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VOL. I.
MORG ANTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1885.
NO. 17.
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Ijc ittorgmtton Star.
OITICIAL PAPER OF BTJBKE COUNTY.
Tnllisliecl Every Friday.
T. 0. COBS, Editor and Proprietor.
B. A. COBB, Manager and Soliciting Agent.
Terms: $ 1 .00 per Year in advance
Entered'-at the Post Office in Morganton
as Second-Class Matter.
King of the Wall Street Bears.
Addison Cammack is the most im
portant man in "Wall street on the bear
side. The small operators circle around
him like June bugs around a gas
jet. They look upon him as the foun
tain head of all bear -wisdom and inspi
ration. Words from his lips are as
precious as pearls, and are caught and
carried along from one to another until
they have gone the rounds.
He is a heavv, broad shouldered man
of fifty-eight, with iron gray hair and
mustache. His eyes are gray, and his
A NATURE PRAYER.
Oh, birds that sings such thankful psalms,
Kebntang human f retting:.
Teach us your secret of content,
Your science of forprettine.
For every life must have its ilia
You. too, have times of sorrow
TeachTis, like you, to lay them by
And sing again to-morrow;
For gems of blackest jet may rest
Within a golden setting,
And he is wise who understands
The science of forgetting.
Oh, palms, that bow before the gale
Until its peaceful 3nding,
Teach us your yielding, linked with strength,
Your graceful art of bending;
For every tree must meet the storm.
Each heart must encounter sorrow
Teach us, like you, to bow, that we
May stand erect to-morrow;
For there is strength in humble grace
Its wise disciples shielding
And he is strong who understands
The happy art of yielding.
Oh, brook, which laughs all night, all day,
With voice of sweet seduction,
Teach us your art of laughing more
At every new obstruction;
For every life has eddies deep
And rapids fiercely dashing,
Sometimes through gloomy caverns forced,
Sometimes in sunlight flashing;
mouth and chin and nose are large, and Yet there is wisdom in your way,
indicative of firmness and resolution.
He dresses very plainly, although his
clothes are made by the most expensive
tailor in town, and he always carries a
walking stick. He speaks quickly, and
almost invariably follows each remark
with the inquiry "Huh?" Being a
bachelor, he has a valet, who attends to
his wants.
He is a member of the Stock exchange,
but is rarely seen on the floor, and is not
down town even half as much as one
would suppose he would be. He goes
oui walking and driving a good deal,
and is often seen in Central park. Cam
mack is a man of exemplary
habits. - At one time he was an
inveterate smoker. He smoked
the strongest kind of cigars and a great
number of them. A year and a half ago
his physician told him that his health
would be improved if he smoked less
He never smoked a cigar after that
The man's will is so strong that he will
do anything he makes up his mind to
do. He is a Southerner. ' He was born
in Kentucky and drifted dowti to New
Orleans. He subsequently - came North
and started as a cotton broker in New
York. It was not long before he got to
dealing in stocks, and he was successful
He is now worth $6,000,000 or $7,000,
000. He goes on his judgment, which
is next to unerring. He works the
market against Jay Gould, and Gould
does notseem to be able to entrap him
m anv wav. le is always posted on
everything, and there is scampering
when he makes . a move. He is gruff
blunt, and to the point, and has a mind
of his own. He can form bis own opin
ions. That is the great secret of his sue
cess. A friend who was talking: to him
one night said : -
"I hear you are called "The Mephisto
pheles of the street. "
"What is that for?"giowled Old Cam.
"Because you raise Hades down there
I suppose."
"Well, if they mean I do as I want to,
that's what I am. and I don't care what
name they give me."
Cam used to be shaved by a certain
barber in the shop in the Windsor. The
man was verv attentive. Not lone: ago
tne man naa a cnance to Duy a snop
and Cam let aim have 82,200 to start in
business.
Cam made Sl.600.000 In the fall in
Btocks at the time of the panic in 1873.
In the last great decline he has made all
of $2,000,000. It 13 no uncommon
thing for him to make or loose a quar
ter of a million. New York Chronicle,
Your laughing waves and wimples:
Teach us your gospel built of smiles,
The secret of your dimples.
Oh, oaks, that stand in forest ranks,
Tall, strong, erect, and sightly.
Your branches arched in noblest grace,
Your leaflets laughing lightly;
Teach us your firm and quiet strength,
Your sacrets of extraction
From slimy darkness in the soil
The grace of life and action;
For they are rich who understand
The secret of combining
The good deep hidden in the earth
With that where suns are shining.
Oh, myriad forms of earth and air,
Of lake, and sea, and river,
Which makes our landscapes glad and fair
To glorify the giver;
Teach us to learn the lessons hid
In each familiar feature,
The mystery which so perfects
Each low or lofty creature;
For God is good, and life is sweet,
While suns are brightly shining
To glad the glooms and thus rebuke
Our follies of repining.
Each night is followed by its day
Each storm by fairer weather,
While all the works of nature sing
Their psalms of joy together.
Then learn, oh, heirt, their sonjs of hope!
Cease, soul, thy thankless sorrow;
For though the clouds be dark to-dav,
The sun shall shine to-morrow ;
Learn well from bird and tree and rill,
The sins of dark resentment ;
And know the greatest gift of God
Is faith and sweet contentment.
J. E. Jones, in Courier-Journal.
THE SAILOH'S BRIDE.
fore resloved . to ask no more
questions. Next . she conducted
him into a magistrate's office
and politely requested the min
ister of the law to unite her and her com
panion in matrimony. This was rather
a damper to Tudor, but he yielded. The
eremony over, the couple were pro
nounced man and wife. Without utter
ing a word or exchanging a kiss, Tudor
and his wife left the office, not,however,
until she paid the magistrate his fee.
The couple walked in silence, Tudor
hardly knowing what he was doing or
what he had done. Turning the corner,
he saw a splendid house, toward which
the wife directed her steps and into
which they entered, passing into- a room
that .was furnished in a magnificent
style. She told him to sit down and
make himself contented while she went
into another room. The first one who
addressed her was her uncle, who asked
how she escaped from her room and
where she had been. Her only answer
was: "Thou fiend in human shape; I al
low you just one hour to remove your
effects from this house. You have long
deprived me of my property, and meant
to through life ; but you are frustrated.
I am mistress of my own house. I am
married, and my husband is herel"
We must leave the newly-married cou
ple for the purpose of giving the history
of Mrs. Tudor. She was the only child
of a wealthy gentleman. Mr. A. ,
his daughter's name being Eliza. He
had been at great expense in her educa
tion, she being the only object of his
care, his wile dying wnen sne was quite
vounsr. - A short time before his death
he made a will by which his brother
was to have possession of alibis property
until his daughter was married, when it
was to be given up to her husband, but
if she died without marrying, the prop
erty was to go to her uncle and his fami
ly. After the death of Mr. A, his broth
er removed into his house and Eliza
boarded in his family. She soon discov
ered that her uncle did not intend she
should ever marry. He shut her up in
one of the centre rooms in the third
6tory and refused her associates by tel
ling them when they called that she was
gone on a journey. The unfortunate
girl was thus shut out from the world
for three years. Her scanty breakfast
happened one morning to be carried to
her one morning by her old servant
Juan. Seeing the face of her old friend
and servant, Eliza burst into tears. Juan
well understood the meaning.
"Hush, Eliza? Some of your old ser
vants
your escape
With shrewd foresight, Mr. Tudor en
tered largely into the ice business, being
the first person to make shipments of ice
by sea. His venture was made in 1805,
when he sailed himself with a cargo of
130 tons, in his own brig to Martinique,
West Indies. In 1815 Mr. Tudor ob
tained the monopoly of the Havana ice
business, and important privillcges from
the Cuban government. In 1817 he
introduced the business in Charleston,
S. C, the next year in Savannah, and
in 1820 into New Orleans. In May,
1833, he sent the first cargo of ice to
the East Indies, which was delivered at
Calcutta in the autumn of that year.
Of the 180 tons, nearly one-half was
wasted in the voyage and in going up
the Ganges. The ice was sold imme
diately, at no more than half the cost of
that prepared by the natives. In 1834
tho first cargo of ice was shipped to
Brazil by Mr. Tudor, and until 1836 he
had a monopoly of the shipment of ice,
but it finally became so large and profit
able that others entered into the busi
ng Srom various ports.
Mr. Tudor's foresight secured to Bos
ton the chief position of the Calcutta
trade, and gave her ships cargoes for
Southern ports, thus reducing the costs
of freighting southern products to the
North. The extensive and valuable Tu
dor estates in Boston and vicinity, where
representatives of the family still reside,
are well known. The Tudors have al
ways been noted for public spirit, in
telligence and refinement, and it was a
Btreak of good luck for more than two
'that about the establishment of the fam
ily in America. Boston Commonwealth.
Romance ot a Once Famous Publisher.
Among the inmates of the opthalmic
department of the hospital on the corner
of Twenty-third street and Third avenue
is a man who has an exceedingly inter
esting history. Forty years ago his
name was literally a household word in
every cultivated home in the United
States, for it was attached to a magazine
which justly takes rank as the pioneer
publication of first-class American peri
odical literature. The man in question
is George Rex Graham, the founder of
Graham's Magazine, who was once also
the chief owner o the Philadelphia
North American newspaper, who has
twice made and lost handsome fortunes.
and who was often the host of men who
have occupied exalted places, both at
Harrisburg and Washington. Blind,
helpless, worn out and subsisting on the
generosity of others, this poor old man.
now more than three-score and ten, has
for over eighteen months past been wait-
ins: in tne institution named to
Finding One's Way on the Prairies,
To find the way for yourself to a new
ranch ' across the prairies, or to drive
anywhere after dark, is a feat only at
tempted by the unwary. "Love will
find out a way" through bolts and, bars
and parental interdiction; but Love it
self would be baffled on the prairie,
where the whole universe stretches in
endless invitation, and where there is
absolutely 'nothing to hinder" from go
ing in any direction that you please.
"Foller a kind of a blind trail, one mile
east and two miles south,11 is the kind of
direction usually given in the vernacular;
and so closely does one cultivate the
powers of observation in' a country where
a bush may be a feature of the landscape
and a tall sunflower a landmark, that I
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The weight of an oitrich egg is equu
to twenty-eight hen's eggs. "
Experiments made in Paris shjw thai
the crocodile can bring its jaws together
with the force of over S00 pounds.
It is said thai the electric lights a
Sacramento can be seen from the high
land sear Jackson, CaL, a distance ol
sixty miles.
The ancient name of Afghanistan was
Bactria. It was among the conquests
of Alexander the Great, and it wai
there that he m armed Roxana, his firsl
wife.
The longest word used In Eliot's In
dian Bible is 44 WeeUppesiftukrussun-
nookwehtunkquoh." It is found in St.
am tempted to copy verbatim the writ- Mark's Gospel. i., 40, and means "Exeel-
ten directions sent by a friend by which ing down to him.n
wo were to find our way to her hos- The climate of Iowa is reported to
pitable home: be changing because farming has re-
"Cross the river at the Howards' ; turn moved the tall, dense prairie graia and
to tho right, and follow a dim trait till dried up the ponds and reservoir
you come to tho plowed ground, which of water that formerly abounded.
you follow to the top of the bill. F ollow Qa Wnr0M DaT( u anniversary
me ruau oa me west siue u a cora uciu, fif t W1 TWontfiM V. Mth U w
and then a dim trail across the prairie to
a wire fence. After you leave the wire
fence, go up a little hill and down a lit
tle hill, then up another till you reach a
road leading to the right, which angles
across a section and leads into a road go
ing south to Or. Read's frame house
with a wall of sod about it. Through
his door-yard and then through some
corn. Leave the road after driving
called, several London eating-houses ad
vertised that every customer would be
presented with a portrait of Lord
Beaconsfield and a bunch of primroses.
- A large business is dono in old hat
between England and America and the
Nicobars. The savages there consider it
a mark of affluence to possess as manjj
old hats as possible, and a (rood tall wolta
through the corn, and angle to tho right at ,lh a broad back band m fetcJ
to the corner of another corn field. Take frn fiff fi f c;Tt,
south, up a hill, then turn to the right
and follow a plain road west; afterward
south, past Mr. Dever's homestead, a
frame house on the right with a
stone house unroofed. South, past a
corn field and plowed land on the right.
The road turns to the right toward the
west, for a little way, then south, then
a short distance east, and you reach the
guide-post, which is near a thrifty look
ing farm owned by Mr. Bryant; a frame
house: corn field, wheat stacks, and
was
believed to cure leprosy in old times;
that of an executed criminal the falling
sickness. The hearts of animals, be
cause the seat of life, were held to be
potent drugs. The Rosicruciaa physi
cians treated a case of wounding by ap
plying the salve to the weapon instead
of to the would itself.
No English peer or peeress can be ar
rested for debt, need serve on juries, or
be called out in the militia, and they do
melon patch. At the guide-post, take not wear on c&t but on honor, except
the road going south, with cornfield on
the right, till you come to two reads."
Follow the right-hand road (a dim trail
at first) down the hill, past some hay-j
stacks, to the Osage-orange hedge. Fol-
the creek crossing, then'
prove of sunflowers to a
when witnesses in any court. They can
sit in any court in England with their
hats on, can wear a sort of uniform a
peers, can carry arms, but not in their
pockets, and, if they commit treason or
felony, they must be tried by their peer.
A wealthy citizen of Rome, according
to Tacitus, had pledged freedom to a
The "Square of the Gun."
In the center of the town of Teheran,
Persia, the seat of government of Nussir
Deen. the King of Kings, the Asylum of
the Universe, is a large square; it is
called the Square of the Gun. The huge
piece of ordnance that gives its name to
the place is very like one of the cannon
which stand behind the horse, guards.
Clustered round it are a group of weary
, looking men. They are murderers; safe
for the time being from the law (gener
ally), even from the avenger of blood;
the place is bast or sanctuary. Under
the shadow or within touch of this gun,
the murderer, even the traitor, is safe.
Let him once leave this refuge, if only
for a few yards, and the criminal will
faTl into the hands of the law or the
clutch of the avenger of . blood. For in
Persia, the murderer has not so much
to fear the laws of his country as the
vengeance, legal or otherwise; of his vie
tim's relatives. Blood has a price, and
the price' must be paid, or the criminal
must be prepared to shed his own. The
price is not arbitrary ; it is fixed at so much
for a freed man. another price lor a
woman, another for a slave.
A STEAXGE BUT TRUE STORY.
Many decades ago a vessel from Bos
ton arrived at a dock in London. Among
the hands on board was .one named
Tudor, a steady, well-looking young
man, who acted as a sailor. Yerv Tearlv
one morning a young, beautiful and de
cently dressed woman came tripping
down to the vessel and inquired of Tudor
for the captain. She was told he was
not risen, but she insisted on seeing him
without delay. Tudor called him up,
and she addressed him with:
"Good-morning, captain! I have
called to see if you will marry me."
"Marry you?" believing her to be a
suspicious character "leave my vessel
instantly, if you know what is for your
good !" She next went to the mate and
received a similar answer; she then went
to where Tudor was, being engaged in
handling ship tacks, and put the same
question to him. "With all my heart,"
answered Tudor, in jocular manner.
"Then." said she. "come along with
me." Tudor left bis work and followed
her. By the time the principal shops were
opened the lady entered a barber's shop
followed by Tudor. She ordered a knight
of. the razor to clip his beard and hair,
both of which he stood in need. She
paid the bills and entered a hat store.
The requested the best of beavers in the
store, and told Tudor to select one, and
he did so, the price being paid by the
lady. Tudor threw his old tarpaulin
aside. They next visited a shoe store,
and selected a pair of boots, the lady
aiso paying for them. Tudor, by this
time, was puzzled to devise the objec
the lady had in view. He solicited an
explanation, but she told him to be silent.
She led the way into a clothing store.
Here Tudor was told to select the best
suit of clothes in the store. The man of
the tar bedaubed pants and checkered
shirt was in a few minutes metamor
phosed into as fine a gentleman as walks
the streets, the bill, as before, being paid
hv t.hp. ladv. Tudors amazement was
now complete. He again and again ear
nestly insisted ou an explanation; the
low that to
through the
sod house. Go through the corn direct-
i- n k. -..v rrncL slave and had broken his promise. The
J I
in" near our house." maa enrca Ma aisappomica, assa-
The distance was sixteen miles, but we united his master. By law, in such
took the letter with us, and found the ca slaves under the same rooi
j . m -j nay nuuvuk a law oiikutvsif uaawmj - -
have long been planning means for Java operation, performed on his eyes in this case was discussed in the senate;
!Scape." for the removal of cataracts. Although TWir v. d the celebrated stoic Cassius dei
fended the law and urged its enforce
Dent. The slaves, all innocent, to the
number of 600 persons, were finally exe
cuted. The Bobolinks.
Bobolink is a very dandy looking fel!
low, proud as a belle who has d&sce4
with the Prince of Wales or the Duke
Alexis. He has a habit of singing his
rattling notes in the air and hovering
"What?" exclaimedJSliza, "is it pos
sible that I am to be delivered from this
vile place?"
a writer of grace and force, Mr. Graham
has never made any pretence to be,
strictly speaking, a literary man, but he
was a generous employer and in many
It is unnecessary to detail all the mln- instances was also the discoverer of our
i
utia of the escape. Suffice it to say that best known and greatest writers. He
on the morning of the fourth day after -was the first American publisher to pay
the interview sha made her escape. This respectable prices for literary wares.
was about daylight. She immediately Bavard Taylor, whose earliest poems he
bent her steps to the
Boston vessel lay.-.
The amazement of Tudor and trans
port of his wife at the sudden change of
fortune may possibly be conceived but
cannot be expressed
One pleasant morning some days after
the marriage the crew of the Boston ves
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sal's attention was drawn to a splendid
carriasra apDroaching tho wharf. The
w m. a
driver let down the steps and a gentle
wharf where the published, was amazed when Graham
A.
tendered him a 25 check for two poorly
ing that 4 'at the Howards' n meant any
where three miles of the Howards.
Harper Magazine.
Inoculation agiinst Cholera.
The description of his own vaccination
for cholera by the New York llrrall
correspondent, at Valencia, Spain, i
one of the most interesting and extraor
dinary recitals in the annals of mcdica
experiment. The bacili had been grown
in meat-broth. This broth was injected
prized poetic effusions. For his "Spanish hypodermically, very deep in the upper rollicking u f ed ; or if
Student" Longfellow received $150 from
Mr. Graham, and for "The Yillago
Blacksmith," $50. Fenimore Cooper
once called on him in answer to a note ;
Graham wanted him to write ten naval
stories.
arm. lhe ureaa euccts oi cnoiera idui
in a form mitigated to human endur
ance) soon evidenced themselves. Rigid
ity, nausea, muscular spasm, the dysen
teric pain in the spine, collapse, and sleep
followed each other. At the end of
"I can't write for you," said Cooper, twenty-eight hours the correspondent
rather contemptuously,
adding:
4Yoa
man and lady elegantly dressed alighted, can't pay me enough."
The gentleman asked the captain
what port he was from, and
manv other Questions all the time
avoiding his scrutiny; at last,
turning to the captain and calling him
"How much do you
story I" asked Graham.
want for each
4 'One hundred dollars in advance-
only answer he received was: "Follow
me and be not afraid; all will be ex
plained to your satisfaction." He there
ing the two last words as
by name, he said : "Captain, before leav- thought they would end the
ing your vessel, "permit me to make you
acquainted with Mrs. Tudor." The
captain and those about him had not
recognized bin to be their old friend and
shipmate Tudor, whom they supposed
some fatal accident had befallen. You
may judgejof the congratulations that
followed
The captain regretted the harsh judg
ment he had at first passed upon the
voung lady, but unlike the mate, being
a married man, he was spared the added
mortification of the latter that he had
spurned even to consider so fortunate an
offer of marriage.
This remarkable marriage, the bride
being snatched from prison walls, as it
were, and the groom called from the
hard and humble lot of a common sailor
both brought suddenly and unexpectedly
to positions of freedom and affluence
has hardly a parallel in all history. The
union thus formed proved to be a very
happy one. The large fortune that then
fell under the active management of
Freeerick Tudor was wisely handled and
largely increased. In due time Mr. and
Mrs. Tudor transferred their residenco
to Boston.
was Cooper's reply.'pausing tefore utter- lenger period of immunity,
wrote his description, and expected to
have a severe headache for twenty-two
hours more, whereafter he would be
secure from cholera for three months. A
second inoculation would insure a
A score of
if he
matter.
Without a moment's hesitation Graham
wrote out and handed Cooper a check
for $1,000. The stories were written
and published, but Mr. Graham believes
they did his magazine no special good.
His fame as a large handed publisher
spread, however, and did him .great ser-
vice. JSew xoric jieraia.
Mrs. Helen L. Capel, of Pleasantown,
w .
nan., naa aDanaoned tne newspaper
business, after some years of successful
management. In her valedictory, she
says: "As the editor and business mana
ger of a newspaper, my business is more
with men than with women, and my
work, to be done successfully, must be
done as men do it. If I do not follow
the beaten path, the business must suffer.
If I do my work like a man, I am made
the subject of such a continual fusillade
of malicious gossip that I choose to
abandon a profitable business rather than
bear it any longer."
There are published in Honolulu lour
English daily newspapers, fou English,
three native, one Chinese and one Portu
guese veeklies.and three English md one
nr.tive monthlies
other investigators underwent vaccina
tion at the eame time. Some experimen
ters are unable to sleep. There remains
no doubt that the doctors have found the
right microbe, but it is probable that
they will be forced to breed it down un
til it' shall create a less serious disturb
ance when scientifically introduced in the
human system. At present the trial is
far too severe for practical benefit to the
race. Progress in this field of science
seems to have been delayed until the
Egyptian outbreak in 18S3. Since then
the march of knowledge has amazed the
world. All honor to the great men
whose skill, patience and bravery have
at last borne fruit.- Chicago Current.
Kilted by Meteoric Stones.
Considering the number of meteoric
tones which reach the earth's surface it
would not be surprising if many live
had been destroyed them. It is stated
that loss of life resulted from a large fall
in Africa: that about the year 1020 msnj
persons and animals were killed; that ic
1511, about 5 o'clock one evening, s
priest was struck and killed ; and thai
still later, 1650, a monk was killed.
But these, according to Mr. James R.
, Gregory, seem to be the oaly lastarxa
recorded of death from falling mete
orites. 1
he commences his song on a stake or
tree he never rise until the music is
completed. Many writers have tried to
imitate his song. Bryant and Irving both
give him a prominent place in the writ
ten picture galleries.
When I was a boy or the farm we uced
to call him the corn-planting bird, and
as we read his song he said: "Dig a
hole, dig a hole, put it in, covert up,
cover't up, atamp ont, stamp on't, step
along." He wore his parti-colored suit,
the main portion of a genteel black, a
little whitish yellow powder in his hair,
as if he had poked his head into ' a lily
some time and carried away the pollen
and a shoulder strap of the same on each
side of the neck, proving him a briga
dier in the army of peace. In the au
tumn the bobolinks go South on a fur
lough, take off their gaudy uniform, put
on suits of rusty black, change their name
and become either reed birds or rice
b ird. Hearth and Uame.
Bird Migration la Cuba.
" Statistic collected by the American
Ornithologista Union show that great
number of birds are destroyed by fly
ing against the light-houses of Cuba.
At raredon Grande, more than 100
birds were found one morning. In ore
night last October 278 were killed by
flying against the light-house at Carde
nas; and at the San Antonio light-house
more than 500 are sometimes picked p
after a single night's destruction. Thns
is confirmed . the view expressed by
Prof. Spencer F. Baird, twenty yeari
ago, that every autumn a great bird
wave sweet) over from Florida to Cuba.
A Japanese dentist never uses fcrcept.
When he draws a tooth he has to dig it
out with his fingers. 5i. Paul HtoZL