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1 n n RANKLIN hi ER r GEO. S.',BAKEB, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS : S2.00 per Annum. VOL. IV. LOUISBUKG, -X. . C, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 0. 1874. NO. 2. (JOURl A Y a x , Persian Xxwe Son. IJ lhCy Wh DOt l0Te- Erin frm Ps,;"on, tears and smile, TKrn ffiooc'" beyond -uvery cofc.ta of fUry isles. ,U'tto& wfferlng eh. More Una ia W??' t4Jfrim-wi8. ThV walk In Allah's .ndleVV. And neatle in hia Wt by night. THE MAJOR S ESCAPE. Fitting. ,i the .South American Repub lic in o uch frequent occurrence that yen battles of considerable magnitude are often fought tkat are hardly heard of in he L in ted States or Europe. There is, however, much of the " romance of war" .:onncted with the continuous struggle of these troubled countries that is not uninteresting to the reader for, though the peopl, re in general ruthless, semi barbrrous, and fearfully cruel n their war fare, there are many records of actions that Riav he termed chivalrous The circumstance that is' the subject of ne of these Mm ies is well known to the officers of the English army who were sta tioned on the southeast coast of America in isni. It has never, however, been pub- JiHiica to the outside world, and, as it ia an excellent example of how thing? were Mono in the Argentine Confederation 'con 'Cernincr matters of wnr !t mW ' ) f T HUl U1I1U to mosity against him. The answer to these tain, " for havine. as an officer of her ma- The Relation. Clnrrmea questions, brought out the real stale of affair?. jesty's service, en or about the Jay of , j Women. The general had been his enemy for a long 181, interfered with the affairs of the Ar- Itecent events , .Wroer's iVerfAv. hve given rite to a freh discussion ot the relations of clergymen to women, m of which have been wine and some widely tcrcsting. mi s -inejjueMOH Ay res army was advancing on Kysario under the command of Mitre. aiiitttMS Argentiiunf or Confederates, had a inrTt(i at 1'avon, close to the Arrovo del Medio, to give him battle. Tit,. ..i.:..f . t i . .- yuiKi xji me vxjnieaerat nost was 'General Frquiza, who was well known as t a skilled commander and diplomatist, he having for many years held the post of ..'resident of the Argentine Confederation. then filled by President Durqui. In both the armies there were many Eng lishmen mid Americans. Among the latter was u gentleman of the nnmp nf W 'who was a major in the Argentine, or Con federate army. He wad a fine soldier, and reputed, even in that country of horse men, to be the most expert equestrian in the array The officers of the English squadron were rt.vi-.11 imm.!r.u,l n' t i'"u mm i ana among . lliciu he had one especial friend, who was commanding officer of the I. M.' S. O time, as. he was the rejected suitor of a gentine Confederation, that being eontrarr young lady of the name of Manuelita Santa to the queen's regulations and admiralty Cruz, in whose eyes he (W ) had found instructions." avor, and who was to have been his bride In consequence of this charge, Mr. M when the war was over. This was as much wa tr,ed on board of her majesty's ship Cu- as the Englishman wanted to hear, and, racoa, at Montevideo, and the sentence of telling the prisoner that he would not leave tne court was, that he was " to be dismissed a etone unturned to set him free, he shook from her majesty's service." him heartily by the hand, and started for 1 nee not be supposed that he was the president's palace. alone during his trouble. W and his That worthy being at home, he was beautiful wife were on board of the English speedily shown into his presence; for, as frigate during the whole time of the court- we have before said, it was easy for a for- martial, and when the sentence was pro- eign officer at that time to gain admittance nounced, they seemed more overcome thaa anywhere. The authorities wanted to k-n the Englishman. tried to insirtt on i on the right side, as they did not know how bis making his home rrith him in South America, but he would not hear of it, and went to England by the next packet, to ap peal his case before the Lorda of the Admi ralty, who, taking a lenient view, reinstated him in the Roval Xavv. A Dog; Collar Story. A correspondent writes to an English pa- The major ued to pay frequent visits on iUK vuuey wnere tne army was Rationed was only twenty milen from Ro- Kirio, w here the man-of-war lay. Alt at once the visits of the major ceased and, ia the English officer had become con siderably attached to him, he rode out to the headquarters of Urquiza to make in hume concerning his friend. He was told iy a colonel of. cavalry, in no very polite way, that V was a traitor, and that he w;n'in the prison at Rosario, where he would ivmain until he was ,hot. On his ilvmandy,s in what way W had proved n traitor, he was told that " he had been giving a.lviee to the enemy as to the nu merical .-trength, and other matters con cerning the Confederate army." The col onel could Kive no details, a"d, on being asked if W- had lx-en tried by a court martial, he answered thatthey did not grant traitors the privilege of being tried by any .ucli triDiinai, uui mat uurqui would sign the warrant for his execution at his txn venience, which he believed would be on the morrow. The Englishman immedi ately turned hi' horse's head for Rosario. and never drew bridle until he arrived in front of the prison, where he demanded ad mittance. At that time it was very easy for a naval officer to obtain entr canywhere in Rosa rio, and, as Mr. M was in command of the eustom-houw, whero he had been landed to protect the interests of his coun try, and prevent pillage in the event of the defeat of Urquiza, he was personally known by the native troops, and soon ob tained entrance to the cell where his friend was confined. Ho found the mrjor stretched out on a long table, the only furniture that the place contained, calmly smoking paper-cigarettes, and oc casionally refreshing himself from a stone bottle, He seemed a little astonished to see the English officer, and asked him how he got in, and many other questions, finishing up in his usual rollicking way, by asking him if he would have a cigarette and try the contents of the bottle. He declared that soon they might have to seek sanctuary on board of a British or some other foreien man-of-war. . Mr. M , on saluting the president. who was known to him, informed his excel lency that he did not come there as an offi cer of her inajestys service, but as a private gentleman, and the friend of Major W- -, w ask lor a copy of the charges against per : "The Paris Police lately received him, and feigned ignorance of the fact that intelligence that a voumr man of Polish he was to have no trial, by saying, that in origin was journeying through the suburbs me pvnuing court-martial he was going to of the capital, and endeavoring to pass off a act as counsel for the major." Durqui quantity of forged Russian notes, and last seemea very much surprised, and said that week this interesting wayfarer was appre we remy aia not know of the circumstance, hended in a cafe at Sceaux. He was a man vv nen he equivocated in this and other of about thirty years of aee. who had been ways, the Englishman pressed him so hard flitting rapidly through the towns and vil mat, to prevent having to admit that W 1 ages on his route, accompanied only by a had been sentenced without a trial, he said large mastiff, that never left him. When mat tnere had been some mistake, in con- arrested he put oh an air of iniured inno- sequence of the busy and unsettled state of cence, protesting that he was an honest - ft 1 , m L oi anairs, ana that no copy of charces had dealer in imitation iewelrv. oroducine- a Deen received omoially. The officer then box of samples, and growing more and more asked the president if, as he admitted the defiant as the strict search made upon' his major was wrongly detained, he would not person proceeded, without bringing to light give him an order for his discharge from anything of a nature to inculpate him. At durance vile; and this he finally reluctantly length his captors, fairly nonplussed, were did. v mv viufc ji uiiuirojiic mm. n licit iiicr When Mr. M arrived again at the eye of one of them fell upon the mastiff prison-door, alter the usual ceremonies had that had remained at the door. He noticed ueen gone uuougn, ne. requested to see the that the animal's neck was encircled with a commandant, and showed him the order, collar of very un wieldly thicknets, and, on over Uurqui s signature, for the release of taking it off and inspecting it, he discov the prisoner, who took the matter in the ered that it was hollow inside and stuffed calmest mannerpossibie.nevertheless warm- w-ith counterfeit noteq to the amount of ly embracing his deliverer. $1,500. In the face of such proofs the man He was immediately taken on board of j ceased to deny the facts imputed to him the -bntish war-steamer, where he was as- and began to moralize pathetically upon signed the quarters of his friend, who, as we the flagrant unfairness of Providence, and nave said, was on shore-duty at the custom- the cruel absence of anything like even house. handed distrihnt 1VP instSrei in otmnr. . juuvaiw' s V x a v M''X tionment of the prizes and blanks of his most intense grief on hearing of. the fate profession, whose chiefs and magnates in that awaited her lover, was overjoyed atthe variably came off scot-free and millionaires, news of his release, and hastened on board whereas the poor toiling underling drudges the British ship to mingle her joy with hia. never reaped anything for their pains but As in nearly all love-stories, old General the prison and the hulks. These gloomy- Santa Cruz was entirely opposed to his metaphysics he proceeded to fortify with an daughter marrying VV ,but his influence anecdote, which, whether authentic or not was used to turn her affections toward the is certainly very remarkable. It appears scoundrel who had so nearly wrought her that during the Crimean campaign one of lover's death. the orincioal regimental cntpna in iIia Tkat evening, however, they were both Russian army was suddenly closed in the united in marriage on the quarter-deck of faces of officers and men without notice cr the O- by the British captain, and every warning. Prince Gortschakoff, furious attention was paid to the refugee and his rode up to the purveyor and demanded an beautiful bride, who was obliged to remain explanation, whereupon the latter replied on board, as-she did not dare return to the that, instead of yielding him, as wasm- paternal mansion. monly supposed, $100 of clear daily profit- On the next morning before dawn V his business was landing him in downright was on shore, and, with lance and sword, ruin, inasmuch as thegreater part of his was in the saddle, and well on the way to- receipts consisted of false bank notes. The ward the camp where General Ortega was General, at his wit's end, telegraphed to the stationed. Strange to say, he met him on Emperor, and, on receiving a reply, told the his way to Rosario, with no attendants but purveyor that if he would open his canteen one orderly. He recognized V long the. spurious notes in question should be before they came together, for' the pampas cashed by the bank as if they had been are entirely devoid of trees, and perfectly genuine. Armed with this assurance, the flat, so that anv obieet is visihlp n. Inner wnv I mirvevnr briskly resiimpd bis himinpaa nnrl ' o j ii ----.r -j , Off. . OrtefTfl linltrd find mgd a mnvomunt I loVw-trod in lilo Ynrt5nn triflt tnnV .! nrA as if he would retrace his steps to camp, j diligence that at the end of the war he had otherwise. It is supposed by many that the pastor is a man jeculiarly subjected to temptations to unchaste "conversation" with the female members of his flock. It is undoubtedly and delightfully true that a popular preacher is the object of genuine affection and admiration to the women who ait under his ministry. A. true woman re spects brains and a commanding mascu line nature ; but if there is any one thing which she naturally chooses to hide from her pastor it is her own temptations if she has any to illicit gratifications. She naturally desires to apiear well to him upon his own grout! of Christian purity. To expose herself to his contempt or con demnation would le forbidden by all hr retem-iions, professions, and natural in stincts. A bad woman might undertake to atone, for, or to cover up, her outside pec cadillos by the most friendly and consider ate treatment of her pastor, but she would not naturally take him for her victim. It is precisely with this man that tshe wishes to appear at her best. Any man with the slightest knowledge of human nature caii see that her selfish as well as her Christian interests are against &ny exhibitions of im modest and unchaste desires in the pres ence of her spiritual teacher. There are only two classes of women with whom a minister is liable to have what, in the language of the world, would be called " dangerous intimacies." The first consists of discontented wive discontented through any cause connected with their husbands or themselves. A woman finds herself mar ried to a brute. She suffers long in silence ; her heart is broken or weary, and she wants counsel, and is dying for sympathy. She tells her story to the one who is to her guide, teacher, inspirer, and friend. He gives her the be counsel of which he is ca pable, comforts her if he can, sympathizes with her, treats her with kindness and con sideration. That a woman should, in many instances, look iqon such a man as little less than a god, and come to regard him as almost her only solace amid the daily accu mulating trials of her life, is as natural as it is for water to run down hill. That she should respect him more than she can re spect a brutal husband that half an hour of his society should be worth more to her heart and her self-respect than the misera ble years of her bondage to a cruel mastei: is also entirely natural. He cannot help it, nor can he find temptation in it, un less he chooses to do so. "Women, under these circumstances, do not go to their pas tors either to tempt or, to be tempted. There is another class of women who art thrown, or who throw themselves, into what may be called an intimate association with the clergy. It is a class that have nothing else to do so pleasant as to be petting some nice man, to whose presence and society circumstances give them admission. They are a very harmless set gushing maiden tJtilialna Jk XUltit, Th Extraordinary 8t6ry told Vy a Kontaa Xiaer Usaral Fiahli&s. While my friend Clyde and tnyntlf were out in the hill, of the Glden Gate Park, a jack rabbit came along, and toopcd to look at ua. " If I had thought to bring my revolver along we would have jack on toant for breakfast to-morrow," I remarked. " Not with.my consent," he replied. "What reason can you give for not con senting?" " A rabbit saved my life one , aid I haTe not killed one since, and will netts kill one again." " How did he manage to ave your life r Tl, . i i:..:.... : r U 1 lllllg IU 1(II Slmxktr mt tk Iameat. Tne Storj tf CMld Cettrmctioa la ttm Gaifea tx tA Oldca Time. CapL Maryatt, in hia novel Th King'a Own," tellt the following horrible story of the destruction of the live oi children in the Ganges: "That point of land which we are jut shutting in, Captain M , is the end of Saugor Island, famoua for Bengal tigers, and more famoua once for the sacrifice of children. You have beard of it 7" " I have heard of it; but if you have ever witnessed the scene, I shall be obliged by your narration." Mptsrisma Bll BimcisMC- A rmxtlsr for las SalUiBrs ScUace The ringing of the bells in a hou-e mi North Strieker strert, above Cooke, says the Baltimore which has caused a little sensation in tbr Dcrthwetern sretivn of the city daring the pat wrk, still continue to agitate the reaidents of not only that -rtim of the city, but on account ot the publicity given to the affair the curious in such mat ters from all sections of Ue city iU locality for the purpove of solving the j mystery. There has been no positive olu- i lion as vet of the exsct cans cf the ring- 4 1 did once, Captain M , bu: nothing 1 jne although the matter ha lrn inreti- would ever induce me to witne it again. I glUj by several scientific men. A coiore.1 I am very glad that governnunt ha- put a errant girl in the hone it is cuivbUml ex- crcuvs some unknown influence ovr the bells. It is -aid she never apiroache the owned an interest in a lead that had ln to avert any pwent or anticipated calami- j wnt ,u they vibrate. The gentlnaa i tana. A smelter had jiud been built, and J stop to it by force. You are aware thst the it created a demand for silver rock. I cuatom arore from the natives attempting nonit on ii ieet.- lmnkmg the time had come to make it available, I concluded to go there and get some ore and have it tested. 1 did so; and reached the place just in time to take shelter in the mine from a terrible hail-torm. 1 lighted my candle, went to the bottom, and went to work. I had uot been there more than five minutes when" I heard a noihe that pounded like a cannon. The rock over my head thook, and in a mo ment the shaft behind me caved. Y'ou can imagine my feelings better than 1 can de scribe them, when I found myself buried alive. I tremble even at this distant dry when I think of that moment. The roof of the shaft was rocks, still when they came down they did not pack so tight but what the air came through. There was nothing that I could do to release myself. I knew that if relief diel not come from the outside I must peribh. No one knew I had gone there. A road ran past the mouth of the shaft; but it was not traveled much, and I was not likely to attract attention by call ing; nevertheless, I shouted at intervals all day. The following morning I commenced calling again; and all day, whenever I thought I heard a sound, I shouted. " When night came on again all hopes of leing released had abandoned me. One thing added great bitterness to my suffer ings. I owed quite a large amount of money, and, should my fate remain unknown, my creditors would think I had fled to defraud them, and my name would 1 stigma tized. " I will not dwell on the agonies 1 en dured ; I am sorry I cannot forget them. " The morning of the fourth day of my imprisonment I heard something crawl into my grave. I lighted my candle and saw a rabbit. There was only one aperture large enough to admit him ; I closed it to prevent his escaje. I saw in him fod to apiease my hunger, and my hand was raised to kill him, when a thought occurred to me that prevented the blow from de scending. I had two fish lines; their united length would reach to the road. I took ofl my shirt, tore it into strings, tied them to- J gether and on to the fish line. . I wore a i long, gold watch chain ; 1 tied it on to the part of the line that would crofa the road. ty, by devoting a child to propitiate the I wl0 rides in the hou-e being convinced' deity. On a certain day they all a-nibled that the girl did exercb some Influence in boats, with their victims, attended by ' ladies, aged and discreet widows with nice j lhen cut several leaves from my diary, houses, sentimental married women who, 'wrote on them my condition, and tied them with no brains to lend, are fond of borrow- j on to that part of the line that would 1k ing them for the ornamentation of all pos- outride. I then tied the end made out of sible social occasions. A popular minister receives a great deal of worship from this my.bhirt around Jack's neck and let him out. He soon reached the end of the line. which the. major perceiving, spurred his aorse xo it utmost speed, crying, " Coward ! you goiuig to flee when you have a sol dier to help against my single hand ?" The lancrro at this charged against the major with lance-in-rest, but the weapon was par ried with magnificent adroitness, and the soldier was hurled senseless to the ground. "W then attacked the general, who was also a fine horseman and lancer, and excellent skill was exhibited on both sides. Indeed, for Bome minutes it was hard to say who wonld be the conqueror. At length the major rode for Ortega, parrying a well aimed thrust, and at the same time per forming the feat, well knewn in that part of the country, of getting one foot under that of his antagonist, and hoisting him by main strength out of his saddle. The fact of a general carrying a lance may seem strange, but in the Argentine Confederation and the Band a Oriental, every cavalryman, whether officer or pri vate, carries the lance, which is the weapon of tot eampos. W when hia adversary fell, instantly they were goin to shoot him the next morn- dismounted, and told him to get on his feet ing, and asked the Englishman if he would come over from the custom-house to see the execution, in ubout as free-and-easy a way as jf he were extending an invitation to a cricket-match or bull-fight. He was asked what tribunal had sen tenced him, and whether he was guilty of the offense charged, to which he answered that he was ierfectly innocent of collusion with the enemy; and, further, that no court had tried him, as they did not consider it necessary to order a court-martial when an officer w) high in rank as the one who wM complainant in the present instance made the charge. Ilehad been accused by Gen eral" Ortega, the division commander, f furnishing the enemy with information, and it was on his statement that the yfc" dent had signed the warrant for his cution. The Englishman asked W . who thl and defend himself with his sword, and, throwing down his lance, he drew and at tacked Ortega, saying, " One of us has to die, but, liar as you are, I will give you every chance for your life." The heavy cav alry swords flew round the officers' heads, and the sparks showered from their blades until "W , by an overcut, laid open Or tega's sword-arm, and, by a dextrous feint, drew his adversary's guard to leg, while, at the same time, he brought his sword down with full swing on the head of his malig nant enemy, cleaving him to the chin W got safely back on board of the British ship, and he and his bride . went to Buenos Ayres the next day, on board the French war-steamer Eatreprenons, where he now resides and prospers. The English officer, we are sorry to have to relate, through the malignant conduct of the assiitant paymaster of his ship, had Ortega wis and If he had lay private charges preferred against him by hi cap- the satisfaction of being able to present for payment to the Imperial Bank $200,000 worth of counterfeit paper, scarcely any of which had really been received by him in the course of his dealings with the army." Oats in California. A paper published in Humboldt countv. Cab, relates that three years ago the broth ers Foss, residing in that county, received a rge mrougn the mail containing a spoontul of oats, which they plant ed on their farm near the Table BlufF. T.Kt year the produce of-ahat spoonful was again planted, and the process w ,t this year, there being seed enough to sow an acre and a half of ground. This has just c,. i. tti. a,m mrasned, the acre and a half producing 200 bushels of oats that weigh 40 pounds to the bushel, or at the rate of nearly 134 bushels to the acre. Com menting upon this statement, the San Fran rtatj "Vr . o t- r- C ... 1 tvf tt.. raj o . uuvu iusuuiLVi! are OV no means rare in this State. One of our most popular varieties of wheat had a beginning from not more than a dozen grains. It is now grown in most of the grain-producing couniies. A Strange Trinket, The trifle called the scratch-back origi ns during Queen Elizabeth's reign. It was a curious little instrument, used as its name implies, for scratching the back. It was composed of a handle about a foot long, with a hand or a claw at one end, and at the other a ring or knot and chain for suspending it to the. waist or hanging it in the dressing-room, and sometimes the ring was worn on the finger. Scratch-backs during their day, were as necessary to a lady as her Ian and patch box. 1 hey were usually made of ivory, tortoise shell, or horn, and occasionally of gold and silver, Not long since we read in a foreign letter of one which is almost sacredly guarded, and is said to have actually been used by Eliza beth herself. The handle is of gold, ele gantly chased, and the ring at the top is set with diamonds and pearls. class,. at which, when-it is not too irksome, j anj j fcnew by the way he was pulling thst we have no doubt he quietly laughs. The j he wa-making desjrate attempts to escape, good old female parishioner who declared j the tugging topied, and knowing that her pastor's cup of tea would be ' gnawing to b. Jack's chief accomplishment, "none too good if it were all molasses," wan j j thought he had cut himself loose. About a fair type of these sentimental creatures, taree hours afterward I felt the line pulled, to whom every minister possessing the ! antj mme one ealleU ; I tried to answer, but grace of courtesy is fair game. To suppose j the hoare noie I made died in the cavern. that a pastor, sufficiently putty-headed to be pleased with this sort of worship, or suffi ciently manly to be bored by it, is in a field of temptation to unchastity, is simply ab surd. One is too feminine for such tempta tion, and the other altogether too masculine.. their priests and music, and decorated with flowers. The gaiety of the prucetoion would have induced you to imagine that it was some joyous festival, instead of a Mine of superstition and blood. It would almost have appeared if the alligators and sharks were awaie of the exact time and wlaoe, from the numbers that were collected at the spot where the immolation took place. My blood curdle now when I think of it. The cries of the natives, the shout ing and encouraging of the priests, the deafening noise of the tom-toms, mixed with the piercing, handi music of the conn- try, the hurling and toeing of the poor lit tle infants into the water, and the pi aching and contention of the ravenous creatures a tliey tore them limb from limb, within a few-feet of their unnatural parent the whole sea tinged with blood, and utiewed with flowers I The very remembrance is sickening to me. : " One circuuiHtance occurred, more horrid than all the ret. A woman had devoted her child but he had the feelingh of a mother, which wvre not to be "otrolKd by the blindest superstition, rrom time to time hhe had postjoned the fulfillment of the vo, until the child had grown into a j woman for she was thirteen yean old, i which in this country is the marriageable .... i.iit i age. MiHlortune came on, ana me nusoanu was told by the priewts that the deity was offended, and that their daughter mu.-t be sacrificed, or he would not be apjeatd. She was a lieautifnl creature for a native, and was to have been married almut the time that the was now to I aarridced. I see her now she was dark in complexion, as they all are, but her features were leau tifully small and regular, and her form was perfect symmetry, They to. off the gold ornaments, with which she was decorated, and, in their avarice, removed her gar ments, as she implored and entreated on her knees in vain. The boat that she was in was closer to the shore thsn the" others, and in shallow water. They forced her over the gunwale she alighted on her feet, the water being up to her middle, and, by a miracle, escaped, before a shark or alligator could reach her. and gained the leach. I thought that she was -aved, and felt moie hriv 'ban if I had received a lac of ru pees. "But no they landed froin the boat, and pushed her into the water with long loles, while she screamed for pity. A large alligator swam up to her, and she fell senseless with fright, jut Kfoie he received her in his jaws. So 1 don't think the poor creature suflered much after that; although the agony of anticipation must have been ovr the lells, watched her movement for . !ome tim- and noticed that the lelU cie much more aflected whenever the rirl aa near them, and at night, after the ptl re tired in the thiid story of the hoo thcrv was not o much ringing; ahv that Uut twelve o'clock they generally ceae tWir clatter until the girl comes down stair in the morning. She was spoken to almut the matter and acknowledged that she bad been discharged from a former ioition on account of the bells ringing and her sup posed connection with it. She added that at another place, beside the one from which she was discharged, the bell diJ the same thing, but as the family were Spiritualitta they did not mind it. Th girl ia very much worried over the matter, but aay aba is powerless to prevent it, as she is an in voluntary bell ringer and she know it, and will probably lose her iircaent on this account. The house is a fine-looking, thre-tory, brick building, and has never leen oc u pied before the prenent tenant moved in. The girl ia of very dark color and bails from Virginia Electricity ha been tried uton the wi rethink ing that the ringing may have beefrcaused by that agency, but the electricity had no effect. The w ire wa detached from one of the three ll! in the hs-e, and while it was detached the 111 did not ring, but the wire vibrated all the same. At times during the night the U lis have become so annoying that they had tv be muffled in order that the occiipanti of the house could sleep. The bells brgrui to ring in this way an Monday morning lat, and continued to do so at intervals all through the week. One member of the family had hia hand cut in trying to pre vent the wire from vibrating. Spiritualists attribute the ringing to spirit power, and are quite anxious to get inte the house for the purpose of investigating the matter, but have been refused, and so many curious people have gone to visit the pretni-t-a that a policeman had to I detailed to keep ofl the crowd. Mysterious as the ringing may be, there ia no doubt, however, that it is caused by some jrfectly natural agency. Several members of the Academy of Sciences have visited the house, but their scientific researches have failed to solve . s . s the mystery, ana an the newpr ic portera give it up. It will be interesting to know, however, whether the spirits continue to ring when the oolored girl leaves her aituation. Ws Sawed. was A Rascally Trick. A rascally real estate speculator in Cicero, Ill.,'owned a farm worth $500, and Bold it lmost simultaneously to five persons, and got the morey before either of the pur chasers found out the deceit. As farmer Schultz went around early in the morning to look at his acquisition, he met his neigh bor, Mr. Mullen, another of the buyers. Each knew that the other had been looking at the farm, but of course thought himself the owner. Mighty nice piece of ground," said Schultz. " Bang up," replied Mullen, heartily. Schultz opened his eyes wide, because naturally he had expected depreci ation. " Guess you don't want to buy now," he remarked. "No, 'cause I've bought," asserted Mullen, taking a receipt for the money out of hi pocket. Schultz had just such a paper, and o, they were not long in learning, had the three other purchasers. They looked for Rockwell, but he had gone. Next they tried to decide which had bought the land firsthand so was the real owner, but finally they agreed that a more equitable plan would be to decide by lot whose the land should be. A draw ing of slips from a hat settled it. I then pulled the line to show that I not dead. " All grew still again, and I knew the man had gone for assistance. Then came the sound of voices; I pulled in the line, and it broueht me food. It took all the men who worked in the shaft nine hours to reach me. A very large pine tree that stood near the shaft had been the cause of my "misfor tune. It had been dead a number of years, and the storm had blown it over. The ter rible blow it struck the ground had caused the cave. " Jack had wound the line around a hush, and tied himself so short that he was imprisoned outside as securely as I had been inside. lie was taken to town, put in a large cage, and supplied with all the rab bit delicacies the market afforded. He, . however, did not thrive, and tne ooys. believing that he ' pined in thought,' voted to set him free. He was taken back to hi old girdling grounds and liberated. " He not only saved my life, but became the lenefactor of all the rabbits in the neighborhood the miners refraining from shooting any, fearing it might be him." A boy about ten years of age, leading a worse than the reality. That one instance lively little dog, called at the Central Sta affected me more than the scores of infants t;or,t jn Jirtroit, and asked if that was llie that were sacrificed to Moloch." place where they shot dogs. Being answered in the affirmative, he said, Well, pl-a Transferrin; of BlsMvd. . I shoot my poor IiUle Dan. Ilea an awful The experiment of transferring the blood good dog. and he play, with the baby all of a Iamb into the veins of a consumptive 7. "t father, dead and mother, .uk patient was successfully performed upon the can t raise money to get a l,rn. ... ........ t. ..- TKn lnrnine to the doe. the bov lilu-d him oi nermann imooM, at r an ruver, i - . -. ---- ... . A large party of men equipped them selves and started out after a bear that had been seen in the woods in Fulton county, N. Y and, after a long and tedious hunt, found that the cause of the excitement was a black sheep. A lady, who says she is the homeliest woman in Kentucky, advertises for a hus band. He most be middle aged, good na tured, but not beautiful, "as I want to love him all myself." person Mass by Irs. Julius Hoffman and Wey land, of New York city. Every vein which is connected with the jugular vein of the animal was severed and semreiy tied by the physicians, so as to allow the blood free egress to the arm of the patient Ir. Hofl- man used a small glass tube about two inches and a half long, slightly curved, for the operation, thus bringing the nek of the lamb in very close proximity to the pa tieat's arm. The oiration occupied one minute and thirty-three seconds, a loot six ounce of blood being transferred in that time. Mr. Dubois has been afflicted with np tenderly and stroked him, saying, " Poor Dan I how Billy will cry when I tell him yoa are dead !" Great, big tears rolled down the boy's fsce, and in a little time those around him. made op a purse suffi cient to save his dog, and a reron wri t ith him after a license. The boy's eyes fairly sparkled at his unexpected lark, and, peaking to the dog, be cried out, " You're saved, Dan, you're saved ! Let's go right home to Lilly V KilUd Vy Dec- A little girl named "WiUbin, ia the srr- A Blaek List" of Tsrpers. The little city of Rockford, 111., has pre pared a " black list," on which are entered the names of all the habitual topers in town. This li-4 U placed in each saloon. and woe to the man who sells a jrlass of liquor to one of the spotted fraternity. At last accounts forty-four citixena of Rockford bad received the unenviable distinction, and the lady crusaders were anxiously look ing for more. Other towns will soon be emulating Rockford s example, and a dan gerous rivalry is likelr to spring up. It is a noble ambition to secure honest signa tures to a temperance pledge, but whea women get emulous for the longest black list possible it is time for men to be upon their guard, else many will find themselves compelled to plead the weak excuse of Adam, M The woman tempted me and I did drink." consumption more than two years, and his ! T'ce of a gentleman residing near Fx- friends thought it best to try the ex peri- bridge, England, was fearfully worried by ment as a last resort for relief. At last J four mastiffs. It appears that she had been accounts the patient was doing well. j left alone in the boose with the animals. and, while she was in the set of attending to m a t sf at XV gam's Bleesiaar. 100(1 was coosunz ot wcbj, Up!ta people and there are many in .... .. tj fV. oajwrrs bv. America-hould court the sun. i ne worn rhbors tntmsc the house sporificis laudanum, and tne very j lheJ ijX1IiA. dog literally tearing Ur to sunshine.; There lore u is very jn yinx. After a good deal of trouble they poor sleepers shoaia pas. as j - UCW(W ;Q beating the animal off; but the sunshine, and a lew as possiwe m " I thegirl had by this time become so fright shade.' Many women are mtnyra, au folly mangled, especially about the I do not know it Tbey anui ine uu"1' j thai lockjaw aet in, and he died. out of their houses and hearts, tney wrr veil, they carry parasols, and they do all 'it . i tr .l .ntW nd vet :u r; - 1 forty year, old wa taken to the station a marina iwam s. mil unaK aaaa-aa auss v , 1 s a - ZULl Vi " i ,.ttwln I. it - drunk," and be held out pretty wen unui ; . . lit ...down, and ther were ready to wxr tirrt a ottanM all tttia Sflrt C( fOlOr ' iiv. t,:ftr lock him cp, when his courage gave way weak backs, and courare in our timid ao.ls? i and he asked, - bergeant, wUl you dome fi i t -..I- .l A.li. I one taver iut one" v u v.i I rlid the Serreant. - wkal laitr " - I . ( c - m m fkr STUl ... a . t . -1 . t . m. i - m wi ft I 1 rina . lira mm j . and tne sunugni wui oe a poirni wuorocw i - , i .v.: win .v mother " sobbed the man, " and woa t you W UWU WIS nsnrrm s t ion. t--j . i ... . i itaTtaror two and obHga thousands cf I telegraph 'am that their only orphan boy is A Px-aXTTTTX Rrqrrjrr. A man about admirers? ia trouble down bereT A' I
The Franklin Courier (Louisburg, N.C.)
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Nov. 6, 1874, edition 1
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