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THE ERA. I f 1 f THE EH A. A REPUBLICAN WEEKLY NEWS PAPERTHE CENTRAL ORGAN OF THE PARTY. W. M. BROWN, Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, AT TWO DOLLA113 A-YEAK, IN ADVANCE. r J on Work executed at short no tice and in a stylo unsurpassed by any similar establishment in the State. RATES OF ADVERTISING : Ono square, ono time, - - $ l oo " " two times, - - 1 50 " " three times, -. ( - . - 2 o Contract advertisements taken at proportionately low rates. Offick in the old "Standard" Build in one square South of the Court IToase, Fayettevllle Street. Mr ( fr if I b RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION : Ono year, - - - - $2 00 Six months, - - - - 1 00 Three months, - - 50 THE ERA. VOL. IV. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1874. NO. 16. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1874. Flirtation. Wo bad lingered out tho season, Far in the cooler days, And the votaries of Fashion All had liown their different ways. We had wandered down tho sea-beach With the moonlight o'er us straying ; Listened to the night wind's whisper. Wondered what the waves were say ing. And again wo stood together Near the ocean's ebb and (lowing, While the blushes of the sunset On the waves wero redly glowing. "Dearest," said she hesitating, "Ah ! too long we both have tarried ; To-inorrow we must part forever : For. inv darling, I a;n married !" "Married!" I exclaimed, upstarting, "Married !" murmured with a sigh ; "Then is this indeed a parting, For my darling so am 1 1" MISCELLANEOUS. prodigy of the school, and I, blind, foolish mother, congratulated my self upon the fact that my boy had no boyish ways, lie was a little man, studious, orderly, quiet, car ing nothing for rude, boisterous games, giving me no tasks of re paid ng garmen ts wrench ed i n rom ps or frolics, i prided myself upon my boy's gentle, refined tastes aa much as upon his precocious intel lect. "At nlneyears old Arthur was one of the most sprightly beautiful children I ever saw, with delicate features, a face perfectly oval in shape, brown eyes, large and soft, only a wild, imploriner crv to be saved from danger, or a dull stare of uiier vacancy. " We had one faint hope. When the fever yielded to powerful nar cotics, ana Arthur slept after nine days of almost ceaseless raving, the doctor hoped he might wake con ficious and be spared to me. In that hope he told me the only chance ior a permanent recovery was to give the wearied over-excited brain years of entire rest. Change of air, travel, exercise, but no study, no reading, l weaned myself trying to imagine what would solace Ar thur for the loss of his beloved full of intellectual fire, and a clear, books, as I watched every breath of colorless complexion. He was the pet of his teachers, who never wearied of telling me what prom ise he gave of brilliant powers in manhood. " And all this time the grave, se- that deep sleep upon which hung the life of my child. 1 tried to pic ture him robust, redcheeked, bois terous, full of health and animal spirits, and ray eyes rested upon a face white as marble, wasted and date character of tho child, instead thin, the long golden eyelashes rest ui warning me, was uu auuiuouai delight. When I heard other mo thers telling of rude sports and speeches, of the boisterous games that seemed to peril life and limb every play-hour, of the tasks neg lected, lessons imperfectly learned, mg upon a cneeK mat naa never been round or rosy, and I could only weep and pray, without hope. I was alone with Arthur when he woke. He looked at me so ear nestly that I felt sure reason had come back to him. I bent over him, MOTHEK'S IDOLS. BY ANNA SHIELDS. Now, Freddy, say the multipli cation table for Mrs. Banks." Freddy shook back the clustering brown curls from his beautiful bright face, and triumphantly ac complished the journey from twice one are two to twelve times twelve without a mistake. There !" the fond mother said, proudly, and he is not four years old for'two weeks." Mrs. Hanks sfghed as she put a loving hand on the curly, brown head. The child, excited by his mother' proud face and voice, and theapplaue that always followed his display of memory, struck an attitude, and recited several pieces of childish poetry with good dra matic effect. Then, with a loving kiss warm upon his lips, he was al lowed to return to his play. " Is he not forward?" said Mrs. llaymond, fondly. 4 We are so proud of him. His teacher says there is not one scholar in his class so quick to learn or who is so accu rate. I mean to have him begin music in tne law, and Jus lather thinks of letting him have a French teacher, as languages are easier to acquire in childhood. Hut why do you look so grave, Lola ?" " Will you let me speak to you very frankly, dear," Mrs. Hanks re plied, "and not think lam inter fering too much if I ofier you some advice?" "lean never think that," was the quick reply. "I was telling Will, this morning, that my pleas ure in your return home was horri bly &elfish, for I meant to run to you for advice about everything." You never saw my boy !" Mrs. isanKs said, a shadow passing over inattention in school, I hugged to kissiner him erentlv. careful not to my heart tho pride in my brown- startle or shock him. Still only the eyed darling, who needed no urging earnest searching gaze into my face to study, never wished to romp, answered me. was never rude. When he would 44 Arthur," I said, gently, do bring his books, not school-books, you know mamma?" but the stories of travel and adven- 44 His eyes moved restlessly, and ture, the histories and biographies he whispered : he read for recreation, and sit beside 44 1 cannot find the answer, me for hours, norintr over them. I would look from the window at the noisy groups in the street, and think proudly of the son that would soon leap to manhood, a gentleman and scholar. 44 It was during this ninth winter of his life that Arthur began to droop in health. He had never been very strong, complaining often of headache and lassitude, but he had never had any alarming illness, conquering measles, whooping cough and other sickness of childhood. 44 Hut during the winter I speak of, he grew very pale, losing flesh hot hands and head. I gave him Pillowed on ray bosom, he slept tonics, wine, strong soups, and coax- away his life, the victim of my mis ed him out for exercise with me. I taken pride and love." There was mamma. It is somewhere in the school room, and will jump out, but I cannot see it Mamma !" 44 Yes, darling !" I said, trying to steady my voice. 44 Will you hold me fast in your arms when the exhibition comes? Perhaps the answers will come then. Hut I am too tired to hunt for them now too tired, mamma. Kiss me. I am going to sleep again. I am so tired so tired !" 44 1 held him fast against my breaking heart, and the weary head urooped lower and lower on my Dreast. The doctor away with Daniel some time before. in a fist-fight CHAPTER IV. 44 Hold, or I will fire, you con- founded nincompoop !" Gillem, on hearing this opprobri ous epithet come from his old rival Daniel, turned around and let him, Daniel, have it with an old six- shooter he happened to have. Dan- q iel dropped. Poor fellow ! He was done for. Gillem, on seeing what he had done, gave himself up to the authorities and was tried for mur der. He was supplied with good counsel, but was finally sentenced to be hung. His body lies mould ering iu the ground. THE END. Aii Iowa Hoy's Idea of Con fession. There is a man living on Fifth street who is a good man, endeavor ing to train up his children in the way they should go, and as his flock is numerous and two of them are bovs. he nasanvtniner nut a sin ecure in this training business. Only him he proceeded to cross-question a day or two ago, the elder of these him in his usual brutal manner. male olive branches, who has lived fcaid cross-examination wound up about fourteen wicked years, enticed rather abruptly as follows : " wen, now," demanded tne coun sel, with a tomahawk-like flourish, 44 what do you know about a horse, Squelching a Legal Bully. The following is old it must be, for I heard it a long time ago ; and if it has been in print, it will bear printing again : There was, five and twenty years ago, an attorney practicing in our courts, named Boonton. Had he been on the frontier he would have been either a blood-letter, or an ar rant coward, I don't know which; but here he was simply a noisy, coarse-grained bullv : and his chief delight was to badger and bully witnesses of the opposing counsel on the stand. One day a horse case was on trial, in which Boonton was for the de fendant. By and by counsel for the plaintiff called a witness who was supposed to be something of a horse doctor. He was a middle-aged, easy, good-natured man, clad in homespun, whose bronzed brow and hard hands betokened sweat and toil, liis testimony, which was clear, simple, and direct, made things look dark for the defendant, and when Boonton got hold of turning round. On one occasion he says that he and another man, mak ing " a night of it," sat down to half a barrel of beer, and drink it all up before morning. Yet no per son ever saw this man in the gutter, or even stagger from the effects of nis potations, it was nis ooast in hi3 younger days that he could out lift and out-drink any man in Rhode Island. Exchange, his younger brother, who basonly had ten years' experience, to go out on tne river in a boat, a species oi pastime which their father had many a time forbidden, and had even gone so iar as to eniorce nis veto with a skate strap. But the bovs went this time, trusting to luck to conceal their depravity from the knowledge of pa, and in due time they returned, and walked around the house, the two most in nocent looking boys in Burlington. kanyhow? Do you really profess to be a horse-doctor ?" 44 No, sir, not exactly. I don't profess to be a horse-doctor, but I know a good deal about thenaterof the beast." 44 That is." cried Boonton. irlarinir 'first at the witness, and then smiling at the jury, nodding graciously to ihe court, and sweeping a triumph They separated for a few moments, ant glance over the audience "that and at the expiration of that time, Is to say, you can tell the differ- the elder was suddenly confronted ence between a horse and a jackass by his father, who requested a pri- when you see them?" vate interview in the usual place. 1 44 Ah ya-as, jes so," returned came, friends languid, loosing garnered round tne Ded : put no aud often having skill, no love could and the pair adjourned to the wood shed, where, after a brief but high ly spirited performance in which the boy appeared most successfully as 44 heavy villain" and his father took the witness, with imperturbable good humor and gravity, 44 between the two beasts I should never take you for the horse !" ' For once in his life, at least, the Washington's Messages. "Gath" writes: 44 Washington had to get the lesson of a President's message. His inaugural could be committed to memory by a moder ately bad scholar in one day, and is a feeling expression of self-concession and disturbed retirement when sum moned by 4 the voice of my coun try.' ; Piety, Addisonian corriposi tion, and a declination of salary are the main points in it. The Presi dent's first regular message, dated January 8, 1790, fs equally concise, apd shows the growing confidence and credit of the country ; declares that 4 to be prepared for war is the mea,hs of preserving the peace ;' and urges that 4 nothing is more worthy the patronage of Congress than the promotion of science and literature.' The early messages are addressed alternately to the House and Senate, after the manner of the Queen's ad dress to Parliament. The second message of President Washington is also short, but more practical ; for the national business was thick ening in foreign war, States, Barbary organization of The third raes- bed save his favorite role of 44 first old man," bully was effectually squelched, and ' the curtain went down, and the boy amid the wild roar which followed, hp slnt considerably mystified, sought his he threw himself into his seat, and say coaxed him, for there was to be 1 I Lit! i X Z a granu exnioiuori ai urisiuuis in the school he attended, and his whole heart was bound up in the studies for that occasion. As soon as ho returned from school, he studied until I would become alarm ed at his pallor, and coax him out, a long silence in the room as Mrs. Banks in a quivering voice finished her story, a silence broken only by the sobs of her friend. Again it was the voice of the older lady that broke it. 44 It is nearly ten years since my Arthur died, "she said, 44but I never only to open his books again as soon gee a precocious child urged forward a 1 "" A. 1 I. . a . . ... as ne returned nome. .uaio in mo evening he would put away books, pencil and paper, to go to bed, rising early when I called him, to dress wearily and study till school time. 44 And instead of checking him I spurred him on, already hearing the life-long remorse." praise anu appiause j. was sure ne i Know that," was would gain. Already ne was at tne head of all his classes, and there were sure to bo new honors heaped upon his childish head at the exhi bition. So I heard hfe recitations. found words for his translations, Freddv ?" revised his manuscripts, fed the 44 And well he mav be ! to mental labor and excitement that I do not tremble for the result. Be lieve me, dear, it is because I love you so much, and would spare you every sorrow, that I have told you the story of my own mistake and the reply, 44 and I thank you from my heart. You have not told your experience in vain. You will let me tell Will, what you have told me, will you not, because he is so proud of There is her soft blue eves 44 mv Arthur the flame that was already burning to a noble mind, but it must be gently previous legacy my husband left me, when his death took all the bright ness out of my life. I was very young, Alice, when my husband died, not twenty, and mv bov had not completed the first year of the something of what lire that was to be so brief. I was alone in a new city, away from my own relatives and friends, with no judicious voice to help me in my life work. Business connected with Mr. Hanks' estate held me in the home he had provided for me, and consume his lile. nurtured, not forced and driven to 44 For, Alice, one bitter night in idiocy or the grave. I speak strong December, I heard a sound from ly, for I know the danger! Let Arthur's room that chi lied my heart Freddy romp and -play, keep him with terror a voice that told me in the open air ; let his limbs and I had to antici- his chest grow strong and furnish pate. It was Arthurs voice, raised pram stimulus very careiuny and in delirious aeronv. calline uoon me in minute quantities : he is robust brother. 44 John," he said, 44 who do you suppose told dad ? Have you been licked yet?" John's face will not look more peaceful and resigned when it is in his coffin than it did when he re plied : 44 No, have you ?" 44 Have I? Come down to the cow yard and look at my back." John declined, but said: 44 Well, Bill, I'll tell you how father found us out. I arn tired of acting in this way, and I ain't agoin to run away and come home and lie about it any more. I'm going to do better after this, and so when I saw father I couldn't help it, and went right to him and confessed." Bill was touched at this manly action on the part of his younger brother. It found a tender place in the bad boy's heart, and he was visi bly affected by it. But he asked : 44 How did it happen the old man didn't lick you ?" 44 Well," said the penitent young reformer, 44 you see, 1 didn't con-, fess on myself, I only confessed on you ; that was tne way oi it." allowed stand. the witness to leave id the The Way Jokes Kim. The manner in which a paragraph, once set afloat, find3 its way around the press circle may be gathered from the following extracts : Why should the bean keep ahead of all other vegetables ? Because it has the pole. Lowell Courier. The bean has the pole, but in the vegetable race the cabbage is always sure to come in ahead. Boston Ad vertiser. Hold ! Don't you know that the carrot was never beet? Boston Herald. It might have been beet if it had not been 44 pulled up" Suddenly. But as the whole thing is likely to be run into the ground, we shall wait for something else to turn up. Boston Advertiser. Suchjokesaretoocucumbcrousfor health this summer. .Let us nave peas. N. Y. Herald. If this kind of thing goes on much longer, the whole vegetable kingdom will cry, lettuce alone. around him admission of new trespasses and the public institutions. vs in space with the con tents it must treat of ; speaks mainly of Indian wars and treaties, the de velopment of the interior, the new Capitol, the currency, and weights and measures. The fourth message treats of disorders, intestine and for eign, and is ioiiowed by a procla mation of neutrality. The fifth and sixth continue the same. The sev enth is cheerful and congratulatory, and short. The eighth is the mes sage of the conscious and thoughtful ruler of a nation demanding more nationality, increased institutions, and betterLpay for officers. Then comes the Wondrous' Farewell Ad dress, elated September 17, 171)0, equal in length and gravity of sug gestions to many of those preceding it." A strange cold light glittered in New Bedford Standard. Bill's eye Only confessed on to save him from some imaginary horror trying to seize him. When I stood beside him, trying to calm him, he only raved wildly of the phantoms about him. There was and hearty. should have him more for three or will find education me?" he said. 44 Well, that's all rieht, but come down behind the cow-shed, tiuffht notSni and l00k at my back" taugni notning . , ,u L nt. ,ri suuuutu juiiu snw tile Aiioi uuwr ui Were he my boy, I in years. a thousand Re-2rarden such ioke. it may be said that they are getting to be like digging potatoes 44 up-hill work." Boston Advertiser. The Advertiser does wrong to let its inability leek out. Cauliflower, if you cannot find a vegetable for wrays, and his progress will be the Bill's back ? Ah, no, dear children, your purpose. Exchange. than p li'a i lip. Ann vft miserame lOKes mate the spot was dear to me by its asso- his teacher, trying to tear his tongue more rapid, if, when he does com- fl . . hpf hot out of that us blush so that welook radish (red- tiation with my brief married hap- out, because he had not answered mence his studies in earnest, ne ..'.f hp waq th wnr?t nnnndwl dish.) Bv-the-by. we hope no oth- porrpotiv snm po n pt inn in his eram- brinsrs a fresh, strong: brain, and mar. All night he raved, and the healthy mental vigor to his tasks, doctor could not auiet him. For instead of a punyframe, overtasked my home was entirely pleasant, days after he tossed in the delirious brain, and exhausted mental pow ( for the void left by the loss ol agonies of brain fever. It was too er." "... 44 1 will be guided by yon," sop piness. fco, dear, 1 remained in Philadelphia. There were new friends there, who were very kind, and save for the void left by him who had been its sunlight. John that ever confessed on any body. Thus it is that our coming reformers are made and trained. Burlington Hawkeye. pitiful to hear him saying over and Vrtu lrv i'smii. nnm Krur cr nvor tVia eirtinln rrnhlpm9 hp hnrl bed the VOUnET motner. rTOUd as dearly? will readily understand how mastered long before, unable to find I am of Freddy, I will never urge my whole heart was bound up in their solution, lie would say tne Arthur. He was very beautiful, multiplication table, with every with his father's large brown eyes, figure wrong, and burst into tears, and a noble forehead shaded by begging to know why the answers sunny curls, and from his very would not come ngnt. cradle he was precocious. Before he could speak he could take a book filled with pictures of animals and find any one named to him. As he learned to talk, he caught up very readily the nursery songs and sto- him again, when great." the danger is so A Heavy Debt. The Prince of Wales owes nearly a million of money. But it must not be sunnosed that his favorites 44 You will find your reward then, are enriched by his generosity. The in rearing a man of mental vigor Prinpp. Aithnnph on nlpasuro hpnh hni onri . f i i mi ii I . -. it studies. Rambling from one to an other, confusing all, making the most painful efforts to recall familiar studies, he was conscious of every error, yet unable to correct any one. ries, and before he was three years It was distressing beyond desenp- old had mastered the alphabet, the lion, and too late I realized what I table of figures, and could spell had done. snort words. I was so proud of him, 44 The noble intellect that, judi- -fvuet; : lived a and strong frame, instead of weep- hnq a frugal mind. The three Drin- It was the same with his other ing bitter, remorseful tears over the cipai creditors of the Prince are the er scissors-slinsrer will have the au dacity to cabbage this pun. Au gusta Chronicle. You miserable set of beetle-headed blatherskites! The whole of you ought to be snapped up, squash ed and arti(fy) choked. Milton Chronicle,. The whole of you must have ta ken too much old rye and got corn ed. We are some pumpkins on a think every one of you A Home Maker. Helen Hunt writes: 44 The most Eerfect home I ever saw .was a little ou'se into the sweet incense of whose fires went no costly things. A thousand dollars served as a year's living of father, mother, and three children. But the mother was the creator of a home; her relations with her children were the most beautiful I have ever seen ; even thedulland commonplace man was lifted up and enabled to do good work for souls by the atmosphere which this woman created; every inmate of her house involuntarily looked into her face for the key-note of the day, and it always rang clear. From the rosebud or clover leaf which, in spite of her hard housework, she always found to put by our plates at breakfast, down to the story she had on hand to be read in the evening, there was no intermission of her influence. She has always been and always will be my ideal of a mother, wife and home maker. If to her quick brain, loving heart, and ex quisite face had been added the ap pliance of wealth and the enlarge ment of wider culture, hers would have been absolutely the ideal home. As it was. it was the best I have approved June 20, 1874, and pro ceeded to select three commission ers to 44 close up" tho affairs of the bank. The coin misslonors wereap- pruveu uy mo ecreiary. ana arter giving bond and complying with the law in all other respects entered upon the discharge of their duties, and for two months have been en gaged in the Investigation and ad justment of the complicated opera tions of the principal office in this city and its thirty-three branches, covering transactions amounting to many millions of dollars. II. The commissioner have felt the importance of presenting to the public at an early day at least an approximate statement of tho af fairs of the company, and from the beginning have bent all their en ergies to that task. As yet they can make no statement in detail for which they are willing to bo held responsible. They have not, arriv ed at accurate results either as to the indebtedness or tho assets of the institution. They can at this time only submit the accompanying pa per as presenting what Is claimed by those in charge of tho company at the time of its suspension to be a close approach to its actual condi tion. Should thi3 statement provo upon examination to be correct, and the assets realize the sums at which they are respective valued, tho com pany will be able to pay about ninety-six per cent, of its total indeb tedness, less expenses. It is but fair to say, however, that tho com missioners do not expect to realize the full valuation or the assets as presented in this statement, and that they are not without fear that upon settlement of the pass-book of de positors a greater sum will appear to be due them. There are matters that can only be determined with accuracy after al careful investigation, and after present efforts to convert the loans and various securities into money. .III. Enough has been said to con vince any person acquainted with business that it is simply impossi ble for the commissioners at this stage of their work to state with any pretensions to accuracy the time when their trust can bo closed, or even when dividends can bo de clared and paid. The commission ers have already relieved from hy pothecation sundry securities placed in pledge before their appointment, and have paid off the entire amount ($269G2 26) of deposits made spe cial after June 20, 1874, under the provisions of the act of Congress of that date, and are doing their ut most to make a full and complete report to the honorable Secretary of the Treasury at the earliest day practicable. They hope to present that report before the meeting of Congress, and that mean ti mo the depositors will continuo to aid them by cordial and patient co-operation, rather than retard them by unprof itable and vexatious proceedings. No effort will be spared on, the part of the commissioners to so close up the affairs of the company as to produce the largest dividends with the least possible delay. Every dollar collected will be de posited in the Treasury of the Uni ted States for the benefit of the de positors. We have tho honor to be, very respectf u I ly, you r obedien t ser van ts, JOHN A. J. CUES WELL, ROBERT PURVIS, R. II. T. LEIPOLD. A K. K. Judge" Circum stances Alter CascH." ever seen. A few weeks ago, ono.McGInnis went to the house of a man by tho name of Moore, in Gaston county, armed with a pistol, shot at Moore twice in his own house, then took an ax and attempted to break the door down, and while thus engaged, Moore shot him down. Moore was Activity leads to Happiness. We should all live more health ful, more useful and longer lives; says the Philadelphia Ledger did arrested and brought before Judgo l a; ; i.! a I r i i , 1 L I we so employ our aciiviues w ex- wcnencK, wiieu, ww uuueroianu, tract from them that enjoyment I Moore's attorney contended that which is their natural and legiti- Moore was acting in self-defense, mate result. Let every one be sure But the Judge held otherwise,' upon that, if his work is toilsome, ardu ous and deoressinsr. mere is soiuo- Written for the Era. A Daring Desperado. BY K. K. K. Prologue. On a stormv December uisrht in Never, I thought, had there ciously curbed and restrained.gently the year 1SG-, a young man might child so smart and beautiful kent active onlv in accordance with have been seen threadincr his wav -s mine, and my friends were never bodily strength, would have been through a dense pine forest, in the eur oi praising ine intelligence the dory oi his manhood, 1 had wilds oi iNortn jaronna, waiting stimulated, overtasked and goaded very fast. At first sight he would to madness. Instead of studying have been taken for a man of forty my boy's physical strength, encour- sevenyears,but on closer observation aging him to the exercises and you mignt reduce it 10 ioriy-uve. natural to boyhood. X had of mv brown-eved darlinc. Mv only care in life was my boy. My own fingers fashioned ail the dainty garments he wore. I accompanied him in his walks; I waited upon him, and petted him day and night. 44 When he was four years old, I Eut Arthur into school, very near is home, and it became my delight to urge him forward in his studies, to stimulate his ambition, to help him in any of his childish difficul ties. I would sit for hours planning my boy's future. He should be a great lawyer, a great physician, or perhaps a statesman, a Webster or a iay. He would be wealthy, and Duke of Sutherland ; Mr. Poole, the tailor; and Mr. Lawson, the principal proprietor of the Daily Telegraph. The Prince had about a million of pounds saved up for him when he attained his majority. He has ever since had an income of about 120,000 a year. His wife is not extravagant. But now he is in debt to the tune of So0,000 or 1, 000,000, and it is a great mystery where the money-has gone to. In about twelve years he has managed to spend more than three and a quarter millions sterling, or nearly seventeen millions of dollars. He is anxious to get out of debt or at least his creditors want their money. He applied to the late Government a a i ii a should be well peppered with gourd seed. If we had thyme we'd do it ourselves. You may turnip your nose at this, but we don't care a fig. Raleigh Era. DpuiW uatuiut iu wj ivyvxv, jl. iiau l CHAPTER I I - -i r- t- him inrlrmrc had a 1 1 r nrrwl tiia I blood to become s'luggish his limbs Of course, after reading the above for assistance, but they refused to do weak feeding the hungry brain by prologue the reader would like to anything. He has renewed his ap- oil thn frMtef Vi r nonrlvtwl l-vrrl i KIIOW why he was walking: so fast, plication to the present Govern- iu ill it nil t,c: ui Lit r; 111.ii illllu iwvj v i w m 44 Too late tho doctor pointed out to me where the error had lain, where I had sacrificed my child to my pride, where innocently I had murdered tho boy my husband left to my care, and for whom I would gladly have given my own life. With a breaking heart I tried to It was this: a gang men were after him ! of vigilance ment, and the matter is under con sideration. One of the pleas he mal'M ia that, mnch nf thp mnnpv CHAPTER II. erpnt in discharging duties that The man to whom I have referred KpinntrpH to the Oueen. There is in the foregoing chapter was the no- something in this ; but then if it be torious Joe Gillem, the Daring Des- the Queen should pay it, and not "U2ht carry forward anv ooui-sp nf unrirt fho miMof t va,i taio.. do-hf . , w - . - I AW U..UWU1 A. uavu wguv 44 With the hope of seeing my bpy an intellectual giant when he attained maturity, I urged him forward in all his studies, from his primer until he began his boyish lessons in school. Every task that seemed at first beyond the scope of f uuiniui mind, I simplified and explained till hoi,i i nnA explained till he could grasp it, and rJSfhers were amazed at his progress. u As ho grew older he became the years to accomplish, but my repent ance came too late. The delicate machinery I had taxed so sorely, overtasked go heavily, no longer re sponded to pay touch. The great brown eyes that had lighted so quickly whenever the intelligence they pictured was aroused, now glared wildly with fever, or looked heavily, tmconscious of all passing perado. There had been a murder committed, the victim being a de fenceless old man of fifty-four, who had never done anything wrong in his life so he said, he being a member of the Hook and Ladder Company and also a Good Templar. But I must haste, or Gillem will escape. CHAPTER III. Among the pursuers Vas' a young man by the name of Daniel Jack the people. The Queen, I am told, has occasionally given considerable sums to the Prince. Just before the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, some of the creditors of that young gentleman (who is also in debt), pressed for their money, and threat ened to make a row about it if they were not paid. The Queen came to the rescue, and paid 15,000 out of her own purse to satisfy these claims. words and events. My most piteous Daniel cf only thirty years of age awakened no smile or look Rattlesnakes are so plentiful about entreaties, my most tender words, Daniel' hated the desperado, Gillem ,-1 Dobson, in Surry county, that it is k of love, I Witn ail Ois mignt. uiuera naa goi i uangerous to wuik aoouu. A Rhode Island Samson. There is living in Newport a man quite as remarkable for his muscu lar powers as was he who in olden times bore off on his shoulders the gates of Gaza. When a youth he was wont to shoulder a barrel of flour with his feet inside a peck measure. On one occasion on Ste phens' wharf, as the result of a ban ter that he could not shoulder an anchor weighing 550 pounds, he raised it to his shoulders, carried it up Banister's wharf, up four steps into the U. S. Hotel (west door), carried it through, down one step, out of the south door, down the wharf back aerain. and deposited it on the scales for weighing. The distance he carried it must have been from three to four hundred yards. This feat w as considered so remarkable that it was placed upon the town records, where it may be seen by any one who may be incred ulous. On another occasion half a dozen men were tugging at a hogshead of molasses lying on its bilge, endeav- oring to place it on tne enu, wnen he ordered them aside and ended it up alone. Though now fifty-seven years old, he is ready at any time, on. a wager, to lift to his shoulder a barrel of flour. The same man (he is an out and out teetotaler now) has been known to stand at the bar of the old Park House and drink thirty-two glasses of liquor without thiner wroncr : some of his faculties are restrained, while others are overburdened ; some of his powers are exhausted, while others are dor mant. It is not rest so much as the ground that Moore might have gotten out of McGinnis' way. ?! A few days afterward, we learn that Jiiade Schenck got into a diffi culty with a negro, In his employ : Schenck called for his gun; which was brought to him : when the no- change that he needs not to lay gro saw tho gun he started to run down his work and fold his hands in idleness, but rather to embrace other fields of action, hitherto un trodden. It will doubtless be difli cult to apply this to all the details of practical life, but we shall have trained one important step towards it. if we appreciate and firmly hold to the truth, that real happiness can self-defense. onlv be attained by activity of mind If these are the - facta of . the two and body, and the more fully and cases and they are as we have harmoniously all our powers are ex- heard them it is a pretty good be- ercised. the fuller will be our Jiie, einning for the new 'issue, or K. and the more real enjoyment win it K. Judges,", ana runy proves tho off. and had' gotten a distance of some twenty or thirty yards, when Judge Schenck fired upon hlm,'in- l!.lf. .1 .1 1 meting a uangerous wouncw ooon afterwards Judge Schenck was , ar rested and brought before a Justice of the Peace for trial, when he con tended that he shot the' negro in yield. Statement of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, Office of the Commissioners of the f. s. and t. company, Washington, D. C, Sept. 12, '74. Messrs. Jas. II. A. Johnson, Geo. W. Perkins and 11. B. Sorrell: Gentlemen : In reply to the inquiries submitted by you in per son to the commissioners of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Com pany, we respectfully submit the following : I;: However much it may be re gretted, it is nevertheless true that truth of the old adage,: that 'cir cumstances alter cases." , And what is still worse, some of the Democratic K. K. papers think the Judge is entitled to t tho thanks of the, community, for this noblo act of self-defense!"- SlalesviUe American. . . i . At, The New-Berne Times. vspeaklng of snakes, : says: " Talk? about a fellow seeing snakes ! Fancvseeincr a rattlesnake five feet nine Inches long, twelve and a half inches in circumference, sporting ten rattles and a button, coiled ready to suite, within a yard of you, and imagine thp fpplinc of Mr. Frank Piver.-who this company is insolvent and una- on Tuesday last was similarly Bltu- bie to pay its tieposiiore and otner ated ! Of course his snaKesmp was creditors. After all, or nearly all. the convertable securities and cash on hand had been exhausted in pay ing the demands of depositors, the directors, to prevent a further sac rifice, availed themselves of the proyisions of the act of Congress, killed, or we couldn't havo meas ured hiiii. And within ?an: hour of killing the rattler Mr. Piver had to kill a huge whiteoak snake." Truly squirrel rhuntlng is not the fun in those woods that it is when snakes are less numerous."