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THE WEEKLY LINCOLN PROGBESS. j:T:DeLAHl;EaitorsanaFroP's- LINCOLNTOn n. c SATURDAY,: APRIL 19, 1879. "The' Republican problem for 1880 How to fire the Southern heart. Until after tho next Presidential election all Southern Representatives arc "rebel brigadiers." The Greenback party in Congress seems to be taking a rest. It didn't particularly need it,but any little quiet in that direction will prove a grateful ing to the country. m . Revolution! is the cry of tho Repub licans now. The people have revolu ted them out of offiee,and that is where the distress comes in. Let the revolu tion proceed. It is healthy. It will do tho Republican party some goed, and no doubt teach it something, to bo in the minority for a time, so that when it again gets control it will not fritter its time away by stal wait selfishness and greed for spoils. Milwaukee Sentinel, Eep. ' , BLA0OUEFS SPEECH The speech of Mr. Blackburn, de livered in the House of Representa tives last week in reply to Garfield and Robeson on tho appropriation' bills, was a most able reply. It Was eloquent and scathing in the highest degree, utterly repudiating tho Stal warts and henceforth entitles Black burn to the distinction of being one of our most eloquent and.able statesmen. In these Congressional discussions the Republicans are loosing ground before tho intelligent and honest people of the country and the Democrats are gain ing! It is becoming daily more and more evident that tho latter is the self same old conservative constitutional party it has even bcen.jealously guard ing the liberty of tho people and de termined to resist and contest inch by inch every attempt to invade this sacred temple. Tho whole stock of argument (if such it may be called) the Republican leaders employ is to shout such catch words as "solid South" "Confederate Brigadies" and revolution ! Such things are not anju ment, neither do they serve any long er to alarm or exasperate. Advice by Olive Logan. Read what Olive Logan says : "A woman's safeguard is to keep a man's hands off of her. If you need his as sistance, in walking take his arm in stead of his taking yours. Just tell him in plain English to keep "hands off." Ho may not like it at the time, but he will respect you in future ten fold more. Men will be and do just what the woman allow them to do. Men will not do to trust. ; Give a man your arm and you will find him, very confidential, and ho will take a great many privileges he would not take if he was not permitted to do so. lie will give your arm many loving sqeezes and sly twists that he could have no opportunity of doing, and the opportunity is just what he is after. A few words more of advice, and I close. Keep young girls off tho street except when they have business. Teach them it is unnecessary to go to the post office every time thejr go out. Your girls can walk alone just as well as your boys. Don't allow your girls, if they must have a beau, to go with boys much older than themselves." If possible, instill into their very nature that they are safer in their own hands than they are in the hands of any man preachers not excepted. Adjutant Noble, of the Second Michigan Infantry, lost his sword and his.life at the fight at Knoxville, Ten nessee, in 1863, and his sister has just recovered tho sword after searching lor it diligently ever since. It was captured by Capt. II. II. Mosely,of an Alabama regiment; who discovered the name of its owner by letters found on bis, body ,and last winter advertised it in a Detroit newspaper. The sister heard of the advertisement, and, addressing Captain Mosely at Marion, Alabama, received , the lost weapon with a very gentlemanly letter from its captor. Ex. An Ohio cow last week broke a man's neck by a kick. A mule that Common Schools, High Schools and the Poor: The most alluring swindle that a penny wise and pound-foolish public economy ever forced upon the masses, is a poor and cheap school. The sons of the rich, whether aided by public law or. not, will have good teachers. The sons of the poor, if a false econo my is practiced as to common and high schools, obtain only third and fourth rate instructors. Pennriousness as to the public schools widens the chasm between rich and poor. A system providing one kind of educa tion for the rich, and another for the poor, would delight the black angels, because it would lead to the forma tion in the United States of an ig norant class, and of a wide hereditary distinction between the wealthy and the indigent. Every aduvcate of re publican institutions will be forced by political necessity, as well as by phil anthropy, to defend the educational rights of the children of the poor. In pleading for the poor, I do not attack the rich, but defend rather the inter ests of propertjr, by defending the edu: cation of tho masses who may learn to steal it through majorities at the bal lot boxes, or to burn it in riot, unless they are educated,If there areany limp, soft aristocrats, who think they shoull not be taxed for schools, where they send no children to them, I beg leave to say that I am speaking for the pro tection of such aristocrats when I de fend an educational system that opens up tho faculties of the child of the poor man, until ho knows what he can do in the world, and so docs not, with out reason, accept a position below his abilitj. It is the glory of Ameri can political principles that they bring rivalry into activity in society, be tween the children of the poor and those of the rich, and give the former a chance to aid the latter, by keeping up to the mark of their own capacitj. The children of the rich may easily drop into the diseases of luxury unless they aro mercilessy held up to their work by the danger of competition. A heathful collission of interests occur in the great professions when the question arises which shall succeed the better-a Daniel Webster, inured to hardship from the first on the frontier, oi a son of a millionaire in the city, who has not been taught to work pbysicilly or mentally. The question is whether Henry Clay, as the "Millboy of the Slashes," if he have fair opportunities in the common and high. schools, may not so awaken his soul as to perceive what he can do for tho nation.. . It is no slight public benefit when a Horace Greely, or an Edison, born far down in the ranks of social merit as the aristocrats fay, is aroused by the American common school system and taught that he can teach his age. The physicians assure us that the best brains in public life usually- come out of the country. Six generations in a city often produce such physical deterioration in a fami ly, that its its public power is lost. Certain it is, that in American states manship, and I had almost said in American authorship, the more promi nent names are of persons first awak ened by the American common school system, and not lulled in the lap of languid luxury until they had lost that love of exertion which is the un failing characteristic of high capacity. I would have no child lifted above competition, and lulled in the lap of Luxury, until he loses the sense of what he can do. I would have no child placed too low for competition, and benumbed in the caverns of pov erty among the icy masses until he losses the desire to climb. 1 do a ser vice both to those who slumber in the lap of luxury and to those who lie asleep in the benumbing cold of prov erty, when I melt out the ice from the caves of want, and send those who are benumbed by it into the sunnier portions of society, to awaken the sleepers there by their competition. xBy Rev. Jos. Cook. "Did Good by Stealth and Blushed' Etc" "Before we were ten days out the captain became insanely in love with mo, but I would not listen to him. It was the day before we landed ; the captain came to my door and rapped. 'Madame,1 said he, 'I have reached the limit of my endurance. I have placed ten barrels of powder in such a position that their explosion will blow the 6hip to atoms. If you remain cruel, 1 will light the match, and we will perish together 1" "That night continues the diary, "I saved tho lives of three hundred people." Mrs. Jefferson Davis is described as a refined, matronly person, plainly dressed in black. She talks well and knows the French language and lit- FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. A Wife Fulfilling Her Marriage Tow. A touching story is narrated in con-k nection with the execution of Walter Watson, at Highland, Indiana, on Fri day last for the murder of Ezra Comp- ton. The parties bad quarrelled about the charge of a quarter dollar for some soap made by Compton, who was a storekeeper. The wife of Watson, to whom ho had been but a year mar ried, endeavored to rcitrain him from the quarrel, but her entreaties failed. A week before the execution, Mrs. Watson visited the Governor, with her babe in her arms, and made a strong personal appeal for mercy, but that official declined to interfere be cause the sentence had been confirm ed by the Supreme Court. The faith ful wife was a daily visitor to her hus band's cell, and joined him in fervent prayera for forgivness. During the last night most of the time she sat on his knee breathing words of love and encouragement, or at his feet, caress ing his hand.-. He was truly a peni tent, and expressed himself as having made peace with God. As the time approached for the execution she was for a moment overcome, and fell on her husband's neck in uncontrollable anguish, but suddenly , she raised her fiaxen head and assisted in arraying him for his doom. She had contrib uted a necktie and a pair of slippers, and put them on him with a fierce de termination that overmastered her agony. She combed his hair, and seeing all was ready, said she would go with him. All present remonstrat ed with her, in which the minister joined. Her reply was a rebuke that few women would have ventured. "I should not have expected this from a minister. When I was married promised to cleave to my husband for better or for worse. I promised thi? to a minister, and I am going to keep my word as far as God will let me." On reaching the gallows the pair soon to be sundered mounted the steps hand in hand. They were seated side by side over the fatal trap. She again took his hand and sobbed with her lit tle head resting upon his shoulders, while tne minister made lac closing prayers. Meanwhile the culprit sat in hir chair unmoved. A heart-broken wife was sobbing on his bosom, strong men sobbed, but the man about to be hang ed seemed an uninterested spectator of the absorbing scene of which he was the central figure. For fully five minutes he sat there without the least perceptible twitch of a muscle. There was no bravado in this composure-; it was the calmness of resignation. At the close of the religious exercises the two stood up, and for the last time she embraced him, kissed him passionately and, with t,Good-b3'e,1 Waller," step ped back and fell back into the arms of tho good Christian ladies who were there to receive her. The last words of the unhappy man were a fervent prayer for mercy and foiheavenIy aid to his poor wife. At the sheriffs house she saw the remains of the husband in his coffin, and kissing his lips and arranging the hair, turning away with a look of woe and said, "I can cry no more ; I have no more tears. God have mercy-' on me and my little baby." j An hour later the coffin was in an east bound train, accompanied by the wife. At Richland, a bleak stat; seven miles from this point, itw posited on the barren ground the train moved on only person beside the Wi""" f charge. The face that ed woman turned up to of the passing train, mo, had seen the hanging, will i in their dreams. A Human Skeleton Inside a Horse. A miner in the Black Hills, writing to a friend, tells of a horrible reminder of the fearful snow storms last winter, and of thb perils of those who were caught out! and lost their way on the plain. lie says that re cently, while he and two others were crossing the country they came upon the skeleton of a horse, with a grin ning skull looking at them between the ribs of tho animal, like a prisoner peering through the bars of his cell. The two skeletons told the whole story. The man had killed his horse, cut him open, and crr wled inside of him, thinking thus to escape perish ing of cold, but the flesh of the ani mal froze solid, and the man was as much a prisoner as if he had been shut in by walls of iron. The miner concludes his description by saying : It was a sight I shall! never forget. I can see it whenever I close my eyes. There is very little grammar but considerable common sense, in these Jealousy, Murder and Suicide. Marsh alltown, Iowa, April 10. John Bell, station agent on the Central railroad, at Gifford, telegraph ed to the main office, in this city, two days ago that a man should be imme diately sent to relieve him, as ho in tended to kill himself. The message was treated as a joke, bnt within an hour Bell shot himself, after killing a young woman whom he loved. He died f his wound to-day. The tragedy was the outcome of a religious revival in Gifford. Tho4 I?ev. John Hooghoworth, an Advent evangelist, went to that place six weeks ago, be gan to hold daily meetings, and soon had the neighborhood in a state of excitement. He was ?5 years of age, and eloquent. Converts were numer ous, and on Saturday last (the Ad ventist's Sabbath) be baptized four teen persons by immersion. Immedi ately after this ceremony he was seen by Bell slyly banding a bote to Eva Roberts, wh( had been; foremost in admiring attention to jthe popular preacher. She was the daughter of a leading member of the church, and had, by her sweet singii.g of San key and Bliss hymns, contributed much towards tho success of the revival. Bell was her accepted suitor and ex pected to become her husband. Hence he felt a personal interest in the note the preacher, handed to her. His jealousy had already been aroused, and, on-finding this new indication of intimacy between the pair, he re solved to watch them closety. On the same afternoon the Ilev. Mr. Hbughoworth drove away from Gif ford. Ho said that he had been absent so long from his wife and little ones that he really must visit them at his homo in Liseomb, thirty miles distant. He would return in a few (lays, however, and resume his revival work with . probably renewed vigor. Soon afterward Miss Roberts gave a letter to. Bell to post. It was addressed to some unknown namein Liscomb, and the jealous Bell suspected that it was really for Houghoworth. He opened it and read the details of a plan for a meeting between the clergy man and the girl. They were to make a brief trip as husband and wife, she pretending to visit relatives ap.d he telling his family that he had returned to Gifford. Bell rescaled and mailed the letter, and let his sweetheart go unhindered to Houghoworth. Miss Roberts came home on a train on Monday morning. . Bull, who was on 'duty in the station, helped her out of the car and said that he wanted a talk -with her. By that time he had m:ule up his mind what to do. At da v break ho had been seen cleaning a long unused revolver ami firing tit a mark. He had also sent, just before t he arrival of the train, the dispatch above spoken of. The girl walked with him a short distance down the track, and then he put tho revolver to her heart and killed her instantly. Then he shot himself, fired two more bullets into her body, lay down by her side, took her in his arms, and waited for death, llis own wound, however, did not kill him until two days later. A man sometimes becomes so ut terly confused b sorrow that he ac tually tells the truth. A poor farmer who lost his wife sought the services of ' " - mn would do, but he thought the one en titled "Happy Day" would be appro priate. When the service was over the farmer offered tho minister fifty cents and apologizingly said that the next time anything of the kind occur red be would give him more. "I say, Sambo, does you know what makes do corn grow so fust when you put do manure on it ?" "No, I don't hardly, 'cept it makes de ground stronger for de corn." "Now, I'll just tell ye. When de corn begins to smell de manure, it don't like de 'fumery, so it hurries out ob de ground and gits up as high as possible, so as not to breathe de bad air. Kerosene will soften boots or shoes which have been hardened by water and render them as pliable as new. It is said of Sir Isaac Newton's nephew,who was a clergyman, that be always refused a marriage fee, saying in a tone of pleasantry, "Go your On Wedding Rings. From very early ages a peculiar charm appears to have been connect ed with the ring. Without beginning or end, it has long been regarded as an emblem of eternity, and also of the strength and perpetuity of affection. The fourth finger of the left hand has long been considered sacred, and hence has been consecrated to wear the wedding ring.) The Greeks and Romans were so j fully convinced uf the intrinsic value attached to this finger that it was called tho medical or healing finger.- 'Jhcir various raedici nal preparations were stirred with it in place of a spoon, it being supposed that should any j noxious ingredient be included in the cup, warning of the fact would immediately be given by a palpitation of the heart. In some re mote coun try places in England this superstition is still firmly believed in. The other fingers aro thought to possess a certain power of evil, but a wound or sore stroked by the wedding finger is expeced by them in a short time to disappear and the wedding ring itself is by j many supposed to have the same healing effect. The rings used, by the Jews at their mar riage ceremonies were sometimes very large in size, andeIaborate in design j the Jewish law demanded too that they should be ofia certain value, and to prove this to be the case, the3T were before the ceremony submitted to an examination. It j was a rule also that the bridegroom should purchase the ring out of his own private resources', and not either obtain it on- a credit i i or as a gift from & friend ; and after The ring had been placed on the bride's finger, tho; marriage was con sidered then, as is now, to be irrevo cably binding. Among the fishermen on tho west coast of Ireland the wed ding ring is kept as an heirloom in the family, and isj-considered the prop ertv of the eldest married daughter, consequently many of tho wedding rings still worn by the fish-wives in that district are quite old and of ex ceedingly ancient design, being manu facttred as far back as the Elizabethan era. In the sixteenth century, both marriage and betrothal rings were made with a motto or posy inscribed inside, and to these Khakspcare, .in two or three of. hi plays, refers. Ct--sell's Domestic Dictionary. Shepherds' Dogs. The late Mr. Jesse, in a lecture at Brighton, told the following anecdotes about shcpherdsl dogs: The High land shepherds' tire firmly convinced that their dogs perfectly understand what is said. Indeed, Hogg, the cele brated E; trick shepherd, related to me one or two instances in proof vl this, which, I am j sorry to say, I have forgotten, but you shall hear another. A Highland shepherd, speak ing to a gcnllemjin.said, accidentally, "I'm thinking the coo (cow) is is . in the corn."' His dog im media tely rose, passed out of the house, and climbing to the top of a -pigsty, which coin. manded a view of the cornfield, satis fied himself that the cow was not there and returned to the ohouse. In order to try the (log he said, " 'Deed, sir, tho coo's in the taturs." Airaiii the dog went out, made his own ob servations and again returned. A third trial was then made, which showed that there was no occasion for dog's services. He returned and under the bed, sulky, growling satisfied, j evidently disgusted g been made a fool of. A shep .( is in t he liabit of taking his lit- with him, a boj of three or ars of age when he was going -id his sheep. He left him one -n the slope of a hill while ho nt to some distance. On his return he looked and hunted for the lad in every direction, but at last ,he went back, late at night, to his cottage, and told his wife of their loss. While they were sitting together, miserable and disconsolate, they heard a scratching at the door. On its being opened the shepherd's dog earae in, which had riot before been misled, and by pulling the shepherd's coat and looking earn estly at him, induced, him to follow the animal with his lantern, and was led by him to some rocks, into which the boy is supposed to have slipped, and thus the lifo of the child was sav ed. Leisure Hour, Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and earth below and heaven above, but it never sewed a gray patch in the seat of your husband's black re venge. Ex. The following epitaph is simply a sign of the times. It repeats in verse that what we have all thought of in prose : '(TliOtpkI,t.. 1 L Jl it . . . The Marriage of the Midgets. It has been finally arranged, after many discussions between tboir fami lies, that the Midgets are to be mar ried. Xucie Zaratc, the prospective bride, is fifteen years old and wei-h3 a trifle over five pounds. Her face U bright, but pot prepossessing. -Tho-bracelets she wears can not ho buck led aronnd the third figner of a nuui of ordinary size. Her shoes (made to order) arc 2 inches long, and her gloves roeasuro abont one inch from the tip of the .longest finger to tho button at the wrist. Her cap Was made originally for a doll in a 15 road way show window, and is a good fit . In the matter of jewelry she is pro fuse. On each hand she wears a dia mond ring, her brooch is a diamond, and she has a fondness for danglfn ornaments on her ears, such for in stance, as a small diamond supple mented by a California quarter of a dollar. Gen. Mite, whose real name is Francis J. Flynn, weighs 0 pounds and is 14 years old. His face is bright and intelligent, and his conversation docs not belie it. , "Are you going to marry Lucie ?" tho reporter asked of him. "Yes, we are going to be married.' "When ?" ; "Next Saturday a week." "No," interrupted the female dwarf, "next Sunday. I want it on Sun day." It seems that the marriage is one of convenience as well as supposed' af fection. The dwarfs, belonging to different families, are liable to to separated at any moment. It is thought besti therefore, to bind them by ties that 'ran not bo broken by show managers or disagreeing parents. Gen. AliJo is twice the weight of his prospective bride The preparations for the Wedding are going steadily forward. yf he brido is to wear a while satin dress studded with seed pearl. Small as her form is, it is estimated that the. bridal dress contains no less that one thousand pearls. The bridegroom -is. to' wear his full dress stiit, excepting that his vest of black cloth will be replaced y a white vest. . 3Iiys Zaratc belongs, to the Episco pal church, while (Jen. Elite's family are Jioman Cat holies, and it was on the question of religion that the fam: lies differed. This differe'neo 1 was finally sett led. The best authorities tell us ' that a healthy man should eat but twice a day. A luncheon at noon iv ingra'- itude toward breakfast and a pic- niedilaied insult to 'he dinner. CO M M E R C I A L . liiitcolsitou Market. Corrected by P. I. Unison. Friday, April IS, 1879. We quote selling price from wagons : Flour, Family ...2 STrfS, 21)0 Extra, ' .2 5 '2 SO Corn , .. ; ;-:W; f)N Peas, ,0(tj 00 Oats, ;V), ."7 Butter,.... liiVOiv 13 Chickens, ........ 8( 15 Eggs, 8 10 Salt American, o0( Yarn per bunch....... S0 W) Sheeting, 8,. Bacon Hams, 70 Shoulders, Ofa- Sides, Pork,.... 4Vr; 4 Lard,.. 7rt8 Tallow, 7 Bees Wax, 25 a Appjes Dried, 2 a Apples Green, , 00 a 0 00 Peaches Dried,.. a 4 Blackberries Dried 4 a 5 Meal, fr a 0 Wheat, ...:.. 00 a 1 0 Potatoes Sweet, SO :v 1 00 " Irish, . 50 a GO Hides Green, 5 a " Dry 8 al2 W. M. REEDY & CO., Dealers in Iing-s jXeclici'iies and Olio :mio is - PAINTS, OILS AND YAKN1HSES. .(Cobb's.) Corner CAROLINA MARBLE WORKS (at Dr. RudhilV old Stand,) LLVCOITOX, X. C. i TT A VIYP. nr Tvn! t Tin i vpi.mi'L'YTH IL with one of the most extensive Mar ble dealers in New York for Material, Designs, the most approved Tools ami the very best workmen, I propose to supply all orders on short notice. I will furnish monuments of any description, or design, and common tomb stones of anv quality wanted for less price than any other house in the State. My terms are" strictly cash on delivery. JULIUS A. CIIJLPS, Manufacturer and proprietor. Lincolnton, X. C. 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