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- ' .- i " '. - , - i- : . -. .. we ' . F?vl,r.ix'X."' wv-.y -, . vvriii '"rrAk riTr "rtr-w ttt riTTti in a mi--';' ' 1fE.vf.f,'. I '.''-X '.' viJf ' ' ... - , - -, 1-;,; A-.i w:aj WALL, Editor and Proprietor. TO DEMOOBAOY WE PIN OUR FAITH. $1.50 per Yeartla 4dTnce - ... ROCKINGHAM; RICHM WHOLE NO. 618. ,. ., , .J.: J" i5 f I n .-.V'0 . "(-.' ...'e.-.s 4V 1 i. .7 : ff'y?"' '5 r i1 ..l .... . .. WH0H3AUI AND UTJJXi FftriiUrs , Bedding, Mattresses, Chairs, Etc, OHiBlOTTE. N. i foul Cheap Bedsteads, lounges, ' COFFINS OF ALL KINDS MECKLENBURG I RON WORKS, CHARLOTTE, 1ST. O. MANUFACTURES AND KEEPS IN STOCK ' . , I- . , -i ,. Steam. Engines and Boilera. Traction Engine. , Saw Hills with Variable Friction Feed. Wheat Mill Oatfito. , . Corn Mills Portable, i I Separators, Threshers and Horse Powers ! - - - - Beapers, Mowers and Bakes . Steam and Water Pipes Brass Fittings , RBPAR3 PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. - , ' Address. ATTOfiMTS. , I FRANKLIN MdNEIL, a ; ATTOR N EY AT LAW, ROCKINGHAM, N. C. Will .pnotiea la Knhfd. Itobwaa. . Aaaoa ud 1 AlTORNEY AT Uw, LAUkMUJrtC.'K. frmnpt attention giri to all bnmn T -XSD mm mm. iJj W. PARKS ' bh Pit Goods, Oroe.ria BIkms, ate.. SO LOW that it.. iuiiir mxm aotoniahmi Haitm bajing, U1 ad m. BT GOODS. GEOCKRIK8. HATS, ( UZAL. ; BOOTS, SHOES, CUTLKBT, IXOUB,. MOIASSES, BACOK, . SHIP STUIT. t ' .Anrf alnuMtflTOTTthmg needed by thjMople. Bstnntooal ud nae.befflE buying. It will to roar w) .sous. j. W. PARKS. HwlM. I. O. us j , EOCBINGHAM, N. C. The table win alwar be ntppUad ariUt the best the KATES . 'TsbK-suant per oiiJBtlu..1.... .' U Ja U u,n nM mflllth.. . . '. r e.im. EMI is w mm THRIVES us '' : i fai. per wwakfron r" -v .;v Booid per day, faoow, "rom-" X? - IK Ml.l W VV Single ai S4 tf The Editor at Home. The joys of editing any country news pafjer are many and compensating, Bat 4r at ia everything else they are nn eqnaHy distributed. . Now here is Editor ; v f Ford, of the Buraboo (Wia) DemmrraL V o ;r''!'-Het has within" the last tbreo months Ho has within " the last tbreo ,Vbee tinged' in eiBgy ' and hadU flag ' v shctt from his office at tne insugation pi y v bis Vile contemporary. But the royal ; diademf; his delight i8vdescribed In a ; -vi r oolumn editorial, leaded pica, under the . , s'; titie of ,A Pleoeing Announoement,. fyji ' -froia which the 'journal quotes ; "xo i i; if d ay we have the aaiisf action of anoonne iVvt Jng to tho pubho that the mortgage nas W ' . been hf ted, tod the Democrat office is p;4lriM encumbered with a dollar's indebt W Redness. -To accomplish"" this ; we have i. labored1 with unceasing . toil,, day and li'fiiSi!f Infoo$iiw' have wornj ourself f vialmbst entirely ont- buried ourself from' V ' " t: eociety, and lived in our office like a tX" ;-hrtmit, in order that we might once tffy-inm vaH onrseif a free man, Five --'r' 'years-'of the hardest labor of our whole ilife'liave'beett, spent in Baraboo, while Xfwm' PtvrA haa a..mnnt lived in the offioe ifAth'nm. 'thainit that'time. " Iionff. lonsr lfeiro'anddreary seems to -us "I i tiM;Uy liglxt lxaa, at last dawned -f .nponTwand when, we' leave our office $ 6 pclooldiri the evening and return to i .';'our plensant'. little home, find our coal i v i vv Chouse full ol coal, our wood-house full ';S:'ftof ooV ellar full of vegetables, don our ' . V A; slippers, recline- back in our cusioied '' '''"'? rocker," put onr feet on the centre table, :-tiSl .7 tAe FranoU Woolfolk Ford ' on one Itneo and Daisy Bransford Ford on the other, and listen to them while iiog thai soul-stirring hymn " , they ! want fie "be an angel, ' Aurl with th ansrela sranrl! r 1 crown upon my. forehead r,ii;f 'j A harp within my hand, i.'r, -J i ?, weyLr8get our- tribulations, and think ; nffkv all thAM is some l.anmriftKS in i.?' e ' -' ? .-nrM." - - dch man . mCLrrlrWieme.' trl uauwa mum) tor. ww.pmj, autiuwugm DXALXS Dt ALL KOTOS OF STOOX OT Parlor and Chamber Suits, ALWAYS ON HAKD. Maikata. 3ftopt itliaMT ghw t JOHN WILKES, Manager. El Mahdl's French Lieutenant. Oliver Pain, the Frenchman now in the Mahdi's camp, and to whose coun sels much of the false prophet's recent success is credited, is a brilliant Bo hemian. He is about forty-fiva years old, was born in or near Paris and was educated in the schools of the city. lx 1869-70 ha was prominent in that Com mune and the attempts to overthrow Napoleon III. 'writing for the papers During the Franco-Prussian war he was a captain in the French army and at the same time newspaper correspondent. Later, in 1873, Marshal MacMahon sent him with Bochefort, editor of La Lan, lerne. and other Communists, to the penal colony at New Caledonia. He was one of the little band that escaped from there in 1875 and came to this country. Then he went to London and Geneva, following a journalist's career until the breaking out of the Bnsso Turkish war Pain was among the first correspondents on the ground, but soon began to take an active part on behalf of the latter country, both by counsel and arms. - He was Snkoe prisoner by the Russians, suspected of being a spy, and condemned to be shot; but there being great doubt that he was one and the fact that he was a Frenchman saved him. After a . severe imprisonment he returned to Paris on the granting of a general amnesty to the Communists and wrote for several of the leading news papers. On the breaking out of the war in Egypt he was sent there as a corre spondent at his own request, as he seemed never to be so happy , as when in the midst of turmoil and excitement. While there he changed his mission and formed the brilliant idea of penetrating to the camp of the Mahdi, which he alone succeeded in doing of all the cor respondents sent to-Egypt, and this inj the face of almost insurmountable ob stacles nd -in spite of hardships and terrors whioh wouId(have appalled the heart of any other man but Pain. Boston Pilot. - ' - Under 15 Feet or Snow A Salt Lake, Utah, dispatch says: Fred Cnllinan, who was buried sixteen hours under . the Alta snowslide, was seen by an Associated Press correspond ent lately. He says (Albert Thomas, proprietor of the hotel, was out getting snow to melt for water when he saw the slide coming. .Thomas gave the alarm .and ran to a lees exposed part of the building, followed by others who heard him. - Cullman was in the back shed of the hotel. The first; he knew of the slide was When he heard it strike Regan's saloon. . Ho tried, to turn" but hadn't time before he was caught and covered with boards and timbers. A board was across his neck, and one arm was Btretehed straight out and held fast.' He could only move one hand a little with a miner's candlestick which he hap pened to be holding in the hand. ; With this he out off the board pressing on his neck,' whioh was almost suffocating him and pushed it away so that he could breathe. He hallooed all the time and' was first heard about Bine o clock the next morning. It took four , hours to get him out from under fifteen, feet of snow. He was so stiff and bruised that he could not move. He had to be rolled out like a log. He eonld hear thorn digging above , him and was satisfied they would get to him after a while. 'H :4 h ;v found bis boss, . ; '" -:tf:yi ' A plumber and his wife were 3a their, way to church. '.' " . : " , ;V . -t" Why did, you bow M , low to Jlha "-j gentleman we just "paassed ?' she in- r "He owns a roller-skating rink." tht. DISSATISFIED: An old tom-house, with pastures wide, ' Sweet with flower on every aide; , ) A resQeu lad who looks from out . The porob. with woodbine twined about, Wiebeel a thought from in Lis heart: Oh, if I only could depart, From this dull place the world to see, ' Ah me 1 how happy I would be ! ' Araid the city's eeaseless din,'. . A man who round the world has been, Who, mid thfi.tnmnlt and the throng, : .,T Is thliikiiig,ywisliing all day long: Oh, could I only tread once more The field path to the farm-house door; The old green meadows eonld I see, Ah, me! how happy would I be. : Ihtblin (Ireland) Tinies. '' A r LONDON AD YENTURE. , Three years since I had oooasion to pass a few weeks in London; I am about to relate an adventure which befell me at this time, which oame very near hav ing a very serious termination. . I can not even now think ofit without a shudder. ' ' I was wending my way in the early part of the evening toward Drury Lane Theatre, a famous temple of the drama, known the world, over, when my atten tion was suddenly drawn to an appeal for charity made by a figure crouching on the doorway of a house. I looked at the applicant. He appeared to be an elderly man attired in, a manner which bespoke the extreme of destitu tion. His coat was soiled and ragged. Front beneath a shocking hat I could see, gray locks stealing out. His form was bowed, and I judged from his gen eral bearing that he must be at least 6C years of age. . ' "A few, pence, sir, for a poor old man," ae whispered, "I am cold and hungry. I have had nothing to eat since yester day." My compassion was stirred. Had he oeen in the prime of life I oould have passed by his petition unheeding. But age and infirmity make poverty a pitifa7 speotacle. 'At6 you, indeed, so poor ?" I asked, stopping before him. I am. too feeble to work," he said. "I depend on what gentlemen give me. Yet I should not care so much for my self, but my poor child I am obliged to leave her at home sick while I come one to beg.'! ; . J was -on the point of giving him a shilling when an instinct f caution stepped in. "After all," I thought, "he might be an im poster." In that case I should grodge the. shilling, small as it was, which I intended to give him. But if things were really as he said, I should I ... "How am I to know whether jour story is true ?" I said, stopping in the act of drawing ' a shilling from my pocket "How am I to know whether yon have a sick child, as you repre sent?' : ; "If you will come home with me," he said, in a tone of subdued eagerness (I remembered this afterward), "I will con vince yon. "Perhaps he makes this offer," I thought, "feeling confident that I will jnot accept it He shall find himself mistaken this time. 1 am resolved for onoe to satisfy mj-olf, and if it is as he says, he shall have a crown instead of a shilling.'' ; yWhere do you live?" I asked, after a moment's pause. "About a quarter of a mile from here," was the reply. ' T VLead on, then," said I. "I will ao- iompany you home and satisfy myself' whether your story Is correct. If you are needy as your appear to be I will do what I can to help yon." The old man was profuse in his pro testations "of gratitude. In fact, he seemed so willing to oompiy with my re quest that again there was a revulsion of feeling, and I felt ashamed that I had questioned his honesty. I inwardly re solved to make it up to him. ' ' It was a dismal night The air was misty and ' damp,; and the occasional street lamps revealed a disagreeable neighborhood. . On either side I saw wretched tenement houses. At the doors were gaunt faces, sometimes wearing a fierce, almost desperate look. I felt that I should not like to pass through these streets at a late hour of the night : Yet it is only fair to say that London is tolerably well governed. The police are numerous, and, so far as my experience extends,- are polite and attentive to strangers. . Considering how great an amount of poverty and utter destitution there is in the great city, it furnishes a matter of surprise that the harvest of crime, great as it is, should not be even greater. Yet doubtless, as the incident I am relating serves to show, there is many' a seoret ; crime committed that never sees the light; and never becomes known to the authorities. .'.My glance fell thoughtfully upon my guide. He was toiling along, appar ently with difficulty, a little in advance of me, and from time to time looked back to see if I were . following him.' Once when he looked back I had my watch out a valuable gold ohronometei from which 1, was ; endeavoring to ascertain the ' time by the light of a neighboring street lamp; Perhaps J ;as finprndant in making a display in so stispicions ; a neighborhood. My guide looked at the watch greedily. j Poor fellow l" l thought, "Every evidence of wealth and comfort must nc "' doubt fill him with envy,"; I don't know why it was that no suspicions of the man's good faith nad thns far entered my mind. ' :. If there had,: the sight of his . feebleness would have led me to smile . with contempt at the thought that he oould possibly do me any harm. J 4 : : .. 8011 he hobbled on,"'-.v ':" We had by degrees goia considerable distance from the ' place : where I first r enoountered . him. 4 T: thought -that . I of pausing and dismissing him with a' gratuity of half a crown.-V' i '.'Are .you far from your jtoom from , where yon live?" I asked.' "We must hsve gone half a mile instead of a quar ter." ' . c J ' . "Thai is the house," said he, point ing to a wretohed building only a few steps distant. - " 'In for a penny in for a : pound,' v thought L 'I will see this adventure through, even if I am late for the thea tre." My guide entered the house, and J followed him up a rickety staircase rather up three until we reached the fourth story. It was pitch dark all the way. When he had mounted to-, the third landing he farrjbled at "the door and opened it, I followed himin , . Stop a moment, kind' gentleman, and I will light a candle,' said the old man. X stopped, and in a moment the dim light of a farthing dip .illuminated the apartment :'; ;.'..y,i had scarcely- time to take a hasty glance at the room and its appurtenances than the old man stepped behind me and closed the door. There was a click audible. It fastened as it closed. What did I see? Of course I expected to see a miserable den, with broken down furniture and every evidence of the direst destitution and wretchedness. Instead of this my gape rested on a room comfortably furnished; a Kidderminster carpet, not much worn, covered the floor. There were a few neat chairs, a mahog any table and a comfortable bed. "You have deoeiveik me.saidl, stern ly, turning upon the old man. I turned as I said this, but what was my - bewil derment at perceiving that the old man had disappeared and in his place there stood before me quite a different person age. -.v, ... j ! The gray hair, the. bowed form, the marks of age had vanished.. "My guide was no longer old and decrepit, but a man in the prime of life, strong and vigorous. His gray wig, for it was aig, lay on the carpet, whither he had care lessly tossed it - t r .- ' "You seem a little surprised," he said, in a mooking voice; "strange miracles sometimes happen nowadays." "Wliat does this mean ?" I asked, in bewilderment . "What does, it mean?" repeated the man, coolly. "It means that I will trouble you for that watch of yours. It appears to ba a valuable one," he con tinued with" bold impudence. I will take the liberty to -borrow it of you for an indefinite period. Just now, unfor tunately, my watch happens to be at the jeweler's, so that T am unable to be on Hrsc in ray fvv.?rtiaK'- ,ug.?y""-.!i I "'-03fHf,- i- Jttbio. J:.-a i-'i tLa loan of yours." "Is , there anything else you would tke ?" X asked hotly, indignant at hav ing been so cleverly outwitted, and that, too, by a man whom I had been in tending to succor. It seemed the wers t kind of an imposition, playing upon my feelings only to work me injury. "Yes," he replied carelessly, "I am out of money just at present Slightly overdrawn at my banker's. Awkward, isn't it ? I will take the additional lib erty of borrowing your purse. Though I don't generally do such things, I will, if it will be any satisfaction, "give you my note of hand for the amount, due say in ninety years." ' , Again he laughed mockingly ' Too are an' atrcicms villain 1" said I, indignantly. ; .'"..? ,.': "Oh, no doubt; You're quite welcoru to call me so, We're' all sinners, you know!", t The man's insufferable . coolness and impudence quite took away my breath. I felt that a discussion could do no pos sible good, - He- had me in his power. and of course that gave him the entire advantage. "Let me out V I exclaimed, advancing toward the door. Not yet," said he resolutely, display ing a pistol.. "Not , till you have com plied with my very reasonable demands. Do that and yon shall go freely, and not a hair of your head shall be harmed." Come, what do.you say ?" ; - What oould I Bay ? How was I, sin gle handed and. without a weapon, to contend with this!; man, my equal in strength and armed with a pistol ? This makes the weak equal with the strong, It I only had that pistol if I could only snatch it from him. But thai seemed 1 impossible. He was watchful and wary. Should I make the attempt and fail ' he wonliprobably kill me without mercy. Yet that attempt I meant to make. -, A luoky thought came to my assist ance. I was something of a ventrilo quist and had been from my yonth that is, I could throw my voice to an other part of the room so that someone else might seem to be speaking. 'No sooner did I think of this than I resolved upon my plan. "Well," said he impatiently, "have jou decided?" . ' Wretch I" said a voice just behind him. "-; .'j.. . -f...'- ;- ;r He turned suddenly, and at that mo ment I snatched the pistol from his grasp. ; .-: :; f :"'-': ' 'Now it is my turn,'' said I exnlting iy. "Open that door or, I fire." 4 ; He looked at me in stupid surprise.. ( I repeated my command. He advanced a step toward me. i "Make the slightest attempt to retake this weapon and I fire." : ' He glared at me with a look of baffled ferocity and looked undecided. ' V-;-. I repeated my order, and he sullenly opened the door, ; : . . v" '., ,. I passed through, backing out warily, ' ready to fire at the slightest, movement showing intent to assault me, I should iave felt no hesitation in doing so. The man was a desperate villain, very likely a murderer, and I felt that I should be justified. :. But he seemed to have given up his enterprise as bootless. He went back into his . room , and slammed the door. I made my way ; out into the street and hurried to the theatre, first removing the charge from my weapon. It proved to be a valuable one, and I de cided to retain it as a "contraband of war." , ' 1 ' '-- tflT AlfD WISDOM. : - A basebaxIi nein "Not out I" Thb rule of three a triumvirate. Kobbikq the males a church fair. ; Sicaijj : currency sewing society gos sip. TCTinoonstone an engagement mond. '. . .- Talk is cheap, except through a tele phone," -. Thb best coat-of -farms for America manure, ' .Th letter p's usefulness 'to pneumo nia is about like that of the husband of a boss milliner , t "A Ring around the moon is a sign ol bad weather.". A ring around the eye is generally a aign of a squall? "What is laughter ?'' asks a scientist It is what yon don't bear when yon find your wife sitting up for you after the club. ' t, . -. ' . , . A 00x0 climate is hard to bear, but it makes men robust and active. People in very warm countries lead a rather shiftless life. A totxno lady at a ball the other even ing referred to her gentleman escort as an Indian. "For," said she, "he is al ways on my trail." Bbxdss now go to the altar with the left hand uncovered. This means that when the husband comes home late he will be handled without gloves. CoiiOBED Woman "Boss, kin I get de job ob cleanin' out dis heah bank ?" President "No !' you are too late. The cashier has already attended to that" "PnESSon! achieve! achieve!" sings Ella Wheeler in her last poem. This sounds as if she was counseling a Chi nese laundryman to sneeze while ironing. Hs My dear, the most extraordinary thing happened when I came home this evening. She What was it? He Why, my slippers were both in the same place and just where I left them. Tee great perennial power of a good pastor over i his flock is heart power. Nine-tenths of the people in any con gregation are only to be reached through their affections. Sympathy is power. Say everything for vice you can say, magnify any pleasure as much as you please, but do not believe you have any secret for sending on quicker the slug gish blood, and for refreshing the faded nerve. "Have you weak eyes ?" said a lady to a:i ii? piw-int Jor a kjtc.ntu TJi-. '-K :v who -auxe jpc. r.f.i. - 'lio, luat'tun, ' "but I scour pots and things so thor oughly that the glitter of them hurts my sight'? Ween a visitor at the Carlisle Indian School asked a young Cheyenne girl If she was a member of a church, she an swered, ''Not much; just a little." There are hun3 of other church members similanyaffec ted. ' Yon can't blame a wife for losing her love for a husband who persistently stays away from home. As she cannot get him into the house even, it follows naturally that she-should not be able to in-door him. Boston Traveler. Thbx had recently been and got mar ried, and had just returned from their honeymoon. ';, He: "I wonder why so many people stare at us, my dear?" She: "Nr doubt hey are' wondering what I oould have seen in you." Lin, like war, is a series of mist?kes; and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity may seoure that, but he is best who wins the most splendid victories ; by the retrieval of mistakes. A hattkb sees one of his debtors pass him by in the street without any recog nition of his existence, and straightway became as mad as as a hatter. "Curse the fellow !" he says, "he might, when I bowed to him, have at least had the de cency to lift my hat" ' 1 "Yotjb age?'" asked the judge. "Thirty-five, your honor," replied the woman. Judge "But you were thirty five the last, time you were here, three years ago." She "And does your honor think I'm the woman to say one thing one day and another thing another ?" Two Heroes. - ; The Portland (Ore. Newa says: There are some interesting side points relative to Funk's poof, starving babieB, who wandered away in the hills of Mehama Sunday morning. They were not found till Monday noon. A shepherd dog which was a household favorite followed and guarded them during ,the long, dark hours when the rain came unceas ingly down. No doubt the faithful crea ture protected them from the many wild animals in the deep woods. I But the heroic act of the older child, whioh the wires failed to correctly record, remains to be .added. He took his own little coat from his shivering body and put it on his weaker brother, saving him from freezing, whilei he endured, in a cotton shirt hours after hours, the keen blasts' of that mountain storm. Think of this, from a child but six years old, and let any who can say he is not as much of it hero as any of the full-grown Spartans of old of whom the classics so eloquently tell. I Thb state of affairs in Dublin, N. II., is somewhat interesting, owing to the difficulties experienced by the Sele ct men in disposing of the income of a fund - of $2,500, which was given to the town some time ago with the provision that . the interest should be annually dia- tribnted to the poor inhabitants of the place. The interes t is now about to be distributed, but there are no taken, as quite a number of persons to whom offers have' been made decline on the ground that their wkEm vsslj.bcf .compromised,; GENTEEL, BUT A TRAMB mm KBSPKCTABf.E TACRANT AND BIS : . MEANS OF HCPFOKT. Sad Experience et Twe Tohiik Men who are Willincfta Work bat are t sable to Find Any. . : - "Yes,9 we are tramps. We are as thoroughly oufin the world as the most tattered, impecunious vagabond that begs for a few pennies on the street or for a pieoe of bread : at the back door.' The speaker was a young man, not shabbily dressed save for the frayed -binding on his coat His face overgrown with a week's old beard, was frank and kindly. His companion was also young, and his appearance, too, was respecta ble. -: Ion don't look like tramps," said the reporter. '. ' - ; ."That is very .true, and yet, if you were only to count as tramps those shift less vagabonds, down at the heel and out at the elbows, who jostle each other at the soup houses and steal for the sake of going to jail, you would have little more tHan half the tramps in Philadelphia to-day." " What has been your experienoe ?" TJl tell you, but you must not pub lish our names. You can take them so that if any one, after reading the story," u utoito .ogive us wo, you can let us know. We are both down in tne world, sir, but our1 self-respect has not left us yet. I pray God it never may. Well, as to how we got down in the world. lama traveling salesman. , At the end of 1881 depression in trade threw me out of a position I had held for two years. I , soon became poor, and then followed the usual experiences with pawnbrokers. I could get no work, and finally my money was all gone and I knew not where to turn to get a meal. My companion last year was an advance agent for a circus. Before that he was an engineer. He has a wife and two children in a little back room oa Vine street We met as companions in dis tress, and he took me to his room. The scene I witnessed there turned my trials to trifles and dispersed my sorrow for very' shame. His wife was sick and his children stood shivering beside the empty stove. There had been nothing to eat in the room for two days." ' The speaker paused a moment and gave a great gulp, as though to choke down a lump in his throat His "eyes had a glistening suspicion of tears 'in them. "Well," he went 03, "that was a: month ago, and it was the beginning of our friendship. Since then we have been tramps, and we have worked to gether. How we managed to get along is fraost a mystery to tae...r:c th?t the avi Ki.l(h" AS passed.' "Give me some idea of your opera tions."' "Our meals are secured chiefly at free lunch counters. Often enough we can slip in and get a drink with a crowd and then help ourselves or sit down and eat, no one noticing that we had not invested at the bar. Sometimes I would go up to the counter, and when no one was looking, pass back to my companion enough food to make a meal for his fam ily. He has a place to sleep, bat have none and at night I have to shift or myselt i "And how do you make out ?" -'Sometimes I sleep at the station houses, but the officers will not allow one to keep that up formary nights. Four nights iBleptin empty freight oars "out near Brewery town. When I fail to find a place to lay my head I stay around the Broad Street Station unti they turn me out Yes, I am one oi the tramps the station master talks about as constantly" "eomsBi. around there, and being as constantly aslicdov ; out. Well, after I am invited out the station it is usually midnight 1 have to keep awake and put in the - timr ;, until morning. It is a weary time of it Sometimes I walk out to Frankford and sometimes to Germantown. Very oi ten 1 am stopped by penniless wanderers like myself, who want a few pennies for a night's lodging. That is what I call the very irory of poverty; I "I could tell you a good many things to make you smile. Do you remember the incident Mark Twain " relates in Roughing It' of the fellow who found a dime and threw it down so he could have the pleasure-of finding it again ? Well, I had a similar experience. I found a silver quarter! at Broad and Spring Garden streets. I had hot eaten anything for nearly thirty-six hours. 1 picked it up and could not realize' my good fortune. I tossed it down on the pavement to see if it would ring, and then walked away, and coming back, picked it , up again. . The pleasure of going through the process of finding the coin the second time was equal to the first Philadelphia Press. A fellow in Oxford oounty, Me., gulled a whole town and caught a rich widow. When the assessors of taxes "me around he told them that they might tax him for $10,000 in money at interest, although he was supposed to be poor and worked in a mill for $1.59 a day. The fame of a man who was suffi ciently honest to uncover concealed tax able property of his own accord, spread through the town, and he was lionized. He made an impression on a wealthy widow and married her. After the wed ding the assessors had to abate the tax on the supposititious $10,000, and the woman had to support a worthless hus band. He was not worth a dollar. The Color Line in Massachusetts. Judge Parm enter, of Boston, Mass. gave a decision in the case of Richard S. Brown, a well-known 'colored man, against Joseph Hawes, Treasurer of the Winslow Skating Rink, fining Haves sixteen dollars and costs. . Brown visited the rink with two children; but waa not allowed to "purchase admission tickets. Upon demanding the reason for this dis eritoination. 'Brown waa forcibly ejected from the premises.. ' 1 ARCTIC BOG SLEDGING. Jit each AmnalDc Work ae It la Sevpeeed t - Be.'. v . , Speaking of Melville's book ..on the Lena Delta, the Literary World says: Sledging is never an easy matter in Sibe ria. The dogs are quarrelsome, and very difficult to manage, as the follow ing description of a journey with a team of eleven dogs will show: "Away we went with the dogs in full cry, all yelp ing, snapping, biting, and seizing each other from behind, those in front turn ing round to fight back, until some one were drawn oil their feet and dragged along at a fearful rate; Vasilli, yelling at the top of Ids voice, coaxed, scolded, and anathematised by turn, until at length, by dint of twisting and rolling oer, the team became entangled into one living mass of vicious flesh. To pacify and disentangle the crazy canines, Vasilli leaped upon them with his iron-pointed guiding staff, and the only astonishing thing to me was how the. poor, brutes could live under such a heavy beating. It is true some of thorn, after receiving a severe blow on the small of the back, did drag their hind legs for a few min utes; but in the end it did hot seem to cheek their desire to bite and fight. Yet they were considerably ' more tractable after this, their first beating," and ran ata m0re even pace, following the iqqjq y, i tn a nM nri leaders, who in turn were guided and governed by Vasilli's word of command: Tuck! Tuck Taduok, taduck Stol, stoi !' (right, right; leit, left; stop ! stop); and a eneral chuckle of encour agement" 1 - . The dogs, moreover, are so ferocious that if they meet a teal of reindeer they will at once attack and kill them. On one occasion Mr. Melville was pro ceeding by deeraledge when he enj countered a team ol dogs. His driver at once drew off the road into a wood, stationing Mr. Melville with . a huge stick to prevent the cogs from following. They came on in ho. pursuit, de3pite the efforts of their driver, when a stout blow from the stick caused the leading dog to turn round and atttck his neigh bor, and in an instant the whole team was embroiled in a "free and easy," while the deer team made utar escape. Boiler Skating Rinkx ileveland Leader says: t stylish ly-dressed young lady, whose eatures were concealed by a thick veil, titered the downtown office of a protment physician yesterday afternoon, and with some show, of nervousness, request an audience with him. The doctor leothe way into his private office, and the tfr patient removed her veil, remarking ,3 she dfcTso, "I wish you would tell In the dimly -lighted room the physi cian was unable to find anything wr rag. Stepping to the window, the lady said, pointing to the roguish ; dimples that nature had placed on cheeks and chin and the little creases about the corners of her eyes: "JDo you see that? My f ace looks as though I had been working in a coal mine." Closer inspection showed the physician that, the dimples and creases as well as- the larger pores in the lady's face were filled with a dark, grimy substance. "I have scrubbed and worked at that until I am tired, but cannot remove it - I am satisfied it j not dirt," she continued, evidently i',;f' ing from the physician's look th?y I was about to tell her to take a bath f "I understand," said the doctor with a smile; "the roller rink a "What do you mean ?" she aske 'h troubled tone. "Nothing but rollp is all. It is noth; . ( '4'V a: "Tha ... -; skating ol ; 1 to a report ? conversation is the second , --. me with a ' similar 00. week." ' - Trunk 13 IlUC UH'IOB Ul ' i H' "Why, you , see, the dust tiU.v froni the floor of the rink is very fine and penetrating, and when it settles on the skin, dampened with perspiration, it at onoe finds its way into the pores." ' Saved From a Life Sentence. The last proceedings have finally been held in the famous Mack murder case, whioh - took place July 14, 1878, in Jonesville, Wis. Mrs. Mack, charged with , murdering" . her : hus band, was tried, convicted, and sen tenced to the State prison for life, but tho Supremo Court granted hei a new r. trial, and on the second trial the jury disagreed.'. Since then she married the principal witness against her," which renders his testimony, worthless against her." She made an application to have her bondsman relieved by giving her own bond in the sum of $8,000, which wfi&granted. She having married the State's most important witness and the other witnesses being widely scattered, it is n likely that the case will ever be called. "" - V African Explorations. ' " Serpo Pinto, the celebrated African traveler who started for Central Africa last year from Mozambique, oame near starving to death not long after he began his march. ' He and his comrade, Iieat Cardoso, were stricken with fever in district where famine prevailed. T! y--' could buy little food, and, being fvr to be removed, their party we' V reduced to sore traits. TheGo j . ,' Mozambique heard.of their d; ;. sent a relief party, who reft ' them until ; the explorers Vert., v push, on to ample food supplie v V the farnine distrust Pinto is iV V into inner : Africa one of uie ? eauiciyr! oarties that TEeX STRAY BITS OF HTJMQR FOUMB tS rrnit columns EXCHANGES. of otm The Fireman Kea!a-ned -On the Roller Skntes-rat en Ueeerd-He nani-Foaad bU Bees. Etc A FIREMAN WHO BBSIONffiO. "What caused you to leave the fire department, Jim?" "Oh, I got sick of it? r " , -; '"What was the troubler 'Well, I'll tell yonv X.wiiad fonr years to get on, and then I got right off again. It wasn't what I thought it was. . I'd watched the boys working lots oi times, and Td been around visiting them at their houses. I . kinder thought Td like it When I got my appointment I , felt that I was fixed for life, j The sec ond night after that an alarm came in for us about eleven o'clock, and out we went When we got to the fire, which was in the cellar, the captain made me go down and hold a lantern. The ther mometer was about twenty-five below zero, and just as I started to go up the back stairs a stream hit me in the month and knocked me down so quick that I couldn't tell what struck mo. I lay there senseless with the hose playing on me for a little while long enough for me to freeze fast, any way, and when I tried to get up I couldn't 1 1 was all covered with ioioles, and the whiskers of me were frozen so stiff that I couldn't get my mouth open to yelh I began to think I was done for, when one of the boys stumbled over me, and getting a -lantern, found out who I was. They had to chop me out with axes, and when I walked xff Hooked like a snow man. That sickened me of the fire department and I resigned the next day." Chicago Herald. i FARES OF THB FAIB. When two lady friends enter a street car together they generally go through with a funny little formula for the sav- . ing of each other's credit for generosity and for appearances generally. "Now mind, I've got the change," says one as they hail the oar. "Have you? Well, so have L ' I can pay the fare, answers the other. By this time the ladies are seated, and both; begin to 0 fumble leisurely in their sabohels for . that change. "Now, Til pay," exclaims one, and she fishes out a dollar bill and - looks helplessly around for some man to pass it up. "I want change anyhow, " ft; The money is passed up to the box, and a in the meantime the other lady quietly ; deposits two nickels in the box. "Ob, yoa mean thing!" cries . the street-oar ... & f IfVawA mini? T'M . rtov AAminff tmfl then they fall to talking of . ayune. - : . :l ANOTHEB ONE PUT ON BBOOBD. " " ' When I was at Washington I said to ; foot of the Monument: "You have a mighty tall chimney for such a small factory." He silently chalked a mark on tha board wall behind him. - i : "What's that for ?" I inquired. 4 "Yori are the 176 th person who mado that remark," waa his answer. Z6rott Free Press. - I "' . O? TBS SKATES. 5'..'5 ..A M trou;,; 5 cryia. , : V Mr. awV'. . ; . I wonder what tu. ' - ii- 'l .,.H1 ; MrsT Minks Cm n. W How sweetly shrill his Vo. ' i ., and musical. ' . "-.y'-f. Mr. Minks Yes I bai . sounds do not come from ! They come through ihewaj house. ' ' . , .' ;- . ' 5 ' Mrs. .Minks Mercy ! f Why can't people have sen give their jquilling brats ,; something, instead of let': like screech owls. Philf BKIM3TOKB FOB OONOBS 1 i, i-'.'-t-.V- m A good story is told of - two Congregatlbnausts ealist who reside -not miles from New Bedf v were, talking ,-T , them, and, pr ; said to "Mt.- TlVere grant- . tutr hir , i y- c'; I w ,M":t.. 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Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.)
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