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i i,'i')f"t'!'"' C 7 J2 JJL A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE AND THE MATERIAL INTERESTS OF OUR SECTION. T. Edit era and Proprietors. SMITHFIELD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1883. VOL. II. NO. 2. THE " -A til, WRF LY ill Til I FT "FIR A T Ifl illiam Thain, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, SXITHFIELB, X, C. Keeps constantly on hand a stock of WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, &C, at the lowest prices for goed goods. I keep no humbug stock, and will not sell such trash. American Waliham Watches a Specially, of which I keep a small stock on hand, and order as desired at factory prices. The quality of my work is well known to persons for whom I have worked all over the country. I do honest work at low prices, compared with other honest watchmaker?. I do not try to compete with unprincipled persons who are here to-day and gone to-morrow, and who have no re nuta tion to keep np. I am located here J ana nave oeen twenty years. A word to the wise i3 sufficient. All work warranted. WILLIAM THAIN. THE BOOS STORE. Largest stock in the State and prices sura to please. School Books, Sunda School Books, Stationery, &c. tVe can supply all yotir wants. Alfred Williams 6 Co., BOOKSELLERS and STATIONERS, Euffln Roles, RALEIGH. N. C. MANUFACTURER OF Sash! Poors, minds, , JpuldiTj.ig. Brackets. Sawed & Turned Torch Banisters, Window and Door Frames. Mantels and General Bailors Material. Lowest prices in the State. Write for prices before ordering elsewbere. Address Post Office Box 374. 40-ly. Clayton Jul; Friitiu Office. The undersigned having fitted up n first-class. JOB PRINTING OFFICE m the town of Clayton, N. C, are now prepared to do all kinds of job work, such 3 BUI Heads Letter Heads, Blanks of all Binds, Ac. Orders solicited and satisf actio guaranteed. WEtDIN & RICHARDSON. J. H. ABKLL 5 ATTORNlHf-AT-LAW, SMITHFIELD, N. C. OrriCK IN THE COtfBT HOTJSB. Special attention paid to collections and settling estates. Practices in the Courts of Johnston, Wake and Wayne, 29-tf. N. R. IUCHARDSON, ATTORNE Y-AT-L AW, CLAYTON, K. a REFERENCES: S C. White, Cashier State National Bank; P. A. Wiley, Cashier, Citizens' National Bank, Raleigh, N. C. Needham IT. Gulley, ATTORN EY-AT-L AW, TSAmCLINTOSf, K. C. Will attend regularly the Courts of Franklin, Granville Nash, Vance and Johnston. Collections a specialty. DR. G. J. ROBINSON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Having located ia Smithfield, N. C, Iters his professional services to the Ntiiens of the surrounding vicinity. May be found at FULLER'S HO TEL, when not prof eisionally engaged. W. RTJONES & BROm Ufcalers In Liviot a, Groceries, Dry Gooes?, &c. NEWTON GROVE, N. C. For lare liquor?, the beet of Groceries and Diy Ooods, gve me a.US. W eell for cash ana ginrnnU satisfaction. Give tw a trial. New Barber Shop Over Peacock & Brts Stow. I wish to inform my ftiends and the pnbdo eurftUy thai I am now Kparl .to dowtk St rtiort notice, imd as neataud chenp iw iy bwrbe Give mm call aad I jrnarantee sat- NORTH CAROLINA OW THE EDGE OF THE MARSH. IN MOTKMBKB. Dead sienna and rusty gold Tel) the year on the marsh is old. Blacteaed and bent, the sedges shrink Back from the sea-pool's frosty brink. Low in th3 vret a wind-cloud lies. Tossed and wild in the antomn skies. Over the marshes, mournfully, Drifts the soared of the restless sea. m russ. Fair and green is the marsh in Jane ; Wide and wana in the sunny noon. The flowering rashes fringe the pool With slender shadow?, dim and cool. From the low lushes " Bob White " calls? Iuto bis nest a rose-leaf falls, The bine-Sag f des; and throngh the heat Far off. the sea's faint pulses beat. Itiss A. A. Bassett, in Harper's. OUR HOSTESS'S DAUGHTER, " Come," I sa'.d, rising and throwing aside my book " come, Traverse, we have had work enough for one day. Let us take a sunset walk on the oid raiqpart?, and have our tea at that charming little restaurant under the beech ea. Traverse took a last lingering look at his sketch, then carefully set back the easel against the. wall, and we descended the stair from our apart ments on the upper floor, where we enjoyed a view of the housetops of the quaint little town of Neunide, on the banks of the wide and winding Rhine. "Stop a moment," Traverse said, as we reached the first floor. " We will see if there are any letters. I desired the Frau Hansing not to bring them tip hereafter, for, good woman though she is. her talk is rather overpower ing." We had been recommended to Frau Hansing's lodgings by a fair cousin of my own who was visiting sune half English. halMierman relatives near Bonn. " If yen ftcp at Neureide," she wrot?, "my relative, Madame Estorf, 3e?ires mp'to .cy that you will find ex cellent lodging with Frau Hansing, an old and faithful servant of hers, who will roa';e you very comfortable." iVnd, despite Frau Hansing's love of lalking, of which Traverse mildly eora pla ned, we had found the promise nmply fulfilled, and had so far no causa to regret oor choice of lodgings. The old lady Of eaed the door in an swer to Traverse's light tap, and her plump, rosy face assumed an express ion t f com mis ration and sympathy. "Ah, mein IDxr. so sorry 1 No let ters to-day though," f he a kb d, cheer fully, in her broken English', on which ehe pr d d hersolf. " Likely there will be o:nei much letters on? day, to-morrow, and then theHerr shall rejoice to his full contentment to hear from his home."' Over her shoulder I saw that ?h? badd c i. raied her little fitt n-room with flowers aad evergreens. " You are expecting company, Frau Hansing?" "Ah. yes, rmin Herr; but it is only my little Bcrtta my daughter, who is companion to Madame Estorf. A nice, dear little girl, and my only vine." And the dd lady's eyes shone with pride and delight as she thus spoke of her daughter: "She is with madame, who is now at Rndtsheim, cn a visit; and-, its being 30 near, madame has kindly consented to her coming to us for one week. She Is very clever in I pretty, is my little Bertha, though it is I who say it; for, was sho not brought up by madame, ind in great part with madame's own granddaughter, the Fraulein Estorf? It was very kind of them to treat my little Bertha so well; but. then, I my jeif was nurse to the poor little grand daughter when her own mother died. Well, she is a great heiress now, as the Herr knows." It was true that my Cousin Julia, in describing the family in which she was aow staving, had moro than once al ttded to this Fraulein Estorf, She was granddaughter of the old madame jf the same aame, and was the real jwner of the estate on which they re sided near Bonn, with the handsome chateau and the valuable vineyards adjoining. Beyond this, I knew noth ing Of the Fraulein Estorf; though the brobaoulty was mat a nilgai, some time meet her, as in this our summer's holiday-trip Traverse and I were slowly making our way up the Rhine toward Bonn which was, in fact, the abjective poict of my travels; for I must let the reader into the secret of ay engagement to my fair English jousin. Julia. That evening, returning rather me ;rom our al fresco tea, w observed Frau Hnsinjj's door half open, and h tall, gracel ul fiirure of a young girl ;t.a-i1intr under the hanirfn2-iamp read- ng a letter. That must be Bertha," said Tra 'me, his artiut's eye instantly attract ed. Let us nee what she is like." " Any letters yet, Fraa Hansing Y io inquired, peering into the room; and he girl turned around quickly, dis saving a lovely, piquant, brunette Jaci5, with dark eyes and delicate jherry-red lips. Frau Hansing is out," she said, nodeatly. " I leg your pardon. You are the Fiauleln Bertha?" said Traverse, xe jolved. as it t eemed, to make hi r ac quaintance, and at the samis time lift ing his 1 at with graceful courtesy. "Yes," she answered, with some sur prise and also a certain reserve. "Excrsi mo; but I knew you were expected. And since the Frau Han sing is absent, will the Fraulein be good enough o give me my letters, if there are any?" 1 had passed up the stairs, and was folly five minutes before my friend ioined me. "What a charming little creature is our landlady':! daughterl" he said, quite -nthuBiaitically. " buch lovely feature. and to much expression! And then one can see that she has been Irought up with cultured and refined people. Really, there i3 something about her quite magnetic." So indead it appeared, judging from the frequency with which, on the fol lowing day, my friend journeyed up and down he stairs, at first anxious to receive letters and ihen on some newly-discovered business which ne cessitated frequent inquiries at the door of Frau Hansing's rooms. Mere than once, in passing this door, I beheld him seated on our landlady's horsehair sofa, engaged in an animated conversation with Bertha. "Do you know," said he, with the air of one communieat ng an important discovery, that the Fraulein is as in telligent and accomplished as she is beautiful? What a pity that she is only ou landlady's daughter !" . Than the week passed. For myself, I only saw Bertha in the evenings. She certainly was a charming girl, refined and ladylike, though dressing in a simple bourgeoise style, and engaging, as we had opportunity of observing, in occupations not above her station such as knitting stockings for her mother and assisting the old lady in household duties, even to cooking and cleaning. That she did not do this at the chateau she acknowledged. Her bu?iness there was to walk out with and read to the old madame, even to sing and play for her ; and she played uncommonly well, as we had oppor tunity for observing. "It is unfortunate," I remarked, "that the girl has been educated above her station. She is sup?rior to marry ing a common bourgeoise, and is not yet fitted for a higher rank by reason of bsr fam ly." " That is true," said Traverse, slow ly. "Now, for instance, if I were to think of marrying B?rtha, charming and ladylike though she is, my whole family would be down upMi me ; and, in fact," he add d, hesitatingly, "I don't think I cou'tl bring myself to tak3 such a step. I fhall require good birth in the woman whom I marry." " lh -n hadn't you better break off at tmce with tin Fraulein B.rtha? It Fejms to me that you are carrying this matter too far not to give it a serious ending." " She is going away in a day or two," he answered, rather dolefully. And she did go. We saw her back into the stage which was to take her back to liudisheim and Madame Es torf, and, judging from her bright face and laughing adieux, she carritd away a hart a? whol? as she had brought to Neureide. But with my friend it was different, and from the hour of her de parture he became restless and dissat isfied. We consequently soon resumed our pilgrimage up tha lihine. stopping here and there wherever we found any thing specially picturesque or interest ing to afford a subject for our amateur pencils. It was on September 1 that we reached Bonn. Leaving my friend at a hotel, I lost no t me in making my way to the Chateau Kotherberg, about two English mile3 from the town, where 1 had the great delight of being greeted by Julia, looking fairer and sweeter, i thought, than I h id ev?r before seen her. Madame Estorf also accorded me a most kindly welcome, and on learning that I was accom panied by a friend, insisted upon our both dining with her on the following day. When I mentioned to Julia our meeting with Ma lame Estorf 's pretty companion at Neureide, she laughed merrily. " She is the most arrant of little coquettes, that Bertha Hansing," she said. "My cousin has quite spoiled her, and so indeed has the Fraulein Estorf. But she is a good girl, never theless, and I don't wonder that her mother is so proud of her." " Whrre is this Fraulein Estorf?" I inquired. " i will introduce you to-morrow. She is not nearly so pretty, in my opinion, as little Bertha," she added, lightly, "but then she is an heiress, and 1 confess that were I not so cer tain of your not being of a mercenary nature, 1 should be afraid to expose yon to such a temptation. As it is, I shall insist upon your bringing your friend, tince you describe him as so handsome and fascinating. That will deprive you of all chance of making an impression upon the heiress," she concluded, mischievously. On taking leave, Julia and Madame EstorFs nephew, a youth on a vaca tion visit, accompanied me on a pri vate path through the grounds. The scenery was lovely and the view from the highest point of the shaded terrace way fine beyond description, and so I told Traverse on my return to the hotel. I will accompany you to-morrow A8? far as that point," he said, "as it a id a subject to my portfolio; but 1 mmt deline the madame 3 hospit able invitation. To tell you the truth, Elliott, I don't dare expose myself to the possibility of again m eeting Bertha Hansing." I rather approved of the resolution; bo on the following day we left our con veyance at the entrance to the grounds and proceeded a'ong the terraced path way toward the chateau. At the point of view already mentioned was a little round, open pavilion, upon reaching which, imagine our surprise to behold seated there, in a comfortable wheeled chair, old Madame Estorf, and l y her side our landlady's daughter, the fair Bertha, reading to the old lady from a French novel. It was too late to retreat; so we came forward with all possible dignity, and I formally presented my friend to madame, who, in her turn, quietly re marked: I think you and Bertha have met before." Bertha blushed to her fair temples, but glanced up with a demure, half roguish snril?. Even to me she looked more charming than ever, being dressed more richly and becomingly than I hal yet seen her. " This is a favorite haunt of ours," expla ned the old lady. " But the sun is getting uncomfortably warm, and it is high time thtt Peter should come f or me," Peter did presently appear, and as he leisurely wheeled his mistress home ward, I walked . by her side, leaving Traverse and Bertha to follow. On arriving sA the chateau, madame, accompanied by her companion, went away to attend to her toilet, she said, and Traverse and I were for a few moments left alone in the saloon. " It is all up with me, Eliott," he said, in a low voire, but with r ingalar firmness. "It is an unworthy prides, after all, which would lead a man to sacrifice the woman he loves to aristocratic prejudice. 1 now know that I do really love Bertha ; and If she will have me I will marry her. She is a perfect lady jjs but birth." It was no time for remonstrance. Julia's step was in the hall, and after ward Madame Estorf again made her appearance, arrived en grand toilet for dinner. "Shall we see the Fraulein Hansing again?' I ventured -to whisper to Julia, but madam e's quick ear 1 al caught he question. " The Fraulein Hansing will not ap pear at dinner," she said, quietly; "but I will introduce you to my grand daughter, Fraulein Estorf. Ah, here she is, in good time !" A graceful, elegant girl, richly dressed in silk and la e, stood in the doorway. Could it be possible? This young lady was certainly our landlady's daughter. There were the same regular features, the same roguish eyes, though her manner was now one of more stately dignity. Traverse stood as if petrified. But the young lady came forward and offered her hand to both of us, with a charming air of archness and grace, " You have known me before as your landlady's daughter," she said. "That was your own fault in the first in stance and not mine. I am Bertha Estorf." It did not take long to explain the mystery. "The Frau Uansing is my foster mother," said the young lady, ' and when I go to Neureide, as I sometimes do on business for ray grandmother, I stay at her house. S.ie was expecting her daughter on the occasion when I met you, but grandmamma concluded to send me ani allow Bertha to visit her mother later. 1 did not know of you gentlemen being at Neureide, and since it pleased yeu to take me for your landlady's daughter, I thought it best to humor you in the fancy. Isn t that sufficient explanation, grand mamma?" she added, with a charming smile as she turned toward the old lady. "Quite sufficient for the present. We were all in the secret, my little English cousin included," she said, glancing at Julia, whocje eyes were sparkling with delight through the half-deprecating look which she cast at me " You will forgive my deceit, won't you ?" she whispered, as we proceeded down the long gallery to dinner. "But it seemed such fun! A real plot, such as we read of in novels. And, do you know," she added, lower still, " I think it will end as novels do, in a mar riage!" "In two marriages," I corrected her. And, as it turned out, my pre diction was fulfilled. I and my wife pay a visit every summer to the Chateau Kotherberg, and admire Mrs. Traverse's embroid ery and her husband's pictures. And which is the happiest couple perhaps the reader would find it difficult to decide. Nihilists' Secret Printing Office. I went over all the rooms in St. Petersburg in which the work was carried on. The mechanism was ex tremely simple, A few cases with various kinds of type ; a little cylinder just cast, of a kind of gelatinous sub stance closely resembling carpenter's glue and somewhat pleasant to smell ; a large, heavy cylinder covered with cloth, which served as a press ; some blackened brushes and sponges in a pan ; two jars of printing ink. Every thing was so arranged that it could be hidden in a quarter of an hour in a large clothes-press standing in a corner of the room. They explained to me the mechanism of the work and smilingly told me of some little artifice which they employed to divert the suspicions of the dvornik who came every day with water, wood, etc. The system adopted was not that of not allowing him to enter, but precisely the reverse. Under various pretexts they made him see the whole of the rooms as often as poss ble, having first removed every thing which could excite suspicion. Wh n these pretexts failed others were invented. Being unable to find a plausible reason for him to enter the innpr room.MadameKruoff oneday went and told him there was a rat which must be killed. The dvornik went and certainly found nothing ; but the trick was played ; he had seen the wtmlA nf thn r,Toms and could bear testimony that there was absolutely nothing suspicious in them. Once a month they invariably had people in to clean the floors of all the rooms. I was assailed by profound melancholy at the sight of all these people. In voluntarily I compared their terrible life with my own and felt overcome with shame. What wa our activity in the broad light of a day, amid the excitement of a multitude of friends and the stir of our daily life and strug gles, compared with this continuous sacrifice of their whole existence, wast ing away in this dungeon? Philadtl pilia Prets. It is estimated that there are 4,0C(V 000 of idi e. in Texas, which number wi;l be inc'rea el during the. coming season to 5,500,000, worth $13,500.-000. THEMD ROY IN A NEW ROLE he mcpx.Anrs aow he &sczxvi a BX.ACK EYE. Taking the Part nf a Girl Wh Had For merly Been His Schoolmate Befriending the Friendless. The Milwaukee Sun's famous bad boy appears in an entirely new role in the following sketch: Ah, ha, you have got your deserts at last," said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in with one eye black, and his nose peeled on one side, and sat down on a board across the coal scuttle, and began whistling aj unconcerned 3 possible. " What's the matter with your eye?" " Boy tried to gouge it out without asking my consent," and the bad boy took & dried herring out of the box and began peeling it. " He is in bed now, and his ma is poulticing mm, and she says he will be out about the last of next week." " Oh, you are going to be a prize fighter, ain't you," said the grocery man, disgusted. " When a boy leaves a job where he is working, and goes to loafing around, he becomes a fighter the first thing. What your pa ought to do is bind you out with a farmer, where you would have to work all the time, I wish you would go away from here, because you look like one of these fellows that comes up before the police judge Monday morning, and gets thirty days in the house of cor rection. Why don't you go out and loaf around a slaughter-house, where you would look appropriate?" and the grocery man took a hair-brush and brushed some loose sugar and tea, that was on the counter, into the sugar barrel. " Well, if you have got through with your sermon, I will toot a little on my horn," and the boy threw the remains of the herring over behind a barrel of potatoes, and wiped his hands on a coffee sack. If you had tiiis black eye, and had got it the way I did, it would be a more priceless gem in the crown of glory you hope to wear, than any gem you can get by putting quarters in the collection plate, with the holes filled with lead, as you did last Sunday, when I was watching you. Oh, didn't you look pious when you picked that filled quarter out, and held your thumb over the pla?e where the lead was. The w.iy of the black eye was this. I got a job tending a soda fountain, and last night, just before we closed, there wan two or three young loafers in the place, and a girl came in for a glass of soda. Five years ago she was one of ths brightest scholars in the ward school, when I was in the intermediate department. She was just as handsome as a pe:ich, and everybody liked her. At recess she used t take my part when the boys knocked me around, and she lived n-ar us. She had a heart as big 3 that cheese box. and I guess that's what's the matter. Anyway, she left school, and then it was said she was going to be married to a fel low who is now in the dude business, hut he went back on her and after awhile her ma turned her cut doors, and for a year or two she w;is selling beer in a saloon until the mayor stopped conceit She. tried hard to get sewing to do, but they wouldn't have her, I guess 'cause she cried so much when she was sewing, and the tears wet the cloth she was sewing on. Once I asked pa why ma didn't give her some sewing to do, and he said for me to dry up and never speak to her if I met her on the street. It seemed tuff to pass her on the street, when she had tears in her eye? as big as marbles, and not speak to her when I know her so well, and she had been so kind to me at school, just causa a dude wouldn't marry her, but I wanted to obey p i, so I used to walk around a block when I see her coming, 'cause I didn't want to hurt her feelings. Well, last night she came in the store, looking pretty shabby, and wanted a glass of soda, and I gave it to her, and oh, how her hand trembled when she raised the glass to her lips, and how wet her eye3 were, and how pale her face was. I choked up so I couldn't speak when she handed me the nickel, and when she looked up at me and smiled just like she used to,and said I was getting to be almost a man since we went to school at the old school-hous3, and put her handkerchief to her cye-, by gosh, my eyes got so full I couldn't tell whether it was a niokel or a lozenger she gave me. Just then one of those loafers began to laugh at her and call her names, and say the police ought to take her up, and he made fun of her until she cried some more, and I got hot and went around to where he was and told him if h3 said another unkind word to that girl I would maul him. He laughed and asked if she was my sister, and I told him that a poor friendless girl, who was fdck and in distress, and wjio wa3 in sulted, ought to be every boy's sister, for a minute, and any boy who had a spark of manhood should protect her, and then he laughed and said I ought to be one of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and he took hold of her faded shawl and pulled the weak girl against the show-case, and said something mean to her, and she looked as though she wanted to di, and I mashed that boy one right on the nose. WelL the air seemed to be full of me for a min ute, cause he was bigger than me, and he got me down and got his thumb in my eye. I guess he was going to take my eye out, but I turned him over and got on top and I mauled him until he begged, but I wouldn't let him up till he asked the girl's pardon, and swore he would whip any boy that insulted her, and then I let him "up, and the Hri thanked me, but I told her I i Wnt speak to her, cause she was toflf, and pa didn't want me to speak to anybody who was tuff, but if any body ever insulted her so she had to cry. that I would whip him if I had to take a club. I told pa about it, and I thought he would be mad at me for taking the part of a girl that was tuff, but by gosh pa hugged me, and the tears come in his eyes, and he said I had got good blood in me, and I did just right, and if I would show him the father of the boy that I whipped, pa said he would whip the old man, and ma said for me to find the poor girl and send her up to the house and she would give her a job making pillow-cases anck night shirts. Don't it seem queer tojou that everybody goes back on a ppor girl cause she makes a mistake, and the whelp that is to blame gets a chronio. It makes me tired to tnink of it," and the boy got up and shook himself, and looked in the cracked mirror hanging upon a post, to see how his eye wa3 getting along. "Say, young fellow, you are a thor oughbred," said the grocery man, as he sprinkled some water on the asparagus and lettuce, "and you can come inhere and get all the herring you want, and never mind the black eye. I wish I had it myself. Yes, it does seem tough to see people never allow a girl to re form. Now, in Bible times, the Savior forgave Mary, or somebody, I forget now what her name was, and she was a better girl than ever. What we need is more of the spirit of Christ, and the world would be better." The Action of the Heart. As with each stroke the heart pro jects something like six ounces of blood into the conduit's of the system, and as it does so some seventy times in a minute and 4,200 times in an hour, this implies that it doe3 the same thing 100.S00 times in twenty-four hours, 30,000,000 times in a year, and more than 2,500,000,000 ties in a life of seventy years. The mechanical force that is exerted at each stroke amounts to a pressure of thirteen pounds upon the entire charge of blood that has to be pressed onward through the branch ing network of vesel3. According to t ha lowest estimate that has be n ma le, this gives an exertion of forca that would be adequate, in another form of application, to lift 120 tons one foot high every twenty-four hours. Yet the piece of living mechanism that is called upon to do this, and do It without a pause for threescore years and ten without being itself worn out by the effort, is a small bundle of flesh that rarely weighs Et-orft than eleven ounces. It is in the nature of the case, also, it must be remembered, that this little vital n;achine cannot be at any time stopped for repair. If it gets out of order, it must be set right as it runs. To stop the beating of the heart for more than th3 briefest interval would be to change life into death. The narrative of what medical science has done to penetrate into the secrets of thi3 delicate force-pump, so jealously guarded from the intrusion of the eye that it cannot even be looked into until it3 ac tion has ceased, is, never theless, a long history of wonders. By means of the spygmograp a writing style attached to the wrist by a system of levers and springs the pulse is made to record actual autographs of cardiac and vascular derangement. Edinburgh Review. A Roman Pageant. The tournament in the Villa Borg hess, at liome, in honor of the mar riage of the Duke of Genoa, was an interesting spectacle. It will be re membered that the Piazza di Scena, which wa3 planned for pageants of this kind, and where many have been given since the days of Pope Paul V., has exactly the outline of an ancient Eoman circus. The seats which have been erected along the side3 and semi circular cnd3 were filled with about thirteen thousand spectators. In the royal pavilh n cn the midfdle of one side, hung with crimson velvet and decorated with flowers, were the king and queen, the bride and bridegroom, the Duke of Aosta and Prince Ar nulph, of Bavaria, with their respect ive suites On their right was a pavilion for foreign ambassadors and envoys, and on the left otheis for their families and the cabinet ministers. The cavaliers, ail young Italian nobles and cavalry officers, divided into four squadrons of thirty-four riders each, two representing Bavarians and two Italians, were mounted on richly caparisoned thoroughbred horses and wore handsome sixteenth century cos tumes of gay colors, with plumed hats. They rode into the lists preceded by the herald. Prince Odescalchi, trumpet ers and standard bearers, and were led by the young Prince Naples, who ac quitted himself gallantly. The sports were of the various kinds practwed at such pageants since tilting went out with the use of armor the Turk's head, the hunt of the rose and the like. The men rode well, and the evolutions, especially those at a hand gallop and over hurdles, were admirably executed, and excited louH bursts of applause. So gay a specta le ha3 not been wit nessed in Rome for many years. Value of a Goldsmith's Shop. A pine floor laid in a gold worker's shop in ten years becomes worth $150 per foot. A. Syracuse jeweler once bought for less than fifty dollars some sweepings that gave $208 worth of gold. A tub in his cellar, into which is blown the dust from a polishing lathe, accumulates fifty dollars a year. A workman in his shop carried off on the tip of his moistened finger thirty dollars of fillings in a few weeks. Workmen sometimes oil their hair and then run their fingers through it, leav ing a deposit of gold particles, which they afterward wash out Syracuse Herald. There are in the limits of lew York city 78,858 buildings occupied wholly or in part as dweliing housers. There are 200,000 families, with an average of sixteen persons to a dwelling. i i i. OO AOS f.imilias n arn tha ))nmM they live in, leaving 168,000 families I in rented houses. THE BLACK KORSES. Have yots seen the black horses A3 they stand in their places, , With tha steam of their nostrils And the fire of their fares, As they shine in their harness For their swift, splendid races? When they run in the darkness How the y flame in their going I Ho they frn earth behind them! How the heat in them glowing Leaves a trail on the night From the sparks they are throwing I And the hand of the master Perchance yon have wondered How it kept a firm reia While they lightened and thundered In the speed of their passage Aa midnight was sundered. Oh, grand are the horses That whirl ns, unsparing By hillside and hollow, Their vigor declaring: And grand are the drivers Who urge on their daring ! Fly faster and faster, Oh, gallant black hrses, As ye fling the hot spume-flakes Along your smooth courses; Fly faster, for heartbeats Shall add to your forces ! And grip the long lever, Oh, hand of the master, As the brass soines like gold In the teeth of disaster While the black horses' snorting Comes faster and faster ! Sanihel W. Driffield. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The artist's adieu to his picture "You be hanged 1" According to an exchange, this is thf season when the man who can see ser mons in running brooks is apt to gt and look for them on Sunday. Fiat are biting. A Georgia young lady is raising four acres of onions in order to obtain $1,500. .When she gets through sh ought to be able to write a companion piece to Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears." Mrs. Spaggins was boasting of hei new house. Trie windows, she said, were stained. "Tnat's too bad; bul won't turpentine or benzine wash it off ? ' asked the good Mrs. Oldboy. Burlington H iwkeye. "Shall we wear a silk hat?" was the subject of a lecture by a Brooklyn di vine recently. That is a question which no man can answer. Every thing depends on which way the elec tions go. Philadelphia Hews. There is a young fellow in our neigh borhood who has been n aking a dailj practice of attempt ng to aing, "Let me like, a soldier die," He seems tc crave death, and they do say that one of the neighbors who has a musket ia preparing to accommodate hito. Saturday Night. Thft hftierht of economy has been reached in J hiladelphia. A woman in this city, having worn out the htela and tot "s of her red stockings, is going to use the uprer port onsfor lining hei bonnet. It won't be quite a3 showy as red sa in, but m t tl.ink how much it saves Phi adelphia Chronicle. A woman has been sending bananas to her husband who is confined in jail in St. Louis. They were of a very peculiar kind, and are deserving of the atttntion of horticulturists. On ex amination they were found to contain saws and file3 witliin their pulpy basoms. The imprironed criminal will hereafter be known by his fruit. " What d'ye .leave that door wide open for?" exclaimed the gentleman in the office to the intruding peddler. "Oi thought surr," was the quick re ply, " that ye moight want to kick me downstairs, and Oi wanted to make it convanient for ye, surr." The gentle man was so taken aback that he bought two apples for five cents, passing orf a bad quarter in the trans action. Boston Transcript. . Charley, the thre?-year-old of the household, stood an attentive and inter ested looker-on while grandma was paring potatoes for dinner. Presently she mada a sign of discontinuing the work viith a single potato left im peded and unwashed. The little fel low reached into the pan, took it in his c'-iubby hand, and turning his bright eye3 in an appealing glance to graid ma's f ac e, exclaimed : " Take 'im e'oe oif and give 'im baff, too." A gentleman, who i3 said to be "one of the poets laureat of the United States," has written a pceia descrip tive of a visit to Fg7pt, in which he says: " Then to the rai road we did go To take the cars for Ca-l-ro; To see the pyramids was our intent, So from Al exandria we went." We never underT stood before just what was rreant by a " poet laureat of the United States,' but it is clear from this specimen that the country is well supplied with them. Non isiown Herald. Inquirer Ycu wish to set Mr. Sna?gs and his next door neighbor to fighting. Easy enough. Some dark night just take a load of ashes and old oyster cans and dump them in Snaggs' back yard. Hell lay it to his neighbor and tling 'em ever the fence. The neighbor'il be malder than a candidate for office teaten by one vote, and will sling 'em back. Then things will hum; law suits, pulled nose? and bloody heads will result, and- you can sit back and see the fun. Boston Post. An indignant landlord writes de manding the name of the party who first suggested putting coils of rope in sleeping rooms as a protection against fire. " He says he provided every bed room in hi3 house with a coil of rope, and the first night three of his guests lowered their baggage lrom the sixth story window and skipped, leaving several days' board bill unpaid. He allows that being burned to death is bad enough, but running a hotel for fun is a good deal worse. Rochester Exvress. i i r 7 V
The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.)
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