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-1 ; ' viME.:: EKAN KLIN 7 0OTJRIER. I 1 -SE2Lg- ,R. Editor and Proprioto. , . . 1 TJBRMS 1 82X)Q per T VOL. IV. LOTJISBTJRG, X. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1875. N6. 12. I n , l -., i ..... Jessie..,,- ifH r . 3 ei both young aufl fair, . rewyeye and sunny hair ; finnny hair audi dewy iye Are not where her beauty lies. Jennie is both fond and true,. Heart of gold and will of yew ; "'' Will of yew and heart of gold Btill her charms are scarcely told. ' 1 T. , ' I . . . JfBhe yet remain unsung, .' Pretty, constant, docile, young. What remains not here compile 1 ? Jessie is a little child ! j I - ' Bret llarte. THE SNUFF-COLORED SUIT. I Bcarcely know how it happened, but a, timber m.ust have fell and struck me on the head. The lirt thing that. I 'realized after j. ni iiiai i-wan firaigni anu Bun on i BoniethinR hard, and when I tried to mye myself and njeak I found it impossible to do no. very ti I concluded that I must be in some lit, dark.ilace, for I could not see; in fact I won learned at, though perfect ly conxcioiH, I coild do nothing but hear. A d'jor opened and footsteps approached ; hut I fdl a cloth jtaken fi-m my facej and a voice which I recognized" aa tliat of Mr. Jones the father of my wife that was to be :iU : ' , . " lie hasn't changed much," and his com panion, whose voice I knew to be the vil lage undertaker, llopkins by name, lightly : "Bttttr-looking dead than alive. How does Jerusha Iel about it? Take on ."Oh, no, sbe jhad hr eye on another fellow anyhow, aiU a better match, too, ex cepting the money, part. Though I had notljiiig against lien, only he didn't know much, and was kbout the homeliest man I ever knew. , Such a mouth; why it really seemed as hough he wa going to swallow krtife. Dlate. and all. when ' h low kftife, plate, and ed iv& dinner." i open " Well," said tjie cheerful voice of Hop- kins ami then lie proceeded to measure me.. for my coffin, for it wrimed that I w as deadT I had heard of undertakers who always whittled joyfully when tlu-v got a measure, bat I-never bclitved it before., ' J'ut that inan actually whittled a subdued. dancing tune while he mtasured 'me, and it seemed to me tli at three or four icicles were rolling do'wn my back, tc the music of hiswhistle His duty done, they covered my face again ami left me to my own reflections, which were not particularly comforting, al though I had oft h heard it remarked, that meditation was g xd for the soul, and tliis was the Ut chance I had ever had of -trv- 1 . , . lnK ll- "... An hour- mus: have passed when the door f gain opened, and two ersons came whisKiing tilon to Where I lay, arid the voice of my promised wife fell upon my ear. i ureau 10 iook ai mm, roo; lie was so mortal homely, alive, be must be frightful, dead."1 . . - . I ground ray toeth in imagination, as I 'remembered how often ehe liad gone into raptures, or prctinded to, over my noble brow, and expresdve mbuth ; and how, she hal often declared thai if 1 were taken away front her s e would surely pine away and die. ; ' , One of them r: ised the cloth, and I knew they were looking at"me. ( i Ikjb -wkn her sePond cousin, ajid I knew that he was that " other fellow ' whom her father had mentioned. " Seems to me you doiiV feel very bad 'ltusha,' remarked Iiob, about his dying, meditatively. " ell, to tell the trHth," said my dear letrothed, " I don't care very much about it. -If he had lived I should have married hiiul because 1 ie wiia. rich, and father want was getting about sick of knew I should always be he looke'd so like a" ba- cd hie to : but 1 mv oaivain, lor :-xt. ashamed of him, Inxjn "But you.lovM him," remarked Bab. No, I didn't! My afiections were wast ed long ago ujHiri one who never returned mV. love; " and Iny fast-lading idol sighed heavily. At rrs 1 1 . 1 ' " 1 ney naa covered my time, ami were standing a few where 1 layi I ' " About how lbng ago, 'Rusha?" axkel Bob. "A year,' or Fuch a matter," with an a fit of other deep sigh, ftneczintf. which ended in "About the time i went away," inter rogated, the cautious Bob,' coughing a little. " Well, yea, some'res near," assented my dear affianced. ' Now, Jerusha, you don't mean to in sinuate that I " T .U-'i L. i . .1. : a urnri uiriui iu liiPiiiuaiv nuj tiling, Bob Smith f and the angelic Bweetness of kex voice was soiiiewhat sharpened.., here, 'liusha, I've loved you ever Bince ypu were knee high to a gopher, but I thought when you came home that you was sweet on that other chap; but I swan I timel" believe you liked me all the "Oh, Bob!" said my was-to-be, in a gush ing sort of way , " Mine own Jerusha !" remarked BoV Then I heard, a subdued rush, accompa , nied by violent lip explosions. I tried o kick, or grate my teeth, or do something to , relieve my, outraged feeling, but not a kick" nor a grate could I raise. It was an awful fire to be in, but jl had to stand it, or rather lay, it, so I lay Btill and let 'em alone until they got tired of i t, and then they went out, and I was again left to my own pleasant re flections.' " - Night came, and so did a lot of youfig fellows with their girls, te sit up with me ; ' lace bv this stus- from and they had jolly time of it, although it was against my principles to enjoy it on so solemn an occasion. .,' It seemed ;an age until morning, but it came at last and they went away. I heard them say that I was to be buried that day at 2 o'clock, and I was Beginning to feel de cidedly shaky, when Jerusha aad her moth er came into the room and began arranging for the funeral. " Tiusha," said her mother, " here is.thatf snuff-colored suit of poor Ben's ; of couie he will never have any more use for clothes, bo just put thenVaway among your carpet rags ; theylll make a splendid Btripe." Now that particular suit "fof clothes was just the neatest, one I ever owned, arm holesjj collars, wristbands, buttons, all just the thing, and my blood boiled to hear them talk so coolly of using them for stripes in a rag-carpet. They kept on talk ing as they swept, dusted ; and cleaned up the room. ' " Bob says he will take the Martin farm to work this year,'? said Jerusha, cheerfully, " and as soon as we are married we shall go' to housekeeping in that little cottage close to the road. Now I must get my carpet done, just as Boon as possible? for I want it in that nice little fjont room.1 These duds of Ben's will make out enough rags, I guess. His folks live so far away they will never inquire about his clothes.. Now, if it wasn't for the looks of it, we could ask old Mother Smith about coloring yellow she's sure to te here to-day." ' i , I was getting very mad,? now, indeed. I felt that the crisis was near, and that I shojuld either die or explode if they .did not let my snuff-colored suit alone. Jerusha picked them up I knew it, for I heard the buckles and buttons jingle and made for the door. I tried to shake my fist and yell at her, but all in vain. I laid there, out wardly as quiet as a lamb, inwardly boiling with wrath. It was too much; the deepest trance could not have held out against the loHsof j that suit. With a powerful effort I sprang up and screamed. JerMsha dropped my clothes and her mother the duster, and both fled from the room and the house, never stopping until they reached Dr. Brown's, across the street. With difficulty I managed to get my clothes.- I had just gat them fairly on, when Mrs. Jones and her daughter, followed by a numerous com pany of men, women and children, bame peeping cautiously into the room. I sat on my board- and hxked at them. Such a scared-looking crowd was enough to amuse t an owl, so I laughed; I knew it was unbe coming, but 1 couldn't have helped it if they had chucked me into my coffin which the undertaker was just carrying past the window-Hand buried me the next min ute. I laughed until 1 jarred the chair out from under one end bf the board, and down I went with m crash.' Then the doctor ventured into the . room, saying,' rather dubiously: i I. - " So you are not dead yet, Ben ?" " Well, no, not exactly;," I replied ; sorry to disappoint my friend about the funeral, however." . if . "Yes," he sad, rather absently, "bad, rather tha?is-ahem !" ; " Fooled out of thatenuff-colored stripei,? I thegh, as I looked at Jeruska. f " " Go and speak with him," said her father, in a stage whisper. "He's got the I stamps, and you had better ciarry him af- i ter all." They began to gather around me and congratulate me oa my escape. I noticed thM they jcried a greaTdeal more now than when I Was dead. Jerusha came and hung around my neck, sniveling desperate ly. I gave her a not over-gentle push and . told her to wait next time until I was safely ' buried before she set her heart on my old clothes. "O, I am fH glad !" she said, sweetly, without appearing to notice what I said about the clothef-r-u that you aie not dead, Benny dear. My heart seemed all' with ered and broken to see you lying all cold and white. I wept bitterlv over vour pale face mv beloved " I heard vou and Bob "Yes," I replied, taking on ierriblv. It was a luckv die for me. . - . " Could you hear?" she gasped.. " I rather think 1 could some," 1 re plied. -. ; She' loolcetl toward the door, but it was crowded full, so she made a dive forth open window, and went through it like a deer. She shut herself up in the smoke house, and would not come out until after I had left the house. - I " Bob would not fill his promise of mar- riage with his cousin because she tried to makeyip with me again; bo she is living a life of single blessedness. -While I am writine. nay wife' is casting up my snuff-colored clothes to make a stripe in a new carpet for our frnt room. Skates. bless fckates, Bonny 7 Why, yea, bless your heart, you shall have a pair of j ten-inch club 6kates for your feet, and a pair of slx inchers for your hands, and a cosphv of hand sleds for your knees, a hard rubber cap and a bushel of excelsior to upholster your trousers' basement. Let your course be onward and upward, my son, and when you drag your tired, hungry frame home ward, -Bridget shall have quail on toast ready for yeu, warm from ithe oven, and your little sister shall yield her place at the register. Be an honor to your family name. Hence, get to the frozen lake. How difter- ent 'twas in " those days " when we were;) youug. ilt was hard to gtt a pair, even of odd ffkates ; harder yet to get them fastened on tight, andjiardest' of all to limp home with an ache in every 6ilent point, only to hear a " Good enough for yos,' A Curious Explanation. A gentleman from New York city, Mr. John Forsythe, a mineral explorer by 'oc cupation, is in. jail in "VVeWter ' county, W. Va?, charged with the murder of Mr. Phineas Barton, of Philadelphia, ia whose company he risited. Webster county. Mr. Forsythe'a Version is, that on the 13th o November last they both aseended Terror's Peak, a high, dreary-looking knob, eight or ten'mlTes easTpTAddison, for tne5 purpose of examining some curious meteoric stones which wer gaid to abound near and upon the 'summit, and that while up there they were overtaken , by.. , a violent meteoric shower, composed of fiery missies of" vari ous sizes, some of which exploded like a bomb-shell in their fall, and that Mr. Bar bos was killed by a blow on the temple, causing a wound not unlike that made by a pistol ball. Night intervening Mr. For sythe watched over the corpse of his friend until morning, when he returned to Addi-: son for assistance. There the people, sus pecting foul play from certain contradictory statements, and the fact that Mr. Bartoji's valuables were found upon his person, ar rested Mr. Forsythe, who was so excited and distracted by all that had happened to him within the lasf twenty-four hours, that he could not find the place where he had abandoned the remains, which, were acci dently discovered by a hunter on the fol lowing day. Mr; Forsythe appeals to scientific men of the" country to extricate him from the suspicion bf a heinous crime by a thorough investigation of the catas trophe, and feels peifectly confident in the vindication of his innocence, j This ia un doubtedly one of the most singular", and mysterious cases of death we ever heard of, and hope that no pains may be spared to arrive at the facts. High Prices for Cattle. A letter f rem Waukegan, 111., to the Chicago JaurnaZ,says : " Hon. M. II. Coch rane, member of, the Canadian Senate from Province of Qu bee, and Simon Beattie, Esq., of Wniteyaile, Province of Ontario, have just purchased from George Idurray, Esq., of Racine, Wis.,'about one-half of his select herd of short-horns. The purchase is Baid to be Hhe largest" in amount ever made at private sale in this country, including in all fourteen head, among them six females of the celebrated Duchess tribe, and eight females of other choice, popular families The price paid for the lot is not as yet made public, but must be in the vicinity of $100, 000, for it is a well understood fact that soon after the great New York" Mills sales, held near Utica, N. Y-., in September, a year ago, Mr. Murray refused $15,000 each for the six Duchesses? of Slawsondale which are included in the purchase. The cattlej will be shipped in a day or bo to Mr. Cochrane's farm, at Hillhurst, Canada." A letter from Racine, Wis., from a gen tlaman of standing, in referring to this sale as given above, says r "This is no hum bug. The six cows and lv.ifers Murray sold !' at $10,000 each were all the products of a heifer that he bought of George, N. Bedford, of Kentucky, five 'years ago, for $4,000. She has had fnnr hpiffir -calve, and ' otia nf these has a young heifer calf, making the j six head. The other eight head of short horns were of Murray's own raising, but not of the Duchess blood pretty good blood. j however, to sell for $1,250 a head, six I months to three vears old." A Singular Accident, A sad case was heard at the Green which police court, in London, the other day, A young jwoman named Florence Helps was charged with wounding Wil liam Mann in the face with an umbrella. It appears that the prisoner and another young woman, while out walking," were followed by a knot of troublesome bovs. One of the party trod on Miss Helps' dress, and made offensive remarks to her. She told them to go away, but they con- l'unuea 10 molesl uer ana ner Irienu' a,m at i last" -.Florence Helps made a thrust at Mann l with her mbrell a. Unfortunately 'th'e ! UIUureiia oirucis. aim m uie lace anu in me left eye. He felf don, hitting his head f against the : curbstone, and became insensi I 1 11.. .1 -l-l " ;il-f .1 i : ble, rlorence Jtlelps assisted in raising him and carrying him to the nearest sur gery. She gave the medical gentleman his fee, and also paid for a cab in which the unlucky la4 was conveyed to the seamen's hospital, Greenwich. Subsequently she called on the boy's parents, and the next morning she went to the hospital to in- !. quire after him. The case is, according to the medical testimony, very peculiar, for, although he is likely to recover from the effects of the- wounds made by the um brella, rupture 01 the brain has Buper-; livened on the blow of the head he caught on falling, he has become paralyzed on one side, and has lost his memory. Mi?s Helps was committed to jail, to await her trial bail being refused. ; - .Preserved Pumpkin. To each pound of pumpkin allow one pound of roughly pounded loaf sugar, one gill of lemon juice.- Obtain a good sweet j pumpkin, halve it, take out the seeds and pare off the rind ; cut it into neat eIiccs. Weigh the pumpkin, put the slices in a pan or deep dish, in layers, with the sugar sprinkled between them. Pour the lemon juice over the top and let the whole re main for two or three days! Boil all to gether, adding one-half pint of water to every three pounds of sugar used, until the pumpkin, becomes tender; then turn the whole into a pan and let it remain for a week; then drain off the syrup, boiling j it until it is puite thick; tkim and pour it boiling over the pumpkin. A iiitle f i : 1 - - - bruised ginger and lemon rind, - thinly pared,, may be boiled in the syrup to flavor the pumpkin. From one-half to three qnarters of an hour will boil the pumpkin tender. Vegetable marrows are very good prepared in the same manner, but are not quite so tender. , 4. The City Sharper. 1 When a young man from the country via- itsN&sv York, says the Time, for the first or second time in his life, he bears with him many warnings. His parent ami expert enced friends picture to him the city rogue as a thinly-disguised roaring lion, continu ally Becking the callow youth whom he may devour! He thinks he is top smart to be caught by the polished villains of the metropolis, and he coldly turns from the seedy colporteur by his side ia the railway car, morally sure that he is " one pf those scamps." The frank, bluff, and jolly-talk- j ing young drover whom he meets oh the j train is a pleasant acquaintance, and our young friend likes the free-and-easy3 way .with which he produces a flask pf spirits from his frieze overcoat, and shares its con tents with a stranger from the country. The drover has not been to the city often ; he only come once or twice a year to Bee his sister, but even that ia often enough to find out how the sharpers flock about the rail way depots, hotels, and other places where unsophisticated people do congregate. And he warns Rasticus, with the impressiveness of a man " who has .been there," of the snares and pitfalls of wicked Gotham. Our young friend, strong in his own keenness, is a little nettled by this far-off echo of the paternal counsel, and, warmed with the ge nial drover's dram, says that he is not afraid of anything, although he was born in the woods. When the lim, scholarly-looking gentleman in black, who has been playing three-card monte in the smoking-car, passes through, rusticus does not see the telegraph ic quiver of the eyelid with which the hon est drover says to the pale gentleman, "I've got him." , - . The rest of the story has been in the papers so often that it hardly bears repeti tion. Rusticus likes his honest friend, who has been in the city, once or twice before, and who speaks of his sister up "town as " a little stuck up and stylish,, but a good gal." And the drover has such a pleasant, taking way that Ruaticuff goes to his Bister's house with him, and has a cup of tea and a sand wich with that charming yoiiag worn an. For her part, she is modestly glad to eee any friend of brother John's." Our y oung philosopher from the country, who would give odds to the sharpest sharper in New York and beat him at his own game, is un accountably sleepy after eupper, falls into a doze in the corner of the sof a, where his kind friends have left him. He finds him self, about daylight next day, shivering on the streets, with a queer feeling in his head, and with scarcely garments enough on his limbs to cover him. He never sees the honest drover again, nor the honest drover's sister, nor the few hundred dollars he had when he went into the honest drover's sis ter's house; nor is he ever able to identify that house, though he seeks it .carefully and with many contrite groans. His simple story is duplicated in the experience of numberless confident young men, and older "men, too, for that matter. "The too-cnfiding stranger, much warned "and counseled, avoids the swaggering ruffian and sleek looking Pharisee, only" to be enmeshed by "one of the best-hearted fellows "in the world!" Food for Children. Children do not like fat meat, bo give them good bread and abutter, and allow them plenty of sugar, A chemist will tell you that both fatty substances and sac charine or sweet Bubstances are eventually oxidized in the body. Sugar is the form to which! many other things have to, be re duced before they are available an a heat making food; and the formation 6i sugar is earned on in the body. It has been proved that the liver is a factory in which otier constituents of food are transformed into sugar.. Now, it 'is probable that your children really need sugar to keep them well, and it is fortunate that most children are fond of vegetable acids. A saucer of berries, or a ripe apple, is often a better cor rective for children's ailments than a dose of medicine; yet the majority f parent give the nauseous dose preference over the fruit. It does seem sometimes as if parents were occupied more in denying than grati fying their children's appetites. This is aeither necessary nor fair. They get as tired of bread and milk as you would. And what comes of it? Simply, that as soon as they have an opportunity, they indulge their love for fruits and sweets to excels. Clover With Wheat. It is not long since we saw it stated that no man ought to sow wheat without sowing clover with it. The farmer who made that statement hit very near the truth; but it is not for the sole purpose of diverting the chinch bug (why should any one call it "chintz bug"? some do), from the wheat plant by fattening him upon clover. Clover with wheat does not injure the. wheat and does benefit the soil, either if plowed under or allowed to remain and decay on the sur face. One of the best wheat farmers we ever knew sowed clover seed with his wheat seed annaally, until his entire farm was full of clover which grew spontaneously in place of weeds.' He thus increased his ability to keep stock which increased his grain pro ducts. It has come to be settled among our best farmers that there is no need of allow ing land to "rest in the Jethro Tall style but that a. succession of crops of diverse character is Wtter than barren, idle net for j the land. Tike Story of a Hindoo Judge. - The Calcutta correspondent of the Lon don Timet writes as follows: "I heard a pretty story the other day, circumstantially told, and if itia not circumstantially correct it ought to be so. It certainly is true gen erally, and it presents a picture of one beautiful trait of Hindoo character the Hindoo's attachment to his earliest home, you have often told stories of English lads, and how they made their way to honor and usefulness against all odds, from Dick Whittington downwards. Here is a story of a Hindoo lad, as brave a lad as ever stepped the late Mr. Justice Mitter, Judge of the High Court. lie wrs born in a little Hindoo village, and of parentage that the old story tellers would have termed poor, but honest. He received his education I know not where, but he came to Calcutta, as many a young man has gone to London, o carve his way to fortune ; only in his case there was contention against a domi nant race. He held hfc own, however, through all reverses, through good report and evil report, till the time came when the poor lad became a judge of the High Court I Perhaps this may help to correct some of the prevalent silliness about Bengal shallow ness. Hi worked splendidly, Bubdued self, sat in modest dignity (Ipcak from knowl edge, for I have seen him) on the bench of the High Court, deciding intricate cases as a judge and a gentleman. At last he. was seized with a fatal disease He asked to be taken to a eanitarjum, .and he was obeyed. Time went on, but he only became worse. It was death, the doctors mournfully said. Then he had but one request He had sat i on the judicial bench, had been a marked man at the levees and drawing-rooms, at public gatherings for institutions which Bought distinguished names. 'Englishmen of the first distinction notably Sir Barnes Peacock did themselves an honor which will not soon be effaced from the minds of the people of Calcutta by making the ' native judge' their friend. Now, then, had come the grand issue of all, and the dying judge begged to be taken to the village, and I suppose to the house, in which he was born. In this way the two ends of life came together simply as in the play of children, and grandly as in the truly heroic stories of mankind. There, where the trees which he had loved in childhood waved be fore his eyes, the pure and noble judge died. The poor Hindoo when he feels his last .moments coming to an end tries his best to crawl to 'home,' to the muddy tank, the grove of cocoanuts or bamboos and to the family gatherings at eventide which few :e 4jiey ten M. 111UUUUS CTU lUIUCIi, KU ITUC UTT . A Conscience-Stricken Man. George Peters, who has kept a hotel in Annville township, Lebanon eonnty, Pa., for many years, attempted to' commit suicide for the third time recently, by hang ing liimself. He has since delivered him self to the sheriff of the county, and declares that his repeated attempts to make way with himself are prompted bj remorse. He confessed that he murdered his first wife sixteen years' ago. , She was found one morning in 1858 in the hotel barn, lying under a horse ia one ol the stalls. Her skull was crushed, and it was supposed that she had leen kicked to deaih by the horse. Peters now says that he deliberately killed her. There had been a misunderstanding between them for some time, owing to fre quent long visits of Mrs. Peters's relatives to their house, against which Mr. Peters Strongly protefitd. On the day of the tragedy a brother of Mrs. Peters was expected at the hotel, and j she was making great preparations for his entertainment, against her hnsbamrl wishes. She went to the barn to catch some chickens. Her husband followed her, and as she was Btooping over to Beize a, chicken she had penned up in a stall, he struck her over the head with a pitchfork handle. She fell to the floor and never spoke afterward. Hor rified at what he had done, he dragged the body of his wife to a stall occupied by a horse, and placed it there, to give color to the theory that she had been kicked to death. The plan worked as desired, and no suspicion ever arose that there had been foul "play. Peters married again some years after wardj, and ,ay that he Bubsequently told his second wife the particulars of his crime. Peters has always been looked upon as a goodcitizen, and is quite wealthy. The greatest excitement prevail in the com munity over the extraordinary revelation. The Tiro Breath a.' Ho far as pure air is concerned, some hints are given by Canon Kingsley which may be useful even to the poor, or employ ers who care for the poor. He describes what he calls "the two breaths,'' and their effects. The two are, of coarse, the breath you take inwhich " is, or ought to be, pure air, composed, on the whole, of oxygen and nitrogen, with a minute portion of carbonic acid " and the breath you give out, vrkich M is an impure air, to which has been added, among' other matters, which will not support life, an exceos of carbonic acid." He then points out that this car bonic acid gas, when warm, is lighter than j .1 J J- . 1 x .i. - me air, anu uceoui , uu, u wc &uc temperature as common air, is heavier than that air, and descends, lying along the floor, " just as it lies often in the bottom of old wens or old brewers' vats, as a stratum of poison, killing occasionally the men who descend into it." Hence a word of admoni tion is addressed to those w ho think nothing of sleeping on the floor; and hence, as " the poor are too apt, in time of distress, to pawn their bedsteads and keep their beds," the friends of the poor are -entreated never to let that happen, and to " keep the bed stead, whatever else mr co. to save the j deeper fresa the carbonic acid on the floor. A Uyttery Selred. 4 The mystery of the robbery of the expreW car on the. Delaware and Lackawanna rail road ia solved by the arrest of. George Leonard, the fireman on the train, who has confessed to the robbery. Tie lays that he was aided by Clark, the express messenger on the train. Clark telegraphed from Manunka Chunk, the station below, that the safe containing several thousand dollars was missing from his car. It was subse quently found in a ditch opposite. It had been broken open" and rifled of. the money. Clark was discharged from the company's employ, but not arrested, although there were suspicious that he knew something about the affair. His movements were watched. " A Tew days tinee circumstances turned the attention of the detectives toward George Leonard, the fireman. His movements were suspicious, and he was watched. lie was keeping company with a, young lady at Hampton Junction, named Henry, and al though she is the daughter, of lyghly re spectakle people, a watchwas also set on her movements. The ernicer at, Hampton soon ascertained the fact that she had in her possession a large; sum of money, and that Leonard had recently purchased several hundred dollars' worth of jewelry." The officer recently called on Mi Henry and made known his errand, telling her that she would save herself trouble by giving him all the facts she knew and delivering to him. what, money she had of Leonard's. She denied any knowledge of the robbery, tut said she had money, but would not give it up. A search was then made, ana in a stocking hidden in her room was found $740., Miss Henry then said that Leonard had given her $1,040, "but had taken $300 of it. Learning that Leonard had Wn seen since the robbery at Peckville Pa., the officer proceeded to that place. He found, in the ' possession of a friend of Leonard's there, $500, which the latter had left with him for safe keeping. Leonard was then traced td Scranton, and arrested, just after having married Miss Rwa Coleman, of Binghampton, N. Yn who had traveled all the way to Scranton to lecome his wife. Leonard had $700 on his person.. He was taken to Belvidere and lodged In jail. lie made a full confession of the crime, and de clared that Clark was concerned in the rob bery. Clark was arrested. After confessing the crime, Leonard taid that the remainder of the. money taken from the safe was becreted in the .woods near Belvidere. He was takes to the locality by .the sheriff. Leonard soon lifted a large stone from the ground, which reveajeu a hole partially filled with leaves. Under the leaves were three packages containing $3,500 in greenbacks. Leonard has been in the employ of the railroad company a long time, and was al ways considered an honest and respectable young man. - Watoh-Maklns in Switzerland Horological industry has grown to extra ordinary dimensions in .Switzerland. The following are the statistics : In the four cantons of Neuchatel, ' Berne, Vaud and" Geneva, more than 2H,',XX) men and 12,700 women are employed in the various branch es of the business, of whom 16,GQ0 lelong to Neuchatel and Berne. The trade has grown of late most rapidly in Berne, where at pres ent half a million of common watches are produced annually, their value being set down at an average of forty francs each, making a total of 800,00(. In the canton of Geneva the number made annually does not exeeed l.r),000, but nearly all of them are in guld cases, and or n a men ted, so. that the total vslue U alout the same as the htlf million produced in Berne. Vaud makes about the same num ber as Geneva ; the movement, are'gener- hed, but many f them are aitv wen nnixi 1 f exported without cases ; the value U cou- j sidered to average about 55 francs, giving a total of 320,000. The same canton slso produces alout b0,00 mu-ical boxes of the value of 80.000. One-half of the whole of the watches made in Switzerland are pro- duced in Neuchatel, and, in value, So per cent, of the whole, or 1,4,0J W P" annum, - i - ' . IOC loiai IIUUIUU UlIU mint i twv produced is given as follow Switzerland, 1,600,000, of the 'approximate value of 3, 520,000 ; France, 300,000, value 600,000 ; England, 200,W00, value 040,000 ; and the United State of America, 100,000, .valiysd at $300,000; Jt will be observed from te abive figures, that while the average valiie of Swiss watches is about 4s. Cd. each, those of France reach an average of 4U., those pf England CSs-, and those of Amarica Gfk The fine balance-spring ol a watt b is said to furnish the most remarkable example of the increase of the value of a raw material by tb application of skill. It would be curious to know the cost of the material employed to produce the 200,000 watches of th foot countries quoted, of the approxi' mate value of $4,800,000. Still more curious would be the relative value of a firMt-rate chronometer, and the materials with which it is produced. ' IxaGlXlTlox. A young man walked into an Indianapolis drug store the other day, and called for fifty cents' worth cf strychnine. The clerk, suspecting his ob ject, gave him a harmless done of " sugar of milk." The youth swallowed it at once and sat down to die. To the- surprise of the clerk he soon showed every indication of poisoning, and he thinks that, had be iot told him of the harmless nature of the potion, he would have disd from mere im- j agination. Little J phony's Composition. tiie surtr. This anumal is one of the seven wunders of the worl, cause its hair Js wool, but not cotton wool. If there wasn: no sheeps there wouldn't be no wool, except jest a lit tle oa the hedges, wich the birds makes nests of, and if their wasuH no wool were would this cote be? So you see we all wire second han close, wich we gits from the sheeps. The he sheeps is call ram,and the lit lis sheeps is call labms, and the she sheep is a you. They is all made of board and. close, but some fokes likes beefs better to eat. Wen a sheep has ben sheerdhe don't look like the name. My father' had a theep wich was sheerd, and wen it was sheerd it was so shamed iublusht red, jest like my sister. It had a little labm, and wen the labm come up to suck it run up with its eyes shut, as they always dots, tut wen it 0 got done,- and look t wot it was about, it kep a-backiu' off and a noddin' its hed like, say in' 1 beg yourpardin, it ws iny mistake; and that labm had to be brot up by hand. Sheeps is very play fle wen they are young, but not so much as kittii s. Wehn the sun shines worm in the spring they turns out and has a good time on the grasslike a cirsuc, Billy says, bnt no mnnic sd no ephalenL. Once 1 saw a ole cow wich wjw a watchin a labm wich" '' was a-goin it. Then the ole cpw she stuck out. her tale stif, and give 'a jump up, and come down with her legs strata like stilts. Then the labm stopt stil and Jookt at her all over.and then it went btrate away in a.' other fiel out of site of the pie cow, and begun to go it agin. My uncle Ned says the 6kanny navons had a god wich could hear the wool a groin on the back of the sheeps, but wot good did it do him if he couldn't stop it? I Bpose he wasn't a real live sure enough god, but just somebody lide. - - Rams is great butters, and their horns would be good sbels for a big male. The Preservation of Meat. ' "A favorable report has recently bce presented to the French Academy on the new.frigorific, machine invented by M. Tel lier, with a view mainly to the preservation of'ineat. The chief novelty in this machine is. the employment, ol niethylic ether to produce a cold and dry circulating atmos phere in which the -meat is kept. This body is ganeous at ordinary tcsipe r a tu re and : pressure. M. Tellier uses chloride of cal cium as the m agent for transmitting cold. The apparatus consists of a frigorifer, like a tubular boiler traversed by tubes, ka pump, to set in motion the coelcd liquid; a large reservoir into which this liquid passes, and whence it is diBtribulcd to produce the cool- . ing action; a compression pump; and a condenser, in which the met hy lie ether, vaporized in the frigorifer, resumes the lipoid form under a prewrare' of eight atmospheres.- There is a double circulation, . that of the ether, and that of the chloride of calcium solution. The report says that the duration of conservation of meat in the cold chamber may le considered indefinite as regards putrescibility. The edible quali- j ties are perfectly retained for the fiit forty pr forty-five days, the meat even U-conuug more tender and digrrtible, - At the end of the second month, however, the tattc of the. meat (as compared with freiih meat) tdightly suggests that of fatty matter, the tenderness having increased ; but Vaten acparately, it hardly seems to differ from fresh meat. There is a gradual desiccation, the-low of weight thus amounting to about ten per cent, in thirty days. After that it is very small, and at the end of tight months the interior fleh has -still enough moUtur'e to preserve its suppleness, and it U deprcible with the finger . Poor Edcar A. Poe. i In the new volume of TtHs's poems, 1 edited ItR'TL Stoddard, tho editor in prefftoe thus gives the Wt fceene in f Poe . rtarttl f rora Rich- I d October 'id. lWD.and arrived at j jjaitunore between trains and uiifortn- jjy fait, a drink with a friend the consequence 01 wmcu was iua n brought back from Havre de Grace in a cf deliriuTn. It was on the cvo of a municipal election, and as he wandered j ttp gjj down the streets ol Baltimore, bo - l" t ll - 1 1 . , . ,t m mf political club and locked up in a cellar 1 all night. I he next morning ue wan taken out in a state of frenzy; druggod, and made Uf rote in eleven .Ufferetit wards. ' The following day he was found in a bock room at the political bd quartcrs and removed to a bowpitaL ' He was irisensible when found, and remained so till Sunday, October 7. The doctor and nurse were with him when be k first showed oonaciouaDesa. Where am 1 1 be a&keJ. They answered, You" are cared for by your beet friends.' After a pause, in which be seemed to recall what bad occurred, and to realize bis situation, Poe implied, "My best friend would be the man who would blow out my brains.' Within ten minutes be waa dead. ; A Western man paid Ids first visit to Baltimore a few days ago, and invited a . lady acquaintance to visit a theater with t.tm. The lady accepted the invitation, . and the young- man, following the crowd, walked up to the ticket office, laid down a fifty-cent note for bia ticket, and turn ing to his companion said to her, ' the price is fifty cents. Th lady happened to have her portmonnaie with, her, and appreciating the aitaationj drew from it a tifty-ceni note, and "her gallint com nan inn rttumd it with hi money, tZ' obtaixiing two tickets, handed one o them to her, which she quietly accepted, and paaaed in after her bean.
The Franklin Courier (Louisburg, N.C.)
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Jan. 15, 1875, edition 1
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