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V: Courier JH RANKLIN- n n GEO. S. BAKER, Editor and Proprietor. TJERIMS: S2.00 per Annum. VOL. III. LOUISBURG, N. C FEIDAY, JUNE 26, 1874. NO. 34. The Maiden's Last Farewell. IS TDK DAT OF CMMATIOJI. . Then the night wore on, and we knew the wornt, That the end of it all was nigh ; Three doctors they had from the very first And what could one do but die ? " Oh, William !" she cried, "strew no blossoms 1 of spring, For the new ' apparatus ' might met ; Cut ay that a handful of shavings youH bring, And linger to see me combust. Oh, promise me, love, by the fire-hole youH watch, And when mourners and stokers convene, You will see that they light me some solemn, slow match, And warn them against kerosene. " It would cheer me to know, ore these rude breezes .waft My essences far to the pole, That one whom I love will look to tke draft, Aud have a fond eye on the coaL "Then promise me, love "and her voice fainter grew 41 While this body of mine calcifies, You will stand just as near as you can to the flue, And gaze while my gases arise. " Ah, those rioters it 1" said the mayor. ' Or possibly the storm has broken farther south and blown down the lines," said the operator. The mayor stared at the station-mas ter, and the station-master stared at the mayor. " Come," said the latter, excitedly, " fire np yonr engine and pnt me on the road ! I must go ! It is for the public pood. The agent reflected for a moment and then said, " I see only one chance, your Honor. The engineer who runs the " Pilgrim " lives here. He's off duty, at C. have done and gazing out of the cab window, guiding and governing the whole ! The watchers a the station looked after the locomotive till it dwindled to a speck in the distance, then till the last quiet. The storm had helped to clear the streets, and after a few arrests the mob had dispersed. " But tell me About this engine." And he teas told. They went to the puff of smoke disappeared in the tun- I manager's office, and soon Eugene found nel; and finally all of them departed that be was a hero. He never bad for their homes. known before that it was a remarkable But Eugene and the mayor went fly- thing to understand an engine, or that mg on. Two miles, hve miles, ten it required uncommon courage to run miles. His Honor grew nervous. Never in all his life before had he traveled at such a fearful rate of speed. But Eugene was calm. The roar of the machinery and the sick, just now, and so happens to be at thundering tread of the wheels prevent- home to-day. ' But who will go with us ?" asked Mr. F., the mayor' host. "That is the question, continued the agent, still reflecting, and looking at his watch. " The track will be clear for the next two hours, and then the lightning express goes through. The spare engineer, who runs the Pilgrim now that Stanhope is off, won't come in till the five o clock tram. I I had thought if you can get Stanhope's consent I had thought of Eugene Bur- UCtti The agent spoke with, considerable hesitation, but at the name of Eugene Burnett -Mr. F. clapped his hands. " uood I he cried. " Me is the very one for us !" And in a minute more he was in his carriage, whirling away to see Stanhope, the sick engineer, and the telegraph boy was running with all speed to fetch Eugene. The rain had now begun to fall, and the wind was rising every minute. The mayor paced up and down the room. Wow and then the telegraph operator tried his instrument, but got no re sponse. All faces in the depot looked as dismal as the weather. Suddenly Eugene entered. The sta tion-master said to him, " Eugene, do you think you understand an engine well enough to run one to C. ? " Yes, sir,' said Eugene, beating his wet cap uyon a chair. " Are von certain ? " Yes, sir," responded the boy, smiling ; " I understand every thing about an engine, " But did you ever run one ? 'A few miles with Mr. Stanhope once. I know 1 can manage it very easily." t The station-master's face brightened a little. But the mayor shook his head. Pressing as the emergency was, he could not feel willing to trust his jour neyand his life to a little, pale, hump back boy. The station-master assured him of Eugene's wonderful ability, and thought that he would be safe in trust ing him. Just then the sound of wheels was heard, and Mr. F. burst into the room, crying out, " Stanhope said yes 1 Still the mayor hesitated. "My boy," said he, "you know, of course, that an engine is a terrible power, and the danger of riding on one At the time when our story com- at full speed is great : that it may ex monces Eugene was fourteen years old. plode, or run off the track, or may meet liven at a much earner age his singular with an obstruction or a fatal colli- " For Thompson Six Henry has found out a way! (Of his process ' you've surely heard tell) Aud you burn, like a parlor-match, gently away, Nor even offend by a smell. " Ho none of the dainty need sniff in disdain WL.cn my carbon floats up to the sky ; And I'm sure, love, that you will never com plain, Though au ash should blow into your eye. " Now promise me, lovo" and she murmured low When the calcification is o'er. You will sit by my grave in the twilight glow I mean by my furnace door. "Yos, promiss me, love, while the seasons revolve On their noiseless axles, the years, iou wui visit mo kiui wuere you saw mo re solve, And leach my pale ashes with tears." WHAT CAME FROM A RIDE. The most remarkable boy in the vil lage of Samoset, on the Samosct branch of the Great Western Line to the city of U., was .Eugene Burnett. He was a hunchback, the only son of a poor woman. Few who saw him moving about, with his misshapen shoulders and lopped head, would guess that he was a genius ; though the bril liancy of his large eyes, the breadth of his forehead, and the pleasant intelli gence of his pale face, did much to re deem his deformity ; but a genius he truly was. when aptness at making things, and for studying out machinery of every kind, had rendered him an object of remark and notice. This faculty, and his gen erous use of it, made him a favorite with the boys, for his ingenious fingers whittled out many a cunning bird house, and squirrel-cage, and "pocket saw-mill for them. But among all the intricate toys that he spent his leisure hours and sickly days in contriving, steam-enginoa were his special delight. He made two or three of diminutive size that would run on little tracks, to the great admiration of all who saw them. f He was also noted for his skill in me chanics generally, and often neighbors who were making repairs about their houses, or in their choics furniture. consulted Eugene, and he could almost always show them the neatest and han diest way to do the work. But the steam-engine was his chosen study. That king of machines he had examined and pondered over with an enthusiast's zeal and an artist's patience, till he knew every part of it thoroughly, and understood its management as well as . many an old engineer. One autumn day the mayor of the city of C. was in Samoset visiting a friend. In the afternoon the weather, which had been beautiful, took on a , threatening aspect. The wind changed, r and by three o'clock great masses of rolling clouds covered the sky, portend ing a heavy 6torm. Shortly after three o'clock a dispatch was received in the telegraph office ad dressed to the mayor. The operator looked grave and shook his head as he copied it, and hurried it away by a messenger. Not twenty minutes elapsed before a galloping horse, attached to a light, covered buggv, was seen flying down to the depot. In the buggy were the mayor aud his host. Both of them were very much excited. The mayor leaped upon the platform and sum moned the railroad ngent. " When does the next train leave for or " At five o'clock, sir." . ." That will not do. I must leave im mediately. How many miles is it to c.r " Fifty-six, sir." - " Fifty -six I" cried the mayor in con sternation. Then I oouldn t get there in less thau five hours by horses, must have an engine." "An engine? its a very pressing case, then ? " Yes. I must travel to O. with all possible speed. A riot has broken out, and I am needed. I ought to be there now." "I'll telegraph to the superintend ent." said the station-master. " There's an engine here, but I have no authority to let it go under any circumstances un less it is attached to a train." . "Then send your dispatch immedi atelv. said the mayor. The telegraph operator flew to his in- . ttV r 11 J strnmeni. ms omce was in me ran road station, and he had heard all tha had been said. He touched the trans mitting key, but the indicator refused to work I What could be the matter? He tried ' his instrument again and again : but i ' was deaf and dumb. " The wires are down." itid ha. " I But b go." sion?" " Certainly, sir," replied Eugene. The mayor walked excitedly once or twice across the floor. He looked out at the windows ; the rain was falling heavily ; the trees were bending in the wind, and the four lines of railroad track stretched away, glistening with the wet, as far as the eye could reach. Meanwhile the station-master had beckoned to Eugene and said, "Go and get up steam. The mayor must go with you or not at all. It was a bold venture for the station agent to make, but. he had faith in the boy, and knew how necessary it was that the mayor should reach the city as soon as possible. He called two men to assist Eugene, and the three went out together. " You say the road is 4clear, switches all right, etc," said the mayor to the agent, in the tone of a man making up his mind to his fate. " Switches are all set straight for the main track. That's the rule. The lightning train has the way now ; but the Pilgrim will have an hour's start after she is ready and the steam is up. The mayor paced the room, as anx ious men almost always do, and the time flew by. Then thare was a rumb ling noise heard outside. He started. Here is a train I No, it was the Pilgrim ; and Eugene was seated in the cab, with a fireman to help him, and with his hand on the ever, his cheeks flashed with excite ment, and his eyes brighter than ever. The mayor hurried out, preparing himself for the worst. Several boys and some older depot loungers, attracted by the rumor of Eugenes "big job, huddled under ed them from talking, and the locomo tive bounded and swayed as it rushed fiercely over the track. Trees, fences, houses, barns, cattle, all seemed flying in the opposite direc tion, as if a hurricane blew them ; and the telegraph poles looked almost as near together as the teeth of a hair comb. The Pilgrim seemed to exult in conscious power, and danced, and bumped, and shook, and snorted, and tore along like a demon. They rushed through Dayton, and Westport, and Oolley, and Fayette, and through the brown pine woods, and over the broad, green marshes. The mayor could see the people staring along the road. He looked now and then at the little fellow beside him. He saw" the thin, white hand clutching the steel lever, and the keen eyes scanning now the road in front and now the machinery below. Town after town and village after village was left behind in their wild flight. They came to Croydon, a ham let of six houses, just half way to C . Here they stopped for water. The' mayor's face was black with cinders,and so was Eugene's. Said the mayor, " Shall we get to C in thirty-five minutes more? We have come thus far in thirty-five." "Yes, sir," said Eugene, "we shall be therein less than that time." " Then you shall have two hundred dollars." Eugene secretly determined to get to C in thirty minutes. But he failed to do it. They rushed on again. Hamil ton was passed, Belville, Wyandotte, Coren they were now only fifteen miles from the city. The mayor grew more and more anxi ous as they approached their destina tion. In his mind's eyes he saw the city in the hands of a mob, and fearful battles going on in the streets. Twelve miles I Ten miles I Eight miles 1 In the region which they were now passing through the storm had been raging, but the rain no longer fell, the storm had passed on. Just after they passed Farmly they came to a long, de scending grade. At the bottom of the grade ran a narrow stream, which was greatly swollen by the rain. Across this stream lay the railroad bridge, a structure one hundred feet long sup ported by piles driven into the bed of the river. The engine rushed down this grade towards the bridge with fearful velocity. All at once Eugene preceived some thing that made his heart leap into his throat. The water on the lower side of the bridge was filled with mud. This must have come from the banking be hind the abutments at the end of the bridge. Was it possible that the bridge was giving way ? lo stop the engine was out of the question. Eugene made up his mind in an instant. He pulled his lever and let on the full head of steam. The Pilgrim sprang forword like a frantic creature. The mayor turned around. Eugene was leaning forward with flash ing eyes, scanning his'danger. His lips were firmly set, and the gathered intensity of his looks xfrade the boy almost grand. He said noth ing. He was bent upon rushing the engine across the bridge before it had time to sink, even if it should begin to give way. In a moment they were upon it. it, or that it was a great thing to have one's wits thoroughly at command. In twenty-four hours every paper in the city had the story in print. The boy had become famous. A month after that eventful day Eu gene might have been seen in tho De partment of Engineering in the Tech nological Institute, dressed in the Hue suit and the silver-laced cap of the school. His friend, the mayor, was his patron, and procured his rapid advance ment, and it is not a very rare sight now to see the great man and the de formed and still pale boy walking to gether in the city streets. So promising a beginning, with the habits already formed of careful study and thorough ness in whatever he undertakes, cannot fail to make eminent the future life of the young engineer. Youth' Com panion. The Muscovite Girl's Revenge A story has been made public of an attempt at murder in Moscow, which contains all the material for a melo dramatic tale in one of tho magazines. A short time since tho Korsacky Sis ters, who created a profound sensation in Eastern Europe as graceful acrobats. were announced to appear on the tight rope at the Targinoff Circus, in Mos cow. The circus was crowded to the utmost, and when the two girls made their appearance they were greeted by a perfect storm of applause. When the last tableau came, consisting of the roses all uniting in one gigantic flower. with the two sisters seemingly gliding through the air, the elder of them, Le vina, suddenly uttered a scream of ter ror and fell heavily upon the stage. When assistance came she was insen sible, and both of her legs were found to be broken. The cause of the acci dent was at once ascertained. The highest wire on which she had stepped immediately before her fall had been rent in twain. The manager said the accident was inexplicable to him, as the wires had been thoroughly tested just perore nigntiaii. upon closer inspec tion, it was found that the wire must have been cut, leaving it sufficiently connected not to snap asunder until the fair acrobat had stepped upon it. This discovery led to an investigation as to who the persons were that had had ac cess to the wires after they had been tested in the afternoon and before the beginning of the last piece, when they were drawn across the stage. The in jured girl recovered soon enough suffi cient consciousness to tell the police officials that beside herself and her sis ter Brada, no one had been near the wires except Lina Wogratz, the daugh ter of the hotel keeper with whom they had stopped. Lina, she had noticed, had repeatedly touched the wires, and had finally asked to be shown the one that would be the highest. This wire had been the thickest. Lina Wogratz had left before the close of the per formance. An officer was sent after her. He found her at her father's hotel, where no one knew what had occurred at the circus. Strangely enough, when the officer asked the girl to accompany 1, X A.1 1 , Opium Eating In the United State. Opium eaters are found among all classes. Clergymen and lawyers whoso brains axe evertaxed arc often led to adopt the fatal assistance of this drug, and some of the finest flights at the bar are in no small degree due to Its use. Many of the hack writers who manuf ac- ure the sensation stones for the cheap newspaper press work np to the neces sary excitement by eating opium. A large number of students at our colleges are opium eaters. This fol lows as a matter of course the free use of tobacco. If the excitement of the latter be a delight, how much greater pleasure there must be in the more subtle and refined excitement of opium, and hence tuere are many talented young collegians who dream away their time, and when they attend recitations (which is seldom) make free use of the pony." Large numbers of nervous ladies in high stations use opium to give new REJII51SCE5CES OF JIEXICO, laUmUai Lttr trmm Ga. lw. Wal Uc f tk IUama VUraat The veterans of the Mexican war re- Items ef literal. , Reading. IVnn., la divided into " Cotton town," " Iriahtowu," "Frog Hollow," and "nelltown." The number of geese on Lake Cham- and organized a State Association. Gen. Lew. Wallace wrote them a letter from which the following extract is made: I can well understand how every soldier who made the , march from Braxoa to MaUraoraa and Monterey, and thence to Saltiilo and Buena YisU, would like once more to go over the same route and see the country and people again. It has been my fortune to do so several times. The camping places are all as when we left them. - The ranches are unchanged. A few of the towns, like Meir and Caiderita, are considerably grown. Walnut springs still bubble up from the plain, and the creek they fom glides away, cooled and darkened by the shade of the same old oak and pecan trees. Passing from them to Monterey. life to their effete and exhausted frames; off to the right, one sees the black fort. perhaps the largest proportionate con sumption is among this class. They prepare for the enjoyments of a party. or a ball by the use of this stimulus, and when it has brought the system to its acme, they shine with unusual bril liancy. The use of stimulants as a preparation for social enjoyments is Erodigious, and in a large paity per aps one-half the guests are keyed up by opium or Bourbon to a proper state of felicity. The reason why opium is becoming more popular is because its devotee need not incur the opprobrium inseparable from the drunkard. The result of this general use of opium is now beginning to show itself aiding in Indiana met in Indiana poli", I plain this spring is said to be uncom xnonJy Urge, ltfioai parues. A French paper la trying U prove that one Jean Cousin discovered Amer ica four years before Columbus arrived here. The colored population of Kansas City have " Resolved That negro minatral ahows tend to degrade our race." A meeting of the Erncaa Mina Direc tors was held in London, reently. It was voted to wear crape around their pocket-books for SO days. A plot to blow cp a street ear filled with ladies belonging to the Temper ance League, was tha other day dis covered in Rock Island, ILL The Grangers of Clark Co., Ind., have chartered a bank, and will soon have it opened for business, lending money to farmers at 8 per cent. Old ostrich feathers can be made to look as new by steaming them, and then drawing each ran of the feathers separately over a knife, to curl it It is reported that CbtrltsReade is engaged upon a new novel, which has for iU subject the sending forth of overladen and unaea worthy ships. A Wisconsin woman who recentlr buried her eighth husband haa received on offer of $500 to mete into some other BUte. She atanda out for $1,000. A teacher in Audubon county, Iowa, and above and beyond it, under the brow of the mountain, like a sentinel, the Bishop's Castle stands overlooking the most beautiful valley on earth, not to say the most beautiful city. It is. spattered from base to cupola with bul let marks, and perforated with round shot, received many of them, since Worth scaled its rocky pedestal ; for civil wars have eddied round and round it with reddening tidea many times since 'that glorious hour. From the breast of the bluff at the castle's foot leapea the torrent which, divided into channels, rushes through the streets below, now right, now left, passing from through the country. The question now a pool, a moment reflecting the sky, the next green, wuu orange trees, ana me banana leaf broad as a banner, and the palm. a joy forever." The vale from is. how shall the evil be arrested? Among other means we have the adver tisements of quacks, who offer a remedy for the shattered constitutions and the half lunatic intellects which are the re- garden to garden, here a cascade, there vnile flogging a pupil, was so severely bitten by the laa loai ampuiauon oi the teacher'a ana aubiequently became necessary. Ti wrmLl K a ereat imnrovement of Monterey to Saltiilo is matchless. The curtains of purple that covered the scar- suit of this habit, but being quacks red crags and tilted mountains in the they only suggest the evil without ancient time . are there yet, softening showing a way of escaping it. Instead everything. On the hill beyond the of asylums for cure, we need to check Rinconada, up which one must go be- the evil in its inception, and its danger I cause there is no other way must go. should be clearly published. Let every one who may be tempted to adopt the assistance or the fascination of this pernicious drug learn that its use can only resuU in intellectual and physical ruin. It appears from the Custom House returns that the amount ox opium l al though it flamed with fire and musket must go, if he would reach Saltiilo are the earthworks which Taylor's van guard took in a twinkling, but which the same vanguard could have held against a hundred times their number. Saltiilo is but little les flourishing than Monterey. A more un-Amencan place ported into this country (reaching now I may not be found this side of old Da- nearly 250,000 pounds annually) is ten mascus. Yet the traces of the conquer times more than it was thirty years 1 or are everywhere in and about it. ago, and that, in the opinion of drug- Fort Washington is still intact, ditch, gists and physicians, not more than I oaranet. and embrasure, standing on one-third is used for medical purposes. In reply to questions sent to druggists throughout the States, it was found that they sold, without auy preemp tion, large quantities of opium, mor phine, and laudanum to individuals who are in the habit of using it lor its stimulating effect. It is used fully as extensively in the country as in the city ; women are more addicted to the habit than men. and nnr nMlnthronv if we COUld have a Society for Finding Oat What Men are Fit For, with an Auxiliary Society for Helping Them to Do It. A Southern journal Issued the follow ing notice : Many people aak for papers at this office who would acorn to beg for five cents; yet that is the price charged for a copy. We hope many will see the point. " I tell yen," said a Wisconsin man to a neighbor next day alter burying his wife, "when I came to get into bed, and lay thar, and not hearing Lucinda jawing around for an hour and a half, it just made me feel as if I'd moved into a strange country. The Indiana judges stand no non sense from the bar. A lawyer there lately In the course of his argument used the word "disparagement." "Stop uisng Latin words," said tha ine poor law- its superior slopes one sees the whole city at his feet, turning right about he catches a view of the mountain, six miles off, under which spreads the plat- iujge. " or ait down. eau Ol liueoa tisu a uamo w mr iuu American pulse while America ltrca. I have ridden over the old field three times in the seven years last passed, and always with the same feeling of wonder at the audacity of the Chief who, with his 4.500. abided there the shock this species of intemperance prevails of the Mexican Napoleon a 22,000, and more among the higher and better edu- of admiration at the pluck and endur cated classes than among the poorer ance of the few, who, turned and and more ignorant. It is a singular I broken, crushed on the right and left. fact that amid the temperance reform I and. by every rule of scientific battle. W M A f - A. MM a V. yer, unaertaaing to explain, wmm juh IessJy fined $20 for contempt. A Forts nate Escape. A young lady arrived In Omaha, Neb., and registered her name at the hotel as Edith Hayland, of New York city. She came here, a local paper ssys, for the purpose of being married to Mr. Bruce Adams, of Wyoming Territory, they having atruck up an ac- as an evil worse in some respects than intoxication from alcohol. alarmed, and exclaimed "I had nothing to do with it." The officer said nothing until he arrived with her at the circus, where she was searched at his suggestion. In her pocket was found a pair of small, but very sharp and powerful scissors. At one point the edges were slightly in dented, and when the two fragments of the wire were closely examined where it rent, the indented spots on the pair of scissors were found to correspond with them. Lina Wogratz turned deadly pale as she witnessed all these Eugene saw the dreadful water boiling proceedings, and, when confronted with t Vi 1 a A 9 S1AV"ls3 tT9 ATT 9-m tIAf wit s-vl 1 m him to the circus, she became violently unconnected with the legal profession, aovvi.j u aaagaier oi wnom ne lsimmense- this pernicious habit should be revealed I whiDPed oftener than there were hours I nnaintanee bv means of a notice in an . . I - . . a a. ii i w I -1. v a of the day, Knew it not, dui rauiea ana Eastern weekly newspaper, wxacn was followed by a correspondence ana m promise of marriage. They had never met each other face to lace, and all they knew of each other was from tho correspondence that had taken place between them. Rather dangerous that! She found it so. When she met Mr. Adams, she stated frankly to him that she waa diiappoint- A Louisiana Romance. The New Orleans Picayune relates ours. fought en. the infantry now covering the artillery, the artillery now defend ing the infantry, the cavalry over whelmed by legions ox lancers, ana union of effort nowhere fought on. and at last wrung victory from the hands of assured defeat. The field is but little changed. The road to La Angostura is still the thor Jy fond a little golden-haired, sweet- eyed princess, who is always dressed in onghfare across it ; winding slon the ed. and she refused to marry him. She daintv stuns and lanes, and aoft anri I . - u.-n n ir I i v. t vt - , .t. . I ioot oi me mus uu am uu twAug i saia sue aia no vuo oeaaviiui aiuxe.. oue is quive a capi- down flMures and 7awniS tahst in her way, being possessed of wUich made the valley to the right various desirable propertiea in the I r ki MAn t .vTm;.n T Pi8trict ol diTera H stopped where the famous battery, waa iuuo WiFi,UuB. n intf(i across the road, literaur our below. The bridge shook. The engine rocked and staggered as it flew along. The mayor leaped down from his seat with starting eyes, and Terence, the fireman, uttered a frightened cry. But little Eugene remained cooL His very excitement seemed to keep him calm. There was a sensation of sinking, and Eugene saw that several timbers had started. The mayor and poor Terence prepared themselves for a flying leap" into the river. But the little engineer's shrill voice arrested them. "Stay here I Don't move, or youll be killed 1" The weakened bridge settled and cracked, but did not sink. The loco motive did its duty nobly, and swept the poor acrobat, she burst into tears. and confessed that she had cut the wire because during the week since the Kor sacky Sisters had been at her father's hotel, her (Lina's) lover, Ivan Kruger, had seemed to be fascinated with the elder of the two sisters, and had made love to her. In order to revenge her self, she had resolved to cripple or dis figure Levina Korsacky for life. The younger sister, unaware of her inten tion, had told her tho day before what kind of scissors were required to cut the wire. Levina Korsacky recovered from her terrible fall, and Lina Wo gratz was sentenced tary confinement. to six years soli- ) Q 4 J - - - ' I mT i the broad roof of the station stoop and across the trestles like a whirlwind. It cheered the young engineer. The steam was blowing out of the escape- pipe, and old Pilgrim seemed impatient to be olL " Get upon the engine, sir," said the station-master. " I have no doubt that the boy will take you to the city in safety." The mayor gazed at the fragile bov and at the powerful engine entrusted to his control. Then he thought of the fearful perhaps tragic scenes await ing him in his distant city, aud the call of his duty to go there without delay kept the track to the end passed the bridge and rolled upon solid ground again. Instantly Eugene reversed the machinery and ordered Terence to put down the brake. After running some distance they stopped. ' The bridge had fallen behind them I Speechless for a moment with the thought of the fatal peril they had passed, they looked back at the ruins, and watched the swaying timbers and broken joists as they yielded one by one to the foaming flood. One aide of A Jolly Jury. A jury in Truckee, CaL, had been out four hours when the judge sent the sheriff to learn whether they were going to agree. The sheriff put an eye and then an ear to the keyhole of the room in which they were located for delibera tion. Then he brought the judge, and together they opened the door. On the table in the centre of the room stood a big bottle of whisky, and around it the drunken twelve were hilariously march ing in single file. The foreman carried on his back a bass drum, upon which XI 1 ? 1 . . . . iuh man Demna mm was nonnain?. and bonds in She knows all this, and though neither proud nor overbearing in conseouence. has yet acquired a pretty, childish dignity which makes her all the more engaging. It so happens that - one of her lots is rich in magnolia-trees, and thither very often in these balmy after noons the father takes her to gather bouquets of the fragrant flowers. Some days ago they went as usual to the magnolia grove, and, on entering, found that a couple of predaceoua boys were in the trees culling their fairest ornaments. They watched them for awhile, the little girl saying nothing, and her father quietly waiting to see what developments would ensue. Pres ently, however, he called to one of the boys and asked him for a flower. " Oh, no ; can't give you any of these magnolias." "Won't you let the little girl have one 7" " No sir-ree 1 " I think you might give her just one." " No, sir ; can't do it. These mag nolias belong to somebody. You can't have any unless you pay for them." " WeiL I think you might give her last hone, and tried to recall the feel ing of the moment. On the left all waa lost ; Clay, McKee, Hardin, and Gell were dead ; where all were brave, but one regiment waa standing fast the only one which through all the weary hours of the changing struggle had not turned its face from the enemy. looks of his face. Miss Hayland showed to us her wedding outfit. She was well and amply provided with all articles that a bride would need. Her dresses were very nice, and acme of them were quite elegant. We noticed a handsome toilet case in her tumk with solid gold trimmings. The young lady is a pleas ant, fair-looking girl. She evidenUy belongs to a good family who are in comfortable circumstance. While she did not show good sense In contracting tomarrra whoa she had never Against the battery so supported, along txn andhom she had not known but a the narrow pass, surgeaa cnoeencouinin i few weeks, and then try correspondence of Mexicans. History tells how they were rolled back. In all the annals of war nothing more gallant on both aides, scarcely anything more bloody and ter rible I The last time I waa on the sacred ground, I saw a "greaser" working with a hoe on the aide oi a run vj which we identify the position of the Third Indiana at the turning point of the battle. My curiosity waa excited. I rode to see what he could be doing. A moment ago I said the field waa un eha&ired. I waa mistaken. The man waa conducting a little stream of water from the mountain miles away to irri gate a wheat field below in the mouth of the very ravine down which the regi ment of Hardin. OelL and McKee had retreated, seeking the cover of Wash oae ; they all belong to her. you know. ingiozim battcry-the very ravine where AWl A V Aid I O JU0I vuo The boy looked at him with sudden interest, then at the utue girl gazing into the tree with big soft eyes, and then, seeing how pretty aud gracious, and richjy-clad she was, he abd down like a flash, ran to her. and, falling on one knee, offered all his flowers. He the blood was thickest on the end of the fight. I upon the velvet green of stalks, darker from the the rocks at looked down the growing precious en- only, yet ahe did act the wise part in drawing out when ahe met the man, and found that ahe waa disappointed in him. Now comes the remarkable sequel. The United States Marshal heard that Bruce Adams waa In the city, Cnd it so happened that the United States peace oncers here had orders to arrest Bruce Adams, who had been indicted in the United States District Court in Iowa for robbing a post-oSce in Vinton, Iowa, in 1871- Adams waa arrest ed by Deputy Marshal Bierbowrr, and is now in fail. The United States Marshal is expected here from Iowa to take him east for trial. Miss Hay land telegraphed to New York for money, received it, and In the after noon ahe started back for her New York home. Transfailea ef Bleed, A reporter of the New Orleans Pico- richment the soil had that day received, yune has evidently accomplished I iL. M 1M1 J a V a t I a arvuauu " W SMi 1 BiIlt4 A "j-f I jj A V SV He dared not hesitate longer. He leaped " Next came a juror playing a snare drum. , .S5 ""7. Fno w cnaa into the cab, and leaned down and said senger could cross. whu a and impudence, and unsuspicious of F,nrpiie "Terence," said Eugene, "take this , tvtt wf 8 .,rfl the smallest rule of courtesy, but he r iimv laiiii via au-m. w r- liim m rwrm in a - on a verdict " If you carry me to C. in an hour and a half, I shall give you a hundred dollars. If you f sel the least fear, how ever, do not go at all. What do you say ?" "I will go, sir." " All right !" cried the station-master. " Terence McManus is on the ten der. Hell feed your fire. Mr. Mayor, you had better sit on the fireman's seat and keep ringing the belL" Eugene tried his water-gauges, look ed at the fire, and then with his slender, white hand drew the lever to let the steam into the cylinder ! a i r i - i a 3 -a i ii ana nJi ucjuuu, auu Biau mere thA t; - ; wiw e g eipre3- COm3S' judge's reproof, "and we didn't t agree stop the train. The mayor gazed with admiration at the deformed boy, who had so thor oughly proved his gallantry, his nerve and his high intelligence. And now they were speeding xorward again towards C . It was only four miles further. They traveled these four miles in five minutes. The people at the station were as tounded to see this single engine rush into the depot managed by a little nohow," the think With an angry hiss, the engine started humpbacked boy, and with a on her way, followed by loud hurrahs I smoke-begrimed gentleman ringing the and waving caps. On she sped, faster bell. and faster, coursing the track with sure A thousand questions .were asked, tread, the mayor sitting upright, . pull- The superintendent of the road came ihg the bell-rope, McManus perched on down ia haste. In reply to the eager the tender, and little humpbacked inquiries oi the mayor, he said that the Eugene, with his hand on the throttle,' riot was suppressed and the city was 'twas any hurt fur to have a social time, iuug b wo aaa oongen l party. A Cure for Hydrophobia A friend having heard that some of our citizens had been bitten by rabid dogs, and their cure waa considered doubtful, says the Galveston New, sends the following prescription for the cure ox patients afflicted by the disease. He say a that he can produce evidence tall, that will corroborate what he says. We give the prescription for what it may be worth: "Boil poke root and new milk, equal parts, and give it to the patient until it produces sleep." The above was used in one of the worst stages, and proved effective when sci ence and xaedicma failed. knelt like a courtier and presented his simple tribute with more genuine ad miration than often shines in courtiers eyes. Soosciizo Lrsrrx. To restore scorch ed linen, take two onions, peel and slice them and extract the luice by aqueex- and then at the stream of water which came creeping after the man, like a living olavthing. I looked at them. and. understanding the moral oi the incident, thanked God for the law that makes war impossible as a lasting con dition, however it inspires the loves and memories of comradeship, and teaches that each succeeding genera tion of freemen are as brave as their ancestors. Foolish Frxxow.-An artist found A model in abemr. with a arjlendid lonr ing or pounding. Then cut up half an I bearddirty and unkempt just such M I growing black, and two of his children. sensation. Near St. Bernard market, in that city, he discovered what ap peared to be a spotted megro, but who, upon investigation, proved to be a Nor wegian sailor stronjrly infosed with Cambodian blood. While sick in Sin gapore many years ago, a physician to firevent his dying from paralysis, in used into his veins the blood of a Cambodian boatman. It restored ani mation to his frame, renewed his lease of life, but entailed the fearful alterna tion of a black instead of a white akin. Since then the xaaa has been steadily ounce of white soap and two ounces of fuller's earth ; mix them with the onion juice and half a pint of vinegar. Boil this composition well, and spread it, when cool, over the acorchea part of the linen, leaving it to dry thereon. Afterward wash out the linen. Some of the generals-and other ofl cers engaged in the Arkansas war think he .wanted for some venerable, saintly person oe waa going vo put on canvas in we oia sryie. no gave ine man two pence, and told . him he could earn a shilling a day if he would call at the ; studio (address so-and-so). The man called next morning, and had cut off his beard to make himself tidy and tit for the artist s society. The artist gave born since the medical experiment was made, are deeply tainted with the Cam bedian blood, presenting all the characteristics ox the half-breeds of thai race. If the reporter's diagnosis of the case is correct, it is possible that a transfusion of blood xnsy do for cur colored f ellow-ciUxens what miscegena tion has failed to accompli ifr. The they should be allowed to retire on half I or he would send the police after him. z i i I pay, uiBbcau vk uemg unceremoniously i t compelled to earn a living by Tsndia I The Kansas wine crop of last year ii peanuts ana ssnay, i put as gtngni. him a penny, and told him to go away I blacks ought to be able to turn white aa veu aa vouca disc a. in was caie the time may not be fir distant when all our Southern statesmen of the col ored clams trill be radiant hlcn&ts.
The Franklin Courier (Louisburg, N.C.)
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June 26, 1874, edition 1
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