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J01M?niXTIX(il Till: ItZfS JOB DETJlXTiaLVr is p w.ia all cary maUrUl tal li t2j prtpared to da l with NLJLTXE53, EIS riTCIX uJUUt" I , - VERY LOWEST PRICES. , E sure to give ti ft trial Uf art stctrattrg wUa aoy oo Im. 1 . I VI BLISlTTrRS&)K PKOPRIETOilS. TERMS : C'asb in Advance. Ona copy one year ....... I.. . . . . . . . .$1.50 n elx months . 75 ii " threemoriths.j.. 50 ft .'.)0 when not paid till end of the Tear. VOL. XXVII. SALEM, X. C, JULY 3, 1879. XO. 27. lcJ people's iPrcssl" ' . ii ii 1 1 hi in : The! Slowing. , '. Tha clock has etrack bIx, . And the morning i8 fair, Whi'e the east in red eplendor la glowing; There's a dew on Iho grcss, and a sorig in the &ir , . ; , .J.,'" L9t ua np and te p to the mowing." Wenldet know why I wait Ere the fanlight has crept O'er the fields where the daisies are growing? V'by all night I've kept my own vigUs, nor flept? . ' :. ;.: . . 'Tis to-day is. the day of the mowing. This day and this hour Maud has promised to tell What th6 blush on her cheek was half show ing. If eho waita at the lane, I'm to know all is well, And there'll be a good time at the mowing, iltud'e mother hasaid, And I'll never deny . That a girl's heart there can be no knowing. Oh, I care not to live, and I rather would die, ; If Maud does not ccme to the mowing. What is it I set? '. 'Tis a sheen of brown hair Iu the lane where the poppies are blowing. Thank God! it is Maud Bhe ' ia waiting me there, And there'll be a good time at the mowing. of Six years have passed by,' ' And I freely declare . That I scarcely have notioed their going; Sweet Maud is' my wife, with her sheen brown hair, And we had a good time at the mowing. Harper's, i OUTWITTED. 'II ever you or yours get five ponnds oat of me, madam, before I die, 1 prom ise yoiiyou shall have five thousand; and I am a man of my -word.' So spoke Mr. Ingot Beardmore, drysalter and common -councilman of the city of Lon ' don, to Dorothea Elizabeth, his widow ed sister-in-law, who had applied to him for pecuniary succour about three months after the death txf his youngest brother Isaac, her husuand. There were harshness and stubborn determination enough in his reply, but there was no niggardly cruelty. Mre. Isaac wanted money, it is true, but only iu the sense in which we all want it. She was only poor in - comparison withthe ..great wealth of this relative by marriage. - Her income wa3 large enough for any ordinary Mr. Ingot said 'legitimate' purpose, but not snffiaient for sending her boy to Eion, and finishing Lim off at the universities, as it was the mater nal wish to do. Mr. Ingot hated such genteel intentions; Christ's hospital had been a fashionable enough school for him, and he lyid 'finished off ia a clerk at forty ponnds a year in that very re spectable house of which he was now the senior partner. With the results of that education, as exemplified in himself, he was perfectly satisfied, arid if his nephews only turned out half as well, their mother, he thought, might think herself uncommonly lucky. Her family had given themselves airs upon the oc casion of her marrying Isaac 'allying herself with commerce,' some of them called it and Ingot had never forgiven tnem. x He rather liked bis Bister-in-law, in ' ' spite of her good birth, and would have, doubtless, largely assisted her had- she consented to bricg up her children ac cording to his views; but since she pre ferred to take her own way, he'withdrew H himeelf more and more from her society, i until they saw nothing at all of one an other. , He had no intention of leaving his mor.ey away from his brother's chil dren ; he had ranch too strong a sense of duty for that; an3 R3 for marriage, that was an Ktea tnat never entered into his hard old head. He had not made a fool of himself by fallirjg in love in middle age, as Isaac had done (in youth, he had not time for . such follies), and it was not likely that at sixty-five ho should com mit any such imprudence. So his neph ews and nieces felt confident of being provided for in the future. In the pres ent, however, aa time went on, and the education of both girls and boys grew more expensive, Mrs. Isaac's income became greatly straitened. Her own family very much applauded the expen - sive way in which she was bringing up ner children, gana especially her inde pendency of apirit with relation , to her tradesman brother -irul&w, but they nev- er assisted her with a penny. The young gentleman at Cambridge ,was therefore kept upon very short allowance; and the young ladies, whose beauty was some thing remarkable, affected white muslin, and wore no meretricious jewelry. If uncle Ingot could have seenthem, his heart would perhaps have softened to wards them, but, as I have said, they now never got that chance. Jnlia, the . elder, had been but six veara old when he had last called at their highly-rented but diminutive habitation in '-'May fair, and now she was eighteen, and hadnev erseen him eince. Although she had of course grown cut of the old man's re collection, she rejnemberd 5 his figu .e bead, as she wickedly called' his rigid features, uncommonly well; and, indeed, nobody who had ever seen it wa3 likely to forget it. ' s I'hat remark of nnele Ingot's, 'If .firer ' you or yours get five pounds out of me, madam, before I vdie, . I promise you, J on shall have five thousand; and I am a ruan of my' word, had become a very serious sentence, f condemning all the family to; if not poverty, at least very urgent want. "What it meant of course "was, that he was resolutely determined to give them nothing. In vain the young iuuies worked for , uncle Ingot slippers and book-markers for his birthday, and Gent to him their, best wishes at Christ mas m highly-fcented envelopes; in vain Jack sent him a pound of the most ex cellent snuff, at the beginning of every terra. He always wrote back a civil let ter of thanks, in a clear and clerkly let ter, but there was never any inclosure. When Mrs. Is&ac asked him to dinner, he declined in a caustic manner avow ing tha he did not feel himself comfort able at , the aristocratic tables of the west Knd and sent her a pine-apple for the Assert, of his own growing. He "d-Tally no ill-feeling toward hia rel atives, although he kept hiiaself so es tranged fromfthem; but I think this sort of conduct tickled the old gentle- man'a grim sense of humor. If he could fhave found" some legitimate excuse for making it up with bis sister-in-law, withhvthe first year or two of their fall ing out, perhaps he would havo been glad to do so; but time had now so widened the breach that it was not to be easily repaired. He had afew old-bachelor friends, with whom he kept up a cordial intercourse, and spent with them various festivals of the year as regularly aa they came round. On the 31st of December, for instance. he never omitted to go down to Reading. and 'see the old year out and the new year in,' in the company of Tom Whaf fles, with whom he had worn the. yellow stockings in the schooldays that had passed away more than half a century ago. xom ana Isaac nad been even greater cronies as boys than Tom and Ingot, but the latter did not like Tom the less upon that . account; secrtrtly, I think he esteemed him the more highly as a link between himself and that luck less family whose very existence he yet chose to ignore, Mr. Whaffiss had in timate relations with them still; they came down to stay with him whenever his sister paid him a visit, and could act as their hostess; but this never happened in the last week of the year. Tom was never to speak of them 'to his old friend that was not only tacitly understood, but had even been laid down in writing. as the basis of then intimacy. On the 31st of December last, Mr. In got Baardmore found himself, as usual, at the Paddington Btation, looking for an empty compartment,' for hia own company had got to be very pleasing to him. Having attained his object, and rolled himself up in the corner of the carriage in several great coats, with h's feet upon a hot tin, and his hands cloth ed in thick mittens, and looking alto gether like a polar bear who liked to make himself comfortable when everv- s thing was arranged, I say, to the old gentleman's complete satisfaction, who should invade hia privacy, just as the train was about to start, and the whistle had sounded, but one of the most be witching young ladies you ever set eyes on! Madam, this carriage is engaged,' growled he, pointing to the umbrella, carpet-bag, and books, whic'a he had distributed upon all the seats, in order to give it that appearance. i In 1 tt ati rro nroH rr rrt I tninb civ rephed the charmer, flippantly. Hap py carriage! I wish I was. lsn t that pretty?' Mr. ueardmore nad never had any thing half so shocking said to him in all his life, and if the train had not been already set in motion, he would have called upon the guard for help, and left the carriage forthwith. As it was, he could only look at this shameless young person with an expression of the sever est reprobation. At the same time, his heart sank within him at the reflection that the train was not to stop till he reached his destination Heading. What indignities might he not have to suffer before he could olaiA pro tectum! Sue was a modest-looking young lady, too, very simply dressed, and her voice was particularly sweet and prepossessing, notwithstanding the very dreadful re marks in which she had indulged. Per haps she was out of her mind and, at this idea Mr. Ingot Beardmore broke out, notwithstanding the low tempera ture, into a very profuse perspiration. 'Now, what will you give me for a kiss, you old you old polar bear?' ask ed the fair stranger, playfully, as the train flew by E iling. 'Nothing, madam, nothing; I am as tonished at you,' answered Mr. Beard more, looking jfnxiously round the car riage in the desperate hope . of finding one of those newly-patented inventions for affording communication with the guard. - Well, then,' 111 take one, and leave it to your honor, continued the yenag , la dy, with a peal of silver laughter; and with that she lightly ross, and before the old gentleman could free himself from his wraps, or ward her off with" his muffetees, she bad .imprinted a kiss upon his horny cheek. Mr. Beardmore s breath was so utterly taken away by this assault, that he remained speechless, but his countenance was probably more full of expression than it had ever been in his life. 'Oh no, I am not mad,' laughed she in reply to it; 'although I have taken a fancy to such a wonderful old creature. Now, come, if I kiss you agaui,-what "will you give me? ; . , l f t shall give you in charge to the po lice, madam, the instant that I arrive at Reading.' 'Give me in charge! What for, you curious piece of antiquity? Foraa assault, madam; yes, for an assault.- -T Don't you know that you have no right to kiss people without their consent in this manner?' ; Here the . young lady laughed so vio lently that the tears came into her eyes. Do you suppose, you poor old doting creature, that anybody will ever believe such a story as that? Do you ever use such a thing as a looking-glass, you poor lear?, Are you aware how very unpre possessing you appearance is, even when you don't frown, as you ire doing now in a manner that is enough to frighten one? You have, of ' course, a perfect right to your own opinion, but if you suppose the police will agree with you, you will find yourself much mistaken. The idea of anybody wanting to kiss you will reasonably enough appear to them preposterous. . , 'What is it you require of me, you wioked creature?' cried the old bachelor in an agony of shame and rage. I want payment for my kiss. To a gentleman at your time of life, who saarcely could expect to be so favored, surely it is worth what shall I say? five pounds. What! not so much? Well, then, here's another for your other cheek.' Like a flash of lightning, she suited the action to her words. "There, then, five pounds for the iwo, and I won't take a shilling less. You will have to give it to the poor's box at the police station, if not to me. For I in tend, in case you are obstinate, to com plain of your disgraceful conduct to the guard at the first opportunity. I shall give you into custody, sir, as sure as you are alive. You will be put upon your oath, you know, and all you will dare to say will be that -kissed you, and not you me.' What 'roars of laugh ter' there, will be in court, and how f nn- ny it will all look in the papers! Here the young lady began to laugh again, as though she had already read it there. Mr. Beardmore's grim sense of humor was, as usual, accompanied by & keen dislike of appearing ridiculous. True, he hated to be imposed upon; still, of the two evils, was it not better to pay five ponnds than to be made the laugh ing-stock of ms bachelor friends, who aro not 'the sort of people to commiser ate one in a misfortune of this kind. In short, Mr. Ingot Beardmore paid the money. Mr. Thomas Who flies fonnd his guest that evening anything but talkative. There was a select party of the mala sex. invited to meet him, by whom the rich old drysalter was accus tomed to be regarded as an oracle; but upon this occasion he had nothing to say; the consciousness of having been done oppressed him. Ill a lips were tightly sealed; his cheeks were still glow ing from the audacious insult that had been put upon them; his ringers clutched the pocket-book in which there was a five pound note less than there ought to be. But when his host and himself were left alone that night, seeing the old year out, and the new yer in, his heart began to thaw rmdrr tne genial influences of friendship, ana he told his late adventure to Tom' Whaflles, not without some .enjoyment o his own mischance. , I could really almost forgive the jade, said be, 'for having taken me in so cleverly. I dare say, however, she makes quite a profession of it; and that naif a score oi old gentlemen nave been coerced before now into ransoming their good name as I did. And yet she was as modest and ladylike looking a girl as ever you; saw. " 'Was Bhe anything likefAu inquired Mr. Whaflles, producing a photograph. Why, that's the very girlr exclaimed the guest. Ha, ha! Tom; so jou, too. have been one of her victims, have you? Well, now, this is most extraordinary. .Not at all, my dear fellow. I rnow her very well: and her sister, and her mother, and her brother, too. I can in troduce you to her if you like, lhere s not the least harm in, her; blees you, she only kissed you for'a bit of fun. 'Abitoffuhl' cried Mr. Beardmore. 'Why, ehe got aflve-pound noto cut of mel' V, But she does not mean to keep it, I am very sure.JVbuld you like to see her again? " Come;yes' or no?' 'If she wiirgiye me back ray money, yes.' ' : Very welL returned the host; 'mind, you asked for her yourself;' and he rang the bell pretty sharply twice. 'Here she is: it's your niece, Miss Julia. Her mother and sister are now staying under this very roof. Yes, uncle said the young lady, de murely. 'Here is your five-pound note: please to give me that five thousand which you promised mamma if ever she or hers got five pounds out of you; for you are a man of your word, I know. But what wculd be better still would be to let me kiss you once more, in the character of your dutiful niece; and let us all love you as we want to do. It PRESENTED TO TH.E qUEEX. was an audacious stratagem, I admit, but I think you will forgive me come.' There go the church-bells! cried Tom WhafHes. 'It ia the new year, and a fitting time to forget old enmities. Give your uncle a kiss, child. Uncle Ingot made no resistance this time, but avowed himself fairly conquer ed; and between ourselves, although he made no 'favorites among his newly reconciled relatives, but treated them with equal kindness; I think ho always liked niece Julia best, who had been the cause of healing a quarrel which no one perhaps had regretted more at heart mora than uncle Insrot himself. A Eoinance In One Chapter. Norman Spencer, a bookkeeper of a oil , . company, en d oed Pennsylvania S17.500 of the company's funds a few months since and fled to Texas. The robbery was carefully planned, and the thief intended to - take a new name, set tle down as a planter and marry a girl from Titu3ville, to whom he had long been engaged. She knew all about this scheme, and was to join him as soon as practicable.. A detective was set to watch her. and when she started west ward, after, receiving a mysterious let ter, he guessed ehe meant to join her lover. He shadowed her on her journey so closely that she became aware of his watching. At Qaincy, 11L, she hired a woman of about her own size and shape to put on her own traveling suit, cover her face with a vail and go to Chicago. The detective unsuspectingly followed the wrong woman, while the real one went on to meet the fugitive thief. Meanwhile Spencer had bought a plan tation near Galveston, Texas, and had fallen in love with a neighbor's daugh ter. Desiring to marry her, he wrote to the Titasville girl at a point on her j .umey that sha need not come to him. Toe Titnsville girl was as quick at re venge as she had been at deceiving the detective. She at one 3 informed the police where Spencer was, and he has been arrested. TUe Expert?reNarrat4 fcjr a HprtkU ly Enllh Vnl4y. At last we started in tuch a cloud of tulle and silk, and feathers, and flowers, that our dearest fricnls could sec noth ing but the tops of our heads, like cab bages growing in a thicket of woods. I felt horribly nervosa, the train and the vail, and the volumes of stuff about me, bothered me very much, and I was not sure I ehonld make my courtesy. It was awful when we get out at Buckingham palac3. Sach bcautif al beefeaters, look ing like max figures at Mme. Tossaud's, Euch xnapnificent creatures in crart dresses, white silk stockiags and thin logs I never made cut to this day whether they were pervants or company. Mamma met a foreign diplomat at the foot of tho grand stairs, who insisted on walking up hand in-hand with her. I suppose it is a foreign fashion; I fol lowed, feeling rather dizzy. I quite understand the expression, 'nodding plumes, now; there is a sort of tleepy awe creeps over one at these regal cere monies; every one walks on tip-toe; the ladies whisper; one expects to hear of a national calamity every moment. Bat nothing ccsurred, except that we all sat, very silent, very nervous, wedged in to gether, scrutinizing one another's looks and dresses. I thought of the passage in one of Miss Broughton's books where she talks of shoulders. What i a show of them there was 1 the scraggy debu tantes, rather red, like the raw tips of the first white asparagus; then the full blown matronly, resembling alabaster; then the orange-colored, like over-ripe fruit; then the flabby, like fat sea-anemone; the spotty, the sun tanned, the bilious looking, tlie skeleton, or the fat lady at a fair all displayed their charms to! the utmost. How I longed to cover up some of the poor old things who tot tered in with their poor old skins expos ed to the glaring light of day, and mock ed by a decoration of diamonds; but then, of course, etiquette must be at tended to; so there we were, all of us, shivering and decolletces. The beauty came in with all her iewels; how they flashed, and how ripe and red her lips looked, I heard mamma whimpering to another lady about her, but I eculd not hear what they said. I am ture it was something scandalous, DecanBe iney would not let rae know it. Presently the crowd moved on. We were ail get ting tired, so we began to push just like a common mob. Mamma and 1 got on very well, because she ia tall and I have sharp elbows, tut one lady sat aown, and another, in the surging flood of peo ple, collapsed into her lap. Then we began to push and shove harder than ever. I gathered up all my skirts and set to work with a will. The pin of my vail cime out and mv bracelet, with a bit of Chariie's hair in it, fell off. It w-i rnch & rrwmblo find It. J oak then a lady fainted. She was a poor, I palo looking creature and was Luitled bv some of the attendants into another - . room. And now we wero ciose. una by one we uncurled our trails, and the trains were spread out behind us 'To be presented.' I saw a gorgeous official who took my card; an ocean of black plumes and inkling robes and sparkle of diamonds half blinded me. I made a confused curtesy and stiuggled to kiss the queen's hand, or she kissed mine, I real ly can't tell wmcn, male anotner curtesy, heard a kind of dim murmur like the sea all around me, when suddenly my train was thrown unceremoniously over my arm and I was almost pushed out. It was over. In that brief moment I had received my brevet rank of young lady at the queen's hands, and had inhaled the atmosphere of royalty. It was very awful, and I wai very glad to ttand still and smooth my iuHled plumes. Mam ma said I had got through it very well. My shoe was half off, my gown torn, my hair untidy, my flowers crushed, my vail unpinned and my arms scratched and bleeding, so it must have been a severe skirmish, and I almost felt to have deserved the Victoria cross. The Fashion. The simpler a luamer dress it the Lavishing the Old Commodore's Savings. Fifth avenue, New York, west of the new Catholio cathedral, is to be the site of a palatial residence for William H. Yanderbilt, and a double mansion adja cent for the two daughters of the mil lionaire. Each of these structures will ccsupy a site of 85 feet by 125. Imme diately above there is to be put up a mansion for W. K. Yanderbilt, a son of William H. This will occupy a space of 00 by 125 feet, so that nearly the entire square will be filled by these structures for the family. A blcck away is to be the stable for the head of the house, and three dwellings have been torn down to give spaca for that establishment, which will include a ring for exercising the fast horses included in tho rapidly-in creasing stud. The mansions will all have a rocky foundation, and blasting operations have been going on for a long" time to remove tne roc as, tne drills be ing driven by a steam engine, and doing the work so rapidlv that a blast occurs every half hour. Cornelius Yanderbilt is tearing down two dwellings on the avenue, farther west, on which he will put up a handsome structure 45 by 100 feet. The design is said to promise the handsomest building on the avenue, if othar YanderLuts ao not exceed it in beauty. , , , . In the oyster business every night is 'opening night.' Sabbath Sluging at the Seaside. A writer in HarperBt who has been sojourning at ono of the faehionable watering-plaeea, gives this sketch of a Sunday evening: Tea over, and the week-day machinery cleared away from the parlors and piazzas in all the houses, the piano is opened, the drains Sacra got out, and for pn hour or two the whole village is vocal with the sober strains of 'Hamburg' and 'Mear or the lrlting inspiration of 'Hold the Port' and 'Pull for the Shore.' As musio it doesn't touch the highest artistio mark, cer tainly, but it is soothiDgand sympa thetic Tnoughtlesa misses and stalwart young swells, who for six days a week know little melody but 'Madame Angot, feel the gentle infection, and those who came to sneer remain to sing. 'Quaint, isn't it, to see young Biceps, jast arrived with all his blushing Springfield honors thick upon him, roaring away like a sturdv. red-faced, six -foot sucking dove. and rasping his manly larynx witu an intractable chromatic, as he looks ever the book with sweet Nelly S , the daintiest little devotee who ever carried a poor fellow's thoughts skyward on the wings ot earthly sentiment? lint mere is nothing like proximity. Biceps won't be the worse for a luue vicarious devo tion; and if Nelly cxa make him avail able in 'convertible (or other) bonds. why shouldn't she? Bo none of your scoffing, you ascetic heathen? If you don't like the music, or the spirit of it. light your cigarette and take a stroll down the promenade. Jy ine tune you get back the singing "trill be over, and the crowded piazza in much the same tide of uneanctlfied gossip and flirtation as on ordinary evenings. more becoming. ' The clear grays and delicate drab tilks are always refined. Trianon polonaise a pretty design for yonng g rls in their teens. Cps grow more and more dressy, and are more fashionable than ever. Lace work is. very fashionable, and patterns now come stamped in black or pink cambric. The Qneen Anne suit looks best with the entiro drees made of one shade of silk, and the only difference fn shade ia that used for tho trimming, and per haps the lower skirt, which is nearly concealed. One ot the latest novelties is the shoul der cape in Carrick shape, made of Uk fringe. . The upper part is tied in neau e and fits like ,v collar, while below this, grass fringe, in thick rows, hangs to the waist line. Leghorn flats are still etylkh for country wear. They are tied down over the ears with ribbon or with muslin strings trimmed with lace, or else they have cream white satin ribbon trim mings and flaring brims. Dark bottle-green velvet or satin is considered the most styliah contrast for trimming ecru and tan-colored dresses; very dark wine-color is also used for this purpose, but has a warmer effect tnan the cool-looking green shades. For the country and for in-door toil ettes many Louis XYI. toilettes aro in preparation, trimmed with ruches a la vicillc, and made of linen, with printed bouquets or sprays of detached flowers. There will also bo many white toilette, but only for the salons and chateaux, and never for the streets of Paris. " - Afternoon aprons aro very fashion able. Some of them are male of Swiss, eut in one piece, finished with a dtep flounce and very finely plaited; this has lacs at both top and bottom, and similar lace trims both sides of the apron. A pocket of laco is worn n the left side. No bibs are worn, but straps of lace and insertion form brettelles. Among other new departures, one, that modistes predict will become more popular in the autumn, is that of having the basque of entirely different material from the skirt. This is shown at pres ent in black brocaded silk basques, with two skirts of plain black silk. The basque is made in round Cogliah coat shape, and serves nioely lor a street garment without a wrap, OVESSirSTS. . Deep apron overskirts remain in fa vor, notwithstanding the Intro taction of shorter aprons. Their style depends on their simple drapery and in a measure on their plainness, that is, the absence of all trimming. They are caught np very high on each side, indeed almost to the belt, by one or two clusters of shir ring, or elie by a single bunch o! pUits that are very near together. The back breadth then falls plainly, and hoops at the bottom by reason of its scantiness, or else it is very wide, consisting of the entire breadth of dcuble-width goods, and has a bunch ot plaits in the middle to correspond with those on each of the side seams; this gives a very graceful bouffant effect. Other aprons are a se ries ot irregular folds or wrinkles held in place, by a tape that parses under neath down the middle ot the front breadth, to which the under part of each foil is tacked. Soil others are merely aprons without any beck drapery; these aprons meet under the enJs ct the basque behind, and the back breadths of the lower skirt have then three deep flounces covering them from the belt to the foot. The plaited fronts of skirts aro also sometimes put in the aprcn instead of in the lower skirt. Tbui there is a single broad plait down the middle of the apron its whole length, or else there are two or three narrow box plaits. Sometimes a pretty effect Is given by having tho front breadth of striped or plaid material, while the remainder ot the skirt is of solid-colored goods. .Tue overskirt is then shirred down the seams that join it to the plain undraped front, and is banchily draped behind. Some times there is a claster cf lengthwise plaits that form the side gores of the overskirt; tho iancy is to have these laid in eight plaits, fcur of whic'a are turned toward the back and four toward the front, meeting in tho middle of the gore; then quite near the loot the plaits are not pressed in, but aro gathered horizontally in rows of ahi rrin g. Ua za r. A Vo man's Opinion of Sales Ladles, A f renoenl abcrrer who has become tirtvl ot dealing at the immenae estab lishments found in all ltrgecitie. thus verts Ler feelings in retertooe ta the young ladies who set aa clerks la sueh stores : The troubles sad atLoy anees ci large ahops eulauna'.e when the ales are male by girls. 1 bave bad, firt and but, my syxapatbiea strongly aroused by the thought of these poet crtat arcs com pelled to stand all day without relief, subject to the stern decrtee of their em ployers snd dorainered ocx by bead clerks of. their own sex. Bat, as a mat ter of fact, the ordinary frxainioe shop per becomes the prey ot shop-girls; she is abjscc and helpless before them. There is a calmness, a decision, an In tolerance, ia these young worsen behind the counter which cannot suooaa fully be met exoept by intrepid spirits. cWa apart, they may be found in mood to be condescending and acoonroodatins', but in couples they are remote and inae ceasible as if goddesses in shrines. Tbey have a limited comprehension; tby know nothing whatever ot what is ia the store tavo what is at their ooucter. and U pleases them to take a languid and deprecating viv ot the possibilities of their suiting the purchaaer. Tbey are always engaged in the most deeply-interesting conversation. It goes on like this: 'Did you see Lim V Tes. night before last and he said that he wanted to meet ycu again.' Oh. I don't believe iL' 'It is perfectly true. He wanted me to tell you Here the ycuog woman is interrupted by a request for black groe-grain ribbon, which she produces with an air ct invincible haughtiness, continually as if mentally unconscious of tho ignominy of serving aavbodj that ho would be down there Sttordjy afternoon, and that be hopes this sum mer !t How mcchia this ' Shetranafers a distant attention to the ribbon-box: 'Eighteen cents.' It is marked sixteen.' She is indifferent, and asks her col league if she remembers the fireworks last summer. One may feel sorry for sales ladies, but anch conduct embitter the souls ot their most ardent sympathisers. It would seem cruel to address their em-! players with words of complaint, for the poor creatures are dependent upon their places for their daily bread; but, never theless, such manners are a crying eril which ahculd not for a single moment be borne. In fact, for many reasons, after going about these stately shops,' one finds calmness and bleaaoasftf iu little stores, where infrequent customers are met with ready attendance and polite ness, where the small stcck of special goods is under the hand, as it were, and mav be shown wituont me lormenu oi long search up and down stairs and ele- 1TEX.S OF f.ESEIUL INTEREST. ,i Woodpeckers have aerioua'y damaged a church steeple at Ackley, Is. t At a recent local election in JeSersca parUh, L.uUiana, not a air g Is rota was esiU Tie bends of Augusts, O a., both aix and ireu per cent, are selling at a premiusi. ". . i He gOTercmett of Prine EJwanl Island demand il,tV),000 as their share of the HaUfax award. Mrara.rarlev end Smith Co. cot tea dealers in Nework, fcsve failed, owirg to heavy Labilittre South, Bit Oarnet WoWlrr. wb baa gone to take charge of the campaign tgacat the Zalos, estimates the wax will coat Great Er.UinS100,C00,OCO. Gordon Pasha Las succeeded in put ting a stop to the slave tradicg In Eypt after derpVrate batUos) with Arabs, in vhieli thousands of men were killed. Dr. A. J. Hopkins, a noted veterinary Kurgecu f Hartford, Conn., has success fully treated many cases of lccsjw in animals by usizg ciaute Josei oi Prus sicscU. ' ' ' During the great Omasa festival la Cincinnati, the orchestra exmaisled of one hundred and eight pieces, and was pronounced the finest cuucal crgasixa tiou ever beard. The largest installment of bonds ever received at one time for redemption by the treasury department has been re ceived from the VCarwkk national lxk of II os ton, and aggre rates Sll.OOD.CXO. In the cyelote iu Butler county, Kan sas, a Mrs. Hawkins and her two chil dren were cirried a quarter of a mile and killed. Many others were injured. Thirty -seven farmhouses were wrecked. The residents ot Batberiord Park, , a suburban place near New York, Lave organised a protective acaoeiat'en, the great number ot roDoenesj in ina nan try causing great uneasiness among tho veeKbT residents. Fort Frederick, on the canal, ia Alle gany county, which was erected by Maryland over a hundred years ago, is now a grape garden of three acre, and the farm surrounding it is one ct the best iu that section. The colored employees ot rival plan tation near Oolumtus plantation, Ga., Lad a despeule fight, in which pistols and shotguns were Ireeiv used, and two cf tbo number instantly silled smd number seriously injured. , The ground squirrels are one of Cali fornia a greatest drawtack, and au ei forts to exterminate tbea Lave so far r roved ineffectual. List yer they damaged the wheat crop S1.00O.O30, and gardens and orchards CO3,00(X A du patch from IlantsrCle, Texas, reports that while the convicts were be ing taken to dinner, inside the pesitea valors, and where your little parent snd I tiary wall from the brick yard, adz at - A "Wife's Stratagem. The Chicago Tribune says that a young wife ot that city who is anxions to keep her husband at home evenings flatters bam about tne exquisitely dainty proportions of his feet, and induces him to wear doom aroout two aizes xoo smaoi for him. He is on his feet all day long in town, and when he comes home at night the has a soft chair and a pair of loose, cool sappers for him, and try tne time he, with great drops ox egony pearl ing on his brow, has got off bis boots he comes to the conclusion that there is no place like home after all, and has no de sire to go down town to lodge or to sit up with a sick friend. Weights and Measures. Every , family should be-furnished with scales and weights; and it is alto advisable to have wooden measnres. Two gills make halt ft pint. One gal lon makes half a peck. Two pints make one quart. Two gallons make one peck. Four quarts make one gallon. Four gal lons make half bushel. Halt gallon makes quarter of peck. Eight gallons make one bushel. Abmt sixty drops of any thin liquid will fill a common -sized teaspoon. Four tab It spoonfuls, or half a gill, will fill a oommon-sizod srine-glass. Four wine-glasses will fill halt a pint measure, a common tumbler, cr a Urge coffee cup. Ten eggs utually weigh erne pcuudbe fore they are broken. Eight Urge ones will weigh one pound. A teaspoonf nl ox salt will weigh sdoui one cu ace. One pint of water or milk will weigh one pound." . One pint ot molasses will weigh one and one-quarter pound?. Three tea? ponlula of baking powder should weigh one ounce. One quirt ot flour weighs one pound. One quart ox lodiaa-meai wugnsoue and a quarter pounds. roar chacee are invea to vou without half an hour's wearisome delay. Emetics In Croup. A practicing country physician, says; A disease in which emetics afe often used is croup. This disease is alarming in its svmDtoms. and is dreaded more perhaps than any other. It is the re sult of cold, especially if connected with damp clothing and wet a toe kings. A child become overheated and stands ia a draft or cits on a cold stone, the jers pi ration becomes suddenly checked and eroup is apt to follow. .It generally comes on at night alter going to bed. The child will seem restless and fever ish, with a quickened re piratiou, toward morning it will seem better, and remain so until the next niaht or perhaps the third night, when it passes into the sec ond stage of the disease; t-e breathing becomes labored and the cough is of a peculiar distressing character, and ia severe esses if not relieved speedily will result fatilly. A peculiarity oi the dis ease is comparatively freedom of all dis tress during tho day, which often leads mothers to think, that the danger Las passed and they will relax their vigilanoe and treatment, it is a serious cum-sao, and the advice ot a physician should al ways bo sought ia its treatment. If the attack comes on suddenly and the child is distre&sed for breaih. while you are awaiting the arrival ot the dec lor, wring out a cloth with the coldest water you can get, ice water if available, and put around the child's neck; cover this with a dry fLaouel and renew the application Terr tan rainriLt. An emetic made by stirring . a tablerpoonful of powdered alum into two tables poonfaia of honey, sirup or molasses, and given ia, tea spoonful doses every few minutes until something occurs, will be found ot nse in most cases. Ii that cannot be had at don't wait, bat uso any emetic I have used several times in cases of emer gency tablespoonful do?es of common kerosene oil with good effect. Shad DMribatloa. The following shipments of shad Lave been made recently by the fish commis sioners from the fiah station. at Ilsvre d Grace, ML: 10O.CO0 were scat, to the Wabaah rivtr, at Terre Haute, Ind.; 100,000 to the Sandusky river, at Fre mont, Ohio, on the application of Presi dent Hives; 200 030 ia the Cheat, il con gab el a and Tygart Valley rivers. Weat Vircinia: U JU.mAJ in tne a oicmac. at the Foint ol Bocks; 125. 0O1 in the Pa tuxent river. OJenton; 200.000 ia the Choptank, Dorchester county; 103.0CO in the Gunpowder river, at the railroad bridge, 100.000 in the Potomac, at Little Falls, and 150.CO3 were snipped to the Pennsylvania fish commissioner to be plaoed in the head watars ot the Susqne- The Decline of Petroleum. In the New York market one day re cently, petroleum touched the lowest pries ever known in the Listory of the trade, the market falling to sixty-five cents per barrel. Tnis is doe to tne enor mous production. The total production in Pennsvlrani durin the last twenty years has been nearly 112,000.000 bar rela. of which 57.100.000 barrels are for the five years ended January first. The average prica but year was SL37 per barrel, and the highest price ever known was $20 per barrel, which was paid ia January, 1800. tempted to escape. Two were fatajy hot by the guard, and the ethers got awar. The unvaOing ot the bronze bust ot William Gdmore bimso. the poet and novelist, took place at Charleston, 8.C., ia the preaenee of a large assemblage, at White Point card en. The bust was executed by J. Q. A. Ward, and is ot beroieiixe. New York cotton dealers estimate that their loasea from the pllferirgt ot sam plers and cartmen amount to nearly a hundred thowaad dollar a year, snd have cade an attempt to remedy the evil by instituting suits against the pet ty offenders. Caristine Nillsou. the famous opera singer, was rurnicg about a the barefooted danghter of a Bwediih peas ant, when her sweet voice attracted the attention of Ler father's miitre, who recognized the talent ot the child, and sent her to Paris to be educated. It is cffissllr announced that the mat to Cleopaira'a needle, the wonder ful Erjptiaa obelisk, is to be broueht to this coax try and erected iu a suitable portion in New Tork city, lb khedive of Egypt assenting and a wealthy Amer ican providing the necessary funds. Professor Biley calculates l tat during a year when the cotton worm ia preva lent in the Southern State it may in jure the crop to the extent of S3J.0W, 000. Tbe average actual aannal lorn daring the fourteen years since, the war has bea about SL3.C00.0O0. IU ia jurie were equally severe . before the war. Among the curiosities ia" a collection at New Haven, Conn., is a cheap-looking cherry table with oapacioua drawer, and covered with bkek cd-cloth, which ia the identical desk on which Noah Webster prepared tbe copy of his Dic tionary, which ha siaoe become one of the authorities of the Esgliah-tpeaklsg world. Right V. rr. Ber j train D orwortb Smith, the venerable pmidieg bishop ol the Proteslmt Episcopal cbwreli la the United SUtea, La Wen bishop d the Kentucky diocese for forty -seven years, sad, though nearly ninety years of age, is cot infirm ia body, and In mind is aa vigorous a when be aasuned the epis copate. A Brooklyn man thought to bite some spoit with a Chineew laandrymsa by leaving a bundle of soiled clothing to be cleansed, which on being opened was found to contain a cumoer or. rat ia aa advanced stage of deocrrroaitiou. Joba CLlnamaa eouldal tppreeiat the Joke, bad the quizxer arrested tad La was fined 815. ' The Wyca gold mine ia Oglethorpe county, Os., was sold by CL Tbert Morgan, it late owner, to a company la Caicago, for 5.WX It U said the rich mineral belt of George la auracung ue attention of capitalist generally, and that a Philadelphia company is now at work prospecting io the neighborhood with a view to purchasing. N.Y.. boast a young man named Findley, who Las stopped 2CO Wbea be sees a runaway none German b press' DIlike of Bismarck. Prince Bismarck was severely sxubbed by Ercpren An just ia Berlin during the reception ceremonies. The emperor . . . - i , - . gTeeleu iu aiaasguiaaea cu&uetmtt with ranch warmth, but Lis better half mMm.i m it aV withal in ahow her like of the prinoe by not only answering I approaching Le plant Limaell .directly Lis obeisance in a very alighting fashion, I ia it route, and run , with ti iu tLe Knt ti r.t -rn extendiar her band to I urns direction it is proceeding. Find- Lim, as she did immediately afterward, with gracious raieo. to the veteran Yon Moltke. Toe incident caused quite a sensation in Berlia. Never question your neighbors' chil dren or servant about xamiry maucrs. ley can run like a deer, and by the time the runaway horse .is aoroast am, nine time out of tea Le is running aa fast a the Lcra 1-, To a-' kim .J the check-rein or cue line and. bring Lim to a halt U but the work ot aa ia-stanW . r " 1 . 4 1. ; . - ; ! 4 i i. r . . i t 1 1
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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July 3, 1879, edition 1
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