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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
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TARBOR0', N. G., FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1877.
ionibiitimt.
Friday,
Mardh 30, 1377
KiTfl CLYDE.
'.Kitty ! Ki
ty Clyde ! Where are
you
Nobody aiiswereJ. A rebin,
buildiu-? a ned
in tne great apple
tree over the
poutb door, looked: up,
listened a tni&ute, and then- whis
tled softly to hiiaself.
Jle was not
GIydex not
coma to betray Kittv
he. - The cVeit dog.
Rover, dczine
On tby,pi
Ualf opened - Jaia-eyeej
and then dzt
owsed asain. ' "The
truth was, llojrer had deciined iit
tv's invitation! to go off frolicking
with her, and the. girl had patted
his head softly touched her red
lips to the snow-white star in Ro
ver's ducky forehead, Rover's beauty-spot,
and then flitted carelessly
away, her bright brown cut Is toss-
ins in the west win;, and
a iraga
Eient of a soui vanning over
from
that blithesome li i tie heart of hers.
And so, at this very minute,
.Kitty is standing ankle-deep in
the clear, coolj, blue water of the
pond, trying fith all her might and
main to reach a great, splendid lily
that, with all
hid andj)etals
its golden
stamens
half closed, wad just
going to sleep
for the night. 1 To
had already a whole
be sure, Kitty
apronful of th$ pure, sweet flowers ;
but when was kver mortal man, or
woman either,! satisfied with what
they already had when did they
not loner and strive after what was
just beyoud rekch ? 4nd so it came
to pass that, ai K'uty pulled and
tugged, the ho"r, treacherous hank,
gave way, and! d-jwu went Kitty,
clean muslin direst, apronful of lil
ies, spotless white stoc!iiog3 and
dainty slippersj golden-brown curld
and all, into the cold dirk water.
0-o-h !' criejd A'itty, struggling
in the water. I
ind then, iri a minute, something
seized her, antj lifted her sheer ut
of the water, ahd set her high and
oh, no not-jat all dry, but very
wet, indeed, a thong the violets, up
on the green bank.
Was it liovcir
?" 7ittv BhrtnL- th
water out of heir
tves, swallowed a
sob or two, and looked. . And thenT
she blushed all! over her white face;
and away down to the tiny lace
ruffle about h4r throat. For her
preserver was a young man, a very
proper and very unexceptionable
young man, indeed, in a faultless
black suit, whih never saw a speck
of lint since it was a suit. And
this young marj, who W3S quite rail
a very giat beside Kitty, in
fact surveyed) her with a face in
which amusement and surprise wre
as strongly expressed as if they had
been written inj letters right across
his handsome, broad forehead.
"'Well,' Baid he, his dark sciiicg
eyes shining down upon her, : 'you
are only the worse off by a wet
ting ! What would have become of
you, if I had not happened by jast
as I did V j ;
'I dare say, 1 shouldn't hive
drowned,' said! -Kitty, demurely.
'But I am very! much obliged to
you.' j ;
'You are very much welcome ! In
return, perhaps! you can tell me
where Deacon jGrey lives. I was
just about to ask you, when you
disappeared from my astonished
eyes, in the pond.' r
Poor .Kitty ! I Who could wonder
that she blushed again, like a red,
red rose, and wished from the bot
tom of her sorrowful little heart
that she had drowned among the
lilies for was not this the - now
young minister, younger and hand
somer than -Kitty who had. only
known old Parson Brown, with his
snuffy toaes and grizzled wig had
ever dreamed a minister could be ?
and had she not, been charged, over
and over again,
in his presence
A'itty Clyde !
to behave properly
And, now poor
Deacon Grey
lives there,' said
Kitty, who "must speak, though she
died, pointing it the great squaf
red farm-house iglowing in the af
ternoon Bun.
'That hcusp there in the clover
field, with the apple trees around
it?'
'Yes, sir ! The clover field com s
up to the door, j 7sn't it
pretty ?'
her wet
sua -tt-itty,
forgetting
clothes, and
w
fiat
her aunt would
- , , 0
in the picture, i
'Very pretty said the young
man. 'Very pretty indeed !' he
repeated, looking into the sweet
yonng eyes, and seeing the rosy
color come and go under the clear,
fine-grained, beautiful skin.
" A full half minute he stood thus,
and then he started suddenly
'I beg your pardon ! I should not
have kept yoii. You will take
cold!' ' ; " :
As he spoke he lifted his hat,
bowed, and turned away from her.
7a a minute or two, he wad out of
sight, around the bend in the
road. " I I -
'How handsome lie is !' thought
savf m ner mrlisn. artistic delixht
A i
.Kitty. 4nd'be bowed to me, just
as thev do in glories
Oh, 1 d?ar,
what a figuie
am
Lnd now, I
shall never dare speak " to him.'
And two great shining tears glit
tered mjvitty s brown eyes.
Slowly she made her way home,
and crept ground to the well-room
door. Tho parlor was open, and
she heard her cousin Julia speak
ing, ana the odor of her aunt-Grey's
cake came out, delicious and tetapt
mg-, ana me tea-kettle wad singing
on tne nearth.
Aria iiitty was very cold and
wet, ana: most unpoetically hun
gry. But she slipped off of stairs
unseen, -An
liour or iwo passed. Sup
per was served in tne hospitable
iarm-nouse Kircnen. Ana supper
.eg .IrTv iecon -irey lit his
pipe7 iiHi began to discuss free-will
with the yoang minister.
'xou d better go into the parlor,
lather, said iJtrs. urey.
'Oh, no matter about the parlor,
wile, said the obtuse deacon. 'Mr
v eston hkes the kitchen well
enough, Til warrant.'
Mr. Weston laughed
'Oh, yes, he liked
-'And he sat down
he kitchen !'
On the old
fashioned t?ettee, and
much at home as if he
seemed as
had been a
so:; of the family.
'I wouldn't let the table set nny
longer for iiitty,' said Jalia, gath
ering up the cupa itnd saucers with a
dainty grace.
Mrs. Grey remembered the Lady
Washington cake which .Kitty was
eo fond of, and the Btrawberi ies
A'itty hud j icked, and her good
heart was divided between impa
tience and pity.
'Oh, dear,' she sighed, 'that-good-fer-i;oihiiig
A'rty Clvde tir;s ue
nearly to death.'
' hat s Aitt-v
asked ;he deacon.
'Oh, don't aek ;
be en uoiriii nov,
aek ; i-ju't the always
doing what she ouiihtn' to, iand
neg!ectini every thing sho-pught,
to do? 1j inj: about the fields all
day, and reading novels and pcetry,
and she can't mak a loaf of bred
to save her life.' Julia, added the
matron, desparingly, 'go and call
her afl over the house.'
.-lud so Julia's silvery 'Kitty!
Ki'.ry Clyde !' resounded through
llij wide rooms.
And pretty soon a
glided silently down
email figure
in the twi-
liuht. '
'Ah, there you are riJNow oat
year supper so we cau -cai- off the
table,' said Mrs. Gray, reproving-
ly. ,
A'itty sat down, still as a mouse,
and helped herself to bread and
butter and strawberries, ond, un
happy as she had been, -was making
a very good meal, -when all at once
her auht said :
'Are there any pond lilies about ?'
Miss Julia jusi then sailed out of
the parlor, a graceful whits cloud in
the dust.
'Oh, yes. There are some great
dishes of them in the parlor. We
have them all the time, she said,
graciously, forgetting to add that
good-for-nothing Kitty Clyde gath
ered and arranged them.
'I thought I detected the odor !
ZZow lovely they are !'
'Oh, very lovely !' said Julia,
with a sweet enthusiasm.
That remiads me,' said the young
minister, laughing softly, 'thac I
had a bit of an adventure coming
from the station.'
'An adventure coming from
Cloverdaie Station to our house !'
cried Julia. 'Pray, what was it ?'
'Why; a little girl at least she
was very small, though she might
have been grown up was picking
lilies in the pond just down here,
nd fell in. Of course 1 pulled her
out. : "v
- 'Pulled her out! Did she get
wet ?'
It was Mrs. Grey. She had
come in with a lighted lamp.
'I'm afraid she did !' said Mr.
Weston, his ejes twinkling.
Unfortunate Kitty Clyde! The
cruel light of the lamp fell full
upon her face, and betrayed the
deep blushes and the tearful, down
cast eyes.
'Amy Clyde, was that you T
said Mi s. Grey, in a stern and aw
ful voice.
Aitty choked and tried to get
up.
'And you got your new muslin
wet. Oh, Kitty Clyde, you are the
worst good-tor-nothing girl in the
whole world.'
'I -I don't care !' sobbed Kitty,
and she fled from the table and ran
up-stairs, crying very bitterly.
'.Now, mother, you've scared her
most to death. You'd ought to be
thankful she wasn't drowned,' said
the good deacon.
'1 hope I am, Deacon Grey,'
said his wife. '1 hope I don't wish
any harm to the child, though she
is such a trial.' .
'Oh, well, well ! we can't expect
all girls to be like our Julia.'
'Julia never caused - me a igo-
ment's anxiety in her life,' eajd her
mother.
That remarkable young lady came
in just then, and Mr. Weston exam
ined her with ' interest. She was
really a yery pretty girl, lady-like,
and well-bred.
: 'And what a good girl the must
be !' thought the Reverend Edward
Weston.
i Yes, Julia was a pretty girl and
a good girl. And 4 Mr. Weston
wanted a wife.1 Js tUt ktrange ?
Net a bit of it. All yoiing men
who are. manly ana pure ao wuen
the right time comes. M
Cloverdale quite agreed jhat Mr.
Weston wanted a wife, and jwhen he
was properly installed, and every
thing was w it should be, the good
people took counsel together, and
decided that be couldnVfind a bet
ter wife than Julia Gry.i- :
Apparently Mr. WestoE "tsras of
a. similar opinion. And 'yet, per
haps not. Perhaps it wa$ only ia
a iriendly way that he1 took Julia
out to Vide, and out boating on the
pond, and to walk Sn the cwieet etar-i
ry summer eyes rngsj. Sometimes
Kitty Clyde was with tbem; oftener
not Sometimes she j starred with
them, but was off directly In quest
of some gay night-roses. j
And so Mr. Weston found obsta
cles in the way of studying Kitty's
character. It wag a study which
interested him more and more. .But
somehow the flower which at times
opened to him, and let him drink
in its sweetness and fragrance, at
other times folded itfeelf away in
silence, in the shyest f).nd most per
plexing manner. .And the Rever
end ICdwaid Weston was exceeding
ly disturbed.
But he never asked himself what
it meant, till one golden evening in
October, when Jamie Wood, a stal
wart young farmer, came in, and
looked hnrd jut Kitty in ail the
pauses of the talk. At last Kitty
slipped away. Then up rose Jamie
Wood, and toos a sorrowful, disap
pointed leave.
'Jaime is sadiy in love, poor fel-
It T 1 I T
iov : suiu Jans, tenderly.
In love ? with whom ?' said Mr.
Veston, rousing up.
'On, Kitty Clyde, ot course.
It
would ue an excellent inatcn
fe;
Kitty, only she is so perverse.'
Iho lievcrend Jiidward Weston
felt a sharp stab near hi3 heart.
An hour later he was walking up
ahd down a moonlit path, and
thinking very hard and fast when
suddenly a white wraith glided out
of the shadow of the! trees, and
would have passed him but he put
oat one handsnd detained it.
'Kitty, I want to tell you some
tuing. What! Will you
run away
from mc as you, do ffota
your lov
er
Kitty shook in his hlands
'Janaie Wood i3 not j my
lover,'
she sa;d, passionately.
lL won t
have him !' j
'Why, Kitty V
'Because I 1 don't; love
him.
Let me go, Mr,. Weston !
tVVoic TTJft T7 T W O Ti f
a wife. Every body says I dc, and
I am sure of it. But I want no
body but vcu, for I love you dear
ly.' . )
'Me ?' said tho bewildered girl.
'Such a gocdsfor-nothing as I ?
Oh, you can't mean it !'
'I do, Kitty you, just as you
are. 'Oh, my darling, , God i3 good
to send me such a treasure,' and he
gathered her in his arms, and KiU
vy's longing loving heart fairly
ached with happiness, j
I take pride in adding that Kitty
Clyde made the bonniest, best wife
in Cloverdaie. !
OUE WASHINGTON LETTEE.
The Administration Exconfited Hayes
Reform a Farce Repuhlicans Pre
ferred in the SouiTirMortm and Ty
ntr Running the P. 0. department
"Woe Unto Them that Are at Ease in
Zion V- Machine Politicians, &o.
Washiqnton, D. C, 1
March 27th; 1877.
The Senate has adjourned. The
office-seeker has gone home a sad
der and a wiser man.; The new ad
ministration is Bailing in the won
derfully smooth waters of public
approval. It seems that the coun
try in this respite fromj misgovern
ment, with deep lbngiDg for peace,
will half forget the wrong and dis
grace to which it haa ben subjected
by the Electoral Commission. So
sweet, indeed, is hepef of release
from the thieving despotism of the
last eight years, that evn the Dem
ocratic press helps ; tcj swell the
chorus of praise. I
Governor Ua.jes, concious of the
utter emptiness of his title, k doing
his utmost to conciliate jtho imajori
ty, and reconcile the country to his
fraudulent "tenure, j 'IThus conn
science does make cowardi of us
all." But let us not be decieved
by the civil service reform, just
now vomiting itself so conspicuous
ly. It will be : nothing more than
a specious nullity if it doea not go
far deeper than 'it has gofie yet.
Senator Morton, through his pro
tege the 1st Assistant Post (Master
General, has still the disposal of
the grsater "i portion j. of the post
office patronage. Any ohe acquain
ted with tho real condition jef oar
civil service excresence, knows that
the departments must be emptied
from attic to j cellar, swept, fumiga
ted, disinfected, and! refilled with
new and health j men. Mr.j Hayes
seemed to recognize this first prin
ciplo of reform when hej refased to
retain even one of Grant's j second
hand cabinet ; but it is not jenoagh
, j , 1 j - i r :
BaaaaaaajaBBBnaaaaanaaanaaaaaaaBi
T
tc have a new qnd respectable cabi
net. A plug hat will not tarn
thief and swaggerer into a Christian
If Mr. Hayes and his cabinet werei
imbued with real reforming energy.
they would not be content withj tne
old sfdtu quo anKsuch fine, lolling
sentences as : "No removals with
out canse; no rpromotiona without
merit.1 It is written: "Woe be un
to them that are at ease in Zion!'
but how much worse for those ivho
are at ease in Baal or Domdaniel?
The great majority for Tilden Iwas
a demand for other reform than
that promised through Hayes
When, each ; cabinet " .officer ehal
have 'recognized- then fact that j the
civil service is gtoaning under a bur
then of machine politicians, sons
cousins, and mothers-in-law, of sen
ators ; that there are twice the num
bf r drawing pay that are necessa
ry to do the neccessary work ; that
tQGse who compose thfe elerica
force are lazy, inefficient, dishon
est ; demoralized by the creed that
the essential and sole qualifications
tor ofhee are to vote the Repu.bu
can ticket and to pay campaign! as
sessments unmurmunngly. Whether
all this shall have been realized land
the whole foal service purged and
regenerated, we will have reform
that is something more than a name
the reform that was demanded in
the election of Tilden. j
There seems to have been an im
pression that the appointment- of
Post Master General Key .was
concessioa to the majority that :did
not vote for Hayes. Bat-those who
imagined it to be more than a gaudy
lure have been undeceived. Sena
tor Merrfmon,-of North Carolina,
recently wrote to the Post Mas
ter General inquiring specifically if
appointments without regard i to
politics, would ,-be made in the
South : "When a vacancy exists in
any .office connected with the Post
Office Department in the Southern
States, preference will be given to
a Eepublicac, all other things being
equal. . , ' .
Just at present speculation is
active in reference to a new politl
cal combination looming . above the
horizon, which has for its object
the disintegration of the Democrat
ic party, jft was foreshadowed m
the public improvement bait of Mr
Hayes' inaugural address; it was
further developed in the appoint
ment ot a .Democrat of easy virtue
to the position ot .rost Master Wen
eral ; and its grand objective coup
is to be the election ot a llepubl:
can, preferably Charles Foster, of
Ohio, to the bepeakersLip of the
Forty-Sixth Congress. The Dem
ocratic majority of the next House
will be from four to nine, but the
administration hopes that by pla
cing ill gotten patronage, about in
spots, where it will do most good, it
may wire over a sufficient cumber
of South-Western Democrats to
give ?'t control of the next House.
The' Southern policy of Mr.
HSyes, so auroral in promise, -is
barren in flulfilment. Last week
we were told that by Wednesday,
the 21st iast., the military would
be removed ; bat now, diea yenit,
and the dual governments in Louisi
ana are about to have a duel J while
the army stands by, in the rolo of
a mutual second, while Mr. liayes
hesitates to call him governor who,
though beaten by 8,000 majority,
still received 1,000 more votes than
the said Hayes. Thus conscience
does make. a coward of; Mr. Hayes,"
and thus the native hue of resolu
tion is sicklied over with the pale
cast of thought. C. A S.
An Act to Giva to Justices of the
Peace Jurisdiction of Civil. Actions
not Founded en Contract- ,
i
Section 1. The General Assem
bly cf North Carolina do enact:
That Justices ot the .Peace shall
hare concurrent jurisdiction of civ
il actions not founded on contract
wherein the value of the property
in controversy does not exceed fifty
dollars. J'
Sec. 2. That all actions m the
Court of a Justice of the Peace for
the recovery of damages tol real
estate or for the conversion of, per
sonal property or any injury there
to, shall bo commenced and prose
cated to judgment under the! same
rules of procedure as provided by
law in civil actions in a Justice s
Court. ' I" T
Sec. 3. The provisions of the
code of civil procedure, ; title i 9,
chapter 2, are applicable, except as
herein otherwise provided, tol pror
ceedings in Justice's Courts! con
cerning claim and delivery of per
sonal property, substituting tho
words Jostice of the Peace for "clerk
or clerk of the court or constable'
after "sheriff" wherever .they occur
in said chapter. : . I j
Sec. 4. W ben a delivery is claim
ed an affidavit must be made by the
plaintiff, his agent Or attorney, be?
fore the justice ia wnose court tne
action is l to be tried or some kther
Justice of the Peace, showingj j -j
1st. . That the plaintiff is the! own
er of the property claimed particu
larly describing- it, or is i lawfully
entitled to its possession by virtue
of a special property therein, the
fact in respect to which shall be Bet
forth.' - ';,, ; X , j
r -
NO. 13.
2hdrj ijhat the property
tr is wrontrs
fully detained by the defendant.
! j 3rd, - jTjhe alleged cause of deten
tion therjeof, according to his best
knowledge, information and belief.
; 4th. JT lat the same has not been
taken foi a tax assessment or fine
pursuant to a statue, or seized un
der an i ixecution., er attachment
jagainst ifae property of the plain
tiff, or it so seized, that it is by
statue exempt from such seizure ;
land 1 1 if f.-.j;;. yr -r :
1 5th,' The actual ; va)ue of this
property. - , ' i
j Sec. 5. The defendant . within
'three days after the service of a
copy of (-the affidavit and underta
king mayfgive notice to the ffioer
serving tie same to the: plaintiff or
bis attorney that he excepts to the
Sufficiency pf the sueeties ; if ho
fail to do jso, he shall be deemed to
have waived all objection to them.
When the defendant excepts to the
sureties ihey shall justify before ihe
justice on giving to the defendant
or his at orney notice of the time
and placje, which; shall not be more
than three daysfrom the sevice of no
tice of the exceptions, and the sheriff
or constable shall be responsible for
the suffic iency of the sureties, un
til, the ob ection to them is waived
a3 . above provided,1 or until : they
shall justijfy,; or neyr sureties shall
be substituted and justify. , j
Sec. 6.
ihe party against whom
is j; rendered in any civil
judgment
action in
justice s court may ap-
peal. to the Superior Court from the
same, but
no appeal shall prevent
the issuing an execution on such
judgment,! or work a stay thereof,
except as provided in chapter 63 of
Battle's Bevisal by section 61i 62,
03 ana C4l : -:A-. :" '
Sec 7j The appellant shall within
ten days j after judgment serve a
notice Tofippeal. If the judgment
is rendered upon process not pers
sonally served, or the defendant
did not appear and answer, he shall
have fifteen j days, after notice of
the judgment has been' personally
served on him, to serve, notice of
appeal; T J-O-'j AA. , -
Sec. 8,,t Yhen:, a party prays an
appeal from judgment rendered in
a j justice's "court and the adverse
party is" j present Kin person or j by
a sent or attornev. at the time of
the motion 'for appeal, the appellant
shall not be (required to give any
other notice of appeal. "Who l the
returns of the appeal is made to
the clerk of the appellate court, he
shall docket tho caSe on the civil
issue docket for a new trial of the
whole matter at , the ensuing term
of the court.- i .. ' ' .
Sec. 9. That sections 53, 54, 55,
57 and 59 of charter 93 of Battle's
Ilevisal and i all other! lairs and
clauses of law in ; conflict with the
provisions -of j the act, be and the
same are! hereby repealed. '
bee. 101 That this act shall be in
force fromi its! ratification. ! ' .
Read three times ahd ratified in '
General Assembly, 10th .day of
March, mx :,-4''A.;r i , i---
Slow tut Safe. . ' '
The wife of a' man-living near
Topeka, Kann., reached Detroit on
her way home from the East,' finds '
ing herself short j of funds, -having
ost $35 at JSiagra i aliJ. She went
to a hotel and telegraphed her hus-
band to lorwara her, at once.
He isn.'t the kind of a man to rush
headlon? into! anv fihancial enters
prise, and he stopped to find out
the Cost jf telegraphing money.
When he l ad ascertained he waited
till night, and sent a half-rate mes
sage" saying he would forward !the
money by mail. This wasn't ens
tirely sath factory to ai wife paying
$3 per. daV for board,1 but she had
to wait. In abeut three days the
ooked for! letter arrived, and the
wife was so mad that she came near
swallowing Tier false j teeth. The
husband had enclosed the one-haU
portion of ;three different ten-dollar
tills and explained in his letter : -i
If these reach! you 1 1 will for
ward the other halves upon receipt
of -a telegram. j' " .' ". ! .
i The way that little "i woman dust
ed over tol the telegraph office and
sent him bowie knives and daggers
and bullets made the stocical oper- -atok
wonder if she was not some es
caped lunatic. Over half the mon
ey will be used up for board by the
times6he gets it. and now she is to
reach home on tha balance is what
puzzles hei. '' .
Why
is
a man who parries
an
heiress a lover of musio ? Because
he marries! forstune. : i I
'Sure, mum,' said i Biddy, 'J'll
have breakfast soon, but I have
biled them oisters an oor an a haf
an' they ain't; tinder yit."
Rhode Island man recently-
told his ,eon to cat a j hole ia 'the
barn so that the cat could go j in
and ,out, ihe- barn 'being infested
with imicoi: The boy did so, loca
ting it jusi where l would be' cov
ered i when the door was opened.
How in thunder is the cat to get
in the bam when the hole is cover
ed V r. asked I the father. Why,
through, .the door, of course, re
plied the son. The parent sudden
ly vamoosed. ' , ,
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