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IK i.-i- ? r: i - - ; i N -HE W - v. i : SHELBY; N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 16, 1887. VOL. 3, NO. 4. ( Single Copy, Five Cents. 91. 60 A YEAR. - r s -.. 1 j' i - - - I PROFESSION AL? QARDS; K. MCBRAYER. R. Ik ETBURN. Attorneys at Law, SHKLBY. N. C. ':' ( I VE prompt attention to all business I entrasttxl to them. ? ; J -r XfT Office in Oommereia! hotel. I 1 1 i 15-tf -v,--" . ; - --j -:-r :y--:--':----r H. HABABISS, , ATTORNEY AT LAW; And United States Commissioner, " ' : ' : ; ' Shelby, x; cf-; VJn? ; 1 JHACTICE8 in the courts of Cleve land and Kuti.enora counties. Office on West W arren street. aS-tf. J. C.JEFPERIES, Attorney it Lai md Rotary Public, OAFFNEY CITY, & C. RACT1CES in All the Courts. Prompt attention tciven to Dusiness. vor sDoiidence solicited. ; A i GT Office in City Hotel.' M 4-tf -T. B; JUSTICE, -j : ATTORNEY AT LAW, -Ll Yi YiEAL ESTATE AGENT, ' KUTnERFORDTOir. N. C. 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Table tyro first-class ' I i, - f noi lj &UTBRIE ! tHOTTSE. . TMIE undergiemed has taken charge of 1 the above named house-and will en deavor to-keep his table supplied with the best this market affords, and will spare no pains in making his" guests comfortable. ..Rates reasonable. i , -W.8. GUTHRIE, 36-tf. 1 ! I i . Proprietor Groyerj Hotel, CROVER.N.C. hitdt knoun at Wltitabtr, . ?.,) JB. F. Wood, Proprietor. TpIIIS HOUSE, under the new manage " X ment, is furnished w.th new spring rx-ds and mattresses, and good table, and Livery Stable attached. i " 43-u. THE Allt LINE HOTEIiJ Black's, s. c, - I S ON E of the Neatest. Cleanest and i liest kept hotels in the State, ! "., arCareful attention t all times. Mrs. "M. E. BLANTON, t- . Proprietres 7 f. ' Commercial Hotel, ' ; - - BLACK'S, s. c. J. W. Thomson, Proprietor. No urushed- Polite servants Sample rooms oonvenient.-Reason- - e rare, upposite Air Kin TV not THE BIVKK OF RCMT. A beaatiful stream is the River of Rest ; The still, wide waters sweep clear and r i cold, ; i. ; -: 'i . : , A. tall mast crosses a star in ifie west, f 1 A white sail fleams in the west. world's ' " gold; .'. : - : " "' It leans to the shore of the River of Rest The lily-lined shore . .f the River of Rest. The boatman rise, he reaches a hand. i lie knows yon well,-he wiil gnide you tme, :.?-f-.;:-;;.t And far.o far from all Ills upon land. From hates, from fates that pursue and : pnrsue;- p. . --7:: Far over the lily-lined River of Rest. , r Dear mystical, magical River of Rest A stoned, sweet vtre'-m is thia Hirer H - sliest; - -j --;. --' --. ; ; The sonls of all time keep its ultimate shore; -.-;;. m A.nd journey you ea.l, or journey you west, Unwilling or willing, sure-footed or sore. You,surely will x ome to this River : of Rest ; . -:r- --...y-.- This beautiful, rlwAutiful River of Rest 1 Joaquin Jliter,SH The Century. hy&rihdmther: A STORY OP TITS FRKNCH REVOLUTION. The last remnants of tho dinner bad been removed from the table; the car- tains were drawn across the windows; the fire roared up the chimney; we faced each other in two armchairs, my grand- ather and I. f It was the anniversary of his birthday, and ' I. his grandson, the only relative he had left in the world, had spent the day at his fireside more in pity for hw loneliness than for any love of kindness. They said I should inherit the large fortune he had acquired, none knew how; bat the life of this strange old man hail ever ben an enigma to the few 'who were inti mate with him, 'and none could foresee from day to day in which direction the next seeming freak of his folly would j - , i, o I was dining with '.him on- the ninetieth anniversary of his birthday; and when the repast was finished, we had drawn up the great armchairs, and in silenee I watched the deep" glow of the fireli"g;lft play upon his, haggard jvee, as he seemed to search the inmost depth of the. blaze with his pierc ing and outstanding eyes. His life had been a - mystery to tknn vW smm! known him; for years he had lived that little house with hufone 'servant; and it was only on anniversaries of his birthday that I dined at his table. It was on suchoecasions as these that I had learned enough of the old man's life to know that some heavy secret lay on his mind, that some one aet in his long span of existence had marred and seared the remaining years. The fe vered mutterings, the staring eyes, the ong fits of abstraction, followed by hoarse pleadiug, as if, for pity, had told their tale. Occasional mentjon, too, of early -days in Paris of spectacles there that had dulled the courage of stoutest hearts, of women and men dying at the hands of fanatic Republicans, of little children falling in the widespread sacrifice all these led me to be lieve that it was in fans, that - my grandfather had spent his early yeai, with Paris and with the past that his secret lay More I knew not; more dared not ask, for I was always ill at ease in the company of thisstrangeold man, whose very eccentricities repelled the least advance. Would be ever tell me morel was the question I asked -myself that night: and as I watched the quivering lip and the trembling eyes, and heard', from time to time the , muttered prayer, felt that his secret would perish', with him. But I was mistaken, for sudden ly he turned his chair from the fire, and clutching the arms of it aa jf with ' de termined purpose, he began to speak in a low and solemn voice. In a min ate 1 learned that the- time bad come the mystery would behidden no longer. -'Grandson," he said, "it comes to every man at a certain season to know that the end of his life is not far distant that the day is approaching when he must face his Maker.-- When:: such season is come' to a man, it behooves him to think of -those who will inherit his possessions when he is gone. have thought over that - difficult ques tion, and I have made ray decision You "are ray only telative; yon will in herit such property a& I possess; but more than this,, you will learn now from me that which no doubt ha-: often troubled you, the secret of an old man' life, s It ha not escaped . you, tbif weight that lies -upon my soul, and threatens to crush it. Others have often questioned me; an idle curiosity nromoted them to do so; Von have . a . : . - shown your sense and held your peace, Your discretion has not escaped - me it shall be rewarded by, a gratification of your suppressed curiosity, painfu though it may be for me to ive it, You have learned from the words that have escaped me that images 'of the past rise ever before me, images that never leave me day or night, that car ry me back again to Paris and my crime." - ' 4-"--" x The old man paused a "moment here, for emotion was working strong, with in him; then recovering himself, he Went on hnrriedly : "My father, himself a man of letters, decided to educate fne for. a literary profession ..With sense and discrimi nation Le planned for mo a scheme of education' whieh embodied a wide range of reading and of travel. I was to work my way at Eton, to study for time at Cambridge,, then to seek the great centres of leaning upon Jbe con tinent, and r;i to finish in' the , richly stored libraries of the East It was a grand idea worthy of a noble and gen- - - 1 , i. ..... " . . - - . . erous man. ' Alas that his generosity wa4 so thrown away"! '.V ' iL- 'I went to Eton! and passed through the sehool, making friends here, gain ing honors there,, learning something of t!e elassies, anT of those difficulties and disappointments that facev us - all hen we tart An the battlefield of life, At Canibrige I was a scholar aud took honot8. . I remember mw the gladness of my poor father when the news eame to him that I bad mounted one" round of the ladder before me. : I hear again his hearty words of congratulation. feel again the warm pressure of his hand, undergo once more the welcome abor ol writing to my mother. It was a happy time, for I was full of hope and confidence in my own powers, and around me 1 were those .whose ev?ry thought breathed a , prayer for my welfare and happiness. ::;.-M- t4Then It came that I should' set out for Paris, It was with reluctance that they let me leave home, for TatJtha.t date the first murmurs of the mighty torrent of revolution which swept over ranee were beginning to be . heard. The writings of Voltaire and Rous seau were commencing. to . bear their ruit. Agitators! in the. byways were decrying the King and demaddiugjib erty; as the low moaning 'of the wind before the storm, so ; were these the warnings of what, was to corae But I had no fears then; rathor I hoped to earn much from seeing a country whose people had coifrmenood to test the troths which the great philosopher of, so many years had preached in their writings and in their teachings- Yon must remember, too, that none could then foresee that!, under the cloak of freedom.men would lose their instincts of humanity, s and i would beeome wild beasts that rapine and vice would prevail where virtue and goodnesa had been; that Vomeu and ehiMren woold be aacrifioed to ambition and to fear; that the land would lie under the curse of irnsnrl? - My taeher eaalfljiafc forw see tis, or I should never have left the comfortable home in the midlands and have faoed - the dangers, that soon awaited mo in Paris. When , I arrived in that great capitol, it ; was bard to believe that beneath that gayety and brightness lay hidden a great stratum of discontent and poverty and - crime It was yet harder to behevea one heard the frienxied cries of weleome that greeted King and Queen, that the eries were a mockery, that the voices were- but : empty sounds. That: was the year 1783, and the Bastille had not yet fallen: Pitt himself : scarce gave heed to the rumors.. Why .then should I. student, foresee beneath this wealth of loyalism a rising power that would crush and kill both the lauder3 and the lauded!. ' ' "So I began my studies at - the Uni yeraity. Making few tuends. retiring to my lonely rooms at night with my books, I . had ;. little opportunity for noting the changes that spread so rap idly over the political xand . evea"the nrivate life of; the country V Yet the first eomufgs Of the approaching' storm did not" entirely escape me. One day a student, who "had frequently made overtures of a friendship, chanced. Jto talk with me in the library of the Vniver sity'I was handling some old folios of the Fathers and noting the opinions of the great French theological think era, when, pulling me by the arm, be said: 'My friend, why waste your timet Do you not know that Frenchmen no fonewr believe in such books astheser I started at the speaker and the volume fell from my hand as he poured his insidious words into my ears. Then for evev shame, I qnitted the build ine and retired to my own rooms, pietnred to myself the old home with the village eh arch, where purity and belief went hand in- hand, and I shnd dered lest a rumor of that which I had heard should ever enter that quiet com munity. But, thank God, my own life was never tainted with their words; my ears refused to receive their mockery and their blasphemy. . "The student who had so advised me came to my room one "evening with an invitation to his club to hear a great speaker. - Though I -was no friend , of the boy, my curiosity led me to accom pany him, -that I might assure myself that the pretended agitation was but the work of a few fanatics I entered the hall. It was crowded with some hundreds of students-and. workers and rascals, thers last apparently drawn from the' worst slums of Paris. A man upon the platform, with fervid oration, advised the extermination of King and nobles. His words were at times drowned by -the storms , of . applause they occasioned. 1 learned afterwards that the man who spoke waj Jean Paul Marat, and that there were many such clobs ajthe pne X. had that . night at tended. The fanatics then were many; in a short time we were able to say that they we'rea majority in the eity. -i."From that date the tide f revolu tion flowed fast,! In the succeeding year the' Bastille fell,and France, nay, Europe, rejoiced as, f,rom that - relic of despotism and darknessj the prisoners were restored to the light of day. I was before the gates as the mob of -women and of men perpetrated that wonderful and surprising deed, and never did I witness a multitude that displayed such a vivid reaolutiou and "; such united action. But a glance' at the mass of up' nrned and repulsive faces showed the danger of triflinsr with people who regarded u sacrifice, of human life too great for the accomplishment of their purpose.-' " 1 "It was shortly after such an event that, walking -with -a fellow-student near the place of Versailles, a carriage passed us on the road-to Paris. The vehicle was occupied by an aged man and a girl, who must have been . but twenty years old. It was in the spring time, and the 'woods were white with blossoms, and the cottages filled with the scent of the May, flowers ; and as the carriage came slowly T along the hard rood from a - chateau that 'stood upon tieighboring hilt, I felt that one oecnpant ot it at least was worthy of the glorious - picture that nature un folded around ns. Ah," Marie I now can I find words to speak of you f Grandson, it is enough ttt say that sinct that hour her face has been before me day and night, sleeping' and wak ing, in prosperity or misfortune. Ev erywhere! look I those eves of hers speaking to me, those hands lifted in pleading, her lips moving as she bids me to her side, and I . cannot stir f' r" The voice of the old man sank low, the veins on his forehead swelled, be stretched out his .arms, then ' for a mo ment or two he waa - silent,: and : his heavy breathing and stifled sobs alone were heard in the room. After a tim, becoming- somewhat , more calm, he continued : "My companion, in answer to my questions told me that the old man was the Baron Jendavi, and that the ' girl was Marie, bis-dadgfatexv I followed thesrriage withr eyes until a cloud of dost sion marked-its progress along tiwroad then, with fittfe ceremony to my friuL I turned back and walked straight to Paris. -. . ?'It was only-when I was alone in my rooau that I asked myself what prompted thia strar 1 action. - I bad seen-burfor a few-moments a face by the roadside, yet. I believed that not one atom of the beauty of Jt had es caped me. 'In that short walk I had created to myself an ideal iq a world of fancy, whieh ere this my immagina- tion had never penetrated." Before, I was the scholar; life was for me in the mass of volumes that I'ned the walls of my rooms: and of the libraries. among the thoughts and the researches of those who had left to their fellow- men an imperishable record of the labor for the good and the elevation of mankind. If I had looked . into the future, it was with the hope that I should then find myself strivipjfto fol Llow the example of these.-great men, perhaps winning some of the rewards that fall to the successtul in a career of letters. ; But such matters as ; home me or wite or cniiurcu bad never caused me a moment's thought. The change in me, thei, was sndden and startling. . As the scene that delights us one moment is forgotten in the beauty of '.he one that replaces it, so did my ambition fall as the face of Marie rose up before me. A new realm of ideas was opened, but the new would not blend with the old, for the one -was absorbed in the other. - " ! - " "When common sense -had in measure returned to me, I began; to remember that my hopes and dreams rested but on a name' 'Marie Jen davi, the daughter of the Baron Jen davi, of an uuknown chateau on the'j road to Versailles., We were seem iugly "separated by as great a gulf as divides the Old World from the New; Whom did I know in Paris, then, thaf I could go to and say, 'I have a fancy to be introduced to the daughter of the Baron Jendavi -will yon ' do thai service for me V - Such", a ; reflection disturbed me more than in those days I wou!4 have been willing to have con fessed.! Agitated with fear and - hope; paced the narrow , room where lodged, until I sank upon my bed from weariness. Who would unlock the gate that shut me from the presence o! the woman I would have staked so much to have seen T - "In such a mood, 1 chanced to. re? member my letters of introduction In my negligence and desire for , sol itnde, I had made u -e of the one. to the head of the University alone. : The others-and there were many--lay asj had brought them ; fnnn England With some anxiety lest they should be missing. I opened ray valise, and after short search, - found them intact. There was one to Monsieur Bailly,'the talented aud at that time popular May: or of Paris : and mother to ' Madame de Stael ; also to Lafayette, at tbat time the Captain of the ANation Guard. ' The others were tij citizen w less position, and I c did not attach much importance to' the possession ; them for the purpose I had in .view- ? "I presented my letters at the earliest opportunity, ; was cordially received and, by the instrumentality of Lafay ette, introduced into the family of th Baron JendavtIsay - family? but should add that .the Baron "and his daughter alone were- numbered in it he having lost his wife some ten years before I met bim. - He was a thorough representative of the' French school of nobles as then existing ;-, courteous ; to a degree, dressed with extreme . care, yet without great display ; of a reserved manner, and apparently devoid of:" af fection or of sympathetic feeling'. lie received me for some time in h is library, where he had collected many" valuable treasures of literature and of art ; and as he was very anxious to learn some thing about the men and" manners of that productive- sot - of scholars and waters who had lately adorned the clubs of London, I managed in a measure to interest him5. But it was .wearying work for me sitting there with that grave, old man, dressed in his solemn" black, the -diamond buckles upon his shoes" alone : relieving the dullness of his atfire.and knowing that Marie, so full of, life and pietur esqueness arid colorj was scampering across the great park with the dogs, or kneeling at her devotions in" the chapel 7-a very type of girlhood and purity and love. Yet those hours of heavy explanations of the" peculiarities of Johnson, the foibles of Bos well,, the failings of Goldsmith, were alike for gotten when at dinner I faced her, and 'oul4 for some' minutes "be entranced with the soft beauty of her face, with the sweet gentleness of her words. - f!" 'Ah, you ask, 'why has my life been a mysteiy f The key to this mystery n buried in those days, when world seemed so fair as France, no wpman so beautiful as Marie. I loved her ns I believe , no man ever ' better oved a woman ; and she, too, returned my affection not with a careless word, not with a half-promise made but to be broken, but with the whole out pouring of her: affectionate nature, aith a love that was strong because it was a love! -'v:-;'';V .'; '-,;.:':;. 'It was but in scattered moments that t could speak to her," yet jre found them all-suffieient to build for ourselves future with every stone a wealth of Happiness.' But at the very foundation our hopes we met rebuff. One night, as we ret nrned from the li tie chapel, she confessed her fear to me. Her father, blind to everything around him but his own interests, had,- aft?r fke fashion of bis countjmen, entered into negotatidns for the barter of uis daughter jw itfc; an old and anTuent member of one of the noble houses of France. I said nothing, bat loving her, A-ent home to think. As I passed through the village, the peasants, many of -them half-naked, all of them wanting tread, were gathered around apeaker Who, in fiery terms, exhorted them to break - the chains of despotism that bound themand to establish the new SrderThey banned me as I passed through their midst, for I was from the chateau. In the words addressed to Louis the King, 'it was no longer a revolt in France it was a revolution. That night, wh'en I arrived at mylone-i y rooms and lay down . to Test, Louis: XVI. had left Paris aud was on the f oad to St. Menehould. -When he; was. brought back, and the citizens re ceived him in silence, I foresaw that a Crisis" was rapidly approaching, and determined to make at least one effort to secure the hand of the woman I lovj ed. I would go. boldly tofher father pnq state my wishes. He received me with his usual courtesy, treated my request with the inesL business-like air, refused me with a smile, regretted that other arrangements had been roado. ' "What could I dof Pleading with such a man would not have - recoraf pensed the loss of dignity entailed. -1 was dumb before him but my brain reeled under the blow ; -jind as I let f the chateau and the great gates closed behind me, it seemed that my life had been left in that mass- of stone - and brick - t;at stood over . the village Along the roadside,the ragged; peasantst gathered the harvest, I envied them their lot; they had their.- wives,-. per haps the women they loved. ; The gay clothing of the fields,, laden wtth the jrorden grain, irritated me. Why was alt so fair, and I so sorrowful, jso def void of hope,-; by yhich." alone ' man loves T Ah! the dream is ended, ye I would live my life again for. a repe tition of those hours, r3 - T ' "I returned to the citv, now dark and overcast, as whispers of the ter rible reality foreed themselves from the slum's and the low faubourgs info the great palace and the houses of the rich.' - Many fled ; many hidtbemselves in feai none knew when the reaping world come in all its hkleons intensity Irarely left ; my grooms, yetI hated their loneliness. I eonld not stir m the streets: the surface cavety neve stilled during tho-period of bloodshed and vice, galled meto despair as my heart went oatio the chateau, or lath -er to the fair- woman within its t walls. I would have studied her face was on every page, hey eyes looked iuto mine from every painting ! Hope having -gone, despair was followed by . deadly hatred of the man who had thus broken both our lives. In my rage, I: heaped obloouv noon his aeed bead. I have been punished; may my punishment atouel. - ki, . v?t. waited my opportunity foR re venge for nearly, a year. - it came, t Visiting again the Jacobin dub,-where nearlv two veara before -1 had heard Jean Paul Marat denounce the morx arohy I listened to violent and unre strained demands for the immediate sacrifice of the leading mobility who had had the courage to remain in their native country. The scene was one I shajll never foVget ;: the, clanior of : the rufilan crew their faces rendered more repulsive as the flickering oil-lamps shed their yellow rays upon them re sotudcd through the vaulted chamber like the road bf distant thunder. Mad you pierced into the hearts of such men you would hve found no trace of af fection, of goxd, of right knowledge, of :any instinct of humanity. . They were like so many wolves howling for their prey, aud the sight of them would have chilled the, bravest heart ! I w'atched the, proceedings from a bench in the rear of- the roomi . At length silence was somewhat restored, and a terrible process known as the 'naming' commenced 1 The President rose in his sat and addressed the turbulent crowd. 'It was the intention, he said, ' of the Club to hasten the cans? of Liberty, Equality, aid, Fraternity, by removing those .who spS prominenfly stood in the Way of its advancement. Ah, met en- ftfTtti,l he went on, 'how great a lesson have we taught our oppressors in the past few yeiirs !' Thejlag of progress ii unfurled the fire , of those who would ens'aVe 1 us is A enkindled ; we shall soon isft the,, ashes and . sweep them away?;f but we m ust be unceasing in our work 1 our courage must be un failing, ouri sjelfdenial imbonriding. ; If i is necessary for; thej safety, of. ; our country, wives and daughters' fathers and mother! must be handed to the care of unswerving tjusiice. They pust die ! ) . . . ! -xne i-resiqeni nnisuej, ana pro duced a 8het of paper- A man rose iraong s his I hearers ;'and f denounced fBaillv,'. the! scholarly and courteous Mayor. - Another rose, another death warrant wall signed, ; aye, - as : if the victim thenlstood upop the scaffold. : I shuddered as I saw - the list growing, growing, anfl I knew that those whose names werej written there, through at the moment surrounded perhaps by wife and children, would - in. forty eight hourf -ber numbered , with :the dead. J , i; "ContrasJt the picture, . grandson, a low, vaulted stifling room, 300 men like fiends asking for the life's blood of uiany,of those they, had erstwhile applauded, cheered, honored. Away, perhaps not half a mile, a home, where the husband built, jwith. his wife, oving plans for tlie little ones asleep above; eh ill ten kissing their father a. i roininod from ln lahor. men VuppI. . . n. . L- n . i. . .. n . .. i . "K lL w. ? ." woiueu mvy hoped to spend their lives with', every- where attection home-lite, brightness, arodline. 1 And these, men were to die ere the suif had twice set I, "ButtoVesume. As man after man roso to dtiEounce his victim, it hap- pened hat the namers approached my- co'p: mnli an imt- fi.o mnmKav mr, V,rf ' v " wi e.il spirit spoke to nie then, f-know not i onlv thw. that a. tn-ent wavo at- irrepressible aneer rushed across mv mind, destroying eyery -impulse ,of i - . ...... . . good, and left me for the moment as one of the wretches that : sat : by me. When niyj neighbor had finished speak ing, a stood and in a loud voice de nounced Monsieur le Baron Jendavu "Who'speaka V said the President. "a: oas!' auoutea tne : crowd a stransrer.T , ' .- i am a stranger, citizens,' l re- plied, 'but I speak- in the name of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity ,.'t 'Grandson. Tlietl liedin mv heart. with my tongue, I -spoke rather in the name of bride .of ailffer. Of h thirst for reveTiee.l Iu that hour. I dostroyed mv Happiness lor ever. "Asl heard the cries of applause,saw the name or the liaron inscribed upon the sieet) the room swam ..before my eyes. Tottering, j half-swooning", V. I reached the street ; but the words I had spoken yetTanc: in my ears v the very sky seemQarexiwnn tne oiooa tbe eomine saenBee. As I paced my own chamber a deadly spirit of I iex - uhtion crept' over !me ;V the whispers of remorse I silenced, as I murmured Maria la mine--mine for ever.' . liuti . - - . -I " . . - asner face rose before mem my' self - created vision, it seemed that ,"gieat culf lav between u ?- 6n.Vher "side' the crystal streams and the green swanls, and theffolden "valleys, wheTe'.an unending bhss,the good had gained their .reward j whUe . on mine the black chasms where the cries of the wrosfir-doers echoed from rock, and . o -T- :.' . where aspmt ot evil, descended upon an.- I crushed the vision, and all the next day lay tlpott niy bed awaiting tne - i - - ... .. 'coming -morn.-. ne-nignr seemea . , . mis . endless ;U was afraid in the darkness, Th low, 'roar from the citv ceased : Piii-is waa fileemW. At everv sound started, and from a fitful doze awolre, and trembled as the white licrht from the moon fell npon my bed V anfif : cast heavy shadows '- upon the panelled walls. "I could sleep no morey ,but w.t(-V thA -aav1 Wtina- over the snires and domes.; Cold and gray the light struck the roofs; a workman rjassed on his way to his daily, labor, few cartas rambled on : the pavement; tne sun jfose, a goiuen oro iu, a seiuuj. of rofst t It was day., f - . ."I opened my door and breathed the fresh : morning air 1 out 1 waigeu . , r 1 t one that is guilty, and felt ashamed as I stood in this erreat purity of nature. By and by the streets filled ; the citi zens, laughing and wishing good-day, were mostly walking to one spot. An irresistibla impulse drew , me thither. It was to the Champde-Mars, where the guillotine stood. : 1 can see it all again, ay, so vividly, for the' scene has never left me day or night. , , It , is my retribution. A great crowd had as sembled there a sea of faces, diaboli cal, fierce, makingmerry with death. From their midst, on a platform, rose a tall, dark object, that chilled me as I saw it it was the guillotine. 'j 4 ;: ;. "Then, and not till then, did I realize my crime, and with returning reason I would willingly have given my . life to have saved the man I had destroyed. But it was too late. - Already from Jhe distance the roar, of the . crowd was borne on the wind- Those around, .as the shouts of 'A bas les aristocrates t became more distinct, elbowed - "me to the Tront. There, surrounded by groanipg and shouting, men,"-whose horrid cries of exeeration rang, in my ears,' I could see, yet some way off, the wagon that bore the 'victims to their doom. As it drew nearer, so did the fury of the mob . increase ; ; had they been able, they would (have torn the corfdemned limb from limbr Tn-"-an agony of fear jr I turned my head away, for remorse, terrible : overwhelmins: remprse, came Upon me, as the horrible 1 deed of revenge was about to be acted, But that strange fascinaiibn ' again prevailed, and I was compelled to take one look -at-the death-cart.'a It - was full of men and women. Men, the lights of intellectual strength -"and culture,, now rewarded for their labors by the courses of those for whom they had labored; women, the fairest and most innocent in France, who clung, ua.mP tnai jostiee rorheroRee town trembling and weeping, to brothers or SU1D- , This appointment completes the fathers, or lovers, so powerless to help number of trial .justices provided for them. A spell held my eyes. m York county. . ! I looked for the Baron. He stood T with his back to me, his head., bowed down, buried in his i hands ; butlinj,; mgto nis arm was a gin, wim, ner . il l... I hair streaming over her shoulders, her hands upon the neck of the man at her side. For the moment I could not close at my side ; "she turned, and her rrUan K.ui UVl 1U1UI. m . . JL UVU CU Ki Ol a V IVUl'W n( thnaa ormo tvm, lli lin tnnvfid as if in pleading, ; It . was. the tender, loving face of Mane .that looked on j me, hejr jrreat . eyes that fpoke, her rms that-invited me Jt May; heaven forgive me I had sacrificed the daugh-j ter with the father! fehe was to xtie. nuiii niiMr li H I Hrn 1 1 11 - up. wii rr r , - ; -- awful cry I tried to force "y f. mrougu iu.uuu, i J' , t""' or death u but iho soUiiers, heatj me back, the mob pressed - upon :npf the can nau sioppeu. pop.e ouuuings arounu Kw ia;ill aiIU w. iu ueLore m jei, uuu- Iv faintness came over me,. 1. saw ihat I face of ansruUh still lookiner for me. Grandson, she .believed thai I could save her ; She JHIOWS now tnat l 'Uaa brought her to her doom. . I had ? kill- I . . . . ... - . - The old niau ceased speaking ; he , , . , -i .. . i 1 . nau rose irom uis cnair, anu inu ure showed that he was deadly pale., Ills mma was again enacting mat icrnoio scene. K ai leugiu no anetcueu oub m A A. 1 - Al. 1 A ..A 1 A. 1 . arms. moanintr . wane,' w an s: ; auu fell backinto his seat. His life's tale i was told- my grandfather waa dead. Chamlerft Journal. , " ' , Whims . Of Satwl Hen. Greaf toenhaTeh'imat as .wellas smaAl. ones, anunuyiia. personages are frequently very queer, upon sorae' particular thing. Probably Ex-Attor- riey General Brewster bad tie strasg- est conceit of any, man - who ever came -.o L thacolo?of wal. The contrast. othe black coal and the red:ind blue flames MuMM Kim .liia Qiiseryautaiwaja; uauvLviciv ttne lueitUDerauy wuu wuuewasn, 1 whjch bekept on band fpr the purpose Ben Butter has a whim. r Of lateyearsj ; he is seldom without a piew otslipjiery . I , , - . . ..11. , 1. 1. .. 3 1 J eim in ula i raouiu; Truu;a.uAuBi;ui w Jie an admirable specific for ..nervous - ness.l; Years ago Butler was-a fmokerv Then he toek what is known a A dry smoke-that is, ' he went through. the motionsof smoking with an-nnlighte j cigar m nis mouiu. rom -uo gi-aduatea 10 wippery eim. , several membersoj. vougress wqo nave i what i known- as the erack-waikiug . 1 , .. craze; v one h ,u,i .uCu " step upon a crack m day a waiK nn . ..!.- 1. ' - !. iU. ;e oougeu xo w w ' S . m V . K . . J IU , I ' St ama la II AAMV-i-n 01 & ones, iue j,unsvwnm scientific mani here whose, name j is I known all, over; the ? civilized, world. II He savfTL-IiaTe.. had . this 'craek- walking habit for-twenly years,; In the first place I started just .-for fun, to see if I couid avoid- stepping f on a crack iu going a certain' distance.' , I found that i couid, ana tnaae up my mind to keep it up for. that day..- AS I hadeerUin amount of walking ;.to do, at nrstjui. craze was son . ui. a 1 pleasant diversion. :;.Then.t beeame a settled habit. I .have tried to break it 1 up mc ou "o1"! y J hold pa me that X presume X r will re main a crack-waikerto the end, pi. my as wiayx.---iwrewr'v: :: ,r. r - iT' it ri'uifAH ... m . , ' SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ' WHAT! OVR KEIQHBORSIN THK PALMEl' TO STATE ARK DOIXCh-A BUDGET, ...... i , OB?. NOTES ON -MATTERS' IN GENERAL." e i' . . - A planing mill is being erected .'at Port Royal by J. J. Cummings. - - James McRae and John, J. McKay have built a tobacco factory in Marion county. , The Stoney Landing Co., of Chales- ton; will be reorganized. With a capital 1 -stock of $50.000..' - ! i . ; . -t . , The Governor has re-appointed A. I E. Smith agent for the Catawba In- I diana at Rock Hill. . I J udge Aldrich is suffering severely ' ; i. . . ... . . . ! tujuoes reueivea in a rail which ( he had on Friday last. -, j (-, . ..- ... - " '.- . i . . ,t i All but '.twenty-five shares of the ' C S " .. rwu. IU V3VC110il7 ! . -v 4.aiavu UUtO UUCU aUUSiCtlUUU t 7oL Stephen Elmore has discovered'' a gold mine on his plantation near the i once famous Dorn. Mine, in Abbeville county. i Col. A.' Coward,' of Yorkville,' has feeeivf the fintment of postofflce j ?"-- wm uvr upon iue.au- charge ' ha1M in.a fe7 dV: There are more applications to the! Board of Directors of the penitentiary; for convicts on : iease .than , cau "be glleJ. r Columbia Register .. . j,? , ! .Mp Milton MeLaurin, fof Bennettsi i,.,. . :ii. .d.m jl.j Uonthg ajro. and he caiculateil . sinftA tIlfin j,fl i,., nroft $51.81. " ' - ' . ' -!; -;; i-' i .... . i .(,. The Governor has appointed W. I. rr. j.mM n' xtannaAv ,.. ;rQ.t ... -. -" his commission as prpbate judge: for Yorkeounty, and entered i upon - the dutuw ,f t he offi bavins. flla hi duties of ..the.: office ha vinir filed his bond in the sum of $5,000.1: rf J "-" --- ; ' - " - - , ' ? " -1 The trustees' of the Reidvillo Male Academy, vtrhioh- was i recently rde- yed y fire, armeetinrwh. siderable success m their efforts to I , . -. .... l xoouuu. .The. shovel or plough brought out ' recently by the bonth Carolina Raal- way Company, is now at work on the Barnwell roadJUling in the treatling. As it is quite anovelty for that section j numbers ot. people go to see it.. r . 1 I ma. . .. . . . . . . l F There is talk -in 'tireenvill or Or- nnizing a luid and imtirovemraf com. pany. -with- $1XX),000 capital; : The 'ntntr hh kom i,., the ereetiou of large cotton factories, . perhaps a railroad frekht' car factory , fte general developrnent of the Iresonrcesef the tbwni cr-l'.'.-r - I - . -- -' -. - ' I Ptesident Moseley. of the C. K. & L. Pr,06ident aan of r""- "-"6 r road, have signed an agreement to I Mn.,l.n sC Ka . v. rtr. n W .i - , I. A . I engineering corps will proceed at once - ! i l' :. : 1 l . .. at: 1 . i io maite a survey oeiweeu iewocrry : land Spartanburg, tw Glenn Springs. Thft nnt MmmiattChvtr county granted on Monday, the 1 pe- I r . ... tition of, the tnajonty ; of v the Jand- - hotders .' of $ Baton . Rouge. township, . asking foe an election, to vote upon the ' question of subscribing to. the stock of the Chester and Camden Railxoad Company. The,mount -of the sub- .ion asked ot the township H$28,- 800.-' - - - - ,r; - The Bhuitle-broclf; factory 'fat Rpi-k -Hillls running daily and doing a good business. Mr. Westerlund, ' the i pro prietor, has made several shipments of si and handles to v north j ha f satisfaction, and the woou 01 alca lney e maue w, pro "fpjgfgg - - -i 1 v- j-rvr; n? ::. --7 .tYt ..The indications are. that -there will be much more, sorghum ? planted this lyea? Vi&n neretoiore. . Dome people I .lJAi AT. i 1 ii. i! .lAI ooieciiUAui tiwu, uwauaa . uuu- 1 cult to make lfp4 s;With, a goo4toill I anu evaporator it ii an easy. job. Counting th epst of. labor to make.the j crop and.the, pay fori making up, -the farmer can get hiainolases for less than j ccnu a gaiiiJiur yu a,n. Messrs. Lookabill & Co. havestarted a new efltrpris6'sat Chester. It' is a located j.lStUMULHUU UUUt -AUO u sassafras oil mill. The mill is near the Ckkimbia road orf thersmall - braoca tcat throui: KvonAli'that Winn fKrAIHyh tll f AWT . uyuu. "--r- -, The oroDrietoTS have six 'eliminants 1 . which consume daily 2,400 pounds of sassafras roots. ' " The. oil -is obtained by means of evaporation.' -They have orders ahead for sjllhe can -inanufac-tare this season. V' J - i . - Fire broke out Tuesday morning nu the- steamship Chenoque, of: Clyde's New York linerju8t after floating for rfewYotk, with freight and passen gers. ,The ship, at once" returned to the Union' Docks,:, when the i flro de partment was ... called . out. i The vessel is being .flooded, with water.. ,The damage to the jship j-and cargo from fire is not serious! and it is . be- lieved the spirits of turpentine among 1 f y -'rr- -z tne cargo is nnujsureq.. , t
New Era (Shelby, N.C.)
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Feb. 16, 1887, edition 1
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