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Tour Heaim, Fair 1Iwmu.
ihe author's reply on being
guested to pledge his hostess'
iealth in a ghiss of wine.
frill up, fill up the driuking cup,
I But not with chimson of wine,
.Those Kimrkline bubbles laugh and
? burst t i
3ut do not quench the driner'B
f thirst,
I Though ruby-like they shine,
fill up, All up the drinking cup,
i But not with wine or gin,
Whose foul effects have ever made
Jlie lives of mankind retrograde,
I And plunge th world iu siu.
I do not think I should drink
., ' TLis health to thee fail dauie,
In wine, whose all devouring curse
iHas ruined, blighted this fair earth
And brought mankind to shame.
I rather think, that I should drink
f Thy health in bev'rage free
From all that's base, or meau, or
f low,
I For then, ah, then, full well I know
It most lfseuiblfcs thee.
I Then fill, fill up the drinking cup,
J With crystal drops of water,
i For I am asked to drink tonight,
To one whose soul's as pure and
I "bright
I As the great Latona's daughter,
'if'
f Fill up, fill up the water cup,
With gladness to the brim,
I And as the brilliant bubbles burst
I O, let me quench this parching thirst
J From its snowy white rim.
v Thus, hostess fair and debonair,
J I freely drink for thee,
And wish thee health and wish thee
ior.
Aye, such as time cannot destroy.
So perfect may they be.
George H. Gorman in Chicago
News.
fetrifletl 4tlille Priest.
Colorado Special to Phil. Times.
While breaking new ground for
a farm ou the left bank of the Ar.
Kansas half a mile from Boouville,
thu laborers exhumed on the fith the
pretrified body of a man, clothed in
the habit of a Roman Catholic
priest. The dress and shoes and
hose had also become stone, and the
figure might have passed for
the cunning handiwork of some
great master of sculpture. The
two hands were clasped about au
ivory crucifix, which hung from a
rosary sujended about the neck,
while the head of an arrow still
protruding from the breast told the
story of how the worthy father met
his death, and the body, so plain to
be 6een, that the body was hastily
buried without coffin and grave
unmarked by the smallest token
showed that he and his brethren or
some faithful friend were fleeing
from the Indians when he wis
killed.
The petrified body Vas removed to
the Church of the Annunciation,
where it is now being visited by
crowds from all over the country
and whence it will shortly be given
Christian burial in cousecrated
grouuds by the priest here. The
face is that of a young man of re
fined and intellectual feature?, and
and the hands and feet are of ele
gant proportions. Those who- pro
fess to know declare that his shoe3
are of a fashion worn in the latter
part of the seventeenth century, at
which time, as is well known, de
voted Spauish missionaries vis
ited this country for the pur
pose of converting the Indians.
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YOL. III. NO. 15.
Killed His Fftlber.
Atlanta Consitution.
Raleigh, N. C, April 20.
Eight days ago Edward N. Butler
a prominent citizen of Clinton, was
assaulted there while walking on a
street in the suburbs of the place,
about midday. He lived 6ome hours
and made a statement that John
Simmons was the assassin. Sim
mons is a deserter from the regular
army, and has had a bad character.
Day lefore yesterday Governor
Fowle offered a large reward for
him.
Yesterday h startling revelation
was made in regard to the crime.
Avery Butler,a son of the murdered
man, aged fourteen, has confessed
that he is the assassin, and that he
fired a Bteel ting at his father. He
said that he was craelly beaten by
his father and this provoked him to
kill him. ' The boy fled as soon as
m 1 1 1
ne made mis awiui reveiauon, cut
he was soon captured, and is now in
jail. There was danger of hi be
ing lynched at first, but owing to
bis father's questionable character a
sympathy is springing up iu favor
of the boy.
A Fearlal Tragedy.
Elk Park Poit.
On last Saturday night about
dark news reached Elk Park that
three men had been killed about one
mile off. The scene of the dis
tnrbance was at a Bhauty erected
at the State Hue, but on the N. C.
side and in Mitchel county, which
has been used for some time to re
tail out mean whiskey. It seems
that the parties who participated
in the fracas were the owners ad
proprietors of the dive. The dis
turbance arose over a settlement be
tween partuers in trade in which
one accused the other of dispensing
the vile filth without accounting
for the proceeds, whereupon a pis
tol was drawn and a desperate
fight ensued, in the midst of which
three pistol shots were fired. When
the din and smoke had subsided and
quiet once more reigned, .that little
8x10 4hell hole" presented a dis
mal appearance. Stretched on the
floor, were three of God's creatures
who, in a moment of anger and in
temperance, sought to take each
other's lives. Ham Oaks was shot
through the liver and right arm
and lived two days. Dave Oaks
was shot through the groin,and Will
Bass was stabbed nearly through
with a dirk. The pistol used was a
ii British Bull-dog which was in
the hands Will Bass. No one
seemed to know who cut Bass. Ham
Oaks is dead, and but little hope is
entertained as to the recovery of
Bass. Dave Oaks has a serious
risk to run, of course, but he may
survive it
Tbe Mm roatljr W.
The most costly of all the various
woods now in use among cabinet
makers is what is technically
known as French walnut; it does
not, however, come from France,
but is brought from certain parts of
Persia, Circassia, and Asia, its
growth being thus exclusively
Oriental. To work the logs into a
condition for veneers, they are first
subjected to a steaming process un
til they become almost as soft as
butter; they are then fastened to an
iron beam, which revolves around a
finely tempered knife with a razor
like edge of the same length as the
log. Every time this beam turns
around it moves a fraction of an
inch nearer to the knife and a thin
Bheet of wood is shaved off with
great smoothness and laid on the
floor ; these sheets are in fact but
the one hundred and twentieth of
an inch in thickness, and indeed the
veneers are frequently made as thin
as 17o to the inch. lne veneers
used on furniture are somewhat
thicker, the thinner ones being
used on picture frames, also for cov
ering walls in some cases.
Friend: "How about your poem,
Charley; getting on with it?'
Charley : "Oh, yes; I expect to fin
ish it in a day or two." Friend :
"That's good, and to what paper
will you send it first?"
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Husband (all ready for the thea
tre): "1 declare, dear, it a raining
hard." Wife (buttoning her
gloves): "Well, what's a little rain ?
One would think from your tone of
voice that we were about starting
for church."
A Russian Princess permitted her
bridal trousseau to be exhibited in
Paris for three dayB, the accumu
lated admission fees to go the poor.
A doctor practices on his own
patients; But a musician practices
on the patience of others. States
man.
Attempted S-leide.
Greensboro Workman.
News was received here last even
ing that a night or two ago, one of
the students of Thompson School at
Siler City attempted, and but for in
terference would have taken his own
life.
The name of this young man with
such a self. destructive propensity is
Baxter Man gum, and he hails from
South Carolina. Mr. Manga m looks
to be about twenty-two years old,
and is a candidate for the ministry.
He is of the Baptist faith.
Ou Monday night Mr. Manguni
took nearly an ounce of laudanum,
and rt is said had it not been for Dr.
Lutterlob, who was in an adjoining
room, and who found tut about the
dose immediately after it was taken,
young Baxter would have been dead
in a very short time. The dose was
taken at 11 o'clock at night Emet
ics were given, and Manguni was
walked around until day. An eye
witness says he never say anyone so
near gone. Mangum remained un
conscious for a considerable length
of time. His pulsations were only
40 per minute.
The next night he had an eighth
of an ounce of morphine, and was
trying to take that, but when he saw
that if he did he would be discovered
he attempted to hide the morphine
under his pillow.
He attended the Y. M. C. A. a few
days before and there bid them all
good-bye saying that he would never
eee them agaim. He had left writ
ten instructions in his room for the
disposal of his body, books, etc.
Mangum will be sent home. One
of the boys will go with him.
A I.alja Reason for no lMtnela.
Exchange.
Dancing would lead me into
crowded rooms and late hours, which
are injurious to health and useful
ness. Dancing will had me into very
close contact with pernicious com
pany, and evil communications cor
rupt good manners.
Dancing would require me to ne
and permit freedom with the other
sex, of which I should be ashamed,
and which I believe to be wrong.
My parents and friends would be
anxious about me if I were out
late, keeping company with they
knew not whom.
Ministers and good people gener-
erally disapprove of dancing, and I
think it is not safe to set myself
up against them. If a thing be
even looked npou as doubtful 1
wish to be ou the safe side.
Dancing has a bad name, and I
mean to study things that are pure
and lovely and of good report
Dancing is generally accompa
nied with drinking, and I see
drinking produces most of the evils
of the present time.
I am told that drinking is a very
great temptation and suare to
young men, aud 1 do not wish to
have anything to do with leading
them astray.
Dancing unfits the mind for se
rious reflection and prayer, and I
mean to do nothing to estrange me
from my God and Savior.
A Wa-derral May.
Mrs. L. R. Tuttle, of Jacksonville,
Fla., is getting up a silk quilt to
represent a may of the United States
to be on exhibition at the World's
fair. She is soliciting from every
governor or governor's wife a piece
of silk or satin cut the exact shape
of their State, She also asks for
signatures with date written on the
piece, also prefers the piece to be
from a dress worn by the governor's
wife. She so far has been very suc
cessful. All of the New England
states have responded, most of the
western and some of the territories.
President Harrison and Mrs. Harri
son send a lovely salmon-colored
silk, which will have the white house
embroidered or done in lnsto-paint
ing on it She will have three years
to make it in. Some of tbe letters
containing the pieces are prettily ex
pressed, and very encouraging. The
pieces, as a rule, are very handsome.
The first to respond was Vermont,
as there was only one name it is sup
posed the governor is a bachelor.
The piece was ivory white surah,
neatly tacked to a piece of card
board to facilitate the writing. The
quilt when finished will be very
handsome and valuable as an heir
loom, containing the autographs of
so many distinguished people. The
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad has presented Mrs. Tuttle
with a large map of the United
States as a pattern to work by. The
idea of the get-up is original with
Mrs. Tattle.
CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1890.
Republican Metboda.
Sanford Express.
An experienced 8trauger could
scarcely read a report of the pro
ceedings of our Congress without
having the. conviction forced upon
him that the government is ou the
point of dissolution. There is often
enough frenzy and malignity and
venom eca4tered over the floors of
both Houces on ordinary occasions
to outfit several European revolu
tions. As to the' wholesale denun
ciation of men and motives, while
the epithets employed are often a
disgrace, the fact that they are some
times well merited is a national
calamity. Iu the Senate Wednes
day, Mr. Kenna quoted the remark
of Mr. Sherman upon the admission
of Montana that "Anything that
will beat down that party and build
up oui own is justified in morals
and in law," and charged Republi
can Senators with the "rape of Mon
tana, the youngest maid in the sis
terhood of States and before matur
ity" under "damnable and darning
pretext" Mr. Kenna is perfectly
correct; and that remark of . Sher
man's not only applies to the pres
ent action of the -Republicans, but
it is the nearest expression we have
ever seen of the faith and practice of
the Republican party during its
whole life. The suppression of
Democratic majorities and stealing
of seats in Congress and the Presi
dency itself, the bulldozing of voters
throughout the Northern manufac
turing districts the corruption of the
ballot everywhere, the prostitution
of the machinery of the Government
for political and partisan purposes,
the malignant defamation of the
South and destruction of harmony
all are justified by the code of liw
and morals publicly professed by
Sherman and his party. What pa
triotism, what purity and elevation!
If Sherman can make an equally
satisfactory justification of the pur
chase of certain delegations to a Re
publican nominating convention he
is now ready for translation; other
wise we fear he will have to treat
the New Jerusalem as the doughty
Wm. T. was accustomed to treat the
fortified cities of the South fisrure
upon it and puss.
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A CJooU Platform For fanner.
If the farmers will stand flat foot
ed on the following platform for the
next ninety days they will not be
ashamed of it
1. Six full days work every week.
2. Never wait for work to push
you.
3. Kill the May crop of grass and
weeds dead before they have time to
elaim the field by peaceable posses
sion. 4. Look carefully after the feed,
health and comfort of your work
animals. Remember that sore shoul
ders and skinned backs of horses and
mules indicate careless and cruel
masters.
5. Keep tools in good order and
have duplicates of such as are liable
to break and wear out.
0. Never get in an awful hurry
and push and rush and cavort
around. Such men generally break
down before the middle of the week;
7. Lay all your plans several days
ahead and always have a job ready
for a wet spell. Never let your
hands know that you are wanting in
plans and decision. That will make
them indifferent and perhaps lazy.
8. Work for the biggest yield to
the acre you have ever made.
9. Make your own supplies on the
farm as far as you possibly can.
A Tiny Ballrood.
Albany Argus.
A wonderful railroad is the one
which counects the towns of Bel
ford and Bellevue, Mass. It is nine
miles in length, and is probably as
uuique as any on the globe. The
distance is not so astonishing, except
when the gauge of ten inches is con
Bidered. In the short distance
traversed by the pigmy it crosses
eleven streams, with bridges from
five to thirty-five feet in height The
rails weigh but twenty pounds to
the yard, about the size of those used
in the mines of Missouri and Illinois.
The cars and engines are constructed
so as to be very near the ground, en
Buring greater eafety. The cars are
provided with single seats ou each
side of the aisle. The car itself
weighs but four tons, the weight of
an ordinary car being twenty to
twenty-six tons. The engine, with
out the tender, weighs seven tons,
and runs with two passenger or
freight cars at the rate of twenty
miles an hour. There is a smaller
railroad than this in this in the Uui
ted States the one iu Bucks county,
Pa., but it is only kept as an expen
sive toy by a rich farmer, who has
made a fortune out of oil.
AND ARB.
Mrs. Alexander, English Novelest
Miss EmmaEameSjAmerican Singer.
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Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, Virginia.
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Sarah Bernhardt.
Queen Margaret, of Italy,
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Mrs. Thomas Bayard.
Frank T. Ncholis, Gov. of Lonsiana.
J. P. Richardson, Gov. of South
Carolina.
Bolivar Buckner, Gov. of Kentucky.
Miss Florence Marryat, English
writer.
Miss Florence Maybrick.
Jas. P. Eagle, Gov. Arkansas.
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Miss Grace King, a Southern writer.
D. G. Fowle, Gov. North Carolina.
Gov. Fleming, of Florida.
Mrs. W. E. Gladstone, England.
Miss Virginia McTavish, now
Duchess of Norfolk.
Gov. J. B Gordon, of Georgia.
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Princess Victoria, of Prussia.
Gov. S. L. Ross, of Texas.
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Gov. Thomas Seay, of Alabama.
Gov. Lowry, of Mississippi.
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