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l - . A. J. PRICE, Editor and Proprietor. v TERMS : .Two JJoUars, in; Adrarico: HENDERSONV1LLE, !N ORTH GAROLINAilraOTSDA-YpDCIOBER 1; 1S74. II.!-.. " i j ' VOLUME I. NUMBER ."J9. tt 1 ;. 1 I t !; v 't ' " -41,1' "!- THAMES VALLEY SONNETS. BY DANTEO. BOSSETTI. V WINTER. ": How large that thrush look" on the bare thorn-tree! A swarm or snifch. three little months ago. Had bidden in the leaves and let none know Save by the outburst of their minstrelsy. A white flakhere and there a snow-lily Of last nig tit's frost our naked flower-beds hold ; And for a rese-flower on the darkening mould The hungry readbreast gleams. No bloom, no bee. .--. :. The current shudders to its ice-bound sedge ; Nipped in their bath, the stark reeds one by one Fi&Bh each Its clinging diamond in the sun. 'Neath winds which for this winter's sovereign pledge Shall curb great king-masts to the ocean's edge And leave memorial forest-kings o'erthrown. - . v ; SPRING. . ' . Soft-littered is the -new-year's'lambing-f old, . And in the hollowed haystack at Its side - Th hrhiit rt 'nii7ht now. wakefot-ered I TEg ewes' travailing call through the dark cokL" The young rooks cheep 'mid the uuck caw o ' old? ; . ; ' ' And near unpeopled stream-sides, on the ground, By her spring-cry tne moor-nen s nesi is iouua, Wheie the "drained flood-lands flaunt their mari ; gold. ' . f!hill are the crusts to which the pastures cower," And chill the current where the young reeds stand As green and close as the young wheat on lana ; Yet here the cuckoo and the cuckoo-flower pMoht to the heart spring's perfect imminent hour, Whose breath shall sooth you like your dear one's hand. TT pro- NOTES ON ENGLAND. Itaey. American Critique Manners on English and the doctor came oat, with the feasor following him. S It is a terrible t thing, he said, slow)y ; ''terrible. ! I have known snd- UCU DUVWUJ J UCAkU w CI J Jk" I . - -V 4TV a, T n ! ten, when the heart was affected. Ah, n notes on igjana r7Z ,1a- ma 1" 11 Republican: "Now it is perfectly trnR that many- Americans are exoeed- ChicagoAa the banks of tho G an ere. and gave it a European pre&liga that no other American city can rival, unless j manner. , it succeeds in being totally destroyed Kate Field writes in her Republi- by vi? devouring element. cried a dozen boys 1 won't you tell us what dear me I " Please sir, VA1AAO of ATtAA has happened? " That telegram was from poor Jack Redburn's. home," said the professor. " His mother is dead. He was a deli cate boy, and the doctor says " "Ah, yes! said the doctor.' "Yes, yes-dropped dead at once, didn't j he poor fellow?" 1 1 i " Dead ! cried tne boys. I 'Actors and Auditors. i . - WTZSS thVirTpeeiThey . J 'rical cx do talk through their noses; but it is wtence is the passionato fondness also true that this dreadul habit is an e;VJ 01 caumg ior English inheritance and not a matter of attendtertainmenta themselves climate. The natiye American's voice A postles of most oiher professions and i mttnraLl It was our pilgrim trades fjUdly sink the shop when they fathers who brought over the wnine known in England as Suffolk sing ing,' which to-day, though banished from Ijonden salons, may be heard in .the . . . m IT 0 l . a Ct 1 V XT' n n a-v "Dead!" cried Ton! Hurd. " Oh. I in oonnuea 01 nnou, o, nonof . SaveTuamDriag xx oar nu THE PRACTICAL JOKE. 'Ut will be jolly good fun," said Tom Hard, laughing ivociferously, "jolly good fun. It's capital to play a joke on a green fellow like that,. he takes; it in so. Tom Hard was the practical j oker of the school. Practical jokes were, his joy, and now he had concocted one that .-was to cap the climax and make him a shining licrht among the f nit-loving boys. Pale, - little Jack Redbnrn, whose mother was a o.lflTirvman'8 widow, who loved ner onlv child with aiu absorbing tender ness which he retimed in a way few of the great boys could understand, was to be the viotim. i Hai-rv Pratt was going to New York, whiBre the mother lived, and Tom Hurd had instfucted him to send a telegram to Jack, to the care of Professor Law ton, bearing these terrible w6rd : " Your mother is deid. Come home." v Yes, and Tom had" given Harry the money for this telegram and had written it out f 01 him. "It will kill two birds with one - stone," said Tom. :. "Panoy Jack and the professor going off together in the gig, and finding the old woman alive and jolly ! - We'll have a half -holiday, too, and that's worth while, and nobody flan natfih ns as I have managed it. It's jolly Sun 1 And to see how they'll come " back after it ! . Old Lawton furious and little Jack full of the story ha ha ! It will be fun 1" , " But it will scare him so," said one small boy. ' 1 " You hold your tongue, . What's tho fun of the didn't'?"' And so Harry pocketed the telegram and bidding good-bye to his friends, s departed. . f It was noon, next day. The boys wfirA nlavint? in the school yard. Little Jack sat perched upon the gate.looking : out along the road; He was talking to his-chum,' Will Sparroiw. " Six weeks to- Vacation," he said, "and then I shall have six more with I shall go put with her to see 1 - 1. i Tit'. namftd Maasachnsetts counties alter mm 1 save mm 1 xi. a lo&e a wicseu 7 , , r , , , - joke. His mother is aHve. I.sent the their old homes 1 had good ears ; f or mu- telegram. '! 1 Him that ; it wUl bring " T;. CaZ wnnld him to. Tell him ! tell Jim !" "L"" . -XrZr. T ?:7 iZVZ " Dead Deoole can't be brought to." ?1 now R6 twanging vuiuuKu a m a. 1 j m cried the doctor.! " Are you sDeaking the truth?" tl i ! " Oh, yes," cried Tom, groveling in the dust. " Oh. yes.1 Oh, God forgive me ! . Will I be hung ? O try to save him, doctor !" j I i ' " Thomas. Hurd, cried the professor, " stand up ; don't grovel there. - Do you mean ail tmsri uia you reaiiy send a lying message to a widow s only son 10 ten. mm sne was aeaa e " Yes, sir," said Tom, " Oh, I am so v mm - ' A sorry. 1 wish 1 was aeaa. uan t some thing be done ? j He may not be quite gone. Oh, pray, pray, try." " Why did you do I such a thing as this?" asked the doctor. ' Only for fan," answered Tom. "Do you think it fun now ?" asked the doctor. j 1 j i ' .' I'm a murderer !" said Tom. " Oh, hang me ! hang me V 't 'i Do you think, the aw would allow us to do it, doctor ?"- asked tho profes sor. "I should like very much to are fairly out of it. The lawyer off dnty does cot lrequent the courts. The ed itor is not continually hanging around other offices when not confined in his own.' Portorsdo not rest themselves by yilAtc Tlurmtlcntsof other doctor, Bat the actor or actress, of high or low degree, when, not directly busied on the glaring side ot the footlights, is sure to be found in the auditorium. The most persistent theatre-goers in tho woild are theatrical people. , . Mrs. Chanfrau reached Chicago one afternoon last week. She had traveled straight throagh from New York, and, alter a twenty-four hours' rest, was to Bat she was lence that night. OLD E0S3TJH, THE BEAU. IVnatCol. parks Kasw AWst tnls 111 tarie ladlTidmal. From a Southern rper. ' Noticing in the columns of the Son Enquirer, a few diys ago, an article from Maj. Calhoun, in which allusion is made to Coh W. H. Sparks, of New Or leans, now in this city, as the author of this well known and popular old song. I called his attention to it. The follow ing letter is in reply to my inquiry. Col. Sparks is, perhaps, as well if not Deiter iuuwu uisu mluj ww mm w iuo 1 QirQi was tks answer. old rtffims 01 aristocracy ana weaim, gTYAt n.ny landlords. ior XUCU UiO (rca BuuuiRcii imu so famous anUrior to the war. He is the author of a highly-interesting book enli tied " jmmuifBwi itiy nmm,n The colonel is now over seventy-nve rears of' age: but still retains his health, constitutional vigor, and great FACTS AND IA2 CTE3. I The wicked es " It ain't so ranch tha biting, if only the plague thing wouldn't keep getting, up and sitting down all tha time." Jlxactly. Of a miserly rasa who died of soft ening of the brain, a' local paper said: "His htad ravo way, bat his hand never did. His brain softened, but his heart couldn't." Gin you do the landlord in the 'Lady of Lyons said a xnanscer to a aeodiy actor. "X acouia vxuuk x 1. nave aoao r mi V- V--. 1 AYi.m Til a preacher asked all Sannsy-achool IColSTJo tTvl up who inteadeJ to ySlt the vr I cicxircrtn -C csirpyi r: -elr- All bat a lame gtrl, stood up. cos. dinrmRt of England's aristocracy. Iow nasality his so permeated the atmos phere of New England that, its people do not realize the affront they put upon Yt in finite of hereditary taint, the most musical Eng- push onto San Francisco. i:v ; vi i rVpn bv cnltivated one of McYicker s audienc llOU 111 XtLXSJ Vf waava, Mrww j I . . . 1 . Bostonians. This fact upsets the theory wmB?ivuapi..u. "ullsin of climate ; so too does the other fact manager passed all of the same evening that New England produces a similarly at the Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin rich contralto; singing voice of which Adams smvedm that city three or four fU;.f A.lfiUi.lft Phil- days before that gentleman's engage- bUckb uuuouuimaH) i - . . . - m . . i abut. x.-- - 0 lips, her sister Matilda Phillips, who ment wus to begin. They attended the t Kimball House, and the two have is now winning laureio m iwu;,auw o , Louise Cary, and; Antoinette Sterlirg were among the most eager and atten are ever notable examples. The Pari- tive .of the spectators. tans are not alone to blame lor tne ae- w aiwave, every wuere. xne wiie 01 a iiif airicai manager may do seen in An satert) rising reporter la Arkan- mental strength to a reinaksblecWre ".bo was lately sentenced to tha Si a hi. rvraonal assoclstM Utate prison for horse sUaling. appbad to his employers to be continued on tho - 1 & He numbered as his personal associates and mmrjanionft of the long ago such personages as Danial Webster, Calhoun, Gen. Jacksen,.John Bell, Slidell, and most of the statesmen of nota who flonriahed in those times. In conversa tional powers the colonel is unsurpassed, and his familiarity and acquaintance with all the promiaent men and publio innMpnts of a half century back make journal as penitentiary correspondtnt. The Detroit Free Press man has just return ad from Saratoga. He says : -" The Saratoga belles merely taste food at the table, bat Jee the waiters to bring a square, meal up the bacx Stairs." 1 A three-card moate" eirxjrt is re- his society really charming. He, to-1 ported to have offered tho directors of gether with his excellent and talented I the Union Pacific railroad a- bonus of ladv. have been spending the Bummer in the doctor. said joke Tom. if it mamma. things,' and in the evening she will take me' in .her lap as if I were a baby. I love to be mamma's ' baby still. - It is nice nothing is so nice as that, though the boys laugh at me for it. Well, what can hat bedriving so fast? 1 If it should be 1 mamma come, to see me!" He jumped down from the gate post and ran out into, the road; but, the vehicle that, approached held only one young man, ll was the telegraph mes senger : thev1 all knew him. He asked r Liawton, and stood wait ming with a grave counte- Zouaves. In my account of the review held by Marshal MacMahon last month I re marked on the absence of the Zouaves. I was nt then aware that there were no longer any in France. Since the war they have returned to-their original du ties, which were those of colonial troops. The empire inported them into TVanra as it did 1 the Turcos those Se- POTS of Algeria. When these corps were lniroaucea iumj mo iiupcii guard it becamenecessary to have re serves to keep np their strength, and so line regiments of Zouaves were brought into French garrisons to serve as a nur sery for the Zouaves of the guard. The late war did a good Ideal to dissipate the exaggerated prestige of those semi oriental troops, j As for the Turcos, af ter Forbach and Woerth they were re. d need to a handful, j Their j European Ali felt a strange terror! dri'l and discipline j made them formi for -Prof essor ing for his co nance. When he came 1 he whispered something in ihis ear, before he handed him a large yellow envelope. "It's our telegram," whispered Tom. "Now for fun." f - ") Professor Lawton took the message with a countenance full of trouble. He walked into his study, and in a minute more Mrs. Lawton came out into the I: garden, and approaching little Jack took him by the hand and led him into the house. . " . "We'll soft the gig brought out soon," said.Tom. " It's working finely." The jokers, grouped about the porch. One or two looked very much scared, but Tom was in high feather. They listened, but heard no sound for a long time. Then there arose a faint, long drawn moan.- A woman's scream fol lowed it. Then came silence. Tom stopped laughing. One of the boys began to cry. come over them. . - In - a moment more tho study door 1 burst open and Mis. Lawton appeared.. "One of you boys Tom Hurd, you," she cried, "you are . the largest run for Dr. Blair. Don't let him lose a moment. -Ron." . 1 " What has happened ?" asked Tom. ("Don't stop to ask questions. Go," cried Mrs. Lawton. , And Tom, without his- hat, started off. It was a long ran to the doctor's, and he was breathless when he reached the door. He could not talk to the doctor as he drove back in his gig ; he could only say something dreadful must have napnened. And when the doctor hurried into the professor's study he waited outside, trembling and trying in !.'.' vain to bear what was going on. Mr- Barker, the assistant, came around the house after awhile,- and said iliPTA would be no school that alter nnevn Ann that the bovs must make no UyV12y HM-w ' . f . nm sft whatever. : The practical jokers had no wish to An art. They Bat silently on the porch, ' until at last the study door reopened I've killed him terrible to hear. The professor looked at He slipped back and Opened the door, and out ran a little slender figure, that knelt down by Tom, and whispered ; " Don't go on so, Tom ; I'm alive." Tom lifted up his head, and saw little Jack Redburn, and gave a scream, and caught him in his arms, crying : "Oh, he s alive ! i he s alive I he s alive I" over and over again, i " Yes,- he s alive, said the professor ; " and. Tom. your telegram was never sent at all. I caught Harry Pratt .at his trick and dragged a confession from him ; and I arranged that a message about nothing should j be sent through the telegraph, in order that you might see it arrive. The j doctor was in the plot, and if any one has been the victim 01 a joKeii is you. j "Bdt, young ; man," if it YtnA Haoti iipnt.1 that. mAflflflffA of yours, it might nave; enaea in a very tragic way. It i is evident you don't know how strong; a; boy s mve lor his mother may be, or you would not have fancied it a joke to use it as a means of torture ; and you do hot know how dan gerous such a shock might be to any one, especially to a delicate little fellow like that." , i j . . T ",It was very cruel," said Jack ; " but I guess you didn't think, or you wouldn't have done it." i i , Tom had risen, wiping his eyes. " I am so thankful, that I don't care what hatmens to me.'lhe said. " I de serve what I vei got, and 1 ce shall never play! a practical joke on any one again as long as 1 live I And Tom kept his word. fects in our speech. no negro nas been our bane i in more than one res pect, and southerners drawl and flatten their vowels because their sable nurses did so before them. Nevertheless, the cultured southern planter will often 1- l.'V. : n t Vitt sliorlitAst ftfi- cent.- Puritan and negro have spread if they were. over the continent tneir vocai 'wuni. ities, and until parents appreciate that most excellent thing in man or w dman, - - .J ....(liaip Ahililron a sonorous voice, tuiu iom v,. . veili suner unaer being the worst "Please do,' said Tom, seriously. . He dropped on the steps as he spoke, J 1 1.:- t ! V, . U BUUUIUU TV i, , t . 1 ,ryrt"r" carefully. Americans X VO &iiieu mux x vo juiiou muii . - - fnf;. f tvv tVut was .""fr'T I tnnoii nonn n. I was first startled by tne aosenoo 01 what fan only be" expressed by the French word complaisance. American politeness is more nearly modelled upon French than English manner. The aim of an American in decent society is to give as little offence as possible, to say nUfoonf. ttiirtont flvpn at the expense of unvarnished truth, and to place himself, as well as those with whom he converses, in the most agreeable . light. The typi cal Englishman indulges in no suoh sen timentality. There is much more of the Virntft about him. He makes no effort. to please, but if you please him he will bask in that pleasure as a lizard basks in sunshine, and once your friend can be relied upon. He delights in chaff. society had rather tell a pleas- nn rmnieasant iruin. in the audience night after night, month in and month out. A shoemaker's wife does not follow her liege to- his shop every day. Clergymen's wives are not regular companions of their husbands on pastor! calls it might be prudent The actor of a regular company, when not cast Ior duty, can invariably be seen in the f ronjQf the house or that of arrival establishment. Aud the puzzle of it all is, they grow as excited, often, over the fortunes of the players as the greenest of the auditors. Thty guffaw with tho comedian, scowl with the villain, and rub away a sheep ish tear or two at the woes of the dis tracted maiden. One would think that the work on the stage would seem the dreariest of routine to them, but it does not, else are they better actors when looking at a play than when .per forming in it. Notable performers never lose an op portunity of witnessing their graaloo temporaries. Booth is a frequent vis itor . to the theatre when Fechter and Adams play. Mrs. Bowers chases after Charlotte C ashman every chance she can get. Salvini was an earnest student of Booth's Iago in Baltimore, and ap olauded unstintedly. Indeed, the most lavish, as well as the most dis criminating of applause comes from professional actors and actresses in the numosKuus who are Vwpn th center of great attraction for the nnmber of intelligent guests who daily throng its parlors. Bat I give you Col. Sparks own word, together with the original Roeaum the ; Beau : Attjlxtjl, Gs,, Aug. 21,-1874. MlU W. H. Moon. I My Ioo- I am obliged to you for the little para graph -from the Columbus paper as tn mtk the authorship of this song, once so popular throughout the It is very true, I -wrote the lines I send you, and they are the first that were ever sung to the air which became famous. ... ... I will give you a brief history or tne writing, and of the man who inspired them. When I first went to the west. in 1826, 1 was some time in selecting a domicile. . Whyit is not necessary for me to state, as the reason and causes fox delay will form a theme for a chap tr in the fieoond volume of the " Mem- the exclusive game in their $10,000 per annum for right to play his little sleeping cars. Little Johnnie is dead, but before his spirit was wafted to the angels ha requested that a watermelon vine might be alia wad to wander at will over his green icrave. that it might be a warning to- luture general! "Pa, who is Many Voters ?" asked a young hopeful of his sire. Don't know him, 'my son; why?" "Cos I raw you signin his name to that letter you got the other night aakin you to run for alderman.,, "8h-h-h,.my son. here's a nickel ; go and get some candy. . A Miss IUlkstraw, of St. Oswald s Grove, Manchester, has recorered 100 breach of promised . mages from Jcrh O. Nottingham, a Portsmouth engineer. This is the sort of thin? Joseph used to send her during his five years court ship : ... ' I ask not if Ibe woria unioia - A fairer form thaa thlna, 1 Ttwm nre rich la glowing sokl, , Andejeaof a wetr ftuina. It U enough for me to know TT,n too. art fair to ticbt : That tboa hast locks of golden glow, r," "rt "r:n!,rl im. inaience. Tho nnmbskt said the doctor, bo it under- always rattling thoir. btogau. and per- never members of the dramatic or oper stood is to sav whatever comes upper most, especially if it be something ais agreeable. Yet the expression is so unconscious as to leave no poison in the offr Thn crreatest grievance English society nurses against us is what it calls That forty millions of people should1 dare to invent words fills John Ball with unspeakable horror. Our audacity in thus defiling the well ter in the second volume Finally I locaUd in" Mississippi and tVift nractiee of law. It was WUAUAVaftWV mm. w f ' : Ua sf tVia rtnhlAAt r&oe ox Teo- bib 11 n luiLiD v wa av . a. 1 pie I Have ever imowu. -AmongB vuo . Kentucw crusader confessed the wer two equally remarkable bat very that she had kissed sixteen unlike. One was . boolmaster who Vrawnhem from the in- was quite old. and who had been teach- men ana in ing in that nelghborho orforty owerer, and their wire. cshTvene w Seat Sly posed Jbe, , the old school-house, where two-thirds The pounding of the stonsh for of his life had bean spent, and assidu- the cure of dyspepsia was tho causa 01 01 ,"r!v v; i Haj, of vw?iok the other day.- Two men SrotionTirF what they had dene to. atic calling. You do not hear actors haw- haw, when Joe Jefferson, in plaintive broken English, wonders if ' dere is anybody alive round here? Clara Louise Kellogg waits until her sister song-bird .has finished her aria before breaking m with applause. This love of attending places of Saturday morning he arrayed himself in his best, snd devoted tne aay in vis iting the ladies of the neighborhood. He was a welcome guest ai every uouw. This habit had continued so long that he had acquired the sobriquet of TtoBonm the Beau." The other s name cure themselves. " Do you knead your stomach?- M I I couldn't get along without it P responded the other, in the last stage of astonishment. In one of the Cape towns a young thft first day of school, was asked her name by the teachsr, and re- was Cox, who was a rolUcking good fel- plied. Her father's name was the next 2 .... . a t1 - I .. . 4 Vita fl ri low. and the best vocaii x ever atcw. qaesuon. ana mo aiu uuu aw of English is only equalled uy our vui- 1 y, caritv of tonej all Americans, accortling people, is one of the best proofs of the to John twang. cepted, Ball, speaking "Yes,t all Americans, you ex ' exclaimed a very clever and "A.af- big hearted Englishman one evening rtainly Dnftainincr me at his own table, all Americans have a dreadful twang. They all talk through their noses. ThiafTPntlpmanhadaverv decided nasal tone. " Perfectly true," chimed in one after another, all good-naturedly, but Thev nnver"tire of a seat in the audi enoe, f ally as they understand the unreality-of all that is enacting on the boards. How, then, can the casual theatre-frequenters ever weary of .the entertainments which, to them, have so much of veritability ? Critics may af fect blase, and wonder at the verdancy which can eternally accept the crude1 TTa tr.a in mnr -what l'renuss was in oratory, and they were boon compan ions. Both died young. Cox was frequently at my office, aad upon one ocasion while he was there Rossum walked by the door,-and his age was apparent in o wu. looked at him. and after a pause turned to me and remarked in quite a feeling tone, which he could assume at pies tito etui ilh pmnnenco win luuconu oil in onmftfit. rf-v mat nnrin thfl AVll OI 250 velrs. As for knowing any thing calling. ho make as enthusiastic speo- about us, apart from our always being its eloauence was ttVi a . Poor nld Uftfsnm 1 some of these the crude mil " C" 11 u frta Mi J M7. mi sham as. real. Bat what are they gomg ? iT have a noble f nnara.. 5 tO UO Willi mo iiie-iuug uitMJjpiea ui iuo rich - and noses, of always talking through our fnnrsA the maiority of the t a tors as the auuience? rawest bumpkin in the PnfriiaVi nrmAr rlasaea do not : and when it comes to geogrsphy ! ' Know any thing of American geography ! of course we don't," exclaimed a brilliant mem ber of the commons. "Why is it not recorded that in the last war between England and America our government sent out water ior our neews m iuo great lakes, in complete ignorance of the fact that the water of these lakes is fresh? Apart from the few English- mpn -who have traveled in your country, I assure you that our knowledge is con- I m rate -ions sentence, Ching a fined to a faint perc?ption of the exist- 1 chaw.' nor dance under any ence of New York and Boston. Bat cation. then we are not too well studied in any dable to the Arabs, and their desperate geography. Pll wager thatbefore the war with linssia lew rngiisnmau auew where the Crimea was. Is not this a safe wager, "Lady Blank ? " " I am sur it is," leplied our hostess; pveh now J don't know where it is." " Not long 1 i ice I called cn ttaDoke of Arcrvle. the secretary ior maia. valor and ferocity rendered them ugly opponents even to regular soldiers. Bat their value was greatly diminished by the introdKCtioh-of long-range rifles. Excellent skirmisher?, their cat like agility aud speed and ferocious onset also made them terrible in a bayonet "The dig ' The Eeal Chinaman. Bret Ilarte, in describing a Chinaman in a sketch in Scribnep-'s, says : " I want tho average reader to discharge from his mind any idea, of a Chinaman that he may hive gathered from the pantomime. He did not wear beautifully tcalloped drawers fringed with little bells I never met a Chinaman who did ; he did not habitaally carry his forelrjger extended before him at right angles with his body, nor did I ever hear him utter the ring a any provo- He was, on the whele, a rather grave, decorous, handsome gentleman. His I complexion, which extended all over his head, except where his long pig-tail grew, was like a very nice piece of . glazed I brown: f-.aper muslin. His eyes were bl ck and bright and his eye lids set at an angle of forty-five degrees ; his nose straight and delicately formed ; his mouth small and his teeth "white and clean. He wore a dark blue silk blouse. and in the streets, on cold days, a short attack when, regardless of death, they Eaid a distinguised Indisn to ma nUamckA rtnm tn hrpak a line or sanare. nfcA tvnra himself with gracious Vvxita fS v x 1 - . - I - . w j5Ut When oUCIl Cilarguo ma iu w iubuo niiy BXIU I xxx i i c- - j . 'i diiiii iiu. no nmq upon troop3 carrying. rifles that Kill at thousand yaras, ana nre six mra iu a minute, the chief utility of the haii- savage Turcos was gone. It was un- likely that either; he or tne z.ouavesiu again be seen ngunng in a x.oropeau war. Paris Letter. j " See," said a sorrowing wife, " how peaceful the cat and dog are. xes, There was a map of India hanging up in the room to which the duke turned, and, pointing to a large desert, asked a what raa it was! This, from the Tn.lian secretary, struck me as amax- . . . t v. inc. I should tntna so. xu mwugu t .... i -i t r the English snow noi one bumj uum .n.tKor thnnrh I have been asked whether there were not many Indians in the vicinity of Boston, though an in- said the petulant husband, ."rmt-ust t n- t traveler like Elmund Dicey tie them together and then see how the declarea that we have no singing birds, fur will flv." 1 1 ' ; i that all Americans have long necks and A Pennsylvania baby is said to have no Americans have curly hair, there is inherited the eyes and nose of his onocitvon this continent with which ,n. i 4 Af r,;annlA Tvlm Averv Enelishman is f amihsr. and that i i m sin i imii i autjrj " Uii r 1 u ' m a a pair ox drawers 01 Dine orocaae i?am ered tightly over his calves and ankles, offering a general sort of suggestion that he had forgotten his trousers that morn ing, but that, so gentlemanly were his manners, his friends bad forborne to mention the fact to him. His manner was urbane, althoueh quite serionn. He gpoke French and English fluently. In brief. I doubt if you could have fonnd the I equal of thin pagan shopkeeper the Christian traders of San Francisco. , ' ' A F ranch scientist claims to have Uwrfrpd an ins act which mskes its home in the middle of cigars. and all the ladies will honor it with be ing present, I know. Soon after he left the office, and be ing in the humor I seized the ideas and wrote the following doggerel .lines. Soon after Cox returned, and I banded them to him. He got up, walked and hummed different airs, until he fell upon the old jlethodist hymn tune, in which they have ever sinea ben sung. I have always oonaidared Cox more entitled to tho authorshp of the song thanmvself. i Hundreds of lines have been written to the air, by as many persons, and immUitninT have claimed the au thorship of the lines ; but this is of no moment. I claim an merit for my lines, but everything for Cox's singing them. I have seen him draw tears from the eyes of the old and the young : . Now, an in. cm oxne aoft, ronny morning. Ths first thine rar neighbor ahall know, Their er -hall be met with tb warning Come bury old Roesrxm, the bean. Mf friend thn ao neatly shall dreae me In linen an white as the now And in mr new cofflu haH preae me. And whuper : l'oor liowora, ue oeau. An 4 when Tm to be bnried, I reckon, TbeUdiee wiU aU like to ro ; It them form at the foot of my crfao. And follow old Roeeum, the beaa.- Then take yon a doxao jcood f arkrwa. And let them all tirrtring ; And dig a deep bole in the meadow, -And m it toes r.oeum, the beaa. a mm A 1 aaVal n AF name, xne veacner mcu -".c "What does your motlier call him? " You Jackass," said the child. A miss, upon whose flaxen eurls the suns of fourteen summers had shed their fervor, cams home the other after noon, weeping as if her heatt would break, and meeting a playmate, ex laimed, in a paroxysm of grief, O, Dora, we were engaged to be married. and Charley's got the rneaaiea i A lady sitting in her parlor, and en in thn dreamy conUmplation of the moustache of the young gentleman who was to eacort her and her iisUr to musical festival, was suddenly awak ened by an ominous whisper in a juven ile voioa at the door, "You've got Ann's teeth, and she wants 'em. The cash sales of the grange eo-oj erative store at Los Angeles, CaL, amounted to over. $10,000 the firt month. They act as xaidd I emen for all farmers, both buying and aelling. A new paper mill is to be startea. no cap ital to be furnished by the Grangers, snd the water pawer donated by the dry. " ' A gentleman of "Lake George, after waving his handkerchief for half an hour or mora at an unkrfbwn lady. whom he discovered at a distant rom on the shore, was encouraged by a warm response to his signals to ap- uroach his charmer. Imagine lis ieei irgs, wnen on u""8 . " that it was his own dear wife whom be but a short time remarkable we Then bape out a eonple ff dornkka. Place one at the head and the toe ; And do not fail acratch on it , Here liee old Roaeum, the bean. Then take Ton tbeae dozen rood f ellowa. And etand them all rotind in a row; AM drink crot of a Ujc-beliM bottle. Farewell to oH A New York doctor that an average woman m rel ofltears'.in forty years. figures ill shed it out a bar- had left at the hotel K.fnT "WIST. hOI Wb.v.-. - w ... should have recogmisd each ouicr such a dUUnoer exclaimed both m the same breath ; and then they clanged the subject. Rev. Dr. Cayler write : Ssy what we may of the rapid growth of our American towns, the onstT strides or the British metropolis alwsys over whelm no. Liondoa now coniaina o, COO.000 people ! It almost equals Paris, New York and Brooklyn combined into one. You can drive fifteen miles on one of its diameters. "When, in my col-lege-b rj dsys, I once went out to p jy ray respect to Joanna Baillie, the emi nent aiithereas, who lived near Harap- atead Hill, I walked clear out 01 urwu- and over open fields. I am now stay ing at the hospitable Los of our friend the Pv. Newrasn .Hallr who reside on the same Hampstead HU1, in the midst.ol compactly-built street.
The Henderson County Advertiser (Hendersonville, N.C.)
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Oct. 1, 1874, edition 1
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