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V PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. W. HAMtIS, M. I). pi,vici:in, Surjret'Mi nd 0b8tetrician. r' hia professional services to the ciii- eUj Ktitnernrui"ii-Hnv--vifiuiiy. All cases entrusted to Ins care will receive attention. Y' jie e f"unfJ at Office or Residence fj,eniwt rolessitmally aJjseiit: I ly o3VER HICKS, M. D., ;."' IiUTKERFORDTON, N. C. ' . 1 L - T 1 1 (joutuiuesuie pnicuce oi lueaicine, Surgery and Midwifery, in Ruther : fu'dtou, and the surrounding, coun try. I 50-J.y. a (jUTIIKil. JM).!RY 3YXUM. GArniKli & BYJSTUM, ATTO K X K YS AT LAW, " Mow; ntox, X. C. Pr.ictico in tl'e Federal Courts, Supreme Court pi Xo'tli Carolina, and in the Counties eJCtw, ''hMwI!. JJijlliorford, JDowell, (t.,i,ivt.sn, MitclieM uu-1 Yancey. t'olli.-ciitiis made iu any part ol tlio State. ::3:lv W. H. COX -v .SURGEON A1 Dentists Jftly RuT'lIERF.OROTON, N. C. Physician and nrgecn, iinviii-r luMti-d i't ' Ilutlif-rfonitot), .X. C, re Tjifnily i i's It h prnu.sMoual t-'ervicvM to ili,: iittV.nis nt the V i 1 t antl .sunouNdinyr numiry. ;uui liope-.to merit' u pa it !' tlieir jHiuiiae. ... 5S: l- " mTTl. L; HUOKEIi, . l"'V.SiCIAX AND' SU1UJKOX, ilrtlelul lor the-liberal pitrnriajre lioreto roceivcii, hopes, ly .prompt nltonlion to all calls, to tnoiit a continuauce oi ti e same. ' :-tl " . J. B. (VAUl'KXTKPv, ATTORN KY AT LAW, . JifTUKKFOIiiTOX, N. C M'iiectUuis jf;impilv iitu-nued to. ltf u. 11. justice, ATiui ::?k y at law, IU 'lH.KliKOKI'TOy, N. C. "Vs." ill p:u'tlce in tho Supf rior Cor.rts of' the Oili snid lhh,.Iu.!u-ial Districts, in the u I'ltine Court ot'Xoitl) (!;u)lina. and in the hdt-ral toii'rts, ;tl SlaUKvllle and Aslitville. ' 6-tf 'lll 'L .III I LIU J 1 -! WMlfcOTMMMMWM V " IIOTXL& 7 (iillMXKV.ROCK HOTEL. - T,!(: wider. Hriii;,l iiavitir t:ikcn (nil eon'rol 0! tin r I n(.( (";, y.-! ;jji!y known House. On i. l!iI.orv Xul. (Jup Tpniike, 17 miles wU.r Rutin rt i(Jton and -'iiV mi es. past ol Aliuille. respect (nily notilie? plcasuie seek ",:iiMi the travelling p'i!)l:c that he is fully Kcffctred to.'icc'iirnod ite them. It is iinneces ?'rytOH;it.- thai thin pl'vce is in the in:4-st of the k!V l scctif ry in Wiorn o.' lh Carol.iiM, arid 1 - -J - "7.' 1 IIMI llC'tll II Ul pit uoui, V.ill iiii(l no better place to. while away tl.e 'ynii.ir.or input lis ' Sly terms shall lio reason !;i'!e. aiid no pains will be snared to ' make K'tts coin lorta bio. (Jive me : call. -.' J. U. JUST ICR. . CHARLOTTE HOTEL, , Charlotte, X. C. W. .'-il. Matthews & Son. . : . " . . 3S:tf TIIK . BURNETT 1IQU.SE, KUTHERFORDTON, N. Cf I" eptn tor ihe iicf)mmodatidti of the tfavllinjr public, ''and '.with uood fijre, alien. b k-rvanu. mid pikxi stables aiid' teed for .ioratf) the proprietor aks a sliare of patron. C. BUHSKTT, l.l 1 y . ' 't f'i rietor. BUC.K HOTEL , . ASunylLLK, n. c, U. M. DEAVER, Proprietor. 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Any further information will be given on application to the pub hshers i-fc rtil.IO.00 I.i.tiO -J0.(.0 25,00 411.00 55.00 UO.OO 150 Writyen for the Star. & Record. An Elegy. (Tom enters with sad news.) "Must I skin him?" said Tom to the man well read, " Skin what you dunce T" " Your horse." ' 4k Alive?" -u No ; that could not be, your horse is dead." "Hush then villianl hush, and do not aggravate, , ' Hush ! an$ give me time to meditate." (Mr. C. meditating.) " And can it be ? . Oh ! say not so, That poor old Charlie's dead. He carried me about when I wanted to go,- And carried me without a dread. ' ' '"'' And who told Tom, that the sand Of poor Charlie's life was out, Burnett 1, Yes, Burnett is an " honor able man." . And the fact is true no doubt. Then lament in rliyme la.ment in prose For the. poor old horse's fate. Lend me a tear for no one knows, ' How much I prized his pate. , All the men in town, of course will come round And all will know what ailed him, Each man will a different disease pro pound. ' But I guess 'twas his breath that failed hini. - 1 (Mr. C. directs" Tom.) t - u Then I will say don't skin aim Tom, But lay him low to rest. For if there's a spirit land for. such, I know he's one of the blest. Then Tom, lay him low as I said be fore . Be sure and mark well the spot, For the good ha Las done, in days pf yore, "N Let his old bones, rest, disturb them not, epitath. . : - Poor Charlie's well worn clay here lies, - His silent dust do not provoke, This gallant steed I highly prized. For carrying me to Polk." . . .Leisure Moments. On the contrary- -Riding on a mule. ' A week conclusion Saturday night To em o ye stams from character get rich. Patience is a flower that grows not in every one's garden. Why is grass like a pen knife ? Because the spring brings, out the blade. There are said to be more drinking saloons than schools in, the United States, V- yfi a rmmTT tttcxt a BE SURE YOU ARE BIGHT AND IILITHEEFOIIBTON, The Ansel Turned Domou. A Many years ago a celebrated Italian artist was walking along in the streets of his native city, perplexed and desponding in con sequence of some irritating cir cumstances of misfortune,vhen he beheld a little boy of such sur-, prising and surpassing beauty, that he forgot his own trouble and gloom in looking upon the almost angel face before him. "That face I must have,' said the artist, ' for my studio. Will you come to iny room and sit for a picture, my little man ?" The boy was glad to go and see the pictures and curious things' in the artist's room ; and he was still more pleased when he saw whatseemedtb beaimther boy that looked just like himself smiling from the artist's canvas. .The artist, took great pleasure in "looking at j th&t sweet face. When lie was troubled, irritated, or perplexed, he lifted his eves to that lovely imae on the wall, and its beautiful features and expre sion calmed his heart and made him happy again. Many a visitor at his studio wjshed to 'purchase that beautiful face; but though poor, and otten in neetlof money to purchase iodd and clothes, lie would not.sfll ihis good angel, as he cal 1 ed this port rai t. x So the years went on. Often times as he looked at the face on glowing canvas, he wondered what had become of the boy. " How I should like to see how he looks now ? I wonder if I should know him ? Is he a good man and true, or wicked and abandoned ? Or has he died and gone to a better land?" One day the artist was strolling down one of the line walks of the ciry, when he beheld a man' whose tace and mein were so vicious, so almost fiend-like, that he involun tarily stopped and gazed at him. u What a spectacle! I should. like to paint that figure and hang it Un mv studio opposite tne angel boy," said the aniat, to himself. The .young man asked the pain ter for alms, for he was a beggar as wl! as a thief. " Come to mv room and let me paint your portrait, and I will give you all you ask' said the artist. The young man followed the painter for a sketch. When it was finished, and he had received a tew coins for his trouble, he turned to go ; but his eyes' rested on the picture of the boy ;he look ed at it, turned pale and burst in to tears.. ; x . . ; .- U What troubles you, young man Vr saiaVthe painter. Ic was long before the young.: man could speak ; he sobbed aloud and seem ed pferced with agony. At last he pointed up to the picture on the Wall, and with broken tones that seemed to come from a broken heart, said. 4 Twenty 3 ear ago 3011 asked me to- sit for & picture, and that angel face is . the portrait. Be hold me now a Ruined man ; so bloated, so hideous that women and children turn away their faces from me; so fiend-like that yon want IT13' picture to show how ugl3 a man can look, I see what vice and crime have for me." The artist was amazed, coqld scarcely believe his now done He own eyes and ears. How did this happen ?' he asked. Tho young man told his sad and dreadful story ; how being an only son and very beautiful, his parents petted and spoiled ; how. he. went with bad boys and learned all their bad habits and vices, and came to love them ; how, having plenty of money, he was enticed to wicked places un til all was lost; and then una ble to work and ashamed to beg, he began to steal, and was caught and imprisoned wjth the worst, criminals ; came out more deprav ed to commit worse crimes tbaa before; how every bad deed he performed seemed to drive him to commit a worse one till it seem- 1 ed to him that he could not stop Aim uiid jixsj Ai THEN GO AHEAD." Davy Crockett, W. C, AUGUST IS, 174. till it bi ought him to the gallows. It was a fearful tale, and brought tears to the artist's e3'es. He besought the young man to stop, ottered to help him, and tried to save him. But alas! it was too late. Disease, contracted bydissipation, soon prostrated the voung man, and he diedbe- fore he could reform. The pain ter hung his portrait opposite that of the beautiful hoy ; and when visitors "asked him why he allowed such a hideous looking face to be there, he told them the story, saying as ho closed : " Between the angel and the demon there is onl3' twenty years of vice." The lesson of this tale is the tale itself. You who read it can tell what it is. Think of it often and heed it alwavs. Tlie Power of Jliud Over Body The secretions are arpested or made active by nerve' influnce. Nursing mothers who give wax to anger or othef emotions poison their own mi lie, whereby the in fant's heait is often injured for life, if he be not killed outright. The bowels are purged by bread pills (as was Nicholas) pro vided people are told they are to be purged; eighty out of one hundred hospital patients have been vomited by a neutral reme dj when told 4 there had been a mistake made and they had all thaken emetics." Much sea-sickness would be avoided if people could be made to believe they were not going to have it. The stigmata, or marks of the nails on the Savior's hands and feet, have been plainly seen to appear on the corresponding portions of the bo dies of certain oliis more devout followers, among whom St. Fran cis of Assist must be specially named. Yet ought we not to lose from our sight the possibility that these occurrences, however un questionable they may be, are yet simply owing to an action of the imagination, whereof a notable in stance is related upon authority 'of great weight : A rnothtersaw a window-sash descend with vio lence upon htttlecliilds fingers, thereupon she herself was in stantly seized with extreme pains in her fingers, which did after ward Swell and inflame in such a manner that she was long in be ing cured. The fakirs ot India are sometimes able to divest them selves of the signs of life respir- ation and circulation being stop ped and bodily temperature low eredfor months continually. The pain of toothache vanishes at sight of a dentist's chair : neural gia once disappeared as the lec turer was about to enter ou an operation for its relief ; most func tional, and even some organic af fections (as dropsy) may be cured by giving u patient the idea he is to cured ; and the well attes ted list of modern miracles is in the same category of fact. -Dr. Brown Scquard. , , ' Sliam Jewels Je-vels viewed in a natural, and jewels vie'ved in an artificial light, are like certain sorts of beautv not to be compared. There is a fluid radiance in them which wains refraction ; the former take it from the sun, the lajter fpom the chandelier. In the eas.e ot the peerless stone, however, the dia mond, the object of the splendid illusion is to produce a perfectly colorless substance, thorough I3 lucid, and capable pf reflecting all lights. To this-pebble for it is nothing more Have been attrib uted many virtues; but it can be fabricated by science with a very near approach to reality. First, it is necessary to dissolve a char coal. Then follow processes re quiring crystallization-a ming ling ot pure water, a little carbo nate of snlphnr, and certain pro portions of figuies 60 alluringly in the shop windows of the Palais Rojal. Let us tarn to the sap phire, the next esteemed among mis (Dcom precious stones, even above the emerald and the ruby. It is a prbduct of the Eastthough found, of inferior quality, in Bohemia, Saxony, and France among rocks of thesecoudory period. There arevhite sapphires, occasional mistaken for diamond; crimson or carmine, resplendent beyond description ; vermillion, and topaz-tinted.; Indeed, we may as sign rank to the emerald as daughter of the sapphire. Do 3Tou covet them in order to beam with borrowed lustre at a ball ? Take, as the cookery-books say, one ounce of paste, mix with two grains of precipitatedoxide of cobalt, and there you have the colored and glowing necklet, which none except a jeweller can detect. Supposing, however, that 3'ou desire ear-rings ofchrj'sobcryl, orliiysopal ror 'cymophane, as the French term it, which means 'floating light" the trifle is ex ceedingly pretrv-, with its surface of asparagus green and its heart ot radiating fire, let it is to be emulated by a combination of aluminium, silica, oxide of iron, and lime. Coming to the splen did gem, the. 'ruby,'-whether:--of Brazil, Barbary, or Bohemia, 'with its cherry or purple red, varied by opalescent or milky aspects, there are various methods of ri valing it with litharge and cal cined shells ; with paste, antimo ny, glass and purple of Cassius; with white sand, washed in hy drochloric acid, minium, calcined potash, calcined borax, and oxide of silver stirred in a crucible. But care must be taken, lest through an imprudent admixture, 3?our fictitious ruby should sug gest the idea ot a garnet, which is a poor and unrecognizable re-, lation. Sleeping 111 a Cold Room. Hall's Journals of Health says that coIoVJje-chambers alwa3's imperil health and invite fatal diseases. liobust persons may S.c.y 1 . a. ' . j. - a." 8:tieiy sieep 111 a temperature 01 forty or under, but the old, the infant and the frail should never sleep in a room where the atmos phere is much under 4fty degrees Fahrenheit. All know the danger of going direct into the cold' from a very warm room. Very few rooms, churches, theatres, and the like, are even warmer than seventy decrees.- If it is freezing out of doors it is thirty degrees the dif ference being forty degrees addi tional. Persons will tie chilled by such a change 111 tenminutes, although they mavbe actively walking. ..,--"' But to lie stiil in bed, nothing to promote the circulation, and breathe for hours au atmosphere of forty and even fifty degrees, when the lungs are ahva3's at ninety-eight, is too great a change. Many persons wake up in the morning with inflammation of the lungs Who went to bed well, and are surprised that this should be so. The cause may often be found in sleeping in a room the wiiuldw of udiich had been fool ishly raised for ventilation:' The water-cure journalfc of the country have done an incalculable injury by the blind and indiscriminate advices of hoisting the window at night. "' The rule should be everywhere during the part of the year when fires are kept burning, to avoid raising outside windows. It is safer and better to leave the cham ber door open, as also the fire place then there is a draft up the chimney, while the room is not so likely to become cold. If there is some fire in the room all the night the windovy may be opened an inch. It is safer ta sleep in bad air all night with a temperature over fifty, than in pure air with a temperature un der forty. The bad air may sick en you, but cannot kill you ; the cold air can and does kill very often. mo. v. Swearing. One . of the saddest of sounds is that of a human t being swearing. What is the meaning of such non sense as well as wickedness t "What good ever came of it? and how much it 'has caused the world to suffer. If I ever wish I had no ears, it . is when I hear a boy swearing. Who made you t Who keeps you alive ? Who gave you a tongue t "Who olothes and feeds you? Who put a soul in your body ? Who sent His Son to be your Friend and Savior? Who opens heaven to you ? Whose earth do you live on ? Whose sky is over your head? Whose sun shines upon you ? Whose Sabbath do you rest on ? All the answers will be, God. Is he not great and good ? Should you not love him, and mind him and enjoy him ? Yet what does the 'swearer do? He takes God's name in vain. He uses it upon a thoughtless and wick ed tongue. Did God forsee there would be swearers ? and did he make any laws against swearers ? Yes : "Thou shalt not take tlie name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord, will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain;" that is, God will hold him guilty who takes his name in vain. Whose fault is it ? Ah, my child, if the Sabbath school is not making you a better boy or a better girl, there is a terrible fault somewhere. God gives jtou precious opportuni ties for learning his vill and walking in his way, and if you lose these op portunities you will find out by and by it is a heavy loss. The Influcnco of IVcwspapcrs. The Boston Traveler states that a school teacher who had enjo)'ed the benefit of a long practice of his profession, and had watched closely tlie influence of a news papier upon the minds of a family . of children, gives as a result of his observation that without ex ception those scholars of both sexes and' all ages who have ao cess to newspapers at home, when compared with those who have not, are : 1. Better readers, cx cehng in pronunciation, and con sequently read more understand- , ingly. 2. They are better spellers, and define words with care and accuracy. 3. They obtain a par tial knowledge of geography in almost half the time it requires others, as the newspaper has made them familiar with the location of important places and nations, their governments and doings, 4. The3' are better grammarians tor having become tamiljar with ever)' variety of style in the news paper, from commonplace adverv tiseraents to the finished and classical oration of the statesman, they more readily comprehend . the meaning of the text, and con sequently analyze its contents, with accuracy. A speculative Scotch gentleman, wishing to dispose of some bees, to attract purchasers, printed the fol lowing placard : "Extensive sale of live s ock, comprising not less than one hundred and forty thousand head, with a unlimited right of pas turage." The ingenious, trick sue ceeded in winning 4 admiration, fov his stock brought high prices. "After severil years uy reflecktion, I have cum to the konklusion that the three most diffikult things & lifq are : 1st, Carryin an armfull ny live eels up a steep hill without spillin an eel, 2d. Aktin as a referee at a dog fight without get tin mad. 3d. EdL tin a newspaper," An engineer shouted to a crowd of rusties, who had gathered to see the first train of cars come in, Pnt down your umbrellas ! voull scare, the engine off the track r The um.. brelias were lowerd at once. Schoolmistress j Johnny, Tnv ashamed of you. When I was your age I could read as well as I do now." Tohnny : Aw, but you'd a different teacher tQ what we got," The Courier-Journal notes tha the protestants appear to be mak ing headway in Mexico. Five years ago they had less than fifo churches there, and they naw have ninety-eight. it. "