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t - 'A ' - ..-....'.. -.-"' ' . ' -' ' t- .. ....... .... '?"" -" - KDGE BLADE J. H. HALLYBTJRTON, Editor and Proprietor. MORGANTON, N. C, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1880. VOL. V.--NO. 13. THE BLUE AS IHCIarEHT. BY A8K1CS MACDOSKLL. ' I "In one 'part of the house, he told me, mere uvea a orptner sua -snner,- wno duu; Mud. , Tlnaniwa and unattended w lk tu Cm, iird UDOuTCT M hi. f - God rt tbe Czar!" they sy. - Atone kii path there mored funeral, (rapeclacleof porertyandwoe. A irretcbed iWze, uraised by one weary roan, Blowly ro- the snow. . And on tbe dedne. Mow" T 'he winter wind, La- a poor conin, eiy rude and r are, And he who drew It lient belore hw load, WltdolUndsuUeB-;" J-, tvc Th Emperor -topped and beckoned to the n Whib't ttaouJre-t to the -rare?" he " OBI- aajaMtMiJanT.' Ine dHStaa!. "Onlyatoldierdead. ' . (Mr Wdier!" mining, naid the Crap; Unlra Kmiaa, who was poor nd brave Mm as. Hlkw. Such a one goea nut yuJMOor tjSUtKr.ve.''. ; ; . He beat bia heart, and 'silent raised bi tP. The Czar ot all iba Russians, pacing slow. rellwriaWtaWeoaaBKaMgaiii.!. - . yaWplriitHM'e'i:! - TV pBser of the ttreet, ill -eiiiifc - - , ., s . . - looked on thalalglit. then followed silently; Feasant and prinoe, anil artian and clerk, , All In one company. fjtlll, a they went, me crowd grew ever more, " Till tnouwinus mood around tbe frletidleM glare, Led by that princely heart, who, royal, true, Honored the pool and brave. Notk. Thin incident Ik narrated by a lady ;ho Waa UTlnto Meaoow when it look place. ' Sfpfdato.: FIRST AND LAST DIGGINGS. " What is thin dilapidated old book? An heirloom?" asked iny friend, who for the last half-hour had been looking over mr library. "Oh, no," I replied,;" that is no heir loom, but 'Bometbini; 'which I prize as highly as if I cou'.d prove that it came over in the Jlaj Hower, If you would like, I will explain it to yotu Draw up your chair," I said, taking the book, " and if, in my own interest, I get tire gome, slop me, 1 beg of- you." " 1 have always called this my 'Col lege Regi-trr.' r In lny sophomore year I conceived the idea of keeping in my room this book, in which I asked every body coming to see me for the first time to write their name, with the date. My friends were not bored but once, and, if the writing of their names caused them a little annoyance at the time, I r.m sure that if they knew the amount of pleas ure the possession of their autographs has given me since, they would feel amply repaid. A good deal of fun was made ot me at, tbe time, Dut mat nas all passed, and the book remains the moHfcpowerful Tfminderof my college days:..,- When 1 look at the names of the good fellows written here it sometimes seems aa if I was again, a student, with no care but that of preparing my reci tations, for the next day. But enough of that ; let us get to the inside. Open it anywheres-familiar names are on every page. - " 'George H. Adams,. January- 15, 1845. ' Be was a fine fellow, son of a widow, living in town. He worked his way through college, and had a hard time of it, but be succeeded, and is now a cuccenfut business man in tbe south ern part of the State. "'Louis M. Huntington, March 3, 1847.' Iljeverknew him very well, for he never came to my room but once. He .was handsome, fascinating fellow, always a favorite in society because o' his easy, graceful manners and his tine voice. 1 have often wondered what lias become of him, but I have never botn able to finckhim out, as I Joit sight of him very soon after we graduated. . " ' Leonard Meredith, February 26, 1846. ' That name deserves more than a passing notice; his life and mine have been most strongly linked together. . "In the same building with myself, in fact directly over my head, there roomed a young man whom I had seen in the rr citations and in the hall of our building. He was called Meredith by the instructors, and that was all I knew of him. However,,! liked bis looks, and determined to know more of him. So. 'one evening I went to nis room, un der the pretext of borrowing something ; he received me in a most cordial man ner, and readily loaned me what I a'ked. We easly. dropped into conversation, and ie. was so entertaining .that 1 te . mained an hour or more. Whenever spoke, T noticed that he kerH his ejes ""fixed npo my face large.-deep brown eyes, with ati earnest eager look in them indeed, his whole tace expressed an earnestness and determination which won me completely. I told him that I roomed right under hiui, and asked htm to stop in any lime when he was going by. " After waiting for him a month, I determined to try a?ain. I was received in the same cordial manner as before, and when I asked him why he had not been tosfe me, he frankly confessed that he was afraid of meeting a crowd of fel lows there, which he always a. o'ded, if possible. I talked with my other class mates about him, and they all said that they had had an experience very simi lar to mine. "I had also noticed that Meredith. although quite talkative when I was with him alone, became suddenly very quiet if anot ler person joined us. 1 aributed this peculiarity to diffidence, but I soon found that I was most com pletely mistaken, for Leonard was al ways at his ease, and although by no means ferward, he could cot be called - diffident. - ' "The more I knew and saw of Leon ard Merediih the more I liked him, and finally on February 26, 1846, he came to my room and wrote his name there in my 'register.' from that ti me we be came betttr acquainted, and be used to come to my room often when be knew that I was alone. On one of the even ings wtfenTEe was with me he told me the reason why he shunned general so- , ciesy. 'i naa never suspected it, nor would you, had you known him. He told me that he was almost totally deaf. I cofrld iardly 1elieve him. HU voice was 'as perfectly modulated as yours or . mlnej and then I had been talking with hinr more or less for a whole year, and had never trace susDected Lip-reading was not so common then as it is now, and so I was the more com- pletely astonished when he told me that he could Understand what a person said J, vateking the movements of their lips. If there were two or three in the company, he was unable to look quickly enough, irom one person to another in oroer to - see what he said. This ex plaitawdUs rather peculiar conduct After Leonard hJ told me of his infirmity tur fiieodship .grew stronger, t and we gradually became almost insW erabte. -Our walks were always taken together, and during one of them, on a beautiful swing afternoon, be entrusted te me mnotoer secret. i were orphans, and these were the per- i sons wnom ne visitea. ine Drotner was Lao invalid, and it was probable that he would never recover. ( The sister, Mar garet Wadsworth, was most devoted to him, taking entire charge fHm. She was accustom? d to read to her brother a Seat deal, and it was in this way that Knard had been able to assist her. All this was mere preface to Leonard's seciet, and by this time I had guessed that be was. iJove ,witb, Mist Wade worth. It was so, indeed,, and they were engaged, but with no immediate pros pect of being married, although Leonard wished it as soon as he graduated; but Margaret was not willing thathe should encumber himself at the beginning of his career with, the, care f her invalid brother."6, who ; demanded alt her time and attention. I saw that Leonard was in great earnest, and, alUioJjrhh touted to claim Margaret aa-hi!ife, huiAive lor ner wowa not s.now mm to urge anything against her wishes. T " " In a few days after our confidential talk, Leonard asked me it I would call with him upon Miss Wadsworth and her brother. I was very much pleased that he should show me that attention, and I eagerly accepted. .. " "Leonard led the way to a little cot tage in a retired part of the village, where the brother and sister lived. They occupied only a part of the house, as their meaDS would not allow them to do more, and Margaret wished to have somebody else in the house, in case she had need t j call any one. Leonard gave a couple of little raps on the door,, and soon we heard some one running lightly dawn Btairs to let us in. Margaret Wadsworth opened the -door herself, and Leonard introduced me as ' My friend, Will Dennet, of whom you have heard me speak m often.' Fy the manner in. which Miss Wadsworth gave me her hand I knew I was welcome, and her eyes told me that any friend of Leon ard's bad a claim upon her friendship also. "She led the way upstairs to their littlf sitting-room. We paused a mo ment in the doorway, and I recall ex actly how the room looked to roe then, with the marks of Margaret's graceful and artistic nature displayed every where. A dark, modest carpet covered the floor, a wood fire burned on the hearth, and on a low,, broad couch, by a curtained window, lay the invalid, tij his side was a small table with an open book, face downward, as if some one had just ceased-reading, and a-lamp, with a crimson shade, which shed a soft, subdued, light through the room. Between two of the'windows stood a low bookcase, and among the knict-nacks upon the" top was a vase of flowers, which f immediately knew must have come from Leonard. "As we entered the room, .Margaret went to the lounce to arrange her brother's pillow and to tell him that we had co roe. As she walked across the room, I had an opportunity to look at her more minutely. The -way she had Of arranging her brother's ptllow and of ' speaking to him snowed at once wnat a ire i) tie, beautiful disposition she had. Her large grayeys were lull or anec- tioa, as she said in a low, sweet voice, 'Albert, Leonard has come and has brought his Iriend, M r. Bennett. ouid you not like to have the lounge moved a little, so you can see them?' Albert did not speak, but smiled eonsent; a Bweet, patient smile, and so much .like his sister s. . A h wr wr ha savinr cood-nizht I asked Albert if I mlghl come.apd read to him when Leonard could not. His face lighted up with the same smile, as I e Haid he never got tired listening to his' favorite authors. I used to go fre quently after that, when Leonard was i . . i l: J taI ousy, io ieaa to me invsiiu. it ucuimc one ot mv vreatesi pleasures, ami i thought it was entirely my desire to do o-ood. but I now know that a more o . - . . . . n i I.-.- i selhah motive inuuencea me somewnai. " Leonard's love for Margaret was as sincere and pure as hers was tor him, 1 bev were most devoted to each other. but with none of that stckly sentiment ality which you o oftea see nowadays. " Time went on, and with it cur friendship increased. We formed very happy quartette in the little sitting-room at Miss Wadswbrth's. I ffenerallv left Leonard and Margaret to gether, while I devoted myself to -Al bert. He was no better, but bore up under his affliction with great fortitude and set an example of self-control to me particularly who was to need it so sorely "At last the spring of '49 came, and we were making preparations to grad uate. Immediately after, Leonard was to leave for California. For the last few months his health had been failing, and the physicians told him that an en tire chanee of climate with some active out-door work was necessary for his complete recovery. He was unwilling to leave Margaret, but she urged it so stronely. and I also advised it, that he finally consented. California seemed thn r.lace for him: the irold excitement was at its heieht. and he hoped that while seeking for his health he might also find his fortune. , " I went to the nearest city to read law, but alway managed to see Margaret once or twice a week, for Leonard's sake, L said to" myself. " We received one letter from Leon ard, mailed at the Isthmus. He said that the sea voyage had done him much good, and he felt'almost inclined to re turn. What a difference it would have made in my life! if he had t "The damp chilly day of October had -come. We had not yet heard o Leonard's arrival, and we naturally felt a little anxious, but the uncertainty of the mails at that time would account for the delay. The change in the weather began to tell upon Albert; he grew weaker, and no longer took the same interest in the books' which we read to him. 1 told Margaret, one day, that I feared her brother's end as near. I, found her prepared forit; indeed, she had realized it, but bad not the courage to speak of it. Poor girl, be had been a care to her all her life, yet, when she was called to part with him, it seemed almost impossible to give him up. " By the first of November Albeit left us. After the last . duties of love were performed, I took Margaret back to her little home. In as eenUe a manner as I could, I asked her what her wishes were and how I could aid her. She said that she would wait for a letter from Leon ard! to see what were his prospects. If she could go to him she wou'd, but if that was impossible she would look for some work to do until. his return. Her little fortune bad been almost exhausted by her brother's long illness, and by the California if that seemed . the best course. "I admired her courage, brave eirL There- she was, all alone in the world, k witn no one but her betrothed,, who . was three thousand miles away. ,. 1 admieed her courage, but I loved herself. It was the firsttimet had admitted' it to my self, although, J had recognized its in fluence, - - ; t "I felt it necessary that one of us should go away, because I was doing Leonard an injustice, since I could not longer treat Margaret as a friend. I thought this all over on my way back to the city, and resolved to go abread and study, if Margaret did not go tc Cali fornia. "Little did I know that my course was all marked out for me, as soon as I should get to my rooms: .There I found cmny table a small packaee. and an envelope-directed to me in a strange naiirF-wntttrg.' anttteywer r'.ieitei s, en from Leonard, and, the other in the same hand-writing in which the en velope wis- directed. There was but a word from Leonard, and as I read it, my heart stood still.l ' I entrust Mar garet -to' your care.'J The writing was Leonard's, hut so changed ; it looked as if it had been written with the greatest effort." I was so overcome by reading these few words that I forgot all about the other letter. Why should .Leonard entrust Margaret to me T Was he dead, and she freeT The thought flashed through my mind like lightning. I eagerly seized the other letter, and read it at, a glance. Lieonard was dead, and his death caused by his infirmity, with out doubt. It was as I feared. Feared, when Margaret was free, and I couM rightly sue for her hand? 1 was com pletely overwhelmed by the contradic tion of feelings in my breast. My grief for my dearest friend's death was in strong. conflict with my mine mine if I could win her. "1 took up the letter again and read it carefully. It was written by a friend ly miner who had been with Leonard at the time ef his death. He had gone to the hydraulic mines to try his fortune there. A morning or two after he ar rived he was working under a projecting mass of earth and rock which had been loosened by the water. The other miners saw the mass tremble and called to Leonard to run from under it ; but, alas, he could not hear them he was deaf. The eartk and . rock came down with a crash, and partially buried him; but he was rescued while life still re mained, and taken to a neighboring house, where everything was done for him that was possible. But all in vain, for he died within the: next twelve hours of some luterr.al injury. . How ever, he was conscious to theJast, gnd wrote these few words, entrusting to me what was dearest to him on, earth ; he also requested that the little gold dust which he had found should be sent to me, the result of his first and last dig- K1". ..... . . 'J learned all this lrom tbe miner s- letter. It was written in strange, lan guage, and still stranger spelling, but nnder the rough exterior ypu cottld bc that there was one ot the kindest ol hearts, always ready to aid a feliow beinttin distress. . , Leonard's friends in the little jnin- ne town sent the gold with the letters San trancesco, where tbey were given in charge of a merchant on his way Kast, who brought them to me. After reading the letters, i sat tn thought for a long time. At the end of that time, let me say it to my credit, I thought only of Margaret's deep sorrow and my great loss in the death of Leon ard Meredith. "The next day I went to her. Haw was I to break the news without break ing her heart? She had just lest her brother, and now to lose her lover was indeed very haro. - , " This was tbe severest trial I had ever been through, and when I told Margaret the burden seemed more tnan she could bear. The hope of seeing Leonard had carried her through her brother's death, but now no hope was left, and she was alone. I was resolved that she should no longer remain in the little college town where everything reminded her or ner brother and Leonard. I urged -her to move into the city, and she concented, because she thought she would be in a better position to get work. How 1 longed to tell herthat there was no need of her working! " Through the influence of friends, Margaret was soon offered the position of governess in a family going abroad for three years. She consulted me about accepting the place, and I ad vised her to, by all means. I was loath to have .her go away, but what better thing was there for her than a change of scene? . "I continued in my law studies, was admitted, to the bar and practicing for myself when the these years appointed for Margaret's absence had passed. "In the meantime I . heard .from her often. She wrote in a bright, chatty way Which showed that she was improving both in health and spirits. In my let ters to her, I tried to write as a friends, but I know that my love showed itself in spite of me. Uy-and-by l tanciea there was a chanee in her letters. I was unable to tel: whether this change meant that she was offended at the love which I could not conceal, or, what I scarcely dared hope, that she was learn- in to love me. " I met her at thedock as she landed and hardly knew the Margaret Wads worth of old. The lines of care had srone from her face. and. although she was threa years older than when i saw her last, she looked as much vountrer. "I will not burden you further with how I wooed and won her, but if you ill notice the wedding-ring on my wifn'ii hand, the onlv iewelrv she wears. you will see that it has a richer, deeper color than ordinary rings, because it was made put of his first and last diggings- SOUTHERN NEWS. The value of the live stock in Georgia $21,ul7,J34 These are 120 liquor dealers in Bibb Pounty Ga. . j A; sew yarn mill has been started in Augusta, Ga. j" ' ' Bichmosd is about to invest $400,000 in wafer-works. - j Mississippi has seventy -five eounties and 112 newspapers. . , i r-" . i Cut-worms are injuring the- young an crop in parts of Georgia. iA TTB.& in Horry County 8. C de stroyed 10,000 turpentine tote. IThiettkk railroads intersect Ga. ana comriDute to tne Estate lreaBury. Texas this spring 301.0W head of cattle. Ak ice manufactory will be placed in operation at Tallahassee, Flu., this sum mer. ' Te?t elegant new residences are in course of con.-rtruction on one street in Atlanta. 1 the "State of Georgia there are 1,292 lawyers, 1,638 physicians and 175 dentiaU. Fifty-one fire and life insurance companies do business and pay taxes in Georgia. Tbe appropriation made by the last Mississippi Legislature amounted toover $1,000,000. Thk present wheat crop iu Texas will probably be the larges. ever grow?, in that State. In Macon, Ga., there are fourteen schools for white and fourteen ior colored children. Mrs Powf.IX, of Campbell County Virginia, died recently, at the age oi one hundred and nine. The City Council f Richmond, Vi , has appropriated $15,000 for the citizen soldiery of that place. The colored people Of Georgia pol 88,622 votes,1 and pay State taxe amounting to $106,660. The majority of the mail contracts in the State of Mississippi have ';eeM awarded to Northern men " Thibty-fouh factories in Georgia are exempted front taxation. Ihey own property worth $4,18H, Thb -apital invested in.iron-workt in Geoigis ha been increased $59,310 dur ing the past twelve months. Gen Stephen D. LEEias been chosen President of the Agricultural and Mechanica'' College of SJ fesissippi Walnut logs thirty teer in diaincte" a.e carried by rail from Tenrtesnee to Peneacola and chipped to Europe. The numbei of students at Vai.'' -bill University, Nashville, this y-n is 484 The number last year wan 421 The City Council ol Augusta has re pealed the mended Sunday ljriio Lnv which allowed barkeepers 'o trem tliei friends. Texas derives a revenue ot ; 60,000 from the tax on commercial trawlers. The total number licensed undc he Ian is 1,632. ' A gestleman in Atlanta has donated a lot ot five acre upon which to erect the Peabody formal Fchool buildings. The soft bluestone rock which under lies a wide scope of the israirie region of Texas, is said to be fully 600 feet thick at Sherman. An average ol about 1.50 immigrants pet month, mostly from Havana and Nassau, have been arriving recently at Key West,. Fla - isce the establishment of the Missis-,-,ippi State' Lunatic Asylum 1,875 pa tients have been admitted, of whom 439 hate recovered. Georgia has 6,864,654 acres of wild land reported for taxation, the average assessed value of which is twenty-three cents per acre. In- Jefferson County, Miss., a man has been fined $100 and imprisoned for a ihort term for killing a deer in violation of the game laws. The Baptists of North Carolina num ber 189,93o, while the members of all other denominations in the State num ber onlv 189,695. The Young Men s Library, at Aiiania has been presented with the old Confed erate battle flag of the rorty-nnt Georgia regiment. 'The frnit and vegetable business from Florida to Northern and Western Wties has grown from about i,000 boxes in 1874 to 950.000 in 1880. A. L. PlERSON, of Frio County, Texan, has clipped this year 20,000 pounds of Merino wool, for which five dollars and fifty cents per horse powei per annum for factories and all other mills alike. A MATHESUTICI4S has -calculated that a Memphis citizen who drinks Wolf-Kiver water annually absorbs four tiDJ hi weiSht in cU,T besides swallowing about fifty pounds' weight of tin, ieit of dead caterpillars. - A SAW-pifli' fourteen feet long, in cluding its saw, which is three feet long, and with forty-eight teeth, was caught to a net at May port, Fla., a few days go. It's teeth, say those who know, indicate- that is twenty-six years old. ?C0BEH of ; lady clerks are emploved J r awrefcants and shopkeepers in At- f saw! they maSe a profitable living ibe counter. The CbnrtUtdtam jgv ! -eetabliahmpnts' which einfSoy, altoggUier, 534 female adults. ', It is tbe. purpose of the CoTiuii.ioner flf Agriculture of South Carolina shortly H visit every county in the State for ihe purpose of more thoroughly informing himself as to the various resources of the State, and aso to organ "ze agricultural clulft, from which he can procure statistics of the products of the State. Quitman (Ga.) Frtt Pret: ' Quitman has the finest court-room in Georgia and the least use for it Two or three times a year the judges and lawyers meet here, . ..1 1 1 i. 1: 1, j rcu loug yams, jms mc i-oriipiiiueuui 01 the season, smote a great many cigars, adtiire the frescoing and themselves, oaipliment Judge Hansel!, which is prierf and seek other pastures green. The removal of the 5Tormai f-Vhool from Nashvil e tj Atlanta causes a lost to ;Tennessee of $6,000 annually from tlm Peabody fund. The cause of the re'isoval is the failure of NashvilV and thaState to make any appropriation foi its laid, whereas, Atlauta will aid lilier allj in order to secure its location. i Letter to the Courier-Journal avs thite are three persona now living nea, Lyinville, Tenn , who are known t1 be ovef 100 years of age. thie is j white mail, one a negro man, and. the othe. a negro woman. Hie white man s exact age is known, he being 102. The negroes' ago) can not be told exactly,, but are known to be ovei 100. How a Married Woman tioes to Sleep, j There is an article going the rounds entitled, "Ho Girls Go to Sleep." The manner in' which they go to sleep, according to the article, can't hold a candle to the way - a married woman goestp sleep. Instead of thinking of what she should have attended to belore going to bed, she thinks of it afterward. While she is revolving these matters in her mind, and while snugly tucked in bed, the old man is scratching his legs in front of the fire, and wondering how he will pay the next month's rent. .Sud denly she says: "James, did you Jock the door?"' "Which door r " The cellar door," says she. " No," says James. " Well, you'd better go down and lock it, for I heard some one in the back yard last night." . Sponge. f ' The universal and increasing demand for sponges, and the unremitting drain to which all the best "fisheries" arr subjected,, has led to a partial df arth in the supply of these useful articles; but art, which has thus threatened the ex tinction of the supply, has in this, as in many similar cases, stepped in to restore the balance.' It is only within the lsst few years that the real nature of the sponge has been r, cognized. In its natural state it is a disagreeable and al most repulsive-looking object, tbe soft fib'ous mass, with which every one is so familiar, being hidden beneath, and its intricacies filled np by a slimy, gelatin ous substance, which rapidly putrefies, and adds tenfold to - the generally un pleasant nature of the thing. The tenac ity with which these objects affix themselves to rocks and stones suggested the idea iW they were; species of l'ASSI5 SMILES. time James returns and is going to get into bed she remarks: " Did you shut the stair door?" " No,' says James1. '" " Well, if it is not shut the cat will get up int.) the bed room." - "Let her come up. then," says James,-ill-naturedly. " My goodness, no!'' returns the wife, ' she'd suck the baby's breath!" Then James paddles down stairs lgain, and steps on a tack, and closes She stair dooT, and curses the cat, and eturns to the bed-room. JuBt as he begins to r'imb into his couch his wife observes: I M forgot ' 'to bring urr some. water, suppose you bring some in the big tin.J' And so James, with a muttered curse,- ?;oes down into the dark kitchen, and alls over a chair, and rasps all the tin ware off the wall, , in search of the " big " tin, and then he jerks the stair daor open and howl:. . " Where thevdeuce are the matches?" She ci veshim minute directions where to find the matches and adds that she. would rather go and get the water her self than have tbe neighborhood raised about it-. After which James finds the Ibe animal kingdom, and are allied to the anemones and other zoophytes, with the beautiful appearance of many of which the public aquaria have made us acquainted. A-spoge is tothing more than an animated stomach, whbjH though the very lowest of all fq4f animal life, is endowed witbv'jriore reason than the stomachs of mankind, inasmuch as it knows what is good and what is bad for it, aod rejects the latt-r, while imbibing only the former. Hie gelatinous substance, which forms the actual body of the sponge, being beaten and washed out of it, the fibrous skele ton is left in tiie state in which it is sold in the shops. The tearch. for these ceatures employs an army of skilled divers; the. principal spc-nirin,; groups being in the Greek Archipelago and m other parts of the Mediterranean, in the Red Sea, in the Bahamas and other parts of the West Indies, and in some of the islands of ihe Pacific. The Cohniet and huiiii gives publicity to a fact which is likely to diminish the dangers attend ing the operations of sponging, and at the same time to increase the available sppply of sponges. It appears that two Qerman naturalists have made the dis- matches, procures the water, comes up '"e7 lB Hm" V" T. IL S stairs, and plunges into bed. . Presently ' 'tomUve sponges, and attached to board, 1 of Slopes, wiji. grow in a lew urouuu iDEb large sponges, as though nothing he cents per " Netee." says a writer on etiquette, severely ; " never take bits out of your mouth with your hand." This remark would apply equally well to a horse, only a horse does not htve any hands except being several hands high. But what we started out to say was, that no true gentleman willdisregardthis warn ing. Much the better way is to blow the hits across tbe table at the othei boarders. This creates liveliness which is an indespensable adjunct of a suc cessful meal. The" fashionable color in the broad belts is roan Every girl wants her own. And thereabout 8 p. m, a young man comes up and wraps his arm about the unyieiuiug giruie, ana ue js iu un But that somenow or oraer " rxnew that Tie was in the habit of YfodUng one family in 1 tbe town, and it was the only place outside of . Of Air t where I had ever heard of his going, but On that accotfnt she felt obliged to do 's i Vvt!? ""d'heattraction which something for her own support, but she ' Cksteal Texas has been sutler ing wi 1 probably receive forty pound. The site foi the .new custom-house at Danvi'le, Va , foi '.he erection of which Congress recently appropriated $70,000, has been fixed on. 'Ihe price for the laud was $14,600. ' Bund T m was born at a little town called Winton, three miles from Colum bia Muscoeee County Ga HU fathers name was Mineo, and his mother was known as Aunt Charity. Thb Historical and Monumenta Asso ciation of Montgomery. Ala. propose to raise $60,000 by $1 subscriptions for the purpose of erecting a monument in that city to the Confederate dead. ' These U being shipped from a quairy near the Hot Springs, Ark., a "stone of the finest quality for hones and whet stones. A large shipment has been mde direct to Sorgnes, near Marsailles, France. ARS.A5SAS school boards ai orely afflicted with agents fo school books, and the war is becoming so exciting that it seems u if some agent will probably offei hi books free and then pay to have The L'nited States Government has ordered that twelve girls and twelve ; beys of the Cherokee Indians, residing in the more western counties of North Carolina.be educated at the expense of th; Government at the Asheville Female and the Weaverville Colleges, the girls to be taught at Asheville and the boys at Weaverville, for the purpose ol en abling them to instruct, their own pecrJe. ' The OharTeston A'eirn says thai In South Carolina .farming is being done more extensively, more industriously and more intelligently tnan ever Deiore known by the oldest inhabitant. Men art working with all their miht, and with cheerfulness, thereby raising agri culture from the previous status of an isolated a"hd plodding culling :to thst of a live, hopeful business, in which an en lightened and economical consideration is given to surroundings and their bear ings. The Tennessee Historical Society has tier n presented with a coat made by the late president Johnson for Judge W W. Pepper, in 1856. Judge Pepper was at that time Judge of the Seventh Judicial ( ircuit of Tennessee. Andrew Johnson was Governor of the S'ate, and the coat was made by him for ludge Pepper in re turn for an iron shovel made and sent him bv Jndee Pepper. Mr. Johnson was a tailor, and Judge Pepper was a j blacksmith by trade. Iohn Johnson, who lives near Lin- deu. Vs., took his little son up iu a hay' loft to whip him for disobedience. The father was beating the child unmerci fully, and the screams of agony brought the mother out. She began to ascend the-ladder to interfere. The husband called out, " Don't you come up here," but she continued to ascend, and he, in a rage, caught the end of the laddei and overturned it. thereby throwing his wife to the ground below, breaking her neck. Johnson is noted for his bad . temper, while his wife was generally beloved for her numerous deeds of charity. He has escaped. San Antonio (Tex.; Eiyrm: The litt'e girl, Jessie Lumly, upon whom the operation 01 gastrotomy. or cutting through the stomach, was performed by Dr. Herff, last August, and who has airiee received all her nourishment through the stomach, is gaining strength and flesh very rapidly. Ihe child ma-ticates the food given her, and, being unable to swal'ow, takes the chewed diet and insert it into her stomach through the tube placed there by the surgeon She has got so that she can digest mr sort of food riven her. and ap- pears to be perfectly healthy and as cheerful and frisky as any ot her p'ay-mateq. Hillsboro (Tex.) Expot'tw: frheria Cox has received a letter from Sherifi Bussey, of Pike County, Ga., stating that one W. W. Brown, who had com mitted a brutal murder in that county nine years ago, was supposed to be in' this county. Brown was found and ar rested. He is married and has several children. His children showed the strongest affection for their father, and the parting was affecting. The particu lars are as follows: Brown was riding tloug the road when he met a man walk ing, with his coat under his arm, the realher being very warm. Brown ordered him to put on his coat on. The man refused. Brown told him if he did aot put his coat on he would kill him. 1 he man still refused, when Brown shot him dead. stairs, and plunges his wife says- "James, lev's Have an understanding about money m titers. Now, next week I've.got to pay" ' w . " 1 don't know what you've got to pay, and I 'don't care," shouts James, as he lurches around and jams bis face against the wall; "all I want is to go to sleep." " That's all very well for you," snap3 his wife, as she pulls the covers vicious ly, " you never think of the worry and trouble I have. And there's Aramenta, who I believe is taking the measles." " Let her take 'em," says James, stick ing his legs out a straight as two ramrods. "It seems to me vou nave no sense or feeling," whines his wife, "and if you nad any respect for me you wouldn't eat onions before you come to bed. The atmosphere of the room from the smell of onions is horrid." "Well, go down and sleep .in the kitchen, then, and let me alone." says James. ' Hereupon she begins to cry softly, but about the time James is falling into a gentle doze she punches him in the ribs with her elbow, and says: " Did you hear that "candil about Mrs. Jones? ' ' What Jones?" says James, sleepily. "Why, Mrs. Jones." " Where ?" inquires James. " I declare," says' his wife, " you are getting more, stupid every day. You now Mrs. Jones that lives at No. 21. Well, day before yesterday, Susan Smith toll Mrs. Thompson that Sam Baker had aid that Mrs. Jones had" Here she pauses and listens. James is snoring in profound slumber. With a sort of rage she pulls all the covers off him, wraps herself up in them and lays awake until z a. m., tnmsing now oao had happened. ' This fact is of the ut- rsost importance to our sponge-growing cploiue. Our contemporary suggests that a close iime should be enacttd in the llamas and other loca'ities where BponSres are diminishing hi 'numbers; bjut with , or' without such a law, the possibility 'of growing aposges at will and increasing their .number indefi litelv. in the manner indicated by tbe derman naturalists, should soon set at rest siy doubts as to the falln g of! in tae'SMpplyof these invalu ible articles. They Make Jio Sign. j fpeck' Sun.'l Ihe habit of sharpers of going around the country getting signatures to inno cent looking papers, which afterward V . - ' . . . . prove to he ban notes tnat nave to oe paid by the signers, is doing great dam age to" the temperance cause out in Fond du I.ac Counfy-. Men have been bitten so often by signing their names that they don't even dare to sign a tem psranc? pledge. A. traveling temreranc; lecturer at a town un there delivered a most eoul-jtirring temperance lecture t'i a large crowd, and so got them worked up that they were willing to agree never to touch tue intoxicating cup bk&iu, but when he pulled out bis temperance pledge for them to sivn they put their fingers beside their noses and said, " Taffy." One man loeked at th pledge and fa:d, "Thislooksto me like arrother ; wagon-jack ' scheme," and he went off. Another said, " You can't come no cen f us d.idge on us, snd make us pay note." Another said, " Now, that lie thought of it, the temperance lecturir resem bled the lightning-rod peddler .that bilked him out of eizh'y d liars on an High pitch that on the California pine trees. , ' A woman stung is the nearest ap- -p roach to perpetual motion. Ton can always tell a clerk, in a dry goods store from the millionaire pro- . prietor by the. good clothes the clert wears. "Ah," he groaned, "never toll me again about the 'widow's Anita' being a small affair. I'd rather be kicked by a hippopotamus V'Btndteoed Pitmter. M.MKraaoirrnt, the great French artist, 'i paints very alowly." The same may be said of a house painter working by the day, but this doesn't make him t peat artist. . Thk ice and peach crops re ruined yearly; along with the champagne crop, and it; teems te be really doabUnj ra&f W.?er"e g&uunJtsML peaches in this country. , Tax following appear in theAUa- . habad Pimm: "Wanted, a situation as a snake charmer in a serious family, t N. B. No objection to look after a camel." " As you travel around the country yout , are more and more impressed with the conviction that the chief end of man U '" to paint patent meoiclne signs on the fences. burltnglon tlavoye. Wealthy cad " Look- here-bringr . a fTl . 1 . me some dinner, 011 man. ids nest you've got." 'Restaurateur " Dinner a la carte, M'sieu?" Cad "Csrt be. , banged! Dinner a ler carriage : Who wouldn't be a boy? Think fit ' the fun boys have. No responsibility. Ciothed, fed and housed without a thought or a care about it. And yet a boy is never contented, and we wouldn't give a fly lor mm it lie was. A young man in Maryland started out with horse and lance and battle-ax to champion damsels in distress, iu hail not cone five miles when, a red- beaded school ma'am gulled him off hll steed and rolled him in tne mna. Professor" Which is the more del-" icite of the sense?" Sophomore "TheV touch." 1'rofe.sor" Prove i' Bopho, When you sit on a feck. Xou , cau't hear it; jou can t see it; you cam taste it; vou can't smeUltf--but us there." , -t On the planet Jupiter one year is nearly as long as twelve of fcttr yeaiw By the amount of time somfpeople In this world take on their promissory notes, it is evident that they laborVunder the delusion that they' are inhabitants of ; Jupiter. ' " ''" 4 Ckrtain of our exchanges' advocate . i the leaving otf what they call super fluous title, as "Mr." and "Esq.., Why. brethren, this will work great in- inrr to a certain class. Take awa; what is superfluous and tbere will nothing left. "ITiiuy biv like a tree?" he aaMi I be nialtlen yawnen ana euuiu uw wju if? be' Raum .-hi rv woo d aod hiauiiut rad. The young man thought ba dldalt well. How amartl and why are yon a tree ly abused she is! And that it tbe way order for putting rods cn a granary, a married woman goes to sleep. j and he proposed that iney mot I itr, He Wasn't "Ox Fats." fV,-w Turk Hour. William L. Marcy, some time Gov ernor of New York" aod Secretary of State of the United States, was without great advantage of an early education, but qualified himself for etch successive higher poBt before be attained it. Thus by tbe time he was Secretary of State he had acquired a certairff amiliarty with the Fri nch language as it was written ; hut with the "spoKen tongue it was scarcely to be expected that one so far advanced iu lite should grapple success fully. Among the many applicants for a foreign consulship was a man the Sec retary did not wish to offend and oid nnt. intend to appoint. So he repre sented to the applicant that a knowledge ' of foreign language might oe neces sary, and asked him if he could speak French. "Well, Mr. Secretary," replied his visitor, with a pronounced Western ac cent, " I've been studying up the 1 1 thing with a view to this yer appoint ment, and l a Kinder geitin me umuf 1 on it, but 1 can t say I'm ox law as ; yet." At this extraordinary effort to pro nounce aux fo.it, in itself an error for avx fal, Mr. Marcy did not smile; he merely played his snuff-box from one band to the other, as was his wont, and remarked : " Perhaps you had better call on, me again when you are' more proficient As you say, you are not ox fats in, French, for I myself have noted that in talking to me you have made at least one fox pa." The temperance lecturer sivore that he i wss a fqiiare man, and all he wanted I was to gtt them to turn- from their evil ways and dash down the intoxicating cup, but they got a rope and the poor man got out of a back window and took to tbe woods; and walked two days be fore he struck a railrosd Btation, and lived on nothing all that time but a lit tle flak of whisky that he carried for a lake bites. He got home all tired out, and says these wagon-jack sharps have ruined the temperance work, so it is as much as a man's life is worth to travel in the interest of reform. He says he had almost as soon travel through a teroierance or no license community as agent for a brewery. The New Home of Adolph Snlro. Adolph Sutro, who, since its incep tion, has been the life of the Sutro Tun nel, is at present living with his family in elegant stv'e at his new home on the northwest corner of Hayes and Fillmore streets, San Francisco. The residence Tbat' dead-'til eay you If.. ... .... i, .. . ,w,n D.W.FM BflB " JtteosuiMs young uaa, jryu umt !.'-' After the jury had been oat all day, ihe judge very properly sent them word, saving, " Mr.'t'oreman,' it is true I gave yo'u the case, but I didn't intend you to keep it forever. If it is a'l the same to, you, you will return it when you ge) through with it." "The smooth places made rough," said Mr. Simkins, as be sat down sud den'y at the suggestion of a ilidding place on Main street. "And the rough p'aces made' smooth," continued the sage, as he considered the journey tA life. Then he smiled and was lad he fell down. Mrh Sai ket, of Do wnsviile, Delaware County, slammed herdoor to and a gun standing behind it fell to the floor, dis charging its contents into her leg, and making a wound which necessitated amputation. Moral: Always shut a door softly, as though there wa sickness : in the family. "My friends," said the political stieaker, with the burst ot Jngenuous eloquence, " I will be hsrest " There were a large number of neighbors prea- -ent, and the terrific outburst of applause , which followed this remark entirely up set the point which the orator was about . to introduce. A 10DKTRYII an, affer intently watch ing a sign in a boot and shoe store in this city, the other day, which read "1 Find ings." stepped in and told the proprie tor he bad lost a bnndle heller last week, and be would like to know what they would charge to hunt her .up? A article upon theh um an 'figure says that "t e pieport eas of the 'gra are . six times the length of the feet. Com- ing generations, when they shall exca vate a Chicago young lady's shoe, will remark incontinently, "There, wd giants in those days," and mentally iw const met a race of women ten feet tall. Hearing that hoops are coming in style again a Steubenville gW Tisitoi 1 1 ' I I . . V . I. ,U vs. i a m ralr described by a writer in the Satro M- j buiit around Ihe half-mile race irmci on I he: no- one of the most gor geous in San Francisco, and is furnished without consideration of expense. Mr. Sutro is a great lover of the beautiful in art, and while his heme is supplied with an immense library purchased re cently in New York, and with other of the stabler commodities, it is, in the i way of its art contents, a perfect won-: der. AmoBg his collections are paint ings. large and small, by old masters; ! paintings by artists' who have but one particular style, and that to perfi ction ; beautiful landscape-, among all 'of ' which can be seen now and then a pro- doction of his daughter, Miss Kstie, , who has become .an adept in the accom- plishmi nt. Among bis articles ot stat uary is one of "The Amazon," purchased recently by him in Europe and valued at 15 000. Id last week's buiependenl a denial of Mr. Sutro's having purchased a place on the Hudson River, New York, was made. 1 he informant was mistaken. Mr. Sutro has purchased one of the finest places on that romnntic stream, the same to be the home of his aged mother for the remain zone. too. that roan busrnew didn't seem to keep J then, adopted necessarily heavy expenses at the lat. I up very well. Havteyt. f The city Council of Augusta, Gs ordinance ' had nough money left to take her to i from droegth for nearly a year. has adopted an price ef water power on "It doesn't improve vegetables to soak them in water," says an exchange, and. the New York Exprta adds that "it does improve a man." Well, yes ; some men. We once saw a man who had bra soaked in water two .weeks. He ii dear! tint ha wai improved. He fixing, the could no longer come home drunk arid Pictures on the Everlasting Bock. !;.Vahvine American.! Not one hundred miles below Nash ville is a curious spectacle, know as the " Sun and Moon." It consists of a painting on an immense - rock which rises to an altitude of several hundred feet.-. As to who painted it is a mystery which I believe was never unraveled. Many think it was the work of the red brother centuries ago perhaps. But IllIVJ IIWUUVi" vea. J located midway of the cliff and stand out in bold relief. As to how any j human being ever reached tbe spot is a mfetiof, of u.e .Soutlrn question which I believe has never been , in LooUiana, an solved It is supposed that in th.se "'adetl'aemblance of a Con- days they had no giant ladders and could P fl was shown, and iu history not easily have reached the pomt be ow. . spring of 1863 the 11th The only natural rope at that tme, was .. r-.walrr nasted HagerstowB, . .iia .ear vine of whirr. Tennere is ! rrD1." ,VTlUr TT-i Tr.SH hr so prolific, and some Indian might have been by this means let down oyer the ., V ' tiiia apron rli,r hlnfJ and when he had finished his I me awrj, j "v. iy. soldiers cbeerea e " "JT" -, sade-., and is said to present a charm ingly beautiful view. (he canal at abuse his wife and children. dizzy bluff, and when he bad finished his work had again been let down or poiled up. At any rate these pictures are there on -the everlasting rock and are likely to remain there for future age'. Last year twelve persons in the United States and Europe gave au eg gre gate of $3,000,000 to tha-rause of foreign mission. A young girl toodin and the Colonel asM ner B,'- uiece of it for a memento, "ion may ihe regimental colors into a battle rhe follSsy. The youthful ol dier who wore ft was mortally weanded, but he aed the apron "ram captoreby ! hidin; it in his BOtOTB. the fair around. She wanted to get a set that would hide a portion of her feet. If it wasn't fot Stenbenville girls half the tanneries this side of civilisation would have to hang ufUheir ahutterH. Wheeling Leadrr. t . I-1 --; i f- --. c .- How They I ndress Before tbe . Lady Ixmsdale was universally ac knowledged as the beauty of both drawing-room. Ladies were not less decoWte at tbis second drawing-room than at the first. ODe, in pressing forward, posi tively lost the rhole of the upper part of ber dress, and bad to be shrouded ia ehswl. Lord Bea-onsfleld, who seemed in high spirits, appeared this time in a diplomatic uniform. One poor lady was dreadfully Dl he fore every one, and another mnlkfnrttm , found ber"gown coining undone, and, wbile she conrte-itd to the Queen, be ushers and men standing stout bad fear ful revelations. As I wss walking along W." James street on the morning of tbe drawing room, I observed a crowd surrounding a brougham. In it wss seated, a lady, alone. Never have I, in civilized society and in daylight, teen a lady with so small an amount of clothing. Sorely .k. miht have covered her nakedness with a shawl. The common people, wno do not penetrate witbin the charmed portals of St Jsme Pslacc, stared at ber in astonis'liDent, sad one iossewhat drngy looking individual suggested that she ought to be suppressed aaat vice.' A kamiuab instance of color-blind nee is that of a man taking a brown silk umbrella and leaving a gree ging ham in its place. THK Oil OUy Derrick ialonoa at. tu Qoisitive cotrerpowieeit Uat creanatioti U a recently adopted method f "rtng people out of tbis world, 1..?' fr5t"('.-''---' V fst'lV."."'?
The Blue Ridge Blade (Morganton, N.C.)
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