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J ' ;j ' :1 ' ' ' ' V ' - ; lUMn r iM XT 'H XI n n n ci'; v ' ri . n r n ti -t-j ti Vi tt? est vj a viT ff ; Hine Manager. . ; ' . . . ; i ' , - j . One square, one time, ' ?l oo f " : ' -- . . . , ;, " . ' ,- ' L-L,iL ,' , . z: " "I' two times, 2 &0 ..J.LT. oncyrar, in advance, f 2 00 i ...... , ( . " 44 ! thrco times', 200 " -- Vol. 2. . j RALEIGH, ff. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1873. ; jNo.j41 SST" takfB 4' - ill. 1 rriiLic act. . t to I'rohibit the Sale of A:' intoxicating Liquor in I (Vrtain localities. .ti I. The General AwpiiiUv of . i i ;it.lina do enact: That it shall. nil for any ponton or crsons, t il er e've wa5' an intoxicating '". .r, in any way or manner, or in any ' utitv, so h to receive any compcn . ii 'r me whatever, either T'-l!v 'r indirectly within four mile !:i'M ' church, iu Alleghany eoun T - !.;i!t Presbyterian church in Cunt y l 4j..i r.iunty ; Apole Missionary .."! .it .hur.-ii' in Kobeson countv. or y' 7, Meeting Houses 1,1 Onslow V,,:v. r within thretf mites of the r",i":i4 places, UUvit: Mount ,.;.t;t4ii;t Academy, irr.C-herokeo couij ('iiiu!"rl tml I'niiMi church, near illi'-it" "i Ul Cumberland county; i';.,-4r store in Cedar Creek Village, - YiMi rlund county ; Judson Female , . :.tt , m Henderson county; l'ollooks t ,i : Jom-jiiuly; Laurel Itillciiurch ,"' !hnrfMi I county; Uig H ran1i j j:.'t church, Itcauty Si)t church, -! i'rc.l tcrian cliurch, Zin's 7jicni.i l'- llaj.iit church, Ashury ". dr,j.i, ll..rcl McihoiJint chuch, or ;..u4t Maiiah U-itit church, in llole- :i rfuiit.v : ir within two ant! one-half .Jvsot It cky Nolechurch, in Cabarrus , is.Jv; r within to miles of the fol j iacs, to-wit: 1'iney irve ,.;r ' I.ui.cville church, or lied Hill i n hi r c1ih1 1ium, in Anson coun- v; ipri-tian Delight church, or Con- .r. f i.nrcli. in llcaufort "ty; French's I: i-.fit hurcli l:nwii Mar.l I l'uvt. I ! rs.m church, in ISladcu county ; .mace, r r Inuring nulls in 1:1 Chatham countv; 3letho- I'rcshvtcti.iii ciiurcn, r j;.;Ul ciiiii'cli near Fort Ilemhri, fr llih S h'M)l, larnanrs camp -.a i i, in '!ay ciunty; l'leasaiit . ..i-r cluir !i or I'canM'k'H store, in . liilms county ; Ulockvillo Academv 'I'AesK'rry church, in Cumberland . ; New IJridge church, in Duplin .ji.jv; Mountain Inland Factory, In ,M:i county; Corinth ISaptist church, :, i f.iiiville county; Flat I!x'k, in v.At r I county : Johnston's cha-tel, in ; ctuinty ; liiloli c hurch, col- mljNli'"'! lloue No. 1, in Federal iVc-iitct Township', in New Hanover ui:ty; ajou church, in llii-hmomi .u:iy; Lumber J.ridge Presbvteii.in . .injuor Providence laptit church, ,, ll ji . -oa county ; Kllerbecs Sjirins, .i i:chiiiiud county; Little Kier, .:,!ir?ii, in Transylvania county ; Coshcn ,..7'.i, Sampson county: iho Paer M.;it al tlif falls of Neuse river, in W'ake r. ui.lv ; the Court Houmj in Wilkes ..r in Wilkes county, or within : corporate limits of the town of Cart h :e hi Moore ct.unty, or Lumbertoii in K'!vu county, or Ilntherfordton in V. :i'Ak r:--nl coiii.ty, or w ithin two miles ; tlif- crrate limits of Carthage or i.U'.ui'tTl n, provideI this shall ell'ect :invi'r !' the commissioners f Luni-i.-rini to grant license within its cor txrute limits ; or within one and a half :.iiit -i fi I hcrry rove Laptist church i . Oiiuniuus county; U.'il Farm Pits ; v.rli.m ehurch, (-oI(rt-.; , Harris depot; Mithodist church at CoiU Spring camp .-ail.d, or Mcihcnlist church at Ut thtl (a:h liround, in Cabarrus county; or 5Ii;r 'hUon Fact ry, in Manchester Cuiu-:-ri.i;i.l ci!intj', r within one mile of 'e Creek ; Inland church, in Iit-aul'ort vuuiy; the liaptist church in AMtts 5a;gt in Kl.i.It n county; Newton Acado 'xv, ir Fair View school house, in which J. s. .sliut'ord taught si-lnxd, in I5uu fiiitocounty ; I'ioneer Mills 1'ostOUice, ia (,'abarrus county; Cypress Creek; i!iur) h, or the lluptist or Methodist j Hittri li iti Hallville, Duplin county ; i Vi:ij Hill Academy, in Halifax countv; ! r.vtljfl church, in l'itt-ounty ; theCourt IlMtif-e in Aslilnn, in Randolph county; Turjiersbury church, in Iredell county; rluiion Chaji'l Mclli iit chuch, in nU'ui f'Uiity. : 2. Any jVrson ir isoiis violat iu; ".my if the provisins of this act, licdeenuti guilty ol a midemcan- r iiM)ti conviction thereof before invading J u-tice of the Peace, for each injU verv unVnce. shall iav a line of ':'!irs.r be ini prin.ed, in thedisere-t'-'ii: ef the Court not to exceed thirty uvt. - The Secretary of State shall f.iru.sh a certified copy of this act, iiu- lutcly altr its ratification to the i K-Hfinrl and A r. for publication. . 4. This act shall be in force from !i.lj after the first day of May, A. D., i". IniM-ueral Assemblv read three ! j ! ! i j I ' j tutif- MajT-h. and ratified this the 3rd dav of , A. D., 7:;. J. L. IIOBINSON, Speaker of the. House. C. H. IJROiiDFN, President of the Senate. Stat i'. of north Carolina. i ilL okkk-k skckktarv of siATt, . couui not nave come wimou it. -itaiei-h MurehT 1st:: ! "Well, no matter about that so U William n. li.iwerton.seiretarv ffvou are here. I mean you shall : ae, ht cby certify that the foregoing w4rue eo,,v f the ri.rjnai act un m,, j tnink of a gooj soc.iable next Thurs ' 1 """.-w nnYvci'Tnx- ' day night St. Valentine's day, you know. Just a little dance-three or NJ uch S, ls7 17 d4tw4w OTICH IN HANKICUPTCV. -VoTICK is HKRKKY lilVEX, That a IV thion ha Iwen liltnl in sail Court j i v Ambrose lp-hurcn, in said District, i iu!y dc-lare.1 a Kuikrupt under the a-t jof Conirress f Mareh 1m;?. J'ria disiharge and certificate thero "f from all his debts and other claims rr table" under said act, anil that tho rl day of April, lsT;?, at l' o'clock, A- M., at tlic oliice of A. W. Shaffer, . licUter in Rinkruptcy, in Raleigh, N. C.. .is assigned f.r the hearing of the "atile. when and where all creditors, i.o Wave proved their debts, and other lrj.iiis in interest maj' attend and show ' 3rJ '' if an-" llie.v ,,:ive, why the prayer f Oie Kaid petitioner should not be pranusl. Antl that the second and third la-ttingn will le held at the sa.no time an-l place. hated at New Iiorne, N. C, on tho S:!ldayof March, A. D., 17:5. , ! CH ARLIvS Hill HARD, Clerk. onportant Sale of Lots in the Town f Lexington, David- f j " soi county, X. C. OliKDIKNCi: OF AN ORDKRof ho IJ'Jiird of County Commissiners ?Jie on tho first Monday in March mutant. I shall proceed to sell for cash, t Ibe Court House door in the Town of betington, on Tuesday of our next f-erior Court, it being the 29th day of N"il, 173, the following described lota uate in the Town of Lexington, near i!9 Court House, belonging to the unty, to wit: Three lots northeast of ;N Court House. The said lots are ad-J-nt the lot of II. Adams aud It. A. 'hg. Three other lots opposite the re Stnce f (Jen. J. M.' Iach, and the re House of larnheardt & Nove, if' f"urlots opposite the Court House, fining the lot of C. F. Ixiwc, known s the public well lots. All of the above darned lots are from twenty to fifty J"Ns of the Court House. . I DAVID W. PICKETT, nlrch5. wtJ. Commissioner. Klackmer A McCorcle and J. T. 'itowN Attorneys for Commissioners, j I have traveled o'er the spacious earth, For many and manr a year; I have, been in lands where art and wealth Their monuments uptear. Though sights undreamed t,met my ' eyes " - Wherever I did roam r tn Mv thoughts, despite of all Iaw,'. Would wander back to home," I have been to kingly palaces. V Whers all that wealth could bny, At every turn, where'er I looked, Did meet my wilder'd eye. Ilut even there, mid kings and peer, iieneath that golden dome, Unsatistied, my prisftned soal Would wander back to home. I have been within the festive hall, Where all was joy and light; Where magic song and witching dance Fell on my ear and tight. Hut even there, mid that gay throng. My soul away would roam. And likla a bird from bondage free, Would wander back to home. I've sought for glory on the field Of fierce and bloody strife In search of fame I've freely spent The best years of my life, lint even mid these btirring scenes One thought to me would come, And then my soul, on fancy's wings, Would wander back to hotpe. A Fair IZxchangrc no Robbery. 44 So you are going to stay with nica whole month, you darling?" ami Maddy Fletcher gave her friend a rapturous hug, after the manner of young ladies but recently emerg ed from boarding school. A whole month," replied the darling, returning the embrace with e qual fervor, 44 for if I had said six 'week, mv hat would have been uuite crushed. Are you sure you did not break my feather, my dear?" 44Oh, nonsense! your feather isall right. You are as prim as ever, Kllie." 44 Let me tell you, you would be prim if you had set up until one o'clock to make every stitch of your hat with vour own hands, as I did last night," responded Kllie, with La little sigh. 44 It is ever so pretty, if you aid make it yourself " replied Aladdy, gazing admiringly at the compli cated structure ot velvet, ribbon, lace, and feathers which her friend was removing before the glass. 44 1 would not at all mind making my own things if I had your taste, Kllie. Xow, look at this thing. It cost no end of money, and is simply hideous ;" and she placed it on her he-ad as she spoke, casting at the same time a disgusted look at her pretty face reflected in the mirror. 44 It isn't particularly becoming, that's a fact," remarked Kllie, cri tically surveying it; 44 but it's stylish very. I'll tell you what, Maddy; I believe if you will let me take off about half those plumes a d arrange tne lace ainerentiy, i can make it look a great deal better." 44 1 wish you would take it in hand, then," saidMaddy, depositing the condemned article in its band Ikjx I perfectly detest it, and never will wear it as it is. Now let us talk no more of hats, but about your visit. Oh, how jolly it is that you are going to stay with me a month. 44 So it is, splendid ; but I thought I should never get off. First, Kitty must needs be sick for two whole weeks ; then, just as I was going to writQ and name the day, Uncle Jacob arrived, and mamma could not spare me. It takes the whole family to entertain Uncle Jacob, and it is hard work, too ; but he gave me twenty dollars when he went away, so I won't say any thing." 44 Twenty dollars!" exclaimed Maddy. 44 Vhv, he's worth millions isn't he?" 44 Yes, I suppose so," answered Kllie, shrugging her shoulders, 44 however, if I found my clothes growing on bushes as you do, I could despise twenty dollars. As it is, I am only too thankful too get it. I bought my traveling suit,' she added, glancing down complacently CJ "Ml'l- i'"": ".".. have a crood time. What do you four steps, perhaps. Lver so many of the girls are in town, and my cousin Tom is coming, and George Archer. By the way, did you hear that Fannie Archer is engaged?" and the girls instantly dropped into a delightful school-girl gossip, only interrupted by the ringing of the dinner bell. The first few days of Ellie Brand's visit passed away pleasantly, and she wrote home glowing letters to her mother and siter. who had un selfishly deprived themselves of many a luxury, that the hard worked little school-mistress might have the full enjoyment of her va cation. Yes, she was a country vchool-mistress, though she had lelt school herself less than six months before. Ellie was the pride of her mother and the darling of her sis ter. Her delicate hands did not shrink from performing any house hold task, however menial, if it only might relieve her mother, and as soon as she graduated from school she sought eagerly for employment, which would enable her to do some thing toward the comfortable main tenance of the little family left un expectedly in a condition of pover ty. Of course, . the school-room appeared to her, as to most New England girls.las the one respecta ble resource, and she had faithfully jerformed herirksome duty through the long term just ended. As she looked about her in Maddy's luxu rious home, it is no wonder that she sighed nqw and then as she thought what weary toil and struggle she must endure before her mother could be provided with the com forts which her half-invalid condi tion demanded. She was however, a brave little woman, and, facing lifeexactly as it was, made up her mind to extract all the health and enjoyment possible out of her pres ent agreeable surroundings, and to go back to her country home a bet ter daughter, sister and teacher for the unusual experience ofberwin ter vacation, bo she entered into allofMaddy's schemes for her en tertainment with real girlish zest, and found herself becoming (the center of a rapid! y widening circle of admiration and love.. "Now. Ellie, about St. Valentine's day,'?, said Maddy, one morning several days before that eventful Thursday appointed for the party. w nat are you going to wear V7 "Haiving seen me four or five times already in my one party dress," replied Ellie, smiling 44I am convinced you know as well as I." j 'Now, Ellie, dear, that pearl-col cored silk is really very pretty, but you have worn it so many times.' If you only could afford a new one- a simple taraltan, or something equally expensive," sugges ted Miss Fletcher doubtfully. ' "uan't be .done, Maddy." : re sponded Elhe. stoutly;, 1 vba thought It all over, and anew even ing dress would run away with not only my gloves and boots, which I positively must ? have, I but with mamma's waterproof cloak which I have set my heart on car rying home to her." I , "Well. I suppose you know best," replied Maddy, relinquishing the idea with a sigh : 4but I do want you to look your prettiest, especial ly as cousin Tom will be here.'? 1 mean to look my prettiest. though I don't suppose Mr. Flether will be particularly affected by my prettiness," answered ' Elle with a lightlaugh, though the color mount ed to her forehead as she spoke. 44 Unless he is more observing in matters of dress than most gentle men, there, is no telling but he might even prefer me in this black alpaca." 1 1 am not sure but he really would," Maddy thotfght, as she no ticed the slight form set off to ad vantage by the close fitting plain dress, and the flushed cheeks just shaded by the brown curls, which in the evening would be "put up" in an elaborate chignon. "You look nice enough in anything, Ellie," she said, putting her thoughts into words: "but now 1 have an idea. You have a white muslin dress, liav'ntyou?" - "les. I brought jt for some ut terly unknown reason; but that is useless for it has only one skirt." 44 1 know that, my dear ; but you remember ray pink silk ? It is fear fully soiled, but I am almost sure that from the tyo skirts you can get enough to make 'a good clean under skirt, and with your white muslin as an over-dress, it will be as pretty a costume as you couiu wish." 44 Capital," cried Ellie, warming at once into enthusiasm ; " and fur bishing up an old thing is much more in my line tnan making up new material. Now, Maddy, you will see what an amount of genius I will put into this dress ;" and the two girls immediately plunged into the mysteries of ripping, cutting and planning which had been hith ,erto unknown to Maddy, at least. A letter for you, Miss Brand," announced Maddy, rushing into the sewing-room the next morning, where Ellie sat surrounded by shreds of silk and patches of mus lin. 44 From some loving youth, I should imagine from the handwri ting," she added, Inspecting it closely. ' 44 Give it to me, you teasinggirl," said Elllie, snatching it from her; 44 it is from mamma,, and she is bet ter than any loving youth," and she commenced eagerly reading it. But as she did so her countenance fell. I 44 What is it, dear ?" asked Mad- dv. anxiously. 44 She doesn't ,want you to go' home, does she?" 44 What shall I do, Maddy ? I'm nearly wild. They have taken my school away from me, and how, are we to live?" I 44 It is a burning shame !" 'cried Maddy, with indignant sympathy. 44 Why did they do it?" 44 They said 1 was too young, answered the young school mistress, bursting into a fit of weeping, which was so unusual as to alarm her friend. - ' I "lam glad of it," said Maddy, decidedly; 4'you are too young to be working in that style. I You ought to behaving a real good time instead." ) 44 1 don't mind the working a bit," sobbed Ellie ; " but if I can't get work, and mamma feeble and Kitty so young and still at school, what are. we to do?" and the sobs broke out afresh. j "Get married," answered Maddy, briefly. Ellie smiled through her tears. 44 If I could only marry you, you dear little comforter !" she answer ed, hugging her friend warmly, with her cheerfulness already re turning. "Well, lam not 'going to let this spoil my visit to the par ty. Mammy says so, and that she only wrote me of it so that I need not hurry back for the beginning of the term. Something will be sure to turn up before long." 44 What a sunbeam you are, Ellie Brand !" remarked Maddy, affec tionately ; but there was an anxious pucker in her friends usually smooth brow and a careworn look in the clear brown eyes that made her un easy. - I As the days passed and nothing did turn up, the poor child's anxie ty by no means, diminished ; but, true to her nature, she went brave ly on concealing the care that wore upon her lest the 1 happinessof the family who were so kind to her should be disturbed.- Her own en thusiasm for Ht Valentine's; party, however, had sensibly lessened; and although siie. had enjoyed her self and found every one more than kind, she began to look tor ward anxiously to the - time when she would be free to leave thescj scenes ofgayetyand luxury to which she felt so ill suited.! Her own prepara tions for the party vere soon com pleted, but she found plenty to oc cupy her even on the eventful day itself, remedying the mistakes of her friend's dress-maker. Who at the last moment had sent the im portant dress home in an almost un wearable condition. Elbe's busy lingers never ialteren, nor did an impatient work or look betray the . t - I i . uneasiness wnicn was uauv increas .ing and spoiling the enjoyment o ncr. visit. . " What a dear, industrious li'ftlA ririrl Miss Brand is !" remarked Mrs. LrJetcher one day to her daughter. it is a penect sname she is obliged to work and slave so," re plied tne latter indignantly. "She is always doing something for her mother and never complaining of ner own troubles. I wish she would marry some rich man." " She would make a capital wife lor Tom," remarked Mrs. Jbletcher, tnougntiuuy. 44 Tom!" exclaimed Madeline contemptuously, 44 lie will never marry anyirl unless she offers herself to bun. Ellie is a thousand times toogood for him." For all the protest Miss Maddy had her own secret hopes of the meeting between her friend and her cousin, of whom, though she con stantly quarrelled with him, she was very lond and very proud. " What in the world shall I do, Ellie?" cried Madeline, breaking into ner friend's room in the middle of the afternoon, just as she had commenced a letter to her mother; 44 my sash does not match my trim ming by at Ieat three shades. It will do in the daylight, but it is hideous by gaslight." ( 44 How could you have made snch a mistake?" asked Ellie sympa thetically. 44 1 am sure I don't know," an swered Miss Fletc her. 44 The truth is, George Archer was talking to me, and I did not give my mind to it. The only way is to buy another but every one is busy, aud I can't go myself. Just look at my hair !" Maddy's hair would indeed have been a spectacle of horror on the public streets, being a conglomera tion of crimping pins and minute braids destined to flow forth in a rippling, shinning mass a few hours later, but now presenting a truly bristling and formidable surface. 44 Let me go for you," said Ellie, quietly putting aside her writing materials. 44 But your letter," faintly object ed Maddy. 44 Can wait just as well until to morrow," replied her friend, always ready to help those in need of as sistance. 44 Besides, my dear, I should really like to call for my picture to-day, and there are one or two more little things which I can buy just as well while I am out." 44 You dear girl, what a comfcrt you are I" said jUadeline, kissing her gratefully. 44 You take a load off my mind;" and so with innu merable directions, which increased to quite a considerable length her list of commissions, Ellie issued into the already fast darkening streets. She was still child enough, ana as she would have added, "a country girl," to thoroughly enjoy the shop windows ; and at last, her various errands being accomplished, she paused to gaze in at one which was filled with lovely hot-house flowers and floral decorations, in the midst of which a little fountain gracefully rose and fell, sparkling in the brilliant gaslight. 44 And to think that the price of this perishing loveliness would pay a whole month's rent for us!" she thought, bitterly; and as the re flection stung her, she turned away and moved hastily homeward. But as she did so, she came violently in contact with a young lady who was ' hurrying in the opposite direction, and they both suffered an ignomin ious fall. Mutual apologies follow ed, and amid the smothered amuse ment of the passers-by Ellie's dis persed parcels were collected and restored to her, and she once more started at a moderate pace. The incident, however, had served to turn her meditations into a more cheerful strain, and she hastened back with meriment for the time uppermost. It so happened that while Eftie stood good gazing in at the florist's window, Mr. Tom Fletcher stood on the florist's doorsteps gazing at her. Now don't imagine that it was at all a case of love at first sight. On the contrary, he could not see the young lady's face; and if he thought of her at all, it was only to wonder "why girls should make guys of themselves with those shapeless 1 water-proofs." No, the truth is that he gazed at her ab stractedly while he was making up his mind whether to go to his aunt's house at once or to wait until evening. He had just been buying a bouquet for his cousin, and a box of choice flowers containing also a card bearing the simple inscription "Valentine," which latter offering was designed for a young lady with whom he had been on flirting terms for two years or so. He stood with his purchases in one hand debating the important question. He had just come to the decision to defer his visit until evening when he witnessed the above described col lision, and rushed to the assistance of the distressed fair ones, and he was one of the amused but polite bystanders who, collecting poor Ellie's scattered bundles, sent her rejoicing on her way, while he saun tered slowly home to his hotel. Arrived in his own room he turned up the gas and proceeded to exam ine his offerings, while awaiting the arrival of the messenger to whom he proposed to entrust them. "Dear little Maddy!" he solilo quized; "I quite long to hear her pert speeches again. She is worth all the other girls cf my acquaint ance. And now for my valentine," he continued, untying the box, "if these don't soften Miss Julia's ob durate heart " Here he removed the cover, and a long whistle of as tonishment interrupted the current of his thoughts. Instead of creamy roses, sweet-scented violets, starry jessamines, stately camelias and vivid carnations, which he had seen deposited in a soft bed of moist cot ton, oflly half an hour before, there looked fearlessly up at him the fresh sweet face of a young girl. With sunnv hair waving over a broad, white forehead, and brown eyes, in which dwelt innocence and love, all set forth in the soft tints of a Dhotoeranh on porcelain. Jt-uie s face looked a revelation of truth, and beauty to the young man some what wearied of the conventional type seen among so-called "society girls." I l I Tr t r mnrrinion omnn rr na'" remarked Tom Flether to himself, after vainly racking his brain to ac count for the astonishing transfor mation of a box of hot-house flow ers into the picture of a pretty young girl. "By Jove, I nave it!" ne exclaimed aloud at last. "How those two girls did go down to ba sure ! V ell, 1 thinK l nave cer tainly made something by the trans action, but ! Miss Julia must go without her valentine," and he rose to prepare himself for the evening, not by any! means forgetting the picture, which he placed in a con- vemeni position lor reierejicw un ms dresing table. Meantimerconsternation pervaded the hearts of-the two girls, lifty times did they wonder as to the how, when, and where of the mys terious transformation, and when at last those points were settled there arose the more difficult ques tions how the picture was to be re covered. ' - "Don't worry, Ellie; we must just advertise, arid it will be sure to come," said Maddy at length, con solingly. ? 44 es but the flowers will fade," replied Ellie, with her characteris tic consideration for others. "There is mo help for that," phi losophically; returned Madeline; "and since the young woman has last her valentine, you may as well reap the beneht ot it. That pink cameliais just the thing for your hair." j ; "So it came to pass that an hour or two later, when Tom Fletcher entered his j aunt's drawing-room, the first person upon whom his eyes rested was the original of the picture which had so curiously come into his possession, as ne stood under the great chandelier, its light brought out warmly the vivid hues of the flowers intended for his own holiday offering to Miss Julie May lie. 44 Who is that damsel with the camelia?" he inquired of his cousin, as they stood chatting together af ter the first greetings had been ex changed, 'j I "That is my dearest friend, Ellie ! Brand ; and she is just as good as she is pretty," answered Madeline, warmly. i 44If I didn't knOvv myj cousin's geese are all swans, my heart might be in some danger irom that de scription," laughed Tom. I "I wish I thought it was soft enough to bie in any such danger," retorted Maddy ; "it would be the luckiest thipg in the world for you. But come and be introduced to my paragon." f "Your frifeDd shows excellent taste in her ornaments," he remarked, as they made their way toward her. "Nothing qould be more beautiful or more becoming than these flow ers." . f "Shehas jno dear cousin Tom to provide her with bouquets," replied Maddy, smiling up at him grate fully, "but jshe was so fortunate.as to have a valentine this afternoon ;" which words Ellie overhearing, as Madeline intended she should, blushed so becomingly that Tom thought as be made his bow, it was the first time he had ever seen a porcelaintype which did not flatter its subject.! Ellie thought Mr. Flether the handsomest and most agreeable man she had ever met, and in the enjoy ment of his society the hours seemed literally to fly away. What that cousin thought of Ellie. his cousin, by the briskest fire of cross-questions, was-unable to ascertain. He would notleven admit that she Mas, -pretty, coolly inquiring after one of Madeline's rhapsodies, if she did not really ithink Miss Brand's eyes had a slig&t cast. One thing is cer tain ; he left the house at a late hour that night an amused smile play ing a.bout;his lips and a very wilted rosebud in1 his hand, which circum stance seemed to point to the fact of his having begged and obtained the gift of, one of his own flowers. The lost picture was duly adver tised, but.? nothing, was ever heard of it; and, although Mr. Fletcher came almost every day to see his cousin and her friend, he did not mention it. His visits, meanwhile, had becomr very pleasing to Ellie. She did not like to think how pleas ant, for -she had no reason to im agine that he had ever thought of her except as Maddy's friend. Even Maddy herself, anxious as she had been to bring about the meetings, could but confess herself disappointed with the result, as Cousin Tom, though he came con stantly to(ithe house, did so no more than was usual to him when in town, and seemed quite as well pleased tb find her alone or with her mother, a, when Ellie was present, tin reality, however, this was only jin appearance, for Cousin Tom was more interested in the modest little maiden than he was at first willing to admit. The per fect simplicity and truth of her characten displayed themselves in every change of her expressive face, and now'jhe began to think it would be by nof mean3 an easy matter for him to jresign the long cherished picture as he had always fully in tended tp do at her departure. That time wra$ now rapidly approaching. Already! her visit had been pro longed a fortnignt beyond its first limit, aird now the last day had come. fEllie Brand was sitting alone iii the little morning room, thinking of the happy visit now spent a visit so much happier than at one time she had imagined possi ble. Sbje thought, too, of the long, lonely journey on the morrow, and the life 'of toil and anxiety before her, ancj no wonder that the con trast between the comfort she was leaving itnd the drudgery to which she wasgoing forced itself upon her. But more powerful than all were the thoughts of Maddy's Cousin Tom, who for a few -weeks had made her life so bright, and to whom, after to-morrow, she would be only a passing memory. "I am ashamed ot you, Ellie Brand," she thought at last, rousing herself from her dreams ; 44 it is tow ungrateful. With so many kind friends, and the dearest mother and sister in the world, it is very wrong in you to be moping and fretting for a man whose very name you had hot heard two months ago." Nevertheless the tears were still standing in her eyes when the door openep: and the object of her medi tations stood before her. 44 Maddy and Mrs. Fletcher are both out," she began, when she paused in astonishment, her eyes rivited upon the long lost picture which he held in his hand. . ies, Miss lirand, tins is a case of conscience," he commenced, seat ing himself at her side. 44 1 am the guilty person who has had this pic ture in possession for so long a time, and I have become so mueh attach ed to it that I am reluctant to part with it. You had my flowers." At this point. Ella flushed scarlet. 44 Cannot I persuade you that this would be a fair exchange ?" 44 Then, dear Ellie." said Tom drawing nearer and taking her un resisting hand, 44 will you not give me the sweet little original in ex change for a wedding ring?" Hall an hour later, when Maddy came in from her shopping excur sion, naiie was no wnere to oe seen, and cousin Tom, with a grave face, requested five minutes private con a . -w-l . 1 A I. versation. 44 You see, Madeline," he explain ed when they were alone ' l leel that it is high time I was married, and-vwell the fact is, 1 have been engaged for some time past." It is lucky l never put any no tions into Ellie's head," thought his cousin with some trepidation, while she remarked aloud with some asperity4 4 4 Well, I congratu late you, at least, on your good sense and energy, l Know you ought to be married, but I always thought you would be too lazy to do any courting." 44 Your good opinion was not wholly undeserved," he replied, stroking his moustache; 44 for, in truth, this matter was gather thrust upon me in tne nrst place, x ou see the young lady sent me her pic ture before I ever saw her." I wonder at you, Tom," cried his cousin indignantly; 44 1 would not have believed that you could enter into so foolish a trick." 44 The worst of it is that now she declares the picture is yours, and insists upon my begging it from you," he continued, smiling mis chievously, and holding the dis puted likeness before her face. 44 Wiry didn't you tell me you had it? And the valentine, -too!" Oh, tell me, Tom, who was it for!" and Maddy looked up coaxingly. 44 So long as Ellie hasn't asked me that question, you need not think that I will gratify your curi osity, Miss Eve," replied her cous in ; and now tell me, what, do you think of the engagement ?" Maddy gave him an enthusiastic hug. 44 Oh, Tom, you are perfectly lovely !" was her somewhat irrele vant reply. Made 4tOne" in All Things-. Joe W. was never drunk but once, and that time he was "drunk as a- fool." Consequently his wife, who was avery pious woman, was very much shocked when pne night he staggered home under the influ- ence ol liauor. ivuer remonstrate- with him about the folly of drinking, she said: "Joe, when we were married, and became one, I little thought I should ever see you in this condition." Who can imagine the devoted wife'4 thoughts when Joe made her the jfollowing reply: "Well, Mary ,i dejar, (hie,) I know I am pretty druhk, (hie,) that's a fact; but, Mary, a wo (hie) were made one by marriage, then (hie) you must b? pretty cirunK, too (hie.)" A Klonstock societv has been initia ted in Germany which calls upon 'all possessors of documents relating to the liie or writings ot mat poecj to ueposic them at Qucdlinburg this year or next, for permanent reference. .Religious Keadihg. 11 Diekeyr" Turner, the Preston operative the originator! it is said, of the word 41 teetotal," as now used was a rousing speakef, with an imagination that ran tllrough all k'nds of images. In one of his speeches ho is said to have made the following extraordinary ap peal :4 4 Let us be up and doing, comrades ! Let us take) our axes over our shoulders, and plough the deep till the good ship of Temper ance sails gayly over the land !" A clergyman, who 'halt! a large family of unruly boys, j was once unable to make one of them confess to some misdemeanor that had been committed, so he declared that he would whip them all, and then he would be sure to punish the real culprit. Jimmy, the youngest, re tired to a" corner and grumbled. 4What is that you say? asked his father. 4I thaid,' lisped Jimmy, 4that'h jutht the way bid Herod did. He killed all the children tho that he would be thure to kill Jethuth.' Little acts of kindness will bud in time and blossom in eternity. Little deeds of violence! will chafe in time and curse in eternity. A little dram-drinking iii boy-hood will multiply in manhobdand may lead to ruin temporally, jfinancially, physically and eternally. A little lying will grow with those who early start it, until thej world will not believe, though you swear any thing to be true. A little honesty, will find many to succor in misfort une. A little piety though consci ous of its possession is sure of reward in time and eternity. Sword for ; General Hancock. A new sword has just been com pleted at the Springfield armory for Major-General W. ', S. Hancock, which is thus described by the llt- publican: !' The designs on; the blade, which is entirely executed by etching,1 are as follows: On the front, near the hilt, is the American eagle, and di rectly over it the national motto, "E Pluribus Unum." Near the center and on the same side of the blade is the inscription, 44Mnjor- General W. S. Hancock ;" also on the same side al pair of revolvers crossed, and surrounded by car tridges and i field-glasses. On the opposite side of the blade the let ters 44 u. S. A.," inscribed in old English, while further along is the armory cardj reading, 44 IT. S. Ar mory, bprmgheld, Mass." Above the General's name are distributed such accoutrements as knapsack. haversack, cartridge-box, Ac. The ground-wbrk around the inscription finished in gold and silver. The Jfernaioder of the blade is covered with beautiful scroll-work, com mencing near the hilt with an imi tation of morninc-clorv blossoms. which gradually grows finer iand terminates at the: end of the blade in minute linesl The pattern is pronounced the Handsomest ever designed. The gripe of the sword is nickel-plated. On the guard is a spread eagle, surrounded by stars and several5 military emblems. The scabbard is of steel, nickel-plated, with gold-plated mountings. At equal distances between the band3 of the scabbard are two glod-plated stars. An Old and Active l'ri titer. The Ilondout Freeman savs: Mr. Samuel WilHams, the oldest printer in the country hereabouts, walked into our oliice on Monday, as spry as a cricket, i and set 1,000 ems for the Greeley monument. He is eighty-four years old and started the Bennington Neus Letter in 1812, and after serving on the Albany Irgus for five years, started the Orange Farmer. He set his 1,000 ems in ' two hours, which is doing wel I for a man of his age. This typographical achievement creates a desire in another old prin ter to try his hand 44 at case." Though a stranger for many years to the 44 space box," I am strongly inclined to follow the laudable ex ample of my old friend Williams. In February, 181G, just fifty-seven years ago, I was working with Samuel Williams, as journeyman printer for Jesse iiuel, in the oliice of the Albany Armies. And now, at the age of eighty-four, Mr. Williams contributes his " 1,000 ems" in com memoration of a departed craftsman who has since filled a large space in the world's eye; but who, when we, mature in years, had commenced the battle of life, was but six years old. M ! T. W. (Thurlo w Weed. ) A Kussian Surprise. The new j rail way and. telegraph chart of the Russian Empire, just published, seems to have taken the German general staff by surprise. Russia is shown by this chart to possess railways and telegraph lines actually in operation, of which Ihe world outside had not the slightest notice or even j suspicion. There is a complete system ol strategical railways, radiating from the princi pal lines uniting in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and KiefT, and extending even to tne Asiatic irontier in no less than ten lines. All the military centers, even Nova Tcherhask, the headquarters jofthe Don. Cossacks, are accessible by rail; and in a short timej if not at this mo ment, Russia Can move large bodies of troops jani concentrate them within a fewi days at any desired spot. In vicav of these facts the German journals urge their Govern ment to hasten forward ; the con struction of Railways on their own eastern frontier, which they will need for their own safety in case of war. i : How to Break off Bail Habits. Understand the reason and all the reasons, wny tne habit is injurious. Study the subject till there is no lingering J doubt in your .mind. Avoid tlid places, the persons, and the thoughts that had to the temp tation. Keep busy ; idleness is the strength of bad habits. Do not give up the struggle when you have broken your resolution, once, twice, a thousand times, l hat only snows how mu?h need there is; for you to strive, u hen! you have broken your resolution, just think the mat ter over, and endeavor to under stand why it is you failed, so that you may be on your guard against a recurrence of the same circum stances. Do not think it? is an easy thing that you have undertaken. It is folly to expect to break off a habit in a day : which may have been gathering strength in you for years. A Horse Irunkard. A sad case of depravity in horse flesh is reported by the Raris Figa ro. The favorite horse of a certain baron fell seriously ill, and though every care was taken of the animal it rapidlv grew worse and began to show signs ofj: sinking. . As a last resource,: the coachman, an Amen- can, suggested that two glasses oi brandy with ginger should be ad ministered every morning. The cure was most speedy ; but ever since, the horse, having been accustomed to stand at the door of a wine shop to receive its j matutinal beverage, now stops at every similar estab lishment it passes, and last week angry at not being attended to, foiced itself right through the win dow of a marchand de liqueurs ! A Tennessee tame crow, which 'could say "Andrew Jackson," sola ior The ma n tried for a yearlo make it say ' 3 eternal," but tte trow couldn't "By the fetch it l-icttcrs. Husk in ford. is still art professor at- Ox- (Joorgo William- Cui.tis is a native- of Providence, It. I., ami s 49 vears old. ' I ! ll.t l :;icrsitv of IVimvIv:uii:i has MS at prcsi-iuiii all its .departments, MUcll'ML-i. 1 Thero is a new idea in " prison Ikcia ture;" a Michigan convict has written a novel. i Ilulwer Lytton was 'immortalized in an English obituary as 44 the patriarch of the circulating library." A compositor of Dubuque hri success fully set his cup for a Southern heiress with ".00,000 in her owli right. lieo. W. Carlton ("Our ArtM in Cu ba'.') has gone to the Island of Itermud i to find, work tor his humorous pencil. An Opelifca, Ala., dai-key phonetizl Janauschek's name int "ciuano sacks." Ho was native and to the manner lxru. Rev. Wm.!Il. Alger, -of Iloston, is. writing a i Discourse on Insanity, llis" life of Kdwin Forrest is approaching completion, j ' Any man who buy a tovn lot in Greeley, Colorado Territory, must jiiru the temperanco pledge when ho receives. too aeeil. i A burlesque history is to appear in Paris numbers, profusely il sous each. of Xa(olcon III in one hnndrcd ustrated,ut two 4 Tho wri tors' of dimol novels are said to bo better paid than any of the maga zine authors, and tbo brain-work is not half so great, j j ' j The Hutchinson family wero refused tho use of a public hall in a hotel in Uniontown, Pa., because they Ring tem perance songs. j A now Texas paper announces its po sition thus: "In religion wo aro con servative, and wo intepd to adhere to the cash system." . j- I I - 1 An association of master barbers iu Berlin havQ decided to puhlislrnn organ in tho interest of their icraft, and' to call it DcrBlutcgel (The Leech.) Tho London Dook.scUcr laments tho decadence of Irish literature, and comes to the conclusion that the best Irish in tellects aro now out of Ireland- i The St. Louis (HoIjc, speaking of rail roads, says: "Those open and notori ous enemies of tie- human race." llather rough on transportation. It is rumored that Mr. Ilaucrolt, our Minister to Uerlin, has! tendered his re signation to President i I rant, on account of his advanced years ajud failing health. The union jot" publishers in lieip.ig have published a formjal declaration to tho ell'ect that hereafter they will em ploy no ono belonging to the Printers Union. j . , ' ; f The students of ehe 'esleyan Univer sity at Middletown, Conn., dissent from the admission of icimtilu classmates by a vote of 133 to ;j:5, tho jshecp's eyes bo ing cast in the minority, A new History -of Ireland is in press from the I pen of an -Irish professor f history, IDr. .Clement,! of Kiel. 44 Ire land in 1671; i is the -tille of a new work by Dr. James McCaul i. , It is not what wo ca , but what we digest, that makes us t we read, but. what we makes us learned; il earn, but vhut vc cav rich. - . ' i tt ; it is not wl at renumber, that is not what wo , that makes, us Mrs' (Jen. I. II. She Columbbsl Ohio, ladii wood aud other i aro inuugurat- ing a movement to enliht the sympathies of the.'lad.ies of the .State in contributing to a fund !to erect a memorial monu ment to the Carev sisters. I The editjor of a New the other day that a in found in thu Audrs. wrote to ajmah in Sou irk paper heard, .v p;is had been He immediately h America that he pass was his, and h p would bo much obliged it j he. would 1 Tho revised Kng'is rward it at onco. censm returns how thatjthe populaf on of tho United Kingdom !m 187 w.-i:, agair.s ,070,o:Jl n lbil ; Ireland decreased 0.7 per cent. Tho area England and roturns is ,J7,- Wales ty thu corrected 310,221 acres.! ' It is safe to say that tho most popular humorist in the UidUd Stales just at present is Hailey, tho ridiculous genius of tho Danbury A' ivi. i And yet he does not lecture, and. never has published a book. Uijing him out! The foil odieals li each : ' iwing C'erman weekly peri tvo ihe circulation allixcd to rlenlaubc, :!2(,0lK copies ; lhi- licim, 11U,(h.'; IUusLi itlc Zeitiuiy, -Ps,000; Slutlgnrt Jtlnstrnlcd AY'.v, 12.".,000: Klar(dera xlalxch, fd.hCO. In the 1 atest issiio ot Jtuskin s own edition ot'lhis works, ho mildlvf observes that of America" I usually say nothing. because, ss a nation, t ley set their trust iu U0irlikm equnlitjj ol which 1 detest possibility of tho the one and deny tne other. A rev it ver bavin aid that a novel pen," an to learn was writti n "with llowiiig editor rei ins: "We are isimi that this authoress uses a flowing pen ; she shows her judgment ; it there's any thing we jlesnise it's 4 pen 'that won't give ink lieadily." j Ijouiso'kliiehlbach has just published a 'new historical no dl, under tho title 44 Tho' Thirty Yeamf War." I-ouiso Otto's new novel bears tho title 44 Koine in Germany," and Paul Ilevso's forth coming novel, " Tho Children or the World." , Mr. God kin's lectures at Yalo College have been postponed.! His subjecta aru the following: 1, The 5a-U of legisla tion ; 2, 'Thu Distribution of Property ; , The Social function of t se Capitalist; 4, The Possiblo Future of tho Laborer ; ! 5, Marriage as a Civil Institution ; u, Kecent Socials Ideal- Coinptism. and Cominuui-sBi. ; Perfect friendship puts u under tho necessity! of being virtuous?. As it ran only be preserved j among estimable persons. It forces us to resemble them. You find; in friendship tho surety of gK)d counsel, .the emulation of good example sympathy jin our griefr, suc cor in our distress. Madame de Lam bert. j Baxter; tlic New . Yorjc sleam-on-canal -man, closes the report of his three round trips thus : 44 In view of all these facts I think tho problem of steam navi gation on the canal is not on!ydemon strated to be a success, but that boats can be propelled at one-half the cost per ton per mile that it can bo dono by horses, and in one-half tho time, thus doubling the capacity of tho canals." Robert -Kettle, a temperanco mis sionary lin Glasgow, left a few tracts with aVoung lady on j morning. Calling at tho satne house af(:w days afterward, he was rather disconcerted at observing the tract doing duty as curl-papers on the head of the damsel to whom he had riven them. "Wcelj ma lassie," he re- rnarkcil,, l nee you navo usou ine tracts I left wi'! ye j but," he added, in time to turn coniusion intd merriment, "ye have putten them on tho wrang side o' your neau, ma wuiuau. .
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
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