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y 1 : i mil tai i 1 1 1 II II i lil l i . i Mif'M llfilfrtffl lift BIG SURE YOTJ AEE HIGKEIT ; TELEIST GrO AHEAD-D. Crockett. ' " VOL. 53. TARBORO', W. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1875. ' - : " .." NO. 40. Mil GENERAIr DIRECTORY. TAUBORO'. Mayor Fred. Philips. Commissioners Jesse A. Williamson, Ja cob Feldenbeimer, Daniel W. Ilurtt, Alex. McCabe, Joseph Cobb. Secretary & Treasurer Kobt. White hurst. Chief of Police John W. Cotten. Assistant Pomce Win. T. Ilurtt, John Madra, Jas. E. Simonson, Altimore Macnnir. COCNTY. Superior Court Clerk and Probaie Judge- U. u. Btaton, Jr. Register of Deeds Alex. McCabe. Sheriff Joseph Cobb. Coroner Treasurer Robt. II. Austin. Surveyor John E. Baker. Standard Keeper P. S. Hicks. School Examiner. U. H. Shaw, Wm. A. Duggan and R. 8. Williams. Keeper Poor House Wm. A. Dnpgan- Commissioners Jno. Lancaster, Chairman, Wiley Well, J. B. W. Norville, Frank Dew, M. Exem. A. McCabe, Clerk. MAILS. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS NORTH AND SOUTH VIA W. W. R. K. Leave Tarboro' (daily) at 10 A. M. Arrive at Tarboro' (daily) at - - 3 30 P. M. WASHINGTON MAIL VIA GREENVILLE, FALKLAND AND SPARTA. l.fiAva Tarboro' (dflilv at - - 6 A. M. Arrive at Tarboro' (daily) at 6 P. M. LODGES. The Xigbts and the Places of Meeting:. Concord R. A. Chapter No. 5, N. M. Law rence, High Priest, Masonic Hall, monthly convocations first Thursday in every month at 10 o'clock A. M. Concord Lodge No. 53, Thomas Gatlin, Master, Masonic Hall, meets first Friday night it 7 o'clock P. M. and third Saturday at 10 o'clock A. M. in every month. Repiton Encampment No. 13, I. O. O. F., I. B. Palamountain, Chief Patriarch, Odd Fel lows' Hall, meets every first and third Thurs day of each month. Edgecombe Lodge No. 50, 1. O. O. F., J. G. "Charles, N. G., Odd Fellows' Hall, meets every Tuesday night. Edgecombe Council No. 122, Friends of Temperance, meet every Friday night at the Odd Fellows' Hall. Advance Lodge No. 23, I. O. G. T., meets every Wednesday night at Odd Fellows' Hall Zanoah Lodsre, No. 235, I. O. B. B., meet on first and third Monday night of every month at Odd Fellows' Hall. Hesbt Morris, President. CHURCHES. Episcopal Church Services every Sunday at 10 1-2 o'clock A. M. and 5 P. -M. Dr. J. B. Cheshire, Rector. Methodist Church Services every third Sunday at night. Fourth Sunday, morning and night. Rev. Mr. Swindell, Pastor. Presbyterian Church Services every 1st, 3rd and 5th Sabbaths. Rev. T. J. Allison, Sta ted 8upply. Weekly Prayer meeting, Thurs day night. Missionary Baptist Church Services the 4th Sunday in every motth, morning and nieht. Rev. T. R. Owen, Pastor. Primitive Baptist Church Services first Saturday and Sunday of each month at 11 o'clock. HOTELS. Adams' Hotel, corner Main and Pitt Sts. O. F. Adams, Proprietor. EXPRESS. Southern Express Office, on Main Street, closes every morning at 9 o'clock. N. M. Lawrence, Agent. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. FRANK POWfLLT Attorney & Counsellor AT ZiA.Wf TARBORO', N. C. y Collections a. Specialty. " Office in Gregory Hotel Building. July 2, 1875. tf JOS. BL01WT CHESHIRE, JR., ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND Notary Public. WW Office at the Old Bank Building on Trade Street. je25-tf. Dr. G. L. Shackelford, SURGEON DENTIST, Successor to Dr. L. T. Fiiqua, TARBORO', N. C. X3T Office opposite Adams' Hotel and over 8. S. Nash & Co's store. Oct. 23, 1874. tf Dr. E. D. Barnes, DEUTIST, THANKFUL for the liberal patronage re ceived in the past, desires to assure his friends and the public that he Is prepared with increased facilities to perform all opera tions partaining to the science of Dentistry in the best manner. WW Office over H. Morris & Bro's store. Tarboro, April 9, 1875. 8m HOTELS.' YARBORtV HOUSE, RALEIGH N. C. Or. W- BLACENALL, Proprietor. WW Reference made to all travelling gen tlemen. GASTON HOUSE, South Front Street, Newbern, TV. C S. It. STREET, Proprietor ATLANTIC HOTEL, TVorfollc, Va, R. S. D0DS0N, Proprietor. Boatid. First, nnd Second Floors.Der da v. S3.00 Third and Fourth Foors. " 2.50 Special terms for permanent boarders M. HOWARD, IDHTTGrGrllST DEALER IN DRUGS. PATENT MEDICINES, 5cO,, 8c C, SsC. Next door to Mrs, Peudcr'b Hotel, TARBORO, N C. R. B. ALSOP, GROCER, TARBORO', IV. C. Choice ani varied stock kept constantly on uuua. myss-n MISCELLANEOUS. Jas. E. Simmons, Iitt Street, EAST OF MAIN, HAS IN STORE AND for sale . Wardrobes, Bureaus, Washstands, Writing Desks, Cane & Wooden Seat Chairs, Extension, Centre and Leaf Tables. Towel Racks, Rockers, Childs Basket Chairs. ALSO A LARUE LOT OF Mattrossos cs LOungos. All Cheap for Cash. WW UNDERTAKERS BUSINESS IN all its branches promptly attended to. JAS. E. SIMMONS. Tarboro, N. C, Mar. 20, 1S75. 3m Seaboard & Roanoke Kail Road. Office Supt. Trans., S. & R. R. R. Co., Portsmouth, Va., Jan. 1, 1!?75. On and after this date, trains of this Road will leave Weldon daily, (Sundays excepted) as follows : Mail train at 4:00 p m No 1 Freight train at 4:00 am No 2 Freight train at 8:00 am ARRIVE AT PORTSMOUTH : Mail train daily at 7:15 p m No 1 Freight train at 12:00 m No 2 Freight train at 4:00 p m Freight trains have a passenger car attach ed. Steamers for Edenton, Plymouth, and Landings on Blackwater and Chowan rivers, leave Franklin at 9:10 a m, Mondays, Wednes days and Fridays. E. G. GHIO, Supt. of Transportation. (Formerly Tarboro', N. C.) HAVE OPENED FINE AND- E,TJN sive Stables in liicliiiaoiid, "Va.., where they will constantly keep on hand First-Class Horses cfc Mulos, WHOLESALE AD KETAIt,. WW Any order to them for stock will be promptly attend to. KENTUCKY STABLES, Nos. 15 and 17 Fiaeenth Street, RICHMOND, VA. May 28, 1874. 6m PRIVATE Boarding House. "f RS. V. E. LIPSCOMB respectfully an ItX nounces that she has opened a Private Boarding House in Tarboro, on the corner ot Bank and Pitt Streets. Good. Fare. Pleattant Rooms, Comfor table Beds. Board JTloderate. Feb. 19, 1875. . ly THIS OLD ESTABLISHED BAKERY IS now ready to supply the people of Tar boro and vicinity with all kinds ol Bread, Cakes, French and Plain Candies, A uts, - Jh ruits, $c, $c, c, embracing every thing usually kept in a First Class Establishment of the kind. Thankful for the literal patronage of the past the undersigned asks a continuation, with the promise oi sausiact;on. Private Families can always havo tbeir Cakes Baked Iiere at short est notice. Orders for Parties & Bails promptly filled. Call and examine our stock, . . Tl 1 1. T, nexr aoor to jduiik oi new nauuyer. NOV. 4.-ly. JACOB WEBEK, LOUIS HlLLIABD, Marcellus Moork Greenville, N. C. Formerly of N. C. HILLIARD & MOORE, COTTON FACTORS AND General Commission Merchants McPHAIL'S WHARF, NORFOLK. VA. Keep contantly on band a large and varied stocK oi ragging anu lies. General dealers in Standard Fertilizers. Liberal Cash advances made on consign ments. je 25-tf. TJfte Reason Why LAZARUS & MORRIS' Celebrated Perfected Spectacles and Eye masses. Have met with such extraordinary eucccss and are so much in demand is because they are found to possess all the qnalities we claim tor them, viz: Purity and hardness of material (therefore not liable to scratch), brilliancy or finish, strengthening and preserving power, and conferring an amount of ease and comfort attained by no other Glasses in the world. They are without doubt the most perfect and scicntiilcally accurate JLenscs ever manufac tured, and last many years without change, For sale In this locality only ny JAMES H. BELL, Watchmaker and Jeweler Tarboro, 3J". O. LAZA11US, MORRIS & CO., Wholesale Depot, No. 1() Courtlandt Htr. IV. Y Manufactories, Hartford, Conk., and Sheffield, Eng. WW Caution. We never supply or employ Peddlers. - . iT'J NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. THE BEST FAMILY MEDICINES. Tested by popular use for over A QUARTER OF A CENTURY ! Dr. Strong's Compound Sanative Pills. cure Constipation, Biliousness, Bowel Com plaint, atalarial Fevers, Rheumatism, Ery sipelas' and all diseases of Liver, Stomach and Bowels. Dr. Strong's Pectoral Stomach Pills cure Coughs, Colds, Cramp, Dyspepsia, sick Headache, Female Complaints, Heart Disease and all disorders of Chest and Stomach. Send Postal Card for a Specimen Copy of THE WASHINGTON WEEKLY STAR. Established 1S52. 8 pages. 56 v columns. Address The Evening Star Newspaper Co., Washington u. c. SHUN DRUCPOISONS. Medicine Rendered Useless: VOLTA'3 ELECTRO BELTS and BANDS are indorsed by the Most eminent physicians In the world for the cure of rheumatism, neuralgia, liver complaint, dyspepsia, kidney disease, acnes, paius, nervous disorders, Ms, female coinulaints, nervous and general debility, and other chronic diseases of the chest, head, liver, stomach, kidneys and blood. .Book with full particulars tree by Volta Belt Co., Cincinnati,., O. (JtQ SAMPLE FREE and big pay to male 350 and female everywhere. ' . j ri" I 1 IT1T11 .T I IT T r ' "t T 1 Auurcss hie. uiu.i ruo. w., nciyars N. Y. (2-ja day at home. Agents wanted. JpJ. Outfit and terms free. TRUE & CO-, Augusta, Maine. FIRST GRAND EXPOSITION of the Tradesmen's Industrial Institute, Pitts burgh, Pa., opens Oct. 7, closes Nov. 0. Address A. J. NELLI3, Pres. T. 1. 1. a day guaranteed using our Well tjpt) Auger & Drills. $ 100 a month paid to good agents. Anjrer book free. Jilz Anger Co., St. Louis, Mo. $K1 -TV rkARL HAVANA OIO.UuUlOTTERY. Distribu ted every fifteen days. 1 prize iuu,uw l prize f.w.ooo 1 prizes, f 25,000 each .......... 50,000 854 prizes, amounting to 310,000 W hole tickets, quarters, twentietns, tl. Circulars of information free. Prizes cashed. A. DONAU & CO., Bankers, Post-office Box 20S9. 21 Park Row, New York. Royal Saxon and Brunswick Government Lotteries constantly on hand. Healthy, Pleasant Climate. RICH LANDS I Homes and Farms cheaper than anywhere and on easiest terms as to payments. For circular descriptive of South Eastern Arkansas, address S. J. MATTHEWS, Mon- tlcello, Ark. A WEEK guaranteed to Male and Jfc I I Female Agents, in their locality. v Costs NOTHING to try it. Particu lars Free. P. O. VICKERY & CO.,Agusta,Me. tfi Q9ft Per t'a5r at nome- Samples worth free. STIXSON" fc CO., Port- land, Maine. "ijSYCHOMANCY, OR SOUL CHARM Jl ING." How either sex may fascinate and gain the love and affections of any per son they choose, iustantly. This art all can possess, free, by mail, for 25 cents; together with a Marriage Guide, Egyptian Oracle, Dreams, Hints to Ladies, etc. 1,000,000 sold A queer book. Address T". WILLIAM & CO., Pub's Philadelphia. E. T. POOL. C A. POOL. W. S. POOL Fool Brothers FASHIONABLE BAR, IS Hilar d Ilooms9 OYSTER SALOON, Barber Shop AND Cigar Store, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. WE HAVE ENGAGED THE WELL known caterer, JOSH MOTLEY, to take charge of our RESTAURANT, and we will guarantee for him that our old custom ers can always get a GOOD, SQUARE MEAL at the shortest notice. inrl'J-tf Edgecombe County Superi or Court. EMILY J. JORDAN vs. JAS. C. JORDAN. THIS is an action to 6et up a lost deed ex ecuted to plaintiff by defendant for a tract of land situated in said county, In the town of Rocky Mount in 18 , and upon the complaint and affidavit filed, it is ordered that service of the summons, a copy whereof Is hereunto annexed be made by publication once a week for six weeks in the Tarborough Southerner. The defendant is also notified, that if he fail to appear at the time in t aid summons designated, and answer or demur to the complaint, judgment will be rendered in favor of the plaintiff, as prayed for. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at office, in Tarboro, this 30 h day of August, A, D. 1875. II. L. STATON, JR., Clerk Superior Court, Edgecombe Co. Dossey Battle, Att'y for Plaintiff. Edgecombe County In the Superior Court. Emily J. Jordan, Plaintiff, against Summons. Jas. C. Jordan, Defendant, ) STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, To the Sheriff of Edgecombe County Greeting: "7"0U ou are hereby commanded to Bum- J. mon James C. Jordan, the Defendant above named, if he be found within your county, to be und appear before the Judge of onr Superior Court, to be heid for the county or jttgecomDe, at tne uourt iiouse m tar boro, on the fourth Monday of January, 1876, and answer the complaint which will be de posited in the office of the Clerk of the Su perior Court of said County, within the first three days of the next term thereof, and let the said Defendant take notice that if he fail to answer the complaint within that time the Plaintiff vill take judgment against him for the relief demanded m said complaint. Hereof fail not, and of this summons make due return. Given under my hand and the scrl of said Court, this SOth day of August, 1S75. H. L. STATON, JR., Clerk Superior Court Edgeco mbe Co. Sept. 3, 1875. 6w MISCELLANEOUS. THE FAVORITE HOME REMEDY. Is eminently a Family Medicine ; and by be ing kept ready for immediate resort will save many an hour of suffering and many a dol lar in time and doctors' bills. After over Forty Years' trial ; is still re ceiving the most unqualified testimonials to its virtues from persons of the highest' char acter and responsibility. Eminent physicians commend it as the most EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC For all diseases ol the Liver, Stomach and Spleen. Thb SYMPTOMS of Liver Complaint are a bitter or bad taste in the mouth ; Pain in the Back, Sides or Joints, often mistaken lor Rheumatism; Sour Stomach; LossofApep tite ; Bowels alternately costive and lax ; Headache ; Loss of memory, with a painful sensation of having failed to do something which ought to have been done ; Debility, Low Spirits, a thick yellow appearance of the Skin and Eyes, a dry Cough toftcn mistaken for Consumption. Sometimes many of these symptoms attend the disease, at others very few ; but the Liver, the largest organ in the body, is generally the seat of the disease, and if not Regulated in time, great suffering, wretchedness aud Death will ensue. For Dyspepsia, Constipation, Jaundice, Bilious attacks, Sick Haadache, Colic, De pression of Spirits, Sour Stomach, Heart Burn, &c, &c. The Cheapest, Purest ami Best Family Medi cine in the World! Manufactured only ly J. 11. ZEIL1N & CO., Macon, Ga., and Philadelphia. Price, $1.00. Sold by all Drug-ists. Piedmont Air-Line Railway. RICHMOND & DANVILLE, RICHMOND & DANVILLE R. W., N. C. DIVIS ION, AND NORTH WEST ERN N. C. K. W. CONDENSED TIME TABLE- In effect on and after Sunday, Sept. 30, 1874. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. Mail. Express. Leave Charlotte 9.15 v. M. 5.45 a.m. 6.20 " 8.34 " 10.55 " 1.12 P.M. 1.20 " 6.07 " 8.47 p.m. " Air-Line Jct n, 9.30 Salisbury, 11.58 A. H. " Greensboro' " Danville. ' Dundee, " Burkville, Arrive at Richmond, 3.15 " 6.08 " 6.18 " 11.35 " 2.22 p. II. GOING SOUTH. BTATIOSS. Mail. Express. Leave Richmond, 1.38 P. m. 5.08 a. m. " Burkville, 4.52 44 8.36 " " Dundee, 10.33 " 1.14 p. m. " Danville, ' 10.39 " 1.17 " ' Greensboro', 3.00 a. m. 3.58 " " Salisbury, 5.32 6.15 " " Air-Line Jnct'n,8.05 " 8.25 " Arrive at Charlotte, 8.22 44 8.43 " GOING EAST. OOINQ WEST. stations. Mail. Mail. L've Greensboro', 3.00 a.m. dArr. 1.45am ' Co. Shops, eL 4.30 " Lvel2.S0' B 44 Raleigh, c 8.33a.m. S 8.10p.m Arr. at Goldsboro,! 11.33 " L've 5.00" NORTH WESTERN N. C. R. R. (SALEM BRANCH.) Leave Greensboro 4.30 p m Arrive at Salem C.13 " Leave Salem 8.40 a m Arrive at Greensboro 10.33 " Passenger train leaving Raleigh at 8.10 P. M., connects at Greensboro' with the Northern bound train ; making the quickest time to all Northern cities. Price of Tick ets same as via other routes. Trains to and from points East of Greens boro' connect at Greensboro' with Mail Trains to or from points North or South. Two Trains daily, both ways. On Sundays Lynchburg Accommodation leave Richmond at 9.00 A. M., arrive at Burkeville 12.43 P. M., leave Burkeville4.35 A. M., arrive at Richmond 7.58 A. M. No change of cars between Charlotte and Richmond, 282 miles. For further information address S. E. ALLEN, Gen'l Ticket Agent, Greensboro, N. C. T. M. R. TALCOTT, Engineer & Gen'l Superintendent. FOR NORFOLK AND FTlUE Steamers COTTON PLANT and X PAMLICO connecting with the Old Dominion Steamship Co., afford the most direct and the quickest time for shipment of produce from all points on the River. Through Bills of Lading given from all points on Tar River for Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, Pro duce is covered by insurance, if desired, as soon as Bills of Lading are signed. Shipments by this lino go directly to des tination without delay at Norfolk or Wash ington. The COTTON PLANT makes close con nection with the Wilmington & Wcldou Rail Road, and gives through Bills of Lading from all landings on the F.iver at the lowest rates. JOHN MYERS SONS. Washington, N. C, Jan. 29, 1875. tf TERRELL & BR0., DEALERS IN GROCERIES AND STAPLE DRY GOODS, Main Street, Sear the Bridge, Tartooro, 20". O- Sept. 30-ft CELEBRATED BAND INSTRUMENTS, BOOSEY & CO.; SOLE AGENTS, iw 83 East 14th Stbkit, N. Y. - .. gpU PeJWtfpttTO CiMogusa not? W&jr mm Em riwrjj' Bonfytxntx. Friday, Oct. 8, 1875 A Shocking Story Retold. The Murder of Mrs. Mary Surratt A Deed of S'aame . TJie Murder Described by an Eye Witness The Confessional and the Scaffold The Expected Re prieve The Prayer and the death The Responsibility. From a Washington Letter. It was beneath a bright 3ummer sun that Mary E. Surratt was mur dered. The press of the United States was amply represented. A majority of it applauded the cow ardly crime. When the. improvise ed trap fell and swung back, and left her body dangling lifeless on the fatal rope, there were present generals and officers of the nation bearing its uniform, whose buttons and shoulder straps glittered in the bright rays. Save good Father Walter, no voice uttered "God Mess her !" as she fell. The soldiers that paced the top of the surround ing walls made no sigh. Several turned away their heads, sickened by the sight, and awed to see a deed done in the nineteenth century that in the fourteenth would have been delegated to the secrecies of a dungeon or the knife of a solitary bravo. Women have been murdered' bes fore jealousy, drunkeness, des pair, a maddened cupidity, have all in turn murdered women. Nev er before was a hero called in the bright and open day to see such a deed done. Hancock was. He obeyed the call, and saw that the hangmen were protected ; that the assassination was not interrupted. How his spirit rebelled at the task that wa3 written on his broad face. The writer saw it there as in a book. THE SCENE OF THE MURDER. It was in the old Arsenal Peni tentiary yard, in Washington, in the inner yard, that they strangled this woman. The Arsenal and Penitentiary, face and terminate four-and-a-half street, which strech es to it from tho City Hall. They have erected there since then a statue of Lincoln. Were it the man himself he might seethe site of the murder committed in his name from the paltry pedestal on which it is raised. The outer gate of tho Arsenal faces that statue at the other end of the long, wide, street exactly. From the gate to the old Penitentiary, where the mockery of the trial was played, runs a broad and graveled path. This path turned around tho Pen itentiary walls, and led to the gate of the yard where stood the scar fold. The walls of the Penitentias ry formed two sides of the yard, and the other two were walls built to inclose the yard, and there stood some fifteen feet high. Upon these walls sentries were placed. Fronting the walls that ran at right angles with the end of the Penitentiary stood a strange, weird looking structure. The one end of it had a ladder that reached to the ground ; beyond that end, some twenty yards, was a small iron door that opened into the Penitentiary in one ot whose lower tier of cells, beneath a raised and replaced flag, were rotting the remains of John Wilks Booth. This wooden structs ure was THE SCAFFOLD. It consisted of a platform, rests ing on square wooden posts. The front part of the platform was aU tached to the back part by hinges, and this front rested on posts, which its weight held in place. Along the back and solid part of the plat form were four chairs. ArOund this yard lounged the correspondents, were ranged some soldiers, and right in the middle of the yard, when the writer entered it, stood the tall and ample form of Hancock in full uniform. "General, may I go in once more and see the prisoners I "No, sir. One moment Or derly !" "Yes, sir." "Mount your horse, go to the outer gate of the Arsenal. Don t dismount, but keep your eye along Fourandahalf street. Should you see a mounted soldier riding this way, then ride here and tel me. Stay there till you are reliev ed by the sight of that soldier, or by order. "Yes,6ir." The orderly sped away. "No, sir ; I cannot permit it. They are with ministers and priest have but a few minutes to live. have refused every other corres pondent. "Do you exnect a reprieve, Gen eral ?" "1 expect nothing. That woman however, shall not lose a chance o life, if I can help it. That's why I sent that Orderly to the gate. He did expect a reprieve, and his face showed he did. THE PROCESSION. The eyes of most were now fas tened on the iron door that led in to the penitentiary. It looked like a postern in a fortress, heavy, sul en and pittiless. My eyes wan dered back to the scaffold. 1 then noticed, for the first time, that ai bove the platform, resting on two firm posts, ran a beam. From this beam hung four ropes, it sicken ed me to see them. The sun in the meanwhile shone down on the j whole ghastly scene as fierce in its unclouded splendor as ever shone cn the hot sands of Syria. A sudden movement, a murmur, a low exclamation : "Here they are?" They were issuing, one by one, rom the little door, preceeded by soldiers, flanked by soldiers, accom panied by men in civilian dresses, the priest the minister and the hangman. There was hangman to every prisoner. Atzerodt came first. Pane came second. Harold came third. She came last. Father Walter was talking to her all the way to the scaffold, all the way up its steps, and on it, when she took her seat. They sat in the order in which they had come. The poor woman could scarcely walk, and they assisted her to her death very tenderly. As she sat down could not refrain fromlook11 ing to the yard gate, thinking of the orderly at outer gate beyond. ihere was no sign. 1 looked at Hancock ; his eyes were turned the same way ; his usually florid face was the color of ashes. I could see hands open and close nervously. He looked at his watch and. the chain oscillated at the touch of his nervous fingers, usually as calm as i3 the hand of a heavy lymphatic man : for Hancock was both. Mary E. Surratt was praying to the crucifax held before her by Father Walter. Each of the oth ers was listening to the minister. At length Father Walter prayed aloud, and I reported the prayer, for the time, I forgot the orderly. The prayer over, 1 looked gates wards again. No sign ! Hancock's eyes were rivited on the gate. The arm3 of each were being pinioned. They were told to rise, and they all four rose. Each hangman pla ced the noose around each of their necks. I look again at the gate. No sign ! Hancock was looking at his watch. Turning again to the scanold, 1 saw the straw hat ot Payne blown by a sudden, unex pected breeze on his head ; as if to make way for the white cap, De- tective Roberts, his hangman, was about pulling it over his face. I turned to see her. She had lost the power to stand. They had to hold her up while they pulled down the cap. Great God ! can a thought be more horrible. Still no one at the gate ! They were told to walk forward upon the front and treacherous part of the platform. There they stood. Atzerodt swaying with fear ; Payne erect and firm as the gladiator, which he resembled, when awaiting the tatal fiat : Harold, still. She lifeless to all appearance. The sentries had ceased pacine. You could hear a pin drop. "Good bye, my mends, we 11 meet again, exclaimed Harold Atzerodt said something I could not her. Still no one at the gate ! Hancock closed his watch The men who upheld the lifeless woman stepped back on the solid half of the platform, bhe was ial ling, when suddenly the supporting posts in tront were knocked down, and all four dangled and swung the most ghastly spectacle man ev er saw ! She perceptibly moved. iTer petticoats and dress had been gath ered with a string about her ankles She hung a dead weight of flesh not less than two hundred pounds. Payne writhed and twisted for several minutes. There was no shout. There was a shudder went through soldier and civilian nothing more. Again I looked at Hancock. I ever he wore that frightened look on the field, his soldier fame is a lie WHO WITHHELD THE REPRIEVE? Who withheld the reprieve ? Holt says Andrew Johnson did Johnson said he was never asked for it. Holt admits that an officia application by the murderous cons clave of troopers, called the court was made to Andy for a reprieve Andy said Stanton withheld it Each threw the blame on the other: but, whosoever was to blame, the deed was done, in face of day, un der the shadow of the flag of the United States, by the authority o its President, the acquiescence his cabinet, the signing by the sees retary ot war, ana unaer tne actua. supervision of a majorsgeneral o! its armies. Of all the more active partici pants in the murder, jHblt alone remains to face the strange fates that have overtaken his associates therein dubious and sudden death Stanton died quickly after. He died suddenly, and suspected of the suicide of remorse. King drowned himself. And men do say ' he drowned himself from inability to face the constant memory of his unsolicited . share in that woman s murder. Andrew Johnson, whose demise recalls - the whole of that awful story to the mind again, died suddenly. But, not, we trust, because of the crime, of which a passing weakness alone made him a passive accomplice. . A Young Han who wants Advice. It was the second time he had accompanied the young lady home from one of those little social par ties which are gotten up to .bring ond hearts a step nearer to each other. When they reached the gate she asked him if he wouldn't come in. He said he would, and he followed her into the house. 'It was a calm, still night,' and the hour was so ate that he had no fear of seeing the old folks. Sarah took his hat, told him to sit down, and she left the room to lay off her things. Bhe was hardly gone before her mother came in smiling sweetly, and drop ping down beside the young man she said : I always did sav that if a poor but respectable young man fell in ove with barah he should have my consent. borne mothers would sacrifice their daughter's happiness tor riches, but 1 am not one of that class. The young man gave a start of alarm. Ht didn't know whether he liked Sarah or not, and he hadn't dreamed of such a thine as marriage. 'bhe has acknowledged to me that she loves you, continued the moth er, 'and whatever is for her happis ness is tor mine. The young man gave two starts of alarm this time, he felt his cheeks grow pale. 'I I haven t he stammer ed, when she said : un, never mind, i know you J W t t V haven't much money, but of course you'll live with me. We'll take in boarders, and i'll risk but that we'll get along all right.' It was a bad situation. He hadn't even looked love at Sarah, and he lelt that he ought to un deceive tho mother." 'I hadn't no idea of of ' ho stammered, when she held up her hands and said : I know you hadn't but it's all right. With your wages and what the boarders bring in we shall get along as snug as bugs in a rug. 'liut, madam, but but All I ask is that you be good to her, interrupted the mother. sarah has a tender heart and a loving nature, and if you should be cross and ugly it would break her down within a week.' The young maa's eyes stood out like cocoanuts in a show window, and ne rose up and tried to say something, if e said: 'Great heavens ! madam, I can't permit ' 'Never mind about the thanks,' she interrupted. 'I don't believe in long courtships myself, and let me suggest an early day for the marriage. The 11th of September is my birthday, and it weuld be nice for you to be married on tha day.' But but but ' he gasped. 'There, there, I don't expect any speech in reply,' she laughed. 4You and Sarah fix it up toi night, and I'll advertise for twelve boarders right away. I'll try and bo : model mothenin-law. I believe '. am good-tempered and kindheart ed, though I did once follow young man two hundred miles and shoot the top of his head off for agreeing to marry Sarah and then jumping the county.' She patted him on the head and sailed out, and now the young man wants advice. He wants to know whether he had better get in the way of a locomotive or slide off the whart. Detroit Jsree Press, A Diplomatic Shoemaker. You can't get an old shoemaker to blunder. The other day when a weighty woman sailed into a Char lotte shoe store and selected a pair of No. 4's and sat down to have them tried on, the shoeman saw that she wanted sevens. But he didn't tell herso, and started her out of the shop on a gallop. He smil ed and softly said . Madam, all the aristocratic ladies are now wearing shoes three sizes too large for their feet, in order to have cool extremities, and of course you want to follow the style.' She smiled like a duck in reply to his smile and replied : You are in a position to know best, and I leave everything to your judgment.' When she went out she said she never had such an easy fitting shoe on in her whole life. There are two reasons why some people don't mind their own business. One is that they havn't any business, and the other is that they havn't any mind. Strange as It may appear, there are not lacking persons who complacently suppose every thing to be nonsense which they do not perfectly compre hend, or Hatter themselves that they do. Strong Drink. I have heard tho wail of children crying for bread, and their mother had none to give them. I have seen the bulling the breasts as dry as if the starved mother had been dead. 1 have known a father to turn a step-daughter into tho street at night, bidding the sobbing girl who bloomed into womanhood, seek her living there as others did. x have bent over the foul pallet of a dying lad, to hear him whisper, and his father and mother, who were sitting half drunk by the fire side, had pulled tho blankets off his body to sell them for drink. 1 have seen the children blanched ike plants in tho cellar for weeks they never breathed a mouthful of fresh air for want of rags to cover their nakedness, and they live in continual terror of a drunken fath- er or mother coming home to beat them. I do not recollect ever see ing a mother in these wretched dwelling handling her infant, ror of hearing the little . ones crow or augh. These are some cf drinks doing; but nobody can know tho misery suffered amid the scenes of wretchedness, woe, want and sin. An Editor in Heaven. Under the above caption an ex change gives a long obituary notice of a deceased brother editor, from which we have room only to extract the closing paragraph : bhould we not rejoice then that our late friend of the scissors and quill is in heaven ? In that paras dise the cry of 'more copy will never again fall upon his distraci ted ears. There his enjoyments will no more be interrupted by the growls of the unreasonable subscri . ber, or the duns of the paper ma ker. There he will enjoy entire freedom from tho detractions and misrepresentations of political op ponents, and the carresses of am bitious political aspirants. In that blessed abode he is no more to be troubled with illegible manuscript or abominable poetry. No rival editors will steal his thunder or his items, and typeographieal errors shall know him no more forever. Why Some People are Poor. Silver spoons aro used to 6crapo kettles. Coffee, tea, popper aud spices aro left to stand opon and lose their strength. Potatoes in the cellars grow, and tho Bprouts aro not ro moved until the potatoos are worthless. Urooma aro never hung up and aro soon spoiled. ruce handled knives aro thrown into hot water. The flour is sifted in a wasteful manner, and tho bread pan is left with the dough sticking in it. Uloths are left on the lino to whin to pieces in the wind. lubs and barrels aro loft in the sun to dry and fall apart. Dried iruits are not taken caro of in season and becomo wormy. liags, strings and paper aro thrown into the fire. Tork spoils for want of salt, and beef because tho brine wants scalding. Bits of meat, vegetables, bread and cold puddings are thrown away, when they might bo warmed, steamed and served as good as new Cottago Hearth. Eov. Dr. J. A. Broaddus, in a com munication to the last number of tho Religious Herald, attacks tho present 'pinned-back' fashion of tho ladies' dresses, and concludes by saying: 'With unfeigned and ineffable respect, in tender reverence, we say to our fair readers, this fashion is essential' ly indelicate, however modified and re strained, and is often grossly indecent. If they doubt, let them ask husbands, fathers, elder brothers, for a thought ful and candid .opinion. At the funeral of a woman in Iowa the other day a neighbor in attendance, feeling it necessary to say something sympathetic to tho afflicted husband, kindly observed : 'You've got a splendid day for the funeral.' The son of an Erair had red hair, of which he was ashamed, and wished to dye it. But his father said, 'Nay, my son, rather behave in such a man ner that all fathers should wish their sons had red hair.' Of all felicities, how charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship ! It sweetens our cares, softens our sor rows, and assists us in extremities. It is a sovereign antidote against cal amity. Good breeding is tho art of showing men, by external signs, tho internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by convers ing with good company. A young man, searching for his fathers's pig, accosted an Irishman as follows: 'Have you seen a stray pig about here?' To which Pat respon ded: Taix, and how could I tell a stray pig from"any other?' Perfeoted by the offices and duties of social life, man is the best, but rude and undisciplined, he is tho very worst of animals, said Aristotle. The life of an honest man is a beautiful poem; and every human be ing who reads it feels better, stronger, mora hopoful for it Carpets are bought by tho yard, ani. worn by the foot. tu in If Li
The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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