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i y; 7 O : L.rL-. , X wm HI W' "' - .111 l 7S .wf .... Xl l " f n TT NTfrr S AT 1 1 1 1 1 ) A Y NUVMMiiElt,rzy. 'loIlA is , fRIOB ONE CENT, 71 II I j 1 II l H II Vi. . v ft . . n VOL,2-N0.32. v , ' 1 Evening Yisijjfc1 TO.H.UTISY. . Local Editor; GOVERNOR JARVIS."' '-JCrKytjTgLt AND QCILTING8.S Correspondence of the Visitor. r-I am now at Waceatnaw, which is located Komcwhefej 4 helJeve, btween Wilmingtortand Whites villeV in' 'the1 'Swamps, ftot far from, tbtts Soutli Cttrfjlin Jtne, -where nearly 'all the ,nmequoes residftlr tlte sunrnhiry hiitoivth hae4eff -f orjtetwr aarteKR ' f rellVl was ridinsr along the road , 7 o ci 'all alone near' sunset iwonderjiog where 1 should stay aTl night at, and presently I camejn sight of . a house, nearlv a Quarter of a . , ..- j. a . tnilt fiviin t.lm marl an T r'OnclU ded to ride up and 8e'o,,flthatf tile chance's "were of statins with MlDta tlie house I fero, and" when breached Jthe gate J, bailed .at nsnal, and the man . of -tlro-feftase come out, and I-told iiunL was looking for a place to stay Jall . nteht at.V'and would' bo thnnltf nl if he would accommodate1 rae ab my horse. tm m ' n KtirM $ r ,v Mr Wintlfn!. and !wtn i4 oot-4 everytmnjr appeared to send to tbo .stbro, , busy in hauling hif cottqn-f 6 Jnr, to the steam Qifri hR tio vk?or gins about tierp hadtyptwxi on C- r ,; MV'liAinrJfnf. und fwtn li oortM evervtninjr apoearod smooth, and I told her, ttjat y s Ut rikh ray! .We, bad 'jsiod:; meat, ,:n, !,-',. ; for. no M Warni fountnen. "a WJLlr hsast- 'pVbW imootui white fipi .ircs.iofj' 'ali4 a onuii'voMwith.'(ati "XjTitoijJ oit as' betyjo eUted aM'Vcci, :t'oH-''in(6 l ie usual butter milk, with a,4ityd ice in 'PJ( u ;fHMu. MA h,wwktAt bh3. Ountif xvera tin!: Tided1 to life. But tho girls didn't pat I grcmtsnfe'j it was -G t hrto a much, and Uughed and said they plenty7of wVt on tonl niiits, Verogqnjt0 ayftllQfeor U( Wjr8on Jatio get up tlihmiiik"toniorrow! V"' j u)W6ni.and then ' Then it at iMr. JlallS M tfiftgtohti another MeVo,flif Jrtrtutf'thafiijho was a Jiajof,!:'febj;;"tedu6aW, and as CiljfV.. fun ' and" m.lpliief as a Mi:4M:'Mr.ti8e, please ! "I.tlion notice that -Mr, Hill luoymg; about thfciiouse as tliongli ljwas after soioVthing, and pres ! ently' he hronglnl' n two pitchers of water aud'sutWfiein on the aid board, and I 'lioard him ask old Mrs. llill fr itjj 4ngr disli, and site braglit a, him, and he sot it on tiw iiue aboard, tnen no un MoselFfays Wf. mor than libifcll f 1 t(iwn rdlWnr It wiil.t8ure down idI.j1 will attend to your horse, fpf thMld woman and me ' We Utty,tly rand wondering wKer0 yoii would Mvrit yhV efct Ifette's Wdlupon whatsnbieiKrti" . j liftpiq WW fliltiowidj Mij.etJ't: tfstottbr.writMill ih 1 fiuMWHw Arfe Vheu v went straight foward, only giving ,!,vtlie fw;ts jikI :'tW lrnt ; na.thcy . transpired before me,, and con sequently I fond no trouble in Writing upon any ''subject.' that t takes place. ; , , 't' 1 .. He laughed, and .finished feed - ing my horse, fasten Up the: stable "by, turning a 'large .lateh ncroiss Ji:(tidoff,.V"d id. everytlAng is now' right. : ;.' .. To the honse we Started, talk eing all the way af fast as we eould, Ovibty& the"br6ps the" weather," and Wryhess of'the fall, ah as we etered Jhe house he ave me ffi&A introauotlon jo Jrsj H1, his ','.rifendthitfU three: or, four M" 1 yoflngnwdies,' his 'danghtera, and !'A also i'6'two'6unfif men, one grown and the other about half grown, 4 f i ' TTTev aU ao1)eared' elad to see me, 6T)eially ifMs. Hall, and m sho had the voiuig ladies a flying aronnd tol.a- hurry, .about getting fiitpbcJfadyj'id sent the ''boys" I jl'nfftshe called them, to make up .find'tUldj; seeme to bo mov. in iafteit entire satisfaction, and --.OT:r TlJho lMgS crowd goncrolljr. They must stay and irith as, because, well. " i ' .W1 him I didn't knoy KoW I-tsouljpspare the time, as I wal oiyl'Spay to Fayetteville to atj tetUo some fery important ousi ne$89.r duage rowie, who ouriaeQernflr tWL Whrtg'indeedf it- we JJeuoeratic nartv should be foolish enough f u . - lo throw Governor Jams over- board. f "Fowle or no Fowle," says h(J, 'you arc bound to stay, wo can't do Drav statT fiftfd so with us, it will give U6 so much pleasure ta I said, wfien a maTTtsgitg in making Governors for JNortli Carolina, he should not throw wwftv riiv valnable time. Then it was that the girls put in am said, "do pray now, please stay and go. , ; That word "rlease; got away with me, and if; Jarvis or Fowle either fails to be our next Gov ernor, they must blame these pretty giris of Mr. Hall's and not me. "Well." savs I, "you all beg so hard, and insist so earnest lyjldon t 6ee how I can exactly ' refuse, so iwko'i wi 1 .have to stav and goP ; ; "' The old lady and the old man both said, "that's right;" and the i y i . l I 1 young -.girls siappt'd ineir nanus together and said, l am so pleased 1" ., NeSUlTi about ten o'clock, ;we all started for " the -quilting, which was some three miles away. We -arrived there a little after eleven o'clock, and found the house nearly full of people. Mrs. liiil had her bed qnilt liung up by ropes in the middle aud youngmeu sihing around it somewhat in pairsV'the -young ladies a Qiulting and talking as hard as they could, and the young men thieading needles for them. Mr. Hall introduced iue to Mr. Hilt and Mrs. Hill, and then t itbroacf toiiBcbdle WJWHhfoVto tarsoHM ore's that word "ideaso affairi'.f which has fclrWdy'; probably rel)bed us of our next ; liovernor ut no tune to lo!, so to threaditQthe needle to- ect the thread thfdligh the of the needle to savo fny life. ey So after rubbing them awhild against the bd qnilkil, HfJjJi. them over mnu kwrau inri1 vtl-v"niin I had her "AdnVtft'ft!;e'de"d. "'Aul she seem- e(fef tharif$ W I' thought kwiwrp'l g?ttingy eji just about rtarbf. I . . . - f t who was sitting uot.vcry rar trom ,adhpi I.BUpposed, to be old, was trying to thread her needle - without i spectacles, so I asked hor to let mt'thread it for her. She aid'sue wuld be much obliged, and Jiatiled 'me the iujttlli,Mnd threadJ'and just as I i .i in. ii. .. . ii commohced threading tlu needle, needl handed pie her needle and safd if I' was going to Miss Kitty airain. O r v c keep lier needle threaded I would have enough to do without try ither people's J,iwbcit VSftnottnded be jready. :tur h 'w-!' liVM llydi and lo -VjJtook our.seais , at.?)tlva;(itaMe, and hcrV for JtlieyT were, out of -oofffei SihSW after Mr. Half ing -to thread needles1. Tliinks l to myielf, that's the wav with a ."Y!tH:;. s!;u; n likes for a man to wait on any other woman, but he must always stick only to one. f I liamjud 4 MiiA Nancy her needle thr'ead6d,4Hud commenced on Miss Kitty's, and then it was that Miss. Kitty Ranted to know if X haij't threaded that needle f'yetkhat I wasltirely too slow for ' her 1 thoa begged Miss Kitty" jto' gef to needles, and while -she wasaeiving one up, I would have the mother ooe ready for her. She consented, and veryiluBi?,yeut5 cjn all right again. Thinks I to'inysolf again, Mrs. Lize is over alniudrcd miles from lier,sand I-had just as well have a'lifti fun aung ; these young UhJceil..e Vtdrrd and took' ont tvo decanters f spirits, and gave a general invitation to every body who ever took anything stronger than water to come up and take some. As I for my part, I never care about anything to drink unless I know it is about, then my mouth begins to water for it ri&ht straight. A good many old men went up to the sideboard, and several young men refused, which I was glad to soe, and how I wished that some of our bright ycuug men about Raleigh, whom I know and love, could have been here and seen their axamplo I could stand it no longer, not withstanding I feared somebody would get my .scat by the 6ide of Miss Kitty. I got up, however, and went to the sideboard, talk ing as fast as I could, and found that sortie weio taking it straight, while others were taking it with water and sugar, so I took a grlass. Dut some sugar in it. and then I i6hred out a little water, jrist enough to wet my sugar, and then J took up the decanter, and ored- jj,hc. tunbler about half run, anu stirrcu it up a nine, aim tasted f it. bays I to Mr Llill: " Did you make this brandy T "I did." says he. " It is a number one articlet" sav6 I. So I Doured out some more, and tasted it again " Did vou raise the apples, Mr. ilill, on your tarm j says l "I did,' says he. So I poured out a little more, and kept on talking,, and present- I hijbvi :t g;iiri " We savs I bamrrnTo'l!e''Vooin, scaked near' ly to death, and. wanted to Kn?w what ,was the matter ! 1. tola lief r didn't exactly ' kn;oW;'btrf I felt liko I had been stung liy.Un thousand bees all at onq,plue:i:) (i!i4,hei-e r says she. , . i "told her I coulci 1 not locate the place, but I was ' certain I liefer felf so supplo asIi'dida minute ago. 1 just went upjVrS I , had started to heaven, but 1 uow find that 1 didn t get no bjh- apple j - " v, " . " lady helped me to untangleL.mjf self from the bed quilt, arid I thought I heard some one whis per to her that Miss. Kitty-r jiad nxed a needle in my chair, with he point up, and 1 had sat down on it. Hie langliing was ?on tinued long and lond. Bnt .Mr. Ilill and Mrs. Hill and evkn my- self, didn't see anything to laugh at. Notwithstanding this, how ever, the snickering wcntu on nearly all night. And ntiHlly, Miss Nancy broke out witu s loud laugh, and said : ' ' ' 1 " Mr. Mose was the suftplest a man she ever saw, to be . oy j middle -ged man. Miss Kitty laughed until1 the crywater ran out of heriJeyos. Slio is a sinner, I knows .siios,. and J, Jbeg all the christian pepple ii) tiiih oroau iituu 10 yin,y A" ,,c,i as I am contiden't that nit pvafyets won't save her, and' -m as too pretty to be lost. . ,;i I shan't, go out of my wy to attend any more Vpiiltings, 'ftutil they learn to' T quilt ' with iibmo. thing else besides needles. ""'onrs Twy m(ctf lillj : MoSR." ; " P. S.! I lvHrned froi'n-a ilady friend, one day last .week,; tftat Mrs. Lize said that my last post script " contained" nearly all that was in my letter, and if she w! me. 6he wouk make all iaj next letter a ppbtscrivt. i r She is pertainly a hard woman to conquer, but I know hp sack word as fail. ' Give irie a little more time.' ' ;' Yours, &c. ana aome t jrv1 .';t - Ltiv " J , glad that I hadcome.,, - ' r I look , a hAir ihai,.vatacai3it oy lOBiSiue o. u-a iffyj Ithobn folks as i not, .-besides a man had always" Better have fun than tr mble. For if. yon owe a lazy man a shilling, fee will walk him self to death dni'oing you for it. k uMi88 Kitty dm me then' quar reled, a little, though good natn rallt 'Freseiitlir she said I was the most quarresome person she cirai ooWi Sn.Wfi had it. one wav yUy Etid rear; or another for some time, and says I, " it been along time since I tasted of any homo made brandy that was as good as this!.:' . -.;.. v; r,:- About this time, Miss Kitty hollowed for me to come and thread her needle. I looked around and saw that nobody had not taken my chair, so J poured the glass nearly full, as it was my first drink, and 6ent it all down in a minute, lhen L turn ed around, and went to my chair by the side ot Miss lvitty, and down I'dronped, somewhat care less, and us I did so, I said rather hurriedly : : . " The Kingdom come !" And I never felt so much like wing up in all the course of my life, and up I went, in spite of every thing I could do, and when I lit, it was with both feet right about the middle ot the bedqiult, the rope gave way, and the quilt and me all come down on the floor together, and such laughing has not been heard since the world was created. About this time, old Mrs. Hil Mosk. Nov.' 20th, 1879.' J. M. Kosenbaum - wills be (leased to see you at hi store. He is selling ready-made clothes at remarkably low prices. Give dm a call and examine , his stock efore purchasing. He can be found at the old stand at the cor ner of Fayetteville and ilargett ., i Streets. The Ualeigh Dye Wokks Is the place to have your clothes Dved"or '-Uleanwi in npsi iciass tyle. -Kid Gloves and Slip per cle-uiing a cpeciulty. Morgan Street, West ot the rrcsoyteru.n Church. Ct. If Yoxj Wast : a fin rriacft or bucorv. don't fail to m a OO. ' . . drop iuto and see Wt. Alfred Upchurch ou Hargett street, ne aaa a wrge ana complete stock of home made work to which he invites the attention of the public. Give him a call, and patron ize home manufacturers. nol7-6t Look Bepobb tou Leap. Stewart's Gal'erv is the only plaoe for cheap pictures. Sittings . made free before you pay. no4-t V "I"
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