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) Jot ri-M clla r I i r.Xi r .1 f) E -H ere Shall the Press the Peoples Rights Maintain, Unawed ly Influence, and Unbribod by Grain." S'J.OO a Year. She ilculon (Butrrprfer, rrri.iMii-:i kveky satukpay, -r.Y (U-ORGE A. WAR LICK. TERMS: (no voir. ------- Si month. ------- 'Hint' niontli, ------ 1 .. 75 I A I A lilA III. J . A It I .1 ACE. T )'vrsons who make up clubs of ton, an ex tr.4 .' ill Ik Miit frco. ADVERTISING KATES : I tw. 2 in. 3 in. I J col. 4 col. 1 col. 1 .vk, fl $i H fl(Ml$HOO 1 I u J I .VI 3 UO 4 00 j 8 00 1? is 3 2 Ml 3 50 .i 00 1 00 10 22 4 2 2.i 4 00 00 10 tKi 1 20 ; ni nth 3 oil d 00 lo 00 14 00 25 45 3 4 00 00 12 00 IS 00 30 50 li 7 oO 12 00 It; (HI 2i O0 45 80 12 ! 00 15 Ihl 21 00 33 00 to) loo f Yearly a.lvcrtisonu'iits changed quarterly if tlesir- I I Tnnsiint advertisements p.ijraUo in advance. I Yearly alvertis.inelit scmi-aiiu.ill v in advance. AdvertiM'int nts dis'ontinued before the time con- J tra ted for lias expired, charged trauieut rates foi i the time actually published. I Advertisements inserted in 1mm4 column, charpe.l t-nty-tie cents per line, unless otherwise Cvu- traetwd. i So advertisement considered less than a square. I Address all letters, I T1IK KNT1CRPR ISIV XEWTOX, X. C. SELECTED STORY. THE COUS1XS. Marian Field stopped a moment at Burn ham Sc Burnham's window, and her lovely blue eyes looked all tbe ad miration she felt at sight of tbe tempt ing display of velvets and silks, laces and ribbons, satins and all tbe hun dred and one accessories of a lady's toilet. All tbe admiration and a little just a little purely feminine envy and then she turned her face away to tbe quiet, plain, elder lady who bad stopped a moment waiting for her. "Ob, Annie, how exquisite every thing is? i wonder if it is awfully kked in me to wish we were rich k?"-e Meredith Alwyn because are not? Let's hurry away before 1 become perfectly savage." ller sweet, girlish laugh rippled out on tbe quiet evening air a laugh that bad just a tinge ot bitterness mixed with its silver sweetness, and a gentle man who was accidently passing at the moment, looked to see Marian's lovely face, with her blue eyes and ; fair complexion, to which tbe crisp December air had lent a delicate pink tinge, and bright golden hair that was lightly fluffy over her forehead and looking coqucttishly becoming as it escaped from tbe pale-blue zephyr hood she wore, it was just the merest passing glance he had, but enough to show ; him tbe surpassing loveliness of Ma- j rian and the quiet well-bredness of j both Marian and her sister. i And then as the passed further awiiy into tbe dusk of the night he went into a quiet little shop, next Burnham & Burnham's brilliantly il luminated show-windows, interested into inquiring of the pleasant-faced lad, who, standing at the door, bad heard and seen the ladies. The lad went briskly round to bis poi behind the counter at his custom er's entrance. J "1 want some cigars I believe that J was what I wanted, at least, until the Mgni oi mat girl mat jusi now passeu drove it from my head. Who are I he-, do you know !"' The young shopman promptly se lected the choicest cigars, talking pleasantly the while. "You must mean Miss Field and Miss Marian. They just went by. Miss Marian is called tbe prettiest girl hereabouts, 1 think." The gentleman smiled at the young fellow's enthusiasm. '1 quite agree with you ; I think 1 never saw a more perfect face, Field 1 think I've heard the name before. And there's such a romance connected ttith them !" the clerk went on. "To day they have to earn their own liv ing, while six months ago tbey were the heiresses to the Deacon woode es tate. Tbey wcro born and brought ip on the place, and not until all of a sudden was it discovered that there was somebody who had a better claim on it than they a first nephew to old Mr. Field, and these young ladies were second nieces, and so tbe lawyers made a row about it, and Miss Field and Miss Marian walked out ns patient, proud and smiling as ever, land took up their quarters down town, land cariuiueir little salary that would not buy the toilet water they used to order." "Quite a remarkable experience for two young ladies, and you have told it well. It really is a pity. A fine night!" And Mr. Meredith Alwyn nodded to his diffuse young friend and took himself slowly, thoughtfully up the street that led directly to the magnifi cent estate of Deacon woode. "Beggars those splendid women that lovely voiced, saphire-eyed girl, fit to sit on the grandest throne under heaven ! Beggarsthrough my ac ceptance of uncle Cyril Field's legacy ! Why didn't somebody tell me the atrocity of such wholesale rascality? Is it fate, I wonder, that threw them directly in my path almost the hour of my arrival in this strange place whither I had come to see my new accession ? And how shall 1 see them again ?' "Will we do it? Why, Annie, of course we will do it? It would be a direct flying in the face of Providence to refuse such a godsend. It wont be any trouble for dear old Elsie to cook for one more, and that big empty room that looks out on the chimneys of Deaconwoode we will never use that room, Annie. And only think ten dollars a week ! It will tide us through the winter so comfortably." And so it came to pass that Mr. Meredith Alwyn took possession of the room in the Field sisters' cottage that looked out on the chimneys and turrets and towers of Deaconwoode took possession as their boarder and gave his name as Curtis, and in course of time very naturally came to be on the most excellent terms with them. ,j?e day Mjss Field, in a partinhir fy confidential mood, told him all about the romance of their lives ; how until so lately they bad lived their life of elegance and ease at Deacon woode, and how the prospect of their future had faded as completely and suddenly as a beautiful dream. "Whoever this usurping heir is he must be a double-dyed rascal selfish to the heart's core to have defrauded you so." Mr. Curtis seemed remarkably em phatic in his denunciations. .IHI, I ,..il.l nnt llinib ttiit"' AT Field said, in her gentle, womanly way, "because he certainly had a right to it, and 1 dare say he was de lighted at his good fortune and surely he ought to enjoy it." "I don't know about that, Miss Field. I think it simply inhuman for any man to turn two delicately bred women out of tbe'r homo of elegance and ease, as this villain has turned you out. Perhaps be did not know, but be should have been told, and he certainly should at least have divid ed." Miss Field smiled. "But people are not often so gener ous, Mr. Curtis. Yes, for Marian's sake it would be pleasant ; but 1 don't know. Tbe discipline of adversity and tbe necessity for effort are mak ing a grand woman of her, while I must confess I rather shrink in dis taste." An hour or so later be and Marian went out for a little stroll tbey had j fallen into that habit lately. 'We were talking about Deacon woode and that detestable cousin of yours Miss Field and I. Do you know, we both agree thai it is a piece of selfishness that be doesn't divide with you under such peculiar cir cumstances ?" Marian laughed. "That's nonsense, Mr. Curtis, and 1 shall not allow you and Annie to dis- j cuss such incendiary topics. Divide! ; Of course not do you think I'd ac- ; cept charity at the hands of Meredith Alwyn? Deaconwoode is lawfully Lis let him keep it dearly as I love j it, every stone, every tree, every room, every picture." Her impetuous 'oung voice thrilled out brave, almost defiant, as tbey walked along in the gathering dusk. Then he suddenly called her name, in a tone that instantly brought the ( flushes to her cheek. j "Marian?" It was the first time he had omitted tbe formality of the prefacing title." . NEWTON, N. C, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1879. "Yes?"' "1 am jealous of Deaconwoode be cause you love it so, and I want you to love me I Marian, my darling, tell me if "ou can? if you do? Marian sweet, I love you so if you will let me!" It did not need more than one look at her eyes to read his answer. "I cannot help it can I ?" she said, slyly, sweetly, and then, on the quiet suburban road, in the gloom of the early nightfall, he took her in bis arms and kissed her over and over again. "And now," he said, as she nestled on his arm and they turned their steps homeward, "about this Deaconwoode affair. You, of course, have no ob jection to going back there ? You have so imperiously declared you will not accept your cousin Meredith Al wyn's charity that there only remains one more course open. That is to ask you to resume your sweet sway there as rightful owner, and Meredith Curtis Alwyn's wife my own little blue-eyed darling. It is yes, again. Because you know you cannot help yourself, nor will you want to if you love me, littlo cousin Marian, little wife Marian !" And that was the way they went back home. WHERE THE REVENUE COMES FROM. The following statement of the amount of internal revenue paid by tbe several States in 1878, omitting the Territories and the District of Co lumbia, is from tho office of Commis sioner Ilauin : Illinois, New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Jersey, Missou ri, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Maryland, California, North Carolina, Michigan, Iowa, Tennessee, Louisiana, Oregon, Connecticut, Delaware, West Virginia, Georgia, Minnesota, Texas, Tibode Island, Xew Hampshire, Florida, Kansas, Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi, Colorado, Maine, Nevada, Vermont, $19X51,732 14,9G3.S99 14.7fi2,9J9 G.889.273 6,4G8.20G 5.931,659 5,722 971 5,091.455 5.0S0.803 2.432,870 2.424.363 2,318,204 2.144.665 1.800,310 1.597,897 954,444 845,504 782,379 600,026 576,900 480,937 337,893 329,974 276,554 268.316 246,7")9 231.404 1S6:521 159,349 138.223 117.717 1 16.269 88,617 83.507 71 069 58.238 44,0S9 Virginia paid nearly three times as much as Massachusetts, Maryland and Wisconsin ; more than three times as much as California ; and $2,972,722 more than Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island together. She paid a half a million more than Pennsyl vania or Indiana, and nearly a million and a quarter more than either Mis souri or New Jersey, one-third as much as Illinois, and less than half as much as New York or Ohio. Virgii ia contributed more than the total paid by the following nineteen Slates: Iowa, Connecticut, Delaware, West Virginia, Georgia, Minnesota, Texas, libode Island, New Hampshire, Flori da, Kansas, Alabama, Souih Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi, Colorado, Maine Nevada and Vermont. Tbe entire amount of internal rev enue taxes collected by the Govern ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, was $118,630,407.83, and for the year ending June 30, 1878, $110, 5S1.624.74. Richmond State. No comedian can make as laughable a face as that made by the small boy vvhen he brings the jelly jar down from the closet shelf and finds it to be full of ten penny nails. JttflPlXC OVER MACK A. Buffalo, May 21. This afternoon Mr. II. P. Peer, of Teeterville, Ont., accomplished the daring but silly feat of jumping from the new Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls, into the riv er below, a distance of 192 feet. This entirely eclipses the famous perform ance of Sam Patch. Peer's dress con sisted of merino hose and a full suit of tights, an inflated rubber life pre server, funnel shaped and of his own construction, which covered his hips and extended up to the armpits. Cot ton cloth was bandaged lightly over the preserver, about the hips and loins, while a broad sponge protected his mouth and nostrils and bis ears were stuffed with tbe same material, the sponge being slightly moistened with spirits. His thighs were confin ed with an elastic strap and like wise his feet. Over his shoulders was a leather brace with a ring in the cen ter to which was attached a cable composed of 220 feet of No. 2 brass wire in six strands. This was called a balance and was for tbe purpose of assisting to retain his position, particu larly if the wind should be strong. It was reeled over a cylinder attached to tho guard-rail of the bridge and which was operated with a brake handle like that used upon old time wells, so that tbe man's speed as he descended could be controlled to a cer tain extent. It was not fastened and the final end followed tbe man into tbe water. Mr. Peer took bis place upon the temporary platform from which he was to drop. The platform consisted j simply of two planks fastened about j eighteen inches apart. After taking J n link1 stimulant and display inga lit- j tie nervousness, for this was his great est undertaking, he suspended him self between tho boards for a moment or two by bis bands. The word was given and bo was gone like a flash, while the thousand spectators who j lined the bank looked on with sus pense, fear and trembling. The four seconds that intervened before be struck created a terrible excitement, but as he passed under the water feet foremost with a great splash, and came up in a few seconds more and began to swim, cheer afier cheer rent the air. He was picked up by some boa: men and was in no worse condi tion than if ho had jumped into a cis tern of water. In fact ho assisted to pull the boat. to tbe shore. Mr. Peer was born July 14, 1S44, in the county of Halton, township of Nelson, Do minion of Canada, lie stands 5 feet 7 2 inches high, is of slender frame, weighs 143 pounds, and in manner is rather gentlemanlike and unassuming. He has a wife and one child. The highest point from which he has ever jumped before was 108 feet. He has been a sailor, and his experience has been obtained in jumping from the mastheads of vessels. It is announced that he will try it again July 4th. Honor the Scissors. Some people, ignorant of what good editing is, im agine the getting tip of selected mat ter to be the easiest work in tho world lo do, whereas it is the nicest work that is done on paper. If they see the editor with scissors in bis band they are sure to say: "Eh! that's the way you get up original matter, eh ?" accompanying their new and witty question with an idiolie wink or 6inile. The facts are, that the interest, the variety and tho use fulness of a paper depend in no small degree upon its selected matter, and few men are capable of the position who would not themselves be able lo write many of the articles they select. A sensible editor desires considerable selected matter, because he knows that one mind cannot make as good a paper as five or six. Just lift years ago six hardy and resolute North Carolinians in 1769 crossed the rivers and mountains until they had penetrated Kentucky as far as tbe Red River region. They hunted until late in December when they returned to their homes. They were Daniel Boone, known as "tbe first settler" of Kentucky, John Find lay, John Stewart, and threo others. Wilmington Star. THE EVOLUTION BIBLE. The preparation of the new Bible, which is to be inspired by sweet rea sonableness has not made much ad vance yet. We lay before our readers the improved version of the first chap ter of the Book of Genesis, 1. There never was a beginning. The Eternal, without us that maketh for righteous ness, took no notice whatever of any thing. 2. And Cosmos was homogen eous and undifferentiated, and some bow or another evolution began and molecules appeared. 3. And molecule evolved protoplasm, and rythmic thrills arose, and then there was light. 4. And a spirit of energy was devel oped and formed the plastic cell whence arose the primordial germ. 5. And tho primordial germ became protogene, and protogeno somehow shaped eozoon, then was the dawn of life. 6. And the herb yielding seed and tbe fruit tree yielding fruit after its own kind, whose seed is in itself, developed according to its own fancy. And the Eternal, without us that maketh for righteousness, neither knew nor cared anything about it. 7. The cattle after bis kind, the beast of the earth after bis kind, and every creeping thing became evolved by heterogeneous segregation and con comitant dissipation of motion. 8. So that by survival of the fittest there evolved tho simiads from the jelly fish, and the simiads differentiated them selves into the anthropomorphic pri mordial types. 9. And in due time j one lost his tail and became man, and behold he was the most cunning of all animals and lo ! tbe fast men killed the slow men, and it was ordained to be so in every age. 10. And in pro cess of time. b3 natural selection and survival of the fittest, Matthew Arnold, Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin appeared, and behold it was very good. London Freeman, The Adventist Sacrifice. Mrs. Hattie Freeman, wife of Chas. R. Freeman, of Pocasset, Mass., who re cently killed his little girl under the insane belief that he was glorifying God, has written a letter to her sisters describing the fanaticism which led to the slaying of the child. She claims that they were devoted to their child : that her husband was one of tbe best husbands and fathers, and that "his whole aim for more than a year, not neglecting other duties, was to win souls and seek himself eternal life." Finallv, Mrs. Freeman savs, her bus band feit that God required him to have the faith of Abraham and offer up bis child as a savrifice, but be felt it would only be a trial of faith, and neither thought God would suffer the child to be touched. After the child was killed she says they felt that it was God's plan to take her so as to raise her from the dead, and thus show His mighty power and love. "But," says Mrs. Freeman, "the time has so far passed, and we are here. God knows wo are innocent of any crime. Charlie still thinks God is go ing to manifest His power and glory j and himself be justified in the eyes of the world. God grant it may be so! Oh, you cannot know my sorrow ! It almost breaks my heart. My dear, dear Edie Charlie is innocent oh, he is of any crime, but I am afraid it was mistaken faith in God." Letter from Mrs. Freeman. A Man Who Sleeps Underground. The grave can have- no terrors for an eccentric individual in Illinois. He scoffs at the comforts of a patent spring mattress, with the accompany ing pillows, bolsters, sheets, and snowy coverlets, and even deems the Indian i luxury of a blanket and fire effeminate and unworthy of man. In his back i yard there is a shallow trench, in I which he lays himself every night at ! bedtime, and a faithful man servant ! shovels earth over him till nothing I but his head is left uncovered. He has no fear of fire or burglars, but 6leeps serene and happy in his couch of earth. Nothing so truly rural has been recorded in regard to beds and bedding since Nebuchadnezzar vet to grass. If he should wake up and find himself dead some morning; be would be both dead and buried. It is hardly neccessary to say that he is ncl a married man 5 Cents a Copy. GLEANINGS. The loafer exodus will never tako place. A walking match, out of town, is suggested, open to all tramps. How to get up a spring meeting put two fat men in a light buggy. Soda water is on tap, yet one swal low does not make a summer. The departuro of Gen. Grant from India is the latest relief of Lucknow. All the perfumes of Araby cannot sweeten a little hand half so much as three aces in the draw. The advance of the wages of New York bricklayers from $2.50 to $3 per day is a positive sign of better times. It will soon be time for tho Social ists to call upon the holders of the ten dollar certificate to divide with them. Terrific naval engagement off tho river Eoa, in South America, between a Chilian corvette and two Peruvian vessels. One eye-glass smashed. It is always the big fellows that get to the front in the crowd. Look at the strawberry box, for instance ; the little ones are always at the bottom. A book just published is entitled, "Sayings and Doings of Great Men." We notice that tho "Sayings" have a largo majority. "A German inventor proposes to make boots that will never wear out." But what good is a boot if you can't wear it out? Slippers are preferable indoors. A young gentleman from the up per end of Henrico left Richmond Wednesday en route for Africa, to join the English army in the war with the Zulus. As soon as the meadow Is draped with flwers, And robins are singing Throughout the fleet hours, And dawn in the valley The butterflies capor. The druggist serenely Lays iu his fly paper. A". V. Ssar. One "Jack" Price, a negro preacher, started out in Natchitoches, La., the other day, with the impression that he must kill everybody he met in or der to get into heaven. Under tho delusion he attempted to take two lives, besides setting fire to a building, and was killed by one of the men ho sought to shoot. An Educated Cat. This story is told by a Michigan correspondent of the Chicago later Ocean : Educated dogs, educated hogs, educated horses, and even educated mice have had their intelligence paraded before tho public. But we do not remember having read of an intelligent, cultured cat, one that could understand and re peat (of course very brokenly) the mdish lanffuayo. The followimr I !- case is of such unusual occurrence that we have taken pains to verify the rumor. A little daughter of W. II. King, of West Kalamo, Barry county, has a cat or quite large kitten, which she has taught lo repeat poetry or prose after the readings of the lit tle miss. Plaeing the cat facing her, the little girl will repeat a word, when the cat will repeat it after her bj a series of mews, one mew for a word of one syllabic, two mews for two syl lables, etc. It ia very interesting to sit and listen to the littlo miss and the mcw-sical of the intelligent fcliue, who seems to be proud of and realizes its importance. Come Back to Stay. One of the pilgrims who went to Liberia in tho "Colored Mayflower," the Aaor, has returned to Charleston with a woebe gone countenance. His summing up is that of those who went across the sea "over one-half is dead, plenty of others perishing to death almost, and heap would come bae-k if tbey could,.' llis wife bad died of the coast fever, his son Pete, a fine specimen of physi cal development, dropped down dead by his own door-one morning, and he himself had just enough life left Us form the intention of "goiu' home to his poopfc, goin to work and retiring from all nigger business."
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