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1 H Li A 2j VOL. IY.-NO. 27, MORG ANTON, N. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1879. WHOLE NUMBER 183. r RIDGE BLADE LIFE IS TOO SHORT. Life is too short to waste In unavailing tears. 1 Too abort to spend in bootless grief. In coward doubU and fears. Too short to (T ve it up To pleaenre ; or to sow One boar in guilt, to yield at last Eternity of woe. Time lags not on its way,' Bat spans oar days in haste : If life shoal J last a thousand years 'Tweie still too short to waste. For. short lived as we are. Our pleasures yet. we see, Vanish too soon, they live, indeed. E en shorter daie than we. rbutCTer with us here "t' Bides so row, pain and care ; The shortest life is loDg enough Its lotted grief to bear. ' i To the old the end in nigh : To the youna; far off it seems ; " Yet neither should dare to toy with life Or wa te it in idle dreams. , For by each Time's servant waits. Though not for servant's wage ; And the same worm nibbles the bud of youth That gnaweth the root of age. Live, therefore, as he lives WLo earns his share of bliss ; , Strive for the prize that Virtue wins, Life's not too short for this. Phantom Lovers. Before I begin my story I must tell you 1 am a commercial traveler, born and bred, - so to speak, to the business. I have my wits about me, and, as I often happen to have a good many valuable arti cles also, I have need of them. I am an Englishman English to the back-bone and live on roast beef, bottled ale and, old port wine. If you could feel my anus, and look at tny cheeks, and measure me across the shoulders, you would have no doubt that I axil uuc Ul luc mcu nuu n uvL uicoiu and don't fancy. " Whpn T app a thinjr T rpp. if. - When I hear a thing I hear it. And what I saw and what I heard on one particular occasion I mean to tell you. You will not offend, me at all if you doubt it. I should doubt it myself if any one had told it to-me. I cannot expect of any one the credence t j . : if uiai i wouiu uoi give ui v sen. Neverthe less I shall, as I said, tell the story. It was in the year 18 . and the month was May, and the place was England. '.' , I had left London live days before, and '' n 1 vfas nfliij and miles away fiomh, in ; the very heart of the country, traveling to . ward a little town where I had business. It was an old fashioned place, and the ! people were kind and obliging. . . 1 1, f n.,nl, niialllia. rt tho road now-a-days, if you are a traveler of V, experience ; but here they came upon me at the inn 1 stopped in a way to make me think better of human nature. Travelers did not stop often at that inn, I suspect, for they were as particular about my meals as though I had been a prodical son come for the holidays. They killed the fatted chicken for me, and , to crown all, as the train did not stop to take ! me on as I wanted to go, and as it was only ' a matter of five miles or so, what did the landlord do but hunt up a rusty old coach ! that was tucked away in the coach house, ! and order his man to drive me over that evening. ' It wasn't an extra mind yon. It was - sheer good will. . So I shook hands all round, and I re membered the chambermaid and the waiter with half a crown each, and off I rode the old ooach creaking, and the old horse wheez ing, and the old driver coughing up on the box, and it was like a bit out of an old atnen n.itli r a A rirT n tf in tlio rv!lriT rf &Jl J y TV 1111 UU tljll V Vlll V 1U VliV. lillUUiV XSA. it. It was getting dark fast, and the road wound away among the hill in a very ro mantic sort of way. " s I do not know much about art myself, j hut I tHtnk if that painter with the white umbrella that used to sit about in the mud I making pictures could have seen some of those points, he would have touched them up with pleasure. When the sun went down and the moon came up white and bright, and up against :. .l. l. . 1,1 '!! J, Jl: 11 uu iuc ioi;iva juu wuiu ecuj an utu- ' cate, trembling little weeds and grasses, and there were big, black shadows under the trees, and glimpses ; of yeu did not ; ' know what under the bushes.? fy - .Why, it made you think of ghosts, if you were a commercial traveler. "Here's the place," says I to myself t'where the gentlemen of the road would have liked to meet me and my black bag fifty years ago." A pretty joke it would have been to have handed my valuables over and danced a jig for their amusement besides fifty years ago. A hundred years ago, anyhow, I shouldn't have ftlt so safe as I do now. Just then the coach came to a sudden 'pause. "Hallo 1" cried I out of the window, "what's the matter I" "It's more than I can tell, sir," said the lan. '"Black Jane has turned sulky. She won't move a step." "v ltu that he began ti shout and crack coat and white silk stockings, and lace ruf fles at his wrists. And they had one large cloak his, I fancy cast about the two of them, though it had dropped back a bit as they sat down. "Two young folks going to a fancy ball, perhaps,'' says I, "and just took a lift on the way." . - j And I touched my cap to them, and jsays 1 : "Pine evening, sir." He did not answer me, but she looked at me and stretched out her Hale white hand. "Oh, sir," she said, '.'look out at the back of the coach, I pray you, and tell me if he is gaining on us." 1 looked out of the window. "There's a man on horseback riding up the road," said I, for I saw one. "Oh, heaven 1" said she. "Courage, Betty," said the young fellow. They shall never part us." Then I knew it was a runaway match. "I see how it is," said I. "Keep up your heart, young man. If the young lady likes you she'll stick to you through thick and thin. I'll do my best to help you. " "Oh, heaven 1" she cried again. "On, my darling,-1 hear the horses' feet. There are more of them. Oh, sir, look ; tell me IV I looked through the little back window. The road seemed full of men. I hadn't the heart to tell her. "Closer to my heart, Betty," cried the young man. "My beloved, they come. " He drew his sword. Among other odd things, he wore a sword. .. I pulled my pistol from my pocket We all stretched our hands forward, and at that moment the coach turned a rocky point of the road, and I saw we were on, the margin of a precipice. All this time Black Jane kept up her furious speed, and I saw we were in danger. "Have a care 1" I cried. "faster 1 " screamed the young man. Suddenly there came a jolt, and a scream from the lady. , I heard him say : "At least we die together. " And the coach lay flat on its side not over the precipice, but on the edge of it. A man is a little stunned by a thing like that. ; When I'd climbed out of the window, and helped old Anthony up with the coach, and coaxed Black Jane to quietness, I re membered that no one else had got out of the vehicle, and I looked about'in vain for jny pretty lovers, ' They were not there, nor were there any signs of the troop of horsemen I had seen dashing up the hill. They could not have passed us in that narrow path by any possibility. "We ran a chance for our lives, master,'' said Anthony. "Yet I'm called a good driver, and Black Jane is the kindest thing I ever saw in harness generally. Thank God for all His mercies. It's a strange thing we're not over .the cliff. "But where did they go ?" I asked. "Who?" said Aphony. , "ine two lovers cue preuy creatures m fancy dress. The peopte who were after thani, where are they ?" "Where are " began old Athony. Then he turned as pale as death. "All good angels over us!" he cried. "We'ye ridden with Lady Betty. It's the tenth of May. . I might have known better than to try the road to-night. Protect us all ! Yes, yes, we've ridden with Lady Betty." "Who is Lady Betty?" said I.. "As pretty a creature as ever I saw at all events. Who is she?" Old Anthony stood looking at me and shaking his head. J ' . "It's an old story." he said. "Book- larned folks tell it better than I. But a hundred years ago and more, on this blessed night, my Lady Betty Hope, the prettiest "lady of her day, ran off from a county ball with her father s young secretary. "They put one cloak over their heads, and ari old servant drove them, knowing it was worth his life. "But before they had gone far, behind them came her "kinsfolk, armed and ready for vengeance. And when they reached this point, thsy saw that all was over. " "Better die together than live apart,' he said, holding her close. Then he called out to the servant, 'How goes it ?' ; " 'All lost, sir,' says the man. 'The horses can't hold up five minutes longer.' " 'Then drive over,' says he. "The man obeyed orders. '"The angry kinsfolk could only stand on the cliff and look over at the dreadful sight that lay below, when they reached the top. "But ever since that nignt, sir, as sure as the tenth of May comes around, there's plenty here will tell you that whoever drives a coacn pasi mis on oi r ju mra uignuwi, won't ride alone. "There's nolodv that remembered the night would do it for a kingdom, but I for got. I'm getting old, and I forget things whiles ; and so we've ridden with Lady Betty." That's, the story old Anthony told me, and what went before is what I saw and heard. I'm a solid, sensible man, but facts are facts, and here you have 'em. "Sa-IatiiiK the Bride." There was a marriage at the upper end of the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Road the other day. A great big chap, almost able to throw a car-load of lumber off the track, fell in love with a widow who was cooking tx the hands in a sawmill, and after a weeks', acquaintance they were married. The boys around tk e mill lent William three calico shirts, a dress-coat and a pair of white pants, and chipped in a purse of about $20, and the couple started for Detroit on a bri dal tour within an hour after being married. "This 'ere lady," explained William, as the conductor came along for tickets, "are my bride. Just spliced fifty-six minits ago. Cost $2, but durn the cost ! She's a lily of the valley, Mary is, and I'm the right-bower in a new pack of keerds. Conductor, sa lute the bride 1" -fW-imuj fcesftatetf. The widow had freckles and wrinkles and a turn-up nose, and kissing the bride was no gratification. "Conductor, sa-lute the bride or look out for tornadoes 1" continued William as he rose up and shed his coat. The conductor sa-luted. It was the best thing he could do just then. "I never did try to put on style before," muttered William, "but I'm bound to see this thing through if " I have to fight all Michigan. These 'ere passengers has got to come up to the chalk, they has." The car was full. William walked down the aisle, waved his hand to command at tention, and said: "I've just been married; over thar' sots the bride. Arybedy. who wants to sa-lute 2 k2J au nvij uu oqt u UCWIUg UpOU HOI the fact already stated. - Ifrerybody was sorry. Nobody believed that William Claypole ever nourished Tmorder in his heart. It had been but jibe creature of dreadful impulse, i . Yet the evidence was att against him alL all and not a point whereon to hang a doubt, and he was found guilty of murder. One bright,' pleasant dayy while. William Claypole lay crushed an broken in his dark cell, and while the people shook their heads in sorrow that one young and pro mising should meet so ferrible a fate-on such a day Mary Adams appeared before the jailor and demanded to see the prisoner who had been accused of her murder. t The jailor came nigh t4 fainting with superstitious terror; but byWd by. the ap plicant succeeded in convincing him -that sbeAwas a tbieg offfeshod blood like other women, and he admitted her to the prison. We need not describe the scene that followed the meeting of the lovers. -In some respects it was secred. In due time the custodians of judical power and autho rity came to the prison, where they listened to a new revelation. Mary Adams was not dead at all ! The story which her lover had told was true. On the night of the quanel, fearing that he might do some rash tiling, and really desi rous, for the time, of getnng out of his way, and beyond his knowledge, she returned secretly to her home, where she made up a small bundle of necessary clothing, and then, unknown to any one, she crept away, ana before morning was beyond the possi.- buc . XJ. T f.u I nuu I' unto m iviuvi i , ... , ... the bride kin ow do so. Anybody who b,1v f "cogmdon. don't want to, will hev cause to believe that a tree fell on him !" One by one the men walked up and kiss ed the widow, until only one was left. He was asleep. 'William reached over and lifted him into sitting position at one move ment and commanded : "Ar' ye goin' to dust over thar' and kiss the bride?" 1 "Blast your bride, and you, too ! " growled the passenger. William drew him over the back of the seat, laid him down in the aisle, tied his legs in a knot and was making a bundle of him just of a size to go through the win dow, when the man caved and went over and sa-luted. "Now, then," said William, as he put on his coat, "this bridle tower will be re sumed as usual, land if Mary and me squeeze hands or git to laying heads on each other's shoulders I shall demand to know who laffed about it, nd I'll make him e-maeine that I'm a hull jboom full of the biggest kind of sawlogs, an' more comin' down on the rise. Now, Mary, hitch along an' let me git my arm abound ye I" Clrcaratanti 1 Evidence. An Elephant Hunt la Somatr. A young lady I forget the name, but we will supply fictitiously Mary Adams, was missed from her .home. Her disap pearance caused intense exitement, and that texcitement ran.wUd when it was at length raunouueeu tnyS4ii had been murdered. Her body had been found on the shore of a tributary of the Hudson River, with bruises upon her head, which gave ample evidence that her death had been a violent one. Such bruises might have been gained by falling upon the rocks above the spot where the remains were found, but there were other circumstances that pointed in another and more ghastly direction. A young man named William Claypole was arrested under accusation of the mur der of Mary Adams. A preliminary ex amination before a Justice afforded suffi cient evidence to bind him over to appear before a jury. Claypo e had waited upon Miss Adams for a year or more, and during the two or three months last past their in tercourse had not been of the happiest kind. She was proved to have been gay and laughter-lovins, with a light, volatile dis position, a heart warm and impulsive, and impaueni oi resinum. viajpoie, h Having found a new home in a far-away, mountainous region, she aad not seen any newspaper until she had leen several weeks in her new home. .She rad the account or her own death, and the arrest of her old lover for her murder with astonishment, and now she had come to 83t matters right. As fortune would have it, on the very day of Miss Adam's retun an officer from an insane asylum appeared in search of an escaped patfent, whom, after weeks of la bor, he had succeeded in tiacing in that di rection He saw the garments which bad been taken from the body(f the dead wo man, and recognized them at once as hav ing belonged to his patient. The initials, "M. A.," vhich had been supposed to stand for Mart Adams, were really meant to represent 'Vortonborough Asylum." The officer saw Miss Adams, and declared that if he had net her on the highway or in a crowded publb conveyance he should certainly have arrested her. Her resemblance to the patfent he had sought was wonderful. And so the truth was known at last. By a fortunate revolution of the wheel light came to Mary Adams, and her reappear ance upon the scene came with saving power to William Claypole. The lovers went away from the prison together, and certainly we have just ground for the belief that the ordeal through which they had passed had been sufflciMt in, its tprrihl e.iierienoe to lftil and oaotttfu xlivm in the only safe and peaceful way 'in life the way of trustful .love and wise forbear ance. Robin sod Crusoe. A writer in the Saturday Review, points out some lapses of memory in the writer of Robinson Crusoe. He says Crusoe mentions that he had brought from the wreck pens, ink and paper, "yet in the next paragraph he audaciously makes this statement : ' I now found I wanted many things, notwithstanding all that I had amassed together, and of these things ink was one. ' In his diary he states with much exactness, that his pale, or inclosure in front of his cave, was begun on January dd and finished April 14th; yet on the pre ceding 3l8t day of October he tells about shooting the mother geat, and adds: 'When 1 earned the old one upon my snouiaers I had often, in my childhood, heard Su matra spoken off, and had fer a long time experienced a desire to visit an island which promise so many mountains and marvels to my imagination. So, when I landed on the southwest coast of the island, I was enamored with the beauty of the climate, that I had not cou rage to find it too warm. And yet my ther mometer marked in the 'shade thirty-seven centy-grade degrees. We were in June, 1848, precisely at the period when it was warm also in the streets of Paris. I may be permitted to prefer the fires of Bengal to those of cannon. Not that Sumatra has never enjoyed' revolutions ; this beautiful country, Uke so. many Cthers, has Jiad her own, but, they arenot thedntupaj merit of this Island; ueliKflr 'iiftHiefc Its productions, which rival those of the tro pics : it is, dare I avow it, almost entirely in its elephants, its most ancient as well as its most legitimate sovereigns. Their strength is disputed by no one, and their deeds, if not words, are in every mouth. In order to judge of them, one must see them on their own territory, through the large trees of the forest, and in the free exercise of their powers, I soon had an upportunity of obssrvin in an exciting hunt in the company with the Marquis and MarchioncS3 de Fienne, amiable Parisians, whom affairs of interest had brought to Sumatra. There was a third person, a French Jew, a banker of profession, Mr. Isaac du Laurens, a friend of the marquis. A great lsver of hunting, a still more intre pid boaster, there was no trophy of this kind to which he could not offer you a counterpart. Such were the members of our expedition. We were joined by some na tive chiefs as guides, and a great number of Indians, laden with munition and arms, or leading packs of dogs impatient to enter upon the campaign. The rendezvons was fixed beyond a great lake which separated us from the forest, where, according to the Indians, the elephants were in the habit. of coming their for their sports. Arrived on the opposite shore of the lake, we left our prahou8 (a species of pirogues), and re paired to the spot where, according to the latest advices, e were to find the eleph ants. We advanced resolutely, M. de Fienne,. the marchioness and myself, having besides us the native chiefs, and M. du Laurens behind us. Very soon the sight of giant tracks com municated the first emotion to the beaters; the effect was electric; M. du Laurens turned pale. Each took his post behind an am-bush of canes which had been raised against the stags. The corner which we occupied was not less than two or three feet wide ; so all the hunters could, thanks to the underwood, hide there comfortably. They inspected their guns and carbines; the hunting knife, the klewang and the lances gleamed. ;A11 was the most lively anxiety. : - Already the krios were sept to srive the alarm to our aids and their packs of dogs ; and scarcely had the Indians advanced, when frightful eries, or rather a howl swelled by a multitude of howls, issued from the center of the forest and froze us with terror. It seemed to me as if a hurri cane had passed through the fuliage. There was no room for doubt, a herdjof elephants were there, in the inclosure, at a few paces from us. There; was an instant of panic terror. The ideas which we tad, and with reason, of the extraordinary strength of these animals, who could overthrow every thing in their passage, little disposed the men to await them with firm foot. The hunters therefore disbanded. Though native pretty hands the gun which she had been nahantly using. Hardly she had given it to the Indian to reload, when an .enormoua elephant, se parated from the herd and larger than any of the rest, came toward the ambush behind which we stilt remained. It iwas furious, and seemed to wish to reveng Ithe defeat of his brethren. He was fourtetft feet high! "It is a male ! It is a mak exclaimed the native ehiefs ; and more prompt than these words twenty shots of the carbines hit and struck dead his new enemy. He staggered a few yards and f 'U exurttr at the foot of the tree in which btve Du Lau rens was still clinging, who, kJently sha ken by this shook and bjtr't had nearly j followed the colossus in his UnS???"- ?f Several .elephants were i;eq Jifels NEWS IN BRIEF. In the twelve yeara nd!nf with 1878, Louisiana paid $9,S6l,0W aa in terest on its public obc " In the year 1878 there were oaly 3 men killed by Apaches la.ArUona, against 197 la i868. ' In tV ten years evj Jan.' 1861, rhe chief Knglish rat' ' hail to pay $1,635,000 cwnpeitftat. -r injuries r j ceived by railroad ae . nts. . . ) Geneva will hoi' in 1881, aa In j ternational exhibition -ioJuively con ; fined to watchos, jewerry, tnoff botes, ana tuusicai-Doxes. i .-,. , Mr. Barry. Sullivan. the 'Srigllsh actor, pridet biuisHf on haFinplyed:' IT I . ' . -I' .1 fuA -I. T. -l houses' Ib-tb rail s3diiiS by leaning against those who had not yet been struck and who supported inem in a fraternal manner. There ass something very affecting' in the scene. But it was less than that of which we were witnesses an instan after. A young elephant, grie vously wounded, maintained his equilibrum with difficulty, and with the aid of his mother who was watching over him; at last he fell on the ground before the con tinual fire of the hunters; the poer mother did not desert her post; she uttered howls of anguish and fury, and tried to protect Che corpse of her child ; but she soon paid for material devotion with her life. The marchioness, whom this picture moved to tears, wished to obtain the life of this noble animal; she even solicited it earnestly, but it would have been dangerous to have granted it, and the firing continued. There were no more enemies on the battle-field ; only corpses strewed the ground in every direction. The air echoed with a joyous merriment, and each began to relate his ex ploits. The hunters celebrated the victory" most noisily were, as usual, those who had not dared to take part in it. There are men who, in times of peril and emergency think they afford much aid by expending their action in words and cries. Such was the dear and deafening Du Laurens. He had descended from the tree only after the danger was passed, and, by own account, it was he who had killed the most ele phants, j. "What there is prodigious about it, sala Mine, de Fienne, "is that you have ac-i complished these fine exploits without burning any tinder. But perhaps you used the sonorous instrument with which the soldiers of Joshua made the walls if Jeri cho fait In this case, worthy son walls of Israels, I will no longer be astonished at the soupd of your trumpet. During this time the Indians were, des poilmg the elephants of their enormous jaws, and preparing to carry them home as a rememberance ot this glorious day. I hus ended this famous elephant hunt, a scene of excitement and some danger. the kid followed me quite to my enclosure, peared, had been exceedingly jealous and upon which I laid down the dam and took exacting, prone to fault-finding, and ready the kid in my arms and carried it over my to make his affianced miserable and fearful if she dared to look smilingly upon another man. It was proved by several witnesses that Claypole had threatened Miss Adams with terrible vengeance if he ever caught her dol ing certain trifling things again ; and a man of the town a man respectable and relia ble had seen the twain together in angry discussion on the very night of the disap pearance. He had been on his way home on foot, and walking leisurely along by the river's bank, not a hundred yards from where the dead body had lieen tound. Clavnole use laneuase of . r - A Fishing Hog. An account ef a remarkable incident comes from Aurora, Ind. A few days ago, as a trio of young men, one a son of a prominent citizen of this city, were fishing for bass m.Hogan Creek, near Aurora, they were disturbed by a splash in the water, as of some animal jumping into the stream. Jxx)king in the direction, they saw a large black hog, which had evidently come down from among the roaming lot of porkers which make life a burden in and around the cance, and one sentence, spoken loudly and distinctly, he could repeal wora ior wora, and swear to it. It was a bright moonlight evening, and he had gained but a short distance from the angry pair when he saw the man grasp the girl by the arm and fiercely exclaim, : "I'd rather kill you and throw your hody into this cold flood than live under such made me suffer for the last few weeks. Beware! I man. I Am To this the man swore most positively. pale ' about two months before any pale was begun." These points really are, in a jiall way, well taken, and tney are me only points well taken in the entire charge. A considerable stress is laid upon the fact that, after giving the dates, as above, be tween which he worked upon his pale, Le mentions, a few pages further on, and in connection with his sad lack of tools, that, "It was near a whole year before 1 had finished my little pale or surrounded habit ation." Here it is plain enough to anyone not willfully blind that it was the habita tion as a whole, not that part of it only He had heard comprehended in the pale, that required terrible signin- near a wnoie year io umau. uuiui6c A Boy's Adventure. Little John Green, of Louisville, Ky., having heard how once upon a time Benja min Franklin experimented with a kite, re solved to do something in that line himself. His idea was to test the relative strength ot his kite and his pet pigeon with the design of basing some grand invention upon the result. So he took kite and pigeon and wended his way to the nearest common several days ago. He ran the kite up to the limit of 200 yards of cord, the wind blowing a sun breeze nom ine nonn- west the while. Then taking the pigeon from his basket he tied the bird by the leg to the end of the kite string which he had The pigeon, feeling half held in his hand. chiefs, more experienced, in vain retained free, flew toward home, which was directly their courage, the conf ussion redoubled, I against the wind. The resistance of the ann Teposits aggregating fv447,16Sr 33 general banks, whose total assets amount to $3,783,905. The PhilailelDhia mint coined dur ing April $50,800 of hnlf-eazles; 1,300,- 000 si Iyer dollars: $13 80 of base coins (cenU) total 4l.3Gl.480. The daily circulation of the roost popular newspaper in the city of Mex ico, with a population of 200.000, does not ex .eed 2,000 copies. A lady near Pedrlcktown, N. J., a short tiuio ago ran a splinter under her finger nail, and has since died of locit- jaw. -The Hotel de Ville, In Paris, the old seat ot the Municipal Government, which was destroyed i.i 1871. is tar ad vanced in rebuilding, and will be com pleted in 1881, at a total tost ot about $4,400,000. George Fordham, the jockey. Tin der the term of Baron Lionel Roths child's will, receives a present of $10, 000 and an annuity of $1500 a year for life. -The English Factories act requires that no woman shall be employ! con tinuously for more than four hours and a halt. After working that length of time she must have a rest. In the south, the centre and the west of France the jrrape crop will, it is aid, suffer seriously. In consequence the importation of wines Irom Spain and Italy into France is Increasing. Mrs. Frank: II. Delano, of New York city, has given $5000 to St. Paul's American Church, in Rome, with which to finish the aisle walls and put a railing around the church lot. Secretary McCrary will retire from the Cabinet about the li of. September next and accept the United States Judgship for the Eighth Circuit, in place of Judge Dillon, who has decided to resign. The rate of taxation in Buffalo was -reduced last vear 6 on the $1,000 of real and personal estate. The assessed vahiHfiiin of Buffalo for the current year is s8,402,440 against' 83,rr,iH& in 1878. 5 The second sale of Q iecn Christina's jewels has produced $1,800,000. One uroad giniie oi sappniresano unmnuis sold tor $8,420, and a magnificent ueck- li.-e. containing 02tf psaiu, Drougni $14,860. Mrs. Hannah Cox, of Holdernesi, N J., celebrated her 103d birthday re cently. The venerable lady U in lull possession oi all her iacuiues, wiwi me exception of her hearing, which is Im paired. During the first year of the reci procity treaty between the United States and the Sandwich Islands, our imports from the Islands show an Increase of and most of the i Indians fled toward the lake. UnfortunatelyJ the lake is full of cay mans, and the cry arose: BaRaja! bceaja! They knew not which way to flee ; on all sides they saw themselves surrounded with monsters. Several had c l ..b-Kl the tieej ; M du Laurens was of the number. kite caused his flight to tend upward, and, in turn, the efforts of bis wings caused the kite to sail higher in the air. if or a wnne the bird seemed to have the best of the struggle, making slow progress for at least a square, but in spite ot an enons to iaae a direct course, flying higher and higher. a ftpr thn hird had reached an altitude of The sight of this insensate fear restored perhaps four hundred ieet, the kite be taken at the "still more curious sup, which " occurs when he speaks of taking fish, for he says that he had a long line of ropeyarn, but no hooks ; yet in the same sentence he states that he frequently caught fish enough, without in the least indicating how he did it. t he critic suggests on nis . e . . v. 1 .. . . own account: ueioe prouauij mcaui vj flparrihe some contrivance, but could not think of anything at the moments and for- tell vou. wo- got to supply the deficiency." We have I t r.i,r Wniar " hv us as We wrrite. hut iiw "J 1 our remembrance of this passage is that it He remembered the circumstances and the contained something, either expressed or exact date, and this was the evening on implied, to tne eneci mat me ease wun which Mary had left her home not to re- which the fish could be caught without a turn William Ulaypoie was cumuuura uuui B i for trial! and -in due time he was brought terly unknowing of man were the creatures before the iury. living upon the island and within the waters Tf unvthing. the evidence Deiore tne iury wnica gm u iuuuu w,u6 .1 1. Iuaii t Vi o Was more conclusive luau imx rM.timinarv evidence. 1 here was more oi it. and it all pointed directly to the accused. his whip, I, with my head out of the win- twn swimming rapidly towara ine cemer dow, watching him, and suddenly the beast i of the pool, which was about 100 feet wide started off like mad, and 1 drew in my face uau elsm i ULeP- " vjc and saw I had company. tue animal disappeared, remaining under While the coach was at a stand still, a ! the water for a conside.able time, and on lady and gentleman had slipped in. reappearing was seen to have in his mouth They sat on the seat opposite me; and a live bass about eight inches long, with thousrh it whs n intnwinn. I had not thp which he swam ashore, and proceeded to heart to find fault, for a" prettier pair I eat with the avidity and jelish peculiar to never saw in my life. If he was 'wenty-one, It was as much as he could be, and she was not seventeen. I have seen a pair of china lovers on the mantel-piece, the perfect image of what they were, and they wore as pretty and dressed much the same. His hair was powdered, and hea too. She had 6a a yellow silk, lower in the neck than a would like a daughter of mine to wear it, and her arms would have been bare only for her long kid gloves. She had pearls in her ears and on her throat, and she had just the most innocent little face my two eyes ever rested on. As for the boy, he had a chocolate velvet his species. After having swallowed the last vestige, with a grunt the animal again betook himself to the water, and again dived to the bottom. Coming up with a snor he made again for the shore with an other fish, which he dispatched as quickly as before. This was repeated a third time, and an the fourth trip the animal secured a small turtle, which it also earned ashore, and after some difficulty managed to dis patch, breaking the shell with its strong teeth, after which it ambled off, satisfied with its fishing experiences of the day. really is a wholly unintelligible objection relating to Crusoe's desire to remove to the pleasant valley wnere ne subsequently In fact if Mary Adams had been killed, it built the "bower") and his final determin- was an absolute impossibility that any one else could have done it. That sne coum have killed herself was a proposition not to ho entertained. William Claypole told his story, siosi of, the evidence he had heard he acknowl edged true. He had been exceedingly jeaious, he had threatened the girl, and though he could not clearly remember all that he might have said under the influence of strong passion, yet he would not deny that the man who had reported his last terrible speech upon the river's bank, had reported it correctly. He said he had been there with Mary on that evening, and he remembered that he saw the witness on the road. After seeing witness, he spoke the angry, impulsive He could oniy swear w Mississippi produced 640,000 bales of cotton last year. ation to remain in the cave, we come to the final attempt to make a point against the exactness of Defoe. Robinson Crusoe, it may be remembered, when ill from the ague, has a dream which frightens him much, and in teuing of his feelings on awakening he says: "I had, alas, no divine knowledge; what I had received by the good instructions of my father was then worn out by an uninterrupted series (.for eight years) of seafaring wickedness, and I was ail that the most hardened, unthinking, wicked creature, among common sailors can he suDDoeed to be ; not having the least sense, either of the fear of God in danger, or of thankfulness to God in deliverance." It is strange that Defoe, when writing this impressive passage, should have forgotten that he made Crusoe say, after describing the manner in which be was first washed on shore, that directly he found himself safe he began to look up and thank rrovi- words to Mary. the simple fact that very shortly after using io lonmiacrp inat nrpapntlnd he had become startled by his own fierce passions, and had dence that his life was saved. sent the girl from him had oaoe ner go vj her home, telling her that he hoped he might never see her again. With that she i had left him, and he knew no more. Claypole's story bore the stamp of truth Mr. Robert Falkuer, of Warren countyf North Caroliua, is 105 years old and has voted eighty-one times in consecutive years. our courage, and we regained our post with the greatest coolness. When 1 sa.v our cou rage, it is a plural which is siciular and regards only myself, for M. de Fienne had not shrunk for an instant, l he marchio ness, firm also, yet betrayed the nost live ly emotion. She was impatient to see the conflict commence, and prepared, tot only to be a spectator of this drama, but to play a part in it. Suddenly thirty elephants issued Erom the forest, arranged in close columns, and ad vancing with a maiectic air. They were formidable to behold; they marched with their trunks high and threatening, like a wounded serpent ; their large ears beat their temples with redoubled blows ; their breath would have overthrown a man, and the ground seemed to tremble benealh them. The moment was critical and thera was not a moment to! lose if we did not wish 1p be destroyed. When they were four or five paces from the thicket, which concealed us from their view, we received them with a close fire from our carbines, which we had taken care to load with balls of tin and oep- per. Woe to us if we had used leaden balls, they would have been flattened by the large ears of the elephants, and have rendered them more trouble to us, wunout having the chance of killing one. "Near the ears! near the ears!" was the exclama tion on all sides, and each one suddenly re turned to the eharge, aiming at the sensi tive snot which made ai nrst more noise than they did harm. Meanwhile the monsters, seized with ter ror, recoiled and retook the road to the for est ; but the barking of the dogs, which did not bite, constrained them to turn back ai most immediately. Their numbers bad in creased to sixty j a great part of these ani mals had not came out from the voods at the first attack. ( We had had time to charge anew our guns and carbines ; and, more assured, like soldiers after the first fire, we received the anemy in a moe vigorous manner than at first The elephants then disbanded with a terror mingled with fury, crushing every I thinw in their Dassage, aud, seeking a re fuge, uttering cnes wnicn were enougu io make one sink into' the canh. There was something gigantic in such a spectacle. Thw elenhants were ior me most pan twin and thirteen feet in height Tbeir refusal to combat Contrasted strangely with the Dowerful organization with which they were endowed, t he marchioness, by the aid of her interpreter, manifested her astonishment on the subject to one of the Indian chiefs, who replied, with uncourte ous frankness, that the herd was composed only of fen l Madame de Finne smiled, and, by way of reply brandished with her inir about one hundred feet higher still, it was plain that the latter nad greany me ad vantage. It was flesh, blood and feathers against the untiring winds. Unable to con tinue the strain the pigeon changed his course to one side, thus slackening the string and causing the kite to fall, slanting iroin side to side in a helpless sort of way. But feeling free again the pigeon once more made a break for home, wnen, tne wring being pulled taut, the kite, with a spring, o-lnnrinir in the sun a thing of me, rose O O . . . , ranid v and graceiuny ironi lis ionuer icvei. Soon both bird and kite became mere specks and at last vanishing in the southwestern skv left Johnny to weep over his unexpect- Pii lnss. Next morning, wnen me nine fellow went to look in his empty cote, there stood the Digeon nodding its head in pride. It had broken from the kite, a piece oi tne string still hanging to its leg. Nervpnsnesa. Every organ and every muscle in the human body depends for its action on the nerve-force, elaborated by tne Drain, or spinal ganglia ; and so does every thought and feeling. the more active me ininaing, or the more intense the feeling, the greater the expenditure of nerve-force. The little white threads that run in branches through tifty-seven per cent, over the preceding vear and our exports to the Islands of 125 per cent. s Milley Williams, a miser of Easton Cross Roads, N. C, was accustomed to invest her earnings In geld, $1 at a time. Her dwelling was recently de stroyed by tire, tfnd lumps of melted gold', worth about 10,000, were taken from the ruins. a watch lost two years aeo in a barnyard, near 'Lebanon, Pa., was found the other day by a grandson of the loser in a meadow hard by while plowing. The face was Droken, dui otherwise the watch was complete but very rusty. There are twenty-live jneiinonii villages in Menltoba, with 480 dwel lings and 2,841 residents. The Immi grant from Russia have 10,470 acres under cultivation, ana nurses uj 2,500 cows and oxen, and have already . i' ....1 Ath.. n.Allllltl large storesoi jriu uu y . . A return as to the relUtous persua sions of toe non-commlsaloned officers and men of the British army snows that or a total of 94,842 men, 62.8BU De long to the Church of England, 20.87J are Roman Catholics, 7125 ar. Presby terians, and 3385 are rrotesunts oi other denominations. v.imir. X. V Is makingextenslve preparallousto celebrate the hundredth aunlvef cary of the battle of Xewwwn (to Elmlra). wnicn was lougni. Au gust 19, 1779, by Federal troops under General Sullivan, 'iowns airng tne route of General Sullivan's maicn win contribute to the celebration. The next electoral college will not twhiwd on the census -oi low. io electoral votes of the states In the next tho hodv from the brain and spinal cord are Tnorciv mndnctors of this force, fust as the nrociiantiai election, will stand as they linP wires are of the electricity. The .iid i 1876. the whole number betag hrai n-balterv. when in a vigorous condition, elaborates enough nervous-force, not only fx all ordinary, but for a vast deal oi ex t inordinary use, directly from the raw ma terial in the blood, for in sucn case tne raw material is furnished in proportion to the exnendiuire. But in "nervousness" of . - i a . it every form the balance is aisturuea ; me suppjy is not equal to the demand, hence there is a state oi nervous exnausuou. j carefully guarding the outgo, the person msveniov a tolerable degree of health; hnt hp feels, often to prostration, a little extra demand, especially if protracted. Generally self-control easily startled ; laughter triflps the neron is tou tPrinl: the blood is impoverished, and hence no organ or tissue in the body is properly fed, nor can fully do iu wonu . t lcea wiiicb fc,7i4 WAlrinrv at nerve-force may result ote cent rk V three hundred and sixty-nine, with one hundred and eigbty-nve necessary r a choice. The exports of Egypt in 1778 were about $40,000,000; In 1877 abo.it $60. 000 000, and iu 1876 about fSO.Ouu.OOO. Thete figures, says a coriw"' Y' the London Tinus, worthy W study by every one who holds Egy pt a rich country and able to Wj reason or the railing uu ' off of the crops. -One million dollars in gold weigns da vnrdUDOtS: 1,WA.VW ol is weakened; one is dollars weigh J0. S.jTwa. ghter and tears come at r 412K grains weigh M.9.1V5 f. touchy, perhaps hys- ijnM VmihT 1-7- $1,000,000 In three cent i45.7 2l:viVi iu 1-7. ii.ooo.ooom nicaeis we.B" - j. : - ,e cent ru-ca ' , 1. 1- ...uh1 that the St Gotbard II, 1 -.K . . iflcient diet ; tne souse "i uuu- . . . hucom little deep;' proracted overwork Tunne. yg flf&.T. iXZ&tZ? on th. Airolo side U from a deficient diet ; lants; too .nxietv or irrief : sensual or emotional ex cess of any kind ; lack of recreation. The cotton nam at jhu, - - -f ,ne can in one dsy manufa-tftre goojs v..- , tied at $1121, witoa prom oi ude. i - I v - h two tailerlea will be de soVe' 300 me, res from tb. cntre J 1 i i ii -
The Blue Ridge Blade (Morganton, N.C.)
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Aug. 23, 1879, edition 1
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