Newspapers / The Torchlight (Oxford, N.C.) / April 28, 1874, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Torchlight (Oxford, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
-, s .... ; - - - - :: - - -. . - - m ' - ' : ' . - . ,i ... ..- - ' . . , ' "; . . v - . . , , . . - - . - . - r . ;:: - .:..-.;. '!-.. ;;v-;h-v-:i':--'r--i- v.- t '-M'":. I; : IV-f . ' ;;:.?:.-r:;-. ; . , ' :; i f . - - '-L :. : : - S . ! - 'i;: . ; ! ' i .: I V . ; . " - " .- :, :'-.-. - . - . .- ... : -' ) - . i -. ' , 1 -. 1 .v, WA wmr,,.., y.--.W.j.ti--a..J.'.s; I " ' : t . ;. , J ' . ' . , . .. .."i.1 . ... V - ' . " ."V 11 ! ' 1 ' "' 11 ' " " '" "' ' . ii. ii i i - . , . ,mm . 1 ' -f 1 .. .i i-i I " ' " - ' u r e i i DAVIS &? ROBINSON, Editors and Proprietors yARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE, THAT QfTES IT AT.T. ITS FLAVOR. I1.6Q per Axmam, .tn. Advanoo. OXFORD, GRAKVTLLE COUNTY, N. V 0., r TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1874. NO. 19, "4" 5 t 'r It is sweet to 5c remembered, ; Even "when! life's sky is bright, ; : : It adds new fragrance to the flowers, ", y New radianice to the light, And birds among the leafy branches "thweeter tone ; ? v Hope!a softer jfire it kindleth, . ' To know we are not alone. : r , , . ... i , . ' It is sweet to be. remembered ' " . : "When skies lare dark with gloom, And tried and trusted friendships Are. buried hi the tomb. It makes our hearts grow lighter When faith" isgrowindim, And lifts our spirits heavenward ' r To trust and lean on him. . f ' j" . - It is sweet to be remembered By. lpveci ocjes far away, And the kindly words they said to us ' - Shed a gentle and cheering ray. Oh I are we still remembered, : Say we soft Do they keep y through our tears ; pur memory sacred Through the weary toilsome years? , It is sweet to be remembered V When" the dying hour is near, And the prayers of our beloved Make our faith more pure and clear, And to death's dark shadowy angel -"A lovely smile is given ; AhgPtis blessed to be remembered - v -By that better friend in Heaven. 1 : ! . Tte Sest Sewing Machine. "h-J: ' BY( M. QUAD. : r There was Hubbard. He drove np to the dpor, unloaded a sew iiig machine, and said if we want ed a machine which would do all ; kinds of- work, run easily, hem, tuck, ruffle, gather, braid and be a thing of joy forever : and forty ctays - more, iwre snouldn t tail to me "Ji Slinger." I bought: it; aid when, after a week - he wanted a certificate, I cheer- ' i "; fullv wrote one : ' ""This' is to certify that I have had a 'lightning Slinger" in my house for some time past, and I wouldn't be without it for twice its cost. It hadn't been in my house1 half a jday before my son re- coverea irom tne wnoopmg-couGjn, and my wife found a ten dollar bill on tho sidewalk. I think it the -hetjmafehine never inadev I can'tbeartd1 do to bed and leave it.?'"' f i fi luHe saidhe was ever bo many - times obliged, .and he hadn't got out of sight before Kilrov drove up with the ''Thunder & Blazes" ma chine, lie began to snuff at the other machine ; said we'd been terribly humbugged, and that his , machine was the only first-class machine in the market, r 2 My wife began to cry," and he soothed her: ; by offering to trade bis machine jforithe bther which he could sell for old iron, and $30 td boot. t Vf& made the trade. He said the -''Tnunder. ; & Blazes" would inake any kind of : a stitch "gew any .kind of 'frabric, and out ran " anything ;but ar locomotive. He came around the next week, witli & certificate :i all written out, ahdTsieit.i;ai ? " tfTbisvia tot :eriify,.thatl have gained ; teri punas of flesh per day since i purchasirig ;ur machine, aiid thatTimiwife hadn't run it balf a hourwhe'n" her - uiiclQ "died . and left hertwo: hundred thousand dollars. "; Not one of the children has had a cold since the day the f'Thunder feBlazes" came through V the ,i gate. ' jjlaya.: easily; : te -strings are not liable to snap, the stops are 'easy to manage'; -and it , is fbo only, machine in the world - that can be operated by a red-head-ed wdman:'witli a cork leg. I can ; Btayiput unti cleyen o'clock every -night now, and my wife hasn't a "word to say.:! formerly, she. used ...up iour roiiing-pins, costing two shillings each, per week." .. : . ThenllcManus came,I told him ; that wevhad the best machine in market, and he asked to look at it. He hadn t fairly jgptjiis eyes on the "Thunder & Blazes" before , he commenced to laugh. :T . "Ho-ho-ho V' he shouted as he dropped on" Tachair-'it will kill me did you ever--oh t ho-ho !" I sternly asked the cause ot his hilarity, and he replied that Kilfoy had swindled us taken us in f cheated us stone blind. The "Thunder & Blazes" wasn't worth a cent, he said was an old ma chine invented by a blind man and patentedby a fool. . ' My wtie began to weep. "But," said . McManus- "that were his machine, f the "Chaned Earthquake?' 1 It w'ai the machine. and all other machines were base imitations. We misrht irv it. and if wre didn't like it he .would, cut his throat with . a bricksaw. "We tried it, and wrhen he came with his certificate, I signed it: Vims is to certity mat your sew ing machine has saved me ten per cent in fuel and twenty per cent in hay and corn since we purchas ed if. I licked an alderman, pull ed a schoolmaster's nose and kick ed a member of the legislature the second day after we got the ma chine, and we hadn't owned it a week when I found where I could get trusted for meat; and wood, and : discovered a flour shed un locked. It will sew anything, from a leg of mutton to a KewT Hampshire mountain. There hasn't been a cloudy day, since the ma chain e first started, and the moon now rises two hours' earlier' and lasts all night. Ino one should be without it." ; 1 L i : He tooK the certmcate witn a triumphant smile, and - .. ; But I must leave off here. Farns- worth has just called with "The Five-Jeweled Duplex High Low" machine the only leading ma chine in market, and he is telling my wife how we got swindled by McManus. r ' MaMng People Happy. ' A poetical writer has said that some men move through life as a band of music moves down . the street, flinging out pleasure - on every side through the air to eve ry one, far and e near that can lis ten. : Some men fill the air with their strength and sweetness, as the orchards in October days fill the air -with ripe fruit. Some women cling to their own houses like the - honeysuckle.; Over the door, yet like it; fill all the region with the subtle fragrance of their goodness. How great a bounty and a blessing is it so to hold the royal gifts of the soul that they shall be music to some, fragrance to others, and life to all! It would be no unworthy thing to live for, to make t he power which we have within us the breath ot other men's ioy ; to fill .the atmosphere which they must stand in with a bright ness which they cannot create tor themselves.. . ,;. , . . .; : , " ."William," said one Qua ker to another, "thee, knows I nev er call anybody names, but, Wil liam, if the Governor ot the btate sh o uld come to me and say "Joshua, 1 want thee to hnd - me the bisrsrest liar in the State v of !New "York, I would come to thee and say, ' '"William the Grovernor . jf . - - - The following is the copy of a bill posted on the 'walls ot a country villa re: . "A lecture on total abstinence -will be delivered in tho open air, and a collection taken at the door to defray expeh- 6es JC The time returns; when our - young men will lean over gates on moonlight ' nights; and adinire one l particular flower. Light, from k philosophical point of : view,' is believed to .be caused, by the vibrations or undulations of a 'fluid, supposed to i occupy all space; ..These vibrations come ; to justi as the', vibrations 6f 1 sound reach the ear from a sounding body ana enect tne optianerye, proauc mg the' sensation wb call light. . Light was instituted; in that issuing m ot the umverse,! when "Confusion heard lus'voice and wild up- i ;:roar stood rul'd;" ' r and has tor its primary source the sun, the most ! powerful : source of light , and the centre of the uni verse. " ,; 'iyii'.i''.. : ' There are many interesting facts about sun-light, perhaps' the most common "ot wfiich that each beam is composed ofeight primary colors, which can be sep- aratea oy means oi a prism, ana color ; owes its 1 existence to light, fdiflefent substances heing so con- stitutea as to renect one or more of theseprimary. colors, producing the various ; shades. .There, are numerous artificial lights; the most powerful of which is. produced by fixing a piece of charcoal between the opposite poles of a galvanic bat tery. There, is also a metal called magnesium J which being burned makes a ' most ( brilliant light,' in fact so . bright' that " it is used in taking pictures at night But ot what beneht would this miracle of light be to man were it not : for the eye,' . the most delicate and only organ of the human sys tem, affected by . light ? iAnd of wnat use wouia tne eye oe with out it Without light this world buld be to its: ' inhabitants as an unknown shore to exiles abandon ed to it after their eyes were put out.: Their perception would be limited to the length of their arms ana every step wouia-Dnng tnem in imminent pern.oi tneir aestruc- tion. -. ' - r ; : ' '!:-:'- - How thankful 1 we should be to God for his wise.- distribution of light; arid for .the - Organs to ehioy the! effects of that light. ' i - J ; " : Light is often employed in a figurative sense. The. bible says, "ljet , your ngnt so snme ueiqre men, that they liiav see your good .works; j and glorify yourrFather far from me to hold the place of an idle flatterer, but will only say that this ' is what the editors of the Tokch-Light are . doing arid may they continue. .. - ... . r Xiigm is again ngurauveiy em ployed in its grandest and most beautiful sense, "I am the Light of the world, . he that followeth .Me shall " not . walk in "darkness but shall have the light of life." E; : I ".' t Sie WllT'Come. -j ! .... ' A vouher ladv of Hollv Sbrinsrs. Aliss, has been residing for some months in Z Boston.; and indites therefrom to" the. ; Memphis Ava- uxnene a gossipy, winy, numorous, epistle, .paragraph : L. .'.: I thought of you as Lhad ; known you. n In your homespun dress ;or your plain black robes ; your eyes shining with faith arid hopef your steady white hands'; hmding ; rag ged wounds, or pointing the way to - heaven , to. dying eye3 ; your toil, your suffering, your4 courage in thbse stera, 6ombre days when our ; beautiful country" stood all bleeding desolate and despairmg. My' eyes grew dim.; 'Dressed ; u dolla IQuarfel . then; tKang biecause their snowy wings were fair;; But" oh, Southern wpmen ! when will ona among vou arise I with head enough to do justice to your hearts?;' . J ' Advertise in this paper. DON'T BE A TALSSB. One-half of the mischief in the world is done from talking,' and one-half, the difficulty we get into, as we go along through life, is the result of our saying, what we might as well ; not have said. t here is much wisdom in the old maiim: "Keep your mouth shut and; your eyes open; there is, rely. upon it , ; . I y-W.iu v: 'v. :: I! do not know, , anybody, in my situation or profession in : life, to whom this advice is not applicable. It is sometimes said r that lawyers make their living by talking; that is their trade, and so on ; but fact is, the lawyers are as apt to talk too much as anybody, and to sutler as much by it. : To spin but! a long argument - they neces sarily fall in the habit ot dealing more in fancy than in. facts,; say ing things about parties and wit nesses that do no good and much harm, and j their reputation for candor, will generally diminish in thejsame proportion as that of lo quacity increases. To hear some mep'at the bar, you would 1 sup posethat if they were held bv the feet, the words would run out -of their mouths by mere force of gravity for; -a week at a time, without troubling then" brains ; at all.' - . ' Our legislators talk 1 too much ; and nine-tenths of all the speech making .- in Congress and , the islature is the sounding brass . tinklihg cynibar of vanity egotism 1 our really sensi and, and' ble, meii, such as Benjamin Frank lin) and Roger Sherman, never got up unless they had something to ( say, and always sat ' down as soon as they1 had said it. : i Our politicians talk too much It jis really j refreshing, and un common as it is refreshing, to he'ir a sepsible mail talk ' sensible oil! his subject for fifteen minutes. But 11 one listens to the street rant of i the day, -the whole science seems to be twisted into a Chinese piikzle, that nobody can find the beginning nor end ot. pome young people have a mo tion that they can talk each other into matrimony. It is a mistake ; in sucn a aencate matter as ; tins, the tongue had better, be content edjwith playing a subordinate part. The eye can tell a better story, the language of actions will make a better impression, the love that grows up in snent sunsmne ; wnicn copgenial hearts reflect upon each other is the healthiest and most endearing. The manner will al ways sink' -deeper than the ' lan- guage 01 auecuuu. ajui 11110 ia a matter m which people are so bent upon managing . tneir own way that I doubt whether my advice will be worth the ink and paper. 1. - iJS1 An; editor who speaks with the' air of-a man who has discover ed a new fact by experience, says the newi way to prevent bleeding at the nose; is to keep your nose :--.-.-. - ? Speaking of newspaper se lections, a cotemporary very truly remarks that it taKCs t quite as much brains to run a good pair oi scissors as it does a pen. 1 J ST An Irish paper , .says that "In the absence ot both editors, the publishers; have succeeded in securing the services of a gentle- njan to edit the paper this week. 1 "Among all my boys, said an old man, "I never bad but one boy who. took after, me, and mat - was my son Aaron, who took after me with a club." '; "When an Oxford gallant ia reiusea permission to escort a lady home, he asks perinissioh to ! sit on the icnco and see her go bv. THE FARM. TOBACCO. BY i ' BART. The subject matter of' this dis course was suggested to the writer by a slight incident, illustrative of the vast importance of the tobacco crop. When I was attending court last week, I observed a col ored politician in earnest couver-sation-with a fellow; citizeh; He was emphasizing ; his remarks . by expressive gestures pt that hand in which he held his cigar.v K"6wr there is seldom "as much in the matter-as in the manner of doing genteel thing. The manner in which ourhero held his cigar ; was peculiar. It was held -hetween the thumb and fore finger of the left harid with' the 'fireless eiid pointed towards his companion,. exemplying in a stnkmg manner the truth of that trite description,' "i ire at one end and a tool at the other." r-The fool in this instance being not the smoker but the poor deluded wretch who was so pa tiently listening to ' his eloquent remarKS.; xemg a . laimer x am naturally, proud of any thing that emanates from the farm, and, you can't imagine how vain it made me to think that this identical Cigar w'as made of tobacco, and tobacco is a j)roduct of the farm ! . Some thoughtless people are au dieted to speakuig lightly of tobac co but to us farmers it is no jokin matter! ' "We make tobacco to gv money to buy our meat and bro and a total tailure in the tob crop would produce a famine succession ot . iaimres tor years might reduce us to tl cessity of raising our eato home, a condition of aftaira1 our people look upon with a i rence; ror then we. wouk' accuniulate vast sums of like our Northern brc. should be always in c further expansion of the c The first lover, that r himself to the : tobacco pi the hornworm and he is pei the most sensible of all the - sumers of the weed. He . ta ! it when it is r young and tend ; and it is probably more digests .' i in that state than afterward. some , . people .; tobacco mat i luxury but to the hornworm the farmer it is an article of prii. necessity since from it .they dor a subsistence The tormer i the staple in a crude state the farmer exchanges it for and bacon which he imagines Ui. v, more palatable: Doubtless however it is only , a matter of taste. When I see a youngster with r ci gar or. pipe in ' his mouth, 1 1, f e c convinced I have stumbled on on of those fellows who is to trial:? mark in atter life; ; In all hum. probability he will bear upon hi face the unmistakable . mark tl distinguishes the average c chewer. His lips andU " will be dyed that beautifi known as dirty brown v,r breath will emit an odor-i. of roses nor "any other Frcnc fume but reminding us rat the American oderiferous .s! There is one misfortune, hov. c . that must ' befall him. . In select ing a wife it is- next to impossible for him to find a companion cana ble off appreciating the qualities inherent to "the'eonsumers of to-. bacco, as ladies have peculiar ideas in regard to decency of person, and in selecting perfumes they hardly ever choose anything stronger than musk.- He. must turn his eyes to that class of ladies who may bo properly called the special patrons or guardian angels of tobacco. I allude to the dippers" 'of snuff, to whom Ave arc indebted for much I of our fame abroad, inasmuch as a celebrated brand of snuffbears tho prod title of "Carolina Belle." The Carplina belles will one day be iamortali2ecl in marble as more poliibed and : chaste goddesses thaiiif their rudo predecessors, those Inbjfin lassies in" short dresses, whee wooden images adorn the statins in tront of tobacco stores in thefcities. 'O woman, thou art eveifbewitching with tby match less harms. xTnou iwert lovely everjbefore they ever taught theo the jrt oil dippiug snuff; but now to rMrikind. thou art invincible. J3eforetime . thou; could'st bring laugtiter to his lips or tears to his eyes-smiles to his. brow or cole to hi Icheeks ; but then thou di c! not Sdeddle with his nose; JI brgajy was. untouched save by ho rosy iiger of wine s; but 1 - if ho approaches too near t r i 3 easi ly bought to Iu3f . Speak- ing 6f the smell oco, allow remark that mejentle rer' as I tjm posse nerval an dai, whafehoice a prefdSwhen halelHie odor i fioattnits i " . dmid olfactory . quently some t my smelling, I i necessary; to ih . -11, to take it as it liuil elements; And this say wit; Al possible respect to th6fe who pr l for to take it second hanaU" " . :- ' U ; it'1 hi t cout yew nasty puppy ! Let ii)ne, or 1 11 1 tell your . ma V ..Diiat aoout ten ieet irom ner jfe dirt from the chimney mi .ill. Iljfn't touchin' on you Sal, re- iiOKd Jake you dont mean I r cary ! you -jawed, 8lab angled owl, rrot a bit . o' .Veil lone: homo with you. Hr, S2ol T Iat'a ttti oun nnn't kJCli, J. LJ j JUUj tiiiVA VWi V . ana it you aon't let .me rtay afjid court; yon my pap will cue yciar'ii for that cow he sold mm ttner aay. jay jingo, ne saia lio'djn it. V1 j-. :;-? r''''-' . Wwll, look here, Jake 'if you v.-ant Jto court me you'd better do it as dhvhito" man, does that thing, i:nd iiot - set orf thar as if ,you tlion'git I was pizin.' . . ald oh airth is that Sal?' ! y 'YiHty ride right up here,' and ;.: g ajid kiss me, as if - you 'had 1 oiiie jif the bone and sinner;, of a nan Jjbout you. Ho you suppose vroran's opley made to look at Vcu'lol you.?' ' .' ' " ,; ""- : Trcl 1 eaid Jake drawing a . i g leath; 'if I must, I spose, I inr. -f, for.J love" you Sal! hand d JrSo commenced; sidling. up to ' r. Ifcaying his arm gracefully -gal's shoulder, and plsLcing , . , Jf in a theatiical ; attitude, thought we, heard Sai exclaim . i-cct Eilycry notes like those .. ffcing swan: "att's the way to do it old nat s it's it.' 'Oh I Jerosalenx m cakes ' said Jake draw- ' Iks back of his hand across 'fflrcrhcat cakes, slap-jacks and Ram t no whar. loner side o ! . Here their lips came ro;:ort that fol- pulling a horse's r hcoi ' .f 11, peril 4r i r J"
The Torchlight (Oxford, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 28, 1874, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75