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3 flhntlpm Record. H. A. LONDON, Jr., KDITOK AM) I'UontlETolt. KATES or ADVERTISING. 11.00 J.M Z.SO TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Oiir-'t v, fiu' :!, tin 4ty mm:! . Ouc tin uiwiilli-, - OiiUMii.ari', t" I ii-.-rtI- 1 Oneo; 1.11c. H. .ah, ... . VOL. IV. PHTSIl()U() CHATHAM CO., N. C, DKCKMIiEIi s, ISSI. 4 djjhalham Jjurord. wifarti no. i:;. The 1 wo (i.ites. - so ritu an iitjcit-ut tul-i. id in 't il nrn u s!iu."' A :rn:i i'i oil. : ti. ;i I I'I - I'i- I' li' h,;, ; lilottiitillli'' LLak all. I r:.ii! ... t II 1 i ! 1 . . Hi'! 1 a l K lln ski ; ml Ms Ki t i i l.ai .1. "i'JIim l li pain .iinl I II - in An I . Tic i l: . .. , it -i tin i st' Ji - etui I i ii.Ii ! In iv a ii'.iili ial ill i'i O'llli I iv-le i M. I (lull tin li". li. .-I, T'e I'l'smu nh . li.nl . r. l thai toil -nil. i. .i i : lint hili Ihk thin mi l wall i-j.-k si-a 'I'.i tili'l an mitli t. in tlif I mt.iiii i-iili- A poiel. roils i-iiilptiir.il lii.ii ii 1I.1..1 In Ami li.tti" in-,' tiiuaul it null l'.i' railing --. tii. Al.i.M- tin ... 1 tul 1 1 a I. I'm. 1 i mi: m I111111. " Id i-.nilil 11 it .ii In, ti i t. that I1 thi n t i; It yn l.li .1 1.1 hit. fiti li. 1111 I pai mi; tlii"iicli. Id' rami' inl'i a ..il. all l.ri-ln ami tail' ; llhn Ii- ill. l" .iirli. an I I'.illnv wai tin' air i n 1. ) : t!,. 1 ;..-... Au. 1'. ... ill J. I-..I. 1 '! Ins I 'M): .,li;. iii,.i.:. . It.-li .LI ! a a- Li. li .1 . .1 Im f ha 1 fair MinHilit. ai ..- hi-Mf'til a'i I .-La t'r i- ti.'in ili. in!!-'- if AI... vi tin- jiurtal !' ail. 1 Mil: M a- el I !- i i, li. it in i'i 11 1 .-'a.; A in 1 1 .1. In r-t t in I- !, i I I111.1 l.imn .1 ! I.' IM.II'1. 1 I V. .1- lie,., leu ski. -. 1:11 . 1. 1 r !!-. an. I riri "Tin- 1 ' 1 1 1: i'i- I it 1 .ii .i 1 ' .V iy..j...i . A REMINISCENCE OF LONG BRANCH. Ii"iig Branch was crowded with vis itors, and tho fashionable hotels were r aping their aniinil harvest. One after noon tho guests t.f a certain hotel nore congregated on the piazza cn.oj ing the cool brerz'i, and some of the ladies were discussing with grout annua' ion the last arrival. Koso lbirnett, a lively biunetti', ex claimed in rather loud tones, "I am sure tint Mrs. flrant is nu adventures"." Before, she conld iinish tho (sentence her fiiend, Helen l'age, whimpered "He Rilent t" for tho ol jeet of their remarks was approaching. It was evident that she had overheard the conversation, for her palo cheek tl Uhl.t d as tdiij n'ated In rsclf en a dis taut bench. Belle (irant was attired in deep mourning, and the sotnlire huu of her garments rendered more apj arent the delicati) fairness of her complexion. Her golden hair was carelessly pushed back from hcrbioal, low brow, and her largo blue eves were clouded by sorrow. She would have been lovely if her face had not worn an ciprcssiou of hopeless 1 despair. I A beautiful boy approached. For a j moment Belle's countenance was radiant ' with joy. "Mamma," f aid the child, and his big black eyes filled with tears, "all the I boys have a pupa who is kind to them, j nod brings them lots of nice things, j Why does tot my father ome to see j Tho mother b.nved 'down lit r head and replitd, "I'niv to (hid, inv sop, und perhaps , lie nill briniiyoar father back tons." hearties girl !' Hoie glati 't'd triumphantly ut her j Tears choked her, and she could not frit nl Heler, and exct aime 1, - , nib r another w.ird. "it is ja-.t as I supposed; the fair ' 1! ise," s.i.l itcile, "we arc but h.i Mr.s (irant is an imposter. Sho is evi- I man, innl none of us art' perfect. I am deutly ijo. a widow, as her reply to her j sure that your pcnitenci is sincere, boy proves. B it her biisband has never therefore I forgive you. Bring me my m i le his app1 arance, nor i he likely b;iy, and you will alVoid me more h:t pi to d so, units 1 the prayers of tho in- ness thiol you li,Ke i-vi-r caused me fan tine cherub work luiracles." j pain." Ib'-'e, how can you be so i-ureast ie ?" Another moment, and Belle cla-pcd replied Ib'leii. "I uin sure that Mrs. ! her little one i:t ln-r iirms. (iraut ii a line woman. I think t hat she "i uiaiiim 1 !" iiaid tin- ehihl, "I haie is ovt rwln lined by srme great sorrow, i done nothing but ciy since I miw yon and we should legit-d her with sy inpa- ! last. I thought that you had gone away thy, and n it iiiihill mil lire 1 suspicion." As Helen ceased speaking, Belle approached the yonn l.ilics and ad- dressed K jse with well bred self posses sion. 'l'ardon me," sh ) said, "but I have been an iiunilliug listener to your coii voisatioti. You are cornet in your conjectures. I 11111 not a widow, but I am a wife, and if I wished, I could unravel the mystery by which I am stir rour.did. However, 1 1 xcuse your tin charitublo insinuations, for jo:i are young and inexperienced ; but in future never slaotler one of your own sex. If you meet an outcast, and she is en deavoting to reform, bo womanly ; hold but a helping hand to her, and do not push her deeper into the abyss." Nose's face became crimson from pas sion asshe listened to this weli merited rebuke, and with im xi'ii-able rudeness sho turned away from Belle without uttering a word. Tray 1 xonso my friend," paid nelen "Sho is a spoilt child ; however, I hope that she will profit by your good advice. And now suppose wo change this most unpleasant subject ; will you iiccompuiy mo to the bt a h ? I suppose you enjoy the water." "Itideed I do!" was tho answer. " I was considered an excellent swim mer, but unfortunately I am so delicate tl it my physician h is forbidden me to bathe ; however, I will join you in your walk." As they approached tho beach they heard l!ose Burnett's shrill voice urging her companions to follow her, nnd not to bo cowards. Belle glanced at Ihe bal hers, and noticed th it U se was not venturetome. Forgetting her intuiting conduct, she cried, " ltemetnbcr tin' tinder current !" The foolish girl, in, tea 1 (if apprceia- ' ting these kinil iTitcntioii-, became Dion' t daring, aiitl ventured out still further. Kiiiiili'iily 11 cry of iji's)iiii- v;n heard. 1 K )rk It lini'lt was sinking ! ! Belle, without an inrt.ii-f.-. hesitation, ! plunged into the water. She mis tin ! ! ulili! swimmer, uii'l soon iisctted the ! j unfortunate girl, who iu . ah;) --t ex 1 h in-tci; in another 111 mi-nit, she would ' , li.ive been past human iiiil. lint a 1" r j:i grasp In hi her up- gi-ntlo t-itii si-lii'i'ti'il I her. A liravo woiuah h.iil i i!-.i'il lu r life to Have an ftioniy. j At length hIiu ri'iu'htil the slmri', I KinillT hatnls rclicvi'il her of her ina::i- luuto burileii; then her over-ttraineil nervi'K rehtieil, uuj UjIIo (iraut becanu! titieotisciouu. Slit) was carrieil to ln-r room, ami ! Helen watchoil ut hor beil-iilo. I A few hours t lupseil, ami lUm i-hareil j hor frii'iid'o vigil. 'J'lio jo'iUjj girl hml . tjuite reoovereil from her iuUt iittue, but ; her brave pre.n'i vir was not so for- tmi.itu ; tin' Mi'Men hhiii-U Liul prcveil I too, H'vere for 11 fratie' si dclicaio, i:u fur many tlay.n she lititi on the j thrcshol l of death. Siio bt-eamc ileli- lions, and Nhriekril in tones of horror. "Do not look at inn so Kjornfiiliy j with your big black eyes! I am alone in , Ihe worhl, bul I am a truo wife ! I toll 1 you, Rirl," kIio continued, "tiiat my bny has no oi'i'a-ion tobl'ish for his mother. j , U(,t an ()tltent ' r. eolI!1..i,.neo stricken, as she t listened and realized how nobly Belle : firant hail returned good for evil. Tho Mifl'erer again spoke ; her deli rium had carried her ba-k to wofid I scenes. I ' judge," she cried, in most im I ploring accents, "npure iny husband ! j Although apparently guilty, he is not j so! Oh, Father in heaven," she e. i claimed, they havo sent him to jail I 1 shall never eee my love again !"' I ho sank exhausted on her pillow. ! Nature; was merciful ; slumber visited I tho invalid. Cire and sorrow were for 1 gotten in tho blissful unconsciousness , of sleep. She was happy ; tho loved S one had returned ; his iin.ocenci; was pioved; once more oh; wasclcpcd in her husband'.- 111 ins, She Moved uneasily); alas! it was but a dream. Shu awoke ; the delirium of fever had passed away ; yet tier mind was bewildered, and she murmured : "What has happened ':" In a moment Hose was ut her side. "Thank (Sod," she cried, "tint you are better ! But do not talk, and I will tell you all thai has occurred. 1 met you, and was envious 1 f your In anty ; I was jialous win n my admirers desert ed mo and do voted themselves to you. Although yon did not encourage them, yet I hated you, i.nd eudi avur' d by ni;i In i ins insinuation to inj.iro your repu tation. In rttiiiii, yo:i ri.-keil your life to save mini' -th life of a wicked, to look for papa, mid yon would i.ol come back." My love," was the fvnd reply, "your mother will never leave you." A few Weeks passed. It was Belle's fust appeatiinco nil the pia.zv since her illness; and the ladies crowded around her and overwhelmed her with congratu lations on her recovery and wi'.h com pliments 011 her heroism. Her little b y suddenly approached her in a state of great excitement. "Mamma," cried tho child, "I havo found my papa !" Hello looked up; she uttered a scream of joy, and then threw her -elf into her husband's arm. Her dream was real ized! Tho lost one had returned. His innocence w.is- al list proved, and he was free ! Hello had already won all hearts by her heroism, and her hu-tband soon proved himself worthy of his fair young wife. Tho reunited pair soon became the most popular guests of the hotel. H'iii'i rh Miiiiuhii . SMiiflit'inic ri in New York, A New Y'ork letter says the Southern element in New York inei eases every year. 'Tho migration thither wa great est just after the war, when everything in the South wssa lrift, but it has con tinued steadily 1 ver since, though in n smaller degree, un-1 Gotham now has a S.iniliern colony big enough to make up a population for a pretty large town, Q-iito a number of tho brokers iu the Stock, (Jot ton and Produce Exchange aie Southern men, and a good ninny of them havo made themselves well rlT, and are on solid ground, both socially and financially. KIX. COTTON. without reckoning ;7:j,i;iiT b.il.-Kof eot- ... .... . . . ton from !n li.i ati 1 ". ii'i.i frin Iv'vj.t I i-ilH'- i:il hin I Iti'llllIlK III I lir (. I nil I li ntnl Miiiuiliif lure i( llii .ititilf etc, Tlie New York .'." is: "Judging ! 'I'1"' cneral averafre t.f cotton to the from the htati.sties of cotton raisin;; in ,'i'1 Ihroiitjhotit the ti n States, is abo'it ihe Iviilth, both i reions to mid Mnce ; oi.e tl;ir.l of a bale of !...'it -Ji pounds thr civil war, " Kintf Cotton " has held 1 weight. In Ark sii- tx and r.-misiaria, his nndi-turbed sway in that Motion, ' lioitcvvr, the uvertje yi. Id in svt was with only an interregnum of four years, cot, si. 'oivli' v over ci:.-half bale per f.vrni lM'.l to m'.."i, for which .tormy . ''i''. Vir, it.i t, Mioiiri, Indian T. rri period no record appears. . tory and Kentucky, ii j! villi diy re- The total yield of cotton in ml the ' f-'anh d as cntton-pro-viii States, had, .Southern Mates raising it for sixteen l in 11 , i' is istiu:iit' .1, an area aRto years b. f..i.) the war wa J'.MUi.nO!) j Bating '-'i, ''' acres j l..ntcl to cotton, bales, mding with ihe m-akoii of isiit). which prolu.-ed -I'I !' 0 btiW. The ti l'l. For the sixteen years since the war, coinnieiii ing with I-iiiVls'Id, and oniiinsr with Issillvsi. the crops amounted to ( .'I, bales, an excess of yield of 1 1,(I2'.i,0i)() bales, r,r an aver age, annual inert use. of !i7i'i,0(Hi bales. The crop in Ih'ij-Im:!!, it is true, was much smaller than" that of lsi',0 l r,i. being but 2,27s OtiO bales, ajjuiiist .!,s'.l,(Ml!) in tho latter season. This filling off, however, is not. in marked as in some bad yc.rs previous to the war, c.iusideiing all ihe causes which hal contributed to a decrease. In l71-72 tho greatest propoiti-'nate falling I'll' in the cotton crop ever ex periir.CL'd took place, theyield amount- ing to but 2,!'71,IH)0 bales against 1 l,:il7,t'il;) the preceding season, which j was tho second largest crop ever rai-ed in the I'nited States, Since ls.72 the crop has increased in a regular ratio, with only one retrograde move ment in ls,7i 7.1, to I'l.'ii'i.U)!) bales in bSOM. In both tl.eiiO otryear.i the crop was affected by drouth and by worms. The former cause of damage probably will tend to reduce the crop somewhat this year, as none of the estimates range higher than r,.i(l.i,(ni(l bales, while some go as low as .", IT.I.bOi), The estimates of tho Agricultural Bureau on acreage and condition of crop as compared with those f last year would mako it about S,:i7il,0UU halts. At the present stage of the crop this seems a fail approxima tion. The entire acreage in tho ten cotton S'atet planted to cotton this year is I". :.'.tJ!, ".'., a gain ovirla-t yt ar of j '.1, 4!iii acres. In 171 the entire acre age was about !?' liiiil, 217, piling un in crease of ti,72.i,'i7'.l tt-.'re-t in ten years. For these teu years Texas shows the greatest gain, lu 171 Texas hud but '.mi.i.i.'m feres against 2, Cio,oo2 this year, again of 1 , r 1 Cr.."i acres. Louisiana is the only State which has reduced its acreage in the snn;e period, in which it shows a lots of -l l'i'iil, acres. As cc iii ared with last Vi 111's licit age, North Caioliiia has iucie:ii e 1 I per cent., Louisiana " per cent., Texai 2jCicil.t., and Arkansas 1 per cent , while in Florida, Alabama and Teiii:eSM-e there isu falling t. IV, in the latter Stab; of 7 percent., 01 .".7, b". I, almost r.s large a lo-s in one as ihe gain in 'icreage of ail the other Slati s, Florida is th" siualie-t ents.in growing S:a'c, haxin;; but 21 1 1152 acres. Georgia ha Is with 2,J' acres. Ate Tiling to the '..;! .. .'..- u , I Vii oo 1 I'S.'i'i in'f, a journal whose cotton statistics are entitled to l"Uih confidence. Texas is now the largest c .tloii-prodilciiig State, having grown in the season of lsso M, 7,0 ii,ih:o bales, over one third of Ihe ciuireeropof 171, tliou-h it then raised less than one-tenth of the crop, or 2m,iW0 bales. Tho two so called new cotton States, Arkati;-as .'.nd Texas, produce .rtil,((0 bales in IsTl, und I 7-l-'i,oi'i) bales in l-so, an increase of over 2M per cent. The Candidas, Oeorgia i.nd Florida raised in IsTl s'K iiim) l.nl. s. und in Ism) 2, 12:1,110(1 bales, an increase of but i:'.ii per cent., while in TenuesM'o and the (lull Slates' the increase was 77 p,-r c nt jiiodiieing in 1ST I, l,f i'.il,tl(!0 end 2,i'.i'nl,(Mi0 in I SMI. The crop of 1S:) was disposed of as follows: Fximrbs to On at Britain. 2,,s:i2,00i) bales; to (he continent, l,7;i:t,0iHI bales ; total exported, l.oisV (Kill bales ; homeconsiimptioti. Northern mills, l,7l:'',0il(l bales; .Southern mills, 2'10,OHO bales ; total crop, (i.iiilti.nuO bales Iu is 1 1-12 the entire crop of 1 tiSl.titH) bales wasdivided iu the following propor- tions: Total exports, including !l.'!li,(Mlil bales to Oreat Britain and W.1,000 bales to the continent, 1, ii i,(Kll) bales ; home consumption, in Northern mills only, 2l'iS,(MM) bali'R. Comparing these figures it will be 1 ons bu-iness than it. is in N w York seen that in the Southern States there I luring the war he was arrested by the is now nearly as much cotton spinning ! Federal troops on the charge of beinp a a in ull the Northern States in lU ; i spy, com t tiiarlialled, and sentenced to that tho amount of cotton eonsumt d iu I be shot. He made his escape, and from the Northern mills is larger by several j that time until the downfall of the O011 thousand bib s than the entire cxpoifs ) iedeiiicy h'.s name and dating deeds of that year, nnd that the proportion of j were well known iu both armies. ev exports to the crop is 1 educed ftoin si', enty lorn have fallen at the report ol per cent, to f. per cent. In other word, I hi pitel, and yet in all his personal we retain an I ninnfaetnre ot p. r cent , ' encounters he w is known only ono to instead of 1 1 per cent, of he crop, a paint i be wounded, and that was while try ino of l." per cent, only in forty year, :t per , to arre-t a desperado in the Indian cent, of which the Southern States ' Territory. Captain IVevy i now 11 rained. Great Britain, on the other ; citi. u of Oregon, where he is repotted hand, has increased her cotton mauuf.ic- I to have killed live ronghs who recently I tines ;ini j.or ceiit. during the samo pe - jiiod upon Ameiiciii cotton alone, of I which he took ,8.I2,000 bales iu lSrjO, celli-nce of this yield i-. probably due to ihe fact that phtitets who pi. tee their mi.iu dcpfiidci.fi' upon other staple.-,, have as a fancy crop a small Held of col ton, which is b. it 1 ci'ivd for tln'.n that upon the great;' itt ui ;d tnta'i ins c m pos si'oly be. As an example of th's it may ben tided that in Orleans Parish, Inuisi ani, "even aer "s by superior cultivition produced twvl-e bales of c Men in 1 -Ml. 'The ii:ie:!iii') 1.1 the cost pi-r pound of rai-ing c .tton, under ordinarily favor able conditions if wiathcr ha-, ol'tii: b'vn tlissusTil, but generally without arriving at vi ry deiinite results. At- ti rapts have been made many times to induce growers t.f cotton to reckon elondv all th cp -uses of a crop from the time the ground is opened until the bal 's are shipped to ma' ket, but like far iners everywhere they are either aver-e to the trouble i i liguriug tho detailed cost of their op i ttions, or .ire iunorant of what expeii'liPi'i s shoul 1 or should not In taken i::M iiffonut. A cone sp'indent of the N"W York '.'.'.s, in a rtceiit letter fro'u Atlanta, says: "I have heard the co.-t per pound estimated all tho way from 2 to ! cts ' Tho lower estimate represents a possi bility already realized by a f"w of the best farmer., im.l open to many ; the higher a discouraging fact, drawn from the experience of thousands of cotton raisers, who go on year after year pursu ing the same loose system of culti-a?ion. and producing one Halt; to three or four acres." lie goes on to enumerate a few of the debts and credits that should be t then into account, and co:i-ludes with the assertion, 'Nobody mis Hi night it ivorih while to ii.ake the clV-..rt on a large scale. The estimates thai otic hears so fre piently from tl to cents a pound a: e bast d on limited experience, guesses and imprcssi-ms rather than 011 well-digested data, but tin y are at least near the truth, us I think will be shown with sullieii iit clearness by u comparison of the re.s'ilts of two widely different .'.vster.is of fam ing." Carrier I'in'c mi- as i -, Mi'M'imvr. The M- l , -'.'.' or . has ti e f.-ilowin." : A physician of Kvie, I'a , is training h iiiiiug pigeons for ii-l in hi., practice. Some of Sr.s young birds, put upon t hi road to i:.:.ke records for distance, have made very foal time, i.attiely, fifty miles in nineiy miiiU'e, s'x''.' six nub's in eighty-tvio minute . lloniing iip.ooi:s are largely used by c.'uu'ry physieians, both 1 ' re and abr ad. O ie doctor in lliiiniltou county, N. Y., u Ihcpi eon stanlly in his pia ''i -e, 1 xtei. ding over nearly two towi.ihips, and cuisidi r. thom tin iibuoi.t iiivalua'de aid. Afer vis.it in 'T a patient he a n tho ihvcs ;iiy pros m iptinii ie 1 iscispensarv 1 pigeon ; also any oMut :;dvice or in structioii the c'l.-c or situation may dcma.id. lie freintioly also leaves pigeons r.t places f-t m which he wishes repor's of progress to be dispatched a t perilled film i, or ut eel lain crises. II. says I e is enabled to alterd to 11 third mor. business at lca-t through the tinu- ' saved to him by the use of pigeons. In eiitieal fM'' ho i to k'ep posted by hourly bnilctii s from the K-d.si.le , betivee.-i daylight and nigh'.fill, and he ! e:in n call c;is.' utter c.oe while lives 1 have been saved that must have been 1 :st if bo Innl l-en onnge.l to ill punt upon ordinary m-aus if conveying in formation. A Majer of Seemly Mini. Veeo'ding to the .'..y.ivs of Atlanta, ; Texas, the chain ion wi.ldcr of the pistol in a close tight is Captain Joe IVevov, i formerly a ettiVen of Arkansas, residing close to the Choctaw line. He was a j deputy United 'afes marshal ftir a 1 long time, and often had tho command of a posse w hen that was more danger- ! attacked him. Yet with ell this he is I said to be a ph a-r.nt C'n.ipaiiiou and an I unswerving friend. ll):! TIIK FA I It M X. I Iliiiituo l.ll- I . i Hin loo jjirls, savs the St. !,.' U-i- : i-::-. ar.i tan-'ht to think of marriape nlmo:-t as soon as theycan talk; indeed, they are often coutractnd in marriasre at six years of age, usd go to live with their husbands at twelve or thirteen. Before this, a! the age of live, they are i.ttigiu 10 proptuate ino g.ms 1.. uraer ,. , -- - -- . - o n- - worlj j POne!ude that s:,,,re a good husband, und their little j 1U '1 attack ill the c, d- ns of the , J n0l1 ki,l(llv con minds are ilistra.'t.-.l b7 th- idea of ; one paper, responded to by a no less , ! 1 .. ...... 1 1 ... 1 . ..11 i I coal tier lilentitv. what a model hn-.ban l ought to t.'o. The orthodox conception is a husband like the god Siva, who was holy, unst-re, I advanced in yi ur , and fuithftil and de- voted to one'wif,., the goddess D inrga. j Ciod little Kills revolt at the idea of a hu-hand linn rying a second wife while j the first is alive, and will const ipteiitly j confess their anxiety to marry a faithful i spouse like Siva ; and they learn from I their elders to ntter the most viudic-I five curses ilgal!l-t a liv.tl wile. Ji l' i f-.r nil that, Krishna is the idol of j Hind, o women, and ho was anything j but faiM.ful. I'.ilii hi llrnn. ad.'d sa'iii is not -pute espen-ive I! enough for l-Vr-h taste, and s) the !iures are cut out of lnecilc velvet .itid buttonhole stitched up)ti plain sitiu with gorgeous effect. hen plain pointed waists and full j skirts are w ..rn, a girdle of ribbon is j ..J,in...l ol tli.i si.b.a if tlie u-.iist ear. ! T V ". , , , :. . , lieu nown 1 i tin' emi m uie i' iihl i;uu tied there in a b iw with long ends. Fink is th. favori'e color in silk ar.tl satin c-jllar-i this year, a;i l light blue the rarest anniu Sji.iuis'i las. The new bodices look like the old peasant waist in front, but have the center forms of the buck prolonged to make loops, and falling over tho si ie . forms which grow broader towards the end. The Irish pnplin in inufacturers now dye their goods in all the nrw fashiona ble colors. Cutl'-i 111 ranged in wide plaits to match collars tiro .-h own in all tlmch iLm hi"o-t. 1'. ir-ritigs are in s):u'twhat limited dotiiau 1 when compared with form-r tiiaes, yet liovclliiM are brouglit out iu this line. Hoop ear rings are of recnt introduction, and are quite f ish -.unable. Those copied from anti pie mj.lels hive the preference, favorite sty I ;s showing a ram's hea 1 or a lioness' head em one end of a raHi"!' thick hoo.), which rests closel v ug tins' tlio ear. Kll'-el upon Fiii iipe of I lie licovery of America. The voyage of Columbus in 11'.'2 was in many respects the greatest event which had occurred in tho woi Id since the biith of ('lubt. l'l'litically und -oci illy it Was the bt ginning of tin en tile! new chapter in human histoiy. and it wrought ell'.- ts tip.-n men's spec ula'ive thinliiiig which though perhaps less ct iispicuous were Hot less ri al or ieu.ark;ib!e. In much more than the mere geographical si a-c w n in the discovety et' a N. w World, It wits- tl.e iirt ill a complicated series of event which four cei'tuiies have 1.1 1 yet fully rou'iib d into a period : the foundation of a new F.i.r. )' in Aitioiica, in Africa, in An fralia, and in ihe i-!ands of the Pacific; the rise of the I'.'iglisli race to political and C'liinievciul supremacy, and the advance of the F.nejish Ian gun.i;'!' toward vh.it way become utii iiTsitl doiiiinioii ; the rctuani. it 1011 of governint nt upon a higher plane than the Middle Ages had ever bet n able to foreshadow; the renovation of society in the old F.urope through counties subtle influences; the permanent tri lltni'h of the industrial over the pri'da b.rv soirit : the iitccissfnl assert iou of iii.ii'vi.tie.l fi-e.-.bi.ii ii'-iinst the liaralvz ing iibsoliilisnt inherited from the Bo man F.nii'ire: the overthrow of s.ieerdo- tuli-ni, and (he Christiani'tion of the ivoild. It v.oull probablv be too much to assert that some of these de.-irable results might not have be. r. uttuiiti'd. f.i far a the old I'.iirope is concerned, even if the land-beyond the sea bad never been explored and colonized. It is un piestioinible, however, that the pro gress would have been much slower uud tnneh mere subiect to interrnotion. I he pait performed bv F.ngb.iid, f(r ex .mpie, in the work of Kuro- ean civ- ilizaiion since the use of Kiixabeih has been so immense aud so eomplictt.-.l that no elaborateness of utialvtie ,h- scription can do it justice. Y. t Knglan 1 in V. i.beth'st time was lii.r.llv a li rst- ebiss, jtower, nod but for the coloniza tion of Anieiiea in the seventeenth century it is difficult to see in what way she voul.l so smvlv or so soon have gain' .1 the commercial supremacy which gave In r 111 the eighteenth the dominion of the ocean, and thus secured her the foremost position iu the world. 'To those a:.d there are ttiauv such in Americi who ii'e .in the habit of regarding American ltitory a a dry and uninteresting study, it may bo a profitable Matter of reflection that since the beginning o( the seventeenth century it is imp ossible to follow in telligently the ntViirs of the old F.urope through a Mn!e generation withont constant reference to th New World ll'irptr .V.;'K'i'i' 'or '.-Cfie. Siiinc l aiii'iu- ii inhl Ihii-ls. A H'ciiii;0!i l c 'ire por. dent of the. , ., , , , . ,, . ... l ' ": w" 1 u,-y m ulp most famous cf t!.e atite-bi-ilum duels was the fatal (.lie between Hitchic of Ilichmon l ;,,-,,.., and John llantuden ; Fleasaiits of the Hichmond U7,o,. I liitchie was a Democat and ran a red- hot Liemccratii! paper, lluuidcn I'lca--ants was an uiic'iinprou:iiiig Vhi. A pei-onui huihu 01 ..n.. ., i- ,,,... u in a cha'dongo and a mertii.g. The scene was U.-llo Isle, the little islet in f he James liver at Kichn.ond. lb re, in sight of the city's busy (streets the two editors met und fought. They had each gone to the fray armed with duel j ing pistols and swords. The eoii.liti"t.- ! of the light as a;;r:-. .1 upon by their seconds wore that aft. r the lir.-' lire with j (he pi.-tol :, if neither should be hurt, j Hiey snoill.l uav" re.oiu e 01 1111 11 swords. The swords reniai'-.f.l in their scab: ard, for at th" tir-t shot Ticai-ants b II -.had in hi- traei -. A no Ie s !i"!;;i.!e duel was one which oceuried Liany years before tlie lt-t -hie I'leasunt ; tif fair between Ma'-.'U u:.d McC.itty. Mason was 11 member of that historie Virginia family cf that name f i which belonged dames Mason, the senator, and John Y. Mason, the ministerof the cote federate government to Franco, vho 1 .. I 1 1,.. 1 .1. nr .-..v.m.,.,i t 1":'"". . ; " . V i ; a:i J-.!icllsli snip in company win; j r. vijih-ll. Mason end McL'arty were ! l.rntLorK-in-lnw. The feud betwe. 1 j ,),(,m wus a ,,olit icul one. They fought jo,, the dividing lino of Loudon and j ijipy William entities. The weapons ; ,,, woro old-fashioi.ed muskets, . 0.it,,i wjtu :.ings. Mason's ball knocki d ,,, iM.,n,. ,. ( iv MeCartv's c.in. ( arty's hull went crashing through Ma-on's hruin. The Wises of Virginia have ubvpys been great duelists. II. nry A. YVi-e, the distinguished war govci nor, fought a duel just h'-fore the breukitig ut (.1 tho rebellion with l'hiiip St. (i. urge C icke. Their dill'.' rcin'o grew out of a canvass for a sent in eongtes-, to which they both aspired. It is said thu' when they reached th-i "field ot honor" Cocke undertook to j.ckey Yi.-V courage by saying : "I c.i!l hi uveii to witn'.-ss that I am guiltless of this man's blood 1" Wise replied : "You had better attend to your own blood," and put his bulb t into Cocke's thigh. Governor Wise'., son, O. Jennings Wise, afterward killed iu the rebellion, fought a duel about Im'.) with Sherrard Clemm. who at one time represi nted the Wheeling .li.-'.riTt incoiurress. Wli-.-n tic dilhculty between Clemens and .It nnings Wi-e I first arose, Clemens announced his j pui'i ore of not fighting. He Was en i ga.ied ut the time to ayiciti ' lady, whom he after waul married. She bend 0! 1 bin intention to tefil;e a combat wHi Wise, and sent him word that unless I e 1 fought be shoul i never m.u ry h"r. He i did fk'ht, and Vi-e'.i hot l imed hi s. 1 for lite. Tlie I!a:r-pie!,er"siii; k. 1 That htliiibh-t of bu-in -s; r.'.gcid- h eiiiig, is by no meat s a siimil -.. !l'-ir. ; Iadivi.lll.il rag-pick is and Ms- ather 1 eis r,.ay do very little. Kit their acgre , gate '. f.'.'t'.i. s iii'tiie'iso. S- line one 1 as I lately put pi i, cil 1. 1 paper with tbe fob I lowing 1 s-i mates: l'!e- i'if'y nioli-.ii people of the Fniti ! S:,i'.-s ,'ii n -t j discar.l less thin live p.-und-. of cSot'i ! ing t it.-h, -i y. ar. Thi w.-ul-l give tw. 'hundred and fifty 1. iib.-u" pounds ..f i rags A yiar. The tailoring isla'dish j mi nt:., hug-' and si:. all. do not in th. i. llMl,l'"S I'fod'l less than the same ! imioutit. which, being of better lilli' v. (intriinds a higher price. Then thi statistician claims that the don:e.-tic ! nrti-'l-s, such as c.irp: ts. curtail., etc.. ; " "' .v'-'r !u"', ! miother , .pial .piantity of two hitndu d and fifty million p-em.K i'he-e clt.. gether give sevn hi'i:d:ed a: d tift;. million pounds of material for ihe r ig man's bug, per year, as ti e pro Inet of the e.oin'ry - whi.-h 11111.1:- t.ot an io- ! considerable business by any Means. That fortunes are s. nit ti:i:e made iu j thi l.iv-in. i proved by tl..- following ! true story : In an Intern city, not h-g ' 'l" "ll n":,M 1,1 " miserable c. liar. He was to.uly chid, ' ll!l1' U Wils thought he died '"" ',,,'l of T''r noiim.hmei.t. i 1 "''' t,lat ,M,.V 11 ''"",' r years, and was a rcg-pick. r. Amot g ,.,,, ynnty ,! impurity belong the old rags in the cellar in v.hi. li lio j to ,.,.H ,llr . j,,,.,,,,-, C;ln llU1-ifv anclh. r. died, were found dee Is. bond, etc., to ; ,;, j.,it.0 ,1()t um.n t!lV ,,,,;, failed., the viilne of fitly thousand ih liars. : n,;i. not 11,, v,1(. Many cases not unlike this com.' to;:.,, ,o1Tl,l..th. A benevolent eve. light from time to time. 'True, some will say such men prow rich from th 'ir i m.serly savings. But there mn-.t be j ciirniiij's u well as savings, for nothing added to nothing, w ill prod nee nothing, thou -di continued through a long life Fifty thousand dollars to a rag picker, for bis rR and his interest, shows that both lines of bis bnsii ess must have been profitable even 1hoii;di he spent asboluteh nothing f"l' hi living Still all rag pickers are not pai l Intid-.oiuely for their trouble. "C"i''Viiiwise," as Tueeuledee says, ITKMS OF IMTItKST. M's. ISilva A. Lockwond, a lawyer, traverses the streets of Washington on a tricycli'1. , rt "wt"i nV 01 " M.yB 1 ,'lv,v- "t Jtloominpton, 111., has n fn 1,1 '"'""I'orsbi,. t0 "'gn ",Il'lent ! 0:1 account of his color. IJecanse a Cincinnati thief is a woman General W. -. Il.irnry, who is on the retired list, is now living at Pass ClirU tiun, Mi--s. lie will have ti family r.: union oil TliaksgiMng dav. He is en tei! lining some t ili !'! of the French ria.'.v. 'villi their w iv.-s. John ! Witt, secretary of the San I'laiii i-eo free library, set-tin to have i'lt'l f-! ilifications for som." dilbretd I . it Ion. He was a tine wresth r, figur ing us such in public exhibitions, ami h" was an inicti-iutc gambler ut faro, which led him Ut abscond With the library's money. Captain Mall"tt, cf the bark uerokco of Liverpool which arrived at New York, had 'in u.vi u.illy interesting story to ei). J!e-i li s encountering severe gules iu his vm iL'i' he savs h and his crew 1 f.-i! t',.- eil'ec'.s of ati eat th. puke at sea. j t :d . -it six r.'.-hiek in the afternoon on ! Aut'i: i (l:h, when they were m arly in mi l lie uf the A'lantic, and about in the Lltir-ld of th itliern p irt of Xewfi iii.illiti.'i, two si ve;e hoi ls made he balk tr.'iiibb' f: u s b m to stem. T in' shocks were !; twei 11 live and ten s-'.'oiils ui-iiit. 1 ap'ain Mallctt says hat i;i :iis loin et pcrif mv us a si-nmin ihis j.- the first tini'' he has ever felt an earth puke shuck at sot, but. he has ! boon informed thai .un h shocks have ben, felt by ves-.-ls in the south Athi'i tic ii' -ar ll.eepiLtt.ir. A I'iiiv 'biiii i'.ief nry. The first niantif e-'ory of translucent porcelain in the rutted Stales as re eeiilly been ( s'.a1 'ii.-ii.'d in New Orleans by Mr. Kiigene S irgi, whohas engaged the services of Mr. dc'KstampeS, iormeilv director of a porcelain factory at Y.eiiii, France. Tin' latter had ilre.ilv started the busine-s in New Uib'i::i. in a -ciaH way, ( n e was import ing his k.vlin from France, being i.j'ioratit that kaoFn of the repiiiteH piality could be obtained in th's coun try. Th" linn of capitalists w'.io t;ok over the business of Mr, d'F.s'ampes lorthe purpose of conducting it on a large s ,'ale caused a search to be made for the prop, r kind cf kaolin, and ulti mately found it in I! 'bertson county, Texas. 111 the line of Houston A- Texas I'eiiti.il Uailroal. The first batch of he new per elain his been drawn from the 1; tin, i'lid is s'iid to be excellent war", :i.i ur.h a little old color from the . hi 'in " ss of a new kiln. I 'mill li'.iiii-tl ihtf.. lioemm i.n New York city hat ltd in taming eight rats and thi r.i ii' my inteie-tine trick, most inter, -ting pi 1 form nice, 1",, is 'phiyitig soldo is." The rick up their 1 a' n'sl led by the u, who is di-tinguii hc.l from hers by a red ribbon which lie .treur.d hi nu!., march out- iu file 0:1 to ii platform in from of .e. Th' then form two abrea-t, ' 1 fv.'l.i.' g ar '.,!. d the jdalform ...111 a .olid ci liiiioi in the eenne. A t-ai'.ii the o'. 'J th- c i and 11 thev i' a- !': ''.-h w .''inrr f-.r order. At "'.he . aii'i iii.l of sb.-ir teit 'ln-r they form f .1:1- ;d 1. a-l ii'i-i ri-e i-,p'n their hind leg-. Tic v ie i st-per.'t.- cud f. -rmtwo li.i.in at i-.ih.-r e:. l of the platform. in ' rush a: Cii a o'ln lef with apparent, is fou;,ht. A causes them iry. and a neck 1 1: ill u. te f'ot.i !'t a? :t; M., :,i tnd march info the VtUllpN Ol IHIM. I - a mean :i-'t in a mean w.-iv: so it wiiiiavea l.eet-i r ; t ing - for . 'ill' own hrea-t. I!' it be'ler Hot do it. M. 11 will never know i.s by our faith, for that i within us; bu' I hey know in by our work-;, which are visible lo th 111. Yi r. title in.f inf.i the company of tho-- jl ;,t i'.'e infected with (he plague ; no. though tii. -ii think thyself guarded with an antidote. By one's self is evil done, and by one's self one ."lill'ei'-i. By one's self evil is left undone, and bv one's self one is hr.ti.ilhy cf siiiri'. and a mind free from pi 1 do eh ir.ie'i li.it the truo disciple. 'I he low of i.i-oi!'ity is ti kind of Irial that biinps riori pain than any of os know. We call money r eh and filthy lucre; yet even when the heart is n-.t pet up 11 it, the life depends upon it to sue!, an 1 xtetit ns lo nui'te its with iirav.a! n real iifHiction. After a man h::s ftmvu fixed in a kind of life amidst an i.buudaiiee of nit an", it is like ti revo- lnti 01 in hi spirits, as well it 1 outivin l ! cireumsfaiieow, lo bo hronvtlit to th j coti-liti u of ih j'fiuh-iice.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 8, 1881, edition 1
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