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M w I p Ml j w 1 "T ' .. " ' 33E SUEE YOU .EE EIGHT ; TEJElsT GrO AJBDE3AJD.-I. Crockett.; TARBORO', N. 04 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1875; NO. 41. VOL. 53. GENERAL DIRECTORY. TAUIIOISO. Mator Fred. Philips. Commissioners Jesse A. 'Williamson, Ja cob Feldenhcimer, Daniel W. Hurtt, Alex. MeCabo, Joseph Cobb. Secuet.vkt & Trcasukek Kobt. White hurst. Cuinp of Police John W. Gotten. Assistant Police Win. T. Hurtt, John Madra, .las. E. Simonson, Allimore Macnair. Superior Court Clerk and Trchaia Jud-j II. L. Staton, Jr. Register of Denis Alex. Me'Jabe. Sheriff Joseph Cobb. Coroner Treasurer P.obt. 11. Austiu. Surreuur John E. Baker. Standard Keeper 1". t. Hicks. Ssi-wl Examiners. U. II. Shaw, V"m. A. Duggan and li. S. Wiliiama. Keeper Poor Ucwte Win. A. Dufrgan. Commi.s.tiimers Ino. Lancaster, Chairman, Wiley Well, J. 15. W. Xorville, Frank Dow, M. Exem. A. McCabe, Clerk. MAILS. VliniVATi AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS N'OKTII AM) SOUTH VIA W. & W. ft. K. Leave Tarboro' (daily) t - - I'1 A. 51. Arrive at Tttrbnro' (daily) at 3 :( P. M. WASHINGTON MAI I. VIA fJUEENVILLU. FALKLAND ANi sSPAUTA. r .. .vfl Tr-rhorn' fd.iilv) at - - C A. M. Arrive at Tarl. (daily) at 0 1'. LODGES. The Nights and tUe I'laccsof lectin?. Coucord R. A. Chapter No. 5, N. M. Law rence, High Priest, Masonic Hall, monthly convocations first Thursday iu ev-ry month at 10 o'clock A. M. Concord Lo.ltre No. ."8, Thomas Gatlin, Master, Masonic Hall, meets first Friday night U T o'clock P. M. and third Saturday at 10 o'clock A. M. in every month. Repitou Encampment '. 1"., I. O. O F., I. B. Palamountain, Chief Patriarch, Odd Fel lows' Hall, meets every lirst and third Thurs day of each month. Ed-ecombe Lodge No. f.f I. O. (. F., J. (i. Charles, N. G., Odd Fellows' Hal!, luceis every Tuesday night. Edgecombe Council No. Friends of Temperance, meet every Friday night at the. Odd Fellows' Hail. Advance Lodge No. I. O. (' T., nice! every Wednesday night at Odd Fellows' Ha!! Zanoah Lodire, No. -35, I. O. B. B., meet on first and tuird Miiriay night of" every month at Odd Fellows' Hall. Henry .Monr.!.-. I'rciident. fill UllIO. Episcopal Church Services every Sunday ,1 10 1-3 o'clock A. M. and 5 1". M. Dr. J. B. C 1: e s h i r e , 1 1 e e tor. Methodist Ch urch Services every third Sunday at r.i-ht. Fourth Sunday, murai:! and id-ht. lie V. Mr. Swir.dfcH, 1'itstor. 'hut erian Church Services every 1st, Snl nnd nth R:ihbtl;S. F,CV. 1 . J. Allison, Sta ted Supply. Weekly i'rayer meeting, Thurs day ttijjdit Missionary Ii-irt'st CItun-h Services the 1th Sunday in ry morth, morning and liitrht. lvev. T. It. Owen, l'asior. Primitive Baptist Ch tin h Services first Saturday and Sunday of each month at 11 o'clock. IIOTEXS. Adams' Hotel, euriicr Mai O. F. Adaiua, trap; ietor. .1 I'itt Sts. ItXPHKSS. Southern Express Oil'ice, on Ma':i Street closes every u jrnin.u" at '.'3 J o'clock. LAWllESCE, ..;i::a. Iill'i:SS;AL CAIiB'. . " frank"powell, Attorney & Counsellor TAEEOSO', IT. C it'. y Collections :s. Specialty."" Oftic-? in Ore-ory Hotel Building. Julv 1S75.' tf ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND Notary Public. Cs7" Olilcc at the Old Bank Bitildiiisj on Tr..fe Street. jei-tf. Dr. G. L. Shackelford, SUUGEOX DENTIST, Siicce!(irioT)r. 1. 'I'. ! U'in, TAHE0H0', II. C. r rf Otiii-o opposite Adams' Hotel and over S. S. Nash & Co's stole. Oct. 187-1. If Dr. E. D. Barnes, DE' raiii ANKFUi. for the lil-.cral patronaire re g. eeived ii! the past, desires to assure his friends and the public that he is prepared with inr-rev.cd facilhies to perform all opera tions partainin to the science of Dentistry '1:1 the be.-t maimer. EVTOliice over IT. Morris fc Bro's fctore. Tarboro, A;ril '., 175. "m i!)ii:i.s, YARB0R0, : HOUSE, G. V7- ELACZ1TALL, Promoter. eference made ! 11 travelling ireu- . ; i' n. ATLANTIC 9 ' 4 km n R. S. DODSOri Proprietor. !'-aui), l irst and Seeor.i Floors, er day,?l5.(:0 Third aud Fourth Foots, " 2 ..0 Kiieci.al terms for l crmauettt Itoarders w M. nowAKD, 3 II 7J G G- 2 D3ALEK IN D'UJGS, PATENT MEDICINES, cC, cSj-O., SsC. Next door to Mrs, Fer.d ei 'a Hotel, TAKHOKO, C. Rm 3. ALSOP, GiiOC MAIN STREET, rAH3?OIlO TV- o. C- oiee an . I varied stock kept cor.itt.ntly on e ,i. ;, my2S-lt ER. GASTON HOUSE, South Front Street, IN'ewbern, ZV. O. S. 11, STREET, Proprietor M I SO E L L A I i E OU S . as, E. SIninioiis; Iitt Street,"". , fT'AfeT OF MAIN, HAS IN STOKE AND JLj for sale Wardrobes, Bureaus, Washstands, Yvrriting Desks, ' Cane & Wooden Seat Chairs, Extension, Centre and Leaf Tables. Towel Racks, P.ockers, Chihls Basket Chairs. - ALSO A LAIICE LOT OF !ESOC3.iS3, All Cheap for Cash. E 'T U N D T. HT S K E It S BUSINESS H all its branches promptly .v.tenued to. J AS. E. SIMHOIIS. Tarboio, N. ('., Mar. L'O, 1875. Una Seabsnrd Ilonnokc nit Ofiice Siir. Trans., S. A R. It. K. Co.. Portsmouth, Va., Jan. 1, 1T5. On and after this date, trains of this Koad will leave Weldou daily, (Sundays excepted) as follow? : Mail train :u p m No 1 Freight train at 4:00 a m No 2 Freight train at i?:00 a m AltrtlVE AT I'ORTSMOUTH: Mail train daily at 7:1") p m No 1 Freitrht traiu at TJ:(.0 m NoFici:;:it train at i:00 p m Frei.'ht trains have a passen-rcr car attach ed. Steamers for Edeiiton, Plymouth, and. Landings on Bh.ckwater r.nd Chowan rivers, leave Franklin at VAC a m, Mondays, Wednes days ;.nd Fridays, E. G. G1IIO, Supt. of Transportation. 0DEMEIME (Fomeriy Tarboro', N. C.) f -R-AVE OPENED FINE AND EXTEN- Bive Stables iu liclimoncl, "Vti.? wh.erc they will constantly keep on Land F:r.u-C'!as WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. -7 Any order to them for stock wiii be promptly atti.nd to. " KENTUCKY STABLES, Nos. 15 Mid IT Fifteenth Street, RICHMOND, VA. May 2s, Cm PRIVATE oarains: oim, 3 J no V. E. LIPSCOMB respectfully an nounces ibat sue nas optnea a x rivaiu Boardini; House in larboro, on the corner of Bank and Pitt Streets. Good F.irc, IMeasant Renins Conifor tabic Heds. Itonrd Moderate. Feb. 10, lTo. ly WEBER'S BAKERY ! ''IMIIS OLD ESTABLISHED BAKERY IS JL now ready to supply the people of Tar boro and vicinity witn all Kinds 01 I! reat ?, Calces, French and Plain Candies, JVuin, Fruits, t '-., "X. emliraciii'r every thins usually kept in a First Class Establishment of the kind. Thankful for the liberal patronage cfthe past the undersigned asks, a continuation, with the promise of satisfaction. I'riv;U- FamiHos can always have ttiejp takes ISa!i.rl Uerc at Eliort eht notice. Oirtlcrc? for Parties L Balls promptly filled. Call and examine our stock, r.c if door to Bank of New Hanover. Nov. 4.-1 v. JACOB WEBER. Louis Him-i van, Greenville, N. C JUr.tKtl.i'3 Mooue Formerly of N. C. H'LLIARD & FLOOSIE, I'OTTOJl I ACF(HtS AND C enoinI Gomiiiissioii Mercaants PHAIL'3 WHARF, NORFOLK. V 7 ft Keen eontantlv on baud a iartre and varied stock of ; la m :r and Ties. (ieneitd tie ,ier in t-laudard r ertilizeis. Liberal Cash advances made on consign nv nts. je 25-tf. Xl is 2 2v LAZARUS & MORRIS' Celebrated tcil Spectacles and Eye A Ci ICC Masses. Have met with such extraordinary encces and tire so much in demand is because they are found to possess all the tiuaiities we claim for them, viz : I'll' itv and hardness of material (therefore not li -.i.'e to scratch), brilliancy of finish, st'-cntrtl.-iiiii? aud preserving power, and conferrinff t.n amount, of eae and comfort attained by no other Glasses in the world. Thev are without doubt the most perfect and scientifically accurate Lenses ever manufac tured, and la.-t many years without change, For sale in this locality only by JAMES H. BELL, Watchmaker and Jewel nr.' ll, IiAZATiUS, MOBRIS & CO., Wholesale Depot, . , r. 1 Cjrtla.nlc Htr. IV. Y. Mtmufaetories, Ilir.IFOSD, COSS., ASI) fc'UEFl'IElCiD, EftO. Tjff cauiliJU. e uee ui iiuiuj It BROS,, Peddlers. Jj3:ly NSW ADVSRTISEMEMTS. THE BEST T'AIIILY MEDICINES. Tested by popular nse fur over , . A (U AKTKIl OF A ! Dr. Strong's Coxupouiid Sanative Pills. care Constioation, Biliousness, Bowel Com plaint, Slafiii ial Fyvers, liheumatiaui, Ery s.pelas' and r.!l diseases of Livea-, Stomach and Bowels, . . --- -' Dr. Stronsr's Pectoral Stomach Pills cure Coughs, Colds, Cramp, Dyspepsia, sick Headache, Female Con p aints, Heart Disease and all disorders of Chest and Stomach. Send Postal Ccrd for a Speeirneu 'i'HB WASHINGTON ll'lILY ' ST Al Copy of ' Established 1S5:I. S Address The Evcuini' 5 pafts. 50 eoluir.us. tar Newspaper Co.; Washington D. C. SHUM DROaFClSOS. Medicine Rendered Useless , VOLTA'S i- i.rt,TltO BELTS and BANDS are iudoised i-y the Mo.-t eminent physicians in the world f-r the cure of 1 heumatisni, neuralgia, liver complaint, dyspepsia, kitlucy disease, aches, pmus, nervetts disorder's, iits, female coiuul.tint j, inivoiis and general debility, and oilier ehronie diseases of the chest, head, liver, stomach, kidneys and blood. ,BM: t-.jjn iu!l- particular lieefu Volta Bclr'Co., I'meinnati. ()." f SAM PI Ot and fen E FREE and bhr pay to male niaie ( vci v'.i'lie: e. Addre N. Y. THE UNION i Ui co:, a diiy at UotAt. 'Acetd s wanti TUUE d. m Or.fiit nd terms l;ee. CO-, Au-u.::i, Maiee. JLA-cVailloN of the ? Tradesmen's Indus :.l Institute, I'itts- burii, Pa.. Address A. J. t-pt-itii Oet closes Nov. 0. NLiLLIS, Pre . T. I. I. day ptarant-.-ed usinjr our AV .rer .'c Drtri-. 1 ! a month r; age at s. Actf-r book free. ! St. Loni, Mv.; to good Aujrer Co. ted everv tifteeii da', s. 1 p'riiie SHM.POO.U. prize i50,tK0 I prizes, 'each. . 50,0' )0 S54 prizes, aniount k Ri'to ClO.ouo Whole ticki ts, $:?; i.uarters, ".; twentieth's, $1. Circulars of inform, tiou free. Prizes caslied. - ' A. DOS AO & CO., 15.ir.ker?, Post-ofHee Box Hjb'K L Park Row, N ew York. Royal Sr.xoa and Bfur.swlrk :.v:nui:rnt Lotteries eonstf.atly on hind. IleaUli), Pleasant Climate. RICH ,AND3 ! Homes and Farms cheaper than auywher aud on easiest, terms . For circular desei intive s to payment-, ol' South Eastern Ark .nsas, ad tre S. J. MATTHE lieeiio, Ark. . S7 A WEEK truarantced to Atents, ' Male and Female in their own loc al- I itv. Terms OUTFIl' Fit EE. Act- dress P. O. ViCKiiUY & CO., Asrusta, Me. ; OO Hi K?mi it tree. bi'it.-Or, Jc land, Mtline. CO., SYCIIOMANCY, CP. SOUL CIIAKM- jLl-G." How either sex may fascinate md L'ain the love an'.1. afTeelions of any per son they c. or'.r, instantly. Ibis art ;u! imii possess, free, by mall, I'or '-" cents; together with a .Marria re uunte, r.u" i ti m uraci Dreams, Hints'to Ladies, etc." 1.0! 10.000 sold A queer book, ".ddrcss T. WH.LIA3I & CO.,' Pub's rililaaelpuia. e. t. rooi.. C A. POOL. W. E. POOL ool ASHIONAB1 OYSTER SALOOH, Barber Shop x , AND Cigar Store, ROCKY M0 till li. C. Ui! i I YSTEUS fTP.n-ED AT. ALL nOfR?, irC.-t illiU tiWeCt. Attentive wc.itcrs to attend to the needs of. hi uests. ' mrlO-tf. Eilgecc!n?je County Superi or Cc:??t. EMILY J. JOitDAN vs. JAS. C. JOItDAX. . Tills is an action to set up a lost deed ex ecuted to plaintiu 1 y defendant for a tract of bir d situated in said cauuU", iu. the town of Itocky Mor.irt in iS , ant Ttpon ttie complaint r.nd '.''Ih'avit Hied, it is ordered that service of the summons, a copy whereof is hereunto r.nvc il be made by j.ublieation once a v.eeit. tor ,'TeeLs mtna-larncroBii Soul hr nut: The ''CeeLdtirt is also notilh d, that if be ft'-ii t rtpeaf at the" time in raid s.uiunor.3 designated, and answer or demur to the complaint, j ti.lL'uicnt will be rendered in favor of the , iai,:' id", as prayed for. in tctdirnopy whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand, and r.tTlxe.l the seal of said Court, at oflice, in Tarlior.i, this J h day of August, A, 1). IjVo. TI. L. PTATON, Jit., Clerk Superior Court. Kdtreeorabe Co. Dossev iif.iile, Ap.'y for i'iaiutiii'. Edj?ccoi!)c County hi lliiv.- Superior Court. Emiiy J. Jordan, PI tlntitl, ) " iur.unst f Sammcis. Jas. C. Jordan, Defendant, ) STATE OF NOPTH CAROLINA, To the ShtriJi'xJ' llMecomLo Opuuig Greeting: OL ou are hereby' coinrnanuetl to sum mon James O. Jordan, the Defendant above named, if he be found within j'our county, to be end appear before the-J udje of our Superior Court, to Co iK'id for the county of Edgecombe, at th". Court Hou e in Tar boro, on the fourth Monday of January, l'JTO, and answer the coRiplaint which will be de posited iu the otiiee of the Oiork of -the Su perior Court of said Ceui! tiYiihin the fifrt three days cf the next term thereof, and let the said Defendant take notice that if he fail to answer the complaint witlnu lUat'time the Plaiutilt v. ill bike Judsrracnt aigninst hinr far' the relief ilemnn-Ied in said complaint. Hereof fail not, and of this eumtnons make dae return. . ; i Giveu under my land and the f-erl of said j Court, this tJOth day of Autrust, 1S75. , 11. L. STATOX, JR.," .'" Clerk t'upjrior Coyfi Eiljecondie fo, Sept. 3, 1ST5. "6w" r ESC ELL AN ECUS. "- ' 'the favorite- home remedy. In eminently a Family Medicine; and by b itfj krpt ready for immediate resort will save many an hour of sullerinjr and many a dol- .,LLU" Pa t'aiiti a:ii titK'ios' biiis.-! -- After over Forty letirs' trial it is- stilt re ceiving the mast timiBaliiied testimonials to V.s virtues from pT.r?ou4 of tno highest char acter and responsibility. Eminent physician: commend it as the mo.t . . EFFECTUAL $?ECII7IC For all di!kJ!tsrf otnitl "Liver, Stoma:.h and Spleen. The SYMPTOMS of Liver Complaint, are a bitter or bad. taste iu the month ; Pain in the U.icki Sides or Joints, often mistaken lor RUHim:vr.!:i ; Sour Stomach ; Loss of Apcp tite ; ii.nveis alternately costive and lax; Headache ; Loss of memory, ,itb a painful sensation ofhavhitr tailed to do someihm-r which oujjht to have been done; Debility, low Spirits, a thick yellow appearance of the Skin and Eyes, a dry Cough o!'ten mistaken for Consumption. Sometimes tnnny of t!,e-e symptoms attend the disease, tit oilwrs v ry few ; but the Liver, the i.irirest or.'an in i!.-.- body, is ueuera.Iy the .seat of the disease, m-U if not Rrsulaied in t:me, "i eat snfit rill:', w will ensue. i'or Dy-iiepsia, Co lu (bless ,:i:d Death Jaundic:, Coli-. Do .e!i. li -.... oliiotts v.rt.ic! ire-jU)!i !' : Bun. , .v The ( '(CI ' n. jl T Fir: m. u:- iLIN CO., t fli::a ruj.i-'ts .!! :,ia. Price, Pisdmor.t Air-Line ilwav. -lilvy .""j V,, '7; .V . j RICHMOND & DAInVILLF-. IHCilMOSD 1 & DANVILLE it. V,-.. X. C. DIYHv ion, A!,D Koitrii w:;sr-i-;r.N N. C. II. w. fii'ct or. and after Sunday, Sept. CO, 187-1. GoiNii. AirltTH. STATItt: Ex; ;css. Leave. .cavoC'l.a; '.o.U b.j o v. U. P.oO ' 11.58 a. O.-So A.M. (?.2i) " s.at 10.o5 i; 1.12 pm. 1.20 " COT " 8.47 p.?i. ir.. J..; " Salisbury, " Greensboro " Darivtile. Dundee," " UttrkviP,-), Arrive al itichmot; i. c.cs !i. CIS 11.o5 i: I. 2,'j 2 r. ji COIXG SOUTH. . . Mail. stat; a.Xjre.-s. Leave KichuMiel, " Iturkville, " Dundee, ' I'Titivi'le, " ( l:'Pet:.sbol o', " Sali.-htiry, " Air-I.i:.--Jiict Arrive at Chailotte, r. m. lO.o j lo.:;:) .".00 o."2 1.14 JI. " 1.17 " O.io ' (10! i !:.: C:. t . L'vcl2 :;0 ' T " Kaleigh, - ti.iS Vrr. atGwUlubore, 11. St A.t. y.lOe.M M L'v. H0RTK WEST2RN H. C. E. E. (SALEM URANCH.) - Leave Greensboro. . . i.SO p ;.t Arrive at Salem '. G.13 " Leave Salem 8. -10 a n Arrive at Greensboro 10.33 " ra.-se:ier trr.iti leavitig Kaieis-ii at 8.10 P. M., connects at (Jreenshoro' with the N orthfr'i bound trtr'Jf pmak.ns the- quickest time to all Northern cities. Price of Tick et sain'o as via other routes. Trains to and from points East t-f Greens boro' connect at Greeuhbcso' with Hail Trains to ar from iioints orth or South. ; Two Tr.i'n" 'aiiy, both v. ays. On Sundays Lj'icljhnrg Aecotamctlation Lloave Richmond at 0.00 A. M., arrive at Durkeviilo 12.43 P. M., leave Hutkevil'e 4.S5 A. arrive at.llicbmcnd 7.53 A. M. ' Itfo cbanae, of cars between Cmrlotte and Richmond, 232 miles. For further information address S. H. A LLEN, ., Ceu'l Ticket Asent, . t Creetisboro, K, C. T. M. it. TALC0TT, . Engineer & Gen'l Sttperictendent. FOR NORFOLK AND RTHHRN BAG Ml -&rr Jn5. -JL"d52 Steamers COTTON PLANT .1L1CO eoiincctintr wila , the Old Dominion Steamship Co., M alford the mo-t direct and the ' quickest time for shipment of produce from alt points on the Itiver. Through fill's of Lading riven from all points on Tar River for Norfolk, Italtiniore, Philadelphia, New York aud Ponton, Pro duce is covered by insurance, if desired, as soon as Dills of Lading are signed. Shipments by this line jro directly to des tination without dc.ay at Norfolk or Wash ington. The COTTON PLANT makes close con nection with the Wilmington & YvVidou Hail Itoatl, and gives through Bills of Lading from all landings on the Itiver at the lowest rates. ' JOHN MYERS' SONS. Washington, N C, Jan. '-"., 1ST5. tf TERRELI R ALEP.S IN W.1 its A AND in" ;-, -liii.i C't4 i'lC-ir tiie e, iiept. 30-ft - . r t :- i . CEIEBRATED BAND I7STKOD2NT3, BOOSEY & CO., sole agents, " . 33 East 14m Steeet, K.T. . Sfca Bescrfptfrg catalogs rss ty swU;v Siul)0r0' Bonthtzntt. Friday, Oct. 15, 1875 "IT'LL NEBBEK COME NO MO." The iollowing is from the pen of Mrs. F. G. De Fontain, Charleston, S. C: I'se beea 'waitiii' long for de good old time Dat'll cebber come no mo : Yfhcn I used to work, uu' rock an' sing In the little cabin do.' My Stun -was dar ivid Lis fiddle I'o' Sam he's gone done dead 1 Demi for de want ol) food an' clothes, An' de shelter ouer head. An' little Mosewell, he's dead, too; How he used to dance and sing, Wlil'.e Jim an' Polly, an' all the res' "When, round' an' rouu' de ring. Ola Missis bless her dear ole soul Would laft till her sides gib way, An' Masta'd stop at my cabin jest To say : " 'How's ole Mummy to-day ?' De boys I mean Ole Massa's boys - Dey Jtibbed Ole Mammy too, Yv ho missed 'em, eb'ry blessed one, Clean down to little Massa' Loo. IV Massa' Loo ! He went to fight, lint Le nebber came back no mo'; We beared dat he fell wiu a bail hide breast lit front of de battle roar. He'd pnt bis arms aroun' my neck An' s.iy : "Mammy, I love you so !" He didn't see no barm in dat, Da his Mammy tvas black an' po Ole Missis dead vid a broken heart When de las' ob de boys was killed, An' .Mtusa bowed his head an' cried Dat his cup ob sorrow Avas filled, An' yeie I've sot awu'uiu' an' watchin' For do good time coinin' no mo,' An' I see Ole Missis a-callin' Mammy, Ac.r.ss front de odder sho.' MY FIRST LOVE. BY 31. K. D. . When 1 yr&3 a little boy twelve years clJ' feil love with my : iirtc sweetacart. felto was a pretty j fair little creature, with long, yd-" low htiir and lived only a few doors j away iVora its. At first I used to t watch her playing with her doll, ! in her little front garden, without : daring to speak to her. Iler par feiits Vi'fre new neighbors, and mine were not acquainted with them; but after awhile I began to make childish overtures to acquaintance in the shape of smiles and linger ings ai hpr gat, ttnd at last in a spoecl'loiS cu'er of candy through tie pailings. The candy was acs cepted and we were friends hence forth. Often I used to take rny little enrt and go to her gate and whistle there. Then she would bring out her doll, dressed in hat and shawl, j and pat it in the wagon, end take j hold of the crossnhanu'e, of which I held one sidt and away we would go uotn the road, generally stop-, ping at the graveyard, which was gveen and pretty and had neither terrors nor sad associations to us. There we would play until we heard the clcck strike six. It was always after school that v.'c started on these excursions, and then we would pack the doll into the watjon and ro home atrain. We always talked a great deal on the way, and I suppose a listener would have teen much amused at our chat. Wo however the-un-h it verv sensible. I wa3 for.d of telling her my school troubles and she hated my teacher, Mr. Birch, worse than 1 did. Once when ho had ruled me on both palms so that they were sore, 1 remember she kissed them and vowed to go next day and steal the ruler and break it. She did creep to the window for that pur pose, but there she grew frightened It was before school hour?; but she could not be sure that Mr. Birch was not hiding in some corner ready to pounce out upon her, and she ran away. She had her troubles too; one was needlework. She hated to take tiny stitches and she always tangled her thread. I used to corns fort her by promising that when I wa3 a man she couid bo my wife and never sew one stitch; but there she always shook her little head. 'I shall have to make your shirts, you know,' the v.oukl say, 'and I must try to learn; but 1 hate to learn now. Yes, we were betrothed to each other, hi our babyr fashion. We had even exchanged bead rings. We were going to build a house in tho woods and live there together always, a.i soon as 1 was grown. When I shut rny eyes and loan back in my chair for my afternoon nap I can sonic-times see a picture of my little sweetheart that seems to bring her straight before me. Her sweet, bir blue eyes, her rosebud irtouth, ner pretty, round white shoulders, her pale, yellow hair falling over them there she sit?, in her blue hohling her doll in Ti r r-h r m dress her arms and ta'. ltnt? tn ro it.: Hie shadows cf the over her as the swalh wind rs nutter ic branches to and fro, and my heart is full cf the in nocent baby love it felt for her. If there l:e angels, I think they love tittle sweetheart and loved other: as my : each ot How many dayt", how many Not first months passed over us thus : many. It was spring when I saw liT ia the garden. It was aus tamn when we went for the last time to the old grave yard. I had no idea that it was the last time then. ' Neither had she. We were as merry as usual, and I grew gleeful over a visit I was to pay to my uncle in London. I should be gone a week, I said; and that was Saturday. The next Saturday wc should see each other. We kissed a parting and. Bhe made me kiss her doll too'.' As 1 went into lay house I saw her standing at her gate, looking at me wistfully. I smiled at her. She lifted the doll in tho air and waved its hand towards me. At early dawn next morning I was off upon my journey That week seemed like a year, it was so full of adventure, of sights seeing and amusement. I came back a tra'veled man in my own opinion. After 1 had my dinner my fir3t thought was of mv little sweetheart. I "gathered up the fine new treas ures that had been bought me in the city and hurried to the door. 'To see Lilly,' I said. Sho looked at me oddly, I thought. 'Paul,' she said, 'you w;ll be a good boy and mind mamma, I know. You will not go to to Lilly's house to-day ?' 'Why not mamma?' I asked. 'Because there is a reason why you should not,' she said. 'I will tell you tosmorrow."" ' 'But Lilly will want me, said; '.and 6he will cry. And I want to show her my blue top and my red soldiers, and tho village and the Noah's ark,' and I began to cry myself. My mother knelt beside mo and put her arms about my waist. 'You loved little Lilly very much, my boy,' she said. 'Wo love each other very much, mamma,' I said; 'and when I am big, Lilly is to be my wife, and I'm to be her husband.' My mother kissed me. 'Poor little fellow,' she said. 'Sometimes I think it is a pity there should be such a thing as af fection in a world like this.' Why, mamma V I asked. She did not answer. After as while sho made me promise that I would not go to Lilly's house and bade me run and play somewhere. She knew I would not break ' my word, and I did not; but she had not told me not to go to the grave yard, and I had a faint hope that Lilly would come there and meet mc, if I went to cur accustomed place. So, making a circuit, I sained it by another road, and, climbing a fence, hurried to the great willow and sat waiting for my littlo sweetheart. It seemed to me that the was sure to come; but an hour passed and still-1 did not hear her liule feet tripping over the gravel path, and I walked towards the gate to look down the road. On the way I passed a little pit that had been evidently newly dug, for a spade lay beside it And as I caused, with childish curiosity, to peep in, tho church bell began to ring slowly and heavi ly net as they rang for service What could it mean ? And there camo the clergyman in his surplice and the old clerk. I knew him, and I had begun a shrill ouestion when he nut his hand upon my head and said 'Don't talk now, my lad. Just sit down and listen with reverence. It is no time for that.' And I obeyed, perching myself on a stone and starting at the peo pie coming through the gate wot men all in black, who seemed to be crying and who, as tucy stepped aside, gave me a . glimpse of four men who carried something covered with a black fringed cl 2t was ail so solemn that I bes;an to feci frightened, thoujih I did not know why. I had heard o death, but in so vague a way that 1 had no fixed iiea3 concerning it attd I had never seen a funeral; bu suddenly it occurred to me that 7 had been told that people were buried in tho church yard. They were going to bury some one, I supposed it was the lady in tho black veil who sobbed so. A great terror seized me. I shut my eyes and sat shaking as with an aue on the tombstone, and then i heard tne clergyman begin to p-ay. Surely good Dr. Walverton was too kind to bury any one. I grew more courageous and dared to look at the group again. And now I saw thoy had laid aside the black cloth, and there was a little box set on a sort of table a very pretty box, with silver nails in it. Suddenly the black-veiled lady uttered a cry : ' 'Oh, Lilly ! my Lilly ! my ' little Lilly is dead !' I looked and listened, I drd not yet understand what I saw; but the veil wa3 cast back and I saw Lilly's mother, and I heard the word "Lilly.' I repeated 'Lilly,', and rushed from the graveyard and, for getful of-my mother's injunction, straight to'Lifly's home. Tho doors and windows were all wile open and a servant with swol len eyes was putting the parlor to rights. - ' Where is Lilly ? I screamed. Aud she turned toward me, lookN ed at mo and burst into tears. .'Oh, you'll be so sorry, littlo auk' she said. Toor, dear little Lilly-- is dead. - They have taken here to the graveyard to bury her. 'To bury her ! Then I knew ail.' As much of the mystery cf death as we ever now was taught me in those words. 'They shall not bury her!'. I screamed, and rushed headlong back to the churchyard; but when I got there, there waa no open grave anywhere, only a smooth mound of turf. The bells rang no more, the mourners were cone, and 1 know that I should never see my little sweetheart's face again. An Obtuse Man. She was a stylish young lady about eighteen years old, and to accommodate a friend sho took the baby out for an airing. ' She was wheeling it up and down the walk when an oldish man, very deaf, came along and inquired for a cers tain person supposed to live on that street. She nearly yelled her head off trying to answer him and he ooked around, caught sight of the baby and said : 'is ice child that. I suppose you eel proud of him ?' It isn't mine,' she yelled at him. ' Boy, eh ?' Well, he looks just ike you.' 1 It isn't mine !' she yelled again, but he nodded his head and con tinued: . Twins, eh ? Where's the other one i She started off with the cab, but he followed and asked : 'Did it die of colic?' Despairing of making hira under" stand by word3 of mouth, she poin ted to the bady, at herself, and then shook her head. 'Yes yes, I see 'tother twin in the house. Their father is fond cf them of course !' She turned the cab and hurried the other way, but he followed and asked : ' Do they kick around much niMts r I tell you 'taint mine,' she shouted, looking very red in the fice. ' I think you're wrong there V hi answered. ' Children brought up on the bot tle are apt to pine and die.' She started on a run for the gate, but before sho had opened it he came ur and asked : ' Have to spank 'em onco and awhile, 1 suppose ?' She made about twenty gestures in half a minute, and he helped the cab through tho gate and said : Uur children were all twins, and I'll send my wife down to give you some advice. You see ' But she picked up a newer-pot and flung it at him. He jumped back and as she entered the house he called out : ' Hope insanity won't break cut n the twins !' Treasury Girb." A correspondent of the Ciacins uati Enquirer writes . frem Wash ington : " 'Treasury girls," be it known, are not all young ; in fact, some of them, no doubt, have chil dren a3 old as your correspondent, while many are yet in the full bloom of girlhood, and more have entered the cypress-hung portals of old maidenhood, or have worn, -or still wear,, the widow's weeds. Still, ac cording to ye festive correspondent, all ladies engaged in the Treasury department are 'girls,' even though they be grayhaired natrons and mothers of families. As I have said, ' Treasury girls ' aro not. all either young or pretty, as is gencr ally supposed, and in looking over tho ' sea of laces 1 have discover ed but few who look as though their owners consider life as a great flir tation made up ct little flirtations ; on the contrary, the majority of laces belonging to the ' Treasury girls ' bear tho impress of an earns est purpose earnestly pursued, v. nile many aro evidently shadowed by sorrow or disappointment : in lact, the ladies who are engaged in the Treasury department aro only a small detachment of the great array of women who find themselves de-. pendent upon their own resources, and have, as is natural, sought out the best place they could command. The average Treasury girl ' does not go to work in silk and lace, ac cording to the popular idea, but, on the contrary, wears a loose sack and overdress of some light wash gcols over a worsted skirt, and, by way of taking all romance out of the matter, carries a little lunch done up in a paper or pinned up in a red napkin. Neither do all ' Treasury girls ' preserve the lines of beauty in form or face ; on the contrary, there are thin, angular, aud perpendicular women among them, and there are some who are burdened with flesh ; most certainly there arc many who evidently did not win their positions by means of personal beauty. The oldest Bible existing wa3 written about the year 3S1. Virtus in Whistling. And old fanner once said to us that he would not have a hired ma:i on his farm who did not habitually whistle. He always hired whistles. Said he never knew a whistling ladorer to find fault with his food, his bed, or complain of any extra work he was asked to perform. Such a man v,ras generally kind to children and animals when placed in his care. He would wh'stle a chilled lamb into wtmth and life, and would bring in his hat full of eggs from tho barn without break ing one of them. lie always found such a man to be more careful about closing gaLcs, putting up bars and seeing that the nut3 on his plow were properly tiglnencJ, and that the plow was in good condition be fore he took it into tho field, than one who never whistles. He never knew a whistling hired man to kick o beat a cow, or drive her on a run into the stables. He had noticed that the sheep ho had fed in the yard and shed gathered around him as ho whistled without fear. Jlo never had employed a whistler who who was not thoughtful and e,o nomical. A Pugnacious Goat. His head was the shape and sizo of a Bullitt county watermelon, and he was so black that charcoal would make a light mark on him. The goat was asleep, leaning against the side of the ho ise. The darkey was s noking a decayed cigar. He et-.pied the goat, looked at the lit end of the cigar, giinned, then at the tail-end of the goat. ' grinned 'oider,' looked all aro and to see that nobody was looking, and touchs ed the lit end of that cigar to the tail-end of that goat. The goat turned a hand-spring, and the ne gro opened his big mouth to laugh, but the goat butted hira so quickly " e ween the chin and his breeches -pockets that his jaws came together, making a noise leude? than tiie re port of a gun. The negro's hat, boots and cigar lay in a pile ten feet off, whilo his body was curled up like a hoise. shoe in tho mouth of a sewer-opming. When ho 'came to ' he looked around at each one in the c owd, and dispersed the crowd by savin?: "Will somn nh v n t - w ' you gemmen' shoot me with a pis tol ! A nigga d-t's as big a fool as I. is, ain't got no business libin." Very Unsatisfactory. This good little boy was sitting cn tho front steps whittling up his sister's embroidery frames and muttering to luicelt : ' This ain't world to live in unless a no good feller is his father's and mother's only or- puan: ooy. v fnt mp.iies me git so mad is to have my sister go and take all my ripe peacV i to giTJ to that big sweetheart ot hers that comes round here seven nights in a week to git a square meal and mttko out as if ho wanted to talk politics with father. I wish they'd marrv and fro to Texas. I do !' And then he threw th j remnants of the frames into the stre et and seem ed lighter hearted. An accommodating man O Butrrrs -" Hello, Trine, moving V Trir e ' Yes.' Biters ' What for V Trip- ' Well, times aro a littlo naru, ana i am my landlady.' it -t -r moviP'jr to please Tho Wilson Plaindealer rogrota t- loaia that a littlo daughter of Elisha Bass, living near Black Crook, met with, a rrosi horrible death oa Mori -day morning last. Iler clothine: caught fi-e and before assistance could bo rendered .ho was so badly burned that it malted in her death lato that evening.. -, Tho Capo Tear Agriculturol Associ ation, at its Fair in Novembor, will givo to tho besi brass band a silver cornet to cost 8150, and to tho bosi driilod military company a ImneUomo, silver flapr. Tho Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina will meet in Grornsboro oa Wednesday, tho 13th of October, at 7 o'clock, p. m. Chas. G. Yates is Chairman of tho Committeo of Recep tion. Lev. Vanco ha3 received invitations from tho chairmen of tho Deirtocratio E: -Hrutive Committres of Ohio and M5sbh-6:ipi, to take the btump in thoso States ia aid of tho Democratic ticket but ho was compelled to decline, bo causo of tho fact that his fall Courts are now ia session. Says the Wilmington utr; 'Tho North Carolina Conferenca meets with tho Front Stroct Church in this city, on tho first day of December nest, Bishop H. ". UcT-cire presi ding.' 'Our Methodist frionds aro antici pating in tho event much social pleas ure and spiritual enjoyment. This Conference embraces moro than half of tho territory of tho Methodist Epis copal Church South in the Stato, and is ono of the largest annual bodies in tho connection. It numbers in min isters, lay delegates and thuso oflicial ly re'ated to tho Conference about 'SiO it h -vin received ia tho last V-v- v.". it's n increase, a laxgi accession by transfer of territory from tho South Carolina Conference. Ii has boon 8 yeaiB sinco this Conference mst ia this city.' j - --- tioil t-J its
The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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Oct. 15, 1875, edition 1
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