ifflf ' lift 0 R ifi r VOL III. LINCOLN TON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOV. 29, 1889. NO. 30 Don't Stop My Paper- Don't stop my paper, printer, Don't strike off my same yet; Yoa know how times are stringent; And dollars bard to got: But I'll tug a little harder In what I mean to do, And scrape the dimea together, Enough for me and you. I can't afford to drop it, I find it doesn't pay To do without your paper, However others may; I bate to ask my neighbors To give me theirs on loan; They don't juat say bat mean it Why don't you have your own! $Tou cant tell how we mies it: If it by any fate, Should happen Dot to reach ns, Or come a little late, Then all is a hubbub, All things go all awry, And "printer, if you are married, Tlou know the roasoa why. The children want tneir stories, And wife is anxious too, At first to glance It over, And then to read it through! Aud I to read the leaders, And con tbc book reviews, And scan the correspondence, And every scrap of news. I cannot do witnout it, It is no use to try, My neighbors all take it, And printer, so most I ; I, too must keep myself posted And know what's going on, Or feel and be accounted A fogy simpleton. Then take it kindly; printer, If payment be somewhat slow, For cash with me is not no plenty, And wants not few, you know, I lit I must have your paper, Cost what it may to me. I'd rather dock my sweet sugar, And do witn out coffee and tea. So printer, don't stop it, Unless you want my frown, iFor here is a year's subscription. And credit it right down; And send the paper promptly And regularly on, And let it bring to us weekly Its welcome oenisoo, For which we'll "tender, tbaafcs."! THE BRIDE'S DIAMONDS. Diamonds big and bright unset diamonds that shone and gleamed and changed to all manner of colors .as Mr. Malford moved the velvet tray about tefore l is customer. They were siting at a table in the little roca at tbe back of the tore, the jeweler aud rich Mr. and 3Irs. Carberry. Mr. Carberry bad bought his life's wedding-ring of Mr. Mulford the day he opened the store twenty 'five years before, and had been a Tegular customer ever since, and a successful broker may be a very good customer indeed. -As for tbe store, it was much fiber than it was. iu those days. I: bad larger windows and better stock -more earring stopped be fore the door. Neither of the men Jiad anything to complain of as far as fortune went- "Well,' said Mr. Carberry at last, "I think we've settled the matter, he stones are choseu and the set tings selected, and I fancy Bessy Still have as pretty a wrdding present as need be. We Tvant to please her ; she has pleased us, and daughters don't always do that.'' "2o they do not, Mr. Carberry," eaid Mr. Mulford, with a little sigh. "Yoadqu't mean that your little girl '1 began Mr. Carberry, and stopped short with: "I beg your pardon.'"' "Oh, no excuse' said Mulford, tlandly. "You've known my Esth er since she was a baby, and yoa know she has no mother to advise her. Esther is a dear girl, but I had ambitions for her. I wanted ber to marry well there was young Tinton ; why, he went wi'd over fcer." - fAny man might," said Carberry, T always tbink ot the Turkish Bay. lug: 'She must be a jeweler's dangh ter, for she has diamond eyes "whenever she looks at me.1' . "Yeg, Essie has her mother's eyes," said Malford, "and is a good gill. But th-i is :i oung ujmii iu the store the I g.i ..i.e vi'h ihn small mustache who bnuht us the book ol dt-tjigUH, juu know she Las takeu a. notion to hint. Well, you kuow a tuau don't usuaiiy pick out a clerk in his owu store lor bis daughter." "Atrer all, I dou't see why not," did Carberry.'' if he is otherwise a hue fellow canyon the business aud all that you've no rous of your own. What sort of .i boy is ue?" 4Ob, he is very well," sa:. MuK ford, "gentlemauly, excellent cre dentials, but I don't kuow him yet. It's just a dark girl and a litit boy admiring each other, as far 3 I can tell. I'm not sure they are suited to each other, or that he will make her happy. It may be that he thicks it would be good for him to marry my daughter. It would please me so much better to have Esther mar, ry some one above such, suspicious.'' "I should like it, I think," said Jlr. Carberry. 4He'll cot carry your daughter away, aud yon have only one." 'Very true," said Mulford, "I'm too ambitious, no doubt, still, 1 can't help it, it is my nature. At all events, I've told her that they must not think auythiug settled lor a year or more. I won't give my conT sent until I kuow young Cutnuiings better." "That's ouly your duty said Carberry. "Well, I hope it will end well. And when the diamonds are et let the young fellow bring them over, so that I can talk with him a little. I'm a pretty good judge ot meu, I fancy. I'll give you my opinion of him.'' "So will I," said Mrs. Caroerry ; and then the three parted, the Car oerrys entering their carriage and driving to their residence, which was quite outside of town. It was not quite to Mr. Mul lord's liking to land his Esther in tbe store, and young Cummiugs neg lecting a customer who wanted to look at eyeglasses, for tbe sake of her broken bracelet, which she had made an excuse for running in ; but his girl was so pretty, she gave him such a smile and love-pat, that be could not resist her. And there was this order of tbe Carberrys to talk over: It was a valuable order, and a pleasant event; aud Esther was full of bright speeches. "Afterall,'' Mulford said to him. self, 'Carberry was right.'' lie d.d not waut to lose ber, and t Cummings turned out all right, why, he could carry on the busi ness, and in.hi od age he himself could take his ease, surrounded bv bis grandchildren. . "It is certainly a splendid set," said tbe jeweler one morning ; ''necklace, bracelet, ear-rings, buck lo ar.d comb. They cusht to be xbibited some where. I knew Car jerry was rich, but I did not know oe could quite afford this. Tts a pretty penny in my pocket, too- The sooner Mr. and Mrs. Carberry see them the better.'' And Mr. Mulford telegraphed to the effect that the diamouds would 0 beforo them at five o'clock that afternoon. And at three, after mak ing a suitable toilet, Cummings left the bouse, carrying the - cises in a russet leather Dortmanseau. He took his way toward the cab stand while Mr. Mulford watched him'from the door turn the corner. "I think I shall like the boy, after all" says the jeweler to himself, as h returned to the store.' Esther running in a few moments later, found ber father in excellent humor, and felt that the course of their true love was very likely to run smooth. "Charlie is awfully nice, isn't he, father?" she asked rubbing her cheek against his coat sleeve. "Now, say, isn't he ?' "Wait until we see whether he run away witb those diamonds. Essie,", said the jeweler, - aud of course Esther was iu duty bound to laugh immensely at this paternal joke. It was long before she laugh ed again after that merry fashion. She waited dinner tor her father that night until the soup was cold and the roast a cinder, and when he came his face looked pale and pinched. It fibt o'clock, aud young Cumminys had not reporter himself. The only comfort he had was in remetnberiug . that Carberry said that be would talk to him aud find out what sort of a man be was. Still, nothing would keep a clerk who had as much sene as Cum mings had a moment longer that was necesary upon such an errand, and when nine o'clock mme the jeweler was quivering with anxiety, while Esther paced the floor re peating, "Something has happened, to him," at intervals. At ten o'clock, Mr. Mulford him self took a cab aud rode out to the Carberry place. He found Mr. Car Deny on the piazza. "Ab," said that gentleman, ad vancing to meet him, "you have brought them yourself, eh i Al ways glad to see you, and as Bessv has gone somewhere with ber iu- tended, we have a better chance to look them over. Come in; Mrs. C. is in the library." "You do not mean to say . that youug Cummings has not been here cried the jeweler. "No he has not. Ot course I ex pected him, yom telegram reached me, but he is not here yet-." "He will never come,'7 said'the jeweler. "What a fool I was to trust Dim. "He may have met with an Acci dent,'.7 said Carberry. "At all events we must not judge him until we have proof of of his gnilt. The police were notified that night. The one fhose post included the cab stand had some informa tion to give. "Your clerk came down , to the stand. Mr. Mulford," he said, I know him very well to bow to. He came here aud stood a moment. Just then a cab came around the corner one that does not belong here aud a girl jumped out and spoke to your clerk. "She may have said a dozen words, and then she stepped into tbe cab again, and be got iu, too, and they drove away. They sat on opposite seats, and looked out of the window as they drove off. I thought nothing about it until the story began to get about, and I did not notice the cab particularly. The girl had a nice little figure a rery small ' Hint, md wore a gray ail tied over her fc Lot of la dies wear them so, but I tbink she was dark'. ' " ' "Yon are sure it was Cummings?' said Mr." Mulford. "I am sure it was yenr e'erk;" re plied' tbe policeman. "I will swear to that." "Yoa see my darling,' said Mr. Mulford to his sobbing daughter, late that night. "Chas Cnmmings i a rascal. He has. almost ruined me by this theft but I am thankful that he bad not yet robbed me of my child. At least you are safe from biro my Essie''. . "ButEssia kneeling before her father and holding his hands io her hands made3nswer. "No, father, . no. Charles Cpm miugs is no thief. He has fallen a victim to some one who knew what he carried with bim. He has been robbed, perhaps murdered. The truth will oat some day.'' "And how about the pretty young woman be met, Essie?" asked the old man. "She was in the conspiracy,' 'said Esie "Have common, sense Esther,1' 9aid tbe lather. "He entered; a cab with her in broad daylight. She was bis-confederate, no doubt and he has gone abroad to share his spoils with her. He had an ample time to take ou ocean steamer, and did, no doubt. A bad woman, and a chance soch as I gave that have led many a one to tbe destruc tion .v "Charlie is good and true,'' per sisetd Esther. "You will know it some day and I will, maintain it al ways, if all the world besides shoud doubt him." And to this she held while the pa pers painted her betrothed in the light of a rascal who had betrayed a trust confided in him, and no one bat herself believed him innocent .Night afu-r night as she paced her bfdro6mtF6cf:sb::tTove i" to" find some means of discovering the late ot Itie luttu she love I. The talk., about the diamonds had all been held iu the reception room of tbe jewelers establishment; no one learned of it there but how was it at the Carberry establish ment? One moruiug she arose full of a new idea and weut to Mrs. Cirber ry.Tbe lady received her iu moth erly fasbiou. "We kept the gilt a -secret from every one but inj maid, Hanuah Earle," she said and was as anxious to surprise tteasie as we were. I re member wheu the telegraph came, I asked her to read,it because I could not find my glasses, and she was quite delighted. Ob, no, ahenolaTno ou." "Where was she that afternoon?' asked Either. -.w-. " At home, when the telegram came, of course," said Mrs. Carber ry; she was doing my hair. She went out te see her mother, who is ill, she says after that. But she was at home ail the eveuiug. Oh, she would not gossip. Besides, sick old women couldn't be in league with robbers. My dear, yoa must give that young man up. There is no doubt of his guile.'7 "Will you call you your maid a minute please?" said Esther. Mrs. Carberry smiled, but rang for the girl. She entered, received the com mand which was an excuse for her summons and went away a little dark woman with a very small waist. . 'Sbe is very respectable," said Mrs. Carberry, "and engaged to her cousin, who already, owns, one cab of his own and earns money by driving people about means some day to have la livery stable., As it is, he 1s getting on ' very" well, she says:. His stand - is - nn the corner yonder. His name is Garvey.. . She is to be married soon. .Why, child what ails you." "I caunot tell yon," said Esther who was .trembling from head to foot. "But you too will one day be lieve my Charlie innocent." She hurried away meeting the maid in thehali, and observing her closely. The girl wore a grey dress with a dark stripe in it, and h-r e t wa f istm -d w Mi a i urions silver buckel. E Mir v?ent striit to the policeman who Imd neeii tbe irirl speak to hr betrothed. .You wou'd know her if you were to see her o!n'' she asked. "I'd know that waist said the po liceman. "If she had the grey dress with tbe black stripe in it, and the funny sitvpr belt bueke!, like a door J lock, I'd know that too.'' That night Mr. Mulford sent for the detectives, but it was not he ho dpoke to ilicm it war- V? don. ghter. : She stood before tbani with an air of one who is speaking of what sbknows,and uttered these words "You are entirely wrn?. Yot are looking for Charles Cummiugs, Relieving him to be a thief. Look instead for those wbo robbed bin and for his dead body. I will tell you who beguiled him away Mrs. Carberry's maid, Hannah Earle. She was the only one who knew that the diamonds were expected at that hour. The driver of the cab is the one she is to marry. His name is Garvey. He kp3 a single c&b Lts stand i oq the corner of the lit- tl triangular park at street. I accuse them of the thief and de mand their arrest, umcer nas ae scribed Hannah's dress to me and a buckle that she wears, as the wo man wbo took Charles Cummings away in the cab " Later the policeman having gone to Garvey stand declared that he conld swear to the man's face, and Hannah and the driver were arrest ed at the same moment, without having been given any opportuni ty to aid each other. The woman assumed an air of injured innocence that touched all hearts, but Garvey an arrant co ward went down on his kness at once.- aI knew rohing of the dirnorrts said he. Haunali asktd me to drive her that (lay, and I did WeL.eat department over which vou took i.p ay !! p, 4?! xVkI, a ur, what was iu it I duuno. Stir that j was Utki;Jsu'I j.jst. L-ir ; v , 0- them at a place Hannah asked me to leave tberu. A daeeot houe, a fine place iutirelv. I seen no n.orv ! of them Hannah hade wait. The home? oh, yes its the gray one, with :he fence about it. and big trees 1 am told its an asy lum. I dunno." He willingly led them to the spot and after some parley the detect ives succeeded in extorting from the proprietor of the place the fact that he entertained a few nervous gentleman," and a search warrant was produced. The doctor rubbed his hands and bowed. "Could I have beeu imposed up on?" he cried. Oh, yes. They should seethe young gentleman who had, as he believed,raved about diamonds and in five minutes more Cbas.Cutn Cummings entered the room and was clasped iu the arms of his be trothed. J The story he told was this: , As he was about to take a cab, a young woman had just stepped frjom one which had just turned the corner aud exhibiting Mr. Mulford's telegram to Mr. Carberry had said that as she was coming into town on an erraud Mr. Carberrv uad asked ber to stop for the messen ger with the diamonds and neeing him leave tbe store she hnd inter- cepted him. Of course he had no such suspicion of anv trick and nev er having seen tbe Carberry man sion eutered the mad house quietly. There the woman was assisted by two keepers who forcibly took the bag from him aud gave it to her. He fought with them in vain she had represented him as her husband, and all bis protestations were as naught as they always are in such a place. However, all is well that ends well. When Hannah found that her lover had turned traitor she knew all hope of escape was over, she de clared that the whole plan was Gar vey's and that she had only been his tool,but produced tbe diamonds which she had hidden in her mat tress.' The bride received them on her wedding eve, and shortly after Mr. Mulford atoned for his nojust uspicion of Charles Cummings by ircoptinsif him mi Ih. Finijiy S'orv pater. A Caustic filler to Wanna maker. Wade Hampton tells him. Very Polite ly InJeetf, lie is a Liar. Columbia, C Nov. 13. Two weeks ao B. F Clayton wa un pointed Postmaster f"r O'Onmb'a, vice Hnmpt(-n Gi'is, a leml-fnan or high standing in the State. Mr. Clayton is an independent. Mr. 'Vina maker had promised not to remove .Mr. G'"' -bs ii;t"l -Tm bad expired.- The following letter from Senator Wade nnon, now hunting ou h. k .a Miss issippi, will be published to morrow: "Gi-tN Allkn, jl is"., Nov. 8. "The Hon. John Wanarrp.ker. SIR: The enclosed extract from a South Carolina p tor Ka- ranged me great surprise, tor perhaps you may rememb3r, it your memory is not treacherous, your assurance to me a few days ago that Mr. Gibbs should not be removed nntil the ex piration of his trm in February next 'Not only did you d tiis t-nt you voluntarily assuied me that in asmuch as Columbia was my post office, you would, uhen a su censor ol Mr. Gi'us was to be appointed consult me. It is a matter ot Mnall iuiportauce to me who tko ihe place of Mr. Gibbs,hot as 1 informed him in passing through Columbia of tbe promise yon had made, you may perhaps understand how your: action has p'aced me in a false po sition. . "But it is forntnate for me that Mr. Gibbs will know that I at least told him tbe trntb, though I was grievously deceived in believing what was said to me. 1 shall know better in future what reliance to place on statements emanatiog from the same source. The "newspapers slate that besides managing the ,n--sido yon are ni'inlng a Sur av ,- iol m Philadelphia, and it .5 - .Ursto me tbat vmi mi?bt. with profit to yourself, select as the most Hppropriate snhjeet of a lecture to v. - ir pumU U.e instrnC;ive storv of aive you a fine field for your elo quence iu explaining to your young charges the importance of coufiniug themselves to the truth, except wheu some fancied advantage mi;ht be obtained over a political oppo uent. "I am vour obedient serv't, "Wade Hampton." One (In .11 all on v Messrs. Che;idle,of Iudunna.aud lirumm of Peusylvauia wee iuvited by Geu. Mahone to stump the State ofViiginia in his interest. They bad an appointment at Cumberland Court House in Cumberland county whieh has a very heavy negro ma jority; aud the Democrats made no attempt to meet them supposing it wou-d be a hopeless ease to make auy contest there. So the two Re publicans alone addressed a very large negro assembly discussing at length the intricacies of the tariffand other questions of nitional import ance and went on to speak in the highest terms of General Mahone his Kepublicauis'u hi friendship for the negro arid how much he had done to elevate them and help them assert their rights. A negro in :hr jindi n c bv he name of Hughes before the meeting adjourned requested that he might be permitted to replv to the two gem'len from the North and referr'd to Mr Cheadal ;s Mr. Beadle, and Mr. Brum as Mr. Bruen sarcastical ly likening them to the names they rex)re8ented. After discussing others matters agitated io the eampaign, he finally took up the question of Gen. Maboce's love for the negro, saying he would illustrate how much the General loved the negro by repeating a dream he had the night before. 'I dreamed that I had gone aud died at?d alter was dead 1 found out I didn't have any wings aud I lowed I'd walk to Heaven and when I fetched up at the golden gatf I knocked and tli3 gale keeper became out and axed me bow I got way up there to the golden gate, and I lowed to him pintedly that I come all the way on foot. The gatekeeper he sys: You aint come iu here to day for I am iot admitting no body now cept bey is on horsebick.' S)Iwas urned away frcn the golden gat. When T was coming back to you nil again, I met General Mabone right on the sani rod, arid I says, says I: 'whar you gwine Mars. lilly -ind says, says he: M'"! gwine to Heaven stand aside.' I tole him you caint get in tbar, Mars Billy, 'cause they aint taking nobody in less fbev is mounted on hes back-Then General Jtiauoiie oi.- T u fl down on your hands and knes. you black rascal and we'll ride in to gether. So Ma. s Bid h" rlitjb '. up on a stump and got onto my b. nnd we canter- ur to t'-'' gate and I lowed I'd knock again. The gate keeper be come out and he says: Who's tbar? I say: 'Mara Billy Mahone.' The gate keeper he says again: 'Is be mounted it on foot?' I tole him, 4He'n on hossback of course, for he's Mars Billy Ma bone of Petersburg, the friend of the cullud man. Then tbe gatekee per be hollored out loud he did: Gen. Maboue tie your boss on t'je outside and come in V And I jest laid back and lowed to my sell: Nitr gab, sold again ! And that in the way Mars Billy Mahone wautR to ride you into the Republican prty. The sequel was that thin county of Uumoeriaod, wnicu had previ ously given 800 Republicans ma jority, was carried by the Demo crats by about 150, and the fi st time they had carried it in 20 years Natioml Democrat. 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