North Carolina Newspapers

.' r '-""';r- -V1'- '- y- " '''t!:- ' '--uh-ti,;---- ' . . . .-- ... - - ... j . "h .7 r;: " :T'.' ; " , It Tr- . x a i. HARRIS. Editor. t .v j . ' ;! "Oi are the ptahsi.of:fai delightfah peaeeuhwarpedby-y-party rage, to live like brothers." V 3 '!-. VOLUIVIE I., . 4 RALEIGH, iWEDNESDAY. APBIL 1 7, 1878. Official Organ of the United States for H; C. " THE REGISTER" xxT.i-iv sinele copy, one" year," I1 : 1 six months, - ? " 1.00 VI '"Is "-' "l""-"" tliree month. : 60 clnbs of twenty, one year, eacb, 1 00 Invarial . ! idvertiseraenta inserted at the regular rates,f j . imbusner anaiJtTOPrxeKr - . j i - i BETSY'S ZEpACr., :: BY HELEJf KOCKWOOD. , - Simeon Laphinstank was '. a dreadfu lie had no wife no friends, "no relatives, that any one knew. t f ,; f- . He lived in a little 6tone house, which he had biiilt himself, bringing the stoned, - one at a time, from a quarry near. It 1'Jiwl but one room, and was unplastered. ItVas more like a den than a house. . 1 It was! not generally known, but old Laphinstank h3d once been engaged to be married and to a very sweet and pretty girl. He was young, then, and hano some, though you would not think ho could ever have been that, to see him now. i -The marriage was broken off .very ab ruptly and' mysteriously. But Simeon had already acquired a reputatien for be ing misery, and it was whispered that he had taken alarm at hearing that his promised wife was sickly, and had himself .terminated, the engagement for fear of future doctor bills. i U Neither he nor the lady ever married, and, so far as any one knew, never met aain. But she was. a seamstress, and, by economy and industry, had accumulat ed quite a little property at her death, which she left to SimeoapMniitaflkQiiiliP 3j?ounting his gold, eoiKlulOn mai lie look, care ui ucr i . 'She stipulated' in the! will how much meat, and how much milk, the cat should have every day. J The miser was delighted ; and thoug;h he grumbled a wasting soj much goqd food on a cat, he did not dareobject, fpr fear of losing the money. : Tlie cat in question was an extremely large and well grown specimen, and nam ed Tommy Dontgo. 1 He was as black as one of Satan's own; imps,' and possessed large greenish eyes, of a, wonderful bril liancy even for a cat, ' f 4s if he had been a party- to Miss Betsy's will, he went with old Simeon without any difficulty, and passers by the ' miser's den were thenceforth regaled with the sight of an enormous black cat, sun- niucr himself -on the roof, or stretched lazily before the door. , " There were not wanting' superstitious and Totomy was1 a big cat; ' Simeon was mor0 than half Vstaryed h all the time, and was growing olbesideSj'while l?6mmy wai ell-fed, andiin ; tlie prime ' of .Jiis outliand. strengtjir.;lf"it 'came to a struggle,'.-Tommy v might -ge'the best of itli -f'ri-.w-i--' vw - jt T. - i 'A One'night the "miser "had a'dreara,, j He woke np' with-the word ,"poison,? on his M The problem 6 was - solved Tommy of 4meat the poison was concealed skillful- ly and lommy ate without suspicion. jq uau j eviuenuy ;no prejuaice againsirxnai kind of seasoning; r' The , miser watcjied him, trembling with exultation.! - . r i: f But Tommy did )Qot die. On the con trary, he seemed rather to thrive on bis new'diet. j Old Simeon resolved to try strychnine. It had been arsenic before. ;; : Again Tommy ate, but again Tommy did iot die. He was poison-proof. : ' f ; Something else had to be done. Old Simeon reso' to Isiill Tommy for ved to hire some one him. He engaged a youpg quarryman, who owed him a trifle, to do the deed. But, as it happened, the young man had; just married, :and his wife having one ; time sewed for Miss Betsy, knew her cat, l and declared he should not be killed for twenty misers. "He ought to be ashamed for wanting it done, after her leaving him the money !" she (declared. . ' ' ii - "It's only a cat, and he'll get some on.e else to do it if I j doa't," argued the hus band. , ' I "Let. him, then. You shan't do it. I'll tell you, John we will keep Tommjr ourselves. Old Laphinstank will never know the difference' f j And he did; not, for a time. He thought he was well rid of the black cat, he heard the most in6arthly"howling'and screeching on the roof overhead, and, a few moments after, Tommy Dontgo leap ed down the : chimney upon the fireless hearth, where he! stood hissing and spit ting, and arching his stall back, and glar ing with his green eyes at the miser, for all the world as if he knew how he hated him In spite of his belief that dead cats never walked, old Simeon was so frighten ed that his hair stood up, and his teeth chattered. ? 1 ' " However, he found out the truth the next day, and took his measures accordingly- : ' ! l?: " : . . This time, he got a man to come with a big dog. ;. 'j j , ; i He had taken the precaution to block the top of the chimney with sfones, and to 'lock himself in his den. ut the big dog had barely made his pearance, when-crash, whiz ! like a bullet, came Tommy through the one imdow-ot tne miser s nur, tne aog aiter iin.. : Tommy landed pn old Simeon's back; e dog stuck in the window, being too "sr to sret through'. The dog barkedj andV growled ; the cat Issed, and ' spit and clawed, and the isewas but .1 thinly, clothed. j ( Tommy never let go till the big dog's aster had come : to f his rescue, and the air of, them had vacated thd premises, j I Smarting and: bleeding f from many ounds, old Simeon made1 One more des prate attempt to get ria or aommy I He .hired la man who was, a good arksman to come and shoot him. This time there! was no mistake. The n blazed, Tommy fell flat. But even J deathjiisjrre hiS'.uoor! that no one sno in and bother him about a doctor. ,'d rather die than pay a doctor,' he And though "he grew :worse and still rse, 'he would hot open the dopr? ough many came and called and Icnock- Finally he grew too weak to leave his ;d or help himself ; and, as he lay there, half out of his mind, he began to dream of that pretty, sweet-eyed girl whom he had loved once as much.as he-could love, and how badly, he had used her now she had retaliated by leaving him all her lit tle hard-earned savings i wen she 4ed, only asking him to take care of the one creature that had ' been moroi faithful to her'jthan , he.' " And he had murdered him. l . t" k Then he fell to counting the gains he had made by killing Tommy. , , - Two '.'cents for meat and one cent for milk,' every day' since Tommy's death two hundred and - twenty-four was six 1iun6eoatnl i6dventy:tw8fix-;:d6Tla1r8 and seventy-two cents saved by killing Tommy I The raiser, chuckled as he lay there dying. If he could only et out of his bed, and go to where his gold was hidden under the floor, and see if he had really saved six dollars and 6evcnty-two cents by killing Tommy ! Suddenly, as he lay with his eyes fast ened on the spot, there was a horrible screech and howl form, somewhere, and the next , moment he sa v the big black cat seated on the floor above his treasure, and glaring at him with great, green, fierce eyes, the like of which were certain ly never in any cat's head but Tommy's. But Tommy was dead. ,Ho had seen him die. o He had dug his '. grave himself, and himself put Tommy in it. He had piled so much earth above him that even if he was not dead he could never have got out. This, then, must be Tommy's ghost 1 He had murdered Tommy, or caused it to be done, and Tommy's ghost had come back to haunt him. It was too much. Some passers, peering in at the window, later in the! day, saw , him lying stiff and dead, his eyes still with terror, and broke open the door. As .the entered, an enormous blade cat leaped out, and vanished like a flash of Eghtmngrrb"' - : To this day the people there declare that the ghost of Tommy Dontgo still walks Saturday Night. FUN AT MADISON COURT. The Spring Term of the Court commen ced Monday, Judge Cloud upon the bench. The crowd in Attendance during the ear ly part of the week was unusually large. The charge of His Honor to the grand jury was nnique in delivery, humorous in reiteration, replete with good sound prac tical common sense, and bristled all over with sharp points of law; divested of all superficial technicalities that only bewil der the common mind and leave the juror in doubt as to the manner or authority he has f 6r discharging a very plain but im perative duty.' Judge Cloud is a man rude of speech, sterling honesty, and most unquestionable integrity- of ductile disposition, he can be influenced by sound and able argument from a position taken at first blush and apparently tenable, but neither favor nor reward can seduce him into error, or cause him to swerve from the line of judicial duty. Phlegmatic by nature, and impul sive only in speech, he poises the scales ot justice with an unf evered hand, and guides with unerring certainty the com pass xf men's errors and their commensu rate punishment. These truths are cor roborated by the records of the Supreme Court, before which tribunal he has had fewer decisions reversed than any other Judge on the Superior Court Bench. His idiosyncracies lead strangers r into error in forming an estimate of his judic ial and social character, and these mis conceived notions as to his legal ability and moral worth have been the cause of "erciless criticism by the press of the Yate of the officer and the man. jMany are the anecdotes; told of the Jjculiarities of this peculiar; Judge. He W an antipathy for all whistlers; indeed, hy shrill or discordant sounds strike his hsitive tympany with the force of an fectric shock. He would stop the winds bin whistling were it in his power to ulaTffVapple the reins of the storm king, or hurl back to their source the-sweet lullaby of the sighing pines. Bude jboys surround the hotel where he stops and 'pipe - "Old Dan Tucker," "GwinQ to Kun All Night," and other ancients melodiesy much to the discomfort of His Honor and the disrepute of the juvenile serenaders; j ' : :: At Marshall Court he was much annoy ed by the iwhoa-up! whoa-np! of the hog dr6veSfpas8ingupthelroad. -"SherifE," ation Snd,aWeare to 'be upon. "THEDEATB PENALTY. cried tie Judsrei ston that' noise." bim and he ' to be crushed '! ..l r The Sheriff was absent. ; and the ouiet. We ask the" free men of the State, if ithbeasiest.watkto get xn. pj3fj&i sek- dignified clerk arose, and said. "jSlay it please jour Honor, it is impossible to stop 1 that noise; it's tne hog-drovers." ; r ; f 'Sit Heht down thar,' exclaimed the iudge "What do you know about hog driver&-hog-drivers ? You couldn't drive driver&-hog-d a steer m a lane with a hoop-Dole." Whim holding Court in one of the low er, counties, he discovered thirteen men in the inrr-box. "Mr. Sheriff '? said he. I "iiow, rx2any is thar in that jury-box ? "Onli twelve, your Honor !" : "Th'aW a lie?-rlWcTOtjthat twice, and thar is thirteen men in that The Clerk proceeded to call the names 1 of the jurors, the Sheriff keeping tally, Twelve men only responded. "Thar, now; that other man thar didn't answer, wnat s ne doins in. that dox f "May it please your Hono, that's the Deputy Sheriff."; . ; . . , "Deputy Hell! Get put of thar!" ' I Wkile holding Court at Bakersville, the Judge became restive under tlie incessant gabble of a flock of geese that were feed- ingonthe grass plat behindathe Court House. "Sheriff, driver them geese off from here." u,r .. . ,T , , "May it please your Honor, everybody in town owns geese, and if I drive them off I can't keep them off." "Then kill them, exclaimed the angry Judge, and charge them to the Court." The Judge was stopping with the Sher- , and at the end of the Term the officer iff, landed him his bill; one item of which was as follows: "Twelve geese, 50 cents a price, $0. "Look here McKinny," said the Judge, I havn't tasted a piece of goose since Pve been on the circuit." "True, your Honor, but you ordered f me to kill the geese, about , the Court rr t V It i. House ana charge them to the Court, s k riererSherifPsaid the Judge, at he same time expectorating'his tobacco nice with unusual rapidity, "You cei-- ainly wasu't darn fool enough to kill hem geese ? Look thar, now; 12 geese at 50 cents a piece, $6. I'll pay it, Sher- iff: I'UDav it: but vou ousdit to be re moved from office for being a damn fool -damn fool !" AshemUe Pioneer . DO WN "INDEPENDENTS." Since the inauguration, of the present administration and the adoption of the Southern policy of President Hayes, up until now, the tone of almost the entire Democratic press of this State has been 4 at least tolerating and in a few instances conciliatory. The people have been spar- ed, to a degree, the bitter invectives of its partisan spite and the result has been a better state of feeling reigns among all men of all classes than has existed in the south for fifteen years. We would have no fear of successful contradiction were we to assert 'that in this State the parti- tion walls that have ever -divided parties are loer to-day thVthej,; within a quarter of a cenfury. "The peo ple are busy fighting against tlie , hard times. 'They, "are trying to make ; their oread. Their primary object now being to raise their crops of tobacco and cotton and educate their children. This is as it 1 should be. Ko man of sense can close' his eyes to the importance of maintaining this happy mood of our people. Parties are of a secondary consideration sary and importantn the control crnments but unless free and ependetit, holding and contrpllng their constituent onstituent members by the cohensive force of prihei of princi pie and the-mnate ;ower of them they represent, becomci 'arbitrary and worse than useless! The curse of the present, poUtical age is that ; our people vote for men ratherfthan measures; the tricksters ana .wire, puiiers wno pacK irid control political mass conventions and meetmgs. Executive; tional, State, county and district. ict, each in bership and in alll instances controlling them, make the nominations. Thus, not intrequently happening that a little town the several sectiPhs composed of the tW?!1 WWm&B Sift same individuals, call the meetings and in more severe: paan, and ihat n nine times out of teb constitute the mem- '$TM$&pM clique or cour house ring make tlhomi'O Thejdry,twiths the exception of two, nations for an entire county. If an hon- est farmer objects tp the, operation of the -clique, tne committee, ana nis inenas uigo ujuu xi4.iu. bu ypviaiD imiiaeu a cauui - uate, men wie iurips oi caiumny, vituper- tney .expect ?io yield to dictation iron? .me partisans, come iromj wnai quarter iney i "y. mnwn jiejmwivan. . . , ... , ' I Pt S.NEEf&PlJTEb MARr . . " f 'S SI1AL r 1 m the Southern Fome.) i I Peter StuarOJey, . the remarkable man who was widely; known in; Westeru.North J Carolina, as? a classical teacher, sometimes. I ed Marshals Nej . who .so; often Jed the to account for the 'executionf of Marshal 7th of December, "1815, he is reported to 1 have said that the jFrench soldiers loved him bo dearly, that' they determined to fP 3 and dve the govern- '"FMrjv vAv" u i tridges. .He was, beforehand, apprized of their, desigd, and instructed to taU just if he had bienhot. : By , the connivance of 80me of he officers, this was all accom- Pnea anlIie was conyeyea to i,ne oiear- cs seaport ana tnus escapea to America, f Pme fg?J - ?-fey were cer, VCI vw. whose j great, learning! iand acwmplisb- mnts would have entitled -him to a seat . . .a " " P T i u . A i. ii Jj u borbood, is what people could not under- staid. On one occasion, he wrote an ac- rosti- on my sister's; name, and in a note accompaying- itsaid : take great pleasure iQ jthWinhe'name pIi- laf into as; ;U; was my. pother's 1 name. m4 mother was a Scotchwoman, and her name wa8 beiia Stuart" Now, we know, tliat Marshal Key's name was Michal, while our old, friend wrote him. ReIf Peter Stnart "NTev -the Stuart for hislCBO"w"S yn -UVUV motherfs family. Had Marshal Key been I wishing to conceal himself, he would have I , TM i . , , ... I been more likely to have dropped his sur-l name, than! his christian name. . As the I teacher retained the name of iKey, why not retain he Michal !;? Marsh al Ja.ichal Key was brn in 1769, and Peter Stnart Key was teaching in Lincoln: county in 183 or -'44. .Had they been the same person, P. S. Key's age would have .been at that tim eighty-nfour, and -Ij dov not think he was-near; so old as thatl ; . Michal Key, the Marshal, left four chlldred, all sons, and themnames were Joseph. apo, leon MicHflugene; and Edga.. ! i So'me persons hae suggested that Peter Stnart Key was a son; oF Marshal Kdy, but he had no sonpf that name. His eldest son, osepn oxapoieon, prince oi-tne;mosKva, was born m t I'aris m and died t bt. Germap m 1857. Lani sorry to' destroy so interestg a romance, but I. 'do not think it: prablphaturolditecherwas feai arsnai : iaey ;amit tnane was a very;remafkahlP man, and maddi- llB f Tt8 always, a lAystery about him ; a reticence n speakir of his own .ffairs , (eept when intoxicated as. he was, n rnnes,j M SfH l--i---i':--j!''- t ;,- ' i Anoth3 Ho'iiciDE.-On Saturday cor oner'Gebrge 'Kirby was notMeWthaf!a ing with hiis. father, Zion Reed, in'the Nalnmtu iktion, had died from a blow dlt himbyhUcoodi, JcssoEc-cd. 0.f ! ,i if ; , i r r r f excellent jcoroper repairea promptly to ' ! .? v t.Mv ,n,u?m' f n t '. r,i -1 ; P 'M (MvJ Cl. : WPm mnmymsmi W. .f., JJ'tritlWj WSBgt?1 jpl Jesse (hu- l the stick at n striking T.t 'qwm Pai?-. ,tert hongK , i0,tee was able lbptven m i causooi TOin,. were "all' colored i men and: rendered the verStji I death trom the enects 1 inmcieuj vJjy i-.Bei r messenger. tablished the, fact that the, blow, had pro- dipt against va"eri gMUiy oirmansiaugn- r-i 4. -TH iit'i--s 'LMt teM Carter wa Bcntenced thMtrtl . ducea mtprnai mnaniatipnr wmcii was tne I.2r"":;:-T:VT" ; .-n- - ; u? tbnceo to dsath.- Atter hearing the report ot 4Jr. Wilr f ? nam namraona in regara. t.o : iegisia tive action towards the ; mvestigation -oti o thei State Asylums fori the K which the system is spokea Insane iu ystem is spoken .of ..as Hhe most barbarous iin tlie civilized iwprld i . the . MedicprLega Societyr last f evening listened with interest to a paper by Dr. John H. Packard, of Philadelphia, on renalty." Dr. Packard reasoned that, - thV moral' ; proved by the simultaneous records in the daily pressf executions and murders. He gayo, among other reasons for oppos- mg the present., mode of capita punifh- "wr r: t -j -U r T; sentiment, of wmunity to an inordi- 3fWJrim7j iPcE?f5fl?S,;,. ne cnances oi acquipai even ior vie worst . crimkfe . In Pennsyiyaahp said if rU l vt ri ""Hv V'r .u - v"" rr"; tiotp the warrant, andm -.w a mjw..8entencea to aeain;tity years ao ii still unhung, - 7 ' Dr. Packard suited that in place of ' the rppe a more humane and Recent means of i lif etaking be employed. His choice thedministraJion of carbonic oxide m a clo8f oai m ch . thQrcnminal 8lwuli:be placed under the direction of a ) end oten mmutesfresh 8nould !be adlitted into .the ropm, muy rVAWrf.. : and & necessary certificate ; as to aeam . 116 aavocaieQ is pian. as one umran,a? decepcy.. , . . ,' , , r, who followed 'Dr.. Packard, believed that ' , , p , , . . f iotis and horrible 5'Do away with t tlie,; rope as" a means of pumshment,'1.'. he said,' . "but give us in place, of it a terrible pun- ' ishment by dead of night, in secrecy.and . . mystery, and let the body of the felon be put so far away 'that eyen; the t (devil can- hot find fc- New -York Sum ' Will Kot Disband. The t srreat Re- . an artvLn nt banH There Vbeek. Botttodiforents bot j these are over8badowed by tho'great interesislof n : th! coiintryi which are I bound np with' the, COntmual supraii0 the organization Bayed thelRepua iMeri niay.con- . demn 0r; they may forbear when questions . ar jQ he form of 'discnssiott.' f But when !; theyenteihe e0 tEn:the;panmptm1cpmmaniUg Jtits to stand by ihe party upon which : 0; we.canirejy to: standi by the welfare - Unhecontry: . ' AVvTHftttVfiW' Thr-l ma(je her granite Mljs reverberafev i f i(ri i Thei l th YnrWimw , aerstand thattheii- Bepuhlic4mism wuS, lialterihg andunswervin 4 Thbf vitality y of the KepubHcan party is enduring. It f? ' P f.- u.i .A " , L ""Wh1'?, W Xacway, M Jgoore,. I accompanied by Solicitor Pemberton . and t I ' , v MrKeuwine. passed tnronsh town Wed - two murder Were triPd ie latter .part of last week. ; In ihecake ainst AshnrV Chavis Jainea JhhP case of erryEvfeHttf(aH colored) the jurjr rei ;s turnei Peldictf of r murder 8tv AburThl;-who sen , tence 29th jf .this mPntjyhavisuulPpK a4 appeallof tbeJcase fr , the fiutjreme ,r ulara from parties iust, Tetnrned from AU- ; -AtME bem&l.J& r : .;t 'k . ' -. , - Wh6 haslust re i i 4 ot,a piow or injury Up cjjjfns that exJudgeLoganjs to ; Xf, M: m xveou.; ouxsvvrv i Beriousiy ill inaj lis inenu uao ,wf.i . f t ti f. 0i :W if- :H t. 'IK