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M '---..--- , 1 ' " i ' ii ' '' . - -'I . , , " . . - ' - " N , . I -:; ' . v ' . - ! '.- ' ' : ' . : - V-'.': . V-1 : V : ' ; " '"tW" :w-.P ' - a " . . - ' ' i ' ' ' " "T'i--- :.. ; - - '- .. -:-,- .- ; , . i - . .-. t . ...... - ...... . . ... .! i i . . , t . ? ?- DAVIS & ROBINSON, Editors and Proprietors. VARIETY. IS THE SPICE OF.UFE, THAT. GIVES IT ALL ITS FLAVOR. TERMS4-$1.50 per Annum, in Advance. "VOL. 2, t f . ..... There's lo such Thhg as eath. . nn i 1 j 1 1 j . I IlrrH M 1111 HIJI.II U 11 II as I1KM.III. : To those who think aright : . Tis but the racer casting off nai mos nnpeaes ms ngui ; 'Tis but one little act Life's drama must contain ; ; One stmrrcrle keener than the rest, a nri tiit ni rnn nr Tin n. "TJierc's no such tiling as (U-ath; i nat v. i.iieu 1.-S nius iu!s:uiijii Is life escaping from the chatns That have ?o lon enthralled ; 'Tis a once hidden star, y Piercing through the night, To shine in gentle radiance forth Amma us Kinarea ngnt. : . . ... ., . l nere s no sucn ining as ueam j . In nature, nothing dies ! ' From each sad remnant of decay ! The faded leaf that falls, . All sere and brown to earth, Ere long will 'mingle with the shapes That give the floweret birth. . "There's no such thing as death 'Tis but the blossom spray, Sinking before the coming fruit, . That seeks the summer's ray ; - 'Tis but the bud displaced, 'Tis faith exchanged for siht, And weariness for power. A Ea:e fsr Brlds. Love lauglits at bolts and bars, and yet at the same time, there is "many a slip! between the cup and the lip." The following true story pungently ijlustraes both of the above truisms, it nappenea in ah adjoinin youth fell n rural belle. county. A comely adly iu lova with a She smiled upon his suit and doubtless sighed upon hi wnisooat. Thev resolved to becorne "twain of one flesh," but the stern 'father of the would-be i : .ii .1 i i. .1 uriue was ueau against. 11, uuu liercely forbade the bans. But "love laughs at bolts and bars," amid the friendly darkness of a moon let IHiilll, IIL'U IU it neiurh- bor s, and jout dawn the next mio imormnir suqceeaeu it in procuring tne services of a parson. All ; thin cs werd made readv to tie d the hopes of the igh with the joys of a the knot, ai lovers beat 1 sneedv fruition. But nirlit here the parson manifested some doubts as to the propriety of the proceed ing, and insisted on sending -for the cruel parent and getting his consent before proceeding witli the ceremony. : - . j " ' After much arguing, . and his promising to intercede with the girl's lather,! and convincing that success would certainly crown his appeals in tiieir behalf, they-filial- ly cou-iented, and, the irascible old gent was j sent tor. . ' : j Here comes in the other truism : i4Theres niahv a slip between the In due season j I cup and the lip and witnm the hour lor the jnes-1 senger to return with the cruel parent, a nerce clatter ot hoots was heard down the lane, and a voice wildly shouting: "I won't consent, I solemnly forbid them bans," struck consternation and terror into the hearts of the wrould-i be bride and groom. ! The groom ran to the door, and looking dow n the lane, saw at its jthe infuriated father father end coming like the wind, under whip and spur, hat in liaud, his white hair wildly streaming, and shout-' with every breath, "! won't con sent," etc. "J "With'the promptness oa vete ran, the lover siezed his intended bride, and mounted his steed in hot haste, bore her off in an oppo i site direction at a furious speed.! The father, with the vigor of de spair, plunged his spurs deeper into his foaming horse, and gave . hot persuit, followed by the par fan and the assembled guest, all mounted, and taking a lively in terest in the sequel . of the race. Down the road over hills, through the mists of valleys, into a forests vocal ,with songs of the morning, they held their wild career. But the steed that bore the lovers grad ually slackened his pace under the! double burderiand the avene- mm parent steadily gained on ' n i the n. Finallv. he overtook the f flvih pair, and reaching forth,' sua tched his daughter from her lovers grasp, wheeled his panting steed, and bore her rapidly to wards home. ' The lover, maddened, but not despairing, gave chase ; 'andJback: over the same road, cheered by the shouts of the excited party,' rushed the father, daughter and lover. The young man soon de voured the distance betwhen him and his intended bride, and with! a grasp of iron tore her from the: perentai arms and a sayed to bear her. off in triumph. But the old man, brave to the last, renewed his 'strength and speed, and again seized his daughter, and a furi ous struggle tpr possession ensued. But the party of friends and the parson put an end to , the struggle by giving the girl to her father andj advisiug the young man to wait for a more propitious occas ion,!! j Thus ended, but hot finally, we feel assured, one of the most exci ting races lor a bride known to either truth or lifiction. Jackson (Teiin.)Whig. . f I . Josh Billing: Under Oath. ! Josh Billings, being duly sworn testifies as follows: Eisrht won't cm into six and have much ov anvthiug left over, Menny a i yung 'fellow haz found out this sym in arithmeticks by trieing to get a number eight foot into a number six boot. M ! , - Virtue,' in . no respekt is like mu uh v. That which we hav to work the hardest for, stiks tew us the best. ' . , .. I i hav often heard their waz men who neu more than they kood tell I but I never met one. I hav often met those who kood tell a grate dele more th.au they did kr.o, and waz willing to sware to it besides. " .', '" TO . be proof agin flattery, a man must hav no vanity; and never existed ; if he did, he iz one ov the lost arts. ' r Uope haz made a grate manny blunders. There iz one thing about hei-that I alwiis did like she means well. . Sum people are good simply be cause they are tew lazy tew be wicked, and others, because they han't got a good chance. There is one thing that I am not only certain, but. proud ov thare iz more people in this world who j hav. changed troin. bad to good, than good to bad.. In I mutiny, interest follows the principal ; in morals, principal of ten phollows the interest. You will notis one thing- the devil seldum offers tew go into partnership - with - a bizzy man , but will ofteu see him oiler tew hue ! the lazv man, and furnish all the kr Patrick Henry left in his will : the . following important passage : "I have now" disposed of all my property, to my family. If there is one thing 'more I wish I could give them, and that i3 Chris tian religion. If they had that and I had not . given them one shilling, they would be rich ; and if they had not that, ' and I and I given them all the world, they would be poor." --v v : -!J Did you ever see a fly on the wall, L " : . OXFORD, GRANVILLE COUNTY, N. C, Lcaelj to UigU, Love. ; . ; :. Husband, traveling. Scene 1. Room in r the -hotel. Spittoons full of cigar stumps. Bourbon whiskey. All hands equipped for a night's spree. Husband in a hurry to be off, writing home. ; Dearest Susie; My time is so 1 occupied with business that I can hardly spare a moment ! to write to you. , Oh, darling, how I miss you and the only -thing that sus tains me during my absence is the thought that every, moment thus spent is for the benefit of my dear wife and children. Take; good "Care of yourselves, my dear wife and children. Feed the baby on one cow's milk," Excuse haste, etc. Wife', at home. -Scene 2. Parlor. I j All the gas lit. Thirteen grass widows; I? red from around the corner, with his violin on his arm; Jim from across the way, with banjo ; Jack from above, with his flute ; lots of other ' fellows, with. their instruments.' and singing, sideboard Dancinsr covered with nuts, fruit,- cake, cream, wine whiskey and so forth. Wife in a hurry to dance, writing to hus band: Dear Hubby: how lonesome I feel in your absence. The hours pass tediously. Nobody calls on me, and. Lam constantly thinking of the time when you will be at home, and your cheerful ! counte nance light up the routine of every day life.' My household duties keep me constantly employed, I am economical as possibly -.knowing: that vour small income will not admit of frivolous expense. But, now, dear, I will say good bye or I will be too late for the mo n thy concert of prayer. In haste, yours, etc. : i Pacts for Farmers. If you invest money in tools and leave them exposed : to the weather, it is the same asdending money to the splendthrifta dead loss in both cases, j If you invest money in books, and never read them, jit is the same as putting your' money in bank, but never drawing .either principal or interest. j If you invest money in flue stock, and do not feed and protect, and properly care for them, it is the same as dressing your wife in silk to do kitchen work. j h I If you invest your money in a good farm, and do not! cultivate it well, it. is the same as. marry ing a good wife and so abusing and enslaving her as to crush her energies and break her heart. i If you invest your : money in every new wronder, that flaming circulars proclaim, it is the same as buying tickets, " at a lottery office, where there ten blanks to oue prize. ' U ! ; Local- Enterprise. Some people cannot fathom the eaninsr of , the termt I "Local Jn terpr ise , . and some may un derstand it but are too selfish to countenance anything that may savor of such a thing. . A live and public spirited citizen will always do that which will beautify his town , and be willing, ; without crumbling, to pay his share of the expense. He will keep his capi tal at home, patronize home insti tutions, encourage the merchant of his town with his individual as well as his ; famayrpHiage,: al ways, get his work done in his own town if it be candone,and subcribe and otherwise 'support his home newspaper. ?, If a town "does not improve when its citizens carry out these ideas, we should like to hear of it.- Statesville Landmark. . - . . ,' ; JT. Pay what thou owest TUESDAY MORNING, '.Ccafimed in Ser.Eatits. . ' . A! gentleman of excellept habits and j very aimable disposition, was so fortunate as to have a wife of a very ' different . character ; - in short, one that .would get beastly druifk. Jeing in company with a few intimates, one of them re marked to him, that if she were his. wife- since al! other things had failed he would - frighten her some way so that . she would i ii - 1 1 1 '5 quit ;ners evil naoits ; and i propos ed j the following . method; that some time when druhk, she should be laid in a box: shaped like a cofiah and left in that '; situation until her fit should be over and consciousness restored, ' 'Z ? ' I A few evenings after, the dame being in a proper state, ' the plot was' put into execution ; and after the Ijox lid'as properly secured, the party before alluded to watch ed, each in i turn, to witness the result. About daylight next morn ing, j:he watch heard a movement, laid himself down , by the box, when her ladyship, after bumping her head a few, times was heard to say ; "Bless me ! why, where ami? Tlie outsider replied in a supulchral tone: ."Madame, you are dead and in another world !" ' A pause ensued j after which the lady" again inquired: j "yhere are you ?" ; f "Oh ! I am dead, too," said he. . "Can you tell me how long Pve been dead . . 1 "About three weeks." I "How long ' have you been deadj?" j :;V' ."Fpur months." , : ;i I . "Well, you have been here so mucli longer than I; have, can't you tjell me where L ean get a lit tle gm?" j;; I.. ; " nm-m - i "Is jCTi a Prisai of do'-Cnllad-Han V Here's yoir nice roast chick en," icned an aged colored man as tho! cars stopped' at a North Carolina railway station. . "Here's your nice roast chick'n 'n takers, all v nice an' hot," hold ing up his plate and walking the platform. ; i . -, I "Where! did you get that chick en, uncle ?" asked a passenger. ; Uiicle looked at the intruder sharply and then turned away, crying: 'v "Here's your nice roast chick'n gentf m'u, all hot; needn't go in de house for dat." ; - : t :; u Where j did you get that chick en ?" : repeated the : inqusitive passqnger. : v - ' J "Look-a-yer," says uncle speak ing privately, " is you . from de Norf; ; l . r--. -' :' ; "Yes." J ' ' - Is you -a I fr.end ob de cullud man?" ' -:: r:; ; ' "I hope I am." 1 t ' " pen don't nebber ask me whar I got that chick'n agin. ! Here's yer nice roast chick'n all hot ! The train started. - The Havoc Dogs Cozmitt. : - .. writer in the New Haven Press rna.kes some startling asser tions about the deprecations of dogs among the sheep. From 1858 to lS6l, he says, 10,600 were slaugh tered by dogs in the state, 1 and New Havdn countyKas been al most depopulated. Oncc, he says, lambs were plenty in the . market at ten-cents a pounds but now enough for the demand can not be procured within a radius of many miles. - And hundreds of acres are going to waste Jthat might be devoted to the pasturage of sheep, if itj were iot for the dogs. - ; ' -I' &4I say, Pat, are you asleep?' 'Not a sleep. Then be afterlendin' me ia quarther," rm asleep be jabersr- ; . , : JULY 17, 18T41 .Ths.Editcr. BY POLLYlPEPPES. ' Dear Torch i-i-l can't irriaglne anything next to the satisfaction which a woman experiences when she gets a big wash on the line, than a jaded editor's feelings on Saturday night wath his week s work done, his liarids paid off, and ten cents left in his pocket-book. The former. empties her tubs and turns them up to dry ;j then seat ing herself in view of the clothes line, she shakes I out her apron, folds her arms and says "0, dear!" The latter tips back in his chair, throws his feet on the railing; of the porch, and looks down on the pretty.maidens promenading ihe streets. Perhaps he falls into a pleasant reverie on tjjhei old home stead and the tender hearts whic he knows are beating so warmly for him, beneath its. sacred roof. Perhaps he has a vision of her, if he is a bachelor that is to be- some "pretty cousin" with 'dimmed arms and rosy ceeks, neat in ap pearance and modest in address wjth a little head full of sense and a big heart of love, of a soul that fells of a religious devotion through a bright and honest eye. Perhaps he meditates on the unequality noticeable among men how little the editor gets ibr his Ceaseless round ot perplexing toil, while Presidents wave their hands and the wealth of nations fall at their feet. --: ' :-: I - -(' - :. ; Perhaps he falls, asleep and dreams of a time when the arms of a ! happy home shall : embrace him ; when he shall eat four inch strawberries of his own raising, swimming in cream from his own cowi He rests wrellfrorrjLhis labors. He resumes work ! with a better heart and a more vigorous will, feeling that after all ,an editor's life is not an unmixed e1 vil. ' ; Ths' Smallest Steam Engine in the World. An ' ingenious , Worchester (Mass) mechanic, D. AT A. Buck, by name, has constructed a com plete little steam engine of the following extraordinary! lillipution dimensions: '- The Engine Boiler, Governor and pumps! . stand in a space 7-16ths of an inch square j or the area of 'a silver three cent piece, and 5-8ths of an pch- high containing 148 distinct parts, most ly of Gold and silver,' fasteued to gether with 52 screws, the largest of which is l-SOthof an 'inch, and the smallest about l-100th of an inch in size. All the bearings are supplied with regularly; turned oil cups. - The boiler is supplied with a safety valve. ( There ! are all th Yalves, Gearing, &c., to be! found upon ari ordinary 'Horizontal Eh gine, Boiler, Governor and pumps, and al 1 work " admirably. . Three drops of water fill the boiler to its propper capacity. Thjc Engine alone r weighs but 15 grains; the whole together, including base, but 2 dwt. 18 grains, - Troy weight. Diameter of Cylinder lfl6th inch, Length; of Stroke, 3-32.) - l,The blaclc flies collected on the track of an eastern rail road in such numbers, the" other day, that they stopped a train of cars, actr ing like grease, and sand had to applied before the j cars could go on. The "; Columbus Enquirer says: i We are going f quit the newspaper business ; it doesn't pay; to run a r1 paper : in r town where business men read almanacs, and pick their teeth with, the tail of a hernngr f -J r: : CyA Frenchman 'claims to have produced a chemical sugar at a cost of half a cent -a pound. Cheap enough! -!' ' NO. 7.. Bo to Binlnish Tasos.. awaV from cross road enx ceries; work yourself; 6tav with yburf hired hands ; liand out all mdnutes j attend to your tock; and stop the! little leaks. f Have a place' for everything, and . keep eVertfiing in its placed , This will stop liea vy tax; in Iho; shape of expenditures for gear, plows, hoes, axes, ; etc., and will save at leaii ten days ice the year, lo3t by nun-ting-;up misplaced articles Do everything m season.. Watch the markets, aud sell whn the be?t prieies prevail, and in oilier to (jo this take a good paper. ' Study if and : Watch therop reports. ;; Dc not deceived by the plausi? shoeing of speculators. M farmer has ' lost two-third - profi by heeding the r sharrj fellows who li wits; VDo not invest italM'n land. This ; the heavies tax. pr offers-State. ; - -Try and ma ready "tnoney er through the .y froni tent, tr - z to nave " - L J jvu will cave cent, on tax A-.' and have purca a lar; ca. th V ...1 erualcd to your live thousand dol n I five thousand in A r than fifteen i : I ih land alone. to buy implements :i c3, to pay for labor and :, and to enable you 'to pro duce for the best pri-; doinr this, taxes, will Ve fully three-fourths, I' d like aprosperious . ; . ! rill be sure to bo a . TZ ; i nig- uu me, rum . sure 10 ioi etting An. debtto'carry bnl th f. ' 4k asln' frerhfc fi r i'o.xv vpnra nnrn ra. -' - - - - - w , , j w MV V ' f 1 1 1 as his experience that he '1 n m can ;ov nuy more tnan no ever bou..'it before, and sell more. vLo having' been" saving f iitee the dn. va nf tho first: mr r . - V fc w V on, have become the rich- ion in tho world, which ii tne tact that the Ger- -unity.' ofta thousand il.in v.;hich they were ha v. - w j vuioj nuuc V J struggling for eight rvice as mucn. jer- . caun oi tne i rencn. 5 as much from: tho i -y. tem .and the high 1 tt-i'V (T1VA thn1 cnil- , i. uiucrence Detween i loosevay andnav- i r t - - ." ... i f. ini n c, ne in the best '7: " 9 . -' . -re' T7Iti a 2::f. ' CU lad j cntly.by a, jiily, vrho, i lii in thrt m g. . . . t: a rob I j ' Hej; saw tL - x and flre : procured a . out tp;see the post stau ding b;v 'peppered," the'eow i put but, three chick :en cc gobbler were killed ioutri I TV. . several . oth ers ,wou n de d , coflee-ot which 'was sit :nrr c. the ;:pat; ) was ruined. So ft oh irc.rw a-:. -: I Have nothing to do witl: a'mauin a passion, for man r.r uuu iiitj iron, to no wiwhf t--- when hot. lit U i
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