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BLU DGE BLA ,H. HAILYEURTON, Editor and Proprietor. MORGANTON, N. C.,ATUPtDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1880. VOL. V -NO 41. -E II DE. r. -v.- Oor Little Friend, the Chlpmaclu ." The chipmuck likes to dig his hole in these dry banks, and you may Qftea hear a rusthng in. the thick teds of dry leaves loud enough to attract your at tention " from a distance of fifteen or itwepty rods. A cautious approach to the spot will show you a couple of ohip mucks chasing each other round and round through the leaves. They wilt cease from their sports as you come A, near, but if you sit down quietly they will soon conclude that you are not dan gerous, and commence again. They often include the trunk of a fallen tree in their circuit, running along its whole length ; then plunging like divers into the leaves, they rush headlong through , them, seeming greatly to enjoythe noise . and stir which they make. They play in this way for hours. If - one stops, the other tarns back to look tor him, and 1 away they go again. The chipmuck can climb as well as any squirrel" and frequently dues so when the coast is cleur, but if danger threatens he makes haute to descend. He never can realize that a tree affords him the least security. If you get so near, lefore he sees you that he dares not come down, he plainly ci insiders the situation to lie very seri- ons. Sometimes ho will make a desper ate rush for the ground within reach of your hand, and an soon as you withdraw lie comes down anil scampers away, evi dently feeling that he has got well lint of a liiid scrape. Let his largo cousins red, black or gray depend on trees for safety, if they choose ; his trust is In stove walls and brush-heaps, not to mention his Imrrow. Within reach .of these, liis easy impudence is in striking contrast with his punk-stricken coiidi-' tion when treed. Uood Company. Autumn Leaves. An effective method of decorating a wall or panel with autumn leaves is. to cover the space to be ornamented .with tulle, the meshes of which are as-rarge as possible, This at a distance doesnot hide the painting or the paper on the wall, and it makes an excellent ground work on which the leaves and ferns cau he pinned to form very ornanieutal de signs. Pic ture scraps are excellent for decorative purposes. Small rooms, and nurseries, especially, papered with them and afterward varnished," afford great entertainment ; cornices may be made of them to run around all the wall paper,', with aliouttwo inches of gold roll be tween each, and a black bordering. Wooden fire-boards and Holland mats may also be covered with them ; these mats should be varnished. Com mon garden flower-pots can be made or namental Jiy giving them a cout of paint and then ptTftiiig on them landscapes, flowers or figures. If you cannot paint, the embossed picture scraps can be -poiiU-d on and; afteiward varnished. Bleached skeleton ferns may lie laid on photograph hook covers, wooden trays, and blottiug books, and varnished. They look especially well on black paint ed wood ; if laid close together they re semble an inlcyingmf 'vory A plain table with one drawer makes quite a pretty writing table by staining it black, and then laying the ferns on a border rormd the top and around the drawers. . The ferns cau also be applied to velvet frames, when the whole should be. cov ered with wl:ite tulle of the finest and most invisible description. An elegaut tin. board may lie made in this way. . Agnosticism. A correspondent writes entreating na to conceal his name, but to let him know ' what under the suii"the "agnosticism" and the "agnostics," so often mentioned -in the debutes of the Pau-lresbyterian Council in Philadelphia, really may be. Our correspondent need not be ashamed of his query. Prof. Huxley claims to have lieen the first to apply these terms, formerly used to designate a branch of the Uouatists of early times, to the doc trines and the " doctrinaires" now so designated. Agnostics are persons who refuse either to affirm, or deny, or accept upon "authority the doctrine of the exist ence of a God, tho immortality of the soul, and, in general, anything in tlie . ology, psychology or metaphysics the ex istence of which cannot bo scientifically proved or disproved. They are literally " know-nothings" in regard to such mat ters, and, since they will neither afiirin nor den v. thev are. or shvnlrhc inditW. cut to them. In practice, however, these anti-believers and anti-infidels are apt to ne as not as u they were baptized Clins tians or rank heathen. Agnosticism and agnostio are defined substantially as above in the supplement to the latest edition of Webster's Dic tionary. icw York World. Whipped for Not Kissing a Homely (iirl. The district school of Barryville, Sulli . van county, K. Y., is taught by a young man named Reuben Frazier. George Shik, aged 12 years, was one of his scholars. Shik is a mischiev ous boy, and the other day he tripjied up a girl about his own age as she was passing out of the school-room door. He said it was an accident, but the girl went back, and slapped his face. He struck her, and the teacher called him up and flogged him with a stick. Then he was ordered to beg the girl's pardon and shake hands with her. This the boy did. The schoolmaster then said that Shik, to make full amends, must kiss the girl, but this he refused positively to do. His refusal brought him another whipping. Still ho said he would not kiss the girl. Then he was flogged for -the third time and sent home. Believ ing tiiat the teacher had no right to in sist on their son's kissing any of the girls that attended school with him, and that he had p mished the boy unjustly, tho boy's parents had the teacher ar rested on a choree of assault and battery. Where Women Were Seeded al the Polls. David Hopkins and Gustave Dettloff were candidates for School Trustee in District No. 1 of New Lots, LI t, at the last election. Mr. Hopkins is a farmer, and was seeking re-election. Mr. Dett loff is connected with an insurance com pany in this city and' is a well-known resident of the town. Tlie friends of Mr. Hopkins, about an hoar-before tlie closing of the polls, perceived that there was danger of their candidate's defeat. A consultation was held, and it was de cided to utilize the new law giving worn-, en the privilege of voting. Accordingly several farm wagons were procured and sent through the district to gather in the farmers' wives and daughters. The wagons returned to the polls with 107 women, all of whom voted for Mr. Hop kins thus saving him from defeat. It was too late to use a counter-poison. Xlw York World. " T.Tvonrsr." Au revoir is a contrac tion nf the. familiar phrase ." over-the- river " which is synonymous with so long, ta-ta, see you later, ,and take care of yourseii, out ooy. 1ST A TIME or TBOI'RI.E. A u mgie from the htlgbt, Looking down upon the Unas, On forertu black night, fair Delia and deaert Bands, 8eee the traveler below IMtng heart, as, league on league, Long wilderneMwa ahuw Ho end to hla fatigue, So Faith, amid her atan, Beholding far beneath ,4 The bright or gloomy tara 0W4n the web of life and death, 8V weary hearta that deem The dark breadth if the whole, 8-es nappy hearts that dream The bright raya all their goal. Ah I let thia faith be onm That, even 'mid the pain, Above the prevent towerc. And aeea the nearing gain ; While, breadth by breadth, ajipeara, An from the weaver'a baud, Thf pattern of the yeara Which God Hiun-elf haa planned. A Fatal Inheritance, BI LEIGH L. BROOKSEB. lu " Is this artist's blouse lieeoming to me ?" asked- Drusilla Sterling of her Cousin Ltncrece. " What matter whether a garment be comes you' or not? Your attitudes are always graceful and fascinating. Hit were for this alone it would lie worth vdiile to be the daughter of a dancer. I wonder what Maxwell St. Ives would say if he knew that ?" Drusilla's anger was at white heat, but so great was her self-control that to an ordinary observer she would have seemed perfectly calm. Her voice was unusually smooth and low as she replied to Lncrece's scornful speech : "Thank you for your compliment, though it is not by any moans new for me to be told that I am graceful. As for St. Ives knowing the stjry of my parentage, I mean to tell him as soon us occasion demands ; at present he is too little interested in me or my affairs to care about the story." Poor Lu felt that her thrust had been without effect. It was rarely she al lowed herself to be so bitter, but surely she had occasion. Here was this squint eyed, pale-faced, ill-born and ill-bred creature, who, by some elfish witchery, had won Lucerce's handsome lover from her. From the first moment Roy Sebert heard Drusilla's voice he had been readv to follow her through the world. Only two months from England, and already so unfortunate as to have caused an alli aiiced lover to be unfaithful to his vows ! It was rumored that a voting curate on the other sido of the water had com mitted snicide for her sake. When her cousin left the room Dru silla sat down before tlie pier-glass and looked at herself steadily, sadly. " My fate follows me. I am doomed to make trouble wherever I go. Lu is jealous, and, therefore, unjust. I have never, by the slightest conscious act, tried to win her loVw. Yet Roy is hand some, and the temptation been very strong sometimes." It was a source of deep humiliation to Drusilla that her mother had been an actress, and, when she remembered her cousin's taunt, she resolved to try and make her more unhappy. "I will deny myself the pleasure of being amiable to Roy Sebert no longer. If Cousin Lu, v.itii those lovely dark eyes of hers, cannot encliaui a lover, wo will see what the daughter of a . dancer cau do ! " She lifted small green-velvet shade from the toilet table and placed it over her eves. An intense and unremitting devotion to philosophical studies had made her nearly blind. Certainly, her eyes were not pleasant to look at, and she said, " I certainly wish to shock no oiie by my hideousness." Perhaps she was also aware that the dark velvet slrde would make her forehead the fairer liy contrast. She was tall and well devel oped, not at all the sort of woman one would take to be a coquette. This was what her female friends called her, but the gentlemen without exception denied it. "She is simply n lovable woman, and wins our interest without effort," said her gentleman admirers. " She is so artful as' to conceal art," said the bitter and unloved of her own sex One day, as she sat talking to Max well St, Ives, the daor opened and little 5-yearold Floy said, "Mr. Devine is come." Maxwell's lip curled, and he remarked : " I did not know this was public-rfecep-tion day. I wdl call again." "Pray be seated,' Mr. St. Ives. I have something to say to you when my young friend is gone. Fred is priv ileged, and comes at any time ; you honor me with your presence more rare ly." The caller had for excrse a -pair of Drusilla's white kid cloves, that she had left in the village reading-room. She took them with thanks for his thought fiduess, and as she talked twisted them carelessly in her hands. Fred was pained by this seemingly trivid incident. He was romantic and not a little supersti tions, for between the palnis of the gloves he had placed a dainty blue violet, say ing to himself, 1 will let this blossom be the symbol of mv fate. If she places it at her throat or in her hair, if it ia any wav receives attention or gives pleasure, I shall hope. As she tossed the gloves aside the flower fell broken and. un noticed at her feet. Ah, how different is our dream from the reality. It was the first violet of the year, as it was the first love of his life ! As he arose to go she said . "If you will please, take me by the hand I will accompany you to the l ead of the stairs. I want to scold you a little for something I have heard. With this dreadful shade that I am oblimd to wear I cannot find my way without stumbling V,' Li vou excuse me for the merest moment, Mr. St. Ives? ' Now, it was not really necessary for Drusilla to be led about in a house where she was perfectly familiar, but she wished to influence Fred, and knew of noway more certain. . How her soft, magnetic hand thrilled him. Why, her lightest touch was like a caress. ' . She talked very earnestly to 1dm about his growing fondness for cards ami winn. Said she had heard such rumors, but would not believe them. Wo.jdd he promise that tlie gossip should be without foundation ? He would prom ise anything. He would reform ! Re-entering the parlor, she remarked to Maxwell: "My , college boys are so much to me like brothers, I can reprove and admonish them in truly orthodox style without their resenting it. They need some one to scold ihera a little sometimes." Maxwell said, iu his abrnpt, argu mentative way: " Fred Devine does not .consider himself merely a boy friend ; he thinks himself a man and comes a wooing." The color orept into Drusilla's pale face ; "Hush, Maxwell 8t Ives, I will not believe it My own regard for this lad ia so different. I want him to re gard me as a friend ; I want him to look up t me,,anjl come to me for counsel and sympathy; I want .his esteem; in snort, I want earnaat, . respectful, beautiful friendship, instead of fickle passionate, fatal love I" -s ' Siiewas much excited. All the con trol She bd shown when Lu-taunted her was swept away. Bhe had suffered so much through love that she could bear no mention of what had darkened her whole life. " Whenever and wherever I try to es-. tablish a friendship, it is shortly trans formed into reckless and despwinir love." 1 K All that she said was received in utter silence. Surely he was not man but marble. All this was such deep grief to her, and he did not care. Any other man would have expressed some "sympathy ; not so this impassive Northerner, who' cynical and bitter, thought it a fine bit of acting. He had been drawn toward her at first, but an anonymous letter had told him to "beware of Drusilla Ster ling," that she was an actress by birth, and by education, and utterly without neurt. r rom that time he had been on his guard. "Pardon my emotion," she said, after a moment's, pause. "Pardon ne also if I go' on to say more of myself. " I want you to know if there is any sufficient reason in tho past why my present should be so full of passion anil pain ! You have before now accused me of being a coquette I Upon my honor I io hot mean to be. What I do I cannot help. It is a deep and sad fatality. Let me tell you tho story of my birth that you may judge for yourself how I came to inherit my birthright of sorrow. " My father was an English artist and marriee a woman who made her living by singing and dancing at the theaters. She was as deceitful is she was beauti ful. My old nni-svVeaiiette has often told me how mother would say to her : ' The Englishman is an ogre.' But to him she would say: 'You are grand like the gods.' She won him, not lie cause she loved him, but because ho was supposed to be wealthy. He loved her with his imagination rather than with his heart. He was very suscepti ble to beauty and gracefulness, and both were her's to a remarkable degree. The fact that she wa3 married did not pre vent men loving her. She died when I was but three days old, and father and Jeanette brought me to England. "From my tenth year I have been con scions of possessing my mother's fatal fault of fascination. There is nothing I so much deplore, for I have my father's honest English heart, and would win love only where I could return it. Until the last few months I have never known what that word meant. You are j-till si lent. I have losit your esteem ry con fessing my mother's profession. Oh, Maxwell St. Ives, I trusted you t Are you not still my friend ?" In her earnestness she laid both her little caressing hands over lioth of his. All his reserve and skepticism w ere swept away. He pressed her hands like rose leaves in his own,-and an swered : " For life for death !" Before they parted they were betrothed lovers. Drusilla had some misgivings, and said : ..- " Can you go to your proud mother and tell her that you have espoused tlie daughter of a dancer?" "Drusilla Sterling, I can sny any thing to anybody. If only you are true to me there is no obstacle to our union that I will not easily overcome. I have given myself to you, body and soul, and God help him who comes between us !" rthe felt her heart grow cold as he spoke. Was thus love also to prove un happy? O, it was too sad that in this first glad hour of betrothal there should be a shadow of impending evil. She loved him so ! It was cruel that she could not be free from forebodings. At the moment of farewell she sobbed a if her heart were breaking, and he had scarcely-reached his home when a note followed him, saying : " Maxwell, St. Ives : As I love you I must never see you again. I would only bring you nnhappiness. It is my sad fate. Forget me and farewell. " Yours, with love and regret, "DitrsTLLA Sterling." It was hardly' the kind of letter to send a man the world's width from his heart's desire ! No possible combination of words could have been more certain to bring him to her side. No pleading, uo tenderness, could have been more patent than this deeply-despondent dismissal. What would he not venture for her af--fection ! Other men might love her thev must love her if they but entered herpresenct but as for Drusilla her resenee our as ior i.uai-r- he should b so sheltered by his self. devotion. so hedged about by bis at ten- tions and tenderness that she coidd love no one else. I He would not visit her to- morrow nor t for many days. He would wait until . . , l it her mood had changed and she was sub- . dued bv a desire to see him. He had '( some power over her that he knew. But ; his own will was weakest. He must see , her. He must hold her in his arms, if ; only for a moment. It was evening, j two weeks from his last visit. That very j afternoon Roy Sebert had returned from a fishing excursion, and at 8 o'clock he , found Brasilia alone in the brilliantly- b,, 1,11 ivirlor Never had he.' .- -' . ,lr.ico..1 alio seen nei su .iii iu..".i - was careless about her attire in general. -1... 1..1 nr. l...v nnn rich ib'fiRS fl Olif null mil 1111 1111 I-"-. ..... . , - n. :n. w l,t T tbint li IllVIUe IfCU MIR, imilin, 1. match her emerald ring and necklace, Drusilla had persuaded herself that Max well would visit lier that evening. Oh, could she but have known on what a fatal errand, she would never have let Roy lift her haul to examine the quaint device on her ring. Before she could prevent it, Roy had pressed her hand to his lips. She'suatched it angrily away, and at that instant the words flashed through her brain, " God help Iikn who comes betweeu us." At Drasiila'a command Koy instantly left the room. He had been gone but a moment when she heard the report of a pistol, and, fearing she knew not what, sue rushed into the hall only to find her worst fears contirired. Roy Sebert there ujKin the floor in a last agony, t..e blood issuing- from a wound in his heart. Swift as Dnisilla had lieen Lncrece was there before her. She was down npon h.'r knees trying to stanch the blood. Her face was distorted w ith hor n.r and grief. She was still as death until she found her efforts vain, ah.l, when her lover fell a lifeless burden from her onus, such a shriek echoed through the house as could never be for gotten by those who beard it Father and mother knew in that instant that their beloved only daughter was a hope leas maniac. Glaring wildly around, her glance fell upon Drusilla, and, re garding her cousin as the murderer of ner lover, she sprang toward her with insane fury. It required the united strength of Mr. Sterling and his farm hand to loosen her hold of Drusilla's throat! O whatanight ef horror was that! Drusilla, lying between life and death, Lucrece raving of her lover, and accus ing Drusilla as his murderer. Only one person knew the truth of the affair; that was John Miller, the hired man. He had been to the village, and, on his return, he saw Maxwell 8s. Ives standing by the gste, loalasij uiwara ine nouse. ice man glanced l.p to find what attracted his attention, and there, plain as day, saw Roy Sebert kis Drusilla's hand. "The next instant Max well went rapidly up the walk, entered Hie house without announcement, and, almost immediately afterward, retraced his steps, mounted his horse, and rode rapidly away. All this was elicited the following day at the Coroner's inquest, and the fact that Maxwell St. Ives was missing was all that was needed to confirm the ver dict, and free Drusilla rrom any sus picion of direct complicity in the mur der. Yet when, after weeks of illness, she came back to reason and life, she felt that she could no longer remain under her uncle's roof. "I must live by myself," she said, sadly; "I bring Borrow and death into every household I enter." So it was planned that'' a cottage should be bought, and Jeanette should be sent for as companion ani servant. I was visiting a friend in the country who told me the story. She said to nie, V, t- -i wnen we were outdriving, tnm.u yuu Hive iu call tin xjl Ltsiliu f Sterling? there is the cottage, It was a beautiful place. There were English roses trained about the low porch. A woman in French cap met us at the door and conducted us into the room where her mistress sat reading. A stately woman, wearing a black dress and a small black cap, tliat, with its cor onet outline marked by tiny pearls, looked like a small royal crown. The eyes were clear and dark, but infinitely sad. Of late years J.eanette had read to her mistress until Drusilla's over taxed eyes had, by rest and carefulness, become as bright as in youth. Her mouth was large, but curved and sweet. She, was so grateful to us for coming; slieTadmitted that her life was lonely at times. When my friend said, "I have told Miss Brqokueryour story, and she gives you her love and sympathy," she reached her right hand out to me. I can never forget the clasp of those soft, caressing lingers. By-and-by she was led to talk of the past and of Maxwell St. Ives. A man answering to the advertised desenp- tion of him had died of yellow fever ifU N'nv Orleans one year after That sum- mer-night tragedy. Snow-Slioeiugi In Norway. nf oil lwutiK' iviiti.ij T l.-nii- f there is noue in mv opfhioii that can --i,- come up to snow-shix'iiig, as it is done in or way. bkating is nothing com pared to this sport. What can equal the splendid sensation of flying across the deep snow at the rate of many miles au hour, without hardly moving a mus cle? And then, going down hill, staff in hand, no exertion necessary other than to keep the balance, while gliding softly but swiftly onward. Unlike tho -v 1 .1 , Canadian snow-shoes, these (pro- fonnced siri ) of the Norwegians are Ulllli lull inuil ill 1 J"u, umiii 11 )- , V. .-. I',,11t- It-.i I,irv .,,.-,,,,, 1 ... n. , 1 1,- 1. i.aiuiii 111c iwi, .mil iiiu ini uiniiiiii fl.-m tiircii nr f:inr indies. Tlil'ime limit- the whole length they are provided with a groove lor the purpose of keeping them from slipping when going at au angle down hill. Although by no means slow when used across level ground, it is yet downhill that they are most effec tive, for their long length and their pol ished undersurfaee on the frozen snow cause a speed more like living than any other motion I know of. The inhabitants of Teleniaiken, in the South of Norway, are most efficient ski runners, and at the annual competitions at Ghristianija generally bear off the 1 nzes At lue compeimon xnere m 1 I . . 1. , 1 -i 11 At the competition xnere l.-Wll. lllll 111 iimoi UlOU llC.l'l.-, IW-IUIU- ing to a Iocm newspaper, a K.Dli.a ,f thirty Norwegian aim, or fully sixty feet ! Lito this country it will be im possible to introduce them, as of course there would be little or no opportunity for using them the snow never lying long enough or becoming sufficiently dee o. Blackwood. ' " 1 -ewspapers. From a newspaper directory published in New York we learn that 9,723 news papers are published iu the United ! States. Of these journals 1,835 are Democratic, 1,747 Republican, and 122 1 Greenback The nnmlwr of political , - - - .-- - . ,., ... l,al Prf ln pacu tle and lei 11- ia m,,,,. Denwl- cratic. (l.-, Alalama - f;.!on.!.. . '.'.'..'...'.'. .""'inr.ivtieiit i)P:aare i;;ri (.1 tviaiul-ia.. ;;;; itawi.Y.'".'.'.'.'.'.'.'. jiajMia..... kim K-i.tuyky "f Maryland.'!!!!.'.'."!.! Mu.n Mm-.ta :l 4 ti It lfrt II.' is;) lil S e ia is W ;"Hl 1 r-i 70 '2 71 :)" 10 31 It 411 17 .is Ui 11 4 11 :u :,i irw 11 1-J4' ! -! .Mi.-i nn . 1 NK-a-tn. ! N'a.a... v...,- H-inm. i :." aire . . New Jr-r-ey New York North Car. .linn. . . 1 1 hio Orvg.-.n I rt-niif.Ylvsr.:s j Kbo.ieIsli.iid i .-eutLCarulil.a ! Ti!iiii--sm i Teap 1 Vt-ruiont. I ir-..a I Wi -! Variant ! W ... . Ari..:. j Dik ta I Mih.. I M.iutasa Nf.t M-i.u ' w i-Linst. n iv, n 4 M . 1 1.1 :il 44 4 I'tnii W 1.1111114,' ....i.t: ..tl.l 1 llllUU I'l A.ll.11 amut, m Germany is taught when voting some ,-5s. fnl trile for tli niirini.se of si'ln-riiir the mind and bringing it face to face wath the material world and the realities ot lite, and among me promsMU 01 curi osities and -arti-tie relics which crowd tlie E: may bt carvinj ap-'-ri.r Willi; seen fpecinl' . earp.-iiterii: .m's private cabinet :.s of b..,k-bi:.d:;;g. g a:.d other handi work performed sous. b his so:is and graud- SOUTHERN NEWS, Hinds is the most populous countj in Mississippi. . . There are nine cotton seed oil mills in Mississippi. The catfte drive of Texas tlm year will rcach 400,000. '-, The State Treasury of Texas contains pearly $1,000,000. - Jasper county, Ala., voted to repeal he prohibition law. Western ' Texas is fast being turned nto pastures with barbed wire. Jknufort county, S." C, has 2,43& white and 27,7"i2 colored inhabitants. The State offices at Little Rock are still heated with blazing pine knots. There are 2,170 members of the An cient Order of United Workmen in Ten- nessee. The new Little Rock public school building at i .,, . . . , , will be heated with hot water pipes. A gentleman luis recently settled at New Smyrna, Fla., with twenty-two hives of bees, brought from Ohio. Preparations are being 'made to light ' - ... , the Eai'le and Phu'nix Mills at Colum bus, Ga., with the electric light. Of 122 Greenback newspapers in the United States only sixteen are published south of the Ohio river. ' ir ,.ril .... . ll., Jl. UlA, 01 ':ieiini'U iiium, via., j presented the Rev. Mr. Ivey with Ulantation worth $4,000. o Alie There is but one member of lie forty of the last Georgia Senate retimed to the present Legislature. There are fourteen thousand six hun dred and fifty-two more females than males in South Carolina. The Pratt coal and coke company, five miles from Birmingham, Ala., are get ting out (iwo tons of coal per day. lhe Commissioner 01 immigration 01 Florida thinks that 1S,000 people I ave immigrated t- that State within two years. An elegant new steamer is being built to run on the line between New York, Poit Royal, Fernandina and Jackson ville, Fla. In" Nicholas county, W. Ya., James Austin,, aged thirteen, and George Mas tin, aged sixteen, killed during a week's "l"t; four dv?T r 1 Notice has been given tbat:ibill will ........ .1 ,i,.,.,(i. t Txriulntnro ' I Of lliuiiliuuu 111111 nil. I 1 ,1,. i;,,nr lions of Telfair i , . county, Ga., to f 5,000. k ! The shipments ot cattle . . . ... . . ... anil SIlCCp j j fr0m Southwestern Virginia are ! 1 icavy that it is wan uinieuiiy mat 1...- can be procured for their transportation, The machinery for a Clement Attach- ment has been received and put in posi- tion at Mt. Plea-ant, Gadsden county, j Tt took three cars to curry the ma-1 : .. . ,..., i ."hmerv to .that place. r I A sale of $20,000 in Tenne-sec boiuls . , YnhviH ut forty-six cents I nasiii.eii 1 : on the dollar, a heavv advance on the ' rates which have ruled lor some time j past. I One thousand feet of tubing for the ; artesian well has at rived in Little Rock, j and work will be at once resumed in pre 1 paring the well for further boiiug. The directors believe that a large volume of water will be obtained. A man in Madison county, Tex., gath eii'd on his farm 1,000 bushels of pecans and sold them in San Antonio for S3. 40 Tier bushel. Just i) covered the ex- - . , . , I !C. ISIS Ol li.llllll ii'l ...... ...... ..w . ...r , . realized a profit of $3,400 on the crop. In Augusta, Ga., a velocipede tourna ment for the small boys is held every year, the merchants of the city contribu ting the prizes, which consist of knives, balls and other articles best suited to bo-' fancy. There will lie live colored men in the Tennessee Legislature, three fron. Shelby, one from Tipton and one from Davidson county. T. A. Svkes, the colored mem ber from Davidson, was a member of the North Carolina Legislature. The Capitol Commissioners appointed by t!i Georgia Legislature to look into the validity of the title of the city of Atlor.ta to the City Hall lot, which was deeded some time ago to the State for the site i f the State capitol, have held a meeting and decided to accept the City Hall lot. At Dallas, Tex.. Maj. Penii baptized thirteen convicts, old men and women, middle-aged and voung people, in the responsnue-ior more ia ei . , , 1 in' makini? up prescriptions than care river. L.ng before the hour arrived for : losfillt;fes 0?iJlorHnce u the part of the the immersion the town commence! pour ing forth its citizens till the banks of the ! river on either side was a mass of liu-. inanity. His meetings are the events of the -eason. The hotel-keejiers of New Orleans, who have decided to employ white girl as waiters, say they have no trouble in securing them, and say that re-jtctible families apply almost laily for places for their daughters. The girls like the work and give sati.-fa-tijfT, In.th to cm I !.,ver-imd their guest-1. Three crazy person, two nejro women ar.d a white man, all of Newnan, Ga. ! passed through Macon Thursday, on their j wav to the a-yluhi at Miilrdgeville. 1 Singular to say. all three went crazy , ,HTll , accotlili lou-y. The negro women on the infidelity of their hus- of bunds, and the white man from the ran'.e (,n ,n0 j,art ,,f wjf(. The Kiwsville Citv Council now vending before it an ordinance providing that manufactories hereafter e-tabli-hed in Knoxville w ith a capital of .v",.iX'o or more -hall lie relieved of taxation-for fifteen years. ' Atlanta, Chattanooga and other Southern cities long ago adopted this policy, and now have their reward in extensive and paying manufactories of various kinds. ' Judge William Cothran was on his way to Lexington, Miss., to hold Circuit Court, when he was suddenly taken sick L at Winona and died in a few hours. He was seventy-five years old, and had been Circuit Judge six years before the war.. He was elected by the people since thJ war and was removed by Governor Ames. He was appointed' in 1876 by Governor Stone for six years. The ie' Orleans Picayune ia some statistic showing that before the civil war the South had more taxable property on her rolls than New England and the Middle States combined. After the con test and five years of peace, she had sunk $;;00,000,0(K) U-iow the New England ,, , ,' , , all the real and in rsonal property as sessed in the. United States was in the Southern States, while now they have only ourteen per cent. Some English capitalists own o00,000 nrrps of bind in A l-ili.ini;i nn tlie linn tf .1 .i 1 r- w '.1 -i 1 the Alabama Oreat Southern railroad, which are very rich in timlier and min- ends and which they intend developing. For the present chief attention will be given to developing the mineral resources of those lands, which are almost bound less, but the farming interests will not be neglected. Arrangements are now making to induce immigration of En lish farmers, and at an early day a num ber will probably settle on the lands. : Dellville (Tex.) Times: W. E. Crump, near his plantation on the Brazos river, last week discovered an alligator m the bank, some distance from the water. On riding up quite close it reared up to at tack him, when he dextrously threw a strong rope over its head, and wheeling his horse rode ouicklv off. The 'ullica t(,r f,,n,1,..,.1i rani,llv tbm it ann. f.,ll a hundred yards before he succeeded in tightning the rope around his neck. Af ter a desperate struggle Mr. Crump suc ceeded in dragging hU prize home, where he dispatched it at his leisure. It measured over ten feet. A Water-Wheel Story. Some one tells the following story, which serves to point a moral : "There were two men in about 1838k .Stick-!-. 1 'I ! 1 f ( eweu, wrro ownea a saw- mill near Old Town, Maine, in common The arrautrenient under which the mill . ,, , , . ... ... w.?s operated waa that each had the null all to himself during alternate weeks, Stickiienny was a mean, rusty old chap. Inn 11 ..1.. 1 ; ;., .ine'icii iii 11 ruuei.u, III , eniiy iiimf young man. ine mill was run oy a i erndi' viiiurb Villi! of on iimlervlw.t. wket,i that (rave very little power for the amount of water used, so that the water was often short. Whewell wanted to put . in a ,K.W iron spimi.vent wheel, then just .coining out. but Stickiienny would have j nothing to do with it. He wasn't going J, ; '. m I iu, pav all the bills '1 t ,,1 .1 j T' . 1 10 lay out mono ior auy sucu a joo as W he well said he would , to which Stickpennv at ut provided vou put the ( VlUI 111 111 .llll WITH. OH 11IO IICH wheel was put in, and Whewell, being of a mechanical turn of mind, experimented with it, and soon found that by plugging up some of tho oriliecs the saw went through the log faster than when they were all open. So he plugged them up during his week, and always pulled the plugs all out again for Htickpenny to op erate with. Soou it began to be noticed that somehow or other Whewell always managed to saw a couple of thousand feet more of lumlier in his week than ever Stiekpenny could, no matter how the pond w as. "Finally Stiekpenny went down to see Whecwell about it. Says he, 'Whe well, how is it that yon manage to saw more lumber in a given time than I can when my turn comes round? ' Says .Whewell, 'Don't you know how that is? Waal, I'll tell you. It's because you ain't been treatin' of nie fairly in this matter. It' ag'in nature. You can't expect the mill to saw as ivell for you as it does for them as do the" square thing all around. ' Stiekpenny wouldn't bo- lieve that, and went away. But still the mill went on turning out regularly more lumber for Whewell than Stiekpenny managed to get out of it ; so, finally, tho latter came round, and said, ' What's your bill? I'll pay my share.' " He paid it, and thereafter Stick penny managed to saw lumlier just as lively as Whewell did. 'Well,' said the old fellow, 'I always knew that the folks around here were all ag'in me, but I never thought that the Almighty was ;' and he died without finding out the ex planation of it at all." Abolishing Dog Latin. An attempt has lieen made on the other side of the water to abolish the dog Latin hieroglyphics nsed by physicians in writing prescriptions for druggists. It has lieen asserted that this hideous jar gon, together with bad penmanship, has - ; 1 Doubtless 111 the "cultured druggist. nineteenth century it seems supremely ridicnlous to commence directions to a druggist with " R," which is the trans formed sign of Jupiter, and, of course an invocation to that planet to exercise a favorable influence over the subsequent course of the dose to be swallowed. However, most people think the "B" with the down stroke is a contraction for " Recipe," while they do not profess Ui understand 1 nor is it desired that they should understand ) the cubalism whicu covers the rest of thu sheet: "It. Spir. Scot, ziii. Sul-. Dem. opt. zii. Liq. Lim. cip. q. s. , ad. zviii. M. et Sol. sec. ar t m. Sig. Ij coeh. mag. sum. intervello brev." Who would suppose that this was only a Hudibrascan method of di recting "that the patient should take a powerlul glass of whisky punch on going to bed? However, the' obscurity of the words is just oue of the reasons hv they are so dear to the practitioner. It is not advisable that crochety or nerv ous people should always know what they are gf.ttmg. ' "Ella, is your father at home?" said a bashful ' lover to his sweetheart.' ' I want to projuise sometldng very im port a. t to Lim." " o, Clarence, papa is not at home, but I am. .Couldn't you propose to me just as well ? " And he did with perfect success. f ih W t and Xeuaaf tn YOik limes.;! Every sleepmir-car is nominally in charge of a specwl conductor, a gorge ous being, with an ornamented cap, who disappears from view whou tho train starts and ib not seen agaiu until morn ing. . The real despot of the sleep"-j. is the colored fter, who, as soorffftueT' conductor haa gone into) another car to make himself comfortable, assumes un limited authority. The moment it is dark, he puts liis passengers to bed. No matter how anxious a passenger may be to sit up nntil ten o clock in order to pur sue an innojfetpt conversation with a young lady, theporter approaches him bed. now. saA T With the .aHectueis oT spirit characteristic of American travel ers, the unfortunate uinu iuwr dreams of disputing the porter's authority, but rises promptly anl balances himself un easily against a nelghlmriiig berth while his bed is put iu order. The object of tlie porter in thus requiring his passen gers to go to bed early is i.iMly per ceived. The sooner -they ere out of the way the sooner he can go to lnil himself. What to him is the wail of the. wretched traveler who is thrust into a stilling berth hours before he can by any ssibihty go to sleep? What cares he for tie ilis appoiutment of the young man ami I lie young woman wliy had expected to enjoy each other's societv during the evening? He knows that if he ordi rs the passen gers to go to bed they 'A'ill not dare to disobey him, and his own persona) coin fort is the only object which is d"iir to him. As soon as the passengers are in bed, the porter takes away tin ir shoes, not necessarily with a view to blackening them, but as a guarantee that they will not get out of bed without permis.--ion. These shoes he takes to his private bed at the end of the car, where lie spends a little time in mixing them, and then pre pares for sleep. As a rule the porter does not snore, because he holds that the duty of snoring properly belongs to the passengers. If, howeM-r, as s 'lnetiim s happens, "no passenger vi lunteers to snore, the ixirter demonstrates the fear ful power of the African 110.-0 by snoring with a sustained vig.ir that 110 ordinarv traveling nose can hope to emulate, lie- I fore going to sleep the nter has, of j course, closed all the ventilators if it is ; summer, and stirred up the tire if it is I winter, thus making sure that his vie- I tims shall suffer from heat and gain a ' little sleep as possible lor their money. What with the heat and the noise the passengers ran ly manage to fall asleep before twelve o'clock, by which time. the porter, refreshed by his na), rouses Tiim self and begins his midnight ro.iud. lie stops at every berth, and, shaking the sleeping passenger, wal.es loin up to ask him: " Was it you.'sah, that was want ing to get out here ?" Of course, no one wants to tret out, as the porter perfectly night, and thus prevent them from for getting their miseries in sleep. When his midnight round is finished the porter returns to his den and takes a s, ,uiul 11141. Long experience has taught him that & passenger who is waked up at midnight will fall asleep again at thr iVlock a. m. Accordingly, he sleeps until nearly four o'clock, when he begins with malig nant delight the process of getting his passengers out of bed. He informs every one that " We're most there, sah !" without attaching tho slightest meaning to the word "theie" and that "We're waiting to put them beds awny now, sail!" The meek passenger, lniieing that ho must lie at tho point of arriving at the station where breaUlast was to be had, dresses hurriedly, spends half an j hour iu a general slim- exchange with his J fellow travelers, and then funis that he , has three long hours to wait liefure he : can have auy breakfast. At this itit ; he generally loses his patience au.l uses I language in regard to sloepi.ig-i ar por ters which can not lie defended by aus tere moralists ; but, neverthi less, when the jkirter comes to him and demands fifty cents for having mixed 'the shoes, he pays him without daring to hint that he deserves the most ingenious death that the ablest iniinisil.ur ever iiiveiitml The Law of Kntail. Much misapprehension exists in this country as to the present poweisof entail in England. There is no such thing as a law of primogeniture, except 111 so far that if a man tin- intestate ins real o-ut would pass to his eldest son. except in Kent, where it would be diwl' d among all his sous. Up to the elm- ' f lie- 1.. t century the pow-r of entail wi..- 1il.11.it.t- ble. It was curtailed m eon-e,ii, nee 01 the extraordinary will mad- by 11 mer chant named 'l'hellu-seii, ol Swis.-. ori gin, who accumulat- d a vast fortune in London, partly by buying up jewels from French emigres at the time of the great revolution. .Mr. Thcllussoii in tended his money to accumulate until it would have reacted almut fc7t0,(HM:l,iHiO. The Government, de-mingk uud-siruble that any subject should jw-x-m wealth so colossal, introduced a bill limiting en tail to bring in rsotis and twenty-on-years afterward. This is is not m-ieli greater than the ower of entail in New York, and almost identical with that in Massachusetts. Many estati s in and around New York the LeiTerts, I'.hin-' lander, for example are .entail- il. In England hundreds of gnat r- js-rties j are completely uncnt-ul- d, and it is pure ly the custom, not the law, of the coun try which will cause them tn lie trans mitted to the elde-t so.i. M, u who are very liberal in polities favor the custom liecause they think that it keeps up the positi-n of a family, and that w-n- an estate divided up iu the next t'etier,ition I none would lie U tter for su- h -li isi,,ii. ' It is not generally understood h, that ' the law -in England iciuit.s a ni.m t-i j leave his property preen- -ly as lu- pi-ascs, and that a Duke can letve all to his foot man. The great estates, for instance, of the Duke of Hamilton. I'ri-iiii, r Duke of cotland, w-re, up b the tim- of his marriage, absolutely unentailed. Tins came out of some law prcxeedings. Lon jim Time. A small boy who lives in Brooklyn, is very fond ol drinking coff-i- at i r-. k-fast-time, and his mother d'-s no w .nt him to drink it He is ali fu--y it what he eats saying he do. -:.'t !.k this or that Rwntly his m-ith-r, . it-.-r refusing to give him cofl'.s-, w:w chiding him for saying that he didn't lik- -,ue-thing that was on the tab!-, nl.d told him he must eat what other at.-. : Very well," said he, with an injur -1 look, " if I've got to take what other people take, bring on your coin-." Childken, it s-enis, are imported di rectly from Italy and sent into the stre- ts of New York to make a profitable ',. -illness of begging. The cboi -est imp .r!a tion of this class are IHiud, lam-, a: 1 de formed children. Oiiecnt-rprisi?.g man ager has sent several oegiiurn t-.Sar. ga to test the market re. Tit i -i-dents iUu-trato the folly of iia'ii.rimi.i- j ate chanty. PITH AXD roIXT. Avd now Ladv Godiva ia said to be a myth a bars falsehood, as it were. Actors should be watched closely on election day. They are professional re peaters. Sous ape inquire : " Where have all the ladies' bolts gone t" Gone to waist long ago. If a mule bad .as many legs as a cock-' roach this country wouldn't be so thickly populated. Thb liobtailed home spends his whole exietonic in lamenting nia' laoK of tar uiinal facilities. , A compositor who eannot agree with his wife saya ho most hue takaa fmtrftfeewroKjfiV.- -.j. Why rathe 3imovery of the Norta pule like an illicit whisky manufactory ? Bo cause it's a sex-ret still. It reonirt's but a Rhort time for a young Lilly ou shopping- to learn all the countersigns of the dry-goods trade. , 1 cyoT t!i: " vvii.-.t iuiAm I V..-.1 u,.t r t ' lk-:tt'at liink," mj- l'l' ". ny tnte: ftow o thick. . o. .-!, ' lUrr, f thr haw 10 curry." j - Tin: .'ir says it was a Bloomington ' man who hit the nail on the head, but ' he mourned the loss of u thumb by tlie transaction. '. From Adam they took a riblione to ; make fair woman. Fair woman, haa : been made up with ribbon ever since. : liiximiiiifim t.'jr. - i j 'Physicians now say that the telephone ' is injurious to the ear. We presume 1 it's the strain of listening and hearing nothing that does the harm. O.NKof the first requisitions received from a newly-apioinled railway station agent was : "Scud mo a gidlou of red oil. for the danger lanterns." In Texas there is a townslup called' Gin, and in it a town called Brandy, and the name of the jiostotlice is Rummy. No State could axk for anything liutter,.. A vi'.ltv disagreeable old geirUemau dies. A nephew, charged with the duty i f pre Hiring his epitaph, suggests : "Deeply regretted by-all who never knew him." Ain't that a lovely critU r.Jolin ?" said Teni-ha. as she stooped opiMisite the leopard's Caere.. " VVVal. yen," said J,,!m, " but theii he's dretliilly freckled, ain't he?" j TUINK ,,,,. tll0 ,ew lftg pom. m(.m.(,a f.,,,, . S:U i bis B(,fut ,. ,. v..u " -1. vnwne.1 "I'm I bei ii hoiiing to hear adieu fur some time. He didn't call the next evening. The Whitehall Timm says the fish in Lake Champ'ain have been so long with out water that when it began to nun, for the first time in six weeks, they wero seen running about with umbrellas over their heads. A Yoi'Mi woman in Denver flung her self into a cistern, but she was fished WUhwlA w-.ivs. Jiul he won 1 joko uiai way when it comes cistern. A I'okt asks : " When I 11111 dead and lowly hud And clods full heavv from the spade, who'll tlynk of me?' Don't worry. Tailors arid shoemakers have retentive memories, and you'll not be fee-gotten. Snrrinloivn Hi raid. Fatf; of 11 jilted butcher . 11.- tn,-l 111 ilnnk to drown till cmrof, And thin 1. .mi, I no r--lt- f ; ll.il ,l;u! i,'ri-iv more w-.-l.'tfoii Y.ni never Matit-atf. itrM. At lat-t lim wi-ar.v wul lound runt, 111 sorrow Hiwwir,1 u i-r; ei ri V'i- ijihiii now troiil,!, liim l'orll rwiilirr, Ihj'm no inon. One Sunday night we were sitting out in the moonlight, unusually silent, al-luo.-t sad. Suddenly some one a poetic-looking man, with a gentle, lovely fuce said, in a low tone, "Did you ever think of the beautiful lesson the stars tea-h us?" We gave a vague, iip pivciative lnurijur, but some soulless nod said, "No; 'what is it?" "How I,, wink," he answered, with a sad, sweet voice. Simple Language In Sermons. In addressing (he multitude, simplio ity of language is always highly desir able, there being the danger of the nn loarned attaching very different (aud soiiietiines very awkwanlj meanings to the grand and uneiaiimoii words which even careful clergymeir may be betrayed into using in the pulpit. One of those, when in his study and in the act of cola posing a sermon, made use of the term ""ostentatious man." Throwing down his pen, In- wishi-d to satisfy himself, ere lie pr-K-i cdeii, as m w newer a grem portion of his congregation might com prehend the meaning of .the siudtenn,. and adopted the following method of proof. Ringing Ui- lu ll, his footman appeared, and was thus addressed by bis master : " What do yon conceive to be implied by au ostentatious man ?" " An ost. ntatioiifl man, sir?" said Thomas. " Why, sir, I should suv a iicrfwt gen tleman." " Very good,'1 said the Vicar. " Send Ellis his ciu-huian ben-.' "El lis," asked the Vicar, " what do you im agine an ostentatious man t.i In-?' " An isteiitatious man, sir?" n'plii-d Ellis. " A1iv, I should say an osti-ntatinna man meant what we calls suviii) your prun- ,.!,-. 11 jolly g-Hid fellow." It lUKfl m-areely 1m- told that the Vicar ulti-tul- 'l a less " vtelitati'iils " word. Cl-umlii.ru' Journal. (rushed. A dashing young fellow was very at tentive to 11 voung lady who .secretly did not favor his attentions, und who was blessed with an observing little brother, of oidv a few summer s growth. Tho bidv's 'admirer was visiting her wlu-n the' little chap broke into their presence, and, mounting the dashing young man's kn.-e, said : '" Ha'( n't yon got a fttio rooir'9" "Oh, y-s," proudly replied the d.isbing loimg fellow, hi vanity wan evnleiiiiy toueh- d 1 ;V the remark. Seeing, as he thoiighf, in the cirenm hlane, s an opK.rtuti'ty to niake a favor able impres.-iou on the Ki-ter, he gave hi- mu-Ui- h-- an eitra twist, and reiter ated I. is reply with emphasis : "Oh ves, a verv tine moid." " I iliought so," sui-i the young hos ful, mu-iugly. " But wliat mad-you think mi?" said this voi.ng la-lv - adii.ir r, his curiosity by t!;ii tli. e "fullv Krous.d. "B'carwe," w..s tin- erusiiuig r-l-lv, "Sister Mag K-lid your r-iom wJ. b-tK-r than jour coL'iiany. Blowing lhe Horn. The Ath-ns '. !'"'" r reporta that maiiv y-ars ago Athens had a law forbid ding tii- sale of I piors in quantities less than a quart. Whenever a man came al-ing aad Iniiight a quart he could not, of roiirv-. lin .:. it all, s-i the bar-kei-fier -.voul, I t -j tie- door ali i bjow a blurt on aeowie m. n-,d -the 1-utters all Brouiid town wiuld ha-t -ii to h- ip tiie ptirchasor dis- 1" ,f la., quart. h.Mi, oy any ehaaice, g.-d-.i.-t na. nireii:is -d, t.'i - Par-Kex-jier w -dI-1 i-i"-- r.ttu li'-rn, and thru the bovs would h-iy to each other. " No use 1 to hurry so, he's got a g.-llou."
The Blue Ridge Blade (Morganton, N.C.)
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Nov. 27, 1880, edition 1
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