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T-r t ,1 . fri.OO a Year. NEWTON, K C, SATURDAY,: FEBRUARY 7, 1880. 5 Cents a Copy. ritro &na11 Uie J-'i-esrt the People's Rights Maintain, Una wed by Influence, and Unbx-ibod bv Gain She 3Jeivtm (Enterprise, riiiu.isin'i) every satuudayv 11Y GEORGE A. WAPJJCK. TKUMS: One y ir, - $2.00 Six nimli. 1.0') Throe nioielis 73 .v fA ni a nr. y f.v j ? r.t Ar-, gr" To jH-rsonst who make up clubs of ton, an ex tra copy v ill be sent freo. APVF.UT5SIXO RATES I in. 2 in. Sin. j ioi J col. I-Jul. " 14 IS 22 2fi 45 50 80 icy 1 vrek, i 1 M 2 00 2 l I SO I 3 00 3 j 2 W I 3 50 4 I 2 2 4 00 1 OA fi 00 4 00 j 8 00 13 I 5 00 I 9 00 1 K, 18 2 f 00 10 00 ? months 3 00 j (i wfr Id 0(1 I 14 00 4 t - S 00 1 12 00 ; 18 00 7 00 12 of is 2S 00 10 0 15 00 I 20 00 I 3"! 00 3 6 " 12 44 30 I 45 I B0 j Yotr'y alvorti-foiin nts chiingi-tl quarterly if desir- Tranient atrertiempnt payable- in advance. Yc.irly advertisements sumi-anually In ailvitnet. Advertisement discontinued before the time con t ri.t,. for h:n expired, charged transient rtes for the time actually published. Advertisement innoriod in local column, charged twentv'-five coats per line, utiles otberwise Con tr;eted. No advertisement considered 'ess than a cquare. Address all letters, "THE ENTERPRISE," NEWTON, X. C. CS5S3.D SOXUS. AI.FKKD TENNTSOX. Tlic City Cliil-1. painty little maiden, whither would you wand'.T ? Whithtr from this pretty home, the home where mother dwells ? "Far ai.'d far away," said the dainty little maiden, "All among the gardens, auricula?, anemones, Roses and lilies and Canterbury bells." Painty little maiden, whether would you wander ? Whither from this pretty hcuse, this city house of ours ? "Far and far away," said the dainty little maiden, "All among the meadows, the clover and the clematis, Daises and kingcups and honeysuckle flow ers." Minnie aiidT VT5msie." . : Minnie and Winnie Slept in a shell. Sleep, little-ladies! And th?y slept well. Tink was the gheil within, Silver without, Sounds of t he great sea Wandered about. Sleep, little ladies ! Wko not goon ! Echo on echo Dies to the moon. Two bright stirs Perjd into the shell. ''What aio they druaming of ? Who can toll ?" Started a green linnet Out of the cioft ; Wake, little ladies, The cun is aloft ! Paris, Texas, is building a $10,000 school house. Franklin county, Texas, is overrun vilh wild pigeons. A boy in Chester county, South Carolina, has caught 200 opossums this season. Ex-Senator Spencer, of Alabama, rcceutlv cleared SjD.OOJ bv iho sale of a Utah silver mine. .Several hundred "cowboys" from Northern Texas are on raid in Color ado. Fifteen of them entered Los Vegas Thursday night, killed the city marshal and two citizens and woun ded five others. The Springfield Republican Pays: "John Sherman is l he passive obsta cle, the rock on which the h ading and the most dangerous Republican candi dates are likely to wreck before or during the convention." The State board of agriculture at its recent meeting instituted measures for having the purity and germinating qualities of garden and field seeds tested, and the commissioner, is now having specimens collected. It is a seliled fact that the East Tennesse & Virginia Road has secured the control of the Memphis & Little Rock Road. It is stated that the new bosses intend to extend the line from Fort Smith to Texarkana, and there connect with the Southern Pa cific. A subscriber to Iho Norrislown Herald asks: "Will the last shoo be made on a shoo last? "The Herald wjswc must refer him to Proctor. He is the on 13 person in this country we believe he is still in the country who knows what is going to bap: pen 100,000,000,000,000,000,000, years hence. THREE YEARS N BATTLE AND THREE IN PRISON. BY RANDOLPH A. SHOTWELL. CHAPTER EIGHTH. Personal Narrative non tin tied School Boy politics, and a taste of mob-law Prepar ing to cross the liutncon Great liattlo at Hull Run Ho North Carolina saved tho day A Farewell to youth, and school .days Starting on foot to run the Block ade Visit to Thomas Bayard at Wil mington. Delaware. Having reached the period of actual warfare, I turn back to take-up the thread of personal experience. Du ring all tho foregoing events 1 had been following tho diurnal round of scholastic studies at Media Classical Institute, though in a mechanical, per functory manner, with little heart in the pei formance. An carl- fondness for reading gave mo a better knowl edge of conlemporaiy political tran sactions than is perhaps ordinary ac quired b3 youths of m age. I re ceived the Philadelphia papers regu larly, and had also the use of my pre ceptors mail. He was an highly cul tured old gen th man, bent with age but full of classical lore, a native of Dublin, but for half-a-centu 1-3 resident in Delaware, where he acquired con siderable propcrt3 and strong Jeffer sontan Democratic views. He sided with the North against secession be cause, like thousands of the Northern people, he fancied Republican institu tions would be ctushed if once the Union we.c dis-!iikcd (whereas in J fact the Southern Confederate was fomtded on more Republican princi pies than even the old Union) ; but his leaning's were all towards the sunry side of the Union. He was very kind to me, as wero iil foinirjvwirtrTvtTorrr I boarded during vacation, not being able to come home for so short a time. On one occasion, early in the fail, (of ibuu; i.e onerci me a caaetsnip at West Point; the notorious John Hick- man, representing that District in Congress, having requested him to name one of his pupils for the place. All 1113 inclinations were to enter the arm-, but Hickman was then at the zenith of his notoriel3 for virulent abuse of the South, and I told Mr. G. there was nothing I would ac cept from such hands. A SILLY OUTBURST. The nois3' exultations of the lfu colnites, the swaggering of the "Wide Awakes," atid the incessant falsehoods, in tho newspapers, charging the South erners with all manner of crimes from "high treason" to "pett theft," grad ual S worked my feelings to the verge of intolerance on the other side ; read to defend the South to the utmost ex femitv, right or wrong. One inci dent, occurring a few da s after South Carolina seceded, may illustrate the temper of the times. On Christmas ' 0 bilion at the court house to raise funws . in enuin n Volunteer company. A l i " number of pieces elicited boisterous applause for their political significance; one being a procession of ihirteen-3-car-oId Ivys, in Conlim-ntal Uni form, "marching to clean out. the South Carolina secesh !" as the promp ter announced in stentorian tones, amid roars of delight. Next a gigan tic picture of an eagle, clawing a snake labeled "State Rights," was thrown upon the wall by a concealed maim: i lantern." Again the wild uproar burst forth ; whereupon' a local poli tician (who I have heard, was expelh-d from the Pennsylvania Legislature in j 1S7C, for frauds and corruption) sprang on the stage and made a fu rious harrangue against the south, particular! v South Carolina, closing with a call for tk Three groans for the accursed traitors ' With feverish impulsc.a the groan, , r r... I, i k 1 1 and nisses wuosio.cn, i f pi "'" i a K...i i. ....... i i...;.m.i rne oencu. 11011 1 isnco ;i m wan-in mum . hot, and shouting "Three cheers for Carolina and Snt hern-Rights The south defies you !" The sensation of course was prodigious; such views ro not tolerated ii that lat itude. wt The only Southern student very tall crs" may get in before the people are and slim, with a foolish fondness for roused up to go to the scene of action, long hair, and daily walks in ail di-' There is a good deal of pulled hair ly rections, I had become as well known ing around Raleigh n;w, and the in the town as any one in it ; hence at '-fighters" are almost on their backs once was recognized by the vast as 'from exhaustion. semblage. Howls of rage, cries of "put him out!" kick him out," "knock him down !" "kill the damned trait or!" etc., etc., arose from all parts of tho house, and there was a general movement towards the central aisle, down which I was walking. Fortu nate, at that moment, cither inten tional by or to repeat the stereoscopic picture, the gas jets were turned, off, and in the darkness and confusion, I passed out, and hastening to the In stitute, packed my trunk, and got ready my defensive armament. The latter consisted of an old knife, and an ancient pistol, of "pepper-box" pattern, which through much service, had ae quired the properties of a Catling gun or mitrailleuse : all six of its barrels going off with a vhir-r-r at one snap of the hammer. There was daiyer eveiy where in the neighborhood when it started. However no occasion to j use it occurred. A number of men , came to the gate of the Institute, j which was in the suburbs of the vd- lage ; but after a Ion talk with the Principal, went away. The Media Republican pnper next da3 stated that ' a sprig of chivahy" had attempted to raise a disturbance, and "narrows escaped rough handling," etc. B03--like, I worried n-selfover this' deri sive squib more than if I had been real's mobbed. A TASTE OF "LAW YAI.TY." A few da3s later, Will G.,onr Pre ceplor's soss, and others, urged me not to go over to town after dusk, as some of the drunken bullies were threaten ing to demolish meal first opportuni t3'. I gave little thought to the mat ter, until one da3 several n onths later a gentle reminder occurred. Strolling in the beautiful groves, as usual after school hours, searching forvio!ets and dreaming da' dreainafof (Tie grPaT world that was bubbling with hot pas- sion all over its surface, I heard regu- j ,ap fi jn an u,,jaecnt ravine or ,,, j Smv Jfc W.IS a party of the ,ocaI miIi ! . rv. nrtu.til.in.r t i:,r-et set. no y I rt - - 7 1 against a raiiwa' embankment which ran across the ravine. Going to the edge ol the woods I perched upon a fence watching their bad marksman-! ship. Presents one of them cried "Look at that d ned long-haired se cesh, up 3-011 Jer, sp3in' of us!" ami without more ado he fired toward me. Thinking he aimed to frighten, not to hit, I sat still; whereupon several others beran a ranid fussil!aie and i- . r a if j t rt ,..! 1 many splinters new oti Ihe lence ! J followed their example. It appeared to be judicious to retire upon my base of supplies half a mile in rear, lest some of the drunken rascals might 'wing' me, even if not real iy intending it. It is altogether probable they were indifferent whether thy struck r 1 me or not. The Media companies had been recruited by riff-raff of Phil-j adelphia, who like the famous '-Billy j Wilson's cuthroats," and -Ellsworth's' Fire Zouaves, were more, dangerous . . . to their own rellow-f itizens than lo the armed Confederates. Besides, the mobbing of Democrats and "Southern sympathizers" in almost every town and village had lessened popular re spect for personal rights, when not joined with the right politics. I have spoken of a Media druggist who was made to kneel in the street and swear fidelity to Lineolnism: while at the siimc iiiuiiiuiii me MHPi ui .o - i in- windows and case-bottle rang in i i . . IMS ears. A Lancaster count3' man was mobbed because of an unlucl taste for red and-white window cur tains, which were suspected of signi fying S3-m pa thy for Southern bi-co!- ors to be oostinueo. Reidsviile Times: A Raleigh cor respondent of the Durham Recorder sa3 s that tho fight for Governor has settled down bel weeu Jarvis nid I hi.w e. Of course. 1 In'V are t he lordv two we know contending for it. j - - But suppose the people give it lo some peaceable, good looking brother out side who has never fought for it? As a few papers are for holding the con- j vent ion right off, some of the "fight Thadangerous, often dead 13-, habit of drinking absinthe is said to be sieauny. growing in tins countiy, not ; ., ? - 1 1 it ... . iT!iwiig luieigncrs merely, out, among 1 me limine pop-nation. A good many ; oeains in (iiiifient parts of the coun-, Tom Clark and Charles Houston. Ir3, especial in the large cities, are j two colored men, between whom ill direct I3 traceable to the excessive use feeling had long existed, met at the of absinthe. Jt is much more perilous, i store, where a number of other ne as well as more deleterious, than anv ordinar3 kind of liquor. It is more seductive and treacherous; for at first there h very little reaction from it; it quickens the mental faculties, lends a glow to the health and spirits, and seems, to express it mathematical', to raise man to a higher power. Ils encroachments are scarcely percepti ble. A regular absinthe drinker sei- ; dom perceives that he is dominated ils haleful influence until it is loo ':lto- All of a sudden he breaks down ; ns hrain is inoperative ; his will is Paralyzed : he is a mere wreck ; there no hope of his recovery. Victims of intemperance of the common sort frequently reform, but I the absinthe drinker, alter he is gone j to a certain length, veiy rareS does l or can throw off the fatal fascination. 1 he more intellectual a man is, the more readily the habit fastens itself upon him. Some of the most brilliant authors and artists of Paris have kill ed themselves with absinthe, and maiy more are doing so. Only a few years since absinthe could not be got in this toiintrv. save in big cities: now it can be had almost every where, and it is called for with alarming fre quency. A? York Times. jV Duel Wjtii Lariats. A singn lar duel occurred in the Indian Terri ing home from a drive to Colorado. Both arj Mexicans and quarreled about a woman. Their names are Don Juan De La Cruz, of Goliad, and Pedro Garcia, of Bell count3, Texas. Their friends refused to let them fight with pistols, ami thty determined to do so with Mexican lariats or lasso ropes made of hair. Tho duel took place on the open prairie. At the word of command both combatants, mounted on fine horsesand brandishing their lass s, wheeled their steeds and j dashed towards each other, both j I.. i.. !:,;. i.,.LII.a ..! avoid the living 1.0. se. I he assos were siniultaneoiisl y flung, (iarcia's j - j noose was ntiriei at ie Ja uruzs 1 11 . i r n head with unerring aim. and the noose M'ur in the radii of the second, her .ivcrai;e day's work being 1,500 encircling his reek he was jerk.-.! momentum had been gamed bo:irds 200 o 500 more than the av " J ! . -. .1 1 ! 11.. ... . : 1.1:.: ' out of his saddle with terrible violence, but not enough to break his net Both men were riding at fall speed. Do La Cruz was seven ly injured and the rope was broken liy the sudden snap and strain. Both duelists are ati.fied and have returned to their! homes in Democrat. Texas. St. Louis GloKe- now hie io it in ua.sas. "If you want a good item," sail Jim r y rr . Johnson to a Commerciil reporter the out." j !o Thomas A. Edison for an electric other day, "I can teil you of a funny j Several of the engineers witnessed j anlp. The inventor claims that he occurrence that happened at Hot j t1(J working of the Pielrowski ma . has discovered an electric lamp for Springs last summer while I was t.hjne yesterdaj-. were sanguine in the j giving light by incandescence, con ihere. Mayor Linde. of Hot Springs, j opinion that for all practical purposes, ; s-s,i,.0r u filament of carbon of high had been blackguarded by t he editor ' U aving out the engine of the locomo- resislai,Ce secured to metallic wires, of a paper there until he couldn't . tjve and the steamboat, it will bo 'Tu ,.lim,;I!.ll:ilI1 ,,f ..h,,,, fi.impu , s( ;u;(, u any s,)? ac.con,ini? to the custom of the couutr, lie went j out gunning one da-. He brought down two bystanders before he bag- ged his game, the editor, whom he shot in the leg. None of ihem !ied, I believe Then he went on a spree, and having full charge of the police fore yesterda-. At the funeral of her , sha!1 be exposod f.)r radiating light; and station-house, he turned out all husband she delivered an address in ! a mothotl of securing the platina con the prisoners in the station a lot of thi. Sioux language, in which she ta- 1 tat-t-wircs to the carbon filament and - ; horse-thieves and murderers. 1 no j next morning he fined himself $10 for j drunkenness and disorders conduct, j I n the course of time he was indicted ! for the shooting. He got a change of cenue on the ground that he couldn't gel justice in that county. His trial came off in ao a.lj-dning "county. He was fined a fine and costs amounting to' $95. He had forty witnesses sub- no&iwted. Their fees amounted to $5 each S200. They lumped their fees and gave them to Linde. lie paid tiers of southeastern Dakota. Yaiik t he 805 and' pocketed the 8105, and ton (Dakot i) Press. went home happ-." That's the way j they do things in Arkansas. Cincin- The State of Texas in future will in nati Commercial. no case pay any witness fees. A Colored Due!. Savannah cideed the sensation of a dnel last week between two colored . men, both of whom were seriously ! . ... i ami probably iatnlry wounded. It seems, says the Morning Acs, thai groes hud gathered, and got to drink ing. The old quarrel was renewed be tween Clark and Houston, and the for mer, who had his gun with him,propb j ed that Houston go and get his gun and the3r settle their difficulty 1)3 an ex change of shots. Houston, who re sided in the neighborhood, hastened lionu, and, procuring his gun return- cd to the scene. Ground was marked off and tho combatants faced, when, without any further preliminaries, both fired simultaneously and both fell at the same time. The guns were heaviS' charged with buckshot. Clark was shot in the left side and breast, some of the shot, it is presum- ed. enteriiv the lung. He was brought to the city and carried to the office of Dr. Chisbolni, who examined j )s wound, and found it to be very serious, and ho was sent to the color ed infirmary. Houston, who received three or four shots in the body, two j in the abdomen was carried off bv his friends, and was believed to be in a dying condition. Almost Perpettial Jlolion. All day yesterda the small rooms of Albert Pietrowski, at 2G Spring street, were crowded with visitors who had gone thither to see the new motor that was advertised in the Sun, v ' Pole. "He is an engineer by proression7 and has been in this country sixteen 3-cars. He has devoted his leisure hours to the elaboration of his inven- ; lion. m. t... i. i.-u:tl day consists of a pair of hollow metal wheels, four feet in diamler, which revolve on the same axis, but in op posite directions. The moving power is nine metal balls placed within the wheels so as to bear the rim down at t-rs,: lind iUvn fzmvi'.ate toward the axis, where a .-d ie groove runs the balls off 1o a grooved radius of the : 1 i i tion. rotir Oalis were piaceu in llie 1 irriinvcd moil ti i lie nrsi wneei i 1 tumm cu raiio i iiic iiri iieet ;uni 1 j . e... .. i.,.i 1 ;n- - j " ,,in a,,,,lt, l"--, cuuw,llu"- al power. Jo tue axle ol the wp.eeis, j widch is also the axle of smaller .g',,utu ..rc, m.u. -u.a-u Vd of tbu hii.ciy, the shafting i 's lPimU1-- 1 1 .1 . . I -..!..... . ! . .. " """ feet in diameter." said Mr. Pielrowski. j "arid I will show you a motor of 300- J I horse power, that requires io: hing po w e r, 1 1 i a t requ 1 r : . . . . ... j to keep n in operation. Jt will con- I tinue to run until the material wears! found of great value.-A York Sun. II IM TO THE HaPI'Ti ; Followed I cxtino Ground. Mrs. (Juion, wid - ' ow of t he late Alex. C. Guion. inter- ' prett r at Yankton Agenty. died a few days ago ami was buried day be- let thai sue wouio soon ioiiow iom 10 B.t It f II I - ! he spirit land. She said she had no desire to b.ve now t hat he was lam n away, and that in a few weeks she would be laid beside him. The pre- diction was faithfully fulfilled. Since! her husban.'s deal h she has steadily j declined, and finally the lamp of life j was extinguished and Mrs. Guioti joined her husband on the other shore, j She was a full-blood Yankton Sioux ami wa well known by the early set- Use of the Verb "To Break." A late number of an educational journal thus describes the trouble a Frenchman had with the verb "break." "I begin to understand your Ian guage better," said my French Iricnd, M. Dubois, to me; "but your verbs trouble me still ; you mix them up eo with prepositions." "I am sorry 3-0U find them so trou blesome," was all I could say. "I saw your friend, Mrs. Mnrkeson, just now." he continued. --She says she intends to break down housekeep ing; ani I right there?" --Break up housekeeping, she must have said." "Oh ! 3-es. I remember ; break up housekeeping." "Why does she do that?" I asked. "Because her health is broken into." "Broken down." "Broken down? Oh, yes! And, in deed, since the small-pox has broken up in our city "Broken out." "She thinks she will leave it for a few weeks, "Will she leave her house alone?" "No, she is afraid it will be broken -broken how do I say that?" "Broken into." uCertainIvt it is what I meant to say. "Is her son to be married soon 7" '' "No, that engagement is broken "Broken off r "Yes, broken off." "Ah, I had not heard of that." "She is ver3 sorry about it. Her son onlv broke- the news down to her ; . . . . T - . , o 1 last week. Am l right? lam anxious "Us merely broke the news; no preposition this time."" "It is hard to understand, That young man, her son, is a fine youn- ! fellow: a hri;tki- f tLinL- " ! ' ' . I f 1 1 L- o t- .,. a ver3r fine youn- fellow. Good-da.' So much for the verb "to break." A Woman Shingle-Maker. A gentleman informs us that while rid ing on the Adair's Ferry road the other day, about ten miles from town, be saw a woman engaged in the novel occupation, for one of her sex, of riv j u" boards for shingles. De describes j her as young and homely, and sa3s . . ...... she handles tue I row witu acxieritv" eru-e work of a man. To the many tpi est ions propounded to her by our informant, she made the most laconic i rtT;ies bcini; apparently devoid of tho j .ma,e .,uini(.teris.ic of volubility; f but he learned from her lhat her namo s Margaret Earles, and that t he mak- ! . I in ir of shinnies is her regular occupa- i . " ,r , ... jn, j lion. lorkcnie inquirer. mmm Edison's Latest Patent. Among ,iw, ...,,,.Tlt x-.to,.ri,. rit, wl h a receiver made entire! y of -das,, and conductors passing through tho ; ,r?.wu r , 1 fi-nm wlii.! ni-i-'t rni- t!i rIi ; u exhausted ; a carbon filament or j 8lrip C()ile(J and conncetej lo electric j t.onductors so that only a portion of ! surfac.e Gf carbon copductnrs tfl ...iniA ;nil ,.o...l j (.-tamber The application for tho ; ):lU.nt was filed on the 5lh of No- j vt.mhcr las' "cy were talking about tunerai. d one lady said to the other. "I do"'- bke to go to fun ends." "You hin't !" was the astonished reminder, 0i ! I like to go!" -Like to go! 'm surprised at you." "Well," re- ! 1 " olher, "joa evuienuy uoi. u care much for music. I like to go to funerals to hear the music I think the death march from St. Paul is one of the grandest efforts of the great composer !'
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