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tbg coimnonwEALTn U. - '.. . '.' ' Scotland Neck, n.o.l 7 An uncompromising Democratic Jour-1 nal. Published every Thursday morning. I . ALTH AslvcrtialB sr Bates t J. B. NEjIL, Manager, i wen x wees. 1 I month, - $1.00. 2.50. Ssibscriptlos Hates ; E. E. HILLIARD, Editor. "THE LAND WE LOVE." Terms : $2 00 per year in Advance. Contracts for any space or time may be made at the office of The Common WKAX.TH. Transient advertisements must be paid rnr in advance. 1 Copy 1 Year. 1 " 6 Months, .$1,00. $1.00. VOL. I. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY; JULY 26, 1883. NO. 47. :': ':;.ff:.;. ' "V. :r"'"";-i,.:: :.:'-fv'T' UOMMOMWE For Dyspepsia, Coatlvenaaa, . Siek Headache, Caroaie Diar rhoea, Jaundice, Isnpurity. of (ae BIood,Ver and Acne, i Malaria, and all IMseaaea caused by De- vangemeat of Liver, Bowel and Kidneys. SYMPTOMS OT A DISEASED UTEB. ' g.J Breath ; Pain in the Side, sometimes the pain U felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax; the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy, with considerable loss of memory, accompanied with a painful sensation of leaving undone something which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often mistaken for consumption; die patient complains ef weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled; feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent, and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene ficial, yet one can hardly summon op fortitude to try it ia fact, distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred when but few of them existed, yet examination after death has shown the Uvsr to have bwjyteasively deranged.; i It shoflM be need by an persons, old and young, whenever any osT the above symptoms appear. Persona Traveling healthy Localities, bi or Urine In TTn- DV taking a dose occasion- allv to keep the Liver in healthv action, will avoid all Malaria, Bilious attacks. Dizziness, Nan sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but la no in toxica ting beverage. If Ton have eaten anything hard of digestion, or feel heavy after meals, or sleep lets at night, take a doss and you will be relieved. Time and Doctors' Bills win be sawed by always keeping the Regulator In the Moose I For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and tonic can never oe out of place. The remedy is harmless and does not interfere with business or pleasure. . IT IS FTJKaXT TXOKTABIJE, .. And has all the power andeficacy of Calomel or Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects. '" A Governor's Testimony. Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use ia my family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a valuable addition to the medical science. J. Gill Shobtu, Governor of Ala. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of 6s., says : Have derived some benefit from the use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a further trial. "The only Thing that never falls to Relieve." I have used many remedies for Dys pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never have found anything to benefit me to the extent Simmons Liver Regulator has. I sent from Mia- nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim ilarly affected to give It a trial is it seems the only thing that never fails to relieve. P. M. Jajwxt, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. W. Mason sayst From actual ex perience in the me of Simmons Liver Regulator in my practice I have been and am satisfied to use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. tTake only die Genuine,' which always has on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Mark and Signature of J. H. ZELUN CO. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. GENERAL DIRECTORY. SCOTLAND NECK. Mayor W. H. Shields. ; Commissioners Noah Biggs, M. Hoff man, K. M. Johnson, iv. Allsbrook. Meet first Tuesday in each month at 4 o'clock, PM. Chief of Police R. J. White. Assistant Policemen C. W. Dunn, W. E. Whitmore, C. Speed. Sol. Alexander. Treasurer R M Johnson. Clerk K. Allsbrook. ' CHURCHES : VI Baptist J. D. Hufham. D. D., Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11 o'clock, A. M., and at 7, P. M. Also on Saturday before the first Sunday at 11 o'clock, A. M. Praver Meeting everv Wednesday night. Sunday School on Sabbath morn ing. Primitive Baptist Eld. Andrew Moore, Pastor. Services every third Saturday ana aunaay morning. Methodist Rev. C. W. Byrd. Pastor, i Services at 3 o'clock, P. M. on the second and fourth Sundays. Sunday School on aaoDatb morning. Episcopal Rev. H. G. Hilton, Rector. services every first, second and third Sundays at 10 o'clock, A. M. Sunday School every Sabbath mornine. Meeting of Bible class on Thursday nigni ai tne resiaenceoi Mr. v. js. smith. Baptist (colored.) George Norwood. Pastor. Services every second Sunday ani o ciock, a. m., ana 7, r. si. Sun day School on babbath morning. o . COUNTY. Superior Court Clerk and a v fit m Probate! tiuage jonn x. uregory. nferior Court--Geo. T. Simmons. Register of Deeds J. M. Grizzard, Solicitor A. J. Burton. Sheriff" R.J.Lewis. Coroner J H Jenkins. Treasurer E. D. Browniner. Co. Supt. Pub. Instruction D fi nirV Keeper of the Poor House John Ponton. Commissioners Chairman, Aar0n Pres - cow, sterling Johnson, Dr. W. R. wood, John A. Morfleet, and M.I -vvnneneaa. Superior Court Every third SMondav ;H v3n March and September. ' fl?1?0' Court Every third Monday in -r.?Dro"y My,August and November. r Judge of Inferior Court T. N. Hill. .JUST THE PIPER THE PECPLE WMT ! '-: 4 ED. OLDHAM'S WESTERN SENTINEL! "-'V (Established 1852.) Should ; be -Read at.. Every : Fireside in . r Wstern. North X'aralina.-. Puli of Newsv Fun, General' lWonnation and. Something to Interest Everybody. .. SEE) 3 CEITS1Z3 TRY IT THXEE CC3THS! WE have one hundred town tots 'for sale in this town. Some of them are very desirable. - This is a rapidly growing town, and persons wishing to secure good places for residences and bus iness stands, and to make good invest ments, will do well to call On us.' ' KITCHW&DUNN. July llit 1882 v' . PRES3 COHTEBTCIOH POEM. Tou have set me, gallant gentlemen, j A'task beyond my powers My muse is just a j butterfly . i That sports thro' sunny hours. Its fragile wings assay no flight j Beyond the rosy flush, Where throbbing in warm golden light The summer roses blush. I And reaching upward to the height To which your aims aspire, ! Would need an eagle's soaring flight, An eagle's eye of fire. No longer Pleasure's idle guest Allures your eager feet, As gathering from the east and west, From north and south you meet. I Aroused at last you recognize,- : And wiser grown, confess, How high the calling that is yours, How powerful the Press ! Your task it is to hold the guage That measures public right, And for the people's good to wage With wrong and endless fight. No private gain, no selfish end Must check the utterance strong, With which the Right you e'er defend, Ur boldly censure Yv rong. No coward's heart, no fawning thrift, No lust o ' place, nor gold, For tho' self-chosen, still it is - A public trust you hold. Between the factions of the day, That mean ignoble strife Men look to you to point the way To a purer public life. To lift the public standard up To a higher, broader plane, Where the country's good is sometimes sought, Instead of private gain. You spin the subtle threads that sway The people in their choice, The echo of your words it is That swells the public voice. By you in large degree is wrought The country's weal or woe, You start the springs of public thought Whence public actions flow. I There was an old Egyptian law, A strange majestic thing When death before the bar of God Called him who was their king, A herald summoned forth the dead, Once more in royal state, To take his place midst living men And solemn trial wait. While all the nobles of the land, In grave tribunal then Judged all his life, the good, the ill, That he had wrought for men. Time changeth forms, altho' that court Is held in every land, No longer dead, but living men At its tribunal stand. And every editorial desk Has a judgment seat been made, Whereat the deeds of public men, The good and ill are weighed. f . ... Their actions scanned, their motives sought, Whether for wrong or right, , And woe to him who falleth short When weighed in public sight. But the public mind is fair and true, The. public heart is kind- Take heed no selfish motives tinge The verdicts that you find. For should the test of time disprove Ane charges that you made. ihe public scorn will shift to him Who stabbed with treacherous blade. And yet a higher trust you hold, A trust both grave and great , For those who train the children's mind Make the future of the State. I Who fills a child's unreasoning mind With tales of crime and vice, Is planting there a scorpion's egg, To bear a cockatrice. From a fountain poisoned at the source A poisoned stream must flow, And the grain we reap at harvest Springs from the seed we sow. Then oh ! take care my masters, v -: That you sow not hurtful seed i T In the columns of the journals . -That the little children read, V tet innocence still hold a jvefl, : " v Unrent before her eyes( . Nor barter harmless ignorance " - For knowledge that is not wise. : God saveyou all, brave gentlemen, , : And make you strong to raise r i-. Your calling far above the snaris - To be so fcmve, so just, so true, That all men must confess v " How noble is the work yottdo, How mighty is the Press I"' ; . " . . ... kj CaSckron, Hulsboro, N. C, July 4th, 1883, ADYICE TO A BRIDEGROOM. To become a husband is as serious matter to a man as it is for a wo- man to become a wife. Marriage is no child's play ; it brings added care, trial, perplexity,' vexation, and it requires a great deal of the hap piness which legitimately springs ont of it to make the balance heavy in its favor. Very few people live happily in marriage, and yet this is not because unhappiness is german to the relation, but because those who enter it do not know, first, how to get married, and, second, how to ive married happily. Yorf have al ready made your choice wisely, I am bound to believe. Those quali ties of character which have attract eJ you to choose as you have should make your love grow daily while you ive together. ' As to the second point : If you wish to live in harmonious union with your wife, start out with the avowed recognition of the fact that she is your companion and copartner. Marriage usually makes the wife neither of these. In many instances she sees less of her husband than be fore she married him. He comes, he goes, he reads, tbmks, wotks, and under the stimulus of business brings all his powers and faculties to the surface, and is developed there not always symmetrically, but vigorous- y not always harmoniously, but with increasing power. Married men do not usually shrivel up nor put on a look of premature age, but women frequently do, and it is plain to me why they do. Married women are shut up in bouses, and their ctiiet care is lor things that have no inspiring influ ence. Their time is taken up in meeting the physical wants of their amilies cooking, washing dishes, keeping the house in order, sewing, receiving company not one of which bas in it a tendency even to culture and elevation Married women are devoted to the house, and this means life of vexation and pettiness. It gives no sort ot stimulus to tne spirit. So the husband, who is out of doors, active, interested in meas ures which effect the public good. coming into contact with men greater than himself, who inspire him to bet ter Durooses and nobler ends of abor, develops into manly beauty and grows in character, while his wife at home, .who has faithfully per formed her share of the work, with ers and decays prematurely.., ( Treat your wife exactly as your self would like to be treated if you had to live under like circumstances, and y mi will not go far wrong. Do not ehtsrtain the silly notion that because she is of a different gender from your own that she is therefore different in her wants, feel ings, qualities and powers. . Do not be the victim of social policy. Stand up bravely for the right, give your wife a chance to live, grow,, and be somebody and become something. x ry to De tnougntiui considerate and forbearius. You will have new sv . a . a . M 1 . . s duties, and they will bring new trials Take good care of your health and hers. Be simple, both, in vour hab its ; be careful in your expenditures be industrious. If you keep gooa health and are frugal, blessings wil come from your united love, and you will grow happier and better day by day as the vears pass. Dr. James C. Jackson.. AN ALARMING DISEASE. Worms Which Eat up People Alive in Kansas. y A correspondent of the New York Sun 'describes : a new and horrible disease, at first confined to Texas cattle, but which has begun to attack human . beings' in Kansas. . On the plains of Texas lives the screw worm fly, the terror of cattle. A, .fight be tween Texas cattle usually ends in one of them being wounded. The smell of the blood drifts down the wind, and the attracted screw flies course noon the scent, anxious to deiiosit their esrsrs in the wmnd The substance contains hundreds o eggs, which hatch in twenty-four hours, when the worms burrow into the flesh and the animal is literally devoured alive. , The screw worm ia a little over half aa inch long. It is corrugated and exceedingly hard. When put under the point of a knife and press ed upon the worm slips from under the steel and flies through the' air as wougu maae oi ruDDer.- imagine a white half inch screw having a point ed black head instead of the usual slotted one. That is a. fair reprer sentation of the screw worm. - The flies have been blown by southwest winds into Kansas, where they have attacked men and women. One case, reported in a medical jour nal, is worthy of note. The patient hau long suffered from ozena. On the evening of August 22, 1882, this man complained of a tickling sensa tion at the base of the nose, that was promptly followed by exhaustive iezing. This in its turn was fol- owed by intense pain in the region of the eyes and cheeks. The physi cian in attendance mistakenly sup posed that the pain was the ' result of ozena. The discharge from the nostrils was purulent and tinged with blood,' and exceedingly offensive. The breath of the patient was revolt ing. It may be that his condition was so extremely offensive that the attending physician did not make an examination that would have reveal ed the presence of the disturbing 1, , j5 cause, r or two aavs tne man .rur inu uays tut; : mail ui fered intense pain. All remedies ad ministered failed to give relief. On the evening of the 24th of August there was a sudden and profuse dis charge from both of the nostrils and the mouth. Instantly all pain ceased. There was no longer any involuntary discharge. The pus was with diffic ulty expectorated. The soft palate had been destroyed, and the tongue could no longer be used in speech. When this stage of the disease had been reached a screw worm, much to the astonishment of the attending physician, fell from the mouth of the dying man. Une after another, in obedience to the laws of their nature, ull grown screw worms, wriggled from his nostrils and mouth until 360 of them crawled from the honey combed head and throat, me man died. An examination showed that he fleshy part of the interior of his head had been almost devoured. By throwing back his head and depress- ing the swollen tongue, the vertebrae were exposed to view. There were other cases in which the worms were removed by forceps, and the patients, though dilapidated, recovered. All those attacked had catarrh. Ex. SENATOR JONES' START IN CALIFOR NIA. Senator Jones.of Nevada, had gone o California with thousands of oth ers when the wonderful discovery of gold in that far-off land thrilled every l 12. :i1MA .. A tvii f hnoa najnie ,.u was a man named uavwara, irom Vermont. Hayward had a claim on the mountain-side that as yet had shown no particular promise ; still he stuck to it. One hot summer day, when the Red Hills were quivenng with heat, Howard came to see Jones. Said he: "Jones, I am very near the wonder ful vein. I know it ; I feel it, but : I am flat broke. I want $2,000 ; with that I will make both bur fortunes.1 "Now, old fellow," said Jones, "I have known just 1,000 men who were in exactly your fix. They only need ed$l,000,and sometimesSlOO to make their eternal all." Finally Jones said : "I will give you this money. I have $3,000 buried under the fire-place, and when the fire goes out, I will get it out for vou. but don't ask me for any more." , : Hayward got the money ; and said : "When I strike it I will give you a quarter interest." One afternoon about a month after this happened, Jones wasr sitting in his cabin when Hayward suddenly burst in as white as a sheet. "Jones,' said he, "I have struck it I" They went together to look at it, and sure enough Hayward had struck ati immense bonanza, or "pocket," of almost pure gold. Jones with his ex perience, saw it was the. richest mine " TV . , vis w.ii- in uaiiiornia. ttaywara sou i.u w so, tt, .i,r i'nr ts.OOO.- OOOrand the day the sale v was made he gave Jones $1,250,000,; Jones af- terward married Hay ward's daughter, A CONTENTED JOURNALIST. 1 ' ' aaassaasaaa ' j ' ; , . Farming is a slow way ? to make money, but then there is a Is w or com pensation about every thing in this life, . . and farming Jx&s -its blessings that other pursuits do not. have. The farmer belongs to nobody. He is the freest man on earth and .the most in dependent. He has a house in the country, with plenty of pure air and good water. If he makes but little in the field, he . has no occasion to spend but little. He can raise his own hogs and sheep and cattle and chickens. His wood costs nothing, and the luxury of big back logs and blazing fires in an open fire place all winter long is something that city people long for, but .cannot afford. My own farm cost me $7,000. I have 120 acres of open land in, good con dition, and it yields me on an aver age $5 an acre above all expenses. Say 9 per cent, upon the investment. Well that is mighty little,, consider ing my own - i&uor- ana -supervision I've seen the, time wia, Imade jfiye tinea .as much -.without. $n$4 capital except my head. But then we have to keep a pair of horses to ride around and they have to be fed from the farm. There are little leaks all round. . . . . but still we are happier on the -farm than we were in ' the town, and feel more secure from the ills of life. We fear no pestilence or disease, nor buglars or thieves. We lock bo doors, and Mrs. Arp has quit looking under the bed for a man. I love to hear the churn dasher splashing in the butter milk. I love to hear the roosters crow and the peacock hollor, and see the martins sailing round the-martin gourds. 1 love to hear a neighbor stop and talk about the growing - . -- - . a. croDS. l love to taKe tne cuuareu with me to the water mill and fish be low the dam amid the roar of failing waters, or paddle around the pond in an old leaky batteau. I love to wan der through the ..woods and glades, and wear old clothes that can't get no older or dertier, and get caught in a shower of rain it I want to. Old man Horace remarked about 2,000 years ago that the town was the best place for a rich man to live in, and the country was the best place for a Door man to die in,-and inasmuch as wcfe uncertain and death was sure, it becomes a prudent man to move to the country as soon as he can get there. Farmers ;haye their ups and downs, of course;, but they don't collapse ' and burst 7 up like tradesmen They don't go down under a panic. Atlanta Constitution. From Raleigh News-Observer. The editor; of , the Clayton Bud took a census of the editors during the recent convention, and found of age ; ten over forty; thirty-five J iinaer ininv. aim live uuuci mcuvj. The greater part of these had come into the profession during the past ten years and the press of the ; State has greatly improved during taat nerinrl. The improvement cannot tr . ... be measured with precision, but per hftna we would not be far out of the way in saying that the corps has increased in numbers a hundred per cent; that it has. "increased n ability a hundred j?er cent.,, and that it has improved in. high, tone .at least hundred per cent., -The idea we wish . . i i to convey is that ;.xnere nas oeen a very marked change in all these' re spects. But that s not-all. .ine best point is that young men of tal ent, ability, and good character nave taken to journalism, within the State as their profession 5 and calling yin life. It is hard to learn old dogs new tricks -but young men are open all the while to improvement.' They catch the spirit of the .age, They will make editors not as their fathers AraHni aa' the wide-awake editor of the future'faust t. Their purpose . ' . a ' la.sU 'a..jA-rB.fr ATlla TV V1W a . , lis to StlCK TjO ..vM5-. " through their instrumentality the profession of journalism win oe ex alted in the State s that the success ful editor will rank In his community along witbtbe most eloquent divine, the most learned lawyer, the most festeemed Rainess" man. i .- . ..... v,t-..v v Our coros of-editors, are destined t become :greafr power -in North Carolina-ana w fitness to wield all the influence they SIGNING THE DECLARATION OF INDE PENDENCE. In thinking of that instrument one is apt to call before him an august as semblage gravely seated around a table, with the Declaration spread upon it, and each member of the Con tinental Congress in turn taking a pen and with great dignity affixing to it his name. Nothinsr. however. can be further from that which actu ally took place. Very few of the del egates, if indeed any, signed the orig inal document on the 4th, and none signed the present one now in Inde pendence Hall, for the very good rea son that it was not then in existence. On July 19th Congress voted that Declaration be engrossed on parch ment. Jefferson, however, says that New York signed on July 1 5th. Con sequently, New York must have sign ed the original copy of the .Declara tion before it had gone into the hands of the engrosser. On what day the work was done by the copyist is not known. All that is certainly known is that on the 2d of August Congress had the document as engrossed. This is the document in existence now in Independence Hall. It is on. parch ment, or something that .he trade calls parchment. On that day (Au gust 2) it was signed by all the mem bers present. The original Declara tion is lost, or rather was purposely destroyed in Congress. All the sig natures were made anew. When the business of signing was ended is not known. One, Matthew Thornton,from New Hampshire, signed it in Novem ber, when he became a member for the first time ; and Thomas McKean, from Deleware, as he says himself, did not sign until January, 1777. In deed, this, signing was, in effect, what at the present day would be called a "test oath." The principles of many of the new delegates coming into Con gress from the different States . were not known with certainty some of them might be Tories in disguise and thus each one was required on first entering Congress to sign the Declaration. In January, 1777, an authentic copy, with the names of the signers, was sent to each State for signature a fact which may have put a stop to the business of signing. It shows, however, the little impor tance that was attached to this cere mony, that Robert R. Livingstone was one of the committee of five that reported the Declaration, and yet did not sign it, unless his signature is lost with the original document. The truth is, the Declaration of In dependence was considered at that time of much less importance than now ; nor did the signers dream of its becoming a shrine almost of worship at the present day. - YOUNG MEN. The destiny of this world has been largely determined by the energy and resolution of young men. Alexander, at thirty-three years of age, "wept for want of more worlds to conquer Scipio Alricanus had finished a "ca reer of glory" before he was thirty: one. Papinian became an oracle of Roman law at thirty-four. Charle magne had made himself master o: France and a part of Germany, at twenty -nine. Raphsel was not thirty when he began to be called "Divine Raphsel. John Calviro.says Bancroft, "secured an immortality of fame be fore he was twenty-eight. Milton had written his best miscellaneous poems at twentv-six. Isaac Newton had reached the pinnacle of his knowledge and fame at thirty. Harvey discov ered the circulation of the blood be fore he was thirty-four. William Pitt, the elder, waged war with Walpole at thirty-seyen. Napoleon achieved his victories in Italy at twenty-eight, and the imperial crown at thirty-five. By ron produced his most brilliant works at thirty-four!' Pollock, the author of "The Course or Time,:, aiea at twenty-eight. Mozart, the great Ger man musician, died at thirty-five. La fayette was but twenty-three at the siege of Yorktown, and was commander-in-chief of the French national guards at thirty-two. -Hamilton was Secretary of the Unwed States ATeas- nry at thirty-two. . ummerfield was only twenty-five at the period of his greatest fame as a preacher. " Strawberry short cake is so called because it is short of strawberries. I THE UNDULATORY THEORY OF LIGHT. In the last of a series of lectures just closed, by Professor Tyndall on "Light and the Eye," he explained why the undulatory had supplanted the emission theory of light. The air, which was the medium of conveying sound, might, he said, be compared with the luminiferous ether pervading all space. The ether's movements were undulatory, though the waves, like those of water in the chaotic foam of the Niagara Falls, might cross and recross in every direction. Newton's emission theory was first opposed by the celebrated astronomer Huyghens, and the no less famous mathematician Euler, and ho scientist of any repute now upheld Newton's conception of light as an infinite number of projec tiles impinging upon the eye. When tested by the facts, that notion had utterly broken down ; whereas, not one of the facts had been left unex plained by the undulatory theory. It accounted for all the phenomena of reflection ; for all the phenomena of refraction, single and double ; for all the phenomena of di fir action ; for the colors of thick plates and thin, as well as for the colors of all natural bodies. It accounted for all the phe nomena of polarization, for all those chromatic splendors exhibited by crystals in polarized light. Thous ands of isolated facts might be rang ed under each of these heads ; the un dulatory theory accounted for them all. It traced and illuminated paths through what would be otherwise the most hopeless jungle of phenomena in which human thought could be en tangled. This, said Professor Tyndall, was why the foremost men of the age ac cepted the luminiferous ether, not as a vague dream, but as a real entity substance endowed with inertia, and capable, in accordance with the established laws of motion, of impart ing its thrill to other substances. It was Dr. Thomas Young, his own pre decessor in the chair of Natural Phil osophy in the Royal Institution in the first year of the present century, who finally overthrew the emission theory. Young never saw with his eyes the waves of sound, but he had the force of imagination to picture them. And he rose from the investi gation of the unseen waves of air to that of the unseen waves of ether, his belief in the one being little, if at all, inferior to his belief of the other.-Ex. The Original Document of the Constitution of the Confeder ate States. Almost any day one may see in Union Square and among the actors in the "Slave Market," or in Wall street among the slave of that mart, a small, elderly man who carries, carefully wrapped and strap ped, a long tin case containing a parchmert which he will display on the slightest provocation, accom panying its exhibition with a ramb ling account of its nature, origin and exceeding great import ance and value. He .never offers it for sale in fact, he refuses to part with it and announces bis intention to present it on his death to some historical society. He is a poor man who ekes out his existence with his pen. He will not part with the parchment for money, but will dis play and discuss it over a glass of wine or two hour after hour. On such occasions he explains that the document is the original Constitution of the Confederate States, with the signature of those delegates who originally met at Milledgeville, Ga., for provisional organization. The man , was an aide-de-camp on the staffs of Gens. Beauregard and Lee while they commanded the Rebel Army of Virginia. N. Y. Tribune. "Have you a card, sir ?" asked the door-keeper of the House. The man looked a little surprised, and ans wered, "Card ? No, I don't carry a pack." "Where are you from V in quired the door-keeper. ' "Nothe Caroliny," was the reply. "What do you do in North Carolina when you go visiting ? Don't you send in a . 1 A. card to ine man you wsuv w ot The "tar-heel" laughed outright. "Lor" a massy!" he exclaimed. "W'y, we ride up to a feller's fence and holler to him to tie his dog, and then 'light and go in." VERY POOR PRINT
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