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1 - ill. MS. VOL. I. NO. 20. The Mother's Hjmn. WORDS rOK MCBIC. In the oloud-land of the west, Sinks the royal ran to rest ; Day is done end shadows dim O'er the glimmering landscape swim, Sleep, baby, sleep ! ' Chimes the mellow evening-bell, Sound a of labor eease to swell ; Lowing cattle, bleating sheep, From the darkening pastures creep, Bleep, darling, sleep ! As the dews of sleep descend, Hire and mother o'er thee bend, Soft thy rosy lips are press'd, Soft with prayer thy dreams are bless'd, Rest, cherub, restl t x ; Seraph r of the land of dreams Waft thee o'er Elynian streams, Far beyond the bending sky, Where the heavenly pastures lie, Sleep, angel, sleep?! When the day-dawn crimsons bright, When the green leaves dance in light, When the eaily song-birds wake Their sweet music for thy sake, Wake, baby, wake ! Itaae MvLelltm. THE HEAVY CROSS. Robert Hope and Samuel Hallins had lived neighbors for more than twelve years; and it is probable they would al ways have been on good terms, had not Samuel, who had served uuder Admiral Nelson, gained at Trafalgar a small pen sion, which he had paid for by the loss of one of his legs. This leg less, and this pension more, were for Robert a contin ual source of jealousy; he accused fate for having left him his two feet, and complained bitterly that he had not been able, as he said, to sell his legs at the same price with Hullins. Every time he went to pay his rent, he re peated grumblingly that his neighbor was very fortunate; that he was in a condition to meet his bills, since tht king gave him a good pension; while he, poor fellow, had hard work to make both ends of the year meet, without taking into account his creditors. Robert at first contented himself with making these reflections inwardly, but by degrees his dissatisfaction was ex pressed aloud, and became his habitual and favorite theme of conversation. One week that his rent had fallen be hind hand, and he was sadly advancing toward the house of Mr. Taylor, in or der to make his excuses for the delay, he met Neighbor Hullins, who was as regular as clockwork in paying his rent, and had just been for that purpose. The very sight of Samuel produoed on Robert the effect of a fit of sickness; so, when he bowed in reply to the sa lute of Hullins, his glance singularly resembled that of a bull shaking his horns at a dog. Arrived at the house of the proprie tor, Hope did not fail to be reprimand ed. The example of his neighbor was cited, who always paid punctually, arfd to the last penny. "Yes, yes," murmured Robert; "some peeple are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Hullins is very fortunate, and I am not surprised that he pays punctually with such a pen sion." " Hullins has a pension, it is true," replied Mr. Taylor; " but his infirmity is a heavy cross, and if you were afflicted with it, I should pity you muoh more." "Sot so," said Hope. "If I had been so fortunate as to lose a leg like him, twenty years ago, it would have been a productive day for me. I would sell all of my limbs at the same price. Do you call his oak leg a heavy cross ? IT AMM e i - . x imnK nis pension should render it light The heaviest cross that I know of is to be obliged to labor incessantly." mr. lay lor was a man of joyous hu mor, Dut a close observer. He had for a long time noticed the envious disposi tion oi xwoert, and resolved to convince him that the lightest cross might become heavy to a discontented mind. VI see," said he to Hope, "that you are disposed to do nothing. Well will exempt you from this obligation to laoor , or which you complain so bittarlv If you think the cross of vour neiirhhor Samuel, so ea3y to bear, will you accept a lighter one, if I will engage to give you your rent?" "That depends upon what kind of eross it is;" said Robert anxiouslv. for he feared that the proposition would net De acceptable. ; "This," said Mr. Tavlor: takinir pieoe of chalk and traoinjr. a white cross on Robert's jacket. " Daring the time that you wear this, I shall not demand a penny of your rent." Hope thouffht at first, that his lawi lord was jesting; but being assured that ne spoke seriously, he exclaimed By St George ! you may say that you nave seen my last money, for I am willing to wear this cross all my life time." Robert immediately went out. nnn gratulating himself on his good fortune . , . , : J In Vi?ng g 6 roftd at folly of Mr. Taylor, who had let him off so oueapiy from paying his rent He had never been so joyous as at the moment of returning home, as he found nothing to complain of, and his dog oame to sit down at his feet without his punishing him for his familiarity. As he seated himself on his arrival, bia wife did not at first notice the white cross whioh he had on his shoulder ; but having passed behind her husband to wind up the clock. h mjoni. in a shrill voice: uuuduui v n a. - "Why, Robert, where have you been ? Ton have on your back a cross a foot long. You have been to the tavern, and some drunkard among your friends has played you a trick to make you ridicu lous. Get up and let me brash off this this eross." "Away;" exclaimed Hope, hastily; " my clothes do not need your brushing. Go knit your stockings, and let me alone." , " That shall not be P exclaimed Mrs. Hope, in a Voice more eh rill. "I will not have my husband become the laughing-stock of the whole village, and if I tear your jacket to pieces, you shall not wear that ndiculons cross.' And as she spoke thus, the wife at tempted to brush Robert's shoulder ; and the latter, who knew that resistance would be useless, walked off, shutting the door after him violently. " What a fury V muttered he, as he went away. "If she had been more gentle, I would have told her of my good fortune ; but she does not deserve to know it" "Oh! oh! Robert," exclaimed old Fox, at the moment when Hope turned the corner of his house, "what is that white cross on your back ?" " Take care of your own clothes," in solently replied Hope, going his own way. " Mr. Hope," said little Patty Ste vens, the grocer's daughter, " stop one moment, if you please, that I may rub out that great white cross you have on your shoulder." "Go and sell your herrings, lazy girl," replied Robert, " and do not oon cern yourself about the passers-by." The little girl, silenced, hastened to re-enter her mother's shop. At this moment Hope arrived at the house of the butcher, who was convers ing On the threshold with his neigh bor the blacksmith. 'A, You are just the man I wanted," said the Jitter, stopping Robert; and he began to speak to him on business; but hardly had he commenced, when old Peggy Turton arrived in her plaid gown and blue apron. "Meroyl Mr. Hope, exclaimed she, taking no her apron, " what is that on your back ?" Robert turned to tell her to let him alone, but the blacksmith then perceived the mark made by Mr. Taylor. might serve for a sign to the White Gross." "I suppose," said the butcher, "that his wife has marked him thus for fear of osinghim." Hope felt that there was for him but one method of escaping at the same time from the apron of Peggy, and the okes of the butcher and blacksmith . so he hastened to leave the spot, not with out some abusive language to his neigh bors; but the cross had begun to weigh more heavily upon his shoulders than he had at first supposed. The unfortunate Robert seemed dee - tined this day to provoking encounters , for he had gone but a few steps when he found himself opposite the schoolhouse. School was just out. and the scholars were at this moment issuing from tho door, ready for any fun that might pre sent itself. Hope was terribly uneasy, and imagined he already heard cries be hind him. His fears were soon realized he had scarcely passed the schoolhouse door when a long shout was heard, and nfty scholars at least began to pursue him and point at him, throwing up their caps in the air. "Look, look!" exclaimed one; "there is a sheen marked for tha hnfnhnr " T4 i -i .1 . . . . yuu boo, repiica anotner, it is a crusader just setting out for Pales tine?' And the shouting and laughter reeom menced more loudly. nope became pale with anger: he turned like across dog pursued by chil dren, and perhaps would have eruellv revenged himself on his young perse cutors, had not Mr. Johnson, the school master, suddenly appeared at the door of his house. Robert advanced toward him, com plaining of his pupils as being insolent Mr. Johnson replied that he would not for the world encourage'impertinence in them, but that the white cross which he had on his back might make wiser peo pie than bovs laugh. " What is this cross to you ?" replied rwoert, eroesly. " Is not my back my own property r The schoolmaster smilingly assented and Hope went on- his way. Rut the cross was growing heavier and heavier. Me began to think that it would not be so easy to pay his rent in this man ner. So much raillery had already been neaped upon mm, what would it be if the cause were known ? His landlord might as well have written on his back a receipt in full. As he reflected thus, Robert arrived at the tavern. He was passing by when I x- J ""uoou at n few paoeB di8tanoe nd on the other ne perceived Mr. Tavlor himsif side his neighbor Hullins, dragging his wooden leg, and conversing with Harry Stokes, the carpenter. Harrv Stokes was the wit of the village, and Hope would not have enoounted him before Mailing for the world. He therefore took refuge in the tavern. uut the place was not lone tAn&Hi The drinkers did not fail to perceive the cross, and to rally Hone, who raw gry ; the quarrel became violent and 4-Via iwaw 1 . . -.oopr, tearing some serious result, turned Robest out of (ton. WARKENTON, - t The latter had left home with the in tention of examining some work which had been offered to him in a neighbor ing village, but his mind had been so disturbed by old Fox, Patty Stevens, the blacksmith, the butcher, Peggy Turton, and the schoolboys, tint he re solved to return home, thinking that would be, after all, the peaceable place. Have you ever seen in the month of September, a young partridge, the last of the brood, fluttering along through the fields, with a wounded wing ? Such was Robert on his way to his home at the other end of the village. Now he walked rapidly lest ne should bo over taken, now slowly leet he should meet some one ; now in the road, now in the fields, gliding behind the bushes, climb ing the walls, and shunning glances like a gypsy who has stolen a chicken from a farmer's poultry yard. At this mo ment the white cross was an insupport able weight. At last he reached his dwelling, and this time hoped to find a little rest But as soon as his wife perceived him she began to cried out: "Are you not ashamed to come back as yon wen ? Five or six of our neigh bors have asked me if you had lost your senses! Quick! let me rub out that cross I" "Away, woman 1" exclaimed Robert, exasperated. "You shall not remain'so, Hope; I will not have any one belonging to me so ridiculous. Take off that jacket ! take it off this minute, I tell you !" As she spoke thus, Mrs. Hope attempt ed to seize her husband's arm; but -the latter rudely repulsed her. Mrs. Hope, who was not remarkable for patience, replied by a blow, and the result was a souffle between the two, to the great scandal of the neighbors, who ran to separate them. Everybody blamed Robert, who, when he oecame calm, understanding that there was no hope of rest or peace for him otherwise, effaced the cross of his own accord. The Monday following he carried his rent to the house of his landlord. " Ah ! ah 1 Robert. " said Mr. Tavlor. on perceiving him, "I thought you would soon repent your bargain. This a good lesson for envious and im patient dispositions, who are inoessantly complaining. Do not complain of bein not the sufferings of your neighboi. All crosses are heavy ; the way to render them light is to bear them with pa tience, courage and good will. Discomfited. Many singular soenes are enacted in this city by silly young men who imag ine that thev are in love with some pretty girl, to whom they have never had even in introduction; but the palm or impudence and poor judgment must be awarded to a young man who rode downtown on a Baker street car yester day afternoon. For several months the young man, who goes to and from his meals about the same hours with a young lady who lives in the western part of the city and is employed in a leading jewelry store, has stared at her, smiled at her, and in every way possible en deavored to attract her attention. By some means he learned her name, and yesterday when she entered the car he bowed to her as soon as she was seated. took a seat beside her. savinc: " Miss Blank, I think we have seen enough of each other to be better ac quainted. Surprised at his assurance, but with ready wit the young lady replied sharp ly: " Certainly I have seen enough of you." Not at all abashed by the retort or the presence of half-a-dozen other passen gers, he continued: "But, my dear Miss Blank, the admiration of a gentle man" She interrupted him with: "Show that you are a gentleman by not trou bling me any further, "and changed her seat in the oar. The discomfited ninny kept his: position in silence for a time, but at lest the broadly-smiling faces of the other passengers proved too muoh for his nerves and he hastily made his exit from the car. Detroit Free Press. Scolding. With some, scolding is chronic. T.ifA is one long fret. The flesh is feverish the nerves unstrung, the spirit per turbed and in a state of unrest. The physical condition and the material sur roundings may have a strong tendency to disturb our equanimity and to exas- am4a kia l- yxav um leuuugs; put we are apt to bear in mind that the scolding never did anybody good, and withal grows to be very uncomfortable to the party who indulges in it Inappropriate to anybody, scolding appears most hateful in parents and ministers. Set to be dispensers of kind ness and love to those with whom they are more especially associated, it is hor rible to. see gall distilled instead of char ity that blesses both parties. Scolding turns a household into a pandemonium, and a church into an inquisition. Bear in mind that kindness and gentle speech are a great deal easier to practice than their opposites. Why practice the worse thing when harder r Arrest yourself in the indulgence of this bad habit right here.. Begin now, and put yourself un der bonds to be good natured. ZiorCs Harold. N. C, ifftlDAY, MaECH 14, 1879. ' 1 : i TIMELf TOPICS. TT ' .. . nair switch S' ers are operating all over the Unii States. Thev gather together all the oose hair that the young ladies have from combings. promising, for a A S . a i iry small oonsidera- uon, to mage it n switehes, and then they steal out of the town. The experiment of injecting milk, warm from the cow, into the veins of an apparently dying man has been tried, it is stated, in a Dublin hospital, and with success. Tie man on whom the operation was mjde appeared only to have a few miaates to live, so utterly exhausted was he, but it is asserted that he has since recovered. A gentleman in Dayton, Ohio, set a valuable example to guardians and trus tees. Ten years ago the death of a rela tive made him the guardian of a young lady. He received in her behalf $20, 000, to be held in trust until she be came of age. She reached maturity not long ago, and her guardian handed over to her $40,000. Her guardian has doubled her legacy by discreet invest ments, and did not keep the profits as his commission. A Yokohama contemporary states that the Japanese government has au thorized the issue, by a Japanese pub lisher, of an edition of the book of Genesis in Chinese, prepared for the Japanese by the insertion of the kun ten, the work of the American Bible society. This is the first portion of the scriptures the publication of which in Japan has been authorized by means of the government stamp; and, having in view the great distaste which the au thorities have so long entertained to the introduction of foreign religions, the fact is significant and worthy of record. Instances of marriage resulting from correspondence between strangers are frequently read of, but a Chicago paper tells a different story about a pair who, after exchanging letters, met by ap pointment in that city. The surprise with which she discovered that he, in stead of being twenty-seven, tall, dark and aristocratic, was forty-six, stumpy, 1 -t Mm' m m m - rea-neaaeci, iat and bow-legged, was instead of being willowy of figure, just eighteen, with, warm golden hair, an opalescent complexion, and blue eyes like limpid lakes, was six feet one if she was an inch, fifty-two if she was a day, weighing 300 pounds if she did an ounce, and with no warm yellow or any other hair of her own." A Lake Tillage in Switzerland. The remains of another lake village have just been brought to light at Lor cas by the shrinkage of the waters of the lake of Bienne. The village, assigned by experts to the age of stone, is situat ed at a short distance from the shore, not far from another and singular sta tion whioh was explored in 1873. An exploration conducted by Dr. Gross has resulted in the gathering of many novel and interesting objects, pierced stone hatchets, similar to those found in Den mark, large flint lance-heads, jade hatchets with stag horn and wooden hafts fastened with pitch ; vessels in wood, among others a colander and a vase in a good state of preservation. Near these were found several arms and instruments of pure copper, a circum stance which points to the probability that intermediate between the age of bronze and the age of stone was a period when pre-historic men had not discover ed the art of alloying copper with tin. This was the age of copper of North America. Still more remarkable is a find of human skulls, which bear un mistakable marks of having been tre panned. Round pieces have been out out, doubtless after death, for use as amulets, and pieces of infants' cranea were found in the skulls of the dead, put there to protect the bodies from the wiles and assaults qf evil beings in the world of spirits. Camels in Arizona. The Yuma Sentinel says : "A herd of camels was driven here from Nevada nearly two years ago. Finding no profit able work for them, their owners turned them loose along the Gila to the east ward of Yuma. There they have been living and breeding, looking fat and sleek all the time. For a while they were in danger of extermination. When ever they put in m appearance along the wagon road they frightened mules and horses beyoni control of the drivers. They socn earned the ever lasting hatred of teamsters, some of whom acquired a habit of shooting camels on sight Since, however, the railroad has been delivering freight at Adonde the road along the Gila this side of that place has been compara tively abandoned bv teamsters, and the remaining camels have a good chance to show what they caa do in the way of propagation. The waterless desert of Sonora, south and southeast of Yuma, is known to possess immense deposits of salt, sulphur, borax and soda. Its mountains are also known to carry ex tensive deposits of metals. To these camels we look for eventually making these treasures accessible and available. A good conscience is able to bear very much, and is very cheerful in adversities. THE PIE-EATER. Varied and Thrilling Adventures Champion of Posey onnty . f the M Yes, sir; I'm the champion pie eater of the United States. You've probably heard tell of me." "Sit down, Mr." "Guazler, sir. Crampton Guzzler, sir, of Posey county. You see, Mr. Editor, I thought as how I'd step in and tell you some of my experience during the two years of my professional career. You can print it in your newspaper if you like. I don't keer." He turned up the lappel of his coat and exhibited a badge. " D'ye see that stranger ?" " Yes," we ventured. ' New style of button?" "Button! Blazes, no! Why, that's my badge. That's me championship medal. These here fellows what walk so many miles in so many dissecutive hours are all frauds. Everybody ought to be able to walk. That only requires legs and wind. But it takes a man of indomitable character to eat pie." " How did you first get into the pro fession, Mr. Guzzler?" I'll tell you, mister, how that was. One day I cum up hyar to the city and went into a bakery to get something to eat. I was all fired hungry, and the first thing I seed was a tablefull of fresh-baked pies. An idear struck me. I axed the baker what he'd take to let me eat as many of them pies as I wanted. He looked at me all over, and after taking my measure, he said I might have a cart blank commission for fifty cents. " I took him up and paid my half dol lar rather rashly. I had no sooner done it than I regretted my rashness kinder, and I offered him a dime to let me off, and I'd pay for what I got. But he said a bargain was a bargain. Then I got mad and set to work, beginnin' with the specie called apple, I had absorbed eight pies, and was on the pint of quar tering a pumpkin beauty, when I be came aware that the baker was in terested. When the third pumpkin pie had succumbed he tried to buy me off said he'd give me back a quarter if I'd call it square. I told him I guessed not Now that I had got my hand in, I reckoned I might just r -U see how far I could go wiMD TRUNKS, od 'I Sjjpourteciith Streqt, Richmond, c v . auviv ncic just forty-two pies of assorted variety on that table, and I swamped 'em all. If the pies hadn't given out, I might have found my capacity then and there. The baker was speechless. I axed him twice before he could answer if he knew of any tavern near-by where I could git a square meal. He said he didn't; but there was a pork-house out at the stockyards. As I went out of the door I heard him tell his boy to go and build the fire up in the oven again. " Yes, sir. Well, I hadn't got to the corner when the baker came running up, and, said he, I've got an idea.' I thought he was going to say he had baked some more pies; but he only wanted to make a deposition. He said there was millions in it that plan of his. I should travel and give free eatin' exhibitions. He would furnish the pies if I would perform, and we'd divide the profits. I agreed, and we drew up ar ticles of partnership." "Well?" we suggested, intensely in- interested, as he hesitated, with a rue ful cast of countenance. "It didn't work. The baker lost on the pies, and drew out at the end of the week $250 behind." " People didn't appreciate your tal ent ?" we suggested. "Yes they did, though. That's what swamped us. It warn't the natural business that cost bat the angcores. Yqp see they insisted so much on me repeatin' an act that the pies piled up like thunder. May be you wouldn't believe it, but I've been called out afore the curtin as many as six times a night." He stopped to reconnoitre for the ef fect of his statement Feeling assured, he added : " An' every time I had to eat another basket of pies." "After the show broke, Mr. Guzzler, what did you do ?" " Why, then I went into the champion business. That was two years ago come Decoration day. Since then I hev et seventy- two matches, an' lost only two of 'em." "Lost, did yon?" Yes, sir. " I'm 'shamed to tell it, but I lost 'em. 'Twarn't fair, however 'twarn't by fair means. First time I had to knock under was up in Vigo county. My competitor ware a feller who had no nne pints of nonor about him, an him an' his backers set it up on me." "How so?" "Why, the rascal bribed the con tractor who furnished the pies. Well, sir, d'ye believe it, the apples in his pies had been cooked and swelled afore they were baked. Some way or 'nother they succeeded in puttin' my apples into the crust just as they cum out of the bag. You kin guess the rest." " Not exactly," we urged. " Well, while I was oorralin' the sixth pie, them blamed apples I had already overcome began to soak and swell into me. Then, mister, I had to cease far ther operations, and tend to the contract I already had taken. Never had men a time in my life. I could jest feel them dried fruit swellin' up under my waist band like bubbles from a pipe. They ' . . kept a-swell in' and a-swellin' till I thought I'd heve to git cut open." " But you didn't?" " No, I didn't After they had inflat ed to their full capacity, I found I had breathin' room left, but that was about all. My heart was pushed away to one side, and had to thump and do duty off in one corner for half a day." " Narrow escape," we suggested. " Narrow escape ! Well. I should say so. One more of them contracted pies would have blown my head right off my shoulders like a busted biler." "And your second defeat ?" " Cum about in this wise: That was up in Grant county. My component didn't try no dried-apple dodge on me not much. It wouldn't hev been healthy ef he had. But it was my own fault I had told my baker to hev the pies ready sure at the appointed hour when we were ready to start. Well, he 'em ready too red-dy." Guzzler smiled at the pun, and then suddenly winced and sucked in a mouth ful of cool air as he seemed to recollect something. " Them pies had just come from the oven, and were so hot they would have melted stone. The hour was at hand, however, an' I must either eat 'em or lose the match. Well, air, there never was nothin' I would not attempt, and I charged." "Charged?" " Yes, sir; I attempted to carry 'em by storm. It was jest awful. Talk about yer Chicago fire. Twarn't no comparison." Guzzler pioked up his hat and tried to fan away the recollection before be continued. "I didn't get through the contract. They tell me it was an awful sight while it lasted. The smell that rolled out of my mouth was like burnt cracklings. The tears poured down my cheeks, fell on the pie, and were turned into steam till my face was scalded like a hog on the outside, and though I couldn't see two inches before my eyes, I kept it up till I fainted." " Fainted ?" " Wall, yas, I might as well own up. I fainted. Bat, stranger, if you had seen the inside of my mouth durin' the two months I was in the hospital, yon woulda t have wondered that I fainted. SMSTV TV VUt miater the doctor said as . , o " J brain. He wanted to open my head and amputate the cooked globe, but I said I hadn't any to spare, cooked or raw." " Then you lost the match ?" " Lost the match ! Well, I reckon i did; and I e'en a'most lost my derned head in the bargain. I claimed foul on t'other fellow, but the refugee wouldn't low it. He said if I didn't know when it got too warm for me, he guessed I'd have to smoke." Mr. Guzzler appeared to have flnithed his reminiscence, for lie untwisted his legs, poised his hat on his scorched mat it cooKea Uie lower alnhA nf mv cranium, stood up pretty muoh as a telescope is drawn out, and tendered us the following challenge for publi cation : To Alii who It may discern: I hear bay challenge enny man (or wumman) in the U. 8. black white or yaller be tween the ages of six and sixty to ete pize with me. Sed Pize to be uv stand ard materile uv equel sighs with tu krussts and an inch nv insides. Steaks To Bee 5 hundred $ up: Crampton Gtjzzlir, Pozy Co. Ind. P. 8. Pize to be cold. P. P. 8. Dried appel pize hard. O. G. Cincinnati Enquirer. Colorado, the Colored Land. This land derived its name from its many-colored turreted hills and rocks, which, white, pink and blue, stand out in painted contrast with the unchanging greenery of gnarled and wide fringed pines. From the divide the whole range of the Rocky mountains is seen at a glance; and they are ever varying in color. In early morn Pike's peak is clad in violet, and the rising sun tips him with gold ; in the evening he is all rose. The Snowy range is sometimes silver pure, bright silver; and at other tidies the snow is a perfect pink, fading, as the sun sets, into a gray and violet and white. In a bright noonday the foot hills display all their hues of green and umber. The peak, as I write in January, is violet-colored, streaked with silver. I fear no brush can ever represent it as it is in nature's dress. It must be seen. The vivid colors of the rainbow in this land are truly en chanting when they appear, though we seldom have a true rainbow, so rare is the rain-shower. But we have other rainbows a rainbow in the snow mist, a kind of snowy sleet which falls on the hills, and at times rises from the Snowy range under the heat of the sun like a bright gauze vail. On a frosty evening, too, at sundown, the landscape is hemmed with an atmosphere painted with all the colors of the rainbow as with a broad ribbon. Night in Colorado is not black, or even gray; but when the weather is fine, which is nearly always, the moon sails in a firmament of dark blue, bright and clear. Truly, then, is this Western land styled "Colorado" a land clothed , like the darling child of the Hebrew patriarch , in a robe of many oolors. Freuer't Magtmine. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 per inn ITEMS OF IREST. Spelling bees -B and b. What's the use of scalding tears ? A female elephant is known by the size of her trunk. "May Myrtle:" "No; base ball is not woman's sphere. Julius was a great Otssar, and he wasn't a sheriff, either. Twenty-five families of Mennonites in Manitoba cultivate 10,400 acres. When you want to close a controversy with a neighbor, shut your own month nrst. A Miss Fiandreau, aged eighteen and weighing 516 pounds, died recently in a New York museum. An agricultural journal says that "poultry cannot be made to pay." Then why not put it on the dead-bead list? Few and far between are the legs of the one-legged man who left the other down South fifteen years ago. Now York Mail. Faults are pliable in infancy; change able in childhood; more resolute in youth; firmly rooted in manhood; and inflexible in old age. The word "republican" over the doors of club-houses in Italy has been prohibited by the royal government since the fall of the Oairoli cabinet Kind words are bright jewels. More precious than gold; Though used for lifetime, They never grow old. The six largest States are: Texas, with 274,366 square miles; California, 188,981; Nevada, 112,090; Colorado, 104,600; Oregon, 95,274, and Minnesota, 83,681. It is said that no less than thirty offi cers high in authority in the Bussian police have been assassinated since the murder of Mesentaoff, the chief of police in St Petersburg. When editors work themselves into a red heat writing about the " freedom of the press," they never mesa for yon carry off the latest number of their , per without paying for it Argo. In a certain office a butcher. n gaged ix oder to man pabult The natural selfishness if never more strikingly set foi the supreme pleasure with whieJ comfortably-housed railway psssesy enjoy seeing the train make a farmers team run away and scrape the troubled agriculturist up against a barbed wire fence. DBSTTJUV. Law sits natahing the clouds overhead. " Where are they going, I wonder?" Prosaic Tom, from the door of the shed, " I guess they are going to thunder I " Where are they going ?" Ethel in quires. Watching the cows ss they pass ; Rudely shouts Bill, with a voice likes crier's , " I reckon they are going to grass P Miss Josie Baker, daughter of Prof. O. H. Baker, of Iudianols, III., has re - oently been appointed a tutor of the Greek language at Simpson college, in that place. She is only sixteen years old, but reads and writes Greek fluently. When but eight years old she had read three books of Homer, as well as the other works in Greek which usually precede that author, and at the age of fourteen years she had made a complete lexicon of a tragedy of Sophocles. She is also equally proficient in Latin, and more or less familiar with French and German. The plague spot in Russia is a dis trict along either shore of the Volga from Astrakhan, at its mouth, to Taret zin, at the confluence of the Don and Volga, about one hundred and fifty miles west of the Caspian ses. It is only a small patch on the surface of Russia, and. the rigid quarantine regu lations adopted by the czar's govern ment ought to check it. The difficulty encountered in the present instance lies mainly in the fact that the infected dis trict is the very focus and channel of the vast trade between Russia and Asia, and is thronged by people of many different tribes and tongues, any one of whom may carry the plague to his home. How Farmers are Swindled. A farmer living in this town, near Ridge Mills, named C. S. Pollard, is the latest victim of traveling swindlers. Parties came to him a short time since and induced him to purchase the right to sell s patent steamer to cook cattle feed. Ho negotiated for the territory of Borne and Vienna, and signed what he supposed was a contract. And there is where he made his mistake. It don't pay to sign anything whatever, and allow stiange parties to take the signature away with them. The only object is to get their victim to sign, and by that sign they conquer, generally. The paper which Mr. Pollard signed turned out to be an agreement to give his note for $160. The parties called upon him for the note and compelled him to give it They then sold the note, and the victim will be obliged to pay it. It seems as though a law might be framed to apply to such esses as this, by which justice could be meted out to the nu merous vampires who travel about the country robbing unsuspecting persons. (2K T.)
The Warren News (Warrenton, N.C.)
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March 14, 1879, edition 1
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