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vr ' . i rsies'ewi V 5. t - ; .. t . H : is. w m , '.;,-::,v. :,;-..... ... vt II I . - - . . " " f I' : l . . . r . " GEO. S." BAKER, Editor and Proprietor. , . :t - TERMS: S2.00 per Annnm. " ' l,!! . M 1 I l 11 I I II I I .11 I I llll " . . TL1 . ... VOL. III. LOULSBUHG, X. C, FRIDAY, . AUGUST .14, 18T4. NOUl. The Landlady's Daughter, Three students one day crossed ever the Khine; With a landlady there they stopped to dine. " Dame hofttean, haet thou good ale and wine ? And where is that , beautiful daughter of thine?" ' i - , i . " My ale and wine are fresh and clear. My daughter, she lies on her funeral bier !" And when they entered the chamber there. In a fehrine eo black lay the maiden fair. The first from her face the veil did throw, And upon her he gazed with a look of woe : ' O wert thou yet living, thou maiden fine, From thiii time forth should thy lore be mine 1" The second, he covered her face once taore, And turn'd hira away and wept full sore : ' AJai ! that thou dead art lying here ! For theo have I loved this many a year !" .i . . The third from her face lifts again the veil, And sof ily he kibbea her mouth so pale : " I have loved thee always ; I love thee to-day And love tlioe I hall forever and aye !" A HAD HABIT. amount," said Mr. King, " if you are sure of returning it within the time named. I think you have an opportu nity of making a handsome speculation in this matter ; but I would like to have the money again by the twentieth, as I have a heavy bill to meet on the twenty -second." Mr. Applegate assured him there would be no difficulty in the matter, and added that it was probable that he might be able to pay the money before the expiration of the ten days. f Thus the matter was settled. Mr. Applegate received the amount he needed, made his purchase and con gratulated himself upon the extraordi nary good luck that had befallen him. When he told his wife of it, she urged him to at once set about collecting the money to repay the loan. 44 Oh, there is time enough for that, Jennie, he said, good-humoredly. "I Are DetectlTes Useful ! Over a year ago, says the New York Sun, the discovery was made that near the small town of Cherryvale, in Kan sas, a series of atrocious murders had been committed. In a rough building situated out on the prairie a family named Bender lived and thrived, the main element of their existence being unwary travelers who, from stress of weather or other adverse circumstances, were compelled to go to their hut in order to protect themselves from the storms. We have no account of the manner in which this singular hotel was conducted, as it was a peculiarity of travelers who stayed there never to go further, m consequence of which they never had an opportunity of relating their experience. From the local jour nals, however, whose remarks upon this suDect we nave watched with interest, A Sad Fate, A Missouri paper tells the following sad story : A family4 consisting of a man and wife and three children passed through Sedalia, slewly wending their way northward to their old home in Balls county. Mr. Ressler was a well-to-do farmer who in an early day went to the State of California, and by hard work amassed what he considered a SIG5S OF niDBOPUOBIA. Rcsmlta mt Or. Bmrdaa Sua4n4a OS MrrtUoa ratptrai wfcfrrla Prcd mm avecaapMjr tike D1mm, The following remarks on hydro phobia, coming from so high an au thority as Lrr. Burdom banderson, may merit attention : Persons are liable to be bitten bv mad sufficiency for a gocd start in farming dogs under two sets of pircumstaneea uo icmiuTO uuuo mj luusuuxi. i nrst. wnen a raoia animal escaoes irom Indeed, Walter, you are doing very wronc? to delay so much in your busi nfs," paid Mrs. Applegate to her hus band, one morning, as they sat later than ufrual over the breakfast table. ' I know it a a bad habit, my dear," said Mr. Applegate, ',but, then, it doesn't hurt any one but myself, and can afford it." "You can afford it, Walter?" ex clnimed his wife, in astonishment, How you talk this mornintr ! Surelv. yoti do not know what you are saying." " I assure you I do," said her hus band, laughing, "I am perfectly wide awake and I know what I am saying." Indeed, you are doing wrong," per sisted his wife. "You promised to meet Mr. Gay at your office1 this morn ing at nine o'clock, and if yen do not start at once you will not be able to get there in time." Well, then, Mr. Gay can wait for a few minutes," said her husband, bal ancing his spoon on the rim ef his coffee-cup, and looking at her with a srnilo. 44 Ho can afford to wait awhile for me, as the matter he wished to ar range to-day " is entirely to his advan tage." " Still it is wrong to mako him wait if you can avoid it. He has his busi nes to attend to, and after all may not havo as much time to spare . as you think he has. Besides this, if you de lay too much in your business affairs, you will lose the confidence of your friends, and you will be sure to suffer by it." "You ought to have been a man, Jennie," said her husband, laughing. 44 You would have made a splendid merchant. However, to please you I'll go down at once." j So saying, Mr. Applegate rose frem the table, and in a few mihute3 was on his yay to his place of business. But he did not reach it promptly. Meeting a friend in the street, ho stopped to talk with him on some unimportant matter ; and when he started again for hi office it was nearly half-past nine. He reached his place of business three quarters of an hour later than he had promised to be there, and found Mr. Gay waiting for him with great impa tience. " Good morning, Mr. Gay," he said, as he entered. 44 1 hope I have not kept you waiting." 44 1 nra sorry to say you have," re plied Mr. Gay. 44 1 have a great deal before me to-day, and cannot well afford to lose a moment." Mr. Applegate's conscience bmote him, but he said, lightly, 44 Really, lam sorry, but I could not help it. I was detained on my way longer than I had anticipated." The business between them was scion transacted ; and Mr. Gay took his de parture with a very poor opinion of Mr. Applegate's habits of punctuality, which trait is, after all, in a merchant, a car dinal virtue. Mr. Applegate was a young man, and had not long been in business for him self ; but he had been more than usually successful in his transactions, and had fairly laid a foundation for what promised to be a lucrative aud ex tensive' business. He had one great fault to contend against, however. He was ext re melv careless and was act to delay too much. He took but little trouble on interest, and was too neg lectful, even of matters of importance. It was his principle never to do to-day wnat can he done as well to-morrow and the habits which he had formed in ms eariy youtu gTew upon mm . every y?ur. un wue remonsirateu wita mm. frequently, but to no, effect.. .Mr. Ad plei;uto had not yet seen the evil of his way, and was too careless to attempt to change it. He had .not experienced any inconvenience from it, and he laughed at his wife s fears as the effect of her m txpeiience and overcaution. ' v. , n was not lone: alter tne occurrence related above, that Mr. Applegate had occasion to see the justice and force of his wue a views. v , , , ;T In the course of his business an op portnnity was presented to him of making an unusual speculation. - A lot of goods were offered for sale at a low figure to any one who would take them all at cash payment. The sum demand ea was a large one joe pun to raise in twenty-four hoursthe time given him but One that he could . have raised in . week or ten davs without 'much incon venience. Still the transaction seemed to offer eo many advantages that he de- , .termined to make the effort. Among his friends was a merchant of great prominence, who had taken a de cided interest in Mr. Applegate at the beginning of that gentleman's- career, and had frequently offered to assist him ifait should ever be in his power to do so. Hitherto the young merchant had refrained from asking any, assist ance from Mr, King, as his( friend ras ; named ; but now he determined taavail himself of his- friend's offer. . He ac cordingly called upon Mr. King, and, after laying the matter before him, asked him to lend him the amount lor ten days. I am perfectly willing to lend the have only to lay my hand on the money. seems that one at least of the family, an eiaeny iaay cauea nate, wno naa a gift of fortune-telling, grew gaunt and lean, while her brothers, her- father, and especially her mother, wasted away, as it were, in person, although they suddenly became plethoric in pocket. How long this kind of thing might have gone on in Kansas, the Bender family getting leaner and their pockets get- in g fatter every, day, nobody would have known if it had not been for a re markable discovery. The brother of a Kansas Senator happened to partake of the hospitalities of the Bender family one night, and was never afterwards heard of until his brother, with some officers of justice, plowed up the Ben der farm and found not only the re mains of the particular missing man they were in search of, , but also the skeleton of a large number of individu als of no marked characteristics, who had disappeared from society without causing a ripple upon its surface. This created great astonishment among the neighbors, who soon began to whisper that the Bender family was no better than it should be. The result was that There is no difficulty to be experi enced." This did not satisfy his wife, who gave him no rest until he had deposited the sum in the bank, ready to be paid out on the appointed day. The ninetieth of the month came at last, and as Mr.' Applegate was sitting in his office in the morning a friend came in and asked him to go that after noon a few miles into the; country on a fishing expeditition. They would, re txrn after nightfall. Being very fond of the sport, Mr. Applegate at once consented. As he left his office for the excursion, he thought of the money he had to pay the next day, and his better judgment told him it would be as well to send Mr King. the cheque for it that day ; but as he was pressed for time, he decided to put it off until the next day. tvjf ? :p. tr:i;5 . . . The fishiag was unusually good, and a pleasant day was spent. Mr. Apple- gate and his friend were so well pleased that they determined to spend the night here, and .try the sport again; the next morning. 'Mr. Applegate s conscience reproached him as he made this de cision, for he remembered that he had promised to repay the borrowed money the next day. He quieted the inward monitor, however, with the thought that Mr. King would not be inconvenienced married and settled down to regular farming life. This spring, when emi gration commenced Texasward, the old fever whioh had taken him to California in 1851 began to rage, and although he had a good home he grew restless and concluded try his fortune in Texas. He home and is at large ; and secondly. wnen a doe mot supposed to be in- lectea is caressea oy ms master, or those who have to do with it at home. Consequently, it is quite as important that the public should be aware of those slight indications which afford Itetai ct LalemU A TTlde Awake .Sjju xr.f w mmMmIi f Trrr I . The Ddmn paeh crop is expected - mi to EH soo.ouo b&jfceu.- Haute, an Indiana paper says, will re- V' . . . . member an entcrpris&i. anTrery in- '1 J f 11 noUnout du8trioua barber, whole name was Ed- blacken the front of his ward J. Roy, who left many years ago bo- . for Africa, - In making hia first trip He A Pennsylvania man di&losatM his took bis goods out on freight, he being Jaw In laughing at a joks in a borrowed a passeneer. The entire value of his ssvspaper. The rnoxal is obtiout. was looking for cheap lands, and passed ground for suspicion that the disease is impending, as that they should know the characteristic signs by which it msy be recognized when it has declared it self. The premonitory indications of rabies in a dog are derived almost entirely from the observation of changes in its demeanor ; ' consequently, although they may be too trifling to be noticed by a casual observer, they are fortu nately sufficiently striking to arrest the attention of any one who is about a dog, and is familiar with its habits and individual peculiarities. A dog about to become rabid loses its original liveli ness. It mopes about as if preoccu pied or apprehensive, and seeks to with draw into dark corners. From the first, there is usually a foreshadowing of that most constant symptom of the disease depraved appetite. Mad dogs devour filth and rubbish of every kind with through Grayson county west into Cook, and out into the western portion of Montague county. This country, though wild, and subject to frequent incursions of the nomadio tribes of In dians that infest the western border, is rather rich, and full of game. Mr. Bessler pitched his camp .on a little stream, near a good spring, some four or five miles irom any habitation, and little dreamed of danger. On the fourth day of their stay there, the oldest daughter, a young lady of seventeen, went to the spring for a bucket of water, but, alas I she never came back. One scream, like that of the surprised panther, was carried to the ear of the mother, who was at the camp.the father being out hunting. The mother rushed to the rescue of her first born, only to hear the receding, footsteps-- of the Comanche8 ponies. The mother was invoice was not mora than $3,000. In less than eighteen months from the time he sailed from New Yoik, he was back with six thousand dollars' worth of oQ. dyewood,' ivory and gold dust. Spending but little time in shaking hands and telling stories, he chartered half a brig in company with a white man, and about the time his friends in Africa looked for a letter from him, he anchored his brig in the bay of Mon rovia, laden with a good cargo, which was at that moment aalsble at his own rates. This was the beginning of the career in Africa of the most remarkable man, in many respects, the little Re public ever had within her borders. Following the tidal wave of his rood luck, he int off to England in the Blaeberries, whortleberries and wild rapberrries are not only exceedingly plentiful this year but also of remark able site. . ... t It is cackle-aied tht the poultry in dustry of the United States amounts to $31,000,000 annually, besides the home consumption. -; ' -t ; California has '77 Baptist churches, Oregon 53, Washington Territory 5, and Nevada 1, making a total of I3C on the Pacifio coast. ' i . : The strongest propensity in woman's nature, savs a surly editor, is a dcaire to know wnat is going on, and the next to manage the Job. An Iowa paper predicts that in fire years every pound of Western flaur will monthly steamer, where he , purchased I bo sent East, in barrels of papr made paralyzed with grief and fainted away avidity. Along with this peculiarity of as soon as she realized the fate of her daughter. The f athcr. returned in a few hours and examined the locality of the spring, and found that about fifteen ponies had been hitohed hard bj, and the Indians had evidently crept up to the spring, and were lying in wait for their victim. the Bender family fled, and ..though and at once started for the next neigh nearly every day the telegraph brings bor, .and the alarm ?wa3 given, that a news of the arrest of one of the family, 7onnfif ldy had been stolen - The fron no one of the murderers has yet really tier Texan is ever. ready to jump into been seized. Neither has the murderer bia saddle at a moment's notice, and a of Nathan ever been brought to justice, party of ten determined men were soon behavior, it is of equal importance to notice that an infected dog from the first snaps at other dogs without provo cation. - This snappishness in most dogs is very striking. If a dog previ ously known to have no such habit snab indiscriminatelv at the first dotr Mr.iR cared for his wife, it meets in the yard or the street, it is probably not safe. So far I have had in mind chiefly what is to be observed in dogs tied up or at home. A dog which is at large is also to be recognized if in a danger ous state by its demeanor. A healthy Engluh goods. Ho could go wherever the English held the trade and furnish both kinds of goods Engli&h and American, Crossing from England to America, he made the acquaintance of the great house of Fhelps, Dodge fc Co., of New York city, with whom he deposited a sum of money, and by whom he was introduced among the first-class merchants, which. resulted in his purchasing a vessel and loading her f or Liberia. - .. The isolated colonists of Liberia had not been accustomed to see colored man thus march up the ladder of suc cess; therefore all eyes were turned toward him.- . . . The poorer class broke loose from both the old parties and elected this man. , t r At the house of ex-Governor Hicks, where he often dined, wss the adopted daughter of the Governor, the pretty brown-faced Hannah, without kith or kin in the world. So in bis business like manner he courted her three weeks and married her. Hannah was born in from the straw the wheat grew on. . A Western woman shot bee husband's horse rather, than have.it sold. She took care of it after it was shot, and held its head In ber lap nearly all day. - The Superior Court of Cincinnati has ust decided that a man who is ann ty or another on a legal bond or obliga tion is responsible for defalcations which' may exist before he was oaths bond. - . Statisticians hsve deeidsd. we Wlieve, that a sentence to the penitentiary for life substantially means, vnder the eay conditions attaching to pardons in moat of the States,' an average imprisonment of from four to six years. . -. It is now proposed to flood the Desert of Sahara and turn it into a crest inland sea, 250 miles in length and 43 miles in width. The scheme, vhicb originated in Franc?, is pronounced quite practi cable by competent engineers. If you havebeen picking or handling acid fruit and have stained Tour hands. wash them in clear water, .wit them whilfl avati now , Tv1i. puii.iJ. on the trail f the red fiends. wlnh bail A in if a nrArrea aln A atit wiwiis, win wuiu Bpea. uto ur bi oi LffntlV. and While thCT are Vet molftl if he did not pay the money until the phia are pretendingto hunt out the taken a westerly direction. -r The su- where shows at every Step that its t- IS. 1 Kl T0. bsnds twenty-first of the month. That gen- Ieman s bill did not fall due until the twenty-second, and the amount he owed mm was already in the bank to be drawn out. He felt so little satisfied with him self, however, that he determined the next day to spend only a few hours in fishing, and to take the twelve o'clock train, which would enable him to reach New York befere banking hours were over, and f ulhll his promise. He did ake the train ; but, soon after leaving he station, the locomotive broke down, and they did not reach New York until nearly dark. The next morning he hastened to Mr. King with the check for the bor rowed money. Mr. Kin? received him very coldly. 44 1 have come to repay the money I borrowed from you," he" said to his riend. 41 As your bill is not due until to-morrow, l hope the delay will not cause you any trouble." As he spoke, he laid the check on he merchant's desk. 44 No," said Mr. King ; 44 it will not inconvenienoe me in tne least : but l am inolined to believe that it will do you harm." 44 Why ? said Mr. Applegate in surprise. 44 Because, replied his friend,4 4 1 have determined never to lend to you again. I know the cause of your delay m this matter, and cannot afford to risk my money by putting, it in the hands of one wno snows so little regard lor ms commercial obligations. Believe me, Mr. Applegate, yen will end in ruin if you continue on in tnis oaa nabit of yours. ' Mr. Applegate left the counting- house in silence, heartily ashamed of himself. He felt that he was justly re buked, and he deeply regreted havimjr lost the geod opinion of such a man as Mr. King. When he went home that night, he told his wife all that had happend, and promised her to try and do better . in the future. The next morning he saw Mr. ' King, and made him the same promise. He kept his word ; and though it was a nam struggle, lie succeeded finally in conquering his bad habit, aud in after years was known as one of the most trusty and punctual mer chants in New York. The result was that Mr. Applegate died a rich man. mystery attendant upon the kidnapping of a small child. These and many other mysterious tnmgs lead to the conclu sion that the detective police service of the different cities in the United States if woefully at' fault. .Large rewards have been offered for the apprehension of the interesting Bender family, the members of wmch even now may be enjoying tne . xaciuties ,ior pleasure anorded by our hrst-class hotels. penor horses of the Texans rapidly tention is awake to the sights and gained on the poor ponies of the In- sounds which it encounters. The rabid dians, and after traveling all night on a dog. on the contrary, goes sullenly and :i :i.u n, - t.J! i ii i i . i Apples in Massachusetts. Complaints come from Massachusetts that the young fruit is falling from the apple trees. On this subject the Spring field Republican says : 44 There may be enough left upon the tees to make a fair return, if they were safe and cer- 1.-1 A- i ' i i... iaiu w mature in gooa condition, un fortunately the fruit already upon the ground contains within itself sufficient larvsa of insects injurious to vegetation to insure not only the ruin of this vear's crop, but of next year's, too. Anybody wno win examine tnese little apples with a jack-knife will find inside of them and devouring the seeds the larva of the apple-moth, a tiny, pinkish worm not more than one-half inch long. The egg from which this worm grew was laid m the blow of the apple, almost as soon as , the apple was set after blossoming. The larva eats the seeds, and soon pushes but of the apple to find a new nest, usually under the scales oi tne bars of the tree itself, whence it issues as a moth in season, according to Trimble, for another raid upon the fruit this year ; it will get back, at all events," to spend the nine inclement months under the bark-scale, whence it will iss'ue next summer to re peat the process. The remedy is first to pick up the apples as they fall and treat them in some way to destroy their inhabitants ; second, lest some of the larvse havo already left the apples, to in tercept them on their way up the trees. This may be done, according to the same authority above mentioned, by binding the tree two or three times around with hay-withes, in which the worm innocently nestles, and where it may be found and killed by removing tne witnes occasionally. N ow is the time to do it Most of these fallen ap ples also bear the mark of the curculio, a little crescent-shaped discoloration with a dark dot on the concave side. Careful fruit-growers jar these insects off the . trees upon sheets in the early mornings of June and kill them one by one. - The best that can be done now is to lessen the next generation by de stroying the apples in which their eggs aro planted, if the worm has not already agents, tne peanut boys, and tne prize- brd and descended into the ground. A pacKage nuisances who pass inrougn i arougm ii.e mat oi last summer is the train every few minutes. . When I supposed to endanger those insects near warm trail, came up with - the Indians the next morning, just as they had come to a halt, and a fight ensued, in which the object of the chase lost her life, and was scalped, all of the Indians getting away but three. One of the three killed had the gory scalp of the young girl attached to his belt. They had killed her just as soon as attached. The father was almost distracted and absolutely frenzied with grief, and when the chase was given up by the others, ha could hardly be kept back. The young lady was buried where killed in the western wilds of Texas, and the family could no longer remain in the country that had caused them so much misery. The reporter asked what be came of the scalp. Ihe tear-dimmed eyes of the mother looked in the direc tion of a substantial chest in the wagon, and she said, 44 It is there." "We asked if they had any objection to showing it. They said no, and the father unlocked the chest and produced a long lock of dark hair, cnt from the crown of the head, with about an inch and a half in diameter of the scalp. When this was froduced the entire family gave way to oud sobs, and we wondered why so ghastly a memento was kept, that would already ever xeep iresn in ineir memory tne tragic end of their beloved daughter and sister. An Innocent on the Cars. The other day in a Michigan Central train coming East, was an old lady who had never traveled a great deal. She wasn't nsed . to the ways of the book Brignoll In Bliss. A writer in the Chicago Times says : 44 1 saw one day in the dining-room of a watering-place hotel, a bevy of young ladies fluttering around Brianoli like moths about a candle. " They were not parvenues, not ill-breed, not under ordinary circumstances particularly shallow. : On the contrary, they were of the social elect ; they were naturally refined, graceful, elegant, among the best specimens that the metropolis can boast. But when I had observed them zealously competing for his awkward attention, blushing wnen he spoke to them, smiling up at him, making pre text to .. get near him and tench his coarse-figure, they were suddenly trans formed. They appeared ugly, con temptible, disgusting."' I reddened for my country and her daughters. While the foolish , nymhs were purrincr over him, he appeared more ungainly and forbidding than ever. Too lymphatic to be moved by the situation, too dull to appreciate the' animated picture, he labored to smile, - - very much as a shoulder-hitter does when he comes up on the thirteenth round, with his face battered into a jelly. At last I saw two or three of the prettiest girls putting bon-bons in his mouth, and caressing his chin with their taper-fingers. That unobservantly forward, and' is not diverted by objects obviously likely to attract it. This statement, however, is subject to the important exception already referred to that it is excited both by the sight and sound of an animal of its own species. Of the symptoms which accompany the final stage of the dissase, the most important and characteristic are those which relate to the organs in which it localizes itself the mouth and throat. Attention is often drawn to the condi tion of the mouth in an animal supposed to be healthy by the observation that it tries to scratch the corners of its mouth, as if attempting to get rid of the ropy mucus which is seen to be discharged from it. In dogs that are tied up, it is noticeable that the bark has entirely lost its ring, and acquires a peculiar hoarseness, which can be recognized by the most unobservant. As the disease advances, the discharge increases, the lower jaw hangs, as if paralyzed, and the animal has evidently difficulty in swallowing. Along with this there is often a loss of power in the hind limbs. If now the dog be watched, the, pecu liarities of behavior which have been noticed are seen to present themselves in a much mere maiked degree than before. It is observed, first, that it is subject to paroxysms of excitement, in which it makes often re- wife to manage home affairs, he sought an English vessel and cargo out and out, and madahis first trip to the Gold Coast, where the Ashanteo war had just been fovght. This was another twenty thousand stroke in lees than thirty four months. Returning, he landed at home in Monrovia, and sent vessel and cargo to England for sale, and both sold welL J. J. Roberts, the first Fresident, and now the sixth one, has been a life long enemy of Mr. Roye, and the feel ing was entirely mutual between them. Mr. Roye waa three times nominated and defeated for the Presidency before he succeeded in taking the chair. He was also Senator and Chief Justice of the Republic. Mr. Roye was elected Fresident in 18C3. the term at that time being two years. His party being strongly in the ascendency, thought they could enact a law by which be could hold his seat without an election. Both he and all the heads of departments were im prisoned for usurpation. He remained several weeks in jail, made his escape, and in an attempt to get to a British steamer, then lying in the Bay of Monrovia, was drowned. The body was recovered and delivered to his family and friends, and decently buried under the waving palm trees in his lot in Evergreen Cemetery. The Govern ment confiscated some of his property. Mr. Roye was the wealthiest man in Liberia, and his family will not want around it so as to catch the tssoke, and the stain will disappear. : , A lady who had. been teaching her little four-year-older the dements of arithmetle, was astounded by his run ning in and propounding the following Eroblem : 44 Mamma, if you had three utterfliea and each butterfly had a bug in his ear, how many butterflies would you have?" The mother is still at work on the problem. The Missouri Stste Lottery was ori ginally planned forty years ago to baild a plank or macadamized road from the town of New Franklyn to the Missouri river, a distance of three or four mi Ira. Millions of dollars hsve been placed in this lottery, and still the New Franklin road is not built, though the grant will probably continue lor years. There is required to be built in Louisiana, before the country is safe, 1,500 miles of levee 'or fifty mil lions of eubio yards. - The necesaary repairs at crevasses will alone take $3, 000,000, which, if paid for. the govern ment will have to assume two-thirds of it. It is not likely to do this, and hence the repairs wul be leit unfinished. excitement., ill wuicu lfc uuut,ett uiwu re- i i peated efforte to bite or gnaw all objects, SSSIaf7 extraordinarily ex- enph oo vnvl.vnrr trrnv atj vithin I " - l ji a -w - a the peanut boy came along and dropped the surface of the ground by parching, ZM? IS S-iiJ A hicr AfrWn rflt hr lr. Ka hnt tw i mnif Jiti i ' hurnedly svway, and am conscious thst, then and there, some of my ideals were rudely pulled down." its reach ; and, secondly, even during the remissions its excitement is at once renewed by the sight or sound of an other dog. It may be well to note that the dis ease occurs at all seasons ; that the mad dog continues to recognize its master, and to manifest pleasure when kin ily spoken to ; that it does not shun water; and that, in many cases, from first to last, the wild fury which is commonly supposed to belong to the disease, is conspicuously absent. The most effectual means for check ing the spread of hydrophobia are : First : To circulate information on the subject.' Second : To enforce existing regulations as to licenses, and aa to the destruction of ownerless dogs. It is to be regretted that the wise proposal of Mr. Fleming, that a short description of the disease be printed on the back of each license, has sot been adopted. The disease originates, whether in man or beast, exclusively by contagion. The carriers of contagion are the ownerless dogs of large towns. - The writer of this, Dr. Burdon San derson is one of the most accomplished physiologists in England. The article, it is proper to say, was the result of consultation with other scientific men.' De.oured by a Lion. Hog. How much, of what is said among people is understood by dogs ? On one of the hottest days the unfortunate dogs confined in a city pond appeared to sufler intensely Irom the suffocating air. A gentleman, desirous of pur chasing a watch-dog, went there, and after soma examination decided to buy a young black dog, for which he paid the regulation price of three dollars. When the pound master went to Us a rone So, ye. b.for. th. FrencJ ,, E?&??U&Z taTtit iG Some con ber.. brothers, and men oted lot tneir fc toJW jre t ran rrr Vi anil flflrinrr ,rflMnffnt triAri I - . - ... a big African peanut into her lap. she shucked it, opened her ; mouth and dropped the kernel down, instead of regarding it with silent contempt or pitching it out of the window. The book agent came along and dropped a book, in her lap. She said she was much obleeged," vnd she carefully locked it up in her valise. The' prize-package boy came along and dropped a sample, and she wonder ed how the road could aflord to give away so much. ' When he returned she had opened it, and - was - wearing the breast-pin and eating the gum-drops. The book agent came back and wanted hiB bookj and, before she would give it up she called the conductor to see if it was right. The card boy wanted pay, ard she appealed to the passengers. When she understood that he was right she handed over twenty cents, with this remark: "WellV ef I haint all-fired turned round 1 I wish I'd stayed tu V " v'1 1 If J " - ' f i I ' . m ' ' ? ' - ' Discbmbge op Costposttobs. Tie Cincinnati Gazette Company dismissed all their compositors, and supplied their places with a full force of men not members of the Typographical Union. Three or four old printers left ,the Union and were taken back by the Go-ctte. but there is manifestly no lack of them this year. The curculio, it is well known, ruins the plum completely, and it destroys the natural beauty and much ox tne nesn ot tne apple and the pear. lattle can be done in battling with either of these pests, unless whole A Big Wood-DrlTe, At the Vorgue There are many romances of real life that find their denouement in the Paris morgue ; but the strangest yet hap pened quite recently. The body of u girl exposed on one of the dreadful slabs was of such, surpassing beauty that the morgue was thronged all -day with sight-seers, and cne poor lunatic actually drowned .himself in order, as he took care te explain in a letter found ' in his lodgings, that he might rest for Of Mr. Jones, the well known wood neighborhoods will combine to pursue I dealer of Empire City, says the Nevada tne wanare. I Jtnrxterprxse, we have the folio win cr par ticulars in regard to the big wood-drive now in Carson river : At a point above How they Get a Horse Up.' MarkieyvUie a large boom was stretched - i across the river and above this was When a horse falls down, says an ex- I about 100.000 cords of wood, filling the I a time next to the only creature he had vuwv, .vuwu UIU1 yut UiCU UUUU I cutuuu Ul wo DUCUU 1UK a UUUU1CQ OI At niffht the boom too Late. wood to rush into annually exposed at the morgue, and men advise the driver until he is half the river below. The wood went 44 boom ing" down the stream at a terrific rate. It is said .that in places a single stick would lodge against a rock in the center of the river, and a moment after there would be accumulated a sort of winrow of wood extendinsr ud the river forty or fifty 'yards.'- This would suddenly horrible an occupation. in a few minutes the' channel would be I - It is so. The Wavertu CS. T.) Enter gorged from bank to bank. - Some of ! prfrs says : When a man discontinues mad, and two small boys stand by, with uaeir nanas ciaspea ana an expression ot determination written on every linea ment. Then several men ask why somebody don't .hold his head, until one old gentleman volunteers to hold it. He steps forward calmly, bens's over the prostrate animal and puts one nana gently, on his ear. ; The horse, getting tired, raises his head suddenly, and wnom he naa seen No less than TOO bodies are , the establishment is conducted with the greatest order by five officials, some of whom are always at their post day and night. Of these the chief man, the grrfiler, enjoys the magnificent stipend of 2,400 , francs a year 5180 by no means tso exhorbiUnt a turn for so the crowd laugh, and the old gentleman these gorges held so long as to dam np his local paper because he feels ag-, in a shower, for the electric fluid is er-1 Why, I thought if yon didn't want it, seen .toUkensifurtfearinterestintl e the river for a irreat distance and inun- gricyed-at something in it, he merely I ratic and goes where it pleases. It is a VI didn't." The face of the eld man deemed. He jumped up as the nukr approached him, and leaped and fawn ed on him, and put out ms neaa at 11 desirous of being tied. When his new master led him out, all the other dogs seemed to go frantic, and broke out into a series of hwls and yells thst were painful to hear, not only because they were almost deafening, but be cause it seemed as if they knew they were being reserved for a worse fate. A Triple Salcfde. A triple suidde lately took place st Vienna ander sad circunutanoea. Three ladies, the eldest sppearing to be the mother of the two. took a bedroom at the Rummer Hotel. The next morn ing they went out for a short time, and, on their return, after having taken a light repast, retired to their ehamWr. Shortly afterward several detonations were heard in that apartment, and on the door being broken open the three women were found lying dead on the floor, each with a pistol in ber hand, and their skulls fractured by the ballets. Subsequently they were recognized as lime. Oyorgy, the wife of tradesman of Tordy, In Hungary, complsUly min ed by the late financial cruia, and her two daughters. - No rings or jewelry were found on them, and the only prop erty they possessed besides their clothes was the sum of forty-seven kreutxers (three and a half cm times each) in the mother's pane. , Plant TTant the Ticket. A conductor on the Pennsylvania Bailroad tells the following : At an. -eastern station he received on board a fine-looking specimen of an old country gentleman. When he passed through the cars, the old gentleman handed up his ticket, which was duly punched and returned to him, After passing the next call station, the conductor again called fox the old gentleman's ticket. IOTrnrnra.- The inordinate number I He looked up in surprise, and very of people killed by lightning within a few I honestly informe I the rraneher of tickets veers revives aiscuasion as 10 sajevviioa uo mm uuuwu i uu ui iu wiu- during thunder storms. It is conceded thst there is no plsee ot absolute safety and condemned to death. The day be fore the one fixed for their execution, they contrived to make their escape out of prison. They were chained together by the leg, and thus in forced company crept through the woods and thickets, in the hope of gaining a safe ref age. Toward the middle of the first night they met. straight before them in the path, a large lion. They were un armed. Knowing the character of the animal they shouted boldly, and threw stones at him; he.Tery likely seeing through their mock courage, lay down before them and would not stir. - Losing heart at last, the robbers changed their tone, and began to implore the lion, in piteous language, for mercy. In an in stant he was upon them. The larger of the two he seized, killed and began to eat, while the ether pretended to be dead, In the 'cause of the meal the lion came to the iron chain which bound the robbers legs; after examining it for a moment he bit the man's leg off above the knee. Just then he felt thirsty, and walked to a stream to drink. The surviving robber crawled off for his life, dragging his brother leg with him, and contrived to squeeze himself into a hole in the ground. When the lion returned he mlcsed him. Bearing loudly, he ran backward and forward several times over the ground, passing close by the hole, but strangely missing it. Soon after day dawned, and the lion went oSL Out of ihe hole came the robber, more dead than alive, and was about to cut his brother's leg from the chain, when a party of the Bev's horsemen rode np and seized him. He was taken before the Bey, to whom he told his story. His brother's leg was still in the chain to confirm it, and the Bey, in consideration of his wonderful escape, awarded him an unconditional pardon. dow. - 44 Why did yon do that 7- aked the eon due tor. The old man - replied. proceedings. Then the horse, having naa an me xun ne can nave, rises like a tidal wave, penes. date the land on each aide. When they transfers his 'name from the snbscrip- finally broke there was a tremendous 1 tion list to that other list auite as lanre ant1 the crowd die- commotion and rush till another" conre those who borrow the paper every m a w I . . .- . . m wMiermeo. i weex 1 ne never stops reaoinsr it wise precaution, however, to avoid car-1 rents of air and to sit in the central por tion of a room, away from parts on which the lightning may descend. so honest, ana his knowledge ox railroad traveling evidently so limited, that the conductor accepted his word, and carried Lisa to his destination.
The Franklin Courier (Louisburg, N.C.)
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Aug. 14, 1874, edition 1
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