North Carolina Newspapers

lie fa A. ROSL'OWER, Editor, "HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRWED BY GAIN. W. 1. DAVIS, Pnhlisher. VOL. I. NO. 14. GOLDSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, DEC. 9, 1887. Subscription, 81.00 Per Year. n P II III III 'I -4 WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN. YVlirti tho irori is on the punlrin and the fod der" in the kIuk'U, Aii'i yon "n ::r the hyouek anil gobble of the Html tin' turkey rok, Axi'I the ciackin' of the guineys &nd the cluck in' of tho lions, A i j 1 the rooster' hallylooler a3 he tiptoes on tlx- f ! : L), it's tli ii tic times a feller is a-feclin' at his best, Wit !i tli- ri'iu' i-im to greet him from a nifbt !' peaceful rest, As lie leaven the homo bareheaded and rocs iut to tW'.l the stack, When the front is on the punkin and the fod- !t t'h in the shock. There's something kind o hearty-Hka about flu' atmosphere Win n the heat ef Kiimmcr's over and the cool- iii' fall is hen (if (oi'.rse, we miss the flowers and the blos- M'lits on the- trees, Atnl the mumble of the hummin'-birds an' hr.zzin' of the beets; I'.)it the ai.-'x so appetizin' -and the landscap t liDiiph the haze 0f i -ri.-p ami sunny morning of the early au- T '!!: ill i!;ivs Is a pi- tur' that no painter has the colorin' to i:i.i.-k - l. ;i tin fn.-t is on the pnnkin and the fod b'Ts bit he shock. "Ih" !.n.-.ky, rusty rustle of the tassels of the (IT!!. Ani the nii-pin' of the tangled leaves, as gohl- n the niorn; T!:i stul'lile in the furries kindo lonesome like, but stiil A-jti-. :u hin' w rnii'iis to m of the baniB they !.rowe.l to till; The straw-stack in the niecbler, and tho reaper in the shed: i!.e les;es i;i tlnir siallu below-the clovo" o'.(iiita 1 - ), it t ts my heart a-elickin' like the tickin' of a e:..el:, W! i :i tin- f. -st i on the punkin' and tho fod" la's in tho thock. --Jamks Wiiitcosib Si.fy. TI 11 ROMANCE. HE kept a small shop on the corner of Third street, where the ehil-. dren stopped on their Avav to school and spent their pennies. They all called her Aunt Lucy. She wa3 creeping along among the seventies when the church at Pennhollow, where f he had attended for over fifty years, changed ministers. Wise old 1 'arson Graves slipped quietly away to his farm, and young Arthur Winn, fresh from the college, succeeded him. It wns like putting a book in the place of a living oracle, but the people had all ho;).! that the book would sometime bud und blossom, tu did Aaron's rod. Young Winn had learned, whilo aiming tho hills where he had studied mi li d lore, n't only the wisdom requi site to his profession, but a heart lesson, whi'-h was quite as much ..ceded. And so h" took llegina Ball to Pennhollow. Regina had been my inseparable com panion from tho time of si tort frocks and j iiiafores; and 1'ennhoUow with its g:eat church, its new duties and strange scenes, could not till the void which eaeh felt at separation. Scarcely was the new tent pitched ere beseeching letters hegnn to pour in upon me to come to my d-ar, lonely friend; come and pass the winter iu Pennhollow. I had never travelled many miles away from my own home, and this opening opportunity was quito attrac tive. I took c mns;-l with my mother, and it was sigree.l, somewhat sadly. I remember that tho beseeching letters should have a favorable answer. Tho s uli'.ess ii;her d in the thought of leav ing na dear parents quite alone through the dark and stormy months, while I had a gay time in the city. But were ever parents thoughtful tinder sne.h cir cumstances,' Prom the beginning of the world until now, the very word par ent stands for so" f sacrifice. A pity for tho children who allow tho sacrifice to assert itself perpetually, and without large returns. And in going to Pennhollow I got ac quainted with Atint Lucy and learned her romance. When I walked up the broad aile with Regina, and entered the minister's pew, I was somewhat sur prised to funl it occupied. A little old lady, her round face framed inwhitecap frills, sat in the corner of tho pew. Her dark eves had a smiling twinkle, which certain permanent dimples intensified, making tho wrinkled old face 'inviting an. I pleasant. She was very decorous till through tho services, and instead of being hindered in our devotions by tho proximity of a stranger, we were helped. A degree of spiritual exaltation possessed us quite Wyond any previous experi ence. It may have been in part owing to the time-honored church, and the multitude of decorous worshippers; but when liegina and I talked the matter oer. we quito agreed that our heavenly mood was largely duo to Aunt Lucy. If f.iinshn:e such as hers can glorify the face of age, there is something in relig ion w hich our young enthusiasm has no power, as yet, to fathom, we said: some thing which grows and deepens with the passing years. I found that Auut Lucy sat in the mr lister's pew. She seemed to lelong t iho church in a way which nobody else did. As I got acquainted with the people, meeting them at their sociables, and around iheir -own tables Pennhol low was a master place to ask the minis ter to tea, and of course I was always invited, too I found they all claimed relationship with the little old lady in the minister's pew. They had per suaded her to give up her candy store on the corner of Third street, thinking she vastooold to have so much care, nd let the church take care of her. They took a right gracious way to wipply the income of the candy sales. It was agreed that she should go out to pass tho day with one family, then with i -.other, until she had made" the circuit" of the parish, then begin and go round cgatn and so cn. As Aunt Lucy had a nephew living on a farm near the sea, so that she could go to the seashore in the Mimmor, she did not visit the sams r.uuily oftener than onco a year; nues it might have been the family of the minister. She could not wholly ooaform SMI1 to tlio rontine, but would go where sha liked somewhat oftener. I remember, she came for the first time to the houso of the young minister on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. An immense tur key, which did not get roasted on the regular day, for the reason that the minister's family was invited out, came to its post of honor for Aunt Lucy. How eloquently she praised the cap tain who brought the turkey, and the captain's wife, who sent the pies. It was a fashion they had in Pennhollow, I suppose, to save the minister's wife the trouble of mixing the indigestible compound, and the minister's purse the unnecessary outlay. It was a real God send to Regina to have the pies, for she did not know much about cooking; and I did not, either, so that we naturallj confined ourselves to simple things, which were easily ma:le. We learned a great deal about the people of the parish through Aunt Lucy. "One viqJd she taJ.la.tl about sea-copt .inn." There was one blessed trait iu the old lady she praised everybody. We quite concluded, before tho Sunday visit ended, that the church of the Holy Cross in Pennhollow had somehow man aged to gather the cream of the city. Certainly, if every other church wa3 made up of such perfect people as the young minister had that day preached to, there was an anomalous pojiulatiou in the city a race of angels scarcely lacking wings. After Aunt Lucy went away I said to Regina : "There is a romance connected with this suave woman, and I am going to fathom it. She's right handsome, and I'll warrant there's a lover somewhere in the beginning of this century or tho close of the last." "She will not tell you if there is," said my friend. "You notice how easy she talks; of course she will tell me." "Yes, she talks easily of common things, the church and the sawing cir cle, but lovers of fifty years ago are not so easily brought to the light of day. She'll be a very Sphinx if you try to extract the secret of her aged maiden hood." 1 believed in myself rather than in Regina, on this especial theme, and as a phrenologist had just told me thero were carloads of white paper waiting for my pen, naturally I wanted to take possession of interesting material. So I began to court Aunt Lucy. There was ample opportunity. 1 met her twice in the church on Sunday, and as often on week days "out to tea," when it was very delightful to walk home with her, and sit a while in her cosy room on Antler street. I asked her about old times when tho church was in its infancy, and about th people who filled its ample spaces be fore the great division which occurred during the war of 1812. One night. I remember the dim can Ile light, and just how she looked ply ing the busy knitting-needles we had been to tea at Captain Race's, and she talked about sea captains a great deal jn her way home; when rising and go ing to her bureau, she fumbled among her papers and brought me a miniature )f a "sea captain," she said. The very voting face was genial and honest, and I asked her if he went to the old church. "Yes; we went to tho old church to gether, when Ave were children." "That is a beautiful picture, Aunt Lucy. Where Avas it painted ?" "in Paris," she replied, and her voice was low and tremulous. " "Tell me about him, Aunt Lucy." "Why, I have ne'er told anybody ibout him." "But you can tell me. I am soon 5oing back to my homo among tho green country hills, and it will be just is safe with me as though it were locked up in a chest and the key lost." "I don't know what made me show jtou the picture. I have never shown the picture to one of the girls. But I do feel just like talking about him to night, and 1 guess I will. We Avent to Ma'am Goreham's school together when we were children; and he used to carry my lwioks for me, and lead me, and I liked him better than auy of the boys ind girls, and ho liked mo. Then when he was not a bit more than fifteen, he went to sea. I did not want him to go, but he would. "He said he meant to be a rich sea captain and know all altout tho wonder ful countries all over the world. Ho Avas ?one six years, and Avhen he came home if he Avas not a captain ho was pretty near it. He came to see mo tho very first place he AA'cut, and brought mo the "I u&'d 0) lockout cntltf .?." miniature and those shells, and some other lovely things, too, w hich did not last like the shells. That Avas the time .ve were engaged, but I Avas too happy to tell of it, and not a soul ever knew. "He went off again to be gone three years, and he exjiorted to be captain be fore ho came back, and then wo were to be married, and I was to t ike one voy age with him, and if I liked it, I might go as often as I pleased. I though . I should live on the sea if lie did. I was very busy, and the three years did r.oi seem sodong.ns I fiought it would. But when it Avas all ended the captain did not coibp, aud the Avniting was hard. Br-and-by the ne r, s'apers sai I that the vessel soiled for home at a given time, and c nght to hare readied port long before. But I did not give up. I kept on hoping and praying, and praying and hoping that my captain would yet come. "My wedding dresses were all ready I did not have them made in Penn hollow, for fear the people would find out, and I wanted to keep it all to my self. But tho long days kept coming and going all the same.and every morn ing Avhen I awoke my heart ached, and it did not get OA'er nching all day. I used to go doAvn on the shore and look out on the sea almost every day, but that only made me sadder. I was be ginning to think that my captain was lost, and I grew very restless and thin, and almost sick. Then one day Parson Richard comforted me, though he did not know it. Ho took for a text, 'He holdeth tho sea in the hollow of His hand;' and oh, he talked beautifully about the good, loving Father, who has so many doors into His heavenly king dom, and after that it did not seem so terrible to go by way of the sea. And even thinking of the body of my. cap tain being rocked in the sea, it was all right after I knew that God's arms are under tho water. Then I saitl I must live, and as I was poor, with no friends to help me, I must work. So I set up the little candy store. I kept a variety of other articles, which brought a great many people, and especially children, into my store every day. It was good for me, seeing them, for it helped me to keep a pleasant face,and after awlnle the sunshine got down into my heart. The old church helped me more than anything else, and the ministers' wives Avere always kind to me.and wanted me to sit in their pew. He neA-er came back, and Ave never heaid from him or the vessel ." This, then,Avas Aunt Lucy's romance; locked in her heart for fifty years; filling her life with a serene and gracious sweetness, broken at my feet at last like the alabaster box of precious ointment. Now I had a secret that even Regina could not know; that I would not have her know for the Avorld. Was she not daily questioning me about a loA er of mine who vas a long way off, and whom she suspected of coldness ? I conld not let her know the tender bond holding me to Aunt Lucy, j In my determination to hide my j heart's unrest I watched the postoffice, and when she questioned about letters from him I avoided a direct answer. Regina, in her young content, well, she wanted as great a bwn to come to all whom she loved. But that could hardly lo possible. "Sir Arthur," as we liked to call him.AAas a princely man and Regina had drawn a prize in life's lottery. Tho winter days were at length counted out ainid much going and com ing and real earnest in the work in the home and church. A successful fair had marked the young minister's first winter, ind Ave had made a multitude of ac quaintances at tlio fair. When spring began to show its green, I went back to my school-teaching among the hills, and to the home that was glad of my coming. Several years went by before I saw Rtv gin a. Indeed, I did not expect to visit her agaiii, she was so far away, but she expected it and said so. The second baby was a girl and named for mo. It was to be christened in June, and be seeching letters began to pour in upon mo again. I must cims to tho chris t ning, come and pass the summer; I had kept school long enough to deserve a rest; and summer was the time to see ! Pennhollow in all its glory. As father and mother had grand-children growing up around them now, it was easier to s.v yes, and I went. After the christening there wore plans Avhich seemed to haAC leen made especially for me; drives to tho shore, nd sails down the harbor, and a visit, to Aunt Lucy, whom I sadly missed iu the minister's pew. She was spending ,' the summer at her nephew's close by ihe sea. Indeed, his farm took in the beach, sands and pebbles, and the roar of tho ocean Avan their perpetual music. 1 found Aunt Lucy grown older, and .ocniing much feebler than Avhen she told mo her stoiy iu the low chamler du Antler street. But she brightened up considerably on seeing her visitors and walked Avith us along the shore and clear out to "Spouting Horn," where the water vvould spurt into the air dur ing a troubled sea at high tide. I giew quite nervous OAer her stories ami the appearance of the rocky gorge, and needed to sit awhile on tho sands and look over the limitless and peaceful blue to restore my usual equanimity. Aunt Iucy sat down with me, while Arthur and Regina, not yet over their 'over's Avays, walked hither and thither, hand in band, as happy s.s two children . While wo looked out upon the sea, Aunt Lucy said gently, "I am going tc see my captain soon." " Do you feel more unwell than usual ?" I asked. "Not really sick, but weak and tired. I have not walked to 'Spouting Horn lofore this summer. And it is time for mo to go. I am more than eighty noAv." "You Avill not be sorry, Avill you, Auut Lucy, when your captain calls?" . "Sorry ! I shall Vie glad ! gladder than I have been since he went away. Iam fairly impatient to go. It seem3 to me the bridegroom is Awaiting for me, and I know how sad it is to Avait. I want to ave him that pain." That was all. A little signal hung from the cottage window iu token of the dinner hour, and we hurried up the lands. At sun-set we drove home, all of us iniiTessed that Ave had talked with Aunt Lucy for the last time this side of the dividing flood. A Aveck later the bell of the church of the Holy Cross tolled. We listened to i?s vibrant notes, which on the summer air, hardly seemed a knell. Then came tho ser.on along the hedegroAv, and scarcely pausing, he spoke through the open window; there were tears in his A-oice, and we only heard "Aunt Lucy." The smile and dimples Avhich habit had fixed on her facf, remauie I to greet nil who leioked upon her in death. Ae she lay in pence before the altar, while the minister spoko her praises, which were in every heart, it seemed to me that she ha 1 enjoyed her wedlock in a higher and sAveeter Aay than many real marriages are enjoyed. It had lieeu a tender dmim, a grac ilis mm"ry, and fr many ye?irs since she had "rarne I to look forAvaid and not back aa aid a beckoning hope; while through all the slow passages she had been, in deed and in truth, tho bride of the church, guarded down to gentle resi by its blessed arms, and in tho assuring hope of its divinw promises. While the minister spoke of her await ing welcome from the gveat Captain of our sah-ation, I almost Avish ho la,l known her secret, for the heavenly thrill it would have give:: his own heart, and the opportunity it would haA-e af forded to say that word so consoling Avhen life's chain is broken reunion. But no lack was felt iu Aunt Lucy's full world of bliss, that nobody on earth knew, except the visitor at the home of the minister, that she had lived her ro mance. Christian Iealer. BAXDITTI 07 THE BORDER. A Handsom? Robber Chieftain and His Italian Methods of Brigand age. A San Antonio special to New Orleans Piciiyune says: Not since the Cortinas raid, years and years ago, has the Texan side of the lower Rio Grande been un der such reign of terror as now. Brig n.nd:i rrp is Rnnremp. business is rnra!v7,ed- United States mails get through when they can, ranchmen stay close at home, labor in the fields eA-en is accompanied by unu&ual hazards, and in no man e house is there a light to lie sien after dark. The county officials have tele graphed to the State GoAernment for aid, but Gov. Ross himself does not knoAv what to do. Sheriffs and United States marshals are poAverless, and the bandit is once more in fact, as he was once in song and story, "king of the lorder." Senor Manuel Gnerro, a merchant who is rated at $200,000 and who has shops in both Roma and Rio Grande City, Starr Count, is on his Avay tc New York. He Avas seen by a reporter and gave the following account of the trouble; "You must first understand," he said, "tho condition of the country. It ia hilly; the Rio Grande runs through one long ravine, is densely coA-ered with ehapparnl and cactus, is sparsely settled and offers shelter impregnable for hun dreds of desperadoes. 'They have always infested tho coun try to a greater or less extent. If they killed a man in Mexico they stepped across to Texas; if in Texsis, they step ped across to Mexico. They had a prac tically unlimited field in which to work. Hitherto they have been disorganized. Now they are under a leader who is at once the most competent and dangerous man on the frontier ef cither country. His name is Antonio de Seurrar.te. Ht is young, handsome, educated, and 8 most daring and unscrupulous scound rel. He is a natiAe of tho country and knows it Avell. He has risen to fame in the past three months through methods peculiarly his own. He has now gout in for higlnvay mnil or train robliery. "He has learned the methods of th Italian brigands and follows there exactly. His sj-stem includes capture, violent mistreatment and heavy ransom or death. "His first victim AAas Senor Ecrrcna, a rich ranchman Avho resides in Texas, fully sixty miles from tho Rio Grande. This gentleman Avas found near hi? home, knocked down, beaten, bound hand and foot, tied on a horse and driv en for a day and night through the thorny brush. During all this time he was blindfolded, ann given neither Ava ter nor food. On arrival at the roblier's headquarters, of avIioso location he is entirely ignorant, he was held for iavou-ty-one days, until I myself paid tho.?l, 500 ransom exacted for his release. He Avas half starved, kicked, hashed and burned dailv during all this time, and was in hourly dread of losing his teeth, it being a frequent threat of Seurrante to extract them all. and t-end them ae presents to his friend. I paid the money because I knew it was a matter of life or death with him. It has since been refunded me. Berrena was seven ty years of age, and tho exposure and brutality to which he was subjected have since resulted in his death. "Owing to the fact that I haA-e a lit tle money and the Seurrante people knew it, I have been expecting the lev ying of an assessment. "I left Roma five days ago under a guard of six armed men, who escorted me as far as Pena station, on the Mexi 3an National Railway. By Associated Press dispatches of this morning, I s.ee that tho expected demand has leen made upon me since my departure,and also upon Senor Jeonacio Garcia, ot Rio Grande City. They Avant $15,000 from him, atnl $8,000 from me. My part of it, at least, they are not likely to get. "The governor has of course promisee' the aid of the State troops, but I don't Bee tho good that they can do, owing not only to the difficulty of tho country and Suerrante's secure hiding place, but to the fact that nearly all of the poorer class are in league with the baud, and purposely hide their den and cover up their tracks. I estimate that some twenty-five men belong to the band. "Sennante is a magnificent rascal, who spends his ill-gotten gains very freely, and is uniformly kind to tho ooor Tney have consequently invested him with a good deal of romance, and many of them servo him and are ready to join him at any moment. "I have no hesitancy in predicting a desperat battle in vho region within the next month, aud I am by no recant sure that Seurrante will get the w orst of :t. "He has been extending his ojiera Mons in Mexico, r.nd I understand that "he authorities and soldiers on tho other side of the river are on the qui A he. He nav lie caught between tho two fires, md he may not. He is a very smart man." enor Gnerro states that he will con 'inue his northern trip, though he is extremely feaTfnl of the destruction of his property during his absence. Th widely spread information of the lepreda'ions has ciused intense excite ment throughout this portion of the Vate, and volunteers for clearing out Starr and Hidalgo counties are numcr- The flexibility of ilia English lan noge is shown in tho reply of an Irish i:.n to a mau vrhosor.ght refug-? in his hanty in a heaA-y shower, and finding z about as Avet inside us out paid, "Yo.i iave quite apon l os t-he floor." "Yis; -hure we have a great laka in the roof." IIIE JOKER'S BUDGET. What tub iiumof.ous rtoiiy teieus hav1i to say. A Distant Relative A Sad Dilenura Too Anxious A Scorcher Ac the Zoo, &t, &c. ADVICE TO YOUNG MEK. Don't marry a woman that Lnuns more than yon! If you do you will snrely regret it: For thin unpleasant fact you will fin! to be true, That fche never will let you forget it SOLOMON S C1HXDKEN. "Solomon said," remarked tho domi nie, as he carcfnliy trimmed a birchen switch four feet long before going intoj committee of the Avhole on the state of the country. "Solomon said, 'Sparu the rod and spoil tho children.' " "Yes," said the trembling minority member of the committee, "but mh what awful children Solomon raised." And AAhile the master thought and thought and thought, the minority went out to revise his report and forgot to come back. Burdcttc. EQUAIi TO THU OCCASION. "Clara," he said tenderly, "if busi ness reA'erses should come to me after we are married, aud wo should get to be very, very poor, Avould your love for me grow less?" "Never, George," replied tho noble girl. "And could you go into the kitchen, dear, and make a loaf of bread with those dainty little hands?" "You are very nico to say such a pretty thing, about my hands, but, George, Ioa-o, don't be foolish aliout tho bread. Why, I Avould send one of tho servants around to the baker's for it." N. Y. Sun. COIiOB BX.ISDXESS. Two ex-conductors of the Missouri Pacific met iu the rotunda of the Grand Pacific yesterday afternoon and lxv gan to discuss the reasons for their dis charge. "I was fired," said one, "because I was color blind." "I didn't know," said the other, "that conductors Avere obliged to undergo tho same test in regard to colors as the en gineers." "They don't, but my color blindness went so far that I eouldu't tell the differ ence bet-Aveen tho color of the com pany's money and my oavii." Chicago Herald. MORE INTERSTATE BUSINESS. "Better keep your head in the car," suid the conductor on the Lansing train, as he passed through a coach and sa Av ail old man with his liea I thrust out. It AAas slowly dniAvn in, and the owner turned to a man on the seat behind him and asked: "What harm does it do to put my head out ?" "You might knock some of the tele graph poles down." "Oh, that's it ! Well, if they arc so mighty 'fraid of a few old poles I'll keep my head in. That's tho way on tho railroads sinco that iioav Liav A-ent into effect. THE KEG l L An THING. An old gentleman of Detroit Avas pass ing through the ceremony of taking his fourth Avife tho other day. At the im pressive climax of the good preacher man's part of tho performance, some body was heard sobbing in an adjoining room. "My goodness !" exclaimed one of the guests iu a dramatic whisper, "avIio on earth is that crying on this festive occa sion ?" "That?" replied a mischievous mem ber of the bridegroom's family. "That's nobody but Em. She always boohoos when pa's getting married . Detroit Free rrm. HE KNEW IT. "Well," he remarked, as he met a Woodward avenue grocer, "so poor II. has gone to the wall." "You don't tell me !' "Yes; he can't pay ten cents on the dollar." "It surprises me, and yet it doesn't. I saw a little transaction five years ago which satisfied me thatdic would event- ; ually bring up with a sudden jerk." "What was that ?" "Why, he bought a horse right here in front of my store without eAren sk ing me to look at the animal's teeth and tell his age." Detroit Free Pre. TWO WATS OP SEEING THINGS. First Anarchist Look at that rich man now; too lazy to drive his own horses. Second Anarchist Yes, has to have a private coachman to hold the reins while he lays back in tho cushions. At Another Corner. First Business Mau I declare if thero isn't old Scrougo doing his own driving. Second Business Man Yes, he's so infernally mean and stingy that he dis charged his coachman, a poor nr.au with a large family, because he thought him an unnecessary expense. Oitmha World. EMPLOTEK AND EliPIiOYE. Employer (to commercial traveller) Good morning, Mr. Smith; home again, eh? Commercial Traveller Yes, struck tovra last night on tho 7 o'eiock run from Boston. Employer Why, I camo over from Boston on that train. Strange I didn't see you. Commercial Traveller Did yoa 4ako a parlor car ? Eif loyer No, certainly not. Commercial Traveller Well, that's the reason you didn't see me.Epot'h. , ft I TOO ANXIOUS FOR A JOB. Merchant (to small applicaut) Whsro lo yon live? niall Applicant Harlem, sir. Merchant I s'poso you'll be sick lltout three days in tho Aveek in order to jee tho ball game j" Small Applicant No, sir; I don't care anythin' 'lout base-ball. Merchaut What! You a Harlem loy, and tell mo that you don't care anything for base-lull ? "You won't do, Johnny. We can't have any liars about T id-Bits. NO TASTE. "Jenkins, I've got something to tell you. It grieves mo to say it, but as a friend, I don't think I ought to keep silent. "What is it man, what is itf" ' I saw Brown throwing kisses to your wife." "Great Scott. I wouldn't have bo-lieA-ed it." "I thought not." "But, come to think of it, BroAvn nev er did haA-e any taste. Wasliington Critic. a father's privilege. j Mau As your first baby as a boy, I j suppose you have the privilege of nam i iug it. loung l- ather les, siree. I wouldn t allow any one else to name that cherub. "Ha-e you thought of a good namo for him yet ?" "Dozens of 'em; splendid names; just the thing; but they won't any of them do." "Why not?" "My Avife won't have 'em. a scientific scorcher. Small Hnxleyan "I say, mammy, dis ver fiizioloirv rav if a chile Lli'a Inarm long 'miff to reach to de sun w'en he's bawn, he done be dead 'n' berried seAenty-fiAe yeah To" tlor he gAvine j feel de seo'eh." I Mammy (severely) "An'nlasS'phiry I Nebcudnezzah Jones, shut dat ar book, n go split de kindbn 'n rest my po" brain. 'Pears 1 ike's if too much larnin 'Umako mo mad." Harper Raznr. CALLING. Smith I say, Dumley, you have had some experience in love affairs, and I want your advice. There is a pretty little widow in Harlem whom I devot edly love. In paying my addresses how often ought I to call upon her 3nmloy She is a Aidow, you say? Smith Yes. Dumley Seven nights a week, my boy, with a Wednesday and Saturday matinee. Ep-'t. MOVE TP. "It is not often that conductors get off anything noAv," said a daily rider on an uptown line, "but the other night a raw hand fresh from the isle of green sod caused a good deal of merriment Avhen ho requested tho passengers to moA-e up front by yelling: 'Will yez plaze git in off tho balcony V For a AAonder they complied. I suppose the novelty caught them." Puilidclp'tia Call. WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. BroAAn Have you seen Dumley late ly, Robinson Robinson Yes, only a few minutes ago. Ho invited me to haA-e a drink Avith him. Brown Did he haA-e anything par ticular to say? Robinson Well, ye3. He said if I would pay for the drinks ho would fix it up with me some other time. the foster. Lady of the House You say you want to go to the matinee on Wednes day? Kitchen Lady Yessum. "What play arc j-ou going to see!" "I don't know tho name of it, mum, but I seen the picture where one man was a standln' on tAvo others and wavin" of a sword." Minneapolis Journal. A DIFFERENT COLOR. "Do 3 011 know, Miss Smith," he saitl, "that when T see von T nlw-nvs look for a white horse?" j "I suppose you do, Mr. BroAvn," she replied, "and do you knoAV what the color of the horse that I look for on seeing vou is.'" "No." Chestnut," MORE LUXURIES. Young Mr. Waldo Do you look upon a knowledge of Homer and Virgil as es sential to ono's advancement, Miss Breezy ? Miss Breezy Not necessarilly so, Mr. Waldo. Papa doesn't know one from the other, and yet I suppose he handles more lard than any two men in Chi cago. TIIE FEVER NECESSARILY SLOW. Patient "Doctor, Avhat makes dese brain fevers hang on so long ? Dis am de seeou niouf I'se lieen iu dis bed ?" Doctor (musingly) ''Searching for de brain. Mister Webster,am what takes up de time ob dese sIoav feAers. A SAD DILEMMA. Gilhooly "Sad affair over at Jones'." j Gus D3 Smith "What's the mat-, ter if" ) une oi me twins nas uieu. "That is an affliction." "Yes, and the Avorst of it is tho peo ple don't know which of them is dead, they look so much alike." at TnE zoo. The keeper gave the lion a large piece of meat. Poet "Does he eret that often '(" i Keeper "He gets it regularly tvrico a day." Poet, with clasped hamh "What a boon it would be if I could only get a position as lion here." HE WAS THERE. Wife (in hoarse whisper) "Moichael.' Moiehael ! Wake up I Thur's a mur therin' thafe in the room 1" Michael "Whist, now Rosie, le a'sy. I hev me oj on'ra, an' ef he foinds anything Til git up aa take it from im." Harper' Jiazar. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.- TheNcrwsof the North, Tast, South and West, Reduced to Pact A a IntrrrMiog Rnrfirrt for tur Itt-uHrm. The western extension of the ('. F. & Y. V. Railroad has been completed with in six miles of Mt. Airy N. C. The unveiling of the statute of Presi dent Garfield, erected by the citizecs of Cincinnati, took place December 1. Judge Jamison, .of Chicago, h;;s re fused the stay of the execution in the ease of the convicted com ty boodlt rs. Fires are raging in the forests east and west of Staunton, Va., doing great dam age to timber, and in several cases to buildings. The sculling race for the champion ship of the world at Sydney, New South Wales, Mas won by William Bcjk-Ii, who distanced Ed want llanlan by two lengths. There A-as a tremendous cxplotd.ui of gas at the Odd Fellows building in Bos ton Mass. Five jhtsoes, wore injured, tAvo of them dangerously. A large quantity of dynamite kept i:i a tool box on one of the main streets ia Hyde Park, Lackawanna County, Penn. exploded and caused great destruction of property. J. W. A. Keridge, a pron incut young business men of Aniston, Alabama, Avas found dead in bed at a hotel in RomeCSa. A quantity of morphine was found on a table near by. By a collision on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ln-tween tAvo freight trains three men Merc killed and live others injured. The collision occurred about 15 miles south of Pittsburg. At Chattanooga Tenn., William Bald Avin, saloon-keeper, attacked three oiice officers 1 localise they had arrested bin driver for selling liquor on Sunday. Baldwin Avas killed, ami one of the jhi liceman will probably die. A gas pipe bomb Avas found on thj door step of the residence of Lifted States Marshal Marsh in Chicago. The marshal took osscssion of the dangerous looking missile and turned it over to the police. It has been discovered that a large numlier of bills of the old bank of Meck lenburg are afloat in Guilford and adjoin ing counties, North Carolina. They are suid to be circulated mostly in the coun try Avherc ihe unsuspecting are ofun tak en in by them. The fire department of Grecnslicro N. C. has almost been brought to a jiii.tt degree of efficiency. A coiored JIeok and Ladder Company has just M i or ganized, aud the city has offered toeqiiij) them with uniforms, etc. They will ! . subordinate to the Avhite dep::)"ti:ieiit, which is noAv ia splendid trim. The American bank of PittsLurg, Pa., closed its doors announcing thai it would go into liquidation. Its capital stock h $200,000. It is said by those i;i Hii"or. to know tha? the bank a ill pay all claims against ir. The stockholder are irdi vidually liable. The suspension canted lo excitement in financial circles. The city lio.ardof Greensboro N. C. i-i discussing the propriety of tlcetridty illumination for the city for next Atar. The contract with the Gas Coinpsmy. for lighting the streets exj ires Dccimlx-r lt. The lloustoo-Thomson Electric Light Company, which has placed a plant tl (v has also street lights orcr the city : ,. ' however, arc not now in use, :;s tract has been made for them, probably be adopted as soon jis t ent contract with the Gas Co. , pi res. T.rrlhi I'eee. Information reached lAm-u y am. . : . Friday right of a most iucreuil le piece cf deviltry done seA-eral days ago in a country neighliorhood near Perida, a station on the Mol i!e and Montgomery tli vision of the Louisburg and Nashville Railroad. The boy Mas Carlic Baker, a half-witted son of a farmer. He amis tight years old and had a brother and.' two sisters. Having been gone from the l.ouse some time one morning with Lis brother and sister, he came back alone, Lis clothes covered with blood and told his mother he had killed them, show ing a sharp butcher-knife w ith which he hl. done the' Avork. They were found stretched on the grass in a pool of blood, lxth with their throats cut. The t ill was dead and the boy barely alive. While the family were attending them, Charley disappeared and search being made found him shortly after, a feAV ster a from the same spot, dead, with hU jug lar vein severed, evidently by his own hand. The Avoundcd boy is recovering sljwly. DISTRESSING H0MKIM1. At a sale in Granville County, N, C, Laudy Bridges shot and killed John C. Ray. The weapon used aass a pistol. Two shots were fired, both lodging in the head. Ray died" in a few' minutes. Ray was a brother-in-law of Bridges, ile was about 40 years old and Bridges about Bridges after the homicide, which took place in the house, in.aiediately fled. A possee is in pursuit of him. Ray lived in New Light township, Wake county, and lcai-cs a wife and four thil dien. Homicide Near Blarkvillc. At Blackville, S. C, last Wednesday John Cummings, colored, Avas shot, and instantly killed by Rivers Carroll, white. Cummings liA-ed about three miles in the country, and Mas shot at Lis house. Car roll Ha-cs about three-quarters of a ir.ile from town with his grandfather. Both Carroll and Cummings Mere ia tou n ami while there had some difficulty about some fodder. An inquest Mas held and the jury returned a verdict of jus'.i iable homicide. Rumors as to the particu lars are conflicting.