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W --- 1 - . 1 PffW -"'-'N, :! - 1- -' THE BliCSSBD LOTB OF NATtTKK. - "IWiHiam Motherwell. . ! (io. i Uord ! If Is a gracious boon for thought erased wight like me, Ti mell again these Rummer flowers beneath this summer tree ! To miflrk owe more lit every breath their little souls away, !'- ; ' And feed my fancy with fond dreams of youth's bright summer day,. ', ' ' When,' 'rushing forth like untamed colt the reckless, truant boy Wandered through greenwoods' all day long, a nighty heart of oy! I'm tedder now I have had cause; hnt oh! I'm proud to think That each pure Joy-fdunt, loved of one, I yet delight to drink F'af, blossom, blade, hill, vailey, stream, the calm, unclouded sky, Still mingle music with my dreams,- as in the days gone; by. When summer's loveliness and light fall round me dark and cold, ; I'll bear indeed life's heaviest curse a heart (hat hath waxed old! " THE HEAD-STONE. LUcliU and Shadows of Scottish life. Tlif oofiin was. letdown to tlie bottom of rli grave, the planks were -removed f r.mi the beaped-up brink, the first rattling t lfci had struck, their knell, the quick levelling was over, and the long, broad, skilfully cut pieces of turf were aptly j .ined together, and trimly laid bv the l.L-atinjr spade, so that the newest mound in the church-yard was scarcely.) distin guishable from those that were grown over liv the undisturbed grass and daisies of a luxuriant spring. The burial was soon over; and the party, with one consenting motion, having uncovered their heads in decent reverence of th&place and occasion, were Ix ginning to separate, 'and: about to lea vc the church-yara. Here, ; some acr ()iiai titances, from - distant parts of the parish, who had not had an. opportunity f addressing each other in the house that had belonged to the deceased, nor in the course of the few hundred yards that the little procession had to move over from his bed to his grave, were shaking hands quietly but cheerfully, and inquiring after, the welfare of each other's families. There, :i small knot of neighbors were speaking, without exaggeration, of the respectable character which' the deceased had borne, and mentioning to one another little inci dents of his life, some of them so remote us to be known only to the gray-headed persons of the group. While a few yards farther removed from the spot, were stand ing together parties who discussed ordi nary concerns, altogether unconnected with the funeral, such as the state of the markets, the promise of the season, or change of tenants; but still with a sobriety of manner and voice, that was insensibly produced by the influence of the simple ceremony now closed, by the quiet graves around, and the shadow of the spire and gray walls of the house of God. Two men yet stood together at the head of the grave, with countenances of sincere but impassioned grief. They were broth ers, the only sons of him who had been buried. And there was something in their situation that naturally kept the eyes of many directed upon them for a long time, itnd more intently, than would have l en the case, had there been nothing more observable about them than the com mon symptoms of a common sorrow. But tin s,- two brothers, who were now stand ing at the head of their father's grave, had for some years been totally estranged from each other, and the only words that had passed letweeh them, during all that time, had been uttered within a few days past, during the necessary preparations for the old man's funeral. No deep and deadly qaarrel was between: these brothers, and neither of them could distinctly telt the cause of this unnatural estrangement. Perhaps dim jealousies of their father's favor selfish thoughts that will sometimes force themselves into poor men's hearts, respecting temporal expecta tions unaccommodating manners on both sides taunting words that mean little when uttered, but which rankle and fester in remembrance imagined opposition of interests, that, duly considered, would have been found one and the same these, and many other causes, slight when single, tmt strong when rising tip together in one baneful band, had gradually but fatally infected their hearts, till at last they who in youth had been seldom separate, and truly attached, now met at market, and, miserable to say, at church, with dark and averted faces,- like different clansmen dur ing a feud. Surely if anything could have softened their hearts towards each other, it must have been to stand silently, side by side, while the ' earth, stones, and clods, were falling down upon their father's coffin. And doubtless their hearts were so soft ened. But pride, though it cannot pre vent the holy affections of nature from ljeing felt, may prevent them from being shown ; and these two brothers stood there together, determined not to let each other know the mutual tenderness that, in spite of them, was gushing up in their hearts, and teaching them the unconfessed folly and wickedness of their causeless quarrel. A head-stone had been prepared, and a person came forward to plant it. The elder brother directed him how to place it a plain stone, with a sand-glass, skull, and cross-bones, chiselled not rudely, and a few words inscribed. The younger brother -regarded the operation with a troubled eye, and said, loudly enough to Ik- heard by several of the bystanders, " William, this was not kind in you; you should have told me of this. I loved my father as w ell as you could love him. You were the elder, and, it may be, the favor ite son; but I had a right in nature to have joined you in ordering this head stone, had I not?" During these words, the stone was sink ing into the earth, and many persons who were on their way from the grave returned. For a while th.e, elder brother said nothing, for he hud a consciousness , in his heart that he ought to have consulted his father's son in designing this hut becoming mark of affection and respect to Ms memory, so the stone was planted in silence, and now stood erect, decently and simply among the other unostentatious memorials of the humble dead. . The inscription merely gave the name of the deceased, and told that the stone had been-erected , "by his! affectionate sons." The sight of these words seemed to soften the displeasure of the angry man, and he aid, somewhat more mildly, "Yes,.we were his affectionate sons, and since my name is on the stone, J am satisfied, - brother. We have not drawn together kindly of late, years, and perhaps never may ; but I acknowledge and respect your worth; and here, before our own friends, and before the friends of our father, with my foot above his head, I express my wUj . lingness to 1m? on better and other terms with you ; and if we cannot command love in our hearts, let us at least, brother, bar out an unjunaness." The minister, who had attended the, funeral, and. had something intrusted to him to say! publicly before he left the church-yard! now came forward, and asked the elder brother, whv he spake not regarding this matter. He saw that there was something of a cold and sullen pride rising up in Ihis heart, for not easily may any man hope to dismiss from the cham ber of his heart even the vilest guest, if once cherished there. With a solemn and almost severe air, he looked upon the re lenting manj and then, changing his coun tenance into serenity, said gently, Behold how good a thing it is, And how becoming well, Together such as brethren are In unity to dwell. The time,; the place, and this beautiful expression of a natural sentiment, quite overcame a heart, in which many kind, if not warm, affections dwelt; and the man thus appealed to bowed down his head and wept. "Give me your hand, brother;" and. it was given, while a murmur of satis faction arose from all present, and all hearts felt kindlier and more humanely towards each other. . . As ftie brothers "stood fervently, but composedly, grasping each others hands, in the little hollow that lay between the grave of their mother, long since dead, and of their father, whose shroud was hap ly Hot yet still from the fail of dust to dust, and the minister stood beside them with a pleasant countenance, and said : "I must fulfil the promise I made to your father on his death-bed. I must read to you a few words which his hand wrote at an hour when his tongue denied its office. I must not say that you did your duty to your old father; for did he not often be seech you, apart from one another, to be reconciled, for your own sakes as chris tians, for has sake, and for the sake of the mother who bare you, and Stephen, who died that you might be born? When the palsy struck him for the . last time, you were both absent, nor was it your fault that you were not beside the old man when he died. As long as sense continued with him here, did he think of you two, and you two alone. Tears were in his eyes; J saw them there, and on his cheek too", when no breath came from his lips. But of this,, no more. He died with this paper in his hand ; and he made mc know that I was to read it to you over your father's grave. I now obey him. ' My sons if you will let my bones lie quiet in the grave, near the dust of your mother, depart not from my burial, till, in the name of God and Christ, you promise to love one another as you used to do. Dear boys, receive my blessing." Some turned their heads away to hide the tears that needed not to be hidden, and when the brothers had released each other from a long and sobbing embrace, many went up to them, and in a single word or two, expressed their joy at this perfect reconcilement. The brothers them selves walked away from the church-yard, arm in arm with the minister to the Manse. On the following Sabbath, they were seen sitting with their families in the same pew, and it was observed that they read togeth er off the same Bible when the minister gave out the text, and that they sang to gether, taking hold of the same psalm book. The same psalm was sung (given out at their own request), of. which one verse had been repeated at their father's grave ; a larger sum than usual was on that Sabbath found in the plate for the poor, for Love and Charity are sisters. And ever after both during the peace and the troubles oi this Uiie, the hearts of the broth era were as onejj and in' nothing were they divided. j .' Well Ported In Polities. Merchant Traveller. A pretty girl of Clifton was talking politics to her best young man the other night, and he was rather surprised. " Why, Lucy," he said, "do you read the papers for political news?" "Oh, yes, and I just dote on it. I'm getting to be thoroughly posted." "Who's going to be the Democratic nominee for President, do you think?" "I couldn't say positively, but I can say, that if Ohio is bound to be repre sented on the ticket, the Democrats needn't think they ean carry the State by giving Cleveland first place." "Why not?" "Because Cincinnati should have it, of course, for it is so much larger and weal thier, and more influential than Cleveland. I begin to think this Cleveland boom is a Standard Oil Scheme, because that is their headquarters. The young man looked at the girl in amazement, and said something about Solomon in all his glory not being arrayed like one of these. TWO VERSIONS OP IT. The Yonnz Girl's and the Reporter. The moonbeams fall with silv'ry glint upon the boeky dell, The kissing winds of summer bear the sound of tinkling bell, And from afar there gleams a star that seems f or- e'er to keep A watch and ward, and ever guard the lives of ' those who sleep. A maiden stands beside the one she loveth best . of all; The world to her is bright and fair, and life hath ne'er a pall. - a " I love you well ah, need I tell?" she says in accents low Across her face the blushes chase each other as they go. " Don't y0u think that is nice?" " Pretty fair," said the reporter. But things don't always go as smoothly as that. I think ypur verses would read better if they were! modernized, so to ipeak." "Howlwould they read then?" " Wellabout like this:" The sunbeams strike with mighty force upon the blue4vash-tub, The kissing winds of summer make the farmer want his grub. And from the vale there comes a wail of mortal sore-distressed ; Some little boy his mother's joy has struck a bumble nest. A maiden stands beside the tub she hateth worst of all; ' The world to her is full of soap, and bitterness and gall; An angry flirt he gives the shirt, and says in ac cents low ; '-Gosh' darn the dog-goned washing day, I wish 'twould ever go !" Unnecessarily Alarmed. "Cholera!" exclaimed an old farmer. "Great Caesar I man, don't tell me that this country is threatened with cholera agin." ' "Yes, it's got into France, and without IHroper precautions may reach America." . "It's terrible," he groaned. "Why, last year. I lost four of the finest hogs you ever see with the cholera!" "But this is not hog cholera, it's Asiatic cholera." "Oth!" said the fanner, looking much rrlieved, "I was afraid it was hog cholera.' A HOLIDAY HU7. ; What HappeMd and tomethtnc Which DI4 Happen. ..... rWalterLl Steele. ', With us, in this' far off southland, there is a full realization of the fact that " Christmas comes but once a year, And every darkey has his share-" . of whatever joys can he had during the gala season. ,With him, the banjo and the Eddie make all. the instrumental melody which his soul requires, and bacon, and greens, and corn bread, and whisky meet the demands of his internal physical sys tem, while a flaming necktie of gorgeous colors' and red-top boots afford the apparel most suited to his fancy. Indeed, the African is a happy race, especially when freed from those cares which the light of education always brings along with it. For money nine-tenths of them have no use, except to gratify the demands of ap petite as some attractive object meets the eye, and, in consequence, it is an excep tional case, when an increase of . worldly goods takes place. Although it has. been more than fifteen years since they were declared to be free, few indeed ace else than " mere livers from hand to mouth." On such a day as Christmas the towns are black with them, and the retail groceries, which sell crackers, cheese, sardines, oys ters, toys, ribands, gew-gaws and whisky, do a thriving business by getting all the cash, which is the result of many a day's labor, from these thriftless descendants of Ham. "The loud laugh, which speaks the empty mind," is heard on every hand, the popping of firecrackers jars on the ear, the whisky yell -gives variety to the confusion, and all is fuss and din. Verily, I am glad the time comes but once a year. Indeed, if I were emperor of all the earth, and possessed of unlimited power, 1 should devote myself to the inauguration of several reforms for the benefit of my subjects, and among them would issue my ukase declaring death, " without benefit of clergy," or, any other benefit, against all the manufacturers of Roman caudles, firecrackers and other devilish inventions which disturb the quiet of towns and do no good whatever. In part to get away from the sort of noise which made my .house lose all its quiet, n Tuesday, the 26th, Jim LeG. and I got into a buggy with our hunting luggage, called up Don and Branch, gave the word to ' ' the gray mare Meg a bet ter never lifted leg," or, if you prefer it, because the name of the nag is thus pre served Weel hitched ou to gray mare Molly, We split the mud we did, by Jolly, and made our way to the hospitable resi dence of our friend, P. N. S., who lives in the " Fork," about eighteen miles from our home. Inasmuch as Tom, our host's " eldest hope," who knew our inclinations, told the family that he was sure we would be there that night, we found a capital supper ready for us, to which, after a brief interval at the fire, we proceeded to do ample justice. On our route, for lack of time, if for no other reason, we failed even to enjoy the lovely scenery, which is spread out as we rise the hill on which . Ingram lives, and which displays the broad bosom of the Pee Dee, dotted with many islands, and the far distant hills of Stanly and Montgomery counties. We take but a glance at the site of the old blacksmith shop, the slab bottom and the tanyard, where, in other days, the hunter placed himself to intercept a fleeing deer, as he was making his way to the river to escape his pursuers. It is getting nearly sundown, when we pass the old barn, the centre of a once famous turkey range, and twilight had come when we crossed Smith's Ford of Little river, on whose bank, a few miles above, I first saw the light of Heaven, and from whose waters, , when a boy, I have drawn many a beautiful fish. Two miles more, and we saw the cheerful light of our place of rest, and found what I had already described, as well as that hearty, but unpretending welcome which is shown to every one who enters the grounds. i Ji The cheerful supper done," we went back to the parlor and ranged ourselves around the sparkling fire, ready to engage in such conversation as might .spring up, and make our arrangements for the mor row's hunt. Tom being a "merciful man," and acquainted with the prandial capacity of my dog Branch for B. is sound in stomach as well as in limb and wind went out in the meantime with a bountiful supply of corn bread, and soon came in reporting that the little exercise Jie had had did not seem to have weakened the dog's appetite. Don, also, had his supply of scraps, and having been raised a gen tleman's dog, got a small portion of pork for his share. Being satisfied ourselves, and knowing that our dogs had feasted royally, we discussed all sorts of things, indulged in anecdote, " cracked of horses, plougiis and kye," inquired how ourhost's carp ponds were doing, what Christmas festivities had enlivened the neighborhood : and were congratulating ourselves upon having escaped " the maddening crowds ignoble strife," when the sound of a dar key's accordeon and hilarious chorus of darkey throats gave painful evidence that we were still within the bounds of that sort of civilization. Still we managed to keep up our " discourse " until the hour came when my habits required that I should bid entertainers and entertained my best wishes for a happy night. I slept well, disturbed only by the suggestions of a stomach rather heavily laden, and the whining of a setter pup, which I had brought up as a present to my friend Bishop Crickett, of Saint's Rest, who lives just across the .fee Uee, and whom we ex pected tovbreakfast with us the following morning, After all the family got together, before breakfast next day, a suggestion was made that, .as their Christinas had not quite ended, it might not be disagreeable to partake of a glass of egg-nog. The motion was duly seconded, and passed nan. eon., and we were regaled with "as good a ar ticle of them kind of eperrits" as was ever fixed up for the enjoyment of the human palate. The "flavoring extract" was obtained by a distillation of the fer mented peach which, bv the way. is un surpassable for Thomas and Jeremiah Tom and Jerry, if you like or that mix ture of sugar and whipped cream called syllabub. And then that little tinkling sound was heard which indicated that hot Java and biscuit and butter and sassen gers " and " chicken fixings " and chitter lings were nofc far off ; and we also par took of them. Then, having made ar rangements to' send our horse and buggy up to Smith's ferry, we went down to the river, not over a quarter of a mile off, to see1 if its bottoms contained ' any of the birds we had come to kill. ' In a short while- the elegant form of the Bishop, astride of his mule,, was seen approaching, and close by his does, Jack and Palmetto) The prelate and I took the bank of the stream, while Jim LeG. and Tern went falong the margin of the foot hills, ''We found that birds were scarce, and when we reached the ferry our bag con sisted of -only ten birds, while the other party har' succeeded in getting more than twice than number. Late in the afternoon, after 'Tom had' left us, we were hunting a Eiece of sedge and some adjacent ditch anks; Jim gave notice to 8aint Martin the Bishop and me that Don had found a covey on the opposite side of the ditch. Being an agile man, he had easily leaped it, and told us to go below and cross. We were ready enough to do so, and going to the bank of it, and inspecting its size, upon the same principle that governs " The dog who by instinct turns aside When he sees the ditch too deep and wide," it was deemed prudent to seek another crossing place, so we went further down and soon found a hog ford, which gave us the safe means of getting to the game side of the drain. When we got oyer we saw Don on a full stand, with Branch behind him. LeG. was within ten feet, and he requested us to remain where we were, for the birds would fly that way, and we could get a shot. Of course pur reply was that we had, no idea of being hit by him for any such chance, and had no special aspirations to make him our. target. We started to approach, and before we had gone five yards, we heard his gun, then saw the flying covey and heard his second barrel. The truth of history compels me to say that no bird stopped. Then he called to -us to come up, for there were more birdsV , That. we did not credit, and so we stood still. Pretty soon he had about a half dozen more on the wing, and he got one with each barrel. We then pursued the first part of the covey, which had lighted on the side of a large ditch, and the Bishop and I got one each. Coming back, LeG., who is a capital shot, and an industrious hunter, told me that he knew where one had settled on the side of the first ditch, and, as he had had four chances, I could take it, and I did take it, adding a bird to my bag. Going uj pursuit of t be , vtuw-H, I got another shot, wounding, and Lc-G. another, killing. Theh' th Bishop t got n crack, which he missed, ' because of the thick brush through which the bird was flying. We then twitted LeG. cm flushing the covey when we were getting to him, And then learned from him that as we were ap- E reaching, he saw what he,took to be a uddle of birds in the head of a side ditch, and thinking he could get a half dozen at one pop, he fired into a bunch of leaves. And then we berated him soundly for his unsportsmanlike conduct in more respects than one, and announced our purpose to try him before a court-hunting that night - upon his "grave crimes and misdemeanors against the law, in such cases made and provided." And that night, at his mother's house, where we are always welcome, we Eut our threat into execution,' convicted im, and suspended judgment on condi tion that he would afterwards put himself upon his good behavior. ; The next day we found still fewer birds, and succeeded, in getting only about thirty, notwithstanding a laborious day's tramp. Night found us under the same hospitable roof, where we got the egg-nog. The Bishop, who had lost his Palmetto bitch, having to go back a mile or s6 to find her, reached the house almost half an hour after we did. He told us that he found her lying cosily down at the place where we took our lunch, doubtless expecting us to return n time to give her another bait of scrapst During the day the bitch had sorely tried the christian philosophy of her handler by swallowing instead of retrieving a bird which the Bishop had shot. But' the prelate, knowiug full well that "he who spareth the rod spoileththe child," applied the sanction of the law by fiving her " many stripes for her nns eed. We stayed all night, and my clerical friend, who had not Bought, the night before, to get a divorce a menmi et thoro from me, but shared the couch with me, complained so much of my unfortunate habit of snoring that our host placed him j in a separate- apartment. Next morning, ataa extremely early hour. I heard a knocking at the outer door of my room, which was on the ground floor, and con nected with the parlor, and recognizing the familiar voice of my former bedfellow, I emerged from the warm bed and "took him in." He apologized for the disturbance, al leging as a reason that he was anxious to make an early start for home, to avoid, if possible, the "nursed wrath" of his dame," which might grow too warm for him if he failed longer to make an ap pearance, and he hadf inadvertently left his hat in the parlor, .f 1 hen he apologized for his having deserted me, and told me, with a sorrowful voice, that in doing so he had " jumped from the frying-pan into the hre." now is thats said 1. "Did Tom or Jim LeG. open their nasal bat teries on you?' "No, no far worse than they. could do,". "What calamity, my dear friend, has befallen you?" "Why, that infernal He. Gines came in from a dining party in the neighborhood at squire Willy Creekshircs, and was pnt in bed with me. In a little while he opened all the vials of bis accursed cacophunv. and kept emptying them into my already shattered nervous system, so that I could not sleep a -wink, x ours is as the 'music of the spheres' or the soft, soothing tones of the Aolian harp, compared with his. He plays on the Chinese gong, diversified with that peculiar puff of a locomotive toiling up grade with a long train of box cars behind it. I won't do so anymore. I'll stick toiyou l.e.-eafter: vour hxratonies shall be my lullaby." My sympathies wre enlisted in his behalf, ana l freelv lorgave him for his eff me. After breakfast, we sent our buggv about a mile down the road toward home, and we took the fields lving on the river, to see if we could not find some birds to take home with us. We got up several coveys, did some good and some very poor shooting, bagged eighteen, came when we must ride, had been rather clear, but and the h our 1 he morning nlout twelve, " the gathering storm " looked om- inoua, and we had sixteen miles of muddy road to travel. Having a top buggy and a good blanket wc thought we could stand anything which might come, and so Molly was 'told to lessen the distance. After gripe about three miles, some small white drops began to fall, and in a few minutes they came- fast and furious" driving in our faces, and making the homeward journey anything but a pleasant recreation But as the face of nature was covering itself with ' a dark veil, we entered - our portals, hung up our wet blanket to dry, went close to the blazing wood fire, and were grateful that we not only had a home, but were enjoying' some of its .comforts. Our good wife I have one, and some peor nle sav she is at least cood enough for : me -told' me she was. glad I had come, for she had invited several of my friends to come up that night,, and do me the, honor of eating some birds but as I did not reach, home in time. he was obliged to resort to some of the contents of her larder to supply the repast, and when the guests came, she would show me what she could do when she set her head to it, in the way of furnishing victuals to hungry people. l asked her if it was possible that any body could be foolish enough to turn out on " sic a night,1' when " A child might understand The De'il had busines on his hand." "Why," said she, "one of them, the preacher, is already here, and the Doctor and Brotner liufirey and Mud were never known to lose the opportunity of getting a good meal." She was right. They braved the storm, and in a short while we had "our legs under the mahogany, " and did ample honor to the culinary skill of the Madam. She was happy when she saw that we managed to worry down a lull portion of the viands. The Doctor; Brb.,; Duffrey and Mud gave ample evidences of their approval of the repast. , They always do. Absent-minded Women. Chicago Tribune. J "But speaking of absent-minded peo ple," said a West Sider, " women beat the nation at that. There is my wife, one of the most careful and most levelheaded women in the world, But one night last winter we went to "a large party and we both, for special reasons, were more than anxious to appear well. My wife was greatly concerned about mo, as I am the absent-minded one of the family, and looked me over critically and carefully after I left the coat-room and before we went down stairs. She was herself all right, of course, and was superbly dressed We went down in high feather and had passed through the parlors and had spent a delightful half hour on parade duty as it were, when my wife suddenly turned pale in what I thought was a fainting fit. I hurried her from the room, and was about to turn the house upside down in search of restoratives, when she clutched my sleeve and pointed to her feet. She had before leaving home drawn over her shoes a pair of my socks, and had forgotten to remove tin in. The thought that she had been parading before three hundred people with those socks on was too much for her." A South Sider who had listened to this said after indulging in a contented little chuckle: " My wife tells almost as good a story as that on herself. She is, as every body knows who knows her at all, very particular about her dress, and she grieves over a Bpot on my coat or a lack of polish on my shoes with a grief that will not be comforted. She went down street shop ping en one occasion this spring, and in trying on bonnets became a little disturbed over the fact that none of the new shapes suited her face, bhe therefore picked up her parasol, walked out of the store, called on a very aristocratic acquaintance, and then came home. A glance in the hall glass showed that she had no bonnet on bhe had taken it off to try on the new ones, and as she expressed it, had been parading along the streets with nothing on her nead but a small veil across her forehead. She didn't scold me about the spots on my coat for a week." "I have a better story than that," said a superintendent of one of the departments at Field's. " Not long ago a fashionably dressed lady came in early, and in the course of her; bargaining put her parasol on the counter near a large feather duster which one of the clerks had been using. After making, some purchases the lady caught up the duster instead of her para sol, and went out hurriedly. As soon as I discovered the mistake I sent a boy after her with the parasol, but he did not over take her until she had made quite a jour ney. ; "In fact, she flourished that feather ' duster along the street, flourished it about as she went into another store, and put it down on the counter, soil under the im pression that it was a parasol. When her purchases in the second store were made, she turned to pick up her parasol, and seeing the feather duster, asked for her parasol. The clerk explained that she had not brought any parasol in, but had come in carrying that duster. She was supremely ndignaht at such an intimation, and was delivering the clerk a sharp lecture on the subject when in came our boy with her parasol and an explanation. She was so overcome that she had to be sent home in a carriage." . Changes In the Senate. New fork HeraldJ One of the most significant factors in the present political problem is found in the changes to occur in the United states Senate, the nature of which will be deter mined very largely by the legislatures to be elected this fall, which will be called upon to elect Senators to fill the vacancies caused bv those whose terms are about to expire. Of the twenty-five Senators whose terms of office cease on the third of March next fourteen are Democrats and eleven are Republicans. Successors to twenty one of them are yet to be chosen, and of the four already elected Senator Allison is the only one who will succeed himself, The accompanying table gives a list of Senators whose terms will expire on the date mentioned: Alabama James L. Pugh. Arkansas James D. Walker. .California i James T. Farley. Colorado .Nathaniel P. Hill. Connecticut OrviUe H. Piatt. Florida Wilkinson Call. Georgia. Joseph E. Brown. Illinois John A. Logan. Indiana Daniel W. Voorhees. Iowa William B. Allison. Kansas :. John J. Ingails. Kentucky John 8. Williams. Louisiana Benjamin F. Jones. Maryland James B. Groome. Missouri lieorge m. v est. Nevada John P. Jones. New Hampshire Henry W. Blair., New York Elbridjre G. Laphain. North Carolina Zebulon B. Vance. Ohio George H. Pendleton Oregon James H. 81ater. Pennsylvania J. Donald Cameron. South Carolina Wade Hampton. Vermont. Justin 8. Morrill. Wisconsin Angus Cameron. Raising; Cincinnati House. Commercial . Traveller. J "Chicago is a great city," remarked one travelling man to another, as they got off the train in that town. " Yes, it's a big place, ma you ever see them raising houses and building the first story last?" "No; do they do that?" "Yes. all the time. Why, sometime ago they raised the whole.Tremont House, with 4,000 jacks." "How many!" " Four thousand." " Thunder 1 It didn't take that many, did itp-'By gravy, I saw a fellow down in Cincinnati, about a week ago, go into one of the biggest establishments there, and I'm a sucker if he didn't raise the whole house with two jacks. Prettiest game of bluff I em saw." i. The other man gave Cincinnati the lead. - and Chicago came- in a very fair second. TOOMBS OF GEORGIA. REJHINISCKHCES OP A GREAT SOUTHERNER. Some Incident in the Stirring Life of a wonderful Man. f Correspondence of the Courier-Journal. J Augusta, Ga. The appearance of Rob ert Toombs, the great fire-eater of the South, as a delegate in the district Meth odist conference at Harmony Grove, marks a new era in his life. It is an era in strange contrast with the stormy career of one of the most brilliant men America has ever produced, and is the closing scene in a biography which must soon become a complete volume. The manner of his conversion was char acteristic of the man. Bishop George E Pierce had been a college-mate of Toombs. Together these two young students, the one from Wilkes county, the other from Greene; the one the petted, self-willed son of a substantial gentleman, the other the thoughtful child of a laborious Methodist minister, pursued their studies, winning scholastic victories, yet by different meth pds. With Toombs the answers came in stinctively ; with Pierce it required the burning of the midnight oil. Toombs was ever under the rod of correction, which tradition tells us required his removal to rnnceton: and even there his rebellious spirit would brook no dictation. Pierce turned his back upon the frivolities of youth, and engaged in the revival services in the little church of which his father, Lovic Pierce, was pastor. Yet Toombs and Pierce were the closest of friends, and in the long career which subsequently opened to both of them, in which one drifted into politics and became the mael strom of one of the most exciting episodes of history, and the other found preferment in the church, becoming an honored bishop, there never ceased for a moment that attachment born of college associa tion. Meeting Bishop Pierce one. day about a year ago, religion was mentioned, "George," exclaimed Toombs, impetu ously, "'I want you to baptize me. When I am dead I do not want these young men who drift so naturally into infidelity to claim me as an unbeliever." This determination caused a sensation throughout the State. It sent astonish- ishment through that class which laughs at holy things, while it brought joy to every Christian heart. Once more there was a tender feeling for Toombs, such as had not been felt since the days when lie was the pride of Georgia manhood. Ii was a tenderness more full of sympathy than ever went out to him before. When the appointed Sunday came it found the old statesman surrounded bv the neigh bors of fifty years, among whom was his brother, whose joy at the event about to take place found vent in tears. Toombs himself was affected, and for once found hesitancy in speech when Bishop Pierce, taking him by the hand, greeted him as a brother in Christ. TOOMB8' GREAT GKIEK " leading up to this profession of faith was a great bereavement. Full fifty years be fore, the handsome young chevalier won the heart and hand of Miss Sara DuBose, a lady distinguished for her accomplish ments and family name. Ever after she was indeed his betterhalf. She went with him on his political missions; she was with him on his tours of observation, and she was his confidential friend in the fullest meaning of the word in all his transactions. When he entered Congress she went with him, and the home life which the pair en joyed in the quaint little village of Wash ington was maintained in the greater Washington, which was the scene of his political triumphs. The two grew old to gether, more like a couple of confiding children than like people of the world. They always kept faith with each other. Mrs. Toombs had been for years a member of the Methodist church. It was Mr. Toombs's habit, when speaking jocularly, to claim that he was in consequence a brother-in-law to the church. With in creasing age came failing health. The fond wife was kindly, tenderly nursed by her distinguished husband. When they went to their Clarksvule mountain home, in the early spring of a year ago, Mrs. Tomobs was living her last days. Her death was the great blow which sobered Toombs. His thoughts turned from the grave to God, and he made his peace. By the grave of this noble Christian woman a remarkable fact is suggested. She had been for fifty years the wife of a man of wonderful magnetism, of gigantic phy- sique,of engaging manneres. Over half of this time was spent in the national capital, where her husband was surrounded by all the allurements of flattery, all the wiles' of the set, all the opportunities of his man ners and station. Yet, through it all, Toombs wTas a faithful husband. Not even a whisper has ever been made which could compromise his name. What a comment this is on the fidelity of the husband and the influence of the wife. THE TOOMBS OF FORMER. YEAR. Looking from the bent figure which stood the other day on ;Greene street, though yet bearing traces of former years, one instinctively turns to the prints which give the shadow of the loombs of 1855. He was then in the zenith of his physical beauty and intellectual strength. He had already won the attention of the republic: his fiery eloquence had made him as hated in the home of abolitionism as he was worshipped by his followers in the south. When he spoke a nation listened. - With the impetuosity of Niagara he precipitated the events which led to the great struggle in which cannon took the place of the bai lot. From the confederate senate and the cabinet of Jefferson Davis he sought a post in the field, esteeming that the place of every man was in the front. The quali ties, however, which made him formidable in debate made him weak in the field. He was not born to obey. General Toombs was not destined to become, one of the military heroes of the age. The stories of his disobedience of orders and his refusal to consider himself under arrest are numer ous, some of them incredible, were they not vouched for, As if by the irony of fate, the struggle which Toombs had done so much .to bring about was destined to come to an end at his home. It was within a few miles of Toombs's residence that Jefferson Davis held his last cabinet council, when Colonel Pritchetfs Michigan regiment, following up the fleeing chieftain, overtook him in Irwin county. Toombs was informed, of the presence of the federal soldiers just in time to seek night on that most un roman tic creature, the mule. ; For a few days he found refuge with Colonel E. A. Tate, in the lower part of Elbert county.; In Colo nel Tate s residence there was a life-sized engraving of Toombs, and so great was the resemblance that one seeing the pic ture could not mistake the man. . The col ored people noticed the similarity between the mysterious stranger and the picture. i ne plantation was soon overrun wii-n iecj-. eral spies, who offered large rewards for the fugitive jet, though a hundred col ored people cpuld lay their hands .op him, not one revealed his hiding-place-a won derful example of colored fidelity For some months after his final escape he lived in Paris. ' Here it was he made ii mem orable answer when asked how he lived : "I am eating an acre of ground a day." His expenses were $& a day.C fle had sold a quantity of Texas lantf for -$5 an acre, which explained his answer. On his return home heliyed quietly, but was much annoyed by the visits of the numerous correspondents. One of- the worst of this class was George W, Sm alley, now the London correspondent of the New York Tribune. The kuklux sensation was at its highest when Smalley arrived in the village. The correspondent soon found Toombs, whojdetwmine tft-shave a little fun at his expease'...! Sinatievusked the general about 'the kujMr. "-' "Yes, yes," said' Toombs, 7l I'll tell you all about them, but first let us get a safe place.". - Taking him off some distance General Toombs pointed opt an unsuspecting Jew ish merchant, whose physical appearance was ratner against him. ' There he is, " said Toombs. " That is the great head of the kuklux klan. My friend, you must come over to my house; it is the only place where you would -be safe from his observation. I will do my best tocet you safely out of the countrv." Scared half to death, Smalley followed the General, and entering the mansion the door was closed jwhen General Toombs saiu : . ; . : "Now you aresafe. -1 will see the chief of the klan and try and get a pass for you out oi me country." Meantime there was no attention want ing to make Smalley comfortable, : He was treated like a pri? nd soon under went a change of heart about Toombs, and began to regard bim as one of the. grand est oi men. Finally- a rap" was heard at the door. "Leave it all to me," said the -general. "This is the Great Cyclops. ; I will get him to give you a pass." The Jew entered in obedience to" General Toombs's summons, which had been pre viously sent him. He was thoroughly ignorant of the use which was being made of him, consequently Toombs's talk to him threw him into cfenfusian, for he did not understand its inotive. This confusion was duly noted by Smaller, who put it down as an evidence of the man's guilt. Finally, vhen the bewildered Hebrew de parted without having given any apparent satisfaction, General Toombs turned to Smalley and said : "I have staked my honor for your safe ty. Before daylight I will have my closed carriage ready, into which you must be placed. As the klan will think that I am wiuun, ii win noi oc molested, and soon you will be placed at .a safe distance." I hus Smalley found his exit from the Klil - Ml- TTT 1 1 nine viuage oi wasmngton, and soon after gave his wonderful letter to the pub- uc. This version of the affair is told by one or uenerai looraus s closest friends. general toombs's true character is not to be judged by his wild talks to some correspondents. He is at home and in business one of the. rqpst conservative of men. ins assaults upon carpet-baggers are noi lnienaea ior nonest men who are seeking the legitimate aims of life. -To northern men, in whom he recognizes hon esty of purpose; he is as genial and hospit- aDie as tney could wish. Perhaps there never was a man in Georgia who was more vilified than H. L Kimball, arid not en tirely without reason. When the Kimball House was erected General Toombs made it his ; headquarters when in : Atlanta; .Being asKea arjout nis choice of it he is said to have answered : "By G d, I have a right to stop in if. ine money witn wmcn it was built was stolen from the treasury of Georgia, and that gives every Georgian an interest iapt. When this celebrated house was-'destroyed by fire, Kimball was called bafck from Chicago to organize , for its . re-erec tion. He had before- ham a hard task , in raising subscriptions. Among those upqn whom it was necessary ihat he should call was General Toombs. No sooner had he entered Toombs's door than the doughty old southerner exclaimed : . Jkimoaii, your , return. . to Georgia - it worth more than a hundred thousand dol lars. I'm glad to see you back to stav with us." ' ; . This compliment fairly took Kimball off his feet, and in relating the incident he could only say : . "I could only look in silence at the grand old figure. before me.' ,. loombs was a potential factor in the calling of the constitutional convention of 1877. He insisted that the constitution of 18G8 was a nullity; its ratification oply rested on the bayonet, and it ill became freemen to live under the badge of slavery, A new convention should be called, even if it did no more than meet and ratify -.tfhc old document. This would makc'5t the handiwork of Georgians. In the convention he" was one of the most prominent actors. When the treas urer of the State expressed doubt about his authority to pay the members of the convention for the number of days over the forty prescribed in the call for' the convention,' General Toombs solvecl " the problem by saying : ' "I will advance the money out, of my own pocket, and trust the ,, people , of Georgia for its repayment." As a- consequence he; advanced nearly $30,000, which was refunded by the next Legislature. . - ! His pride of State is wonderful. : One day he sauntered into the supreme1 court room, rather under the influence of liquor An attorney was addressing the court in terms which seemed to ' indicate that Georgia would not pay her- debts. Inter rupting him at once, General Toombs said ! " May it please the court, Georgia will pay her debts. If she does not, then I will pay them for her." ! ' ' General Toombs is now 74 years of age. He stoops considerably, and has an infirm walk, which denotes his weakness. ! He has lost much flesh within the past .Jew years. His eyes are weak, a cataract growing over one of them, which -causes considerable suffering, -i la his home at Washington he is always surrounded by some of his grandchildren, in whose "Com pany he takes great delight. They'.ifeel that he has but a few days more" to live, and do everything in their power to ren der his declining years comfortable. When he passes away, a great man will indeed have fallen and an honest on. ; Sin?! n? Will Pay. , New York World. .General Booth, of the Salvation Army, is treating for -the purchase 5 of. Adelin Patti's estatejn South Wales, which Booth) proposes to make bis private-residence, showing that . shouting for 5 salvatiea is quite ns lucrative a singing on the : stage., Tin A WOMAN AND A MOUSE. Beftoat of an Amazon" r an Italian jP A Broadway Incident, ( . ! m 'New York Herald. u .'(-.. A gray- headed Italian, -with, a white mouse on the top p his hat,.8tood ouhe corner of Canal stree and Broadway yes terday, and looked "appealingly " at ;' the passers-by.' ,!15 very 'now. n& then heJ'took a crumb of bread outlet his pocket and placed, it on, the .crown of hist hat, bwdfl the mouse, which sat on its hind legsjce a squirrel woiie eacing ii. so one seemeu to notice either man or mouse, but the man stood patiently, the aoo.8e ate the crumbs contentedly, and both watched the passers by with equal interest. At last one of two ladies who were hur rying by stopped" arid flapped ''her bands as she cried, " Oh ! just look at that funny little,, thing sitting up on his hat IV . w -s . , i.;monw 9P,, wont you j;, saiq. ine,oinerr a tall, rather stout and decidedly hand some bf tinette: "it's- k modSei"'' ' "Of cowre it is,: hfc the' ftssto asishe drew her .cpmpanio. .nearer,, .anddid you ever see such a, duar .little, thing!? , The Italian .hastily .'took the mouse from hiS hat a"rid held it cfut toward the'ladiesl "Seef seef 'just-a-tame -as -ledtlei kitten nevaue tan-a way. . I sell him you oe dolla." -I,..-. , . , , The little animal sat auietlv onthe palm of the mas outstretched hand for a mo ment, then1 suddenly fave a spring and landed on the arm of the tall lady. ; She stared wildly at it, and then, as it began creeping up on the outside of her sleeve, shrieked and fell on the sidewalk. The mouse was thrown behind her, and just as it struck' the flagstone the foot of a passer by crushed the life out of it- . . , j i (li Tbfiltaupn gavje a.jhowl of rage .as he sprang forward and , picked up his dead pet, while1 the companion of the proBtratd Woman raised up her voiee to lamentation, as she-knelt beside iher friend and triailto lift her, up.. A crowd gathered .around them in a flash, and the unfortunate itat iani was collared by' a dofcen rhen''whti thotjght'tha'hc had 'knocked the woman down. In spite of his prayers and protes tations, which were-made in an unintelli gible mixtutebf PiedmoateseaadlEnglish, he was dragged ' off down Canal -street, while the woman, still in nklead faint; was carried into the nearest drug store. At the corner of .Baxter street.a police man appeared. At sight of him thejstrug gling Itafiatt made a last eff ort,'; and, tear ing himself away from his captors, trashed down the side street with a yelling crowd at hia heels. : In spite of his grayihair .be made such excellent time that he distanced : i?- 3 .- i -1 L- nis pursuers anu uisappeareu in some 01 the riumerbtrs alleys which lead off from Baxter streeti- ii .: ' -jm The victim of; the mouse, recovered con sciousness after ten minutes' hard work bv the-drug store, clerks, and', went 'off with: But ! know her," said a well.katwn sporting man. . of the , ea&ft ! side . whv JWs passing, at the time and saw her face ; "she is me iavpre acuess in one oi me uowcry variety theatres, and has the reputation 'at being one of the most desperate women in the city,. . : They say she has stabbed two men, and attacked several of her rivals with either knife, or pistol It's a strange thing that ' such a' Woman, who is hot afraid of man or woman, or the devil; should be so eternally knocked out by a mouse.". . ;. . .. .. THE STOBY OF CAIN AND ABEL, A New Version. Florida Letter of a Tribune Editor. '-' ''But don't you believe that your race will ; ever be equal with the white?" 'I asked. . - , MJkal? no sahl" said Lady Jane posi tively. "I knows my race too well-j I's brung up wyid 'em. We hebber corne.up to de white people no how'. ' We'se a mean race, dat's just what we is. : We'se rapan ebbery w:ay. Why, I 'member a story dat an qle geinman as used to come to Marru Hamilton's befo' de war.tole me out'n a book; way long befo' de surrender; it was, but I'se 'membcred it ever since. -'Pears to me it sphuns de case ezzacklv. I blieye the story's true, uiassa; yes I do, bo,. Caiu and Abel you see was two sons ob de Lor, but de fader iubbed Abel bes aiirJne time Abel goes off gunnin' or sumnn. an he war gone seben years, an' wen he cdine home he had a wife an' chillena,., Npw Cain nebber did hib i Abel 'cos he war jeal ous1; but d is time when Abel coined home de-fader he killed a big fat hog ho; 'twasn't a big fat hog, it was a1 big fat goose, but dey had a hog-kilin tjme any how,, an de fader, says, 'Abel, Jj'se.rigjit down glad to see yer, ye an' yer wife, atf chillens.' Now'dis made Cain 'awful mad, an' after dinna he axed' Abel wculdn't -he like to take a walk in 4e fiels an' de-woods an' see all de stock, ah' Abel ,'lowed.dat he jus would. ' So wljen Cain got .'Abel dar he jus' took an' mummocked hiitl wid a big knife.1 Den w lie ri Cam goes home like, as nodin had ; happen do. Lor?! come out an' he say, 'Whar's Abeli.'-,. But ain jus' let on like he didden har. Den de Lor' say agin, ' Cain, whac's Abel?' Den Cainpleok roun' kinder sulky, and he says, 'Is ' I yer Abel keeper?' -But de Lor' say agin, :Caint I asks yon whar is.. Abel?' Den Cain say, 'Abel done gone been eat up by de cowbeast ob de-wild-woods.' " " What is a cowbeastbf the wild-woods," Aunt Jane ?" one of us put in. t " " j" , f.0KL' 'dat's a, cowjus' a' cow, jruq WaJ, de Lor' he, sec de blood or Cajn-'s shirt buzzum it sorter spirted when he stuck him wid the ktfife, yunno anJhe kno'wed alt the ; while ,d at Cain heddofte gone kilt Abel. ;:, So haays, 'Cain you, is a cuss, an' you an' your chillen must serve Abel's chilled tonsans - 'and' ' tdusan- Vb years, an' you's all be black.' NoW,i Cain was a mighty mean man, was'n heaahf'? Certamlj he was, Aunt Jane," we aa sehtcaV"" " '" s '' "' Well, now I thinks dafs hdw w arM a i mean race ' an' how we'a black ; : da 'sphUns it'zackly. I lil mighty, ioag time sense, but I nebber forgot dat story dat 'dey till me ah' Tblieve ft1 like1 de Bible." And Aunt Jane here flapped 'bet under lip and folded it over like a seal -ton her conviction., . . - I : " ! . " - '. t i- ( . A Morning Sunbeam, ' ' tYonth'g Cbrnpshion. - A nestling in the iSttie crib, -Ui" A soft band laid upon any. head, hie ';s! 'UflMamma. fttt tnmmm' fntd bed!' JH 1 ! ! Hhtl4- 'il'S-i.i!B'i.l " O po." I said,- f' 'twfU never do: t .. . -J "Now Shut those little peepers tight, fflL r " And sleep and dream till morning breaks; ; , TlMmyoumajccswhenconstJielibt.!', Again saflrhg Ii rrrnri" l '- As dpwo to rest my birdie Jay t R-, f,(t,.;..j! Ilistenea,fIth6ughtfcheKoVe- fy ! " Huddy up, JJghV? I heard hee say . , , Then alt was rtflLi-W slept again ' iT jnil dawn Ut up the eastern sky : ; ... j , , , ' Then sang my bfrdid, sweet and clean i i 1 Now h has ram, and so has 1 '"
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