North Carolina Newspapers

SFh Cjihalham jmori H. A. LONDON, Jr., j KWTon .: rniiiMJiKTui:. I in' ADVERTISING. ' iiu ffjti:ir, out in-i llon, m sitir, I IhHMiit.hR, Uiip wiiihrf. one jtii')M h, - II. WJ 2.W TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Omr.tr "IM' yt-r . One copy , thu-e month, - - VOL. II. PITTSBORON CHATHAM CO., N. C, OCTOBER. 2, I87J). NO. 3. To the Bereaved I Headstones, Monuments sso TOMBS, IN THE BEST OF MARBLE, Good Workmanship, anil Cheapest sad Largest Variety in the Slate, l ards comer Morgan aud Blonnt streets, below Wynn's livery .table. Address all rommnnicationn to CAYTON & WOLTE, Ril-itrh, N. C. W. L LONDON Will Keep Them. His Rpring and Bummer Stock is very largo and extra Cheap. Iwmemt.tr, HE KEEPS EVERYTHING And always keeps a Full finpnlv. Ho koepn Uie largost stock of PLOWS. PLOW CAST INGS and FAlilllNU 1MPLEMEN1S in the Ooonty, which ho sell, at Factory Prices. Hm Ball-tongues, Bhovel-plnws. Sweeps. e' as cheap as yon can bnv the Iron or Htoel. Ho keeps tbe flnoet and bent stock of GROCERIES ! Sugars, Cfffrcs, Tea, Cuba Molasses, Fine Sirups and Fancy Oroceriei, He buys coods at the Lowest Prioes. and takcB advantage of all discounts, aud will sell gonds as cheap for CASH as thev OHn be bought in the H'.ato. Yua can always find DRY GOODS ! Fancy Ooods, such as Ilihbous, Flowers, Lines, Vail, Rutf. Collar, Cornets, Fane, Paiasole, Umbrellas, Notions, Clothing, HARDWARE, Tinware, Drugs, Paint Mijrrd and Dry Oils, Croccry, Confer iotu;r it . SHOES! Very large stock Bxta. Ladies and Children. Hats for Men, Ioys, Carriagu Mattiiiai?! SEWING MACHINES Nails Iron Furniture; Chewing and Pninkinr Tobacco, Cigars. Snarl; Leather of hit lines, and a thounaud other things at tho CHEAP STORE! W. L. LONDON. PIITSBOBQ. N. O; H. A'. LONDON, Jr., Attorney at Law, IITTSBOKOX. . Special Attention Pnid t Collet' inq. J. J. JACKSON, AT TOR NE Y-AT-L AW, rinwtoitfi', x. v. t-AU business entrust, M to h!m wilt re. r.Wvo prompt Rttentlon. E. ANDERSON. Pr.ild.nt. P. A: WILET, C.iul.r. CITIZENS . NATIONAL BANK, KALKKai, X. C. J.D.WILLIAMS & CO., Grocers, Commission Merchants and Produce Buyers, FAYETTEYILLE. N. C. NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO., OF RALEIGH, . GAR. F. H. CAMERON. Frt,i.pt. W. E. ANDERSON. IV .. W. II. HICK8, H-f'y. The only Home Life Insurance Co. in the State. All It fund loaned out AT HOliK, ami among our own people. We do r.ot send North Carolina money abroad to build up oilier But n. It Is one of the most succes-ful com panies of Its age In the United States. Its as sets are amply sufficient. All Iosms paid promptly. Eight thousand dollars paid In the last two years to families in C'tiathnni. It will cost a man aged thirty years only five cents a day to Insure for one thouaml dollars. Apply for further information to H.A. LONDON, Jr., Gen. Act. PITT8BOKO', N. C. JOHN MANNING, Attorney at Law, PITTSBOEO', N. C, PruliM. In th. Cuarls "I Chatham, n.ra.tl Mo.it sad 0r0(, aud la th. Buprenioad l'lrsi Oaan. Safe from the Storm. The wind blt-w npna'd from the lea Tho mist, around fie headland lay, Aud hero and there the anohorod ahips Rooked in the shelter of the bay. The waves roiled in npon the sands, Tho nhito spray dashed across tbe bar, Tho clouds hung low and through them shone No ray of moon or gleam of star. The tempest roui.h raged sore aud long Around my eaUu by the shore ; It whistled by tho chimney tops And through the orannios of the door ; I' shot k the window panes and shrieked Like some lot spirit iu despair j Yt in my little room was light, Aud rLei ry comfort settled there. The logs njMjn tuo hearthstone craeked, My chair was nioved before tho binge ; And wi:h half-closed eyes I drew A picture of tho by-gone days. With tender thoughts ani mind serene (1 love sncH ptorruy nights as tht se), I cr.lli.-d up from tt,s drifted past A thonsuml pleuaut memories. No foiling raro i:.y flnres had, No heavy frame emboBiitd with cold, Hut still the csnvaas gn;w most fair With rndinut faces manifold. Tho loved ones all were gathered there, Blue oieri and brnwu aud dainty forms, Till gazing at thrm I forgot The outside war of winds and storms. And thus I thought, whon I am dead, The blinding n.l.t, the biting wind, Tbe tossing waes, the reefs, the aho&ls Of lower life all left behind, 1 fhill behold my friends again i Shall pros their bauds aud touch their lips In snuio fail harbor safely moored, As are those distant, land-looked ships. AN ARTISTS REWARD. The family at Diersfielil was rather (iugnlftrly grouped. The children of the h uo wore of divided parentage. IJelle was the danghtcrof Deorsfleld'sprceent hwner. Jane was his orphan niece. Caroline, the only child of a widowed mother, wan destined to be heiress of DeeieSeld nftor tho lifetime of hercous- iu Belle's father. Joo wns tho half brother of Uelle by her mother's former maninRe. IIu was An orphan, possessed of a substantial patrimony. The guar diiitis of the four children were tho mas ter of DaersuVld a:nl the mother of Car- oliue.who very haimonionsly ruled theRe incongruous elements giyen into their eare by a ptrango fare. Hello and Jane were not diflli?nlt to manage. Joe, fitntle lad, gifted with a wonderful talent for coloring to the life, and afflicted with a sUtnmeriDg opeech that made him reticent of talk and shy of eompan ionhip, was devoted almost to the de gree of solitude in his ceaseless applica tion to his art. Caroline was a tease atid a romp, forever in disgrace. It was no matter of surprise to Joe that on the morning after Oharlie Evans' fancy ball tho Danghter of the Regiment was in eolitnry confinement as punish ment of some unpardonable act. She hailed Joe from her window as ho crocs the lawn, motioning to him thut she wanted to let down a basket for provi sions, as she would not end could not eat 'dry bread.' Joe had botn her forager before; her slave he always vras. To say truth, he loved this wild, naughty, solf assertiTO playmate of his with all the secret fer vor of a boy's heart. Caroline was aware of tbe hidden sentiment, and im posed npon tho homage egregicusly. Joe having BatibUed himself that the coast was clear, received tho basset which Caroline dropped from her win dow with a cord. The basket contained a thrce-eoruered note. 'Drar Joe: It's perfectly shameful i hat I m locked up. I should Btarve if it were not for you. All I did was to go up in the cupola last night with Charlie Evu'js to see his caged eagle. Poor tinng, it jjinei. And it was so nice up tin re, Mastoid an hour. Mamma was awfully angry. So was Ben, fur I was t.ngaged two dances with him, and mise eel both. Oh, Joe, yon ought to have btmn there! it was ry poky in you not to come late, as you promised. CAB.OLINK.' A quick, sharpflush crossed Joe's faee ax he read tliis note, not in disgust, as one might imagine, at the mundane ap petite of his fair goddess, but at tho one sentence of tho note not market! em phatically with underline: 'Up in the cupola last night with Charlie Evans.' Joe smothered his jealous pang, brib ed Nun, tho oook, liberally, and sent the basket rip to Caroline so heavily lotided that one ounce more would have broken the cord. Mamma from a tc sess of the library window caught a glimpse of this trans action, but by the time she reached the third story, unlocked tbe door, and oon irouted her prisoner, banket and contents had alike vanillic-.' . Caroline's lips were extremely red, but otherwise there was no sigu that anything had been devour ed. Mho sat iu the window-space break ing bread ino crumb '; a flook of wood birds hovered around her. I cannot eat dry bread, mamma,' fhe Baid; 'but my birds do, they seem to love it. 'Carrie, Carrie, what a girl you are!' said mamma. She meant to be reproach ful, but her voice was not stern; she was viewing her daughter in one of those winning traits that offset her hoiden ways. The rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed Carrie was an attractive creature as she sat in the snnlight feeding the birds, which, answering her call, pped from the grove, and alighted fearlessly on her head, her hands and her shoulder?. Mamma's forgiveness was won by the pic'.uro. To Joe, looking from below, the vision wsh even more picturesque: the dormer- window in the gray roof oveihuug with vines of woodbine ar.d wistaria, the dark reoess relieving the tun-lit figure, the smiling faee welcoming the birds. As years passed on, the three pretty schoolgirls became winning and won young ladies. Hi-llo ninrnod first, then Jane, and now Caroline was engaged to bo married to Charlie Evans, in f-pite of the remonstrance of many of her friends, who knew the young mau to be as no principled in morals as he wan baudsome in person. Willful Caroline auswered to nil ro monstrmne: 'I hovo loved him all my life; I like him; aud I have promlHod to be his wife.' On the day that this engngement was announced, Joo nailed from America to study in Italy hia art. There had been n stormy srene the night before. When Caroline deliber ately told Joe that her hand was irrevo cably promised to his long-dreaded rivnl, Joe's anguish wsb HorLothintt too com plcte to ha hidden; its intensity and force shocked Caroline. Khe knew not what to say to this faithful lovor of years t alleviate his pain. She boldly spraug to the defensive, and then to an aggres sive course. She sharply, almost coarse ly, reproved him for having lavished his heart npon one who could not by ary possibility return his affection. They parted more in anger thin iu sorrow. Suoh was Caroline's eaprics; and Joe, renouncing all hopo of happi nees, tried to draw consolation from tho sol' reflection : 'I have my art.' One August night, a month before the time fixed for Caroline's marriage, a menage was brought to her from the village that lay in the beautiful valley at tho foot of the rolling .uplands of Deersfleld. Close uuder tho gateways there lived a ymnr woman who had been for severul yetrs seamstress at 'the mansion,' and who, gathering together all her earnings, established herself, with her aged mother, in the modest cottage which sho hopod to call home for a happy lifetime. Brit ceaseless toil with tho needle told upon her strength aud she had fallen a victim to consump tion. Her days were nearly numbered, and she had st nt the message to her 'dear Miss Caroline, who had always been so indulgent,' to please to c.ime soon as possible to rt eeivo a dying wo man's request. Carolino, although the hour was lute, said 'I will go at once.' As was her in dependent way, she started forth on her errand unattended, and bidding her mother 'good night,' addod, 'Do not bo alarmed if I remain until daybreak.' Tho house she entered was a cottage bo built that its porch had double en trances. One of theso opened into the dwelling of the poor seamstress; the other had been cecupied Biuoe May by a master-workman in a factory beyond the village, himself a stranger to the region, who brought with him as house keeper his daughter, a cirl of uuuBual beauty, a rustic queen, a blonde of thut vital temperament which gives to youth ful health its most expressive form. This daughter, Mag Merritt, became the village belle. As Curoliua entered the porch the Merritt's portion of the cottage wa quite still and dark. On the other side the lattice was thrown open upon a garden crowded with fragrant plants, and a faint light gleamed out. The light was burning in the chamber, where, after a word with tho siuking sufferer and the mother enfeebled by grief, Ciroliue de cided to remain all night. Before midnight the purposo for which the mistress of Deersfleld had been summoned was duly oon tided to her ear; and then sleep fell on tho sufferer, and Caroline, having dismissed the aged watcher, was alone. She turned the lamp low and drew her chair by the window, where tho perfume of the gar den floated iu tho mingled breath of carnation aad rose. For years after that, night the soeut of those precious flowers sent a faintness to Carrio's heart and a pallor to her lips like tho poinon of deadly plants. Near midnight, when all was Btill save tho midsummer insects humming iu the trees, and tho distant rippling of the brook, approaching voices were heard. Two people were eoming along the lane. Words indistinot at first, grew clear as they came near. They were lovers' voices and lovers' words. Mag, my darling. 'Oh, Charlie, if it were not for that,' 'If it were not for that you would go with me; we would fly to the far West, to California, You would be a queen, Mag, in the unoonventional new world. We woald go together to morrow yes, to-morrow, my love, my only love.' To-morrow, dear boy, if it were not for that.' And when yon know so well that I do not love her; that I never have loved her; that it is a made match; a marriage for money I Oh, Mag, how can yon be so unreasonable V 'But the lovtt you,' said the woman's voice, now close at Caroline's ear, un der the roof of the porch. Yes, she loves me; (bf.re's the rub, That rat!n;r hurtj aieiion; he doesn't want to be hard on e;irl who lovunhiin, and l-.ts loved him all h'u life. Bat then, yon see, I cannot return h r t.flf-!etiou the kind of affection tbe wuuts. Aud she's a spirited creature, Mag; onght I to marry her as I feel now f If it hadn't been for yon, yon witch, I might have oomo to owe for her in time. Bit'., Mjg, I'm a changed man hot; I know what love is; I dread my marriage-d'iy like a funeral.' A panss a little ruBtLug pause. Then n whisper unheard; a lotidi'r whis per distiunt: 'Oh, Msg, my darling, my darling, say yes.' 'I cannot, Charlie, with that T7pJan' image before me. it would hstiut tis till our dying' Caroline heard no more. When next a Bound reached her it was the sonnd of the work a-day world. A market wagon had broken near the lane, aud the harsh voice of tho driver was wreaking upon his hones tho ftnger rotisdl by the dis aster. Tae moou ht I 'set ; i vr.t nearly day. Caroline befora noon rent a letter to Charlie Evan that made him a free mau: Something tells me that I cannot pes Bibly be yonr wife. I am aoi ry thut cir cumstances have so shaped themselves; but I am compelled to withdraw my promise D i not see me. I shall re fuse an intciview. When a year ha1 passed, and we meet again if we tnct! ugaiu let us meet us frieuds. Cabolinh.' Cuurlie Evans used his freedom. He obtained, by not striotly honorable means, a Buffliieut bum of money to ven ture fortune-seeking ai California. Et was married to Mag Merritt on his way to the West; and his friends, indignant ft the runaway match, bitterly blamed Caroline. Caroline bitterly blamed herself, but never for any act toward Charlie Evans. Her thoughts flew to her faithful lover, whom she had mercilessly tiiiledwith, and dismissed at last crnelly. She felt now vhat pangs she La J inflicted upon the earnest-hearted Joe, Now she would give years of her life to call back the past, and be u kinder girl to her faith ful friend. Since their parting she hsd j heard but seldom from Joe, and after her uncle's death the un'requtnt tidiugs altogether ceased. Now she wrote to Belle, who lived abroaJ, to sen. I her some word of 'her old friend.' Belle wrote, saying sbo wnH asbsraf d to conftbB how ignorant sLo wns; but the last bhe heard, Juo was making a furor with his wonderful paintings; he had settled himself in It jme, and the be lieved bad married the daughter of an Amerieau consul to one of the Mediter ranean ports. Misfortune followed Caroline. By n series of culpable mismanagements by people in tru6t, Caroline's inheritance was lost. Before she had tij.ijed for three years the posse6biou of her be loved Deersfleld that noble place whs. offered at publ ic salo. Since the day of her great sorrow Caroline had mot no trial like this. Indeed, her heart had flowu to all that was dear in h-:r ci uu try home as refuge from its bitter lone liness. Now this refuge was gone. Tuesday of tho sale, after having or dered the preparation of the honse and grounds with care of evt-ry detail, Caro lino mounted her favorite riding-horse, and rode far off into the wood paths. She returned after sunset, iu the twilight dusk. Sho knew as she entered the honse that all was over; she felt that tho homo was no longer hers. She felt, bravo and spirited as she was, that the world to her, save that it held her mother, wus a plaeo only of dreariest exile. She was met in the hull by one of her faithful FervanlB, who seemed to have beu weping. 'Mibb Caroline,' L fal tered, 'tho gentleman who has bought the Loubo is iu the parlor, and wibe to see you.' Caroline had been marblo-pale when this message reached ber, but now the l ot blood flashed ta her cheeks. Hae checked a violent exclamation. Her heart arose indignant against this last lemund upon her enduranee. bhe con quered hcrBelf, and Haid, 'I will see him.' But tbe geutlcrnnn whom she found iu the parlor was not the dreaded stran ger who held her treasure, not the new master of the bonee whose luitnical form her fancy had already conjured. No; it was an old friend, an artist returned from abtoad, bringing bis laurels with him an artist who had come to tell Carolino that all his fame had been won by his devotion to her image a friend como to tell Caioliue that time had not changed and never would change the constancy of bis heart. It was Joe. On the very next day to tho day of her deepair, hope dawned upon Caro line. Tbe world became soniethirg more than a plf.o of dreary exile. And you really bonght Deersfleld?' Yes; but on only with yonr yonr money the payment for your imago. Caroline with tho birds; Caroline with the blood-hound; Caroline standing in the field, with the wild colts careering toward her, only, as one iu the picture shows, to lay the trustful head against her shoulder. These pictures brought great prices. Caron Carrie, Dts fl 'Id is yours.' ' 'And jou yun dear, d.-r Joe?' It wiib Carrie who stammered now. 'I m yoniB too. My love, myqnteu, my darbus;!' Harper's Weekly, Sketch for Pilferer. Ter-terJiiy a finit-deuk-r on Market street, sajs the Louisville Courier Journal, incensed by the liberties taken by tho lonti is villi his wares displayed at the door, placul a half pr.tlun of cay enne i-ej'i er in a IjusU't, labeled it 'New Zealand Cherries,' and hung it in a conspicuous place iu front of kis stand. In a few minutes thetiext door merchant sauntered np, iuquirrd how trade wan, picked up a New Z'.-alaudoherry, placed it in his m mtit, aud suddenly left to attend to n customer. The Rev. Dr. B iwly joutnled t;, observed that the yellow fever tews from Memphis was n-t verv ereiiir.ging this morning, and ulil it had been years sinee hti had a New Eeulund cherry; whereupon ha ate one, remarked thftt it was superb, wiped his weeping ey.'sot! hs ooatsleeve, snppoRid that New Zi-aland was gettiug warmer every year, wished tbe dealer good mt nil),'; and deported, lamenting the growing weakness of his eyes in the sunlight. A chronic e'eadbent then enmo up, took a mr-uthful of cherries, r.plutterod them out, with aa imprecation, all over tho frnil, stufted a pear, a banana aud a bnrjch of grapes into his month to take out tho tni.te, informed tho dealer thaf ho would have him prosecuted for keep ing green frnit, and we'Jt down the Rtrcet to tho pump, A lndy with two children next appoired, stopped to ad mire the cherries, asked if the mightn't just taste eif them shf never had been any before supj lied tho children and walked sway walked away with a face fiery with scorn and unp.c-, while the children set np a howl that bronght all tho people to tbe doors and windows and drove nil the policemen off the street. Thus the fun went on all the saom ing. Tho frnit elcaler never laughed so iiiiicl; in all his lifo. Tho ocenpavts of the adjaernt and opposite stores and a shoal of sn-all b'lys bihiu learned what was up, and watched and joined in a ringing roar an each new victim tried the ehf rries, F'nally, a solemn-lookinp count rymun lounged up, inquired the price of them 'ere Now Z 'aland cher ries, invented iu a pint, put one in his inut!i, took it out again, gave the fruit dealei a lingering l"h of mil.l reproach, pnlle.t off his coat and 'wa led into' him. When he left, tho fruit.ian with tenden cies to practical j'-kt-s had a blue e;e, a red nose, a purple fuee, a sprained wnst and several bushels of frnit scat tered, aronnd among the small beys, while the ssnie rirging roar of laughter was going up from the loclier.i-on. Fqulne Affection. Wo have heard a great deal from Eastern travelers of the wonderful at tachment which exists between the horse and his master in Oriental lauds, but we doubt if anything more interest ing hss ever been told thau the follow ing story of Goldsmith Maid : Eccently, Charley Cjohrne, ivho was for many years her faithful groom, arrived from California, aud wishing to see the grand old trotting mare mu-1 her colt, called on Mr, Smith, her ownur, to obtain his per mission to visit Fashion Stud farm in New Jrsoy. Mr. Smith accompanied Cochrane to the farm, and on arriving there remarked : 'Charley, the Maid is very jealous ef her colt, is very cross, and will permit no one to approach it.' CiK'hraue arrauged that Goldsmith Maid ehonld hear hit vt-ico before she saw hiro, and, although they had not seen each other for two yeans, a loud whinny presently absured the visitors that the inara had recognized the man's voice. Cochrane i;ist showed hinifelf, when n a touching scene occurred. The old queen of the turf, who for mouths weald not pil-w auy one to approach ber, making use of both hels and teeth if it w:is uttempteJ, rushed with a bound to her obi friend, forgetting even her colt, aud rubbed her head upon hia shoulder, her nope in his face, played with his whihkciit, and showed by her every action that her heart was full of , joy to see him. Directly the oolt came up to thena, and the old mare was delighted when Cliadoy placed his hand on the bttle fellow. When Cochrane left the place the mare followod him to tho gate, whinnying f ir him even after he had parked out of her 6ight. The orristown Man's Story, Au exchange tells of a man who turned gray in au hour. He slipped from the side of a canyon, and catching a protruding roek, his body was sus pended in the air a thousaud feet above the roaring waters of tho Arkansas. We ones heard of a young woman who ex perienced a similar me tariorphosis. She had jet black hair, all of her own rais ing, reaching to her waist. Sho fell in love. The wedding d&y was named, and that young lat!y, who manifested con siderable nervousness during the mar riage ceremony, trtrued Gray as soon as the clergjman prouounced the couple man and wife. Tho fact that her hus band's nnrue was Gray is f npposed to have hpd something to do with the change. Constant f-nvping tho shoulders stints the growth and disfigures tha person. Texas of To-Day. A writer in Harper's Magazine, lor October gives this interesting sketch of the great Sooth western State: Texas may be, for convenience' sake, divided into eastern, central, and western tedious. The fltst, or timbered portion, hns the Trinily river as a western boundary. This region exceeds tho area of the State of New York. Central Texas may be defined as including ail of the vast prairie lands from the Trinity to the Colorado, leaving beyond a territory larger than both of the former, and ex ceeding the size of any four of our or dinary Ktatep, us the western portion. Tbe flrst-naued is the oldest in point of Anglo-Saxon civilization. Tho prairie loam lauds are in a condititn ef evolu tion of pt ogrossiou, and being the ruci t fecund, tho great or-ntcrs of population which multiplied generations will pro duce will be located within the bonuda- . .. . rics given. JUucu of the far western lands ia arid and nnculilvable. Tho Hlakrtd Plains r tlm most notable or- ample. Western Texss will lie invaded in time by the miner; for its minero! wealth, as tdready revealed, is consider able. Tho tide of emigration to tiro section will doubtless reverse the gen eral order of things, and nove eastward through Arizona. Ka'lway eouji-innicu-tiou, hereafter- spoken eif, fro'n the Tacitly, will materially uontribino ti this rtsult. At present the extreme poinf of eastern encroachment ifi the e:fy of San Autouio, whieh is only a city of the Auglo-Saxon by virtue of conquest, and mnrks the limit of a daring, bril liant and intellectna! civilization, Vthope impulse was eastward, aud which built a garden iu the plain abem the tin;e that the French took root in Indiana, and the good people of New I-Aghand were exercising themselves about the Salem witchcraft delusion. It i? reason able to assume that history may repeat itself ia this instance. The wooded country of Eastern Texas yields a rich variety of useful woods yellow pine, cypress, rd and while oak, hickory, pecan, aud cedar predominat ing. The Trinity, Sabine, Ncchop, Au -gelina, San Jacinto, aud other rivers afford taping facilities and wat-cr-prwe r at times, although water i.s an uiicertuin commodity in the State, and nearly all mills Lava ste-am-eugines. A new road will soon bisect, the lumber districts, springing from Djnisou, rear the R-'d river, ind traversing tho S ate to Sabine Pass, tvhich is sixty miles east of tiil vestot:, and already an important lum bering point. The trauscontiui ntal o.uisiou of the Texas and Pacific, as well na its main line from Marshall westward, affords uu outlet for tho northern section, while the International aud Great Northern road passes throiigh it western tier cf counties, and a road toward New Or leans connects O.-ucge, on the Sabine, with Houston. Before the cout-trnction of (ho railroad, one of the greatest tif tiiuitioH which the prnilie hettler h.;d to encounter was the scarcity of imd ex treme cost of Inmber. It sold ai bifch as sixty and seventy dollars per thou sand feet, and was often hauled hnudreds of mileB by ox-teams. The Texan lum berman finds his market ti -war ! each of tho cardinal poiut& of the eomp s. Tho cleared landa in the valleys yield a good tpiality of cotton, to tho extent of a bale of live hundred pounds to the acre. Some rice is grown iip -n the low lands bordering the Gulf, as well as tie stable Luowu ps Sea Iiland catton. Au Eagle Killed by a Woman. A farmer named Utt, who lives near one of the lukes iu j'testn towuship, I'd., Las a two-yHi-old gamecock that was presoittei to his wife, and the has taken a liaiup; to the fowl. Tuesday last, while h.r husband was absent, Mrs. lt heard n commotion asui.g the euiakens in the buruynrJ, and, on tuu ning out, found her gamo rooster g'd lantly lighting with what she Fupt'orod was a very hugo La'.ifc, which rc-is try ing to fasten its ' .lions iu ico chicken. The birds wtre so deeply engaged in the eorubat that Mr.-.. I'tt'n shouts did not drive the enaniy away. She piclovl up a stick aud raj into the bmvnrird, nnd struck tho intrmter. This did not apparently alarm it. Then :.he nizeu it l y tho neck wiili both handi, aud, for tho first time, saw that it wai; un e.ie. The powerful bird buried its claws deep in Mrs. Utt'shrm. She did not linre let go her hold, although the eagle was tearing ber flesh dr.:--.l;iii;y. She tight ened her giasp on its t-Lroat aud then threw herself heavily to the ground upon it. Iu this way she kept it down and choked it to death. The flesh on Mrs. Utt's arm was torn to the bono in piaoes. Tho eagle measured nearly five feet from tip to tip. Pignor Marcucci, of Spolete, Italy, a man of property and position, cu'lect in Dr. Domenicls to attend his only son, who was eeriously ill. If, said Marcucei, the young man recovered, Dr. Docicn cls should receive 2,000 franc; if, on the other hand, the patient died, Dr. Domenicls should be killed. Marcntvi proved to be a man of hia word, for the lad died, aud the father thereupon killed Domeniols. He was condemned to five years' imprisonment and the payment of a ne cf 85,000, to be given as damages to tho doctor's widow. JTF.MS OF G EX Fit A L IMF It EST. Trumps mend umbrellas or sell soap and pins to evade the new law. A good steer will grow from 200 to 250 pounds of meat each year nntil four years old. The Bait npray thrown up by the late rtorm at Beaufort, N. C, has killed nt.-ly all the trees there. (lauton, Miss., has one of the finest cotton factories aud oil mills in the whole South, now lying idle. It is complete in all its departments, aud the machinery is of tho very finest. Mr. Spurgeon's church, in London, employs eighty colporteurs, who, within one yoar, have visited 927,000 families and given away 102,0K) iraats and sold 511,000 worth of good books. Mr. Alexander H. Stephens is said to li'ivn received from the sales of his book on the Civil War the snm of ( 35,000. I l. I.- t f 1- l.,,!,). fta i " 1,v t'clp " l-'J ! "i"a " eftcu volume, this means a large i Eale. A New York woman whoBe husbnnd died of the rffcto, and whose health was mined by triehinckis caused by diseased n.-.rli lias ii-.stirr.ted suit for S10.000 J agauist tho packer who put tip and sold the meat. Siirr.u.-l Nussbaur: mnrdered his wife i-t Girardtnu, Mo., and was stopped iu nu tttoDipt to kill himself on tho spot ; lut he wis determined to die, and has finally acoumi.-iuLed his jurprse by starvation. The t.v?e'ics of a funeral of an Eng lish pi IJ'er iu Znlnlncd ate dedncted frtiiU urro:rs i: tho man's ppy. Natal is till ev-eupive pk'e 'or private to die in, for by the time tho carpenter and sexton have completed their labors bnt little remains of a 5 note. All tbe principal mar'tin-.e rations of of the world have agreed to a new lxidy of rules intended to facilitate navigation on the ctcan iiuJ prevent, collisions. They will not be enforoad until Septem ber, 1SS0, in order to allow rfficers and pilots to beoarae familiar with them. The . ffl-'ial orgm of thi' Chinese gov ernment, kuowu r.s the Tekin Oanttr, is cc rtiiiuly a roof.t remaikubhs journal. Not only ib it. the ohieist newspaper in existeLce, but it is highly probable that it was tho first journal ever publisher1, and what is more, the first that was ever printed. As M;s. Blar.chard, c' MouticeUo, lovra, was parking along tLe street tbe otbi r day, ti part of a sv.nrm of bees, just robbed of their honey, flew at. her head aud face iu a ch u.l mid stung her unmercifully. Over fifty bee stingers were taken from her head, and she has a Lard struggle to live. TLe inai'vit-ability of e'uily moriiageH has neve r been more fctrikiugly illustrat ed thau iu the ease of a married wtmnn of Concord, N. H., at the tender nge of fourteen years eloping with a seventeen year old gentlemau, leaving he r child to be cared for by the liu -baud of equal ycu'h?Mlu.';ss. Prec:city scli r.stlns, is fortunately rare. In eraseriuenco of au alleged esse of poisonieg from the use of American canned e-orned beef, an aualysis of Amer ican canned beef and ham has been made iu Berlin. Particles of lead, the reutlt of crelecs eoliU'nng, were found iu some cans, and tho authorities Lavo warned the public Against the use eif American canned goods. A silver mine has been opened at Cotiuna, Msiue. The (1st ustay of mr fnce ore showed i:ins dollars of gold, tliirty-tevot? ounces cf silver, lead and copper per too. Tho last a.tMey, made bii.ee pin! it g the shafts to the depth of eleven feet, skews ten doliurs of geld f.r.d ti.ty -e;fhreiuiues :f silver, besides lead pl J e'j per. I'arlits are- prospee' iug in CoruiLa and St. Alh-itn.witb good success. On 'account of the irder issued some time ago by Secretary Slurruun, requir ing that all perrouh sending national batik 'I'.te.' to the treasury for redemp tion shall pay f ie express charges there- I on, there hr.s been such a great fulling oil hi the revert t of these notes that a reduction in iiio force of the national bank reileniptio'i division has become neevs-ary, and twenty-five employees hav' bt.!! discharged, including one tel ler nr..! one assistant teller. When the F-tparapbip Castlewood, from England, was being unloaded in New York, a bale of rags was discovered ewn tai!iiu en infernal contrivance for do stroymp; the p.hip by lire, to be ignited by the tossing of the ship in tho heavy seas it wa rxpertel eho would encoun ter. Fortiitutte'ly tbepas'age was smooth. It is pnppoped to have been tho plot of fiends who bad shipped worthies:! ma terial and e-ffieted largo insurance npon it. Sfreuuons efforts are to be made to unearth the villain.). The income tax of Great Britain, no cording to a parliamentary return just issupd, was charged lat year em a total of ?fi00,00O.(J0O. This shows on in crease of S 5, 770,000 ovt tho previous year. Tiio number of persons paying the tax was 397,750, being an increase of 15 778 over the number in 1S77. It would seem thut there are 1,487 persons whose incomes pre assessed between $4 500 and $5,000, while bctweeu 15, Oof) aud 10,000 there are 12,4n3 ; under 015.(X'O, 3,w;o; uDder 52,(i0O, 1.KJ4 ; under 525, (fit), 9K I ; under 5jf',000, 1,869 ; under .250,0i)'l, fji4 ; over 250,. 000, JM