farm wagon on the opposite side of
the street, and tumbled him gently over
the end board. Then mounting the vehicle
herself, she seized him by the neck band
of his shirt, and dragged him lengthwise
of the box in the position in which dead
bodies are usually stowed. Having ac
complished her labor of love, the kind old
lady wiped the perspiration from hrr brow
with the corner of her apron, tenderly re
marking to the uncon.ci"U sleeper t " Now
lay there, you old fool, till I get yer home j
won't I wollop the whisky out o'yer !"
The spectators were deeply affected by the
scene, and felt for the old man, as the et
lablishment started off on a brik trot over
the stones, lUmilton (W.) 77mf.
The Tarboro Southerner says that, on
the 9th inst., Mr. James S. Long, of Edge
combe, on going to his hog pens to feed,
just after a storm, found that twenty h-d
been struck with lightning and killed,
Thrre is an editor in Minesnta wbo
weighs C4l pound. His name is Frank
Daggct, and he derives sustenance from the
Wabasltaw Hrrald.
Srrgeant Jamea Brown, company D,8th
U. S. infantry, confinrdst Wilmington fur
Stea ling from government, attempted to es
cape Monday night, and aa shot and kill
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The Puritan's Witch-Pins.- Samuel
Phis L , B . . m
von, uic lounuer ot tne magnihcent arms
manfactory of Hartford, Conn.,' London,
&C, and known all over the world, ban-
pened to be visiting that somewhat famons
museum at Salem, Mass. a vast omnium
gainerum ot all the ancient relics of Puri
tanism when, among other curiosities, he
wag shown a large lot ot crooked brass pins,
which had been vomited up by the poor
Vilnius vi persecution, wnen me aevu uaa
been cast out of them by the good and holy
exorcists of that period. '
Colonel Colt examined the pins with
great interest ana close scrutiny. At
length he said to the attendant: ' 1 ;
" Is it certain that these pins were real
ly thrown up ty these poor' women-devils
at that remote time ?" 4
" You'll find the date in the catalogue
which you have in vour hand," was the
only reply. . . -
" - W aa SAa AD nH 11 All It A m
. Hit, IOfVIIUCU UIC VUIUUCI ,
" but I've been looking into those pins a
little, and 1 find that lh Innir rntrt and tha ;
h9l nf tha nin ir all in nil, nin I : 'Fklj
makes it bad, you see, because that kind
of pin was invented about a century and a
half after the witches of New-England were
executed for being ' possessed with the
devel!' Take the idea, sir? These pins
ought to have been old English pins, the
heads and bodies separate; and I don't
know how you are going to get'em now;
for nor pins have run that kind out of the "
market years and years ago."
The exhibitor wilted, and those crook
ed pins" have vanished from the museum.
Ceruse a New Disease. As Dr. Forden
was professing his ability to conquer dis-1
ease in its most aggravative forms, y the
medium of his wonderful curative, the.
King of Pain," a darkey approached the
carriage, in which the Doctor was seated,
and exclaimed :
"Mighty good Doctor, I 'spect, but I
bet dat he couldn't cure de disease wot I
got."
I can doit confidently exclaimed die
Doctor, let me prescribe for your com
plaint. What is the matter with you?'.
Got an ole pocket book, and nuffia in
it, re$pondrd the darkey with a broad
grin, which spread through the crowd.
Mighty bad complaint remarked the
Doctor, I hava had a touch of that disease
tnytelf, and know exactly how to cure it.
Now, mv colored friend, instead of loafing
hunt Mnnlirnmprv dnincr nnthinir imt
traveL towards somebody's plantation, take
off that old coat of yours and work hard,
from sun up till sunset, as I have done since
I left General Lee's command ; and that
old pocket book of yours will soon be full
enough to get yno all you want. If you
have any other disease, I'll cure that be
sides, fori want to make a happy, content
ed man or you, while I am about it.
The darkey had jio more to say, and the
King of Pain sold faster than ever. .
Monfg. MaiL
Tna Infutejice or Newspapers. Daniel
Webster once remarked : Small is the
sum that is required to patronize a news
paper, snd amply rewarded is its patron.
I rare not how humble and unpretending
the gazette which he lakes. It is next to
impossible to fill a sheet with printed mat'
ter without putting in it something that is
worth the subscription price. 'Every pa ,
rrnt whose son is away from home at school
should supply him with a oewspsper.
well remember what a marked difference
IllPrP Wll DriWn Hint nl mw rhnlm9mm
who had and those who !ad not access to
new-papers. Other things being equal,
the first were always superior to the last in
debate, composition, and general intelligence."
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OiVicial reports show that from January
to July there were 63.376 cases of cholera
and 32,704 deaths in Italy. Sicily auSerti'
most. .
The Great Eastern has been chartered t
l-y i cable io May next between Brest and
New York.
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