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Poetry.
THE LONG AGO.
BT CABBIE BELL SIHCLAIK.
There' a beauttal ialo In the long ago.
All flooded with golden light.
And a river that flows by the margin green,
Whoso waters are wondrous bright
There's a bark that glides with snowy Ml!,
And the music of silver oar.
That carries us back to the shining gates
Of that beautiful past once more.
Ah! eTery heart holds some sweet dream
Of a beautiful long ago
There were bright hopes nursed in the long ago.
Sweet flowers we gathered there.
An the walls of this beautiful past is hung
With many an Image fair I
And oh! there la room for the feot to tread
This path of the by-gone years ;
There are Joys that bloom In Memory's fields,
And a fount for our bitter tears.
And that fount holds many a hallowed tear
We've wept in the long ago!
There are happy dreams the heart hefda dear.
Bright dreams of -theljtQ .ago ;
And sacred tears for perished hopes
That will return no more.
Yet the soul has holy memories
That cling to departed years.
Ah! drop tho silken curtain now
Of the boautl'ul long ago t
Shut out tho light of thoae perished years,
Clwe the door of the past again.
And hush the yearning thoughts that fill
Thy soul with so much pain ;
Then roll the heavy stoue against
That sppulchr the heart t
Why should these burled forms again
To 'life and beauty start T
The future may held some dream as bright
As those of the long ago!
1 i.x
SELECTED STORY.
PEN BR A. DS HA WE.
"Yes, sir yes, Mr. Clive Soulard,
I've made up my mind. If you are
bent on marrying a woman who does
not care one fig for you, you are at
liberty to do so."
"Very well, Pen."
Mr. Give Soulard spoke very
quietly, and bent his handsome eyea
on the girl with an f-xprssiou of
mingled nonchalance and amusement.
'I don't consider it very well, Mr.
Soulard," she went on, ntttled by his
quietude. "It may be very well for
you, who man-v me for my money,
and o gt all you want. It's bad,
and wicked, and cruel, and vou know
it
"Ah ! Indeed, Pen, I was not awae
that the advantages of this arrange
ment were not mutual. I am sure I
supposed it a purely business matter
on both sides."
''To be sure, but you have every
thing else to gain, and I everything
to lose."
The shadow of a fluh arose in
Clive Soulard's chet k, but it waagone
before Penelope Bradsliawe saw it,
and he answered in the l'ght, care
less tone he had used all along :
"If you mean by gain that I give
up poverty for wealth, the miseries of
bachelorhood for married blessedness
I don't know but what you're right as
to that ; but even then what d I gain
that you don't? Yon can have the
money without me more than I can
have the money without you, and
really, Pen, if you are as lovely as a
Peri, I think I may lay claim to the
good looks of Antinous eh, Pen ?"
running his slender white lingers
tin ough the halo of bronze brown
curls that coveredhis handsome head,
and sending a laughing glance into
the mirror opposite that reflected a
face beautiful almost as a woman's.
"Tush," s dd Pen, coloring with
impatience, "I don't think that this
is anv time to talk nonsense and make
fun"
"Perhaps not," he replied, with a
hope'essly comical sigh ; 'bnt I can't
help being jolly, dear. It isn't every
day one gets a fortune and a w'fe in
a breath, and without the trouble of
asking fr her either."
"You haven't got the wife yet,
Clive Soulard ; and if you were a
man you wouldn't take her on such
conditions."
"Conditions ! I didn't know there
were any. It's the money that is con
ditional, not the wife."
Poor Pen was ready to cry with
vexation. The handsome, provoking
fellow odIv laughed at her whatever
she said.
She might protest as much as she
liked against the match which her
uncle had planned so arbitrarily, nwk
ing the inheritance of bis money con
ditional on these two marrying. Clive
Soulard only laughed at her, and
made i sting response to all her ap-
. peals. .
j Penelope Bradshawe had been
! brought up as the adopted child and
heiress of her uncle, lieese JJradsuawe.
A year before, this uncle had died,
leading a will, which was not to be
opened till he had been dead twelve
months. .
That will, being read at th e ap
pointed time, proved to contain the
somewhat arbitrary dictum that his
beloved niece should not have his
money without she married his be
loved cousin, Clive Soulard, the said
Clive being still single at the opening
of the will.
Pen. Bradshawe was an exceeding
ly pretty girl, but contrary, captious
and self-willed, as pretty girls are
apt to be, and she frowned in the
most decided manner upon the unex
pected tfiuor of her Uncle's will. If
he had given Clive half the property
she wouldn't Lave minded, but to
force her to mnke her choice between
poverty and Clive to obHge a saucy
little flirt like her io marry anybody
was abominable.
She forgot, even in her own mind
t add to the sum of her grievances
on the subject the fact that the pro
voking will cut short the most de
lightful little flirtation Miss Pen had
ever indulged in.
She had known Clive all her life ;
indeed, they were distant cousins,
and dive hid spent a good share of
his boyhood, and most of his vaca
tions, during school and college days,
at Uncle Bradshawe's house, where
pretty Pen alternately petted and
plagued the life out of him.
It was bad enough to be snubbed
and coaxed by so pretty a girl as Pen
while he was in jackets and she in
pinafores, but to have such a state of
affairs continue well, it was so high
ly unpleasant to Mr. Clive Soulard
that he could not conceal his exulta
tion at the turn which was necessari
ly given to affairs by the terms of
Uncle Reese's will.
He at once stopped the suppliant
air; and became nonchalant, careless,
and at his ease provokingly so one
must allow, under the circumstances.
Pen Bradshawe could hardly be
blamed for not liking the tables turn
ed upon her in this summary manner.
She persisted that she did not like
Clive one bit, not in that way, but
she could not give up her heirship
and be a poor sewing girl like Kitty
Bryce, or a music-teacher like Ellen
Steele, or in short, be poor at all, and
so she told Clivt that she would n.arry
him for that reason and no other, if
he had a mind to take her, knowing
that she did not love him, and never
expected to, and that she thought it
a shameful piece of business altogeth
er, a cruel conspiracy against a poor
girl who couldn't help herself while
he could.
For her part she should be afraid
to mairy anybody that felt toward
her as sue did toward Clive Soulard,
etc., studying to say whatever he
judged was best calculated to provoke
her prospective spouse out of that
sorrv nonchalance he had only so
lately assumed.
But Clive was not to be provoked.
He assured Pen that it made no sort
of difference her not loving him the
money was the main object-which as
surance, strangely enough did not
comfort Pen a particle, or make her
one whit more resigned to her fate.
He utterly declined withdrawing his
claim either to the money or Pen.
The possession of the former being
conditional upon taking the latter
how could he be gravely questioned.
Pen thought if he were not utterly
iselfish instead of forcing her into
J marrying a man she didn't like, he
! would refuse to fulfill the condition
j of the will lr'mself, and so generously
bes'owupon her the property and
freedom at the same time.
But Clive disclaimed all preten-
; sions to unselfishness, and candidly
j told her if she had such an mvinci
i ble repugnance to him she had better
j give np the property and secure her
j freedom at the same time,
j He thought it would be a pity to
: marry a man she disliked so much as
j she seemed to do. Now, with him it
was different. He didn't dislike Pen,
by any means; he as rather thank
ful, on th whole, that dear old Uncle
Reese hadn't thrown Ann Thompson
in his way instead of Pen Bradshawe;
he could think of plenty of worse
incumbrances to a fine property like
that than Pen.
Vastly consoling this style of talk,
was it not ? Was he laughing at her,
or was he in earnest ? Had he only
been playing with her nil that past
time, whtn he seemed to live on her
smiles whn a frown, or a petulant
word, would make him apparently
the most wretched of men ? Or, had
he (oh, most heart-rending supposi
tion !) the money in view all the time
and only sought her to secure that ?
It looked like it, certainly this
sudden assumption of indifference to
her pleasure, this open exultation at
the terms of her uncle's will. Pen,
the beautiful, the bewitching, the
tantalizing was quite nonplussed. If
she really thought, if she were posi
tively certain, that he wasn't doing
this to plague her, that he didn't care
for anything but the money, the
wouldn't have him to save his life:
she'd go off and be governesa, or
take in sewing for a living before she
would marry him.
No, she wouldn't either; in this
case she'd have him out of spite. In
short, besides having a natural shrink
ing from sewing for a living, Pen
consciously or otherwise, did not dis
like her future spouse quite to the
extent she pretended.
Somewhere in her capricious heart
there was a soft place ior Clive Soul
ard all the time.
He was so handsome, so graceful,
all the other girls were in love with
him if she was not.
And so the weeks wore away until
the wedding day ; Clive, light hearted
careless, laughing, banteringly sym
pathetic, ten times as handsome and
agreeable as he had ever been, but
not in the least lover-like anything
but that; Pen, sulky and saucy by
turn, but really miserable and se
cretly, for a reason she could not con
fess to herself, but much less so to
Mr, Clive Soulard.
Pen, the invincible, was in love at
last, and, of all men, with Clive Soul
ard. If Clive suspected it he kept
his suspicions to himself, and never,
bv any ehanee dropped word or looks
that could be construed as sympto
matic of the tender passion.
The change in Pea Bradshftve
s'nee the reading of her uncle's will
was too marked not to be apparent.
People commented variously upon it.
Some pitied her for being compelled
to a marriage so distasteful; others
thought, with Clive Soulard, that if
it; was distasteful she alone was to
blame if the did not choose the ut
terest poverty m preference to it
Pen, meanwhile, meditating and
speculating constantly on Clive's
changed demeanor, concluded at last
that ho was as indifferent to her as
he pretended to be; and she resolved
if nothing occurred bafore the wed
ding day, to refuse then to marry
him, whether or no.
She had made a-1 the usual pre
parations. Her dressing-room was
strewn with snowy lace, silk and mus
lins; the bridesmaids for the occasion
were being drilled and otherwise got
ready for their part at the approach
ing ceremony.
The wedding morning cam.
Forth from her chamber floated
the bride, clad in flowing snow, and
surrounded by her bridesmaids, like
the Queen rose in a garden of blos
soms; forth stepped the bridegroom,
handsome, graceful, light of ht art,
and exultant. Penelope let him take
her hand, and lead her forward, with
out lifting her eyes till they stood at
the very altar steps. Then sudden
ly, she looked up, first at him then at
the assembled guests, and, drawing
her hand from him, with slow, de
liberate enunciation:
"I cannot do it. Better poverty,
better wretchedness, better anything,
than such a marriage as this. I have
changed my mind. Good friends, it
is a pity to disappoint you, but there
will be no wedding to-day."
So aaying, she glided through the
astonished groups and left them
staring breathlessly after her.
The luckless bridegri 021 knew not
what to say, or to do, or where to
look. He was taken at a disadvan
tage ; wonnded full sore at a point
where, being tender but unsuspicious
he had not sufficiently guarded him
self. Was it the mortification, the slight,
the being so publicly rejected by to
lovely a girl as Pen Bradshawe ?
Ordid his very inmost heart quail
with fear at the thought of losing,after
all, a woman who, with all her co
quettish frivolousness, was worth
more to him than all the other wo
men put together than twenty for
tunes like the one she forfeited to
him by refusing to become his wife ?
Certainly Clive Soulard's handsome
face had Euddenly taken the hue of
death, and his voice was unsteady as
he tried to murmur something that
sounded like a contused apology or
explanation of this strange contre
temps. The guests fell into little whisper
ling knots, the clergyman who was to
ihave officiated looked confounded,
and the bridal attendants stole half
frightened, curious glances at Clive
Soulard, who, with his eyes downcast,
his whole appearance expressive of
the agitated conflict going on within
him, stood struggling vainly to recall
his self -possession.
Presently he drew nearer the cler
gyman, said something inaudible to
others, and with a half-deprecatory
glance left the room.
In a stupefaction scarcely less than
his, Penelope had managed somehow
to reach her own chamber again,
and was sitting amid the chaotic array
of bridal gear that strewed the room,
when a timid knock sounded at the
door.
All her energies were rallied at
the sound.
Pausing deliberately to rouge her
white cheeks, she waited for a second
knock, and opened the door.
It wa Soulard himself who stood
there, pallid, yet resolute agitated,
but determined.
Fire seemed to flash from his hand
some eyes as they met hers; his nos
trils quivered and dilated.
He looked his true self manly
not easily baffled this time.
It was on Pen's lips to say, in the
assurance of the triumph she felt to
be hers, "Oh, it is you, is it ?" But,
instead, she caught at the door un
steadily, and said:
"Oh, Clive Clive
uDo you love me, Pen?" That is
what I came fer what I will know."
"Yon haven't any right to ask me,
Clive, after after all you've said and
done to make me think you didn't
care a straw for me, or anything but
the money," said Pen, falteringly.
"I was foolish trying to pay off old
scores, that's all. I love you better
than my life, Pen. If yon are not
going to share it with me, I'll make
a bonfire of Uncle Reese's fortune
and shoot mjself afterward. Will
yen come now ?"
Perhaps that particular bevy of
wedcing guests waiting below never
experienced a profouuder sensation
than when the drawing-room door
opened again and Mr. Clive Soulard
marched in with the look of a con
quering hero, conducting Pen Brad
shawe, blushing, smiling and tearful,
but evidently glad and willing.
They walked straight to the old
place, the minister managed to keep
hi senses under the most trying cir
cumstances, the words were said
the twain made one; and if one
might judge from the expression of
the eye and countenanance, two hap
pier people than these, never wore
instrimouial chain '
Chinese Morality.
We copy from the Biblical Itecjr
der the following interesting sketch
of Chinese life, written by Rev. Dr.
Yates, who has been for so many years
a Missionary in China :
" A people may be celebrated for
their politeness and still be notori
ously immoral. If we take the scrip
t oral ilea, or stanca d, of molality
and that requires a man's life to be
squared by the divine law, and his
acts to be performed from a motive
of reverence for the divine will the
Chinese are totally destitute of th tt
virtue, for they know nothing of God
or his holy law. And there is not a
command in the decalogue except
possibly the 5th that they have not
habitually violated for thousands of
years, without compunction. They
make a show of reverencing their pa
rents, for tint is the basis of the
Confucian philosophy, and has prov
ed a saving element in the social and
national life of China. The reverence,
however, is rendered mainly after the
death of their parents, in the form of
a lavish expenditure for a c jfl&n, and
a grand display at the funeral, or
ceromony for the repose of the spirit;
and subsequently, iu making regular
offerings and prostrations in worship,
at the grave mound. And this exces
sive adoration is not fulfilling the
5th commandment.
Superstition formed the basis of
practical ethics among the Chinese.
Ages ago, under the dogmatisms of
the priests, public sentiment, by de
gree?, est ablished certain other things
as absolutely necessary to be done
under certain circums'ances, and in a
prescribed way, in ordtr to secure
good and avoid evil. And these
ethical laws, with additions from time
to time, have been handed down to
the present time.
The four cardinal virtues of the
Chinese classics, are Sung, nye, tau,
teh. These phylacteries of the lite
rati, are paraded on all occasions,
when morality is the subject of con
versation ; and are often quoted by
the common people. A word in ex
planation. 1. Sung: Benevolence. The Chi
nese say that the heart cf heaven is
benevolent.
2. Nye : Right, equity, goodness,
righteous acts, according to receiv
ed Chinese public sentiment.
3. Tau : Literally a road, a way ;
doctrine ; the right way in which
men should go, (according to Chinese
ethics). We preach Ya-soo, tau-li
Jesus's doctrine.
But I will give a tanrist priest's
view of Tau, as translated by Mr.
Balfour. He says "what is tau ? It
is that which supports heaven and
covers earth, it has no boundaries, no
limit, its height cannot be measured,
nor its depth fathomed, it enfolds
the universe in its embrace, it con
fers visibility upon that which is of
itself formless. It holds together the
universe and the ages, and supplies
the three luminaries with light, it is
so tenuous and subtle that it pervades
everything, jut as water pervades
wine. It is by tau that beasts walk
and birds fly, that the sun and moon
are bright, the stars revolve iu their
courses. When the spring wiuds
blow, the sweet rain falls, and all
things live and grow. The feathered
ones breed and hatch, the furry ones
breed and bear, plants and flowers
put forth all their glorious exubei
rance of foliage, birds lay eggs, and
animals produce their offspring. No
action is visible outwardly, and yet
the work is completed. Shadowy and
indistinct ! it has no form, indistinct
and shadowy ! its resources have no
end, hidden and obscure ! It rein
forces all things out of formlessness,
penetrating, penetrating by pene
trating everything! It never acts in
rain.'" (The basis of fung-shui).
4. Teh: Perfected virtue and
goodness, the product, the acme of
the foregoing virtues. This charac
ter is composed of three: Sin the
heart ; tsuh straight ; and ch in to
go. Hence, a perfectly rectified
heart.
These four cardinal virtues are on
the lips of, every one, but. they are
only antique ornaments, no one ever
puts them in practice. Poor unaid
ed human nature is too weak to exe
cute its own conceptions.
Notwithstanding the above high
toned Moral Code, I am forced, after
long aud close study of their lives
and characters, to say that the Chi
nese are a very immoral people.
They have demonstrated to me tho
fact that they are devoid of two kin
dred virtues that form the ground
work of a moral character. 1st. A
moral sense. Their recognized sys
tems of religion do not press upon
their consciences. They fear their
idols, but they do not reverence or
love them for anything they have ever
done. The worship of ancestors l&
the only matter about which they
sem to act in obedience to the de
mand of conscience, and fear com
bined ; and that is a perv rted con
science and can be tasily accounted
for. (Their parents have leen k nd
to them.)
Their propensity to lie unblushing
ly is proverbial. They would as soon
tell a he as the truth; if is only a mat
ter of self-interest And a man who
will lie will steal, when he has an op
portunity. There tesnss to be in
their very cons' i'ution a propensity
to appropriate to temRjlves that
which d..es not belong to them, hen
there is any reasonable hope of its
b-ing done without detection; and
they often take very great risks. So
grea i9 the danger of losing things,
and the people have so li'tle confi
dence in each ohe.r, ev ry thing has
to be watched, or placed beyond the
reach of persons passing, even the
vegetale gardens aud fruit orchards
have to b) wafched at night, when the
vegetables and fruit are well grown.
Stock of all kind and size, fowls, lum
ber, snd in fact every thing of value,
has to be housed or secured in some
way. A man in a vegetable or cloth
m irkef, would not dare put down his
umbrella or basket with his oil bot
tle, to attend to any matter a few
steps away. He must either commit
these things to a friend to watch for
a moment, or he must tuck his um
brella between his legs and his
basket rest upon his feet or within
his sight, while he is selling a liece
of cloth, or dispatches the business
of the moment. So alive a-e they to
the importance of guarding what
they have on their persons even, that
every Chinaman wears a big safety
pocket, underneath his outer gar
ments. This pocket which is eight
or more iuches square, is worn in
front, on the stomach, where the pos
sessor would be sure to detect any at
tempt to dispossess him of its con
tents. In trade, even the merchants
will use every possible effort to get
an undue advantage. Many men will
ask three time3 the selling price for
an article. Many men, to quiet the
fears of strangers, or to throw them
off their guard, put up, in a con
spicuous part of th:ir shop, and in
large characters, "truly not two
prices." This depraved state of
things is not uni versa1, there are hon
orable exceptions. But it is so nearly
universal, that it is universally guard
ed against. As a rue no one
can get employment unless he
can bring a good security for his
good conduct. And that security is
held responsible in law for any loss
on account of the person whom he
recommended as trustworthy.
2. The want of an innate sense of
cleanliness. A Umnaman ms a re-
g ird for the good opinion of others,
especially of his superior?, but if his
external dress is clean, his head
shaved, and he has a decent hat and
shoes, though he may not have wash
ed for a week, and his under gar
ments may not have been changed
for a week or two, he feels present
able. The external is every thing.
But this state of things might arise
from necessity. A better test is
found in what thev put in their
mouths the water thy use. I have
often been struck wish amazement,
when in mv walks, I have halted a
moment to look at the crowds at
places prepared for descending into
the canal, or still water pond, to see
wi'h wh:itfilthy water they are sa'is
fied. Ihave seen,times without number
a number of Chinamen, up f o their
knees in the muddy water of the city
moat, washing, some rice for the
approaching Aieol, some vegetables,
some filthy bed covers or garments,
some very filthy buckets, while a
stream of water carriers, who sup
ply families with wa'er, rush into the
group and fill their water buckets
with the filthy water which has been
polluted by the incessant washing of
all sorts of things. They all seem to
be unconscious that the water is posi
tively filthy, and is only fit for water
ing, or rather, for fertilizing a vege
table garden. It is a very common
thing to see a lone woman, descend
the family "water bridge" or steps,
to a pool of standing water, having a
lot of unmentionable things
to be cleansed, and when she
has finished her work, without mov
ing out of her tracks, fill her empty
hand bucket with " e'ean water " for
use in the family. Call their atten
tion to the unfitness of such water
for use, " O, we can clarify it with
j alum," is the usual reply. No won
I der we have asiatic cholera here some
times. Without further particulars,
the foregoing is sufficient to show
that the Chiurse, in this region, seem 1
to be devoid of the sense of cleanliness
A people who seem to be destitute
of the moral sense and the sense of
cleanliness, must be a very immoral
people ; and so the Chinese are. As
a people, they are shamelessly profli
gate. Wi'hout particularizing, suffice
it to say, that all the sins enumerated
by Paul in the first chapter of his
Epistle to the Romans, are ripe here.
in this mass of humanity, led captive
by the devil at his will. Especially
is this the case iu towns and cities,
The rural population are better than
the wealthy denizens of crowded
cities.
Prohibitory Law.
The Vermont nuisance bill, one of
! the most stringent liquor prohibitory
bills ever passed iu that State, has
j received the sanction of both houses
j of the LegUlature, It declares any
j place in the State where liquor is j
! sold or given away or where gamb-;
! lintr io fll!nwfrt a nmflima and nrn-1
! vitfes that it bhall be closed. It also
i mnkps the keener liable to a fine of
from $20 to $200 and imprisonment
for three monthe.
, pi
Amusement. -Theatre goers and
fdlu.1i ut keen lata honra ara va, v
j liable loconti-avt a severe Cough or;iMrhlfhilie was ftbl lo cl,in& an1 ,hn
j Cold. A safe and reliable cure is Dr. j W .above Bom 'our f of wr.
j Bull s Cough Svrup. The price is 'BJ T"ntf mei?k be fe 1 n , the oU
olI- 5 cents ,lbout 10 o ulock night btfor.
STABS XJZTU75.
Greensboro' Patriot : Mr. William
Collins of this city killed two hogs
to-daj, not quite twelve months old
that weighed 800 pounds net who
can beat them ?
Kinston Journal : One of our sub
scribers in Jones, V. Civils, Esq.,
has brought us two sweet potatoes
growing on the same stem, and being
of distinct species. One is of a rich
yel'ow skin and the other red.
Elizabeth City Economists W.
P, Jennings, of this county, brought
to us on Monday a curious agricul-.
tural production. It is an ear of c- rn
with four distinct cobs. The grains
of corn embrace all four cobs in one
ear.
Anson Times : There is a man iu
this county who is not yet thirty one
years old, and has been married four
times. Another young man of our
acquaintance rays lie has courted
forty-seven girls, and has not mar
ried any of them yet.
Raleigh Visitor: Mr. White Rich
avdson, of Johnson county, near tho
Wake line had the misfortune to
have his cotton gin, together with a
bale and a half of cotton and a large
quantity of cotton seed lost by fire,
on Wednesday last
.Winston Sentinel : Hogs are dung
in portions of this county from an
unknown disease. Mr. John Shore, '
living near Old Town lost his entire
killing. Mr. T. B. Donthi, in Salem,
also had a very fine porker to die for
him on Sunday. Here and there aU
through the county a smaller com
plaint is heard.
Iredell Gazette : One John Mooso
has exhibited in the office of the Con -cord
Sun a 'possuin with six tails. It
was found with five others, all young,
but not one of them w.is furnished
with tuis important cnudal appendage,
the sixth one having mon polized
that feature in the 'possum's anato
my. Tfce exhibitor intends to am
putate five of the many-tailed 'pos
sum's tails and graft them upon the
tailless one?. The result of his ex
periment is anxiously awaited.
North State: Winfield Orrell, a
young man of decidedly belligerent
proclivities, living near the Presby
terian Church, made an assault oh.
Mrs. Frederick Detmering one day
last week, striking her a blow which
loosened two of her front teeth and
bruised her considerably. He was
brought, np before A. P Eckel, Esq.,
and fined twenty five dollars and coat
in default of payment of which he was
to be confined in jail for thirty days.
Greensboro' Patriot: As the freight
train, on the N. C. Railroad, was
approaching the city this morning
just beyond the Salem junction, the
engineer saw a white woman run upon
the track just in front of his engine.
At the time the train was moving at
the rate of about twenty miles per
hour. Mr. Orgain at once Foundtd
the alarm whistle, and reversed his
engine; but the distance between the
poor woman and engine was too
short Mr. Orgain says she took no
notice whatever of the whistle but
begun to walk at a more rapid pace,
right in the center of the track. She
was picked up by the pilot and
thrown back on top of it Mr. Or
gain finding her injuries of a serious
nature had her placed in a car and
brought her to the city. On her ar
lival here it was found that the wo
man was deaf and dumb. It was
found that her skull was slightly frac
tured, and portions of the body bad
ly bruised. It is feared that she can
not survive. Her brother aud asiatt r
both deaf and dumb were killed
some years ago on the North Caroli
na Railroad, between High Point
and Jamestown.
News and Observer : In the va
cant lot adjoining that on which
stands the office of the News and
Observer, is an old well nearly forty
five feet in depth. A slight wooden
cover fits over its top, but this is
ea8illy moved to one side, and a "nice
opening for an enterprising man" is
afforded. Yesterday morning, about
8 o'clock, some of the employee! of
this office heard cries and groans and
these were presently found to come
from this well. The police were no
tified and Maj. Heartt was at the
scene promptly, with some of the
street laborers. Rigging up a wind-
! lass, they, after some effort and amid
much excitement, drew to the ear-
j face the unfortunate party whose
! groans had befn heard. He we
found to be J. P. Deaton, white, of
j Osgood, Chatham county, and he was
nearly speechless Irom pain, irignt
and cold. He was taken to a phy
sician at once, and it was found that
his left leg was broken just below the
knee and that his right foot was dii
iocatrd. The only other injuries
were some bruises and scratches. He
was then takeu to the Osborn Honso
and is now there, well cared for. It
is thought that Deaton we probably
under the influence of liquor, when
he fell in the well, the cover of which
! was Pufk?d n hifl Vrmix wan
nd 30- " 8 at first sai l that
' ue been robbed of a large sum
j an.a .tuen tbrown into the well, but
j this is considered purely sensational.
His fa the ell Wft8 broten bJ
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