J. H. 11ALLYBUIIT0N, Editor and Proprietor.
MORGANTON, N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1880.
VOL. V.-NO
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curium quest.
Dan Cupid flew as a butterfly
To the gardens of earUi, one day,
And he wiled along through the summer sky
In eearbh of her floweret g-ay.
Be lighted upon tn ember crow n . '
Which glittering feavea unfold ;
Alee I when to klu he bent him down,
'Twie not living, but molten sold.
He Hew to a blcwom wilt pure white creel,
To rest him a balmy hoar;
The anow congealed bat an lcjr breast, ;
A atone waa that passionless flower.
Then, apying a ruby cup, he dip.
In the petals of loveliest red ;
The carmine stained hie amoroua lips
And Dan Cupid, Indignant, (led,
bihoino:
Farewell, farewell to the flowers of earth ! -Gold
and marble, and tinted o'er
I'll away to the reama that gave me birth
I snail reek this false earth no more. '
irom tne train
and hastened tip the creen lane toJJie
"wide, old-fashioned fann-houBe, carrying
his valise in his hand.'
"I wonder if Nannie got my note and
is looking for me ? Hallo !"
This last exclamation was drawn from
Kay's lips by a chei.-y, which, coming
from above, somewhere, came into sud
den contact with his nose. He looked
up, and there, perched like a great bird
upon the limb of a huge old cherry tree,
'land looking down at him with dancing
Cyes and brilliant cheeks, was a young
girl-
"How do, Lennox? Gome up' and
have some cherries ?" was her mischiev
ous greeting.
"Nannie ! Is it possible ?" exclaimed
- Lennox, severely.
And, while Bay looked on in stern dis
approval, the young witch swung herself
lightly down.
"Now don't look so glum, Lennox,
dear," she said slipping her little hands
into his with a coaxing motion. "I
know it's tomboyish to climb the cherry
trees ; but then it's such fun 1"
, "Nannie, yon should have been a
boy," said Lennox.
"I wish i had ! No, I don't,- either ;
for then you wouldn't have fallen in love
with me. What made-you, dear?" with
a fond glance and a caressing move-.
ment.
"Because yon are so sweet, darling,"
answered Ray, melted in spite of him
self. "But I do wish, Nannie, you
would leave off those hoy denish ways
and be more dignified."
"Like Miss Isham?" asked Nannie.
"Miss Isham is a very superior wom
an, and it. would not hurt you to copy
her in some respects." '
. The tears sprang into Nannie's eyes at
his tone." They went into the parlor,
nud Bay took a seat in a great arm-chair.
Nannie, giving her curls a toss back
ward, went and sat down.
" I wish you would put up those fly
away curls, and dress your hair as other.
. young ladies do," said Bay. "And see
here, Nannie, I want to have a talk with
f ou. ifou know I love you ; but in
truth, my dear, my wife must have
something of the elegance of refined so
ciety, lour manners need polish, my
dear. .; I came down to tell you that my
Bister Laura is making up a party to
visit the noted watering-places, and she
wishes you to be one of the number,"
" Are you going ?" asked Nannie.
, " No ; my business will not allow it ;
tint I shall see you several times; Will
yen go?"
"I don't want to go. Td rather stay
hi- in the country and climb cherry
trees every day."
" Nannie, I must insist upon more
si -ii-ejintrpl," said he, coldly.
"-But don't send me away," she plead
mi. ' ,
"It is for your good, Nannie, and
you must be content to go. Will you ?"
The supper-bell rang at that instant,
mid Nannie hastily answered, "Yes, let
nV 8 Lennox," and ran out the
n t'ui and up stairs to ner own chamber.
" ' Yes, I'll go. And I'll teach you one
-son, Mr. Lennox Ray, see if I don't,"
Mie murmured.
It was nearly the middle of September
l'cfore Mr. Kay, heated, dusty and
w nry, entered the hotel where his "sis
ter's party was stopping. -
' Lennox ! you here ?" said she.
' ' Yes. ; Where's Nannie ?"
"She was on the piazza, talking with
French Count, a moment ago. Ah I
(here sho is, by the door."
"Ah !" said Lennox, dropping Laura's
hand, and making his way toward the
door.
But it was difficult, even when he
drew near, to see in the stylish, stately
lady, whose hair was put up over a mon
strous chignon, and whose lustrous
robes swept the floor for a yard, his own
little Nannie of three months ago.
Lennox strode up, with scarce a glance
at the bewildered dandy to whom she
was chatting, and held out his hand
with an eager exclamation :
"Nannie !"
She made him a sweeping curtsey, and
languidly extended the tip of her fingers,
but not a muscle moved beyond what ac
'. corded with well-bred indifference.
"Ah, good-evening, Mr. Bay."
'O, Nannie I are you glad to see me?"
said Lennox, feeling that hia heart was
chilled within him,
" O, to be sure, Mr. Bay, quite glad.
Allow me to present my friend, the
Count de Beaurepaire. Mr. Bay, Mon
sieur." Lennox hardly deigned a bow to the
Frenchman, and offered his arm to
Nannie.
"You will walk with me a little
while? i
"Thanks but the musio ifl begin
ning, and I promised to dance with Mr.
B'"But afterward?" said Lennox, the,
chill growing colder.
" But I am engaged to Mr. Thornton. "
"'When, then?" demanded Lennox,
with a ifealoos pang.
" Really, my card is so full, I hardly
know'., I wflL however, try and spare
you a waltz somewhere."
"Good heavens 1 Nannie, what affec
tation is this ? "
She favored him with a well-bred
stare.
"Pardon, ido not understand jovl"
And taking the arm of her escort, she
walked away with the air of an Empress.
Lennox sought his sister.
" Laura, how have you changed Nan
nie so ?" he demanded. '
" Yes, she is "'hinged. Isn't she per
fect?" "Perfect ? Rather too perfect to suit
me," growled Lennox; "To-morrow I
shall see more of Nannie," he thought.
Bu to-morrow, and to-morrow, and
to-morrow, itwas always JJaewsme, ni?
."that "iclegarit. Mks. Irving as they
styled her, was always in demand, and
poor Lenr ox, from the distance at which
,"t'i& kept him, looked on almost heart
broken, varying between wrath, jealousy,
pride and despair.
"Nannie," said he, one morning,
when he found her for a moment alone,
" how long is this to last ?"
"1; believe you wished me to come
here to improve my manners, Mr. Ray ;
to acquire the elegance of society," she
said, coldly.
"But, Nannie--"
" Well, if you are not pleased with the
result of your own advice, I am not to
blame. . You must excuse me now, Mr.
Ray ; I am going to ride with the Count
de Beaurepaire."
And, with a graceful gesture of adieu, '
she left him sick at heart.
That afternoon Lennox walked unan
nounced into Laura's room.
" I thought Td drop in and say Good
by' before you went down stairs," said
he. "I leave to-night"
"Indeed? Where are you going?"
asked Laura.
"O, T. don't know," was his savage
reply.
'You can take a note to George for
me?" '
" Yes, if you get it ready," said he.
" Very well. ( I will write it now."
Laura left the room, and Lennox stood
moodily at a window. Presently Nannie
came in and stood near him.
"Are you really going away?" she
asked.
" Yes, I am," was the short answer.
" And won't you tell ua wnere ? " -"I
don't know myself neither know
nor care I" he growled.
-.She slipped her hand in his arm, with
the old caressing movement he remem
bered so well, and spoke gently, using
his name for the first time since he
came.
"But, Lennox, dear, if you go away
off somewhere, what shall I do?"
He turned suddenly and caught her to
his heart.
"Oh, Nannie, Nannie 1" .he cried,
passionately, " if you would only come
back tq me and love me if I could re
cover my lost treasure, I would not go
anywhere. Oh, my lost love, is it too
late?"
She laid her face down against his
shoulder, and asked:
" Lennox, dear, tell me which you
love best, the Nannie you used to know,
or the fashionable young lady you found
here?"
" Oh, Nannie, darling !" he cried,
clasping her closer.- "I wouldn't give
one toss of your old brown curls for all
the fashionable young ladies in the
world." "
" Then you will have to take your old
Nannie back again, Lennox, dear."
And Lennox, passionately clasping her
to him, begged to be forgiven, and
vowed he would not exchange his pre
cious little wild rose for all the hot-house
flowers in Christendom.
W HAT CHILDREN SHOULD HEAD.
The greatest trouble which ensues
from placing sensational literature in the
hands of children is the false idea of life
which it produces." Many children ev
ery year,' after reading those thrilling
adventures and glowing descriptions of
the " golden West," have become dis
satisfied with the tame and seemingly
uneventful school life and have left their
homes to seek their fortunes and follow
their hero. Most of these deluded fort
une huntivi lind their mistake and like
the prodigal return, but w ith the taste
for good reading impaired. Such litera
ture should not be placed within the
reach of children. There are plenty of
good, useftd books of moral tone that
are suitable, pleasing ana at the same
time instructive. History is now gotten
up in such a pleasant style that it is a
source of amusement as well as in-
Btnictive to read it. 11 novels must be j
read and none can deny that a good.
novel occasionally does no harm his-" I
torical are preferable to those whose J
chief merit seems to be the excite ment
they may produce ami the fidse ideas of I
life they may create. Every piece a
child rei.ds should contain a grain of
truth, either moral, philosophical, po
litical or historical, that it may spring
up and bear some fruit of usefulness. It
is quite important, too, that the youth
should be conversant with the topics of
the day, which may be found in the
leading papers. No one can be consid
ered well read who knows nothing of the
literature of the times.
He wps saying, as he scratched a roo
fer on the side of the house, I like
those houses with sanded paint; nice
when y6u want to strike a match, you
know." " la. that so," Bite asked demure
ly ; "I wish I lived in a house with
sanded paint" and then she looked
things unutterable. If he had asked
" What for?" she would have hated him.
But ha didn't He took the hint, and
the match was btraok than and there.
BLacRWeLL'S ISLAND
I This is the largest island in the vicin
; ity bf New York ; it contains 200 acres,
j It is long and narrow, with a deep chan
, nel on either side, and is the most strik
j ing feature in the East river. It was fos
more than a century in the possession oi
the family whose name it beirs and was
used for farminir purposes. The familv
eventually declined, and the place was
i soidinl823byoneofthelastrepresenta--j
j fives for the then enormous stun of $30,- -j
j- 000. The purchaser (James Bell) was a L
speculator who was unable to meet his j
j payments, and the property was sold j
I under foreclosure. This occurred in j
; 1828, and the city determined to pur- !
chase it This being known led to a 1
spirited competition, and the property I
warrH,rp trrrfKttM.bo4u- ,
y the corporation as a place for penal
and charitable institutions. Blackwell's .
island would, if put into the market to- !
day, bring 810,000,000 for residences. It '
is the healthiest and prettiest place ever j
devoted to its present purposes, and the j
con victs and paupers have the best air in ' j
the woild infinitely better than the j
packed population of the city. Tweed", ';
in fact, was much healthier as a Black- i
well's island convict than cooped up in !
Ludlow street jail, where, indeed, he '
soon died. Two years have elapsed j
since he was laid in his crave in Green-
wood, and how rapidly he has fallen
out of notice ! The last appearance oi
his name, indeed, waa in the record of a
life insurance company, which paid a pol- j
icy of $10,000 on his life. Probably that
was the only really honest money the
family had received through hi since he
abandoned brush-making and gave him
self up to that career of knavery whioh
made him a convict, whose only release
was in death.
WELL-BRED CHILDREN.
It is delightful to see well-behaved
children in these days, when young
America rides rampant over all estab
lished laws of etiquette. One meets too
many, little people who act as if they
tnought it of no consequence how they
behave at home. They talk loud, are
boisterous when they enter a room, race
up and down stairs, and call wiik loud
voices from one story to another, slam
ming every door after them until the
noise is like the report of a cannon, re
gardless of the great annoyance and dis
comfort they inflict upon ail in the I
house. A visitor at a house where
such behavior in children is tolerated
w ould scarcely recognize them if he met
them away from homo, they can be so
quiet and unobtrusive. But that is not
being refined and polished. True po
liteness and good manners cannot be
tken on or put off at pleasure. They
must be' home-made, instilled into the
minds of the children from the cradle,
to be the pure article. But if it is nor"
to be sure, even a spurious article is
better than none. At least it will be
some relief to those who must witness
the boorishness of their home manners.
But if a child can be taught how to con
duct himself properly in a friend's house,
surely he must know that rude conduct
at home is effensive and reprehensible
to the last degree, and in no wise to be
tolerated. Parents can ' train then
children to be polite at home as well as
abroad, and they are guilty of a great
wrong if they do not accomplish it The
first and most important element of
good breeding is consideration for the
feelings of others. J
PLAIN FOOD.
If plain food is well and carefully
cooked, it is as palatable as richer diet,
wid much more wholesome. Take as
simple a dish as " hasty pudding" -when
properly made, it is a dish "'fit for a
King," but, when half cooked or sea
soned, it is fit only for pigs and chickens.
Cooking is just as truly a chemical pro
cess as any result secured in a labora
tory. And, as in chemistry, the least
deviation from proper proportions in a
given compound will give a result en
tirely different from the one sought, so
it is largely in cooking. In the country,
too little attention is paid to diet. How
few farmers have a good bed of aspara
gus, so desirable in early spring between
"hay and grass," when the whole system
cries out for fresh vegetables, and yet
such a bed is easily started, and will last
for fifty -years. Some farmers do not
"feel able" to afford their families any
kind of meat but salt pork, summer and
winter, and yet they can buy good, fresh
beef from the butcher's cart for less than
what they would sell their everlasting
pork for, and by "boiling down" m the j
kettle, with a few light dumplings, you j
can have a fresh-meat dinner that will
he eaten almost as heartily as roast j
turkey. Health largely depends upon .
the food we eat.
A man threw a gun across hiMhoulder
at Pineville, Indian Territory, and said
he was going hunting. His 'way led j
past a neighbor's house, on the-porch of I
which some children were playing. He j
took quick aim at a little girl and fired, :
killing her instantly. The only explana- i
tion he can give for the deed is that he
felt an irresistible impulse to do it
A negro family near Montgomery,
Ala. , were taken ill, and a voudou doc
tor was called in. He said that snakes
were the cause of the trouble, that their
eggs were in the air and water about the j
place, and that he would destroy them ,
for $100. His price was deemed too
1 high. Then the doctor made a pass in
the ait with his hand, and showed two
i toy " Egyptian snake eggs," of the kind
i familiar to the children of the North.
: These had been floating imperceptibly
in the air, he said He touched a match :
to them and uttered some gibberish,
while the Bnakes were rapidly extend
ing themselves. This was satisfactory
proof of his knowledge and power, and ,
he was paid the $100.
fit.. 1 -11 . -1 1 .
mo intelligence ana power,
by the spider in securing its
often attracted attention j britO
semom ncara oi so remarKaoie a
of these faculties as we witnessed a si
trme since. A small-sized spider h
made his web on the under stder of
table. Early one morning, a cockroach
was noticed on the floor, directly under
the web, and, on approaching to take it :
away, it was found that the spider hd
thrown a line around one of its legs, and,
while the observer was looking at it, ihe
spider came down and lassoed the oppo
site leg of the cockroach. . The spir&T
then went np to his web, but instacX
came down and fastened a line to anot v
r leg, atod ermtiatied f cr sererat mine JsT
darting down and fastening lines
different parts of the body of his victim
The struggles of the cockroach (though
a full-grown one) were unavailing to
effect his escape he could not break his
bonds, and his efforts seemed only to
entangle him the more. As his strug
gles became more and more feeble, the
spider threw his lines more thicUvH
around him ; and when he had become
nearly exhausted the spider proceeded
to raise him from the floor. He at first
raised the head and forward part of tl
body nearly half an inch ; then rai
the other end ; and so continued to woa
till the cockroach was elevated five.
six inches from the floor. Thus "hi
in chains," the victim was left to
The spider was, as before remarked,
small one, and could not have been more
than a tenth of the weight of his prey.
Spiders crawling more abundantly and
conspicuously than usual upon the in
door walls of our houses foretell the
near approach of rain ; but the follow
ing anecdote intimates that some of
their habits are equally the certain in
dication of host being at hand. Quat
remer Disjonval, seeking to beguile the
tedium of his prison hours at Utrecht,
had studied attentively the habits of the
spider : and eight years of imprison
ment had given him leisure to be well
versed with its ways. In the December
of 1794, the French army, on whose suc
cess his restoration to liberty depended,
was in Holland, and victory seemed cer
tain if the frost, then of unprecedented
severity, ccntinned. The Dutch envoys
had failed to negotiate a peace, and .
Holland was despairing when the frost
suddenly broke up. The Dutch were
now exulting, and the French Generals
prepared to retreat ; but the spider
forewarned Disjonval that the" thaw
would be of short duration, and he
knew that his weather monitor never
deceived. He contrived to communicate
with the army of hia countrymen ; and
its Generals, who duly estimated his
character, relied upon his assurance
that within a few days the waters would
again passable by troops. They de
layed then- retreat ; within twelve days
the frost had returned the French
army triumphed, Disjonval was liber
ated, and a spider had brought down
nun on the Dutch nation.
PROGRESS IN JOURNALISM.
A St. Louis correspondent says : The
other day I met here Co). George Knapp,
proprietor of the daily Republican.
He is a medium-sized, gray-haiied, ruddy-faced
gentleman, not apparently over
60 years old quiet, interesting, pleasing
in manneT. He was with his large ami
genial editor-in-chief, Mr. Hyde, both
of them eniovinjr a mutual interview Jt
and a lean against the iron railing along
side the magnificent architectural pile,
the " Republican building." Our con
versation turned on the past and pres.
ent of journalism, and their contrasj
Col. Knni)i) indulged in this interesting
bit of retrospect :
" Fifty-three years ago I began wit
the Republican. It was a weekly then.
We had nothing but a wooden hand
press. Our city circulation was less than
'200. I delivered the papers myself. It
took two stout men several hours each
week to work off on that press our
mall city aud country edition. The
entire edition was only 600 or 700. Our
office was in a little old frame building
then."
" And what is the statistical difference
now', Colonel ? " was asked.
" Oh, it can hardly be stated in words.
You see this morning's issue (opening a
copy). Well, our new press prints both
sides at once, and: cuts the pages and
pastes them together and folds them up
as this is, at the rate of 30,000 copies an
hour. I have thrown up the job of de
livering our city edition, as I've grown
old, and concluded to let the poor boys
'tend to that"
A STRANGE TACT.
The thinker finds various things to
speculate about while passing through
hi e. It is singular that man, the bipeA
is the only animal that requires am use-1
ment No other animal on the face of.
the earth is driven to the base expedient
to which man is compelled to resort for
diversion. Man, the pleasure-loving
biped, must need kill time ; and, if the
criminal law were to select out of the
murderers those who commit crime for
the sake of something to do, it would be
found that a vast number of innocent
victims were used as mere wax dolls or
dummies, and that the actual and pur
posed victim was poor old Time. Why
the time of these human beings should
be created and given into their hands
merely for them to kill is a thing which
the Creator thereof can alone explain.
A BoHEHXajr in Austin oounty, Texas,
had been stacking hay, and after finish
ing the stack he slid down, and a pitch
fork that was leaning against the stack
stuck into his throat and penetrated to
the brain. He lived two days after the
accident
A Wm
f V
1 a.1
THK PR1NTKM
B. P. Taylor once paid the) following '
tribute to the toilers at the ease i I
The printer is the Adjutant oi ;
ought, and this explains the mystery
the wonderful word that can kindle a
jjbope as no song can that can warm a
Heart a no hope that word 'we,' with
hand-in-hand warmth in it, frtr the
authors and printer are engineer together j
fombiiAeA Cadiz at the dis- i
engineers indeed I wnen tne utue t
tsnce of five nrites; it was deemed the
very triumph of engineering. Sutwhat
is that range to this, whereby they bom
hard ages yet to be ?
. l " There at the ' case ' he stands and
ftarsh&la into line the forces armed for
frothy clothed in immortality and "ln-
i prEsn. And what ean be nobler than the
I eouiDment of a thorichl in stflrlina S.i
on Sason with the ring of sptar t
ehivld thereon, and that eommrssioiii ;
it, vhen we ne dead; to move graduillv
on to the ' latest syllable of recorded
time.' This is to win a victory from
death, for this has no dying in it.
" The printer is called a laborer, and
th office he performs, ' toil. Oh, it
not work, but a sublime rite that he is
performing, when he thus ' sights ' the ;
engine that is to fling a worded truth in j
grander curve than missile e'er before i
scribed nine into the bosom of an j
e yet unborn. He throws off his
'oat, indeed ; we but wonder, the rather, i
,t he does not put his shoes from off ;
hisfeet, for the place whereon he stands j
is holy ground.
" A little song was uttered somewhere,
long ago it wandered through the twi
light feebler than a star it died upon
the ear. But the printer caught it up j
where it was lying there in the silence
like a wounded bird, and he equips it j
anew with wings, and he sends it forth :
from the ark that had preserved it, and '
it flies forth into the future with the olive j
branch of peace ; and around the world 1
with melody, like the dawning of a I
spring morning. !
"How the type have built up the
broken arches in the bridge of time.
How they render the brave utterance
beyond the .Pilgrims audible and elo
quent: hardly fettering the free spirit,
but moving not a word, not a syllable
lost in the whirl of the world moving
in connected paragraph and period, down
the lengthening line of years.
"Some men find poetry, but they do
not look for it as men do for nuggets of
geld ; they see it in Nature's own hand
writing, that so few know how to read,
and they render it into English. Such
are the poems for a twilight hour and a
nook in the heart ; we may lie under the
trees when we read them, and watch the
gloaming, and see the faces in the clouds,
in the pauses ; we may read them when
the winter coals are glowing, and the
volume may slip from the forgetful hand,
and still, like evening bells, the melodi
ous thoughts will ring on."
A MIRACLE OF HONESTT.
At a party one evening several con
tested the honor of having done the
most extraordinary thing; a reverend
gentleman was appointed judge of their
respective pretensions. One produeed
his tailor's bill with a receipt attached
to it A buzz through the room that
this oould not be ou:done ; when a sec
ond proved that he had just arrested his
tailor for money lent him.
" The palm is his," was the general
cry. when a third put in his claim.
"Gentlemen," said he. "I cannot
boast of the acts of my predecessors, for
have just returned to the owners three
ad pencils and two umbrellas that were
t at my house."
I'll hear no more," cried the aston-
d arbitrator. "Tins is the' very
! of honesty, it is an act of virtue of
h I never knew any one capable.
he prize
" Hold," cried another, " I have done
still more than that."
"Impossible," cried the whole com
pany. "Let us hear."
" I have been taking my paper for
twenty years, and always paid for it in
advance."
He took the prize.
KEl:P TOUR MOUTH SHUT.
Don't talk too much. Learn how o
t-e silent. There is nothing like the
ninn or woman that can keep the mouth
slmt Not thatf people should always
keep the tongue still it is made for
use but there are times when silence is
the best and most effective reply. When
a l"or speaks roughly or uncivilly to
'on ; when you are asked an impertinent
niestion ; when a sneer is conveyed un
der cover of an inquiry for information,
. .r w hen, having appealed to you on a
qiestion of taste, your opinion is mei
Kridicnle the best answer in these
exigencies is masterful silence,
bespeaks reserve power, con-
strength, dignity, self-command,
nothing is at times so effective as
euce which springs from contempt
who can endure reproach silently, or
! k
p sdent under trying circumstances,
j is a man of no common character.
A WISE PLAN.
Everv man should mind his own busi
ness, and only that It is hard to tell
him so in plain words ; yet is one of the
simplest rules of conduct, and the most
useful that mankind can adopt in their
intercourse with each other. There is a
great deal of Paul Pry in the human
heart, or wonderful inquisitiveness in
regard to the personal and private affairs
of friends and neighbors. This spirit
makes more mischief in the community
than almost any other cause, and creates
more malice, envy and jealousy than can
be overcome in a century. Let every
man mind his own business and there
will not be half the trouble in the world
the! there is at present
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. Texas has an immense pecan crop.
Coacjco is becoming fashionable at
Richmond.
The pay $1 each for wild-cat scalps
tu FlorH
DfnJ a'N. C, expects to handle 18,
JOtyOOO pounds of this year's tobaceo
crop.
ihe population oi nrnanao- tjouniy
Fla., has increased fifty per cent
1870.
The money-order business at Macon,
Chi., auioimVd, during the last official
year, to $200,000.
A f vitwF.it named Jackson, living fleat
Savannah, has ever 35,000 tea plants on
his farm.
The counties of" Cherokee.
Gra'ham.T
Swaiu. .Tackson and Macon. N. C, con-'
! hWllldlHli-v
f'n i si i !,vsiLi ?lontgomery are alarmed
af thv inrreu.-e of cigarette
among bovsiu that citv.
smokinc
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JU'.hy Bl'cki.t:jc, a letter-carrier in
Nas'u:lU has waikctl fourteen miles
every day, except on Sunday, ? four
teen years.
MtLLEDoEvuxE ships 15,000 bales of
cotton annually, has over, sixty business
houses, a college with near 401 students,
and yet has no banking-house.
Michaeti Dkatton, a hyena-tamer
connected with Coup's Circus, was torn
; to pieces by three infuriated hyenas
: during the street parade at Winchester,
j Virginia.
j Brio, Abp is about to start on a lecture
I tour in the South, his subject being,
"Dixie now and Dixie then." Arp's
i real name is Charles H. Smith, aud he
is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
Ax ox was captured in the river at
Mosby's Point, twenty-eight miles above
Wilmington, N. C. , by a negro man on
a flatboat and towed to the city, swim
ming behind the boat every foot of the
way.
Florida fruit-growers are beginning
to cultivate the lemon with a great deal
of care, aud with such good residts that
it is believed that in a little while longer
this State will furnish almost as many
lemons to the trade as she now does
oranges.
The dam on Hutchinson's Island, op
posite Savannah, which is Intended to
keep the river from overflowing and in
that w ay improves the sanitary condition
of the city, has been completed. It is
seven feet high, ten feet wide at the base
and six feet at the top.
A white boy appeared on the street
yesterday having a basket which con
tained over two dozen alligator eggs,
which he found in a nest on Cross Lake
and which he was retailing at ten cents
each. Several of the eggs were broken,
when it was' discovered they all con
tained embryo alligators, which led
some of the purchasers to bury their eggs
in mud and sand, as is the fashion of
that animal, with the hope of hatching
out a
lir.xxl of alligators. Shreveport
(La. ) Tildes.
The nest issue of the Southern histori
cal papers will contain a letter written by
the President of the late Southern Con
federacy in relation to a long dispute,
that it seems has been going on among
some of the friends of the two parties in
terested concerning the command of At
lanta, why Mr. Davis put the late Gen.
Hood in charge instead of Gen. Hardee.
The letter is addressed to Gen. Roy, who
was a member of Gen. Hardee's staff. In
this correspondence Mr. Davis speaks in
the kindest and most complimantrv
terms of the high character and military
skill of both these gentlemen. Peters-
j burg Inrtrx-Appral.
The authorities of the Charlotte, Co
lumbia and Augusta Railroad, have posi
I tively declined to pay its portion of the
j assessment for the salary of the State
: Fiailroad Commissioner of South Caro
lina this year. Last year the South
Carolina Railroad was the only one
which did not contribute its proportion,
but the amount in question, and its as
sessment for this year, were paid several
weeks ago. The Savannah and Charles
ton, Greenville and Columbia, North
eastern and Wilmington aud Columbia
and AiiKnsta Railroad authorities have
so far taken no notice of an uuotlicial
note of the Commissioner asking infor
mation as to their intentions in the
matter.
PRINTING-OFFICE SECRETS.
A properly conducted printing office
is as much a secret as a Masonic lodge
The printers are not under oath of se
crecy, but always feel themselves as
truly in honor' bound to keep office
secrets as though triple oathed. Any
employe in a printing office who will
ingly di.Togards this fact in regard to
priiiti'ik'-' -fiVe secrets would not only be
scorned by his brethren of the craft, but
lose his position at once. We make this
statement liecanse it sometimes happens
4hat a communication appears in a news
paper under an assumed signature,
which excites comment, and various par
ties try to find out. who is the author.
Let all 1- saved the trouble of question
ing the employes of the printing office.
Thev are know-nothings on such points
as these.
On snch matters they have eves and
ears, no mouth, and, if they fail to ob
serve this rule, let them be put down as
dishonorable members of the craft It
is the same in job printing. If any
thing is to be printed and kept secret,
let proix-r notice le given for the desire
for hocrecv, and yon might as well ques
tion the Sphynx as one of the printers,
so that even the secret books of the
lodges are printed without fear. Exr
cAaw. m m
Di-rin'G the year la7!) the cotton re
ceived from lu Cnited States at Bremen
was valued at S3, 500, 000 more than was
received at that point during any prev
ious year.
Is two years' time the value of land:
in certain arts of South Carolina lias
jumped from $2 to $10 per acre.
THE KEY TO SUCCESS.
in (f yrpuZ0 chiaf
su-s M Ws thomi maBt7 of de
Uiis. Wlule in Spra he gate edB
directions how the soldiers should ph-'
iwre their food ; in India the miles' per
day the' bullocks were to be driven that
were provided for the army. The equip
ments of his troops were cared for in all
their miunti. Tlte same exactness he
introduced into his
administration of
civil affairs. From his earliest school
days, in every transaction, this trait of
thoroughness appears. The confidence
and unfaltering devotion lie thns inspired
unquestionably secured his many and de
cisive victories. No great commander
leave. ;Sj thing' tr ohaipy, Vut seeks to
antteipsH.ei'y envigeyf . )1 pro-
"' Io toxj bpenfn .-" jcr-
fecting Ufa Elegy, wuich you can
readily read in seven minutes. Iulo it he
generously poured the very richest
scholarship and intimate aequainUt'o
with the rules of rhythm, and an ex
haustive study of the varied excellencies
of English and Latin classics. There
was no syllable but was submitted to
tho closest scrutiny, the cadence of the
verse is sfihe4 to the character of the
thought, every outil2 was vivid, every
tint toned, every picture perfect, lefore
he suffered his poem to go to prist. Tls
palace of thought was no single night's
work of slave-genii obeying the behest
o? one holding some magical lamp of
Aladdin, but was built up like the coral
reef, particle by particle. And this com
plete mastery of details was produced
only by the most protracted concentra
tion of effort. By resolutely chaining
his thought to his theme, completely
surrendering himself to its guidance, the
inexorable laws of suggestion irresistibly
led hiih back to the faded and lorgotten
hficenes in the humble lives of sleeping
cottagers, until the scenery and the per
sonages of every picture at last bright
ened, and breathed before his mental
vision with all the sharply outlined vivid
ness of real life.
ODD SUPERSTITIONS.
tt is believed that a seventh son can
cure diseases, but that the seventh son
of a seventh son, and no female child
bom between, can cure the King's evit
Such a favored individual is really
looked on with veneration. An artist
visiting Axminster, noticing the in
dulgence granted to one urchin in pref
erence to others, and seeing nothing par
ticular in this child, said to his mother as
follows : " This little man appears to be
a favorite ; I presume he is your little
Benjamin." " He's a seventh son, sir,'
said the mother. Affecting an air of
surprise, I expressed myself at the in
stant as being jne very anxious to know
what a seventh son could do. The
mother, a very civil woman, told mo
that she " did think to cure all diseases
should be the seventh son of a seventh
son ; but many folks do come to touch
my son."
In April, 1828, a respectable-looking
woman was engaged in collecting a
penny from each of thirty young wom
en, unmarried ; the money to be laid
out in purchasing a silver ring to cure
her son of epileptio fits. The money
was to be freely given, without any con
sideration, or else the charm would
have been destroyed. The young
women gate their pence, because it
would have been a pity for the lad to
continue afflicted if the charm wmdd
cure him.
AIDS FOR THE DEAF.
Dr. C. H. Thomas, of Philadelpliia,
has been making a careful study of audi?
phones, dentiphones and other devices
for helping the deaf to hear. It appears
that all these instruments depend for
their action upon the principle of acous
tics that solids in this case in the form
of thin nlataii vibrate in unison with
the sound waves produced in the air
near them. In these instruments the
sound vibrations are of sufficient force
to be audible when conveyed to the in
ternal ear through the medium of the
teeth and cranial bones, independently
of the ordinary channel of hearing.
Various materials were experimented
with, and the best was found ,to 1
fuller's board, or press-board, when
treated with shellac Tarnish and, thor
oughly dried, and is an improvement
over metal or hard rubber. The sim
plest instrument, and one which excels
all others yet made, is a small rod of
hard wood about two feet long and a
quarter of an inch thick. One end is
placed against the teeth of the speaker
and the other resting against or between
the teeth of the person hard of hearing.
If the speaker now articulates in a nat
ural tone of voice, the vocal vibrations
will be transmitted in great volume
through the teeth and thence to the eare
of the deaf person, and later observa
tions show that it will still convey the
voice if held against the forehead or
other portions of the skull of the hearer.
A movement, originated by Sir An
drew Gait and a few enthui'iaJ'tx, a on
foot for a British emigration lienie on
a gigantic scale. The idea in a combina
tion of the leading clany-s, to help out,
with aid from the state, emigration to
British colonies, lor it is noted with
alarm that tho now seeking tixiw-
room outside the strained and crowded
bruits of England, po to swell the growth
and greatness of the United States, in
stead of aidinK to build up th" ' "liiio
In fifteen years, out of J.oO'i.onO of peo
ple who left the United Kingdom for
lands beyond the sea, only 2.V),0()0 went
Ut Canada, seven out of every ei,t
(1,750,000) going to the UniUd Stale.
Do QuxoTi evidently knew the
tncks of travelers in towns where the
Sunday liquor laws were in force. He
said : " When one door is shut another
is opened."
PLEA SAXTRLEsX "'- j
"lDK8s,"said a little sis, "
' was here now he'd make, a lot -o'
Tis awful dusty to-day."
"What have'jrm to remark
ainmnprf" asked an irate
" Nothing," rejiJied the spectator;
is not remarkable."
Them is comfort for spinsters in
scripture, which tells JhtSU that Naomi
was 5S0 years old when ahef
The veterans may still hope.'
"I sat, Jim. if five and a-half
make a perch, how many will mtkl a
pickerel?", You just tei.W
two hogsheads make a pipe, how many
will make a meerschaum 1"
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f'Boosroi or Uter,aay a Frenofc'
writer, everything is found ont'Tua
so. A married man, for instance, is
generally found out later about three
hours Inter tnan he should be.
Heij mother said the little creator'
lived on love ; but, one month after mar
riage, w hen the grocery bill came in, he
saw he had ninde the greatest oversight of
his life by not ascertaining what thai V
particular love was for.
Wh at surprised Noah more than aught
else w as that he received no application
tor free passes. And what astonished
the public after the flood was that the
veteran navigator never tried to getJip
a complimentary benefit for himself.
When clams art CP tMtt
I Uvea on alams all 7I 1
Koniebine 1 arta a big fa oooaa
I rata bun up afore lt'a noon. (
Wban tatara rot au' turnipa (all , '
I'm fo'red to Uva on toaat and quail ;
When onrn gnea up an' maal am high
. To live on patlry flour I try.
A country schoolmaster began one
moniing the duties of the day. with
prayer, as usual, but after prayer he
went up and asked a little boy why he
hadn't shut his eyes during prayer,1
when the little boy responded, "We are
instructed in the Bible to watch as well
as pray."
Bouti a shady tn thay sat.
He held her hand, aba baud hU hat,
I held my braath and lay rlgltf flat;
They kneed, I saw to.""! do It
He bald that kiaalng waa no ortma,
Hhe held her head up arary tana, -
I beid my peaoa and wrote tbla rhyme
While they tbonght do on knew 11
A famous fibber told an extranlinary
story, which, strange enough, chanced
to be true. "It is so extraordinary,"
said a little listener,1 " that if I did not
know it to be . me, I should believe it
false. ". " Ah, " 4ud the narrator, " if it
had been false, I should have told it in
much more truthful maimer taui I
did."
There was an elephant that had been
trained to play the piano with its trunk .
in a show. One day a new piano was
bought for it, but no sooner had the elc
phunt touched the keys than it burst in
to ft flood of tears. " Wiiat uils you,
Kiouni ? " imkod it keeper. The poor
beast, could "only point to the ivory key.
Alas ! thev were made of the tusks of hia
mother. Puck:
A Leadvtli i newspaper remarks
When they had finished the lunch the
asked the price. The man in attend
ance said : " One piooe of pie 50 oenir
one cup of coffee 25 cents 75 cent
each." One of the party grumbled ,
little about the price. Hereupon the
old man behind the counter straight
cried himself up, folded his arms in a
dignified manner and said : " Strange.i.
look at mc ; do you suppose I am stay
ing out here tor my health ?"
A boy in the wild West, who for th"
first time in his lib- saw a military com
paiiy out for drill with life and drum,
gave his mother the following account
of the business : "A little man bhywed
on his squealin' stick, and a big mum
that stood beside him hammered on huv
thnnder-box ; then the Ijobs man pulled
out a big, long knife, and shook it at.
the fellers what was standin" up in
long-row, and they all walked off on two
There is not another roll of contrib-
utors to any publication in Europe like. ,
the contributors to the Edinburgh Jte
view. It takes in almost every name
that is distinguished in statesmanship,
in eloquence and learning for a couple
of generations. It include Prime
Minister, Lord John F.ussell ; a Chan
cellor, Lord Brougham ; a LoJ Chief
Justice, Lord Denman ; two Chaneal
lors of the Exchequer, Mr. Bjning Rice
and Sir O. C. Lewis ; two or three Lords
of Session and puisne Judges on ths
English bench ; a Secretary of War,
Maeauley ; a Secretary of Stato for. the.
Colonies, Lord Lytton ; metaphysicians
like Sir William Hamilton ; historians
like Henry Hailarn, Carlyle and Napier;
political economists like John Btuart
Mill and McCullock ; theologians like
Henry Rogers and Dean Milman ; al
most all the poets who were invited to
dine with Apollo Tom Campbell, Tom .
Moore and Samuel Rogers; essayists
like Sir James Stephen and Hazlett, and
I it was only by accident that Charles
Dickens was net enrolled among the
contributors, with the greatest of his
: rivals and contemporaries, W. M. Thack-
eray.
Thb committee sent to Cuba by .the
Secretary of the Treasury to investigate
the process of sugar-making reports
: that the frauds which have been at-
tempted in the introduction of sugars
j into this country are even greater tb.n
: had generally been supposed. At Dem
; arara sugars testing 13 to 16 Dutch
standard, which were exported to Great
.Britain
nearly white, were, when nn.
pared for shipment to this countrr arti-
colored to grade apparently hf.
ow no. I.
A PABTBnxn nest with 200 eggs in
was found in Lexington, Ua. f
about W I
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