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V jnl rA ir uJLL Ajk. 1 1 J L V, I ' . V .. . ft I ' , I ... 4 .III 1 H 1 l r ; L JL - jA. J. -L I J Ni v J "' v ' ' " i '"" ' ' ' ' " T -. ' - -.- t'.a :-. . . r i I: 1 1 I1 ESTABLISHED IN OI,LAS LAST j'MRTATIOV. I I ami KittJ. and Dolly is ray twin sister. I was always sedate. mother; used to sav: but Dolly was 1 giddy, and tondof flirting. i- ; I When we were seventeen. Dollv i.lfccame engaged, with our mother's f consent, to Frank YVHmot. a voting i$now- lot twenty-four, son of a MUMin:ii iri-o aim uueery in manner nu disposition. He was very! m lalgent to Dolly, for lie felt so con fident ot her love, and was himself so loyal And sincere that the adini- ration she excited was his triumph; Miv,iiceuuui iviiu wuicii sue reueiv ed and encouraged it never. pained Limy though mother and I used to watch her witli senoiiA unriAfvU i- ' .-rj jSpmeiimes our mother would 'say 'i' j aifew impressive words; then Dolly f i,. ,wiuju turow ner: arms round her, !j ana j, witn kjsscs assure ner she I ! v would be a" better girl, or she would put a 'little, with tears in Jicr ill ; bfjgtit blue eyes. She would be I very demure through two balls, ; aim at tue iniru worse .man everj cjircvlyt could I'rank get one waltz tor himsjelfT ' ' . I . 'pne evening he brought lo our ' house a cousin of his, a barrister a V man soriie j eurs older than himself. i was Irather famousthough only " thirty, being iin acute lawyer, and 'consequently looked up to at the Miar. j ;.. r . -, vl)ollyowned to me that evening : thUt Frank had confided to her that I Was Jack Dacre's jtleal woman.! "i'l !"So don't blush ,sou-ngrily, dar- iiijg," said shet 'for it would be the ' uiost delightful, arrangement.. He is (Frank's idal man and dearest ! ljieud. , It would be the happiest i thing fbtj us all F v And Dolly gave . me a ling ami a kiss, and ran oil' to bt?l. -. J - ! ! jMr. Dacre came very often after that one; visit, and. I soon -found "hoi was ihy ideal man, for he stf ange- . ly resembled my father, both in. manners; and chivalrous courtesy tojwomen, well as in appear ance. It was with a chill at my heart that I was the first to make ; the discovery that he was tailing inllove srith Dolly he, the soul of ; honor, seemed beM itched by the J ch'arms Of his. bosom-friend's affi- a need wife. . 1 knew it before he j ditl, but jof course not before Dolly, who had a. genius for unerringly detecting every- symptou however objscure.jof datning love, either in her own ifcaser. another's.; jMy mother and: Frauk were ut I r terly bliud to the danger. "I was very unhappy, and exceedingly sory' flor-Dolly, for Frank, for Mr. .Ddcre, and, I own it, for j myself; for, though I had not fallen in love . tri'th MrJ Dacre, I must say he was the onlyiman I had Reen whom II 1 sou Id fall in love with. - jVn accident brought matters to a climax. .. i - ! . ! Ye were sitting in the drawincr ro6iu one evening alter dinner, wlien a noise in the street drew us to the window. The pole of a car riage hal entered the shoulder of a cab horse. jDoIly became illand 'faint at jthe sight, and Mrr Dacre, i wlio wasj at her side, threw his arm aronud her to save her from fall- ing. Ilti led her to a sofa and :; stood aside as Frank drew near l hieS; but from -that night he never caine nojinore lie and I had only sepn the halt petmaut way in U; which Dolly had turned from ji Fauk, had caught another expres sion on her face, had seen her vivid f-bifish. ; ,-; :. ' j- i ;-, !From that evening she became ! ;cold, petulaiit, teasing to Frank. - .fit first lie laughed, then was hurt, ;' aiijd fimtjl- the engagement -j was j: brbken off. NTuisis soon told, but i; jvviat my mother ond I suffered mpst be Imagined. I dared neith ; erfto tellj he- the trutli nor to hint ; to Dollv t hat I knew to whom he'r heiirt was given, though I loved her o dearly ;: and 1 felt: sure that ths xvasvtbel first true love ot her determined, decided, lift'. This somewhat stern man was sure to . ch'arni our little butterfly, if she lut iced him at all. ' ! . Yj Iother rand I arranged that Diflly should go away on a short - yiifit, -1 Frank was to come "one evening to return the letters Dolly hail vseittl him. They would not ; feel the abruptness of this rupture soj' much! as if they were placed personally by him in my hands; aid I hail, his letters also to -give hijn.. Mother was quite unequal to se'ejng hini, for she loved him dear- lyand the task was left to me. 'I was not sorry; fori felt I could say all that was Jikely to comfort him, loHng both of them so dearly. I So poor Frauk produced his sor- roSvful little packet, received the! oie I liad forrhim, and stoml lean ing against- the chinlnev-liec,, while 1 sat quite unable Tto say a I xyord, v bjit with tears- . dropping j( quietly from my eyes. At last he told inejhe knew DolI had been faithless to him. He felt sure she aiid Jacfc I Dacre loved each other; fttfd he spoke so humbly to himself, aud as if it was quite to be expect ed that his cousin should' be pre ferred atiove any other man, thatll was greatly touched, and my tears ; ejl faster and faster. .""Jack is the soul of honor, Kitty; jut I must make it clear to him that he is free to-do as his heart dictates His and her happiness must not be wrecked, j I will get my father to send me to our branch bouse in India, and will not return till they are marridd. Jack is rich enough to marry at oiice. I shall embajk'on Thursday." I ; i Then he cbargcJ me with tender oiessings ior Jiolly, and, at his re qijest, I went; to ask my mother to" . bid him I jfarewell. Presently she glided lu pale as death. She held out hep trembling hand in silence; but Frank folded her in his arms, aud she sobbed on his breast. 1 stood by weeping bitterly; ami -when we were somewhat calmer, Ir,ank embraced us both finally, and, placing fine In. my mother's arms, left us. Poor fellow, how 1825. brave be was, how gentle and pa tient! ... ; i , In a mouth from that time Dolly was affianced t;u Mr.' Dacre, and the marriage was arranged to take place at. the beginning of. a long vacation. We were by this time convinced that it was 'the! best thing that could happen.' No one could sec Dolly and doalrt that this was the only man she had loved, nis calm intensecharacterimnress- ed her, his great talents awed hen and her pretty: innocent pride in her manly lover, her meekness aud quietness, were most promising symptoms of happiness in her inar ried life. I. .-It j,. . ; Dear mother! was so supremely happy! I was - yerj' fond of my new brother; he was such a power for good and peace in our homo that we never had lceii so con tented before.!! Frank wrote freely to us, manly, patient letters, fullot unselfish interest in all around him. His sorrow had i sweeted. not em bittered his character. He had set himself to alleviate his anguish bv doing good, and bis first act on reaching his .destination had been to use 4jis keen commercial crifts or the weltaro! of the widow and children of an officer in the army, and, at the cost lof time, talent. and enerey. to rescue- her small brtune from unsafe hands and in vest it properly. His letters were filled withisimilar 1 incidents, natu rally and simple told, and our af- ectiDn increased for ibis truly Drave man. M Dolly's godmother took it into ler head that it was her godchild's duty to pay her a farewell visit be fore her marriage. Though, as she had never troubled herself much at)Out us, we wereirather startled at this demand, we all thought it would be best to accept the invita tion aud it was settled that she should go and spend a month with he old lady in tier North Country home. Mr. Dacre' was pressed to go as often as his professional en gagements would permit; so Dolly left us in pretty good spirits, in charge of tho elderly servant who was our substitute for a regular ladies maid. She -wrote to tell us how she was enjoying the repose and beauty of the country. Mr. Dacre had man aged to run down nutil Monday ! at from Saturday the end of the first week, and had of course made a great impression; but was afraid he could not come again a long case was pending at Westminster. The letter which followed this I give in its integrity.: Higitwood. July 20. "Dearest Kitty: I hope yon will get this in time toseud my hat here instead of to grandmama's. I am on a fortnight's visit to" Lady Miliceut North, i Such a charming woniaua w'dow about twenty eight years old I She persuaded Mrs. Lloyd to let her have me for a week or two; .and,1 as her daughter in law, a confirmed invalid, was coming to spend just that time with her, my godmother was glad to get me out of the way, I know. I can't write much, tor , the post leaves here at eight, and we drop our latest letters into the hall box as we go into dinner.. I expect the gong every minute. This place is lovely, and the .new Baronet Sir Charles-is the dearest . The gong ! Your own - Dolly." I felt uneasy concerning this let ter. I waii sorry Dolly should have left her godmother's quiet home to visit a gay young widow just as she was sobering dowu and grow ing such a thoughtful little love. It might unsettle her again to pass a fortnight in a country-house with a fascinating Baronet; and I knew Jack Dacre would never permit, never pardon j the smallest suspi cion of flirting. He had pardoned her defection in Frank's case, for Frank himself had pleaded elo quently, saying that she was so very young, so naturally affection ate. But mamma and I felt sure that not for one hour would he per mit the slightest! approach to dis loyalty to his deep tenderness for bis girlish betrothed. Neither her youthrher love for fuu, nor her merry heart would plead one atom in her favor; so l read this letter with a heavyi heart. . My answer was as follows: .-l "Dearest Dolly: Your ietter reached me in time to have the box sent to flighwood. You will! re ceive it soon after this reaches yon. Write, very fully for your letter was tantalizing. : Send me a full description of every one, for you have roused my curiosity as to kSir Charles,' who is ?the daest n The rest of iny letter contaiued home news, and I need not' trans cribe it. But Dolly's answer I will transcribe j j - "Yon ask me for a description of everybody, darling. Lady Milicent is very beautiful, very clever, and devotedly attached to this Sir Charles; but I fe;l sure her heart is buried in the grave of her noble husband. I send her photo, so I ueed waste no words in describing her. - ' , ; 'Sir Charles isjvery fascinating, though I fear my j description may not predispose you in his favor; but you beg me to be particular. He is short aud stout, has a very flue head, but rather thin lighthair, fine eyes, good mouth, but not much of a nose iu fact, it is all tip very nice hands and feet. ! ne is I believe, very talented, but does not employ his gifts, seldom talks, never reads, is a little fond of eating. In spite of these draw , backs, he is very charming, and all the girls tar and near make ja great deal of him. Of course he is rich. He likes Lady Milicent to live in the house! She has com plete influence over him." J felt much relieved after read ing this letter. I felt so easy in ray mind that I told Dolly hoW I had feared for her. "But," I wrotel Hof course you never: could really admire a fat little man, wno never reads or talks, and with a nose all tip, and wiio cares for nothing out eating." It turned cut that tho most nn fortunate thing I could hare done was to coniess my iears to my pro- vokin Ki-tAr. i She answered me t. v..1 .ll.in that. Kiw Charles was the mostlovable fellow she bad met ior a long time, ana really was so excited that I posted a letter to her at once. I .. "You distress me. Dolly. . You 1 know Mr. Dacre would f never for- civevouif he saw your; letters. ; I hide them even from mother. Oh, praj'do think h before you madly risk tho loss of ibis love, for that 1 1 r l ; 1 1 1 win iouow iue very uour ne iusts his hich opinion of you I" This is how Dolly answered mj tender appeal rWhat a lecturing little thing you are getting,' Kitty I I am very much attached fo Sir Charles; and, it Jack is ever so angry, I. can't help it." h ! Thus flippantly the : letter ran on. I was really anery and distress- ed, but resolved to try 110 more lectures; they clearly made matters worse.: So, the next time 1 wrote, I gave a full description of a day we spent . in court, hearing . M r. Dacre plead. I described bis dig nified appearance, his eas', grace ful gestures above all, I dwelt on the beauty ot the nose. I Dollj answered ; j . jvuty, to maKe sucn an tuoi ot a nose 1" It! j And hen she continued, as usu al, about Sir Charles. . i v Meanwhile Mr. Dacre seemed quite happ-, aud said he I had his daily letter from Dolly, as regular ly as when she was with Mrs. Lloyd. Was -Mj beloved sister growing deceitful f i i r j I kept all this from my ; mother: but I grew more aud more wretched oyer Dolly's letters. A picnio would be glorious," for Sir Charles was going. She had spent the whole morning "quietly with Sir Charles." Once he was indisposed, and she "nursed him, played for him,1 sung to him.77 Well, I could do nothiug more.' I resolved to say not another word about him to anyone else.; I began to dislike the very sound of his name, or rather the sight of it; and. when Dolly declared I should like him as much as every one else did, I made up my mind that I hated him. I wrote one more tender, ap peal, whieh I said was my last j ' ' 'Every Tuesday mother and I had Dolly's letters, but one day there was none at my breakfast opiate as usual. Mother read hers. U i "Dolly says she she has" written to you,,, she observed j presently, "How can it be that you have not received ltr' j . i Mistakes of the post office are so rare, we could but suppose she had omitted to post it. By the next delivery however I received a letter from Mr. Dacre, containing an enclosure which turned out to be a letter to me from Dolly, few lines from him ran thus. ''Dear Kitty, I had read too much of the enclose brfore I dis covered the mistake. If you' re ceive a letter from Dolly before this reaches you, you will have dis covered she has mis-sent' the let . ters. I shall run down to High wood without loss of time." (I bad not received any letter then, but by the second country delivery came one which I directed to Jack at once. The letter he had read began thus ! - j"AH yon say is useless, my dar ling. Hove Sir Charles devotedly, and he has this day declared he loves me. Yon ask iue, Does he kiiow I am engaged f I told him a gentleman was coming to see me; but he seemed little concerned at this piece of information." ! So far Mr. Dacre had . read 4 aud the mine was sprung. j ' I locked my room door, and fell bank, despairing into ah easy chair. I resolved to hide all from my inotberTtill Mr. Dacre had seen DolIyJ I hunted up Bradshaw ahd found i that a train started about four ithat would convey him to High wood by 7:5(L If Dolly wrote to me at once I would get her let ter by Thursday; but of course I should hear from Jack on Wcdnes-: day. I dreaded every ring, every postman's knock. All day Wed nesday passed and no letter j arriv ed from my sister or her lover. On Thursday- morning I ran down when I beard the usual welcome sonndi j On the tablt lay a thick letter in Dolly's writing. I ran up to mamma aud gave her thej one I found inclosed iu itj for her; then I sat down to read mine, after! forti fying myself with a cup ot ;cofiee. I must give every word of it : f'You are well aware that a catas trophe has happened throngh my heedlessness. The best thing will be fori me to describe fully the whole consequences of tho 'misfor tune, j On our return from the gar den party on Tuesday, 1 1 found a telegram awaiting me front Jack 'Sball bo with you at 7:557 Of course this awoke no fears in my mfnd, for I knew Jack might- run down at any moment tho j trains permit, j Lady Milicent seut me oif at once to be dressed by her artist maid. What she made of me you must have seen to believe, Kitty. I would not look at myself until the whole process was complete; and when I glanced in the long glass I was really amazed at what I saw.' It was the result I now know, of man discussions between Lady Milicent and this gifted young per son. You may : imagine how I ex ulted in the thoughtthat Jack would see me look as he had never seen me look before, for I am so im proved health that my whole ap pearance is changed. Well, the bell rang. Lady Miliceut i received Mr. Dacre iu the morning room, and came to send mo down at ouce. ;"I ran down with my heart bounding. I eutered the room. I I noticed Jack cive one start ; but GREENSBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH : i ! . t- -i ; ; i r ne received me in such, a very , un i iacE-nce manner that 1 was tern Jack-like manner that I was tern - 1 fled, f 3Iamma Kitty T,.I cned. Quitei well when ! left tueraf, said jur. uacre; out when he placed me I in a chairanil tV n nnnoi! tn mn T r'l ate. What'H wron V I . irasned. I 'uearest Jack, pray sneak T 4Only an address said he, ! ami ' pat the uniortunate envelope in tny bauds. This contaiued a letter, for, your sister, wnich I,f, in-rhaps , unlortu nately, .read, before I., perceived' the uiisuk(ie;j;,j. j nay just seventeen turn train; so if you wish to. say nry thing, let me leg you to speak at once. , 'l:,t '.. ' , . "I sank back iu my chair and cov ered my, face with, my vliandker- cinet, : trembling -ri with agitation. VW ill you hear my, explanation V I stammered, l Neelless; ' the . letter ran nave out one meaning. , i came to release yon .from your, engage inent to me., ; Did this scoundrel know you were engaged V I cov ered my face again. , To hear Sir Charles North called a scoundrel was too much forme., I did, not speak, for several minutes; but time was nying iast. auu at. Jengtu i said, If, this . is, in truth our last meetiug. grant me ono favor; say mat you will, before . l , tell you what ; it is. , Of course it is a rea sonable, honorable , request . that I have to make; bpt I own, it is one you. will; not, like to i grant.' . He paused a- moment, then said, 'I will dp whatever you; ask., , (I ask yon to see ..ttirj Charles .North.7 He winced, but bowed silently , I left the room i to see the- baronet. J.I found him in bis own room, intent ly studying an immense book but only the il lustrations, -I believe." I asked him t to,. come with mc to speak ; to a , gentleman . who was waiting to see him. . He flatly, re fused., Time , was rushing : on. I knelt by; him. implored, him. At last I kissed him. and he yielded. '.'Taking my hand in a firm clasp. ho descended with me to tho room where I had left Mr. Dacre. Jack stood, , moody and : stern, pale as ashes, where I had left him. t We entered. I led Sir Charles toward him him. 'Mr. j Dacre, said I, 'let me present t yon to Sir Charles North. JJaronet.'. i Jack started paused seized Sir, Charles in his strong arms, and threw him n out him ! of the wiudow f no, kissed 1 or this 'scoundrel,7 this 'fat, idle, greedy little man' is the dear little son of ijady Jlilicent. aged lust two years 1 . Now you see, Miss Kitty, you had better have had a little faith in your sister for ouce. You put al this into my head aud I could ,not resist the joke; but it shall be my last, tor nevermore do I wish to see sucha look of pain in the . lace ,1 love best in nil the world ;,:', ;., I '. , .; ,s ,, , "Jack did rot go back by the return train though he was obliged to leave early this moruing; ' but I don't think lean stay from him one day over a month, j Lady Miliceut says you- must come, to take ray place. , She will .write and ask mamma. You will soou be as mad ly in love with ir Charles. - ; And, so it proved. I went to stay with Lady Millicent: and .of all the darling, quaint, noble little let8 I had seen, tSir Charles was the king. At the end of the year Frauk. returned, in time for Christ mas. He did riot go back to India; he settled in ; England. He aud i were married about six months after Dolly. , j j ' : i We both live in a lovely part of Kont.. , Dolly's husband pets arid loves her devotedly. My husband adds to all bis love a delicate hom age infinitely precious to me. j "Kitty, dearestVniy mother said on e to me, "you and I have tasted our fullest earthly happiness. We both know that reverence is the perfectly peerless jewel in loye's crown, but we must earn it.r, V ;) A brave Eatoii , boj' spends as much time with us , as . his mother can bear, to spare him arid the most welcome truest In, Jack , Dacre's home is. Sir Charles bet. - .:!...:; 'A?- North, Bard- The I'ourth N. C. State Troops. j -.,..! Cor. of the NewTand Oheerrer.J ' Haviug been requested by some of the survivors ofi the Fourth Begimeut to write a history of the part it bore in the late war, I have consented to undertake the task as a labor of love. "But as the re cords of the regiment are nearly all lost, I shall be entirely deiendent upon the survivors jfot the main items of tho history. I therefore appeal to all the surviving mem bers of this gallant old regiment to furnish me, as soom as possible, such items as they may possess or can obtain. If every one will fur nish even a very short sketch of his own history and J recollections,' with any incidents connected with the regiment, it will be of great ad vantage to me iu this undertaking, and will make the work more satis factory to all concerned than it otherwise can be. Address t . E A. Osborne, i -i Shnfordville, Ki C. i u Antl-Postal Medicine Iaw. j A bill to "prevent the use of the mails to advertise noxious and dan gerous medicines,7? etc., has I been introduced in the: House, the regu lating' ot the matter to be delegate ed .o the Patent Oflice. It pro tides that no advertisement of any kind or nature, or advertising de vice ot : any medical preparation, compound, or prescription, or any punch, bitters, etc., used .as a bev erage or as food or medicine, shall be carried in the mails nntil the exact formula thereof,' with a' sam ple, be placed in the Patent Office, examiued, and substantiated by affidavits, aud the is&ue of a certiti cate therefor, at a cost of $20 This would seem to be a very sweeping bill, covering many things not known as patent medicines, and its provisions are almost broad enough ti nAi-op arn rli vsifMfiii' nrpJicrm- tions. ; ' 1 Caaatfla Peasants. - 1 U. u. carnham writiiitr aimnt i the Canadian in.T,t. ;,. jt . Magazine, says : ? . " The inhabitant. i ."ItP;8!0' Peasants, are I . . m lUO CeuirV ! - democratic. averaee level: of societv. Tint n classes, are our the best of terms; shariug -as; they , do th national contentment and gayety. Their social life in winter presents the most characteristic features, but this unambitious people; find time for their simple enjoyments at any u th- ,"T ter demanded by comfort. But his social life . presents more interest ing features. In this class also one is struck by the fullness of social happiness and the meacrcness of external interests: for exain Die- Mr. D -.the most intelligent nntl progressive farmer of the parish. and one of the foremost ineu of tho county, reads no paper j and gets no information on even his special , ty of agriculture. : He ji learns less than the average farm laborer among us. ; , "Bat,7 I said to him, "how do you . keep j'ourself posted on; the improvements i". S M ' ''Why, we don't ; we don't im prove; that's all. Wo cet alonsr well enough as onr fathers did'. "I should think your loner win ters would be a very enjoyable sea son ror study. What do you all do with so much time f 1 fJh,we Joaf and we enjoy our pipes. , Uut we also have to work. We get up at halt past five, l'eht the lanterns, and go to the barn to feed the stock. After! breakfast, at half past seven, the two princi pal labors of winter are begun, viz : hauling wood to keep ! the house warm and thrashing crraiu to eat. Those who go far for wood start at four or five o'clock. We used to bte forty to fifty sleds iii a Hue go ing up the mountain at at. Pacome to our wood lots. When the wind blows we set the windmill going. and .thresh grain, in the barn. After smoking the after dinner- pine we saw. wood or thresh or fan Vrain till the chores come acrain at half past four. After supper the men go to visit a favorite neighbor ior the parish is somewhat divided into sets until nine o'clock.; The final visit to the barn, to bed and teed the stock, finishes the day. ! And we don't make ranch out of read ing. 77 :! : .1 ' Vhat do the women do all win ter f I , ; -i : Oh, their work is never done Tbey, of course, keep j about the same I hours as the : men1. After making the fires and putting the breakfast and ; pea-soup to cook, they take the lantern and go to milk. j. After the break fast' the washing ot the children for school, and the sweeping are done, they sit dowu to spin, weave or knit all day. Sometimes the dbg may be harnessed to the little sled, and my wife rides iover to a neigiioor to make au eveuiug call.' But, as a rule, the women go out lyery sel dom, exceptiug to the church. Of course, there are days of jgeneral scrubbing with spruce boughs for the pleasant odor they j give of washing every three or tour weeks; and seasons of special j l.ibors, as butchering forj Christmas, when meats for six mouths are dressed, and frozen, either on the Selves of an outer room, or in boxes and barrels with jsaow. On Sunday the women must rise earlier than usual to get ready for mass at half past nine o'clock. Some families who live far from tho church tak their diuncrs with them, aud eat them by a friend's stove while waiting for vespers, after which 1 they may visit a little on the way1 home. Then iu the fall there is the general preparation for winter, when some families nioye into the jmost shel tered end of the house, arid give up the other as a store-room for wood, etc. There are also the .special la bors of cooking for Christmas eve and New Year's, the carnival sea- son, aud so on." . i u Skillful Surgery. ! Bruno Knorr shot himself on the 24th ult., the bullet, of 32 calliber? piercing his kkull just ou the cen tral line between the eyes. 'Dr. Wj F. Fluher, one, of the consclting surgeons of Bellcvue Hospital, and Dr. .Robert P. Morris, the house surgeonprobed for the bullet, and found that it had passed through the brain, taking a courseslightly upward and to the left. It was impossible to remove the brllet by the way which it had eutered. and Dr. Bluher decided that the best thing to do was to cut la hole through the skull at the back of the head where the bnllet was lodged, and get it out j that way. The difficulty was in determining tho exact location of the bullet. Dr. Fluher, by meaus of the probe, got the general direction -that the ball had taken, aud formed his judgment by it. The hair was cut from the back of Knorr's head, aud a hole the size of a cent was cut through the skull. The instrument useiUwas a trephine, which is a cylindrical saw with a hantlle like that of a gimlet. It was placed against the skull and worked round and round until a circular hole was cut. ,The bullet was ! . renvd through this hole. A rubber! drain age tube was then passed through the brain, its ends projecting an iuch through the. hole cut by the bullet and an inch throngh the bole made by the trephiuef The operation, which was witnessed by nearly tke whole staff of the! hospi: tal, lasted four hours. On the fol lowing Saturday and Sunday the patient was stupid and partially unconscious, but at times he gave monosyllabic answers to questions. Monday he was much brighter, and could talk and feed himself. His right arm seems to, be paralyzed. Hopes are entertained of his ulti mate recovery. 6, 1884. Cannibalism la pyu Pan Uall Gazette. - Mr. St. Johnston, in KJampincr Fiji. On his way back to the capi tal he spent a night in the hut of au adventurous countryman who kept a store on the bank of the V amamala the "first tJnglisbinau who had penetrated thus far. ti This man gave him a gruesome picture of the state ot things when he first came to liye in the sequestered and then turbulent locality . "Kverc : . . " aganiisb uia neigiibor for the simple reasoiithati : . " s"wn vfiieii nasi Ilia hfttn linnoi. I., i i -vi.i. uvuw uo ti us Hfcn iue " uo uown iue river oearnu St. J oli n s ton assorts. that the Friian cannibal loveil human flesh for its own sake ami did not merely eat uie stain enemv out ot rpvonw A chief would onler to be clubbed Borne one ne considered would ri good for cookiug, his plea being fcuat uis "oiaca tootu acneu." and that only human flesh could cure it. lhe subject is a repulsive one. and Mr. St. Johnston'deals for the most part with far mors cheerful tmino . i.s tv(MV0 nuuua wo Will 1UIIUW after one final grim quotation lne expression "long pig" is not a ioko nor a nhrase invptirpri hv Europeans, but onefreauentlv used w - , i j by the Fijiaus, who looked upon a corpse as ordinary, butcher meuit, and called, a human body puaa uaiava. "long pig," in contradis tinctioii topuala dina, or "real pig.f ine nesu was never eaten raw,; but was either baked whole iu the oven or cutjip and stewed in large eaith eir pots that they use lor cooking. Certain herbs were nearly always cooked with ; the flesh, either ,to prevent indigestion or as a sort ot savory stuffing. If . a mau was to be cooked whole they would paint and decorate his face as though he were alive, and one of the chiet persons of the place would stand by the corp?e, which was place daeed in a siiiing position, and talk in a mocking strain to it for some time, when it would be handed over to, the cooks, who prepared if and placed it in the oveu,j tilliiig the body with hot stones,-so that , he would be well cooked all through. The Muftal-Place of a j VlklncJ A-ij over Norway . luerejj are mounds which are known to be burial-places. Now am then one is opeued,; and . the conteutsjare always interesting, but it costs a great deal, so that it is only gr;idu- ally that these tombs are beiugj in vestigated, When a famous ehief tain died it was the custom to bjtild a burial chamber iu his' ship,1 and to bul him with his horses and his dogs, the harness, gold j and silver ornaments, etc. Then the ship was dragged up some distance on the shore, surrounded with moss, and buried in clay piled up over it. In the mound we saw. there were found a ship, about seventy feet long (larger than auy hitherto found), and the bone of a man, three horses ami of several dogs- It was undoubtedly placed there in the ninth century, and after a thousand years of darkuess had not come to light once more; but lor tne nrst time. There are signs of its haying been opened j and rifled ot the gold and silver; orna ments which ought to have been fouud, and are not. But that was probably not long after it was first placed there. In spite of the years that it has lain buried, there are traces of paint on the outside, and its ornamentation convinces) the antiquarian that some Viking j of great importance haUj his last rest ing place here. The nails with which the! timbers are to fastened what is. show that it ' belongs called the first iron 1 curious to i sec how jjc. It was some ot the parts were dove-tailed .into each other in just the same way they are done to daij. The ship is supposed to have carried 120 men, a that number oft shields were found hanging within the bulwarks, form ing a defense to the men who row ed beneath. The prow was very sharp, and -must have cut the; wa ter beautifully, urged on by so many rowers, and also by the wind iu is large sail, which was of wool- en niacenai. uoumi uie uvn bones were found the remains of a silk mantle, whichTnay have been brought from the lartuerest Jast. The rudder, a huge, oar-shaped thing, was fastened to the vessel's side. Most of the .articles found withiu the ship have been carefully removed and placed in the museum connected with the university.;', i . The "Dismal Swamp' of Virginia,. I From a survey just made, Mr. Kichard Lamb, O. E., for the man agers of 1 he Dismal Swamp Land Company, estimates this swamp to have 14,000 aresof land that may be reclaimed at a cost -of $30,000. The whole basiu is about 50 sojaare miles in area, nd Lake Drumriroud, the deepest portion, has a gerieral water surface! 22 feet above mean, high tide. The geology of the swamp is: First, a stratum of ieat or vegetable, matter from 10 to 15 feet deep ; uext, 2 feet ot yel low clay ; then 4 to 5 feet of blue clay, and finally, a bottom of quick sand. : . . - ' The water in the ouicksand for- ,tinii maintains the. level of tide water., - - j - - The UaBtUU lurestlsallon. fRichiurmJ Cuipain. A Colorel itness to Senator Sher man : Mars John, you nad ougni totole a nigger zackley what he got to say ; jis how many dead nig gers you want and all dat, been 7. dem dar Bubbous dou't let testi- mnnv. ie rau"uir iu uc wiu" schools, dey is so ipwerful mean xxuivug vauniuais,- lurmsnes evi- cany described the appearance oi fnigiu. uenco luat canuioausm is on .the a suing ton and .other, dignitaries I wane, even m ine wua interior or at tne nratinancrnration. ' The oath guts from one- chief to another of c3oth,' coat, waistcoat arid breeches place has accented a in vit it dead men for the oven, and some- of home manufacture, even to the to deli ve imes bloody joints or limbs just buttons, on. which Bollinson, an exe" of Unllifi!ft torn from the victim, wrapped in engraver, had portrayed the arms schooL nea? FrandscS t liVcoS fresh leaves for the crown 6f a of the UuitedlStatcs. White silk QttSSlor? feast." iThere is no nnestion JMr. stockincra Khn-P.l th r . -luruay ltUl of March- .The Pint Inannratlou. ' ' 1 ' Ben. Rerl Poore" Bntinieeneca. . ? Wm. Dunlan. the artist, graphi- was administered oil the balcony of Fwleral Hall, Am Wall Btreet, .yew York, where a statue of, Washing- ton now m aria tl.o nnf ThU bnilditig ; badVbeen erected for th6 accommodation of Congress nnder the directiou'tof Mior IButant. a French officer, of encineers. who afterwards, planned the citv.' of Washington. In front ! of the bal- vuuj c ma vuiuuieer companies of militia in full riuiform, with a i irgc concourse ot citizens, .uen. I fir.i.: a , . . I 'H9uiniou is uescnoeii as navintr i worn tnar. tinr n n am m h nt hMtrn I uisnly leer : and his shoeti. acenrd ing to the fashion of that day, were ornamented with buckles. His I iipmi vi mimvnnui ami Ma t.n; dressed and powdered, for such was the nnivpraal rnnfmn r ti. time. ' Thus washis tiill, flnefiffure 1 presented to onr- view at th mh. I merit which forms an epoch in the history cf nations.' John' Adams 1 a shorter ficrur in a similarly plain rdrcss, but with the (even i then Void r....:. 1 S . . oppc I stooil (MiaiiAAlTrtr T,fvinrBtAn innn r . - m-m IMkUVVU ' M full suit of black, ready! jo admiuis tet tue. prescribed j oath of oflice. Between them Was placed Mr. Oris, thri Clerk of the Senate; a; snali mati, beanug the 'Bible on a cush- iojip In the-, background of this picture and in the right and left compartments formed by the pil lars stood the. warriors and sares of! the RevolPtlori. H - tf ? ,i nri junen an was ready. uen. Wash ington stretched forth his , richt hand with that, simplicity and dig nity which characterized all hisc- tifms,- and' placed it on nhe open book. The oath of office was read, the Bible was raised and he bowed his head upon itreverentially kiss- "ig . Tlie Chancellor then made proclamation, "(rod save George Washington, rresident of the Uni ted States of America,": A shout went up from the multide, cannon were fired near by! the music nlav- ed and every one appeared to be delighted. . : :.-).. ; . . Mechanics Who Rise. .-s- v : . . ' jThere is a large sized Inugget of truth in this from Dr. J. M. Buck ley's series ot "Letters to Young Men," in the New York! Christian Advocate: ' ' '' J'Benjamiu Franklin told , the truth when . he said that the best knowledge a man could give to his soi - was tlie ; mastery of a -good trade.' Such a man is : cosmopoli tan. nein make himself useful anywnere, and ne can Jive any where. , If it should . not be neces. saj-y always to work at his trade, he feels the ability within to sup port himself. . I Between the average. , mechanic j and the great inauuiacturer or prince, great uumberscan be found who began as mechanics arid who have taken positions bv their, me chanical skill fully equal to that of the average merchant and far su perior to that ot most clerkd and professional men. Iways have 111 view rising above the position of a mere journeyman. ik nt things from a broad, busi ness point of view.' Consider that some day yon may not be a jbur- f . r. -" , .,' " Ko)hat, if you should ever form a partnership with a business man. yori will not be at bis mercj', and so that, if you , choose, you may at any time enter upon business for yourself, and not fritter away your life in a vain effort to overcome by mechanical skill financial obsta 1 Cauaoa tobe Uaed Without Powder 1 From the Norwalk Bulletin.) A new ensine of war is benig constructed at the Iforwidk Iron Works. On the floor of one of the rooms lies as iron cyliuder twenty- eight feet in length and I sixteen- Inches in diarteter. In another de partment an air compressor is be ing constructed, which, when com pleted, will be attached to the cyf" inder or tube, and what the inveii tor confidently asserts to be the most tremendous engine ot war will be completed. CompreicRed hii at a pressure of three, bundled poifnds to the square incli, will take tlie place of powder, i and the guii is expe:ted to throw a ball vr tlirbe-iwund cartridge a distance of three miles. Should ' the gun Drove successful others of a size sufficient to throw one hundred H poninds of dynamite ten miles will be constructed. - Tho gun now in tho1 works will be tested at an early day. " ; ; -:JL ' ' ' , s J Shocking Heath In Chatham. ' j Mr. Oabel Dixoii, of Snow Camp, Alamancc-county, met with' a ter rible death on last Thnrsday even ingi at his mills two miles south ofi Ore Hill., in Chatham county, by accidentally fallin; itacKwnru on a ilti 1 m w w ri in it AlthotiL'h terribly mangled; he uiui i irteuiuucu Aiassitcuu setts wicr. sioou : J i t Washington's richt liand. and site 'to ' the'1 President-elect Hved several hours and retained ' 1(.arh ti,.,t a eonsiderable ilenent his! right mind until the last, being .IK,.,,r sugar is a natural constitli able to, leave instructions as to the , ,.t of tobacco Yetudi has Wen disimsition of nis - property, o.tr. Mr Dixon , was upward of sixty years of age,' and had been a con- sistcni memoer. ui inc itpmsiH Quaker church for more than 1ort years. Truly may it be said agoiwl man is gone. iSJcienfcloii of the 1. & X. K. Railroad. it- A:- ' The engi Danbury lleporter.l : triiitH.1 M til I 111. 1.111 1 II IT. .V. New 11:..... D.hImiiI iro tinw un gaged in inaking a preliminary : survey between Fatnck OI 11. ami Mtl Airy, N C, with a view of ex. tending the road to that pojnf. KEW SERIES,' NO, 897 Ilanbory Dot. " ; .IRcnnrter.1 ' ''t : 'Heavy fain storm ou Tuesday -Corn is wprth 'il iHmslitnii ' 9 Danbury ';. A! :, y - -i f-VX fr?mJ,f to 2Pc 1 -Turnip salad i selling here at I; perjwek. I ;r f r- rarmers ret rctuniihg frdn'i 'mar. - kct report- tobacco lower. 1 It will j "evei be- any other way in these f lotlS seasons, after a cold spell, at j this season of,the year. i , I i ''There was a verv suddiMi nml ' great cbaucre in- the wratfipr lat7 I Auursuay. xjit to noon it was tin- t I comfortably warm, but before nurht A an overcoat was not a siuerfluous l.. . .-, --. I article or annarei. r ' -r . there was a railroad meetintr at the, court- house to-day, but lit tle business was done. it.waH re solved to appoint a committie to S r?nf ,e foT, lx I,,eral weetiiiR to I "v"-",c ch u ohui. T l'aytteville I Unit il lOtaorrer.) , !r ,: Died suddeuly on Sunday night lastr Mr.-;W, , Baiford, aged GO years. - : j- ; -; Messrs'' IT. It. Horhc and W. H Tillinghast are both repainting arid otherwise renovating!' their stores, which were so badlv iniiir. ed by the recentiire. 'i n 4 ; i We nuderstand that f many of i our merchants are feeling the bene L fits of our road as it progresses, I and'that jdready , Messrs. IVniber j ton & Newberry liave inade sevei al 1 shipments of furnit ure to Ore Hill, and1 others tf our merchants are A daily shipping goods to this point; f We note how fast all the waste P places about town ; are , being & i caimcd. Go .where; you will, east or west, south or north, tor several '" mues, and- yojti see plainly the i marks f oL improvement. Houses are beingbuilrj woqdlands cleared, . newf fences, put up. Fverything that mdiciites life and progressi j j; Mr. J. S. Breece,. our reliable ! nurseryman, is selling ; a great many fruit trees this season to the i! farmers near Fayetteville. I We ! are pleased to note this fact it looks like progress. An orchard of fine5 fruits is not au expensive f r luxury, and every farmer should nave one.- , 7 r ill' Chatham Newt. Record. The bridge at Pace's mill has been repaired and vehicles can now 5 flaw river was booming last week, being higherthan itl been since the great 1 freshet April last. V as in Tlie mail is now; carried on the cars as fur as Ore Hill, and tbe ! ! "star" route from that -oflice to Gulf is discontinued. At tlie last meetiriir of thu magistrates of this county, nu ap- nierchantjpropriation of 82,500 was made for bmldinr a bjidire at I 'tho' uld Woodward" place on Deep i ivirr.' ! The saw milt arid cottoii gin of. Messrs. Bhind, Lasater & MtMire, between Haywood and New Clam ' churchrwas burned last week; The A roof caught from a spark from tlie I engiue. . - j Messrs. NItrilari is, Thos. A. Brooks ami W. L. Unison havetes tablished near St. Lawrence a fac tory run by a steam engine, for tin plows and corn pa liter, inventeil JI " - - " ' 1: - i f- ' I ' : . , From all Mrtions of the coun ty we liear.-the riiost encouraging reports' of the growing crops lof wheatand oats.1" Some' farmejrM 1 state thjjiave 'not seen a tetter "stand" in lnany.years. , -. Thtre was ! riioro sown lajit fall than usual, ami J so witli the present prospects we have the hript' of a 'larger crop of . wheat and oats liexfsuinmcr thai? I any year. 6iucvthe war And it w'iU all Ik? needed. , : A I'riblrul Fuijgii. MVobaUjrXy Eli Periiu.l One fit the 'most remarkable fii "ft i of which there ij .any record grew in the wine cellar of Sir Joseph Banks. He , rceei veil a cask ofvini-sK a gift, and finding it too sweet' hal it locked up inn c-eH.vr to 1 -ipeaii TJicro lit reiuained for j Ihree years,pri'lly ..'.during tr: time Uet was with C;it. loke. in Ids Vv;ie aiOiiitd the umhl. At the iMidZ'f th:if'jeriod hediivct i d his butler to . iiseertaiii the stale. of tho-wine, hut the cellar door could not he opened on iccmnt of jfionie powerful obstacle withii.. The doorjwa cut ' down, when t he - cllar was found be coinrilefelv 111 led with a. fungus so dense riuit rin as to ictjuirean axe for its re- iiiovhI. 'It w:ts then disooveicl .that the fnngus had consumed. eery iroi oi - wine sum raised 1 lie empty cask l the ceiling, - Siujar In Tobirro. ',: uM .r uiai Tooaeco, as oriiiuariiy pre by souse of the maiinfactiir is frequently sweeteiietl with .'.uioiasMef, no.uey, licorice. eti:.i is iii riouoieu, hue we iniiiK it will 1. .. i. . ..'- 1. .1 j- oe j NiirpriMJ 10 uut iM-oi.ie to j demonstrated to be Prlf Aun -,(; , f:saJU,,(.rt wi-u obtain wl the fact bv . S 'Eight': eil Irotii plan- Mers III dltleleiit parts of Tirginiji, North Carolina, Kentucky, ; mid j which gavts to KKI jiaits of, Teaf, j'frotii .1 to 9.C0 parfs of tili:ie;o sug:r, and from kli'J to 12.80 par jis of total Mt-eharoid matter, in to- b ie, o grown-iii ujifarorable condi tions. i:r without, snffleit'ist' het. Nic nuitiunror sugar is olten lit a mere trsiee, while fori light colored r blight A'irginia: leaf it will ;iver- ag'. ;itM'tt ten Hr cent. 7 4 -i - l
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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