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fRfeii i ... i i ,1 WW V t w v wm kiw v u r 5 DAVIS & ROBINSON, Prop'rs. YOL.1 ; s- For the Torch-Light. ""' YomjsLTriisDEirs gsave. - The following touching lines' were written upon the rave of the little orphan Eddie Lumsden, who died at the Orphan Asylum on the 22d of February : ' Beneath an oak the orphan sleeps, With waving pines around ; Tho', wintry winds above! him sweeps, His ears hear not their sound I i In spring the, oak will hud again, Its shading leaves will spread ; While birds will carol forth their strain In sweetness o'er his head. . : ; -1 ' i ' But what cares he for winds that sigh, Or flowers1 that bloom in sp'ring? While he, a spirit pure on high, ;. Kedejeming love can sing. ," ' ' ' V I. "T r " As evening shadows castttheir gloom Across his resting place, How shadowless will be im home ! An heir of saving grace. : As one by one the orpans rest, Xo more to figure here ; One thought should soothe the troubled breast, I With Christ they shall appear. Oxford. the farm; A CHAPTEB-OH BT7GS. BY bart! i . i j " ' "' ". ) i - - :- , - t I The potato-bug is a ravenous beast ; the cabbage biig cabbages much forage The lioru .worm, tho? j not exactly a bug, manages to make a beast of J himself by chewing tobacco. He is evident ly green, and on account of his peculiar distinguishing feature may properly be , called a green horn. But of all bugs by far the most disastrous to the fanning in terest of this section j.are the hum bugs.1 -There are ? many varieties of this bug, but want of space for-: bids the mention of more than .two or three. . ,;Iafe insurance is a voracious bug. . For years it has infected our section and tho' thousands of dollars are continual ly consumed it still cries like the horse-leach "give ! give !" The lightning-rod man is i often a bug in disguise ; and those pedlars who hail from over the big water and offer nothing but the best English or French goods are nothing else but Yankee bugs ; a kind of ver min that 'ought to be exterminated. Probably the most deceitful bug of the genus "hum,"is that known to the farming community as "Commercial Fertilizer," and his name is legion. - This bug is scat tered abroad in the land by means of "agents." In a commercial point of view fertilizers are an emi nent success, but considered from an agricultural standpoint many of them have proved most lamen tably failures. . ( - As a general principle I hold that when an agent of any species, sizej or capacity, ' leaves the com forts and delights of hoine in order to extend to an otherwise benight ed community the vast benefits of his special nostrpm, there must be money in it. I do not undertake to say wlio wiU ultimately get the money, vbut unquestionably it is money that makes the - mare go. During the late war the soldiers were harrassed by a small, animal, not exactly a bug, but probably Variety is . OXFORD, "N. C., more aggravating ! than any bug yet discovered. If any unwary citizen lingered in the company of the' soldiers he soon became ac quainted with the aforesaid pedic ulus. I do not . wish" to make an odious comparison but the like often happens when these agents perambulate our agricultural sec tion. The farmer in fancied se curity lies down to - sleep witli his benefactor and rises up in the morning humbugged.- A man naturally feels sold when he has been humbugged and ten to one he will proceed to spread the in fection. Thus is our country laid wraste by the ravages of these bugs. I do not suggest any remedy by which to exterminate the hum bugs as they, will continue to thrive so long.as there is anything green to feed upon. As long as the people enjoy being humbugged it would be an act of cruelty to kill all the bus. DON'T DO IT. There are a great many things that one does not want to do, and there is an editor out in Loga'ils port who is in the habit of men tioning some of them occasionally. The latest bulletin lis hereunto ap pended in the belief that all our readers wrhagiye heed, thereunto will thereby become wiser.: Don't eat sour j grapes. They injure the teeth. ... i Don't split wood under a clothes line. You might cut the rope, a Don't crack iokes with the sex ton. . He prefers J grave conversa tion. ; : :- , i Don't trust a politician. He will go into bankruptcy after the election is over. Don't borrow trouble. Be pa tient and it will come to you in the course of events. Don't lie about your competitor in business. Better lie around your, own establishment. : ; Don't fool with nitro-glycerinfe, or trifle wth an angry woman.-i-Either one will blow you up. Don't grieve over lost opportu nities. Itis not proper for a man to attend his own funeral. I : Don't growl simply because your baggage is smashed. Thank your stars that it was not j your head. .,''!."''.'. ,t Don't clothe your little vices with the garb of innocence. : The garment will prove too thin to shield you from the chilling blast of scorn. : " Smiles. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure ; but, scatter ed along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. A smile accompanied by a kind word has been known to reform a poor out cast, and change the whole career of a human life. Of all life's bless ings, none are cheaper or more easily dispensed than smiles. Let us not, then, be too chary of them but scatter them freely as we go ; for life is too short to be frowned away. -': Philosophy triumphs easily over past:ahd over future evils,' but pre sent evils triumph, over philosophy. the Spice of Life, tfcat Gives it all its TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1874. For the Torch-Light. MEW-SipAL CATELOGUE. j A Cats are very useful and orna mental articles to jhave round,' es pecially if the person is of a, mu sical turn oi mind,j tor, ne can nave "mew-sic" whenever ! he feels dis posed, j only by jbeing , careless enough to put hisj "No. 8" down upon the nether appendage of, his favorite, without jgiving him the least notice Thi kmd of music is placed under! the head i of "galops," (on the part of the cat.) We have heard ox the man who had so j little music in Ids "soul," that hq could noli appreciate this stvle:. lie therefore took his "big yellow' to the. woodpile, and oh ! what a; sad "tale" !did this curtail ed specimen of the race lhave to mate up to ins nocturnal sirienas, who chanced to Hcat-echise" him on the! subject, (a sore one, no doubt, for a long time,) and who had a 'fellow felin-e" for him. j To those liking organ nusic, we would say a very respectable haiid organ can be had m albiost any house hold, only by takpig the cat and holding him under your left arm with his head behind ybu and with your right hand grasp j his tail for a handle md your organ is complete. Turii and the music will certainly com 3. ' We j will I not discuss1 the merits of this; instru ment or the excellence of its music as anyj one can try it for himself . There, is ' still another style, of music which surpasses id its har mony of tone,- any of the pieces named before. We allude to tha sweet song of tho serenaders in the bewitching hdurs of the night, when the full orbed moon lends the charmsi of herj silver beams to render the scene in more fit accor dance I with! the nielodies floating through the midnight air. Who can sleep ! Who can lie uncon scious of all this 1 Is he not' im pelled, in the enthusiasm of , the moment, to showdr upon ithe mu sicians, ; boquets-j-(of bootjacks, boots, blacking poxes, anything that comes to hand) and shout his applause in one j word-rf-l'scat f ' And we have heard of one persoh (he had belonged, to the navy) to be so jfar overcome with excite ment as to fire a salute. . Bui peo ple icill stay up tld late at night listening," oftentimes when they should be asleep. IThere are other relations which: "tabby" 'sustains to the' musical world, especially "smngea , msiruments, dux win not be treated of here. El A Gentle Hint A vouth and maiden were walk ing beneath the blue canopy of the firmament "fretted with gold en fires," and the maiden,! moved by the sublimity of the 1 scene, pointed a taper nnger the lone on which the engagement ring is worn-i-towards the zenith and ex claimed: I "Oh, Adolphus, isn't lg,Thare iz binly two tnen in this world , who nyer male enny blunders, and they are yu and me, mi friend !Men don't fail so often in this worldjfrom. a want dv fright mo- uves, az tney ao irom iacK pi grip. Flavor. EAVHI3 THE TOOTHACHE. I have seen j men who would jump up and down and call every body liars, and abuse their wrives, and swear an oath as large as an old-fashioned out-door oven, sim ply because they had the tooch ache, Watkins is one of those sort of men. lie just gets comfor tably around the stove, with a pa per in one hand and a pan of apples in the other, when whoop ! she goes! It seems as if some one had fired a bullet into, his jaw, and he leaps up and down and kicks out behind and grabs at his lace. "Xow, Watkins, do be patient !" says his wife, as she runs after cot ton and camphor. - lie holds his mouth open and she puts the cotton m, -having soaked it with camphor. He gets a. swrallow of the ' liquid, which goes down the wrong pipe,' and he gives a yell and a snort, and his eyes stick out like the wallet of a back-pay congressman, "Oh! now, Watkins 'doirt be so awful fractious !" she says ' in a soothing voice, looking on the floor for the cotton- "Fractious ?" he yell? you couldn't bear it a second ! It would kill fourteen women in a minute !'' It get3 !a little easier as he holds his face to the stove, and he al most smiles as he remembers the pain of a moment ago. Ho. is conr Adnced that some men would have torn the house right down, and he flatters himself that lie is a very patient man. Mrs, Watkins takes up her knitting again and pro ceeds to naiTpvv the heel, when Watkins gives another sudden yell, "Oh ! hoky ! Oh ! my stars !" he shouts, as he dances around on one foot with his teeth hard shut. 'Samuel you should not take an oath." savs trie wile in a re- proving tone. "Remember that the wicked shall not live out half" "Live the old Satan !" he roars, strikine his ear asrainst the hot stove. "Get a mustard plaster, and a bag of ashes, and some pep permint, and some laudanum r The patient : Mrs. Watkins says mere am t any mustard, or pepper mint, or laudanum, in the house, and that she doesn't believe a bag of ashes would do any good. "Don t you remember my brother WmiamJ?" she asks. "In the fall of '57 he had iust such a time as this, and nothing would" "Shut up !"i roars Watkins, try ing to stun some cotton into the hole in the tooth. "What do I care about your brother Bill !" The smarting or his ear eases the tooth a little, and Watkins begins to hope it is all over.: The pain dies away and a broad grin covers his face. Some men would have routed out the whole neigh - hnrhnnd and had thft flrfVfllarrh sounded, but he hadt;been very patient. . . , "SamueL did Ton see xnax Johnny put the white cow in the rtocrfv -.lrwr TSrl ' hft Monlr Air hi the' "Black devils !' whoops Wat-1 created a "profound f:h kins, as the nerve jumps again. 1 the district where it L "Hang the black cow, and the . : ; ; white lot, and the east ox, and you The world W( too!. Oh, my tooth! I shan't live ; happy if ; persona g . three minutes !" "Oh? now Samuel !" entreats $L50 per Annum iu Advance. ' -v- sosro. 15. Mrs. Watkins, trying ftp, pat him on the back. .- 4i Oh, hang it ! cuss! it J dang !' ' 1 11 1 1 , 1 1 . jic vcus oat-K. i m an o a smner if I doiv t murder soniebodv i About, every third fjiicrlit, Wat 9 kins lias one of these! spells; lie used to send for me' ; until J one night, I suggested that he should go to the dentist, andfthat after the dentist had cut! around the' tooth, and jabbed a rsvre against the"nerve and let his forceps slip oil once or twice, he would worry thejold stub out or brek it oft ly little speech . went right to his heart, and as I slid outdoors! both his boots struck the f)iit gate. Kiehange. ':4 TEAGIC STOY. A strange revelatidi) was. made ;; the other day in the Miami Valley, , Ohio, by a stroke of lightning. The stroke according tojpne of the Ohio papers, , prostrated a splen did grove of oaks. jSinong them was one which was reht asunder from top to bottom ah (lithe J jrag ments falling. apar;J disgorged a gu ant skeleton, yellowt with '. age, which instantly tell p:djpieceSjj and was scatered over sfeyeral feet of surrounding, pasturage. Amor other things with' i -theremaiiis were fpuiid a few buttons' of an cient pattern, and a leather pc1 book in a good state prescrvi The contents of this'jfpocket-bc told the sad and trrVgic ston the disentombed slceldtoii. It ecu tained papers w'hich Pere 4hrown and discolored, and covered with rude pencilings, and scarce' ! ble, but enough could bo'di. ed to show -theylia her ten by a soildier in" the ary army dmsm, fin fact, had been an aid and -co' nnio to General Washington. 1 . r was Roer " Vaiidenbunr, held the rank of .cap participation in the jjL. Valley Forge and initi across the Jerseys, aij brief time at West! knarched with St. GIj: .-uiw the Northwestern: Iiidians. On Noyember 3rd, 176 ;ho - wounded and captured;! ; skins. He subsequenth , escaped, and being liau. by his savage foes toblreiuge iu this oak tree. The hollow offered him a convenient rc eat, an foolishly allowed hir ; 1 r into it. Then, too 1 , that he had ' miscclc depth of the hollow, f.:; . was no escape. He sjtent ' mainmg hours ot ting a diary, the entrje show a terrible record Isufterinsr. and durinr : eleven days he paint)iiy i f his sensations as he1 pel t ' o1rtT'ltr cnr-'triyir '' ' diary, .together witn tin the miserable man. hi. ; hundred and twelve ! laid before the public? : . - . X .P and the affair has m ill time to an intcrcoursl ' sP-
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