VOLUME VI.
i
Till: FAMEK'K MANNICK.
Cpheld by hur.ca made brown by toll,
AIHI lieiii t* both true mid tried,
O, patient tiller* of the IM»II
(The nation's heart and pride),
Hettd e'er hlj(li hill* and vnlley» wide
The gladnoine word of rlchf.
That f.nrraerx In their humble home*
Have majesty and might.
Then monarch* proud Rhall honor,
And bloMNingK on jrou ihed,
For to the humble farmer
They look for dally bread ;
Yet need > e not to covet
The prince - * power and wealth,
For crowns contain no Jewel*
Compared to |>eace and health.
Your wealth conulm* of meadow* green
And Heidi*of waving uritlu ;
Your home* tuade neat hv labor Hweet,
Prove you've not lived In vain.
Then hall to the farmer'* banner.
From war and blood *tnln free !
May |*eace. KMMI-WIII aud rharity
It* motto over be.
An Affecting History.
In a l'aris garret, reaching as far up
toward the clear blue sky of the heav
ens as William Lauve could find ouc,
was a painter's studio, or perhaps it
would bo more correct to coll it a work,
shop, for William was only a sign-pain
ter ; indeed, his genius did not reach
beyond the course desigus of the humb
lest business shops, but such as his oc- |
cupntiou was, it sufficed for his simple i
uanl.s, aud as to earthly goods he was !
content. Hut the way of the world is
trouble in some form or another, and
\\ illiam had his. Perhaps he made it
for himself, as the majority of us are ■
daily doing, but it was, nevertheless, '
trouble, and he thought no trouble could I
be greater.
W illium had dwelt alone fifteen years, ,
though there was a fair and beautiful |
girl who saved his life from utter drear
iness. Did 1 say she was beautiful ! I
\ es, xi tho bird in its glad, singing,
fluttering life is beautiful, so was Nina
Lauve ; beautiful for the joyous fresh
ness and buoyant life that sparkled out
from her eyes and rippled over her dimp
led checks, mukiug you siuilc with pleas
ure as you looked upon her, whether
your heart were sad or merry.
The ueighbors said that William
• Lauve ItJn fin tune iu his Nina Wvi ili
more la.ui the wealth of gilded palaces,
aud so -.hough' be. She was the one
treasure of his heart, which made all
things bright to him: her prattling tongue,
ever glib with love and happiness,
beguiled him from the weariness of la
bor aud gave a relish to his brown
bread and wine such as rarely blesses
tho palate of the revelers of wealth. I
She was his bird, the star of his life, the
sunbeam of his attic-room, his joy and
his gladness ; nay, she was his life, and
be often called her by each endearing
name, and raroly spoke tho name of
N'iua until she was 550 ; then a dark,
threatening eloud rolled up between
them, casting its shadow over thtir faucs
and into their hearts ; and Nina, or girl, j
were tho only uanies he ever gave her. )
Her step lost its elasticity, aud where |
the once joyous smile of a happy heart j
played in the dimples and with the roses
of her checks, settled a despairing
wretchedness, so silent, so uncomplain
ing that the heart sadly ached as one
looked upon her : but not so with William
Lauve Ills face became dark and
threatening with a lowering discoutcnt,
and his voice harsh and stern.
The other occupants of the bouse fre- 1
quently heard him, after all were abwd ,
save them, railing out upon her iu a
voice the angry tones of which was full
of curses and abuse. Upon several oc
casions tliey were sure Uiey heard blows : I
while from Nina ever caiuo low, plaiu
tive tones of plcadiug, mingling with
heavy sobs.
Thus it had been for two weeks, when
the nightly scene became more terrific
to tho listeners ears than all others had
done. Just as several had determined
to interfere, the angry sounds ceased,
uud William Lauve was heard to slam
Nina's door and stride on to his own
room. At early dawn next morniug the
repoit of a pistol was beard in the young
girl's room; and as the poople came
quickly forth, William Lam e rushed oat
of ber room, and, looking wildly about,
sprang down the steps, flight after flight,
like a stag over projecting rooks when
pursued to the death by hunters and
hounds. Nouc thought of following
him, all were intent upon getting to tho
room from whence cauio the startling
tiouuds. There, stretched upon tho floor
weltering iu blood, lay the young girl
dead. Tho aim had been fatal; the ball
passing through her heart, death bud
been instant, and no distortiou disfigur
ed the fair young face. So beautiful, so
•ad was it, turned up to the by-staudcrs;
so terrible was tlio great pool of blood
surgling out from the pure, girlish heart,
HO (Ji'lNoliiao was the death that men
groansd and cursed deeply fr'm between :
set teeth and livid lips; while women I
shrieked and sobbed with horror and
ntrony. One spoke: "Comrades, while 1
we stand horc the murderer escapes!" '
With flushed face and flashing eyes I
all angrily strode from the room. As '
they descended the steps the banister 1
was, here and there, stained with blood, ' '
where the offender had clasped it with 1
his band as he leaped down the stairs. 1
The pistol that did the dreadful deed
bore upon a metal plate the name of (
William Lauve. Kvideuce was couclu- i
sive; all knew the murderer beyond a
doubt. The news that the painter had j
killed his daughter flow like wild-tire. !
The carpenter laid down his tools, the
blacksmith closod his shop, and the
searchers increased to a great number, ,
The mob was infuriated, and called to
their assistance the blood-hound; they
tracked him forth from the city several '
miles, and cauie upon him crouched be
hind a fallen log and beneath a heavy
uudcr-growth. When asked if he did
the deed, he simply replied, "Yes," and
spoke uo more. Beyond that one word
none could induce him to speak, and in
the court of justice, before his judges, j
ho might have been thought dead, but j
for a wild tire glaring from his eyes f so j
silent, so immovable stood he until sen- J
tence was passed. Then he only said : i
"It is well; I deserve to die." Three j
days from the sentenoe William Lauve
was hung for the murder of his own |
daughter, and the mob soon forgot them t
both.
The law had its justice, and the mar
dercd and the murderer were nothing
more to theiu.
Years rolled on, and the owner of the
house that fathor and daughter had liv
ed in had the old frame torn down to
build a fine resilience upon the spot.
The workmen were tearing up the floor
of the room in which the terrible deed
were enacted. As they removed the
plank next the hearth, a spacious rat
hole was revealed, and in it lay a letter
almost as brown as the bricks, but not
even the seal was broken. Heading the
direction, that could scarcely be spelled j
out, they found that it was to William
. Lauve. We will give iu
"My Beloved Father : God*only knows
how deeply 1 love you; but I cannot
live without Charles. Last night you
told ine you would rather sco me dead
. . I
than his wife, and that if I married him
• • I
you would surely kill liiui. This morn- :
ing I take my own life, not in anger j
with you, but because I t.maot live
without either }ou or Charles. If 1 I
were not to marry him, I should die |
slowly and miserably* If I were to fUe I
with him and never sec your dear face |
again, it would be the same with luc; so
1 prefer death to losing either of you.
Clod have mercy on you, beloved father,
and may lie forgive this last aot of my
| life. When lam dead, tell Charles that
I prcfered death rather than life to give
j him up. Oh, father! forgive your own
' loving child, NINA."
All uow saw that a human life had
I been sacrificed to the demands of the j
| law ; that it was the terrible sight which I
blasted his eyes and his heart from which >
William Lauve fled; that it was because |
he knew ho had indirectly caused his
child's death aud wished to die that he
answered yea.
It was now easy enough to see that
Nina had procured her father's pistol .
i with which to do the deed ; that the i
blood was gotten upon Lauve's hands in
j his frantic efforts to stop the flow of
j blood, and that when hor death was cer
tain to his mind he became frantic and
fled wildly without other thought than
getting away from the terrible spectacle.
All that could bo done was to hand over
; the letter to Charles Michel, who was
then old and palsied, yet had never mar
: ricd. As he read the fadod, yellow
lines, tears trickled down the furrowed
| cheeks. Three mouths after, when ho
was found dead in bed, the letter lay
upon his heart; none removed it, but
' buried it iu the grave with him.
Bu»lil'ulne»s.
Sometimes detracts from usefulness as
well as pleasure, but never from person
al goodncs and amiability. A brazen
facod boy or girl, somotiuiestiallcd 'fast'
is au object of aversiou, if not hatred.
Fur a while they may be agreeable, but
when seen too often, they become tire
some, and with many |>eoplo really dis
gusting. Let the little girls cultivate
geutleness and modesty, und the boys
ooiuuiendable self-reliance. If any bo
• overmuch afliioted with baahfulncsi, it
i may be cured by looking the person you
speak with fully, but kindly in the eyes,
I by not thinking of yourself, and largely
associating with older and wiser pcr
i sous.
DANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1882.
Slie Wanted Comedy.
Three months ago, when a new ser
vant girl came to a Brush street family, 
the mistress said she desired to post tho ; '
girl in advance on one certain point.— ; I
She and her husband belonged to an am- l
ateur theatrical company, and in caso 1
Jane heard any racket around the house 1
she must not imagine they were quart
rcling. They would be simply rehears- , 1
ing their parts. The "play" began on i
the third evening of the girl's engage- 
incut. The husband taunted the wife !
with extravagance, and she said he play- ! 1
ed poker for money; and chairs were
upset and footstools were kicked around,
and threats were made of going home to
mother. Next morning tho mistress said
to the girl:
"Did you hear us playing our parts in
"The Wronged Wife' last night ?"
"Yes'ui."
'•lt was simply a rehearsal, you know ; 1
and you mustn't think strange of my '
throwing a vase at my husband and call- j
ing him a vile wretch."
Three or four nights after that the
curtain went up on a play called "The
Jealous Husband," and Jane heard sobs,
sighs, protestations, threats and excla
mations. The next play was entitled
"Coining Home Tight," and Was mostly
played in the front hull. Thou followed
"1 ho Depths of Despair," "Threats of
J)ivorco," and "Such a Wretch," until
Jane was ut last tired of having a pri- j
vate box and beiug the only audience, j
The other morning she appeared in the
sitting-room with her hat on aud her
bundle uudcr arm, and said :
"I'lcaso, nia'm, but I'm going this
morning."
"What, going away ?"
"Ycs'm."
"For what reason "'
"Please nia'm, but I'm tired of trag
edy. I'm a girl as naturally likes to see
bugging and kissing and love-making on
the stage, and wlicu Marks, the lawyer, j
comes in on the wliat-do-you.call-it, I'm
sure to be ticked to death. I think I'll
try some family where they rehearse
\ comedy and have a deal of kissing,and,
| perhaps. I may come iu as a supe, and
get u small share of it for myself."
■ -' * m ——L '
A Human Ilellovts.
I
There is a man in tho hospital named
j James Dwyer who has three bullet-holes
{ iu his chest, one of which is Hill uu
j healed. Through tho last mentioned
! wound, which is a little way below the
| left armpit, lie expels air from his lungs,
j A reporter visited the man hist evening :
at St. Mark's hospital. He had no lies- \
| itation in exhibiting his peculiarity, aud
I when requostcd to strip, removed his
shirt, and showed tiie reporter four holes j
in bis chest and back where two bullets
had entered and another where a ball
had struck his shoulder and came out
uuder his arm. There was also a hole
or two in his leg, From the wound uu
dcr the armpit ho breathed so loudly
that tho sound of air escaping through j
the orifice could bo heard the length of j
i the room. The reporter held his hand
I before the hole and felt tho air rushing
! out. Dwyer tells his story as follows:
"1 was ut Bonanza City about three
) years ago. Had a mind claim, and a
j man named Flaxon, Charley was his
first name, cauie at me with a six-shoot-
I cr, for a fight. Well before 1 knew it
jhe had filled :ne up with lead. I bad
| holes all over nio, and they crossed this
j way and that until I couldn't tell for a
: certuinty which bullet made any two
| holes. For a while you could look into
i ono of the holes und see my heart quite
! plain, but that healed up and uow there
l is no show to see tho heart at all. I
ain't much of an exhibition now ; all I
can do is to pump air out of luy lungs
.by this hole. Onco I could take it in
>at one place and semi it out another. I
| was all well once, but the wounds opon
! Ed ugain."
| "Did you roturn the fire ?" asked the
I reporter. "Hadn't any gun ; but after
| 1 was shot a few times I went for him,
and got him down and the crowd pulled
;me off. Whou I gut him dowu lie began
i to hollow murder ; nioc chap to be sing
in' out inurder aftor the way he had
acted. Guess I'll be out in a few days
all right."
i I
"Take your time," as the jeweler
■ said to tho customer who had forgotten
• his chronometer..-—fYfC Press.
, i
( ! The late snow North was fiom 14
inohes to two feet deep,
! The Gazette, boasts of the sales of
1 tobacco in Leaksvillc.
' | The Groensboro skating rink nutted
' the owners S7OO.
Bald mountain is having its poriodic.
al shake up.
Four l.eifsed l«f'ol*s.
The Cincinnati Enquirer l as taken
thought upon-the startling rows that
"Mrs. Culver's new baby in Kansas has
four legs," and condemns
this innovation. It demands hat until
wo see our wav more clearly we put up
with the two-legged variety. Its rea
soning is such as to suggest a pause :
"A large proportion of a child's expense
is for shoes. The little toddlers wear
out twenty pairs of shoes to o>c frock.
Some parents tell us that one frock will
outlast thirty pairs of shoes,* • Think,
then, of the additional cost ofSbartng a
large family if each int'ividus
of that family required twi, p«tni of
shoes at one tiuic ! This buMon might
be borne if it fill upon the rich. The
proverb gives us this pointer;. "A fool
for luck uud a poor man for children."
And so it is. The poor have reared the
children which are to-day the glory of
our country, and they will continue to
rear them until the last syllable of re
corded time. Let us not impose any
more hardships upon the bone and sinew
of the nation. Times arc rood, it i»
true, but wages are not commensurate
with the demands upon the poor man for !
children. It now oftimes taxes his ut
termost penny to provide ..hoes and
stockings and the oth"- necessaries of
life for his family. The tv>or man's
family very often consists of eight, ten, j
twelve, aud occasionally thirteen ehil- I
dreu. Only a few weeks r.go a poor
man's wife in California gave birth to i
five children in ono day. This was an i
\ exceptional case, the man, probably, i
being exceptionally poor. But, take (
the poor man's family as it comes, mul
' tiply it by four, and behold the perfect |
I canebrakc of the legs and foe' there arc :
ito be provided with covering Ladies, :
we toll you it will never do. Let the j
four-legged idea stop right here.''
_
Is llie Eiirtli OryiiiK t'p.
Physicists and scicntiss say, that tho
amount of water on the surface of the j
globe is steadily decreasing, and that i
the land gains on the sea yetr by year.
It is true that in some po». JUS of the
;,... . i ' 1
globe the sea is eating lip, if* it were, !
1 the land. This is true of the Atlantic 1
j coast, which gives evidence of a steady '
encroachment of tho ocean upon its !
shores. New York will some day be
uuder the sea, and its great bridge and
ruins can be examined and disinterred
I only by means of diving bells. Geog- j
ruphers tell us that thwo-thirds of the 
j earth's surface is composed of water, so
wc can afford to lose a good deal of that
element without suffering. If the neb
ular hypothesis is correct, and the earth ;
was once a vast sea of lire, water was
then non-existent, and when it first ap- '
peared must have coiuc in the form of i
steam. Life was not possible until the !
fluid cooled, and it must have hoen myr- 1
iads of years before the great salt seas j
formed. If the earth should gradually |
: lose its moisture, great changes will ba j
I effected. There will be more land and
a denser population, fewer marino ani
mals, and more room for the races which j
uow iuhabit the lund. Certain districts !
wiil become arid, swamp l ) will dry up, j
vast waterways will be converted into i
dry land. What a pity we cannot go j
to sleep for a thousand years, so as to j
seo what kind of a world this will he in
3000. There will, wo apprehend, be
some water loft oven then.
Sweel-Mlailed Woman.
So great is tho influence of a sweet
nunded woman on those around, that it {
is almost boundless. It is to her that
friends come iu seasons of sorrow and
sickness for help and comfort : ono
shoothing touch of her kindly litmd works
wonders iu the feverish child , a few
words lot full from her lips in the ear
of a sorrowing sister docs much to raise
the load of grief that is bowing its victim
1 down to the dust iu unguish. The hus
band comes home, worn out with the
pressure of business, and feeling irrita
ble with the world in general ; but when
bo enters the cosy sitting-room, and sees
the blaxu of the bright fire, aud meets
his wife's smiling face, he succumbs in
a moment to the soothing influences
which act as the balm of Gilead to his
wounded spirits, that are wearied with
combating with the stern realities of life,
i Tho rough school-boy flies in a rage from
the tauuts of his companions to find
solace iu his mother's smile, the littlo
one full of grief with its own large
- trouble, finds a haven of rest on its
mother's breast: and so one might go on
with instance after instaneo of the influ
ence that a sweet-minded woman has in
the social life with which she is connected.
Hcauty is au insignificant power when
| compared with hers.—£,\r.
C*illicit U"B Gallon*.
The gallows is painted a light green
color, and is a ra'hcr pretty picee of ear- .
pouter work. The first thing that strikes
you about it is the height of the floor
above the brick ground. It is,perhaps,
ten ■ •' twelve feet, or even more, above
r
the dm r ; and a plain, tall sot of steps, .
wide enough for four people to go up j
abreast, ascends it directly as you ap
proach. It consists of a platform, with |
a large trap in the middle. The trap ,
is half as large as a door to your room,
and hinged on one side and on the other
well bolted, but the bolts are withdrawn
by the action of'a cord which runs uu
der. tli£ gallows floor, and passes into & '
small, barred cell-window right by. A
man concealed there jerks the cord, and
the trap falls. Several ropes are heio
which have been provided to hang Gui
teau, sent by the animated people in dif
ferent parts of the country, particularly
in the South and West. Most of tlictu j |
are carefully tied, and the slip-knots ar- i
ranged as if tho persons in control had
been hanging people all their lives, lie ,
will bo hanged with one of these ropes,
for they have all boon kept. Over the '
gallows rises a cross-bar on two supports,
and the length of the rope is perhaps
twelve feet, so that the prisoner will
drop five or six feet. Ilis head, when
be stands up to be hanged, will be, say [
live tcet and a half above the gallows |
floor, and when ho drops the head will (
be half a foot or more below the gallows |'
floor. On the gallows can .'tand thirty j
or forty people, and it is about ten or j
twelve feet square.— "6VA," in Cincin
nati Enquirer.
, Mt or get.
The I'/iristmn World thus sets at rest!
a perplexing question among agricultur
al editors :
Many of the agricultural editors are
sorely troubled to know whether a hen
sits or sets. If some editor of dignity
would set a hen ou a nest, and the edi
tor would let her set, it would bo well
for the word. Now a man, or a woman
either, can sot a hen, although they can
not kit hor ; neither can they sit ou her,
UlthOugli tfie otd lien oIT»Et sit on them
by the hour if the would allow it. A
man cannot sit on the wash-bench, but I
he could sit the basin on it—and neither j
the basin nor the grammarians would
object. He could sit on a dog's tail if
the dog were willing, or he might set'
his foot ou it. Hut if he should set on !
the aforesaid tail, or sit his foot there, >
the graniHiariau us well as the dog would
howl. Aud yet, strange as it may seem,
the man might set the tail aside, and |
then sit down, and neither be assailed 1
by the dog nor the grammarians.. Ge- |
ographers accustom us to thinking of
the ouf rising iu the east aud sotting in
the west.
A Word ("or Buys.
Ashamed of work, boys!—good hard
' honest work ! Then I am ashamed of
j you—ashamed that you know so little 1
about great men.
"Open your old Roman history now
a„d read of Cineinnatus. On the day
j wlieu tlicy wanted to make him dictator,
where did they find him ! In the field
( ploughing. What about Marcus Curius
who drove Pyrrbus out of Italy. Look
him up : you will find him busy ou his
littlo farm.
The great I'ato ; you have surely hoard
'of him how he rose to all the honors
I of the Roman state —yet he was often j
I seen at work iu the field with slaves,
i Scipio Afrioanus, who conquered Ilanm
i bal and wow Carthage for Rome, was
not ashamed to labor on his farm.
Lucretia, one of the noblest of Roman
matrons, might have been sceu many a
day spiuuing among hor maids.
Better even than the example of uoblo
| Romans is the advice of tho wise uiau,
"Whatsover thy hand findeth to do, do
jit with thy might." Better than this,
oven, are the beautiful New Testament
words : Not slothful iu business fervent
1 in spirit, serving the Lord."
j There 1 after this, you will feel asliam
-1 ed not to wor': -- Visitor.
Rules of Conduct.
Adhere most scrupulously to truth,
and 1.-.bor to preserve tho striotest in
tegrity, simplicity and sincerity.
Strive to be as kind, forbearing, and
i forgiving as you can both to frionds and
: foes.
Nevor speak evil of any one on any
j prcntcnce whatever.
| Strivo to recommend religion by the
i eourtosy, civility, and condescending
character of your or.ndnct.
Mortify lusts, sensuality, aud sloth.
Shut out evil imaginations and angry
thoughts.
The Kdltor and I lie Miocmuit- !
er.
One day au editor, hard at work try
ing to devise a plan to make delinquent
subscribers pay their dues, was culled
upon by a shoemaker, who dropped iu
to give the editor some valuable hints on
running a newspaper. The editor, over
joyed at the opportunity, gave the man
his best cauc bottom chair, handed hiiu
a fresh cigar and listened attentively,
tjuoth the shemukcr as he lit the weed :
Your paper needs a hundred improved
features. You don't grasp the topics
of the day by the right handle ; you set
the locals in the right kind of typo;
your teiugraph news u> 100 thin ; even
the paper itself is poorly manufactured,
not thick enough aud too chalky and
white, l'ou don't run enough matter,
and what you do run ain't of the right
sort. Vour ideas about protective
tariff are infernally foolish, and your
stand ou the L'onkliiig matter was bad,
bad. 1 tell you these things because
1 want you to succeed. 1 icll you as a
friend. 1 don't lake your paper myself
but 1 sec it once iu a while, aud, as a
paper is a public affair, 1 suppose 1 have
as good a right to criticise as any body,
lfa man wauls to give me advice let
hint ; I'm glad to have hiui, in fact."
"That is exactly it," said the editor
kindly; "1 always had a dim idea of J
| my shortcomings, but never hud tlieui so '
j cleverly and convincingly set forth as by |
I you. It is impossible to express my j
| gratitude for the trouble you havu tak- x
!en not only to liud out tlicsc facts, but ,
jto point them out also. Some people '
. knowing all these things, perhaps, nearly |
ar well as you, are moan enough to keep j
these things to themselves. Vour sug
gestions come iu u most appropriate time ;
' 1 had wanted somebody to lean on us it
I were, for sonic weeks. Keep your eye i
on the paper, and when you sec a week j
I spot coiuc up."
The shoemaker left, happy to know I
that his suggestions had been received I
with such a Christian spirit. Next
day, just as he was finishing up a boot,
the editor came in, and picking up the
mate, remarked :
"1 want to tell you how that boot
sQ-riceV'uic.' Tu HJTlVs't ptace~Uie Toallier"
is poor ; the stitches in tho solo are too
I wide apart, and iu the uppers too near
i the edge.—Those uppers will go to piec
es in two weeks. It's all wrong, put
! ting poor leather in the heels aud siuooth
i ing it over with greese and lampblack,
j Kverybody complains of your boots,
they don't last; the legs arc too short,
| the toes arc too narrow and the instep
| too high. How you can have the gall
| to charge twelve dollars for such boots
I beats inc. Now, I toll you this as a
| friend because like to sec yon succeed.
Of course, 1 don't know anymore about
shociuakiug than you do about a newspa
per, but still 1 take an interest iu you
because you are so well disposed to mc.
Iu fact.—
Here the exasperated cobbler grabbed
a lapstone, and the editor gained the
street, followed by old knives, pincers,
hammers and awls, stmt after him by the
wrathful cobbler, who, on regaining his
scat, swore by the nine gods that no im
pertinent, lop oared idiot should ever
come around trying to teach him his
trade.
A CI RIOSITV IN VACCINATION.—A
1 gentleman in the west end, when ilic
smallpox scare was first agitated in the
city, purchased some vaccine matter for
1 the purpose uf vaccinating his family.
| He uiixed the matter with some mortar
on a piece of glass, aud iu doing so a
portion of the mixture adhered to one of
his linger nails. Soon after, having oc
casion to pick his nose, he unfortunately
1 used the linger which had oouie in con
' tact with the matter, and the consequence
was it look splendidly in his nasal organ.
! Coming in contact thus with the lucm
' branes of the nose, it spread all through
' his head, and, as a result, he has been
' confined to his bed for two weeks There
will be no question hereafter with this
' gentleman that, if there is any virtue in
vaccination, he never will have tho small
pox.—Fort Wayne Gazette.
INFANTICIDE —The attention of soiuo
of the residents near the reservoir was
attracted on Tuesday by a number of
' | buzzards iu tho hollow cast of Reservoir
j street, and upon looking for the cause
I the body of a white infant was discovcr-
ed. On last Sunday Dr. Terrell was
called to visit a girl by the name ol
Crutchficld at Nat. Snipe's and upon
7 examination ho told her she had recently
given birth to a child which she stoutlj
denied. A jury of inquest has been
"" summoned and will investigate the mat
ter Winston Sentinel.
>' There are H'2 mercantile establishment
in Chatham.
NO. 3D.
BMAIX IIXTES.
High time—A clutrcli clock.
A l»;ul jtosition—lmposition.
I/ost—Tlu* buttons from a coat of paint.
Great truths a.e often saiil in the fewest
words.
A good guess at a tailor's name—Mr. So
and-So.
Apprehension «f evil is often worse than
evil itself.
Many mourn for their sins who do not re
pent of them.
Defeat is a school ill which truth always
grows strong.
Despair is the oflkpring of fear, laziness
and impatience.
J'ny wlmt you. owe, then wliat are worth
yrm'lrkndw. *•
Jf .ve would Jiave friends we must sliow
ourselves friendly.
A favorite air with the ladies —In the
sweet "IMIN-and-buy."
We hand folks over to (iod's mercy hut
show none ourselves.
It is a good tiling to learn caution hy the.
misfortune of others.
Take care of the poor Indian, and he'll
take hair of the white man.
liable* are described JUS coupons attached
lo the lion.is of in iiriiuoay.
About the greediest thing known is a fowl
eating corn, it takes a peckevejy time
It i« a mistake to judge of excellence of
your \\o. k b\ the trouble it lias cost you
j Mai that is born of woman, is of a few day a
I and full of schemes to get his name in print.
! Poverty wants some, luxury many, and
avarice all things.
| The wavesof happiness, lik«* those of light,
arc colorless v :H*«l ,I;IOI« K. 11.
' The light of true friendship is like the
• «-i 4 ».«o»puorus —" piui.ieji \\i«.'ii all
! annnut is dark.
It iltc uose of  had lieen a little
shorter it would have changed the history of
the world.
Unity an J simplicity are the two true
sources of beaif v. Supreme beauty resides
in (»od.
I Can a man who has lieon fined hy the
magistrate time and agalu be considered a
| refined man.
I 4 «Yes, Sir," said Mr (hillager,"it was fun
| ii) enough to make a do. Key laugh. 1 laugh
ed till 1 cried."
' Help sonu body worse oil' than" yourself,
1 and you will timl that you are better oil'
t'.ian you taucie '
it.
)
r i It is not until we have passed through the
| ftirnace that we ure made t«> know how niueh
dross was in our cuuipositiou.
Some men are horn poor, other's achieve
• poverty, and a legion more start newspa|K*rs,
and live on cordwood and promises
} To pretend to the possession of many good
friends h» the gemle illusion of folks who
» f.uiey they merit the aJVcctlon of their fellows.
)
I if anything will impress the human mind
with awe, it is the expression of tlie hum's
i face who has just boeu aroused from suoriug
in church. r
Colored women of Anderson. S. C., have
, formed a union, and will not work for less
t1i,.11 six dollars a month. Whoever violates
" the agreement will lie Hogged hy the others.
Mr. BJOWU went home the other night
• considerably elevated, and atlivted with
double vision, lie sat down with his sleepy
gaze riveted U|K»II Mrs. Brow n, and then he
' quietly remarked; "Well (hie,) if you two
» gals don't look enough alike to be (lde)
twins.* 9
; This is the season of the year when the
mince pie comes to town, and the citizen
• comes down tin street alter dinner trying
. to pry a rasin seed out of a hollow tooth
with a buckskin mi ten, and lie sto|>* in the.
' ilni'l store and orders another IM>X of those
• jiowileis for indigestion.
"What did he marry for ?*' is the title of
are cut novel. We have not read the work,
but we Imagine it was because she had au
k iiieome of SIO,OOO a year. That's what
» i young men marry for now-a-days, for they
wo k so luirl that they need all the money
they can get to support a wife.
r I
1 Miss Ilosn \an Diemau of Milwaukee
lias brought a suit against Adolplte Tliieles
f ' btvau-v- in- kissed her. She claimed $5,000
{ llama c. She avers that "lie then and there
did seize plaint ill' by the shoulders, put his
t . arm around her nek, and did then and there
_ k'ss her," and by reason of said aet the plain
i till was "groat|y hurl in her t'«- lings, and
|T Mitlfered and under%vent great mental pain.'*
One illusion vanishes after another. Life
' J seems nothing el*H than a tour through the
illuson world, where the traveler eommunes
with phantoms its he parses along, listens to
" their vain iimiginlng, attempts to realize the
Ii golden dreams which they engender or en
courage, tails and sighs but still goes on lis-
II teuiiig to other phantoms and reveling iu
0 other dmams, which grow fainter and fain
ter as life advances.
s
ii There is an opinion prevalent that young
ladies lose their presence of mind under cir
cumstances of peril. This was not the ease
with a lady of Buffalo, whose lover took her
sleigli-riding, and began to projiosc just as
his horses started to run with the sleigh. Be-
C lug determined to have It over with, lie got
the question out at tlie moment the sleigh
struck s mile-|M>st. The girl was thrown
high into the air, but as she came down ihe
ir uttered a firm "Yos, Charlie/' and then
fainted.
le
•_ A finely dressed gentleman was passing a
new building, when lie was stopped hy a
w negro hod-carrier.
5 f "Say, boss, am you de man dat gub de lec
ture las' night?"
,n "I am," was the response,
y "Didn't you say dere was a dignity in la
, bor, higher dan any thing else a man can
7 know V*
>n "Yes, I did; and I hope you laid It to
heart.''
l " U 1 did boss. An' didn't you say you lov
ed dignity lietter'n anything else ? '
"I did.*'
14 Well. suppose you uike tills liod, anvl try
* s a little dignity on dat sixty feet ladder. I
want to go across the street to see a man."