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firii 0 isT urn c .r feet rv AdvertUIng ' It(to t One Squire, one tim. ...... ...... IY FRIDAY,' (if L, N. C. " I three months ft. 00 " v tax months. t.00 " one year 10,00 Quarter Colufiin, flint insertion.......... COO " each additional. 1.00 " three months 90.00 six months 80.00 " one year W-w Ten lines of this Type constitutes a Square. SfiX Months, $1. 8pecial and Local Notices, 30 oenU per tin. tiniest otherwise by special contract. HESTER &' STAPLES, Proprietors. Transient advertisements parable in advanco. Yearly Advertisements unsrterlj uT-advanos- VOLUME Y. EEIDSVILLE, X. C, iUGUST 31, 1877. NUMBER 38. M X II J i II I 1 II II II Jwll J V I I II li A k 1 ; ; : ; "THE WEALTH OF THE MIND IS THE ONLY TRUE WEALTH." -1 1 1 2 ' 1 " " " ' - - UN I II . ... ..II 1 ' - t P ft? r I I'm I 11 i m 7 r dt iea sand rJJ I4jlfim band, yi ut their lives had known. breaing waned away IreeZy cliff and bay, lug tiie went out with a weary moan. with quivering lip, 1 ship, deep gone down. a great town. ourned their youth emeries ever green; 4 not rest,- g Joy had been. ed gold, 'mm Mieir trust no And oo of Besid SWe;a ft,, ' oa 'oreiga we, sanely on the But -.i, ore. 3W- a' were done, f A tfner them one' M, nL ,' "'Ofrom all sorrow free. leavier yet, eart hath gone from me." pilgrims said ic living and the dead, -'8 cruelty, for lovo's sure cro. the wrecks of land mi sea, however, it came to thee is life's last and heaviest loss." HISTORY. I ami ham?RSSarl of Flan VjJUV . BW B hal more than one laidsfce to the IM r,r fJUont. and been oblicetTTfta. raise ( without bringing the stnbborn f Jj, jibject terms which he exacted; t!ie Hpring of 1382, he rejoiced in JfactlHat at last he had I hem humbled the dust, with his iron heel upon eir necks. By conquering the neigh- hpring cities ami cutting off their sup plies, he had at last brought them to the Tes5of (starvation, so that they were com-ielled to sue for peace; and Liege, Brabjint nnd Hainanlt each Agreed to send deputation to Tournay, the place appointed by the carl for a conference, to tmite th.Mr prnjers with the deputa tiou from Glient for such terms and con- ditiyns as a brave but conquered people ear deputation from Ghent, headed I 11 mil j ramp von Ariavein, governor oi tne own, nl its most rertoubtea military instructed to offer complete to the will of their lord, the and accede to all terms rit, shorn liT riot involve any of the inhabitants. Had ieei disposed to the clemency )bfe soul, he might have paved nmch future trouble.and secured a groat number of willing and ejects. Bnt he was at heart a raia. haughty tyrant, and was now de- lerrnino'I to wreak a criq revenge upon .fUr"jn?Su'ho had so long denied his Ir frgigl I 14 i ihief, was )tfT L r 1 -' ' deputations at Tournay, he remained at .. i ; i Tt i i n niH i)u,im;e xu lirufes: uuu wnen, aiujr several days of anxious suspense, they gent messengers to inquire if their lord ould deign to honor them with his Tesenee, he returned for answer that ill' I not come himself, but would nd his council with his ultimata. Another week of fearful suspense passed by before the deputation from Ghent received these ultimata of the haughty earl, which were the most cruel and degrading that a conqueror could offer to the conquered. " The inhabitants of Ghent," said the 'council sent bythe earl of Flanders. ' ' are not to expect peaee from him, un less all male persons, from the age of fifteen to sixty, shall come out of the city bare-headed, bare-footed, and with halters around their necks, and take their places on the road between Ghent ind Bruges, where the earl will wait for them, and either grant them pardon or put them to death according to his ! pleasure. " Of conrso such degrading terms as those could not be accepted by the depu tation from Ghent, nnd it is almost cer tain the earl himself never expected they would be his object evidently be ing to provoke the citizens to further resistance that ho might slaughter theAi maxsc andjgive their city up to e. t jeturaing to Ghent, rhilip von "held a consultation with an- redoubted captain, Peter dn Bois, and it was agreed that the former should make such a report to the inhabitants as would render them desperate and excite them to offensive action. This he did the next day in the market-place, recounting all the insults the citizens had received, and telling them they had but one course of three to pursue either to close' the gates of the city and die of famine, or go forth with halters around their necks for the earl to wreak his vengeance on, or to select five or six thousand of the most brave and de- termmed of their number and instantly i march to attack the earl in Bruges. With one accord the people chose the most valiant course, and the next day two thousand brave men, with Philip von Artaveld at their head, marched out of Ghent and took their way to Bruges, tarrying with them two hundred carts laden with cannon and artillery, and only seven with provisions, the latter being all that could possibly be spared from the famishing town. On arriving before the city of Bruges, rhilip von Artaveld drew up his whole army around a small hill, on which he stationed himself, and harangued them in a most eloquent manner, showing them that everything was 6taked on the coming battle the safety of them selves, their wives and children that if even honor would permit them to re treat, there was no place of refuge for them, for their own city was in the last stages of famine, and the gates of every Other were closed against them aad, finally, that only provisions enough for one meal remained, and, except as con querors, they could never hope to eat again. Meantime, the earl of Flanders, at his gorgeous palace in Bruges, surrounded by his knights and retainers, heard of the approach of this little army of half starved men with a smile of contempt. " The wicked madmen," he said, " to beard the lion in his den ! I will go forth and overawe them with a host, and then literally wipe them from the face of the earth!" That very day he marched out of the city, at the head of forty thousand full armed knights and warriors, expecting an easy victory. A little before sunset he drew up his army in front of the men of Ghent, and the battle was commenced with cannon on both sides. The Ghent men fought with the fury of despairj and, strange as it may seem, when it is remembered that they were outnumbered ht to one, they soon had their cowardly emieg flying -"7 direc tion. They u""1- siouting " Ghent!" ana iaagfctered without mercy. The whole roKte back to the gates of Bruges, the distance of a league, was soon strewed with the dead and wounded; and before the now terrified earl and his body-guard of knights could return nnd put the city in a state of defense, the Ghent men were in it and masters of the place. It was now that the vain, pompons, haughty earl of Flanders, so far from dictating degrading terms to the men who had sued to him for mercy, thought only of saving his own life. He had left his own palace with a blaze of torches, to repair to the market-place and put himself at the head of the citi zens whom he had already commanded assemble there, when he was met by x : i j i i a rigiiM3nea crowa oi Knights and squirajwho assured him that not only was the tofrn in possession of the men of Ghent, but- hat a large body of these rebels was even fit that moment in the act of surroundinghirn for the purpose of taking him alive. " Heavens !" cried the earl, in forror, ' ' which way will I retreat ?" " There is now no certain way cpen for you, my lord !" was the terrible re ply ; " for whatever avenue is not now closed, will be before you can use it even your palace, we fear, is by this time in possession of your enemies." " What then is to be done ? What then can I do? Oh, save me ! save me !" cried the wretched man. "Your only chance, my lord, is to order out these lights, disguise your per son, dismiss all attendants, and escape alone in tho--darkness !" was the fearful answer. On hearing this the earl instantly dis mounted, commanded the torches to be extinguished, and his attendants to dis perse ; and seizing his servant by the arm he fled with him into a small dark street, where his armor and rich apparel were hastiy removed, and the humble garments of the other substituted. "Now go," said the earl, in alow, hurried tone, " and leave me to myself. Save yourself if you can ; and if I escape, I will reward you. If taken, remember you must know nothing of me !" "I will die sooner than betray you, my lord !" replied the faithful valet. They separated ; and in the humble dress of his own servant, the proud and haughty earl began to wander up and dpwn the streets of his own city, seeking some mean obscure place of safety. What a change had a few short hours effected in the fortunes of this man ! He who rose in the pride and power of a king, would have been glad to have sunk to a peaceful sleep in the rags of a beggar. , It was a terrible night for the wander ing earl of Flanders. He had some very narrow escapes more than once casting himself down in some dark passage, or drawing himself up in some dark door was while the rrowlinar crowd was hurrying past. At last, finding ' ViiTnKAlf in a miserable quarter in the city, and in front of a mean-looking hut, the dan ger pressed him to seek his safety with in. He tried the door, found it un fastened, and entered in trembling haste. The room was small, almost without furniture and black with smoke and dirt. A woman and a child appeared I in bp its rmlv ivcmiants nnd the mother turned upon him with pallid features j and clasped hands, evidently fearing he ( had come to take her life. The earl , knew that everything depended upon her ; favor, that there was not a moment to ; be lost, and he instantly threw himself j upon her mercy without disguise. j Woman, lie said, with trembling; eagerness,- " I am thy lord, the earl , of Flanders, seeking to escape from my enemies, who are searching the cityj In Heaven s name, hide me save me r and great shall be they reward !" The moment he spoke, she recognized him, for she had ' often seen him pass; and poor and humble thauigh she was, she possessed a nerve and presence of mind equal to the emergency. Instantly she seized his arm and pointed to a ladder which led to a miserable loft ; above. " Quick, my lord," she cried; "spring up yonder, and crawl under the bed in. which my children are asleep !" In a moment he had disappeared ; and almost the next moment the door was i thrown open, and several armed men entered the room, and found the poor woman quietly bending over her infant child. "Where's the man that just now entered here ?" demanded the foremost. "By my troth," replied the woman, with the coolness of a Spartan mother, "I've 6een no man except yourselves !" "Woman, beware of falsehood! We saw his figure, and the door oen aad ( 6hut !" , "You saw my figure then, for I've just been to the door to throw out some water. Faith, if there is any otheV man j here pray tell me where he is hid ! This j room, and the oae above where my children are asleep, comprise my whole house, which you can search in a minute. If you doubt my word, gentlemen, sup pose you see for yourselves !" As she spoke she handed the leader of the crowd a candle ; and he at once ascended the ladder and looked in the loft, where he saw only the children huddled together and asleep on their miserable bed. He returned satisfied, declared that he must have made a mis take; and he and his companions im mediately departed, leaving the trembling earl beneath the rude bed, thanking Heaven for his wonderful escape. Thus was the proud Earl of Flanders preserved through that terrible night in the disguise of his servant, under the bed of a poor woman's children, i The next riight he escaped from the rown in the garb of a peasant, and, after wandering about the fields for a time, at last fell in with some of his own knights, and suc ceeded in reaching the Castle of Lille in safety. Nearly all the surrounding cities sur rendered to Ghent; and Philip von , Artaveld and Peter du Bois' became war riors of great renown in the war that fol lowed, which soon involved the kingdoms of England and France. Philip von Artaveld was slain in battle; and not long after the Earl of Flanders died suddenly, it is supposed by the hand of an assassin. A Stroke of Lore Lightning. A Long Branch letter has this: I have met here recently an old friend who, a few years since, was one of the most resolute and philosophic of bache- lors. He was grounded on reason, and he had at his tongue's end all the argu ments that distinguished anti-matrimon-ialists have used for centuries. He was not fierce, he was calm and logical, and I have often said: "If any man is safe from connubial perils, he is safe beyond preadventure. " After exchanging greet ings with my friend, he blurted out, "Well, I'm married. I confess it; but please don't tell me that you knew P should be ; that you had expected it ; for I am no fool, and I have sworn 100 times that to me marriage was absolutely jnpossible. " Subsequently he gave me his confidence. He was walking one moonlight evening on the beach with a-, young lady he had known for five or six years. She was a friend of his sister, and he regarded her as a kind of adopted sister. He had liked her for ker sound judgment, strength of character and freedora of sentiment. They were walk ing quietly along, and discussing Her bert Spencer. One of the last things he remembered distinctly was that they were illustrating the survival of the fittest by examples within their own knowledge. The next thing he knew he had proposed to her, and she was throbbing on-his bosom like a volcano in eruption, and sobbing out that 6he had adored him from the first moment she had laid eyes on him. "Wasn't that rather queer," he asked, " for a young woman of extraordinary strength of character, totally devoid of sentiment? Well, I am very glad it happened, though how it happened, to this day I have no idea. But you know I'm always looking for the cause of things. I won der still what put us into that passionate mood us, who had always been so self contained, in one another's society. Was it the moon ? Or could it have been the sea " Frittered Away. How much time we fritter away with out doing anything for ourselves or the public good. For such omission it is too much the habit with us all to excuse ourselves on the plea of a want of time ; whereas,- in truth, this is seldom a good and sufficient ground of justification. Nothing is easier than to fritter away time in matters of no use to themselves or to any one else. The habit is readily formed. It grows npon one unawares. t i a i P 1 r iveep a sinct hccouiii oi every jiour oi your own time lor a single wees, set ting down correctly the exact manner in which every hour is spent, and see whether, when you come to review the record, you do not find it full of ad monition and instruction. In this sim ple way one can readily understand the secret of Hs want of time. He will dis cover that lie has given hours to idle talk, to indolence, and to inconsiderate trifles, which have yielded him neither profit nor pleasure. What is the remedy ? Arrange your work in the order of its comparative importance. Attend first to the things which are essential to be done, and let the unes sential take their chance afterward. The difference in the amount of work accomplished will be astonishing. Duty before pleasure. Those who practice this Drecerit have plenty of time for x - - pleasure, and enjoy far greater satisfac tion than those who reverse this rule. The Time to Eat Fruit. T,he earlier in the day fruits are eaten the better. They should be ripe, fresh and perfect, and if eaten in their natural state, it is almost impossible to take too much. Their helpful qualities depend on their acidity, but if sweetened with ; sugar the acidity is not only neutralized, hut. the stomach is tempted to receive more than it can digest, and if cream is taken with them, the labor of digestion is increased. No liquid of any descrip-' tion should be drank within an hour af ter eating fruits, nor should anything else be eaten within two or three hours thus time being allowed for them to pass out of the stomach, the system de rives from them all their enlivening, cooling and aperient influences. The great rule is, eat fruits and berries while fresh, ripe and perfect, in their ratural state, without eating or drinking any thing for at least two hours afterward. With these restrictions, fruits may be eaten in moderation during the day and without getting tired of them, or ceasing to be benefitted by them during the whole season. BBIGHAM AND THE MORMONS. .t'orman ('auto ma and Leader What Bri bant Young; Told a CorrespondentSalt Lake 1'lty Detained lo Become a tSreat Watering Place. A correspondent who recently visited Salt Lake City, writes as follows con cerning the Mormons and their chief city : Brigham Young is a venerable, silver haired man of seventy-six. He has fif teen real wives, not counting Ann Eliza, and is spiritually sealed to several hun dred. He has seventy-five children, forty -five of whom are living, and four or five hundred grandchildren. He Bays he don't pretend to " keep track " of his grandchildren at all. Are the Moxxaxmajncreasjng ? Yes rapidly. They now e: irom JLdano, through Utah and Aruiona down into New Mexico. The prophet says his people now number 150,000. That they double once in six years. He says there will be 300,000 Mormons in 1882 and 600,000 in 1888. When I asked the prophet about the growth of Utah he said : "Yes, we are nourishing people. We have now thirty incorporated cities, 265 school-houses, seven cotton and woolen factories, twelve newspapers, 200 miles of railroads, many costly temples, among which is our new $1, 000, 000 temple down at St. George." ' ' We are also building, " said the prophet, " a new temple in Salt Lake which will cost when finished, $9,000, 000 the finest religious temple in the world. It is now twelve feet high, and it will take us ten or fifteen years to finish it. " The old Mormon temple, capable of holding 14,000 people, is the one used by the Mormons now. When I was in Salt Lake there was a conference going on. The great temple was packed with Mormon farmers from all over the coun try. Some would come into the temple with four or five wives. The wives were generally plainly dressed, and looked as if they were very poor. In the temple are three pulpits, one above the other. The largest pulpit is occupied by Brig ham Young. The second pulpit m the temple is oc cupied by Daniel H. Wells, who, with Brigham and his son, John W. Young, makes up what is called the first quorum of the Mormon church. Wells is also a sort of Attorney-General for Brigham a spiritual and temporal adviser. John W. Young a handsome young man with three wives, one of Whom he is divorced from- will undoubtedly succeed his father in the Mormon presidency. The second quorum of the church con sists of the twelve disciples. They'are J ohn Taylor, who occupies the third pul pit; Erastus Snow, Orson Hyd?, Orson Pratt, Joseph F. Smith, jr., Brigham Young, jr. , etc. John Taylor is one of the strong preachers of the Mormon church. Taylor was with Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, when he was shot by the mob in the Carthage jail, Hancock county, Mo., and Taylor was wounded in three places by the same mob. But they f ailed to kill him, and he lives to preach almost every Sunday in the great temple and support four wives, who live in different houses about Salt Lake City. Among Brigham Young's nineteen wives he has had three favorites. His first wife, whom he married in the States, is, now called Mother Young. She lives in a beautiful two-story cottage next to her son, John W. His next favorite was Emeline, now dead. Emoline's children are all very bright and beautiful. Salt Lake will one day be a great na tional watering-place. It combines the charms of Interlaken at the foot of the snow-capped Alps, and Wiesbaden, with its hot sulphur springs. Over the city the Wasatch mountains, covered with perpetual snow, seem to hang as if a great wind would blow them over and bury the green city in an avalanche. The street cars almost take you to the salt water, where is the most charming surf-bathing in the world, and a half mile walk takes you to scalding hot sul phur springs, better than Wiesbaden or j the hot springs in Arkansas. Think of snow-capped mountains, beautiful f ruit-laden valleys, hot sulphur springs, and the salt sea surf, all in one ciiy. The like is not in the whole world. Tile hot sulphur water comes out at the foot of the 6now-capped Wasatch, hot enDughtoboil an egg. It comes in a gr?at stream enough for fifty bath houses and it is the same water that nopvs in w lesoauen. salt jjaKe, l say,j as interlaken, WiesDaden, Jjoncr .Branch and Barbara all in one. What a place to swim is Salt Lake ! The water is so heavy that you cannot sink. Fold your hands and lie on your back, and then you can ride with your shoulders out of water all day. I went in bathing one morning and fonnd that by working my feet fast I could raise my body almost to my waist. I almost had the appearanee of walking on the water. The specific gravity of the lake makes it a favorite resort for the Mor mon boys and girls, who can swim to the deepest places with no fear of drowning. A Great Field of Wheat. Mr. W. R. Shelby, of Grand Rapids, Mich., vice-president and treasurer of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Rai'road Company, has gone to Dakota Territory to superintend the harvesting of a field containing five thousand acres. of wheat, owned by himself, George W. Cass, of Pittsburgh, and Colonel Dalrymple, of Minnesota. The use of twenty-five reapers for two weeks will be necessary in order to harvest the crop, which is estimated at one hfmdred thousand bushels, and is valued at $100,000 when thrashed. The grain will be moved by rail four hundred miles to Duluth, then shipped by sail direct to Europe. Ihe land used is a part of the subsidy granted by the government to the Northern Pacific railroad. Finland. Fuiand, which, rightly handled, mighbe one of the czar's richest pos 8esitis, is now after nearly seventy yeart occupation, as unprofitable as ever. Throughout the whole province there j are only 398 miles of railway. Pof teroads, scarce enough in the South, are, Absolutely wanting in the North. Steaii navigation on the Gulf of Bothnia exteads only to Uleaborg, and is, so far as I ian learn, actually non-existent on thejreat lakes, except between Tanas tk4ii and Tammerfors. Such is the sfcttii of a land containing boundless wrtr-power, countless acres of fine tpnber, countless ship-loads of splendid cjnite. But what can be expected of taugnt population under 2,000,000 themselves in an unreclaimed cL A. nearlv RS " lararf oa TJroTii 9 Helsingfors can now be reached from 8t. Petersburg, via Viborg, in fourteen and a half hours ; but what is one such line to the boundless emptiness of Fin- -ftrnd? The fearful lesson of 1SR9 will not be easily forgotten, when all the horrors of famine were let loose at once upon the unhappy province. Seed-corn was exhausted ; bread became dear, dearer still, and then failed altogether. Men, women and children struggling over snowy moors and frozen lakes to ward the distant towns in which lay their only chance of life, dropped one by one on the long march of death, and were devoured ere they were cold by the pursuing wolves. Nor did the survivors fare much better ; some reached the haven of refuge only to fall dead in its very streets. Others gored themselves with unwholesome food, and died with it in their mouths. Fields lying waste villages dispeopled ; private houses turned into hospitals ; fever-parched skeletons tottering from the doors of overcrowded asylnmn ; children wan dering about in gaunt and Bqualid naked ness ; crowds of men, frenzied by pro longed misery, and ripe for any out rage, roaming the streets night and day -such were the scenes enacted through out the length of Finland during two months and a half. But better days are now dawning on the afflicted land. Roads and railways are being pushed -forward into the interior, and the ill judged attempts formerly made to Rus sianize the population have given place to a more conciliatory policy. Lectures are being delivered at Helsingfors, and extracts from native works read, in the sjioorigiuai longue ; mat it is oeiug treated with special attention in the great schools of Southern Finland ; that there has been some talk of dramatic representations in Finnish at the Hel f Pirgfoss theater. Such a policy is at once prudent and generous, and far bet tr calculated to bind together the heterogeneous races of the empire than -1 if n.. ni ti i-i . iimi Husuru i-an-aiavism, wnicn is 'best translated as " making every one a slave. LippineotVs Magctine. A Russian Village. The village of Ivanorka may be taken as a specimen of the villages in the n&rmern nan oi tne country. The chief pursuit of the inhabitants is agriculture. Nearly the whole of the female popula- tion and about one-half of the men are employed in cultivating tlie Communal lane, which comprises about two thou sand acres of a light sandy soil. The arable part of this land is divided into three large fields, each of which is cut up into long narrow slips. The first field is reserved for rye, the winter grain, wliich, in the shape of black bread, forms the principal food of the peasantry In the second, oats are raised for the horses, and buckwheat, which is largely used for food. The third lies fallow, and is used in summer for pasturage. The annual life of the peasantry is that of simple' husbandmen, in a country where the winter is long and severe. The agricultural year begins in April with the melting of the snow. The fresh .young grass begins at once to shoot up, I and very soon afterward the shrubs and j trees put forth their buds. The rapidity j of the transition from winter to spring is astonishing to the inhabitants ot more temperate climes. On the twenty-third cf April the cattle are brought out for the first time and sprinkled with holy water by the priest. They are never fat, I " . ? , A;aroaai' rrw been wintered on straw, cooped up in small, unventilated cow houses, and many of them can scarcely rise to their feet without assistance. Meantime the f rngantrv are impatient to begin the re labor. Plowing for summer grain lrtSts till alxut the end of May. Hay making commences toward the first of July, and then comes the harvest, in which the peasant may work day and night and have scarcely time to complete his task before the end of August. The field labor is finished about the last week in September, and the first day of Oc tober the harvest festival begins, a joy ous season, during which the parish fete are celebrated: Russian Soldiers as Tea Drinkers. The Russian soldiers are said to live and fight almost wholly upon tea. The Cossacks often carry it about in the shape of bricks, or rather tiles, which, before hardening, are soaked in sheep's blood, and boiled in milk, with the addi tion of flour, butter and salt, so as to constitute a kind of soap. The passion of the Russian for this beverage is sim ply astonishing. In the depth of winter he will empty twenty cups in succession, at nearly boiling point, until he per- spires at every pore, and then in a state of excitement, rush out. roll in the snow, get up, and go on to the next simi lar place of entertainment. So with the army. With every group or circle of 4cnts, travels the invariable tea-cauldrn, suspended from a tripod; and it would be vain to think of computing how many times each soldier's pannikin is filled upea-flhalt. It is his first idea. Fre quentlyEe"?tlies it cold in a copper '. case, as a solace trpon the march, j A Teacher Who Wan Feared. A correspondent of ." the New York Evening Pott, writing from Benton, Me., says: There is one lady, Miss , worth mention, and " whose memory should not be left to perish. She has for many years taught school in and about the town of Brunswick. Maine. and doubtless many a good man and wo man in that region owes much to her in fluence and instruction. She is an im posing human structure, not far from seven feet in height, and weighing not less, I think, than three hundred pounds. Her voice is fitted todier size, and her strength equal to either. She is pleas ing to behold very handsome, the Ana kim would probably call her. I wish Mr. Barnum had found her- before he married off his handsome Quaker giant. Miss and that giant would have made a noble, astonishing pair. Miss was sent for once to reduce to order a school of evil repute. The scholars there, mainly young men of the savage order, had amused themselves by turning their teachers out and throwing desks, books and benches out after them. Miss , ruler in hand, walked the floor, making her exordium. Her ruler was bike a weaver's beam. She told the school why she was there, and serenely invited those who designed to make trouble to begin it at once. Not a creature stirred. Every eye in the house was. fastened on her. Her black eyes rolled majestic in their caves, and gleamed with terrible meanings upon the big boys, who then and there resigned "the weapons of their rebel lion." After some weeks one young fel low of twenty-one years, who, by virtue of his handsome face and heaped up curls, considered himself a universal beau, and privileged character, began to air his pretensions rather obnoxiously. Mibs looked at him once or twice. The glare did make Adolphus Bhrivel somewhat; but vanity and impudence soon swelled him out again. I know not precisely what it was that precipitated the crisis; but it came1 one day when all the girls were present. One stride, and Miss was alongside of the curly dandy one grab and the curly dandy was across her knee kicks, howls and scratches were efforts thrown away; and amid the almost dying struggles of the boys not to rend the air with laughter, and the hysterical shrieks of the girls, Adolphus was disciplined in a style and to a degree that he will remember to his departing day. Poor beau ! How his face and curls did look just then ! The girls never had need of any other picture to make them remember him. A Pathetic Scene. There was a pathetic scene at Fort Abraham Lincoln a few days ago, when the Seventh Cavalry, General S. D. Sturgis' command, which was headed in the field last year by the gallant but un fortunate Custer, marched into camp. As the gray troop (Company E), under Lieutenant C. C. De Rudio was passing in review before the general's house, he came out of the door and to th gate with j a guidon m his hand and ordered the ! command to halt. The battalion came to j a halt and present. On the porch were congregated the members of the general's family, consisting of his beautiful wife, his pretty daughter Ella, another little girl and their only remaining son, all dressed in deep mourning. The general, with his eyes full of tears, addressing Lieutenant De Rudio, said: "I am charged by my wife to present your com pany with this guidon in rememberance of our dear son, who was attached to it ! when he was killed. I hope jou will ap- preciate it; take good care of it, and honor the memory of our dearly loved boy." The lieutenant took the guidon in his hand, raised it and replied: " Dear gen eral, I thank you and Mrs Sturgis in the name of my company. This guidon will guide them and myself to revenge the blood of your son, and I assure you that nobody shall capture it while a man of my command lives, for we shall -defend it with the last drop of our blood. " The general's son, Lientenant Sturgis, it may be remembered, fell in Custer's fatal battle, and, at his father's request, was ; buried on the fiald of valor where he j fell. j Fate of a Confidential Clerk. j A New York correspondent writes: I stood on the stoop of some offices, on a public thoroughfare, talking to some gentlemen. A young man passed who recognized ray friend. The passer was small and slim, had a foreign look, and his age could not have been thirty. "You see that young man," said the gentleman. "He is one of the smartest young men in New York. He had a fine position in one of our heaviest importing houses. He was the confidential clerk of the house, and would have been trusted with uncounted gold. The house was underselling the market, and dealers j wanted to know how it was done. They approached this young clerk, and he gave his employers away. He gave the pri i vate papers to the rival houses, and at : night opened the counting-houses to in spection. It cost the firm 8250,000 to settle up matters, and somebody paid the clerk 850,000 on condition that he left the city. The money burnt in his pock et. He went into speculation. From that he went into gambling. He is now poor as a church mouse, with no business and nobodv to trust him." Hottest Days in the Last Century. The highest ranges of the thermometer in Hartford, Conn., during the past century have ben as follows : Jaly -2, 1777, 102; August 8, 1789, 105; July 5, 1791, 115; July 10, 1804, 106; July 20; 1814, 105 ; July 4, 1824, 108 ; August 2, 1836, 108 ; July 26, 1847, 105 ; July 5, 1855, 105; July 19, 1866, 104; July 17, 1871,104 ; July 5, 1876, 105; July 26, 1877, 95 degree in the shade. It will be seen that July 5, 1791, occurred the hofiteit day for a century, when the ; mercury marked 115 egres in the i shade at noon. Word of Wisdom. The wisest of men is he who has the most civility for others. It is the heart and not the mind that makes the trne gentleman. To be at once in any great degree loved and praised is truly rare. Greatness may build the tomb, but goodness must make the epitaph. Everywhere endeavor to be useful, and everywhere you will be at home. Life is an outward occupation, an actual work, in all ranks and situations. It is one of the most difficult tilings in the world to iersnade overselves that any one can love those whom we our selves dislike. The only way of not being bored in company is to say witty things yourself, or Bit still and listen to the witty things of other people. v However many friends you have, do not neglect yourself. Though you have a thousand, not one of them loves you so much as you ought to love yourself. No character will please long which is uniform. To be always jocoe la buffoonery ; always pathetic, silly ; al ways wise, sententious ; always grave, tiresome. At the Sydney (Australia) exhibition, which has just closed, there were one hundred and twenty-nine thousand visi tors, and the American exhibit was the lest. ? The man who writes, speaks or medi tates, without being well stocked with facts as landmarks to his understanding, is like a mariner who sails along a treach erous coast without a pilot, or one who ventures ' in the wide ocean without either a rudder or compass. There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world : to despise it, to return the like or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it. The first of these is usually prevented, the last is almost impossible ; the uni versal practice is the second. Who can explain the operations of that sentiment, which creates around the one object of our love a halo of life and beauty, which extends to all animate and inanimate nature, and of that other sentiment which, when we cease to love, strips the object of our late passion of all its adventitious charms and reduce it to the ordinary level ? t Stand by your friends, let come what may, is a goodmotto. If you don't stand by them you needn't expect them to stand - by you. So whether they he friends of high or low degree, in afnu&nce or poverty, stick to them and don't stop to inquire whether it will, payor whether it will be popular. Wiienever yon prove traitor and desert those who have stood up for you and helped your battles, you will find yourself without any one to congratulate you upon your achievements, or comfort you in an evil hour when misfortunes comes thick and fast. Watchful Matrons at Lout? Branch. According to a New York J If raid correspondent, the scasou at Long Branch this summer has set a movement on foot that may possibly result in a code of etiquette to be used by mammas for the governance of their daughters. It has arisen from the meeting of matrons from different portions of the country, and a mutual exchange of views as to the manner in which a young lady should be brought up and the amount of liberty she should be given. At some 1 of the larger hotels it is quite amusing to watch the girls and their mammas. Some of the mothers of the old school never let their daughters out of their sight,and Bit on the beach and watch them through opera-glasses while they are bathing, while others, satisfied with the early training that their girls have received, are content so long as they know where they are and what they are doing. The interchange of opinions on the question between the mothers will very probably result in a definite settlement as to the amount of liberty a young lady should be allowed. In the meantime the young ladies themselves are very much agitated over the question, and a secret indigna tion meeting was held the other evening, at which nine young ladies pledged themselves to exert all their influence, to at once remove their beloved mothers from the baneful influence of certain matrons who were promulgating a doc trine, in which they clairnexl it was highly improper for a young lady to accompany a gentleman to the theater, opera or german without a chaperone. Thew nine young ladies have constituted them selves into a committee on permanent organization, and are rapidly enrolling under the banners all the malcontents that they find. There are some hopes, however, that before nny open outbreak can take place a compromise will be : effected that will meet with the views of j both parties. j Our Agricultural Inter.-st. A New York paper says : There never was a time when our agricultural inter ests were in a more promising condition than now. All the crops promise to tie abundant, and the flow of money from the Kints of accumulation t ) the agri cultural districts csimiot but have a very desirable effect in relieving the monetary stringency still undoubtedly felt. The yield of grain will lw very large. We have in some yearH raise. 1 800,000,000 bushels of corn, 182,000,000 bushels of ' wheat, 270,000,000 bushels of oats, and 4,500,000 bales of cotton, and ran do it again. The export trade promises to le very large also. In 187 the exports of wheat alone reached 81,000,000 bushels. Last year we exported over 67,000,000 bushels of corn, 52,000,000 bushels of oats, and nearly 4,000,000 barrels of wheat flour. The exports of cotton last year were 500,000 yt'indf, aud there is no rea&oa why this should not be ap proximated this year, though the last crop was not so large ;as the previous one. Items of Interest. They have a calf in Trigg county, Ky., with three distinct, well-developed ear. The first printing by steam was on the issue of the London Times for Novem ber, 1814. One of the London Rothchilds jra offered $85,000 for his race horse, but refused the offer. Don't eat or talk much this hot weather. Now is a good time to let your mouth take a vacation. " A man can't .help what is done be hind his back," as the tramp said wheu he was kicked out of doors. In Huntington, Conn., there is a tree that bears sweet apples on one sido, sour apples on the other, and pears on top. . The town of Dayton, Me., has never had a meeting-house, a minister, a town house, a doctor, a lawyer, or a towu debt Probably the oldest maid in the world is Rebecca Anderson, oi Seneca Falls, New York, aged one hundred and twelve years. If it is true, that a man ia known by the umbrella he keeps, " then we tnuch be the Great Unknown. Worcester Press. There are now in Philadelphia 450 co operative and building loan a wooiations in which workingmen have nearly $70, 000,000 invested. An exchange says: " An Albany mau who used to live on ten cents a day died wealthy." Ho may have died wealthy, but he didn't. die fat. " Those Anierioan balls " But hero Alexis suddenly paused in his reminis cences of American MX'iety. A Rhode fsland bullet from a Turkish riilft JK- whistled off a piece of his cap. jf A Chicago man has fitted up t " to run by steam, and the horrined mer some C licm ti r ral. At bors are looking about for trivauce that will enable the by the same mechanical jiowei Fashions are but ephemeral. tain idea, a style, pleases the popular fancy for a moment, then gives way to something else. Here but fix months ago all tlie men were wearing ulsters ; now not one is seen on the streets. The Virginia fazettr, discussing) political situation, cries ; "Set i small men and self-appointed Give lis a giant!" Gontlej von hold our coat. Now. you want done first IlatrAcjr. Two tradesmen,- in conven learn, Wl.at .vu.nna tn Tnwko llwe earn ; A friend who sat near nniilc, " Live on half of your income, and live a while." " - A Kennebec (Me.) paper tells of a tain citv official who pointed out friend a house wherein a man laid weeks, aud his friends refused to him. " Why ! What was that for quire 1 the interested friend, man was not dead," was the spouse. A pair applied recently to in Kentucky to be married, was hatless, coat less and the woman was almost dition. They Imd uo county clerk, and one. but desired issue thV license mony needed, arm therefor "a half bushel of gathered next fall." Massachusetts State detectives, have leen circulating among the tri for the purpose of learning how to with them, say their observationi vince them that the great body of PL are professional thieves. Oocasiona one travels by himself, but they gener ally form into gangs for a few dayi or longer under the direction of a chief. and have their duties assigned to them, who areto beg to-day and who to-morrow and what plafij. . r7T,!ff")en into. It IS BJW. ,1 4l.A ru T II 1 1 tiiiviiAopiiAhl i " V-1 i ....... i . . r- '" ni headquarter,, f,,r the . stolen property among tho hiUH H1 tj. western part of MaHBachusett.- A Letter by Arumus-JWard. Mr. Charles F. Urowue otherwise ArtemuH Ward once wrote, a bright letter to a little ight-yeiir-oIdfriend of his in Elmira, N. Y., and the (javtu of that town now prints this letter for tho tiuie. He tella his "dear Amelia" how much he misses her : " Why I put von in a bottle and brinl a 4 down with rue ?" he savs. " Bnl always forgetting something. other day I went off and forgot n Sarah, and she's a gol deal biggei you are. Mr. Ramsey is also ayei getful man. lie freqnently goes u forgets his washerwoman. like you very much. I should lil just as well if voti were twelve. oliier. 1 am verv singular alon things. Yon spoke to me who is inv rival. I should sorry to kill that boy, but ho me to it. I am m hopes th take himself into a prcmatan that he may choke himself slice of ouddincr but u tie ati I shall feel forced to load him and read all my lectures to will finish him. His lxxjts mavi but the rest of him will have, miserably long ere I have got The New CocxTEHrEiT Firri Notes. The new counterfeit Third National bank of Buffalo, is thus described in the new Govern merit Detector: "Letter A em vjffr right hand corner.' PaiwnilarchlOta, 1 805. This is printed from the aJterrq plate of Central National hank of New Yoik. Title aud date of that have been changed Note lik. its predecrii I 'ighth of ap irch shorter t 1 I Ik m Yi vsuex" ft 7 7
Reidsville News (Reidsville, N.C.)
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