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1 'l J ii 1. 1 1 1 1 ' , ' ' ' - " " I 1 n '1 8 ' " ' I i l ' ' 'i E. L. 0. WAED, Editor aad Proprietor, j . , ; U The Organf the Boanoke and Albemarle Sections. anpgnij L ; . ' ' - . Bucauitxr xiuj , -gz per Annua, in Advance. ' YOL II y yj- -v MUREREESBOIIO, y. C., THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1877. 4 :j; j ; n;:J; j : yQ 31 A CIRC AN ET. BTB.H. STODDARD. Not what the chemist Bay they tie, Are pearls theylneYer grew j They come not from the hollow sea, ' They come from heaven in jdewl Down in the Indian sea it slip, i: ; -Through green and briny whirls... Where great sheila catch it in their lips, And Mas it into pearls! A If dew can be so beauteous made, Oh, why not tears, my girl ? it4 Why not your tears ? Be not afraid I do but kiss a pearl ! Scribner' Monthly. From the HaddoniUld Astaxoid A Her Promise aniTHiTVow. BY LILIAN" LESTBANGE. It was a proud, happy day for Marion Alteniu3 when Aleck Prescott declared hia love for her: not that it jwas a new thino- for Marion to have a lover, for I doubt if there was any girl lage who had more admirers Altemus. v . ' in the vil- than Miss Aleck was a handsome jfellow of about twenty-five, and when one of Marion's friends introduced her to him that eventful summer, he mentally thought he had never seen a more beautiful girl. And, truth to tell, Marion Altemu3 was pretty Her worst enemv. if the srirl had one, knust.have acknowledged that. The golden hair lixed in dainty braids and curls on the small head, dark violet eyes that could look stHbewitehingly into yours when ; they chose, a small, delicate figure, yet ; withal a very .dignified one. This was Marion Altemus, who, although an or phan, would never feel the need of a mother's care with such an; aunt as Miss Linton to watch over her. Marion and Miss Linton both lived ini the large stone house on the hill which was still called "the squire's house," though the master of it had been dead nearly twenty years. Hi3 gentle wife soon followed him to the grave, but before! doing so placed little Marian, then ja bright, pretty child of two years in her sister's care, a charge which Mary Linton faithfully kept, so faithfully that people said Miss Marion was really spoiled ; but, spoiled or not, she was: a general favorite with all who knejw. her, es pecially the male sex, and they were all a little jealous when she allowed Aleck Prescott to play her such marked atten tions. One more than any I am afraid, for Felix D'arcy had proposed a month before and been refused byj her. Some thing which upset his pride! wonder fully and'may be did him a little good, for the next time he met Marion he was certainly more respectful to her. Well, Aleck was a lucky fellow the people said, all except Feix, in whose heart a growing:-hate lor his good-look ing rival came, that grew jstrorigef and took firmer hold everyday! although he pretended to be Aleck's warmest friend. But now something had happened that made pretty Marion! shudiler to think of.- She was riding home Irom Mrs. Greyson's party when she heard a voice that was dearer toj her than all others, in loud dispute. She leaned for ward and (told the coachman toj drive slower, it was such a loveljy night that she was in no hurry to get hornet The man obeyed, and Marion put her frightened head out ot jthe carriage window and looked at the two men, one steadying the other, who wis evi dently intoxicated. The sober ode was Felix D'arcy, the other Good Heavens, not Aleck Prescott ? As the sickening: truth forced itself upon Marion, she leaned back on 1 the cushions almost faintingr, though Felix's loud, coarse words "Gome, Prescott, doji't be such a fool, hurry and get home. Suppose your angelic Clarion was tjo see you in such a pligrht, what would you do?" did not escape her sensitive ear. Then they came to their boarding house and both went in. Poor little Jlarion, wnd had never known a care. It was hard to love an idol and find it clay. Marion did not often return home from parties alone, but Aleck had told her he had some urgent business o at tend to and would not De aoie to see her home. So she had refused all the many offers, preferring: to be by herself to night. She needed no company, and was only happy in the thought that Aleck loved her. I But.now all. was changed. She was angry that she had notfoiind out his fault before.. Of course she would never marry him now. Her reverie waal in terrupted by the coachman opening the carnage door and saying respectiuiiy. "You are home, Miss .Marion." (She recalled her scattered senses! like one in a dream. She wleiit hurriedly by j the cosy sitting roomj where Miss Linton always waited up for her and wrhere Marion was wont to come in and re hearse air the evening: proceedings. into her own room and threw herself on the bed, savins: vent to hard, dry sobs. But she was not. left to her own reflec tions long, for Miss Linton had followed her and coming: in now found the small ngure on the bed. her face! buried in her hands. . j i my, iuanun, ray cniia, wnai is the matter?" she questioned in sur- prise. i Marion turned her tear-Htalned face I w iue Kina, gentle one bending over her. Here was help indeed, for she; al ways went to Miss Linton with every yuuuie. &o leanlnc: her golden head hi her aunt's lap, she told her the wbiole disgraceful story. i t 1,1 8 LInton listened with "a white, .d fdce then when !t was doine oiim, smoothing the curls fromihe nushed brow, "Well, dear, this is a sad vw, duc you must try your best to ve nim." j "What can I do, auntie ?" cried the impatiently. "You alpne can do nothing, Marion, but God with you, you can," replied Mrs. 'Linton solemnly. "But would you have me marry a drunkard, auntie?'?" and the girl shud dered. "Heaven forbid, my child ; but Marion dear, we must be charitable; and not judge too harshly. Perhaps for all we know, it is.his first offense." ? "But what shall I say to him when he comes to-morrow?" Then Miss Linton talked to the ex cited girl 'til she was calm again and left her to "Tired Nature's Sweet Re storer." The next evening Mr. Prescott was announeed-aud Marion went down to meet him with a firm resolve in her heart. 4 " ' ' - He I advanced to meet her without stretcliCrms. -; - i "And how did my little witch get along without me?" he cried, pressing a kiss on the white cheek. "Better than Felix D'arcy got along with you," she returned scornfully. "Marion what do you mean?" he cried hoarsely. "Only that I had the pleasure of see ing you and Mr. D'arcy enter your boarding house last night." She wras watching; him intently and thought she saw the not blood surge up all over his handsome face. "And Mr. Prescott, I wish our engagement to discontinue," and she took off the sparkling solitaire and held it towards him. .But Aleck only looked at her with a dazed ex pression. "Marion, Marion, do you mean what you say? believe me, my darling, this is the first time I drank to excess, and did not know I was doing so then. After finishing my business last night I was hurrying to meet you at Mrs. Greyson's, for I was through sooner than I expected, when I met Felix D'arcy, who invited me to come in and see how handsomely their club was fitted s up, for he was just on his way to it. Little dreamingf any harm, I consented and followed him into the brilliantly lighted apartment. Before I went Felix had wine brought in and I drank a glass, but at the time thought it smelt more like whiskey. After that I grew drowsy and knew nothing more until I found myself in bed this morning. Marion., .will you cast me off after this?" He came and looked down into the lovely face with yearning eyes. ' - Marion's firm resolve faltered a mo ment, j Could she have him leave her? Oh ! how dearly she loved him. But it was only . for" a moment, then she looked up and said, "Aleck Prescott, when you come to me at the end of two years, j and tell me that no liquor has passed your lips all that time, then and then only can" I be your wife." She went hurriedly, out then, afraid to trust herself any longer. Aleck gazed after the retreating figure, and looking towards Heaven, he said, "3Iarion, may God abandon me if ever I break the promise I now make. ' ! . Two years quickly passedbut they seemeu eternity xo poor jaanon. jiow she accused herself night and day for 1 - i If- TT . her folly. Miss Linton had not the heart to scold the grirl for her ridiculous firmness after his explanation. And Marion, not knowing whether he was angry with her or not, looked lor him time and agrain in vain. She had never seen mm since tna evening:, thougrh it was a nine days wonder with the gossips as to where Aleck had gone and why Marion did not know. But the nine days were soon over, and the vil lage people soon found a new theme to discuss. But at last it was the second anniver- sarv or tne dav Aiecic lett ner, ana Marion dressed herself with a be; heart, 31ue was his favorite color. So she dressed herself in 8 delicate blue crepe just showing the white neck and rounded arms. She then went into the conservatory and gathered some tiny pure lilies of the valley, looping her dress here and therewith them, mere was a flush in her cheeks that had not been there for many a day, and Miss Linton said gaily, "Who is expected to night, i that mv little grirl looks so happy ?" Marion only smiled, and seating: herself at the pianoi she played a solt, sweet melody that had once Deen Aleck's favorite. She was in? a fever of expectation The dainty little clock on the -mantle J struck ten. Marion's eyes were losing bloom. 1 Just then the bell rang. With- out a word Miss Linton rose and left the room: another moment and Marion Altemus heard a step that she knew so well and then Aleck Prescott came into the room. "My darling, are you mine still?" he wrhispered. "Forever, Aleck, until death do us part," was the solemn answer. An hour later Miss Linton entered and saw them perfectly happy, "I will not disturb them," she thought, and going out she left them to themselves. Chinese Finser Nails. The custom of wearinar long finger nails obtains among the aristocracy of parts of China and Siam. The disfig urement is supposed to add to the im portance of the individual, as it is evi dent that the wearer can not do any work, and must, therefore, be a person of elegant leisure, backed by a fortune AAmBnnni1inc tnthAlftncth of hisnailn. The hand of an Annamite dandy has Tinilm fnn'r nr five inp.hea in lencth. ThA f h nmH-nail has a characteristic shane. nrt that nf th first finder ia c ht ahon; to enable the person to pick up smaU obj the ects. Wliithoutthis slight alteration hands would be nearly useless. Kails of still greater enormity may be seen. They are said to have attained the extraordinary length of thirteen inches, and in this instance the nail of the first finger is not entirely cat off. The Arrest, Imprisonment, and ; - Robespierre. eath of ! He was crushed by the restless fe rocity and endurance of his antagonists. A decree for his arrest was resolved upon by acclamation. He cast a glanoe at the galleries, as marveling ttat they should remain passive ifi face of an outH rage ononis person, rncy were mute. The ushers advanced with hesitation to do their duty, and not without trem bling carried him away,' along with Cdd thon and Saint Just. The brother, for whom he had made many honorable sacrifices in days that seemed to be di vided from the present by an ibyss of centuries, insisted w ithyane, heroism on sharing his fate, aBugustirtllobes pierre and Le Bas were led off to the prison along with their leader and idol. It was now a little after four o'clock. The Convention, with the self-posses sion that so often amazes us in its pro ceedings, went on with formal ijmsines for another hour. At five they brok up. For life, as the poet tells,, is a daily stage-play ; men declaim their high he- roic parts, than doff the buskin or the sock, wash the paint from their cheeks, and gravely sit down to meat. The Con ventionals as they ate their dinners. j were unconscious apparently that the; great crisis of the drama was jstill to come. The next twelve hours were to witness ! the climax. Robespierre had been crushed by the Convention ; it re mained to be seen whether the Conven tion would not now be crushed by the Commune of Paris. Robespierre w-as first conducted to the prisons of the Luxembourg. The jailer, on some plea of j informality, refused to receive him. The terrible prisoner was next t aken to the Marrie, where he remained among joyful friends from eight in the eyening until .eleven . Meanwhile the old insur rectionary methods of the night Of June and of August in 1792, of May and June of 1793, were again followed J The' beating of the rappel and the generate was heard in all sections, and the tocsin sounded its dreadful note, reminding all who should hear it that insurrection is the most sacred and the most indis pensible of duties. Hanriot, the com mandant of the forces, had been arrested in the evening, but he was speedily re leased by the agents of the Commune. The Council issued manifestoes and de crees from tha Common Hall every mo ment. The barriers were closed. Can non were posted opposite the doors of the hall of the Convention. The quays were thronged. Emissaries sped to and fro between the Jacobin Club and the Common ; Hall, and between these two centres and each of the forty-eight sec- 14 - .n.n T. i- i Al 1 . tions. It is one of the inscrutable mvs teries of this delirious night that Han riot did not at once use the force at his 1 . command to break up the Convention. There is no obvious reason whyhe should not have done so. The members of the' Convention had reassembled after their diuner, towards seven o'clock. The hall which had resounded with the shrieks and yells-of the furious gladia tors of the faction all day, now lent a lugubrious echo to gloomy reports which one member after another delivered from the shadow of the tribune. Toward nine o'clock the members of the two dread committees came in panic to seek shelter among their colleagues, "as de jected in their peril," says , an eye wit ness, "as they had been cruel and inso lent in the hour of their supremacy." When they heard that Hanriot had been released, and that guns were at their door, all gave themselves up for lost, and made ready for death. News came tWt Robespierre had broken his arrest, and gone to the Common Hall. Robespierre after urgent and repeated solicitations, had. been at length persuaded about an hour before midnight to leave the Mairie and join his partisans of the Commune, This was an act of revolt against the , . , . . Uw""" " was;there he was within the law. lhe Convention, with heroic intrepidity, flfiolared both Hanriot and Robesnierre beyond the pale of law. This prompt - x measure was their salvation. Twelve members were instantly named to carry the decree to all the sections. With the scarf of office around their waists and a sabre in hand they sallied forth. Mounting horses, and escorted by at tendants with flaring torches, they scoured Paris, calling all good citizens to the succor of tne convention, na- inguing crowds at the street corners with power and authority, and striking the imagination of men. At midnight heavy rain began to fall. The leaders of the Commune, meanwhile, In full confidence that victory was sure, con tented themselves with incessant issues of paper decrees, toeach of which the Convention replied by a counter-decree. Those wrho have studied the situation most minutely are of opinion that even so late as one o'clock in the morning, the Commune might have made a suc- cesstui aeiense, aunougn it naa lost me opportunity which it had certainly pos sessed up to ten ) o'clock of destroying the Convention. But on this occasion the genius' of insurrection slumbered. And there was a genuine division of opinion in the eastern quarters of Paris, I the result of a grim distrust of the man whcK had helped to slay Hebert and Chaumette. At a word this distrust be gan to declare itself The opinion of tne sections became more and more distracted.':? One. armed group cried Down with' the Convention! Another armed grouJ j cried The Convention for ever, an dotcn with the Communef The tfro great faubourgs were all astirand three battalions were ready to march. Emissaries from the Convention actually succeeded in persuading them such the dementia of the night that Robespierre was a royalist agent and that the Com mune wereAabout to deliver the Little Lewis from 'his prison in the Temple. One. body,&communist partisans after another was detached from its allegi ance. The deluge of rain emptied the Place de Greve, and when companies canie up from the sections in obedience to orders from Hanriot and the Com mune, the silence made them suspect a trap, and they withdrew toward the great metropolitan church or elsewhere. Barras, whom the Convention had charged with its military defense, gath ered together some six thousand men. With the right instinct of a man who had studied the history of Paris since the jJuly of '89, he foresaw the advantage-of being the- first to make the at tack:0 He arranged his forces into two divisfons. One of them marched along the quays to take the Common Hall in front; the other along the Rue Saint Honore to take it in flank. Inside the Common Hall the staircases and corri dors w ere alive with bustling messen gers; anf those mysterious busybodies who are always found lingering without a purpose on the skirts of great historic scenes. Robespierre and the other chiefs were in a small room prepairing manifestos and signing decrees. They wrere curiously unaware of the move ments of the Convention. An aggres sive attack by the party of; authority upon the party of insurrection was un known in the tradition of revolt. They had an easy assurance that at daybreak their forces would be prepared once more to tramp along the familiar road westward. It was now half-past two. Robespierre had just signed the first two letters of his name to a document; before him, when he was startled by cries and uproar in the Place below. In a few instants he lay stretched on the ground, his jaw shattered by a pis tol shot. His brother had either fallen or had leaped out of the window. Cou- Pthon was hurled over a staircase and lay for dead . Saint Just was a prisoner. Whether Robespierre was shot by an of ficer of the Conventional force, or at tempted to blow out his own brains, we shall never know, any more than we shall ever be quite assured how Rous eau, his spiritual master, came to an end.' The wounded man was carried, a ghastly sight, first to the Committee of Public Safety, and then to the Concier gerie, where he lay in silent stupifica- tion through the heat of the summer day. As he was an" outlaw', the only legal preliminary before his execution was ! to indentify him. At five in the 1 afternoon he was raised into; the cart Couthon and the younger Robespierre lay, confused wrecks of men, at the bot tom of it ; Hanriot and Saint J ust,bruised begrimed, and foul, completed the band. One wrho walks from the Palace of Jus- ticej j over the bridge, along the Rue Saint Honore,; into the Rue Royale, and so to the Luxor column, retraces the via dolorosa of the Revolution on the afternoon of s Tenth of Thermidor. Fortnightly Review ' A Chapter on Pigeons. In olden times the flesh of pigeons was considered a preventative of the plague, and all other pestilential dis eases; also a cure for trembling and palsy; and the superstitious believed the use of it to be of great use to near sighted people. The flesh was always given as a restorative aftrr severe ill ness, and thought quite as much of, for the purpose, as "beef tea" Is at the present time. Yet to-day, in some for eign countries, pigeons are not con sidered fit for food. In parts of Russia they are revered as emblems of the Holy Ghost. In Venice they are the proteges of the city. They are fed every day at two o'clock, being called together by a dinner-bell, and no one is allowed to interfere with them. Any person found ill-treating them is arrested and fined, or, ii an OKI onenaer, imprisoned, at is believed by; the Viennese that these pigeons are in some way connected with the prosperity of the city that they fly three times around it each day in honor of the Trinity, and that their presence protects the people from danger by water and flood. So far as we can learn, the flesh of all pigeons is good for food. It is nourish ing and heating in its nature, and! for that reason well suited as a diet for convalescents, j The flesh of our wood pigeons is the finest flavored of all species: in America, and by connoisseurs is esteemed superior to that of any other bird. In kitchen parlance the pigeon is considered as game, whether wild or domestic, the flesh of the latter being ess fine and delicate. Trjr Uieh 11 re A Soiree Anions; tne ... Stare. ' ; - There were sundry mysterious winks exchanged across . the heavens one bright winter nigrht. for it had been whispered among the Celestials thai the Seven Sisters, were to give a grand soiree that evening, which all the con stellatinns, fere expected j to attend. Aurora Boripalis had been engaged toj light the halls for the occasion, and were flashing in all the splendoj when the guests began to arrive. First cam Cassjopea, loathe regal chair, attended J Dy ner Deaulul daughter Andromeda. Theh Orion Appeared; he had evidently taken more tftian usual pains In arrang- j ing his swor$ 'and belt, for Jt. was sur mised that he vas flirting: a little with Virg:o. He I had rivals, however, in Castor and Pollux, who soon came hi escorting he i ladyship. She was quite pale with fright, occasioned by aj terri-f ble groWl from Leo as she passed his lair, j Had not Aquarius come at the time with his water urn she would not have been able to join the circle, j Mars looked fierce and Warlike as usual but gave many a tender glance at Venus, who was acknowledged the star of the evening. - : ; Jupiter was attended by all his satel lites, j but Mercury sent a polite note saying he was afraid to venture so far from the sun, for fear of taking cold. Earth! was there, but ( appeared j quite bashful with only one attendant; the the great bear was chained to the & orth Pole that he might not disturb the com pany.! The Eagle came flying down the milkyj way to grace the scene with his presence. All acknowledged thatj this was the most brilliant assembly of the season1. j Soon a collation was proposed, and after kipping a few goblets of nectar the partners were chosen and all began to move in the magic mazes to the music of the spheres. And Jupiter, Juno and General Mars, with Yenus and Saturn, danced round the fixed stars. When the elsters were wearj Tney rose to the sun, And blew out their candles And spoiled all their fun. ; A Lobster's Najfacity. i j A striking! instance of sagacity in a lobster is recorded by Mr. Barker, of the Rothesay aquarium, in a latter to one of the Scotch papers. It seems that three lobsters were placed in a tank previously occupied by flat fish, and in whichl inadvertently a flounder had been left buried in ; the shingle, where it died. One of the lobsters, "a veteran of unusual size," soon discovered the dead bjody of the flounder, and drag ging it from its resting place, retired wijth it to a corner of the tank. Shortly afterward it was noticed that the floun der was missing. It was impossible that the lobster could have eaten it in the water, and the handle of a net re vealed the faetthat upon the approach j of the two lessor lobsters he had buried J the flounder beneath a heap of shingles on which he now mounted guard. Five; times vfithin two hours was the flounder unearthed, and as often, did the wiry lobster I rebury it with his huge claws, each time ascending, the pile and turn ing a bold f$nt to his companions. This story shdfvs conclusively what a vast amount of quenched intelligence may sometimes concealed in a Falad. Homely CJlrls. "How did that homely woman con trive to get married?" is not unfre quentlyl remarked of some good domes tic creature, whom her husband regards as the apple of his eye, and in whose plain face he sees something better than beauty. Pretty girls who are vain of their charms ae ratner prone to make observations off this kind, and a con sciousness of the fact that flowers of loveliness are often left to pine on the stem while weeds of homeliness go off readily,; is no the sneering doubt at the bottom of question. The truth is that most men prefer homeliness and amiability to beauty and caprice. Hand some women are sometimes very hard to please. They are apt to overvalue themselves ; and in waiting for an im mense bid they occasionally overstep the market. Their plain sisters, imjthe contrary aware of their personal defici encies, generally lay themselves out to produce an agreeable impression and in most cases they succeed. They don't aspire to capture paragons with princely fortunes, but they are willing; to take anything respectable. j , ; I ; i i 1 m -!'-' ! Education of Children. Brine thv children ud in learning and obedience, yet without outward aus teritv. Praise them openly, reprehend them secretly. Give them good coun tenance and "convenient maintenance life will seem their bondage; and what portion thou shalt leave them at thy death they will thank death for it, and not thee. I am persuaded that the foolish cockering of some parents, and thft over-stern i carriage of others, causeth more men ana women to take ill courses than their own vicious indi cations. I Marry thy daughters in time, lest they marry themselves. Suffer not thy sons to pass the Alps, for they shall learn nothing there but pride, bias- pnemy ana atneism- jjvtu jiuTiciyit. - : r j tj.. r f. NEW8 IN BRIEF- A ISn In Abfnfrdnn V. tia nnt fish that follows him around like a dog. Got. iiSicholls of Louisiana 1 arm arid a leg in the Confederate eer- vice. J Re Talmage", of Brooklyn, rireach to three thousand hearers every Sunday Mr John L. Lick, will "-xecelro $525, from his father's estate of $3,000, j Bu Sjomelo er was in use 4,000 years agro. the orisrinal stock annAra rr uave neaa over. - - I All Brunswick;' (Ga.) man raised 2p quarts of strawberries on a lot forty by fiftv feet last season. . 1! b " ' " j Parfs I has 112,000 dogs on vhlch taxes jarfe paid, and It Is estimated that there don. 40,000 more which escape taxa- t; tie present debt of New Orleans Is $22,000,000; that of Charleston is $4, 672.5G3, and that of Savannah $3,600,- 1 t L . tirmi r i , 1 eighth-eight decorations. He wears the irtsigniaj of very near all the orders of Kur"H 1 - J 1 here j are, seventy-five insurance comrjanles fin the! city of New York. Thlspiimber embraces good, bad and ir dinerept. '. . r ' j -4 Capt. I Isaac Bas3ett, the principal door-keeper of the Senate for many years, entered the service ofithat body as a!p4gin lS32 : - -4pkev Goeletj the millionaire, keep3 his pov n a fine! pasture in the heart o4 New York city, and his milk costs hfrhj $agallon. J-TheJi are fencing off the Yosemite Vklley. ! erectin 2: barricades, buildini? wjallsJ and prepsrinj? to make every patriot rpy cash down for all he sees". -4There are 3,500 street lamps in ls lingtonjTEpgland, and, on an average,. thiereareil,UOU squares 01 glass broken in thesd lamps every week by street DOV j Cihclnhati boasts of a centenarian lnthe I person of Mrs. Angela Onetto, bejtterlknf wn as Podesta, who is in the 109th year Of her age. This venerable oldest person in laflyfis probably the Ohio'. Gen J1 Robert E. Lee was one of the vestrymen of St. John's church Brook lyhJ ini 1842. He was at the time captain in the Engineer Corps, and stationed at Fdri Hamilton. 4 I I r-iElderlEvans, the leader of the Le banon Shakers, has started a graveyard onj a newjplan. The graves aro to bo twenty feet apart,. with a tree planted ovjer eachiso that in time there will bo a ha tid iome grove. p-Secretary Schurz has detailed one of jtl e ladj clerks in his) department, a najtiye of ti lls country, who was educated in 'Germany, to take charge of his Ger man corrc pondence. . . ' ? - j-lt is stated that It cost about $93,000 to g4t the steamship Amerique off the becjh f,tLi5ng Branch." This is about at jthe rate of $l,0()0 a day for the entire ticpe slie jwas stranded. ! 4ABosbn firm, which for a titnv tutrieclj out 18,000 feet of blue glass a weekTis isbiortening sail. The curious haye all jtlje blue glass pahea theyj can experiment with at present. ! ! Goyernpr Sprague, of Rhode hasiffone to South Carolina in Islatid start up certain! industries! in which h- 1 . 1 . 1 . . r . f . - is inierpstep,, and which have been in' a state bf suspension for a long time. -I It ts stated that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company proposes beautifying roaawa in the State of New Jersey plan tin j shade trees at the different1 8 am switch houses along th mboy division. f the pfosoect of a foreign tour In wldch GeoiFrancis Train, Geo. Alfred Townsend, George, the Count Joannes, Ell Perkins, Sergeant Bates, and en dellj Phillies, were to jointly iparttei pae, we are grievd to say, has been abandoned,! ; . 1 . r-eneral Stoneman, the famous cav alry! nicer, is managing a large farm In Lof I Angel 4s county, California. He Bays hiscLll'dren have four different kinds ofrut every day in the year, and there are oply four days In the?365 that theyj oannotjgd out and pluck them. 4-At Lohara, in the Chauda District, CerktraljProVince, India, there is a hill of magneticlore which would probably yield 50p,00( tons of Iron without going below the surface. The ore is wonder fully pure amd contains nearly 70 per cenityofMetallic iron. 4 -Qenerall George B. McClellan has deciid1 th invitation to deliver the oration before Post Watraus, of Bing ham tbni on Decoration! Day. He had previously declined an invitation to perjfo,m a sinilar service at the National SoldlerSj' Home, in Dayton, Ohio. j-Oyer one hundred and twenty-five mountains in South Carolina have been measured by Professor Guvot of Prince -ton! Qollege Black mountain Is the higfiestj; measuring 6,707 feet, while fifty-four are over 6,000 feet high, fifty flvebkween 5,000 and 6,000, and fifteen betwejeri 4,000 and 5,000 feet. The lowest is 2 '500 feet high. . . s -iMirsl jSalmUel Colt, of Hartford, ConnJ, has conveyed the property in Hartford, known as the Church of the Good I Shepherd, including the lot on which! the church stands, to "the Trus tees! of Donations and Bequests for Chqrch Purboses" of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mrs. Colt reserves the right to manage the property aunng her pfetime. - Dpvote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find some thing pane.-f Goethe. Chlldtiood itself is scarcely moreMhan cheerful; kindly, sunshiny old age. its by stati-lfi lintel 1
The Albemarle Enquirer (Murfreesboro, N.C.)
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May 31, 1877, edition 1
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