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'TJnawetl Inllncnce Unbi-ibecl by Gain. VOL. 1. NEWTON, N. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1879. NO, 6. She teuton i&ntcrpvter, I'lTMASHED EVE1IY SATUKDAV, -UY GEORGE A. WARWICK. TEllMS: One xc-.xr, ------- S:x month, - 'J hive months, ------ IX VA MA Til. Y TX A I) I'A XCK. $2.00 1.0 7 fcr" To verson.s who make up clubs of tea, an ex ti cty will be sent free. ADVERTISING RATES : 1 in. 2 in. 3 in. I i col. J col. lcol. i 1 wci-k, 10 2 00 $3 oo f Ou $10 $H ; l .in :i no 4 oo j 8 oo l.j i is 3 2 00 3 "0 5 00 9 00 lf 22 4 " 2 .." 4 00 0 00 10 00 18 20 2 month 3 0i 6 00 10 00 14 00 2 i 4i X " 4 00 i 8 00 I 12 00 13 00 30 .i() f, 7 00 1 00 16 00 2(i 00 45 SO 12 10 00 j 1.) 00 20 00 33 00 0 100 Yearly advertisements changed quarterly if desir ed. Transient advertisements payable in advance. Yearly advertisement semi-anually in advanec. Advertisemt nts discontinued before the time con tracted for ha expired, charged transient rati for the time actually published. Advertisements inserted in local column, charsred twenty-rive cents per line, unless otherwise Con tract d. An advertisement considered less than a square. Address all letters, iTIIE ENTERPRISE," NEW" It) A, A. C, C II A K IM I A U PATT V, "Weak though my song, still let it lo A heart-felt offering to thee, 1'or thpu hast lightened dreary days, Thou whom 'twere falsehood to dispraise, O charming Tatty. Oft have I gazed upon thy form, Olowing and graceful, sweet and warm; "What though thou wort a tiitle brown, Thou wevt the toast of" half the town, O charming Patty. Yea, all men loved thee, worshipped thee. If thou wert crusty they'd agTe It added to thy charms, and whn Thou were not crusty all the men Said, "Charming Patty." 1 And who shall say that they were wrong, Or, 1 for praising thee in song? .No one will venture it, I swear, When I thy christian name declare, O Oy titer Patty. - LE.T. If any coarse, unfeeling feller Atks the loan of your uuibrcllcr, Tell him it's Lent. If any tramp presumes to foller And begs the loan of half a doilar, Tell him it's Ix-nt. And so tell all who comfl to borrow Some treasured article to-moirow Tell 'em it's Ient. St. Louis Times. THE DAVIS DERATE IJT THE SEX ATE COXUMXU 0. TlllUMAN. The best speech on the Democratic pide was Lamar's. lie controlled himself admirably, and in point of form and eloquence excelled any ef fort he has made since he came into the Senate. His closing phrase was a terrible thrust at Hoar and com pletely silenced him : '-The Senator from .Massachusetts calls himself a j Christian statesman," he said, "but he J might well take a lesson from tho j heathen mythology. I would remind Jl will I. mm 1 1 . . . t !.,. , P w Iiiht j iv ic ti)HiHi I Mill niui n HVII 1 I UOIV IH-.M. UVVi. i to tho rock it was not an eagle, but a vulture, which plunged its beak in his vitals." The debate- ran on until near ly daylight. Just before day began to break came the most entertaining passage of the nigh, from Conkliug, who dis played himself in a new light as a wonderful master of wit and humor. It was a running sketch of the politi cal history of Thurman, with sharp thrusts at his political aspirations. fI lie effort is utterly unreportable. The weary Senators aroused them- i felvep. The sleepy attendants forgot their weariness, and for an hour the hot, stifling Senate chamber took a uw life. He pictured Thurman rid ing half a dozen horses in different directions. Ho described him as the greatest political billiard player in the world. He revelled in imagery" and ,(mjai ison. For once he was sarcas a ! I f'c without being bitter, and great without being supercillious. Thurman eined to enjoy it as well as the rest, t each new turn of fancy and thrust t vvit the old statesman rolled back nJ laughed and held his sides as though it did his inmost soul good. In reply he merely acknowledged the l-nllianc-y 0f the effort of tho New ork Senator, and protested that wit ud humor was not his forte Wash. Cor. l'hihvklplda Record. dipt. Boynton is still floating down the Ohio river toward tho sea. A WO.TIAtf OF NEKVC. Mrs. Jsacloro Middlcton, a very beautiful woman and one of the ac knowledged leaders of fashion in Mo bile, can certainly boast of the pos session of as much nerve and true moral courage as are often vouch safed to any of her sex. On a recent evening she was in her boudoir put ting away some articles of jewelry, when she noticed that the peculiar position of a library lamp that was burning upon a chair in the back part of the room had thrown upon the floor, almost directly at her feet, the shadow of a man who was crouching under a broadtopped ornamental ta bic in the centre of the room. She also observed that the open hand of the shadow had but two fingers and remembered that several desperate burglaries had recently been commit ted in the neighborhood, supposi liously by a negro desperado who was notorious as having lost two tinkers of his right hand. Mr. Middleton was absent from tho city, and be sides herself in tho house, there was but a single maidservant. Instead of fainting with fear, or shrieking for help, the brave lady seated herself at the very table underneath which the miscreant was concealed, and ranr ' i for tho servant. "Hand me writing materials, Bridget," said she, with j perfect calmness: "I want you to I take a note this instant to Mr. For- fair, the jeweller, and have him send back with you my diamond necklace and ear-drops, which I left there lor repairs several days ago. Bring them with you, no matter if fully repaired or not. The are by twenty-fold the most valuable articles of jewelry that I .possess, and ,..1 dn -iotvUhtQ.pass aiiotbeVnight'Vllhout living them in my bureau drawer." The note was at once written and despatched, but instead of being in the tenor that she had signified (on purpose for the concealed robber to overhear for she had no jewelry under repair), it was a hasty note to an intimate friend, in which she succinctly slated her ter rible position, and urged him to has ten to her relkf, with the requisite police assistance, immediately on re- ceipt of the missive. The agonies which that refined and delicate wo man underwent when left alone in the I wounded in the left arm and side, but house, with the consciousness of the J to what extent could not be asccrlain prescneo of that desperate robber, j ed, as the boat left shortly afterward. i perhaps assassin as well, crouched i under the very tabic upon which she j leaned, and perhaps touched by her i skirts, can only be left to the reader's i imagination ; but her iron nerve sus- j tained her through the ordeal. She ja-iieo, imiii.niu .... v,..t.v turned over the leaves of a novel, and in other ways lulled the lurker into a sense of perfect security and; expectancy, and waited, waited with , . , . , -ill nvf.iiWrillM- i nil wnil! YVMltPll Willi i j ' f . 1 I a wildly heating nean anu m-r 11 I I A .1 I. A ., ! tasteneu upon me nanus o, c. nn.u ormulu clock with a greedy, feverish gaze. At last, however camo the prayed for relief. There was a ring at the door-bell and she strolled care- , a Texan of notoriety in his own Slate, j whence these emotion flow they can lessly into the hall and down stairs to ; jje jg U, educated, brutal, bold, and never emanate from this Ronrce. open it. The ruse had been a success, j ambitious. He began a wild kind of Above all, I wish no undeserved eulo She not only admitted Bridget, but fr(ntier life ten 3-cars ago, accumnla- j gies pronounced over my remains. If also Mr. lorfair and three stalwart polieemen. The latter passed stealth- uy up maim '.t w where they suddenly pounced upon 1 rwi mtn trii" noiinoir. the conceaieu ourgiai '""--M'--1-" lv as to secure him with hard a struggle. The prisoner proved to be negro criminal named Chapman, but mostly known as --Two-Fingered Jeff' who was in great request about that time for several robberies committed in the neighborhood a short, time oc- w;s)CSj an(j Was killed by a party of I may select the ground for a few re fore and he is now serving a twenty ; 5.lbu-8 followers. John Stull endeav- marks, it is from these words: Un- year s' sentence in the Alabama state TLivH'nrd. TiriS j in w. v . .... , V hat wou.u ou u h... II - if n rril-l L-1SQPI1 von ?" said one ten year-old urchin 10 another, as they discussed the latest society news. "What would I do? I'd kiss her back. What wouiu yuu do?" "Kiss her mouth,' was tho re- she When a woman goes visiting too small : wanw lu,y . , . .. what a oeai o i but it's astounding ihn same woman wn - in nvt IMl'f I'Ulllivi from a pair of slippers large iu her own house three sizes too A TmHIKLE AXD DEADLY AFFRAY. A QT'ADRANfiULAR DUEL IN MISSISSIPPI THREE MEN KILLED. In the annals of deadly affrays in this State we know of no occurrence so fatal in its results as that which occurred on board the steamer Sun flower, while lying at Johnsonville. the county seat of Sunflower countj. About ten days ago Col. I). A. II ol- C man, while in Johnsonville, on enter ing Dr. W. L. Lowry's store, was ac costed by Dr. Lowry, who ordered I Ilolman out, remarking, it is said, that Ilolman was no gentleman, and did not keep his word, or something to that effect. Ilolman departed, saj'ing in substance ho would see Lowry again. On the morning of the affair Col. Ilolman engaged passage on the steamer Sunflower for Vieksburg, ac companied by his father-in-law, Dr. G. C. Walker. The boat arrived at Johnsonville somewhat earlier than usual, and Col. Ilolman and Dr. Walk er together went on shore, but in a short time returned. Perhaps a half honr later Dr. Low rv, as was usual with him, came on the boat to transact his business, and while entering the cabin was caught, 11 ,s 8a,1 b tne ,ctt ann or back Dv Co1- IIwln, who turned Lowry half way around, and putting his pistol to his breast fired. Lowry started j down the cabin, but instantly turned, j and, seeing his clerk, John C. Arnold, ! start from his chair f beinir shaved at ! the time), said, -kill him, John, kill ! mo,,U!,k t,,r, hi uU:l1 perform -him, he has shot me." I anceS StrolIcd contemptuously out, de- Arnold ran out of the cabin to at- j tack Ilolman, and Lowry walking to i tne TaTJiir viwi , t$x"red-Trrr ptniui'a'nd fired at Ilolman. At the same instant of time, perceiving Dr. Walker with a pistol in his hand, he pointed his pis tol at Walker with deadly effect, Walk- t-r falling and expiring almost without a slruggl e. jowry men waiKcu oacK .1 it 1 in the cabin staggering, and fell, and i in about two minutes expired aIo. In the mean time Arnold and Ilol man were fighting outside the cabin. Arnold received a wound in .tho chest, ! and died shortly after being removed from the boat, Col. Ilolman being All the parlies engaged are very highly respected. Dr. Lowry was a brother of Gen. Bobert Lowry, and jeaVesa widow and .-ix children. I ..j was a brother of Judge Arnold, f Columbus, Miss., Col. Ilolman be- ,g a prominent anu launitu lawyer, aj respected in the community in j which he lives. Dr. Walker was one of the oldest i . . resiuenis oi me county, anu we oe ; ieve imj no enemies. Col. Ilolman. " , lhc ony survivor was jmiucdiately ; an.cstcd.r,, jjeruhl ; . ... . j has become a solemn mockery. If Bill Baiib's Career. Bill Babbisithe heart is not the fountain from jpj a Djrcat amount of land and cattle, gathered about him a company of: .1 1 r 1 , i . j uesperauoes anu aspireu 10 ue a ues- ; potie ruer ; his neighborhood. His recuiessness led the settlers tor years ; to submit to his rude government, ; iut rccently tha population increased, and a fow mcn presumed to dispute , Babb's authority. One of these was j Jlcnry Vanghan, who opened a coun- ; lry 8toro ; opposition to Bath's ; orcj tQ bring about an official inves- i ligation. Babb realized that his pow- vv was in ieopardv. and decided to 1 ' ' ' , mako an exan ,e of lhis rcbcL g Stull's i house was fired in the night, and three of the four inmates murdered as they emerged. Mrs. Stull escaped by hidinir in a bush, from which she saw that Babb personally directed tho LSI I butchery. She subsequently had him arrcsleJ, but a craven judge released ; him on low bail. All this finally f!1.on(i,u,wl,1. nml ilivii now ivuoi ,- .-.-.-., - - - - - - - -- i i?.,ik ,no,,wliil. lmmr. inc the members of his gang as fast as captured. CA OYSTERS WHISTLE ! The shop was fir-t established by a Mr. Pearkes in 1S25. "It appears," says a writer in the Daily Tefeyrttpfi "that about the year 1840, the propri etor of the house in question, which had then as it has now a great name for the superior excellence of its deli cate little 'natives,' heard a stranre and unusual sound proceeding from one of the tubes in which the shell fish lay piled in layers, one over the other, placidly fattening upon oatmeal, and awaiting the inevitable advent of the remorseless knife. Mr. Pearkes, the landlord, listened, hardly at first believing his ears. There was, how ever, no doubt about the matter ; one of the oj'sters was distinctly whistling, or, at any rate, producing a sort of sifllement with its shell. It was not difficult to detect this phenomenal bivalve and in a very few minutes he was triumphantly picked out from amongst ids fellows and put by him self in a spacious tub, with a plentiful supply of brine and water. The news spread through the town and for some days the fortunate Mr. Pearkes found his house beseiged by curious crowds. Douglas Jerrold's sug gestion was that the said oyster has been crossed in love and now whistled to keep up appearances with an idea of showing that it did not care." Thackeray used to declare that he was once actually in the shop when an American came in to see the phe nomenon, as everybody else was do ing, and after hearing the talented ciaring "it was nouung an oyster no knew of in Massachusetts, which whis tled 'Yankee Doodle', rirht through and followed its master about the house like a dog.'" Thornburys Neic and Old London. A Level-II eaied Dead Man. The following is an extract from the will of a gentleman who was a citizen of and who died recently in Baltimore County, and which he directed should : be read at his funeral. The leading! trails of his character throughout his j life were honesty :,n(J truthfulness, and the extract shows how he, as a lying man, viewed the popular and fashionable funeral pageantry of the da: "In view of the uncertainty of life. I hereby commit to writing my ! Jast wishes with regard to the man- j ner and means used for the disposal i ,,f mv mortal remains. First. I wish ! mv body to be clothed in a plain j shroud. I wish no flowers, nor mock Llisplay. I object to my body being j carried to the church. I wish it to be removed from my earthly home to its last resting-place, there to rest, an- marked, unless at some future time some child or children are moved so to do. Most earnestly I request that nothing called mourning shall be worn by my family, as I am persuaded this there was one trait in my character worthy of imitation then imitate it. 1 . ... . . 1 . n j and witn tne last iook oury an or my . imperfections and infirmities with my ; remains. Without reflecting upoi : my friends, I may allude to one in- finnity of our natures ; that is, in vy- j ing with each other to show our con .deration and respeel for them that ! nre beyond ibis influence. There was time, but the opportunity is lost. f profitable tenant.' Lastly, in order to satisfy the curious, and avoid reflec- lions unon mv family. I rennest or the minister officiating to read this public!- at my funeral. Rdtimore American. j ! A citizen went into a Norwich hard ware store the other day af.d inquired : "How much do you ask for a bath - tub for a child ?" "Three dollars and . a seventy-five cents, was the reply. W-li--w !" whittled the customer. - - - 'Kn,.s uVII hart! tn keonon washin? the baby in the coal scuttle, till juices come down." 2iorv:ich Bnlklin. Aim A 1 1 ATI'S JEWEL. There is a Eabbimca! story which tells the value in which pearls were held in the early ages, only one object in nature being thought to be placed above them : "On approaching Egypt Abraham locked Sarah in a chest that none might behold her dangerous beauty. But when he was come to the place of paying customs the col lector said, 'Pay ns the custom ;' and he said, I will pay the custom Tbey said to him, 'Thou earnest clothes ; and he said, I will pay for clothes. Then they said to him, 'Thou earnest gold and he answerd them, 'I will pay for my gold.' On this they fur ther said to him. 'Surely, thou bcarest the finest silk he replied, 'I will pay custom for the finest silk.' Then said they, 'Surely, it must be pearls that thou takest with thee ;' and he only answered, 'I will pay for pearls.5 Seeing that thy could name nothing of value for which the patriarch was not willing to pay custom, the' said. fIt cannot be but open thou the box j and let us seo what is within.' So they opened the box, and 'the whole land of Egjpt was illumined by the lustre of Sarah's beauty far exceed ing even that of pearls."' Forney's Progress. Andrew Jackson's Birth Place. New York, Feb. 25, 1870. Ed. Journal of Commerce : Will 3-ou please settle the question of Andrew Jackson's birthplace ? Was he born on ship- i board or on shore? and was there any dispute of a public natnreon the ques tion of his nativity at the tiin5 he ran for President of the United Slates ? Hickory. Iepi.t. Andrew Jackson was born March 15th, 17G7,on the Waxhaw settlement. .N. C. His father died a few days before he was born, and he first saw the liirht in the house of his mothers brother-in-law, Mr. George . 7 Mcivemey. Ins parents were Scotch ! T., , . . t. , Irish, from Carnckfergus Ireland.; j and this fact gave rise to a campaign story when he was a candidate for the Presidency, that he was born in Ireland, or on the way to this coun try. Mr. S. P. May, of Asheville, X. C. writes us that several families of the J name of Crowell, in Halifax county, ; of that Slate, claim to be direct de- ; scendants of the father of Oliver I Cromwell. In the year 1C74 two : brol hers. John and Edward, brothers ; of Oliver Cromwell, left England for ! America, and settled in Xew Jersey, j soon after which they emigrated to Halifax County, Aorth Uarolina. j While on the voyage, fearing that ! persecution would follow from the adherents of Charles II., then on the English throne, they resolved to change their name. Ibis was done with a solemn ceremony, and by i writing their names each one on a paper, and each cutting from the pa per the letter M, and casting it into the sea. The family pedigree on vel lum, recording this fact, was with the family in Xorth Carolina in an orna mental chest, which, with other val- uables, was seized in 1781 by a scout- J ing parly ofTarleton's Legion and i t r. . i '" j -r record of the transaction, which is d off. The family made anoth-j i preserveu uy iueir uwccuuiiuw. .; ! lr- Sun. ... As Frank Ostuston was standing in front of Mallon's this morning John liayrnond. the actor, came along and pulling a 820 roll ont d' his pocket rc- marked, '-Heads or tails for the pile I'll take the bottom one," replied Mr. j Osbiston, "and call il heads." Hay mond pulled the bottom coin out and remarked "correct." Osbiston took the roll and examined it to see how ; tnc la.anee ol the coins lay Curious ly enough the next nineteen coins were "tails," then came two "heads" and the balance were "tails." There being but three out of forty "heads , V iryuua (Nev.; vur,arie. A Boston leather firm, which two years ago settled with its creditors at fifty cents on the dollar, is paying up the balance of its indebtedness, with interest to date. GLEANINGS. Fried Liver is the tender name of an Arizona mining village. The modern golden rule is, "Let your due nnto others be as much as other's due unto you." Whitehall Times. A fellow who went crazy because a Missouri belle jilted him is wandering over Texas with a cow bell around his neck hunting for another sweetheart. The heading of an account in a San Francisco newspaper of a mining ac cident, One Man and Twelve Chinese Killed," is an indication of the ruling prejudice on the Pacific coast. ' On this head," said tho lectnrcr, "there is nothing left to be desired." The bald-headed man in the front row immediately rose to call him to order. Boston Tmnsarijt. The death in New York of Mr. Eb erhard Faler, of the famous lead pen cil manufacturing firm of A. W. Fa ber.and its representative in this coun try, is announced. He was 57 years old. A quaint writer pays : I have seen women so delicate that they are afraid to ride, for fear of the horses running away ; afraid to sail, for fear the boat should upset, and afraid to walk, for fear the dew might fall ; but I never saw one afraid to get married. A meddlesome old woman was sneering at a 3"onng mother's awk wardness with her infant, and paid : I declare a woman never onght to have a baby nnlcss she knows how to hold it." '-Xor a tongue cither," qui etly responded the young mother. There are mertiho -vroaM ratUr doorkeepers in the bouse of the Lord when there is a church festival going on. and the receipts are large than i lr r!vrl in tlr fpnfa nf tlt wir-L-ii! ... , . where there is no opportunity to han- . . T, , , die the cash. Keokuk Gate City. A gentleman recently about to pay 1 his doctor's bill said: "Well, doctor, as my little boy gave the measles to all my neighbor" children, and as they were attended by you, 1 think 3 011 can afford, at the very least, to deduct ten j per centum from the amount of my bill for the increase of business wegavo you." Wheeling (W. Va.) Lewl'r : I've a peanut in my pocket, Emeline! Emeline! I'll jerk the kernel from its socket, In due time! In due time! To the theatre I'll go. On the floor the shell I'll throw, Then I'll munch to music slow, Emeline! Emeline! Gideon Cook, a Baptist preaehcr. ; well known a quarter of a century j ago, was a man verv eccentric in bin speech, even to his last earthly mo ments. A few hours previous to his death his brother, also a preacher. came to his bedside and inquired Do you think yon are dying, Gideon?" And the reply, sharp and quick. ! came : "Don't know can't tell uever j died yet ! A petition signed by 110,000 ladies was presented in the Illinois Lcgisla- j re ast "Thursday pray in" the pan- j of prm-uin,r omen to vote npon all questions involving tho granting of licenses for the sale of liq- i iiors. The hidies are renorted very j , . . . malto j ,rranled a hearin- before 4 -,7P(1 nn iWn Miss Ella Dancy was a fair young thing of La Grange, Texas. She lov ed and loved wildly one Thomas A. Hall, a nice young fellow, but withal nusupplied with ducats. Miss Ella mother objected to the match. Hence tears. But tears didn't flow always. On Sunday Miss Ella put on a sweet, resigned face and told her mother that she would break off with "dear Tom" if "dear, good mamma" would take Tom's ring and trinkets to him by the next train. Mamma was de lighted and took the bitter farewell. Mamma didn't find '-dear Tom" at his home, but when she returned to her I own, "dear Tom" and dutiful Ella had I run away.
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