AROUND THE HEARTH.
For The Pine Knot.
POLITICIAN AND SON.
. . . son:
"What do the papers mean, Father,
Oh, Father, tell me pray,
By saying the canvass will open
On S'uch and such a day?" i
'politician.
"My child, their simple meaning
Is thig, 'tis very plain
That party ships will spread their saili
And tempt the raging- main.'.'
i "' -
..V-son:. I
"-.Will there be wind, my Father, 1
Strong' wind to make them go,
From the mouths of loud-voiced spouters,
Who stand on deck and blow?"
politician:
'There will be wind, my darling;
'Twill blow both hot and cold,
And again the 'ensanguined garment'
Will flap, as it has of old."
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE.
The November number of Lippin
cottV Monthly Magazine opens with a
complete novel, by Virginia W. John
son, entitled "The Terra-Cotta Bust,"
an art romance, a picture of Italian
life, delicately and gracefully painted,
and full of poetry and pathos. The
series of undergraduate f sketches of
life in the principal colleges of the
United States is brought to a close by
li. S. Hounds' "Social Life at Amherst
College.'1 Felix L: . Oswald's article,
"A Modern Spartacus," detailing the
adventures and exploits of a bandit,
who for several years back has defied
Lasell Seminary
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A TWENTY-ONE dUNCE LEMON.
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Tt was raised by Mrs. R. E. 'Davis, of
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RALEIGH. N. C.
Thomas F. Bayard, Sec'y of State. ; ExtraOfd "l n a. y 1 Of fer
A USEFUL INVENTION.
An editor has invented an infernal I
To all old subscribers who will
Davis allows her lemons to grow in the , machine that he places in an envelope ! pav an arrearages, and to all new
open air during: the summer, and ; and sends tothoe who "refuse" the subscribers we make the following ?
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One of her trees has one hundred and paying for it. The machine ex- the pINE Knot
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Adininistrator.
COAL IN STOKES COUNTY.
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Glorv certainlv awaits that
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Carolina a "great State. Goldsbpro an upholstered chair and be allowed the greatest newspaper published
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.'v. . :' .- '.,..',.- ...... . -. i DEPOSITS OF RED HEMATITE.
An informant told us this week that
they have cut one vein of coal three
feet thick and taken out some good :
anthracite. Get out the. coal, this sec
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and uuantitv von want: nnd rnanfan- 1
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