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IWLICURW hereto- lit. SERF LENS are wanted.
"It L. HA YMORE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Mt Airy, N. C.
Bpeal.l attention given to the collection nl
-claims. J»— ITTN
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SYMPTOMS OF A DWKASKD LIVICR.
IMMI: P»TN TVTHR Side, the
PMN LA fcU under THE SL>4ilßeibbted#, aiiiukcn fur
KKCUMATIMM': gnteral T»>A OL nppeme; ItewcU
FU*R»UF CO*nv«. »onctiinca ALTERNATING with LAX;
«IDI a painfularmati II ITI|R RF VINP tMMione tometKinf
wiidi nftil |0 have been .iua«; a »Ugi»T, .lry cough
AND «UHC! FACE ia »OTNTLIA« aa atupdaat. often
Mhukan FIIR TONA—TUFQITLIF F adent complaina
lat »ejriar%T mui tWiility; nervoat, «tartled;
F burning, oatdmaa prickly acmatioa
TM ilte tkin e»UI*. IJ.inu are low AND ileaaomicnt,
and, although aati .tied (hat cxereiae WMILD V- SEME
filial, YM AAE ean Hardly iummoi up fctrtUude to
i'Y ii-4sx fat, OLMRUAU «rerv nmt y STVCRJ
U Ihe AH«TV gymptonu attend tne diseaaa. buft caaca
have O«« urrad WHEN HUT few of them ajvatctl. yet
ciainmayaa ft/aer DEAB haa thoefn the EJtcr K>
hav% beea eatenatvv-IY AFCRJMGCD.
U AHOAM be UM4 by all prraona, old and
FOUNT, * twuevrr at; of Ihe ABOVE
ajrmphtnu appear.
. TRAVELING ar MTIHC In rn.
healthy Loaalitlea,L>y TAKING a d«.»e uceaainn-
ALY to kecp.th« Ijver in healthy action, will avoid
»LL Malaria, DllWua atlat-ko, Hlnineaa. NAU
aea, 1 »row»»he*l, Deprc»Al.M f Spirits, etc. It
will invigorate like a GU*> cf NINE, but hi no In.
TOXLOAUACR beverage.
If You have eaten anything hard of
digestion, or M heavy after meal*, or nli*rp
leaa at night, lake a doae and you wUI be relieved.
Tinte and LECTORS* DIIU will BA SAVED
by ALWAYS keeping the Regulator
In the Houaet
Foe, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly
SAFE purgative, alterutlve -nd tonic CAN
NEVERBT out of a4sce. The rmedy 2A hnrmlraa
and does not Interfere with buslneaa or
pleasure.
, IT M PURILT
And haa all the power and e!TT**cy of I'aloinH or
Quinine, without say of the injunvus after etiewta,
A floveroor'* Teatlmony.
Sinaont Uver Krguhitnr haa been in use in my
I fain- 1 V for »»me am*, and lam *4tiatted it ill
i valuable addition to tho medical science.
J. TIL LI. SMOITIH, (K>veraor of Ala. !
Han. Alexander H. Stephens, of (In.,
ssya: Have ilerived aomc beiielit TR M the T»e UF T
Sifnmon* L.lver REGULATOR, aud with to give it s
further UTAL
"The only Thing tliat never fklla to
ItelJ*w#.H—F have tued ittanv rvmedir« fur Dya-
Cpeia, Liver Aflectioa and 1 *ct>ility V but never
ve fouad anything to benefit roe t» THE ritcnt
HUMOOOS lavcr Keguiator iua. I «-M Coin Min- I
Dcaota LO Georgia lor it, and would lead further for
■A FUCH a •AD*. iue, asid would adviae all who ate aim-
Uarly affcrted to jive |T a trial as it aetau the only
{ thing ihat never (lit to relieve.
P JANWST, Mlnnrapolia. Minn.
L>r. T. W. Mason sajsi Krtun actual ca
pernnce ia the WC of Simm r,, IJ WR REG»| ATF> R IN
MY practice I have L*ea and am aatisfied to uae
auU PRESCRIBE it as S purjsiive medicine
oaly the Genuine, which always
has 00 the Wrapper the red 7 Trade -Mark
aod Signature of J. IF. *EI LIN Si CO.
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KOSMTEIFT
HIFFINS
Atvalids W)IN are r«-rnvering vital stamina,
DECLARE io KRALVATL term* ihrtr apprecia
tion ol' the merits AS a lonir, of llosietter's
Stomach Bittrra. N«»t ONLY does it impart
Krenylh \O the Weak, but It also corrvettf
FT» irri-Rular srlil state of Ihe stomach .
makes THI' boarlaact nt proper internals,
fires CM* to those who suffer fi »M Rhen
malic ami kidm > trouhlcs, and conquers AT
Well a* prevent* fevrf and ngtie.
For sale by all DrugrUu uod I>e alert
genwelly.
EARS Tin: MILLION
Poo Choo'A Balsam cf Shark's Oil.
Positively Urntoren the Ifcarintj, and i* the
Only Abml*U ihurfor Dwj'mtm Knoini.
TLIU Oil ia AHSVROCLIML from IM.M*ULINR
cit*B OF SMALL White Mmrk, CAUGHT in
VHLOU Siea, kuo«rn AH C.VBCBAKADO.V HON
DKVJCTII. Every (*MWK fuhmimn knows
It. 1U virttios as A N*Ht«tratiVH of HT-ARINU
were dlaeovervd by liuddhist I*ri«*l»t about
I|M« year 14KL Its curat were so numerous I
and many so smnintfly mlwulutut, that tlx?
remedy WAS oflicially pnx'laimed over tin*
entir» L Kinpire. LLA use beeauie so universal
that for «wr ;MK» YEARS no Vrafnrw hit* r
isted aniong the Chinese j**o/*/e. Sent,
ehaigea QREI«AIU T to any address at SIOO I«r
bottle.
Hear What the Deaf Say.
It has p»rf')nni-il .1 mirack' in my FU«>.
I have NN unearthly NOIWA in my heiul anil
lwar MIU-LI IwUer.
I have bwn GN-JUL.T Iwnfttti'D.
My drafiM>si liclpril a givat deal— think
another bottle will cure lue.
U !f» virtim ar» unq?*tionatlr and iu cur
attrr cKarurtrr aJb»Uulr, I« the terixrr can
jMraaaoUy Inttfg, both frvm nrnrrimcf and
obterratluH. Write at one* to II.VYUH K A
JK.VNCY, 7 I>ey .Street, NEW J' OR 'vt' Nl ' l U»i"G
ai.Oi, IIMT yon wUJ recsiie by H-turn a rem
edy that will «N»>VYOT> to H«ar like any
body »lae, and wboaa I-nrative «FL*cta will L>«
permanent. Vno will never ivsrrvt doing
ao."— KBITOB AMERICAN RBVIKW.
AY To svaid LOEA iu tlw Mailt, pksa«e tend
money by. KogUtKreil letter.
Ouiy innwrteil by
lIATX.OCS * JERSEY,
(late Haylock A CO.,
M>« AOmtm POK A MB HI I A,
1 Uty Sit., New York.
OEO. KNISSEN& CO, !
SAXEU, it. c.,
WAGON MANUFACTURERS,
lining only the heat of materials, we make
the beatpr WORK, and warrant every job,—
WE IMIVC HK oidaatand lagrtt Wagon Works,
and our Wagom have the beet re|HiUtion ol
any in the title. Kvery Wauou bw*M tlie
uame "J. I'. NISBKS', Salem 1\ 0., N. C."
Write lor PRICCI JUFIR to all who A reining
«UR Wafou*. 'Y'
DANBURY, N. 0., THURSDAY. AI'KIL 12 1883.
Mllarlal Expression
'•I I •
An etprtanion oommon in t!»e»c ilayn
of nouiiniitions in, "while n portion of
ticket in not KUCII an we aliouM have
| uouiimUttd, we shall give it our liuart;
support." Tins means that the editor s
| moat hitter enemy, who will give .the
j printing to tho other paper if he can, ia
ion th# ticket, and the editor hopes that
Uio low-down reptile may be beaten out
of aight.
In tlft! case of distinguished orators,
tho remark, '-The Ilou. MR. Blank was
attacked with a sudden indisposition
I and did not speak," means tlmt th"!
venerable statesman WAS too drunk to
| hold his head up. The observation
| IMMII the sauie jUing when applied' to
j the lights ot the Aniciiean stage,
j "We failed to catch the lut words of
I tho speech," means that the eloquence
I at that critical period was drowned in
"budge."
"Wc regret that we have no space to
publish the gentleman's eloquent effort
in full" means that, iu the editor's opin
ion, the speech would have made a re
flective uiulo leave his oats and that
it would be an outrage on tho public to
print it.
" We may refer to the address hcreaf
er" moans that the newspaper man feels
happy at getting out of it tin* time, and
j trusts that perditiou may seize him if he
| ever mentions the matter again.
| In obituaiy notices "congestion of the
j braiu," when applied to a gentleman (if
| easy views iu regard to drinks, means
; delirium tremens, aud "he was his owu
, worst enemy" means that the deceased
was a drunkard and the worst enemy
lof flie people who loaned him money.
'•He had his faults, who of us have not
is an equivalent expression.
In regard to performances, dramatic
aud otherwise, "those who failed to be
present missed a rich treat" means that
everybody failed.
"The audience was small but appreci
ative" means that noboay was present
except the holders of conipliaentarics.
"Owing to the inclemency of the
weather the audienoc is not what it
would have bccu" means that nobody
I would have been there had the sky been
clear as crystal aud the "neighborhood
been fanned by spicy breezes" that, ac
cording to the hyui-book, "blow softly
o'er Ceylon's isle."
Iu the way of dramatic criticism.
'•Mr. Montgomery shows some crudity
and inexperience, which will doubtless
disappear with time and study," nicuus
that Mr. M. is a hopeless aud irredeem
able stick.
Finally, "a scandal in high life has
been brought to our notice of which we
will have more to say iu a few days,"
that means —well that means business."
The Cireat Wall orChina.
An American engineer who, being
engaged in the construction of a rail
way in China, has had unusually fa
vorable opportunities of examining the
famous great wall, built to obstruct
the incarsious of the Tartars, give* the
following account of this wonderful
work : The wall is 1,728 uiiles long,
18 feet wide, and 15 feet thick at the
top. The foundation throughout is of
solid granite, the remainder of com
pact masonry. At intervals of be
tween two hundred amd three hundred
yards towers rise up twenty-five to
forty feet high, and twenty-four feet in
diameter. On the top of the wall aud
on both sides of it are masonry para
pets, to.enabl« the defeuders to pass
unseen from one tower to auothcr.
The wall itself is carried from point to
point in a perfectly straight line across
volleys and plaius and orar hills, with
out the slightest regard to the configu
ration of tho ground : sometimes plun
ging down into abysses a thousand
feet doep. lirooks aud rivers are
bridged over by tlie wall, whila on
both banks of larger streams strong
flanking towers arc placed.
COME Horn.—We bad a brother,
who travelled over many of the Western
and Southern .States, California, Oregon
and Mexico; ho said to as, MC da, : j
"The ralleya of tho Dan and Staunton
river* uuito as many advantages as any
country I ever saw." A paragraph in
ono of our exchanges, stating that GO
persons who went to Texas from Wythe
county, Va., about a year ago, had re
turned to their old homes, reminded us
ot it.
That'a right, boys. Come home when
you get tired of roving. Your parents,
j your friaada, your acquaintances, will all
1 welcome yon back.— Danville Turns.
! 1
After Many lauar a Human
Hunts Her llailiaad.
"Here's the room, boss," said Wood
son, the porter to the Cordon hold, aud
in company wilii Robert L. Walker,our
excolleut druggitt, the Cluumcle man
entered, and wus bowed down to Uncle
Nick Lewis (who married 'eki ten yeais
ago) and .Mr. Priudle from liuik'dule,
Va., aud Miss L'anuie Hancock, his
daughter, who sat dressed in black and
bugles, and chewing a stick, aud in one
corner of tho room, and though .she said
shu was just '2B, aud was married at l'>
and now the uiullier of three tpiys and
one girl, she looked youuj,' utiugk for a
second wifehood if please God a bettor
uuil worthier man came to her.
It seems that on the 17th of Decem
ber, Sunday evening, 1872, .Mr. Alouxa
L. Hancock, a bl'ic-cycd black haired
blacksmith, at Mt. Airy, Va., enticed
J Miss Fauuie Priudle, only Ift, the young
blacksmith, himself only 10, into a bug
gy, and they started for North Carolina
lino to huiit a Magistrate. They travel
ed two days aud two nights, and fiually
lauded in Milton the (Jrctua Urecn of
America between eight and uiuc in the
luarning, and 'plied at "uuclc Xick
Lewis'" oliice, who has married more
couples than auy other uiau in the State
—to marry tbein. Mr. l'riudle, a gray
haired solid sensible looking gentleman,
held au extract from a Pittsylvania pa
per iu his hand, eopicd from the Chron
icle, saying that tho bride, Miss Fannie
squeezed tho hand of the grooui and
laughed happily through tho ueriiuo
ny.
Now Hancock deserted his wife last
September a year ago ; she said he was
u drunkard and was cross to her; and
lie was reccutly married to a Miss Uras
«o iu the southern portion of this coun
ty. He lias had a child by his first wife
aud three boys and a girl by his sec
ond.
The reporter asked her :
" l'ou were erassy in love with him !" j
•Yes, 1 loved hini.'
'Hid he have black eyes !'
'No, blue.' , .1
'l>id lie sing ? f
•No.'
'Well built, and black hair and blue
eyes, aud- was wild V
'Yes.'
'l)o you want him in the penitentia
ry!'
'I don't care.'
'Wouldn't you go two handed for his
second wife !'
'No, uot at all.'
llerc uncle Nick suggested that the
reporter might be questioning the lady
too broadly and with a low reaching bow
he retired iu company with Robert L.
Walker. Mr. l'rindle is a solid looking
man. So is his daughter. Our impres
sion is decidedly that llancnck should
be huug, but not getting that, let him
go to the "pen" lor ten years.— Milton
Chronicle.
A SUICIDE'S SI.NO LLAK REQUEST. —
Jacob Kulil, a shoe merchant, of Jersey
City, N. J., shot himself through the
head Saturday uiorniug, dying almost
inslautly. lie left three letters, ad
dressed respectively to his friends, his
family and his wife, the lust oue saying :
"The harm you have done mo through
life Heaven forgive you I cannot. It
has cost me my life. You asked me
for a divorce. I will give Jou one now.
In my life you would not bcliuvo me,
now that I aui deud, you can believe
me wheu 1 say 1 loved you." Tho oth
ers refer to his business and family af
fairs, aud express a wish that the Hchu
ctizin Crops, of which he was a mem
ber, should bury him with music and
song, "for 1 always loved music."
Kubi's wife was overwhelmed with grief'
when she heard of his suicide She had
not been living with him for some months,
but is spoken of as nn affectionate wife
and good mother. Kuhl was subject to
tits of melancholy, uud it is supposed
that he committed the fatal deed while
sufl'criug from one of these.
We don't kuow where the Secretary
of War or the General of the army gets
hit authority for detailing a guard fot
Garfield * tomb, but that duty is getting
to bo very serious to men employed 1
in it. One young soldier who was al
ways a light-hearted, healthy young
man until he went on H.uty in UIS ceme
tery haa become insane and has been J
taken to the asylum, and the whole de- !
tail have such a dread of it that several
of them actually committed offences iu
order to get punished and thus oscape
it. One old soldior laid he could stand
it, although ho droaded it, bnt that it
was a very severe strain on the younger !
men. There has never boon a guard
placed at any othor President'* grave
and kept there. Is this to be a perpet
: mil arrangement, and, if not when does
I |t stop '-Journal-Observer.
The Mmm With the Hornet'*
Beat.
A young man who liven on AVest
Bpnice street, I'biladeljiliii, ventured
out alone into the unknown regions of
Lower Merion u tew day* ago. The
young man Uiii not know much about the
couutry, and it seeuied quite natural
tliut he should wish to curry home to
\V eat Spruce street as a uiemento of his
trip, a specimen from natural history,
lie saw hauging from a low bush by
the roadside a strange object very tuuch
like a small balloon made of coarse gray
paper. Thix singular thing aeeotcd to be
ju-t the specimen he wanted, lie broke
oIF the twig from which the curiosity was
suspended, and went to the station.
He entered a \rell-filled car and placed
his specimen iu a lmt-rack and sank into
a seat.
The car was warm. The warmth
seemed very delightful to the young
man, who had been out in the cold so
long.— In a short time he was iu a doze.
The car grew warmer. The young inau
slept. uddenly the artificial summer
atmosphere was rent by an unearthly
shriek, and a lady rose convulsively and
just as suddenly fainted. Before the
startled passengers had time to discover
the oausc of thoir alarm another lady re
peated the performance. A third who
began in the same manner would proba
bly have finished it without any change
in the programme Imd she not received
a sudden shock that acted like hartshorn
and saved her from losing consciousness
for just behind her a man began to
swear in a style truly diabolical. And,
as if matters were not already bad
enough, a baby set Up a yell and would
not be comforted.
The passengers soon got iuto a strange
commotion. The men were dancing and
some of tbeui swearing, the women
| trembling, fainting and shrieking , the
I children scrambling under the scats and
j blubbering aud •whimpering. The
! vouug man awoke in amazement. For
j a moment he thought that the ]>eoplr.
were crazy and that some of them would
t injury to his pro-historic balloon.
Theu the conductor burst through the
! crowd and stood before the young man.
|He did not speak. He leaned over in
front of the young man and opened the
window. The young man was surprised.
—The conductor seiied the prc-historic
specimen and threw it through the win
dow with all his strength. '•lmperti
nence," shrieked the young man. "How
dare you touch my specimen ?"
"Your specimen !" roared the conduc
tor. "Why, you fool, don't you know
it's a hornet's nest !"
A woman who is to be hanged at
VYiudsor, Vt., for the murder of a little
girl, wroto to her husband and daughter
asking them to visit her before she is
"murdered." This virago of course be
lieves she is to fall a victim to what
some are pleased to term "a chaotic
fragment from a primitive or barbarous
code. That capital punishment is indis
pensable iu the present order of things
is n patent fact to every reflecting per
son, and its utility is exemplified beyond
gainsay by the past history of the world.
Were it not for visions of tbc cross beam
aud halter, murderers would be as nu
merous as bankrupts, and penitentiaries
crowded with characters the blood of
whose victims would, like the souls un
der the alter in tlic Apocalypse, bo im
ploring the vengeance of heaven. In
nearly every instance where law makers
have allowed affected philanthropists and
dreamy humanitarians to prevail on them
\ to abolish this neccssaiystatute, the ful
ly of the proceeding has too quickly been
made manifest by the simultaneous in
crease of murders, aud in all cases a re
enartnient of the law wis found to be
imperative. One of the flimsiest objee
; tiens to capital punishment ever promul
gated in an intelligent community is the
oft-repeated one that it is * Jewish insti
; tution, and destined under the theocracy
to rank with the one punishing blanphe
. merswith det'.h, but "barbaroni to sen
sitive people living in the blase vf the
oivilitation of our day." Pid it ever
occur to such croakers that as soon as
Noah emerged from the ark, several
centurie* before the giviug of the Moaaic
code, (iod himself gave the law from
heaven * (Gen. ix., 6.) And the patri
arch standing as the representative of
our race, received what all sensible | eo
ple should receive, a perpetual ordinance,
, framed by Ilini who oaunot err.
Danville will coon have three im
mense cotton factories in opperatlon
I We prediot for the growing town on
I the I>an a bright tuture. We ejpeet
to hear of its doubling its population
j and business iq tile pe*t few j uaf S .
t
He LEFT Her.
He left and stepped out to see a
friend between acts.
"Why Edward," said she wheu he re
turned, "there are tears in your eyes."
"Yes, pet," replied he solemuly , "I I
suppose there are— I saw such A sad
sight when I was out.
ou did ! what was it!" she inquired
"Such a sad sight," continued he, I
keeping his head the othor way that she
might not smell his breath. "1 discov- J
ered a young man whom 1 hate known •
for years, drinking whisky."
You did!"
Yer ; standing right in plain sight be- 1
fore me, parlaking'deeply and carelessly '
of the intoxitatinf glass."
There was a little pause, when the i
young lady suddenly said:
"Edward, was standing right iu front ■
ofyou!"
"Yes, pet," was the reply.
There was anothor pause, when the
young lady asked again:
"Edward, don't uiost of the fashiona
ble saloon counters hare great, uieo mir
rors right on the walls behind thorn!"
Edward flushed a little, and looked
quizzical AA he replied that he "believed
they did," and there he permitted the
subject to drop.
The Raleigh correspondent of the
Fayettoville Observer writes as follows
of a large and new industry which has
recently sprung up in Western North
Carolina : I was talking with Gen. iloke
a few days ago and he void me that a
largo trade had sprung up in ivy roots
iu the country tribututary to the Cran
bury road. The roots are matted iu the
low grouuds of the streams and are dug
up and sold for cash at the stations on !
the road for sl2 and sl3 per ton. |
Some of the roots weigh as much as 600
pounds. They arc shipped North aud
made into pipes, door-knols &'c.
Gen. Pardee, the President of the road,
is enforcing the policy af having every
thing paid for at the stations where de
livered. This puts cash into circulation,
and is a vory satisfactory deal
ing. There has been a greut deal of
money set afloat among the mountaina !
rcocntly, and everything looks prosper
ous in Mitchell county.
"If you don't learn your lesson, son- J
ny,your teacher will make you go to j
the foot of your class." said MR. Peter- '
by to his eldest boy William, who is j
one of the laziest boys in Austin.
"No, pa, he is not going to put ine at
the foot of tho class."
"Does he favor you so much ! asked
Mr. L'eterby.
"No, it's not that, but he cant send |
MO to the foot of the class, because I
aui there already."
"llilly is an awful smart boy," said
Mr. l'eterby to a friend to whom he re
lated the story.—Texas Siftings.
TAKING THE BUIX BT THE HORNS.—
Mrs. McKay, of Yreka, Cal., is said to
possess more courage and presence of
mind and strength combined than any
other schoolma'ain in the world. While
on her way to school through the open
field the was attacked by an infuriated
„tcer. To have turned and run might
have been fatal, and no gallant man
was near enough to rush to the rescue.
She, therefore, did the only thing that
eould have saved hcr-htcrally took j
the bull by the horns, and so held on
to him until help arrived. She is re
garded in the vicinity of Yreka with
much admiration.
CARPR A.XO MCRHER ALL ROUNP.— 1
St IjOuis .TFO., M arch 26——A dispatch I
from Muskogee I. T., says : On the |
border of the territory of the Seminole
nation, Brady Bretncy, Elf Pefrymafl,
Billy Grimmitt IN 1 an Indian were en
gaged in a game of cards, which finally
ended in a lr«e fight, in which the In
dian killed Brctncy and Pcrryman.
Grimmitt, who took no active part in
the fight, was accidentally killed during
tba shooting by one of the three. The
next morning two brothers named Mow
and Gabriel Marshall, friends of the diaJ
men, followed the Indian, who had fled, ,
and ooming up with him, riddled his !
body with bullets.
A proof of the new two con t pottage
stamp, wiob it to taks the place of the
three oent stamp now M use, has been :
received at tlie Pottofficc Department. ;
: It onntains a portrait of Washington,
' and tlie ornamentation it different from '
, that now employed. It will be neccs- j
sary to design a double ra.e or four j
cent stamp, and do away with the five
and fifteen oent stamps, »xcept for for- j
eign correspondence.
T Wnshington Territory U credited with
I having lt>o,ooo/K)0 feet of standing
timber,
NO. 4:J
KlltU. ■>TEI
I A pit*.imnt trip—going to Harg»-
AMI*.
If you viiiit a young tail/ and you,jire
won and slut U won, you will be butb
one.
.f
; "Julius, did you ever Bee the Cats
kill Mountain*?'—"No, Sarnhp, bat
. T've aeon cats kill mice.
Internal Rgvebue collection* in th*
. Kith Distrust for the week cu4frig Sat
t urday March 81,1883, $3, 8;"> 1. 73.
' The reduction in tbc tobacoo tax
j which taken effect May Ist, is tbe cauae
of the great decline in receipts.—&i/e««
Prist.
When nature makes n man we admire
I liim. Wlien she puts the gilding on and
; makes u gentleman of biui we love
i biui.
I
"Ilavc you much fish in your basket 1"
asked a parson of a fisherman, who was
returning. '• Ves, a good eel," was the
rather slippery reply.
Tbe old familiar advice, "Young man,
go Went," should now be applied ex
clusively to young wulueu. Tbere are at
preient in Nebraska 7,000 wore boy*
than girls.
Tbe Gastonia Gazette says : People
in this section are having thrilling ex
-1 periences witb mad dog*. Hundreds
of dogs are being killed, poiaoued and
shot. Cattle, biitcn by mad dugs, have
died.
Lettuce on tlie table and snow 6 to
8 inches on tbu ground is something
seldom seeu about here, but August
Roggc, the Academy gardener, managed
to treat tbe girls to a "mess" on tbe
day the last big snow fell.— Salem Prtu.
Tbe Boston CimmmwcaitA quotes
Gov. Ben. Butler as saying in justifica
tion of his continuing to attend to Lis
law practice: "Guv. Talbot did uut
stop his woolen mills when Qoieru-
J or«"
It is esiiiuated that 4ttO,tKX) ef the
- 700,0'.'0 square miles of timber Und of
this country are situated in tbe South
ern Slate*. Muck uf it is being purchas
ed by Northern companies to b« held in
| reserve until the timber of the Nothwcst
I gives out.
Rev. T. H Pegrain, of this place,
says tbe t\ instou Leader, recently kill
ed a sow ten years old : she weighed
2t>o pounds, and was tbe mother ot 284
; pigs, during tier life time. l*roui this
| number tbere was realized sotue 15,000
I pounds of pork.
Tbe analcps, viviparous fish of eas-
I tern Asia, ha« a singular eye. it is di
vided Uorixoutuiiy into two heiuisbperea
by a membraneous baud. Kach half
is a perfect orgau of vision. The two
upper halves arc long sighted, and the
two lower ones near signted.
Judging from the number of peti
tions prcseuted to tbc General Assem
bly, the stoek law is becoming a popu
lar movement. County after county
is wheeling into line, and from appear
ance. it will not be maiiy years before
it will prevail generally throughout the
State.
Thirl) - inmates frotu the Lunatic As
i yiuni at Raleigh passed through last
night going ui the Wnttoru Asylum at
Morganton. A Randolph man swore
Ifccy were members of the Legislature,
for he saw them in ltaleigh this winter,
aud recognized some of them. It is
: due the late lamented to say that Ran
| dolph was slightly odfuscated.— (irern»-
boro I'at nut.
Josh Billings says : "VVlicuever 1
find a real handsome woman engaged iu
the wiiuiliin's right busiuess, then I'm
goin' to take mi lint under mi arm and
jiue the procession'' Josh is wrong,
if a thing beauty is a jaw ferever. A
convention of really, h-todsouie women
will never be ablo to agree,w-w Or"
leans i'i ayune.
An editor of a down East paper get
ting tired of paying bis printers, resolv 4
tr> diminish bis help and put his own
shoulder to tbe wheel. Here is a spec
imen of his first effort at setting type :
! "We ttjink 3Se stA|l d Q most or
j OUr own sejtiuNg tVl'e hejeafjei
jnntery rnty t.\Lk oqoi,i iT» being
j diffiel'jt to s* ) tips, but wa don,t eX
! perienoo 2 ueb dli>lcul|j,"
"1 saw you at the funeral the ether day"
said one lady to another tie othei day.
•'Trs, I saw jou, too." "Huw natural tbe
norpee looked." ' Jus like marble." "I
never heard a wore sffeotlnij funeral sermon,
did you?" "And just think of It, wbei)
I everybody was crying 1 reacted for my
handkerchief, and found to tny horror that
t was a red one I had In. my porket."—
Hjoodness ! What did you do?" "Why,—.
I didn't cry. Ho* could 1 when every uub
el«e in church was using white?" V
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