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I' ! i r RANKLIN TOMER. GEO. S. BiVKEIl, Editor and Proprietor. TJERMS : S2.00 per Annum, VOL. III. LOUISBURG, X. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1874. XO. 45. Go The Infinite Presence. IgMefcloof, Oa the tiaeued roof Where tirao iHAce are the warp and woof "Which the King of KLngu A a curtain flings O'er t!o dieadf nines of eternal things, Cut could I see, Ar in truth they be, The gloriea of heaven that encompass me, I Hhould lightly hold The t'u-Hued fold Of that marveloui curtain of blue and gold. Boon the whole, Like a parched scroll, Khali before my amazed sight uproll ; And without a screen, At on burst be seen Tho Presence wherein I have ever been. Of Oh ! who shall bear The blinding glare tho Majesty that shall meet us there ? What eye may gaze On the unveiled blaze Of tho light-girdled throne of the Ancient of Days? Christ us aid! Himself bo our shade, That iu tha J'.Ca4 day we be not dismayed. Whitehead. THE STORY OF JEFFREY, Eclipses, comets, and extraordinarily high titles can be predicted with accu rucy ; there even seems to be a proba bility that in time tho weather will also Htrike its flag to science, and that means will be found of disentangling tho conflicting influences which send an aneroid up and down. But in the art of . foretelling the probable current of public enthusiasm there is no sign of progress. The keenest observer of hu man nature can no more truess whether tho career of auy particular suitor, war rior, explorer or criminal will simplv hardest pf all. You may imagine, men, wnat tne language or a drunken pea-captain must have been when he saw his beloved spruce-beer flowing down the throat of a common armorer's mate. That audacious wretch was clapped in irons presently, while his infuriated commander, having refreshed himself, returned to the deck, which, he paced with unsteady steps, revolving in his mind what punishment would be suffi cient f or a crime so heinous. It oueht to be something unusual, startling, ap- painng as ine act wnicn it avenged. Suddenly his eyes caught sight of a small island, now turned into a jewel by the rays of the sun, which was sinking in the west, and the inspiration came. , " Lieutenant l" he cried, "Sir I" u Man the gig, and send for that fel low I have had confined." It was done, and then, to the lieu tenant's horror, his superior officer ordered him to take the prisoner, land him on the barren, rock, and leave him, ' IH have no thieves on board my ship," he said. The captain was evidently the worse for drink, and his lieutenant hesitated. " Do you hear- me, sir 1" thundered the astonished commander, and disci pline prevailed. ' Deeply as he loathed the act, the lieutenant had no option but to obey ; the crew, though they murmured, did not mutiny, and Robert Jeffrey was put asnore witnout food or drink. He had his knife, and one sailor gave him his handkerchief, and another a long stick which he had thought to throw into the boat as they shoved off, for the de serted man to signal with. By this time the sun had sunk, and when the boat returned to the ship it left the poor fellow behind, alone, in the dark. He fully believed that the captain only meant to frighten him, and bore up him waving the stick to which his hand kerchief was tied. The master, John Dennis, sent a boat, and brought him off in an apparently dying state, so ex hausted as to be unable to speak. With care and kindness, however, he recovered, and was carried to Marble head, in Massachusetts, where he sup ported himself by his trade of black smith. This circumstantial account satisfied people at first, but when the letter was shown to Robert Jeffrey's mother she a a a a ... pointed out mat not only was it written in a strange hand, but that it was not even signed by her son, who could write well enough, and was very un likely to make his mark, as the man who vouched for the genuineness of this epistle had done. The objection natural ly carried weight, and many people sus pected that the evidence of Geoige Hassel and of the letter had been got up by the captain, who was anxious to prove the man alive, and so escape from the odium which attached to him. Finally a ship was sent to bring this professing Robert Jeffrey to England, where he arrived in due course, and proved to be the right man safe enough, a certain shyness and diffidenoe which he felt in the presence of the gentle men who had drawn up his report be ing the cause of his making - a crossin stead of signing it. He landed at Portsmouth in the Oc tober of 1810, three years after the event which had caused him to become a public character. The Admiralty for warded him under the charge of a naval officer to Polperre, where the entire population recognized him, and his ar rival was made the occasion of great public rejoicing. But before settling down in his native place, he accepted an offer from the manager of a London theatre to exhibit himself for a certain number of nights, and as it became the rage to go and see "Jeffrey the Sailor," he made "rather a good thing of it. These profits were KILLED BY RATTLESNAKES. The Old Letter. PROPERTY IX L05D0X. A Mouse Kail of the Hcptllee Banted with the Corpse of Its Ovraer A distiller named Jones, who lived with his family near the lower bench of cramped hand. the Big Smoky Mountain. Tennessee. I iahea and Queer, old-fashioned d's. I found it this morning where it had blown with the dried leaves, under the porch, faded and creased and yellow as r landers lace, and written in a one with school-girl flour The Vast la . . .u i- --,'A i .,. . I nrettv well thronffh tho niclit with that nrflRMitlv HtPfilled hv n. snm of six linn. lAkcnun an a matter of national' in? ea- -But when the morning dawned . dred pounds, which was paid him by poriance, Minn the merest tyro can. It was nioro than a million to one that Robert Jeffrey's wrongs would remain unnoticed, or raise but a feeble and passing notice. He became a popular idol, however a representative victim of the press-gang system, and thetyran- the Recruit was a mere speck in the distance, which slowly but surely passed away beyond the horizon. Then the unhappy man realized that he was a castaway. The Recruit, indeed, had caught a favoring breeze, which canied her the family of the captain in acquittal of all claims he might have against that omcer, wno was still liable to civil ac had been annoyed a rreat deal br the revenue rangers last fall, and de termined to change his location and business to a more secluded spot. To carry out this purpose he selected the head 6f a deep gorge some four miles distant, walked in with cliffs, where during the winter, assisted by some of his friends, he erected a log building. As soon as the cold weather was over and the spring fairly opened, the still and othei things necessary were moved to the place, and the work of violating the revenue law was resumed. Several " runs " were made, and Jones began to congratulate himself that he had at last found a refuge beyond the prying eyes of the Qovernment hirelings, where he could pursue his avocation in peace The still-house being some distance from where his family lived, Jones rarely visited them more than once in a fortnight. Everything went on well enough until about four weeks ago, when he failed to appear at the accus tomed time. Nothing was thought of this for a day or two. but when another week elapsed without the return of Jones, the family became alarmed, and they thought that he had been captured by revenue jay hawks and carried to Knox ville or some other place where violators of the law are occasionally convicted and punished. The alarm was given through the sparsely settled neighbor hood. A small number of men gathered, and accompanied by Mrs. Jones and her son, a youth of ten or twelve years of acre, they started up the gorge in the direction of the still-house. On reaching the building they found the door closed and fastened, and no sign of Jones or any one else could be seen. Mrs. Jones called the name of her husband several times; no response, however, came back to relieve her anxi ety. But upon attempting to force an " Dzab Johjt (it ran)" You say you have lost all love for me since last night, at the ball, because I flirted with the doctor's son. " Oh, John, I meant no harm ; you do not know I was always such a silly little thing, and it is so pleasant to be told one has bright eyes and a sweet voice ! When you passed me without speaking, I thought ray heart would break. " Only forgive me, and I will be so good you won't know it is Olive at all you will think it is some one else. Emma and Henry will go to the con- f the XeMIItr the Wetroaelle. The City of London is a mere vil lage, right in the heart of a vast wilder ness of house, says Mark Twain like ike central square of a cheas- nicttl customs which naturally grew out luickly to Barbadoes, where she joined of it, uud so a vevy curious story has tne "squadron under Admiral Sir Alex been handed down to us. ander Cochrane. Her officers and crew, In 1807 a privateer, named tho Lord miligling with those of other ships, Nelson, was fitted at Tolperro in Corn- 8Poke freely of the affair, which pres wall, Euglar.d, a place famous for its entIv reached the admiral's ears, who hardy raca of femugglers, the entire 8enfc for the captain, questioned him, population beincr broucrht nn to look antl finding the story true, severely 1Wk- - -A 1 a rw" jasc-guarusmen as natural ene mies t 0 might bo killed with as good V conscience as though they were Vrenchmon. Tho prolltsof privateering were often greater even than those of smuggling, nml tho Lord Nelson had no difficulty in gatheriug together a first-rate crew. Amongst them was a man who had been brought up as a blacksmith, but had found both excitement and profit in an occasional sea-trip, and indeed was as good at tho tiller as at the forge, per haps a tritle better. The name of this amphibious Cor nishnian was Hubert Jeffrey, and his career as a private ersman was a short out : for the Lord Nelson, at the very commencement of her. cruise, was forced to put into Falmouth, where she wiis boarded by a press-gang. It wps u perfectly illegal proceeding , the press-gang ha 1 no more right to tak$ a man out of tho Lord Nelson, than you or I havo to break into a house and take tho plate-busket. But at the com mencement of this century private rights were very little respected where the public service was concerned, un less tho person whom it was proposed to Injure had plenty of money or politi cal inlluenco. Robert Jeffrey had neither, and ho was carried on board II. M. 8. llecruit, and converted into a man-of-war's man quite against his will, and in defiance of his clear and undoubted protection. Tho commander of the Recruit was a young officer at that time, well-known in tho navy aa a reckless, self-willed, passionate man, the foibles of whose natuie wero forced and exasperated by despotic powra and drinking habits. As if liis normal thirst were not enough, ho was now sent to cruise in tho Ca ribbean sea, where the heat of the sun whetted it to snch an extent, that he was seldom or ever sober, the mildest potation thut he used to quench it being sprnce-beer, of which he kept a cask always on tap in his private cabin. Befovo he had been on board many days, Jeffrey's proficiency as a smith was discovered, and he was made arm orer's mate. So that there was a fair chance of his making his enforced trip pretty comfortably, and returning after a few months to his native place, with a pocketful of prize-money after all. But an unfortunate group of circum stances gt in tho way. The captain was not the only thirsty man in the whip ; his armorer's mate, for example, occasionally had a drought upon him, which was considerably aggravated by the extremely hot weather, and the small allowanco of water served out daily, for the ship wasunning short of that treasure, which we never prize while we have. During this state "of affairs, Jeffrey wassent to'exeoute some job in the captain's room, and being left alone with the barrel of spruce beer, he began to ogle it. ": There was a drinking cup.'lwhich had 3 been used, lying very .handy ; the captain was on deck ; Tno one could see him ; he was very thirsty ! He snatched up the'eup, and desisted from his work a moment reprimanded him for his brutality, and ordered him back to rescue the man. The island upon which Jeffrey had been so barbarously left was one of the Leeward group, a desolate rock called Sombrero, and the Recruit got back to it just a fortnight after the event. A careful search was instituted, but all that was found was a pair of trowser3, not Jeffrey's, and a tomahawk-handle, no trace of the missing man being dis coverable. This result being reported on the ship's return to Barbadoes, Sir Alex ander Cochrane felt satisfied that the man had been rescued by some passing vessel, and let the matter rest for the time. But a good many formed a dif ferent opinion, and suspected that .Tt fVr rt"r o d nnrnck t.ri onma -winlonf. onrl and when the squadron returned to England the affair was taken up by people at home, and made so much noise that, after two years had elapsed, the captain was brought to a court martial, condemned, and dismissed the service. This, however, instead of ap peasing the public excitement, only in flamed it the more, by the authentic details which were brought to light in the course of the court-martial. The illegality of the man's having been pressed at all the veniality of his of fense, especially considering the cir cumstances of thirst caused by short allowance of water in so hot a climate, and the ready temptation to appease it placed directly in his way, combined with the inhuman cruelty of his abandonment to stir the public indigna tion. Meetings were held, articles written, petitions signed, urging the propriety of endeavoring by all means to discover what Jiad become of tho missing man ; and Sir Francis Burdett lost no opportunity of keep ing the question before the Govern ment, in the House of Commons. Illegal pressings, keel-hauling flog gings to death, wero not so very un common in the navy at thah time as to account for the usually indifferent pub lic's espousing Robert Jeffrey's cause so warmly ; but it did so, and made a representative man of him. The first authentic news came from George Hassel, mariner, who deposed on oath before the Mayor of Liverpool that he had just returned from Beverly, a town in Massachusetts, and that a man was living there who was nick named the Governor of Sombrero, whose real name was Jeffrey. Where upon this Jeffrey was communicated tl, and in due time a letter in reply purporting-to come from him was re ceived, giving a full account of his ad ventures. "When the Recruit had quite disap peared, he remained for sometime over whelmed with despair, but after a while he grew calm, and felt very hun gry, so he explored his island to see if there was anything to eat upon it, but could find nothing except birds, which flew away, as birds will, when he tried to catch them. At last he discovered an egg, but, alas ! it was an election egg a very good missile, but not edi ble. tion, and in the excited state of public entrance they were greeted with those uiiai Aivitoo ui naimug w uavu wau.. ear of the East Tennessee mountaineer never fails to recognize. The door was at once broken down, and a sight met them that caused all to start with fright and horror. The form of the distiller lay upon the floor, with eyes starting from their sockets, the features horribly distorted, and body swollen to twice its usual pro portions, while the whole interior of the building was alive with rattle snakes, some in coil and ready for bat tle, but the larger proportion stupid and inert, as though they had been im bibing liberally of the illicit fruit of The mother and son ned hor- watch for you at the south window. I shall always now be so discreet, so pro. per, so careful ; and I love you, John. Olitx Wildx," No one would suppose that the little old maid, who lives with her brother on Bleecker street, was ever young and girlish and impulsive enough to ha fe written that letter; but here is her name in full, on the faded margin. I saw John pass yesterday in his family carriage with his fleshy, com fortable-looking wife and his- four rosy children, a wealthy, portly, lofty old gentleman. Perhaps Olive saw him, too, knitting by the same south win dow where she had sat and watched in vain twenty years ago, till the sky and her life darkened together. Little things make mountains of diffi culties to lovers, and John never came. He married some one else, and per haps soon forgot entirely the saucy, af fectionate, coquettish Olive Wilde, whose bright oddity had chiefly at tracted him. Women do not lorget so easily as men. Olive thought of him when the morn ing colored the bit of sky at the end of the street ; when the evening clouded the south window ; when her parents died ; when her brother and sister mar- Item of Inltmt. This is called Ministers Leap Tear beoau the yaoaiion month, August, has 2ve Sundays. Phineas Battle, who connitttd sui cide at Orange, Mass., frTO S1P.0CO to the Universaliat church of that town. a wftHiv V.n ffllah widow, whoao board ; and, aa the hordes that inhabit pM1i0Q u small feet, offar to marrr it daily dwell milea away on the out- the man who U over firs fct tall at. J aklrU, it has a ridiculoutly small cn her shoe, nuralxr thr'. JifS in tUmSSSS'SS) in Talking of Goldsmith Maid, it may rhVift 5iJle.M ' bo waUtS state that she is M-venWa a 50,000 alE?h ' t. years of a?, is owned by Urnry N. Dfe hJ?h Z 12?! Smith, of New York, who?,, be won't Ian. Fifteca hundred persons art em ployed at Key Wet in making ciara. More than half of them are Cabana. This industry has raised the rlace to one of the moat prospcroui communi ties in the South. A bmr noaUd himself at the door vote that is to say. a lain who pays rates, or taxes for there is no law here which gives a useless idler the privilege of disposing of publio money furnished by other people. The City " has its own police, and its own government. cert to-night, but I shall be alone, and I The rest of the metropolis is composed oi m grei mve oi once separate Tiuagcn, which still retain their own names a Charing, Hoi born, etc but they are welded together into a compact mass of houses now, and no stranger can tell when he passes out of one of these towns and into another. The estatea of the nobility are strictly entailed, and cannot be alienated from the family. The town property which those great landlords own is leased for long terms from half a century up to ninety-nine years ; in Scotland nine hundred and ninety-nineyeara. I was visiting a house In the West End, the quarter where dwelling-bouse property is the most valuable. My host said he bought the lease of the house he was living in (a three-story brick, with basement) twenty years ago, for seven thousand five hundred dollars, when it had forty-one and a quarter years to run. Every year he has to pay one hundred and fifty dollars ground rent. But in these dsys property has so greatly advanced in value all over Lon don, and especially at the West End, that if this lease were for sale now it would require something like a fortune to buy it, and the ground rent would be placed at one thousand dollars a year, instead of the one hundred and fifty dollars the present owner will go on opinion was iiiteiy to De cast in neavy damages. After the lapse of a few months, when he ceased to " draw," Jeffrey returned to Cornwall with money enough to pur chase a coasting schooner ; married, and, it this were fiction, would have lived happily forever afterward. But the story being a perfectly true one, Robert Jeffrey was subject to all those ills which afflict ordinary mortals who have never been tho subjects of popular sympathy or curiosity. He failed to make his schooner pay, and he died early of consumption, leav ing his wife and daughter in great poverty. ried through every joy and sorrow of Pjiag for the next twenty years. The her life she carried this one memory. property belongs to the Duke of Bed tw. niivA i if tfcorA nraa enviMnry ford, and lUji he reflect s upon what -r" " ' w " - j -o I . t :n i . 'At harder than to get a fixed idea in her head, it was to get that idea out again when once there. She never saw any one she fancied, pei haps no one ever fancied her. Her freshness and vivacity (she had no beauty) were soon gone. The red in her cheeks and the light in her eyea began to fade. She ceased to take any pains with her dress. that property will have soared to, ten or fifteen years from now, and still pay ing him only the trifle of one hundred and fifty dollars a year, he probably wants to go and dig up his late ancestor and shake him. This house is one of seventy-five just like it that surround a beautiful square containing two or three acres of ground of an English chancery court, and kept saying, 44 A penny, pleae, sir ! Only a penny, sir, before you go in." And for what, mr man? inquired an old country gentleman. "BecauBe, air, the chances are that you will not have one when you come cut," . Papa, do you think Beech " Hush, Johnnie. " Bat. papa, don't you think Beech " Didn't you hear me tell you to stop your noiae, sir? I won't have jou talking about theao things. Go in and get your face washed." And Johnnie, with tears in his eyes, wanU to know why pap. won't tell him whether bechnnU are ripe. The South Kensington Museum, in London, has coet the nation since its establishment $3,08, S13. A corres pondent writes: Those who have visited this matchless museum will know that I understate rather than overstate ita actual present value, when I tay that if iU contents were disposed of at auction to-morrow, Vxtj would not bring leas than twenty millions sterling. Hamburg, Conn., has recently had a curious love affair. Two brothers courted the same girl, and she engaged herself to the younger, but as the time set for the marriage drew near, the youth had difficulty in obtaining a cer tificate. Meanwhile, the girl trans ferred her affections to the older one, and, he having armed himself with a certificate, they were married on tho very day set for the mamage with the younger brother. Tbe Slave Trade of the Nile. A Romantic Story. Excellent material for a sensation ornamental grounds, large old trees, story is furnished by the following well- oroad, ciean-snaven grass-plots, Kept New York Milk Trade, The milk trade of New York city and its vicinity is a very large one, and gives employment to a great number of persons, besides forming an important portion of the traffic of seven lines of railroad. In order to give a clear idea of this trade it may be interesting to show the plan of operations between the producer and the consumer. The milk dealer first arranges with the farmer or dairyman as to the price to be paid to him per quart, delivered at the station of the railroad, and the probable quantity to be supplied daily, after which the former has to pay the freight to this city, and provide means to transport it to his customers. In numerous cases the dealer will agree to take from the farmer the whole of his production, and in these instances the trade is sometimes uncertain, and often unprofitable. When the weather is hot or the winter severe, there is often a greater demand for milk than the farm ers can supply, and the dealer is com pelled to buy the required extra quan tity from speculators ; and in these in stances $5 has often been refused for a can of 40 quarts. Should the weather be cool, or a large number of con sumers be absent irom tne city, tne supply will exceed the demand, and the dealer will often be unable to sell his extra stock for even $1 per can, which, in some instances, is lower than he pays the iarmer, and he also loses the cost of freight. Before a farmer can enter upon the work of supplying a milk dealer he requires some capital, as it is necessary for him to have a double r triple set of cans, and in some instances four or five cans for every 40 quarts of milk he sends to market. First he must have one can to hold the milk. Tnis is filled on the day prior to being sent during the night to market. This can is held the next day the day of ar rivalby the dealer, and returned to the milk depot the next night, at the same time when removing the following day's supply, and is forwarded to the farmer by the returning train. The can has then to be thoroughly cleansed, and placed for a time' in a running stream to cool off, so as to be fit for the reception of milk. Should there be the slightest particle of old milk or cream left in the can the probabilities are that the whole can of new milk will be spoiled. Where streams are not con venient ice is often used. Meanwhile the milk has to be sent to market, and cans are thus detained, others must take their places. As each can costs from $4 to $5, a capital of about $100 is necessary to send even five'eans, or 200 quarts of mUVt to market daily. Some large dairymen Lnave over $i,uuu tnus invested in cans alone, and many have of the still. ror stricken from the place. A consul- In 1870 or 1871 Sir Samuel Baker, the tation was had. and it was impossible well-known English traveler and ex- I 1 a 1 to secure the body of poor Jones with out incurring fearful risk, it was de termined to reclose the entrance and other apertures and fire the building, which was done. The party stayed un- plorer, entered the service of the Khe dive of Egypt for the period of three years, at a salary of $50,000 per annum. He was ordered to suppress the slave trade of the White Nile and til the house was entirely consumed, and nothing remained but the now use less still and the calcined bones of the miserable distiller. It is supposed that Jones had built his manufactory close upon a den of the deadly reptiles in the overhanging cliff, and that attracted by the heat, or pos sibly the fumes of the whisky, they found their way into the building in large numbers after he had closed the door and laid down to sleep. clean-shaven scrupulously swept free from twigs. fallen leaves, and all other eye-sores. His grace the Duke owns all those sev enty-five houses, and he owns the orna mental square in the middle also. To each house he leaves a key that will open any of the numerous gates (there is an iron railing ail around) to tne square, and nobody can get in these but the occupants of the seventy-live houses to re-es tablish the Government of the Egyp- anj Bucn persons as they choose to in- tian Viceroy in tne .Nile basin of Uen- yite. They do a deal of. croquet. The tral Africa. His expedition to that country was partially successful. He reclaimed much territory, which was added to the dominions of the Khedive, and he captured many slavers and re- restored, their victims to liberty. seventy-five pay a small sum yearly to keep the square in repair. It was a pleasant day, and we walked along down the street. Every time we crossed a new street my host said : ' This property belongs to the Duke But notwithstanding his glowing and of Bedford also-all these stately blocks The Corn Crop, The August returns to the U. S. De partment of Agriculture from New Eng land show a general improvement in the corn crop during July, though it is still backward. Maine averages 92 per cent. of a full crop ; New Hampshire, 98 ; Vermont, 97 ; Massachusetts, 101 ; Rhode Island, 100 ; Connecticut, 107. It is very promising in portions of the Middle States, but in other parts it was injured either by drought, or ex cess of rain. A decline is noted in New York, it averaging 94 and New Jersey 91 ; Penn sylvania and Delaware have both risen to 1 per. cent, above the average of the South Atlantic States ; Maryland aver aging 96, shows the crops damaged by drought, especially on stiff soils : Vir ginia averaging 90, also shows a decline from the same cause and from insect ravages ; North Carolina 91, it lost 1 per cent. ; South Carolina and Georgia have risen to 10 per cent, above the average ; Florida 102, maintains her July average ; Texas declines from 106 to 102. self-congratulatory accounts of briliant victories, it may well be doubted whether Sir Samuel Baker succeeded in seriously crippling the slave traffic. It is true that he had a great deal to strug gle against. The feeling of tho Egyp tian people is strongly in favor of the continuance of the slave trade, which is regarded by them as a domestic neces sity and as a source of commercial profit. Nor was the suppression of the traffic the main object in view with the Khedive. Sir Samuel Baker has very recently written a letter expressing his surprise that Abou Saood, the great slave hun ter of the White Nile to whom he at tributes much of his trouble on the ex pedition should have been appointed by the Khedive to be the right hand man of CoL Gordon, Sir Samuel's suc cessor in the present expedition. Ac cording to this letter, Abou Saood is a most unmitigated rasca?. He is the son-in-law of the head of a Cairo firm of slave hunters, Agad 3c Co., and every year he leads an armed force of 2,500 cutthroats on a slave hunt from Khar toum in the Soudan. He massacres, plunders, and burns through the inte rior, and Kidnaps tne women and cnu dren to sell them into slavery. lost a large amount in consequence cans havinc been lost, stolen, or misao- Soon. however, the DftDlTS of hull- I wATtiafAii hvtiA AAnflimiPPa tanrl rtrSifl a , . I ' O I U1V11mVvU a-r t wv eij w wmm to uraw ou nan a pint ana toss it down, ger gave place to the severer sufferings The total daily supply from all swi k wy tciicBuiug; oi imrsi, wnicn ne inea to appease by if stolen waters are sweet, what must swallowing the sea-water, and that nf course made matters worse. I But heaven, more merciful fhan man, 6ent him a shower of rain, which lodged in the crevices of the rocks, and in flicted the punishment of Tantalus upon from oows in the city and suburbs. mm unin ne mougui oi cutting tne quills, of which there were plenty strewn about, and suc&ing up the pud A Deadly Spring. A writer in the Colusa (Cal.) aepenaent says : About one-nan a mile over a mountain from Bartlett Springs there is what is called the Gas Spring. This is probably the greatest curiosity of the mountains. The water is ice cold, but bubbling and foaming as if boiled, and the greatest wonder is the inevitable destruction of life pro duced by inhaling the gas. No live thing is to be found within a circuit of 100 yards near the spring. The very birds, if they happen to fly over it, drop dead. We experimented with a lizard on its destructive properties by holding it a few feet above the water ; it stretched dead in two minutes, it will kill a human being in twenty minutes. We stood over it about five minutes, when la 'dull, heavy, aching sensation crept over us, and our eyes began to swim. The gas which escapes here is the rankest kind of carbonic, hence its sure destruction of life ; also, quench ing of flame instantaneously. Home Luck. In-1 a young lady in San Francisco is en of buildings both sidea of the street. By-and-by we came to another orna mental square like the other, and sur rounded by large dwellings. 'Who owns this square and these houses?" The Duke of Bedford. We turned and walked about half a mile in another direction. Still the same. All the way it was, This all belongs to the Duke of Bedford ; this ornamental square is his ; this is the statue of the late duke ; all the smoky statues we have seen represent dukes of the line, of former generations. We are pretty well tired out by this time, else we might go on till we could show you the great Covent Garden Market one of the sights of London. Who owns it?' iirpL. TV T.1 t-A 1UO AJ UaVO Ul ' I suspected as much. Does he own the property around it ? He does." Does he own any in the country? ' Whole counties. I took a cab and drove about seven teen miles, or such a matter, to my hotel. No candels in my room no water no towels. I said to the land lord, I have a very set ions notion of complaining to the Duke of Bedford about the way you keep this hotel. He said, ' What has he got to do with it ?- I , said, . He probably has a good suppose be owns A . . T a TaV W gaged to a gentleman who, through his deal to ao wun it ; x recklessness, has well niirh caused her I it ?" death on several occasions. About I " Well, be don't purloined spruce-beer be ? Presently another drink was taken, with equal success. A third, however, was spoil ed by the thick and wrathful voice of the captain, who had come below un heard, unnoticed, in time to witness this outrageous act of daring presump tion. a - a-VJ-VY-k 1 V sources is between ,iaaj ana iu,uuu cans, averaging 40 quarts each, and the revenue to the railroads from freight of milk alone aggregates about $6,000 daily. About 2,000 cans of milk come in on private wagons, or are supplied It would burn a hole in the paper to dies as we moderns do sherry cobblers. write down Captain Lake's remark upon the occasion, beventy years ago all gentlemen swore a little; naval officers swore very much, increasing in vehe mence as thev rose in ranc ; men in In addition to hunger and thirst, he endured the agony of hope deferred, for ships were constantly passing, but failed to see his signals till the ninth day. when some one on board the liquor swore, as at the present day, I Adams, an Amerioan sohooner, noticed There is scarcely a fashionable ca price that doesn't do good to some one. Thus the ornaments of white and black jet which have become the vogue in Paris have restored prosperity to the working classes of Venice, who were in a state of great distress before the revival of-the taste for jet trimmings. Theodore Geer, a crazy man of De witte ville, N. Y., nearly cut off his thumb with a chisel last winter. It was properly dressed, and the wound healed. Lately Geer got the idea that the piece of thumb should not have been put on again. So he took an axe, and chopped it off. Then he looked at the stump for a moment in reflective criticism, decided that '.it was still too long, and cut off another piece. He Is now perfectly satisfied with the job. Somebody defines flirtation to be tention without intention at- three months ago this young man, when on the point of separating from his affianced until the next evening, made a mistake in his selection of overcoats in the hall, and, finding a revolver in . a . a a. tne pocket, ne drew n out and com menced toying with the weapon. It was accidently discharged, aa a natural consequence, and tne young lady re ceived a severe wound in the arm. This mishap retarded the courtship for time, but the maiden finally recovered, and the current ox true love was glid ing verv placidly again, when she ac cepted an invitation to ride out with her lover. The couple had scarcely started when the horse ran away, the buggy was capsized, and tne young lady was thrown down a bank, sustain incr a fracture of the leg and severe bruises. This accident will again defer the culmination of this disastrous courtship for several months longer. With patience and the exercise of much prudence, however, they may be happy jet. ; What to Do. That was shrewd ad vice of a learned lawyer to a pupil : ' When the facta are in your favor, but the law opposed to yen, come out strong on the facta ; but when the law is in your favor, and the facta are opposed to you, come out strong on the law. Tint n tnnni'M, 4ha afnM wl,a. a., .MW . . H II WlUii the law and tbe facta are both against me, what shall I do ? Why, than, saia tne lawyer, taix around, it. do anything of the kind ; I own it myself. The item was worth something, any way, and so I entered it in my diary : ' London la owned by the Duke of Bedford and a one-horse hotel-keeper." But I found afterward that the Date of Portland, the Marquis of Westmin ster, and other noblemen, own as large ly here aa Bedford does. Indeed, Westminster is much the richest peer in England perhapa the richest man in the world. His income is some twenty thousand dollars a day, count ing Sundays. But what it will be next year or the year after, baffles arithme tic, for the old cheap leases and ground rents are constantly running out, and the property being let at more than quadruple price. The Duke of Port land owns the huge piece of ground on which the British Museum stands. It is no hardship here to own real estate, for the taxes on it are trifling, aa they are also on foreign wines and luxuries which only the well-to-do in dulge in. The revenues come from the manifold things which Tom, Diek and Harry of the great middle and working classes have got to have and cannot do without. established facts : Victorine Lafour- Sidc, young, beautiful, and accomplihh ed, had a great number of admirers. Among them waa a journalist named Jules Bossouet, whose chances of being the successful suitor seemed to be the best, when suddenly Victorine, contra ry to all expectation, accepted the hand of a rich banker named Renelle. Bos souet was inconsolable, and his honest heart ached all the more when he learned that the marriage of his lady-love was unhappy. Renelle neglected his wife in every possible wsy, and finally began to maltreat her. This state of things lasted two years, when Victorine died at Uast so it waa thought. - She was entombed in a vault of the cemetery of her native town. Jules Bossouet assisted st the ceremony. Still true to his love, and wellnigh be side himself with grief, he conceived the romantic idea of breaking open the vault and securing a lock of the de ceased's hair. That night, therefore, when all was still, he scaled the wall of the cemetery, and, by a circuitous rovte, approached the vault. : When he had broken open the door and entered the vault he lighted a candle, and pro ceeded to open the coffin. At the mo ment when he bent over the supposed corpse, scissors in hand, Victorine opened ner eves and stared mm iuii in the face. He uttered a cry and sprang back; but, immediately recovering his self-possession, be returned to the cof fin, covered its occupant's lips with kisses, lifted her out, and soon had the satisfaction of seeing her in the full possession of all her faculties. When Victorine was sufficiently recovered they left the church-yard and went to Boasouet's residence, where a physician administered such remedies as were necessary to aflect the complete re covery of the unfortunate woman. This proof of Bossouet a love naturally made a deep impression on Victorine. She repented her past fickleness, snd re solved to fly with the ro mar tic Jules to America. There they lived happily together, without, however, ever being able to fully overcome their longing to return to their native Land. Finally, their desire became so strong to revisit the scenes of their youth that they decided to brave the danger attendant on a re turn, and embarked at New York for Havre, where they arrived in July, 1830. Victorine, in the interim, had naturally changed very greatly, and Jules felt confident that her former husband would not recognize her, In this hope he was disappointed. Re nelle had the keen eye of a financier, and recognized Victorine at the first glance. This strange drama ended with a suit brought try the banker for the recovery cf his wife, which was de cided strains! him on the ground that his claim was outlawed. If any carriage upsets or injures an other carriage in the streets of St. Pe tersburg, or if any passenger is knocked down, the horse a of the offending vehi cle are seized and confiscated to tbe nse of the Fire Brigade DouDd. Duelling is to be legal ized in Germany, and ' " Councils of Honor ar to be formed, to consider personal dificultiea between officers in the army, to adjust them if possible, and if not. to officially authorize a duel. Officers fighting under such circum stances, will not be subject to criminal prosecution. This regulation nuy seem of questionable propriety, but there can be no doubt, tnat it win nave tend ency to tnUh the number of duels, .ah.h a av Jai . It will probably be tne determination of this council of honor to prevent all duels, if possible, by effecting a com promise, and not to give permits au thorising parties to ngnt it out, except in very rare esses. As it is, officers having personal controversies will in sist upon settling their grievances with sword or pistol, but hereafter they will be compelled to refer their dificultiea to the council cx honor lor arbitration
The Franklin Courier (Louisburg, N.C.)
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Sept. 11, 1874, edition 1
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