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THE TOnCH-LICUT, W. A. DAVIS, yu TUESDAY,. ..AUG. 11, 1874. EDITOUIAL SPLITTERS. A f ro was seen to swallow a chicken In Charlotte. ! Washerwoman's motto-4 while there's life theru 's o-ip.-' Rab'igh has a light infantry company of seventj'-live men. The prospects for a good cotton crop on Flat River are encouraging. " '; j TouV Collins' has arrived in OxfordJ He can be Sien at 3Iitcljells drug store. 'Watermelons still continue to 'roll in rapidly, bearing juiciness and colics on their emerald crests. Precocious xeaches of diminutive pro portions and shrivellj' exteriors have put in an appearance. ! Most of the railroad depots are infested by shrewd thieves. Strangers, beware I and heedless citizens, have a care ! I ; J We would be happy if we could only I get a peep at the man who run a news- paper tluit pleaded everyljody. A true picture of despair is a jig reach ing through a hole in the fence to get a j cabbage (an early York) that lies a few j inches beyond his reach. This is a free country. Folks that jdon't like us have a perfect right to liate ius. As for us we hke everybody gener ally and the ladies particularly. I The dissatisfied folks that found so much fault with Winter lingering in'the lap of Spring, .would Ik delighted to see Autumn rushing into the anus of Sum mer!" -. ' - . To become famous now, one must pur loin babies, discover a comet, or'ship a coach-and-four to the seaside: Thus is hie ever becomina burden harder to be borne. . j There is certainly a man of feeliugfin Solrr.a, Ala. lie has six fingers on one band and seven on " the other. lie can brag of fifteen f jclrs, counting his thumbs. HeLacaii(ii!ate for Congress. wA lively contest was had in theCoiigressionul. district embracing Richmond, AVa.y be-ex-Gov. W alker and J. II Guy ; both these gentlqmen being'ean diJates, for Congress. WaiW was ' nominated. ' X XST Won't . somebody hold ; jvhile we read the following frci.i ix Missouri editor whom some has- evidoutly aroused from u lethargy of years. Says tL" t V led quill-driver: y' "Give us back the puli Jays hi the inquisition, or the tc fires of witchcraft' lifting -their l?ck columns to .the sky, hvX j the low principle "of : jinight ingjn embryo the fec'ings of a highwayman, like the nutria yeast of death that -often spreads throughout the vsician'e frame and reduces it to a K-nhsr skeleton be banislied-frcm tl; , nation over ivhose' domain the s;ar of empire how trembles in 1 : fast resolu tions in the liL : ; ' heavens." : - WW i After a , study we have are too ir y people upon this ter ror tiul ! ill who try to live without -Tor':. Ti Ide and laziness rules .ho age. Too many of our young meu leaving and going abroad to I;o clerks, lawyers, Sectors, or iwthing ! They can't bear the idea of learniug a trade oh no J If a- boy learns a trade in the present day he must master it in a- few months, and ere he knows the alphahet of his profession he thinks what he don't know ain't worth knowing, and "strikes" for tall wages. He fails nine times out of ten to make a support complaining of bard times and studying the art of living without work, and "that's what the matter with old aunt Hanuah!" v . Daily Torch, 2 cents a copy i Adolescent Bepr&fity. . An item is going the rounds of the' papers that "a boy of thirteen, in an Eastern town, has run away with a circus." ; . . ' .' : We don't know anything about this boy, but we suppose, of course, he was educated by pious parents, l, . , , . v A i on Ins mothers knee. Ana yet: this wretched child of sin, in the i-: - very morning of his days, dashed into the madening vortex of vice, and began a career of crime by "running away with" whole circus! i j - We' are not appalled so much at the gigautic character of the un dertaking ns we are at the promise for the future of this boy. A youth who can embezzle a circus at the aWof thirteen, will have no difficulty in stealing the island of Cuba or the State of New Jersey by the time he arrives at the years of discretion. And if he is put jin the penitentiary, it is ab solutely certain that he may be depended upon to. confiscate j the institution, and run off with the whole concern, convicts included. . It seems as if some children were born with special qualifica tions for the Legislature or Con gress.) . . - - Habit is EverTtMng. ? AVe suppose most of our read ers have heard the story of the man who slept above a baker's oven for twenty years, then chang ed his lodgings, but had to go back to the ; oven before he could sleep. A case illustrating j the same principle is reported in Ohio.. A city iran, accustomed to lodge on one of the noisest streets, visi ted a country friend. Too much quiet destroyed his rest at night. His friend felt for his distress, and saidihe would try and relieve- it Accordingly he went to a neigh bor's and procured a bassj drum, which ; he beat under the quest's bedroom window, and ; had his boy run squeaking yvheel .barrow up and down on the porjeh, while his wife played on the piano, and his servant girl pounded on the chamber door with the tongs. In this manner the sufferer was enabled to get two or j three hours of refreshing sleep, though it was heavy on the family. J The'H&n: and Wife. There . .is a man. in Johnson county, by the name of Z, J. Stickiand, aged 42 years, who, never tasted a drop of liquor, nor never voted, nor never heard a religious ! sermon preached, and his wife about the same age, declares she never tasted a drop of sweetening of any ldnd, wbis key or sugar. j j And still they are happy. Every boy in Germany is ob liged to learn a trade. The Em peror is a practical printer. ; How different it is with us of the South ern States. Here there is not one boy out of every five hundred.' who ever serves an apprenticeship to any trade, and the consequence is, we have too N many loafers around grog-shops. Exchange: '' That's just what's the matter. The act of" Con gress providing for the payment of special j taxes, by wholesale and retail dealers in liquors arid tobacco, requires that planters, farmers and others, who supply liquors or tobacco to their hands for cash or in parent . for labor, shall pay special taxes and procure stamps as in the case of ordinaiy dealers. Messenger. ! Our planters and farmers had better make a note of the above. Xearly half a million National Bank notes were received at the Treasury on the SOth ult I tobe exchajied for Iesl enders.-jE. Pitvns! wchad none to tender t i (hoi 7ine3 Aleal I The Macon Telegraph hears from -many sources that if the cotton and other crops of South western Georgia at all fulfill their; present promise, that there will be flash times1 in j the Pall. One reason given, and a very sound one too, is that the farmers have not been able to run in debt; credit beinff dead, they will owe - .i.n ; U, ra tciy ltiinj n nun nit; vivua gathered. They have been forced j to economise by the refusal of .; merchants and money lenders to credit them, and will have few or no debts to pay wheu Fall comes. It is astonishing, too, to hear how well they get along- how. many things heretofore deemed almost necessary to existence they have found out can be dispensed with, and how easy it is to economize under the pressure of necessity. This is certainly cheerful news; and not; the least cheerful! aspect of the ease is, that next year it will be twice as easy to economise as it has been Y thiR. Savannah Advertiser. ' f 1 "A newspaper that has no eni mies, is : a newspaper that has no character no courage no bold nessno backbone, or "spinality," as elegant writers say now-a-days. And its iufluence is not a feathers weight. "Woe unto you when meu shall speak well of you?" is a; warning that we pay heed to. There is more good sense in the Scriptures than in all other books of the world combined. Cliarbtte Observer. ! I There are no truer words than the above. A newspaper j and a newspaper Editor m that ; people don't talk about and sometimes abuse are rather ' poor concerns. The men and business that an Editor sometimes feels it a duty to defend at the risk of making eni mies of another class, are often the very first to show ingratitude. The Editor who expects to receive much charity or gratitude" will soon find out his mistake ; j but he should go ahead and say and do what he conscienciously thinks right without regard to frowns or smiles. Charlotte Democrat. These are our thoughts on the subject exactly. Death of Dr. Eeke. The death of Dr. Charles T. Beke, the great Abyssinian explo rer, is announced. He was born in London in 1800. He entered hi j commercial pursuits during several years, but the natural bent of his mind soon discovered itself, and he became famous for his explorations in Abyssinia ; and his searches for the sources of the river Nile. He was held in great honor among scientific and literary circles, 'and was placed on the British civil sideration of pension list ia con the value of his geo graphical researches. Ex - Affecting Scene. ; There was: a strange,! pathetic scene at the' Milwaukee depot, a little while ago. A young Ger man, who by four years hard work in a brewery had saved enough money to make a home wak waiting for his betrothed, who was to arrive from Germany. She came, all radiant, to his arms, there was a close embrace, but when the young man trie'd to dis engage himself, the girl's hands were firmly clasped about his neck: she moved not, spoke not she: had literally broken her heart with joy, . L , '. .... Fatal Shooting. " A young man named' Ferrell was shot and killed by another I young man named Gunter in the I lower part of Chatham last week, j They were turkey, hunting, and : approaching: each other from oj posite directions, both yelping m ; reply to each other. The imita- j tion was so perfect, 1 that ' when j bushes, he fired, tldnkihgit was a turkey he shot at ' Onrunning up to secure, his game,' helfound to his horror lie hadshot a neighbor and friend. .There were 15 buckshot in thshead of Gunter and he had died instan ly. Bills. Recorder. Kews of the Week. Chicago is to ; have no v more wooden buildings. : Coal Oil reported to be discov ered in Halifax Va. ! photographers are comical fel lqws, making faces for the living. ! Four persons are held in Phila delphia, accused of kidnapping the child Charlie Ross. I In St Louis, Mo., there wero labout twenty cases of sunstroke witnin a very iew uays. : I A man dropped dead in Alba ny the other day . from drin king L x t:i t too mucji ice waier wmie lie was loyer-heated. i Poffcssor Ileinhardt, of the Ral eigh Bap. Female Seminary has purchased the female College at I Franfe Walworth, who shot his father in K ew York, has been re moved from the State prison to the insane asylum. Y Y : There are ; twenty-six counties ar d two hundred and forty-five towns bearing the name of Wash ington. The question has been raised the Rbrth of having all rail n roads do their own express busi ness. ' Y Y ' (There is over three hundred ' gdests at the Atlantic House, Beaiiford, and Y accessions are constantly making to the'number. The yield of sugar in Louisiana, nqtwithstanding the inundation, vill be larger than any year since tjhle war. It is expected to reach .gu,UU0 hogsheads. le amount of wheat destro3"ed py the grasshoppers in Minnesota is estimated at 1,500,000 bushels. Notwithstanding tliis, the yield of tibja State will be over 23,000,000 of bushels. . 1 The Vestry of St John's Luthe- rari Church, Salisbury, has pre s'e jited their pastor, the Rev. J. p. Kefier, with a gold-headed calie as a testimonial of their respect and love for him. gsT Watermelons are only five ce its apiece in Columbus, Ga., and a first class colic is within the reach of the humblesti In Milton it takes from 50 cents to 1 to buy a watermelon large enough to hold "colic drops." Milton ) Chronicle. j jt is announced that the Pope hap been expelled from the Mason ic fraternity. It seems that the Piope was at one time a member of tM order, but subsequently excom municated all Masons and made war upon Masonry. j A lively trade in rattlesnakes arid moccasins, for foreign expor tation, is springing up in some parts of Georgia, where the col ored people catch the reptiles alive and sell them to deabrs at fifty ce its apiece. 1 The Comanches in large num bers are on the war path, and hve had several bloody encoun ters with XT." S. soldiers near Fort Sijl, Indian Territory, t Old Indian traders predict a general war, and grjeat alarm is felt at the unrestrain barbarities of the savages. :.l - - ' ; ' ' : ;; . i ijlt. is sometimes unaccountable hcjw these sober and sedate old fellows, as soon as their families have gone to the country to spend the heated term, commence to war their Sunday clothes every day, and to argue that1 four hours sleep is all that the human frame requires to be healthy Detroit Dree Press. ; ; -.t '-.M - ? A small child of Mr. Edmond son of Concord township, Louisa county, Iowa, came running into the house exclaiming: "Look, mama, pretty, pretty!" She had cajight a rattlesnake around the neck, its body and tail were wrapping around her arm, and thy child thought she had the prettiest thing imaginable. The mother, thoroughly frightened, fainted ; but the father with great presence of ; mind ' caught the child's arm and held his snake ship so tightly that it could not bite, until with the other han d he had unwound the snake from the child's arm, : when with a sudden jerk he threw it out of the door and; then kijled.it Killed t7 Her Lover At Moffitsville, Henderson county, South Carolina, a young German named Garseum, shot and killed a young lady; named Miss Katie Tucker. It appears that Garseum was employed by the father of the young lady, with whom he fell desperately in love. He became jealous of the atten tions of a supposed rival, and de liberately killed the young lady while the three were sitting in Mr. Tucker's parlor. The fled, but was arrested murderei and is in J2 til at Henderson Court House. What a Woaaa Can Do. A young woman of Middletowu, Conn., is engaged, in the endeavor to collect a million postage stamps in two years. She is now on the last three months of her time and has 900,000. Some of hrer friends thought at first that her scheme was a very wild one, s and offered her fine presents if she were sue as if she cessful." It looks now would win the gifts, which will be ponies, r phsetons, new dresses, diamonds, etc. While a portion of dreenland, six hundred miles in length from north to south, and of the coast of Itxdy near the temple of Jupiter Scrapis, are slowly sinking below the waters of the seaj in the north west of Europe from 2sprth Cape to Sweden, a distance of a thous and miles, the laud is rising at the rate of a few feet in a cen tury. Again, while an area of one hundred thousanjd square miles iu Chili, has been perma nently raised as much as. three feet by the shock of a single earth quake, a large tract of t wo thous and square miles in jextent, in. Hindostan has been simk with the houses on it below the waters of tlie Indian Ocean. Between these two classes of violence . which rep resents the extremes oil slow and sudden action, there may be many degrees of force greater j or less. -Gen. Clingman on Bald Mountain. The bees are damaging crop in Mecklenburg. Observer : We are told the peach Says the that some of the peaches in this section have been injured by the bees, which eat into them before they are fully ripe, causing them to rot and fall we never heard beforel We do not know to what extenl the dam age has extended. . NEW ADVERTISEMENTS OXFORD MALE SpHOOL, OXFORD, X. CL The undersigned having taken charge of this School, will open the Fall Term on Monday, August 10th, 1874. The course of instruction is Classical, Mathematical and Commercial. Board (including fuel and; lights) and Tuition, per session of twenty, weeks, 115 in advance. For particulars, apply to Y FRED. A. FETTER, A. M., angll2w - I Principal. sr P B "1 C9 CO ST 3 a a "X a r;f5 s o - . i ,1 3 P - ii r-i Co 3 o o J. 2 o 5 - t S-033T d - - 2:2.3" 3$ . C 3, O -r 1 a P 3 t -s rrn a rr . 5 S3 --fi 1- m I SmStO i 5 c P TO Advertisers. All persons "who contemplate making contracts with newspapers for the insertion of adver tisements should send 25 cents to - Ceo. P. Hovel & Co., 41 Park EoWVsf.T. for their ONE IIUXDRED PAGE PAMPHLET, containing lUts of 3,000 newspapers and estimates, showing the cost of advertising. iulv28-15m. ; !lC M Jl 3 - S-9 O :. "" . i J5 V : . . C is i . " - " j Y3 2sf 5gg ' p s go S.J3.B. g M a? NE W AD VER T1SEMENTS. 6 6T)SYdHOMANCY, or Soul Charm Jl ihg." How either sex may fas cinate and gain the lore fc affections of any person they choose instantly.1: This simple mental acquirement all can pos sess iree, by mall, for 25cts, together with a marriage guide, Egyptian Oracle, Dreams, Hints ? toXadies, &cr A qneer book. Address. T. Williams & Cov, Pub ' ---FOR --' . C 005 hi, Cold, Iloari em r A3fD ALX THROAT DISEASES, TJSB " " WEliLSr CASBOUC TABLETS I "'V for UP ONLY IN KLUE BOXES. gists. 1V-- " ' ' ' v BURY SU1BP COLLEGE. Established in 1851.? This old and cele brated Female School U situated in tlie proverbially healthy town of Winchester .' on a .bench of Cumberliind Mountains, ' Tenn. Commences its annual sessions of ren Months on the FLRST MONDAY in SEPTEMBER. Still under its first ; For $iorooghnes3 and cheapness of edu-' cation, is not excelled by any school la the South. Send .for catalogue, contain-, 1 1 . 1 - tS Wlmc- mg au essemuu ponicuuirs. v. i uu- ley, Treasurer. . . , - - OAAWANOS and ORGANS . new. yOVjUand Second-hand, of first class makeRV will be sold at 'lower prices for cash oj "on ' installments, or- fur- rent'itt oity of vcountry, during this month, by Horace Waters & Son, No; 481 Broad- way, than ever oeiore onereu m i?tew Vnrk-J1 Snecialtv. Pianos and Orsrans to let until the' rent money pays the price oxtiie rnstrumeut. iuusiraie vaiaiuj;ut:? mailed;. A "large discount to Ministers, Churches, Schools, lOfiges, ere. Rich Farming Lands IN NEBRASKA. Now for sale very Cheap !... . Ten yeafs credit, interest only G per ct. i far "The Pione er." A haridriome illustrated paper, contain intr the Homestead Law. A new number just published,, nmiled try"- to all parts of the world. Address U. r . jlavis, , . Jand Conmiisfioner 13. P.,R. R., ' " J Omaha, Xeb. HAVE YOU TIUED JXTEUBEBA .1 . . are You tffak, Xerteus, r debiltfafed f Arc voi so langui! that any exertion re- quires Muore of an efiort than you fevl en paljle of making ? . . . y v 1 lien try Jurulx'Da, the wontlerfiu tonic and infigorator, which acts sobencticial- ly on the. secretive organs as to impart vigor to all the vital forces.. It isno alcoholic appetizer, which stim ulates for a short time, only to let tlu? snffere- fall to a lower lepth of misery, but it a vegetable tonie actum directly on thegliyer and spleen- - It igulates the bowels, quiets the nerves and gives suci a liealthy toiie to the whole system as to soon make the in valid feel like a new person. Its operations is not violent, but u characterized by great gentleness , tha patient experiHces( no sudden cluinget no marked results, but gradually his' trouble . ? vs . . tfiFfi!d their tents, like the Arabs, An(V silently steal away. r Tliis is no hew and untried discovery, but baVleerk long used with wonderfid remedial results, aud is pronounced by the highest medical authorities, t4theniost powerf(d tonic and alterative known." Ask your : druggist for iti For sale by, Win. F. Kidder & Co.t New York. To the Board of County Co mmlssIonerH . : of the County of Craailllf , gute oX north Carolina. KTe,. W. Harris, J. K. ITood and WH. Young, the Committee appointed by your Board May 5th, 1SJ4, to examine into the financial matters of the County f Grauville, and report to your Board the inlebteilness - of the County, mako the following report ; ; v ; We;find the vlole amount of County order. bsned and' approved from 4tli Augu.t,'18G8r up to the 1st day of July, 1S74, amount to the sum of $0S,&1G,42, of which about $14,000 is for indebted ness prior to 1st of August, 18G8. Amount of County Orders taken in and cknceiled up to 1st day July, 1874, $88,142,18, leaving the amount of out standing Order on the 1st day of July, 1874, $1004,24. ., If the unpaid Orders carry interest, the indebtedness will be increased to the amount of the interest. . " We also find the County is owing tho School Fund the sum of $2,165,17, which amount was misappliett to county pur poseX - - We also f n I that the Treasurer whoso term ejxpired when "M. B. Jones, tho present Treasurer, came in office, is in debted to the county in the sum of $407 94; ii'V-rv'r-'K, v i . , TVe also 'find the county Indebted to the sheriff in the sum of 80; amount overpaid by liiin. . ; ; ? - ; iy .All. of which will more fully appear by reference to the papers marked A, B i.Q jyjj f) . - . v -' , ' . R. Vv. 1IARRIS, Cli'mnlV J. K. WOOD. Comi Juljr-lth 1874. ; julyl44t TICK.! TICRU TICK.!!! T . M. L YK CH, J Adjust received a select assortment XX of jewelry, x?onsisting of Watches Clocks;? Jewelryr Silverware, Wedding RinsrSw Bridal nresents Tnn'w finods. &c, &c.y which be is selling at reduceq pneefj to suit hard times and , the closest buyer.: . lie solicits you to call and ex amine ibis stock before purchasing else- where.. " TTe thkpa thU mofi,i thfink- Ing bis many customers for their liberal patronage, ana by close attention to business, hopes to merit-a continuance ol he same.: . t5iim 4Bir Watch." Main st. janeWui, , : i . Oxford, N. ! .-V si
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