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THE PATRIOT . PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT GREENSBORO, N. 0., - i . BY DUFFY XOBBHEAD. TEEMS Cash invariably In advance: One year $2, six ssootha $1-25- ! GT Any peraoa leading ft luUcriUn will I receive en copy ortUtf. : Kate of Advertisinir. tv-. . mLit Alwertlaemtmta aMe mdtanee ; T 1 lw Imo 2mos 3mos 6mo Ijt ft 1 ft 9. 1115 17 I U'l Court ordr, ix .T , rtJ foar week., o; Adn.im.tmU no- wka. m advance. t'..ij ntM for doable column adrerti- AW."" wkl noticM 50 per cent, additional. WWkJr cttantre. 33 per cent, additional. llontbljr chang. 25 per cent, additional. Yearl adrerti.ea.euU changed oarterlj when ordered EyObitoarie., orer ten line., charged a. adTertiaemenU payable in advance. Professional Cards. Jno. HjDillard. Jno. A. Oiltner. Murray F. Smith. Diliard, Qilmer &. Smith, ATTORNEYS AT LAW - and SOLICITORS IN BANKRUPTCY, Office over Bank of Greensboro, oppuaite Btrubow Ileus. TTIRACTICE in State and Federal Courts. I Sixrcial attention iriven to matter, in BankruDtcy. and cause, arising under Inter- 1 nal Revenue, in District Court of Western IiiatHcv of North Carolina. Collections in State and Federal Courts solicited. June 26, 137. 105ily. C. P. MlXDKNIUIX. JOHX N. STAPJX8. MENDENHALL & STAPLES, ATTO EYS AT LAW, GREEKSDOUO, N.C., Will practice in the Courts of Guilford, Rock- im'ham; DavidMn, Forsythe, Stokes. Ran- :dolth and Alamance : alm. U. S. Circuit and District i Courts. Special attention given to r..1Wti(-n( hi all parts ot the State, and to runt infliankrunu-y. jr Office one door North of Court.Houae. Jaa.27:ly f j . RALPH GORRELL, Attornf j and Counsellor at Law, Greensboro, N. C . , : "1 1 rlLi. practice in the courts of Alamance, ! 11 Uavidtmu, Guilford aud Raudol h, and ; lUnkruat courts. Office . o."0 Law Itow on WW Side of Court House. Promot attention t;iven to collecting, and I all othee buitiues committed to his care. April 27, le!71:ly Walter Clark. J. M. Mullen Gtark & Multen, Attorneys Vt Lavs t IIAL1FAX, N. C, PRACTICE iu all the Courts of Halifax, Martin, Northampton and Edgecombe counties. In the Supreme Court of North Carolina and in the Federal Courts. t3T Collections mad in all parts of North Carolina- mar 14:ly W. S J BALL, THOS. B. KXOGII, 1 BALL & KEOGLT, ; ATTORNEYS AT LAW, (Up Btairs, new Lindsay Building,) ' GRESN8BORO, X. C. Jan 12: ly D. A. & R. F. ROBERTSON, Surtreon Dentists. Ilaytn associa ted themselves in the practice of DENTISTRY, respectfully offer their profession al services to the citizens of Greensboro, and the surroun ding conn try. One or the other of them can always be found at their office on Lindaar'a corner up stairs, entrance East Market Street. Satisfactory reference given, if desired, from our respective patron, during the past twelve or fifteen year. 21Stf j STOP AT THE jYAllBOftOUGH HOUSE f Raleigh, N. C. G. W. Blacknell, Proprietor. 1 mith's New Hotel. I REIDSVILLE, N. C. 1 Board 1.S0 Per Day. , iT)tronage of our Triends and the Pnb fJ7, lie Solicited. I Li very" Stables connected with the Hotel 1 I J. W. SMITH & CO., j mar?:tf Proprietor. f ; pLAXTER'S hotel. rpiiiV HouMe is pleasantljipcat- l I' ed on East Street near the "Court ,Iious,and is ready for the reception o Boarders and Travelers. I the Table Is always supplied with the best the mar ket affords. ' THE STABLES .Are in charge ofcaieful and attentive host lers and no pains are spared in any res pect tp render guests comfortable. - j TECEBAE; 'Attached to the Planters is always sup plied ;with the best Wines, Liquors and 'Segari. Have lately been attached to this Hotel, jand parties wishing conveyances, can be I accomodated with Good Teams. I CyPrices as low, if not lower than anv other hotel in town. JOHN T. REESE, I !&-7 Proprietor. OYDEK HOUSE, . Alain Street, Salisbury, N. C. A FIRST CLASS HOTEI. EVERY DELICACY IN SEASON PajMngers and Baggage Conveyed Fxw i iof Charge. C. 8. BRWON. Proprie tor. CENTRAL HOUSE ! NO. 1408 MAIN STREET, Richmond, Virginia, mRANSIENT Board, with Lodging, $1 J- s per day. Board per week, ear supplied with the Finest Liqnors and Cigars. Meals at all hours Oysters iu eyery Biyie. j. MCCORMICK, Jnjy.20:ly Proprietor. (Formerly of Guilford,) Grocer&CommissionMerchant Charlotte, N. C. TEALER in all kind ot country produce, J- f such as grain, flour, meal, bacon, lard, Jke.T g8' Pu,tr7' f"' liqnors, tobacco, How a specialty. nor 13;SmpJ Two inches, 2 o o - te- Five V - 5 8 12 16 25 30 T i Column, 7 10 14 1? " JO &0 V. ... . . r Oil 9 AO iu-x i "i- u io - r i bt"-- ... r Ml 15 20 30 40 75 li CTJ . llie: Oreengboixj' - ' I I- ' - ' - 'I . , Established in 1824. Business Cards. J. A. Pritchett, g .taDinet-MaKr 'ZS Furniture Dealet Mnnannvor ANNOUNCES to the citixena of Oreena boro and Guilford County that he U bet ter prepared now than erer to provide them riVDERTAKIXG. lie ia prepared to furnish, at TWO HOURS' NOTICE, Coffin, of an atjle, and ha. a fine HEARSE built expreaalj for the nae ot the public' AJIurderafur FUKNITUKE. COFFINS. &c.,pnmptly attended to at moderate charges. Any hat ketable produce taken in exchange for work, feb 22: ly J. E. O'Sullivan, Tin Plate & Sheet IronWorker, DsULKU IX Planished, Japaaacd Sc Itaapcd TIN WARE. STOVES, PUMPS, Lightning Rods, oV.; Stencil Plates, BKASS CHECKS for Hotel. Saloon., dec. Gas Fitting, Roofing, Guttering,diC.,prompty executed. Merchant, are invited to examine my stock before purcbaaiug elsewhere. jan 25:ly A. J. BR OC KM ANN, Manufacturer of Cigars, SOUTH ELM STREET, TT EEPS constantly on band a large stock XV. of the finest ciifars. of Havana and do- meatie leaf ; also hnett brands ot Smoking tobacco, onun. npet, ciirar-Hoiuers. and a selected stock of musical instruments. He keeps constantly maiiufactarins; cigars and can promptly fill order, on shortest no tice. ian 25:ly-pd Wateh-Maker, Jeweler &c Optician, Creentbsro, K. C, Has constantly on hand a splendid assortment of Fashionable Jewelry, and some splendid JTatcht and Clocks, Which wiU be told. CJlieap Cor ComU: fy Watches. Clock.. Jewelry. Sewing Ma chine, And Pistols repaired cheap and on abort notice. (Jail opposite the UJd Albncrut Hotel, East Market Street. 10-ly ty An assorted stock of Gnns, Pistols, Cartridges, &c, always on hand. DAYID SCOTT, Jeweller and Watchmaker, North Elm St., East side of the Court House Will Work for Half-Price In impairing Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. april 25: ly N. II . D. WILSON, UFE& FIRE INSimJNCK AGENT, Greensboro, N. C, REPRESENTS first-class Companies with an aggregate capital of over THIRTY MILLIONS DOLLARS, and can carry a full line at fair rates. Office, up stairs over Wilson &. Sho ber's Bank, under the efficient supervision W. II. HILL, who will at all times be glad to wait on all who desire either Life or Fire Polioies. mar 14: ly GROCERIES AND PRODUCE ! J. W. Scott & Co., East Market St., GREENSBORO, N. C. KEEP constantly on hand a full and well selected stock of groceries and country produce. AW hard ware, wood and willow war and tin ware. " Priees a. low as any reliable house, jau 25: ly Qiias. Q. Yates, MAXUFACTUKia OK Tin, Sheet Iron & Copper Ware AND dealer in Dry Goods, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Wood Ware, Lamps. Crockery, nd Clans Ware, Groceries, Stoves, and as sorted Goods, generally. No. V.1 South Elm Street, Greensboro, N. C. cash, or barter. Goods sold low for jan 19: ly N. H. D. Wilson. Chas. E. Shobek. 1VIL.SO.Y &. 8UODER, BANKERS, GREENSBORO, C., (South Elm Street, opposite Express Office. BUY aud sell Gold and Silver, Bank Notes, State and Government Bond., Rail Road Stocka and Bonds, &c Ef Receive Money on deposit subject to SIGHT CHECK; and allow interest In kind upon tune deposits of CURRENCY or SPECIE. Discount Business Paper! Collections made it all accessible points. Sept. 16th, ly - J. H. HARRIS. Saddle & Harness Maker, GREENSBORO, N. C. T7" EEPS on hand, and makes to order, first A. cl Saddles Bridles Harness, and everything pertaining to his business. Orders receive prompt attention. Retir ing done at moderate rates, nov 13:3m C. W. OGBURH. Qhristmas Presents. A largj and . elect stock of Books. Ch na and va Ware. Mechanical Toys, &c, suitable for Christmaat Presents, js re.eired. Call and examine. M rs. c. r. Leo, Having received a new 7-ocl avo Piano, Is prepared to give satisfactory Lessors m MC8IC at red need rates. OLD INSTITUTE, 16 fctf Greensboro, April 5th. PLOWS Td. Watt Plows all sues . Extra Points and SlUea for sale by Aug. 1872. JAMES SLOANS SONS'. to s v n THE OLD TOMBSTONE. aI!f MEMORY OS" OC MOTHIB. The following little poem, which pos sesses considerable merit, was written by Henry Robertson, a Gnil'ord yoath.whoae educational advantages have been con fined entirely to the country schdolhonse. While wandering thro' an old church-yard One evening still and lone, Beneath a rude old cedar tree I saw an aged stone I nerer saw the stone before, Tho' years had past and gone Since it was reared above the grave Which now it rested on. Oppressed with care, I wandered there, And stooped to read the praise That oft is chiselled on the stone Where fame or fortune lays. But, ah ! no words of praise it bore. No faults it tried to smother ; It only bore the dear old words, "In memory of our mother." Long, long I stood in solitude, And spelled it o'er and o'er, For time had chiselled marks between What art had done before Art once had planed the corners square, But time had hewed them round, And loved onea once above her grave Had reared a flowery mound ; But, lo! the wintry blasts of time Had withered all the flo vers That used to bloom above her grave In summer's tunny hours ; The little heap that loved ones reared With throbbing hearts of pain, The foot of time with solemn tread Had levelled down again ; The marble stone, once snowy white, Was turned to dusky gTay It looked as every scene around Was smitten with decay Mv heart was full ; where were the hands That reared the marble page T For e'en the rude old stone itself Was stained with signs of age. But still the dear old words were there I stood till close of day, And read them o'er and o'er again, And then I turned away. Years since bare past but still the words Are written on my brain; I know I shall remember them While memory does remain ; And often when I wander where The sons of fortune lay, And view the costly monuments Reared o'er their worthless clay, With name and date upon one side, Their fame upon tho other, I often think upon the stone, "In memory of our mother." Disaster, Drink, and Death. 1 Once Prosperous San Francisco Merchant's Fall in Ketc York. Yesterday afternoon, ClaudeMen- tanges, a rreuchman, aged thirty - eignt, ol loo w est Twenty -eignt street, committed suicide by shoot ing himself in the mouth with a re volver. Mentangcs came to this city about two years ago from SauFran- sco. where he did an extensive business iu importing boots and shoes. Soon after his arrival in 2Jew York he speculated largely and lost heavily. His losses so operated on his miud that he took to drink, and what be had not lost in singulation was spent tor drink. As a last re sort he went to shoemaking to sup port his wife aud child. With his family he occupied Miserable apart ments on the top floor of the house iri Twenty-eighth street. The back room was used as a kitchen, aud it was in this room that he had his work bench and did his work. For a week past he had been drinking to excess, and his wife tried to prevent it by taking the money from him. He had credit, however, in the neighboring distil lery and always managed to pro cure what drink he wanted. Yes terday "afternoon he started out saying that he was going to the grocery lor some kerosene. His wife suspectiug that he was goiug to the liquor store watched him ; and her suspicious were confirmed. On his return she scoulded him se verely. "Miserable sot," said she, "you are drinkiug up the money which should go to buy bread for your family. You are a worthless fel low, and I have an idea of leaving yon aud tcking the boy with me." Mentanges made no reply to this tirade of his wife, but went into the back room and began working. His wite, having exhausted herself by her angry abuse, lay on the bed to restore her nerves. Suddenly she was startled by the report of a pistol. Shejumped from the bed and ran to the kitchen. Lying ou the floor, with the blood flowing from his mouth, was her husband. In his right hand he grasped the revolver with which he had done the deed. His wife bent over hira and said : "Oh, Claude, why have you done this!" The dying man opened his eyes and answered : "It is true that I have. acted bad ly, but yoa have acted worse than a brute to me. You have scolded me until, with my other misfor tunes, my life was a burden to me. When you stopped your abuse just now I came into this room and went to work. I began to tbink ot my troubles and resolved to end my life. I took the revolver from the drawer, where yoa know I kept it. Then I placed the muzzle in my mouth and fired.I do not regret the act, and wish to die." The alarm was given, and Dr. Hustings, of 214 West Seventy eighth street, was summoned. The ball had passed through the throat and lodged behind his ear. Men tanges was carried to Belle vue Hospital. Late last night . he was reported dying. New York Sun, 17th Dec WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1873. Productiveness of North Carol I Una.. :j . j ; , -"'- ' And on that farm that lies a little more than a stone's throw from yonr village, we all know that, that energetic farmer and practical man, Col. N. M. Long, is raising success fully, mule, horses, cattle, hogs, sheep and grasses together with larce crops of cotton, wheat and corn, almost without stint or me ure, and it is known to the indi gent, and it may be known to some of the indolent, that he has been giving it away by the cart load for the last forty yearsJ Hp in the hill country of our county, my neighbor, William H. Thorne, in the vicinity j of Little ton, without theaid of commercial fertilizers, through j his entire crop of cottonhas made abale and a third to the acre,while in the same neigh borhood, Dn Patterson aud Nathan Allen have made, each to the acre, without the use of the fertilizers, one hundred bushels of corn. And upon the high pressure aystem,Heu ry Williams, of Wrarreu, and Little berryMauning, ot this county,have brought up lands to two bales of cottou to the acre, ; and Henry A. Iloijse, of Gaston, to sixty bushels of wheat on 1 acres, and thought bis crop good at an average of thirty-five bushel?, while our sister county of Edgecombe, by a system of composting and under-draining, has brought the wettest of her sloshes into successful cultivation, and has made herself the banner courvty for cotton in the State. Time wonld fail us to" specify the heavy yields of corn, oats, rice, wheat and potatoes of the tide wa ter section, where, with the excep tion of marl, the use of fertilizers is almost unknown. So mnch for the productive capacities of this valley. Now, in the impressive language of our excellent State Geologist, hear a few of the comparisons instituted between North Carolina and the great North "West. Iowa, that rep resentative State, possesses, says Professor Kerr, soil of great fertili ty tickle it with a hoe, and it laughs with a harvest but what has she besides a cliuiate.tue rigors of which limit her agricultural pos sibilities aud narrow the farmer down to two or three crops, spring wheat aud corn, and he must grow these, no matter what the price and sacrifice, one-half the crop to pay the marketing of the other half. Per contra. As for crops, North Carolina has all crops for her own ; her wheat is better than Iowa's, her corn is tall corn. One solid field of nine hundred acres in Hyde county, has produced in one season fifty thousand bushels,which sold at not less than one dollar a bushel. Iowa often sells corn at fifteen cents, and not infrequently finds more profit in using it for fuel. Other cereals thrive in North Carolina.. For cattle rais ing she has conspicuous advant ages, lue state oucht to be the paradise of the wool-grower and of the man who would find money in mutton. She is inferior to no State in capacity to produce fruits of all kiuds, apples of various appel la- tions, ditto of grapes. Central North Carolina is destined to be come one ot the greatest grape growing countries in the world. As for peaches, she is already com ing into competition withDelaware, and is ahead of Jersey by three weeks at least. See what the census says about uer tobacco and her cotton ; con sult her authorities regarding: her uiiueral resources, and you will find she has iron ores of all kinds. Her manufacturers are all making for tunes, and she has thousands of water powers still unused. North Carolina has a soil capable of being made highly fertile, and when im proved, is more permanent, owing to underlayiug clay, than the drift soil of the prairies. The entire shadhill country is underlaid with marl, an accumulation of macire delris, 50 per cent, of which is cal carous matter, aud which crops out all along the banks of her naviga ble rivers, aud is free by the hun dred tons to whomsoever will back up a boat and rake it down. As to climate, there are none like hers noue aud in proof of the com bined advantages here presented, and especially to the eyes of the stranger, a late visitor from Cana da, iu coming into our section in search of land for himself and his people after au exploration, declar ed iu my hearing to his friend and traveling companion, that while Moses t;ot only iu veiw of the land of promise, yet we, in our wander- tigs, have reached it, it is here; virtually' exclaiming, Eureka! Eu reka ! Ours, my countrymen, is a goodly heritage. Let ns live to m prove, develope and cherish it, et us never look back, but learn new lessons of energy and wisdom rom the things we have suffered, amid all discouragements, and in considerations of such an inheri- auce, let us no longer hang our harps upon the willows, but in the spirit and language of another peo nle. and another acre, declare. "If I forget thee, oh I Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning; if I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my cbief joy.w Eight members have been elect ed to the Forty-third Congress who will have served at the end of that term ten consecutive years, name ly : Blaine, ot Maine; Dawes and Hooper, of Massachusetts; Kelly, Jiandall and Scofield, of Pennsylva nia; Garfield,of Ohio,and Eidridge. of Wisconsin. Do Climates Change T 1 Old people complain' that the seasons are warmer, colder,or more rainy than when they were young. Their comments are ridiculed be cause most persons believe that no very marked changes have or ever will take place in a section bf coun try where stability in nature is a settled fact that is, snows in win- A 1 - t - ter, suowera in April, and trees have leaves in spring. . A L 1 . . . ST . -AiuiusDoena alteration ? in rar, tainly going on from age to age, more strongly evident in some parts of the country than in oth ers. : .' i -i s - s iiere ; are illustrations. Two thousand years ago the climate o Italy was far colder than now. The Loire and Rhone in -ancient Gaul used to freeze over annually. Juv enal says the Tiber froze so firmlv in his day that; the ice had to be cut to get at the water. Horace indi cates the presence of ice and snow in the streets of Rome, and Ovid asserts that the Black Seaf freezes over every year. f oo extreme was the cold at that far-off period in history,' that it stanas cnronicied by the ancients that in Gaul, Germany, Pannonia, and Thrace, snow positively cover ed the ground bo long as to prevent the cultivation of olives,1 grapes auu tuner iruiis, wnicn are raised tnere at the present time in abun dance. , Ice or snow, to any consid erable amount, would now be n phenomenon in Italy. ' i What Becomes of a Deer's Horn. A correspondent of the Land and Water is of the opinion that the stag horns annually shed are eaten up by the deer. Sometimes they are louna in the forests untouched, but generally they are partially or almost entirely gnawed away. "xnat ninas tnus eat. them is cer tain from, the concurrent testimony of very many deer talkers. I add mine, having very often seen lit done. I j remember, on one: occa sion, woen we were waiting iior a particular stag in the herd, we were much bothered by a hind who came twice, at long intervals, to munch at a horn which lay 'twixt us and him. My deer talker tells me he has never seen a stag eat a horn, but he believes they do doth, because he has seen a stag eat the bone of a dead deer, and because he has often seen the hinds eating horns. He has shot a hind in the act of eating a horn. He had long watched her gnawing' at it. She had repeatedly lifted it clear from the ground, and it was dangling from herinouth when the shot." ; The question here presented is an interesting one. Let us have an expression of opinion on the subject from the hunters of Ameri ca. The Words We Use. It has been calculated that our language, including the nomencla ture ot the arts aud sciences, con tains 100,000 words; yet, of this immense number, it is surprising how few are in . common use. To the great majority, even of educat ed men, three-fourths of these words are almost as unfamiliar as the Greek or Choctaw. Strike from the lexicon all the words nearly ob solete all the words of special arts or professions all the words con fined iu their r usage to particular localities all the words which even the educated speaker uses on ly in homeopathic doses and it is astonishing info what a Lilliputian volume your Brobdignagian Web ster or Worcester will have shrunk. It has been calculated that a child uses only about one hundred words; aud unless -he belong to the educat ed classes he will never employ more than three or four hundred. A distinguished American scholar estimates that few speakers or wri ters use as many as" ten thousand words ; ordinary persons of fair in telligence, not over three or four thousand. Even the great orator, who is able to bring into the field, in the war of words, half the vast array of light and heavy troops which the vocabulary affords, yet contents himself with a far less im posing display of verbal force Even the allknowing Milton, whose wealth of words seems amazing,aud whom Dr. Jehnson charges with using "a Babylonish dialect," uses only eight thousand ; and Shake speare himself, the "myriad-minder," only fifteen thousand. These facts show that the difficulty, of mastering the vocabulary of a new tongue is greatly overrated. Female Loveliness. Do not think you can make a girl lovely if you do not make her happy. There is not one restraint you put on a good girl's nature there is not one check you give to her instincts of affec tion or of effort which is all the more painful because it takes away the brightness from the eyes of j in nocence, and the charm from the brow of virtue. The rerfect loveli ness of a woman's countenance can only consist in the majestic peace which is found in tlie memory of happy fcnd useful years, full of sweet records ; and from the join ing of this with that yet more ma jestic childishness, which is still full of change and promise opening's al ways, modest at once and bright with hope of better things to be won and to be bestowed. There an old age where there is still that promise it is eternal youths Bus kin. ' ' The Chicago and .Northwestern Railroad Company owns and oper ates 1,900 miles of track. . u t Fatnot. For the Patriot. I. S. P OO BY WHO f The following expresses ia harrowing phrase the sad experience of an ex-editor. If we thought he wouldn't see this, we would say there is "more truth than poe try in it." I i Great fools there are throughout th land,,-., And some of them first-class, I know, They may be seen on every hand, No matter where on earth you go Bat first of fools that eats a eafter, And many times wise men have said it. Is he that prints and mails a paper . Year after year upon a credit. A Horrible Story. What an Engineer Bid with a Man who Disarranged a Railroad Track. i As the day of Cluck's execution approaches, horrible and ghastly topics are aiscussed in workshops, around the eveuing stove, in the corner grocery, and in many places of public resort. Children shudder aud cling closer to their mother's Knee, as the garrulous old visitor narrates some story of hanging, or the details of some dark crime that occurred when she was a girl. The solemn, the mysterious, and the su perstitious, which always surround a hanging, seem to be in the air : ana, aitnougn the topic is a dis gusting one. it must be confessed -not to the credit of humanity that a morbid appetite in the pub lic craves and demands the minut est detail of the horrible barbarity. One of the many recalled stories ! which are borne upon the very winu, me ioiiowmg was torn to a Sentinel reporter a night or two ago. and, to add to the horrid surround ings of the story, he was in a coffin shop viewing the coffin which. is to contain the last remains of the mur derer Cluck.' The storv may be a true one: more likely it is false, but it is giv en as it is detailed, aud it may be that 8omeone still living may re member the circumstance and write ine taie. oome years ago there was a well known engineer. whose name is not given, for good and sufficient reasons, ran a pas senger tram on one of the most popular and most traveled roads that run out of Indianapolis. At a certain place on the road, every night for about a week, as the pas senger tram run by this engineer came thundering along, it was cer tain to be thrown from the track by obstructions placed there. Sev eral of these mishaps to the train caused loss of life, and the company was becoming considerably alarm ed, and the ability of the engineer was seriously questioned. One night, as the unfortunate train was uearing the fatal spot,f the engin neer, who had been sitting glum and silent at the throttle, turned to bis nremau and said : "It this traiii jumps the track at that place to-night, you follow me : DON'T STOP FOR ANYTHING, but keep close after me. some body has been throwing this train off the track,and I'm going to catch him.77 When the train arrived at the usual place it struck a misplaced rail and was bauked. The engin eer, closely followed by the fire man, jumped from the engine and ran into a cornfield and started up a man that lav coucealed there. Upon bringing the culprit back to the wreck the enraged passengers wanted to lynch him, but the engi neer, a stern, cold,vdetermined man, prevented them, saying that he would take charge of him, and through the intercession of the con ductor, the trembling wretch was eft in charge of the engineer, 'ihe ." i train was ngnieu anu was soon speeding on its way. The prison- er, wno naa comesseu ms ucuuisu ness, had been seated on the engine and the fireman placed beside him as a guard. When the train was on a smooth piece of track, bowling along at a speed of twenty-five miles an hour, the engineer beckon ed the fireman to stand out of the wav. The fireman stepped aside, and the engineer picked up a round stick of wood and struck the crimi nal such a blow upon the head that stunned him. He then caught the quivering form ot the poor wretch, and, opening the furnace doors, threw his body into the hot, seething hell of name. Ihe doors were shut, the train rattled on, and never, until upon his death-bed the engineer confessed the fact, was it ascertained what had been the fate of the fiend who had been in the habit of throwing the train off the track. Indianapolis Sentinel. Curious and Useful Crow. J. Snyder, of Virginia, owns a crow which serves as a substitute for dogs, cats and all other domestic sentinels. He destroys every irog about the well ; allows a mouse no chance for his live; drives away hawks from the poultry, and bids air to make the best squirrel dog in the country. He readily spies the squirrel, either upon the fence or on the trees, and, with a natural antipathy to the squirrel tribe, his shrill, keen note is readily detected by his owner, accompanied by rap id darts up and down, and the own er, is thns. led to the game. The most remarkable feature about the crow is that ne mvanaDiy seeps m . . if 1 five or six days rations ahead of time, well concealed.' Say "shoes and socks shock Su san9 three times right fast. New Series Ifo; 254. Sara - Patch-His Remarkable Who has not beard of Sam Patch, his famous leap,' and his tragic death f . Many ;t persons v imagine that he was killed , at Niagara, ;it was at Genessee Falls," however, near Rochester, New York. Some person has been interviewing the oldest inhabitant of that flourish ing and interesting citv. who 1 saw the last leap nearly forty years ago. A staging had been erected a hun dred feet above the boiling .cauld ron below. Amid the deathlike stillness of thousands of eager spec tators, the adventurous Patch ( ran a few steps and gave one; leap into me air ana Tell, cutting the mist like a lead sinker, two hundred feet into the seething whirlpool. As he left the staging his; body assumed an oblique position," his head fore most, but above his feet. As he struck the water there was a dread ful silence, while the populace a waited with choking breath his re appearance. Ore minute two min utes three mirutes and no signs of the daring jumper. ' Then the people set up a loud wail a ; long murmer ot sorrow. j This was the end of Sam Patch. They say he had been drinking during the morning, and failed to Keep his -feet together and his body perpenaicuiar, as on previous occa sions. So when he struck the wa ter the breath left his body, and he was Knocked senseless. A month or so afterward they found his body away down below Rochester, drift- eu upon tne rocks. In the late election. Gen. Grant's popular majority was 759.137. In 1868, it was .300,588. The total number of votes cast for General Grant was 3,592,984, and fori Mr. Greeley, 2,833,847. In 18G8, Mr. Seymour's vote was 2.703.G00 1 and General Grant's 3,013,188. The vote in the electorial college I will stand tbreehundred for General Grant, against sixty-six for Liberals and Democrats. The Republicans carried thirtv-one of the thirtv-sev. en States. Washington Republican. In the late election. Africa, for the first time, voted. That vole. without being early and often, was 880.000 ; more than Gen. Grant's maiority. In other words, a maior- ity of the white people iof the Uni ted States voted against Grant, and ne was indebted for his his election. after the Pennsylvania; frauds, to the votes of the enlightened Afri cans. The October election in Pennsylvania was the turning point the Gettysburg of the fight. If that had been a fair election, Gree ley would have been elected, i But that election was undeniably a fraud, aud that carried Grant ough. But even that was not enongh, without the help of Africa. Richmond Whip. r j . A Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune stands a ghast at the revelations of the cen sus in reference to our foreign pop ulations. The Germans,' Irish, Scan dinavians, English, Welsh, Ital ians, Chinese and others' are pour- ing in upon us in sncn crowas as to threaten to swallow up and cause entirely to disappear, something af ter the fashion of the Dodo, the typical American which might ethaps be, after all a blessing in disguise. Of the thirty-eight and a half millions of population, five and half millions are of foreign birth, and this fact causes to flow but few of the tears of lamentation shed by this correspondent. Over ten millions of out inhabitants have a foreign father, and ten other mil- ions have a foreign mother. " Here, you young rascal, wake up and give an account of .yourself. Where have you been V " After the girls, father." " Did you ever know me to do so when I was a boy V " No sir, but mother did." The Secretary of the Treasury has received from Boston two $1,- 000 coupon bonds of the loan of March 30th, 1862, with the coupons attached from January 1st, j 1872, with instructions to cancel them, or so dispose of them as to result in a gift of their value to the United States. It is reported that M. de Lesseps entertains the idea of cutting a ship canal through the Isthmus of Corinth, where excavating less than five miles in length would open be tween the Gulf of Lepanto and the Gulf of Egina, and makeMorea an island. An absent minded storekeeper in Wilmington went to bed on Thurs day night without closing his front door. A colored man, who thorough ly believes honesty to be the lest policy, passing, stopped and awoee the forgetful man and called his at tention to the exposed condition of his premises. A wedding was recently broken up at Columbus City, Iowa, in the following mauner: The preacher asked if any one had any objections; the young lady said, " les, 1 dpn't want to marry him." The expect ant groom folded his Jbroad-cio and silently stole away, The population of the UnitedH States and of the German Empire is about the same--33l500l00a each. Mail trabs are to be established between New ; York and Chicago, to make the distance In twenty :iour hours. ' Couldn't Corner Tlicsa; ThVc&cr cby a wcrtuy tody of Peoria detected her two sons' laugh ing immoderately.; Suspecting that she ras the cause of this disrespect till mirth, the good woman in vol un f arily loosened her slipper and call ed up the culprits. " ' T'' ! !, ;"Thomas, what made yoa laugbr7 Nothing made me laugh; I laughed on purpose. . . : ; -i ; r "None of your impudence, sir. John,1 why were yoa laughing at the door just now f" f s ? ; J I John (eagerly) f Wasn't laugh ing at the door, r .1 was laughing at Toiaf i j ---''; ;;4;,'-: : !r -T-- ;Tara " And I was laughing at John." j ' :- :'(. i -;i A The matron assumed a , dignified . atitude.t-vTr3-r--i-vf;Wwi f . i "Now,. my boys, what were yoa both laughing at V r " s H i: K iJBoys (in fa triumphant shout) ; " We were both laughing at once H ; ; The good,lady summoned, all, her energies for a final effort, and resol- . red to corner the boys by a settling question. j.1' Now then I want yoa to tell me TpmTr what made ; John laugh and ypa laugh 1? r 'i.'i-.j' ' jTbm (indescribable)-r-u Joan did not laugh a new laugh, 'it was the j same old laugh p. f-ft.,;M.!: - ! -I Neither of the boys got whipped; ! the sliDDer slid back to its accus- b tomed place, and to this day nobody knows what those boys laughed at. i.r I Billings Goodelusiius fbir -That iwont borry nor lend espe ; sbiTly lenditi-"- vti; ! That i ; wont "swop iannyk horses with the deakon. ; u . That i wont sware enny, unless I " am under oath. --; ' '?!'. ' That the world owes me a living1 I provided i earn it, v 1 1'1 - -J sThat if a man kails me a phool i : wont ask him tew prove it. i ! ' ; That will live within my inkum, ; if i hav to get trusted tew do it, IThat I believe real good lies j are. get.ing skarser and skarser every day.. .! i-d---ii'bli'f -m SThat i wont crow enny kats. " Spontaneous kats have killed the . - blsiiiess. ' "1 , : IThat poverty miy be a blessing, . ! but if it iz, it iz a blessing t in dis i That i will take my whisky here- after straight straight to the gut- ! ter. j- p?1 if ; That i wont smoke enny more se t gars, only at sumbody eise'S; ex- ij pense. -i ;tRL That i wont swop dogs with no ij man, unless i kan swop two for one. j IThat i wont wear enny more tite i boots, if i hav tew go barefeet ttew do It..,. ;tr-M - ii That i will try bard to be honest, h but it .will be just my darned luck to miss it. ! i "Mi That i will love my mother-in-law if it takes all the money i kan earn - tew do it. -Mi'. ' 7-4-m :V' That if a man tells me a ! mule wont kik, . i will believe what he says without trieing iU v$ VuLiM iThat i will lead a moral life, even if i go lonesum and lose a good deal of fun by it. : : - f : " :':-!-. That i wont advise ennybdy, un- til i know the kind: of advice they are anxious to follow. . -Ait- if That when i bear a man bragging oh his ancestors i wont envy him, but will pitty the ancestors.! ; ;j l That no man shall beat me in po- 'lteness, not so long as; politeness kontinues tew be as cheap as it iz now.- ' -t . 'r - 4 -vl. i. Finally, i will search fori things that are little, for things that; are lonesum, avoiding all torch lite pro Ses8huns, bands of brass ( music, wimmin's rights con venshuns, and grass widders generally. : ; S - ...... - J: i. ,; ; urtnicing jBTom a ixiay g &noe. .' About a centary ago it was i no. un-. common practice on' the part of! il "fast men" to drink bumpers to the health of a lady out of her 'shoe. The earl of Cork; in an amusing pa per in the Connxosseur (No. 19,) re lates au incident of this Kind ;-and, o carry the ctmpument sun furth er; he states that the shoe was or dered to be dressed and to be serv ed up for supper. " The ' cook set himself seriously . to work npon it ; lie . pulled the upper part ! (which ; was ot fine damask) into fine fihreds. and tossed I them up in a 1 ragout. minced the sole cut the wooden heel into thin slices, fried them,: in batter, and placed them round the dish for garnish.. The company testified their affection for the lady by eating beatily of this exquisite impromptu? Within the) last score of - years the writer was present at a dinner of Irish squires, when the health ol a, beautiful gin, whose bot was as pretty as her faceJ'was drunk in champagne from one of heir satin shoes which an admirer of the lady; bad coutrived io obtain ' possession of. London Athenaeum. - I- My first is the name of a pecu lar kind of butter, my second of a peculiar kind of liquor, and my whole is the name of a portion of a famiy weapon.. What is my name t Answer--Kamrpd. j liam ; is tne teculiar kind ot butter, and rod S 1:1. t.. . i :. i . - goes iue iuo ii;.-umw. There are i six white people i in j Alaska. They ara very neighborly -with each other ; the little;; matter of 300 miles distance, or the slight inconveuience of ;Jta.king.tbeif "bed and board" along, proving no hin drance to sociale culture. A! day's chat is considered ; a fashionable call. .'" J- -:i':-'"t'-- j'l'll I: A Rhode Island factory boasts a bell COO years old.,, It was made.as the inscription i declares, by i Peter Least; of fAmsterdam, iirl2C!atMl was brought to th id .country from the West Indies' among a lot ot re fuse metal. -: ":'Y' ' ' :Hk&.f R The Chicago, -Rock Island -rand pacific railroad has an engine thaV has traveled 1,000,OQO. miles r equal to more than 40 tmres" around ' the globe.. iMi'i Y; !ij i ;in Colorado, when at lady wears j diamond jewelry to any extent," she 4 1H 1LIII1I1HI III IIV . LIJCT IIHU f as being well "salted." - -1$ ."TIM lit
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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