THE PUBLIC LEDGER.
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MR. COVILLE'S SONG.
SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS
OF THE DANBURY NEWS MAN.
The Beautiful Little Story Which Im
pressed Mr. Coville So Strongly, and
How He VTa Afterward Impressed In
Much Different Way.
Copyrighted by Lee & Sliepnrd, F?oston, and
published by special arrangement with them.
That is a very beautiful story of the
clergyman who visited an insane asylum
ancTwaa attacked by a maniac, but who
broke into a song and sang it so clearly
and sweetly that the maniac was sub
dued; and, when he stopped from ex
haustion, the maniac cried for more,
and he sang more, and the maniac gave
up. This story made a very strong im
pression upon Mr. Coville, of this vil
lage, and the more he thought of it the
more he was impressed by it. A day or
two after reading this beautiful story
Mr. Coville's boy caught a boy named
Phillips near the foundry and tilled his
hair with tr. The boy went straight
home, of course, with his shocking look
ing head, and, as his home is on the
same street as that of the Co vi lies, Mr
Phillips hurried there at once. He
vociferated into Mr. Coville's ear the
cause of his visit, and requested that
Master Coville be passed out and cut up
between them. Mr. Coville expressed
his indignation at the outrage his son
had committed, and promised to punish
him severely for it. But this was not
what Mr. Phillips wanted.
Instead of comforting him the prom
ise appeared to irritate him. He danced
out to the walk and clutched an imag
inary boy by the hair, and struck an im
aginary boy in the face with a ferocity
that was dreadful, and then danced back
again and howled for Master Coville to
be brought out. Mr. Coville was fright
ened at his vehemence, and sought by
all the powers of persuasive oratory to
soothe him, but he was not to be quelled.
At every fresh argument he repeated his
singular demonstration, with such in
timidating additions as snapping his fin
gers and shaking his fist in the face of
his neighbor. Having exhausted his rea
soning, and Phillips becoming more in
flamed all the while, Mr. Coville was
about to beat a retreat for the safety of
his own person when the beautiful story
of the clergyman and the maniac sud
denly flashed into his mind. Here was
sure and unexpected relief. Mr. Phillips
had danced down to the walk, and was
dancing back with half a dozen imaginary
boys in tow, whom he was belaboring in
a most murderous manner, but Mr. Co
ville did not mind him. lie felt that he
had the turbulent mass of passion with
in his control, and as he realized his
power a faint smile of triumph and pleas
ure stole into Ins face Then lit? began
to sing.
It is years since Mr. Coville indulged
in the luxury of vocal music and his cat
alogue of pieces is neither large nor
varied, but he took up the first one that
presented itself and rolled it out. It
was "A Life on the Ocean Wave" a
very pretty piece and quite popular
when Mr. Coville retired from singing
It is a long time, as we have said, since
Mr. Coville had occasion to use his
voice, and it worked a trifle awkward
and uneven at first, but he remembered
that his purpose was a noble one and he
did not shrink from criticism. As he
advanced in the song he was pleased but
not surprised to see Phillips first stare at
him, then drop his hands at his side and
afterward draw back and look around
as if he were planning an escape.
But Mr. Coville did not stop; he gath
ered strength as he proceeded, and turn
ing his eyes to heaven and keeping time
with his feet roared along through the
measure with amazing force. He had
got up on the highest note he could find,
and was bursting into a perfect apo
plectic howl of melod', when he felt
himself caught abruptly by the collar,
and the next instant was made aware
that he was on his back on the walk, and
that a man looking dreadfully like Phil
lips was pounding his head against the
frozen ground, and doing something
with his ribs that appeared to be un
called for. Then he felt himself slide
through a planing mill, and opening his
eyes saw that Phillips was gone and
that Mrs. Coville was trying to get him
on his feet. In this direction he gave
her all the help possible, and getting up
looked around for the planing mill, but
not seeing it allowed her to lead him
into the house.
To all her questions she could get no
answer, but occasionally, while apply
ing the liniment, h would start up with
"A Life on. tne ocean." ana tnen sud
denly stop, smile faintly and softly rub
his nose. It was several hours before he
acted natural again, but aside from con
ceding that possibly Phillips didn't have
the right kind of madness, or he himself
may not have got hold of the right tune,
he shows no disposition to converse on
the matter. Sunday afternoon young
Coville, to be smart, and thinking that
his father was asleep in the chair, under
took to start the tune for the edification
of his mother, and the futility of that
air for enchaining an audience was again
demonstrated in a most signal manner.
Sliaking Carpet.
Shaking a carpet is a feature of house
cleaning which t horoughly enlists the at
tention of the man of the house. It is
done after dinner. The reason the
woman selects this time is because he is
dressed and has to go back to business
again without a chance to- change hie
clothes. He carries the carpet outdoors.
It is not rolled up, it is in a wad shape,
and he gathers it up in his arms and
starts for the door, with one end of the
carpet dragging between his feet. He
scorns to stop and roll it up. He has
got his arms full. It presses into his
bosom and leaves rifts of sand and grit
on his shirt front, it bulges into his face,
hot and dust, and fills his mouth and
nose and eyes.
Then the long end gets under one foot
as he is going down the back stoop, and
the other foot mounts up the breadth,
and he stumbles, but catches himself,
and prevents falling to the ground on
his face by deliberately yet blindly
jumping off the stoop. He finally gets
the carpet on the line. . It is very warm.
There is a breeze from the west. He
steps on the west side of the carpet and
hits it a lick with a stick; instantly the
wind turns sharp around to the east,
and he is engulfed in dust. He darts
around to the east side, and he hits it
another lick; the wind veers around to
the west simultaneoush and he is
plunged into a sneezing fit, which seri
ously threatens to dislocate his neck.
Then he pauses and looks around un
easily. He sees that a carpet has the
same effect on the wind as a sieveful of
coal ashes, and he doesn't understand it.
He gets a clothespole and stands around
at the north end, and hits the carpet a
terrible rap; the wind promptly sails
around to the south, and catches him
full in the face with a pint of dust be
fore the pole has fairly left the carpet.
He doesn't stop to reason now; he
would be a jackass if he did. He grasps
the pole with all his might and madly
smashes it against the carpet, and dancGS
around t'jie line and coughs and sneezes
and swears. After that it is pulled
down, and the hired girl, with the
strength of an ox, takes hold of an end
with him, and they proceed to shake it.
His hands are in blisters across the
palms, and his fingers, aching with the
grasp on the pole, can seem to find no
hold on the woof and warp. At every
other shake they glide off, starting the
nails and causing his arms to tingle clear
to the elbows; and ever7 time he picks
up that carpet he does it with renewed
energy and a weaker backbone.
The most Ave can hope for a man in
this position is that he is not a deacon
of a church and the hired girl a member
of it. "
Locating an Evil.
A Danbury auctioneer writing a letter
of advice to a j-oung friend, closed up
with the following astonishing informa
tion. "The evil that you do through
life will come back to plague you on the
day of your death, or, if stormy, on the
first fair day thereafter."
A IA tigering Joy.
The reason an urchin gave for being
late at school Monday was that the boy
in the next house was going to have a
dressing down with a bedcord and he
waited to hear him howl.
Not Particular.
A man who applied to one of our citi
zens for help for his destitute children,
being asked what he needed, said he was
not particular. "If he couldn't get bread
he would take tobacco."
.J. M. Bailey.
Antique Andirons.
A common form of andiron in the
shops of the dealers in antiques is a
small brazen affair with a ball from two
to three inches in diameter at tke top,
a short shaft that widens and narrows
every inch of its length and legs that
suggest branch forms. They are really
a development of the early wrought iron
creepers. They are as often as not from
fifty to 150 years old. They are inva
riably of cast brass, with horizontal
bars of wrought iron. Shovel, tongs and
poker of wrought iron, with brass
hnrtrllaa maxr bft houffht With them
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BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
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INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE
WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Developments of Each. Day Daring
, the Week Oaueht Fresh from the Busy
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I, deused for Our Headers.
Wake Forest defeats the Tennes
see University foot ball teams.
Cotton is now worth twenty dol
lars a bale more than last spring.
The Georgia Legislature will ap
propriate $40,000 a year for its mili
tia. Samuel Kobersou froze to death
near Harrisonburg, Vra., Wednesday
night.
Five persons were burned to death
in a tobacco barn in Connecticut
Saturday night.
A Kiioxville, Tenn., man dies af
ter drinking six beer glasses of whiskey-
on a wasrer. .
Sidney Wortham, railroad agent
at Jelligo, Tenn., was assassinated
Thursday night.
A cast-iron prohibition bill has
been introduced in the South Caroli
na Legislature.
The foreman of the Galloway
mines in Walker county, Ala., was
assassinated Saturday.
The Democrats of Bloomington,
111., will escort Gen. Stevenson to
Washington in March.
A Tennessee horse thief is cap
tured in West Virginia while preach
ing an eloquent, sermon.
Whether Harrison or Weaver
carries North Dakota depends upon
the right of Indians to vote.
The passengers of a sleeping car
on the Northern Pacific railroad
were robbed by masked men Wed
nesday night.
The wife of Senator Colquitt is
critically ill. Senator Colquitt is
improving. Both have stricken
with paralysis.
A man in Huntingdon, Pa., nearly
loses his life in trying to carry out
an election bet which was to wade
the Juniata river.
Rev.John W. Scott, farther-in-law,
of President Harrison, died at
the White House on the 29th. He
was 92 years old.
Ten persons from Danville, Va.,
are in New York to be treated for
hydrophobia, and twenty-three more
are to follow them.
Eight-ninths of the spindles of
the Spinners federation in England
are idle or running on half time,
effecting 04,000 employes.
Col. Jesse Ayer, a prominent and
wealthy citizen living near Rome,
Ga., was assassinated on the public
road Saturday by some unknown
person.
Men intending to lynch three
negroes at Jasper. Tenn., are per
suaded by the sheriff to give up their
intention and the lives of the negroes
are saved.
The control of the next Kansas
House of Representatives will de
pend upon drawing by lot. The
membership is evenly divided be
tween the Republicans and the op
position and the election in Coffey
county was a tie, which will have
to be decided by lot.
A bill has been introduced in the
Alabama Legislature protecting
primary elections, to prohibit rail
roads granting free passes to State
officers, and another prohibiting pol
icy holders in case of loss by fire re
covering more than the value of the
property as shown by the tax asses
sor's books.
Sliiloh's C'oii&ump ion Cur.
This is beyond question the most suc
cessful Cough Medicine we have ever
old. a few "doses invariably cure the
worst cases of Cough, Croup and Bron
chitis, vvhile its wonderful success in the
cure of Consumption is without a parallel !
in the history of medicine. Since its first j
discovery it has been sold on a guarantee,
a test which no other mediciDe can ntand.
If you have n couali we earnestly ask you
vtry it. Price 0o., 50c and $. If your
Inner? are sore, chet, or bnck lame, us
Shliohs Torus Plaster. Sold hy J. P
Stedman.
CJuaraiiteect Cnre.
We authorize our advertised druggist to sell
Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption,
coughs and colds upon this condition: If yon are
afflicted with a cough, cold or any Inns', throat
or chest trouble, and will use this remedy as di
rected, giving it a fair trial, and experience no
benefit, you may return the bottle and have your
money refunded. We could not make this offer
did we not know that Dr. King's New Discovery
could be relied on. It never disappoints. Tri 1
bottles free at J. G. Hall's drug store, Large
Size 50s. and $1.00.
SHORT STOPS
Gathered Here and Tbere from our
Exchanges.
A gold throne, valued at $2,500,-
UUU, will be the lubilee present of
all the Roman Catholic Cathedrals
of the world to his Holiness the Pope.
"The newspapers say Mary Ellen
Lease is after the senatoriol tosru.
There is a popular impression, how
ever, that Mary Jidlen would prefer
a pair or trousers to a toga.
The plan of haying a North Caro-
lina building at the World s Fair is
dehnitely abandoned. The ladies
who undertook the task of raisin":
the money found they could not do
so.
The Emperor of Annara has 200
wives, but he keeps them in separate
houses, each of which is surrounded
by a high wall. He doesn't believe
in family gatherings when there is
only one old man s hair to pull.
Florence Nightingale, the famous
nurse of the Crimea, and whose deeds
of simple mercy and charity were
embalmed in song and story until
she became England's favorite he
roine, is now 72 years old and lives
in perfect seclusion.
A German doctor has started the
theory that meat drunkards can be
cured by eating appl-s at every meal.
This is a new application of the
applejack plan of sobering a fellow
up by tw fingers of the juice in a
tumbler of hard cider.
Jane Holloway, a colored waman
said to be 108 years ola, recently
called on the Work House Board in
Cincinnati and secured the release
of her gay and festive son Samuel, a
giddy young fellow of 75, who was
doing time for beating his wife.
That woman who was elected a
trial Justice in Wyoming, and who
commenced her duties by commit
ting her husband to jail for contempt
of court, is only another instance of
a woman's power to see at a glance
what her husband most needs for
his comfort.
Just, as a Michigan hear w.is about
to hug a man to death a woman,
who had never before fired a gun,
appeared on the scene and shot the
animal dead with a rifle. When a
bear attempts to infringe on wo
man's rights it is just simply good
bye bear.
Evidently Mr. Cleveland is not a
stickler for highfalutin names in the
places he picks out for retirement
and recreation, as is evidenced by
his spending most of the summer at
Buzzard's Bay and his going now
fej rest and quiet to Hog Island.
He is a man who ignores trifles and
only attaches importance to impor
tant things.
Governor-elect Carr was, during a
part of the war, a member of the
Scotland Neck Mounted Riflemen.
The troop has kept up its organiza
tion since the war and is one of the
best military organizations in the
State. It has tendered its services
will parade mounted at the inaugur
ation of Governor Carr in January
in honor of its former member.
The excutive meeting of the State
Farmers' Alliance have been inves
tigating matters, and it is learned
the committee will soon publish a
report of its investigation of affairs.
It has also been learned that an or
der has been issued to the effect that
S. Otho Wilson was on no account
to be given any position in the State
Business agency of the Alliance.
W. F. Swim, of Winston, N. C,
has secured the left hind foot of a
graveyprd rabbit supposed to be the
talisman for gilt-edged good luck
and is having it mounted in gold as
a watch charm to be worn by Mr.
Cleveland, for whom it is intended,
Mr. Swim has probably thought
that presenting this charm to Mr.
Cleveland would be a reminder that
he hoped to be in the swim.
.
Oh, What a Couli.
Will you heed the warning. The sig
nal perhaps of the sure approach of that
more terrible disease Consumption. Ask
yourself if you can afford for the sake of
saving 50c, to run the risk and do noth
ing for it. We know from experience
that Shiloh's Cure will cure your cough.
It never fails. This explains whjr more
than a million bottles were, sold the past
year. It relb'Vs croup and whooping
cough at nncf. Mothers, do not he with
out it. For burn hack, sidf" or chest, use
Sniloh's Plaster. Sold bv .1. P. Stedman
Four grades ore horse, five sizes woj
horse wagons in stock. Our customers
will tell you the Old Hickory wagons are
the best.
aug26 tf Owen, Baubour. & Smith.
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Children Cry fo
Pitoher'c Castorla.
i A PROCLAMATION i
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THE GOVERNOR !
$100.00 REWARD !
Stats op North Carouna, )
Ekecutivk Department
Whereas, official information has been
received at This Department that diverse
persons whose mimes are unknown did
ou the night of the 14th instant, forcibly
and unlawfully take one William Bur
nett from the common jail of Granville
county, and di 1 there and then felonious
ly kill and murder him.
And Whereas, it appears that the said
persons have fled the State, or so conceal
themselves that the ordinary process of
law cannot be served up n them.
Now, Therefore, I, Thoiras M. Holt
Governor of North Carolina, by virtue
of authority in me vested by lav, do issue
this my PROCLAMATION, offering a
reward of One Hundred Dollars each&for
the apprehension and delivery of the
said unknown persons to the Sheriff of
Granville county, at the courthouse in
Oxford, said reward to be paid upon con
viction of said person or persons and 1 do
enjoin all officers of the State and all
good citizens to assst in bringing said
criminals to justice.
Done at our city of Raleigh, the 21st
day of November, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundied and ninety
two and in the one hundred and seven
teenth year of our American Indepen
dence. Til OS. M. HOLT.
By the Gowi n r :
S. F. Telfatr,
nov25-2t Private Secretary.
Sale of Land.
Y VIRTUE OP AN OKDER OF THE SU
O perior Court of Grair-i lie county, made in
the case of Job a Dement and others "vs. Luther
T. Dement and oihers, we will, on Monday, Jan.
2nd, HM3, sell, at public auction, to the highest
bidder, at the court house door in Oxford." two
tracts of lanp in Brassfield township, which are
bounded as follews :
One tract containing 31 acres adjoins the lands
of Alex Blackley, Fennel Dement, Ann Dement
and Celestia McGhee; the other tra't contains
49 acres and adjoin- the lands of Fennel l)e
nn-nt, Mae Fowler, Jos. Freddy and W. 15. Wil
son Said lands being a part of the tract owned
by the late S. T. Dement, deceased.
Terms, one-third cah, balance in 12 months
with interest at 6 per cent. Time of sale, VI ni.
2:18lcKS;EB1mml8l ner.
November 33rd, 1SK2. ' nov25-tds.
Sale of Lands.
BY VIRTUE OF MORTGAGES EXECUTED
by John G. Davis and wife to C F. Bnrnett-one
dated March 10, 1884, registered in Register of
Deeds Office of Granville county, N C , in Rook
of mortgages No. 18, page 314; one dated April
"2i, 18S4, registered in hook of mortgages No. IS
page 358: one dated Sept. 10, 18N. leistered in
Book of Mortgages No 24, page oiil). and one to
'. F. Burnett fc Pittard griven in 1891 and trans
ferred to C. F. Burnett- -1 shall, on Monday,
December 12, 1892, otfer for sale to the highest
bidder at public auction at the courthouse dor.r
in Oxford, N. C , the tract of land described in
said mortgages, containing 112 acres and situate
mile from Hester Station on the Durham &
Northern Railroad, adjoining the lands of Maj.
John Fleming, Bullock and others.
Time of sale 12 m.
novll C. F. BURNETT, Mortgagee.
-with-
Woodward & Lothrop,
-THE-
Temple Dry Goods Store,
Cor. Broad and Adams Streets,
RicLmlmd, Va.
Orders from my'frienis in North Carolina will
receive my prompt and personal attention.
NOTICE.
We wii-h to say to our friends and the public
oiiir.illv ihMt we hnve moved to PROVIDENCE
TAT1(JN, where we shall handle a full line of
FIRST - CLASS - GROCERIES,
BOOTS, SHOES AND NOTIONS.
TK.nl-imrvAii for vnnr nnf natron ile at Bell
Town we solicit your continued favors. All we
ask is a fair trial and square dealing, and if we
don't make old Providence get up and howl yon
may have our best hat with a hole in it.
J. R. Moore & Son,
sept 2.
PROVIDENCE, N. C.
The Oxford Collin Co
HAVE OPENED UP WITH A FULL LINE
COFFINS, CASKETS, &c, which they will 1
nish cheap for rash with Dearse free of char?.
They are also prepared to do any kind of repa -ing
of furniture and upholstering. Black t roi,
Minor building.
J. K. WOOD, Manager,
Oxford. N. .
jan 8
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