North Carolina Newspapers

h4 djlhaftara mxL sr i it n ii H. A. LONDO,1 jr, EDITOR AHD PROPRIETOR. BATES OF ADVERTISING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Ono sijuaro, oiio Insertion, Ono Miiaro, two liisortlniiA,- Olio square, olio month, 11.0 l.M S.N One eory, one year, . Un copy, ilx mouths Omo copy, thraeanonUis,- flCO .1.00 ; r - v ' : vol. i. PITTSBORO CHATHAM CA, N. C, MAY 1, 1870. NO. X. To the Percaved ! Headstones, Monuments Aim "' tombs; inths BEST OF LIARBLE. Oood Workmanship, and Cheapest end Largest Variety in the State. : far, torn Morgan and Blonnt etreets, below Wyon'e livery stables. Aidress all eommnalaoUoDS to CATTOJI WOLTX, Raleigh. K. O. I aitd W. L LONDON Will Keep Them. Hli Spring anil Pummer Block la very Urge and extra Cheap. Ilemember, HE KEEPS EVERTTHmG And always keep, a Fall Supply. He keeps the largest (took of PLOWS. PLOW CAST INGS and FARMING IMPLEMENTS fat the Ooonty, whioh be aelli at Faotory Prioe. Baa Boll-tongues, BhOTel-plow., Sweeps.- eh?., m cheap aa yon oaa boy tbe Iron or Bteel. He keep tbe inert and beat itoek of GROCERIES! SUGARS, COFFEES, TEaS. CUBA MO LAbSES, FINE HIRCPS AND FANCY GROCERIES. Ha buys goods at the Lowest Prioea, and take, adrantage of all dlaeonnta, and will .ell Kods aa eheap for CABH aa Uiey oan be nght in the State. Yon oaa always find DRY GOODS! Fancy Good., mob aa Ribbon., Fiowtre, Lacee, Tail., Raff., Collars, Cornell, Fan., Patasols, Umbrella., Notiona, Clothing, HARDWARE, TINWARE, DRUGS, FAIXTS MIXED AND DRY OILS, CROCKERY. CON FECTIONERIES. Very large a !oek Boot. Hata for Men, Bot., Ladies and Children. Carriage Material; SEWING MACHINES Naila. Iron Farnitnre: Cbewiug and Rnioking Tobaoeo, Cigar., Huuff; Leather of all kinde, and a thoaaand other thing, at the CHEAP, STORE I W. L. LONDON. Fitiaboro, N. 0. H. A. LONDON. Jr., Attorney at Law, PITTSBORO', Ji. V. 9-Special Attention Paid to ColleoUng. J. J. JACKSON, AT TOR NE Y-AT-L AW, riTTSliOItO',X. c. EaVAU buslnoea entrusted to him will re. ealTe prompt attention. W. B. AHDER80W, PrwU.nt. P. A; WILIT, Casnlar. CITIZENS .NATIONAL BANK, or RALEIGH, X. C. J.D.WILLIAMS &CO., Grocers, Commission Merchants and Produce Buyers, FAYETTEVILLE. N. C. NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO., OF RALEIGH, X. CAR. F. H. CAMKRON. TYMftimt W. K. AMDKKSON, Tit TVm. W. H. HICKS, The cnlj Home Life Insurance Co. in the State. All lta fund loaned out AT HOME, and among: oar own people. We do not send ltortnT Caroline money abroad to build up other Butee. It la one of the moat encceasful com pools, of Its aire In the United States. Its aa. eele are amply suflklout. All losaea paid promptly. light thousand dollara paid In th. las Iwo year to families In Chatham. It will oat a man aged thirty years only Are cenU a day to Inaure for one thousand dollars. Apply for further Information to H.A. LONDON, Jr., Gen. Agt. PITTbBORO', n. C. JOHN MANNING, Attorney at Law, rnTCECSO', it. c, fcialm Is Iks Uoarts el Ckatkaaa, Hr.tl, Iim Ml Oraage, la tte Sayremeaad federal The Feel's Prayer. The royal feast waa done; tbe knag eougnt some new sport tebaalsh cere. Aid to his jMtar ortad. "Sir toot, Kneai aow, and auks for aa a prayer!" The jester doffed his eap and bsU, And stood the mocking ooart before; ftieycowd not see tbe Utter aaute . Behind the painted grin he won. He bowed hi. bead aad bsot his kaaa CpWa the monarch's ellkea stool; Bit plina roioe .rose, "Ok Lord, Be merciful to me, a looi! "Ho pity, lord, eonld change the heart ' From red with ndi to whtss aa wool; The rod most hssl the sin; bat Lord, Be merciful to aa. a fooll " Tla not by guilt the onward sweep Of troth and right, eh Lord, ws stsy; Tla by oar foUlee that so long We bold the earth from hearen away. "Tbw sltunsy feet, stlU In the mire, Ou crnsaiaal elesaseas wsMwt mt These hard, well-meaning hsnds we thrnst Among tbe heart-strlags of a friend. "The Ill-timed truth we might have kept Who koowa bow sharp It pleroed and stungr Tbe word we hare not sense to say Who knows bow granJly It had rang? "Onr faults no tenderness should sat, The chastening stripe mnst olesnss them all; Bnl for our blunders ob, in shame Before the eyes of heevsa wa fall. "Earth bears no balsam for mistakes; Men orown the knave snd scourge the tool Tbat did his will; bat Thou, oh Lord, Be merciful to me, s lool!" The room was hashed; In silenoe rose The king, and sought his gardena cool, And walked apart and murmured low, "Be merciful to m, a fooll" "Atlantic Monthly,'' A Slight Misunderstanding, 'It is my opinion that it is nothing under the sun, but little misunder standing that will be all righted in the coarse of a few weeks ; we had beat not interfere yet awhile at least,' says Miss Merideth, as she plied her needle in and ont of the table cover she was embroid ering in crewels. 'Bat he looks so woefully depressed my heart aches for him, and as for Lil ian, she mopes when he isn't by, and when he is, aLe is entirely too gay and high spirited to bo natural, by far. I dou't see how the matter is to be 1 right ed ' if one or the other of them don't apologize t explain,' and Miss Moao by's voice, as well as hands, tremble, as she ' slipped one and took op two ' of the stitches on the bead parse she was cro oheting. The conversation was held in a cozy little sitting-room off a largo parlor in a fashionable boarding-honso, and the speakers, Miss Merideth and Miss Mose by, were maiden annts of the two nn fortunatcs mentioned as being victims of a 'uianuderstanding.' The affair in question, waa ono of those erratic oonrses into which the stream of true love so often rnns. Ralph Merideth had met and fallen desperately in love with Lilian Moseby that winter, while dwelling under the same roof. He was a student attending lectures at one of the colleges in the city, preparatory to taking his degree, and notwithstanding he had oonjngated the verb in more than one language, many times before, be now for the first time understood what it meant when he said : Te amo.' He was a reserved, diffident, gentlo sort of a fellow, unused to girls and their ooquetries, and Lilian Moseby, who was born a dirt, although a really true heart ed girl, not only charged, but puzzled him as well, with the ever varying shades of character she assumed at times. Lil had had scores of admirers be fore, and her twenty years counted twice his twenty-four, in point of ex perienoe with the opposite sex. She had never had just each a lover before, however, and aa a 'rara avis' oonnts doable in a girl's estimation of the ' game she baga ' or the scalps she adds as trophies to her belt of fascinations Lil felt not a little exaltation in know ing that she was theonly girl to whom Mr. Merideth had ever been known to to pay his diffident, yet devoted atten tions. The affair had progrossod favorably for several weeks ; the two annts nod ding their heads and smiling at the young people's evident attraction for one another, and oongratnlating them selves that a match after their maiden hearts were being made, without any strong efforts on their parts. AH went smoothly enough until tbe evening of the 'Lady Washington Reception, a little sociable gotten np by the boarders in tbe house, to oelebrate Washington's birthday. To this party esoh member of the sociable was privileged to invite a few friends. Among the strangers present, a certain Lieutenant Rich, gorgeous in his fall dress naval uniform, the guest of Miss Moseby, was the ob served of all observers. lie had jnst returned from a three years' cruise, and waa as pleased and glad to see his old friends, Mias Moseby and Miaa Lilian, again, aa were they delighted and proud to weloome and introduce them to their friends as tfuir invited gneat Miss Lilian, the lieutenant quickly discovered, had, in these years, some what changed ; instead of the tall, half awkward school girl he remembered, he found a graceful, beautif al and seli-poev sessed belle. It is not strange, there fore, that he should, after the manner of men, take particular pains to outdo all the ether admirers at the shrine of her loveliness, and manage to complete ly monopolise her the greater part of the evening himself. His name was toon down upon her oard for all the wallies, and whan not danoing, he waa promenading with Iter, saying those hundred little nothings which are so eompanied ofttimee by anch glances as mean everything I Ralph Merideth's dark eyes saw it all; from every quarter of the room he watched the tableau vivmtit, gnawing at the ends ot his mustache the while un til it threatened to be a thing of rags and tatters. He would not ask her to dance, be waa not eoaregeous enough to brave a refusal, and he did not dare hope ahe bad saved corner for him on her card. Some one standing behind him was speaking of the oonple as they passed, Lilian radiantly lovely in her pink bro cade, the lieutenant dazzling in his brass buttons. They made a handsome pair. Over the top of her feather fan, Lil caught a glimpse of the sullen, dark, Othello-looking lover, and, it was in the nature of the woman, she smiled all the sweeter np in her partner's face. ' Didn't yon know it f ' said the voioe behind Ralph, 'be and Miss Moseby were engaged when children.' A keen sharp pain, like a knife through his heart, made him grow pale, and he staggered ont into the ball. Ho had believed so truly in her, and she was a heartless coquette I Engaged to this man from a ohild, and giving him no intimation of it, nay, luring him on to love her only in order to wound him to the quick at last ! He harried oat of the house and paced the wide streets un til dawn, and from that time, as Miss Moseby had noticed, he had not been the same. Lilian had seen him but onoe since. He kept out of her way. He was 'very mnoh engaged in his studies,' he said to ber ooldly, when she met him on the stairs one evening, ana asked him when he was coming in to hear her sing again. It shall be 'Waiting,' she said, with a tender smile and reproachful look. ' I would prefer to hear 'Beware,' he answered, going steadily np the steps. Theoonrsewos running very rough and violent. The two aunts began to feel that unless tbey took part at last, the match would indeed never bo made. ' What would you have Ralph do ?' asked Mias Morideth, after her friend had pioked np the dropped stitches on hor purse and was crocheting vigorously again. ' He has not done anything to apologize for, of that I am quite sore I' ' But ho might gpeak to Lilian I He avoids her studiously ; they have not met since the evening of the sociable to talk and langh aud be friendly togethor. What can she do ? not beg of him to oome back! No, indeed, a woman a pride will cause her to suffer a great deal before she will humbly ask the qnestion ' why f ' in the matter of a ' lit tie misunderstanding' like this ; I know all about it,' and Mias Moseby shook her hoad sadly. 'You, my dear I' said Miss Merideth looking np from her wools curiously into her friend's face. 4 Yes, I were it not for my pride I, to-day, might be a happy wife, aye, more, mother too ; for then Harry Rich, that handsome offloer, who was our guest the night of the party, wonld have been my son I ' aud Miss Moseby's eyes filled. ' Tour son I what do you mean f and Miss Merideth drops her crewels in her motion of surprise. Why, I was engaged to be married to Lieutenant Rich's father when I was a very young girl ; we too, bad a little misunderstanding, which a word might have righted ; we too were both too proud to speak it and he went West and married and I am still Miss Moseby.' There was a rustling of newspaper in the adjoining room, and as Miss Moseby ended her recital, Ralph Merideth walk ed into the little sitting-room ; he was pale to the lips. 'I beg your pardon, said he, in a low tremulous voioe, ' but Mias Moseby, I ooald not help overhearing your words just now, trere yon engaged to Lieuten ant Rich's father I" ' Yes, why do yon ask t ' replied Miss Moseby, looking surprised enongh at the qnestion. 'And yonr niece, Lilian, is she engag ed to the lieutenant?' said an eager voioe. ' No, certainly not ; Lilian is engaged to nobody ; are yon crazy I ' 'No, but I have been almost crazy and quite a fool, Miss Moseby. Anntle tell me, yon are a woman, and I am a foolish boy ; does a woman knoto when a man is in love with ber, without his telling ! The two women looked at one anoth er ; should they reveal to this man the seorots of their sex t Miss Moseby broke the silenoe. 'If she is not in love with the man she does, bnt there is that tender humility about a woman's affection, bnt when her own heart be tonohed, ahe wonders that the man the loves, can think of snob as ahe I' Thank' yon,' he said, and in an in stant left the room. The two women looked at one another again, nodded their head a, took np their work and went np to their rooms to gether. That same evening, after the two maiden ladiea had gone to church, Lil ian Moseby waa not a little startled and surprised to see Ralph Merideth walk into their private parlor, aa of ol L She was sitting under the gaslight making paper flowers, lilies for the Easter deco rations. She rose qniokly as he came to ward her, and in a timid toap, said : 'I am glad to see you-again Mr, Merideth ; auntie has gone to church, bnt I will entertain you as well as I oan without her ; will yon be stated ? ' He still stood, looking down into her now pale face. 1 1 wanted to see you alone, he be gan, hesitatingly. I am going away I came to say good-bye I want Lilian, I want to tell yon that I love yon ; I have wronged you in my thoughts, I have been madly jealous and doubted yonr truth and goodaeas, bnt I love you,' He cams a step nearer. She did not speak, bnt the oolot oarne and went in her cheeks. ' Will yon not say one word ; that yon forgive me Y I am waiting, Lilian ? ' She lifted her eyes, and they were lu minous with a light he had never seen before, but she smiled archly aa she answered : ' Hod yon not best beivare,' Ralph f ' He opened his arms as he replied, in a bolder tone : ' I cannot say more than that I love yon. Will yon permit me T ' coming still oloser. She pat out her hand for an answer, and he folded hor to his heart. The Cure For (Jossip. Everybody mnst talk about some thing. The poor fellow who was told not to talk for fear that the people wonld find ont that he was a fool, made nothing by the experiment. He was considered a fool because he did not talk on some snbjeot or other. Every body must have something to say, or give np society. Of course, the topics of conversation will relate to ahe sub jects of knowledge. If a man is inter ested in science he will talk about science. If ho is an enthusiast in art he will talk about art. If be is familiar with literature, and is an intelligent and persistent roader, he will naturally bring forward literary topics in his con versation. So with sooial and religions questions. "Ont of the abundance of tho heart tho month speaketh." That of whioh the miud is full, that of which it is furnished, will oome out in expression. The very simple reason why the world is fall of gossip is that those who in dulge in it have nothing else in them. They must interest themselves in some thing. They know nothing but what they learn from day to day, in inter course with, OLd observations of, their neighbors. What those neighbors do, what they say, what happens to them in their social and business affairs, what they wear, these become tho questions of supreme interest. The personal and social life around them this is the book nnder ooustant perusal, and out of this comes that pestiferous conversation which we coll gossip. The world is full of it; and in a million houses, all over the country, nothing is talked of but the personal affairs of neighbors. What is the euro for gossip? Simply cultnre. There is a great deal of gossip that has no malignity in it Good natured people talk about their neigh bors because, and only because, they have nothing else to talk about. Qosf lp is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, bnt by the most thorough culture relieve them selves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighbor hoods in whioh it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors make enemies by it for life. In many persoM it degenerates into a chronic diseafj which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may. Doiiieidlc Surgery. A doctor was made to blush for his ignorance, and the value of a woman's wit demonstrated a few days ago in In diana. A child at Fort Wayne had the misfortune to suck a kernel of corn into its windpipe. The doctor was sent for in baste, and announced that it would be necessary to perform the operation of traohetomy to save the child's life. The Hoosier mother, familiar with do mestic surgery of a different sort, and not pleased with the idea ot having the e iild's windpipe cut open, seised the, sufferer by one leg, and holding him np, head downward, administered sun dry resounding spanks. There waa a sonnd not nnlike the report of a pop-gun and the kernel of corn was ejected with groat force. The child was at onoe re lieved, and recovered, ot course. The iron trade shows marked signs of improvement in Ohio and neighboring States. Furnaoe companies are said to be putting their idle furnaces into blast, rolling-mills and forges that have been shut are starting np, and others are be ginning to be run on double time. There is an increased demand for pig iron, and iron generally ia selling on shorter time and nearer oash than for merly. Altogether, the outlook ia rep resented to be decidedly encouraging. We suppose, when a woman has all the nin raonv aha wants, aha has at tained the pin nickel of her happineas. We are asbamed of tnia, now we have said it ; bnt never mind ; it will help to fill rip. Ilawkrye. Fashion Items. Organdies have wide and beautiful border for self -trimming. Grenadines are seen in Btripes, as well as daniasfe. The fancy buntings are beautiful, and not expensive. Moss, wood brown, gray and black are the colors of the new spring goods. The hair must never be arranged down on the head for full dress occa sions. India muslin dresses are finished by maasea of little soft raffles hemmed with white or oolored floss. Scarlet poppies and oream-hned mignonettes mingle in millinery flow ers. The walking hats nearly all droop in front and rise high in the back, where tho greater part of the trimming is mass ed. The front has often no adornment except two rows of rich ribbon placed one above the other so as to show nil their beauty, but at the back flowers and knots of silk or satin are arranged and feathers curve npward nntil their tips rest upon the crown. Perfectly plain nndros sed kid is sup erseding embroidered gloves, both in Paris and ia Lin don. Mittsstill re main in favor for dinner wear. Garnet is apparently to continue in favor, if one may jadge from tho num ber of garnet bonnots and from the fre quency with which garnet ribbon is em ployed as a trimming. In somo places itia hold in place by garnet chips, whioh fasten the strings at tho back, and glow among the folds of velvet in the face trimming in others; it ia com bined with roses. Necklaces, pendants, bracelets and earrings of painted silk buttons, sewed on to narrow ribbon of the same shade, are pretty ornaments. On caoh button is paiutod a beautiful siray of flowers. A fashion journal in recounting the magnificent costumes at a recent gather ing in Washington thus desoribos one of the dresses: It wits all white; tho satin tcblier was covered with a network of white oheuillo, and tho brocaded train wa fastenod down at intervals with large white chenille bows, and eveu the long pointed bodioo was covered with ohinelle network. This dress was mado expressly to wear with a Bet of roaguitl cent sapphires and diamonds. Auother very beautiful dress had a skirt ot wlnto watered Pukin, ninde in the now shapo called "Serpent;" tho train trimmed with fonr rows of white satin and uroton laoe. It was drapod with silvery gauze, brocaded with pink flowers. The paniers were surrounded with garlands of silver thistles, and two silvery-gauze scarfs were fastened at the kneo with similar thistles. The low-pointed bodice had n garland of flowers crossing it; and the headdress wan a chaplet of thistles powdered with diamond". The Largest Infant on Record. The largest infant at a birth of which there is anv authenticated record was born in Ohio. The new-born boy was twenty-three and three-quarter pounds in weicht ftho ordinary weight being about six pounds), and thirty inches in height (the ordinary height being about twenty inches). The ciroumference of the head was nineteen inches, and the foot was five and a half inches in length. Six years ago the same woman became the mother of a child eighteen pounds in weight and twenty-four inches in heittht. Tho size and weight of the babe, though extraordinary, nre propor tionate to the size of tho parents. The mother. Mrs. M. V. Bates, of Nova Sco tia, is seven feet and nine inches high , and the father, a Kentuckian, is seven feet seven inches high. Mistaken Identity. Not long ago a man was run over and killed by the cars at Evanstown, in the neighborhood of Chicago. The body was identified as that of Josiah Hill, a resident ot South Bend, Ind., who hod been at work on a farm at Winnetka, five miles from Middletown. The wid ow and daughter were inconsolable and qnite broken down after the coroner's inquest (whioh found that "Josiah Hill came accidentally to his death,") and the burial in the graveyard at South Bend. Several daya later Mrs. Hill mustered np energy enongh to go for ber late husband's effects. Lo and be hold I when she approached the farm house there waa her husband quietly at work in the barnyard. She fainted sev era! times and could with difficulty be induced to believe that it was only a very strange case of mistaken identity. As for Hill himself, it was the first he had heard of his t wn death. The foolishness of adopting any reme dy proposed by other persons than phy sicians is illustrated in the case of Simon Linton, of Rntledge, Ala., who attempt ed to cure earache, at the advice of a friend, by dropping kerosene oil in the afflioted member. In two daya time be was a raving maniac. Mr. Smith, the owner of the famons trotting mare Goldsmith Maid, has been offered $20,000 for the colt recently born to the qneen of the turf. Its aire is the fast stallion George Washington SETTLERS VP IX A It MS. (rnnlluR nn Military ('ompnnlr lo Pro I ret Their I'roufrty Amiiiixt ICniroiiili uietil by a ItHtlroml Corporation. The San FranoLsco ChronMc gives the particulars of the trouble between the settlers and Southern Pacific, which is virtually the Central Pacific railroad, The account says: A branch of what is termed the Southern PaoiQo railroad extends from Goshen, in Tulare oonnty, to tho foot of the mountains, forty miles westward in the great valley of the San Joaquin, This branch is built at an angle extend ingover a hundred miles distant from the authorized line, as desoribod by the map filed by the railroad oompony to designate the route of their road hence the grant of land made to the railroad by Congress did not includo tho land along the road as built. The entire distance noross which tho road was built was a sand and sago brush waste. For about thirty miles along tho eastern portion of the rood, the land, barren and dosolate as it was, was settled npon by a large number of poor bnt resolute pioneers, who by toil and endurance constructed about 400 miles of irrigating ditches, which brought water npon this broad Sahara and mode it one of tho richest garden spots of the world. Land that was not considered worth 81.25 per acre at once became worth from $50 toglOOpcracre, and all through tho patient labor of these resoluto farmers. The railroad owners claim that this wonderful appreciation in value is due to tho construction of the railroad. This is shown to be untrue by the fact that the land they claim along the westerly ten miles of their road, and which is not irrigated, cannot be sold for $2.50 per ocro, although the quality is tho same as the other. Tho men who Bottled upon these lands woro nion without means. They bad to construct the ditches with their own hands. They constructed hnts npon the moist lands snrronnding Tulare lake, and raised the food they lived upon while building tho ditches. Many of tlicso men rocently informed a roporter that they sometimes lived on beans alono for wocks nt a time while doing that work, and frequently they did not know, when eating ono meal, wbero tho next ono was to oome from. And now the railroad company has com menced hundreds of actions in ejectment to evict these settlers from the homes they have mado valuable. As might be expected, they hava ritton np as one man to defend and protect their firesides. Six companies of cavalry were formed al Hanford, on tho lino of V.o railroad, and they express a determination to use such foroo as may bo necessary to drive the invader from their doors. Tho settlors aro determined to carry the contest to tho Supreme Court of the United States, and insist that one case, which shall be a test ono for all, is suf ficient; but tho railroad company sees fit to commence separato suits against each one, evidontly with the intention of freezing out most of them at law, and thns forcing them to purchase theirown homos at extortionate prioes from the company. In the meantime every indi vidual caso is to be prosecuted. Nover wore a thousand men more determined. The railroad company cannot afford to invite the consequences of such a strug gle, Tho settlers express a purpose to die by their hearthstones rather than submit to tho contemplated outrages, and call npon tho oflioers of the law to resign rather than execute the processes nvoked to drive their friends and neigh bors from the homes which they have bnilt np, Unless prndenoo npon the part of the railroad shall prevail, it is more than probable that tho first great blow against land m9nopoly and cor poration greed will be struck in the San Joaquin valley. Tho revenue offloers have caught two adroit smugglers in New York harbor. It was known that largo quantities of tine Cuban cigars were put npon the market without having paid duty, and officers wore dispatched in a small tug boat to wateh all incoming Havana steamers. They wore Anally rewarded by observing two men in a rowboat, picking np packages from the surface ot the water, whereupon the detectives gave chase to the boat and captured the men ami thoir booty, which proved to be choice Havana oigars, wrapped care. fully in India rubber bags, which had been thrown overboard from an incom ing steamer. A singular accident occurred to a young lady in Illinois, who cleaned a twelve bntton pair of kid gloves with gasoline, put them on her hands to dry in shape, and to facilitate matters thrust her hands over a gas-jet, when the in flammable material caught from the flame, and before aid oonld bo rendered the flesh was burned from her hands and arms. An exohange says : " You can't ad vertise enough in a week to last a whole year, any more than yon can eat enough in seven days to last 3C5, and yet some so-called business men and boarding' housekeepers seem to think bo." One Kentucky family reports cine oases of measels in active operation si multaneonsly. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Paganini inspired Liszt. Joe Jefferson is fifty years old. A Gorman physician orders fresh fruit and oysters for gout and indiges tion. The famons trotting stallion Woodford Mambrino, died in St. Louis a short since. The Iowa Supreme Ooart says rail roads are not responsible for locomotive sparks. The first of April fonnd strawberries were Belling in Philadelphia for $1.60 per quart. The Boston Globe thinks a felon oa the hand ia wntae than two ia th peavi tentiary. It isn't the oaring of patients that tronblos a yoang doctor as much as the procuring them. A newspaper man in Texas has mar rio.i $2,000,000, and a sorrowing brother adds "please exohange." An Albany florist is endeavoring to arrango a maton Dotween a Virginia creeper and a scarlet runner. An iron firm at Phconixville, Pa., has taken a contract for building three miles of bridges in tho repnblio of Chili. Rev. Dr. Ingraham.who died recently in Sootlandat the age of 103, is said to have been the oldest minister in the world. Mrs. John Horine, of Anderson oonn ty, Kentucky, a few days ago gave birth to five children at one time. Tbey are all living and doing well. The inmates of tbe Auburn (N. Y.) State prison earned $11,230 during one month ; the expenses footing np $9,934; a profit of nearly $2,000. Texas cattlo are on the move north ward. The yield of the south western part of the State this year will, it is es timated, bo npward of 100,000. Two hundred and eighty yonng men have been fined $300 eaoh at Mnlhonse, Alsace-Lorraine, for not presenting themselves for the conscription. In tho olden time a lady's hair rarely c'tangod nntil she was over fifty; in these days a lady's hair will often show several shades of eolor before she is thirty. Whilo the Connecticut Valley farmers ore reducing the aoreage of the tobaoeo crop, the York county (Pa.) agricultur ists are putting more land to its culti vation. If thoro are any more royal wedding, loathe , receptions and departures, Mr. Tennyson says ho shall strike for higher wages. Tho laureate business is becom ing irksome. Let a man pull a ntraw ont of a hay mow at Leadville, Col., to pick his teeth and the first thing he hears is: "Say, yon thief, did yon know hay was worth $200 a ton around here?" Vast beds of superior magnetic iron oro have boon discovered near Shimers villo, Lehigh county, Pa., and extend over an area of country twenty miles in length and five in breadth. At the funeral of ex-Sheriff Wm. S. Hoginoump, of Paterson,N. J., 100 chil dren, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were present. He had 18 chil dren and all of them married. There was a slim-built young damsel in Taunton, ana nesn sne most sadly was wantin' ; she had plenty of chin, but hor form, ah, so thin, e'en a skeleton skirt it looked gaunt in. Tho ex Empross Cwlotta, the unfor tunate widow of Maximilian, ia hereaf ter to livo at the chateau of Bnnohout, which dates from the twelfth century. It was onoe ocoupiod by Everard de la Mark, brother of the Wild Boar of Ar- denncp. I wish yon wonld give me that gold ring on your finger," Bail a village dandy to a conntry girl, "lor it resem bles the duration of my love for yoa ; it has no end." "Excuse me, sir," she said, "I choose to keep it, for it is like my love for you ; it has no beginning." The special train which brought Con gressman Whiteaker from Ban Franois -co to Washington to participate in the organization of tho Honse, made the quickest trip from ooean to ocean yet recorded, occupying fonr days, fourteen hours and thirty minutes actual run ning time. Daring tho tea years ended Decem ber 31st, 1878, no fewer than 1,159 per sons were killed in London and 23,379 maimed or injured by vchioles of various descriptions, the largest proportion of acoidents being caused by light oarts, by whioh 215 persons lost their lives and 7,131 were injured. Mrs. Willis, an aged lady ot Camber- land oonnty, Ky., died recently, and left Sl.COO to the editor ot the Glasgow (Ky.) Times, in token of the comfort she had found in reading his paper in her a rrow. Every Western editor will now begin to print columns of comfort for aged and rich women. Wash a baby np clean and drert him np real pretty, and he will resist all ad vances with a mst superlative cross ness; but let him eat molasses ginger bread aud fool around the coal hod for a half-hour, and he will nestle his dear little dirty face close np to yonr clean shirt bosom, and be jnst the lovingest, cunningest little rascal in all the world.