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itn tollUl miuu DEMOCRATIC ALWAYS AND UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. Vol. I X.-No. 49. DURHAM, N. G, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, iSSq. Si. 50 Per Annum. WHAT I IXVE. I love the ploughman's whistle, The reaper' cheerful song, The drover' oft-repeate.l shout, Spurring his sto k along; ' The buHtle of 'he marked n an, Ashe :ies iiim to the town. The hilo from the tree top, An the ripening froit com b down; The busy sound of the thres ie.8. Am thuy clean the ripened grain ; The bm er'i joke and ct h of glee 'Neath the moonlight on the plain; The kind voire of the drayman. The shepherd' gentle call These sounds of pleasant industry, I love-1 lore them all.. THE POPULAR VOTE. The Presidential vote of the country, as compiled by the Chi cago Trib une, shows, a total for G -rfield of 4,439,714, against 4,436, . 060 for Hancock, 304,852 for Wea ver (Grcenbacker), 9,644 for Dow (Prohibitionist), and 1.793 scatter inga grand total of 9,192,063r or an mcrease over 1876 of 777,178. Tiie plurality for Garfield and Ar thur is 3,654. We have arranged T the .gM? a(bn o sections : Connecticut ..... Maine , Massachusetts .. New Hampshire., Kaodj Island . . . . Total ....... New York New Jersey. Delaware. Pennsylvania. . . .. a 6., 037 73.600 165.198 44,852 18. 19.-, M 0 95 a 64.415 65,510 111,9 10 40 704 10,78i - w w 1 869 4.3.3 4,548 5M 236 y 398,7o2 293,459 10,544 655,544 120.555 K.140 444,704 54,511 122,665 15,175 40., 428 12,373 2,617 129 20,668 Totals.. Ohio Iiiiuois Indiana Iowa . . Kansas Michigan. .. Minnesota. . Nebraska. . . Wiron.-in. . .1,135,443 1,079,6.4 35,778 375,048 318,302 232,164 113 904 120.766 185,190 93,903 64,979 144 3D9 340.R31 277,635 225.522 105,845 .59,803 131,301 63,316 2,628 114.G56 6456 26,053' 12,986 32 327 19,378 34,895 3,267 3,o98 7,982 Totals. California...... Colorado ....... Nevada Oregon.... Totals Alaliama.... . ... Arkansas Florid I Guoigia. . ; .'. . . . ' Kentucky.... .... Louisiana.,. ... Maryland Mississippi. . Missouri......... .North Carolina. South Carolina. Teuneesea ., Texas, Virginia West Virginia... Total..... . .1,708,655 1,437,431 147,242 80.378 1 80.417 2.7S3 27,089 24 476 1,691 , 10 445 11,215 . 1:0,618 19,950 ' 245 138.530 136,058 4,719 ' 66,240 42 436 23,633 52,652 10.",57 29,055 78,515 :4.i4 153.587 115,616 57.957 98.760 53,200 84,010 46,243 91.875 60,775 27,922 102,522 148,707 61,9o8 93,706 75.750 08,609 124,204 112,036 130,381 146.800 1-28,586 67,391 4,640 4,0,9 ' 4i 11,498 4.3 818 5,797 35,045 1 136 647 6,465 26,200 139 9,079 .1,043,704 1,571,252 105,347 Women, it is said, are more thorough in what they undertake than men are. Even in the matter of conversation we have the evi dence of her striving to the verv utmost TOO I j ATE. ; Old Uncle Mose was not noticed near the polls on election day, con sequently a colored striker was sent to limit him up. -He 'was found sitting by the lire, groaning dismally, in his cabin. ' Uncle Mose, has yer voted yit ?" asked the colored rounder. "No, chile, I wouldn't risk ketch id' cold on my lungseses foah all de money in de world." ; j "Here's a dollar to pay for your lime." - The old man secured the sub sidy, remarking: f ' Ef vou is comin' de bulldoze on ctis old niggah he weakens. Hev you fetched a kerriage for me V" "Hit's waiting at de doah, Uncle Mose." - "Is yer gwine to bring me back arter I'se vote '?" Mose; hurry "up, now." "Gimme a dram foah I start !" "Here it is," said the emissary, producing a flask. ''Take a pull." He pulled and asked: "Gwine to gimme annudder pull when la done voted ?"' and then he pulled again. "Yes, take annudder pull right how. Don't be afeared ob it. Dar's plenty moah whar it come from." So the old man pulled again and wanted to know : - "Hev yer got annudder dollar bill wid yer?" "Look heat, ole man, you must low de campaign committee's made of money. Here's yer udder dol lar. Now ' jump in. De polls is gwine to close." "Ii'jr, chile, you making' out you is a statesman; heah ! heah!. I'se tbeen foolin 'yer. I done voted de udder ticket arly dis morning, heah ! heah ! heah !". and the old image settled down in front of the fire and nearly chuckled his head off. Galveston News. We learn from the Oxford Free LancHh&t Capt. A. H. A. WTilliams has become the sole owner of the Oxford an&iHenderson Railroad, and has ample means to complete the work, and 'will do so as early as TALKING A1JOUT CATS. "Talk about cats,'" said Czardine seating himself in the 'J-ivies sanc tum, "why, them 'ere fellers whe tells about bringin' cats to life arter they are killed haint a circumstance to the experience I'oiicuhad. Yon. see my old eat had a litter of young 'tins. I icss tok them 'ore little uns and drowned 'em in a pail of water. Alter leavin' of 'em there. for almost an lunar I took 'em aud sold 'em to a sassige maker. About two days arterwards the old cat was passsin' the meat market when she suddenly stopped before a string of link sassige. Quick as lightirin' she seized a lot" of links and run like blazes to my barn. Next day, as I was p.issin' a barrel in the bam, I heard a fot of mc w- in', and I looked into the barnl, and what do you think I saw?" . "C uild'it- ..tell m"..AVc--thx.'ies. " i : ,w- .-ijn, ply. "Wall, in the bottom c, that; 'ere barrel lay that old eat; and I hope to run for Congress if them four links of sassige s wasn't, takin'' their rations jess as nat'ral "tv if they'd never been through a s -s-7 sige chopier. ALIj out. y p "L want to see, the villain i who wr te this "article. Where's' tlun i proprietor ojpRiis paper V" j , "He's out." i f ' "Where's thJ managing editor ?T--i, j. "He's out" ' r; ' ' Vj j "Where's the. city .editor?" a f "He's out." "Where're 'm I ?" " '' (Iicketty-slam-bang-jain ! Two j panes of glass broken.) .( ! "You're out.'' - - ! ; Man found on .sidewalk and car- i id -ried to hospital..' 'Verdict Struck, by lightning. Still, they will do it -f 'N. Y. Dispatch. r s It is calcuhited that the 10,000,-rj 000 barrels of beer reported by tiio brewer's congress as having been sold last year would have filled a i canal five feet deep and twenty-one ieet wide, extending from New ' York to Philadelphia, and that t ( would take a pump throwing thirty f gallons a minute twenty-one yeans ! to pump it. dry. NEWS 1TU3IS. Congress met ..yesterday. 'ien. (lanield is 4') years old.-. Senator L uaar is ; in bad. :hiralll:, (iartield has promised' no. man : an olhce tlius far. lioraee U. iV.ii:.-.s a lawyer 01 Prison couiity, is (U'ad. j, i Slierill" oi' t;-u! . ilit'1 roiuiiy f.ives I a bond WoriU s 0. j'. . T- ' Jhdgl Tourjee .will " vrrij's: lecture lield m .IaVi.ua; , . ; : 'j : Chat.'ioite aiid MaUsViri- to be connected i' ti.-h'iajiii. T-ne wlu'J't Ci';'! tliis v-ar l 4 mated rt ii)f! H'jKMMusheIs. A. drunken white woman fr to death m Newl.)ern last .week. ! The mountains in Western North Cauliiia are covered -with snow. Hancock is dt-feated by just three thousand of the p jiuLuote. - Tiie Coiistitution'al Am-, laments, j voted m at.liie 1 isi eiectio;:, were 'adopted. ;. S.'.H. Flemmii'.g has started a And ilW halltll'trs IT -Vrittll Av IVil in imiaTVf ' Luii'p lyT.1. -. ,7"' ' , j Gen. 15. -a Harrison is certain to be elected as Cniied States Senatc r from lndi ma. .' General Grant is a resident of -New York. He wants to he elected U. S, Senator. j J.-is. L. Pugh has heen unani mously eh tied to the 17 S. Senate from Alabams. " ! ; Tiie Oates cotton factory in Charlotte wjli be;?in opeiatrons the.. 1st of January. . " W. A. Davis, of the Oxford Torch -liijht, is in the ji; 1 t for the I'lerk shi) of the H-'use. It is belie veil that the United States w ill )'( .d ucc U.OOlv.OOO bales of cotton this year. The Yf -. ntal OI,.cri-i'r wnnls the pub!'," printing anl will ask for it -wh-ii.ti;e liPgishiiuro niet-tSy Jte. A. Uobin:-iri, editor of the Wii'ji'.ou ,fa''.; is a candidate irr Heading Clerk c i the Senate. I?. Y. McAden, President of the, Firsi National Dank of . Charlotte, ; is greeting a cotton factory in Gas tuu eoiinty. Joseph Hart, publisher of trie : ' p New York Truth, has sued Gen. T.vTsend for S1(,00 for clefan V ' iiig-his cinraetiT. . J. (.Inn liuivlred awd funvtf f n x: i -l;aVe been seiil.-i'eeeiil iy tu l!;e ; We. ;t( rn North Carolhia Piuln ail ': making in', all the 50U to ha far n:s7ed by the State. ' Ai.ij--i' Peter M. Hale has issued a- Cii'ular letter 'to the Deny ci-atic rut,., i. rs of the' .Assembly, as3;ing f-,t re (let ion as State Print r, oa the 'gro;;nd ot lossrs in the past
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