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; THE' BLOE v. J. H. HALLIBURTON, Editor and Proprietor. MORGANTON, N. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1880. . VOL.ToNO.5. RIDGE x THE EJfOUaH I.ASrAE. A pretly dear b dear tn me, A hare with downy hair, I lore a hart with all my heart, Bt banly bare a bear. Tii plain that no one Ukea a plane To hare a pair of pean, ..A caka, tbougb, oltan take! a rake All rays raise thyme, time raises all; To tear away the tare. And throurh the whole, bole wean, through the whole, hole wean, . It "wrhrht" and still be wrong. writ tn writing "right," may wnu For "wright" and "rite" are neither And don't to wrlght belong. Beer often brings a bier to man, Coughing a coffin brings, And too much ale will make us ail As well as other things. 'right,' J'The parson lies who says be lies When he is bat reclinioz. And when consumtiTe folks decline, They all decline declining. V a nail don't au.il before a st don't quail before a storm ; A bough will bow before it ; We cannot rein the rain at all ; No earthly powers reigh o'er it. The diet dies awhile, then dies; T dye he'aways -trying r 'Unttl upon his dying bed, -' He thinks no more of dyeing. A son of Mara mars many a sun ; All deys must have their days, And erery knight should pray each night To him who weighs his ways. 'Tis meet that man shoud mete out meat To feed misfortune's son ; The fair should fare on lore alone, 'Else one cannot be won. - A las., alas! is sometimes false; Of faults a maid is made; Her waiet is but a barren waste Though staye i she i-not staid. The springs spring forth in spring, and shooU Shoot forward one and all ; . Though summer kills the flowers, it leaves The leaves to fall in fall. . . I would a story here commence, But you might find it stale; ' let's suppose that we have reached The tail end of our tale. Chicago Inter- Ocfun A MEMBER OF CONGRESS. KY MRS. C. W. FLASDKUls. . There was a little fellow among the New England hill", yearn ago, as there are many now, whow parents were poor. He could not remember the time when he wore shoes and stockings in the sum mer. Sometimes in the winter, when he wan obliged to walk three miles to school, and wade through snow drifts that -did not melt until the lust of May, he did wear such as his father had re jected, and a pair of shoes that slipped p and down every step he took. Never theless, they were shoes and stockings; and he was infinitely prouder of them than iiT kin? Jivini? is of his crown. One day. as Tom was plodding along witn nis sup snoa snoes, putting irom exertion ana blowing his blue fingers to keep them warm, there came dashing down the hili a sleigh such as the youngster had never seen ; no, indeed, nor ever .dreamed of. And a horse! Tom stopped blowing, so intense was his adm'iration of the elegant creature that came foaming and toseing its daintily arched neck rich t and left. Tom sprang aside at the very last mo ment, and as be sank: up to nis cmn in the light snow, tore oil nis clotn cap from hn bead, and bobbed up and down as if he were in the presence of the President. the rjffSrT ' lump on behind." And Tom'did jump on, at the peril of his life, and away they went tearing along with great speed until over went riders and burlaloes and things generally. Tom sprang to the horbe's head, and clinging to the bit, the tips of hi great cowhide shoes touching the snow, asked if the gentlemen was hurt, " Not a bit of it my lad," said he, shaking himself free of the snow, ."only warmed up a little. What's, the dam aire?" "Nothing; sir, that I .see,',' returned Tom, his handsome "face glowing with good .humor, as he yielded1 the horse to its owner. "., ,"Velli then, my lad, get in and we'll try again, xou are going to school, J . -tee," added the stranger, as he gathered up the reins. . i " Yes, sir." 'Howfarr iUiuesa it's about two miles from here.". - - The gentleman turned ' and looked into his face, and then glanced all over xoni B ugure, eyeu to mo ieeu He sees my Bhoes," thought Tom proudly.to himself, giving his feet a shove forward to make certain that they would be aeen. The .gentleman did fee them, and smiled it spite of himself as he glanced back to lara saace- . He thert kindly pulled the warm fur I around the boy, and pulling his cap ov, er, W4 ,eyei shouted,. uo along, JNU I" - and -the chestnut mare, now thoroughly sobered, meekly sominenced the Ascent, of what was known as the long hill. ' one was evidently accus- timwf ti hftwintr her Asm wnv far aha availed! herself of every hollow to rest, and did not allow herself to be pressed forward until the whip was applied. T.euf wondered what bad possessed the create, a few minutes before. He aeratcned bis haad on the right side and - taen ort the.lef t, and, finally, his Yankee cariosity getting the better of his diffi dence, he ventured to ak : . :T If yottflease, eir, what was it that made the, mare tunt ; ; j '4 A 'jitump," returned the gentleman with a Smile, i' Nell ia a little aristo cratic, and shies at tueh plebian things. She dots hot know that a (tump was the , maVingof. her master." 'Tprjv" scratched his head again, and wiggled all over. Then out came the question: - - " How'could a stump be the making of a man.r.'. . , ; fed,'' answered the sfranger, marcing the white surface i of the snow ently withBia"wMpras.h, M was a poor boy, arMHiry-arne tuid not aflord to send iteTcrwnool. We worked very BOIU. WU WVU. ffkUU? OtVUUIEB VJ the light of . the fire, and learned the s whole of -the Latin grammar, by the r : .1. l . For a moment Tom sat perfectly still ThenM uked, as if ashamed of his ig norance : "Please, sir, what's a Latin gram' This last question aroused the gentle r man, afd becoming sensible that "the little fellow at his side was thirsting for knowledge, he very kindly went over v such parts of his history as he thought would be of interest to him, arid ended " by eayipg that he was a member of . Congress. This last announcement almost took . . the lad's breath away. He had beard v of -.members of Congress, bnt he had an idea they were myths, whom nobody ever saw. - Perhaps the awe with which :.'t-Tom regarded him as he glanced up sideways into his face, flattered the gen vflemau, for be said, smiling: " Yon are just as likely to be a mem fiber of Concress as II You know, in America, success is to be determined ' braved. If vOU study, as I did, and you may possibly iiae as high yes perhaps feigner!" . . . - ''-Bnt I haven t any Latin grammar, sir," Mid Tom. "NoT Wall, would you like one T' "Yes, sir," cried Tom, with flashing eyes. " Well, my lad, I shall come this way again, and I will leave one at the school house for you." " But I have no money." " Never mind, yon can pay me when you get to Congress." "Thank you," said Tom, "I won't forget it, sir." The gentleman looked down at him with a quizzical smile, and the two rode on (in rilence, until they reached the school-bouse. "Please don't forget the grammar," suggested Tom, as he lifted the old cap again. - " Not I," returned the gentleman. " A man who cannot keep a promise should not make one hey, my ladf Nell tossed her bead, and the boy soon lost sight of the rider. Then ha . looked down at his shoes, a, his coat, and his old cap as he hung it on the peg in the entry, and silently contrasted them all with the fur-trimmed overcoat and out fit of the stranger. " Never mind," said Tom to himself, " I will have them all, too, when I am a member of (Jonjrress. . At the end of two weeks a bundle of books was left at the school-house. There was not only a Latin grammar. but a well-worn copy of Virgil, sop Fables and sundry other volumes such as Tom had never seen. Pine knots were plentiful where Tom lived, and he sat up until midnight all the rest of the winter pondering oyer the m vsteries of those books. As z od luck would have it, the school master, who boarded around with his pupils, band not eaten the rations dne him at Tom's father's. When he ar rived he -entered warmly into the lad's .... - . - t t j ammuous proieci?, ana as ne nau a smattering of Latin himself, was quali fied to aid his pupil. Although the- schoolmaster was al lowed the use of a tallow candle, he vastly preferred the more brilliant light of Tom s pitch knot; so that, as often as the long winter evening set m, the master and the pupil might be: seen (and were seen) sitting before the large h re-place with their heads buried m the pages of the books, along which they plodded slowly, but to such purpose that at the end of the winter Tom could read his fable and solve his problem in a manner very creditable to himself and master. It was up-hill work with poor Tom, but he never lost what little he gained, and managed to make what little he ac complished 'to tell on the future, One day his father brought home a stranger, and1 told Tom that he was ap prenticed, during bis minority, to this man, who would make him a black smith " But I r am not going to be a black smith," cried Tom, in a passion ; " I'm going to Congress!" " i he more need that you should leain to shoe the horse that carries you there," replied his father, with a shrug. Tom packed up hi worldly goag,!w forgetting his books, and trudged away to a distant village, where ne pared horses' 1 oofs by day, and studied and read at night by stealth, lor he was al lowed neither knot nor candle. Six months the poor fellow tried to be . faithful to his duty, but dne night when the master had thrown his grammar into the fire, and lathed him for his dis obedience, Tom took leave of the work shop. ' He made his way, barefooted as he was. over bogs and briars, until he ven tured' into the main road, and by dint of begging a ride bow and then, reached ine-cny,' wnere, ws jwh iaua.uu uau done before him, with his roll under his arm he sought and obtained em ployment. Perhaps the happiest day of Tom's life was when he found himself in the antiquarian book store with plenty of leisure, plenty of books, and nothing to fear from friend or foe. It is wonderful how he read and read and read. The parched earth does not more greedily take in the sum mer rain. When his intellectual thirst was par tially satisfied he began to work. He saw the ladder up which he must climb, and seizing the lowest round, he made his way steadily upward. We all know by what steps an am bitious man makes progress by patient toil by self-denial by courteous de portmentby the constant acquisition j of knowledge. Years passed by, during all of wnicn Tom had looked in vain for1 his early friend, the stranger. In his timid awk wardness, he had not thought to asx tne name of his benefactor, and the only opportunity to do so had been lost. Well, years slid away, and lorn was elected member of Obrigress from the very county' where he, spent, his strug gling Doynooo. ? y t He went to Washington, not on cow hide shoes and butternut colored home spun, but dressed something as imag ination had pictured, as ne looted after Mb benefactor, on the eventful day of the alelghride, ;,". f" . A nobler looking man, the ladies in the naileries said, never had appeared upon the floor, than this Yankee mem ber, who, it he spoke through ni nose, always drove his-arrews home to-' the mark.. ... ... - . , :K One day there appeared in the House the venerable form of an ex-member, whom ' all present delighthed to honor. It needed but one glance at the genial lace for lorn to recognize in him the giyerrjf the Latin grammar. ; ; - to the gentleman who had so manfully defended the right, and to wish him God speed !" , " If," said Tom, with his old modesty, it has been my good fortune to do any thing for our country in the -hour of her peril, l owe my ability to do so, m great measure, 10 yonrseu. " r t' To me!" echoed the astonished ren- tleman: " to met I do not recollect ever haying bad the pleasure of meeting " Ah. sir, nave von forgotten, then. the little school-boy among the hills of New Hampshire, to whom you so kindly soia a utiin grammar ; I be gentleman mused. "bold sold a Latin grammar! Now that yon recall the incident, I do recol lect a litue lellowwho interested me, and to whom I save some arhnnl rwvv " weu, air, 1 am that boy. Yon told that I might nay for them when I got to congress. If you will honor me uj meeting m iew rnenas at dinner, will settle the bill." An Albany woman brings gait against a telephone company for trespass in putting its wires on the roof of her building. It isn't the trespass, however that troubled her so much aa tbe fact r j181? ' oa ow apaa wai me cannot get Hold of. Duelling Damsels. FHaneoek (vM Diapwch u New lock Sun.) a aangnintry duel was fought here between two women last Sunday, which resulted in the probable fatal wounding of both. Mi Louisa Wise and Mi, Mwgaret Downing had excited much comment in the village because of the jealous quarrels over the attentions of a young man named Benjamin Young. Last Friday evening Young went to a party with Miss Wise, and while danc ing with her the assemblage was thrown into intense excitement by the sudden appearance of Miss downing, who stalked np to the couple and forbade her lover to dance with her rival. Bnd denly, with a shriek, she sank to the, floor In a swoon, frothing from the mouth as thonrii suffering from an epileptic fit. bhe was removed by her iriend, and Young and Miss wise with drew. The following day Miss Wise received a note from Miss Downing, requesting her to call upen her, as she wished to see about an important matter. Miss U7.u . . . . 1 ' UtnoA aa . uxi went io ner rivm o - to ques ted. She entered the yard, walked around to the kitchen entrance, and, stepping inside, saw her rival seated by me stove. W hen Miss uowmug ..ukih sight of Miss Wise' she sprang to her feet, and seizing a stout club, rushed at her, shrieking with rage. Miss Wise ran into the yard, and picking up a pitch fork, warned her rival to stand off. Miss Downing exclaimed: "All right; we will fight now. Yon have a weapon ; so have I.'; Both beiDg strong, healthy country girls, they found no difficulty in wielding their weapons. As Mass Downing rushed at. the other she was met by thelhree-tioed fork, which was driven into her breast. The next in stant she struck Miss Wise a stunning blow en tbe head, which staggered her, and followed it up by a second blow, which felled her to the ground. Miss Wise soon regained her feet, and, assum ing the aggressive, iin paled Miss Down ing's hands on the prongs of the fork. Again she received a blow on tbe head from the club, which lelleanerio me ground. While in this position she thrust the pitchfork into Miss Down ing"s face, making three terrible wounos. By this time both were weakened by lose of blood, and dropped to the ground insensible. In this positron they were found by some neighbors, who gave the alarm. Both girls were terribly injured, Miss ' Downing having been wounded fourteen times by the pitchfork, and Miss Wise Shockingly bruised and beaten about the head. The physician has lit tle hope of their recovery. In lucid in tervals they gave the particulars of the fight, and at the same time each begged piteously to see Mr. Young. The latter, not wishing the notoriety into which !;e was broueht by the strange infatuation by the two girls, has left towD, and no trace of him can be discovered. The affair has caused the most intense ex citement here. Albert Fietrewskl, a role, lmne in New York, has a motor which he de clares when once started will run till it wear out. .. - The model that he exhibits consists of a pair of hollow metal wheels, four feet in diameter; .which revolve on the same axis. Dut in opposite directions, ine moving power is nine metal balls placed within the wheels sc as to bear the rim down at first, and then gravitate toward the axis, where a side groove runs the balls off to a grooved radius of the wheel revolving, irfejthe opposite direction. Four balls were yitxe& in the grooved radii of -the fim wheel. and four" in the radii of the secondhand when the mo mentum had been gained, the ninth ball was,added,tO jive additional power. To the axles of the wheels, which is also the axle of smaller grooved wheels that regulate the speed of the machinery, the shafting is applied. " G rye tne acast iron wheel sixty feet in diameter," said Mr. Pietrowski, "and I will show jovl a motor of 300 horse power, thai; requires nothing to keep it in operation. It will continue to run until tbe material is worn out." Several of tbe engineers who witnessed the working of the Pietrow.-ki machine yesterday, were sanguine in me opinion that, for all practical purposes, leaving out the engine of the locojiotive and steamboat, it will be found of great value. - , - 1 Casts from Lhlng Forms. I was taken by a friend, says a Paris correspondent, to see the wonderful plaster casts of living human beings which are among; the curiosities of the Russian department. How the thing is done it h impossible to imagine, but there the . two statues are, recumbent female figures, undoubtedly taken from living women. One lies slightly turned urxm her side, her lips parted in a gmiu. as though ah, was irying to suppress a laugh. - The mother,' who wag much the finer of the twor lies face downward her feet.crossed.-and her head pillowed on her folded arms aa though she had thrown herself down to sieep. the minutest -details or tne w?xiure of the skin, nails, etc., are very rfectly re produced, tne "gooueuooi wuerewith the skin. is covered being amusingly noticeable, and showing that the pre paration used for these casts, the com position whereof is a must oe applied cold, men au little in dentations in the soles of the eel and the palms of the hands, and the curve of the nails and their rimmings 0f and flesh are produced with startling uvnracT. The process by Which these figures are produced is still a secret, but it is certainly a wonderful discovery. The Laber of an Editor. The London Tim, speaking 0f the i. f .Hitir says it can onlv h appreciated by those who have had some experience in if The meerest dip of .vf . .nitkat too much, a m. date, a name misspelt, er wun a wrong initial belore it, uw m;'F":utUon of some passage, pernap ' '".""oie of interpretation, the mo uiu.uS onen?e to the personal or national susceptibility of those who do not even profess to care ior the feelings of otnera, may prove not only disagreeable, but even costly ;.oV- hut thBT are about the iea.. of the mistakes to which an editor is liable. Tne editor anus u - j spot till the paper ia- sent to the press. Md make decision tn which not only ihe approval of the public, oi great causes, may hang: He can not husband bis strength - with comparattve repe .v. v . a -a ! at (ha 1 in thesoutnoeotaBvuu,"- .lean ness of green fields. He must see the world, converse with foremost or busiest actors, be open to ntorniat,on and on guard, against error, aii this should be borne in the mmd by those who complain that journalism is not in fambly aociu-ato,iustandgreeabie. her The latest incWy features m Wah. ington is af teiaoen parties. SOUTHERN NEWS. Mzmphis has 459 nntananted houses. Tn Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College has 800 studenta. Th military fever is raring U most of the counties of Southern Georgia. Goa.t-xikb worth $25,000 were shipped from Corpus Christi, Texas, last week. s ( The exports of hides from Texas in a single year amounted to nearly $3, 000,000. A KTjMBEa of farmers are successf oily cultivating upland . rice in Monroe, County, Ga. ;. The amount of lumber exported from Pensacola, Fla., daring JaBaary was 24,680,000 feet Fitoieh Tennessee stables are to be represented at the spring meeting of the Chicago Jockey Club. ' Charleston people complain of the lack of facilities for daily and weekly recreation, and want a public garden. Tampa, Fla., boasts that murder has not been committed in that place for the past-six years. , " An appropriation of 1800 has been made for an educational exhibit at the appaoaching centennial at Nashville. One thousand men and 250 teams are making things lively on the line of the Texas Pacific Railroad. Thx ground in certain localities in Nash County, N. C, has sunk several inches, and an earthquake is feared. There will be no nominations for county officers in Franklin County, Ala, this year. The field is open to ail aspi rants to office. The average expense per mile for keeping up the county fence between Abbeville and Edgefield Counties, 8. C, is $27 per annum. Twenty-five different brands of com mercial fertilisers are on sale in York ville, 8. C. The demand for them now is greater than for any year in the past. The wool-growers of Atascosa County, Texas, have organized for the purpose of eradicating the disease known aa the scab from the sheep of that county. Neab Valdosta, Ga., J. C. Jones killed five wild turkey gobblers at one shot Their aggregate weight was ninety-five pounds. : Sixty-Seven per cent of the deaths at Memphis are from more or less pre ventable diseases, such as consumption, malarial and typhoid fevers, scarlet fever and diarrheal diseases. Early amber sugar-cane will be lanrely nlanted in Favette (Tnnnr.v lys; this yr.- A aaigaar fuctj afa being established at Lagrange, with a capacity of sixty tons of cane per day. Tee Missouri, Kansas and Pacific fiailroad, Texas Pacific Kailroad and Dallas and Wichita Railroad have agreed to build a large union depot at Dallas, Texas. The wife of United States Senator Wilkinson Call, of Florida, is the young est of. all the Senators' wives, and is said to be the most beautif uL She was a Miss Simking, of South Carolina. During the tornado at Nashville on Thursday the wind reached a velocity of forty miles per hour. It blew steadily from twenty to thirty miles an hour for two hours and a half. A "recent ordinance of the city of Charlotte, N. C, prohibits all work on Sunday about freight offices, the shift ing of freight trains and all other duties of railroad employes except what are connected with the regular passenger trains. 5 SnrcE Nashville and Edgefield have been' annexed the next thing will be a bridge for free travel between the two plates. The preserri suspeuaum uuuSn can probably be purchased, but it has beenj suggested that a new stone-arch bridge be erected. Nf as Charlotte, N. C, a 'negro girl twelve years old fell down a mine forty feet deep, where she remained nine lours without being discovered. She was drawn up smiling, and has suffered aoitteffects from the falL i Nathan Cook, of Terrell County, Ba.,.is; 102 year. old. and still etrn. hi. daily bread. He has tea children, the youngest of whom is forty years old. Be has lived in the same yard that now incloses his home ever tines the Indian The Georgia Historical Society, with Its headquarters at Savanah. has nearly 12,000 volume, in its -JJg the vear 932 volumcand 228 pamphtet. moiety last yearTwas was sufficient to defray all expanses. a.i.rt. nWd with a swarm ofthmpswho seem to be J2 Ti..! tw have attempted organised Danu. .r - . to ante, several house. T Fridty a lady was knocked dows . in ner . . ' hi. trying to prevent tv. nf some of these vaga- bondi . The various manufacturing estab-li.w.t- : rvinmbus. Ga., em- i . . wm .nH males. 1,1 f" rsem TO l,ua n male, 280 children O a?Jl fPkia . the nomoasr persona . nnaMi lesi!v employed. in "Tr The cti,V5tiBfr.quentiy donb . Jto wpion of Cdumbu. i. abont 15,000, tCberttGa,Prof.Wn.MBmwe "Po experiment, on corn and cotr ducted the part r J - AV.na hOWingWM u ammonia neeaea m " Pln the farm. Wyy rains among the iiKntaina dTdcouriderabledamjto Suit. . ontf,rrj Eilroad vj landslides. Hundreds 4 dollar. wiU be requiraf tbja . . a atsot to the earn" eo.A"jr,:tioa and en- Waeoaditioa. The Lynchburg (Va) Knot learns from a reliable gentleman who has just passed oyer the Huntington ronte bom Bt XAois, that large numbers of negroes art actually returning on foot, and that he Chesapeake and Ohio road, is lined with them, making their way tack to North Carolina. He remarked that they were not bringing any of the fine farms with them, nor half of the good clothes theyware away. Tw years ago a large colony of Gei mansj from Cincinnati, none of whom corJi speak English, purchased a tract of laid in Lawrence County, Tenn., said t contain 4,100 acres. It has since beei discovered that H contained only 2,0ff acres, and they were defrauded out of l&ggo, beardes the interest on this afcaT fiiTten yeara. The : colony has brought suit in the Supreme Court at Nashvilie for the recovery of this sum. . t The Commissioner of Agriculture has received reports informing him of the existence of asbestos in several localities of the State, and some specimens have been sent to him. He tested them in the fire and found that the fibres, even when separated from each other-, would stand a white heat He intends, as soon is possible, to send out aa agent and have the deposits inspected with a view of ascertaining their exact quality and their probable extent and value. Col umbia S. C.) Register. Matt. Woodleif, the Texas des perado, gambler and murderer, the iread of Houston and South Texas, was killed at Lake Charles, La., on Monday. Many years ago jWoodlief shot and killed a man in Columbus, Texas, and ifterwaid became a desperate character. In 1878 he attacked and fought a street iuel with Alexander Erickson, Chief of Police at Houston, Texas. About ten thots in all were fired with revolvers. Both men were shot down on Main street, and lay within a few yards- of each other. Woodlief was shot in the hip and his hip-bone was broken by a ball, and Erickson was shot through the thigh and the bone broken. Both re covered, but were cripples. But few regret Woodlief s taking off, as he was s terror in Texas, and, in fact, there is rejoicing that he was killed. A New and Wonderful Invention. A correspondent at Lancaster, Ohio, says : I, in company with a party of gen tlemen, called at the residence of Mr. J. C. Hite, editor of the Saturday Journal yesterday, to examine "Humiston's ap paratus for generating heat and light without wood, coal, coke, candles, lamps, or coal gas," which he has recently in troduced. The result of careful inves tigation surpassed the expectation of the entire party. The thine looks as if aa9 aesCTrwa tW:atr?- in, th practical as well as scientific world. In an economical sense it is certainly a wonderful success, requiring onlv i of a cent per hour for- fuel, used in either parlor or cook stove, and 1 cents per five hours for ten three-foot burners or gas jets. The modus operandi was clearly demon strated by Mr. Hite, and the cooking qualities of the apparatus satisfactorily investigated. Generators, fitted to an ordinary cooking stove, were made, and in three minutes by the watch a large teakettle, filled with cold water, placed on the front of the stove, was boiling very vigorously, while a skillet hiled with water, on one of the back holes, began to boil in one minute and thirty seconds. A pan of biscuits were baked to a nicety in three minutes, and a beefsteak broiled in two and a half minutes, and nicely, too, without the least suspicion of smoke or burning, and during the operation a most brilliant gas was generated. Mr. Hite entered r ? if i i n : i i in io a mil expiauauuii ui au iui mecuau ical and practical workings to the almost complete satisfaction of the whole Sarty. We do hot intend to attempt a ascription of the apparatus here, as we understand that it will be introduced ere many days, but we freely say, that the invention loots ate a success, ine heat is warm and uniform, and, can be graduated to suit the occupant of the room, it is utterly tree irom smose, noxious odors, soot, ashes, coal dust, which all attend the common modes of heating, and are a source of great an- j noyance to all housewives. The same gas from one generator is used for bothj fighting and heating. Cnrran as an Orator. The following ia Curran's description of his first appearance at a debating society: ... .. . - , "I stood up. my mind was stored with about a fo'io volume of matter; bat for want of a preface the volume ' was. never published. I stood up, trembling at every fibre, though remem bering that in this I wss but imitating Tally.. I took courage, and had actually proceeded' about as far as 'Mr. Chair niaa,' ,when, to my astonishment and teror,) perceived' that every eye was riveted upon me. There were only six or seven present and' the little room could not have contained as many more ; yet it was to my pain-stricken imagina tion.aa.if I were the central object in natcjra and assembled thousands were gazing on me with breathless expecta tion, became dismayed and dumb. iMyfiiendscried: "Hear him 1" but there was notning to near, m j uju, wuccu, went through the pantomime of articula tion ; bat I was like the unfortunate fid dler at the fair, who, coming to strike an the solo that was to ravish every ear, discovered that an enemy had mali ciouaiy eoaped the bow; or rather like poor.Paach, ss I once saw him, grimac In a. anlilneuv. of which his prompter had snpst indiscreetly neglected to ad miniater tha-words." Socluraa the debnt of Jack Cnrran or "orator Alum" as be was waggiamy stvled bal not many months elapsed before -the, sun of his eloquence burst forth in nasaling splendor. r A Cariosity. For some years the following sentence has stood an the shortest into which all the letters of the alphabet could be com pressed: " "J. GraVt "Pack with my box five dozen quaila. The abov sentence contains thirty three letters. A Utica gentleman re cently improved on it as follows, using only thirty-two letters: "Quick, glad cephyre, waft my javelin bra ' Gnm W. Pierce, a Boston lawyer, has now forced the twenty-six letters of the alphabet into a sentence of omy thirtv-ona 1 attars, as below: "Z. Badger: Thy vixen jumps quick at iowl- Wedding Fees. V IFUlKtalphtaTlaus. The Rev. John HaH, D. D., of New York, has one of the wealthiest churches in this country. The statement ia given that the Doctor receives about $10,COO a year in wedding fees. This is not sur- S rising, for many who come to him to e married are millionaires or the sons and daughters of millionaires. Dr. Hall rushes into print to correct the statement He says: f " If I publish the actual facta I have a little appre hension that I may lose the respect of a part of the community that part which always looks deferentially on large sums of money. I am aware that a alight streak of envy sometimes mingles with the respect but that is neither here nor there. If I tell the' readers of tbe por tion ef the press tbafdeals in informa tion A das kind that I never, per sona jy, knew of a wedding fee of more than a hundred dollars, and that I never received as much as five hundred dol lars aa marriage fees in one year, why, I may go down in the estimation of my fel low citizens. I shall be to them no more than one-twentieth of what I seemed. My shadow will be less. Not only so, but I may seem to reflect on that particular part of the press that affects this kind of news, and I may not get credit in the future even for compara tive good looks." Having thus knocked 19,500 off of this wedding fee account Dr. Hall pro ceeds to denounce the whole wedding fee business. He asks : " Would it net be a good thing to cut off all the small fayors given to ministers such as half fare passes on railroads, wedding fees, and even ' donation parties,' and let ministers be put, like other men, on liv ing salaries?' This is toe sweeping. As to railroad fares and donation parties it is well enough; but the wedding fee is alto gethera different aftair and rests on a different basis. There ie no reason why a man should ride for half price simply because he is a minister. If he render a service to the company trans porting him, he deserves pay for it and should be rewarded accordingly. The donation party is an outrageous nuisance, which should not be inflicted on aijy decent minister. But the wedding fee is a fair compensation for a special ser vice. It is a matter almost impossible to fix as to definite amount. Men pay all the way from a dollar to a thousand for getting married. A man who is very poor or very mean, or who does not think the lady of bis choice .is of any particular account, may satisfy his soul by handing the officiating clergyman a dollar or two. A wealthy man, or one who marries an heiress, can as easily pay a hundred or five hundred, or even a thousand dollars. There are many cases in which a hundred dollar bill is gracefully slipped into tbe clergyman's hand, although Dr. Hall does not seem to have had much of a run of this sort of luck. The average fee among well-to-do people is probably about $10. Most clergymen give their wedding fees to thcu, wive-,Aa.JCpicopal clergy man who made a practice of tdis was embarrassed by the receipt of a pair of trousers as a 'fee from a nice young tailor for whom he performed the mar riage service. The Xew Kentucky Law. Guthrie Gairttt. The whipping-post bill has become a law and now if a fellow don't want to shake persimmons for the State at large he must " larceny " thirty dollars worth of moveables. Dr. James E. Neely, of Simsbn, (a young bachelor), is said to be the author of the bill, and now his marrying prospects are variable. This is the bill : " Be it enacted by the Gen eral Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, that persons other than fe males guilty of the larceny of goods and chattels of value less than thirty dollars, shall be punished by stripes not exceeding thirty-nine, on the bare back, to be well laid on, or, in the discretion of the jury, may be punished as is now provided by law for the larceny or goods and chattels of value less than ten dollars. Sec. 2. When the punishment shall be by stripes, they shall be inflicted by the jailor of the county, in the jail yard or other private place, and no one shall be prefent except the county officers and such other persons as may be des ignated by the jailor or county judge. Sec. 3. If any person other than a fe male -hall steal money, goods or chat tels, of value less than thirty dollars, either from the person or possesion of any one, or from his house, without vio lence or putting in fear, he shall be pun ished as herein provided for the punish- ment of pereons guilty of the larceny of goods and chattels of value less than thirty dollars. Sec. 4. .If a female be guilty of the larceny of monev, goods or chattels of value less than twenty dollars, she shall be punished by'' confinement in the county jail not exceeding sixty days. Sec 6. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of May, 18S0. . . Leap-Vear Diffleoltle's. He was a nice young man, with cane, high hat and patent leather boots. He strolled leisurely down Fourth avenue, putting daintily upon a cigarette, and oc casionally twirling the waxed ends of his mustache. He was accosted by a stout woman with a florid complexion. Ton of the mornin to ye, Mister Charley " said she. Good morning, Mrs. McUuinness, said the bice young man. "Me daHint boy, would ye .and she bestowed a bewitching smile noon hiin. He dodged out of her reach. The recollection that it was leap-year rushed upon him. He answered : "Madame aipillv I can't T am yerv sorry if 1 cause yon pain but my af fections nave already oeen Desiowea npon another and, madime I can't I can't marrv voM. She gazed at Wm in astonishment and then said, indignantly: " Who axed ye to marry met The idea of the loikes of me, a poor lone widdy, wid four children to support by washin', ax in' ye to marry me. I was only coin' to ax ye ior that dollar for washin'' . He sighed and gave her a dollar, and walked sadly away. CaUEBEXBY Dckplino. One quart of flour, one teaspoonfnl of sods, and two teaapoonfnls of cream of tartar, sifted together; mix into a soft dough with sweet milk; roll the dough all over this in - oblong shapes' and spread over it a quart ? cranberries, picked and washed clean, and half a pound of sugar, sprinkled evenly ; fold over and over, then tie-in a podding cloth, and put in a stesater, where let it cook over a steady fire for one hour, with faith never looking into the pot Serve , with a sweet wine sauce. To make a saberbaoup use the proper soup herbs. A Startling Prediction. We extract the following highly sensational article from a Cincinnati daily, to the authorship of which we are indebted to a Polish gentleman named Jules Brolaaki: Having devoted many years to the silent study of astronomy and what in fluence the planets of the solar system have upon the earth ia reference to hu man events, I beg leave to make a few statements ia reference thereto. It is not necessary for me to enter into an extended explanation by what hypoth esis I have arrived at my calculations. It is not generally known that a grand conjunction of the four principal planets occurs in the latter part of the year 1881, which Is aa event that has never been recorded hi the known history of the earth, add aa.tqpAae eeawqnenca.in sa. ferenee to our globe 90 tbraw. feat con jectures can be formed- I have, bow ever, a few prognostications to forecast which you may accept for what they are worth : v 1. That Rutherford B. Hayes will be tbe last President of the United States as a Republic, and no successor to him will enter the office on the 4th of March, 1881. 2. That as the event of the above con junction referred to approaches, the electrical powers of nature will increase in force. The coming summer will give evidence of violent storms, with unusual display of thunder and lightning. Great damage, with some loss of life, will oc cur, particularly on the Western level and rolling lands, and on the seas. The destruction of crops will be large. 3. The winter of 1880-1881 will be an open one, with indications of great rain and dampness, and will be prolific in a black plague of a violent ana contagious type. " Death and disease' will stalk abroad. 4. The United States will become in volved in a war before the 4th of July, 1881, either by internal political strife at elections or. diplomatic difficulties with other nations that I am unable to locate. 5: When this conjunction of the planets occurs, if the electrical equilib rium of the earth's axis is disturbed, its extinction will be accomplished by one of two processes: either by a violent upheaval of all nature to destroy all animal and vegetable life, and con tinue to revolve around tbe sun to all essential purposes a dead world, or to be shattered into infinite space and fall in meteoric fragments as te something that has never been.' Smoke Xpt Cheap Cigars. To tbe world irrgeneral the cigar is merely a tight-rolled packet having brittle fragments of dry leaves within, and a smooth, silky leaf for its outer wrapper. When it is burned, and fie pleasantly-flavored smoke is inhaled, the habitual smoker claims for it a soothing luxury that quiets the irrita ble nervous organism, relieves weari ness and entices repose. Science, scout ing bo superficial a description, ex amiors fttstiha nw.s, sBd, tha thi'd. the Trait. In the smoke is di covered water in a vaporous stage, soot, (free carbon), carbonic acid and car bonic oxidn, and a vaporous BubsUnce condenseabie into oily nicotine. There are the general divisions, which chem ists have still I urther split up, and in so doing have found, acetic, formic, butyric, valeric, and propionic acids, pnidsic acid, creo-ote and carbolic acid, ammonia, sulphuretted hydrogen, pyri dine.' viridine, picoline, lutidine, collo dine, parvoline, corodir.e, and rnbidone. These last are a series uiuily Lu-ts be longing to . the homologuts of aiiilibe, first discovered in c nl lar. Applying chemical teits to the leave", other chemists Lave fcund nic ilia, to bacco, camphor or nic aiaiiine (about which not much is known), a bitter ex tractive matter, gum chlorophyl, malate ot lime, sundry hlbumiuuiaa, malic acid, woody fiber and various i!u The featherly white ash, whirh in its cohesion and wtiiter.e-s is indua'ive of the good cigar, yields potash, sods, mag nesia, lime, phosphoric acid, sulphuric acid, silica and chlorit e. The ingredi ents extractable from a poor and cheap cigar would be fearful and wonderful to contemplate. Here is a list from a Par liamentary report on adulterations in tobacco: Sugar, alumn, lime, flour or meal, rhubarb leaves, salt-peter, fuller's earth, starch, malt, commings, chro mate of lead, peat moss, molassss, bur dock leaves, lampblack, gum, red dye, a black dye composed of vegetable red and licorice, scraps 01 newspaper, cinnamon stick, cabbage leaves and straw brown paper. The Indian Chief, " Woman's Dress." IfeMlwood PloaMr. This Tndisn brave, Who has been tak ing in Dead wood and 'the United States Court for the past few days, and who attracts so mueh attention wherever he goes, is a United rjtatos soldier, and took arractivf part in the purvuitot the fugi tive Chevennes a year ago. inthehght he had two horses shot under him,- and was himself wounded by a bullet which passed through the flesh of his breast and left arm. The officers advised him to go to the rear, but although bleeding profusely he stubbornly refused, and fought to the end of the battle, slaugh tering the Cheyenne like sheep when be once got among them. He was a witness in the Provost case, and is altogether a fine specimen of bis race. His costume consists of very wide leggins of finest bine mackinaw, with a broad fringe 01 white fur np the legs and trimmed with gold lace, beads and green cloth ; over tnu a capacious msntie 01 tne same oarx bine material bordered with white fur, gold lace and braiding of many-colored beads. On his feet he wears snow-white moccasins, embroidered with beeda of a dozen hue, and a rimless beaver or otter skin cap covers his raven-black hair Standing around npon the street he is a picturesque type 01 a strange people doomed soon to extinction. The Paper Mills WH1 Pay tke Penalty. The New York Star says: Newspapers from all sections of the United States are beginning to grow restive over the advanced cost of white paper stock. Within a few months the price of paper baa increa-ed 50 per cent without any visible corresponding increase in the price of material or manufacture. The rise is universally attributed to corner "of the market, organized by leading mill-owners. In eonseq nenee of the unexpected outlay which has thus to be met, many journals are reducing their size or diminishing the number of their supplements, While evidences are not wanting of a rapidly growing deter mination to urge Congress to remove the duty from imported paper. By united action tbe press can certainly in dace lyungress to grant tne aeairea relief, sod then many of the mills will collapse as a penalty for tadr "comer." PASSJHtl SiTLES. A sttjcx-cp thing a show-bill. Spain q-haxt May SI midnight SPAEE-aUBS the sealed wives ot Utah. , ' - 1 Oixl ocean indulges in storms merely for wreck-creation. H Let's see ; it isn't quite time tor the ' first divorce in the Oneida Community. Fotjb thousand bills are pending in Congress. - Csiloxsh: and braat-bands, Jntheis extreme youth, , don t amonnt to Knob, without a tutor. " Now 1 lame me," est the pedestrian remarked when he stumbled on a bit of ice. - -. . .' V Ik diamonds,' soUtaires'ara fashion able, bnt when itrenJYr bnekwaaat caknt let bjkveknstA . : - "' By all means let us have free salt"" " Some lazy people, might "earn their salt" if it was a little cheaper. , The toe of an enemy's boot will often do more to raise a man into prominence than the hands of a dozen good friends. , " The men of to-day are too high strung," says a Chicago paper. Some of them are not strung high enough. - The brook, yon know, Aows on for ever. Sometimes it seems as it a law suit was trying to see the brook and go it one better. The lisping Christian thus defended' her pronunciation: " Dotbn't our minither direct our thepth in the nar row path! Ithn't he, then, our pa thert", No matter bow finely a dentist's par lor is f urniahed, no one cares to take a1 teat in his drawing-room. This is a good . joke, but it is tooth in to draw. - ; We hsve bad one oner, bat the -lady couldn't promise to support us in the luxury to which we have been accus tomed. Boston Pott. A commercial report says: 'The fall of leather causes an uneasy feeling in hides." We have often remarked this in youth while laying across the, maternal knee. . A minister who regards kissing as an essential part ot saving grar, should kiss his lawfully appointed wife, and1 tell her to pass it around among the congregation. Whee a man becomes the father of a sixteen year old daughter, be commences he period of his life when the toes of his boots wear eut before the heels become italicized. The beauty of Sunday collections on the envelope plan is that you can knock the plate out of the collectors hand as easy with a copper cent as you can with a (diver half dollar. " Did you ever know such a me chanical genius as my son T " asked an old lady. " He has made a fiddle ont of his own head, and he has wood enough for another." - Indionaut wife" If 1 had known you were coming home in this condW lion, I should nave- 'rone home to my father's." Inebriated husband " Hio would you? I'm awf sorry didnhend f'jJEABiiMiisa, aoat ata ine men come too near yon, when courting.", " Oh, no, dear ma. When Charles it here we always have one chair between ; us." Mother thinks the' answer is rsther ambiguous. 1 5 the midst of life some men do all the evil they can, and when they di the papers tell lies about them at the rate of fifty cents per line. Tna cheerful Are hrightlr bams. The ims bill keeps acoruion. The maiden fair new lessons learn, The ardent youth ne'er hosnerard tuna, , . And onward speeds the wooing. inu. Tbe flickering Sre feeMy burns. The time has passed tor wooing; , The fsded wife new lessons learn, ' Tke husband seldom homeward tuns, t v A nd onward speeds the ruing. Htekm-ek EsswaMaaa. Executive Pardons In Iowa. Gov. Gear, of Iowa, has adopted the following well guarded regulations in relation to applications for pardons and remissions: 1. A notice of intention to make ap plication for pardon or remission must" be published three times in sove news paper in the county where tne crime was committed. 2. The district attorney must also be notified of the application as proof fur. nished the Geverhor taat be has been so notified. ' 3. When application is made, it must be accompanied with the evidence of publication as required, and an authen ticated copy of the indictment and final judgment, and should be signed by a majority or the jurors, county omcers, and by other citizens. 4. Judges and district attorneys are requested to withhold sn expression of their views as to the propriety of grant ing a pardon or remission in any partic ular esse until the same is desired by the Governor. 5. Application for remission should be presented to tbe members of the board of supervisors and tbe auditor of tbe county where the offense was committed for their approval or disapproval Deiora being transmitted to the Governor. t The Poet'sTate. ; "Is this William Johnson T his Honor as tbe first prisoner toed the mark. " 8 pose ao," was the onrt reply " And yon are a poet?'' "b' pose lam." " Very well. It having been, estab lished that your name is Johnson, and that yon are a poet allow me to state you are charged with entering a grocery store on Grand River avenue and otter ing to trade a fourteen-verse ballad, en titled, ' Other Days,' even np for a cod fish weighing two pounds. Am I cor rect thus farf '' " b'poaaj so," was the indifferent reply. " Well sir, chapter second opens with tbe reply of tbe grocer that he eared not who wrote tbe ballads of the nation so long as be sold the codfish, and be refused the exchange. The re npon yon berated b in as a mercenary wretch, got put ont doors, and as you. continued to Land and shout and berate, and draw a crowd, yon were gathered in, and here yon are. Have yon any defense f "It's no nse saying anything,'' sighed tbe poet " Very welL Tbe returns from your township elect yon to tbe Work House for sixty days Sy a large majority, and your ballad goes with yon." Os the 12th of December two convict in the jail at Teresina, Brazil, fought a. duel with knives, in the dark,, haying purposely extinguished the light to pro ven the interference of tne other con victs, who hoisted themselves by tha window gratings to get themselves oat of danger. When the guard arrived both men were found riddled with stabs and dead. ... r A A Si 1 ' t i mm mm 1 - ... ' ' ..". -s
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