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ROBESONIAnT 2 ' r H A COUITTKY, GOD AND TBTJTH. . : VOL. III. NO. 22. LUMBEBTON, NOETH CAEOLINA, THUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1872. WHOLE NO. 126. 6 4 hi . ROWLAND'S HOTEL, Near Court House Square, . Lnmberton, N. C. Worth Worth, GENERAL SHIPPING . AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Wilmington, N. C. DEALERS IN Fertilizers, Lime, Cement, Molasses, Bagging, Cotton-Ties, &c.. &c. B. O. WORTH. I. O. WORTX. H. W. ICK. C. T. MKBAKK. VICK & RSEBANE. COTTON FACTORS AND General Commission Merchants, WILMINGTON, N. C. TJrtOTol eaTCncr. mailn. ('ontifrnmentnof Cotn, Na vel Wfm end l onntrr riclnio. ami crders for the nur- mbm of hoii ii'liciUd. HacKing and 1'iee of most yTir"Tn myict nivriyn on nana at lowest rate n. N. A. McLean, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LuMBEItTON, N. C. OfGco Tip stairs over the Drue Store. NATIONAL HOTEL FRONT STREET, (PSnriUI MARKET AND PRINCESS aTREF,) WILMINGTON, N. C. REUBEN JONE8. - - - - P Jionti etor. Konril ftr Titty, $3.00. McILHENNY&WEIGHTj (Lippitt's Old Stand, ) WHOLLSALH AND RETAIL DEUGGISTS, M. ."Oorncr Market and Front etrt, WILMINGTON, N, C. i. X. MclLHENNI, A. X. WEIGHT, It. V. Jas. S. Topham & Co., VanaJaetarers el, and Wholesale and Rtoll Dialw ta SADDLERY, HARNESS, BRIDLES AND TRUNIS, SADDLERY HARDWARE, tc, cc.f c. No. 8 South Front Street, 1)K. E. FLOYD, DENTIST, FayettcTille, N. C. COTTON AND NAVAL STORES. Txxo. 3D. Woody, General Commission Merchant, WILMINGTON, N. C. Consignments solicited and orders promptly filled. All business entrusted will meet with strict personal attention and prompt returns made. MEBANE & JAMES, Successors to J. A. Melianc. r n(".fI.E A!T RETAIL, PIULF'). IW . PERFUMERY, Fancy ana X"oilet Articles, &o. S. E. Cor. Front & Princess Sts-, WILMINGTON, N. C. N. B. Special attention- paid to Merchant's and Physician's Orders. C. DIBBLE. GEO. M. DEWEY. B. G. WORTH. A. DAT. A. C. W ORTB. W. J. Woodward of North Carolina, with DIBBLE, WORTH & CO. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 189 Pearl Street, New York P. 0. Box, 4577. By Prompt personal attention to sales of Cotton If aval Stores and General Produce, with quick returns. said Mrs. Partlet, gently. " He was the smartest boy in the class." "That's probable enough," said the Squire. " But it don't alter the fact that he's a poor, drunken wretch now. Send him about, his business, Mary; and if his time is of any consequence, just let him know that he had better not waste it coming here after dollars." And the Squire leaned back in his chair iter a positive lashion, as if the whole matter was definitely settled. Mrs. Partlet went back to the kitchen, where Luke Ruddilove was spreading his poor thin fingers over the blaze of fire, liis tattered garments steaming as it he was a pillar of vapor. " He won't let you have it, Luke,.' said she. " I thought he wouldn't." " Then I've got to starve, like any other dog !" said Luke Ruddilove, turning moodi ly away. " And, after all, I don't suppose it makes much difference whether I shuffle out of the world to-day or to-morrow !" " Oh, Luke not to your wife V " She'd -be better off without me," said Luke, down-heartedly. " Bat she ought not to be." ' Ought and is are two different things, Mrs. Partlet. Good night. I ain't going to the tavern, though I'll wager something the Squire thought 1 was." " And think so Luke V '.' Yes yes, Mary ; I don't say but what it is," murmured Luke Ruddilove, in the same dejected tone he had used through out the interview. " Stop i" Mrs. .rartlet called to rum, as his hand lay on the door latch, in a low voice. "Here's a dollar, Luke. Mr. Fartlet gave it to me for a new piece of oilcloth in front of the dining room stove, but I'll try and make the old one do a little while longer. And Luke, for the sake of old times for the sake ot your poor wife and the little ones at home do, do try to do better." Luke Ruddilove looked vacantly first at the fresh, new bank bill in his hand, and then at the blooming young matron who had placed it there " Thank you, Mary," he said, and crept out of the warm, bright kitchen into the storm and darkness that reigned without. Mrs. Partlet stood looking into the kitchen hre. " I dare say I've done a very foolish thing," she pondered ; " but indeed I could not help it. Of course he'll spend it all at the public house, and I shall do without my new oilcloth : that will be the end of it all. And there was a conscious flush on her a air oa if alio Viorl r rr o orkmtriin(r Txrrr-r rr when she rejoined the Squire in the sitting room. " Well," said Squire Partlet, " has that ne er do well gone at last ( 1 "Yes.' "To Stokes' tavern, I suppose ?" " I hope not, Josiah." I'm afraid it's past hoping for," said the Squire, shrmrfrinp: his shoulders. "And Inow for a pleasant evening. How ur does ram, to be sure." . i n r T J 1 1 , l . 1 L J.1 your breast, S auu iurs. jranict. Kepi lac secret, oi iub On that gentle pillow again let me rest. I UUiiai um ? llum UKl uw u ueai u Let me gaze up once more to that dear lovmJ It was six months afterwards that the cvo a squire came into tne room wnere nis wne And then Oh, me thinks I can willingly die. The Boj'and hisIAngel. Oh, mothor I'vcjboen with'an'angel to-day, I was out all alone in the forest to play, Chasing the butterflies, watching the bees, And hearing the woodpecker tapping the trees ; So I played and I played till so weary I grew, I sat down to rest in the shade of a yew, Whilo the birds sang so sweetly, high up in the top, I held my breath, mother, for fear they would stop. Thus a long while I sat looking up to the sky, And watching the clouds that went hurrying by, When I heard a voice calling, just over my head, That sounded as if "Come, Oh brother 1" it said ; And there right up over the top of the tree, Oh mother an angel was beck'ning to me. And, "brother, ouco more come, Oh brother," he cried, And flew on light pinions close down by my side 1 And mother Oh, never was being bo light, As the one which then beamed on my wonder ing sight. His face was as fair as the delicate ehell, His hair down his shoulders in fair ringlets fell, While hia eyes resting on me so melting with love, Were as soft and as mild as the eyes of a dove ; And somehow dear mother I felt not afraid, As his hand on my own he caressingly laid, And whispering so softly and so gently to me, "Como brother, the angels are waiting for thee !" And then on my forehead he tenderly pressed Such kisses, Oh mother, they thrilled through my breast As swiftly as lightning leaps down from on high When the chariot of God rolls along the black sky ; While his breath floating 'round me was soft as the breeze That played in my tresses and rustled the trees. At last on my head a deep blessing 'he poured, Then plumed his bright pinions, upwards he soared ; . And up, up he went through the blue sky so far, He seemed to float there like a glittering star ; Yet still my eyes followed his radiant flight, Till lost in the azure he passed from my sight. Then Oh how I feared as I caught the last gleam Of his vanishing form, it was only a dream 1 When soft voices whispered once moro from the tree, "Come brother the angels are waiting for thee!" Oh pale grew the mother and heavy her heart, Tor she knew her fair boy from this world must depart, That his bright locks must fade in the dust of the tomb, Ere th' autumn winds withered the summer's rich bloom. Oh, how his young footsteps she watch'd day by day, As his delicate form wasted slowly away, Till the soft light of Heaven seemed shed e'er i, his face, i . Anil lip prfmf. nn fn din in aof lnninn am.. nn Oh, clasp mo dear mother, close, close to V house has risen from it, and it alone. I won't offer to pay you back, for I am afraid," he added, smilingly, " the luck would dl go from me with it ; but I'll tell you what I will do, Mary, l wui give money and words of trust and encouragement to some other poor wretch, as you gave to me." And Squire Fartlet never Knew what nis wife did with the dollatJjill he gave her to t M 1 AT buy a new piece 01 ouciom. The Lottery Business. It is esti mated by a person fully conversant with its details that there are in New Ynrk citv between five hundred and fifty and 'which has created such a reputation . J . . . . i i . . f- v rr ? j ii. . six hundred places wnere lottery num- Wi uuc avrum, anu appropriate tne con Bennett and Web. The late Mr. Bennett twice suffered street-attacks from Mr. James Watson Webb. The first attack was made on Wall street in the menth of January, 1836. On this occasion Mr. Bennett was knocked down and struck with a stick. He told the story in the Herald, saying : ueneral Webb, by cromer np behind me, cut a slash m my head, about one and a half inches in length, and through the integuments of the skull. The fellow, no doubt, wanted to let out the never-failing supply of good humor and 1L. T ' 1 , , -1 . ... bers are sold. The amount of money daily received at these places averages &20.000 per day, or SO.OOO per week, and for the yeat $6,240,000. The pro fits of the busw'P, II legitimately eon- ducted, would ie great; as it is, they are claimed to ep-JNns.--JHsy alt leged that the business is now simply fraudulent, ine numbers given out to the various policy shops, and against which those who invest their money play or bet, are supposed to be those first drawn m the lotteries sanctioned by the States of Louisiana and Missouri, the results of such drawings being tele graphed each day from the places where the drawings are held o tne principals of the lottery business in this city. It is alleged that in many instances these numbers have been falsified in order to cheat those who have wagered on the result, and in various other ways have the credulous gamblers been duped. The Women of Utah, The petition against polygamy,, signed by women of Utah, has created a great sensation there, and the papers are full of it. The ladies who drew up and circulated the petition say in a card they hive published Think what regard tor romanly purity and delicacy must previil in a family where a mother and aJMier daughters hold the relation of wive? to the same man. Think how much Mormonism has done to elevate womanhood, when it has sanctioned the iuavriage of men to their own Dieces and even their own half-sisters. Think how womanly deli cacy is fostered in households, (and there are many such in this Territory) where the home consists of a cabin with but a single room which is occupied by a man and his three or four wives with their grown daughters. Is itany wonder that true women every whers, virtuous ma trons and pure-minded girls, should en ter their indignant protest against a sys tem which has produced such results i tents to supply the emptiness of his own thick skull. He has not injured the skull. My ideas in a few days will flow as freshly as ever, and he will find it so to his cost." The result of this report was that the Herald containing the ac count of the fracas sold 9,000 copies. On the 9th of May, 1836, Mr. Bennett was again assaulted by General Webb in Wall street, very near the scene of the former attack. As was the case with the first assault a newspaper controversy led to this second exhibition of anger cn the part of General Webb. The particulars of this affair were also duly given in the Herald by Mr. Bennett. In his autobio graphical account of it, after describing the mode of General Webb's attack he said : "My damages is a scratch, about three quarters of an inch in length, on the third finger of the left hand, which I received from the iron railing I was forced against, and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will re instate for a sixpence. His loss is a rent from top to bottom of a very beautiful black coat, which cost the ruffian $40, and a blow in the face, which may have knocked down hia throat some of his in fernal teeth tor anything I know. Bal ance in my favor, $39 94." Thus was it that even out of his misfortunes did Mr. Bennett extract nourishment for his struggling paper. It was by snch direct gossip with the public, upon all imagin able subjects, light sketches of city life, and half earnest and half cynical refer ences to events in which he himself figured, that in the earlier year3 of the Herald was laid the foundation of its ultimate success as a newspaper. The Anti-Jewish Riot. A correspondent of the Levant Herald writing from Smyrna, says: "We have passed through a week of great excite ment and anxiety at Smyrna, A few days ago the report flew around the town that the body of a poor Christian child of four years of age was lying exposed at the Greek hospital, who had been tortured and murdered by a band of ferocious can nibal Jews, who, it was declared, required the blood of a Christian child as a sacri fice every year at their Passover. I at once proceeded to the Greek Hospital, as upward of 10,000 people had done before me and, on inquiry of the surgeon found that the death ot the child had been one of accidental drowning. Un expressing my surprise tnat sucn a melodramatic sort of exhibition should be made over the body, the crowd being admitted in immense numbers to inspect and overhaul the remains, I was assured that there was no other way of counteract ing the effect of the fable in circulation, and persuading the excited populace that the child had been simply drowned and not put to death by torture. Even as it was, the worthy surgeon expressed his fear that the fanaticism of the mob would lead to serious results, and his apprehen sion, unfortunately was' too speedily and sadly realized. A fearful onset was made upon the Jews that very day. In vain did the priests from the church pulpits and elsewhere proclaim the truth, and as sure the people that the child had simply met its death by drowning. Every Jew met with was horribly maltreated, and, after some hours of indicision, in which it was vainly hoped that sober sense might prevail, the excited Greek mob, with all the rascality of the town in its train, made for the Jewish quarter, sacked the houses, murdered the inmates, and committed other acts of brutal atrocity. Many Jews at length turned upon their assailants, and from attacked, in self defense became at tackers. Then the fury ot the Greek rab ble knew no bounds ; men were fiendishly beaten, women were violated, children even were not spared, and day after day until Wednesday -was tne Jewisn quar ter converted into a pandemonium oi pil lage, rape and murder. Not until then did Ilamdi Pasha, Governor of Smyrna, and responsible for human life and pub- SPRUNT & HINS0N, Cotton Factors AND (JEISERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Wilmington, X, C. Full cn.h advancement made on Cotton consigned ta them. Ther warrant tull market price., prompt sale! aud immediate remittance of the proceeds. Tliay refer especially to uame? jLuwaon. J.q., isanaer. 9 im m. , Wholoeole and Retail Deal Tobacco, Snuff & Cigars, NO. 3 GHEEN STEEET, F ATBTTK Yn.Ia1 . g. W. S. NORMENT, Attorney at Law, LUMBERTON, N. C. rraeeir i Boheenn aod the Hjointnp CrniiMw. W. FOSTER FRENGH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, No. , 2d Street, Lnmberton, 5T. C. BTf Oppoeito Ofna oi Jmttee Sinclair. Now kiss me dear mother I Oh quickly, fort I see s The bright blessed angels are waiting for me ! j Oh wild was the anguish that swept through' her breast As the long frantic kiss on his pale lips she! pressed, i And felt the vain search of his soft pleading eye. As it etrove to meet her's ere the fair boy should die, I see you not dear mother, for darkness and, night Are hiding your dear loving face from my sight,, But I hear your lew sobbings, dear mother good bye, The angels are ready to bear me on high ! I will wait for you there, but Oh,tarry not long, Lest grief at your absence should sadden my song." ne ceased, with his hands meekly clasped on his breast And his sweet face sank down on its pillow of rest ; Then closed his eyes, now all rayless and dim, Went up with the angels that waited for him. THE ONE DOLLAR BILL. PRIVATE AND TRANSIENT BOARDING, BY Capt. E. "W. Manning. The Buililinr known n the CITY HOTEL TTa been thoroughly repaired and rearranged, aad the Jtoorae furninhed with aa entire new ootfit. Omniboa to take gueeU to and frem the tralni at all The' location is doiirable for bueineaa nea, residmt and transient. Charrne fair and nnyiable. Wtt.mikotok, N. 0. . NAT. McLEAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Lumberton, N. C. VTf Practice in all the Oonrti of North proline. ALFBBD ROWLai SU.M LETCH. LEITCH & ROWLAND, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 5th Street, Lnmberton, N. C. A. A. McKethan & Sons, A.YETTEVILLE, N. C, nv on hand alnrvw abd complete atoek of work, an are prepared to furnish from Factory or Kepoaitory a Bnoe Ueel, Eoctoays, Buggies and Harnesx Made of beet material to Uheaner tham same oaaUtt of week M be bevgbt Her er oM. Of Variouf Btf-Ue aad Prieea. Ernerieeed Worrm All Work Warranted. BmuMu dona at short Htftce for tfaBotlaii lor, Phoe Bee). IIow it did rain that November night ! None of your undecided showers, wi hesitating intervals, as it were between : none of your mild persistent patterings on the roof, but a regular tempest, a wild de luge, a rush of arrowy drops and a thunder of opening floods ! Squire Partlet heard the angry rattle against the casements, and drew bis snug easy chair a little closer to the fire a great open mass of glimmering anthracite and gazed with a sort of sleepy, reflec tive satisiaction at tne crimson moreen curtains, and the gray cat fast asleep on the hearth, and the canary bird rolled into a drowsy ball of yellow down on its perch This is snug," quoth the Squire. " I'm plad I had that leaky spot in the barn roof fixed last week. I don't object to a stormy night once in awhile when a fellow's under cover, and there's nothing particular to be done, Mary ! " Yes, Mrs. Partlet answered. She was flitting about, between kitchen and sitting room, with a great blue checked apron tied round her waist. "I'm nearly ready come in now, Josiah. Now, I wonder,' sotto voce, " if that was really a knock the door, or just a little extra rush of the wind and ram." She went to the door, nevertheless, and a minute or two alterwards she went her husband's chair. Joe, dear, it's Luke Euddilove." she said, half apprehensively. The Squire never looked up from his paper. " Tell him he s made a mistake. The tavern is on the second corner beyond.: " But he wants to know u you will lend him a dollar !" said Mrs. Partlet. " And ceuldn't you have told him, No, without the preliminary ceremony of com ing in here to ask me 1 It is likely that I shall lend a dollar or even a cent to Luke Ruddilove? Why, I had a great deal better throw it among yonder red coals ! No of course, No V' Mrs. Partlet hesitated. He looks so pinched and cold and wretched, Josiah. lie says there's nobody in the world to let him have a cent." " All the bettor for him, if he did but know it," sharply enunciated the Squire " If he had come t iust that patch half a dozen years ago, perhaps he wouldn't have been the miserable vagabond he is now." "We used to go to school together," was preserving great red apples into ielly. " Well, well," quoth he, " wonders never will cease. The Ruddiloves have gone away." " Where ?" " 1 don't know out West somewhere, with a colony. And they say Luke hasn't touched a drop in six months. " I'm glad of that," said Mrs. Partlet, "It won't last long," said the Squire, despairingly. "Why not?" " Oh, I don't know. I haven't any faith m these sudden reforms." Mrs. Partlet was silent; she thought thankfully that, after all, Luke had not pent the dollar in liquor. Six months six years the time sped along, iu days and weeks, almost before busy little Mrs. Partlet knew that it was gone. 1 he KuddiJoves had come back to Sequosset. Luke had made his fortune, as the story went in the far away El Dorado, vaguely phrased " out West" by the sim ple bequosseters. " lhey d say," said Mrs. Buckingham, " that he's bought that ere lot down op posite the Court House, and he's goin to build such a house as never was." -x " He must have prospered greatly," said gentle Mrs. Partlet. " And his wife, she wears a silk gown that will stand alone with it's own rich ness," said Mrs. .Buckingham. " I can re member when Luke Ruddilove was noth ing but a poor drunken creetur." " All the more credit to him now," said Mrs. Partlet emphatically. A New Cuke, fob Begging. One of the petty kings in India has proved him self to oe a shrewd statesman. He has been troubled by a swarm of begcars in his Mr gdom, and idleness was rapidly increasing. The evil was so alarming that he resorted tcLeVTong. menr.i.t2 cure it. ne oraerea tnat ail paupers found begging should at once be com pelled to learn to read and write. The law operates well in two ways. Some of the most worthless idlers prefer a little easy work to study, and they take to some kinds of labor to escape begging and its penalty. Others are glad of the opportunity of an education, and they make intelligent and skilful laborers. The King, in his anxiety to promote education, has also ordered that the families who cannot well spare their children for school on account of pov erty shall receive a certain allowance from the State. Light is evidently spreading in India. A Smabt Boy. The Detroit jPree Press mourns the loss of a smarb boy in this manner : The public will regret to learn that the family of James Otis, Porter street, is to remove to Saginaw, taking young Johnny along. The boy started out two years ago by shooting himself. Two months after he choked himself with a fishbone. A few days after he built a fire in the barn and called out the steamers. He then swallowed a top, got run over by an ice wagon, fell into the river, was lost for three days, and first and last he has been a fountain of loeal news, whose value can not be estimated on a slate four feet square. If the Sagi naw reporters only commence on him right he will "pan out" at least three times per week. He should be furnished with "a box of matches, ahorse pistol, and plenty ot gunpowder, and it won t do any harm to pat him on the back occa sionally and tell bim that his efforts are appreciated. In a Crauberry Patch. Some years ago Mr. Sackett was a successful merchant in Chicago and being known as a man of generous and specu lative turn of mind he was requested bv two friends of his to invest with them an equal share in the purchase of western land with a view to its rapid increase in price. More as an accommodation to them than regard for the profit, he consenfed, and furnishing his part they went West to make the purchase, while he remained at his business in Chicago. Now these enterprising friends Jf his found that they could buy up n large tract of land near Berlin, Wis., verylow by including in it a portion of worthless swamp. They closed the trade and in making the divi sion among themselves they took each a third of the fine land and left the mud and water for Mr. Sackett, who' had never seen the land and accepted the division on faith in his friends and for some time he continued to pay the taxes until he failed in business and thinking to real ize on the sale of it, he went West for that purpose, when to his dismay, he found that far from being able to sell it, he could not even give it away. Sighing just a little at the duplicity of his friends, who had so divided the valuable and left him the worthless, he wandered over the swamp, he almost disdained to ".all his own and splashed through its mud and water in desperate hopelessness. Poverty and want, stared him in the face, when, lo, something else stared him in the face too ; he found something upon his land. What, was it ? It was not California gold nor North Africa diamonds, neither was it oil, iron or coal. It was wild Cran berries. " Presto change !" Now mark he order within its walls : not until then did he advance the troops upon the scene ana quell tne mob eliectuaily. Ine ap parent inaction of Hamdi Pasha may be explained by the fact that on Saturday he had only 180 soldiers in the town to make headway against 10,000 of a fanatical and exasperated Greek populace, . whereas. brought in hurridly from all quarters, we have now eight full battalions of troops, The result is that the rioters have held their hands ; the mob is kept thoroughly m checK; ana lamentable as what nas scurred, you need have no fear of its re- few al. Facts and Fancies. The word love in the Indiap ' angnaga ia "schemleudamonrtchwagerctar." Minnesota whisky sellers h&ve been fined $50 for Belling liquor to habitual drunkards. A new bug has arrived in thm Western States. He bores into grape vines and kills them. An Indiana patriarch has lived to form the acquaintance of his great-great-great grandchild. The British iron product is fcbout 5,500,000 tons a year, and the American about 2,000;000 tons. England, last year, bought $184,000, 000 of cotton from the "United States, and made it up into $372,000,000 worth of goods. Texas papers report that ten Indias, who recently raided into Wise county, were all killed by the sheriff and his assistants. Some jocose fellows in Newborn, Ind. , robbed a friend in the night for a joke, and paid a heavy fine the next day in earnest. The friend had no sense of humor. " Judge Hoar once said of a lawyer: 4 He has reached the superlative life ; at first he sought to get on, and then he sought to get honor, and now he is try ing to get honest." Startling developments have come to light in St. Paul. Minn., exposing an at tempt by a Mrs. Robinson to bribe members of the grand jury not to bring in any indictment against her. An attorney in that delightful conn- try, If ew Mexico, gave weight to his ar gument before a jury by threatening to put a bullet into the brain of any man who should dare to intimate that his client was guilty. The figures in the absolutely latest style of Dolly Varden are so delightfully large that it takes two young ladies to show one of them properly. They have to go arm in arm and keep step or else the effect is spoiled. The first Jewish ceremony ever wit nessed in Portland was performed lately. A pr?est of the faith came on from rew York, and went to the slaughter house, attired in his official robes, to kill an ox, for the food of the faithful. Many, thin", the result ; that land is worth $800 per acre, and he is worth half a million dol lars. He was a shrewd man, with an eye to business and he saw at once a fortune in those Cranberries and went to work to realize it by cultivation and systematic labor, and now he has a regularly trained brigade of children and hands to pick and prepare the Cranberries for market, for which he realizes as high as $24 per barrel, while the men who intended to play a joke on him now mourn over their own unvaluableland and sigh for the for tune their joking lost them. This is true, and if it is not as romantic as fiction, it has a better moral. " It's to be sure all o' stun," said Mrs. Buckingham, "with marble mantles and inlaid floors. And he's put a lot o' papers and things under the corner one." The corner what !" said Mrs. Hartlet, laugQinar. " Floor or mantle V " Stun, to be sure," said Mrs. Bucking ham. "Like thev do in public buildings. yu know. " lhat is natural enough. " Well, it's kind o' queer, but Luke Ruddilove never wan't like anvbodv else. r oiks thinks it s dreadful strange he should put a one dollar bill in with other things." The New Chicago.-! Spite of the ter rible affliction experienced a few months since by unicago, her population is larger by several thousand than a year ago. It was claimed in April that full fifteen per cent of the burnt portion of the city had been 'rsaCandTthe pa pers now ten ub tnat at least thirty per cent, has been rebuilt. At that rate, by the first of next January the greater part of destroyed Chicago will be restored. And not only restored. It will be much grander, much more healthful, and much better adapted to the necessities of trade and home life. Mean wooden buildmss which defaced the principal streets will Mrs. Partlet felt her cheek flush scarlet: h replaced bv maffnificout. blnoVa f involuntarily she glanced up to where the brick and marble, and lmrjrovements Squire was serenely checking off a list of legal items m the bill he was making out against some client. But the Squire never looked around, and Mrs. Buckingham went on with her never-ceasing flow of chit ehat. ana so me not coior aiea away in tier cheek. Alter an, tne money nad been her own to give, and the old oilcloth in front of the dining room stove had answered very well. She met Luke Ruddilove that afternoon for the first time since his return from Se quosset Luke himself, yet not himself the demon of intemperance crushed out of his nature, and it's better, nobler elements which were imperatively needed but which would have been postponed for years, will now be made. After all, toas the Chicago fire a chastening or a dis aster r Horrible. A pig-drover, early in the morning, having in vain knocked for admittance at the doors of a public house near the gates of the Polish town Jaros law; at last bethought himself of looking tnrougn one oi tne winaows, when he was struck by a most appalling sight. There lay several horribly mutilated triumphing at last. He looked her brightly corpses in a pool of blood. The landlord, in the face, and he held out his hand. his wife, three children (the eldest of " Mary." whom is six years of age), and a maid- " I am glad to see you back here again, servant, were found in the same room, Luke," she said, tremulously. " And well you may be," he rejoined. " Do you remember that stormy night, Mary, when you gave me that dollar bill, and begged me not to go to the tavern r " les." " That night was the pivot on which my whole destiny turned. You were kind to me when every one spoke coldly ; you i j 1 . -.1 . i irustea in me wnen an otner laces were averted. I vowed a vow to myself to prove wcrtny ot your conndence and 1 kept it, 1 did at spend the money I treasured it up and Heaven has added mightily to ray little store. I put the dollar bill under the corner stone of my new house, for the with bleeding wounds and broken skulls. The whole house was m a state of dis order. The perpetrators have not been traced as yet. Sensible Idea. The board of agricul ture of the state of Maine have decided that one-fourth of the money received from the state by the county agricultu ral societies shall be devoted to the or ganization of farmers' clubs. A Word to Landlords. The New York Standard in referring to the summer flight of so many Americans to Europe, takes the occasion to say si few words to the landlords, who, it declares, are actually driving away renumerative customers by their greed. While there are places, within tw or three hundred miles of our large cities, possessing abundant attrac tions, thousands go abroad as a matter of economy. They assert that so high are the hotel charges at our own watering places and mountain resorts that they can not afford to seek health and a summer's pleasure at home. It is cheaper to pay for a week or ten days on the ocean and pass two or three months in England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, than to climb the White MountaiHs, sketch the lunar bow at Niagara or taste the surf at Long Branch or Newport. Europe offers more for the money, so thither our citi zens go, taking very considerable amounts of currency which they would much rather spend at home, provided it could be made to go as far. The Farmer. According to the re port of the Massachusetts Bureau of statistics, very few farmers in Massachu setts are making more than a living out of their farms. The average wages of agricultural laborers per month, with board, is $27.52 without board, $44.82; of women, with board, $12.17 without I board, 26,39. These women usually do household and dairy work, though in some localities women are employed in light field labor. The laborers hired for the season' work ten hours from April to November, and eight the rest of the year, besides doing the chores at the barn. Very few native, Americans are now hired as farm laborers : there are fifty per cent of Irish, fifteen of French Canadians, ten Nova Scotians, five of Germans, and twenty of natives. Tie Biros In THirter. - What do the birds do in winter ? you know go South. As a general winter 6 cold does not seem to affect those that stay with us. The truth is, birds arc remarkably well guarded against cold by their thick covering of down and feathers, and the quick circulation of their blood. The chickadee is never so lively as in the cold weather. When the thermometer is three or four degrees below zero, it shows by its behavior that it is pretty cold. On such a morning I have seen a small flock of them on the sunny side of a thick hem lock, rather quiet, with ruffled feathers, like balls of gray fur, waiting, with an oc casional chirp, lor tue sun's rays to warm them up ; a little sober, perhaps, but ready, if cold continued, to get used to it. What do they eat? Our merciful Father does not leave the earth bare. There is food enough and to spare. The seeds of the grasses and taller summer flowers, and the elders, birches and maples furnish sup plies that th cold and snow does not de stroy ; also the buds of various trees and shrubs, for the buds do not first come in th spring, as some people think ; there are buds all winter : there are insects, too. A sunny nook any time during the win ter will show you a variety of two-winged flies, and several kinds of spiders, often in numbers, and as brisk as ever. Then in the crevices of th tree bark and dead wood there must be something nice to be had, judging from the activity of the chickadees, gold-crests, and their associates. In the winter n mischief can be done ; there is no fruit to steal. Nothing can be destroyed now except the farmers' enemies; yet the Vi c 1,-Qon o 4- Tift-lr' 11 'tTt a Timo Wf iif ci UltUO m-tj Ca V Ul Xft, ttll V M V- tlUL, II la-I IVlj too, is favorable to sociability among birds as among people. Th chickade the gold-crested wren, th white-breasted nut hatch, and the downy wood-pecker form a little winter clique. You do not often see one of the members without one or more of the others. No sound in nature is more cheery than the calls of a little troop of this kind, echoing through the woods on a still, sunny day in winter the lively chatter of the chickadee, the slender contented pipe of the golden crests, and the emphatic, business-like hank of the nut hatch, as they drift leisurely along from tre to tree. Walter, a five-year old, was surprised at breakfast by the presence of a diminu tive egg, served for his special delecta tion. He thus accounted for the egg's smallness : "Mamma, I think the chicken was learning to lay." It is estimated that there are 400 saloons and groceries in San Francisco, which dispense annually 20,Of0 barrels of lager, 5O,0CQ gallons of wine, and 2,000,000 gallons of the more stimula I ting fluids, the total value of which is $10,000,000. A-ycung lady in New Hampshire Las just secured a position as school teacher upon the following certificate : " This is to certify that Tamer Noycs stands on a medium with other girls of her age and sex, and, Tor what I know, is as good as folks in general." Billy Brennan, while playing cards in San Antonio, Texas, said, as the game turned against him, " May Christ para lyze me ! " a favorite expression of his. No sooner had the words escaped him than he fell down in a fit, from which at last accounts he had not recovered. Tbtje Hospitalitt. I pray you, oh ! excellent wife, cumber not yourself and me to get a curiously rich dinner for this man and woman that have alighted at our gate ; or bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost ; these things, if they are curious in them, they can get for a J few shillings in any village ; but rather let this stranger see, if he will, in your looks, accents, and behavior, your heart and earnestness, your thought and will, what he cannot buy at any price in the city, what he may well travel twenty miles, and dine sparely, and sleep hardly, to behold. Let not the emphasis of hospitality, be in bed and board ; but truth, and love, and honor, and courtesy, flow in all thy deeds. Emerson. ... Swine. No pig tan grow rapidly on poor food. A well-bred pig will grow rapidly oc good food a poor-bred pig will not ; and thia is the real essential difference between them. If you starve both, the well-bred pig is no better than the other.", Let young pigs have all they will eat and digest. See that they have access to fresh water. They may not drink much, but it should always be pro vided for them, no matter how sloppy their food may be. Provide ashes, Bait, sulphur and charcoal. Sea that the pens and troughs are kept clean. Little Johnny Moore, away out in Monroe, Mich., went to a picnic, and like a foolish little boy that he was, tried to smoke a cigar. It made him sick, of course, and he threw himself on the wet grass and lay there a long time. The result was he had congestive chills and died. A physician was called to see a dying infant, in Mobile, and found that the parents had previously engaged the ser vices of a Voudou woman, named Ellen Drake, who scarified the child's back, and made it swallow the blood that flow ed, mixed with a quantity of the mother's milk. A Boston bride, whose groom remon strated with her at the wedding for in dulging in a rather indiscriminate be stowal of her maiden kisses on a number of her male friends, remarked with natu ral naivete that the gentlemen in question had been in the habit of kissing her all her life, and she didn't see why they should stop now. The last of the Marshals of France who have undergone a capital sentence was the best known and most celebrated of them all, Marshal Ney, shot on the 7th of December, 1815, for fidelity to his old and treachery to his new master. . Mar shal Bazaine is the first Marshal of France arraigned on a charge of bad conduct in face of the enemy. The great pyramid weighs 12,700,000, 000 tons, if anybody wants to know. According to Herodotus, it took the labor of lOO.OUO men twenty years to buiM it. To show the mechanical value of modern improvements, Dr. Lardner af firms that 480 tons of coal, with an en gine and hoisting machine, would havu raised every stone to its position. It is stated in the report of the prison association, lately issued, that of fourteen thousand five hundred and ninetv-six prisoners confined inlthe penitentiaries of thirty States, in I860, seventy-seven per cent., or over ten thousand of the number, had never learned a trade. The fact con -vey s a lesson of prof ound interest to tho.-e who have in charge the training of boy?, and girls, too, for the active duties cf life. Here is a good thing .on the "taler bugs." Three men comparing notes : One says : " There are two bugs to every stalk." A second says : "They have crt down my early crop, and are sitting on the fence waiting lor the late crop io come up." " Pshaw !" says the third, " you don't know anything about it. I passed a seed store recently, and the bugs were in there overlooking the boohs to see who had purchased seed potatoes." An examination of candidates for ad- A Terra Haute. Ind.. urofesBional An Illinois town has two doctors who mission to the Military Aeademy at Wesfl sheepsiiearer says that he has not seen areyounj women. ,A great many other Point, resulted in the rejection of twenty- J such fine fleeces in the last fifteen years towns have that many doctors who are our ut of ninety one appneants. as this year s clip shows. old women. Fatality. In Chicago, on Saturday, at an early hour, the body of a man was seen hanging from a small window of a bar in the rear of a residence. Upon examination it was found that the de ceased was Frand Barbier, brother of the owner of the place, with whom he resided. He had attempted to get into the bain, through the window, aad got fastened fn so that he was unable to extricate him self, and was literally bitten to death by a horse that stood to the xear ef him. '1 i V': J
The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.)
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