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71 r ANT. DEMOCRATIC ALWAYS A. IT 3D UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTA NCES. e Durham 1bBAnon IT r v v . . VOL. X.----N0. 6. Professional Cards DURHAM, C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1881. 1 $1.50 PER ANNUM John 51. Uobixo, Ed; C. Hackset, Of Chatham. . Of Orange. MORINa ?ACKSEY' Attorneys at Law, j j DfBHAM.'S. C. " jj--' ' Pkkn the Courts of Orange, Chatham, ! AJamacce, Randolph and Wake, and alio ip the I baprMne and Federal Courts. . Collections and settling: estates a specialty, : a Mr. -Moiing will be at hia office in Durham ' on Wednesday of every week. . Office over store of A. O. Cox A Co. , LUK8F0RD, ; - Attorney at Law, . i !. , - i KOXBORO, N. C. ROBERT E. CARR, Attorney and Counsellor at Law MEEK A B THE TIGER : OR, The Queen of the Stranglers. DURHAM, N. C. .yy 8. ROULHAC, i Attorney at Law, Vl"MlM, X. C. I'runit attention tu all bueintM. s. H. WEBB, Attorney at Law, OAKS, N. C. Will practice in the .Superior Courts of Ala mance, Orange and Person'. A1N biminess promptly attended to. P. M. 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All op erations performed in the latest and best style, and as none but the best material, will be used, warrants entire satisfaction. Charges Mod , J8AAC 5. LINK, 1 Practical Land Surveyor, . DURHAM, N. C. - ! STRAYED OR STOLEN One sorrel Mule, blaze lace, flax mane and '- tail, hitched at Knap of Reeds, and broke loose or was stolen Wednesday night, January l'2th. Liberal reward wili be paid for tho delivery of sail Mule. Anv information will be thankfully received. R. H. CASH, Knap of Reeds, N. C. THE DURHAM BAKERY JOHN Bl'RGESS, Proprietor. I beg leave to inform the good citizens of Durham that I am always prepared to furnish the very uicest and freshest Loaf Bread, Fresh Cakes of all kinds, Confectioneries, Fruits, Jellies, .Brandy Peaches, Canned Goods, aud, in fact, everything kept in that line ot business. Give me a call and you will be convinced. SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS! Hiss Bessie Tanning's School for small Boys and Girls will open at the residence of Mr. Fred. Fanning, on Dillard street, MONDAY, 8EP1 EMBER 6, 1380. For terms, apply at" the residence of Str. Fanning. , au31;tf BARBER SHOP Sin .-e the fire we have located in the build ing on Church street, between the corner of Main street and the residence of Mr. Geo. E. Longee, where we will be pleased to see our customers and all in need of Sliavingr, Hair-Cuttiiiff, &e. Please accept thanka for past favors. Respectfully, WATTS & MURCHISON. BUCHANAN'S I A Classical and Mathematical School for Boys. will open on Monday, continue twenty weeks. Th Eighth Term January 10, 1881, aud - Charges per Session: Primary Classes:.. ......... ..$12.50 English 15.00 Higher English 17.50 Languages, each i ... ,8.00 Incidental Fee 50 Tuition' payable one-half at beginning of session, balance at close. Students will be charged from time of en trance and no deduction will be made except in case of protracted sickness of two, weeks, or more. None but the best help will be employed and niy patrons may rest assured thai nothing which tends to promote the moral and intel lectual interests of those entrusted to my care will be neglected. Thanking my patrons and friends for past favors, I hope by faithful work to merit a con tinuance of their patronage. 1 For. particulars, apply to the Principal, - L. T. BUCHANAN. CHAPTER L It was quite late one night in the month of June, 1856, that a young officer left the British barrack, in Delhi, and walked tpward a portion of the Hindoo citj, Cot noted for a great degree of respectability. He walked rapidly, and, as if to avoid recognition, wore the rim of his hat turned roughly down. i In years he was quite young, for the position which he had reached, a: Captaincy in an English regiment; and. bis handsome face and manly bearing gare f orth etidences of good blood and breedincr. He wore no sword at his aide; but tbe sash, its almost constant companion, still en circled hia waist. He continued Lis, walk until he found himself in a portion of Delhi known as be "bad district." It was now eleven o'clook, and a dangerous hour for Englishmen to be abroad,- for the mntterings of that terrible storm of massacre,, soon to shock the world, were heard but indistinctly as yet throughout the city. "I mjust be near the place," the sol dier said, looking around upon the singularly shaped buildings that sur rounded him on every side, for he was in a square. "I have been here be fore, and cannot understand why I should be at sea' to-night. Yonder ha ! there is a light in his window. Jts-flash sets toe aright".. He started forward again, for he had paused to get his bearing, and a i miiute later rapped half fearfully on the lowrbrowed door of a large build ing. A moment of silence succeeded the raps, then there was the shuffling of feet in the corridor, and the hoarse voice of some one speaking commands to a. slave. 1 "Down, Tutar ! down, I say ! show ayour teeth, but do not growl." The door .was then opened, and the young officer was asked to enter by the fierce-looking person who con fronted hiai A moment later the doer was closed, and the soldier was following a, figure down the dimly lighted corridor. "We are here," said the strange personage, jtui'ning suddenly upon his late visitor. "We have entered the chamber of mystery. No visitor lies to Meerab here. If a word of false- j hood falls from his lips there is the ! torture !" As he Bpoke the sorcerer pointed to a gigantic tiger which, crouched on the floor, regarded the Englishman with flashing eyes, and blood-thirsty demeanor, j "Tutar has killed the liar here," continued the old astrologer. "But the voung soldier looks truthful. He wilLnot lie to the tiger, methinks." " jttm nnt hora in - Hit" was iYtt soldier's quick reply. "I came on a business that greatly concerns me." "Yes." f "My happiness trembles in the bal ances.'' ; . ' "Meerab knows that the girl is still missing." t The Soldier started, and looked in credulously into the wizard's face. "You seem to know that.'' "Why should I not? Meerab can talk with thd stars; from before the future he cao tear the veil and read it as he reads the past. Nothing so deep that he cannot fathom it; noth ing SO widej that his all-seeing eye cannot span it. You want the girl '?" "I do." j "What wi you. gire?" VThen you will get her for a sum !'' cried the soldier, starting eagerly for ward. "I have some money; but there is much that I can get. Only sav that Alethe shall be restored to me." 1 , The astrologer did not speak, but gazed into his caller s face. "Soldier, he said, "1 do not ask your rupees." MeeraD, the tiger, does not need money. .Listen to me. Long ago an English regiment came to Delhi, and put the iron heel of tyranny upon India, j Its colonel was a man of fierce disposition, cruel as the jungle tiger,, hated by all of us. We hated the very earth he trod. One night he came to rrie, scornful of my powers, and when I revealed his future in the magic glass, he stamped his foot upon the floor and called me fool. I had not Tutar then, else that had been the last epithet of his life. He went away, 'and soon in a bungalow they found him with a cord about his neck." "Strangled!'' cried the young sol dier, starting- from the narrative. "He was my father ! , "Meerab knows that. "And did! you not set the thusra upon his track ?'' and the hand of the speaker flew j to' his side, but to dis cover that no hilt was ready for its angry grasp.! ; Meerab laughed. "The boy is like his father !" he said. "If he; keeps not his temper he, too, will be found in the bungalow." "Does the knirror reveal this?" The words were accomDanied with a high-born sneer. "Beware, soldier, else you never meet Alethe; again," responded the sorcerer, in a tone of warning. "I wilL Where is the girl ?" "Aye, where ? Find her ?" "I cannot? "True." I , "Tellme." I "Meerab must be rewarded." "You shall be. Whatever you ask 6haU be given. Name your price, and relieve me of the suspense which has become an awful torture." The. sorcerer was silent for ; a mo ment. His keen, dark eyes flashed with triumph, and he approached the soldier with the noiseless tread of the striped beast that kept at his Heels His hand fell upon the soldier's right arm. -. j "j.nis snau me jngusnman give Meerab for Alethe ! j Morley Essex, the brave young cap tain, started back with blanched cheeks, and with a cry of horror on bis lips. Meerab's meaning could not be mis taken. He meant that the soldier should give his .right arm for Alethe. "My arm ?" he cried. "My good right arm ? No,! no ! Meerab. You would dismember me because my father, in an outburst of passion, dubbed you fool. I want Alethe. I love her with all my heart; but " "Prove it, then. Give me this arm. and she is yours again. ; "Will nothing else secure her V "Nothing else ! Meerab swears it. The arm ! the arm or tbe cord, for " f "For whom?" . ! "Alethe!" "My father called you fool I call you fiend !'' cried Essex. ' The sorcerer laughed, derisively. "So. be it !" he said, turning away. "The arm, or the cord in the bunga low." The soldier saw the wizzard's back turned upon him,-and felt for his 8 word again, forgetting that he had left it at the barracks. But the tigers eyes wereupon him, aci- Le totr his utter inferiority to the Indian ogre. "Stay, Meerab," "he cried. "I'll make the sacrifice. When do you desire it?" . "To-morrow "Here ?" "Here!" - "I will not fail you. I Alethe, and willingly would v,rn " - 1UO 1U1 JUU. The last word still quivered the sol dier's lips, when the room suddenly grew dark, and Meerab's arm led him down the corridor and out into the almost deserted square. bungalow! Iam Greater than Mee rab the tiger. Behold the face of the womau dreaded in India above every thing!" As she -uttered the last sentence, Meerab's visitor stepped . iiack, and tragically jerked the mask from her face. The fire-light revealed it m all its Indian beauty acfjl passion, and the wizard ohiank frcm it with no color in his own. He stood before. Marothe, the beau tiful but dreaded Queen of the Stran glers. For a moment the thrilling tableau remained unbroken. No noise save the tiger's growl in the adjoining room was heard; the fire had ceased to crackje, as if - to lend more eclat to the scene. , . "Cross me if you dare!'' said Ma rothe, at last. "My authority is greater than yours, Meerab. Give me the girl, and let me put her forever from my path. The cord and the bunga low. I know of them." The for the .a.ietne, ine beautiful, was discovered seated in a chair. Tutar, the tiger, was crouched at her feet The feelings of the young captain cannot be described. He started forward, but paused at a word Meerab addressed to the beast Then it was that he saw that AletbVs mouth was covered with a bandage which prevented speech, but he saw her eyes, which uttered vol umes of love and mute appeals "Com !' BAlrl Vunh. fh iJAbvtnt and then she is yours." "xou must swear it !'' I do," and the oath that fell from the astrologer's Hps told E3 ex that Aleihe would be restored to him after the sacrifice of his good right arm. He loved his arm, and glanced at tht' girl bound in the chair, and watched by the hideously beautiful beast Her face was white, for she divined the ordeal that was coming. Essex laid hia arm upon the table, and aieerab, after feasting 'the arm, AN HUMBLE PRINTER.. How He Got a Dutchman Guess. to nis eves wizard lfesUated. He stood j up'm its beauty and strength -for a first time in his Hfe in the 1 moment, took ud a knife. night presence of the stranglers oueen, a person dreaded throughout India. ; beautiful but full of death, loving but ! i- I 1 V 1 j love you, I give mv CHAPTER II The wizard closed the "dooi, re traced his steps, and, passing through the room in which the exciting con ference had been held, entered an apartment on whose bare floor a fire of sticks burned brilliantly. The room contained various articles of furniture, a cot, and other things strewn with" great books, ponderous and ungainly volumes, filled ? with cabalistic writings known only to the ogre of the place himself. It was hia study room, as well as his bed cham ber, for the cot showed evidences bf late occupancy. Meerab's eyes still contained the flash of triumph, and he was rubbing his soft hands with glee When a shadow fell between him and the fire. Quick as thought, the Delphian wizard turned to greet the presence, and the next moment started back with a shiver of dread, and a hasty look around as if in search of his tiger. But Tutar was not in the room. Meerab was tall and powerfully built. Age had not impaired his strength, nor subdued his passions. He deserved the name . which he had borne for fifty years Meerab the 6-- . But he shrank from the fragile fig ure that confronted him in his own chamber; and his face grew pale as he' regarded it The features of his second visitor were carefully hidden by a dark mask that concealed the entire face; but a pair of beautiful arms, bare from the elbow and .richly braceleted, were en- trancinely visible. For a moment the occupants of the room gazed at each other, and the mask was the first to speak. "I am here !" she said. "And like a Sepoy thief you came !" the wizard said, becoming bold. ; 'That is not here or there !" was the answer. "I came for a purpose. In your hands is a white girl. Her lover has just left your house." Meerab started, surprised by the words. "Ave. start not. You are .not the onlv person in Delhi to whom the stars speak. We must come to an to slay when passion had spent its novel force. She loved Essex, the young soldier, but hated and detested Alethe, the girl whom Meerab had stolen from his arms for the purpose nf base and brutal revenge. Meerab did not want to give his hidden captive over to Ma rothe, for by such 'action he would be deprived of his revenge against the j soldier, but the strangler queeu was : all powerful, and he had to deal with I her powers superior, if this were pos ; sible, to his own. He thus resolved to tjawart her. "Behold the arjswer Meerab gives Marothe," he suddenly exclaimed, pointing behind the lovely thing. "The gods of India write his arswer on the wall." Thrown from her guard, the stran table, some stools, i gler turned, and the next instant found The table wasM hersalf in the wizard's erasD. O IT She did not. struggle, but fastened her eyes upon her captor, and said slowly: "If you dare ! The men of cord know where I am, and if I come not to them to-morrow, death for you." "Death be it, then !" cried Meerab. "The only woman that this old piece of mortahty ever loved, died by your infernal cords !" He bore her to the door that led to the conference room, and threw it wide. "Tutar !" he called, and the gigantic tiger sprang from the gloom and showed himself in the firelight.' "A delicious morsel here," the wiz ard continued to the beast "The queen of all the stranglers. Now rend her Hmb from limb, and crush her eggshell bones " The next instant lie flung Marothe the disordered Yow, SI fo'wife ! ' said the wizard, "an arm j my own shoes.' A Dutchman, sitting in the door of his tavern in the far West, is ap proached by a tall, thin Yankee, who is emigrating westward on foot, with a bundle hung on a cane over his shoulder. "Veil, Mister Talking Stick, vat you vant?" inquired the Dutchman. "Rest and refreshment," replied the printer. "Supper and lotchin', I reckon." "Yes, supper and lodging, if you please." "Pe yo a Yankee peddle, mid chew ehy in your pack to sheet der gal?" "No, sir; I'm 110 Yankee peddler." "A einging master, too lazy to vork?" "No, sir." "A shenteel shoemaker, Vot loves to measure der gals' feet and hankies better tan ter 'ixuJLS shoes ?" t "No. Sir. or I should linvfl mpnlerT and the knife crept nearer the quivering flesh. The captain gritted his teeth for the torture. But the keen knife was not per mitted to touch the arm. All at once Meerab the tiger started with a half-chokiug cry, and Morley Essex sprang from the table. He saw a dark-skinned woman s'andiDg near. One hand raised above her head held a cord, the other j a dagger. The cord reached to Mee rab's neck and his fingers were tug ging It unoi the disordered cot, and saw tpe Ucva UXUUViU lis caiv avuui ""f '"Q' But at that moment a piercing shriek rent the air, and a lemale sprang through the folds of a scarlet curiam, and fell between the beast and his victim. It was Alethe, the wizard's English captive ! i and at its infernal folds. was the cord of the thugs, and : theirqueen held it iu her hand! ' Meerab, choked by the cord, stag- j gfcfads and fell. Essex was roused to ' action. Quij;k as thought be seized a knife sprang to Alethe, despite the: guardian tiger. But the beast heeded I him not, for with a terrible cry he j threw! himself upon the straoelerl queen; Alethe's cords were quickly severed and, snatching her from the chair, Essex darted from the awful scene. He heard the battle between beast and woman raging behind him, but rushed on and on till the eool air of night fanned bis face. Alethe was saved ! The people found their wizard and the beautitul queen of the stranglers t'ead in the Httle room, a cord about the neck of one, a bloody tiger over the mangled body of the other. With Alethe rescued from the snares of Marothe, the beautiful de mon, Essex left the army and re turned with her to England, while he still delates to many the story of his awffil night in the abode of Meerab the tiger. having Indian when they did, they might have been numbered, had they remained. "A book achent, vot bodders dar school committees till they do vot you wish choost to get rid of you ?" "Guess again, sir; I am no book agent." "Ter teyful ! A dentist preaking der peoples jaws at a dollar a schnag,. and runmn on mit a daughter ?" "No, sir; I am no tooth puller." "Phenologus, den, feeHn' der young folks' head like so many cabbitch." "No, I am no phrenologist" "Veil, den, vat ter teyfiul can you be? Choost tell, you shall have the best sausage for supper, und shday all night free gratis, mitout a cent, and a schill of whiskeyto start put mid in de mornin'. , "I am an humble disciple of Faust a professor of the art that preserves ill artsa typographer, at yeur ser vice." ' f ' , "Votseh dot?" "A printer, sir; a man that prints books and newspapers." "A man vot printsch noosepapers ! Uh, vot aw! yaw. ay, dat ish it A man 1 intsch noosepapers ! Yaw. yaw! Val up ! A man vot printsch noose pap ra. I vish I may be shot if I did not tink you yas a poor teyful of a dishtrict schoolmaster, vot vorks for nodi mg, thought vou and boards ' vash him. ' around. Jerusalem of To-Dav. A Woman's Terrible Experi- ence. Mrs. Lucy A. Still,, of Sharon's Mills. Pa., Has passed through a most thrilling experience. She started from her home in that place to visit a sick son who lived near Darney Swamp, about seven miles from here. Mm Still is sixty years of age, but as spry as a cricket, end, she determined to walk fht entire distauce through this dismal swamp to her 'son's house, a feat she had frequently accomplished. She started at about three o'clock in the afternoon, and before -she got half the distance a violent Bnow-storm set in, and in a short time the road was hidden from sight Darkness, too, 6oon came, and the old lady straggled from the road and became fa&t in a deep mire. The more Bhe struggled the deeper she sank, until at last, Weary from exertion, she gave up all attempt to extricate herself,and prayed for help. She remained in th's icire for a whole day and night. Then, af er almost superhuman efforts, she flricated herself, and made her way & a small hemlock tree, which she climbed She kept alive by contin ually moving- her hands and arms. No food passed her lips for upward of 165 hours, except a few crackers she had in her pocket and some whiskey which she was taking to her son. She was compelled to quench her thirst by ! eating snow and drinking the vile wa-: ter of the bog by which she was sur- ' rounded. She was rescued from her i perilous position on the seventh day j of her captivity by a party of hunters, who had heard her faint cry of dis tress. She was taken to her son's house, where her mental faculties gave way, and a serious illness followed; The doctors say she will never regain her mental powers. While fast in the mire, Mrs. Still saw several bears and scores of deer, and was attacked at one time by a panther. She gave ter rible screams as the animal approach ed her, and he ran away. niii iMiiiK. -1 . I BOOTS AND SHOES. PROVISIONS OF ALL KINDS- Fancy and Heavy Groceries. I have, and hand, a full line Canned Goods, keep constantly on of Fancy Groceries, of every variety. Heavy and istaple lirooenes. Also, a complete stock; of BOOTS AND SHOES. is, "Quiet Biles -a My motto small profits. Come and examine gocu j and k-arn prices. S- R. Main St., Durham, N. C. July 20, ISSO-tf. Groceries. Huffy People. understanding. girl-" "You ?" Yes." "Tell me all. I want the English L. Ah! you may be a great wizard, but you do not know what I want to do with the English girl whom you stole from her lover's arms. I will tell you, and then you must give her to me. Her white face has crossed my path, and made me a miserable woman. Like the snake, she has glided between me and the only love that ever stirred my heart. I am mad at her. She still stands between me and the god-man who has won me, yet he seeks her still, and, while she lives, will never turn to me." "Do you hate him ?'' Tf he clings to her, I shall !" j "He will cling to her forever. I I hate Him." "Why ?" ; H "For his accursed father's sake." j "He came for the girl to-night ?'' "Yes." "And you " " ' "Promised to give; her up." j A cry pealed from the woman's throat, and with a bound she sprang to Meerab's side. "You did?" she almost shrieked. "You promised to restore her to bim ? Do it if you dare!" v Meerab could not see her face, but the flashing of her eyes Jbeneath the mask told him that it mu6t be black with madness. 1 ; The words "if you dare" echoed in His heart, and He tore Himself from : 1 -V. ' : las woman as 11 ne expected to see a knife glitter over His Heart, and then disappear beneath His robes. "Did you think I would do it?' Meerab said, in a quieter tone. . "I hate the very bread He . eats. Give her up to him ? Never ! I am going to" -j. ' . He paused suddenly, as if he had just discovered that he was trusting his visitor too fay. 1 "You are going to do what ?' she said, quickly. "No! no! yon Have no right to question me," was the wizard's re--sponse "I know you not Remove your mask, and let me see your face." "And you will teU me, then ?" "Perhaps," said the wiley man. "If you do not. tbe cord and tbe CHAPTER III. "Back! down, Tutar!" Meerab cries to his i tiger, as he rushed for ward and ! raised Alethe from the floor. f Merciful God, where am I?" she gasped in the wizard's arms. 'Did I dream ? Did I see a tiger about to devour a woman, or or what is going to come of this strange cap tivity ?" "Courage, daughter,' said Meerab. "You did but dream. I will carry you back again." "Ralr Alrn-liw a f L- frk linn Oh, heaven, I thank thee !" . "Yes, back to him !" the astrologer said, and disappeared beyond the cur tain through which his fair captive had just rushed. When he returned, which he did a minute later, the tiger was still crouched at the door, but( the stran glers"queen was gone ! The old man seemed thunderstruck, and wasted his rage upbraiding his striped guardian. He did not search for Marothe; he knew that she had left the house, and that to wreak upon him her peculiar revenge which had filled India with terror. . Dark clouds were hovering over the sacred temples of Delhi, when Morley Essex, the young soldier, en tered for the second time the mysteri ous abode of Meerab the tigtr He entered it prepared for the ter-kS?P?redl7' ui .v,;v v, 1,0,1 I iiTf-jr-A II yon 8 One of the oddest things to witness, if not one of the most disagreeable to encounter, is the faculty some people have of taking offense when no offence is meant taking "huff," as the phrase goes, with reason or without making themselves and every one else uncom fortable. . for nothing deeper than a mood or more than u fancy. Huffy people are to be met with of all ages and ia every station, neither years nor condition bringing nect ssarily wisdom or insuspiciousness; but we are bound to say that the larger proportion will be generally found among women and chiefly among those of an uncer tain social position, or who are unhap py in their circumstances, not to speak of their tempers. Huffness, which seems to be self-assertion in what may be called the negative form, and wl i?h the possessors thereof classify as a high spirit of sensitiveness, ac cording as they are passionate or sul len, is in reality the product of sel: distrust. The person who Has self respect and nothing to fear, who is of an assured social status, and happy private condition, is never apt to take onense. Many and great are the dan gers of action with huffy people, and sure you are to flounder into the bog with them, while you are innocently thinking you are walking on the sol ldest .esplanade. The dangers speech are just as manifold. The dan gers of jesting are, above all, great. It may be laid down as an absolute rule, which has no exception anywhere, that no Huffy person can bear a joke Jerusalem is looking up. The streets are to be lighted with gas and a hursecar company is going to run a line of "bob-tails" to the top of the MouLUof Olives. There will be some pretty lBteep grades on this route, un less it is laid out with a long detour eitht r to th north or the south. Ex tra tc;w horses must. be. used, or else some of the passengers ,.will have to U i tne down grades the vehicles will he in danger of similar disasters to th ;se which reeently occurred in Jersey City and on Staten Island. InJ one t these a car came down on a run, aud ii the other the vehicle tum bled over from a precipice into the vale of woes below. The spectacle mav soon be presented of a car roll ing wheels over Head down the steep' slope from the graveyard east of the city wall into the valley of the Kil droi',.the driver and passengers vainly run; ing alter it with a view of putting on the brakes. The horses in that sect urn are even worse looking than any which serve as a motive power for strttt cars in this country. The sound of a ! bell-punch in the Highways of rusty old Jerusalem will be as great a no ( Ity as a party of householders en joying their leisure by lounging in the bgliUof a street lamp, lhe world mov. s and even slow Jerusalem must bestir herself. Solomon had many cosily novelties to show the Queen of Sheba, but in all his stables there was nothing like a street car. Takes pleasure in he has opened a full line of As to Household Expenses. A New York paper says: House hold expenses have increased Here greatly during the last ten to fifteen years, mainly from increase of luxury rather than from any advance in prices. Persons are not satisfied with the kind of Houses they had then. These are called old-fashioned; they sell at reduced Tates and are rented with difficulty. They have net the improvements and conveniences re quired to-day; they are often regarded as untenantable until they Have un dergone expensive alterations. Fur niture is of a very different and much costlier pattern than it used to be, and there is much mora pi. it. To build and furnish a dwelling genteelly demands nearly twice as large" a sum a i did trinl8fJalo 1870. . We are period, and art and decoration are very dear. Men and women, particu larly women, wear more and finer clothes than formerly; have more de sires and pleasures to gratify, more expensive tastes to consult. House holders were wont to estimate their rent as nearly one-third of their an nual disbursements. Now it is barely one fifth or one-sixth thereof. What was superfluous has become essential. Hundreds of things are needed to-day which could not be had, which did not exist, twelve or fourteen years ago. National prosperity has scarcely kept pace with national extravagance, and most of us tend to reckless improvidence. DAVID JUSTICE informing the public that HEAVY & FApCY GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES, &c. , On the Fayetteville road in Hayti, near Dur ham, N. C. : As he pays cash for goods, and thereby save, a heavy discount, he has no hrsitane in prom ising to sell as low as anybody. jJou t forget tho place, but come and. see me. DAVID JUSTICE, nolG-tf I Durham. N. C Wagons I WAGONS 5 w 1 Do you want a good td noCuivu tnirunVtwa and durable Wgnfr CATES. I work none but the best material of both, wood and iron, and guarantee my Wagons to do more service than any Wagon that can be bought in or out of lhe State- Tor the same money. I refer to those who have used- Wa gons of my make. Cash oidera promptly at tended to. I , 1 can always be foiind at my shop on the public road one mile south of Cameroh's new mill. . I L. F. CATE8, oc5-3m T. O. Durham. N. C. Dull of Comprehension. rible ordeal which he Had sworn to undergo on the previous night. He felt Himself in the wizard's power. He wanted Alethe, His love, restored to his arms, and telt that no sacrifice j was too great for her recovery. He longed now to be able to battle down the House with British cannon, to overturn it, stone for stone, and leave a Heap of rubbish to mark the spot of Meerab's incantations. But such authority ; would not be delegated to any one by the. British; for it would bring about a terrible war with the natives, who put great faith in the soethsayer.' The young Soldier was met by Mee rab, who seemed in great haste. "You do not lie !" Meerab said with much satisfaction. "Come, all is ready." The astrologer led the way into a small room, in the centre of which stood a -Btrong table covered with knives, saws, and a number of band ages. A chill went to Essex's Heart when he saw these, for he guessed their meaning at once; but advanced with boldness and gazed upon them. A rapid glance around the room re vealed no other occupant to the sol soldier, and he congratulated Himself upon latars absence. .T 11 yon auempi tne very sim plest form of chaffing, you will soon be made to find out your mistake, and not unfrcquently the whole harmony of an evening has been set wrong, be cause a thin-skinned, huffy person has taken a pleasant jest as a personal af- ront, and either blazed out or gloomed sullenly, according to His or Her indi vidual disposition and the direction of the wind at the time. "Gem'len," said the old man, "re member dat it am not safe to form an opinyun on a stranger by, de size of his mouf or de number of his Hat. No person can tell de number of mules in a barn by looking at the stable door." "You can't smoke in here," said & coaductor to a countryman who was pulling vigorously at a five cent cigar in a car half full of ladies. The man didn't seem to hear. "I say," cried the man of the bell punch in a louder key, "if you want to smoke come out here on" the plat form." "All right," returned the passenger, and He stepped out "Didn't think it would hurt nothin'," he said, apologet ically; "seein' there ain't any straw to! catch fire." "But there are ladies there." . , "Oh, yes; didn't think nothin' about that. Might get ashes on their gowns and spile 'em." "It isn't that so much," explained the conductor, "but ladies object to smoke. ! "Welljd didn't ask any of them to smoke, did I? They needn't object before they're invited." . "xeu don t understand. Smoking is disagreeable to ladies " V'Best reason in the world why they shouldn't practice it , Catch me smok ing if it was disagreeable to me !" And he tranquilly puffed away at his five-center. "Mother Shiptoii" a Humbug. The year 1881 has arrived, and with it should be expected the end of all things terrestial according to the "old lady's wonderful predictions In the British Museum is a copy of her original book, published in 1041, and contains nothing, we read, of im portance, save an old woman's chatter and a jumble of vogue forecasts of local interest, and would decidedly have remained in oblivion but for the enterprise of one Charles Hindley, of Brighton, England, who in 1862 pub lished what purported to be an exact reprint of the book. Interprised with the senseless, as unfulfilled predic tions, he Had inserted ten or twelve lines. As examples: Dr.TUTT'S Expectorant "Carriages without horses shall go, And iron shall swim through the sea; Through mountains, men shall ride; England shall at last admit a Jew, Ac.'' a poor mystic effort to foretell .the past history of engineering in Eng land. The superstitious and lovers of the marvelous, ignorant of Hindley 's fraud, introduced to make His book sell, seized upon these proofs of Mother Shipton's gift of prophecy. The prediction of the end of the world in 1881 He stole from Piazza Smith's and Philo Israel's interpretation of the hieroglyphics in the great gallery of the Pyramid . , ; IN 2SCTS. AND l BOTTLES. Its properties are pomulcent, Nutrl tive Balsamic, Sobthintrnd JHealipsr. Combining all these qualitiea, it id th most effective LTTNO liALSAM ever olf jr t'd to sutfjr;r3 irem pulmonary d'.;.cas3. - DR. J. F. WOOD. w York, voluntatf:r.:r.-slt. -READ WHAT SAYSt- Dr. T'UTT : I.' - Pt,U. 1STT. Uj.T hir During UiiaL - - i itJ" orhandr er h .f lnnjf d e es- !i 1 rc r " of th cily Uisc-w era 01 a vvy . . ft m tliu a ity' tisn ion w Vuit hxpectoraut, and I oouiwAny ur,.rit ut U -ouduriul powar. , During a .r . tire or uranty yir, 1 bara uarar kuuwn a medicine Un:ti. pnimptly.and with .urn bi'pny ell. c(. U intnuij auhdnod the moetnulent 'fila of cou.-bme. and inrarialily cured the dimM la altadl. 1 cbeiirfuUyl li.il j.e H a tua beet lung imwliir 1 e?rrflal-cunAYWooo. u. . ; A NEWSPAPER PUB. WRITES. office, Kv-.-iiint X.ia, Auguata, (ia. Dr. TUTT iHwtr Kir Wy little eon, waa attacked w.tii ).eumouia laat wimter, wbicU loft btra mlU a i -ent loun, lhatlaitlull wi-bin a montb einoe, tor'tue cure uf winch 1 ma mdeLUid tufoar valuable K .im-l irant. 1 d tnl moH every mine recoiu- ntli t umni yi mended, but none did any B'xkI un froor K- net -r-mt. one bottle of which removed the cougD aut,re.y. With many th, Ijjgj Had terriblo HiCHT SWEATS. ' jMe-nphis, Feb., 11. IBT1. Dr. Tt'Tr Sir I bar beau nuttering tor nearly two teara with a aerere cough. When I commenced la in g yur Kxpectorant 1 waa red need to one hundred and ameen Luanda m weigiit, 1 tid tried el moot e.oryihins . nad terriblotmcht iweata. 1 baye taken bU dozen bott!e. Tbenbr, eweata have toft tne, . . . .... ... .mmrmii. maiA I bve tfkined ufteeo V. no great napevt, ULl v cu. tt.ive.. (rounds in IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. R-.nror. have yon cafcglit a cold ? A-f you an- a.-.l to rai Uic jitil-gihT liou in tbe throat? tbe luiige, with short breath Do yon Have yoa u h-rita- Aieoiiee of opprcBOiou on bava a The feeling which arises in a man's bosom when his wife calls him up to shoot a burglar, and He discovers a timid mouse in the corner, are as thunderously delightful as they are silent and soothing. ACincinnati paper avers that "wo men dress too hastily." This clearly ii '"sarkasm," or else the editor never sat for two mortal Hours in a hired cutter, waiting for Angelina "to be down in a moment' , , "Ready-?' asked the wizard "Yes: but where is Alethe?" A fellow who married a poor girl "Here!" said he married " her to take care of "With the words, a red curtain was Her. but now when He staid out late drawn aside by unseen bands, and ' at night she, took Hair of Him "What have you been drinking or eating ?" exclaimed his wife as he re turned late at night "Liquor-ish 1" he responded, and then he winkediat himself in tne dark and breathed thin till she got asleep. When the young lady begins to talk of tea at the restaurant, and of hot birds on warm toast, the young man shivers and wishes the old ice cream days were back again. Here is a sentiment and fact com bined: It's hope that keeps us up for time; ' It's hope that keep our memories green; It's hope that makes our lirei sublime; , It s soap that keeps us clean. ' , The New York Herald. Every night before James Gordon Bennett goes to bed he receives, no matter in what part of the globe He may ber a resume f the contents of the Herald for the next day writh the headings of the principal articles. H no answer is received irom mm uv 30 a. m. it is supposed that He Has no suggestions' - to make, and the pa per goes to press, w nen n u iu .Europe- Xne8e . caDie aispaicnes oiten cost S 100 for one nigfct s Duagei. Bennett's instructions are never to save money. All correspondents for the Herald have the same instructions, the lesult being. enormous bills for ex- rrH.. : i umil nil ' news by telegraph, even letters not exactly of a news : character, and be fore long it is predicted that the Her ald will be entirely made up of tele graphic dispatches outside of the city news and advertisements, Why is a bubble like a bruise? cause it comes from n blow. . Be fit oi cour!iinj oi fyiuj dowo T A sharp paiu Low and theu la tbe rqglop of the heart, ehonl dergaud back? If eo, mr Advice Is Uka a .,7i-- a dnaenf Tutt's ExDectoraut: you will sooo Kx be able to raiae the otiftgiii. In an boar repoat tbe EXjecUraut, place a hot iron to the (ct,tag two ot Tatt's Pills. Ypn will soon tall lata a pleasant aleep and wake up In the morning, cough gone, luDgsworkltig freely; eaay breath ing, aud the bowels moving la a natnral mac per. Kissing a girl on the eating the skin of an throwing the juicy pttlp cheek is like orange and away. To prevent a retnrn of these tyriptoaie w tna Expectorant several days. " 6fflce735 Murray Street, N. Y, TUTT'S PILLS i tSjlf E TORPID fc.Vail. . TUTT'S PILLS ! CCJIIE DflaPKPSIAo I TUTT'S PILLS I " CUBE COsrTlVlBlii. TUTT'S PILLS TUTT'S PILLS 1 CURB KICK K!IUiaA;ll. TUTT'S PILLS CVRB BILlwVS COLIC. TUTT'S PILLS TUTT'S PILLS pURIi rTOE BLO.D. TUTT'S PILLS " w CURB FIl.ES. tUtt'S HAIR UYE, ma wa---aa. 4 ka ..a-al AH tAeaaVjJaV CaJ tkl Offlot; 33 MurrtyaSt.. IW Yrtfk.
The Tobacco Plant [1872-1889] (Durham, N.C.)
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Feb. 15, 1881, edition 1
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