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GOVERNMENT WAS INSTITUTED FOR THE GOOD f)F THE ''GOVERNED. " ' ! ; ' . . t . - - ; ; ' - A" "J- . - - " ' ' ; " ' I . v . .''...-.-. V0L' L ASHEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1876. NUMBER 41.- : THE RANDOLPH REGULATOR. rCDLIPIIED EVERY WEDNESDAY TiY TIIE RANDOLPH rUBLtiSHIXG CO. wrlih-!-.! IKKiltS -IJAST !C)F TIIE COURT HOUSE One Y-;ir. no-tn?e nnifl. Hlx Month-, postage paid'..'.' W j. T A fPrif TTI 1 m T . . . , -L f 1HU.IJ. One'sfpiare, one in-rtion ....I One square, two Mwrtfou.. One wjuare, three insertions One Kfpwrfe, four -insert ions.. One quaiv. three month-... One square, six month..;... One square, twelve month.. For larger. advertisement! tract will be made. Twdvi Lievier corijititnte one .inar - J 9J 2 CjO ...3 00 . (K) 8 00 12 (X) nigral con- Hues olid All Kuul of .JOi; WORK the HEOUr.ATOU" olliee. in vie. a: id on r':t-oii:ilili- tcn j Tlill for u'lvertNinvr on.-i.lTi-'I tUt fen ted. u hea pre- A SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT. o j ' Mr.Xioorge Siniplesou, jtiniof, anight well have b"en described Json of foj tun-1. The only son. of a i ic'i . tc larKlinnt, he had been Incited .if 1 l.n i fold. S1k;i 1 iy" iil'tei leaving col nw and Ox- e-e. k; had fallen in love with -A -beautiful "il l, thr daugliler of a business acquaintance of Mr, Simplesfim .senior, t -Ao f.'thei H had pat th So that the r heads, or rat Iter their purses, toetl er, and had .started the young eoui.le itb life. inch same shu t took- the shape of u handsomely fru nished villjaat, I'utney, and a liberal account at fh banker's, And vet, M r. ( Jeof'e Siijnjileson was, no!. euiienret. in the, in A. 1.1 idst of hi eolitfort, with a lovelv nnil aceomplixh- ed wife, . 'this 'Syhai ite uah iO wi ill out the cruinpled roseleaf t lest. listurl his And what -lo.vuu think J l eaner, W;u t made Mr. a" inferable in his hand taught LaP is not deem rnent for s the thorn in the side tit . . . . . olinptes iti imagine he wad man ? Nothing more noi h-ss tli -Writing. ,At II arrow he had been i in and ( J reek, but writing w d a necessary aecomplisl gentleman ; or, perhaps th y considered that it ought to.come intut ivt-iv. At dl events, he had not been taught stroke, and the mysteries' of the thin uj the thfck do'wn ; the graceful curve, ami the vhrioua other mi art of calig aphy. . . iiuti;e of the At Oxford he had not fjmnd it nee- ! es-sary to plprfect himself in nenraan - .1 1 hip ; constiquently he stilll retained a collection of -strangely formied hieroizlv .... . , .. phica which he honored his "writing." by terming r Mv. George Simpleson, senior, was continually complaining abiut his son's wretched scrawl." His father-in-law, Mr. Mayers, nev- rr let pass an 'opportunity f cxpatiat- ( ing upon the lxncfit of a pllin commei cial hand. It was in vain, George t ried to per suade tliein that bad handw : iting form- etl one of the outward and v isable sirrns of a gentleman. Even his wife added her ijnifccry. She wrote a beau mite to his iful hand, aipd perhaps, in hojc of achieving a re formation, she often compared the two together, v At length, those constant compari. sons made George so intensely wretch- ed that he hated the sight o pen an miir after a ink and pajer, and one evening after a ' Mahvers on the wickedness! of wastin" s . - a business man's time, (whjj ch was his money) by writing what nobody could r-A r..,V.,t I.. - , ,v w Wu xuuy ciciermmeu to do -some thin j. On the morning after arriving at this determination, and while ie was still warm on the subject, he happened to be reading a paper at breakjfast, when his eye fell on the following advertise1 ment : "Handwriting. Gentlemen of anv age taught a flowing and graceful hand writing itva few easy lemons. Book-keep- ing vi uouoie anu single entry. Then followed the name and address of the teacher. George could scarcely refrain from giving vent to aln exclama tion of ioy. He took down the address, determ mei to have a dozen lessors at once He would not tell his wife lie would wait until he had though. acquired nowmg "an,! graccfaj handw anting, 1 P aWisement, and then he would jsurinrise her, and enjoy her amazement. i Accordingly, after breakfast, he dress- M himself and proceeded to town. At lpr.frfh T.r V 1-A.J O 7 j vviupiv iU Uhe prescribed course, and the trium- KnT I rt-iof t i - - t . isuuuk iJiuit-iaur making mm sign liis name on a scrap of paper, compared it ! With fl Birm(tf lira la1 Ur. j commencing his lessons, And certainly the difference was wonderful ; nobody would have believ. ed them to have emanated from the same fingers. . George hastened home full of accom t plishment, and found that his wife had hort note, he left it on the side table. am tj,en Withdrew to hissmokins-room. j In about an hour's time, Mrs. Sim- 5 Ilcson came sailing into the room, swell- -ing with indignation, and with her bus- bniKl's note in 1ier hand. it. a favored j ' -eor-ge, dear," said she, 1 "some im . pmlent fellow has dared to write to me. 'jnnd invite mo to dine with him this .:verung: "Well my Jove, replied George ' "and shall you accept it ?" "I am surprised at you, George! Of c iurtsenot You ought to find out the writer and and and thrash him." At the idea of having to thrash lam -df, George could retain his gravity no . longer, but burst "put into a heartv laugK ; And then in reply to Mrs. Simple - j ;nk look of wonder, he explained the Pl,a,cnt mystery, and to prove his .vord: wrote another note to the same ;u. port in her ;rewnce. - The next- morning, at breakfast, his if e said, "Ily thf-by, Tieorge, I want t little monpy to settle the accounts. i.m you h'ti m; have any " 'cry sorry, my dear," lie said grave- j inspector was explaining the matter to !y, "but. L've hardly any change left ; Ir. Simpleson, Mr. Man vers was shown but I'm going into town this morning, into the cell where George was incar iiid I'll bring some back with me." ! cerated. Accordingly, when breakfast was ver, he walked down to the station, md taking the train soon arrived in Lown. After making one or two calls and transacting some business, he proceeded o the bank to draw some money. Upon entering, he made his way to the desk usually occupied by a clerk vV-iu whom he was on speakinsr terms. lut the desk was Vacant. So pre suming he was at dinner, he moved . (down to the next, which was occunied I My the newly promoted cashier. - - 1 ialang out his check-book. George --i. . . drew a check for one hundred and tweir J ty five dollars, and handed it in. ! A fter he had returned his check-book to his- pocket, he noticed that the cash ier seemed to be comparing it with , -some other papers on his desk, and then j he thought he stared at him rather rude i . ! y. ' i ';So, to hasten him a little, called out," "I'll lake it all in gold, please." "One moment, sir," replied the cash icr, w ho then beckoned the bank mes senger over to him,' and, giving him an order in a whisper, turned again to wards George. "I'm really very sorry to bo obliged to keep you waiting," said he ; "but there is something not quite right, and 1 'had to send for somebody to rectify it. Ah. here he is! PVmfnhl T mv j tIJit man jnto your cnarge for foreTe. t rv ; And thf Tictf mom oti f nm.n - - iniiu.iiv . VJi WiO in' the rOllfK rn-.i r rf -fi Tvrli.rr.'o , ; i,,, . - , . i n. i . , . Al i h' Low he cursed the man that first unventeU W.it:nff! . Tlien in a voice that trembletl in spite of his knowledge that he was innocent, he said, 4Oh, nonsense ! This, is absurd ! I am Mr. Simpleson. Let me see Mr. Chance, the manager; he will recognize me. .-- "M r. Chance is away for his holi days," replied the clerk ; "and as for the absurdity of the matter, here is a check sizned bv Mr. Simnleson. and here is the one you drew just . now. j Why anyone can see it's a forgery; it's lltT-rrf ia aI.aH. I 1. 4tNow, young man," interrupted the constable, as George was a sain about to attempt to explain : "if vou takes j my adwice, youTl come alone quietly a j and keep what you've got till you're as! before the n?agtstratc : and' rcstetaber whatever you says now will be brought 1 j cr . Oh, shades of Cadmus! And this was the effect of learning ! "But must I go through the streets like this?" appealed George in heart rending tones. "Oh, you, can have a cab," replied the guardian of the peace, "if you like to pay for it." Accordingly, in few minutes George, with his coat sleeve still in the grasp of the policeman, accompanied by the cashier who preferred the charge, en tered a cab, and drove off to the police station. Upon their arrival, George was led before the inspector on duty.-. The cashier stated his case, which j was entered upon the charge-bheet. As soon as the clerk had finished talking, poor George again commenced his explanations, asserting that he teas Mr. Simpleson, and, therefore, could not forge his own name. "Ah ! very fine," said the inspector. "Of course if you are Mr. Simpleson, iyou can produce witnesses to Drove ! your identity "If you will let me have writing ma terials," answered George, eagerly, "1 will have my father here in an hour." lie was accordingly supplied with pen, ink and papei ; and, in a few min utes he had written a note and forward ed it to his father's office. Fortunately, Mr. Simpleson was in , j when the messenger arrived- and though ! considerably surprised at the tenor of j the note, and the writing, he made 'in his mind to go to his son's assistance. ! Just as he was leaving the office, he , met Mr. Manvers George's father-in j law who agreed "to accomnanv hi j Jumping int6 a cab, they speedily ; arrived at Vine street : and while the "Ah, George, my boy," said he, "didn't I always tell you you'd come to a bad end if you did not learn to write a better hand ? What could you ex pect?" This was too bad after suffering as he had, allthough having improved his hadwriting, to be bullied in that manner. - For a minute, the prisoner did not know whether to laugh or cry. ' While Mr. Man vers was still holding forth, Mr. Simpleson entered the cell, and his son explained how he had tak en lessons, and what occurred at the' bank. After a hearty laugh, they all went before the sitting magistrate, and as Mr. Man vers happened to be acquaint ed with him, in few minutes George was at liberty to return to his wife. The cashier, of course, made a hand some apology, and George hoped the matter was ended; but somehow or other, the affair became known to his friends and acquaintances, and it was many a long day before he heard the last of the consequences of his slight improvement. THE LATE NARROW ESCAPE OF A PARTY OF WILMIXGTO NIANS AMONG TIIE MOUN TAINS OF WESTERN N. C. From a private letter from Maj. J. A. Engelhard to a friend in this city ! i tt . - . . . dated Henry s, N. C Oct. 24th, we get the particulars somewhat more in detail of the terrible and thrilling ad venture of the party of Wiimingtonians on the mountain about two miles from thai place on the evening ol Tuesday last, the 24th inst., already mentioned in a special telegram. The Ma jor says : ' Well, before this reaches you I suppose you wi,! have heard all about the stage accident. It was the most narrow escape I ever saw. Mr. Nutt was on the seat with the driver ; Mr. Parsley's two daughters were with me oh a seat above the driver, and the rest inside. Coming down the moun tain just at dark, the left lead horse became unruly and reared up, pushing the other lead horse.off the road. Mr. Nutt jumped ; Jarinie hesitated ; I forced her to jump, and took Mannie around the waist and jumped with her. I got to the door of the stage in time to assist Mrs. Wm. Parsley and one of 3Iatt. T.ivW'8 children ont. Tha left wheel horse had borne up whole weight of the stage behind and the weight )f the three horses before tor a mcment or two, which enabled all to escape; for, justasMrs.Parslev got out, the stage jwent headforemost and stage and horses fell full fifty feet into a ravine. I got a light, sent the driver after help and went down and relieved one horse, the faithful fellow, but was enable to do more until help came. I think onlr one of the horses is fatally injured, but. how they are to be gotten outof the ravine I cannot tell. Mr. Nutt was stunned in his fiill and could not render mc any assist ance." We were glad to meet Mr. Nutt, one of the "survivors" on our streets yes terday, looking aa if nothing hxd hap pened to disturb his usual calm equi librium. He says, however, that bn has not yet got over the effects of the' adventure, for whenever he thinks of the narrow escape and the imminent peril to himself and friends, of that fearful moment on the brink of the yawning precipice which threatened to engulf them, a thrill of horror passes through his frame which it is impossi ble to suppress. The whole party certainly have jcause for great thank fulness and gratitude at their wonder ful escape. Wilmington people seem to be given td such hairbreadth es capes, as instance the almost miracu lous rescue of Mr. S. W. Vick from the wreck of the steamship Atlantic offthc coast of Halifax, when so many of his fellow passengers were drowned, and the no less wonderful preservation of our three Wilmington boys on the oc casion of the recent disaster to the steamship liehecca Clyde TFiY. Star. A CHINESE PARABLE. Fold, in the course of his wander ings, coming to a village, knocked at the door of a rich woman and beed permission to enter. " What !" said she, "do yo-a think I receive into my house every roving vagabond ? No. indeed ; it wonld be unbefitting a re- i spectable woman ! Go 3-our way !" Then he went to the cottage of a poor woman, who at once kindly beg ged him to enter. She set before him the only food she had, a little goat's milk, broke a piece of bread Into it, and said, May Fold bless it that we may both have enough." She then prepared for him a couch of straw ; and, when he fell asleep, perceiving that he had no shirt, she sat up all night and made him one out of some linen she had made by her own labor. In the morning she broucdrt it to him. begging he would not despise her poor gift.: After breakfast she accompanied him a little way, and at parting. Fohi said : "May the first work you undertake last until even ing." When she got home she began to measure her linen, to sec how much was left ; and she went on measuring, and did not come to the end of it un til the evening, when her house and yard were full of linen; in 6hort, she did not know what to do with all her wealth. Her rich neighbor, seein this, was sorely vexed, and resolved that such good fortune should not es cape her again. After some months the traveler came once more to the village ; she went to meet him, pressed him to go to her house, treated him with the best food she had, and in the mornin brought him a shirt of fine linen, which she bad made some time before, but all night she kept a candle burning in her room, that the stranger, if he a woke, might suppose she was making his shirt. After breakfast she accom panied him out of the village, and when they parted he said : May the first work yon undertake last until evening!" She went her way home, thinking the whole time of her linen, and antio ipating its wonderful increase; but just then her cows .began to low. "Before I measure my linen," said she, the ... j ; , c lLM oriJ iiori.es lor mre. some or I will quickly fetch the cows them very Cne, but he raadfe it anin rater." variable rnl tht some water. But when she poured the water into augh her pail never emptied; n, nB 1 . nt on pouring, the stream in- the trou she went on pouring, the stream in creasca. ani soon tier honsc acd vara' , . were all under water ; the neighbors complained that everything was ruin ed ; the cattle were drowned, and with difficulty she saved her own lifej for the water never ceased flowing until the setting of the sun. San Innisco Call. BETTING ON A CERTAINTY-, Hiram Robinson was a rick and jol ly bachelor. Paring the Summer, with several of his friends for company, he kept bachelor's hall in thecountrT One afternoon as they sat smokin af ter dinner, Jim Clark, one of Hiram's guests, commenced on the beauty of anew dining-table whichthe latter had recently purchased. , "It's the finest black walnut I ever saw," said Jim. "and the only fault I have to find with the table is this it's just a little too high. Don't you think so, Hiram ?" "No, I don't' said Hiram. "On the contrary, if anything, I consider it a shade too low." 1 ; "You're mistaken,; ray dear fellow. I've got an excellent eye, and I'm sure I'm right. A tabl shouldn't exceed two feet five, and this is at least one inch higher." i 1 "I'll bet you," said Hiram, -that 'it's only twenty nine inches high . j ' "Don't bet, Hiram I'm sure of , it ; for my eye, as I have reason to know, is always correct." j "I'll bet you fifty dollars, Jim, tint it's only twent v-nine inches hiiili.' 'Oh, if you're willing Himm T'll make the bet but' T t-ii hand that I'm certain the tabic isf at least thirty inches high.' ' Hiram left the room to get a yard measure, and when he returned, Jim laughed and said : ' ' Hiram, you may save yourself the trouble of measuring. I warned yon fairly that "I bet on a certainty, so the, bet must be binding. Of course Jim ; if you're right, I'll pay tne money at once.' ' j 'Well, then, fork over the' coin. ! I measured the table this very morning, and it's thirty inches high, and Jim burst into a fit of laughter. I know you did.' said Hiram, oTi I saw you do it, and knowing whaf. a penchant you have for practical joking. I immediately, suspected 3-our object, and ass soon as you left the house 1 sent for a carpenter and had an inch sawed off of every leg ; so you sec, my dear friend Jim, that the biter has been bitten. Hand over the cash. j" Jim paid Hiram fifty dollars, amid the laughter of everybody but himself. A NOBLE BOY. i j 5 I A crippled beggar was striving to pick up some old clothes that had been thrown from the window, when a crowd of rude boys gathered about him, impi icking his awkward movements, and hooting at his helplessness and rags. Presently a noble little fellow came up, and pushing through the crowd, he helned flip nrwr rri r ulrwl mnn 5 pick up his gifts, and placed them In- a bundle. Then Slipping a piece ?of silver into his hand, he was running away, when a lady, leaning from an upper window, gaid earnestly, God bless you for that '." As he walked along, he thought hoglad he had made his own heart bv doinz "ood.i He thought of the poor beggars gratc lul look ; of the lady's smile, and lier approval : and last, and better than all, he could hear his Heavenly Fa;h er whispering, " Blessed are the mTr ciful for they shall obtain mercy." i Little reader, when jou have an op portunity of doing good, and feel tempted to neglect it, rememW the noble little boy and the crippled beg- gar. Pi' lmonl Press. Hobson's CI joicc is a very common expression, implying "that one has no clioice. or that he must ' take this or none." The origin of the express ion will interest our readers. Tobias Hobson kept the first livery stable In England, near Cambridge University, if- i i . t i .7 f m customer should take tho horse stanxl- inS nearest the door or none. He to arranged the animals tint each hore .honi(i :n L- .u Lr I ... v, ,i.v . i. c; in the work. ",;-- VTIIAT TIIE AMENDMENTS WILL DO FOR EDUCA TION IN NORTH - -CAROLINA. Under the constitution as it now stands the moneys coming In from -fines. penalties and forfeitures arc all rcqnircd" to be paid Into the Stato Treasury and securely invested as a permanent fund, the interest on'whlch is to be 'divided among the several countlef in proportion to the number . iitPl children hying therein. It matters not horr rnnrh a Wnntv may have- contributed' to the principal of this fund, it can only receive its pro portional part of the interest. For ex ample, from ''fines, penalties and for feitures" the county of Edgecombe, in five years, paid into the State Treasu ry the sum of$2,40C17, while the county of Craven during the samo pe riod paid in Jrom the same sources tho sura of one dollar; yet when the in terest on that amount came to be paid out for the support of schools, the county . of Craven, having about tho same number of school children living in it that Edgecombe bad received a bout the same amount. In other words Edgecombe paid In very near twenty five hundred times as much money as Craven did, but for all that she took out of the fund-no more than Craven did. The county of Brunswick paid into this school fund three times as much as did the count of New' Han- over, and yet New Hanover drew out near four- times more for its share of the interest than Brunswick did. A system that permits snch gross Inequalities as these is manifestly wrong and ought to be broken up, and this the amendments will do. If they shall bo ratified, all the fines and pen alties annually collected will remain in the several counties, and the whole amount, not the interest merely, but both principal and interest, will be ex pended in the support and mainten ance of the public schools in that county. And when this shall bo done we may expect county commissioners and school trustees to be more vigi lant in seeing to it that clerks and magistrates make prompt and honest mourns. This change alone, it is estimated will save the people of North Caroli na each ear at least $25,000 and wih be the means of famishing in struction to about 2j,000 more of tho children of the State than arc now be ing taught in the" public schools and whites and blacks will be equally ben efited. The annual .saving in money tJ rl-v 1 ... ft.!.. T . 1 . jj mis uiDi-aumcni, win well- niSh pay for tne cost of the Constitu tional Convention, to the immense ad vantage it will be to the State, that there shall be taught and educated so many children, wlio otherwise wonld grow up in ignorance and only too surely in vice. All good citizens irrespective of race, color or previous condition who wish their children to have tho privileges of an education, and. who have the prosperity of the State at heart, will consult both their interests and the. good of the State by voting for the amendments. WU.JcmrnaL HE WANTED HIS WIFE. A negro man lias just applied to a Milton magistrate to know how. to get his wife back. Milton is only sepa rated from the Virginia line by a small creek, and it seems the woman's broth er had run tcr off from her husband and taken her across the creek. .- "How can I git her boss, tra what de law in Virginny V asked the negro. "The cheapest way, said the mag istrate, -is to have no law about it ; jost go across the creek and overpow er her and bring her home' - - Til ho do it boss," said the negro ; a hard winter is sett'n in, no wood an no nuClng ; but dat gal weighs 200 an she gibs out heat like a stove, donly time a wife's a comfort.-Tie waded the, creek with a steer whip in one hand and a long rope In the other. IlaL AVtf. . An epitaph in the old cbnrchyard at Bedlington, reads : . JVtm and epitipbi axe but ftuff ; ' - JIt- lie HrtVii Kira, lltat'g enitu - i i I i
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