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THE Mo A'RO UNTA TOX. 4. MORGANTON, N. C, JlJPRIJL 7, 1883. NO SO. LIXA DAVIS BROS, DEALERS IN General Merchandise, are receiving now by nearly every train their Spring Stock of Goods which includes a greater variety than is kept in almost any town in western Ro'th Carolina, from the most trivial want up to the mont useful and practi cal necessity. Remember they hav had nearly twenty years experience in buying and studying the wants of this country, which, evidently, has a great er m-auing than is coininouly under stood. Who of you when real sick ao not want the very best and experienced medical treatment? So if is in the mercantile business, both alike, cost you money, and money is the product of your had laborj hence, MONEY by going tov4VIS BROS, to buy what yoa want. XVs are still run ning several specialties. The famous TENNESSEE WAGONS artr a ynysMti h--n i. a "1 ;ri the brsi 8-J t:ifcnpt:t of Hi y .gnu we know oJ. Rcli Urs;:r. I';", Stir ? rV- ti t.l;ig i'ATUO. COOK 6T0VE;" hurcreds of g od ptopie can ti sfi ry to iis g.'iwd qualuii s Price with in the leaeh ol ail. Wi again call amotion iu the famous M cS RBllY WHEAT DRILL, perhapsthe beet of all other?. Comm and put in y-ur orders in time. Sample drih always on hand. We sold quit a largw number last year, all ot which are highly spoked of ty our home fo'k. Our entire stock will soon be complete. AU kind? ot HARUWAUH, Miners' TWa, all Boris of ILiON. Tooacco Hoes, Harrow Teeth, Meroney Plows, both one and two horse, Ueautilul j&HJT GOODS, ' well assorted Notions. Miles and Zaigler's Sho 8, and all kinds d I Eastern Shoe-; Men's an if Boys' in great variety. Pain's, Oils. Hol low War', in shurr, everything kept in this coarnry- We buy all kinds of ?nd pay gtjodL prucs. Coma ou, nd trade wih us as nsuI. THE HAND OF FATE. , BT HAST KYLE DAIXAS. When I was still going to school, in the graduating class, to be 8ure and past six-teen, and very large for r . - e -A , my age, four of us made up our minds, c 4, i 4. u ne Saturday afternoon, to have our f fortunes told. There was a Gypsy camp out on the common beyond the town, with . . ., , , . vans, tents cauldrons, and the whole. r m if j ; paraphrenaha of Gypsy life, and ev-: the common beyond the town, with erybody walked or rode out to visit it. We decided the walk, and as it was a bright, cool day, enjoyed ourselves better than if we had been cooped up in the stage or even in a carriage. It w October. Some of the foli- age had changed color a little, and there were red and goldentinta among tho OTp.na "NT 01 "NW an tn the. rrnAa shook the trees, and scattered showers of leavfiH iinnn til a marl TTnva ti1 there grew crimson strawberries, and bitter-sweet burnt like gold along the j stone fences. Each of us gathered a ereat bunflh. and w heM t.hftm in our hands as we entered the path that led into the hollow whpr in mn Young and romantic, we were dispo-, sed to be delighted with everything I u u 7u n ii- ,t with the swarthy Gypsy selling a colt to a stout farmer, with the old grand- mother dandling a dusky baby on her i i -j . i ti. , i children squatting about everywhere. There were visitors in nlentv. and mosf. nf tn wnmpn w. p hnv t.pii5or ! fortunes ' ' . j x. ' As we approached, a woman who . . - ,, . had been sitting on a tallenlog, arose and a man wrh had been talking to her, pulled his hat over his eyes, and turned away like the villiau iu a mel odrama. The woman wore a broad -brimmed straw hat, with a wreath of wii I flow ers around it. "She was the ideal dark-haired Gypsy maiden, and she greeted us with something of a queen ly dignity, as she inquired if we would have our f ortunes teld. Clare, our spokeswoman, declared that to have been our intention in coming, and we swon proved the truth of the adage, "A fool and his money are soon parted," by dropping each a dollar in the Gypsy's paim. "Who bhail 1 beam with, pretty lad.esf asked the Gypsy, "And will ua!"P ani1 the fo,tune teller's ProPhe you have your fortune told privately iUsbed info m? ra7- J . " T li lt I l'tlll or tosrethe ?" Clare answered th.t we had no se- 1 crets from each other, and that this young lady, indicating Belle with her parasol, "would be the first to take a glance into futurity." Belle, .blushing rosy red, put eut her little hand, auj we all listeued while the Gypsy told her that some one with a title, a lord or a duke, would cross the sea to fall in love with her, that she would live in a palace beyond the ocean and be waited on like a queeu. There was more, but I have forgotten it. Belle was delighted, and Rose was the next victim. The Gypsy told her that she would marry a great musician, and we all laughed, for we knew that Monsier Martelli, the music teacher, was very much in love with her. Then Clare sealed herself on the ? old log and opened her hand, palm upward It was large and handsome. Clare was something like "Lady Jane, not pretty but maive." The Gypsy told her that she should be a soldier's wife. Oddly enough, it leally happened that way ot a year afterwards. W were all at the wedding. The next day Col. V ; rode out of the town at the head of his regiment. He nev er came back. Glare wears her wid ow's veil for him vet, and his minia ture lies over her heaat day aud night forever But where have I strayed to? Let me go back to the bright autumn day, nd ih Gvnsv camp, and the four schoolgirls, half - mocking halfbehev inn vwv mfirrv and vet iust a little frightened. ' It was my turn, and I sat before the duskv little ocrress. and listened as she C3 . , ,-( ,. - 0 " 0 peered at the lines in my palms. j a" little excited over it all, when Rob "Ydu are a tall lady, Mks," she m put his arm about my waist and said at last but vou eo to school vet. drew ma" close to him. 5 are f ond of music' and ?0Xl have ; aa elderly gentleujan. relation, who takes you out to places of amusement and the like." m, ' This was so true that I came near . . , crymg out, "It is Uncle Henry, but I bethought myself in time. "You wear blue a good deal," she 'I . r & ' , . . , , went on, "and you have a blue fan. get me into the pew bel md you. Of ' J . , & T , , , At a concert one e7emng, vou dropp- course, I bnded old Thompson. All m , &- .,,.!.,.', - The Sentleman jhopicked it- UP 13 lDe our Qusuauu' J-ue Blra saTS" . . . ' ' . j How whlte ou tarnEss cned Clare. "I feel faint," I said "It's true I droPPed a blue fan at thf OP1 PattisangTraviata, and a gentleman ! picked it up, but I should not know P1CKeU AU him from Adam." "You'll meet him again, however, Mi88" said th "Some da at chur?h he WI 1 hand u.a OOOK W1LB LUc piiiuc LUiXii.cu mim. a flower; when you see that you will know y Lfate h" fme Dame 18 KoblQ- He haS His first black eyes, black hairand wears mustache." 1 cer badeonugh fr "y lar. We all walked home together , . rather nously, but in a day or two theimprewion passed away, and we almost forsrot how strong it had been. The rest of October was very un the pleasant. We had prayers in schoolroom instead of going to church. But on the first Sunday in November , , , , ,, the sky was clear and blue, and we all J ' set iortu ior cuuruu tuiienici. It so happened that there were four new schelars, and the seats be longing to the school were full; four of us were left over to claim the cour tesy of our neighbars. I was invited to enter a pew occupied by one old lady, and as my prayer book waa in the sceodl rack, I had none, and did net feel like helping myself - without an invitation. As I hesitated, a book was passed to me from the pew behind me "This 13 the place," said a charming voice, and as I bowed my thanks, I saw that the page was marked with a pressed daisy. ' Instantly the visit to ,be Gypsy a couinii t oave ueipea looKing at ine Pew Deuina 11 mv Iue naa aePe- ded on it. I actually turned my head and looked full at the gentleman who gave tne the book. He had black eyes, black hair and wore a tang, silken mustache. The congaegation was rising. I arose, too. I held the book in my hand and softly turned to the fly leaf, before the title page. A name was written there Robin Armytage! Who can blame me if" I said to ray-, self: "Certainly, I have met my fate at last!" It is vulgar to "flirt" wrong to make acquaintance without introduc tion, but it was all Robin's fault. When he met n o as I went shopp'ng for Berlin wool for my afghan; when he held hii umbrella over me one day when it rained, and walked with me and talked; when old Thompson, who made the fires for the school, came upon me one morning in the garden, and pointing to a gentlem tn where he Lad no business to bedooking over the fence, said; "Look here, Miss, this here is Mr. Robin Armytage. Proud to make you knowed to each other." ? who could go against fatef And ao I had the impudence to in troduce him to Uncle in the holidays, and in three months we were engaged. I graduated, left school, and soon was married to Rbin, ami was as happy as a bird oP a hutterfly or a squin el. I had told Rubin about the Gypsy, of course, and he agreed with me that it was all very wonderful so often. aud at last, one bright spring evening as we walked together, I spoke again of the strange prophecy, and particu larly of the fact that the Gypsy had known his name, and I was srrowinsr ."My darhn?' he 8aid' " ean ' de ; ceive you any longer There was no : prehecy about it . whatever. ; I had been n love with you for weeks had I , , , J . - - watcbed you everywhere, and folio w- ; , , , J T , r ed you to the camp. 1 paid the Gyp- sy five dollars to say just what I told her, atgave the old sexton two to is fair in love or war. You forgive me, don't yon?" For a little while I wouldn't, but at last I gave in. One must give in, you know.. . "I thought it was the hand of fate that guided me," I said, "or I'd nev er have spoken to you to let old Thompson introduce you, or deceived uncle." "It was all very wrong, I know," Robin answered. "It would have been very shocking if it had been some other fellow, but, you see, dear, it was I." Yes, it was he. That seemed to make all the difference, and I replied, "Oh, Robin, I believe the hand of fate was in it, after all." HIS PA MOR TIFIED. "What was the health officer doing qgrer to your house this morning," said the groceiy man to the bad boy, as the youth was firing frozen potatoes at the man who collects garbage in the alley. "O, they are searching for sewer gas and snch things, and they have got other society experts till you can't rest, and I come away for fear they would fmctthe sewer ,gas and warm my jacket. Say, do you think i t is right, whem anything smells awfully, to always lay it to a boy?" "Well,in nine cases out of ten, they wrould hit it right, but what do you think is the trouble over to your houso, honest?" "Sh-h-h! Now don't breath a word of it to a living or I am a r'ead boy. You see I was over to the dairy fair at the exposition building Saturday night, and when they were breaking np, me and my chum helped to carry bo::es of ches.se and firkins of butter, and a cheese man gave us a piece of Jibergor cheese, wraped up in tin foil. Sunday morning I opened my piece, and it made me tired. O. it was the awf ulest smell I evei heard of. It was just hk a back funeral. Pa aud niaweie just getting ready to go to church, and I cut off a piece of cheese and put it in the inside pocket of pa s vest, and 1 put anotner in tne lining of ma's muff, and I went to church too, and I set on the hack seat with my churn, and looking just as pious as though I was taking up a collection. The church was pretty warm, and by the time they got up to sing the first hymn pa's cheese be gan to'saaell. a match against ma's cheese. Pa heldoneside of the hymn book and ma held the other, and pa he always sings for all that is out, and when he braced himself and sang"Just as I ami," ma thought pa's voice was tinctured with biliousness, and she looked at him, and hunched him, and told him to stop singing and breathe through his nose, because bis breath was enough to stop a clock. Pa stopped singing and turned around kind of cross towards ma, and then he smelled ma's cheese, ana he turned his head the other way and said f'whew!"'" and they didn't -sing any more, but they ; looked at each other as though they smelled frowy. When they sat down they sat as far apart as they could got, and pa sat -next to a weinan who used to be a nurse In a hospital, and when she smelled pa's cheese sbe looked at nim as though she thought he had the smallpox, aud she had her handker chief to her nose. The man in tho other end of the pew,that ma sat near, was a stranger from Racine, who be longs to our ohurch, and he looked j&t xa sort of queer; and of tor the minis ter prayed, and they got up to sing again, the man took his hat and went out, and when he came by me he said something in a whisper about a female glue factory. Well, sir, before' the sermon was over everybody in that part of the church had handkerchiefs to their noses, and they looked at pa and ma scandalous, and the ushers they come around in the pews looking for a dog, and whon the minister got over his sermon, and wiped the pers piration off his face, ho said he would like to have the trustees of the church stay after meeting, as there was bu siness of impoitance. He said the question of proper ventilation and sewerage for the church would be brought up and that he presumed tho congregation had noticed this morn ing that the church was uuusally full of sewer gas. He said he had spoken of the matter before, and expected it would be attended to before this. He said ho was a mee: and humble fol lower of the lamb, aad was willing to cast his lot wherever the master de cided, but he would be bleat if he would preach any longer in a church that smelled like a bone boiling estab lishment. He said religion was a good thing but no person could enjoy le ligion as well in a fat rendiiag estab lishment as he could in a flower garden and as far as he was concerned he had got enough. Everybody looked at everybody else, and pa looked at ma as though he knew where the sewer gas came from, and oaa looked at pa real mad, and me and my chum lit out, and I weot home and distributed my cheese all around. I put a slice in ma's bureau drawer, down under her clothes, and a piece in the spare room under the bed,and a piece in the bath room in the soap dish, and a slice in the album on the parlor table, and a piece in the library in a book, and I went to the dining room and put some under the table, and popp ed a piece up the range in the kitchen. I tell you the house was loaded for bear. Ma cauae home from church first, and when I asked where pa was, she hoped he had gone to walk around a block to air hiscelf. Pa came home to dinner, and whon he got a smell of the house ho opened all the doors, and ma put a comfortable around her shoulders and told him he was disgrace to. civilziation. "She tried to get pa to drink some carbolic acid. Pa finally convinced ma that it was not him, and they decided that it was the house that smelled so, as well as the church, and all Sunday after noon they went visiting,and this morn ing pa went down to the health office and got the inspector of nuisance to come up to the house, and when he smelled around a spell he said there was dead rats in the main sewer pipe, and they sent for plumbers, and mn went out to a neighbor's to borrow some fresh air, and when the pumbers began to dig up the floor of the base ment I came over hore. If they find any of that limberg cheese it will go hard wiihme. The hired girls have both quit, and , ma says, he is going to break up keeping houseand board That is just into my hand. I want to board at a hotel, where I can have a bill of fare and toothpicks, and billi ards and everything. Well, I guess I will go over to the house, and stand in the back door and listen to the mock-' ing bird. If you see me come flying out f tKealjey, twith my coat tail full of boots you can bet they have discov ered the sewer gas," PeefcsSiin. Murderers , Aeeested, Last week the deputy Sheriff, and another roan from Cocke county, Tennessee, came to this place in quest of one Wm. Moere and one Ann Pruett, bad characters, who were suspected of having inflicted wounds on Joel" Scott of said 'county,, on the 28th day of February, from which he died on the 18th of March. With the assistance of M. M. James, they succeeded in capturing both parties, who had been lurking round about, and took them on the freight train, Saturday, to Tennessee for trial. They confessed to the killing. Lamp Post. LAND AGENCY! I The undersigned proposes to en gage in the business of baying and SELLING LANDS, Collecting rents for absent own ers, and such other business, of this nature as may be entrusted to' his management, I He will also act as agent to place small ' LOANS of money upon such secuarity as may be approved of by the lender. 0. He will endeavor to form such business connections in this State and in the North as will insure proper advertisement of the prop erty of which he has the manage ment, and thereby induce purchas ers to examine the same. He will be thankful for the countenance and support of the community.. .' ; JE. W. WARD. Town lots for Sale. By order of the Probate - Court for Burke county, I will sell at the Court House In 3brganton on Monday tho 7th day of Jtfay next the property known as the "Walton House," and adjoining lofs. ' The property is divided into 12 lots which will first be sold separately., then it will be offered as a whole , tho sale producing the larger sum to be confirmed. This sale is for partition Terms. Twenty percent cash., balance in 12 months with 6 per cent interest note andappioved security titio retained till purchase money and interest is all paid. Sam'l McD, Tate, Com'r. S. C. W. TATE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Moryanton, JV.- I. T. AVERY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Jlforganton' ' N. C : Having qualified as Executor of Louis A Lowman deceased, ; notice, is hereby given to all persons indebted to said Estate to come forward and make payment" at once. 'And 'all persons having cl aims against said Estate to present them before the 30th day of March 1881, or this notice will be plead in bar of their reseveryf f-o March 29th 1883. ' Fed StUwell . Executor ef C Louis A Lowmaq. SEAUSD) PROPOSALS, j Will be received op to Saturdays April 14th, for the delivery of a bill of lumber at the Asylum. Bills - and specifications can be seen on applica tion, bond with approved security're quiredt The right to reject alt bids is retained. ' " , . ' 31.2U x James Walker, M. B DED Chatel Mortgages for. sale , at this office. All kinds of blanks printed on short notice. ' I X - j
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