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Do you remember how the birds - I Bang out their pensive chickadee ' When you first spoke those tender wojrds, .When you first whispered love to me ? ' ' A glorious sunset slowly died, j . -Gray shadows rept o'er land and sea; Twas then yba drew me to your side, Twas then you whispered lore to me. ., The crescent moon rose white and faint, A pallid light gleamed o'er the lea, ; j The whip-poor-will made mournful plaint And then you whispered love to meji - ' ' : i.r " jp And now, when birds of spring I heap. The opening buds and leaflets see, j . ; . ' . I think of that sweet time, my dear, f! ... When you first whispered love to me.' DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Muffins." One pint of sour ; milk. piee of . melted butter size of an egg, 'twoteaspqonfuls saleratus, flour qnougb for a stiff batter. . s! " ;- "! ( Catji,ifi,oweb. This is a very pretty addition; to a jar of pickled cabbage, ' but it must be put in salt and water for two dayg first, before it is added to the caopage. - p . , Tea! Cakb. -Four cups flour, four cups sweet milk, two eggs, two spoon fuls cream of tartar, one teaspoonful sal , eratus, small piece of butter, sweeten if , "youfike., v P ; Whip Obbam. Half a pound of - powdered sugar, juice of two lemons, one gill of sherry. Mix and add one - pint of thick, rich cream. Set on ice, whip to a. strong froth, and serve in ' . glasses.; - . . 1 . :. Cbaioie Toast. Three eggs, beaten well, one green chili cut fine, thelinside? of two tomatoes cut into small pces, a little milk and one ounce butter, all mixed together with a little salt then ' heated and served on hot toast. - Shbimp Satjge. Take half a pint of shrimps, pick out all the meat from the tails, pound the rest in a mortar with - the juice of half a lemon and a piece of butter ; pass the whole through a fkieve. Make a pint pf melted butter ; put the meat from the tails into it, add a dustwof cayenne, and when the sauce boils stir into it the shrimp butter that! has5 come through the sieve, with or without a table-spoonful of cream. P pjjp P Pork GHOPs.rf Cut some cutlets from a neck of pork, trim them neatly and : take off the chine bone; give them a few blows with the bat, and grill them on or in front of the fire ; sprinkle them . with salt and arrange them in a circle on a dish, with mashed potatoes in the.oeu- P ter and the following sauce round them : Put , a large piece of butter,! rolled in flour, in a stewpan, slightly rubbed with - garlic; add. mushrooms and aj little 'chopped shalot ; ' moisten with : equal quantities of vinegar and broth ; add salt and grated nutmeg ; strain; boil it up ; - add a little mustard, stir well and'serve. ' ; Apfm Compote. Peel, core and halve six large apples, trimming them 6 as to get them all of a size ; drop them as, they are done into cold water with the: juice . of a lemon squeezed into, it ! to prevent theirturning brown. Have ready a trong sirup (made twith one pound of f sugar an.d quart of water) boiling hot ; put the . apples into this, with the thiu. ri4d of a i I lemon and two or three cloves. Aa soon as they are cooked great care must be ; I .taken that they do not break take them I out and dispose them, ' concave sie up 1 permosl on a glass dish; place a'pieoe I .ef burrant . jelly or quince jelly In the j hollow of each apple, then well reduce the sirup and when cold pour as much of it as is necessary under the apples. JOH3T DJWis A A ' tiisjyr. Mora. Early in the late civil war, 1 John Den nis, a full negro, believing himself' fired with patriotic zeal, and able to serye his co'intry, besought his inaster, a&eor giah, and obtained permission ip ac company a regiment from that tate, which was soon placed under the; com mand of Gen. Floyd. : The history of the campaign' is well known. On the retreat John became homesick, and was allowed to depart. He had become -well known to Gen. Floyd and all his command. On his departure he went to take leave of the General, when the fol- ; lowing dialogue was had : p Gen. Floyd "Well, John, ycu are going to leave us, eh ?" ; John--'.Yes, Mars Floyd ; it ipears like I could do more good at home, now -dan bein' here, sq I. thought I'd gojhome ; and 'courage up our people to hold! on." : Gen. F. " That's . right, John. But . are . yon going to tell 'em that you left . ujs when running from the Tankeeii ?" , P John '.'No, sir; no, Mars Floyd, dat I ain't. ' You may 'pend upon my not iellin nothin to 'morahze dem people. " Gen. F. " But how will yo" get around telling them, John ?T P John "Easy enough, Mars Floyd. It won't do to 'moralize dem people, p I'm goin' to tell 'em dis dat when I left de army it as in first-rate spirits, and dat. owin 'to de situation f de .country and de way de land lay, wfe was I a advancin' back'ar-Is, and de Yankees I was a-retreatin' on to iisi" Editor's JJru wer. in 11a rpcr s Magazine. ; ' - , - :i .- - . I - y 9 i II . rl ;'i -.til v V M A : 1 ! v . it 11 11 11 1 v c: 1 u-j 1 1 11 ii 11 11 ir 11 11 11 ' 11 ik 11 Jkiii' 'V 1 if li v riu'iry 1 im " i - - si . ii mm m m m .s x . .-mm mm m m m mm ma- y p r p r s pn p W J JV II 11 " I 11.11 II II II II II 'II II IV II II II II II U I I II II II II II ft II II m -m' .F" m m j . a a m - jm m mm k s a mmw -mm e mm. ' " . ' " ' ' ' ' ' !- ' - ' ' ' ' ', ' ; ... T. A. HA YDEN, Proprietor. ' Fumilv :Wni.n . !iwAAi 4 v . ..I.... ... i i .... ' : ! ' . 1 .....r-rw . vfuiu jumie lunresis nnu licnomi iws. -i ; 4 . terms an ! 1 ........ , . 1 , : , f j: " ' . . 1 7 ; - , v -m. ituil lilt " r - . ' - " . " a. . J ' ; j - .- . ' - I INVElTTIOlfS A.KD INDUSTRIES. A Frenchman claims to have discov ered a simple method by which bronze is made as malleable as copper or iron. His process consists of the addition of from j tc 2 per cent, of mercury, which acta mechanically rather than chem ically, and produces the desired effect. An iron company in England is con verting the slag from their furnaces into concrete for building and other puposes. A new office has been built, in which the door and , window facings and the ornamental parts usually made of stono are made of concrete. A contract has also been made with one of the railroad companies to furnish slag-concrete flags ready for use for laying down platforms at the stations. A mechanic at Dunnedin.New Zealand, has obtained a patent for an improved furnace for locomotive and other, steam boilers. It is designed with a view of saving fuel, and the grate bars are set out from the tube sheet, to leave au air passage between them. A fire bridge is supported by the grate bars, and is pro vided with vertical, inclined and hori zontal slabs and a . flange surrounding the air-chamber. ' Straw, wood, shavings and af fibrous substances are how used in the manu-' f aeture of a great variety of vesses. A New England company are manuf actur-v ing large quantities of barrels, baskets, kegs, tubs, etc.,1 from the pulp of these materials, which is molded and com pressed into the desired form. Khe ves sels have no cracks, and, con quentlyk cannot leak or sift the contents, and will not dry up or shrink. Mr. W. Q. Bagnall, of Stafford, En gland, has built the smallest locomotive ever fitted together for actual use. It lias a three-inch cylinder and thirteen-and-one-half-inch wheel, and its maxi mum width is only thirty-one inches. It of three-horse power and eighteen inch gauge. It is to be used, on some road in South America. Locomotives by the same builder, of the same type, but a. little, larger, are employed in South Africa. Java and India. CIGARS WHICH NO LADY WILL OB JECT TO. 4.n applicant for a patent for a new style of cigar thus modestly describes yi:ts "attributes:" ". The tobacco from which the cigars are made is grown entirely in conserva tories, and the cigars are made on ma hogany tables by thoroughbred Cubans in swallow-tail coats and white kid gloves. ' When a man smokes one of these cigars, he walks on air, and dreams that he has a diamond scarf pin and a sixty-five-dollar suit of .clothes, and just married rich. It makes the breath sweet, and keeps the teeth white, and will force a moustache on the . smoothest hp in five weeks. It per meates the house, window curtains, closets and clothes with the delicate odors and exquisite fragrance of helio trope, new mown hay, jockey club and white rose. It will fasten the front gate every night, and carry the paper in the morning, chase the cats from the gar den, drive the hens, to water, and 'hard ly ever ' fail to make one feel better all over. No well-regulated family can properly keep houae without them ; for the man who smokes this "cigar will never cut wood too long for the stove, never swear when he uts up stove pipes, never step on a lady's train, join a club or go down to the posJofiice after supper." . LAP HAM A SCHOOLMATE OF DOUOm ' LAS. : United States Senator Lapham, of New York, was a classmate at Canan daigua Academy of the late Stephen A Douglas. The academy was at that time one of the leading educational in stitutions in the State, and young Lap ham, and Douglas were regarded by the faculty and their fellow students as the smartest scholars in the institution. In debate they were regarded as rivals, and always were pitted against each other. Mr. Lapham occupied a seat at the head of the table in the boarding department and Douglas sat at his right' hand. Mr. Lapham was compelled to leave , the school for several weeks, and on his re turn found Mr. Douglas occupying the seat at the head of the table. Mr. Lap ham demanded his seat, and Mr. Doug las insisted upon his right to retain it. The faculty finally decided that the two men should argue the case before the scholars, who would sit a a jury. The contestants accepted the situation and made elaborate speeches. The jury de cided that Douglas was entitled toj the seat. Mr. Lapham, in relating this an ecdote, used to say: "This was Ste phen A. Douglas first idea of squatter sovereignty," When one' is at work on arithmetical problems it is well to use a pencil to save the brain. When we see. a man scratching his cranium in an absent- minded manner, we are apt to think he ip carrying to much in his head. A Milwaukee man who compelled th harer of his joys and salary. to drink a half gallon of beer at one sitting has been arrested for malt treating his wife. Detroit Free Pre. PUBLISHED; AT E UTH ERFO RBTON, N. C, EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. OUR JUVEHVLES. The Owl mnd the Spider, In an old belfry tower, A dry, coxy bower. Dozed an owl by the hour. But the bell's aly old clappei Was a mischievous rapper, And soon waked the napper. I . 44 Mr. Owl, don't you mind him; With cobwebs IH bind him, And round and round wind him." ; ' Thus up spoke a spfder, Strlp'd like an outrider, The owl sharply eyed ter, i' ' ' . i i And said: "If he cheat you I'll not scold nor beat you; 111 just merely eat you." . ; The owl saw her spin Her web, frail and thin, . : Sound the bell, out and in. Bnt, next Sunday morning, 'i Without word of warning. J The bell went a-stonning I With a cliag and a clang, With a bostn and a bang, The old clapper rang ! i - The owl did not chide her, Rebuke nor deride her, But he ate up that spider I Here is a moral, dear children, for you:" Never promise a thing you're not able to d -Frank A. Stanfer.in St. A'icholai. The Little Man Who Had as Many Chil dren as a Sieve Has Hole. There was a little man who had as many children as there are holes in a sieve. As he was going to seek his bread he met a beggar who gave him a bean and told him to plant it in his gar den, assuring him at the same time that it would grow so quickly that in a short time it would reach the sky. The man sowed the bean, which grew so prompt ly that soon it hid its head in the clouds ; the he climbed up the bean-stalk and knocked at the door of paradise. " Who is tiiere ? " asked the bon Dieu, who came to oyen the door. "It is a little irian who has as many children as there are holes in a sieve." "Here is a napkin," said the bon Dieu to him; " take it, arid when you wait to eat lay it on the table, tsaying : Let there come to me bread, wfn and rotst, That Is all I ask here ; Let there come to me bread, wine and roast, To satisfy aU the folk here. . Ihe little man went down from Para dise all joyous ; he gave to eat all his family ; then, as he was proud of" what he had done, he went to the inn, where he remained over night. Before going jto bed he could not help talking : "I have a napkin; keep the thing quiet, and don't let anybody say to it ; bread, wine and roast To satisfy all the folk here." v During the night the inn-keeper re placed the fairy napkin by another nap kin just bike it, and the little man took it away with him ; but it was no use say ins to it as he laid it on the table : bread, wine and roast To satisfy all the folk here. He saw nothing come. So he climbed up his beautiful bean-stalk again and knocked at the door of paradise. ' Who is there? " asked the bon Dieu. " It is the little man,who has as many children as there are holes in a sieve." "You come rather often, my' friend. But this time I will not refuse yqu. Here is a donkey ; you must put a cloth under his four feet and say : Donkey, make gold and silver,' and your wish will be fulfilled ; but try and be sharper than you were the first time." j The little man, after having tried the virtues of his ass, could not refrain from going with him to the inn, and he talked again : l " Mind you do not say to my ass : 'Donkey, make 'gold and silver.'" "No. no." replied the innrkeeoer : " we won't say that to him ; go to sleep in peace. : During the night he substituted an other ass for the one that came from heaven, and the poor little man could not have any more crowns. So he went 6 see if the beanstalk was still there, climbed up it and knocked for the third time at me door of paradise. ' " Who is there ?" asked the bqn Dieu. "It is a little man who has as many children as there are holes in a sieve." " Ah ! itis you again, my friend ; you come too of ten ; I am sure that you have been to the inn again," . r " Give me something 1" said the little ma. a'( .'- P ' j, V. - I "EereVa stick; when j on wish to make use of it you must say: Stick, unfold, but not on me.' This is the last thing I shall cive you." i The little man . went down from paradise and returned to the inn ; be fore going to bed he said : " Mind you do not say to my stick : Stick, unfold!'" ' ' Rest in1 peace, " replied the inn-keeper. i But as so6n as the little man was in bed the inn-keeper made haste to take up the stick and say to it : "Stick,' unfold 1" I ; No sooner had he spoken than the stick began to heat him so that he cried for help. " The little Wan came, and the inn-keeper said : " Little man, pick up your stick ! ' , "Give me my napkin and my don key?" ' '.-. The inn-keeper agreed, and when the little mat had his riackin and his ass he delivered the inn-keeper ry inrf-Kin Jim .?'';-: P : say: . p ... :. .. , "Htiek. unfold, but not afirainai me." : . - 1 ; : ' : -f ; Tmee to Taee With a ivojpard. No sooner had we camped than Tom- mv hurried off to fincV but "where . the noisy flocks of iris-crows were perched, Menito, meanwhile, had watered onr mule, and reported 4hat, farther up, the rill was as cold as ice, so I picked up the drinking-cup and accompanied him to the spring. We hajd followed the wind ings of the glen for Rome 500 ' or. 600 yards, when suddenly the, hoy seized, my arm, and by a sort of , instinct at the same moment my eyes .met those of an animal crouching : behind a fallen tree, not more than fifteen paces from where we stood. " Don't stir;' I whispered ; "that's a panther! The least movement, and he will make a spring."' ' Menito stood as still as ft statue, but j felt liis finger-nails piercing my skin ; he began to realize our situation, for even through the glooin of the ravine and the . intervening ' branches of the fallen tree we could see that the animal wa& getting ready for action ; inch by inch it advanced its... fore-paws and lowered its head. At that moment, as I gripped, my hunting-knife, the report of a gun boomed through'-the jglen. Two instants afterward, the panther had vanished a single leap had landed him on the, other side of the: creek, and with the second jump he., was away and out of sight among the bowlders -pf. a branch ravine. jjf " That was Tommy' shot-gun," said I; "he fired at the "rookery, I sup pose." for once i lnore ; the u hills were ringing with the croaks and Caws of the iris-crows. j Menito made no t reply, but still clutched my arm, and, looking into his face, I saw the tears rolling down his cheeks the first and last time I ever caught him crying.' 1 nfcver saw a braver lad of his age, bat thelexcitement for once had overstrained hik nerves. Dr. F. L. Oswaldt in (i. Ni&hola. A Bird that Turns Someneemlle. There's a pretty little bir that lives in China, and is called the Fork-Tailed Paras. He is about as big ias a robin, and has a red beak, yejlowfegs, black tail, and red-and-yellow wings. Nearly all the colors are in his dres$, you see, and he is a gay fellow ;P" j4 But this bird has a trick kfown by no other birds that ever I heard of. He turns somersaults ! Not only does he do this in his free life on the frees, but also alter he is caugh and jput into cage. ; He just tlirows his hejjd far back, and ovi r he goes, touching .the bars of his cage, jand alighting upfn his feet on the floor or on a perch, pile will do it over : and over a number ohtimes with out stopping, as though hep thought it great fiin. All his family! have the same- trick, aud they axe jalled Tum blers. I The people of Chmaf are fond of keeping them in cages and seeing them tumble. St. JTic holds. f A JOURNALIST'S INFLUENCE EORTT . TEARS AGO. I A story told by Charles. f . Congdon, of the New York Tribune, in his " Rem 'iniscences" of a Boston editor, Richard Haughton of The Atlas, also illustrates the personal influence of the journalist in the old Whig days. P In 1840 Daniel Webster thought the Whigs, should nominate him for Presi dent. Mr.; Haughton,. believing that Mr. Webster could hot be elected if nominated, favored the choice of Gen. , Harrison. It was a bold act to come out against the great man in the city where he was idolized. But tho, editor was capable of doing more than that he dared S To beard the lion In his den. The Douglas lu hts hallp Taking a proof-shef of the article, in which he indicated1 the course he in tended to pursue, ho called on Mr. Web ster, i The great matt read the article and flew into a passion. - He ordered the editor out of his house, but the com mand; was not heeded. Waiting for Mr. Webster to become calmer Mr. Hough ton set forth the political situation? j " You cannot be President, Mr. Web ster," he said, with .editorial plainness of speech; "but you can have an office quite as important and honorable;; you can be Becretary of State. You know how it will irritate your friends in Bos ton. 1 I do not ask '.you to Bay to them that you approve of it, nor that you dis approve of ik I merely ask you to Bay nothing." i, These were brave words: to speak to Daniel Webster, for he . -was then the dictator of Massachusetts politics. But they were effective in persuading him that silence would be the most dignified course for him to pursue, f Great-was the commotion in State Street the next morning, as Mr. Webster walked down it with more than usual sTi dignity. " Mr. Webster, have you seen the Atlas ?" " Mr; Websfer, have you read that shameful 3 article?" cried one 'and another of his friendsv. " I have not seen the Atlas" he said, bearing himself magnificently; " nor do I care to see it. I suppose; that the ed itor expresses his opinions, as he has a right, to'do."; 1 1 " P Thus the great man, heeding the edi tor's frank suggestion, too himself out of the way..,- He .became iSecretary of State, and thereby ? was efnabled to do his most serviceable act to the republic, the negotiation - of th.ee Ashburton Treaty. IT 1 h NICE EXPERIMENT JTOR l'OUXG - FOLKS. j Roll up a piece of paper, a pamphlet, to make a tube about nine or twelve inches long and an inch or so across. Put this tube to your rigMeye and look through at some object, attentively keeping both eyes open. Now hold up your left hand with its back toward you and bring it very near the lower end of the tube, looking at your hand with the left while your right eye is- fixed on something through the tube. If you hit the right position, which you can do, putting the edge of the hand against, not oyer, the lower end of the "tube, you will be surprised to see very clearly the things beyond. , It is a veryleasy, but most surprising little experiment and will please old aa well as young people.' You will, of course, wish to know why this is so, why there seems to be a hole where there is none. The scientific journals are talking about this, but their explanations would hardly suit young sters. We usually look at the same thing with two eyes, and the two images make one in our mind. Here we sep arate the two eyes in an unusual man ner, and the mind brings together the . circle made by the tube for one eye and the hand seen by the other, and makes f one of them. You can vary this in sev. eral ways. If, when looking through the hole in the hand, you stretch out the left thumb so that it will be seen by . the right eye through the tuhe, the thumb will appear to be directly across the hole in your hand. Instead of look ing at your hand, use a card; make a' black spot on the card as big as a half- dime, and look at it as before ; the black spot will appear to be floating in the center of the hole, with nothing to hold it there. Another variation is to make a round hole in the card of the size of the half -dime ; look at this hole with the left i eye, so that the real hole will be in the imaginary hole ; the hole will appear ex jeedingly bright, and surrounded by a ring of shadow. 5 , A NARROW ESCAPE. " I tell you, sah, dis partnership biz-i nesa am powerful resky," said ; the old man as he nibbled a green onion at the Central Market. " Las' month I went into partnership wid Caesar White in de peanut bizness. ; He furnished de roast-; er an' I bought de peanuts, an' we was to whack up on profits. Dat Caesar am a bad man, .an' doan' you forgit it. If I hadn't been on de watch fur him I'd bin cleaned out high-sky. What sort of a game d'y 'spose'he tried to play oh me?" ' h - i No one could guess, and, finishing the rest of his onion, the old man contihi ued : ; "Well, sah, when we come toroas dem peanuts dat Caesar wanted me to be lieve dat de shrinkage offsot all my sheer in de bizness, an' he ordered me to get away from dat roaster an' go home." j " An' you went to law ? No, sah ! I got an inspirashun 'bout dat time, an' I poured de whole bushel into a barrel o' water. In j five minits dem peanuts had swelled all my capital back an' gin me a 6-shillin' claim on de roaster beside, an' de way Caesar gin me $3 to dissolve partnership an' git out t.eat any hoss race you eber paw 1 Ze troit Free Press. li p . 1 P? ; POISON IN LEMONADE. "There's a business which ought to be suppressed," remarked an eminent professor of chemistry to a reporter, as the couple passed a stand where " lem onade" was being dispensed from an ice- cooler which had evidently seen its best days. ' ' I ' ' Why bo ? " asked the scribe. j "Lemonade," replied the professor in his most impressive manner, y even when made from lemons in a tin; vessel with soldered joints, or in a galyanized-iroii vessel, will take- up the lead from the one and the zinc from the other. A salt is then formed which is very unwhole some, and, when taken continually or in large quantities, absolutely ; poisonouB. This injurious action is considerably in! creased if citric and tartaric acids are Used instead of '.lemons' in making the lemonade. Consequently, he- use of such vessels for lemonade . should be avoided, especially if" the contents are allowed to stand for any length of time. An overdose of any of these acids is bad, and they ar worse when taken in the form of lemonade. Nothing would be likely to give you the cholera quicker than a succession of those i drinks." Philadelphia Record. I the garden two 6-year-old children, a girl and a boy, exchanged vigorous blows and scratches, meanwhile calum niating each other 'at the top of their voices like Homeric heroes. ' Mamma interferes, and, ,after much difficulty succeeds in separating them. ." Whai in. 'the name of goodness are yow up to, " 'Play- you. unhappy little wretches ina kusbAnd and .wife, ma ? wnzoBpjv 8Ouvjia 'uojswof j (Uu? sutre xiHi pppuuojS .fonj eieqsi 'rqBu en no Pjeii to? sutj o u ua9A?aq pyipj-Btn uaq-j, pdooj asotji. -jpemuri 'uoissitnns H,Xraaug q jo ua3 BELLE BOYD. During her residence in Washington "Belle Boyd" formed an intimate ac quaintance with President Lincoln, and a friendly correspondence was' kept up between the two during a greater por tion of the' war. On one occasion her letter paper was adorned with the Con federate motto, a snake entwined around a Confederate flag, and! the inscription, "Don't tread on -as or we will , bite." When Lincoln replied to the missive he sent back the motto with bite" erased and the word " bust" substituted. Brok en down in health and bereaved by the loss of her father, who had died in the effort to effect her release from captivity, "Belle Boyd" determined to leave for foreign shores, ' and in May, 1864, she embarked on, the Greyhound at North Carolina as the bearer of important dis patches from Jefferson Davis and Judah P. Benjamin to the' friends of the cause in London. In endeavoring to run the blockade, however, the Greyhound waa captured by a United States steamer. " Belle Boyd" was taken to Boston, kept a prisoner for some ; time, and finally banished to Canada.! From there sbo went to. England, where she passed the second epoch of her life. She was mar ried at the aristocratic church of St. James, Piccadilly, received with open arms in titled society, became a widow, and finally, having a natural talent for the theatrical profession, .took to tho 6tage. Probably no person in this coun try has been afflicted m ith so many " doubles" aa this lady. Since her re turn to America and marriage to Col. J. S. Hammond, an English gentleman, once a member of the celebrated " Lou isiana Tigers," she has completely sunk her history with that of her husband, and, with the exception of a few occa sions, when she has appeared upon the platfof m as the talented reader and elo cutionist, " Marie Isabelle Hammond," her mind baa been engrossed with do. mestio affairs, Yet, every few months, she is vexed and annoyed by coming across an announcement that "Belle Boyd," the ex-Confederate spy, has turned up in some part of the country. Now the pretender is being entertained , by some prominent Southerner; again, she is in distress and soliciting aid. Several years ago one of these bogus " Belles" visited Atlanta, Ga., on a lect uring tour, and was denounced by Capt. St. , Clair Abrams of the News, as an impostor. Next morning she proceeded to the office and demanded satisfaction, which being re fused she proceeded to' draw a couple of Derringers, but was' seized before the weapons could ba pointed. Since that time she has not turned up in Georgia. SMOKING CIGARETTES. ' It was the American who invented the patent cigarettes; not so much to save the consumer the trouble of making the article as to get a good chance to adul terate them.. There is not a cigarette made in America that any man, boy or .woman would smoke if the making and mixture of them could be seen. Every brand makes a loud boast of using rice paper; whereas any one who takes the trouble to examine ' the rice plant will see at a glance that: there is no fibrous consistence in it to make paper of the sort used in cigarettes. Prodigious fort unes have been made and are making, and millions of people are slowly ruin ing their digestive organs ' by inhaling the foul stuff wrapped up in the various brands that claim to be pure. Let any smoker of cigarettes subject his tongue and throat to a medical examination after smoking a package of cigarettes. Vitriol itself leaves no more sinister im pression on tongue, r throat and palate. If the cigarette were made of pure to bacco and fairly good papers it would be no more harmful than a cigar, which th6 world has cohie to agree substan tially is not harmful at all. But the greed of' the trade enters this like all other enterprises that spring up to sup ply sudden demand. A package of twenty cigarettes which may represent an out lay of from 3 to 6 cents, the manufactu rer exacts 12 to 16 cents fdr. 'There is rarely in a package' of twenty as much genuine tobacco as a smoker consumes in one honest pipeful. It may be safely said that, with perhaps one or two ex ceptions, every cigarette made is a source of violent physical reaction, destructive of vital tissaes and the active principle of lurking and insidious diseases, and that it is better to smoke a pound of to bacco in any other form than the pinch mingled with poison that makes up the ridiculously expensive and utterly worth less article of cigarette that holds the market r Philadelphia Times. Some men are so Btupid ! (Scene : At the Vavasours' dance). Waltzer (to host ess' fair daughter) "So glad to find you alone at last, Miss Vavasour." Miss Vavasour " You are very kind. Waltzer "Not at all. But tell me, you are not engaged ? " Miss Vavasour "No-o." Waltzer " Then may I hope" Miss Vavasour-" Oh ! really Capt. Hawley you must talk to " Wnltror rhlanklvV " What about ? " Most opportunely the wait? strikes ud and they plunge into it. bates of Anvtnrisi XO. " ; One ipcb, one insertion. . $1 00 Oae inch, each subsequent, insertion'.. " 50 Qiarterly, Semi-annual , or yearly Peon tracts will be made 00 literal terms. - Obituaries and Tributes , 0 reapeci charged for at advertising rates. ; No communications will be published uns less accompanied by the fall name and ads i . i . . i nress 01 ne writer. These are not requested -for publication, bnt as a guarantee of good faith. ' All communications for the' paper, and t uusiness leiiers, snouia be addreesed o THE BANNER, t Rutherford ton,lN.' C. P. O Box. 15. PLEASANTRIES 1 - i).Jt'& young lady who is everlastingly ' knitting her eyebrows be called indus trious? . v. . ! The only prize the English carried off at the Derby was a surprise, but it was a big one. " P The age of discretion The age when company airs can be put on or taken off as necessity demands. ' ' ' 4 . Who says it is unhealthy to sleep hj feathers? Look at the spring chicken' and see how tough he is, Do not tell a man he lie. It is cui-. . gar. Say that his conversation suggest to your mind a summer-resort Circular. It has been definitely settled at last ( that the reason why the pig's tail curCs is because it's styed when it is young. i t "Nothing is impossible to him who wills." Nonsense ; it is- impossible for the man who wills to get 5 ahead of tKs lawyers. ' ' When a woman attains the age of 3p P w ithout accumulating a husband she en joys attending one funeral more than a jkizer; balls. I A BEAUTixut maid in Carlisle : , . Oa the back of her neck had a bisle; When her love? forgot, . ' ' And hugged the sore spot, Her screams oould be heard f cr a nvfala. , It is now believed that the oleomar garine factories put hair in their goods, th-'.s rendering it more difficult of le- tsetion than ever. . i Whenveb young ladies learn bow to . stick a pin in their apron strings so that it won't scratch a fellow's arm there will be more marriage. , "If you waftt a broth ef . a boy, take me," said the Irish sailor to the 'cannibal ' King. But the King said he preferigi hiru. roasted. ' He wasn't fond of brotfus. ' " What can run faster than a good horse ?" was the conundrum, and tha man who had had some trouble with: his creditors guessed it at once: r " Thf Sheriif." '' '. . , The latest sweet thing for the, ladies is ivory heels on wedding slippers. When the first-born gets old enough to. ' get into mischief the ivory heels should be removed. The New Orleans Picayune states ' that Philadelphians kick against the elevated railways. Jehpshaphatl That beats the best efforts ' of the Soldene troupe, , P 1 "Pot upon my tombstone," said the dying matt, " an epitaph stating that I was a scoundrel, thief and brnte.4 Then people will think that I was a good man. Epitaphs always he so." ..-'.,' v A pakrot in Harlem speaks 250 words. There being less than that number of v prof ane expressions in the English lan guage, it is presumable that the bird is something of a polyglot.. . p P "There goes the celebrated ; Mr. C, the lame lawyer," remarked; ft lady to her companion, as he passed them in the street. "Excuse me, madam," said he, . turning sharply, "you are mistaken ;' r lame man, not a lame lawyer." .;"; "Yes, your August us s a fraud I" - ' Bald Sue to Aralxjlia. . ' " A fraud !" said Belle, " I can't afford To hear that of my feller ; , - ' ! " He's true and tried, and good beside, , And delicate ami daiuly " ' " Ah, yes, but then,'' Miss Sus replied, , " He's sort of bsau Gus. ain't he?" M , 1 CRANES. - " i Cranes of one or more species are found everywhere, with the exception of! -South America, the Malayan and Papuan archipelagoes and the scattered islands" of the Pacific. The common European species, celebrated in all times , foi. migrations , . . 80 steers the prudent crane ! Her annual voyage borne on the winfls ; the air , Floats as they pass, fanned -with unnumbn 'i plumes , , . was at one time very numerous, in th fenny districts of England; so possibly Milton knew the bird. The name is quite wrongly applied to the heron in, Scotland and Ireland, "while, in America and Australia the white egret herons are also called cranes. Old Jsops fable of the stork being captured in tbe evil companionship of the cranes, and being condemned to death for thus even assso ciating with notorious plunderers of grain, indicates that ho well Icnew the two kinds of birds ; far better, indeed, as Blyth truly says, than did' that re nowned master of mediaeval painters, who commits the curious zoological mis take of introducing cranes instead of storks in his world-known cartoon of the "Miraculous Draught of Fishes." In common with many other pgregarious birds, cranes always place sentinels as a . lookout, while the rest of the flciik, will trustfully. reposeV' and ' they ' likewise leave them on the watch while on their marauding expeditions focrops of grain. Nature. . . " It is now that the young base-ball player imagines that there is no future for him, because he ia kept horn from a. match to rake up the garden-rubbish and get ready, for a digging-beett p i V avid K. CAfiBOiiii, a Baltimore mm ufacturer, who bequeathed several mill ion dollftrs to his family, placed $100,000 4 in the hands fiiJaa. executors defend j the will in oaae of litigation, t 1 . 1M- ! "I J 1 ;
The Rutherford Banner (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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Sept. 23, 1881, edition 1
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