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VOL. IV -NO. 7.
MORGANTON, N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1879.
WHOLE NUMBER 163.
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LISTENING.
Her white band flashes an the strings.
Sweeping a swift and silver chord,
And wild and strong the great harp rings
Its throng of throbbing notes abroad,
Mniin iM rannnlieht make a, bloom
Throughout the rich and sombre room.
Oh, sweet the long and shivering swells,
And sweeter still the lingering flow-
Delicious as remembered bells .
Dving in distaaoe long ago.
When evening winds from heaven were blown
And the heart yearned for things unknown.
Across the lofty window place,
Peace fills the stainless sapphire deep ;
One sentry star in outer space
His quenchless lamp lifts, half asleep ;
Peace broods where falling waters flow,
Peace where the heavy roses blow.
X&Soa the windless atuenphere
Wait alt the fragrances of June,
The summer night is hushed to bear
The passion of the ancient tune :
Then why those sudden tears that start.
And why this pierced and aching heart ?
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An , nsien ! wo anu au oar pain
Are mortal, and divine the song !
Idly our topmost height we gain ;
It spurns that height, and far along
Seeks in the heavens its splendid mark,
And we fall backward on the dark.
The Professor's Substitute.
Professor Bond's brows were knit in
honest perplexity, and he brushed up
his shaggy gray hair with his slender
white hand, while his keen hut kindly
eyes were fixed upon a sweet faced girl
standing modesty before him.
"You are snch a child !" he said, pre
sently, 'I am fifteen, Herr Professor."
"A great age ! and these are all big
boys, you see."
"But I do not have to do more than
teach them, and I can do that because "
and here her low, sweet voice broke,
and the sensitive lips quivered piteous-
ly "my father was training me for a
teacher."
"I'm!. Yes!"
"If you will only let me try, Herr
Professor, until my father is stronger.
The doctor says a few weeks of ectire
rest is all he needs, but if his salary is
stopped how are we to live?"
Professor Bond's brows knit again.
It was a dilemma out of which he saw
no way. Professor Schorn was his
German teacher, and three distinct
classes of pupils were expecting to re
cite to him that very day. It was im
possible to find another competent
teacher for som .(, ! Vmofrtmnw
Schorn had had a stroke of paralysis.
In this emergency the professor's
only child, Doretta, had offered her services.
Professor Bond was puzzled about
' Ih'i expediency of substituting for a
gruff, gray-headed German of sixty or
there-abouts, a slender girl of fifteen,
with a voice like a flute, and a smile'
like a baby. Yet there was resolution
,too in the blue eyj and on the pretty
lips, while the low, broad brow pro
mised intellect.
'Well'" he said, after a long pause,
"you may try. I am within call if you
need me."
And Doretta, with a long, quivering
nigh, followed him to a class room
where about twenty boys awaited the
arrival of the German professor. After
Professor Bond left her, she said, with
a gentle pathos :
"My poor father lies helpless at home,
and we shall starve, if I cannot do
his work here. You know him and
love him, and I am sure you" will not
make it too hard for me."
All the boy chivalry wakened at this,
. and the class as a whole was exemplary.
There were some imperfect lessons, but
little inattention, and the new teacher
excused nothing, let no mistake pass
undiscovered. Her own knowledge of
English was better than her father's,
and, greatly to his amazement, Profes
sor Bond found the classes progressing
favorably.
The second school term of the year
made some changes, and one morning
Doretta, lifting her soft blue eyes to
her class, found a new boy facing her.
He had large, dark eyes, a handsome
face, a tall, strong figure, and rather
ti her becausa he was blder than
any of her class. She found his name
upon her dook Sidney Kynear, anu
her pretty face clouded as she read it,
for thee were vague' but unpleasant
memories associated with the name of
Rynear in her mind.
But Sidney. Rynear was the very pink
of courtesy. Just from New York, his
clothing was in the latest style, and at
nineteen foppishness is not so offensive
as at twenty-nine. Only a boy and a
girl liking was the result of the maet-
'ng.
The romance of a first love lasted all
Inter, and, as spring opened,1 Profes
jor Schorn gained his strength until he
eould hobble about on crutches, and
talk of resuming his interrupted duties.
It was in April that little Doretta stay
ed at home to oook the soup, and her
father went'onee more to the seminary
to teach the boys German. She was
restless, this pretty Doretta, that day.
She told herself she missed the boys,
but did not admit even to her own heart
that if she co-ild have retained one
scholar she could well have spared the
others.
Only one hour bad passed w hen a
carriage d,ove swiftly to the door of the
little cottage, and Doretta, hurrying
out, saw three men carrying her father
'up the garden path, while following,
with a frightened face, came Sidney
Rynear and the doctor.
"I went for the doctor as faBt as I
could," Sidney whispered, taking Dor
etta's little, cold hand in his warm
clasp, "and we met the carriage at the
gate. I am no end of sorry, Retta; but
I it fact he it was seeing me I am
afraid "
"What?" she said,
i "Why, you see, he was all right,
teaching the class, when he saw n e
suddenly, and turned as white as a
ghost I He asked me my name, aud, as
soon as he beard it, dropped down like
a dead man !"
All this was spoken hurriedly, and
Doretta was too busy fortihnrs to weigh
the hasty words.
"A second stroke," the doctor said,
and Doretta watched hungrily for one
return of consciousness.
Towards midnight, the Invalid moved
si'.ghtly, and in a moment Doretta was
bending over him, meeting the glance
of his large haggard eyes fixed upon
her face.
' "Rynear!" her father said, In thick
utterance, "ilehere diamond studs
nd you rich starving enrse him ! I
curse him!"
The passionate utterance f the last
words exhausted him, and he lay pant
ing, while Doretta tried to coax him to
take a stimulant left by the doctor. But
lie moved his head from the spoon
muttering, "Rynear! Rynear! my
ruin my curse!" and again the dis
torted face warned Doretta of a third
stroke. Before the day dawned she was
facherless.
, It was not strange, w ith that death
scene fresh in her mind, that she shrank
from Sidney's well-meant effort at con
solation ; but as the weary days wore
on this gave way before his kindly ser
vices. How could he have wronged
her father, when he must have been a
mere child, twelve years before, when
the Sehorns had,left New York 1 '
Time, with its many changes, brought
comfort to Doretta, who obtained a sit
uation as governess in a private family,
and went abroad with her pupil and
her parents. 'Sidney Rynear left the
country village to enter his father's
counting house in New York, vowed
eternal constancy to-Doretta, and for
got her in six months.
Five years later, in a private room in
one of the New York hotels, two gen
tlemen, one a middle aged lawyer,' one
a man still young and exceptionally
handsome, were talking together.
"The whole matter rests with you,"
the older man was saying-. "I will
give you the facts, but you understand
I' accepted them in confidence, and
tHm -tfivar rflnagf't"""' after trtnniffh '
bed, and why I must make such resti
tution as lies in my power to his child.
I came to Paris only to do this, but
since I have been here, Retta, I have
learned a new lesson of life the lesson
of lova, little Reitta. I love you, my
darling, 1 love ypu ! Can you Jet the
cruel past sleep, and be my wife?"
Very shyly sh$ whispered :
"I have always loved you, Sidney. I
think I gave you; my heart on the first
day when you came into my class at
L Seminary! For I have never
forgotten yOu, though I long ago gave
up ali hope of ever seeing you again
bo the worloj was none the wiser
when Sidney Rynear settled half his
large estate uponj his fair young wife
and only the lawyer who drew the
deeds knew they1 were payment of a
long standing debt, and that for the
second time pretty Doretta was Profes
sor Schorn's substitute.
Escape ot School-Mistress.
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Mew Confederate Hon
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"I understand," said his companion
gravely,
"Your father left my office three
weeks ago, in perfect health ; one hour
ater I was summoned to his deathbed,
and found him suffering from fatal in
juries from a building that had fallen
as he was passing."
"I know."
"He had made his will years ago,
leaving you his heir, with the excep
tion of a few legacies."
"1 have seen the will."
'Ah, yes. Well, in his dying mo
ments he desired to have a new will
drawn, but finding death approach too
fast he made his confession to me, and
I swore to repeat it to you."
"Confession !" burst from the young
man's lips, while his face grew white.
"I repeat his own words. Years ago
when he was in a manufacturing ousi-
A young ladyiiamed Effle Boon, liv
ing at Stockport, 1'a., with a widowed
mother, had an exciting adventure one
night last fall, the effects of which have
prostrated her upon a bed of sickness.
She teaches at a pchool-bouse two and
a half miles from home. On Monday,
she did not startf for home until five
o'clock- Betwiien the school-house
ana Stockport, there is a dense piece
of woods, formerly a great resort for
wild game, and where yet deer or game
are occasionally j seen. It was nearly
dark when the girl entered the wood,
and, by the timejshe was in the middle
of it, the sky became cloudy, she could
with difficulty distinguish objects a
few feet away. Suddenly, a large ani
mal sprang out from among the trees,
a few feet ahead jof Miss Boon. She at
first supposed it ;was i large dog. It
approached her,i when she discovered
that it was a beaf. The girl screamed
in terror, . and ! fled into the woods,
which led for several miles into the
mountains. She supposed the bear
was closeiy pursuing her. It was so
dark that she coold not see three feet
ahead of her, anil the brush tore her
hands and face,: and projecting roots
tripped her as slie rau headlong from
her pursuer. She fell repeatedly,
bruising herself severely. At last,
overcome with weariness, she sank to
the ground uucjonscious. When -she
recovered, she was drenched with rain,
and lay by the side of a fallen tree.
It was just getting light.. She was so
stiff and sore that she was unable to
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rise to ner leei. Assneoegan to rea r th.
rzeirer-grnra
cracking the bnush and approaching
where she lay. Supposing it to be the
bear that had traced her to the spot.
she hid her face in her hands and moan
ed in terror. Ttie next moment, she
heard a voice calling her name. A wood-
chopper namedVlom Haines, on nis
way to his work in the w oods by an old
road, had discovered her Bitting by the
w. Her discoverer helped her to a
neighboring clearing, and obtaining a
horse and wagon, took her home,
where her absence had not yet created
any alarm, as she was in the habit of
frequently remaining over night at a:
friend's neai the ischool-house. It was
some time beforcjthe girl was able to
tell her experience, and i, was several
days before she was able to resume her
duties at school, i
r On the 5th of June last, a monument
to the memory of the A oiifederate dead
was dedicated in Elm rood Cemetery,
Memphis, Tenn., in th presence of 5,
000 spectators, after 1 io graves of a
large number of told era and sailors
had been decorated iwi a flowers. On
the crest of the "beautiful hill on the
slope of which the Cc lfederate dead
are buried the mot iment stands.
Around its base, and fa down the crest
ot the hill and into 'he raUey, the lit
tle white headstone grs re-markers rise
above the blade ot s ass, and peep
from beneath the w-g-T r white-topped
clover. The fol.W Dose " the detailed
description of tfobaoJent: A mol
ded baseny1"" Ittcvjftiti.iaijve,
one foot ten InHf tqctyyl - - r?
of the ss.me are'VMTnPftwed, po.isbed
letters, the words 'Confederate Dead.''
On the back of theamefs the follow
ing inscription : "Mis Victoriam Xon
Immortalitatem Fata Xtgazei-unt." On
the base rests a molded base, four feet
square and eleven inchfshigh with col
umn plinths at the angles. Then conies
a die, three feet two inrhes square and
two feet three inches Ugh, recessed at
the corners for the .-Uafts. The faces
of the die are highly polished polished
shafts, carved capitis and molded
ba.es. The upper portion of the die is
four feet two inches square and two
feet five inches big1!, with a Gothic
arch and panel on each side, and with
a carved wreath in relief. On each
sprandrel the four corners are molded.
Then comes a molded and carved cap,
five feet square and one foot three
inches high. Above this cap is a mol
ded column base, three feet nine inches
square and one foot eight inches high,
with the Tennessee State and the Con
federate States arms in high relief.
Above these coats-cf-arms and beneath
the trophy are the words "Deo Vin
dice," in relief. The shaft is three feet
square at the bottom acd two teet
two inches square at the top, aud six
teen feet long, with a trophy of flags
and arms at the base of the shaft in
hiah relief and 2arland3 in low relief-
all polished. The frieze is molded, and
has stars in full relief between the mold
ings. On top of all this s the capital,
three feet four inches square and one
foot seven inches high, richly carved.
Surmounting all is a finial two feet
eight inches .square and two feet eight
inches high, composed of cannon balls.
The material used in the con
struction ot this memorial to the illus-
uar-
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ny, which nas its main -cyw' i" .-
mond, Va.,and at the port
delphia. The dedicatory
29 cents per gallon, and rosin runs
from $1.25 to $4.u0 per barrel. It is
not generally known that thern are
about 12 or 15 grades of rosin, the best
of which is the "window glass" grade,
which is as transparent as window
glass, and sells at about $4 per barrel.
The window glass can not be made ex
cept in the spring of the year. Large
quantities of kerosene oil, is now being
shipped by the oil refiners on railroads
in huge tanks to cities where it is
barreled for market. After those tanks
have been emptied, they are filled with
turpentine and reshipped to the cities
bordering on the coal region ; thereby
diminishing freights on oil as well as
the turpentine. The rosin is sold for
various purposes in the manufactures
one nf which is soap making. The
sUJLs ''arerj bflge .fPfcjr kettles with
copper caps, and worni coiling p everal
times round as it passes through 'a large
vat of cold water, and discharges the
vapor condensed by water into the
spirits of turpentine. For a still which
will hold twenty barrels of crude gum
a few buckets of water are placed, and
the cap and worm adjusted, the fire is
kindled under the furnace, and soon
the distillation begins; care being taken
to have about the same quantity of
cold, fresh water flow into the still
every minute as goes into vapor, and is
condensed into spirits o turpentine.
The distillation is dangerous, and re
quires a skillful distiller.
A Hemlnlfteenoe.
BRIEFS.
Grandfather Lickshingle was very in
dignant the other evening when he as
certained that the newspapers were giv
ing prominence to the fact that a Penn
sylvania Burgess knocked down an
Alderman of the same place, and then
fined himself for disorderly conduct.
'That's nuthiu'," said he, stabbing
the floor spitefully with his hickory
cane, "and the newspapers are losln'
caste, an' dignity, an' money every day
of their lives by noticin' such small po
tatoes. Now, when I was Mayor of
New York" !
"Why, Grandfather, you were never
Mayor of New"
"Yes, I was forty or fifty years afore
any of you una was born ; was elected
by the largest majority ever given to a
candidate; run again Gen. Jackson on
he Democratic ticket. Jfjakson was
a hard-money KtiiUvui. A man
named John SheruiSi.cd for him,
but I busted them all both wide open,
and marched into the office to the music
of the Union." And Grandfather, re
membering the degeneracy of the
times, remarked, "An' no cipher dis
patches, either, my dear children,"
and wiped away a tear with the butt
end of his cane.
"I never forget anything I recol
lect," continued my Grandfather,
"and, if I am not mistaken, this was in
the year seventeen hundred and some-
thin.' A man came into my office one
! day to get a building permit to dig a
well, an' we had some words about how
The cock crows, it is his nature to'j Jeep the well should be dug. The man
The Cock's Crow.
crow; but the midnight crow is a very
different sound from the crow at day
break; the crow which is sent as a
challenge to a rival is not like that of
the victor after, the battle; the crow at
high-noon or in the afternoon of a sul
ry dog-day Is as maugre as the weath
er, and is a fitting expression of delic
ious laziness ; but after quieting a dis
turbance among the inmates of the
poultry yard, the shrill crow of success
in quelling an insurrection is a lively
and spirited exclamation of an honest
and legitimate pride.
"When the cock goe3 crowing- to bed,
He wiU rise with a watery held,"
may be good for nothing as a meteoro
logeal maxim, but in science of natural
sounds it is good for soniething, and it
is a very diverse expression from the
morning crowing upon his own coop.
The frequent crowing during the fore
noon is tne vocal outburst of high an
imal vigor, the typical crow, and is
totally unlike the crowing given in a
nqw yard or unfrequented plaee.
of Phila-
address was
delivered by General W.T,2p. Humes.
How Turpentine Is Made.
When a man wishes to make anew
FreaVs of Fortune.
ness in Harlem, your father employed
a foreman named Schorn, a German- Capt. Joseph Bounty, an ex-slave and
with but an imperfect knowledge of about the oldest; resident of As oria,
F.nrlish. but with a genius for me, died a few days ago, nearly 5 years
chanics. This man had been for years 0id. His life was a remarkable one.
studying out and perfecting a valuable He was born on-Ward's Island in 1804,
discovery in the branch of manufacture and wnen ten years old was sold into
your father carried on, and it was to 8iavery to Cornelius Trafford, of Asto-
test the value of his machine mat ne ria it was as business-like a bargain
entered your father's house. Ignorant of as lne 8aie 0f a pipce of real estate, and
the language.and the laws of thiscoun- tne dee(j 0f purchase is stili in the pos-
try, he confided his schemes to your se88i0n of Trafford 's decendants. He
father, who undertook to have his in- wa8 industrious and thrifty to an ex-
ventlon patented and introduced. This traordinary degree for one of his race-
he did, only in so doing he substituted Every cent he received he made a hole
theame of Sidnev Rynear tor that oi in an(j hung it Jipon a string, wnicn
(1 obtained full pos- ho arripd around his neck. When it
session and control of the patent, upon
which he built; an enormous fortune
which you inherit.
"The German, Schorn, in vain tried
to gain his rights ; he was poor, an alien,
a scholar, and he was crushed down
and driven away by the superior wealth
and influence of his employer.
became full and too heavy for comfort
he would give the coppers to Miss Hat-
tv Trafford, who proved a safe banker
She preceded him to the grave by a lew
days. On Sunday he would peddle
candv about the streets, thus helping
to increase the little fund. At the age
Y'our of twenty -one Mh Trafford made him
father saw his d.atu in a paper
vears 4go, but; his charge to you
seek out his-heir, and divide
them the fortune out of which
father was defrauded. Xow I
told vou all. If vou wisli to treat
some
is to
with
their
have
this
a free man, and made him captain of a
sloop plying between New ork,
Astoria and adjacent villages. It
was not long before he owned a vessel,
and he made money so rapidly that he
an Wamp the owner of two, and ul-
story as a death oeu cnimera, j uu uij umaieiy as tuc iiuo "v.. .
do so. I will not betray you. If 'you in Astoria. He was on the river .until
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desire to obey your father s last request past sixty years qiu, uch uc .x..
t :n mutorinllv for I PAn tell 1 n mere ef Property on me
x n ui mu j vu . j j - p - r . - m
vou where to find Doretta Schorn."
"My father's last will is a sacred leg
acy," Sidney itynear saiu, m a iun,
Jiijarse voice. "I will obey it strictly,
but the secret the confession ?
"Remains a secret."
One more revolution of time'a ever
revolving wheel, and six months after
this conversation, I ask my reader to
look with me into a very pretty sitting-
room in a house on the outskirts of
Paris. It is a luxurious home, but the
dress of a fair haired girl sitting near
Shore
ta fnnt nf Tfpmsen street, which IS
now part of the Hoyt estate. In a few
years the place riund about became the
home of money aristocrats, and the lit
tle rough-and-ready sort ot abode of
the old colored man became an eyesore
to them. They concluded to be rid of
him, but found it not such'an easy mat
ter, for "Capt. f Jo." was not only
shrewd, but not anxious to sell. The
first ofler of $20,000 was refused ; $4o,-
nnn was ponsidered for some time and
ri online Tn 1872 was offered and ex
one of the open windows, is only a J Cepted the fabulqus sum of $75,000, and
white cambric tastefully made, while
her abundant fair hair is without orba
ment to its own glossy beauty.
She is lit'tine tkv-blue eyes to the
handsome face of a gentleman in deep
mourning, who is talking to her earn
estly. And this is what she says :
"You know all now ! You know why
your father cursed mine upon his death-
he was comfortably ensconceu in
modest $2,600 house on Ridge street.
For some vears he has suffered from
weakness in the limbs, and a Tew weeks
before his death his faculties failed en
tirely. He died In a fainting fit. He
leaves a widow, three children, three
stepchildren, three grandchildren, and
an estate valued at SH),uw
farm, lie first buys the' use of the trees
for one or more years. For the trees
owners receive from four to ten dol
lars per thousand boxes per year,. Each
tree "has from one to four boxes, averag
ing, perhaps, two boxes. The next
thing is cutting the boxes, which gene
rally begins about the last of, October,
and continues as the season permits un
til March. When the boxing season be
gins, all hands does the chopping, and
take the forest "in a breast" Dciore
them, until the tract has been finished,
and every pine of sufficient size has
been "boxed." At the proper season
they are divided untochippers or hack
ers,. dippers, haulers and siill hands
each class beinz paid certain wages.
The duty of the hackers is to scarify
the pines. For this purpose- an instru
ment somewhat like a cooper's knife is
used. The boxes are cut near tne roots
of the trees, and the haj-kers begin hac
king by cutting a single shallow trench
at an angle of about forty-five degrees
downward, on each- side of and into
he box. A single stroke to the side
is enough, and is done almost w ltitout
stopping. They go from tree to tiee
all through the season making fresh
hacks at least once a week, lhat is
their business for the spring, summer
and fall season. A large farm is dm
ded into smaller farms of 1,000 boxes
each, and the hackers, as well as the
dippers, are pafiTso Such for attending
tn the 1.000 bo.aaji auowea as ma
ny farms f hack properly.
The duty oL fpeisis to dip to tur
pentine from tuoxes, and put it in
the barrels ready for the haulers. They
too. do nothing eisc, and like the hac-
i-ora must visit ench tree, and clean
-
out each box at least once a week
Those,, too, have as many farms ot a
thousand boxes eacn as they can dip
properly. The duty of the haulers is
to distribute empty barrels over the va
rious farms winch are numbered or
n.mni fust where the dippers want
thein placed and
sum to the still.
still hands is at tne sun cor.uuuauy.
When the dipping season has ended,
and the hackers no longer neea meir
hacking-knives in the fall, they are
united for common work again. ow
they are put to scraping off the gum
which has adhered to the sides ot tne
trees from beginning to the end of the
season. Sometimes crude g lm is tn
thick flakes for several ; feet up the
tree. That is all scraped off once a
year and the tree left ready for another
season. Each box is said to furuish
sel, may enter the yard and frighten
the hens ;' the cock goes for the intru
der and if successful in driving him
ofl, he crows, ana this crowing is an
entirely independent sound from either
of the others mentioned. If he has
been unwell for a day or two, among
the first signs of returning health is the
convalescent crow.
The crowing after a great and sud
den surprise or fright is simply grand
beyond description, and doubly needs
to be heard to be comprehended in its
glory or appreciated in its magnificent
intonations. On the afternoon of the
28 of June, 187.V there was a thunder
storm and the lightning struck not a
great distance, from the writer. Dur
ing the stortn be was sitting by a win
dow watching'its .progress ; the fowls
had gathered under the crib ioi shelter
and were engaged in pluming their
feathers; when the lightning struck,
the thunder was an explosion, short,
sudden and very loud ; the fowls were
terribly frightened, and ran in differ
ent directions; the cock ran about two
rods, stopped short, looked around, and
crowed. It was a legitimate, natural
crow, into which he threw all his physi
cal and mental being. It wassnunusual
circumstance; the nature of the case
demanded an unusual crow, and the
demand was met. The shower was
over, and calling the hens together
they went foraging in the orchard.
wanted the privilege of diggiu' it deep
enough to find water, but I told him if
he did that he would have to take out a
water permit also, which would be
'leven dollars extra.
Grandfather paused to pull a hair out
of his nose, and then continued :
"I disremember correctly whether
the man got mad or whether I got mad ;
but I suppose it was the mau. Any
how, it resulted disastrously for him,
for vour grandfather immediately
knocked "him down aud stepped on his
stomach. Did I assess a fine of five
cents or so against myself, and make a
great hoorah about it in the papers,
like this miserable Pennsylvania Dutch
man? Not if the Court knows herself.
I appreciated the great truth that I had
been elected to preserve the peace and
maintain the honor and dignity of the
Commonwealth. So I said to myself :
'See here, you old bald-headed snipe of
the vallev, what in thunder did you do
that for-;' an', without giving myself
time to ansTe.'i-rufik jpiself over
a corner. Befcre I had time to rise I
kicked mvself several times in the ribs
and caved in thirteen of 'em. lhen I
clapped a pair of handcuffs on my
wristsv, shoved the muzzle of a pistol in
n.y ear, and marched myself off to the
Sebastopol, where I entered charges
against myself of incitin' an insurrec
tion, manslaughter in the first degree,
abusin' fajnily, drunk and disorderly
common drunk, coat-thief, an' so on
and so forth. Now, that's the way
your granfather did business," re
marked the old gentleman, again Emit
ting the floor with his stick.
"Hold! stop! There was more than
that," exclaimed grandfather, after a
moment's thought, and he hastily enu
merated the charges he had entered
against himself. 'Your grandfather
father did'ut stop theie, children.
Come to think of it, 1 turned myself
loose on the wide world on my own-recognizance,
and if I ever was up again
for a hearin' I would go out for six
months, or there's no hereafter, as Mr.
Inersoll would say."
Grandfather hobbled ff, devoting to
the infernal gods such one-horse Bur
gesses as the fellow up in Pennsylva
nia.
Cunning Bavcni.
No Banker U1U for Bin.
to haul the crude
The dutv of the
It was one day since the late Centen
nial celebration that a cadaverous-looking
Yankee stepped up to a Boston wo
man's back door, and confronting the
hard-working mistress of the house, in-
roduced himself as follows: "Best
article ever patended under the face of
the sun for takin' out grease spots,
cleanin' whitenin' an' beautiflyin' an'
leaving' the garment clean soft an'
ready to take a stiff smooth polish.
Like to buy some of our superior'
washin' compound, ma'am?" And he
held out a small tin box. The woman
leaned one elbow on the table, and,
looking hard at the intruder, when he
had finished, inquired, "Well, are you
dnno?" "Yes. ma'am." nere the fe
male slowly pointed her long Index
finger out pf the door to some-distant
object, and again required, "Do you see
that over there?" "Yes, ma'am," re
ulied the dispenser of washing com
pound, that's BunkerHill Monument.
Then the woman squared herself on her
heels, toes out, and, conjuring up a loo
In the narrative of the Arctic voyage
Captain McClure, of the British navy,
is the following story uf the two ravens
which became domiciliated on board
the Investigator: The raven, it ap
pears, is the only bird that willingly
bwves a solar winter ; and, in the depth
oT the season, be is seen to flit through
the cold and sunless atmosphere like an
evil'spirit his sullen croak alone break
Ohio owns $108,000,000 worth of
live stock, according to the State Audi
tor's report.
Besides supply lug their own market
the French exportannuallyl.000,000,000
egg, valued at $12,500,000.
Great Britain has 31.532,000 sheep
on 77 234,184 acres which realise an
annual profit of the value of $150,000,000.
The desk and bookcase used by Dan
iel Webster are now, the property of
Edwin Fernald, of Great Fails, N. H.,
and in use in his office.
Seven hundred and eighty-two peo
ple were under treatment at Dixoiont
Insane asylum, near Pittsburg, during
the last year.
The Italian colony In New York
city numbers 16,000. They have twelve
mutual benefit societies and one Mason
ic lodge.
In 1870thrc were In the United
States 1S,902,K81 wjres under wheat,
while In 1677 the aiV Li Increased to
2C,ia3,407 jares. ' S . . .
A woman at Luckfield, Me.,recmt
ly entertained three female visitors, who
weighed respectively 350, 262 and 381
pounds, or a total of 603 pounds.
Several da; s ago a deed of a tract of
land In Dartmouth, Mass., was record
ed at New Bedford, In. the same Stale,
which was conveyed in November, 1799,
but had never been put on record.
Dr. C. II. F. Peters, the director o.'
the Litchfield Observatory of Hamilton
College, Clinton, N. Y., has been elec
ted au associate member of the Royal
Astronomical Society of Great Britain.
There arrived last week, at Ply
mouth, N. H., from California, 50,000
land-locked salmon eggs, for the New
Hampshire State Hatching House. The
eggs came by express, packed lu wot
moss.
A man named Balson, who was re
cently hanged In a Western State, con
fessed that he murdered two men whose
charred remains were found in the
burning cinders of a camp In the town
of Trescott, Me., about thirty years ago.
Total abstinence will be an eisentlal
requirement in the selection or servants
ot the new Government railroad of
Quebec for promotion, and all euglne
drivers, firemen, switchmen, operators,
despatchers and foremen must be abstainers.
The consumption of cotton by
American manufacturers was greater
by 110,000 In 1878 than In 1877. The
yield of the staple In the United State a
exceeds that of any year on record, be
ing 4,8I1,2G0 bales, of 1340 pounds grosi
each, up to September 1st.
Two very aged persons have lately 1
died in Maine. Lettie Larrabee, of
Knox, 101 years, and John Eaaon, a
colored preacher of Augusta, who was
born In Wareham, Mass., 1776, and was
consequently nearly 103 years of age a;
the time of his death.
A petition Is In circulation in Bos-
force at the City Hospital, so as totfl
women engaged in the study ef medi
cine and sirgnry equal facilities for
clinical observations and professional
improvement with male ttudents.
At the end of January the- totil
number of paupers In London was 88,66 J
of whom 44,700 were In workhouses and
43,954 received outdoor relief. These
figures show a marked increase since
January, 1878 and 1877, but a decrease
when compared with the nrures oi
January, 187C.
A man now residing in Idaho, who
26 years ago cut his foot badly by step
ping upon broken glass, has just had a
piece of glass removed from his foot.
The glass bad shifted its position about
six inches, working back and upward
from the toes to the ankle.
Ira Cook, a laborer, 67 years old
attempted to scale a high fence in North
ampton, Mass., and his foot caught be
tween the pickets and he hung ther
till he died. The fence was batten d
with the heel marks of the ' other foot,
and the snow was pawed away as far
his hands could reach.
Mrs. Thomas Burns, of Portland,
Me., will, if sheilvef.be 113 years old
on April 15. She Is still In good health,
but keeps her beJ most of the time, and
Is nearly blind. Her Bible shows tint
she was married at BrUtol, Me., in 1784.
at which time she was 18 year of age.
Her husband has been dead for 46 years.
Statistics of our foreign trade for
the eleven months of 1878 ending with
the 30thof Novesaber show a balance.
of trade in merchandise In favor of
America amounting to $269,558,619.
against a similar balance in the corres
ponding period oi itw amounting i
$100,304,900. The balance in specie is
in favorof import iii,7t7,au. in me
eleven months of 1876 there was an ex
cess of exports of specie, amounting to
$24,297,270.
Daring the eleven months of tin
year 1878, , ureal .Britain eipwwi
to all countries articles oi unusn anu
Irish produce and mtnufscture amount-.
inethe silence of the death-like cene.
No one of the crew attempted to Bhoot
the ravens, and they consequently be- inirto178.143.3y5.or about $890,716,525,
came very bold, as will be seen by the and daring the same time Imported pro.
.i.t. of oatahiuhod oncts ana manuiacvurrs vaiucu
Mercer Bay, living mainly Dy wnat hi- ,.ndin November 30) reached 182,
tie scraps the men might have thrown 011.576. and the Import 361,043.053
aw av after meal times. The ship's dog, showing a decrease during the pst
k.i...i int-iwi nnnn thiu u his srje- Tear.
' . . . i :.i p.fIi hi 47 dailies Includlnr tha
aal-Perquisues. ano omcW and Sweats.
rame energy in mamiaiuuig u ! h . .kh.ki ln th- mornlmr.
Of the 40 that take party, side, 22 ar
Republican, 6 LlgiMmUt, 0 Orleans
against the ravens, who nevertheless
outwitted him in a way which amused
every one. Observing that he appeared and 7 Imperialist. Tt e big papers cii
. -.nit-p . mouthful of culate 630 000 copies a day. Of WUICD
UUlClj vwiUMiL w aw - 1 , . . , , , .
4. . L, .,i t about 400.000 preach Republican poll-
meir own tl. 60 000 OrleanlsLCO.OOO Imperialist.
throw themselves Intentionally ,n nw anu 24 000 Lljcltimlst. The circulation
way, just as the mess tins were being Qj tM small papers is estimated at
cleaned out on the dirt-heap outside the 1,200.000 a day ; of this thre-qoarUir
.!,! Tho HoT would Immediately run Is Republican, 290.000 disseminate.
at them, and tbey would just By a few
OrleanUt views and 20 000 Imperialism,
The Chinese population of San
Francisco has been lately reported as
.M.,l;nr 7 UUU STVanis. ui
. 11 . nn n.m I A. -a YTn
abOUt tWO gauous ui gum per auuuiu. i a.wu, mviuuiu . - - - -,
e t ,..v there are 5.000; of tailors,
Eleven quarts 01 ue gum wm j r.nd ahoemakers. 2,800;
about two and a halt quarts or turpen- Jd'rrmelfB00; merchant and pro
tine. 7 auarts of rosan, and one and a moo: professional gam-
half quarts of waste, The waste is blerg i400; peddiars, 2,60ft. while the
thrown away, but the turpentine and mt are fishermen, laborers, and , mts-
vi TnrHna now brings 'cellaneous. -mere are "y
of irony in her eyes, and gathering up j m anotber, and -The new peal of twelve bells In 8u
. . tn r.Pr hand, she asked, "uo , utm Paul's CaiaeUrai.lxmqon. nas oeenueu
a uai un ' . : affain thPV WOU1U aDDear WCSWUtuuu . . - . 1 . i
- I Icateu. iteiore ujb uciim ucu w hub,
but by an inch, aud so on, ana uuui Ruhoo of London and the clergy.
they had tempted and provoked hint to Reeling on cushions ranged round the
v.. ,v.nr . onnaiilprable distance off. I hifr. one before the pedestal on
UiC OUVV, " - I J F . . , , . .
Then the ravens would make a direct which each of the ringers stool, Joined
Jight tor the ship, and had generally In the tor. of prayer
- - n vatir
vmi tint one 01 luutc i;uvU j
head? The xanfcee rcircuju. tcu
want any monument:
At the conclusion
dope good execution before tuc moru- h - when Morning Gilds
fied-looking dog detected me imposiuou -he gy" Was sang, and then the
that had been practiced upon mm, auu Bishop rang the nrsc Deu, mw sounu 01
which was usen up immeuuueiy uj
the ringers. Thousands of people bad
rushed back again.
In 1878 no less than 81,638 persons
emigrated to the Lnlted states.
assembled In St. Paul'a.eh arch-yard to
hear the bells strike oat.