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A FAMILY, PAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, AGRICULTURE, ,l -VNTJFACT CRES, COMMERCE, : AND MISCELLANEOUS READING! - J STATESVILLE, N. C., .SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1879. NO. 43. "Reunited. .The front door ef a neat bouse, of mod erate pretensions, just outside of an In : diana nwn, was hastily opened as night wop epming on and a man was thrust vio ltmlvj into the street,; or rather the road. . - The "man who was ejected was young, and might have been handsome had it not lieen for the dissipated appearance of his features and the untidiness of his dress. "At the moment he was evidently intoxi cated. - The man who ejected him was an elder - - ly gentleman, whose face was red with honest indignation, which also showed it . self in his voice and his language. - ..Albert Wakely was a lawyer of ability and promise when he married John Byrd's ' daughter Mary, although he had already contracted a fondness for drink; . This passion did not abate sfter his mar riage, but grew upon him, and at the birth of his boy he had become; no better than a loafer, sheltering himself with his wife in t he -house of his fatlier-in-la w, to whom his ' family looked for all the ntcessaries of life. John Byrd was not the man to patiently endure his son-in-law's wortlilessness, and 'Tlllreatinenf of his wife, and at last, when "Wakely eanle crawling irrtqthe house after ' - .a prolonged absence ' and debauch he opened "the door aad expelled him forcibly. -"fad-off ! he "exclaimed with hie voice full of, anger. - ; "Go off , Albert Wakely, and never darken my doors again! You . have no longer a home here, and you shall never set your foot iu my house after this.'' Wakely murmured - something aliout wanting to see his wife . - rhe dou't want to see you. . Go off, I 'ir, a -No body -here cares what becomes of old man Went back ito Ihc Bousc-t . and closed and locked the door, while the - young-one stumbled-up the road, his hat over his eyes, and his faculties apparently - dazed. -..-""'::-." i.''Vv:'-- He thus wandered on, never looking up, : nor glancing to the right or the left, stupid and purposeless, until he reached the bank of a stream. ' Ignoring the bridge, he would have walked into the water if fie had not been ' seized and forcibly restrained by a man. ... who had noticed his strange movements. ; "What, Wakely, is this you? What are " you doing? Where are you going? " ' ub don't know,1 was the sleepy reply. ."WhereamJ?" . ej- "You. would now be in the water if I had "not stopped you. You have been drink- Ing, -Wakely. ." .(.'omc, let me take you Slionie." .,- - - ? At this word Wakely suddenly straight ;"ened himself up. raised his hat and pushed the hair from his eyes. - - "Home.:" he exclaimed. "I have no ho!ne,"-.. ' .. ' In response to the wondering questions f of the other, he related, more lucidly than i .might have been expected, the story of his " expulsion from John Byrd's house. '"That's" nothing," . said ?i his" friend. . "Come to town with me, and straighte 1 up, and it will all be right in the morn ing. ' ' " ; .",-'--j-- r"U will never be right, Mr. Henderson," replied Wakely. -This is the end of it. I have been driven out and I deserve it, and I wifl-itevdr set foot in John "Byrd's house again,-- That is not all. ( I will never drink another nrop of Hquor as long as 1 live, so help nc heaven l"1 s 1 ' ' . ." - ; - '.- VDon't b rash. Jit U-a good thing to quit,' but you will have to ease off, you - knOW; - V l" "- .; -. ' ':. . - . "Never! . I will not touch another drop if I diij for it. J mean to leave here and - lead a new life under a 'new name." "If yon really mean that, Wakely, I can put you in the way to make a man" of youf . self. ' I am going to Colorado. Go .with " Lj:,ay your way and help you No start m lute. 'Jtr Henderson, "atiturte -v v lm-H Ti. ' "1 i .-ioubing as if 1 ..,u done,; iather ?" she r-vv ua luive you done ?" lI have' driven away that . worthless vagabond," he ro-;ghly replied, "and have 'ordered, him never to darken ; niy doors ' again. ' ; .You might have given him another chance. He is my husband, and he is the father of my child." '':;.' : "He has had chance enough.,; He shall not be your husbaDd much longer.;' He slfall toiture you no more. , I- will, get .a . divorce for .you." ; - "I want no divorce," sobbed Mary. "You don't know what you want. Yon ' need a diverce and you shall have it. I have taken this matter into my own hands. Worsham is ready and anxious to marry . . ou-" - " - . ' - : - , S; vears' have passeil since Albert Yi': ' 'v was summarily ejected from the nou-Mi H ujs mimr-m-iav. . " . l r f .ii . " . At the mouth of a ennon in soullicrn C - ol - tv,otnrt,,rfri tniTpnt 1ms nossetl .,,,.), the cleft in the mountains ana becomes a placid stream as it debouches on a !n selio. rude find fertile valley, a single -prairie i i s stopped, and its driver, a d-f 'mted fellow, is seen in conver 1 m n' 1 man, who is evidently arii'i him in vain. :" no use," said the -driver at last; me ns f ar as your money will ju'sti i i -r, and here I mean to quit. -sin to stop anywhere this is as fy, "It 5 ft I ,,-e aa you win una. -11 you r v or he!p general C'l.anee , t lo you." i valley I"' asked the "Htrowni ever so many acres of land, j the Kan .ienilo mine and more horses, cat-1 tie anil sheep- tnau you kin -count., But here comes one of his ranchmen, and 1 will turn you over to him.? , ; : . - -.- The driver exp?aiued "the circumstances of his "freight", to the ranchman, who ..re quested the old man to accompany biirito the house," and the latter patiently com plied with the request, leading by the hand a bright little boy. 1 .-,;. They soon reached 4ithe house,' a low and straggling collection of buildings, and were ushered into the presence of its own er, a tall and line-looking man, ' with his facv covered by a" heavy beard and his' eyes fcliaded by. a wide slouched bat, who was seated in a raw-hide chair reading a news1 paper and smoking a long pipe. He list ened in silence and with apparent indiffer ence to the story the ranchman told him.. - "What is your name?" he asked, ad dressing the old man. ' ' " , "John Byrd. sir." . "Where are you from?" , "From Indiana." "Ah! Any family with you J" - ' "My daughter, Mrs. Worsham, and her - .. -" -. v mow, i suppose." j '"Her husband is dead, sir," patiently re-' plied Byrd, although he resented the tone of these inquiries. "First husband, or second?'1 ' ; ' - "Sir., Worsham was her second husband. 1 She had been married to - a drunken, 1 Vworthless vagabond whom I was compel led ! fto drive away. ' .... ll J"l. . 1 11 V, Alll, 1 l. llgllt. What became of the vagabond !" . "I don't know." - . V "Died, I suppose. - It is of no conse quence what became of him. Then a di vorce followed?" : - "Yea air T inaiatfvl nnnn a Hivnreo against my daughter's wish, and she mar-! ned Mr. Worsham, a well-to-do man. ..But bad luck fastened upon us and never let go. : Mr. Worsham died insolvent, and one reverse after another swept away my little property and I was forced to come out here to begin life again. ' It is a hard- task, sir, for an old man." "I should say so. You ought to have remained among your friends. What boy is that?" .- "My grandson," faintly replied . Bvrd, who was weary of this style of question ing. - . - - . J'hon of the vagabond, or of Worsham? "Albert is the son of my daughter's first i husband. -'--.. "1 have taken a faney to hira. You want a home, and I will tell you what I will do. Give me that boy aud I will-give you a fine ranch, well stocked, with every thing you need to make you comfortable. Is it a bargain?" "Do you expect me to trade off my daughter's child ?" indignantly demanded Byrd. , - "I forgot about hen, Of course b!ic has an interest jn him. Suppose you ask, her. She ought to be willing . to' accept " a' eon fortable home for life, when she knows that the boy will be well provided for.".- ; ;t "I will bring her hens if .you wish.'-' ',.-" "No Ijdon't want to fcee any women folks. A&k her and bring me-word," ; , '-. 'i wilt ask ney" replied the -old man; 1 'but I 'know What her answer .will be." ? ' John -Byrd soon returned and Informed crenerai Chance that Mrs. Worsham had.rea ... . -T. . Bn MHWIfmlB wi boy." ' :--. . - "Very well," said that gentleman. "That is all I have to say to you. You may go." " . " - John Byrd sadly left the house, and its owner signed to the ranchman to- remain. "Mr. ; Whipps, J said he- "I wish you would follow that old man. " Take him and his family, down to Hiller's ranch, which is vacant, . and settle them there. Supply them with stocky provisions, . and everything they need to make them com fortable, and let me ki.ow if money "is needed." - - '. - to John Byrd and . his little family, greatly to their surprise, were settled and made more than comfortable.. There was nothing to trouble them- but the uncertainty of their tenure and a fear that another direction might be taken by the peculiar disposition of their strange benefactor who would not allow Mrs. Worsham to come near his . house, saying that he "didn't want to see any' women folks." :,- .: .... - . r . - He, only endured her father, but was very friendly to the boy, whom he present ed with a fine pony and a saddle; For his own part he seemed determined not to show his face at the Hiller ranch. ; Providence,, however, was disposed to set aside this determination. - r As he was returning one day from a dis tant stock-farm his horse sh ed, and threw him near the Hiller ranch, dragging him for some distance by the stirrup. He was carried into Mr. Byird's house, where it was discovered that his head and ; face "were so badly cut and hrqised that it "would be nec essary to remove his hair and beard. - When this operation had been performed Sirs. Worsham came into the room for .the purpose of helping to dress his wounds, and fairly shrieked as she saw him. - "Albert Wakely !" she exclaimed. : 1s it really you?" T . . "Yes, Mary, it is I," quietly . replied General Chance. ? "If you are going to do anything for me, please do without a fuss. " Mary Worsham took care of him; and he enconraged her attendance; When he was stronger he spoke to her more freely. ;. .uj wj and to your second marriage ?" . T , vHary, did you really object to a divorce Yes, Albert, I never loved any man but the father of my child, in spite of his great fault, and I object to everything that could injure you. But you ought not to blame father. He meant to act for the best." - - ' :i.vv. ."I don't blame him. ' J was for-the best. - It made a man of me, and I am, as I ought to be, deeply grateful' to him. Mary, th t is a fine boy of ours." ; , v . M'ithin a month there was a wedding on the San Benito estate which was made such an occasion of rejoicing as to be long re membered in that region, The contracting parties were Walter Chance, as he was still determined to -be known, and Mary; widow of A brain Worsham. - . ; -,,- Weather Guide The colors of the eky at different times are woudCrlul guidance. . Not only does a clrar suuset presage tair Veaiher, but there are . other frnts which speak with clearness and aeeur- I.- u, 01 l.wlt f . -.v... cates winu; a paie jeauw, n iucu- tral grey constitutes a favorable one in the morning an unfavorable, one In the evening. The clouds are lull of meaning In themselves.. If they 'are soft, uudeflned, and feathery, the weather will be fine; if the edges ace hard', sharp and dtflnite, it will be foul. Generally speakiue, any deep, unusual hues betoken wind and rain; whilo more quiet and moderate tints bespeak fair weather. Simple as these maxims are, the British Board of Trade has thought fit to publish them for the use of seafaring men. . ,.. ;: -',- Cabnl. The diversiiled crowds of people that surge through the streets of Cubul agree in a way. At night when the narrow bazars are aglow with the reflected light of .. oil in little metal wick lamps, ignited cotton floating in earthenware saucers, or the wood fires of the cooks, the Ferguanee has no objection to sit side by side with the Bok- hanan on -r e low, open verandah ot the cook's shop ; and on the same platftrm, with the seethine flesh-riot in the centre, containing little lumps of meat Bkewered upon a stick, VpTeseatanves of twenty dif ferent Mohammedan n'ttionaliiies are con tent to sit together upon terms of equality, and afterward to exchange the hookah and the national love song, and the romance of chivalry and theft. r:; Our native ngents-who have lived in Cabuj, representing the gov ernment of. India in a' fitful fashion, have hinted at crimes being frequently committ ed in the bazars; and as the Cubul woman is celebrated in Eastern song for her eyes, her height, her "olive skin, her-long black 'lirii and her. gallantry though rever, for ner love ot washing, it easy if see now s fch a hoihtl of ijpthinkirts rsi( w-4 C. bul is, might become a hotbed al?o for as sassination and counter assassination; The Cabuls have no known police, and it is be lieve 1 -that the - inhabitant would object to the introduction of conscientious individ uals of that class, because they would inter fere with ancient prerogatives.' Troops are employed as revenue -collectors at dif ferent times of the year, and, as they col lected revenue for themselves as well as for the State, the Cabuli cherishes a hatred toward all revenue collectors unless he hap pens to be one himself. . ' Like other Oriental townSiCabul is filthy. Sanitation is not even a dream with the in li&bitants. There are four principal roads, which are from thirty to forty feet broad, and these are considered the handsomest streets. One is the Great Bazar or Char cutta, composed .of onestofy mud houses, which have verandahs, slightly elevated above open-gutters, opening full upon the streets. : : These verandahs become shops in the daytime, and are stored with speci mens of all the furs, silks, and wool and hair cloths that Central Asia produces. " In the evenings three or four cronies sit on a mat in- almost every shop, set a lamp in their midst, fold their feet, put on their skullcaps, and smoke and tell stories till midnight. Another great bazar, leading from the Western jSate to the Ba!a Hissar, j is monopolized by cooks and butchers. Heads apd carcasses are suspended there in plenty, but no trace of the unclean ani- j mal, the pig, is discernible. It is in this bazar, by oillight, that some of t he most pieturesque looking ruffians in the world may be seen. Observe this one. : A man over six feet high; his head conical shaped, the jet black hair close cut, almost to the bone; his face long, sallow and fringed with -grwzly black whiskers, which meet beneath in one long matted beard ; the eye, small, black, and keen; the nose" arched ; and thm;."th? mouth cruel and compressed; I the chest and arms to the elbows bare : the body - enveloped in " a tattered blue shirt, reaching beneath the knees ; bare, scarred legs;- the!feet' treading on grass sandals, which are held on by the toes. .This is a Cabuli beggar, and a most arrant villain he C , Ul I. ., nnnnf,nla a Imlfa ISy ilH, UlaUZVl 11 in Ilt&B, lie WUTOUO n auuii like the rest of his amiable countrymen, and Will we U wfta-w rRsfo -n-ht-is tempted. The cooks are glad enough to toss a kabob or two to gentlemen of his class. The other two roads have no partic ular characteristics, excepting that they are a great deal broader than by far the larger portion of Cabul. V Off these four principal roads numerous dark and filthy lanes, twist ing for a quarter of a mile at a time, and not more than three feet broad, shoot at frequent intervals. The flat-roofed houses in then) are made of mud, thickly mixed With straw, and the apartments are dark, square holes, much worse than the much decried shanties of the Galway peas ants. Men, women and children sleep to gether, and never change their garments till thes drop off. i Frequently cattle and fowl are to be found crowded into- these apartments, together with "the human - inmates.-. Such places are dangerons to all strangers. Not even an unusual pariah dog could stray Into' them, for he would be worried by a hundred jealous, big-boned, hungry curs. - In the last British attack on Cabul, Afghans who preferred "dying like poisoned rats in a hole," retreated to their tortuous streets and lanes, and many a-good life was lost in hunting them out bhakespeare'a House. Within the last week or two there has passed away another relic of the London of the days of Elizabeth, the residence on. the western side of ; Aldergate, commonly known as "Shakespeare's house." The local tradition goes that William Shakespeare lived in it when he was proprietor of the theatre in Golden lane, toward the elose of the fifteenth century.. In Shakespeare's time the house bore the sign of the-"Half Moon.'' to whidh sundry inscriptions and hieroglyphics in the old wood-work referred. A writer in the City Press in 1866 de scribes the house as well able to "vie with any other house iu the city for its elaborate carvings in wood and primitive panelling, well worthy of those curiousjn such mat ters.',. As a proof of its age he mentions that during some recent repairs there was found under the wood-work a coin of the date of 1596. ' It is recorded in Mien John son's Ldf e" that on one occasion the "rare old poet, feeling an inward craving for "sack," went to the "Half Moon," in Al dersgate street, but finding it closed, took himself off to the ."Sun," in Long Acre, where he immediately sat down and wrote the-following epigram: , 1 "Since the Half Moon is so unkind ' .' Tj make me go about, .. . Te Sun my money now shall bave,' ' The Moon shall go without." . Halt a century or more later, the aristo cratic and literary wits of the- "Aleiry Mon arch's" court were accustomed, we are told, to assemble at the "Half Moon" tavern; opposite pa Lauderdale House, which, as is well known, stood on the east side of the street "Shakespeare's house," however, with its heavy projecting gables and quaint oriels and bow windows, is now a thing of the past, and a! large pile of modern- build ings is abeut to be erected on its site. t:R)llomia Vineyard. The vineyards of California cover 60,000 acres, with 45,000 of grape vines, valued at $130,000,000. Three years ago the. Bal timore Sun called attention to the oppor tunities then offered to buy vineyards for a song. In every direction people wero up rooting vineyards as unprofitable. Grapes were $10 a ton, which did not pay , A hundred foot-hills farms could be bought for- the cost of fencing, Jwenty-five acres of bearing vineyard -going for nothing. Though cheap, grape vines have now some value. And orchards, then of little ac count, have greatly appreciated by trie in troduction of fruit-curing. Grape syrup is now being made, and its great superiority over other "table syrups will win favor. Small vineyards can now make a better market than $15 per ton for grapes at the. wine press. . "There' million ol Ttm ' Ou lu 7'Ji inst. a party of hunters left New Albany, Indiana, for : the celebrated Pigeon Boost, in Scott county, where ft is said, acres of timbers are covered nightly with wild pigeons, t For the past seventy five years this noted locality has heen a roosting place for pigeons, and millions of these birds congregate there nightly during the seasons of their visits to this section of the country. They By away W the mornings to their feeding placer in the woods and fields of Indiana and Kentucky, distant from the roost in many instances from one hundred to three hundred miles, returning again at night, the arrivals often continuing ud to midnight, v The timber on the thous- &nta nf acre onvered hv this roost Is broken down badly, large limbs being snapped off like reeds by the accumulated weight oi tne oiras upon mem. xurougnoui um en- : ntcous entre-'tv. . tire night there is heard-the cracking and "Oh uncle Uiarton 1 Fred, oh Fred I If crashing of limbs, the hum aud flurry and my j could have saved you 1 ; Oh, why drmmming of wings, and the explosion ot .lidii't thev .ml the word just a little firearms and .the confusion and bediamic ; oa -jit, in"tl,at I cui::d have saved you, thrashine sounds caused bv people beatthei'' " " - the l-lrds from the ty with. Ions po'"- ThonMnda o p4iOJJe-,Jre kiiid nigaiij v; but all this slaughter seems to make no di minution in the vast flocks that congregate at this roost. This Scott county pigeon roost is historic ground. It was in. this neighborhood that the most barbarous slaughter that darkened the pioneer days of Southern Indiana wctured. In beptem- ber, 1812, a party of thirty Potowattomie Indians made an invasion into this section of .the State. In the Pigeon Roost neigh borhood was a settlejient with a total pop ulation of thirty gpuls. The Indians attacked this settlement killing and scalping twenty four of the thirty settlers, most of them women and children, and then burning the bodies of their victims in the cabins, which they fired. Mrs. Beadle and her two chil dren, and three members of a family named Collins, were all that escaped. Mrs. Bea dle carried the news to the settlers in Clark county,' and next day a large company of the militia started in pursuit of the bavages, coming up with them just as they reached the north bank of the- Muscatitic River in their canoes. The river was at high, liood and the pursuers, having no boats, were compelled to give up the; pursuit. This was the last inewsion of the Indians made into Southwestern Indiana,-' In the local history of the State this savage slaughter has ever since been designated as the Pigeon Roost Massacre. - Eva's Fortune. - As fair as a man'eyer looked upon, pure as a daisy, was Iva. Lorne with a fortune of a hundred thousand - in her own un disputed rights and her guardian had just tilted himself back in his chair, and looked straight in Fred Jasper's handsome eyes, anil told him that it.- be wanted' Iva Lome and her fortune, he might have her. , 1 A hundred thousand and Iva Lottie, it would set him up for life. make him inde- pendent for all time; Only ho .loved -Bessie Campbell Fred Jasper was a fine fellow ; fine-looking, talk manly, with bold, handsome grey eyes that liked to look and smile at a pretty girl, and with a caressing mode of speech and way'; of -manner that xa . not. eaey to resist ; and Mr, Catherton had frankly, de- liberatly-told this young man thai there golden handfuls she could bring him. t ' Of course Fred enjoyed the compliment, but that argument was not so powerful In ita effects'as Mr. Catheron had intended.- "But, sir, you bave not taken Miss Lome into consideration. Remember she has never seen me or : ". . . ". . - Mr. Catherton interrupted him with a curious smile. " . X "Nat 'being versed. In women and their ways," or the sac redness of their confidences I don't know whether or not I betray a trust when I tell you Iva has seen" you, and well Fred, will you come up to dinner to-night and be introduced ? - " - So that was how that evening Fred Jas per came to bo sitting at one side of Mr. Catherton's mahogany, looking very admir ingly at the daisy-faced girL who; if he so willed it, was for him. Iva ha- dressed, nerseuwitn exquisite taste ana care mat evening, and a fairer vision man would not wish to see opposite him at table for all the days of his life, and the temptation sud denly strengthened and took a most seduc tive form, when the elaborate dinner was over, and Fred Insist ed on accompanying Iva to the dining-room instead of tarrying ovok the wine with Mr. Catherton. that gentlentan gave a smile of assent that was like a triumph, and Iva flushed to her love ly white forhead at Fred's eagerness. She was so sweet, so loveable only, some how a sudden thrill of icy revulsion of feeling curdled all through Fred's veins as she arose from her chair, and Fred saw she was lame oh! so lame and that be side the chair had been all the while wait ing the little velvet and satiri-cushloned crutch on which she depended. ;--- But Iva did not see the sudden look of blank disappointment and almost horror that swept across Fred's face, and she went on beside hint, her little crutch mak ing a soft thud on the thick .carpet that made him feet slrangly "ashamed, and pit ful, that made him think of Bessie Camp bell and her fine jrrace of motion, Bessie, who he knew loved him, but, who had no hundred thousand. .' . The battle began that, night, and raged manv a day. when one hour Fred . would swear to himself that nothing ever .should come -between him and the girl he loved. ,Ua nnv, . that liQ U-Qa Q ffVl -ka, Kr and the next, that he was a fool, that he could not love such a sweet, gentle girl as Iva Lome that, he would not deliberately quarrel with all his chances, and that Bes sie Campbell would be just as happy with some other lover, ' These reasonings and arguments were the actual onset of the bat tle ; and the result was that Fred Jasper and sweet lame Iva Lome became engaged to be married. They were happy enough days that fol lowed to Iva, who never once dreamed that it was for her money and her money alone that her lover would marry her, and when he saw and realized how tenderly she loved him, it made him very gentle and tender towards her, and the time went on fairly weir, bringing the wedding day with the sweet October weather. - : . "I prefer to have a quiet weeding, Fred, and-1 .am almost sure you would oh ac count of of my lameness.. Fred t I am so afraid you will be ashamed of me when I am your wife." . Iva said that to him one soft, cool Bep- tAmluir ni rrVif as thpv ftnt in tliA vivMlnortn. j linht, her fair face very sweet to see up- tui .a to his in such shy eagerness. A thousand times betweea that lovely KflTrfomher nio-ht and thn frrwtv October i i : ,4A iriwui ,,i a 1,;,., t... i f . n w,.m WCUUUlg-iaj, I'ICU I'lVl- 111111 11 111. T. M VI 1 11 girl who was giving him everything in the world with herself, and she slightly prized, so slightly esteejaed. " , I . Scores and scores of times' he told himself j he did not regret'what he had done, hot ( even when he recalled the cold, contemn- ! ' tuous looks Bessie Campbell lost no oppor-. tunity of bestowing upon him. I IAnd then the wedding day came, and the wedding-hour, and Mr. Catherton gave the ' bridal p"'r a gorgeous ban v t, s 'i t e . carrlf-9 xd at the door to c --j t t itkefc. t; ut was to take f Kit " 1 be so good, so kind to this delicate little "I don't know, your honor," Watson re- iri ,hTw r)v)nr him Bvervthino- in thfi'r'iid. nrtVmoon trip ; and In the few unoccupied minutes that intervehed, when Fred and lannaosjooti talking, there came ames-sgpr-froui Mr. Catherton's banking office witn a sealed letter from him, which, when he read it, made him pale and whiten to the lips. For one moment; then, like the hon- cit man be was, he rose to the pitiful emer gency. ' "Every shilling Iva and I had in the world is gone. .Jasper, your wife is noth- .g Dut a pauper, dependent on her hus band's bounty instead of. the heiress" you The crash of doom could have sounded m piore appallingly startling; the girl he nn married lor mtney-this lame, white- f ' 1, wild-eved eirl who started to her W , m an acrony of bewilderment, and an shcoke' pauper! . . lvaclasped her little fragile hands in me tiie-)ttry of shame. ) in her aweev eyes, ncrd thfe dffiy wall she made ; her pity for him, not for herself ; saw the great, patient devotion on her sweet, pale face, and then, as if his guardian spirit had touched the fast-sealed fountain Of his heart, there welled up through head and heart, soul and sense, new exquisite, rapturous effection for this little girl who was all his own ; such love as never had thrilled him before, that sud denly glorified and goldened all his life as he took her in his arms, sobing and tremb ling; as he'never had taken her before, kis sing her face with love's eager kisses. "My precious Uttle wife, thank God you at e my wite, and that I can help yon bear your harden. Iva, Iva, dearest!" ; That was how Fred married for money, and from that blessed day he never once regretted the loss that revealed to him a wealth of love and happiness that has not waned as the years go on, " Rabbits In Kansas. "i We rode up tie deeply-furrowed, steep killside to the level land of the divide. Here, calling our dogs from the wagon, we spread out, and each of us, accompanied by his own dogs, rode forward in a line forty rods apart." The dogs trotted slowly along, heads up and tails down, while the horse men watched for rabbits. . A yell from the ex-Confederate in gray, and instantly the hounds sprang forward, and .with eager eyes gazed in the direction of the cry. There they saw a jack rabbit jumping nim bly along in front of the horse of the yelling man. - At once a "dozen powerful hounds were in full pursuit. The rabbit at once saw that these dogs meant business, and stopping his capers began to run. He had probably been chased many times by curs, and apparently had no doubt of his ability to run away from any: dog;, but he was considerably astonished to find that this j - pack of grim, silent dogs with outstretched heads were gaining on him. He redoubled his efforts.- No use the' "pack of yellow, blue and white hounds drew nearer and nearer to him. His astmdshraent now gave place to the most intense terror, and he frantically endeavored to escape his' fate. MKhind the coursimr does came a line of hjirsemen, all the riders yelling like demonsl JoSl Tie! yie! yie! Catch im. Ponto 1 Catch 'im ! To tins excitement the cattle men added bull-liko'Sellowings. The fast est dog in the pack was on the rabbit. He made his offet for him. . The Jack turned like lightning. The empty jaws of the dog came together with a snap that sounded like the spring of a steel trap, .in turning after the rabbit this dog" was struck by an other, and both rolled over and over on the grass, v They got up bewildered to find the rabbit some fifty yards away, ana anotner dog ready to make a .pass eV him. - It is made, and again the jack is missed; he turned aside, to fall into the jaws of a pup. The shrill cry of the rabbit and the sound of his crouched bones-is heard, and all is over. Some one dismounted, and took the jack away from the dogs, and tied it to his saddle, we rested our horses ana Dreatnea our dogs. "' AH agreed that the jack had done well He was praised as 'a mighty good rabbit. Mounting; we re-formed our line and rode forward., A yell frem the right. A "big Jack was madly running there. All took after him, and as we ran, four other rabbits got op in quick succession, and oar dogs divided into- parties of two and three,' My pair of blue hounds were running" together, and a hundred yards ahead of them a big jack rabbit was bound in; along. Putting spurs' to a powerful Pat Claybourne horse, and with yell of encouragement ' to my hounds, away we swept, over hills,;! over the levels, dotvn steep hillsides, Jumping ravines, always at a full gallop, and faster and faster ran the rabbit. . Resolved, as he was a good one, Uj give him a chance for his life, I refused to ride ahead of the dogs and so turn him IS for them. If the hounds caught him" they should do it fairly. The pace got too ha$ for the jack and the dogs gradually gamed on him. They drew nea- to hiin, and separating, the dog made an offer for the flying animal. .. The rabbit dodged to the Wit and. fairly ran into the mouth of the itch. ' She, overbalanced by Jthe sudden weightln her mouth, turned a somersault and came down with a thud and a grunt on her back, but held the struggling rabbit fast in her long jaws. I tied this animal to my saddle, and seeing a ravine, I called Umrrsj.--"-'"' we went to the water-'': They T " l 1 ..: J 1 T 1 rushed in, and sitting down in the cool fluid up to their shoulders, they bit into the drink, swallowing great monthfuls of. it ; then lying down with only their heads out, half of their lolling tongues dangling in the water, they coiled off,' t, reclining on the soft grass by the bank of the psoL watched their jaws gradually close and theirton-roes slowly draw back in their mouths. . When their jaws were closed, and they were breathing naturally through their noses, I mounted aad we started back for the wagon. Another rabbit rot up, and this one grace fully ran' away from, my hounds.." They followed him sharply for a couple of miles, but I would not turn him with my horse) and he fairly outran hem. The last 2 saw of this rabbit he was going over the -crest of a bare rHge about a mile oft, and from the pace at which he was traveling I' jud ged be had just awakened to the knowledge that dogs in the plural number were around. ' ' f ... V 11 rv' !"..' A Jadife Answered. Wll'inm V.'atsrm . vonth. stood at' the bar of the General Sessions,, New York, .....,..- -v. convictea oi tne:t, . " "Where have I seen you before?" Jiidge ! fiiMersliw-VB united, thonirhtfiillv. "Yonr la .,a.inini- fa,;i;a " - . 1111. V. 1 If 1 1111I1J 1U1U111I11 IV ...v.. "Where have you seen 'tne before?" h' honor persisted. . - -C :- u -.t - -Where were you last employed? I am . i. ,v, i i..,o fhnfir. Jurfje t. " -.eeve continned,.with the a-.r i of bavii.i c .Tiered U-e pi ner at last.1"- 1 "la t Crrs'i.l IV. e loon, your honr, t-T' 1 j J i i &r"' Ted e ' ' 3 gpectv 1 ; Never. . . ". - ., Never say anything if you wouldn't have your words repeated. But, beg pardon, perhaps you never' did say" much of any thing. . ,i . , .... , Never tell all you know to a stranger, even if he regale you never so copiously with his affairs. Think you he would be more care ful of your reputation than he is of his own? Never say, when retiring, I will get np early to-morrow; for doesn't the Good Book say all liars shall have their partj etel , Never jam your finger in the door ; for to swear is neither brave, polite nor wise. : Never call a man a liar ; for the eye is a tender organ, and the sense of vision a pre cious one. - Never ask a lady to play ' upon the piano, nnless you intend to be polite enough to listen to her playingr After having talked incessantly during her performance ' - Never add hypocrisy to boorisbness, by seething to be pleased with what you thought more contemptible than your contemptible prattle. . Own np that you only asked her to play out of politeness, and failed to listen oos of impoliteness, " ' iifcvert7sl yuur ifWrsry' prodiiottooXT" another unless he press you to read them. Remember the golden rule. .. Never refuse the fruit when it is first passed you, hoping that all will show their politeness by taking the smaller, inferior apples and pears, leaving the best for your self the next time round. Not only is this mean, but yoa may overestimate the polite ness of your company. Never look over the shoulder of a man wno is writing, nave minrt upon your neaun ; ne may lorget himself. iNcver put tne mucilage brush in your lDK-stanu. irue, tne temptation is great ; Dut reniemuer that cleanliness is next to godliness. ' Never attempt to write an original article unless your scissors are sharp. Everybody likes an incisive writer. Never talk of yourself in a country where forty-odd millions of people are bent on talking of themselves. 1 The Apes. The creatures which are in some respects the most interesting to us, because they are most like ourselves in form, are the apes. Moreover, . ot only are they so like us in form, but they are so widely marked off from all other creatures except ourselves, that it seems impossible they can have any real affinity to one more than to another group of mammals below man. Apes and man, then, together frm one order, which, as ranking first, wits named by Linnoius, Primate. Witb the apes are commonly associated certain animals called Lemurs, which inhabit the vicinity of the Indian Ocean, especially Madagascar. They have not, however, any real affinity to apes, and if they are to be placed in the same order at all they must be well distinguished from its other members. It has, therefore, been proposed to divide the order Primates into two sub-orders, (as the hoofed order is di-1 vided into the "odd-toed" and "even-toed" sub-orders,) one of these to include man aud apes, and to be called, from the resem blance to the human form pervading it, ; "Anthropoidea; 1 the other Bub -order to be termed ."Lemnroidea." The first - "sub-order" is divisible into three "faml-J Hca." One of''hese(J(7?ii(dr) coo tains! man, Tforming tne genus Homo,) the 'see- ond (iiimiad(jR) contains all the apes of the Old World only, while a third (Cebutce) contains all those of America. Among the Simiadn are the onrang, the chlnpanzee, the gojilla, and the long-armed apes, (or Gibbous,) which are the most manlike of all the apes; and there can he no question that there is very much less differencs in structure between these four kind of apes and man than there is between them and the lowest of the apes that is, the marmo- .- ' - ... '' -"" IaPekln. " " " ' ' ' Wewimt down one of the broad, -streets that run for miles without a bend. The vista is closed by a city gate, , and broken by here and there an elaborate arch that spans the roadway, a pylow . erected to commemorate either wealth or vlrture ; but the green and gold have rubbed off, and the structure is out of hue, like a gravestone where the earth has sunk ; the houses, built of brick, are of one story, yet, as the fronts of the chemists' tea and tobacco shops are a mass of gilded and painted wood, some times thirty feet high, they make a dazzling show when new; but paint and gilding wear away rapidly in this climate, aad when the gold tarnishes It is not' renewed, so that there are sombre lines of faded finery broken at intervails by a brilliant flash of color, like the glare of a public house in a street that has lost gentility. The middle of the roadway is the highest ; ' there are lower roads on either side, and off these the sldewalK and the shop. At intervals the middle is occupied by rows of booths cover ed with wooden boards or with curtains of rags, where travelling merchants display their goods as m an English fair, or else cook and sell hot viands that always attract the country folk' who have come in to market. ''- At other points there are oblong groups of eager listeners, each group gather ed around a story -teller, who tells his. tale with wonderful dramatic action; and, as wise as tne editors of Western magazines, when he has worked up the audience to the highest suspense, sends round the hat - be fore he begins the next chapter. I saw nim once vehemently shake hi cash-box in the face of a mean fellow who. was- sneak ing away without paying. A few; yards off, a juggler has an equally eager 'crowd, while he-swallows porcelain cups and need les without end. A httle further, and there is the veritable box of Punch and Judy, al though" the distinguished persons on that mimic stage are but very distant and poor relations to:theh" namesakes here. On the sidewalks the chiropodist operates on way worn feet, and the barber is busy shaving customers and settling their taila..-. An an, cient scribe with horn spectacles : well on his nose is writing a letter for ' soma love sick swain, and a knot of 10 or 12 idlers gather round to hear It Other crowds have collected about ballad-singers and street musicians; and we are told that it it was tne kite season,' old gentlemen of grave aspect, would be flying paper dragons Due hundred feet long. A ceaseless throng, on foot and horseback, is in motion through all these stationary bodies.' Soldiers ride by with guns slouched across their shoulders and others armed with only bows and ar- : TOWS. UOWS ana came 18 ueaoout lue sme ways, and the camels an i loaded with sacks t , a Iiiitai-mI iimhrella anrwant and . ui - . 'T. . mandarin follows it, borne his chair, and Wltn raggea uciors Clearing uie .way, We pass a Pekin cab-stand, both the carts . snd the mules rainer isaeo,. a - goiucu 1 streak of fire rushes out of the smithy, and urchins stay and watch i it as they do at home." A Wind man threads his way by ! beating s Boleful tune upoa a tamborine. " OH me-ynnri vounst men carry- sticks to wi.ii i 0,1 us are auacnea or a utm uucau . . . ii .1-,.. . .i under the wir snd a good bird may cost .8 TH h 2. .-. b"t ot There is a souni, BOt of mournful trinr"d instru noi i c i till in tne distance ' U.: .' h t-6 press ; it -, " o are t ' I, 1 : .... j , --ill.: Ij-; coolies, who have flung scarlet cloaks over meir native poverty ; bearers : with huee structures, supposed to be a bride's presents, sometimes in- chairs, sometimes on fiat trays ; and instruments of music, banner poles, sedan-chairs,' heraldic shields, tablets coolies, trays follow in a confused and broken line as if they had no natural be ginning or end. ' Overhead there Is a musi cal whirr, incessant but not nnpleasing ; tiny lyre is Inserted in a pigeon's tail, some to guard it from birds of prey, and the wind makes the music la iu flight. , Covsot Oardea Marks. lt was a favorite practice of mine, when living in London," Eng., to rise early, and make my way to the Covent Garden Mar ket, the fruit, floral and vegetable emporium of the great metropolis ; having not only a liking for the busy scenes taking place there, ' but also an , internal arrangement which has always throughly appreciated a good "blowout" of fruit, aad the fact of getting it fresh added very much to the treat. lam afraid it would require a far more powerful pen than mine to give any jfincpjiiv; description i a -.rr.w maraet, wiucn - aro held thrice wcexly, viz., on luesdaya, Thursdays, and Satur days. Just imagine a large building stand ing in an immense open space with a wide road all round It. On this road are the huge vans of the market gardeners and growers, who bring In their vegetables and other produce from the suburbs of Lon don during the night, and the vehicles of the railway companies which arc deliver ing the produce coininc from a distance. Inside the building, which is fitted up with shops and stalls, the finer snd more delicate of the fruits, add vegetables, and the flow ers are sold ; the delicacies being spread out in such a tempting manner as to make the mouth of the most callous person water. English hot - house grapes and peaches, sweet water grapes from France and Spain, the muscat from Alexandria, pine apples, cocoa nuts, in fact every kind of fruit one can mention can be bought there at all seasons of the year by any one with the needful. How a Canadian would be sur prised at the prices given for tomatoes and peaches luxuries there and which can be bought so- cheaply here. The dealers there, as everywhere else, are good masters of the art of displaying their wares to the best advantage. The piles and baskets of fruit especially strawberries, raspberries. plums, and things of that kind are, I am sorry to say, a delusion and a share some times, those on the top looking splendid snd very appetizing, but becoming inferior the farther they are out of sight. All around buying and selling is going on, and i here is that indescriable murmur about which is inseparable from large gatherings of that kind. It is quite amusing to stop and listen to the little knots of people engaged in bartering. Some are very laconic in their enquiries, while others go In for "soft sawder" to bring the prices down, and it is great fun to watch the tricks that are adopted with this end ; then the good-homered crafting that goes on all adds to the liveness of the scene. The bustle extends far beyond the market, for" the streets lead ing to it are crowded with horses and carts of every variety belonging to the- retail dealers which are standing waiting for their loads, and the' market porters are a free-and-easy sort of gentry, showing a grew "Ulhrcgarft Tor "all couventionnlnie. I hey go about with huge baskets or sacks upon their heads, and if one does not got out of their way, it is simply a case of col lision, as they rarely think of deviating from their course. The market resounds with their gruff "By your leave," which, however, is not so much a cry of warning as one might suppose, but is given almost facetiously after the unfortunate looker-on has been hustled about. I would back them against any other class for making a road through the crowd quickly. Then, again, what a trade the coff je-sulls and itinerant vendors of cake are doing. Many of the habitues of the market are making their early meal by partaking a cup ot the "wet and cold" (as they call the coffee), which costs one penny, and thick bread and but ter or cake at one half-penny a slice. Why a hungry soul can have a banquet tor about three pence. Much more might be said of Covent Garden market morning, and of the scenes enacted there, and any one visit ing London should certainly go there. It does not interfere with the ordinary busi ness, as one must be there between. 8 and 6 a. m., to see it properly, and an hour can be passed away very pleasently snd profit ably. ' The fresh morning air,' too, gives so appetite for breakfast, which must be felt to be appreciated. . .. vt - : r The Postage al the World, Dr. Fischer, an oberpostrcUh of the im perial German Post-off! oe (corresponding to the rank of assistant secretary with us), has just published an Interesting pamphlet, showing the comparative postal and tele graphic statistics. But in some cases the information yet available does not enable mm to bring down his work later than 1873. The letter post of the whole world for that year amounted in round numbers to 9,800,000,000 letters, or about 9, 250, 000 daily ; and the numbers have been increas ing daily at an astonishing rate. Thus in Japan the number of post -offices In 187S was 1160,-andtn 1870 it has risen to 9049, The number of separate articleswblch pass ed through the Japanese post in 1878 was 47,000,000, of which 25,000,000 were let ters, 10,000,000 postal cards, B.BW.WO newspapers. Post cards were nrst orouicut into use only In 18B5, and now they are employed in almost every country in the world. ' The parcels post has, however, not yet got beyond the first stage of Its develop ment. The number of .telegraphic dis patches sent In 1877 amounted for tfcs whole globe to nearly 180,000,000, or an average of 353,000 dally. More than one third of the total number of telegraphic dispatches are private, dealing with purely personal concerns. It is unnecessary to ssy that the newspapers press absorbs a large proportion of the telegrams of the world, while the world of finance and commerce also pppropriates a giant's shaie, ', ; . -.' . ' . . suppers. t ,., A very effective pair of slippers for a gentleman can be made of the new stamped velvet or velveteen now so much in use for ornamenting furniture. A dark greenish blue shade is desirable, the pattern being worked around in Chain stitch whh pale blue knitting silk. The design should be small. It also would be artistic to work in crewels two or three daisies, arranged In a slanting position across the toe ; a ribbon in red could be worked In crewels around the stalks, and twisted into a medallion, In which a monorrram should be worked in gold-colored silk. The medallion should be arranged in s slanting position, so as to match the daisies. A MArniKD. man st Georgetown while p Ing Into tho cellar to split kiniiilnif wu.L ftll and broke his neck Iletfoeii't iic'irvc a particle of sympa thy. If his Yl'.a was too slek to per form her own work, why didn't he f' Ve Lis nie il.1 n1 the hotel in-1 leave t L.- l f r her to buiid when shs got w.l f NEWS IK BRISK.- - Circu riders get from $S to $300 per week. ..... The badger Is almost extinct lu Wisconsin. '. .'. L . i The Prince of Wales Is a member of six Paris club. .v. A'Wllmlnirton ittim'flN envlna rases petroleum for fuel. "Z"Z "... " In France naval officers plsy chess ; doctors and cures play whist.. . , . . ' A number of Swiss colonists have just purchased 75,000 a ret '0 Vebraska. There are fl.OOO papers. In'.'orth and South Aoierlca. The 'number In the whole world U 33,000. i I . . . i A statue of Cervanteshas been erected la his birthplace,' Aloalsv de Ueuares. ' ; ti -r ,.., ) . - ., j There are Hi narrow, ranee railroads In the United. States, ".with a lengthsf ' 4,178 miles. I The Pittsburg, 'A cms Cn1y manufacturing oue n,,cuu,"r' ty-tlve revolvers a 'Jr,"u"' ..A Vifsio,.. not go out fo.4K; The Amorleu,.- succeeded the Engine., gold standard of the wuTi. The Government has' cK nan r run I -i Hi -o n ntui fviin an in eagies anu nan esgies. . ... Wales was united to England' In the year 1254. First House of Common In 123a, .. The Romans destroyed 580,000 Jews and banished the rest from Judea in the year 135. , The Scotch historians claim a line of 115 kings, who reigned for a period of i.OOO years. ' In Alabama 00,000 white aud 53,000 colored children hare been enrolled In the public schools. In the whole United States tbr are 4,400 banks, with 1503,827,833 capi tal and $1,242,773,003 deposits. . ' A soven-foot fence has been built around the CarlUle (Fn) barracks to keep In the frisky young Indians. The town of Brldgeweter, Vt., was named advisedly, for It lias seventy-live bridges within iu borders. There Is a slnele farm In Kansas which is reported to have a riverfront sge of over thirty mile. . There are on Atnfl'rlcan account at the Cleveland, England, furnace or ders to the amount of 50,000 tons,. In 1873 the people of this 'world exchanged 3,300,000.000 letters; and In woo they sent 130,000,000 telegrams. , Great Briu In's debt Is now iTT8.- 078,840 an Increase of 5,400,0(0 In two years, it comes or too much Colon Is I war. During the past rear six million -acres of public lands have been taken up by settlers uuuer the bouieitesu law. New car and carpenter shoos are being erected at Johnstown, Pa., la connection with the Cambria Iron Works.- .. A bronze statue of the late BUhon Whlttlnghsm, to occupy a space near Mount Calvary Church, Is proposed In Italtimore. -.t . - y-;- t - A Cailfornlan has seven sores ol ' tube-rose, which pay better than 100 acre of wheat. Urugglsts bay them for perfumery. . ... There Is only one horse rs II road In New Hampshire. It is In Manchester, la a little over two miles loaf,, and earn ed last year f Si0. . A Lehigh county, Fa. hen now clucks to six cbtcker.s and twenty quails the latter birds of her own dis covery and adoption. . The bullion yield of Colorado op to 1879 amoeuted to nearly 80 tons of pure gold, 770 tons of pur silver, J, 110 ton ot copper, and 16,150 tone of lead. Ceylon with its popcOatioa of . 500,000 covers 34,000 square miles of of srea. Iu revenue Is 1,500,000, aud It has a trade of 11,000,000 to 12,000,000. ' The people of Burlington, X. J., continue in all seasons to keep cot flow erson the tomb of the late Bt titer. Bishop Doane, of the Episcopal Church Horace Greeley's daughters have an offer of 140,00. for the tract of land In Virginia, once supposed to be worth less, for which the great journalist paid $10,000. ... The' Lehigh car manufacturing company at Stemton, Pa., ha closed a contract ' for eleven hundred 'cars, which wilt keep the work srolng af their full capacity for a long while.. bj . The total amount ot Iron rolled tnr Allegheny county, Pa., last year,. In cluding nails, was SH2,333 tons, af eln 268,486 tons In 1877, S47.B43 In 1870, 239,069 la 1675 and 274,625 in 1874. " The-com mere of the United State with Japan Is Increasing. During fie past year the Imports from this txantfy to Japan amounted to $3,500,004 snfc the exports from Japan to the tThlteL' States to $7,BC 0,000. - ... it sli. The Oral coinage of gold Si4 llrveiri coins executed at the United 3tai, mlnU during the montn or Anruf J.997,823 pieces," Taloe $,:)" The total coinage of stand -dollars to date Is 40,237,0'" ' Five young Is" and the Mimes I'S been awarded alive. certificates by the 2a Association for savings . ' The president Of the Cai. State Vlnlcultural Society hair-ix.-- - -- 90,000 acres covered with vineyards,: numb.rtne ss.wu.ouu vines snd reprw. sentlng, with the laud, cspltal of 1.- 000,000. .-' The cultivation ef the sugar beet' lu Maine Is considered a sueoeas, though farmers are not yet thoroughly up on- the best method of Coltore. Conimer- elal fertilizers are found to be the best. An Increased outlay Is predicted fur, next year, '.' '. " "--"'.,,.'' ' There Is a man In Xorth Carolina who, some years ago, married the. wi-i dow of his own son, and she was alsoi lis own niece. She has had children, by both husbands, and there Is no end' of the complira.lous in relationsbtp llkelyto ensue. ... ... ( The yoeng sons or the Prince Of -Wales take sn eqnal share of the dutlee on board the Bacchante with the other -officers. A cricket tesm hti ben form-' ed on board to plsy any English eleven encountered at the poiu touched at by the vessel. - . . . A part of the roof of the young ladles' seminary st Bethlehem, I'a., re quiring repairs, the workmon upon re- " moving a board reeently, found a ham mer of a very antique pattern, wbt-li had evidently lx-f n 1H ln-n t i.e build ing was erected, 133 years ago. A firm In German y ii trylii t u in stitute pnjMT for whh1 In the I .i .u i -. ture of lea -1-penci The p . - U teerted In nn a Ihexive llqui 1, i.iJ i ed round tlie core of l-J to i .. re ed thkknen. After fie J cr 1 i. v it I colored, sr-1 it re. ii; , v : ,;, ; I.1.C 1, sn eruisiary t- .r
Statesville American and Tobacco Journal (Statesville, N.C.)
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