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BID SURE Y.OTJ ABE EIGHTH SS'BLElSr GO A.BLEA.D.-33 Crockett.
VULi 3.
trUTIpi F. WILLIAMSON
Attorney-at-Law,
jTAKBORO', N. C.
r)iV.' tu xt h:it of Col. J. L. Bridgers, oyer
jj';,vv Jewelry store. Main street.)
t( Practices iu State and Federal Courts
F
iRXtyirOKELL,
iTTORJ 'E Y-A TLA W
pR AN Iv NASH,
ATTORNEY-AX-LAW,
TARBORO, N. C.
Practices in all the Courts, Btate and Fed-
t:L, - 8888
iEORQE HOWARD, ! . -
Attorney and Counselor atIawi
TARBORC N. C. 'X
rfPrac.ices in all the Courts, State and
federal, j , " nov.6-ly.
PHASES OF1 LIFE.
THE BANK OFFICIAL.
TTR?iblJ?ho ??Us of the bank he drew.
wirVe.V"5 wWo and orphans, too-.
"h fifty thousand dollars he fled
Another good man gone wrong," they said
The night was bitter, the tramD was r.1,1
rte stole a coat to keep out the cold.
Pursuit soon followed, the chase was brief.
Ana tne crowd exclaimed, "They hav
me miei." "
A I.ITTI K BIT r-'; u.t.. .
qn,.,i0 m KA1UHK.
sW VSOQ approaching; it is, 1 could
And rwverty-stricken he looks, I declare :
wt.i; TV. ,naee?-or he shabby-genteel,
the? heel8 threadbaro shoes down at
He's met with financial reverses they say.
1 U turn up this street and Veep out of his way.
, , , ATWB LATER,
tw'JJJL this coming Mong? Let me see;
That face I am certain's familiar to me.
drossed1 TaomP8nl How weU he is
AJ&, now, he can hold op his with the best
So?1
JNDKEW JOYNER,
att0121tet-at-law,
Greenville, n. u.
In - fui'ire. will- regularly attend the Superior
ourw ef K.lgecomb. Office in Tarboro House.
G.
M. T.'iFQUNTAJN,.
ATTO&SEY AND COUNSEUX)R AT LAW,
Tarboro, N. C,
(Wiiv "vvr lasuraaM Office of Capt Orrcn
WUliams.' ' feb2l-6m
M. A. Gilliam.
Uo3fll Gilliam
' QILLIAM & SON
Attorneys-at-I-aw,
. i TARBORO' , N. C.
Vi!l practice- in the Counties of Edgecombe,
BuUfiis and Pitt, and in the Courts of the
( irt JuJiciaJ District, and in the Circuit and
a-.T-iiue Courts at Raleigh. janl8-lj.
J.S. NORFLEET,
Attorney-at-Law,
T:lRB0R0, - - .V. C-
CIIICUIT .Edgecombe, Nash and Wil
Joa. 'Loans negotiated on reaaocabte ferm's.
J.
L. BRIDGERS & SON,
Attorneys-at-Law
TARBORO,
1 t lry
m a
OSSF.Y BATTLE.
1 at Lav
'TARBORO, - - - N. C.
fBatiet k- Hart, Rocfcy Mount, N. C.,
Practice In the courts of Nash, Edgecombe,
Wilson and; Halifax counties. Also In the
Federal and Supreme Courts. Tarboro office,
u;stairs oyer new Howard building, Maiu
street, opp. Bank front room. apr 1 'SI
D
R. H. T. BASS
Offers hiisproteo tl services to the citi-
lens of larboro and vicinity.
Oiiice in T.A. McNair's drug store on Main
Street . " s
JK. 1. CARK,
Surgeon
Dentist,
TARBORO, N. C.
iliec u-.ii, irom 9 a. m. 'till 1 p. m. and
oil i to 6 p. m.
S7"Nexft door to Tarboro House, over
Roy jter & Nash.
3li. R. W. JOYNER,
- SURGEON DENTIST
Has nermanentlT located in Wil
'ion. N. C. All operations wDI be
neatlv and carf fullv performed and
on term1, ns reasonable as Dossible.
- Teetlrtxtracted with Tat pain. Office
on Tarboro street, next door to Post
Office. Jan-1 bm
J L. SAVAGE,
Liverijy Sale, Exchange
arid Feed Stables.
Cok.ner Granvillb & St. Andrew Streets
TARBORO'. Jf. C.
und huve a capacity of holdin? ten car-loadfl
VTi V V l 1 " m U-a
L
UTHER SHELDON,
DEALER IN
SASHES, DQOUS, BLINDS
BUlLDERfl' HARDWARE,
PAINTS, OILS, GLASS,
i r
A ad BuiIdiPk! Material of every description
TOS. 1(5 JV. BIDE MARKET SQUARE &
' 49 ROANOAKE AVE.,
NORFOLK, VA.
'Novemj erlS82.' 18,1-y.
"WILLIAMSON,
A, U ; "
r Manufacturer of
OiyosiTE H, Moeeis & Bbos.,
TARBORO', N. C.,; THURSDAY OCTOBER 29, 1885.
NO. 44
ij he's struck ol
hompeon. my dear fellow.
and is rich as a Jew
rieuow, how do yx
Boston Courier.
Anetdotea or Jndffe. Lawyers and
TVltnesaee Amnalng Stories of
the Bench and Bar. .
Some people are too trnstinor for tw
world. At a recent trial the nrlsnnnT
entered a plea of "not jmiltv." when one
of the jury pnt on his hat and started for
tne door. The jndge called him back, and
Informed him that he could not leave un
til the case was tried. "Tried!" cried the
uror, "Why, he acknowledges that he is
not guilty!" '
"Oruilty, or not frailty!" sharnlv said an
assize judge the other day to an inatten
tive female prisoner in the dock. "Just
as your honor please. It's not for the
likes o' me to dictate to your honor's wor
ship, " was the reply.
1 Bee," said an opposine counsel to the
lat Emory A. Storrs, "you hate to meet
the truth in this matter." "I never do
meet it," was the prompt reply; "the
truth and I always travel in the same
direction."
A young barrister, Intending to be very
eloquent, observed "such principles as
these, my lord, are written in the Book of
Nature." "What pace, sir?" said Lord
Chief Justice EUenborough, and the orator
was silenced for life.
A good story is told of Judge Moncure.
late Chief Justice of the Virginia Court of
Appeals, whose kindness of heart was
proverbial. Not long after the war there
came to him an ex-Confederate soldier,
with an empty sleeve, who represented
that he had been appointed a constable in
his county, and finding it hard to keep the
wolf away, had conceived the idea of get
ting a license to practice law, thinking
to make some riett v fees before the magi
strates' court. No stronger appeal than
this could be made to Judge Moncure.
One can almost hear his hear his hearty
Come in, my friend, come in ; I will ex
amine you." And then, the story goes, a
long examination followed, covering al
most every branch of law, but consisting
entirely of questions by the judge, since
the aspirant could not answer a single one
of them. At last in despair the old man
said : "My friend, is there anything you
do know? If there is, and vou will teU
me what it is,! will ask you that quest io,
and sign your license."
" Now, sir," said the prosecuting attor
ney, pompously, "you are a railroad man,
you say. Now, sir, let's1 see how much
you know a!out your business, air. What
motives, sir, has your company for
running its trains through the city faster
than the ordinances decree ?" " What
motive V "Yes, sir ; what motive ?
Come, sir !" "Why, locomotive, I should
say," The witness was fined for contempt
of court.
A magistrate Litely asked a street Arab,
before putting him on his oath, what was
done to people who swore falsely, and had
his ears shocked with the reply, "They
make policemen out of 'em."
A learned judge telL hii amusing story
of the way that a juror "went for" a con
viction. He says he was trying a murder
case a few days ago ; down iu one of the
wire-gra--3 counties, and experienced
great difficulty iu getting a jury. Eleven
jurors had ieen sworn in, and 111 the next
p:nel was brought m a small, lean, lank
fellow, who had on only one shoe, his
pants being above his knees, his ihirt open
both back and front, and the aforesaid
p;ints leing held up by a single brace.
The solicitor proceeded to ask the usual
questions in some cases, as follows:
"Have you, from having seen the crime
committed, or having heard any of the
testimony delivered under oatli, formed or
expressed any opinion as the guilt or in
nocence of the prisoner at the bar?" The
single-brace fellow, in a clear and distinet
voice, answered : "Not any." "Have you
any prejudice or bias resting on your mind
for or aguinst the prisoner at the bar?"
"I hain't." " Is your mind perfectly im
partiul between the State and the accused?"
Hit air." "Are you cons-cientiousiy
opposed -to capital- punishment?" "I
isn't."
The judge did not like the juror muclu
but, it lx-ing late, and the jurors scarce, he
M as "put upon " the prisoner in the usual
manner, the solicitor saying, "Juror, looK
upon the prisoner ; prisoner look upon the
juror." The juror was quite near tne
prisoner, and when this command was
given he bent over mm, scanning nun
from head to foot intently for some min
utes, and then turned to the jndge, and
said in a firm, solemn voice, "Yes, judge,
I think he's guilty."
The following is related of Judge Un
derwood, late United States Tariff Com
missioner, who was at the time on the
bench of the Superior Court at Rome, Ga,
It eppears that one Marshal Mooney was
found terribly mutilated on ine ouisjkuxs
of the cityl Evidence seemed clearly to
indicate that Tobe" cooper, was tne
mnrrterer. Owing to the successful im-
neachment of one ef the State's most im
portant witnesses the jury brought in a
verdict of "not guilty." Many, including
the Judge, were disappointed at his ac
quittal, The judge then rose slowly from
his seat, slowly adjusted his spectacles,
and thus addressed the prisoner: "Tobe
Cooper." he said, "you are a free man.
You have had a narrow escape. You
were charged with the raurder of a fellow
man, but the jnry decides that you are
not guilty. " So may it be, but before yon
leave this room let me give you one piece
nf advice; -Don't vou ever muroer
any other man.' "
Wwpntlv a nidge being about to im-
nnw sentence upon a prisoner who had
. . , 1 tj . 1 1 .,.1
been convicted 01 noue-orea.iug, caum
him up for that purpose ; whereupon his
counsel, addressing the court, asked that
alight sentence be imposed. The court
proceeded to sentence the prisoner to ten
yeanTin the Penitentiary. His counsel
appealed pathetically to the court, laying
great stress upon the prisoner's feeble con
dition, "Your honor," said the counsel,
"my client is now in the last stages of
consumption. He will never live to serve
half sentence, and I hope your Honor will
be merciful to him." "Well, said the
court, "I will do better, I will sentence
the prisoner to the Penitentiary, at hard
larxfr, for life."
EQUAL EIGHTS.
When In a Woman to- Become the
Equal of a man tn our Court?
By the old common law a married
woman was a legal nonentity. Husband
and wife were regarded as one, and that
one was a man. Her personal rights, as
well as her property, were surrendered to
him. Before the law the wife was virtual
ly a slave. This barbarism has been
largely abolished.by our statutes giving to
married woman extensive and merited
rights. But every now and then a point
arises which is not expressly covered by
statute and an attempt is made to revive
the old common law discrimination against
w ue.
A case of the kind came before the court
at Rochester. There has never been any
question as to the right of a husband to
maintain an action against another man
for the alienation of his wife's affection.
Unz in a Rochester case a wife sued another
woman for alienating her husband's
affection. Such an action is not exnress
ly authorized by statute, and hence the
demurrer was raised that it could not be
maintained. But Judge Macomber, bas
ing his decision on principle and common
sense, held that a wife has just as good a
right as a husband to redress for wrong of
this kind. "It is the failure of "the hus
band to live with his wife and his failure
to support her adequately," he remarks,
"which may be said to be the direct result
of the action of this defendant, and there
is an injury, a loss, coupled with the
direct damage, the approximate cause of
the alienation of his affection by this
woman, and I do not see why such an action
cannot be maintained by a wife as well as
a similar- action can be maintained by a
husband." fNew York Herald.
A Husband's Solicitude.
"John, father and. mother are comin"
to-morrow to spend the week, and 1- do
hope you will be nice while they are
here,"
"I am sorry to say, that I have an im
portant engagement that will keep me
away all the week."
"This is the first time you have said
anything about any engagement."
"l know it, but I meant to speak about
it to-night,"
"Oh, I was mistaken ; it's next week
they'er coming."
Then I'll put off my engagement, as I
dont't want to leave you alone."
THE POTEEN SMUGGLER'S WIFE.
Clever Method or Gettins to ITIareht
With the Products of
Illicit Distillery.
A man who was known to have a large
mountain farm and extensive homestead
in the hills was observed very frequently
to ride into the town of B ; and he
never made his appearance , without - a
woman, supposed to be his wife, jogging
steadily and uprightly on a pillion behind
him. He was tali and gauat in look ; she
large and rotund, and enenmbered, as is
the mode of all country wives, with a
multitude of petticoats. They always
rode into the yard of a man who kept a
public-house, and before they alighted off
their horse the gate was carefully shut.
11 was
How They Cain Ground.
"Sqnildig," said Podsnap, "I notiee in
the papers that female dentists are gain
ing groud in Germany." L
"Yes?"
. "Well, what-1 want to know is how a
dentist can gain ground?"
"That's simple; the same way that a
farmer gains ground."
How is that?"
"By pulling stumps."
DRIFTWOOD.
TARBORO,
A Dumber ol young ladies iu Has
tings, Minn., have signed an agree
ment not to go with any young man
who drinks, smokes, chews tobacco
or swears. Bless the dear girls !
What a lonesome time "the boys '
will have this winter it this agree
ment holds oat that length of time.
William Neft, of Denver, went to his
cabin, lay down on the floor, and placed a
stick of giant powder with cap and fuse
attached under his head. While in this
position he lighted the fuse. The shot
blew his head entirely from his body.
A Belgian has invented a coffin to
effectually prevent the possibility of being
buried alive. The pressure of the earth
thrown upon the coffin liberates a sort of
stiletto, which is so placed that on being
disengaged it pierces the heart of the oc
cupant, .
Prof. Galloway has noticed that the
junior classes of boys in schools under
stand and profit by lessons in chemistry
better than their seniors, whose observant
faculties and power of learning from
things had been relatively weakened by
their longer course of grammar-school
training.
When the present capitol at Washing
ton was opened, in 1818, the old one was
let to business tenants. One of them,
Anne Royal, ran two weekly newspapers
the Paul Pry and the Huntress on
the premises, and was the originator of
the American system of interviewing.
She was indicted as a common scold in
in 1829. She lived to the age of 92.
In Australasia a singular but beautiful
tree has been named in honor of Prof.
Owen. It propagates only by suckers.
The seeds will not germinate. They are
contained in a solid stone, so dense that it
cannot be broken with a hammer. Two
years pass before the stone decays, and
then the kernels have pea-ished also.
The Correspondencia, of Madrid, has a
daily average circulation of 250,000 copies.
Yet it has no editor. A dozen energetic
reporters gather the news- They come to
the office and drop the manuscripts in a
bag, and there they stay until the fore
man wants copy. Everything is then
thrown into the forms without regard to
order or anything else.
At a trial at which the late Mr. Justice
Maule presided, counsel were unable to
ascertain whether or not a little girl
understood the nature of an oath. "My
dear," said the Judge, "do you know
where you will go if you don't tell the
truth?" No, sir, replied the child. "A
very sensible answer," remarked Justice
Maule, "neither do I. You may swear the
witness."
A bee-keeper having been told that a
lad, through being repeatedly stung by
bees, had become .impervious to any un
pleasant sensation when attacked by
them, resolved to experiment on his own
person. He kept a record of the unmber
of times ho was stung, and when he be
gan to cease feeling the effects- of the
stings. The result was that all sense of
feeling had been stung thirty times within
a few weeks. . -. - -
Our rich pewholderswill find little com
fort in the liberal views of the Bishop
of London, who, In a letter to Canon
Trench, says : I do not myself object to
seat rents provided the free seats occupy
the best part of the church. Justice re
quires the people who like to secure their
seat should be content with an inferior
scat. But it is best that all seats should be
free if we can afford it."
Sarah Cousins, of Sussex, concealed the
birth of her child twenty years. On
opening the box the police found the dried
body wrapped it a weekly newspaper
dated January 1, 1805, She said that
twenty years ago it was born without any
other person's knowledge. If did not cry,
and she thought it was dead, bhe put it
in a box and carried it from place to place
about- the country with her for ten years,
when she took it to the house where it
was found.
Magna Charta Island, in the Thames,
has been offered for side at public auction.
On the walls of the bid residence are
painted the shields and arms of the barons
who were in attendance at the signing of
Magna Charta. In the centre of the room
is a table with a stone top, bearing this
inscription ; "Be it remembered that on
this island, June 15, 1215, John, King of
England, signed Magna Charta, and in
the year 1834 this building was erected in
commemoration of that historical event,"
j- . THE FUNSTER'S LAST E7F03T.
leasing Into His Eternal Sleep In a
-: Prison Cell.
; He staggered into the police station one
sSisrnal night when the air was full of
how and cutting sleet His dirt-be-
rimmed hand weakly held the pen as he
Scrawled upon the page of the register in
crasy characters, the name Shoemaker.
No hat confined his silvered locks that lay
his furrowed brow as they had been
f-sed by the unfeeling hand of the night
wind. Ragged and torn. hi3 coat clung
4n shreds around his shivering form. He
was a sorry sight, but the kiudly officer
saw something in the bloated face and
"i'loodshot eyes upturned to him that con-
"Vtneed him that, fcho man had npen Vtptt.Ar
known, moreover, that this pubbV j
sateofMsbuUerTand
time things went on in a quiet and easy.U a.nd ganged a comfortable bed on
wayuntU- one day it so, happened vw,;?,;rBH,!nWBr
indeed-it is vety common for-idlers in aJvht st. .The night wore wearily on
SWUtltv UUUU UUUJUI.ilUlU rUlQ OiV QUU
GLOVES AND THEIR USE.
KATE FIELD ON COUNTRYMEN.
yeiTidie-country towR to stand. "SfiSLIiife't
remarKs on the people as they came by)
that the ganger, the innkeeper, and a
squireen were lounging away their dayv
when the farmer, slowly paced by, 'with
his everlasting wife behind him.
"Well," says the squireen, "of all the
women I ever saw bumping on a pillion,
that lump of a woman sits the awk
wardest. she don't sit like a natural
born crathur at all. And do you see how
modest she is? What with her flapped
down beaver hat, and all the frills aiid
fallals !out her, not an inch of her sweet
face is to le seen no more than an owl
from out the ivy. I have a great mind to
run up alongside of her, and give her a
pinch in the toe, to make old buckram
look alMjnt her for once."
Accordingly, no sooner said than
done. He ran over to where the farmer
u ;is getting on slowly through the market
crowd, and on the side of the pillion to
w hich the woman's back was turned, at
tempted to give a sly pinch ; but he
inight as well have pinched a pitcher. Nor
did the woman even lilt up her head, or
ask," -Who is it that's hurting me?"
This enilioldened him to give another
knock with his knuckles: and this assault
he found not opposed, us it should l-e by
petticoats and ilcsli. but by what ht felt
to 1 petticoats and metal.
"tins is qtn-er, said the squireen
He now was mure Injld, and with the butt
end, of Ms walkingstick he hit what
was io hard n bang which sounded as if
he. had struck a tin jot.
".-top here, honest man," cried the gan
ger. "Let my wife aloue, will you, before the
people!" cried the farmer.
"Not till we see what tlus honest woman
is made of," roared t he ganger.
So he pulled and the farmer dug his
heels into his colt to get on ; but all would
not do. In the struggle, down came the
wife into the street -. and as she fell on the
pavement, the whole street rang with the
sottish, and iu a moment there was a gurg
ling as from a burst larrel, and a stroug
smellini; witer came flowing all about,
and liatpo;r Norah lay, there being an
eruption of all her intestines, which
flowed down the gutter' as like poteen
whisky as eggs are like eggs. The fact
was that our friend from the land of
Joyce had got nuvde by some tinker a tin
vessel with head and body the shape of
a woman- aud dressed it out as a proper
country, dame. In this way he carried
his dariint behind him, and ' made intrch
of her.
l'ark Twain' Vay
The Rev.- J. Hyatt Smith relates the
following anecdote of Mark Twain
When I v.;s living with my brother m
Buffalo, Mark Twain occupied a cottage
across the street. We didn't see very
much ol him, but one morning as we were
enjoying our cigars on the verandah after
breakfast we saw Mark come to his aoor
in his dressinK-gown and slippers and
look over at us. He stood at his door and
smoked for a minute, as if making up his
mind about something, and at last opened
his gate and tome lounging across the
street.
There was an occupied rocking-chair on
the verandah, and when my brother offered
it to him he dropped into it wilh a sigh of
reMef. He smoked for a few moments,
and said, "Nice morning." "ies, very
pleasant." " Shouldn't wonder if we had
rain hy-and-byc." "Well, we could stand
u little." "This is a nice house you have
here." "Yes. we rather like it." "How's
your family :-" " Quite well and yours?"
".Oh, we're all comfortable." I here was
an impression silence, and finally Mark
crossed his legs, blew a puff of smoke in
to the air, and in hislary drawl remarked
"I suppose you're a little surprised to see
me-over here fo early. Fact is, I havn't
lxien so ncighlxrly, perhaps, as I ought
to be. We must mend that state of
things. But this morning 1 came over
because I thought you may lie interested
in knowing that your roof is on fire. It
struck me "that it would be a good idea if
But at the mentiou of fire the whole
family dusted up stairs trailing language
all the way nV When we had put the
fire out and hixrreturned to the verandah
Mark wasn't there.
VapH.
A -wasp's nest was discovered in a coun
try chinch. After alittle while the wasps
were discovered also. The minister was
Drocecding leisurely to "fifthly," when
the wasDS concluded-that they had bet
ter attend to business and begin a mis
sionary work among the congregation.
They sallied forth in twos and threes for
the sake of mutual remrorcement, ana it
is safe to sav that some expressions were
made use of during the next half hour
which would not stand the test of the
strictest piety. Bald heads were especiaL
ly at a discount, and when an enthusiastic
wasp lighted "thereon and proceeded to the
nerformance -of 'his duty the staccato
tnne.'i of sudden anger broke on the. still
nnd solemn air and a horny hand hit the
.bald scot as though it would knock the
whole head off,
For a little while there was something
like a regular camp meeting revival in
that building. Moody and Sankey's songs
were nowhere. There were hysteric shouts
and wild hurrying to and fro and dancing
up and down the aisles, until the minister
shouted, in the language of the Mikado,
"Here's a pretty how de do." Just then
a wasp made his j;ersonal acquaintance,
and he immediately shut the Bible and
made a remark. It was proven beyond a
a doubt that religion, though fitting
every other emergency in life, is entirely
inadequate when a wasp applies his busi
ness end to human epidermis.
brought the day "officers to their duty,
they found the form of the weary traveler
stretched in the dusty cell where he had
been laid the night before,
"He sleeps soundly and we'll let him
rest," they whispered, as they looked in
upon the quiet form and withdrew. The
day was nearly done and yet the traveler
slept. ' The door of the cell was opened
and the officers called to him but no reply
came back; they gently shook him, but he
gave no signs of awaking; they threw
back the door that a. better light might be
had, and then, as they looked down upon
the quiet eyelids and motionless breast,
they knew that the weary wanderer of
the night had laid down to his eternal
sleep. They tenderly lifted him, and
as tney did so a crumpled paper and a
half worn pencil fell from his nerveless
fingers- 'Hie paper was brought to the
light and unfolded. Upon the dirty sur
face, almost illegibly, were traced the
following Hues:
George Anthony Shoemaker's n-.y niiiuc;
I was pretty well ht--lud when I e;i:uo
Over the sea to the land at tin- f rca
To win myself fortuno und (n::i. -.
A whole Holed felio-.v was I,
Great on the Tap when I v.ms dr;-,
So I went without sujiners
And walked upon my Uppers,
Ere, one twelvemonth h:id ilown Iy.
So I slowly Peued i ly al ter i! ly,
Until I waxed we.u y un.i stray:
But you can't u vi -et, when mh: dec-ply
reflj-t.
A Shoemaker io Li-t sdway.
Pe'-Vs Sun.
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Jcii niiliugs oil Ai-ie.siiih Witeil.
Derii hez done a cruel thing lately.
Deth seldom iz impnrshal : this iz all
that ken be said in his favor. He moves
hissithe awl round the world, now in this
field, now in that ; wheat,' Mowers, and
weeds drop, wilt, and wil her, for he sythes
early and late iu cki and town, by the
harthstun and away oph where the wan
derers are.
Deth hez done a cruel thing lately. Deth
is seldom kind. Here a father, a mother,
a wee small thing but a month on a visit
there Mary aud Charley go down in white
Clothes. Deth niowes : menny fields are
all bare, for Deth cuts class as well as
crneL -. - ' -: . ..
1 Detb love tAmoT ; tis Ms stile. He Is
old and slick with his sickle ; he mowed
for Able uv old and for Able uv yesterday,
Deth mows strangely, ana round fall
the daisy and grass, and alone, snarling,
stands the koarse thistle, left for what 1
Deth can't tell, for God only knows.
Deth, you have done a cruel thing late
ly ; you have mowed where the wittiest
one of all stood, whoso words have gone
laffing awl over the world, whose heart
waz az good and az soft az a mother's.
Deth, you have mowed where my friend
Artemus stood, and Humor wears mourn
ing now for the child of her heart. I am
sad, and I am sorry.
Co-Operatton In England.
The English cooperative societies have
transacted a business during the past
twenty years amounting to f 1,400, 000, 000.
The profits were f 100,000,000. There are
1,264 societies, with aliout 700,000 members
representing heads of families, making in
all 3,750,000 persons.' The sales for the year
18S2 were 130,000,000 ; profits, S10.000,-
000; capital in ten years was 160 percent.
The co-operative manual, which furnishes
these "figures eoes mto a vast amount of
detail to show the operations of these
societies. The movement took its present
shape in 1804, when the membership was
17,500. In four years the membership was
75,000 ; in seven years, 115,000. The
movement took wholesale proportions very
early. In 1883 the drygoods branch of the
business involved a capital of 91,000,000.
Furniture was dealt in, butter agencies
were opened in Ireland, and houses were
opened in Hamburg and Copenhagen for
the transaction of business. The societies
have now their own tleet. They have
agencies in New York, where in one year
over $10,000,000 was handled, They have
depots at Liverpool, Manchester and else
where, and they insure their own property.
They make crackers, boots and shoes, and
soaps. They do mttch of their own mill
ing, and are every year expanding their
operations in a manner which shows that
there is ability m the working classes,
when it is properly selected, to manage
their own affairs.
The art of Glove making and Its Per
fection in France.
The art of glovemaking is found in its
greatest perfection in France, the manu
facture of kid gloves being one of the
most important industries i:i that
country. The English, who make much
heavier gloves, import a great number of
kid gloves from Paris. It is a well known
fact that the cheaper variety of gloves are
made from the skins of lambs aud rats, as
there conld scarcely be slaughtei-ed
enough kids in the civilized world to pro
vide skins for the manufacture of the
large number of the so-called kid gloves
that are worn the world over by persons
of refinement. England imports the skins
of opossums from Australia for the pur
pose of glovemaking. The really first
class kid gloges that are made in England
are sold under the name of French manu
facturers, because the French long since
attained a world wide reputat ion as kid
glove trmkewand'j,therefore no other
glove will ever sen as well. .
Great skul is required in the cutting or.
gloves from skins. The latter are first
stretched on marble slabs and nibbed with
a blunt knife. Skins are first cut length
wise through the middle, and the single
strip for the palm and back are next cut
off from one end of the half skin. The
pieces for the thumbs, gussets, &c., must
come out of the same skin, or one exactly
like it, and the greatest care is exercised In
order that no material shall be wasted and
that the pieces shall be cut to the best
possible advantage.
The - gloves made In this country are
manufactured mostly of buckskin, and
are made at Gloversville, Fulton. County,
N. Y. Kid gloves are also made at
Gloversville and in New York city, but
this latter manufacture is not very exten
sive anywhere in America.
How Axes are ITIade.
The manufacture of axes in Pittsburg is
in amount about double that of any other
city in the United States and about equal
to the combined productions of all other
places. The greater part of the trade is
reached through Baltimore, St. Louis,
Chicago and New Orleans as distributing
points. Competing manufactories are
located in Boston, Collinsville, N. H.;
Lewiston, Pa., and in Michigan. The
handles are made chiefly in Ohio and
Indiana. Only a comparatively small
number are sold with the axes, as pur.
chasers at retail most frequently prefer
to select a handle to suit their tastes. The
demand for axes with handles already ad
justed is said to be constantly increasing.
In the manufacture of axes the material
passes through twelve different operations
before it is ready for labelling and boxing.
At first it is a rectangular piece of iron,
about three-fourths of an inch thich, three
and one-half inches wide and about six
inches long. The bit is of steel, and in
some instances is inserted in a slit made in
the iron, and in others it is drawn over
the edge of the iron. There is a growing
demand for axes made entirely of steeL
The most important part of the process of
manufacture is the tempering. The grind
ing and polishing is the most laborious
part of the process. It is here that the
rough, irregularly shaped semblance of an
axe is ground and polished until it is as
a mirror. It is said that the work will
prove fatal within five years to any man
who pursues it steadily. ' The air is UUed
with imperceptible dust from stones, and
many of the workmen tie small sponges
saturated with water over their nostrils.
Ihe Thinks a majority of Oar Farmers
are Ignorant and Prejudiced.
"I am simply staggered by the opaque
itupidness of the average villager. You
see, I am just from Clifton Springs, and
have had an allopathic dose of rural im
becility. What causes this tirade? Why,
the sermon the Rev. Dr. Cuyler dellve red
recently. He just echoed my sentiments
in every particular. His subject was the
advantages of the city over the country.
Take the life of a small village. The very
nature of social intercourse is depressing,
and ignorance stalks oo every corner in
unblushing effrontery. The yonng men
are raised up to know few amusements,
to attend church and follow in the
straight and dull paths of their fathers.
What is the result? As soon as they ar
rive at man's estate they seek sociability
tf the barroom. They have seen- life all
the way in a narrow, limited compass.
Prejudice is rooted in their nature. The
love of the true, the good and the beauti- A
tvl is a stranger to their bosoms. : Some
of the most revolting crimes are com
mitted in the rural districts. The horny-
handed farmer supposed to be blessed with
all the virtues, the very pattern of na
ture's noblest masterpiece, is mean and
sordid. He has moved in a narrow rut
ill his days. Corroding prejudice has
sealed his avenues to broad, and liberal
views. He is so warped and distorted
that one might exclaim that nature had
repudiated the brains placed in his cra
nium. If a man in the country has any
ideas be straightway goes to a city. Yon
may think I am hard on them, bnt I
really mean what I say. The religion
that is prevalent among them is of the
toughest sort. A physician relating his
experience to me of his practice among
the country folk declared that their ig
norance was amazing. He said it was
difficult to be successful with them, they
knew so little. Enlightenment prevails
most exclusively in the cities. The opera,
the theatre, the lecture, club rooms and
a thousand things create even within a
small brain liberal views, and drive out
prejudice. They are far better resorts
than the low barrooms in the country
hamlets. Yet there are those who have
the amusing audacity to get up aud speak
of the primitive goodness and exalted
virtue that hovers like an angel's bless
ing around the couch of the villager.
These sage prophets and sciollstic philos
ophers send forth a wail of regret at the
degeneracy of city life and point with
Pickwickian pride to the virtuous race in
the country. So much for that subject.
Ah! but the beauty of nature in the
country makes one forget the people."
An Old Soldier's
EXPERIENCE.
u Calvert, Texas,
May 3, 188.
" I wish to express my appreciation of the
valuable qualities of
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
as a ooogh remedy.
' While with Churchill's army, Just before
the battle of Vicksburg, I contracted a se
vere cold, which terminated in a dangerous
cough. 1 found no relief till on our march
we came to a country store, where, on asking
far some remedy, I was urged to try Aykil's
Cheiihy Pectoual.
"I did so, aud was rapidly cured. Since
then I have kept the Pectoral constantly by
ue, for family use, and I have found it to be
an invaluable remedy tor throat and lung
disease. , J W WHlTLST. .
Thousands of testimonials certify to the
prompt euro of aD bronchial and lung
affections, by the use of AVer's ChebST .
Pkctouai, Being very palatable, the young
est children take it readily.
PREPARED BT
Dr.J.C.Ayer&Co.,LoweU,Ma3s.
Sold by all Druggists.
A
NEW AND VALAUBLE
VICE.
Patent
DE-
Water Closet Sea
A False Report.
Dnmley (with an injured air.L How is
it, Brown, that you are reporting about
that I don't know nothing?
Brown I have never reported anything
of the kind.
Dumley It's very strange. Robinson
told me you said last night to him that I
don't know nothing. Those were his ex
act words.
Brown Robinson is mistaken. What
I said to him was, yon do know nothing.
You musn't believe all you hear, Dumley,
Josh Billings' Idea of It.
I have never doubt ed that the man
who has a fair brain, uudoubted courage,
fearless truth, and honesty can get all he
should have in this world.
MORSELS OF GA8TR0H0HY.
Art and Age.
"A woman is the age that she looks,"
runs a familiar bit of philosophic sagacity.
in which case Mrs. Schoeffel (Agnes Booth)
is thirty-two, a matter of ten years less
than her age according to the calendar.
While" on the subject of a popular ac
tress' age, the New York Mirror remarks
that there is no accounting for the very
general and very powerful curiosity exist
ing among the laity respecting the num
ber of years that have rolled over the
heads of fair favorites of the footlights.
This curiosity amounts to nothing lees
than vulgar impertinence! an almost uni
versal offense that has been stimulated by
the daily press. To the play-goer it mat
ters not whether an actress be flve-and-twenty
or fifty providing she is mistress of
the art of appearing to be as young or as
Old as the requirements of her character
demand. Maggie Mitchell is a shining
example of this fact. This lady acts and
looks her soubrette roles to-day as admira
ble as she did a score of years past, Edwin
Booth, to cite the case of a player of the
opposite sex, now arrived at the mature
and mellow period, is as potent to melt
the hearts of sentimental school-girls with
his romantic Ruy Bias or classical Ham
let as he was in the full flush of his Win
ter Garden triumphs. Why should it mat
ter to the man or woman in the orchestra
seats whether Miss Mitchell is a matron
with a family, or Mr Booth in private life,
is a dyspeptic and a literary recluse? The
former capers just as nimbly as Fanchon,
and the other in the sables of the Danish
prince presents as sweetly-melancholy,
sadly attractive a picture to the eye.
TOR TUB-
CUBE OP HEMORRHOIDS,
Commonly Called Piles.
INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL PEOLAP
STJS. AI.
NO
MEDECINE OR 8URGICAL OPERA
TION NECESSARY,
Fannie
of the
"AT fn'a vnwfl
course they
maiden vain
Original Observations :
Foster haB a poor opinion
male f 6. Sho says :
are made in vain." Of
are. Fannie when a
dosen't reciprocrte.
Mapleson's New-York opera
sou will begin with "CarmeD;"
nie Hank in the title role.
A Shocking Sneeze.
A lady iu South Bend, Ind., who had a
false footh set on a pivot, sneezed it out
the other day while feeding chickens. An
old hen thought it was a grain of corn
and swallowed it as soon as it struck the
ground. After a long chase the hen was
captured, beheaded, its crop opened, the
tooth found, and restored to the lady's
mouth, where it afterward helped to
masticate the old hcri. :
f ea-Min
Alluding to tne declaration of Mr.
Geo. W. Cable, the novelist, that "If
our mothers are not fit to vote, they
ought to stop bearing sons," the New
Orleans Picayune says : ''Mr. Cable
evidently means that only mothers
among women should vote. Old
ma ds and other , not mothers,
1 1 h uld not be allowed to come to the
baUot-box."
The Age of "Labor Unions."
- -"I want the best private box in the
house, for the President and Secretary of
the Deadheads' JLeague,"
"Here is a poem on 'Autumn reject it
and the vengeance of the Poets' Protective
Association will be upon your head."
"Don't prevent me from gettin' news,
young feller, or the Consolidated Society
of Keyhole Reporters will paralyze you.
"All right, pop, lick me if yon want to ;
but the Independent Union of Dime Novel
Readers will fix you, an' don't you for
get it."
i- "Yez'll have to do yer own cookin' ter-
morrer, mum; the Benevolent Society of
Basement Ladies has a Convintion, an'
fm the treasurer of the organization."
j "Take this cold meat back, an' tell the
missus that the Benovolent an' Protective
Order of Wanderers won't allow us to
accept nothing but coffee an' porter-house
steak."
. "I am sorry, Mr. Shaker, but if you wish
more blankets on your bed, you must lay
your request before the Executive Com
mittee of the Boarding House Keepers'
Union."
' "Yes, Henry, I have come to make you
a nice long visit, and I warn you that the
Order of Independent Mothers-in-law will
resent any disrespect shown to one of it's
members."
: "it is my duty to inform you, George,
that the Amalgamated Society of Sunday
Girls has passed a resolution requesting
young men to propose at the end. of
two months cr skip." Puck.
s It is announce d upon authority
that Mr. Kasson, of Iowa, has begun
the preparation of his long projected
"veork on the diplomatic history of the
United States during the late war.
: The total number of flowering
plants now known in British North
America may be estimated at about
3,000 species against 10,000 iu the
United States.
Minced ham and eggs, the former
broiled and the latter hard, has been in
troduced as a new breakfast dish.
Custard is in high favor among dyspep
tics, because of some physicians' orders,
and also continues to be held in greatest
esteem among little children.
Beautiful cauliflower in glass jars, "all
ready to cook," is now imported from as
far away a place as Holland. "It is
Dutch, you know."
"Show potatoes" are mashed and then
put through a colander, which gives them
a light and fluffy look. They have been
quite the thing at Newport dinner parties.
There is the usual amount of newspaper
literature current as the best mode of cook
ing and eating reed birds a bit of game,
by the way, that has different names in
different places.
An old saw has it that neither the
nibbler nor the glutton knoweth the
value of the feast a motto suitable for
brides in hotels, and men whose attend
ance at public banquets is infrequent.
Stewed white beans, now loosed upon
as a common dish, were a delicacy with
Alexander in Asia, and historians say
were a discovery of one of his best, and
consequently favorite, cooks.
Rossini, who waa very partial to a
good dinner, was the -"inventor" of the
filet de boeuf Rossini, which in his day was
as much venerated by gourmets as were
the grand operas which were also
"invented" by him.
It is narrated of the Grecian epicures
of old that they enveloped their hands in
a kind of glove so that they could pick
out the food while it was burning hot. A
Grecian gourmet never kept dinner wait
ing.
Oyster omelet is numbered among the
palatable breakfast dishes, but the average
haired girl, whose relatives are in Ireland,
makes it about as well as she plays on the
drawing-room piano in the absence of her
mistress.
Lovers of genuine imported sardines
may be glad to know that the Main, sar
dine trade is not flourishing. The demand
has decreased, as well as it may, since the
substitute is wretched and the fish are
packed in thet worst quality of cotton seed
OIL
The Cook publishers In Its market re
ports a list of cheeses obstainable, a list
much greater than most people imagine.
It comprises American, several kinds ;
Stilton, Cheddar, Gruyere, Brie, Gorgon-
zola, Sage, Pineapple, Roquefort, Holland,
Eidam, Camembert, NeufchateL Par
mesan, Munster, Romenteur, Limberger,
Sap Sago, D'Isigny, Yam, Cottage, Cream,
Swiss, and English.
It is said that the historian Ban
croft is one of the two Americans
now living who ever met Goethe.
The other is George H. Calvert, the
Bcholar and poet, who is eighty-three
years old.
Mary Anderson's company consists
of fiftv-two persons, all ol whom sne
brought with her from England.
I have invented a SIMPLE WATER CLOSET
SEAT, for the cure of the above troublesome
and painful malady, which I confidently place
before the public as a Sure RkurV and
Curb
It has received tha endorsement of " the
leading physicians in this community, and
wherever tried, has given entire satisfaction,
and where it fails to relieve the money wilt
be willingly returned.
These Beats will be furnished at the follow
ing prices :
Walnut W.001
Cherry 6.00 Disc ount to Phlslcians
Poplar..... 5.00) - '
Directions for using will accompany each
seat.
We trouble yon with no certifleate. We .
leave the Seat to be Its advertiser.
Address,
LEWIS CHAMBERLAIN,
Patentee
Tarboro, Edgecombe Co.. N. C. jeSB-lys
Sam Jonea and the Circus.
When I was a boy I went to a circuB.
And I haven't been to a circus Bince I
joined the church. 1 have had too much
self-respect, and so has any other man who
has self-respect enough to have religion.
When I used to go to circuses nobody but
poor white trash and niggahs went, and I
reckon it's that way yet.
Well, I was a powerful hand to take in
the outside part of the show' and while I
was a bogin' around on the outside I saw
a couple of men toting a great bunch of
dirty lookin' canvas along, and I followed
them to where there was a sort of an oven.
Well, these men built up a fire in the oven
and then they hung up the canvas and put
its mouth over the chimney and pretty
soon the canves began to inflate and ex
pand and in a little while it had developed
into a magnificent balloon. Now a man
got into the carriage and at a word the
straps were cut and the balloon floated
gracefuly into the air, and now looking
back upon the earth Beemed to say, "i
could have carried fifty of you just as easy
as one." I have seen many a Methodist
and many a Baptist who had to be dragged
to prayer meeting like that piece of can
vas and held over God's furnace till he had
expanded with the love of God, and when
he once got to floating he looked back
and' gathered not one but arty oc r
brethren and brought them along to tb
prayer meeting with him,
THE OBIT HUB
Will nnrify tlie BLOOD,'ref-w
late tfie LIVER anil KIDNEYS,
and lfKSToiit TIIK HBA1T3
and VIGOR of YOUTH, un-
pepsin, w ant or Aupeuie, in
ana J l rea reeling aosoiuieiT
eured. Ifouea. niusciea aim
.rv rivilv new force.
Enlivens the nilna ana
supplies uraiH rower.
i 1 I a? 5 SnlTcrliiRfroui complaints
iUMLlEa 0 peculiar to their sex wil!
Bid In DR, HAETEH IRON TONIO a rata. awl
llvc a clear, healthy complexion.
Frconcnt attempts at counterfi-ltliisr only add
speedy cure
to the popularity of the original. Do not expert
mcnt Kc-lthe Okiuinal, and Bkst
c
Send roar add rasa to Tha Or. Hartftf Mod.Co.
KLLonla, Volor oar "DREAM BOOK.
Fallot auaava and useful Intormauoa,
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A Domestic Incident.
A jealous wife, suspecting that her hus
band was in the habit of kissing the
pretty cook, resolved to catch him at it.
One evening, when Katy, the cook, was
out, she heard him stealing into the
house and pass gently on to the kitchen.
Throwing a shawl over her head and tak
ing some matches in her hand, she went
into the kitchen by the back door, and
was immediately seized and kissed in the
most ardent manner. She tore herself
from his embrace, her heart bursting with
rage, struck a match, and found herself
standing face to face with Katy's beau, a
stalwart young carpenter. Her husband
was unable to understand the honeymoou
kindness with which she treated him
when he came home.
THE SAMSON JACK A PRESS CO
BLACK RIVER, N. Y. Maaalactun
Hand
RESUMED.
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We take pleasure in announcing to
our numerous patrons and friends
that we have now recovered from
the disarrangemant to our business
caused by the recent fire, and have
now resumed at the below named lo
cation, where we trust to meet all of
our former customers.
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