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JLn. Independent Family Newspaper: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of tlie South LINCOLNTON, N. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1879. VOL. 7. NO. 314. She gincaln gto$tt$$. PUBLISHED BY rolL.TVE BROTHERS, TERMS IN ADVANCE : One copy, one year One copy, six months,. Single copy, . ; J To persons who make up clubs of ten or more names, an extra copy of the paper will be furnished oite year, free of charge. ADVERTISEMENTS Will he inserted at One Dollar per square (one inch,) for the first, and Fifty cents per square for each subsequent insertion less than three months. No advertise ment considered less than a square. Quarterlv. Semi-Annual or Yearly con tracts will be made on liberal terms the contract, however, must in all cases be confined to the immediate business of the firm or individual contracting. Obituary Notices and Tributes of Res pect, rated as advertisements. Announce ments of Marriages ami Deaths, and no tices of a relisious cliaracter, inserted gratis, and solicited. ' gclcctecl g?octy. THE LOVE OF THE PERIOD. It was a lover loved a maid That had a father who "Was thought to be by all the world P'xceedinjJ well-to-do. 4iOh, be. my wife," the lover cried ; "My bride, my queen, my own." "You do no love me," 6lie replied, "I fear, for myself alone." "My pa he is a wealthy man, Ilis only child am I, And all his riches shall be mine Whenever he shall die." "Hut rU-lies, the Apostle says, . Unti themselves take wings ; O ! If pa were poor would you love me "I would," he cried, "by jingo !" "I am so glad- -I knew vou would I in von r love am blest : Y. failed last ninht ," she sobbed and sank - 1 Upon her lover's breast. "That makes not a bit of difference," That gallant lover cried : ".So I have you I care not who May take all else beside." That niffhtwhen her lover took his leave, At twenty minutes to one, She whispered softly in her ear, . " Darling, I was in fun." "True, pa has failed, but he his pile Had duly salted by ; I only wished to try your truth - Dariing, how glad am I, For now I know vou would love me weH, Even in poverty." Anil as anon home went the lover, Who was by no means green, lie blithely hugged himself and sang, "1 know what failures mean." Left-Tailed Dogs. An Englishman who has reccnlby arrived at Philadelphia, is shocked to sco", so many left-tailed dogs in the streets, and feels it his duty to call public attention to the fact. "Your excellent American ovslers," he writes to the editor or the lelegrapnt "your roast beef, poultry and superior shad have, 1 fear, caused a very provoking attack of gout, which will prevent me from visiting the bench show of dogs, to open on Monday next. If the dogs to be exhibited prove to be no better . 1 " , . T . t. , bred than the dogs I have noticed , ' ... A. ... along your streets, tho exhibition will not prove very creditable. At least ninety in every one hundred dogs 1 have noticed in this city curl their tails to the left, an evidence of low breed and danger. Dogs that curl their tails to the right are never af flicted with hydrophobia; that fatal disease prevails onlj- among dogs that curl their tails to the Icft.No gentleman of London or any city of the Continent will own a dog or allow a dog to fol low him that curls its tail to the left." What She Found. A newly married man gave his vest nto his wife's hand to be repaired, and when he came home to dinner she showed him three pencil stubs, a piece of chalk, four watch keys, nine- muvoues, 5lx pant anmour coat ouuons, a receipo for making mule punch, a buckle, a blank lottery tick et, a small bandfull of cloves, a part of a roll of lozenges, three seat coupons to last winter's lecture, a poker chip anil i rinin xP ., . 1. ,1 .ir.4 and a chew of gum that had slipped down into tho lining of the vest through a hole in the pocket. It is a curious fact, and one which has not been made as prominent as Us importance deserved, thai the parlor 13 the place in which most of ui maienes are made. Salt fish for breakfast and a rubber outfit will keep a man dry all day. Freeman Still Convinced that God Bade Kim Kill Edith. Barnstable, Mass., May 24. Dr. Munsell, the Medical Examiner of Barnstable county, has been watch ing Charles F. Freeman very closely, especially since Freeman's removal from the barnlikc jail to the new structure, but he has been unable to detect any of the usual physical symp toms of insanity, either developed or incipient. Freeman was greatly pleas ed when he was put into the new jail, and even his wife, whom nothing has aroused from her melancholy, was glad to get away from tho loft in which she had been confined. Free man has been especially interested in the religious discussion which the kill ing of his little daughter has pro voked. He still holds with pertinacity to his belief that he was called by God to do the act, and that some great good is to come of it yet. To Dr. Munsell he is reported as having said a day or two ago that it was pos sible that what God intended was a great religious awakening. He pro fesses to prefer to be convicted, and even hanged, rather than to be acquit cd on the rrround ot insanity, lie is said to have affirmed repeatedly that he knew perfectly well before the act, and realizes just as well now, the re sponsibility that he was taking, but adds that as a faithful Christian he was constrained to sacrifice his child. Freeman was told, it is said, that the acccount of his act, printed in the Sun, had been telegraphed to the newspapers in England and France, and he seemed to view this as only ui kiii- ou u ot mo ni siei iuus i - . m. n l a .1. llll .lit. purpose that compelled mm to Kill lit- tie Edith. He sleeps soundlv, eats well, and takes much interest in the ordinary affairs of life. Since his im prisonment, he has allowed bis full beard to jrow. But Mrs. Freeman still sorrows. and is apparently pining away. She has admitted that she believed that the act was the result of a mis taken faith; but she insists that neith er she nor her husband was guilt of 1113- crime. The recent letter 'to a sister, which has been published, has been commented on bv a number of mr clergymen, as not the least remark able manifestation of this mysterious tragedy. She speaks of Elijah, Elisha, and Christ raising the dead, and still insists that after tho deed was done she and her husband had perfect faith that the child would be raised to them. But as- the days passed and there were no manifestations, her heart failed, and now she knows they did wionjr. Mrs. Freeman found comfort in a recent conversation she had with Mrs. Fisk, who has, charge of the eldest child. Mrs. Fisk suggested that she might have been tempted as Christ was by Satan, and this made a strong impression upon 4 Mrs. Free man. She asked Mrs. Fisk pleading- ly, and with tears streaming down , , , , , , , her cheeks, whether sho supposed ' . t urou wouiu lorgive luein 101 uuving yielded to temptation, and Mrs. Fisk replied that God al ways forgave where there was true repentance. "Then He will forgive ns. and with that remark Mrs. Freeman seem ed to give up all consideration of the religious aspect of the act, and to allow her "material sorrow for her child, to be unrestrained. Her hus band's condition and the life of her living child are the only matters that now concern her. She docs not want little Bessie brought to see her. She thought the surroundings would ter rify the child. But she gave minute directions regarding Bessie, her school life, her dresses, her com pan- . doc8 not yet know that her ions, ana ner religious instruction. 6iter Edith is dea(L The Second Adventists in Pocasset have not yet recovered from the bewilderment which the widespread horror of Freeman's act has created. Th ar0 aa meek and We QOW as i . - - - - children. All that they say is, "We can't understand it." The feeble Foster Howard, one of tho Elders of the Pocasset Church, tho man whom Freeman first told of the act, sits day after day in his kitchen, often with his Bible open in his , lap, pondering, ii',0 ru;th wn n tronr that Edith Freeman would. ; be raised I that ho has not yet recovered from the shock that tho undisturbed grave nas given mm. "I don't understand it," he recently said. "Here is the promise, that if we nave taitn sumcient wc may say to a mountain be removed and it is uone. unr laitn was eqnal to that, and j-et our faith does not avail." it is possible lna. the Second Ad- ... . . ...I ycnusts may noia the camp-mceting, beginning June 15, as they intended, because public indignation has gone, and sympathy, or rather pity, has iaKcn us place. iJut thev cannot I A T I giuvC u.i uuiiaruu xa snore, ana aits, freeman's mother, 1 - 1 r -r. . .. -1 has offered them a grove on her n .1 arm. I lhroughont -Sew England the at- tention of the clergy has been general- ly called to the tragedy, and many scrmons havo been preached upon it in rroviaence, isoston, Lawrence ijynn, bpnngtield, Worcester, and other cities. In Hartford three clergymen the Rev. Dr. Sage, Baptist, the Itev. ur. raruer, ana the Kev. Mr. Uage, congregational ists preached upon it on bunday ot last week. Dr. Tark- er boldly said that he doubted whether the Abrahamic story ought to be accepted literally, and Dr. Sage argu- cd as strongly that it should be so read. JYeic lork Sun. He Was Not a Veteran. An aged man came into our sanctum yesterday. Deep-eyed sadness sat on his eye-brows, like a frog on the shore of a mill-pond. His attire was fault less in regard to ventilation ; in fact, he looked as if he was a model for some house that manufactured venti lators. His shoes showed' two long slits for admitting air, which could i i- 1 'ii .... 1 tho whole system of ventilation being perfect and complete. Ho hung his hat up on the third hook from the door, being the one set in diamonds, and drawing our -new morocco foot- stool up to our feet, sat opened fire. do wn ant liI am probably the onlj' survivor of one of tho most desperate charges at Gettysburg," said he, "I was on the very spot which the rebels and Union soldiers charged over ten limes, and I never stirred out of my tracks. I was right where fifteen cannon-balls tore up the earth in every direction, tear ing men to pieces, and fin airy flinging back the torn armies in confusion." "Did you escape ?" we asked. "I did." "ion escaped: I5ut you were A. m wounded ?" "No, sir ; I' was not touched." "You were not even wounded ?" "Not much." "But certainly your clothes were pierced with bullets ?" 'Not a bit of it. Nary a bullet." "And yet you want monej No, . . J - , . , J ' ' sir! Had 3'our head been shot off, or .',, . .. ' a cannon ball torn you in bits, or 229 bullets been lodged in your body, we might have given you ten cents; but as it is, charity must begin at home. John, bring us a five-cent cigar." "sut I'm the only survivor, per sisted this old veteran. "Then go and hire a hall, and charge ten cents for the exhibition." "Exhibition be hanged I" said he. "Give me ten cents, and I'll tell you how 1 did'nt get killed." It was a tempting bait, and was taicen. xnenne siuiea towaras tne mi it 1 . . aoorasne remarxeu : i t: 11 "I was on tho spot where that charge was made. 1 stooa wnere toe bullets fell like rain, but 'twas a month after it happened." Relief From a Corn. Soak the foot in Warm water for a quarter of an hour erery night ; after each soaking, rub on the corn patient- 1 n 1 tf j j ly, with the finger, a half dozen drops V ., 0 - - . of sweet oil: wear around the toe during the day 7 two thicknesses of buckskin, with a hole in it to receive the corn, and continue this treatment until the corn tans out. it you wear moderately loose shoes, it will be months, and even years, before the corn returns, when the same treat ment will be efficient in a few days. Paring corns is always dangerous, besides making them take deeper root, as does a weed "cot off near the ground ; but the plan advised is safe; jto the wound"? few drops of painless, and costs nothing bat a little muriatic aefdor "mineral acids des atlention.' ? I u h 5 sltroy tho poison of the dog's saliva, ; An Effect of ltivalry. Cincinnati and Louisville used to bo and perhaps still are. rivals for the trade of the region which their loca- tion; makes common ground. The "drummers" "commercial travelers," as the English call them of either citv frcaucntlv came in contact on - . - " their travel. One night a party of each were casualty assembled in the bar-room of U hotel indnlginj; in drinks, joking between whiles at the pretensions of thpir wfV .;! W w w tlO "iow." said a Cincinnati man .," when the evening had worn on and hilarity was at its height, "I invite - ... rnn in talrn a rlt-inlr in th TitnletrillA fashion." the party stood up to the bar and drank off their drinks, when the Cin- cinnati man laid down a dime in pav mCnt, the price of a drink for cne "How's this?" said the barkeeper, "This," said the Cincinnati man, is the Louisville style, in which I invited tho party to drink. I pay for mine ; each one of the party paysfor his. Presently a Louisville man asked the company to take a drink in the Cincinnati fashion. They came up smiling, and each poured off his drink to1 the health of Cincinnati with thnnka tn tl.o T,oni- ville entertainer. Thi3 over, the Louisville man, as they fell back from the bar, said solemnly to the barkeeper : "Charge it." Secrets of Masonry. Old Zach Wheeler was quite a character in his time, being a clover, easy-going, confiding man, who man- ad t0 Ict evcr7 bodY cheat uim out of his inherited estates. Just as his last farm was about to slip out of his hands ho succeeded in raising the money to lift the mortgage. Aaron Remer, a prominent Mason, accom- pained him to the town. As they were 'riding along on horse-back, Zach says to Aaron, in a confiding tone : "Now, Aaron, we arc here alone, and I want -ou to tell me the secrets of Masonry." "I can't, Zach ; they would kill me." "Why, they won't know ; they'ir never find it out." "Yes, they will ; 3ou'll speak of it." "No, 1 swear I won't." "Well, if you'll ride close alongside of me, and put your hand upon my thigh, and take the oath I'll tell you the secrets of Masonry." Zach was not slow to comply, and a most powerful "iron-clad" oath was administered and taken. 'Now for the secrets," exclaimed the impatient and unsuspecting vic tim. Well: said Aaron, with mock . .. , ... . . solemnity and secrecy, "in the first , r . . . . place, we Masons combine together to , . , , , cheat every body as much as we can. This is the first grand secret. The second is like unto it. When wo can't find any body else to cheat, we cheat each other, but as little as we can." "Well," exclaimed Zach, "I swear I'll join. I wish 1 had done it twenty years ago, I might have been a rich man afore now," A Sensible Girl. "You have asked me pointedly if I ld marry yoa, and I have answer- 1 ww- d vou poiDtedIy that I can. I can i" - I man moirM i different girl every month ; I can mar- ry a man whose main occupation seems to be to join in any gauntlet in front of churches and theatres, and comment abily on the people who are compelled to pass through it j I can marry a man whoso only means of support is an aged father ; I can marry a man who boasts that any ffirl can be won with the help of a , ., , -4 t good tailor and an expert tongue ; I can marry such a man but I w-o-n-tl" Dos Bite. An aged forester has published the following in a Leipzig journal : "I do not wish to carry to my grave my much rjroved cure for .the bites of mad dogs, bat will publish the same as the last service which I can offer the world: Wash the wound perfectly clean with wine vinegar and tepid rater ; then dry it. Atterward Elcrcn Children Die from Drink ing Poisoned Water. Boston, June 1. Further particulars have been re ceived from Vermont relative to the Wholesale poisoning of 6chool child ren. The Heratd's dispatch from Island Pond says that tho entire school district known as tho Jacob's Mills district, at Newark, ten miles from here, numbering twenty child ren, drank water from a brook pois oned by the carcasses of dead horses and sheep, also potato tops on which Paris green had been used, they be ing thrown into the brook. Seven teen children were taken down and eleven are dead. The others cannot live. Edward Morse lost two, Fred Simpson one, L. Wilson one, Mr. Park one, John Cole one, John Aldrich five, thus taking his entire famify of five children. Mrs. Aldrich is hopo lossly insane. The children suffered untold agonies, and after death the bodies became putrid and required immediate burial. Work has been suspended and great excitement pre vails. The teacher of tho school noticed something wrong about the taste of the wTater and forbade its use in the school, but seventeen of the scholars used it, and were stricken down within twentj'-four hours. One of the children, a son of Mr. Hudson, pulled through. Just above the school house was a field of potatoes last season, and Paris green was used extensively to exterminate potato bugs. The potato tops were dumped in the barnyard of Horace Chcnc3T, who built a drain from tho barnyard to the brook ; he also buried a colt, in the spring of 1878, on the edge of the brook, and the flowing water washed out parts of tho carcass. A Mr. Simpson, who has lost one child, ob jected tOvthe child being buried there and caused Cheney to move it and bury it elsewhere, which was done, but it was buried in a swamp only fifty feet from the brook, the water of which ran into the brook. Cheney remarked that ho hadn't bettered it much. Violent threats are freely ex pressed toward Cheney. Samples of the water have been sent to Boston for analysis, and the Selectmen will not take any proceedings till the re sult is known. Old and young are taking the disease, but in a milder form, and will soon recover. Six physicians have been unremitting in their attendance. I'ubnc opinion runs high, each one having his or her views of tho trouble, no two stories, being alike. "The brook was poison ed, and Cheney did it," is a common expression, lho matter will be thoroughly and properly sifted, and tho offenders, if any, will meet with just punishment. An Enraged Female. "Household Departments" are very good adjuncts to a newspaper in their way, when edited by a woman, but the male journalist who dabbles with the heaven inspired mysteries of cooking runs a frightful risk. The editor of the Weekly Petaluma Peavine started a column of that kind recently and a few days afterwards a fierce-looking female came into the of fice, carefully concealing some object hehind her apron. "Are you the man that published that new and improved way to make currant cake. He said he was. "You said to mix washing soda with the flour, and stir in a little corn-meal and a little sweet oil to give it consistency ?" "I I believe so" "And to add fifteen eggs and some molasses, and two ounces of gum ara ble, and 6et it in a cool place to bake?" I think that was it." "Well, take that then 1" and the in dignant housewife floored him with a weapon that felt like a sand club, but which he felt in his heart must have been a half-baked hunk of cake con structed on the Beavine pattern. San Francisco News Letter, . It has been found that tobacco smoke contains a large precentago of carbonic oxide, and to this principally may be attributed the injurious after effects of smoking, since this gas ts very poisonous Some of it ne cessarily descends to the lungs. The nicotine has small influence compared with this gas. , : A Remedy for Neuralgia. The Paris correspondent of the Bos ton Courier, referring to his recovery from a dangerous illness, says : -"1 mention this illness that I ma) tell you how easily I was cured. I was bent double. I could not breathe. My physician ordered mo to take a fiat iron and heat it as hot as I could bear, put.adoublc fold of flannel on tho painful part and move the iron to und fro on the flannel. I was cured by enchantment. My doctor told me that -some timo hinco a professor in one of our colleges, after suffercring some days with neuralgia in tho bead,- which ho himself bad tried to' cur sent for tho former, who prescribed a hot flat iron. The next timo tho doc tor saw tho professor tho latter ex claimed, "I had no sooner applied tho heated iron to my head than instant ly all pain had vanished." My physi cian was summoned recently to tho bedside of a woman who had neural gia in both sides and so violently that she alarmed tho whole neighborhood by the screams which her intolerable anguish wrung from her. Sho was taken from her bed and borne near the fire. In such severe cases a heat ed iron is not energetic enough. . Ho has an iron rod fastened to an ivory handle. He beats this rod to a whito heat (which causes less pain than red heat) and applies it very slightly to the pain, first in longitudinal than in latitudal lines.- The application h so light that no trace is left but red lines on the epidermis, which arc soon ef faced. In twenty minutes tho woman walked back to bed and tho third day afterward quitted it entire ly freed from neuralgia. This in strument is not to be intrusted toawk ward hands." Tanning Sheepskins with thii Wool on. Sheepskins and the hides of some dogs make excellent mats, rugs, &c. The following process has been found to succeed very well : take the skin upon a board with the flesh side out and then scrape wjlh a blunt knife ; next rub it over hard with pulverized chalk until it will absorb no more. Then take the skin off from the board and cover it with pulverized alum;, double half over with the flesh side in contact ; then roll tight together and keep dry for three days, after which unfold and stretch it again on a board or floor and dry it in tho air, and it will, be ready for use. Young Scien tist. Precious Fruit, were out riding. They were out riding. Said Theodore, "What tree, Angelinar bears the most precious fruit ?" Angelina uO ! Dory, 1 can't tell, un less it is a cherry tree. Thcodoro looks unutterable sweetness, as ho gazes in Angelina's eyes and eays, "The axlc-treo, darling." Somebody says very beautifully, "A good life is visible philosophy. Tho best armor against temptation is to keep out of tho range of its guns. It pays better not to do a wrong than to do it and then repent. " A patch on the seat of a boy's trousers is "something new under the son. How patent is the crisp sentence, "A great deal of new light nowa days, is only darkness after all." I?o man ever lived who had only one fault. A single fault has both sexes in itself, and is sure to beget a large family. It is a fact worth remembering that it does not take half as long to maker a wound as to heal one. - A bankrupt was condoled the other day for his embarrassment. "Oh, I'm not embarrassed at all, said he ; "it's my creditors that are" embarrassed," I could never divide myself from any man. upon tho difference, of an opinion, or be angry with his judg ment for hot agreeing with me in that form which within T a few days I shall myself dissent. Does not the Jbutchcr,who sells ox tails for soup and calves' heads for dinners, make both ends meat ? ;
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