North Carolina Newspapers

VOLUME XIII. Reporter and Post. IU BMIIIKD WEEKLY AT DANBURY. N. C. PJCRPEB .v so\s, Pubi. *r y - RA T I.N or Nl UN4 UIIM lO* 5 .Cne Year, p tuable In a«lvatice,. r #l.fiO 31* Month*, "5 RA'I W OF ADVERTINIKU: One Square (ten line* or lew) 1 time, 8.! 00 ¥or each al iltional Insertion 50 Contract* for long«w tUa« ei mure spaee cau be made in pro portion to tlie above rate. Transient u«l\ertliter* will he expected to remit according to these rate* at the time they sen«l their f'avnr* . Io«a) Not t»»* will be ehargotl 80 per cent, higher .than above rite*. Burtiaeee • jarda will be inserted at Ten Dollar* N annum. PR( IFESSIOXAL CARDS. A. J. 11 0 - ro, J. \v. ltEiD . BOYD ft RE ID, Att >rnej'H-uI-I A V ENTWORTII. N. C. Practi co in the Eupcrior court of •Stokes c junty. ROL \ERT D. GILMER, Attori ley and Counsellor, MT. AMY, N. 0. Practic iu tk« court* of Surry, Stokes, Yadkin a ad Alleghany. If. F. CARTER, &TT MT. AIRY, SUB It Y CO., X. C Pract ta • wherever hiaservices are wanted. // . L HAYMORET ATT )RNEY-AT LAW ] VTt. AUT' N. C- Special mention given to the collection of claim*. 1— 12m 11. M. MARTIN'DALE, WITH WM. j. c. ft CO., STA TIC \ Efts' A .YD 1100KSELLE1I6 IV Att 1110 USE. ■•.Sc. iool Uooks a Specialty. Stationer; 'of all kinds. Wrapping paper, Twines, 1»«» met Hoards, l'apcr 111 i mi*. *WW. HAL riMOKK ST.. BALTIMORE, Vt> J . ti. HARRISON^ WITH A-*.- ELLET&CO., DRY G OODS& NOTIONS 10, 1 2 & 14 Twelfth Strec% A.li. Fm KTT , \ A. Jrneo* \\ a kixp, f V sßichm'd, Va U. f. KINO, WITH JOHXS' O.V, SUTTON $ CO., DH'T GOODS, No*. 17 a Ml ?!> South Sharp, Street, T. W. JoHFS« >N, R. M. BUTUON J. 11. R. OR A BBE, O. J. JOHNSON. F. DAY, ALBEUT JONES. TD&Y & m -tnufUcturors o! BAPBUtBY,IIA HM ESS, COLLARS,TRUNR No. 3M W. Bait tnore atreet, Baltimore, .Vil. W. A. Tucker, H■ C. Smith, U.S. Sprngylnt Tucker, Smith a Co.. Msnaf.cturlir. A* wliolwle Dmitri ID HOOTS, SHOES, MATS AND CAI'S. No. MO Baltimore Str.Kt, Baltimore, JM. It. J. f 11. JD BEST, WITH Henry Somieborn FT Co., WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS. SO Aanoyer St., (betweenlletmaii & /«ouibard St*) ISALTIMOKJC ill), FL. SONNKBOTTN, B. BI.LMUNI C. WATKIJM. W. 8. HOHKJU'.SON O. I. HOTTftV.I.L. A. 8. WATKINS. Watkins. Cottrell & Co.> Imi>ortere and Jobber* of HARDWARE 1307 Main Street, xiciiiioxD, YJA. Airnta tor F»lrb»nlt« Stttml.nl Kculu, an Ankar 1H.n.1 Bolting Cloth. / Sttyhm Putney, L./tl Blair , H'. It. MILES, wirn STEPHENPUTNETFT CO., Wholesale dealtr» i* Boots, Shoes, and Trunks, 1210 Main Struct, fefrf. UICBMONT), VA. J. B ABBOTT, OF N 0., with VIR6O, ELLETT k CHIMP, RICHMOND, VA., Wbolenle Dealers la BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, SiC. Prompt attention pail to orderi, aod wti>- faclion gaurauleed. Virginia Stall Union Qoadt a tpmally March, 8. m coiiar w. rowini. itooia o. TATLO . H W. POWERS & CO., WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, Dealers in PAINTS, OILS, DYBS, VARNISHES, French and American WINDOW QliAtsS, PUTTY, SiC SiIOKINO AND CHEWING CIGARS, TOBACCO A BPKCIAI.TY. I UIOS Main St., Biohmond, Va. 4afu*t«alO- DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION. I'lnuof OriciinlKnllon 111 I he l»eiMorrnllr I'nrlj of ,\»rl!i ? roll mi. Tlio Central Ceiuuirttce publish the following plan (*f organization of ibe Democratic party compiled from tUe rules anil amendments heretofore adop ted by the State Democratic Executive committee. TgVi'NSIIII' ORGANIZATION. 1. The unit of county organisation 3hall bo tbe township. In each town.'hip there ahull be all executive oomiuittec ii consist of five active \vl)£ (•Hull be cWtccf liy" tfteVemocratio vo ters of tlic several townships in meetings called by the county executive commit tee. And said committee so elected shall elect one of its members as chair man, who shall preside at all said com mittee moetings. 2. The several township executive committees shall convene at the meet ings of the several county conventions, or at any time and place that a majority of them may elect, and shall elect a county executive committee, to consist of not less than five members, one of whom shall be designated as chairman who shall preside at all of said coinuiit teo meetings. 3. Iu case there shall be a failure on the part of any towuslup to elect its ex ecutive committee for tho period of thir ty dajs, the county executive committee shall appoint said committee from the Democratic voters of said township. 4. The members of the township com mittees shall elect to any vacanoy occur ing in said committees. 5. The couuty executive committee shall call all necessary county conven tions by giving at least tcu days notice by public advertisement in three public places in each township, at tho court house doo p , and in any Democratic news paper that may be published in sai.'l county, requesting all Democrats of the county to aieet in convention in tli?'? respective townships, on a common day therein stated, which said day shall not I be le»s than three days before the meet ing of tho county convention, for tho purposo of electing their delegates to the county conventions. That there upon the conventions so held shall eloct the delegates to represent the townships in tho county conventions from tho vo ters of the respective townships, which delegates, or such of them as shall at teud, shall vote tho full Democratic strengtn of their respective townships on all questions that may couio before the said county conventions. That in case no convention shall bo held in any township in pursuance of sqiil call, or no election shall be mado, tho town ship executive shall appoint such dele gates. (k Each township shall be entitled lo cast in tho county convention one vote for every twenty-five Democratic votos, and ono vote for fractions of fifteen Dem ocratic votos cast by that township at the last preceding gubernatorial election: l'rovided, tliat every totruship shall be entitled to csst at least one vote, and each township may send as many dele gates S3 it may Fee fit. 7. That in cases where townships con sist et more than one ward or precinct, each of said wards shall bo entitled to send delegates to county conventions, •>nd shall cast its proportionate part of it} township's vote, based upon tho last preceding vote for Governor in said township. 8. That for tho purpose o( fully inau gurating this system, tho present county cxeoutivo committees shall continuo in offioe until their successors *ro elected under this system, and shall exercise all the functions pertaining to said otfico undor this system of organization. 0. Tho chairman of township commit tees shall preside at all township con ventions ; in their absence any other member of said committee may pre side. 10. In cases whero all tho townsnip oxccutivo committees aro requited to meet for tho purpose of electing county oxccutivo committees, said meetings shall be deemed to liavo a quorum wheu a majority of such townships shall be represented in said meeting. COITNTV AND DISTRICT CONVENTIONS. 1. The several oounty conventions shall be entitled to elect to their sena torial, judical and congressional con ventions ono delegate and ono alternate for fifty Democratic votes, and ono dcl egato for fractions over twenty-five Democratic votes cast at tho last pre ceding gubernatorial election in theii respective counties, and none but dele gates or alternates so elected shall be entitled to scats in inid conventions : DANBURY, N. V., THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1884 Provided, that every county shall have at least one vote iu each of said conven tions. 2. The chairman, or iu his absence any member of the county, senatorial,' judicial or congressional committee, shall call to orikr their respective conven tions and hold tlic chairmanship thiToaf until the convention shall elect its chwr maa. 3. Tho executive committees of the senatorial, congressional and judicial dis tricts, respectively, shall, at the call of their respective chairmen, meet at some time and place in their respective dis dcfcifUiatftd in suit} call. AnJ it shall be their duty to appoint the time and place tor holding conventions in their respective districts: and the chair men of said respective committees shall immediately notify the chairmcu of the different county executive comniittocs of said appointment and tho said county oxccutivo committees shall forthwith call conventions of theirrcspeotivo coun ties in conformity to said notice to send delegates to said rcspcctivo districtcon ventions. STATE CONVENTIONS. 1. The State convention shall be com posed of delegates appointed by the several county conventions. Each coun ty shall be entitled to elect ono dele gate and ono alternate for every ono hundred and fifty Democratic votos, and ono delegate for fractious over seventy tivo Democratic votes cast therein at tne last preceding Gubernatoral election and none but delegates or alternates so elected shall be entitled to scats in said convention ; provided, that every couu ty shall have at least one vote in said convention. GENERAL RULES. 1. Such delegates (or alternates or absent delegates) as may be present at any Democratic convention, shall bo al lowed to cast the whole voto to which their township or county may bo enti | tied. •2, Ic all conventions provided for by this system, "'" lur tt voU ul " 1 . tlu,ru shall bo no change MoU voto u,IU! tho final result ol the shall, bo annouueed by the chairman of ."'J oon " vention. 3. All Democratic executive commit tees shall have the poiver to fill any vacancy occuring in their respective bodies. 4. That the chairmen of the different county conventions shall certify the list of delegates and alternates to the differ ent district and State jonventions. And a certified list of said delegates and al ternates to the Stato convention shall be sent to tho secretary of tho State Central Committee. Learn to l/iitlc String*. One story of tho ecccntnc Stephen tiirard said that he onco tested the qual ity of a boy who applied for a situation by giving him a match loaded at both ends and ordering him to light it. The boy (truck the match, and after it bad burned half its length throw it away.— Girard dismissed him because he did not save the other end for future uso. Tho boy's failure to notico that the match was a double-ended one was nat ural enough, considering how matches are generally made; but haste and heedlessness (a habit of careless obser vation) are responsible for a greater part of tho waste of property in the world. Said ono of the mosi iu.-cessful n?»r chants of Clevolaud, 0., to a lad who was opening a parocl, "Young man, un tie the strings ;do not cut them." It was tho first remark that he bad made to a new cmplove. It was tho first les son tho lad had to learn, and it involved tbe principle of success or failure in his business career. Pointing to a well dressed man behind the counter he said, "lbere is a man who always whips out his scissors and cuts the strings of tho packages in three or four places. Ho is a good salesman, but he will never be anything more. Tbe troublo with him is that ho was never taught to save. I told the boy just now to untie tho strings, not so much for the value of the string as to teach him that everything is to be saved and nothing wasted." CROUP. —Turpentino is a sovereign remedy for croap. Saturate a picco of ianncl with it and place tho flannel on tho throat and obost, aod in a very se vere caso three or four drops on a lump of sugar mav be taken inwardly. Ev ery family should hsvo a bottle on hand. Hand us 50c. and we will send yon this paper until after the election. a rmxTt/i s PRoersT. Oil. why don't l>oo|ite form their aTi And liuish otr iheir6'a— Why do tticy make smh erooliei c's I And such coulounded d'tl WCo tliej lorin smh fhoeking e's. And f'i with sgue fits V Their ./ i mid A's are too much For ■iiijr printer's wits. What a human eye Is without tight U un i without H dot. J t are rnieb eurious, crooked things, We recognize them not. A*ought to stand for ku&cGiMW, But comes in well l&r kick,, L i and m's nre nitidilevouSv While n's just raise Uid Njjk. O'ssre riirely closed at all, £ . i. Aiiu i>'n ac innv-uv (li in us . Q's might as welt he spider !t'|'B And r's moeqiiilo w ings. Some |ienplt make « piissiug i W ho never cross a I, Others use the selt-sauie strok'S To furiu a u or v. If"» get strange'? mixed, l i «s?in on a spree ; }' is a akeletan on wires. Zounds, tow we i» ear at s I & yet, just think what typos get from drivers of the quill I They call us such a careless set, And scribbtn on ut will. Well, they will scribble, anA we must swear And vainly try to (ilease, Till they go back to school and learn To make their a, b, c's. Internal Revenue System. lla'.vigh Uogl*tcr. In ISG2 the Hepublicau gave to tho j coiiutry the Internal Ucvenuo System of Taxation, claiming it to be a necessary 1 war measure. Since that day there has 1 ; been no time at which the Democratic i Party had full possession of the Federal | Government, and the lutcrnal llevenuc System is in consequence still a burden i upon our shoulders. No longer than ! two years ago tho Republican party of Noitli Carolina formally, in its State Gouventiou, proposed to continue tho ! j system, on tbo. pretext of furnishing; 1 funds for aducational purposes iu the . States. It was hoped that this pretext, '■ tin ugh as littlo likely to be carried out . as any ever suggested for Iha delusion , t>f mau, would dull the edgo of the oon j Ptantly growing tlcrsfl'Sty t»-4'iic .y. tcm , and everything connected with it. This hope proved a vain one, however, for | tho bitterness of the hatrud of our peo ' -le for the luternal Htvenue System 1 . administration has intensified an day by flay, until the more and mo.. present lime. . *to this state Accordingly, in deferea* . of facts tho Republican party, u State Convention held in this city last monUi. declared that the Internal Revo- ' nue system ought to be abolished. Of course this is a plain acaiowledgement of the consistency and strength of the position of the Dcmocritic party in North Carolina, whether sincerely and honestly made or whether made only for effect and to remove stumbling blocks from the path of their candidate for Governor. It will tako but a moment's consider i ation to satisfy any one that this pro fessed wonderful conversion of tho Re publican party to Democratic principles is a false and hypocritical pretence. In the first place, tho System provides pay and provender for over six hundred members of the party year by year.— These men, collectors, gaugers, store keepers, kc., iS'c., receive each year over $300,000. Does any saco man suppose that the Republican party is honest in professing to be willing to givo up such magnificent "spoils" as those, over $3,000,000 every ten years. We But who aro tho men that brought j tho Convention up to the scratch of' professing a willingness to sacrifice these ■ spoils? Isaao J. Young, J. J. Mott, I Thomas N. Cooper, O. J. Spears, R. ' SI. Noriucnt, and some forty or fifty others of that sort, all of thorn being then or shortly before Rovenue officials. Does any sane tnan suppose for a mo ment that they are sinccro in their dec larations of a willingness to turn loose 5 tho Government teats they have so long been sucking ? We think not. Everybody knows that it is tipon the pay and patronage of the Internal Rev enuo System that the Republican party in North Carolina lives and fattens. Tako out of tho Republican ranks the Collectors and Doputy Collectors, the spies, tho detectives, the special agcilts, tho store-keopers, the gaugers and the instructors in gauging, tho raiders and thoir commands, by whatever name called, and tboso dependent on them, and how many white men would be left' Why scarcely a corporal's guard. 1 Wo want 1,000 campaign and State ' Exposition subscribers to the RKFORTKR AND POST at 50e. each up to Deo. Ist. 'l'ltc Empty Sleeve. Powell Clayton, the totorious Arkau- i sas carpet-bag Senator of more rogue- j rc'putaliou than most of his tribe, atti- i 8 tudiuizod as a patriot at Chicago. l)u- , ' ring the speaking that preceded the 1 11 ballot for temporary chairman, the Ihi - j 4 aid's report says that Clark O Carr, i 1 of Illinois, General Ltigaa's tout-I 1 er, with Logan's voice, a bald head and ' 1 a sandy moustache, spoke of Clay ten's j 1 "great and grand name" and generally ' utilized the Kuglish language rather j' profusely, and ■btbtaEfoteatud ugaiiwk ) (spotting itow-'i**a 11 who carries an j empty sleevij," ho was greeted with such [ 1 a medley of cheers and disapprobation j : that he sat down quickly, lie was fol- j 1 lowed by Postmaster Taft, of Charles ton, South Carolina, and he by Patrick 1 Henry Winston, of Winston, North 1 Carolina. Mr. Winston has a bald head and an extraordinary voice, and at ' great length ho endorsed Mr. Lynch.— | 1 At this moment some sensation was ere- 1 atcd by the circulation of tho follow ing : !' I saw Clayton's arm amputated at : Littlo Hock, Arkansas, in 1867. Cause, i' accidental discharge of a shotgun while | hunting. |i A SiiW FRUIT Dill EK. Mil. KDITUB :—'lobacco is tho first i and greatest money crop of this seetiou ; tind dried fruit is generally believed to I bo second is becoming larger and larger , every year. As with tobacco, so with j fruit, the brighter it i.s cured tho mole lit Is worth ; therefore 1 havo a new j fruit dryer, for which 1 have just ob- I tained Letters Patent, which 1 wish to , introduce to the public. It is siuiplu and cheap, easy to oj urate, and has no I cuual for drying bright, laticy fruit.— L''ruit dried with it retains all tho sac- j charino or sugary matter, and is much | sweeter and richer than when dried by any other process. For further partic ! ulars, address ltlloy F. Pctrne Ger -1 wanton, Stokes county, N. State . and County riglit* l->r »\«. We the undersigned eertify that we ! arc personally acquainted with Riley F. ' I'ctree, ami believe him to be perfectly t reliable, and that he would not know j ingly misrepresent anything, and that jwo have seen his Patent Solar I'or table | Fruit Dryer, and fruit dried with it, and j do not hesitate to .-ay that it was tho -"icest and brightest uu dried fruit we I " "*• | ever sa.. """Hi merchant and dealer Wm. Lanipu ■ , • , , • ~ "ton, N. C. in dried fruits, Ueriuu.. T. 11. Uain, Geriuanton, N. L. A. Bain, P. iM., G'eruianton, N. o. E. J. Styers, merchant and dealer in : dried fruits, Geriuanton,. N'. (j. Dr. J. G. liynuiu, druggist, German- j ton, N. C. Rob't Murphy, jr., Gcrmanton, N. C. 1 A. J. Martin, farmer, Geriuanton,N. 1 c - • ! 15. F. liynuni, farmer, German ton, N. i' C. ' L. 11. llill, M. D., Gcrinanton,N. C. ' W. E. Willis, farmer, Geriuanton, 1 N. C. 1 Joel F. llill, Chairman of the ' rior Court of Stokes county. ! ' Jcmes Hicrson, jr., Clerk Superior 1 court Stokes county. S. B. Taylor, hotel, Danbury, N'. C. A. 11. Joyce, attorney, Daubury, N. ' C. ' | ' '• gallon, blieri/t Stokes Co. ' 1 \V. A. Kstes, ex-Sheriff Stokes Co. 1 *•-*♦»■ *• ( PROPOSITION TO TRACKERS.—Dan bury offers one of the best openings for . » school of any place in tho State, for tbo following reasons : It is ono of the healthiest places in the Statu (without | good health it is impossible to improve the ( time while at seoool); board is cheap ; ' the morals of the placo aro as good as | ' other Tillages, and there being no other c school in this part of the county, it , ( would be well patronized. We would ® prefer aiding a lady aud gentleman who 11 wish to make teaching their business, j' and would like build a permanent s sohool; but if none aio disposed to un- ! ' dcrtaka this, we will pay a lady teacher ; '' .1 reasonable salary to take cliargo of a ' village school at this place. Address \ ' N. M. Popper, Dar.bory, N. C. i n \\ a havo lately received several |, lengthy communications recommending „ this or that man for Congress, all of 3 we decline to publish. Politics is not 1 our business, especially making c»ndt- s dates ; but give us true, honest men to vote for, and wo will do all wo can to j ? elect them, even if wo havo to do with- | out our dinner to go to the poll*. 1, A Dakota Delegate. I llcrahl. A slim man with a blue suit and a j t soft black hat was bobbing arouud the 1 Palmer House lobby talking politics ' i and busiuess. "I'm what is known as ( a rustler iu Dakota. Rustic, rustle, j i rustle all tho tiuie. Never stop rus- I tling. Keep 'er up. That's the way ( towns are built, railroads put down, set- i tiers obtaiued, votes nabbed, offices got, i honors secured. Hustle yourself. Ncv- i er atop rustling. If Jim Blaine was a , rustler he would have been President. ago. Never let up. I rus-: tied a town in Dakota ouco and made j an even $20,'000 out of it, just by rus- i tling. 1 got a colony of Polaeks to j: Dakota once and sold tiicw farms for | $1 an acre that cost me $1.50. Ilust- 11 ling did it. 1 elected myself to the j i Legislature and made a brother of mine i county judge, all by rustling. Hustling ] moves the world. Hurtle all the time, i you fellows that aro making Presidents. ' Never lie down a minute. Keep 'er up j i everlastingly. That's the way nations ■ are built and fortunes made." Some ! • hours later, as a police patrol wagon i bearing him away was rattling over tue i atones at a furious rate, he said languid ly to the officer who was silting on him . i j"1 like Chicago. Vou fel's dome proud, lcr rustlers, ycr arc. Y' never let up. 'S great town, noble city, splcn mctrop 'lla rustling people, ucv'r (hie) quiet, A Rich Man's Store. New Yurk 1 .otter. Mr. William li. Vandcrbilt's treas ' ure vault, in which he recently stowed away $100,000,000 in securities, is one ' of the most redoubtable works of defence i oti tne Aniericau continent, though you | umy not be entirely certain of that bv , I surveying his mansion from the outside. ■ Its foundations were blasted out of the rock ; the fiont wall is live feet iu thick- j ness, and the ride and roir walls three feet, the materials used being pressed biick with brown-s'ono fri turnings. Tho j ; beams, girders and ujain \ illars are iron encased in lire-proof material. The i doors, window frame* and minor por- i tions aro iron, marble and glass. No I wood is to ho found in the structure. I I Tho great vault is thirty-six by forty- I two feet, of wrought iron, steel and I Fraokliuitc iron, i« imposing in strength ' and proportions, and is situated oa the ground floor, Its four outer doors ' weigh 8,200 pounds each, and have cv-' I ery effective and known improvement in j : defensive devices. A massive wall of masonry surrounds the lr inware. The 1 vault which is burglar, fire, and water proof, constitutes a distinct building in ! i itself. True UN IM caching When o/ a at ' with trie election happens to coinciu. . j time of a great depression in bu».. nC " SS ' | the party in power is bound to be hurt | if the party in opposition has the sense to improve tho opportunity ; for tho community is ijuick to resort to change in hope of relief even if it be change so unsubstantial as standing on the left leg instead of the right one. Everybody has heard how Governor Dix, driving down to his summer place on Long Is- \ land in 1871, suddenly found out that Mr. Tildfti was probably going to beat him in tho political canvass of that year in spite of the Republican majority of moro than tifty thousand in 1872. He I met an old man bobbing for CPIS, wlo , complained that there were' "not half so many eels to a pot as there used] to be," \ and thought, there wa», need of a change | of politics at Albany" on that at- 1 count. m I MOTIIEU AND SOX. —Tliero is no tie ' in the world more beautiful tlnin that which binds a mother and a son grown old enough to be her protector. A j daughter loves her mother indeed, but , | she sees all her defects, as oue woman j always docs those of another. No doubt I t with the unconscious arrogance of youth; f sho exaggerates tlicuv Hut the son 1 t loves his mother with an ideal love-- I he sees her as a man sees a woman, that f is to say, through a halo of mystety. Heverenco is ill his feelings of her, and j at the same time a sense for her need of j j. his care—lie is at once her knight and : her son. He is proud of her and fond | of her at tho same time. Iler imago is 3acred in his mind. She may not be better than other women, but she seene i so to him." ' t , A St. Louis ifirl traveling in Italy ! writ' s home "that she has had a bust of! ' her foot mado." This accounts for tho 1 high price of plaster. 11 NO. 3 rift j Yard* at «nc Not very often Joe* a toy get the chance of sitting on tlic blow-hole af a live whale, says the London Telegraph;, • nor, probably, having done so once, would bo likely to repeat the experi ment"* at least not if be bad read 04* been told of what happened the other day to a Shetland lad who bad inadver tently seated himself upon tho nos trils of a ttranded Behemoth. This ve racious narrative states that the whale had drilled ashore, having gone aground I upon 411 ioc line, and *• *x»n vuho4 ! bodily out of deep water to one of the j islands. An old fishormrn, with his boy I had arranged to fasteu a rope or cbaiu round the creature's tail, aud jt was at | this moment of triumph that the young ster is said to have seated himself upon tho forehead of the leviathan, liecoui ing aware of some obstruction to its breathing, it gave a great wort and sneezed the boy fifty yards out te sea. The boy, it is added, was not hurt, Usi.t much surprised, as well be uiight be. To sit dowu unconcernedly ou the orifice 9/ an active valcauo and be suddenly blcwu up into the air is calculated to astonish even the most phlegmatic leuapurament. Asiatic apathy could hardly i;tand u£- moved such a:i unexampled and forcible test, much less a frivolous urchin, who, very proud, found himself all of a sud den puffed off beyond all his expecta tions, and Ins small, graceless body fly ing through space like a marbje from a biow-pipo. And there is not muoli on a whale's bead to catch hold of. It it smooth, polished and sloping, so tha«t when the impetus cauie from beneatU ! up he had to go, like a clay pigeon oft , the trap. There was no help for it. and go he did, fifty feet in the air and fifty ] yards out to sea. It was a lesson to him not to go about sitting ou whale's blow-holes—at any rate uutil they are securely plugged up—aud wo may be tolerably ccrtaiu that even if that Miet laud boy lives to become tho oldest ; habitant of tho island, he wili never again bo found taking a ee&t on the j esoapo-pijie 0/ evon the smallest ceta- I eeau. 1 Youthful explorer. (!■ iMfljnro M>'t lit"!iot Ailvjinre. A few evenings ago ju»t before sunset our ten-year-old was discovered quietly sitting on tho top of the new churcb , s'ceplo, IGO feet from the ground, ta- king a bird's eye view of the town and 1 surrounding country. He says tine view j is very fine, but siqse we have bad a conversation wilh him on the subject he evinces no disposition to repeat the ex ; periment. We mention the incident that our neighbors who have enterprising i ten-year-olds may hold a similar con« j veisation more seasonable than we did | There is no guessing before hand, what a b.iy means to do, and hence it is that i a great deal of good advic.c conies too I late. , WUj'Vhey Decorate. I >\\l i n ** omual. One of the Auburn scuJ" 0 ' visited the school in the Marker -u..'' triet last week. The scholars were an« sworing a few closing questions from k 1 visitors. "What is the holiday to* n.jrrow J" was asked, ''Decoration day," was tho reply, in a shout, j "What do they have Decoration day 1 for?' 'To Decorate the soldiers' graves,' said sev»"»l utvu- . —11 •> •' "J «•««■«• ! corafc (ho soldiers' graves any more than yours or mine?" There was a long silenco. One little fellow finally stuck up a hand in the further corner of the room. The visitor asked him to speak. The boy said : "If you please, sir, I think it is because they are deai| and we ain't," A .Melancholy Situation. A vory oharming foreign actross, who has not been fortunate in hor marriage, was at Washington not long ago, 40 (| meeting an old friend madu sundry in» 'l'iiries concerning the welfare of their common acquaintances. 'How ees AV asked tho aotress. 'A ! Oh, he died about a year ago, 'And how ees B !' '11? Why, didn't you know ? Delias been duad these three yoars." •Has he, ecndeedl And cat good 0, how ecs ho !' •I'oorlJ! He died Inst month. 1 'Ah ! said the lady sadly, "eferbodf dies—eferybody dies—oxccpt"—will; deeper melanchojy—t'niipo luispand !" The \\ in*ton lltpuiilicttn learns that "the seventeenth year locusts abound in portious of Stokes county, and thafc uiauy hog* arc dying from eating them.'