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THE ERA. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. (SEE RATES OP SUBSCRIPTION ON THIS PAGE.) f ZJTJqtx Work executed at short no tice and in a style unsurpassed by any similar establishment in the State. RATES OP ADVERTISING : Ono square, one time, . .- . . - $ 1 00 " two times, - t- 160 " " jihree times, - 2 00 Contract advertisements taken at proportionately low rates. 4 'I- Offick orer the North Carolina Book store, corner of. Fayette vilio and Mor - iii streeU, first door smith of the StaU- House, - i ' 1 -' ' "RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Oue year. , T 10 05 Six months, - - : ' - 1 Three months, - - - VOL.. IV. RALEIGrH, 1ST. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1875. NO. 41. ir I ?t v ABiABLf Advance, -e THE ERA . V RBPUBLICAN WEEKLY NEWS-PAPER-TIIE CENTRAL ORGAN OF THE PARTY., ;r '(BIB';; DIRECTORY. I'nlted 8UUe COTcrnmaut. Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, Presi- J ' -t i Henry Wilson, of Mass., V. President. Hamilton Fisb.ofN. Y..Secy of State. Benjamin II. Bristow, of Kentucky, Secretary of the Treasury. William W. Belknap, of Iowa. Secre tary of War. (ieorgeM. Robeson, of New Jersey, Secretary of Xavy Columbus Delano, of Ohio, Secretary ,,f the Interior. George II. Williams, of Oregon, At torney General. Marshall Jewell, or Connecticut, post master General. supreme Court of the U. S Morrison R. Waite, of Ohio, Chief Justice. Nathan Clifford, of Me., Asso. Justice. Noah II. Sway ne, of O., " " Samuel F. Miller, of la., " IUviJ Davis, of I1L, " " Stephen J. Field, of Cal., " William M. Strong.of Pa., " j,seph P. Bradley,of N.J. " Ward Hunt, of N.Y., Court meets first Monday in Decem ber, at Washington. X. c. Ileprewentatlon In Congress. ft E NATE. A. S. Merrimon, of Wake. Mat. W. Ransom, ot Northampton. UOrsK OP REPRESENTATIVES. lt District Jesse J. Yeates. 2d " J. A. Ilyniau. 3.1 A. M. WaddelL. 4th " Joseph J. Davis. ;.th " A. M. Scales, ah " Thomas S. Ashe. 7th 4 W. M. Robhins. 5th " Robert B. Vanco. l ulled .States Codrf. The stated terms of the U. S. Circuit and District Courts are as follows : . United States Circuit Court Easter u District North Carolina Held in Ral eigh first Monday in June and last Mon day in November. II. I. Bond, Circuit Court Jude; resilience. Baltimore, Md. . . Goo. W. Brooks, District Court Judge, K-Lsteni DLstrist; resid. Elizabeth City. U. S. Marshal, J. B. Hill; oft, Raleigh. N. J. Riddick, Circuit Conrt Clerk; office, Raleigh. EASTERN DISTRICT COURTS. . Elizabeth City, third Monday in April ami October. Clerk, M. B. Culepper ; resi., Eliz. City. Newborn, fourth Monday in April anil October. Cierk.Geo. E. Tinker; resi.,Newbexn. Wilmington, first Monday after the fourth Monday in April and October. Clerk, Win. Earkins; resi., Wilming ton. Marshal, J.B. Hill, office, Raleigh. District Attorney, Richard C. Badger; resilience, Raleigh. Assistant, W. H. Young, Oxford. f V. S. CIRCUIT COURT WESTERN DI8T II. L. Bond.U. S. Cireuit Court Judge, Baltimore, Md. Robert P. Dick, U. S. District Judge, Western District ; resL, Greensboro. Robert M. Douglas, V. S. Marshal ; ofliee, (Jreensboro. Cireuit and District Courts in the Western District are held at the same time. Greensboro, first Monday in April and October. Clerk, John W. Payne; rp i., (Jreens- xro. statesville, third Monday in April and '-tober. i'lerk, Henry C. Corles ; resi., States Mile. Asheville.fi rst Monday after the fourth Monday in April and October. Clerk, K. R. Hampton ; resi., Ashe v.lle. Virgil S. Lusk, U. S. District Attor ney; residence, Asheville. Assistant, W. S. Ball, Greensboro. I n i led states Internal Revenue. I.J. Young.Collector Fourth District, cilice, Raleigh. P. W. Perry, Supervisor Carolinas, ., oflioe, Raleigh. Charles Perry, Assistant Supervisor, Raleigh. .Mint. Draneh Mint ol the U. S. at Charlotte. ('Overumeut of IVorth Cnrollna. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. "urtis H. Brogden,of Wayne, Governor. John B. Neathery, Private Secretary. U. F. Armfield, of Iredell, Lieutenant Governor, and President of the Senate. W.H. Howerton, of Rowan, Sec of State. David A. Jenkins, of Gaston; Treasurer. A. D. Jenkins, Teller. Donald W. Bain, Chief Clerk. John Reilly, of Cumberland, Auditor. Wm. P. Wetherell, Chief Clerk. S. D. Pool, of Craven, Supt. of Public Instruction. John C. Gorman, of Wake.Adj.Gen'ral. T. L. Hargrove, of Granville, Att. Gen. W. C. Kerr, Mecklenburg, State Geolo gist. Thos. R. Purnell, orForsythe, Libra'n. Henry M. Miller, ol Wake, Keeper of the Capitol. qovkrnor's council The Secretary ot State, Treasurer, Auditor and Supt. of Publio Instmct'n. Institutions The University of North Carolina is at Chapel HilL The Institution for the Ieaf and Dumb and the Blind ; the In sane Asylum and the State Penitentiary re at Raleigh. Hoard of Education. Tire Governor, Llentemnt .Governor, D IRE CTORY. Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Attorney 'General constitute the State Board of Education. " The Gover nor is President, and the Superinten dent of Public Instruction, Secretary of the Board. Supreme Court. Richmond M. Pearson, of Yadkin.Chief Justice. Edwin G. Reade.of Person, Asso. Justice. Wm. B. Rodman, Beau fort, W. P. Bynam, Mecklenburg,". . - Thomas Settle, Guilford, " 44 Tazewell L. Hargrove, of Granville, Re porter. : - . W. II. Bagley, of Wake, Clerk. ; . D. A. Wickor, of Wake, Marshal. Meets in Raleigh on tho first Monday in January and June. Superior Courts. Samuel W. Watts, Judge Sixth Judi cial District ; residence, Franklinton. J. C. L. Harris, Solicitor, Raleigh. Wake County Government. Commissioners Solomon J. Allen, Chairman; Wm. Jinks, A. G. Jones, Wm. D. Turner, J. Robert No well. Sheriff S. M. Dunn. Superior Court Clerk Jno. N. Bunting. Treasurer David Lewis. Register -of Deeds W. W. White. Coroner James M. Jones. Surveyor N. J. Whitaker. City Government. Mayor John C. Gorman. Commissioners-JE'ajfern Ward II. M. Miller, D. L. Royster, Stewart Ellison. Middle Ward John C. Palmer, W. C. Stronach, J. C. R. Little. Western Ward Wm. W. White, John R. O'Neill, J. H. Jones. Treasurer John Nichols. Clerk and Collector Francis M. Sor rell. Chief Police James C. King. " POETRY. - - -- - -"Ti . . i Come to Me. Come to me ! Come to me in thy brightnes and sweetness. Come to me in thy spirit's completeness, Come on the -wings of love's magical fleetness, My heart longs for thee. Come to me ! Come when my feelings are solemn and ' 'prayerful, -Come when my heart is weary nnd careful, Come when my eyes with sadness are tearful, Mv soul ver.rns for thee. Come to me ! Come when the morni jj in brightness emerges, Come when the noontide with ardency urges, , Come when the night-billow solemnly surges, My being calls for thee. Come to me ! Oh, haste in thy -oh, darling one, quicken, Oh, come to this breast with care sadly stricken ; I wait for thy coining I languish and sicken For sore need of thee. Come to me ! though time divide, though distance dissever, Soul may meet soul in loving endeavor ; Come to mo, come to me, now ami forever I'm waiting for thee. Come to me ! Let me but feel thy true arms around mo ; My soul shall know peace that seldom hath found me ; No ieril shall chill, no sorrow shall wound me Leaning on thee. MISCELLANEOUS. A Iruidical Wedding. The following description of a marriage in the Druidical days is given in "Saintaine's Myths of the Rhine." At a place where two roads meet the cracking of a whip is heard ; hogs, sheep and small oxen are driven aside to make way for a kind of procession, consisting of grave and solemn men and women. It is a wedding. The young couple have just had their union blessed by the priests under the sacred oak. The bride is dressed in black, and wears a wreath of dark leaves on her head. She walks in the midst of her friends. A iriatron, who walks on her left, hokls before her eyes a white cloth ; it is a shroud the shroud in which she will be buried one of these days. On her right a Druid intones a chant in which ha enumerates in solemn rythm all the troubles and all the anxieties which await her in wedded life : From this day, young wife, thou gies and mortifications, not even alone wilt have to bear all the bur- the happiest ; but every one may den of your little household. I build up his own happiness by You will have to attend the bak- j seeking mental pleasures, and thus ingoven, to provide fuel, and to go make himself independent of out in search of food ; vou will have to ! ward fortune. prepare the resinous torch and the lamp. You attend to the cow and even to the horse if your husband requires it. Always full of respect, you will wait on him, standing behind him at his meals. If he expresses a wish to take you with him to war, you will ac company him to carry his baggage, to keep his arms in good condition, and to nurse him if he should be sick or wounded. Happiness consists in the fulfill ment of duty. Be happy, my child. What is still more strange is that this dolorous wedding song, but slightly altered, is still in some parts of France at this day address ed to brides by local minstrels. I5ret Harte's Personal Appear ance. A lady correspondent in Wash ington sketches Bret Harte in these lines : " Strolling through the lobby at Willard's recently, just after the breakfast hour, I saw leaning against the clerk's desk a trim, well, old young man. His hat was off, and amid the locks of curling black hair that lay heavily massed over a square and high forehead, threads of gray showed themselves. His eyes were heavy. Their lids were reddened by that peculiar dull crim son color that is produced by long and intense application over the writing or reading desk", but from beneath their long lashes there shone out a genial light, betokening a fund of quaint and dry sundry hu mor. As ho stood there, noncha lantly talking to a friend, he ran, now and then, his hand through his hair, as though the head beneath needed caressing, or as though some flitting ache warned him that he had a brain, and that it had been overtaxed. I looked carefully at the face. Its features were all reg ular and well modeled. The , nose carefuily, evenly cut. Cheeks not high, and still retaining; the rem nants of the bronze that the sum mer had put' there. The mouth, kindly in expression, delicately lip ped and mobile a mouth mafde for smiles and for smiles producing. The moustache heavy enough to shade the lips and droop carefully over the chin below. The chin deeply pitted by the cruel marks of small pox, but still so smoothed by the hand of time that careful in spection only detected the defect. IMckens Experience. i A writer in. Old and A 'eiu says: j "Have you read carefully this mel ! ancholy life of Dickens, by which j his friend Mr. Foster has uncon j sciously so nearly destroyed his I fame? Sad as the book is, in all its i i sadness it teaches essential lessons. ; The first of those lessons is that, young as Dickens was when he be j gan to write, he had begun to learn j much younger, and that what he wrote he had learned not in the i school of books, but in the school of i , men. It was in the habit of perfect ; work, and the absolute keenness and quickness of observation, and the pitiless memory of every detail, that he was becoming the artist of a pencil so true and ot precision so perfect, that we take each character whom he really cared for into our own homes and among the people we have most nearly known. It is the Micawber, the Nicholas Nickle by. or Mrs. Nickleby, the Sam Weller, the Mr. Turveydrop, the brothers Cherryble, whom with his own eyes he had seen, whom he had heard with his own ears it is those who come into the life of this gen eration as living beings. As his life goes on, often he searches in vain among his memories for any one who has not been pushed for ward upon his stage, as a boy push es his paper puppets forward with a wire; you see him painfully hunt ing to-day for that which he shall describe to-morrow. He goes down to see the poor wretches smoking opium, that he might write out the mysteries of Edwin Drood." He is but a few weeks or months be hind the printer, and the contrast between this goaded work of a man in arrears with fortune and that fresh outpouring of spontaneous recklessness tells the story. But, even at the worst, Dickens is so true that he will not tell anything but the things that he has seen 'and heard." No man's life is free from strug- How Wirt Found a Wife. A recent well-written sketch of the loves of the great lawyers con tains this touching incident in the life of William Wirt, at one time Attorney General of the United States. In his younger days he was a victim to the passion of intoxi cating drinks, which has been the bane of so many distinguished in the legal profession. Affianced to a beautiful and accomplished young woman, he had made and broken repeated pledges of amendment, and she, after patiently and kindly enduring his disgraceful habit, had at length dismissed him, deeming him incorrigible. Their next meet ing after his dismissal was in a pub lic street in the city of Richmond. William Wirt lay drunk and asleep on the sidewalk, on a hot summer day, the rays of the sun pouring down on his uncovered head, and the flies crawling over his swollen face. As the young lady approach ed in her walk, her attention was attracted by the spectacle, strange to her eyes, but alas ! so common to others who knew the victim, as to attract little remark. She did not at first recognize the sleeper, and wras about to hasten on, when she was led on by one of those impulses which form the turning point in human lives to scrutinize his fea tures. What was her emotion when she recognized her discarded lover ! She drew forth her handkerchief and carefully spread it over his face and hurried away. Wiien Wirt dime to himself he found the hand kerchief, and in one corner the be loved name. With a heart almost breaking with grief and remorse, he made a new vow of reformation. He kept the vow, and he married the owner of the handkerchief. He Smoked Four Tons ot To bacco and Died. Mr. Kaleas, who was known i t x l among nis acquaintances uy uie name of the king of smokers, has ust died near Rotterdam. He had erected a mansion, one portion of which was devoted to the arrange ment of a collection of pipes, ac cording to 1 their nationality and chronological order. Ay. few, days before his death he summoned his awyer and made his will, in which he directed that all the smokers of he country should be invited to tne uneral, and that each should be presented with ten pounds of to bacco and two Dutch pipes of new est fashion, on which should be en graved the name, arms, and date of the decease of the testator. He requested all his relatives, friends and funeral guests to be care ful to keep their pipesalight during the funeral ceremonies, after which they should empty the ashes from their pipes on the coffin. The poor of the neighborhood who attended to his last wishes, were to receive annually, on the anniversary of his death, ten pounds of tobacco and a small cask of good beer. He de sired that his oak coflin should be lined with the cedar of his old ITa vanna cigar boxes, and that a box of French capsoral and a packet of old Dutch tobacco should be placed at the foot of his coflin. His favor ite pipe was to be placed by his side, along with a box of matches, u flint and steel and some tinder, as he said there was no knowing what might happen. A correct calculator has made out that Mr. Kaleas had, during his eighty years of life, smoked more than four tons of to bacco, and had drunk about 500,000 quarts of beer. -Ttoy Times. Extravagance. " There are 10,000 New York la dies whoso costumes, when in full dress, cost at least $1,000 each. Fif teen years ago the same number of fashionable ladies would have ap peared adorned quite as attractive ly at an average expense of $2-30. Ten thousand children under ten years of age are now elaborately and fantastically arrayed at an ex pense from $100 to $150 each, while children of wealthy citizens, fif teen years ago, were simply but ap propriately attired at an expense of $20 or $25 ; and it is painful to re flect that in consequence of this lavish expenditure upon a class that never earned a dollar, there are oth er tens of thousands without em ployment and suffering for fuel, food, and raiment ; and last, though not least, are the millions of gold sunk by Americans who idle away both their time and their money in Europe. Ireland is not now the only country demoralized by absen teeism. Tliurlovo Weed. A bad thing to put up with unaccommodating landlord. -An Useful Knowledge. s A man walks three miles in an hour ; a horse trots seven ; steam boats run eighteen ; sailing vessels, ten; slow rivers flow four; rapid rivers, seven ; moderate wind blows seven ; storm thirty-six ; hurricane, eighty ; a rifle ball; one thousand ; sound, seven hundred and forty three ; light, one hundred and nine ty thousand ; electricity, two hun hred and eighty thousand. A bar rel of flour weighs one hundred and ninety-six pounds; barrel of pork, two hundred ; barrel of rice, six hundred ; barrel of powder, twenty-five ; firkin of butter, fifty-six ; tub of butter, eighty-four. Wheat, beans, and clover seed, GO pounds to the bushel ; corn, rye, and flax seed, fifty-six ; buckwheat, fifty two; barley, forty-eight; oats, thirty-five. Sixty drops make a drachm, eight drachms an ounce, four ounces a gill, sixteen gills a pint, sixty drops a teaspoon ful, four tea- spoonfuls a tablespoonful or half an ounce, two tablespoon ful s an ounce, eight tablespoonfuls a gill, two gills a coffee cup or tumbler, six fluid ounces a teacup full, Four thousand, eight hundred and forty square yards, an acre; a square mile, six hundred and forty acres. To measure an acre : two hundred and nine feet on each side, making a square acre within an inch. There are two thousand, seven hundred and fifty languages. Two persons die every second. A generation is fifteen years ; average of life, thir ty-one years. Tne standing army in Prussia, war times, one million, twohundred thousand ; France, one million, three hundred and sixty thousand ; Russia, one million ; Austria, eight hundred and twenty five thousand ; Italy, two hundred thousand ; Spain, one hundred thousand; Belgium, ninety-five thousand ; England, seventy-five thousand; United States, twenty four thousand. Roman Catholics in United States, five millions. Mails in New York city are one hundred tons per day. New York consumes six hundred beeves daily, seven hundred calves, twenty thousand sheep, twenty thousand swine, in winter. Journal of Health. Buncombe County, North Car olina. My fishing consisted principally in sitting on a safe rock near the shore reading some newspaper items about the mountain country. (I al ways try to read up while on the ground, having discovered that a line on the spot is worth two vol umes away.) I learned, in the first place, thatBuncombe County ,where we then were, was named from Col onel Buncombe, a gallant officer of the Revolution ; over the door of the family mansion once stood this legend, To Buncombe Hall Welcome all." It was a Congressional representa tive of this mountain neighborhood who made himself and his district immortal ly "only talking for Bun combo." Close upon this informa tion came the fact that in 1871 Bun combe took the first premium for tobacco at the Virginia State Fair, surpassing even the celebrated yield of tho Danville region. Buncombe apples were giants of their kind, weighing from twenty-five to thirty ounces, and measuring fourteen and sixteen inches in circumference. (I was not surprised at. this, having seen the men who eat them.) The Catawba grape originated in Bun combe, on Cane Creek, a branch of the French Broad. In the sur rounding region there were sixty mountain peaks more than six thou sand feet high," and thirty-nine over five thousand feet. I went on with the climate, and j discovered that while in New Eng- j land two hundred and fifty out of every thousand deaths are from con sumption, in Minnesota and Cali fornia one hundred and fifty, and in Florida fifty, here, even with an al most total lack of luxuries, the pro portion was only thirty in the thou sand. Constance F. Mbolsoji, in Harper's Magazine. A subscription paper, circulated for some charitable purpose, was presented to a wealthy French manufacturer, who subscribed twenty francs. 44 Twenty francs!" said the lady who presented the list to him ; " why, you ought to be ashamed of yourself ! Your son has subscribed fifty francs." " That is all very well," replied the manufacturer ; 44 my son has a rich father, and can afford to give more than I." AI.ick-SkilIet Doctor. " Well, what about him ?i Yes, we gave him a drink, but let me go back and tell how it came about." " About twenty years ago John Weatherly, John Bailey; John Power and I, all went to Shreve- port, Louisiana, to sell our cotton. It was about 100 miles, ai d we had to take camp kettles, ! tents and whiskey along to keep from being subservient to the inclemency of the weather. We four used six gallons on that trip. . " We moved along two days very well, but found the draft on our keg was very heavy, by reason of friends who passed or met us, all of whom tested the quality of our whiskey." 44 John Weatherly pourei out three pints of whiskey into a very heavy, black, quart bottle. Into this he put about one-fourth plug of mean tobacco. He then got, about two ounces of bark from a 44 tooth-ache" tree, the bark of which will burn at least one hundred times as bad as cayenne pepper. Whyj sir, Indian turnip is not a circumstance to the bark of a 44 tooth-ache" tree: He mixed the medicine expressly for any of our friends who might not be considered of the first families-dead-beats and the like. The old bottle rolled about in a feed box, lashed to the end of a cotton frame, till it was as thoroughly mixed as a bottle of Simmons' Liver Regula tor. thought ought to be complimented with its contents till we got to Lick- Skillet,on the Texas and Louisiana State line. We there saw a doctor- playing poker, or euchre, just at dusk'. We drove our tired oxen through, camped beyond the village 3half a mile, near Boggy Church. ! 44 A roaring log heap and a good supper of broiled ham, strong cof fee and cold biscuits soon made all hands joyous. About nine o'clock that night our Lick-Skillet doctor came along on his way home from town. Our rousing fire and the prospect of a dram were mora than he could stand ; so he came by,and asked the privilege of warm ing, which was readily granted. He was not drunk, nor was he so ber, but about 44 half-seas-over." "After some preliminary remarkF, ne SKirmisnea arouna 10 me suuject . 1 li-At I A. t otwnisKey. urn unciejonn w earn- 1 XI ,1 X X. 1 i- m.-.4- mm V 1 1 T lit 1 1 I eriy-uie uociur mat imu uP the four-horse-power prescription- gave me the wink, and asked me why I had not offered the stranger a drink. I got the bottle out and he hesitated a moment, Jest he might, when he had tasted its con tents, knock some one down with it. In order to make appearances regular, I took a horn of it so call edfirst. I closed my mouth as tight as a corset string of an actress, and turned it up; and my God! that fluid burned the outside of my lips, it was so strong. I handed it to the doctor, who deliberately ele vated the old bottle at arm's length, and said : " Gentlemen, 'ere's to the man that own'd the hand that raised the corn that fed the goose that bro't forth the quill that made the pen that wrote the Decl'ation qv,'meri- can 'Dependence." " With the close of this very pa triotic " health" he brought that ponderous black bottle in contact with his hash-trap, and drank two or three swallows before his blunt ed sense of taste detected ' the strength of the "red-eye." ' He instantly begun to expector ate worse than a Thomas cat with a feather in his mouth. In fact, he became as energetic as a. sewing machine agent. Said he : " Gentlemen, (spits,) have you a pipe r (spits) iiy ijou : spusj where did (spits) you get that whis key ?" (spits.)' T'Via calUra fhrnwn from hia i mouth, by spasmodic efforts, was as tough and white as the lint from a Pratt cotton gin. No pipe was used by any of us. As soon as that fact was made known, he mounted his horse, and as he did so, said : " My God ! Indian turnip ; I'm ruined at last," (spit.) We heard his horse's feet clatter ing over the frozen ground, and the further he went the faster he trav eled, until the sound died away in the distance. 9 I "We presumed that he never would pay a nocturnal visit to a crew of Texas wagoners any more." Calvert Texas) Central. " War is a game which, were sub jects wise, kings would not play at." It costs three thousand millions of dollars a year to ; support? the armies (jf Europe. . ::. "I am weary; now my poor tired brain needs rest,?, said pid MacStlnger to a pretty, yountr school teacher who was boarding in the family will you take me to your room, my dear, where there is a fire, and read Milton's Paradise Ist to me while I seek repose V? 41 I'll rest your poor tired brain with this ; rolling-pin if you don't get out of this you miserable old deceitful hypocrite!" remarked Mrs. MacStlnger, emerging from the pantry very unexpectedly. 41 Give the old man a chance, can't you?" yelled the boy who wa I taking a slide down the banister. Three Good Reasons. 44 1 would marry you, BInks " said a I lady to an importunate lover,' were it not for three reasons.? ; "Oh, tell me,"; he said, Imploringly, u what they are, that I may remove them ?" " The first Is," said she, " I don't love you ; the second is, I don't want to love you ; and tho third is, I couldn't lovo you if I wanted to." 44 1 hadn't a chance like some boys," remarked a man in a street car yesterday, as he squirted tobacco juice over the straw ; 41 father was too poor to give me an education." 44 But if I had been he," replied a lady as she gathered up her skirts, 14 I'd have given you manners or broken my neck trying to." A gentleman drove a sorrowful looking horse into town, recently, and, stopping in front of: Bank, block, he requested a small boy to hold him a moment. 41 Hold Mm ?" exclaimed the boy ; "just lean him up against the post that'll hold 'im." 44 Go away! Leave me with my dead ! Let me fling myself on his coffin and die there !" That was In Nebraska six months ago, and now the widow has won another trusting soul, and No. l's portrait Is In the attic, face to the wall." 44 Now, John, suppose there's a load of hay on one side of a river and a jackass on tho other how can thejackass get to the hay with out getting wet ?" 44 1 give It up." "Well, that's lust what the other i actaqg did " In reply to a young writer who wished tQ knQW whIch maffazIne win g.ye me the hlghest potion quickest?v a contemporary ad vises 44 a powder magazine, If you contribute a fiery article." If there is anything that will re concile a man to married life, it Is the knowledge that steals over him like a dream as he bursts a button off his trowsers that there is one at home who can repair the damage. After waiting four years, a Mich igan lover finally popped the ques tion and the girl answered : 44 Of course I'll nave you : yvny, you idiot, we could have been three years ago !" married Laying the corner stone for a wing to his manor was the only founda tion for the new 44 story" that Di raeli was about to fake a wife, and as he has since begun a Becond wing it is presumed that he purposes big amy. If you want to 8top with a New Bedford landlord a whole jweek for nothing just say to him as you en ter his house, that you never saw a man who looked so much like Daniel Webster. . j. A young man, searching for his father's pig, accosted an Irishman as follows : 44 Haveypu seen a stray pig about here?" To which Pat responded, " Faith, and how could I tell a stray pig from any other ?" A silly fellow whose ears were unusually large, once slmperlngly asked a witty lady, " Will I not make a fine angel ?" " Well, no," she replied, pointing to his ears, I think your wings are too high." " A man's nature should be strong as adamant. He should never give way to tears." That is what some body says in a recent novel. But the author forgot to add that man never peels onions. Mrs. Partington wonders why tho captain of a ship can't keep a memo randum of the weight of his anch or, without going to the trouble of weighing it every time ho leave port. .
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