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1 . - - - f - " -" , ' . I " ' ' . I) rrf . i . . . r i. GOVERNMENT WAS INSTITUTED FOR THE GOOD OF THE GOVERNED. 1 hi J I 11 V . VV II I . Ill II I II I ' II I ll III lil III y ' . -J 'A:: VOL. I. ASHEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1876. imiIBER43 - iBBBM BBB M B, THE RANDOLPH REGULATOR. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY . . ' ! . THE RANDOLPH PUBLISHING CO. OFFICE 2 DOOltS EAST OF ' COURT HOUSE. One Year postage paid.. Six Months, "postage paid.. , THE .2 00 ...1 00 BATES OF ADVERTISING. One square, one insertion ...... ..r. One square, two Insertions ; One square, three insertions... . One square, four-insertions....... One square three month' , . One square, six' month. One square, twelve month For lanror advertisements liberal eon tracts will be made. Twelve lines solid brevier constitute one squire. All kinds of JOB WORK dori Regulator'1 office, in the Vtvle, and on reasonable terms. Advertising- considered due wlien pre .cited. 00 ....1 50 ....2 00 ....3 00 .....r 00 ....8 00 ...12 00 e at the neatest Bills for that had taken place in the once mer ry, light-hearted Aimee Atwood. And it was not very long before the keen sighted lawyer hart an insight - f M into affairs, and deeming Airoee's sence. , How quiet and deserted, the very grounds seemed ! - Surely some premonition of what he was to meet caused his hand to tremble as he es sayed to open the door, and he stopped grief to be caused as much by the ab- !to stay the loud ; beating of his heart Good-Bye Sweet-Heart. i And this is your final determina tion .?' Aimee, darling, consider well 'Remember it was your father's chief desire his dHng request. f Remember ? O Ralph ! Ill could only forget! Does it not lUunt me Bleeping or waking has it .wot made me so unhappy ? But, Ralptj,' and Aimee crept closer to the sjtalwart, dignified form of her guardian! Ralph Latham,1 as if secure, in the thought that he could shield her from all harm : Vou who are ho ranch older, so much wiser, you surety would not .counsel me to marry ome I -'j 'One vou do not love,' J finished Ralph. Rut, Aimee, child, do not. ask me to decide for you ; for, loving yon ko well, I could lit counsel you to Uey your father's request.' ' Rut Ralph, I do not love yon at least in that' vy. When iriy father asked me. if I 'could 'love and respect you; I could but lauh; .for did I not already love you very, very dearly V But -when he asked roe tojthink .of you as my husband, I shuddered a the thought ; but still I promised. and Ralph. I have tried, Oil so hard, but I can only think of ywi. as mv dear old Ralph, who used to fondle and net me as a child, and! -who has j always been a true and devoted friend. O .Ralph! Be true to yourself 1 that voice that must whisper to you that nothing -but misery could result . from a marriage like this. I have thought it all over, Aimee, time and again, and only repeat my declaration that you alone can free yourself from this hateful marriage. I cannot give you up ; but should yon refuse to obey your father's wish, you have only to make known 3iur decis ion to your father's old lawyers. Latimer and Morrow, and I can but acquiesce.' But, Ralph, you will surely not leave me ? You will still act as my guardian still be my bet and truest friend ! . O Ralph ! I cannot give you .up !' And Aimee remembering all she had lost, all that she was about to lose. wept in a perfect abandonment of grief and dispair. Your best, truest friend, repeated Ralph Latha'm. 'Always that, I trust, wherever 1 mav.be. But it would be impossible for me to remain here. "The programme we had agreed upon in the event of our marriage, shall le carried out- only I shall leave you be hind when I commence my wander- m. . I' But yoa will not stay VongV You will retnrn foon !' sobbed Aimee. as alie endeavored to arrest his departure tintfl bo had given her one word of consolation. Tho future Aimee. is with God a lone,' answered Ralph, and tile words sounded cold and comfortless. Oh , the dreary days that followed Ralph's departure ! Aimee wandered from room to room, listless, idejected and unhappy. And when, in a few ! days, she received a letter from her father's lawyer, announcing his inten tion1, of an early visit to Idlewilde she could but know that her guaidian had carried out his intention to the very le,ttcr, and hat lie had! left her, . perhaps forever, without one; word of forgiveness. ." tVhcn Richard Lattiraer followed his dettcr, a few days later, he could but ho srysro at the great change sence of the living as her sorrow for the dead, he hastily indicted a letter to his friend telling him all his fears, and counselling a speedy return. Ralph Latham smiled in quiet con tent when he received the letter dis patched in such haste from Idlewilde ; but deeming Aimee's' sorrow at the surrendering of old ties as but natural, and to be expected, he consoled him self wth the thought that as soon as time should reconcile her to the change she would thank him that he had placed a barrier to their future inter course and association, at least until all the unpleasantness had been for-i gotten, and all the old wounds healed. ere he at last entered the room. That a vision of loviness he encountered ! He could scarcely believe it was the last scene of Aimee Atwood'slife en acted almost in the presence of Azrael dark angel of death. the festivals. June was considered through the woods ne the most propitious month of the year ; eleven years ago. 3 Fayette rille for matrimony, especially if the day! He seems to have not succeeded in chosen were that of Hie full moon or j capturing the Secretary of State, to the conjunction of the sun and moon, j serve his diabolical purpose. .In a The month of May was especilly to statement which we'publish elsewhere be avoided, as it was under the influ j to-day, Dr. Howerton denies thai' be ence of spirits adverse to happy bouse-1 was closeted with Kilp&triek, as we al holds. and for centuries this super.ti- j Ieged on 3-esterday, and insist thai be tion seemed to prevail in Italy against j never saw him in his life, and that be May marriages, and even to this day knows nothing about any conspiracy. How vividly i prevails in some parts of England and aid has "nothing whatever to do with bright was her lips and cheeks how our country. In China marriages are ; it." bright her lovely blue eyes ! And when at the sight of him. ahe raised herself from the pillows with an excla mation of jo, Ralph could but won der what had caused this grand trans figuration. Oh I knew you would come,', sob bed Aimee, though they told mc it i was a forlone hope. O Ralph ! I have prayed so fervently for this and positively prohibited at certian times Vc are glad to have thia declara and seasons on account of their being j tion from the Secretary of State. We 'nlucky. 'did not believe that he would enter There was at one lime a supersti- into any conspiracy of thia nature tion current in England against mar-1 against the liberties of the people of rying on Innocent's day, December ; hi3 native State. No evil designs 28th, a day of ill-oinen, liecause it was ! against the returns can le carrietl into elfect without llowerton's connivance. The returns involve the very Ufq al- They will be Nine months passed, and, Ralph's ! now 1 have onl3" seen vou 9ay .good w&uderings had at last brought -him !nye'' j to a quiet little village in Switzer-! ' Wh, Aimeel you must not talk so land, and here he found peace and ;You ftre not going to die. Surely,! contentment if not happiness. j tliis is some horrid dream!' And It was with feeling of half regret . Ralph pressed his hands over his eyes, that he received one day a large pack-; as ir to exerce the fearful spell, nee of letters that had followed him ' 4 Ye Ralph. I have only a few mo from p'a-e to place for months, and, menta to live. Doctor says so.' almosf.overcomo by a foelini of lan- ' . Ralph Ihei for the first time saw his cnor and inertia he decided to have ;ol(i friend, standing near Aimee's dy- hem unoi)ened, when the sight of a P,S l)C(1 but hc returned the look of familiar hand-writing caused his heart j agonizing appeal that met his in re o thump as it had not done for many cognition- with one of despair, and a day, and he was obliged to wipe j Ralph could only gaze into the .face way the mist that had gathered in his ! now settling with the peace of death -yes, ninny times before the letters jwith a perfect agony of horror, ''locanie legible. ' ; : Aimee jassed her band caressingly' l'0jr Aimee! Could hc but have i over thc ,ieafl ,'c,lt beside her on the eeit Hie wan. pitiful face that; bout i pillow d endeavored to soothe the over Hint letter, and the trembling lit! j ,ol,( sobbings, as Ralj)h at last real-'le-bands that alino-t refused to "uid52e tlie horrible truth that his repent- 'he nen. Ids fplinr ,,f diwintmprr ' ance had come too late the one which commemorated Herod's massacre of the children. And it is still thought unlucky to marry in Lent, i most of the nation. "Marry in Lent and joif 11 live to re j watched with unceasing vigilance from pent.'' An old line also says : "May ' now until Tilden is seated in the Pres- )e." Anf)t r never was ve month of love." Armth- ' idential chair. er : "Who marries between ye tickle i Let the man, liere or elsewhere, who i t and ye scythe will never thrive.' The even harlors the base thought of tam- old rhyme that we have all heard tells ! pering with these recorded evidences U3 to marry on "Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Webiepday th lKst day of all Thursday tor crosses, Friday for looses, Saturday no luck at all !" ,of the people's will, beware! Tbe jday for quiet submission to wronglo ;ing has passed. We are free now to : defend ourselves. We will not be ! robbed of a right nor a privilege And it is nor even a single ballot THE QUAKER AND THE LAW. YEIC ' Friend Broadbrim, said Zepbjmi ah Straitlace to hit master, a rich Qua ker, "thou canst not eat of that leg of mutton at noontide meal to day." "ATicrefore not?" asked the good Quaker. "Because the dog that appertaineth to that son of Belial, whom the world calls-Lawyer Fox era ft, Tosth come into thy ,antry and stolen! yes, and he hath eaten it." "Beware, friend ZephinUh, of bear ing false witness against thy neighbor. Art thoa sure it was friend FoxcrafVs domestic animal?" " "Yea, erily, I saw it with my ees, and it wss Lawyer Foxcraft's dog er en'Pinchem. - 'UX)n what eil times hire we fall en ! sighed tbe hsmiless Quaker, as he wended his way to his neighbor's office. "Friend Foxcrsft," said he ul want to ask -thy opinion:' ' 4I am all attention," rtpliod the scribe lsying down his jen. ' "Suppoaiug, friend Foxcnftf that my dog has go no into my neighbor's pantry ond stolen therefrom a leg of mutton, and I see him, an (f could call hiui by name, what ought I to do?" "Pay for the mutton nothing can be clearer." "Know, then, friend Foxcrsft, thy At one tune it was tnonght mat an well for the Kilpatricks to slink away, dog, even the denominated Pinchem, those who marnen on l uesnay ! nai,'lfJl Xews. l.bath stolen from my pantry a leg of woum ne nappy. Among tne uqmans . . , , . j mutton of the just value of foor shill- no inarragc was celebrated without an The Heathen Chinee has found a de- ings and sixence, which I jsid in the augurer being hrst consulted. j fender. The Rev. W. IL H. Murrav market this morning. In the middle ages it was considered Qf lioston attempts to show that if we "O, then it is my opinion that I an. ui-omen n me onoai party, in go-; think we are at all superior to the, al- must pay for, it." And behaving ing to church, met a monk, priest, hare, do2T, cat, lizard, or serpent, while all would go well if a wolf, a spider, or a would have been lessened. For Ai mee wrote only of Idlewilde ; of the iianges preat and small that had ta ken place duriuir his absence: of ev erything: save herself. And vet. in Do you remember the words of that old song, Ralph.-; 4 1 am wearing away' Jean, to" the land of the leal !' i I have thought of It so often late re pathetic closing of her long letter i lv'' the ani of the lea1-' lay the burden of her whole life. 4 In a short time,' she wrote, 'I shall e nineteen. Who is it, dear Ralph. thnt I so often forget, eighteen vears of happiness, to remember one of mi !rv and trouble ? Last vear I had mv lear father and my dear old Ralph : this year I will be all alone. Ralph read his letter over and over aTain. and when he at last folded it. it was to place it reverently next his heart ; but he sighed to think he was so soon forgotten, and he quite resolv ed to end his days in this peaceful lit tle village, forgotten and forgetting. 4 Man proposes, but God disposes.' is a trite, but true, saying. And Ralph Latham, prostrated upon abed of sick ness, was a very different man from Ralph Latham, well. His languor. Thcfvoice grew fainter and fainter, and Ralph, raising the slighty atten-ja uated? form in his arms, received the it last look, and caught the last faintly murmured words of Aimee Atwood. 'Closer, father! Hold mc closer.' And she fell asleep, to awake in his arms. The grass seemed to grow greener, and the rain fall with a softer touch, on the little grave at Idlewilde. And Ralph Latham, sorrow-stricken and re morseful, makes many a pilgrimage to th"i3 lovely shrine. But Aimee heeds him not. She is: past all love rapt in immortality, j toad was encountered. It is lucky if the initials of a wedded couple spell a word. . In tbe south of England it is said to be unlucky for a bride to look in the glass after she is completely dressed before she goes to the church; so a glove or some other article is put on mond eved race we are yerv much done so. the worthy friend tamed to . ..... , .,, - mistaken- In the first place, China is depart. old, lie says. So it is. That ebneed- "Tarry yet awhile friend Broad. ed, be goes on to say how carefully it brim," cried the lawyer. "Of "a verity has kept up its arts and its sciences; I have yet further to say unto thee. how it understood the circulation of J Thou owest me nine shillings for ad the blood 2.300 j-ears ago; how it has vice. "' an aristocracy of brains and knWs T1,cn veniy, I must pay thee; and not thc face of Veneering and the lt is raJ opinion that I hare touched sword of the General Bourn : and how Pitch d been defiled. i it has a religion of pure rationalism, a after the last look has been taken at i rplirion Wntifnl hnmnno nnH UaI A DIPLOMATIC SHOEMAKER, he mirror. Gray horses at a wedding ; rant of power of persecution. Which ae lucky. It is supposed to be tin-, lucky if a wife does not weep on her wedding day. ' In Scotland it is considered an un happy omen if a couple are disappoint ed in getting married on the day fixed fr that purpose. In the Isle of Man it is believed ! rant of power of persecution. Which 1 ou t get an old shoemaker to is a good deal for a clergyman of Pu- blunder. The other day whenaweigh- ritan Boston to say. To the enlight- tv woman sailed into a Detroit sho ened and virtuous people of ch a htore and selected a pair of No. 4'sand country 6hall we sehd American :pro- 841 down to ha vo them tried on, the fanity and office holders, Illinoisj Ar- "oeman saw that she wanted seven. kansas, or even Texas ignorance, or. ut be didn't tell her so, and start her as was done recently, three missiona- out of the shop on a gallop. . He smU ries and 240 barrels of rum orj the M and 8ofUJ "' . that it insures good luck to carry salt j sarne 8i,?p ? This is what the Chinee's "Madam, all the sristocrsuc .ladies MARRIAGE SUPERSTITIONS. i Since marriage became an institu tion, there have been certain signs and and exceeding distaste for all mental i superstitions that, have clung through exertion, could now be attributed to physical rather than moral causes, and the longing for home increased day by day. Oh, the passionate crav ing for the intoxicating odor of the friend. Mr. Mumu, wants to know. are now rearing shoes three sues too These being civilization rriight better for lteir in order to hare take eare of itself before it goes to 0001 extremities, aud of course you want take care of the heathen. The trouble i6 follow the style. is, savs Mr Murray, we haven't. reduc- f Slie "ailed like s duck in reply to V hoever goes to sleep first on thc j C(j our rcligion to practice ; whet we his smiIe anJ replied: wedding night will die first. uc(i( s not more rcelesia-stieai'ma. "Vou are in a position to know best ir there is an odd number of guests jclnnery but more piety. Here every and I h-ave everything to yourjudg- it irpi 1 1 i I rrr nua iu curn tr fm ivitli I i ... , . ' ,1 4 " " ',v- r u,,v. w . onp must sinoereiv nvrofi with innv jitim luru.. in the pocket when going to be mar rieL At Hull it is considered unlucky to go in at one door and go out at another when a person gets married. in the succeeding twelve months. its celebration through all ages and iiv all countries. Even to-day in the most civilized nations we ha-e not entirely I KILI ATRICK S IS1T. rid our minds of these superstitions. General Judson B. Kilpatrick de- i X. Y. Tribune. and we warrant there is never a bride parted . from our midst yesterday ; heartily boiethat his opinion will have When she went out she said she nev honey-siickle for the ghostly rustling 'i hut indulges herself in looking for j morning, He left by the earliest! State Treasurer Jenkins. The of the maple leaves, as they descend- j some omen. Few people are dauntless j train, for Washington, we presume. He ; Charlotte Observer, published atjthe ed in showers of crimson liglrt on the ''enough to be married on Friday, and came as a thief in the night; he de j home of.State.Trea.sury Jenkins, pays green sward of Idlewilde. For the i wc aU bwc the most unlimited confi- j parted like a detected criminaL He the following compliment to that hon noisy buzzing of the honev-bee. as it jdenee in that old shoe thrown after ; came he saw but, unlike Ceasar. he est and popular official : j flitted from flower to flower; for all ;thc ncwlv-welded pair. Nearly every ; did not conquer: he wilted. He: '-In retiring from office, Mr. Jen- the well-remembered scenes at home, bride of to-day wears about her when ! sneaKea into luc city : spent the night kins came3 with him the good will of He could now ee in another and clear-1 shc is married s6me trifling thing bor-! with the carpet-tigers and the Gov- both parties. He has employed in or hc event, of the pasi n,n.. l" ? ".1. ,,! a,, knor ; a;. .U-n he shook , he ,,st of ft",1 i low seinsn ani cow am it seemet tns """" tiftsvn i.vm j v. .. t . - mana 'ement of thi! ...... ! I r had nrk an oiur finltifr tii nn rn ! a moving etiect upon the .fellybys nnd ; , , .", J .. r a - i Ijer bole life. ' ' other wild barbarians of America. i - i5T A new prioon chaplain was re cently apKintcJ in a certain town, lie was a .man who greatly magnified his office, aud -entering one of the cells, oa ' hi first round of inspection, he with much )0Qjoity thus addressed the prisoner who. occupied it: "Well, sir, do you know who Iana? "No; nor I dinna care," was the nonchalant n-joindv. ; . .. u Well, Pin your new chaplain." t Oh, je sir? Well, I he heard oj desertion of what onght to have been ! l,M; Sl,n lloth shine." and all are equal- j upon the order of his going, but went affairs of the State, nor h he ever before " to him a sacred charge ! Rut he would ,v certain that ! J at once. advocated any extreme partisan meas- retnrnr ho wonh! nnrp mnro thn "To ehanse the ham? and not the 1. u-r I It would be idle in lum orlus friend . ur for the oppression of his race friend 'And what did you hear?" returned the chaplin, his curiosity getting the . . . . ....... ! i 1 - i ll.. i . ?. i and adviser of his little ward. : ls ..'r !H UK wur uu ,UH ,or i KAJ ""'"V 'J i r 'lt ''x. V-".'. " Utter of his dignity. . .... , ,,,' i"-uvvrr. nocturnal visit. Its numose was man- u "wai. auu iouriwus m au tW , T r .... - ana noi oy iook or worn woum ne re- nnite ndpfinitelv it wrm ! r , i u . t his bearings ami has many friends n MW call the past. U r l k J, ' ki.k. ye were in ye preached them baith Oh. the longing for health and!derful h?W th anCleUt e,-ns are we mi?llt l cheated out of our victo- ed in politics.- . j empty; Ut Hi be hanged if ye find it .. .. .handcl down from generation to iren-i n- smo enrt -,ri;j, t.M.-.. . : w . ...... . , .. . . J - . : : ; i . , , r 1 . . . . 1 i - a: . a. r . i . But hope is a good physician, and ' i 1 . lo 1e emPlvei : sunc lalsitying or .u uir.i iax wr me siijipcn ohiue If olnhelnirlir rrainon CTfTrrtl f rr- t ! -i 1 cany iiejvanure. Let the retirns; some seizing upon tech" poor is ievieti in t ranee, iiie pup. us recall a few of the j nicalities ; some buying up of thoe lort of poor relative is strictly en. Did time ever fly fast enough for ftn-rifllie lrv- 9 T?Trlie ? tti T1 1 innoo , perStitlOnS increased tenfold as he neared home, and when he at last reached the gate olden belief concerning marriage su j entrusted by the law with consummate forced by the civil code ; theobjiga- In i we reail of a mom - that the fourtli i.i ul l -L- i !Consilerei in.u im law mc weii-remcraiKyvi grounds of Idlewilde, it was with a light heart, and thc buoyant step of youth. Entering the house unannounced, he could but be conscious of the change that had 'taken place during his ab- dav of the week wa the unlucky day to wed i ami the fifth for widows. The Romans also believed that certian davs were unfavorable for the performance of marriage rite, and these were the cal ends, nones and ides of every month, of FeHrnsrr and Mar, and manT of ey tiits ain? tbe earliest weddings jing the veniict to the ficople'at ti e tion presses in the direct ccn')5ng ng the Jews, we find j.oiis. Unquestionably, be was on line from the child to its gTandmotlier, mischief UnL and a son-in-law or dreghter-ia-law His laUsion failed. The prompt ex-! must suport a xcolhcr-ia-law or fa posure of his ilcslgna, diKX)ncerted his tber-in-law where no closer, relation plans ; and le has ignominiously f!el intervenes ; such obligations are a!H 10 ioc icnn ox - wiCKcaness irom wnicn reciprocal. An almshouse or bopitaI be came, with as much haste as char acterized his flight in his night-shirt. relieving a pauper belonging to anbth. er commune mar see thcirelativeso when an nimpton chir2fi nim reeovr rvu . No friends hare fjerfect suitable ness to each other, and ronghness and inequalities that arc nearest txs are most troublesome. That ! wonderful variety and contrariety of apprehen sion. nteret, tcmperants, occasions and temptations are such that, whilst we arc scandalized aX '.he discord and confusions of the world' wo canst re call onrelres. and admire that all-rul ing rroridence wlilcb kecptlh cp to t t 5 ! - i t : -!
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