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THE RUTHERFORDTON, NORTOtJAROLINA, JULY 19, 1869. VOL. 2. - V 17. II1 WESTERN VINDICATOR. Honda Morning, July 19, 169. Advertising Hates t One Square, ten lines . . SI 00 jSiich guhboquent innertion 10 Liberal rates to monthly and yearly advertisori. Special Advertising Rate. One xguar. Two natiart-l, Thre four " column, f 1 mo f ii M 4 6 SO 7 Oi) 10 H 15 00 20 00 2 mo 3 J fi 00 8 00 10 00 M 00 21 00 30 00 .1 tnnii 5 (Hi 8 oo 11 .V) 12 00 i; oo S5 oo 35 00 A tnon I 1 year f 10 IM H oo 2 00 3i 00 40 00 AO 00 90 00 7 00 12 oo 1; oo 20 Oo 24 oo 30 Oil 0 00 TERMS t Two Dollars per year in advance. CLUB ItATKS : Ten Subscribers, : a $17 50 Twenty " : r 30 00 Agents Tor the Vindicator. The following gentlemen are author ised agents for the Western Vinih OATok : Cant. W.P. Junks, Patterson, N. C. Tiddv A BnoTiiF.n. Charlotte, L. M. Loo an, Shelby, S. S. l.'oss, Limestone Springs, S. C. O. 1). Cakuiku, Traveling Agent. II. 1). C. Koukkts, Stocksvillo, N. C. OUKilXAL. A MCHELORSSTORY. A Way on Cherry Moun tain Twenty Year Ago. Written -xpre.-ly for the Vindicator. I wish you could have seen our little group. It romindei me of that old liainring by Rembrandt Peale I bought ut Genoa "Cour DeLeon on his death bed." Paul's well-formed, manly pro- i . , , . , cnv , lnUtion and T . - say that we shall be gratified to have him come with you. (The ladies join me in this.)" So, after a deal of argument pro " No ! want to know ho it ail came out!" ' Ah! I thought yo would not be satisfied without a lore-scene, and a wedding, and all that sort of a thing. It's the way with most women ! they must have the "nice young man" and the " lovely Miss Lancaster" dragged up before a crowd ; ladies in silks and j satins ; gentlemen in tights ana cut-away coats, while the Parson in religious regimentals gives permission for " the happy couple" to go home and make themse'ves as sociable as they wisli now and for the balance of their natural lives Amen! But I ain't a going to nit here telling you uch a chapter of nonsejise ! My pipe's out, and I must smoke before tea. V ' Just imagine that Lillte went home, and Taul recovered and was handsomer than ever, and everybody said there never was such another good, kind, brave, generous, splendid-looking fel low as Paul Howard, and I teased him about hiding that little bunch of Eng lish violets Lillian had left on his win dow sill. Then there came a note post marked, "Laurens," begging sister Maude to come and stay a few weeks while old Col. Lancaster went to New Orleans, and sis agreed to go. And ouo day about a month after that there came another note from the Colonel himself, inviting me to " run over and pass a week or two with us, plenty of sport, ducks on the river, deer if you like to foot it, fishing, &c, &c. ; and please give my compliments to your friend. Mr. Howard, (to whom I feel Vortions onl handsome lcatures, ana his pale forehead with a mass of un taught curls clustering' around it were uot unlike tho old " litm-hearted" knight, and tho lovely girl dinging to my ami, trembling with mingled emo tions of fear and modesty, would have rivalinl tho beauty of any warror's 44 ladyo fayre." I shook the wan sleeper and called liim loudly by na;uo. lie started up, and leaned upon one elbow, wildly suddenly Paul sprang towards the Col onel and gTasped his hand. And then there was a little jesture that told me all that I had suspected, and I burst into a loud peal of laugh ter. He had told the father of his love for his daughter, and asked permission to tell her so, and the Colonel said he was not prepared to give his decision on a question involving the future hap piness of his only child ; but, and then he paused . " "We will go home and Lillie shall decide." Of course I I did'nt hear all this conversation, but I heard of it afterwards. - So we stood at the window, watching them, until they returned. Lillian en deavored to appear unconscious and in quired what amused me so, but I only retaliated by asking her what she "supposed that foolish couple were shaking hands for?" And then the little woman boxed my ears and ran off up stairs. When Paul and the Colonel came back, Paul was looking I ike a Prince, and the old gentleman twirled his golden-headed cane as if he owned all South Carolina. " Call Miss Lancaster, Charles !" and they passed into the drawing-room. It was now my turn to go out walk ing, and I went, and smoked up a half dozen cigars on the trip. Why ? Ah ! child; there was a strange (puff) a strange sensation about your old uncle's heart in those days. Perhaps I may tell you more some day. Did they marry? Ofrouise! Why should'nt they ? for when I came home that evening Lillie camo dancing down the long hall to meet me. "You dear good fellow, don't tease me !" "It's all over then, is it?" " In October." Tbe Ctote. bt. lea wixnre. and row, we both agreed to go, and never did two young fellows receive a warmer welcome. You should have seen Lillian's eyes sparkle when she met me, (she had seen Paul from the window) and I shan't undertake to tell you what grand times we had dur inir the next fortniirht. There were faring at us without a sign of rcco- six of ua, um Maad0 aad a Iady uitiou. AU my efforts to ooth and from Charleston Pauif the Colonel and recall his truant faculties seemed una- .i.r.. non ;m,m'a vailincr. The supernatural brilliancy! - of the maniac flashed from his eyes, und ho began to grow so rostless I mo tioned for Lillian to leave tho room. She moved towards the door and hor eyes were full of tears, but suddenly brushing them away and making a 6trong effort to subdue her agitation, tdio returned to the bed-side. " Don't you remember me, Mr. How ard, Lillie Lancaster, whoso life you .saved at Cherry Mountain ?" Tho sweet silvery tones of her voice had many a timo thrilled Paul's heart before, and thoy had not lost their pow er yet. He shuddered as if an electric shock had poured through every nerve. And thon the wild phronzy fled from his oyes, and a lxk of bewilder ment succeeded. His expression be trayed tho working of his mind. It was a painful struggle between his in tellect and the disordered btate of his physical organization for the mastery, nis mind was trying to pick up the last links in the chain of circumstan ces that had cuused his illness, but his oyes were fixed on the beautiful wo man who had just spoken to him, and I was prepared to hear him reply: " Excuse me. Miss Lillian, what was it you said? 1 fear I think there must be something wrong. I am a littlo confused." It was a low, almost piteous tone, but tho husky hoarseness of delirium was gone, and we knew that reason had at least resumed her throuG. I grasped his hand in w ild delight. "Thank God, Taul, its all right now ! all safe and sound, old fellow ! There has been an accident, you know, and everybody got hurt that's all nothing serious, I assure you." " Where is mother ?" " Suro enough, I will go and call But time flew very fat, and we had fixed a day for our return home, when one morning Paul came up into my room and swore me to secrecy for , " I Want vour advice." er 1 But Lillian gave my arm a sly pinch, and ran away herself, looking as des perately good-humorod as evor I saw a littlo woman under such circumstancos. Then there came a glad crv from Mrs. Howard's bed-room, and I hastened through one door just as Paul's mother clasped her darling boy in her arms. You can imagine how happy I was when I tell you that when I wont into the front parlor, and Lillie came to meet me, I took her curly head be tweon my hands and kissed he? rosy lips before she could forbid me, and she never made any fuss about it after wards, like a good girl as sho was. Well now, little niece, is'nt that enough of this storv ? " Snv vour unv. man amir, thv friend j j j' - j 1 pnyeth sublime attention." The poor fellow turned almost pale, as he blurt ed out " I think you suspect that I have formed an attachment for Miss Lancas ter !" That's so ! by Joe ! How did you guess it?" "And" 14 Exactly !" 44 And T wanted to ask your advice !" Precisely ao ; that's what you said before" . 44 But . Now stop your nonsense. Do you believe she would accept a man so nearly destitute of property as my self?" 4l. How much are you worth ? two cents?" 44 1 am not talking nonsense ! If you desire to meet my friendly confi dence with ridicule, let us not again refer to the subject." 44 Come down off your stilts, Mr. Paul Howard ! Haven't I told you you couldn't go through life on that vehi cle ? Now, then, let us understand the matter. I'm a lawyer you know. You love Miss Lancaster. (He blushed badly.) She loves you, or she is sup posed to love you ; or (if you insist upon it) she might without great detri ment to life, and limb, and Cupid, and Venus, and" 4lStop, if you please, you mistake me either wilfully or ignorantly." 44 J ust as you please, my friend, but here's my advice : mention the matter to the old gentleman. Whisper in his ear that you love his daughter better than old home, and if he looks severely at you just tell him you are prepared to embrace the first opportunity to embrace his daughter, if she will let Brain vs. lialior. The following beautiful passage is by the Kev. J. F. Cornincr- It will be ap preciated by all ' brain-workers:" 44 While I sit at my study-table with my pen in . hand, the fingers moving with tardy pace at the beckon of brain, I hear right below my window, in the adjacent field, the monotonous ring of a laborer's hoe upon tho corn hills. While he hoes, he whistles hour by hour till the clock strikes twelve, then with ravenous appetite repairs to his bountiful yet simple meal, to resume the task again : ad pursue it to the settingof the sun. As 1 stood at the window watching this toil, and turned again to my pen and paper, I asked myself how it happened that the man with the hoe ! will labor his eight or ten hours a-day with less fatigue than the man with his pen will toil his three or four. Hugh Miller w,as a great worker with the shovel and pick would have made a good hand in a slated quarry, in grad inc a railroad, or diceinir a ranal. But one night, as you know, he shot h'm self in a fit of nervous fever. What w as the difference beiw een the great geolo gist and the man w ith the hoe whistling under my window ? Simply th:s, the former was a worker of biain, this man with the hoc lay dow his husbandry for a little while and set himself to studying ; one of the stalks of corn, or the chemis try of one of those hills of soil, and very likely he would soon learn what it is to lose one's appetite, and hear the clock strike nearly all the night hours in feverish wakefulness. And thus we get at a great organic law of our being to wit ; that brain work subtracts vitally from the fountain, while muscle work only makes draughts upon one of the ramifying streams of life. It is esti mated by scientific observers that a man will use up as much vital force in working his brains two hours as ho will ia workinjr his muscles eight." -Er. The goto isalacmr woottaia sheep. Thoy have a riit fcocf ad a .whole tail. . - They have a C4 JPtit and a genuine digeatlva ' They swaUo trt they eat aAd will eat enny thing (iey, fcan bite. Their moral kacacters . are not pol ished. - , ' 1 ' , . ' . They had ratfcsr eteaf a rotten turnip out of a garbaf? b$2 than tew ctua lionestly bi a per CfxUm. i . . The male got? lt?? feopns on the ridce or hia aesd 1 a naataah cm his bottum lip, S tie ping ugly of his naborhood. A maskaline gvtrQ Caiyt2aag from an eJepbant dxwaUp cm ahaddet on a ded Wall. . Tbev strikafitbi their butead insted ov from the ehowder. and are ax likely tew hit az a hammer iz a nailhed. . They ar a hi seasoned animal, as much so az a pound or aasifidity. They are faithful eritters, and will stick tew a friend az long az he livea in a shanty. They kan klime enny thing but a greast pole, and kno the way up a rock az natural az a woodbine. . They are az certain tew rise az young ones, sum family are haff gotes and the other haff children. They ar good eating when they ar young, but they leave it oph az they git stronger. They ar alwus poor in the boddy, but phatt in the stumick, what tha eat seems to all go to appetight. Yu mite az well agree to phatt an injun rubber over-shoe bi filling it with klam shells, az tew raise enny adipoza membrane on the outside bust ov a gote. A phatt gote would be a literary cu riosity. They use the same dUlekt az the sheep, and the young ones speek the language more fluently than the pa rients do. There iz only tew animals ov the earth that will eat tobakko one iz a man and tuther is a gote, but the gote understands it most, for he swallers tho spit, chaw and all. The male gote when he iz pensiv, iz a vennerable and phillosophic-looking old cuss, aad wouldn't make a bad professor of arithmetick in some of our colleges. An Awlrvmrd Predicament -Out in Sliasouri Uvea1 a Mrs. Hemp dale who ha or had a daughter named Laura, who ienred a man named Jack This man ' Jack she didn't like, bat she was informed by a neighbor that Jack fend Laura had arranged a plan of elopement. ! - - - Her mind was quickly made up. announced to Laura the next morning that she - was'going to Bellville on a vssit, to be gone two or three days, and that she must be a good girl;' and pat tear the house down while she was Tbat night Jack kbev off it, abd as he fsad ther nice ltl act that bade Ida ? coma aver aad stay till mother cornea feomrtf4a.lled, knocked the mcbttSpTndZMAftd on the. course he woald-putsce. -- Jack went over, but 'there is no earthly use in our attempting to de scribe the delectable things he enjoy ed ; It was a sugar season at that plan tation, sure. Just before dusk, while Jack was running over full of the occasion, in Death of MaJ. John Gibson. From the 64. Louis RepubhcWn.J ' Died suddenly, at his residence, in Callaway county Mo., - Monday; May 24th, 1869, maj. JOHN GIBSON., in the 93d year of his aire. . The subject of this notice had resided on the farm on which he died v for the last half century preceding his death, and cued much regretted by bis neigh bors and acquaintances. He possessed a strong elastic constitution, a kind and generous disposition, and continued ac tive both in body and mind, up to the very day of his death. .: f . .1 Mai. Gibson em iterated from North Carolina in the year 1809 to what was at that time the Territory of Louisi ana, and located near to Eemzie vsase. wUhia-ile rjeiitlimitwof 6t Ctxrlc war of 1812, when he joined the Norths western Army and continued in active service during the entire war. Much of his time was occupied in secret ser vice, as spy, a very hazardous employ- j Snt Iierfcgood at a Candy I had aheep ab trouble last Kris mas and He tell yu how it happened. Deken doners gala give' . a. candy pullia, and I a stool as tha sa in North Karliny and so over , I goese., Sister foil and-me went together, and when we got to old man Joneses the house was . chuck full. Dog mi kats ef thar was room to turn around. Thar was SuzeK&rlitts shezeasbiff as A skinned hoss and six other Karliness and all tha Scrogginess, and Wilhamsea, and Sioamoasta, and Feddigrewa and the schooi master aad his gal, besides the rtld Deken and the Dekeneses and enuff little Dekenses to set up a half duzzen younjfblki in tha famUi bizness. byme-fcyCie pet bua to bile. oountj , where he resided oa JlSiSS baU "S farm until the commencement of theJ A.i.. P K They ar handy at living a long time, reaching an advanced age without arri ving at enny definite konklusion. How lone gtrr 3hMw wtttom girtng it up, there iz no man now old enuff to tell. Methuzeler, if his memory was bad j at forgetting, might give a goed-sized guess, but unlortunately lor science and this essa, Methuseler aim here. Gotes will live in any klimate, and on ennjjrittles, except tanbark, and if they ever cum to a square death, it iz a profound sekret, in the hands of a few, to this day. I wouldn't like to beleave enny man under oath who had ever seen a mas kuline gote actually die, and stay so. peeking ov Methuzeler put me in mind ov the fackt, if a man should live now daze az mutch az he did, he would hav to hav an addishun built onto the back ov hiz head tew stow away things into. The female gote iz either the mother, or sister, or cuzzin or the male gote, ackordincr tew the prevailing circum- stansis in the case, or else I labor under a delusion, I forget white h. lliev civ milk intuitively about a quart, before it iz watered, in twelve hours, which iz the subjeckt ov nurrish ment, in various ways. This milk, whitch is extraxted from the female gote, iz excellent tew finish up young ones on, but iz apt tew make them belly close and fightfuL It iz not unkomon for a babe, while inhaling this pugnashus fluid, to let oph his left colleckshun or diggit and ketch the nurse on the pinnakle ov the smeller, and tap it for claret This iz a kommon fackt among Irish babes, and explains the reason whi, in after life, these same babes makc9such brilliant bits. In riting the history ov the malo and female gote, tew adorn r the pages ov futer times, I flatter miself, that I hav struck tew the truth, and havn't allow ed mi imaginashUn to boss the job. grate menny ov our best but his rushes Laura's waiting woman with, " Lor bress me, chifn ef yer ain't missis at the gate." " My God ! Dinah, what shall we do with Jack?" " Pop him in de closet, Miss Laura," and Jack was popped in the closet in a twinkling. In stalked the lady, who, sharply scrutinizing the disconcerted and blushing countenance of Laura, felt sure that Jack had becu there. " Come here, Laura. N ow you can't deceive me. That abominable Plain has been here, and you and he have fixed upon a runaway match, to come off to-mght : . 1 know, you see.' Laura was silent, and the old lady continued : " But you'll find that your mother is no fool, and too sharp for you, my lady. Sooner than you should marry that miserable Jack Plain, I'd see you laid in your grave. He is not going to squander my money, I assure you." 1 he old lady rose, and going to a clothes press returned with several comforters and a pillow. Then walking up to the closet where Jack was concealed, threw them in, and said to Laura : "Now inarch in here, miss; step along ; I'll look out that vou don't see that low-born mechanic this night." Laura protested that she didn't want to, declaring that her mother might be sorry for it some " - ' But, without paying, any attention, her mother gave her a push, shut the door and locked it, put the key in her pocket and went to bed. Karly in the morning the old lady aroe, and without waiting to dress took the key from .her pocket, and opened the closet door to bid Laura come forth, gazed wildly for an instant, and uttered a most piercing scream. Recovering very, rapidly, she started away from the door and called faiutly to Laura : " Laura, dear, go into the kitchen and see about breakfast." Then presently : " Jack, I si. Jack." Jack came forth with a son-in-law looking air, and answered : " Well madame, what is it?" " Do you know anything about a farm ?" said she. " Nothing to brag of, ma'am," said jack, humbly. Well, at any rate, Jack, I think that after breakfast you and Laura may as well go down to the city and get married, for I am tired of watching you, that s a lact. Blackberry Viiic. M11. Editor : It may not be known to many of your subscribers that they possess in the blackberry, grown so unwillingly by them in their fields, the merino nr. nnr.p. nf m.ikinT an excellent and a valuable mcdicinc for home use. ! torians ar apt tew mistake opynuns for you 44 1 think you have been drinking to day. Your 1 emarks are disagreeable," and ho left the room ; but I noticed that he asked the Colonel to take a stroll with him that evening. As they walked off I called the ladies to the window. "Look at that couple; on would think they were talking secrets from their manner." And they went slowly down the lane j past the old spring and along the river bank, wc could still see them, until To make a wine equal to the Port, take ripe blackberries or dewberries and press them, let the juice stand thirty-six hours to ferment, skim off whatever rises to the top, then, to ev ery gallon of the juice, add a quart ol water and three pounds ot sugar, ftnc brown sugar will do,) let this stand in open vessels for twenty-four hours, skim and strain it. then barrel it until 31 arc n when it should be carefully racked off and bottled. Blackberry cordial is made by ad ding one pound of white sugar to three pounds of ripe blackberries, allowing them to stand for twelve hours, then pressing out the juice, straining it, add one-third part of spirit, and put a tea spoonful of finely powdered allspice in every quart of the cordial, it is at once fit for use. This wine and cordial arc very valu able medicine in the treatment of weakness of the stomach and bowels, nd especially valuable in the suaimer complaints of children. And this is the season for such disorders, and as the blackberry will soon be ripe, I have thought it well these recipes. facts, this iz an eazy mistake tew make, but when I strike a goose, or bed bugg, or gote, you nous one thing, I stay with them. Finn, Blackberries. The people of many portions North Carolina, says the 44 Old Jfortk State, do not seem to comprehend the great value of this crop which, grows spontaneously in such great quantities in almost all parts of the State. This year, we learn, the crop is most abun dant, and will be of greater value than in previous years owing to the failure, in a greater or less degree, of the other fruit crops. The price of dried black berries will certainly be very good this year, and if proper industry and ener- ment, and in view of his intimate know! edge of the Indian character, together with his quick discriminating mind, was always much relied cm by his com manding officers. He was with Gen. Howard (in Col. Alexander McN air's regiment), in his memorable campaign to Peria Lake, and marched in tho ex pedition from Fort Mason, near the present village Saverton, Halls county, August 12th, 1813, Gen Howard having reorganized his command at this fort. He participated in several battles with the indians, and amongst others was in the battle of Loutre (three miles below Lick Montgomery county), when Capt James Callaway, whose honored name the country of Callaway perpet uates, was defeated and lost his life. Capt. Callaway, was his company and mounted rangers,' was stationed at Fort Clempson, situated on the bank of the Missouri river opposite to the present town of Hermann, and commanded by Col. Dan'l Morgan Boon, son of the old pioneer. During tho stillness of the night in the summer of 1814, the Kick apoo Indians made a descent on the horses around the fort and succeeded in capturing a considerable number. Col Boon immediately ordered Capt. Calla way with his company, and Maj. Gibson, to commence pursuit of the Indians next morning at daylight, and if possi ble to repossess the captured horses The vegetation beihg,very strong, they were unable" to follow the Indian trad at a. gallon- The pursuit continued for about forty miles, when suddenly they came up with the horses, all abandoned. On their return to the fort they were surprised and defeated by the fame Indiana they had been pursuing. The Indians being: very familar with the country, had returned and intercepted them at a iavorable point of conceal ment, and made a furious attack on them. The result was that Capt. Cal laway, with several ot his men, were left dead on tho battle-field. Mai. Gib son's 1 orse having been shot dead un der him, he saved his life by snatching the reins of the horse of one of his fallen-comrades as the horse dashed by him, and jumping in the saddle, plunged into Loutre river and swam to the opposite shore, amidst a shower of bullets, lie also took an active part in the battle of the "Sink Hole," 24th of May, 1814, in what is now Lincoln county, Capt. Darkford, of the United btates Hangers, commanding. After the loss of several men on each s'de, the Indians retreated to a large sink hole, and there made a desperate stand, and were only routed by the use of a breast work constructed on waggon wheels and pushed by the soldiers near to the sink-hole. The loss on the side of the Indians in killed and. wounded -1 was heavy. Here Maj. Gibson very OI . 1.. J il I narrowly ewapuu ueittu uy uppruucuiug a wounded Indian supposed to be dead, with his loaded gun by his side. The Major often said he never so narrowly escaped death at the hands of the en emy as in this instance, and only saved his life by almost superhuman effort. ' our plates ready and put flour on our bans to keep the candy from stickeu and then we pitched into pullin. Woz- ' zent it fun ? I never saw sich laffiu aud cattin for Em. Simmons. Her and me expex to trot in double ' harnia one ov these daze. She made a candy goos for me. Wozzent it fun ? Then we got to throwing randy balls into one another's bair and running from one side of the house to tuther and out in the kitchen, till everything on the placo woz gaumed all over with candy. I run till I woz out iv breth and sot down to rest a spell. I sot on a pine bench and Jk.m. bimmons sot close to me. . Wozzent it fun ? Saze Harkess. confound her pickter, throwed a candy uuu suck iu uue 01 my izo. 1 maue a bulge to run after her and heern sum- thin rip. My stars a live wozzent I picked ? I lookad around and thar woz the gaubull eend uv my bran nu briches stiekin to the pine bench. I backed np against the wall sorter craw fish like and grinned. &ut,' aez sister Poll, 'whot s the mat tes?" Shet up sezT. Sut,' sez sieter PolL 'cum awa from that wall. Yu'le git all over greezy.' Liet her greeze,' &ez I, and I sot down . on a wash board that was lyin across a tub, leelin wuss than an old made at a weddin. Purtysoon I felt somethin hurt and purty soon it hurt again. Ice whiz ! I jumpt 10 feet hi, kickt over the tub, out flu oid Joneses Krismus turki and you ought to seed mo git. I cut for tall timber, now. you list bet. I jumped stake and rider fenses and smashed down bresh like a runawa her ikane till I got tome and went to bed and stade thar tu daze. EfoldDekens Joneses barn burns down next winter and I'm arrested fur it an enny boddy pears as a witness against me lie bust his doggaund head! Thems misscnty mcnts. Sct Lovegood. N. D. Wozzent it fun ? The New York Tribune says : " Our Government must bo republican or des potic, and that a rule based on thepro- gy is displaved iu gathering and drying Ucription of a full third of tho adult them they will bring into the State an males this third comprising two-thirds amount of monev which we nlmst ! of the property, with a very large hesitate to estimate lest we be regard-1 8lia of h e natural ability, experience to make known Economist. Two English lords have married Bos ton heiresses. CVVTION TO STRAWBKBRr EATERS. David Landon, of Jackson county, Michigan, writes: "One of your lady subscribers gave me the following to send you for publi cation: Two years ago I gathered some large berries from small vines of Wilson's Albany. On examining one of the lartrest, I found three worms coiled up inside. I continued the ex amination ia fourteen berries. I found twenty-four worms, very full of legs usually called 'thousand-legged' worms and mora than an inch in length. There was no apparent scar on the ber ries. It has been stated that persons have died from eating strawberries put in tin cans. May not worms in the berries have caused their death ?" The daily bill of fare of the elephant Empress, iu Central Park, is twenty fiye four pound loaves, three hundred pounds of oats aud bran mash mixed, and one hundred and fifty pounds of hay. This she washes down with forty pails of water. ea as a visionary, xor several years past tho little county of Forsytho has gathered and dried from $50,000 to $100,000 worth of this fruit, and there is not a county west of Raleigh, and perhaps not east, that cannot do as well. Suppose that 6ixty counties in the State gather and dry each $50,000, and this is a very low estimate, and the neat little sum of $3,000,000 will be realized to the people of the State from this source alone. And if all this is done the amount can probably be in creased to $5,000,000. Just think of it ! five millione of dollars wild in the old fields of the State which her peo ple have but to reach forth their hands and gather. " Niil ix the Foor. To relieve from the terrible effect of running a nail in the foot of a horse, take peach leaves, bruise them, apply to the wound, con fine with a bandage. They cure as if by magic. .Renew the application twice a day, if necessary, but one ap plication usually does the -work. I have cured both man and horse in a few hours, when they were apparently on the point of having the lock-jaw. This recipe, remembered and practiced, will save many valuable lives. Cor. Cinnr.v.cti Gczcttc. and intelligence, which are presumed to fit men for a responsible participa tion in politics is questionably repub lican. It may do nay, it must in the immediate presence of a formida ble rebellion ; it cannot be maintained indefinitely after that rebellion has thrown down its arms. Our Southern Republicans are quite free in telling us what they must have, and how im possible it is they should live under rebel rule ; we tell them, in turn, that it is impossible that we should perpet uate a rule over the South, in which the people of the South, or any consid erable snare ox them, are denied a voice. If we should attempt to do it, we should simply sacrifice our ascend ancy in the North, and they can judge where this would leave the Republicans of the South. We can do and dare much here for equal human rights. We are a shorn Sampson whenever we shall undertake to argue and insist that a part of the Southern people ought to be disfranchised and power less evermore. We know that we can maintain no such position, and we are nowise inclined to attempt it. Poisoned ice-cream cut short the pleasures of a Tennessee picnic party Iho other day. A Clond Dispelled. A faithful minister of Christ one day overtook an aged saint, who, in reply to a question regarding his wel fare, said : 44 1 know how it is, but I have been much disquieted of late. It is now nearly sixty years since the Lord Jesus found me iu my sins and 6poke peace to my soul ; and I had then such unquestioning reprso in his love, such assurance of hope, and such joy in be lieving, that it seemed heaven begun on earth. But now, such darkness has como over me, that I am sometimes tempted to doubt whether I ever know him in truth, and to think that it was all a pleasing dream in which I deceiv ed myself. 44 And the reason of that is," replied the minister, 44 that sixty years ago, when the Lord found you, you knew that you were nothing but a hell-deserving sinner ; you never thought of finding any good in yourself ; but you looked away from sinful self to Christ, and you found all that ycu needed in him. You were satisfied with his fin ished work. His blood spoke peace to you. You saw him as mado unto you God's wisdom, even righteousness and sanctihcation and redemption. You desired nothing moro ; there was nothing more you could desiro. But now you aro beginning to say with yourself, 'If I'm a child of God' and there is darkness in that if. 'It I have been a subject of divine graco for sixty years, then suroly there ought to bo abundant fruit to his praise, and great spiritual attainments.' And you have turned away from Christ to seek satis faction in your life or in your own heart, and all is darkness, for the earth does not become a luminous body, however long and clearly the sun may shine upon it. The Lord is dealing mercifully with you, and will not per mit you to find rest in eelf. He will have you turn again to Uhrist as luiiy as ever and will have you end where you began ; rejoicing in Chiist Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh at the end as at the beginning, a sin ner saved by grace." A cloud was lifted from that venera ble countenance as tho old man stood for a few moments wrapt in thought, and then exclaimed: "Thank God! you have the mark. Christ is all Christ is all to mo." May the same grass which caused tho light to break through that cloud, bless this record of the incident to some other saint traveling in dark ness, because turning away from the light. Anthony Trollope's last novel, "He Knew he was Right," is just finished. It turns out at last that he owned ho was wrong on his death-bod by kissing Mr?. Ticvclvau'o fingors.
The Western Vindicator (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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July 19, 1869, edition 1
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