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VOL; 6;
L1NC0LNT0N, N. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1878.
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LlPK'S blunder.
I-have a neighbor, old and -poor, .who
tclis tliiit talc to mp,
ill praise so- quaint It almost seems to
mock his misery :'
"I was," says lie. ''when t was j-oung, no
duller than the iest
Perhaps as' hrijrht as most c)F those whom
Nature favors best
As quick to learn, as ready, tdo', thd fleet-
injr chance to seize,
And always loth to spend the' hours in
unproductive Masc.
Iut I was like the sanguine mart who
through the cornfield passed,
And deemed each-far he :' plucked to be
much heavief than the last j
And when he readied the further end,
was mortified to find
He'd badly 'blundered,., having left the
harvest ear behind. '
'I quit the dear old farm whereon I epent
my happiest years,
And tried my fortune on the sea, despite
my mother's tears ;
Kext sought for gold where men had
found a wealth-of precious ore,
liut day by day 1 learned that I was poor
er than before. :
"Then for a time I dealt abroad in many
a busv mart, .
-Ami fortune kindly furthered the ambi
tion 'f my heart ; ' r x
jlut I would hasten to "jrfow rich trade
was tor dull and slow
iom speculation's, rapid stream would
richer faster How.
Why need I tell 4he old, old tale you've
- heard so oft before?
1 lost my all. With toll, afid pain I sought
the homestead door,
father, mother, both were dead; I was
spurned with scorn ;
for heartless .'.tranjrers dwelt '.within the
home where I was bofn.
"Now, bo ttho fluid succeed in life must
, heed What wise men tell ;
Give time and mind to one pursuit, attend
to one thing well.?
So one, however talented, hath cause for
any hope ,
That he hath yKtYdt frf one short life with
many arts to cope,
lie who thus deludes himself will meet
with certain loss ;
It is the rolling stone al'way thftl.gifffher-
eth no mo'ss'"
"A cunning: obi farmer once said to a
braggart who blasted of his quickness at
determining sizes and weights, 'If you
1vill walk through that row of corn and
bring me the heaviest ear, you ' jnay have
the whole product of the row.. rth'e only
condition I impose is that you shall at titf
time have more than threes-ears, in your
hand. If you fail, you are to ; give me a
week's work in ciitfmgand hiiskittaj time.'
jThe boaster dropped ear after ear a's he
Advanced, thinking to better himself, but
of course, he did not succeed'
In ono of oar Sunday schools, fatc
fyt a teacher tas instructing a. juven
ile class about the wortf glutton.
"Suppose," said she, a "a man should
set down to his dJrtner and cat as
much as four petsaTts-thcn get up
and go to' a: restauraunt and eat a lot
more then fill his pockets with
crackers and che'ese and keep eating.
What would you call ewb a person ?
The boy who can1 drawer', please hold
up his hand." '
Up went the harI of a six year old
Vboy.
' - " "Well, what you call such a man ?"
asked the teacheiv
"A durned hog,"
rang
oat with a
clear and well italicized repty
The man who borrows a newspaper
instead of subscribing for one,- S the
mau who will cry to cnivff over the
Wall of heaven instead of passing
Ihrough St. Peter's gate SY. Louis
BREAD OR BLOOD.
The ComitliiSe in Richmond Ddr
,t , ing the War.
Major John W. Daniel gives the
following graphic account of the ap
pearance and operation?! of com
munists in Richmond dtiFihg the W&-
and how they were suppressed :
When Harper's tfcrty wjis captur
ed at the beginning Of the war, all
the available machinery for the manu
facture of arms "was taken to Rich
mond: Hundreds of workmen and
their wives and -daughters had been
employed in the arsenals and macnine
shops, and ' they followed the ma
chinery "to the capital in search of
employment. They got it. For a
time they were regularly paid in good
money, aHd everything moved smooth
!y ' Hut as the currency dcprecitttejl
they began to suffer. The money re
ceived by the workmen would not
support their families. As tho war
progressed, Confederate notes became
almost valueless. Grant had his band
on the throat of the Confederacy at
Petersburg.
The wages of the wOrk-
men would not purchase food for their
families. They protested, but in vain.
They were too patriotic to organize a
revolution; Their women, however,
formed a secret society based on com-,
munistic principles. They seem to
have held that teir husbands were
working for the Confederacy and that
the fconfederac7 was the only safetj'
of-l.be grocers and shopkeepers. With
out clothing and provisions their hus
bands ?nd Sons must stop work. This
would cut off necessary munitions and
suppliesj the government would fall
and dll tvu'iifd bd iriVblved Jb one eutti
moh l'ujn. To avoid this, ft general
division Of food tiiid Clothing must be
made. The wives and daughters of
laborers and mechanics throughout
the capital generally joined in the
movement.
Wbile stairdlrfg In Mairi street one,
morning the Major witnessed an ex
tra.ordiiihry scene. Hundreds of wo
men suddohly 'appeared. The brditd
avenue was filled with them. They
came filing in from the cross streets
by platoons, and began to sack the
stores, Hollow -eyed and gaunt with
hunger, nobody dared 'resist them. A
crowd Uf men hung upon tlie Jut
skirts, offering no interference and ex
pressing no sympathy for the shop
keepers. The' women took the stores
in line, one after the other They
proceeded systematically. The goods
were piled upon wagons drawn by
horses driven by female sympathizers.
Xot a word was spoken. The work
was done with terrible earnestness.
When the mob entered the grocery a
certain percentage of them piled the
goods upon the outstretched arms of
the others, and they were borne to the
streets and dumped nto the wagons.
The women had it all' their own way.
Neither soldiers nor police were in
sight. Meanwhile the crowd increas
ed. Other women heard what was
roingon, and flocked to Main street
for a share of the plunder. Not a
man joined them, and for a long time
no one' fttade ttti effort to stop them
At last Congressman Baldwin, of Vif
ginia, jumped upon a dry goods box
and made an impassioned appeal for
law dnol order. He might as well
have talked to the wind, one
paid t be least attention to him. The
women went on. with their sacking,
and the b3'8tanders drowned Bald
win's voice with their whoops and
cheers. '
"While t was gazing at the scene,"
said the Major, "I saw a captain of an'
Alabama regiment, with whom 1 had
a slight acquaintance. We were both
in uniform. We agread .that-something
ouirbt to r78 done to restore
order and stop the robbery.- At his
suircestioh' wc stationed ourselves at
the door of a store already overrun.
In a few seconds a virago tried to
nass us. . I can see her now. Ier
cheeks and lips were red, but she had
a pinched, starved look, and an eye
like a hawk. She carried in her arms
a half dozen bars of yellow soap, a piece
of dress silk, a long box of stockings,
mil snmfl raisins and herfincS. I
said :-
"Ifadam, 1 beg 3'our fjardon ; but
you are forgetting yourself. These
(roods are not vours. You have not
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paid for them, and you will not be per
mittcd to leave this store with them."
t "Sho looked at mey" said the Major,
in a mild wuy, as though endeavor
ing to comprehend what I said, and
then went to the counter and threw
down the goods. As she came she de
liberately tbok me by the arm and
slur! me from her witfj ihlh force
thilt 1 went spinning afbtihd like a
top, and struck the f roil t of the build
ing so hard that it took the breth out
Of me., .Then she ruielly gathered 4ip
her load from the counter and walked
out. Toe Alabama captain looked at
ntll arid lildghed, but kept his hands in
His pockets and said nothing. I told
him I thought we were out of plce,
and he nodded. We concluded Hher
that to remain siriijjle spectators.
Meanwhile the women were ap
proaching the Jews quarter. The
Hebrews' were credited with great
welltfj; It Wrfs said Mi ttey had
made barrels of money out of the Con
federacy, and the female communists
went at them wlth'fcftlt a fioalrfi of ton-
science; tiioite and Isaac, h'dtfever,
Bad heard what Was going on above
and trle'd to protect themselves. They
iut up their shutters, barricaded their
floors, rati up stair's afcd Watched the
proceedings from the second story
windows. Bu$ the women were not
dismayed) while some of them ran
for a&es, others found a long piece of
scantling and used it as a battering
ram. The first door flew open amid
the cheers of the outsiders, followed
by a wail of sorrow frfcfm the Jews.
u0h I mine lotti mine Kott ! 1 ish
ruined I I ish ruined 1" was the cry.
But they made no further defense.
Indeed, it would have beon dangerous
for them to attempt it, for if one of
the female robbers had been hurt, the
crowd of husbands and brothers would
surely have avenged it.
"And so," said the Major, "the
spoliation continued: Ai fast a fumoi
rari th'f'o'ugh' the street, 'the Governor
is coming.', It proved true. Down
the hill came Governor Letcher ac
companied by his staff and a few
friends. He ascended a cart and
made a spceebj -tthicb had as much
emit't its Stich speeches usually have.
The mob of women kept steadily at
work, and the Governor pumped
himself dry wUhout the lest effect.
The CfOtvd on the outskirts opened
respectfully for him to pass out, and
the Jews mourned more pitifully
than ever. Tho women witched in
with renewed vigar, and shawls,
sugar, poplins, bottles of pickles,, rib
bons, washing soda, muslins and bags
of hominy were pitched in the wagons
door. hen a second rumor spread
over the crowd. The President was
coming. This also proved true.
President Davis rode down from the
capitol, followed by Captain Cfay,-
with a hundred of the -guards. He
mounted a wagon, and everybody
was silent. I had seen him several
times, but had never heard him speak.-
So I forced my way witb?n tci feet
of him, and stood spellbound. It was
the most eloquent speech I ever heard.
Tall and slender, he swayed with
emotion like the willow in tho wind.
His words were carefully chosen. He
spoke of his experience in the Mexi
can war, and, while expressing his
deepest sympathies with the sorrows
and sufferings of the children of the
Confederacy; sternly maintained the
necessity for law and order."
The Major heard that many of the
women stopped pillaging, and gather
ed at a distance listening to tberwofdaf
that tbey ddH Id catch. At the close
of the Speech tho President took out
his watch and gazed at it long and
earnestly
f "Cfaptai H Gray said ne, 'order y'Ouf
men to load with ball and cartridges.' "
The order wfs obejed, and the
ringing of ramrods was heard. The
crowd began to give way
'Captain Gtfy said life JVesidert,
still looking at his watch, if this
street is not cleared witbrn five, min
utes, order your men ttr.fiVe' dowfr
Main street until it is cleared." "
"Mr. Davis rode away. Within'
thf'ee minutes there was not a soul m
sight but the gArafrds. The mob ftth'
neled itself into the side fitfeetsv
Those nearest the President gave the
information to those iu front, and
rushed aerainst them with the force of
a wave. "They are going to fSfrel
Tho words were heard by tho pilfer
ers in the stores. They knew the
character of Jefferson Davis, and5 they
knew the reputation of old Captain
Gay.. Where Davis would not flinch
from giving -an order. Gay would not
flinch from obeying it. ' The women
dispersed a suddenly as they caine,
and tHat waS the end of the female
commune. They never held another
meeting."
Roy Goes to Church:
Frorii the KnoxVille Chronicle. 1
Washington, D.-'C.,May 19, 1878.
; Mr. Eb'ftort i ' This has been a, love
ly day a snnrij- Sabbath just such
& .day as I have been waiting for to
visit the toVn of Alexandria, in Vir
ginia, where General Washington at
tended church during his lifetime. At
twenty mlrtlltes past ten I demanded
of the mail boat ticket agent what
the round trip to Alexandria would
cost-. Twet.ty-five cents, sir; take
you down there, eight mile, in thirty
minutes.
, "Tis hdw full liite for chiireL," I ob
served. "Doh't be alarmed, sir, church is
about commencing, but you can make
the eight miles by the tinie they are
done praying." Being a stranger. I
enquired of a colored rhan whom I
met on the wharf, if he could point
out Washington's Church to me.
"No sab ! Da ain't no Washington
Cliurch hcah, out 1 din show you
Christ's Church,"'
"I .accept tliti amendment, that's
where 1 want to go to Christ's
Church
The church is h buildiffg of brick,
of moderate . size and old fashioned
architecture. A rotten plank fence
surrounds the church and an acre or
rrtore CT bufying groaffd. Everything
about the place wore an antiquated
look (except a group of boys pitching
ball among the tomb-stones.) The
walls are weather-worn flnd the ;door.
facing bear man sta'fs: The names
of ill-ma'nh'efed visitors are written in
different places:
rIie pews are square, box-made
seats, With doors. The pew in which
Washington sat during his connection
with the church, remains as it was
originally. On the pulpit's right is
writtft ffi' inscription, "In 1 memory
of George Washington," and on the
left another, 4iIn memory of Hubert
Edward Lee." Near, these are in
scribed the ''Lord's Vrayvi',1 the '-Ten
Commandments," etc., in quaint old
English, snob as we find in books of
old date. The only material point of
difference is i the letter "s," which is
made like "f." The inscriptions were
read, I ettppose, by Washington.
When ondjgifs in this old church with
Washington's image befor his face and
the sepulchral tones of a very old
pfeachef's voice ringing in tis ear's,
'tis enough W make the moss grow in
a man's imagination.
It was in this town where Col.
Ellsworth, of the ZomStves, was shot, at
(he beginning of the war, by a rebel
citizen named Jackson, because he
pulled down a Confederate flag. The
house Where' this deed was committed
was pointed out to me by a man wTho
saw the affair. An account of it is
found in Sehmucker's History of the
War, many copies of Which are own
ed in Bast 1'ennessecv
On our return trip we had an ex
citing boat race between our boat, the
"City of Washington," and an ocean
steamer, "John M. Thompson." Wre
started out some lengths in advance
and "puffed fctf the shore" the best we
could, but the large steamer was a
powerful runner and gradually gained
on us. She literally split the river in
two, and 6ent each half faaming tC
the land. For two or three miles we
ran almost side by side, but before we
reached the home base," our adver
sary was auchard 2t the landing.
ROT.
A Woman who Married a Woman.
The irnhappiest of her sex lives all
forlorn in Tuscarora, Nev. To begin
-frith, her Christian name is Marncy,
whrclf Of itself is fen overwhelming af
fliction, ext, she and her relatives
jifre not OW ffpfeaking terms, for she
ell in love with a gay young stranger
whose looks they did not likeJ and in
spito of their prayers and- threats
e1oed trrtb tbe same and was mar
ried. Finallv her husband has turned
out to be a woman, and made her tbe
laughing stock of. the town. Thereat"
name of the deceiver who tricked her
into this mock-marriage i is Sarah.
Western Paper.-
From the Cradle to the Grave.
The collection of English vital sta
tistics for the last ten years is singu
larly thorough and comprehensive.
For thirty-eight years there has been
in existence in that countrj- the office
of "Registrar General of Births, Heaths
and Marriages." This length cf time
and intelligent management have
given the officials command of a mass
of materials such as is to be found in
no other country. Our purpoSo .in
this article, drawn from the sources
mentioned, is to giro a short sum
mary of Hho march of an English
generation .through life." Taking a
million children as a basis of estimate,
we find that one fourth of these die
before reaching tho age of five years.
Between five and ten rear's one
seventh pdrt of the remaining number
die. The deaths between ten and
fifteen years are fewer than at any
other period of life. "It is,' says the
reviewer "as if the destroying angel
looked compassionately for a few mo
ments on the "wfakened numbers of
that mighty host from which he bad
already exacted so heavy a tribute."
From fifteen to twenty the mortality
increases again. There is little varia
tion' in the death rate in the next ten
years as compared with ten previous
ycrtrs, and it is not until between the
age of forty and forty-five that the
mortality increases again. At f'orty-
five the new generation which is to
succeed the one tbt is passing away
has ben born ; and at fifty the mil
lion with which we started has
dwindled down to less than one-half,
or, as given in the statistics of the Be-gistrar-Gcneral,
to four hundred and
twenty thousand. At this period,
too, the number of the sexes surviving
is about equal, but from the age of fif
ty, onward the women exceed the
men in longevity.' Between sixty
five artil seventy -five a majority of the
grand children of the generation with
which wo started have been born,
and the second great landmark has
been passed. It is at the age of seven -t"-two
that, proportionally; the great
et number of men die, and of the one
million of children forming the origin-
ai b"ais of estimate but one hundred
and sixt7, thousand men and women
reach the age of from seventy-five to
eight v. This number, however, is
reduced a few years later to thirty
eight thousand, and of the survivors
only two hundred and twenty attain
to' tho neighborhood of a hundred
year's.
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(We find this gradual extinction of a
generation caused by various diseases,
some general and many most fatal at
particular epochs. From the age of
fifteen consumption hangs upon the
flanks of the mighty host, but it is
most destructive between the ages of
twenty and thirty-five. At thirty-five
tJie strain of time on the body conse
quent upon what Darwin calls the
struggle for existence, begins to tell
severclr, and many men especial.
succumb to disease of the principal
organs. Thence, up to fifty-five, dis
eases of the brain and heart indicate
by the number of their victims the ef
fect of wear and tear, whilst between
fifty -five and sixty-five affections of
the lungs, heart and brain are, in pro
portion to the persons surviving,espe
cially fatal. Strange to say, the re
cords show that the greatest number
of deaths by suicide occur at this
period. From sixty -five onward the
effect of the Weather upon the health
becomes most marked. Cftarleston
Ntics and Courier.
How She Managed If.
Mr. Marcronejr is foreman in asfocm-dry,-
and gets $30 a week. Wkh this
salary the family ought to get along
well and save money, but they do not.
Mr. Marooney has a cousin, a shoe
maker, who gets only SI'S a week, yet
who sails right along in; lightning ex
press, while Marooney comes lagging
alonic irr 2 freight with a hat-box.
Howdo you manage it, Jack?" he
would frequently ask, "to get along
the way you do? Here you actually
keep your family and save money on
15 a week, while it takes every cent
I make to live, and I get double the
pay!" ;
"Oh ! I don't manage it at all,"
says Jack ; "I just take my money
home to'the old woman on Saturday
nigbt, and she takes 3 to run the
.bouse with, and puts the rest ' careful -
.
i ui a ;
4iI)o you give her all the money?"
asks Mr. Maroonov, musin".
'Oh! no, not quite; I keep out a
little for tobacco during the week,
and a trifle to keep me' from feeling
lonesome. If I kept it uli in my
pocket I would jspoT.d it sure, 'but'
Mary keeps it .tight and s;fc."
Mr. Marooney. talked it over with
his wife that night, and '.they eotf
chided to try Jack's plan. The fo-
lowihg Saturday. ni;ht, he brought
home his $'Ati, and keeping back one,
put. the rest in her keeping.- and she
promised to do her level best to set
the table on but $.". The first week
she squeezed through somehow, and
got along with $G.r0 Mr." Marooney
was quite pleased, and began Ia3 in
O "
awake at night, thinking about what
kind of a house he would build. Ho
thought a plain rustic cottage with a
bay window would be about right.
The next week her expense account
looted up ?;.S0 and .Mr. Marooiioy
changed his design for a future resi
dence from frame to brick. The next
week she brought it down thiity
ccnts more, and ' he added a wing,
with a wash-house. Then she made
a superhuman 'struggle, buying .
milk-, and camo within' two shillings
of the gal for which-she had been
striving. Mr. Marooney decided on '
an iron fence in front of his premises.
The next week she lost ground, slip-
ped, and came out ?t the Co p'si., Mr.
Marooney thought r. r.eat railing fence
was good enough for anybody, but
when the ensuing week she came in
with flying eolol-s, and struck the 5
mark in both eyes, Mr. Marooney had
the iron railing reinstated, 'and granite
steps running up to the door.
The next week she. took the monev
she had saved, and went and -bought
her a love of a hat, too c;iu fur anv
thing, a black silk dress, and a cherub
of a cloak, that made the Woman
next door cry with "nvy till her nose
got .-ore. and Mr. Marooney. came to
the conclusion .that' il didn't pay to
I . It;
live in one's own property, keeping up
repaii'Sj insurance, etc, and the wor
ry and stew in dred of .lire-ami earth
quakes more than counterbalanced
anv trifling disadvantage's there might
bc.ntt.birf (i,i:tt.:
Are we Geiliirg IJctlcr or Worse J
'Walkin' Venn' do back streets this
unawnin' to commune wid'natur' an'
hunt for catnip," began Jlrother
j- . j'
Gardner, of t he Li 1110-K i ! n Clu b, as he
looked down upon the assembled mul
titude nicely -balanced on stools and
benches '"walkin' roun' in dat man
ner, I war suddenly struck wi.'l do
refluxun, 'Amj'dis wicked wruld.
grow in' goodcr. or bader ?' When it
a;n o eav to bo tr od, whv will so
many folk sen be bad ? What nre do
matter wid do human race,cnnyhbw ?'
X
lie seemed to look mostly at .Sir
Isaac Walpole, and that good, ohl
black skeleton rose up and answered:
''When dis old man looks back ober
de weary y'crs o' life an' remembers
de days when he C911M sot a plate ob
fride oysters on de gate-pos' at sun-
dowu an' fin' de hull collexshun dar
at daylight, an' fresh, it kinder makes
de heart go down. Dm woruld am
wicked from heel to shin, an' J is pre
pared to believe dat de climax hezn'fc
been shot otf yit. .'-'till, dats nufiin to
rne. Iso got my bee line marl:edout.
One end ob da.t liiie Is in dis town an'
de udder, I hope,' comes ;-o near Ileb
birr's gate dat I shell at least li'ar do
tones ob de harps as dey strike in on
de chorus ob 'I)c Sweet ly an' TJy.'
Iats all, Mister President."
"An' you rounded .dat ppeech up
like de kecrful farmer rounds up a hi'l
of corn," replied the President. It .
am sunshine to hear an ole man's feet
echoin,.on de path to da better lan,'
but Ise gwine to argy dis matter ober
in my own heart an' see what means
dis wickedness an' what am de medi
cine to better dc pashcnt.s."-7-rf?
Pass.
A five-vear-old daughter stood
watching her baby brother -who was.
making a great fuss over having his
face washed. The little mis.4 at length"
lost her patience, and stamping her"
tiny fobt;-t;aid: "You think you have
lots of troiibtej but 3-011 don't know
anything, about it. Wait till you're
big efnough 10 get a lickin', and then
you'll sec won't he, mamma,"".
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