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Adrrti?Hn are reuwitcl to hrin in their -jTrljfmentj on Mo'niay evening of each WMk, to insure insertion jin'iext Lsue, r 1 . Zf The TIMKX the only jxtper published in Anson County. PROFESSION AL' CARDS. E. T. ASHE, M. D. S. IJ. J'l.NES, M. D. Das. Ashe & jones, . v; i-:si; )ii). :;. c. Ir. -. .'v -Ii:. : 'r. . e ;!-:: :-t AT ,hi, i ' '.'if i '.; : . M-ii:- ' . -h S.irery. Ti: ! r . !' !'.;: - ii: it ';iif 1 l- v . j. ;i i i l-tf. !'.. Z. MY7..K. W. J.. TAIiSUXS. Lltt'o it Parsons, AmT T O US' II V S AT L A U, fT CoIi"i-tioiw promptly attendel to. JL, J. UAKUAN, J. U. I'EBBSRTON. DARGAN & FEHBERT0N, 4 T T O It X E V ,S' A T L A U', WADESDt )KO. N. C. J jF Prarticf in t h.' .Stnto and Felernl Court. JAS7 A Lock 11 ART, Att'y and Cot:p.s3!!or at Law, WADES HOIK1, N. C. l'r.iticvi in all the Courts of the State. samuijl t. a sin:, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WAI;:S!MROr N. c. -f Ste ial attention .-ivm to the-collation of claims. GEORGE V. STRONG, A t tra y anJ Counsellor at La-r, RALEICII. N. C. l.T Prati'-cs in tl;.- Sti.te and Federal Courts. VM. A. IXGKAM, M. D., rradicinir JMivsician, WADESIiORO, N. C. A. . Huntley, M. I)., WAIKSBpRO. N. C. (3tTers his prof,-s.-io!ial services to the citir.tMis of Aniion county. O.Tico first dfvr alx the Bank. II. W. ROBINSON, SURGEON DENTIST, WADESnoRO, N. C. Will le at his of!W in Wadeslro on Mon day, Tusdiy and Wediies.Liy of each week. No other days except by appintment. 2tf HOTELS. JIU.NTiiKY'S HOTEL, WAPESBORO, N. C. Iloudquartfi-y for Commercial 'Trav ellers. I-??"Taljle Supplied with tle best the Market allon'.s. l-tf - ) A V 1 Ii I A N H ) T i: L, CHARLESTON. S. C. Hates. ?2 0. 2 prr tin', accordin'j to 7c Lcx tttioii o f EoO'iis. Tho Pavilian is one of tlio lealing first-class Hotels in the itv; i- centrally lotvittti aiid -onrecttvl by Str-'t R.iilway with the Rjiil road Depots." Bunks and Pot-olIK-e. The ta'ole is supplie.1 with the l-st that our home and northern markets ntford. "" The hou.NO hus Ikh-ii then hi ::1Uv renovate! this sea-.on C-nununication by t-lephone with all parts of thecitv. E. T. GAILLARD, I'roprietor. 8. R. STREET, Sr. WM. J. STREET. . Street's National Hotel, RALEIGH, N. C. ,S'. n. STI!KET.(- SOX, Osmers and Vopr.. Bost Sample Rooms in City. The' Natinal overhniks Union or Capitol square, the finest park" in the State, ami al ways accessible" to guests of th? house, l-tf. R. H. FIELD, i Charlotte, N. C. T. E. FIELD. ; Hickory, N. C. METROPOLITAN HOTEL, CHARLOTTE; N. C. FIELD BROS., Proprietors. TERfS MODERA TE. - YARBROUCM HOUSE, RALEIGH, X. C. Prices Reduced to Suit the Times. CALL AND SEE US. J)URCKL,Li IIOUSK, WILMIXGTOX, X. C. Recently thoroughly overhauled and reno vated. First-clas in every respect. Loca tion desirable,- bein- situated near all busi ness houses, Post-office, Custom House, City Hall and Court House. Rates, 2 00 and 2 50 per day Our motto is to please V . HOWELL COBB, Proprietor. c HARLESTOX HOTKh, E. H. JACKSON, CHARLESTON, S. C. Hates Redt-ped. 2 50, $s 00 and $4 00 per day, cwrding to lt-ction of rooms. SCHEDULES. Carolina Central flaiiway Comp'y. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Officii Geitkral Supe rijttkxdext, 1 Wilmington, N. C, Dec. 12, ltXO. On and after Dec. 12, 180, the following schedule will be operated on this Railway : PASSENGER, MAIL AXD EXPRESS TRAIN. v - J Leave "Wilmington, & 10 a tn ' 1 " ( Arrive at Charlotte, 6 10pm Vrt o i Leave Charlotte, 6 20 a m f Arrive at Wilminston, 3 20 p m Trains Nok. 1 and 2 top at regular etations only, and points designated in the Company's Time Table. PASSENGER AXT FREIOHT TRAIN. ( Leave Wilmingtoa at Arrive at Hamlet at ( Vrrive at Charlotte at t Leave Charlotte at 5. SO P. No 1.2fi A. 8.15 a. 7.30 p. 1.26 a. No. ft Arrive at Hamlet at ( Arrive at Wilmington at 9.45 a. m No. 5 train is daily except Sunday, but makes no connection to Raleigh on Satur davs. No. 6 train Ls daily except Saturdays. Through Sleeping Cars between Raleigh and Charlotte. V. Q. JOHNSON, Gen'l Sup't. Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line R. R. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Supeiiintendent's Office, Itak-i-h, N. C, June 5, lsTO. On atid aft-r Friday, June 6, 1879, trains o!i tJie Rak ish and : A'ugitsta Air-Line Rail road will run daily (Sundays excepted) as follows: - No. 1 Leave Raleigh, MKlp. No. 2 leave Hamlet, 2 30 a. m Holfman, 3 14 a. m Keyser, 3 37 a. M Bl tie's, 3 54 a. M Manly, 4 13 a. m Cameron, 4 5j a. m Sanford, 5 41 a. m Osgood, 6 02 A. M Money re, 6 25 a. m Meixy Oaks, 6 42 a. M New Hill, 7 00 a. M Apex, 7 23 a. m Cai y, 7 5'J a. m Ar. llaleigh, 8 30 a. m 31. II. M. M. M. 51. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. Carv S 31 p. Apex, New Hill, Merry Oaks MoucJire S 53 p. y 14 p. 0 :u; r. y 56 p. lo 17 p. 10 44 P. 1 1 27 P. 12 tr. a. 12 'jy a. 12 4S a. ( )sg x x 1, Sanford, Cainerrm Manlv, blue's, Keyser, 1 Trt no fr ilUU a A A.. Arr Hamlet, 2 00 a. 1 14 a. Traili numlier 1 connects at Hamlet with C. C. Railway for Charlotte and all points south. Train number 2 connectsitait Raleigh with the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad for all north. points JOHN C. WINDER, Superintendent. Cheraw & Darlington Railroad. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. President's Office, ' ) Society Hill, S. C, Nov. 13, lsjso. f On and after Monday, the ,15th inst., the trsun on this road will run as follows mak ing connection at Florence with trains to and from Charleston, Columbia and Wilmington both ways: GOING DOWN. Leave Cheraw at ' Soci( ty Hill, " Dove's, " Darlington, " Palmetto, Arrive at Florence, 10 30 A. M. 11 15 " 1 1 45 " 12 15 12 35 1 00 P. M. COMING UP. Iave Florence at 3 45 p. M. Palmetto, 4 10 " " Darlintrton. 4 30 " ' Dove's, 4 55 Society Hill. 5 25 Cash's" 5 50 4i Arrive at Cheraw, 6 10 " Close connection made at Florence with trains to and from Charleston and Wilming ton, every day excel it Sunday " Ii. D. TOWN SEND, President. Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad. f CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Until further notice, the trains on this road will run as follows: Ienve. Arrive. I Wadcslioro. S.:M) a. m. Cheraw, 10.00 a. m Cl raw, 6.20 p. M. adeslwro, 8.00 P. M Making -lse connection both ways at Che raw. with Cheraw 8c Darlington train, and at "Florence with the Northeastern train. B. D. TOWNSEND, President. Northeastern Railroad Company. Charleston, S. C, ) St-ptember 16, 180. J On and after Sunday next, HHh mst.? the mail and passenger trains of this road will be run as follows: Iieave Charleston, 10.45 A. M . and 9.45 P. and 2.10 a. and 2.35 a. and 7.00 a. I Arrive at Florence, 3.15 p. M. leave rlorence, 1.4.J P. M. Arrive at Charleston, 6.15 P. M. Train leaving at 10.45 a. m. connects with Cheraw c Darlington Road and for Wades boro, N. C. P. L. CLADPOR, General Ticket Agent. TIME TABLE Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley R. R. TO TAKE EFFECT MAY 9, 1880. leaves Fayette ville at Arrives at Gulf at Leaves Gulf at Arrives at Fayetteville, Daily except Sunday. L. C. 4.00 P. M. 7.35 p. M. 6.00 A. M. 10.20. A. M. JONES, Sup't. THE CHARLESTON. LINE. FROM THE UPPER CAROLINAS. THE NEW SHORT LINE FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA. fniRiTsmx. S. C. Auir. 2nd. 1880. V.V11UU1TIK ui, . v.;-, v. , Salisbury Railroad opens from Wadesboro, Charlotte and all adjacent territories via Che raw and Florence, a new line to Charleston and the East, and respectfully invites the at tention of all shippers, and a share of their business. For rates and all information inquire of W. L. Rose, Agent, Wadesboro, or the under signed. A. POPE, General Freight and Passenger Agent. FOR FLORIDA. Via Savannah, Twice a Week. On and after December 1, the palace steam er ST. JOHN'S, Capt. Leo Vogel, will leave Charleston as per Schedule below: On the Tuesday trip the St John's calls in at Savannah going and returning. On the Saturday trip she goes direct to Florida, not stopping at Savannah either way Tues'y, Nov 30, 12 m Tues'v, Dec 7, 1pm Tues'y, Dec 14, 10 a m Tues'y, Dec 21, 12 m Satd'v: Dec 4. 8pm Satri'y, Dec 11,8pm Satdy, Dec 18,6pm Satd'y, Doc 25, 8 pm Satd'y, Jan 1, 7 p m Tues'y, Dec 2i, 10 a m t. "KWnannina with Transit Road for Cedar Keys and points on the Gulf, also with Boats at Jacksonville and Palatka for Upper St. John's, and Oklayaha Rivers, and with Railroad for St. Augustine at Tocoi. Freight Received daily. , . State rooms secured and all information ftirnished bv application to R A VENEL & CO., Agents, 20 East Bay, Charleston, S C. HAI1 1 IU kItl. WJ im. fUrUs tCA CO. UW AHA Lmum.tt The Sword of Robert Lee. Forth from its scabbard pore and bright, Flashed the sword of Lee! Far in front of the deadly fight. High o'er the brave in the cause of Right -, It stainless sheen like a beacon of light Led us to victory. Out of. its scabbard where full long It slumbered peacefully, Roused from its rest by the battle's song Shielding the feeble, smiting the strong, Guarding: theright, avenging the wrong Gleamed the sword of Lee. Forth from its scabbard high in air Beneath Virginia's sky , And they who saw it gleaming there And. knew who bore it knelt to swear That where that sword led, they would dare To follow and to die. Out of its scabbard ! never hand Waved swogd from stain as free, Nor purer sword led braver band, Nor braver bled for a brighter land Nor brighter land had a Cause so grand, Nor cause a chief like Lee. Forth from its scabbard ! how we prayed, That sword might victor be ; And when our triumph was delayed, And many a heart grew sore afraid, We still hoped onwiiile gleamed the blade Of noble Robert Lee. Forth from its scabbard! all in vain Bright flashed the sword of Lee ; 'Tis shrouded now in its sheath again, It sleejs the sleep of our noble slain ; Defeated yet without a stain ; Proudly and peacefully. FatJter Ryan. A FATAL INHERITANCE. BY LEIGH L. BROOKNER. "Is this artist's blouse becoming to me ?" asked Drtisilla Sterling of her. cousin Lucrece. "What matter whether a garment becomes you or not ? Your attitudes are always graceful and fascinating. If it -were for this alone it would be worth while to be the daughter of a f dancer. 1 wonder what Maxwell St. Ives would say if he knew that ?" Drusilla's anger was at white heat, but so great was her self-control that to an ordinary observer she would have seemed perfectly calm. Her voice was unusually smooth and low as she replied to Lucrece' -.f.i KnfThhank you for your compliment, though it is not by any means new for me to be told that I am graceful. As for St. Ives knowing the story of my parentage, I mean to tell him as soon as occasion demands; at present he is too little interested in me or my 1 affairs to care about the storv. " f Poor Lu felt that her thrust had been without effect. It was rarely she allowed herself to be so bitter, but surely she had occasion. Here was this sqint-eyed, pale-faced, ill-born and ill bred creature, who, by rsome elfish witchery, had won Lucrece's hand some lover from her. From the first moment Roy Sebert heard Drusilla's voice he had been ready to follow her through the world. Only two months from Eng land, and already so unfortunate as to have caused an affianced lover to be unfaithful to his vows! It was ru mored that a young curate on the other side of the water had commit ted suicide for her sake. When her cousin left the room Dru silla sat down before the pier-glass and looked at herself steadily, sadly. "My fate follows me. I am doom ed to make trouble wherever I go. Lu is jealous, and, therefore, unjust. I have never, by the slightest con scious act, tried to win her lover. Yet Roy is handsome, and he temptation has been very strong sometimes. ' It was a source of deep humiliation to Drusilla that her mother had been an actress, and, when she remember ed her cousin's taunt, she resolved to try and make her more unhappy. "I will deny myself the pleasure of being amiable to Roy Sebert no lon ger. If Cousin Lu, with those lovely dark eyes of hers, cannot enchain a lover, we will see what the daughter of a dancer can do !' She lifted a small green-velvet shade from the toilet table and placed it over her eyes. An intense and unre mitting devotion to philosophical stu dies had made her nearly blind. Cer tainly, her eves were not pleasant to look at, and she said, "I certainly wish to shock no one by my hideous- ness. Perhaps she was also aware that the dark velvet shade would make her forehead the fairer by con trast. She was tall and well devel oped, not at all the sort of woman one would take to be a coquette. This was what her female friends called her, but the gentlemen without ex ception denied it. "She is simply a lovable woman, and wins our interest without effort," said her gentleman admirers. "She is so artful as to conceal art," said the bitter and unloved of her own sex. One day, as she sat talking to Max well St. Ives, the door opened and lit tle five-year-old Floy said, "Mr. De vine is come." - Maxwell's lip curled, and he remark ed : "I did not know this was public reception day. I will call again." "Pray be seated, Mr. St. Ives. I have something to say to you when my young triend is gone. Fred is privileged, and comes at any time; you honor me with your presence more rarely." The caller had for excuse a pair of Drusilla's white kid gloves, that she had left in the village reading-room. She took them with thanks for his thoughtfulness, and as she talked twisted them carelessly in her hands. Fred was pained by this seemingly trivial incident. He was romantic and not a little superstitious, for be tween the oalms of the gloves he had placed a dainty blue violet, saying to himself, I will let this blossom be the symbol of my fate. If 6he places it at her throat or in her hair.; if it in anyway receives attention lot gives pleasure, I shall hopej As she -tossed the gloves aside the flower fell broken and unnoticed at her feet. Ah, how different is our dream from fhe reali ty. It was the first violet of the year, as it was the first love of his life ! As he arose to go she saidr "If you will please take me by the hand I will accompany you to, the head of the stairs. I want to scold you a little for. something I have heard. With this dreadful shade that Lsa ooliged to wear I cannot find my way with out stumbling. Will you excuse me for the merest moment, Mr. St. Ives?" , "Now, it was not really -necessary for Drusilla to be led about in a house where she was perfectly familiar, but she wished to influence Fred, and knew of no way more certain. How her soft, magnetic hand thrill ed him. Why, her lightest touch was like a caress. She talked very earnestly to him' of his growing fond ness for cards and wine. Said she had heard such rumors, but would not believe them. Would he promise that the gossip should be without foundation ? He would promise any thing. He would reform! Re-entering the parlor, she remark ed to Maxwell:! "My college boys are so much to me like brothers, I can re prove and admonish them in truly or thodox style without their resenting it. They need some one to scold them a little sometimes."' Maxwell said, in his abrupt, argu mentative way : "Fred Devine does not consider himself merely a boy friend ; he thinks himself a man and comes a wooing." The color crept into Drusilla's pale face: "Hush, Maxwell St Ives, I will not believe it. My own regard for this lad is so different. I want him to lookup to me, arid come to me for counsel and sympathy; I "want his esteem ; in short, I want earnest, re spectful beautiful friendship, instead of fickle, passionate, fatal love !" She was much excited. Ail the con trol she had shown when Lu taunted her was swept away. She had suf fered so much through love that she could bear no mention of what had darkened her whole 1 fe. "Whenever and wherever I try to establish a friendship, it is shortly transformed. into reckless, 'despairing love. Ailieteeoliiv was receive(i m marble. All this was such cep grief to her, and he did not care. Any other man would have expressed some sympathy; not so this impassive Northerner, who, cynical and bitter, thought it a fine bit of acting. He had been drawn toward her at first, but an anonymous letter had told him to "beware of Drusilla Sterling," that she was an actress by birth and education, and utterly without heart. From that time he had been on his guard. ' "Pardon my emotion," she said, af ter a moments pause. "Pardon me also if I go on to say more of myself. "I want you to know if there is any sufficient reason in the past why my present should be so full of passion and pain! You have before now. ac cused me of being a coquette ! Upon my honor I do not mean to be. Wrhat I do I cannot help. It is a deep and sad fatality. Let me tell you the sto ry of my birth that you may judge for yourself how I came to inherit my bithright of sorrow. "My father was an English artist and married a woman who made her living by singing and dancing at the theatres. She was as deceitful as she was beautiful. My old nurse Jeanette has often told me how my mother would say to her: "The Englishman is an ogre." But to him she wotdd say: "You are grand like the gods." She wOn him, not because she loved him, but because he was supposed to be wealthy: He loved her with his imagination rather than with his, heart. He was very susceptible to beauty and gracefulness, and both were her's to a remarkable degree. The fact that she was married did not prevent men loving her. She died when I was but three days old. and father and Jeanette brought me to England. "From my tenth year I have been conscious of possessing my mother s fatal fault of fascination. There is nothing I so much deplore, for I have my father's honest English heart, and would win love only where I could return it. Until the last few months I have never known what that word meant. You are still silent. I have lost your esteem by confessing my mother's profession. Oh, Max well St. Ives, I trusted you ! Are you not still my friend ?"' In her earnestness she laid both her little caressing hands over both of his. All his reserve and skepticism were swept away. He pressed her hands like rose leaves in his own, and an swered: I "For life for death !" Before they parted they were be trothed lovers. : Drusilla had some misgivings, and said: "Can you go to your proud mother" and tell her that you have espoused the daughter of a dancer ?" "Drusilla Sterling, I can say any thing to anybody. If only you are true to me there is no obstacle to our union that I will not easily overcome. I have given myself to you, body and soul, and God help him who comes between us !" She felt her heart grow cold as he spoke. Was this love also to prove unhappy? O. it, was too sad that in this first glad hour of betrothal there should be a Shadow of impending eviL She loved him so ! It was cruel that she could not be free from fore bodings. At the moment of farewell she sobbed as (if her heart were breaking, and he had scarcely reach ed his home when a note followed hira, saying: ! "Maxwell St. Ives : As I love ! you I must never see you again would only bring yu imhappiness. It is my sad fate. I Forget me and farewell. I "Yours, with love-and regret, "Drusilla SterUxu." It was hardly the kind ofi letter to send a man the world's width from his heart's desire! No possible icoimbina tion of; words could have been more eertah to bring him to her side. No pleading, no tenderness, cdulid have been more potent than this jdeeply despondent dismissal. What would he not venture for her affection! Other riien might love her they must love heV if j they but entered her preseneerbut as for Dru silla herself, she should 1 so ish nit tir ed by his devotion, so hedged about uy ma attentions and tenderness that she could love no one else, i ! He would not visit her tO-jmarrdw nor for many days, f He wdijdd wait untd her mood had changed jand she was subdued by a desire to ! see him. He had some power jiover her' that he Knew. But his owr will wits weak est. He must see hei He must hold her m his arms, if only for a moment. It was evening, two weeks from his last visit. That very afternoon Rov bebert had returned from a fishing excursion, and at 8 o'clock l)o found Drusilla alone in theibrillianllv-light-ed parlor. Never hall he sebi her so well dressed, she was careless about her attire in genera U She hid put on her one rich dress, ja mvrtle given silk, bought, I think, to' match her emerald ring and necklace. iDrusilla had persuaded herself that Maxwell would visit her that evening Ob could she but have known, oh what a fatal errand, she would never have let Roy lift her hand! to examine the ' quaint device on her rinsr!! Reforo sne could prevent it, Rov had pressed her hand to his hps. Shc snatched it angrily away, and atjthat instant thn words flashed through bci brain, "God help him who jicomes between us." ' At Drusilla's comlnand Roy in-f stantly left, the room:; He had been gone but a moment when sjUe heard the report of a pi stop, and, j1 fearing she knew not what, 4he rushed into the hall only to find her worst fears confirmed. Roy Sebert lay there upon the floor in a last agony, the blood issuing from a wound in his iieart. 1 ' : Swift as Drusilla hqjd been ; Lucrece was there before her. She wias down upon her knees trying to stanch the horror and grief. She was; still as death, until she found her efforts vain, and, when her lover Ijell a life less burden from hef arms, such a shriek echoed through the 'house as could never be forgotten by those who heard it. Father and motljier knew in that instant that th(ir beloved only daughter was a hopeless' mania;-. Glaring wildly around, her glance i fell upon Drusilla, and, regarding her 1 cousin as the murderer of her lover, i ' she sprang toward her with insane -i - : i fury. It required the united strength of Mr. Sterling and his fanh-hand to loosen her hold of Drusilla's throat ! O what a night of hofror Avas that ! Drusilla lying bet weed life and death, Lucrece raving of her; lover, and ac cusing Drusilla as his ijnurderer. Only one person knjbw the truth of the affair; that was J6hn Miller, the hired man. He had been to the vil lage, and, on his return, lie saw Max well St. Ives standing byjthe gate, lookincr toward the house, i The man glanced up to find what attracted' his I attention, and there, i plain as day, saw Roy Sebert kiss Drusilla s hand. The next instant Maxwell Avent rap idly up the walk, entered ,; the house without announcement, aiid, almost immediately afterward, retraced his steps, mounted his horse,! and rode rapidly away. 1 All this was elicited thf following day at the Coroner's inquest, and the fact that Maxwell St. Ive was miss ing was all that was nededto confirm the verdict, and free Drusilla from any suspicion of direqt complicity in the murder. Yet whejn, after weeks of illness, she came bacld to reason and life, she felt that she could no longer remain under hhv uiicle's roof. "1 must live by my Self." she said, sadly; "I bring sorrowj and death into every household I enter."! So it was planned that a cottage should be bought, land Jeanette should be sent for as companion and servant. : I was visiting a friend in the coun try who told me the story. She said to me, one afternoon vhen we were nut. drivino- "Would von like to call , n.naiiin strlincr.? thpr is t he ! cottage" 1 : I It was a beautiful place. There ! were English roses trainea apoui me j low porch. A womanin kronen cap - -rt i met us at the door and conducted us into the room where her mistress sat reading. . A stately woman. Rearing a black dress and a small black cap. that, with its coronet outline marked by tiny pearls, looked like a small royal crown. The eyes j were clear and dark, but infinitely sad. Of late years Jeanette had read i to her mis tress until Drusilla's overtaxed eyes had, by rest and carefulness, become as bright as in youth. Her mouth was large, but curved and! sweet. She was so grateful toms for Coming; she admitted that her pifejwas lonely at times. ? . When" my friend said, 'fl have told Miss Brookner your story, and she gives you her love and 'sympathy," she reached her right Hand out to me. I can never forget the clasp of those soft,, caressing fingers. I Byl-and-by she was led to talk of thetpast and of Maxwell St. Ives. A ijnan answering to the advertised description of him had died of yellow fever in New Or leans one year after tliat stjimmer night tragedy. i i ! The tobacco factory and contents, the property of, J. H. McElwee, were burned at "Statesvilla last Monday night. Loss $15,004-. fisitor. 1- 1 -i -; ' ' i - The Ainbidext rons Reporter. The Kajr'as City Tinfes says : There is 'a reporter at the Times office 'who writes with equal rapidity with either hand. He is an ambidexter, and a bold, bad one at that. When there is a rush of work at the office, and the devil is shouting "coppee" like a fiend incarnate, this useful reporter sits down at his desk in full company front, and with a pencil in each hand, slings off local happenings by the yard.1 He writes on two sheets at once, and don't Jet.hL right hand know what his left hand is driving at, but it's driving all the same. Recently he got a little off his men tal base, and attempted to write up a dog fight and a wedding -in high life at the same time. He got things mixed. His hands ran clear awa'v with the gray matter in his skull, and things became terribly confused. This is the way his items telescoped each other: At Grace Church, last night, the nuptials of Mr. Thomas Johnson and Miss Julia Lawrence were c elebrated in most magnificent style; a costly floral horse-shoe being directly over the altar, and when the yellow cur saw the" flames of anger darting from the eyes of thebrindle fyste, he open ed with the strains of the wedding march. As the handsome couple walked down the aisle the excited crowd began to get frantic, and there were yells of "Sick 'em Bull ;" At mm now "lower, as the spectators became interested in the fight. The bride was elegantly attired in pure white garments of the most, costly fabric, and she wore the traditional white veil and wreath of oramre blos- ! soms had him by the neck, and his tongue began to loll out and his eyes to turn somersaults as if in the custo mary bine lr . rr- ears cropped close to his head. He woo a disreputable look j'ng dog in the beginning, and ought to have been, whipped for being so homely. He is of good family, and is engaged in, one of the most extensive manufacturing establishments in the West. But the yellow cur seemed to be getting the advantage, as he now succeeded in getting a death grip on the throat of the big brindle, and when he tender ly kissed the bride according to the ancient custom, his back was covered with mud and his off hind leg was terribly chewed up. Among the costly presents receive 1 by the h;pjy I ai wre a fine en and piano .r jui the fa h er of the brute, nair nad been scaded from his back, and one eye seemed to have been struck with an augur. Af ter a short bridafc'tour the happy couple will settle down to one of the hardest-fought battles the reporter ever witnessed and it. was difficult to tell which dog had been punished worst. The fight ended at exactly i.4S, after having been bitterly con- tested at the ivs:d -ncj of the bride's parents, and he was taken to his 1 111 T I T owner s nome m a wneei narrow, tie will probably never recover, and it he does wiil be totally blind, besides being permanently lame in the left bind leg; the beautiful bride received the congratulations of a host of friends. The groom is one of our most promising young men, and his owner dreads the possibility of losing him, as he fears that he can never re place him. The father of the bride is one of our weaLliiest merchants.and the yellow fyste limped off with a knowing look in his eye and a saucy curl in his tail, as much as to say, Who else wants to trv me? The ambidexter was summarily "fired." A Sensational Item. The other afternoon, just as the thunder of our new lightning press be gan its private earthquake in the base ment, a youth of about ten summers, panting and exhausted, rushed into the office and gasped, as he held up a paper : "Here you are red hot I'm in time, ain't I ?'' "Too late to get anything in this is sue forms have all gone down, ' re plied the urbane manager. "Any thing important C . "Well, I should think so. We wouldn't have left it out for anything. Everybody will be looking for it.'" "Indeed! Something remarkable happened i Whole family murdered.? City Hall on fire C "Oh, no little thing like that. This is something" immense. How much would it cost, Mister, to stoj the press i About ,irJU, said the manager, cutting excited. "I don't think we've got that much inthe treasury,"-said tl.e boy thought- xuny , j , . u , , nnvthinrf A'irT t rL .i T n rr mi 1 1 1 - 1 'the manager, winking at the book- keeper, ' -perhaps we could get out an extra. "Ah! that's just the thing now you've struck it. You see we played the last .game of the juvenile cham- Eionship series to-day, and the Yel arda that's our feilows beat the Green-knees by fourteen runs; here's the official score." Proudly handing over the record, he hurried home, to shake enough out , of his savings bank to buy lour co pies. San Francisco Post. Clinton, (Iowa) Herald. James Butler, Esq.; Clerk of the Roxbury Carper Co., Boston Mass., employing eight hundred hands, in a late communication concerning the admirable working of an article in troduced into the factory, says: The famous Old German Remedy, St. Ja cobs Oil has effedted cures among .our men, who have been badly hurt in working in the factory, and they pronounce it a success every time. A New England paper, in reporting an anniversary, deliberately says: "The attendance was very Largo, many out of to wn persons being present,"' An Kditor'M Valedictory. The editor of a New York StaW journal, on retiring from the profes sion not long since, embraced the oc casion to give utterance to some sen timents which are applicable thd world qver among newjaper read ers. , . .... Having for nearly seven years been a weekly visitor at 3cur homeskind- iy snaring me noepiumiy, ana, wo, hope, contributing somewhat to tho comfort of the same, it only remains to shake hands all around, take an affectionate and. heart-breaking fare well, and tome no more, probably, forever. ,H Good-bye ' It has been spoken over the dead lying in their' coffins. It has? been spoken when an ocean was to roll in tauveerj. parting'hearts; but it" never is spoken with such pathos and unction as when a country editor, with the memory of his hard grub bing and his scant comforts pressing upon hi:n, hands his valedictory over to the compositor, puts the stub end of his worn-out pencil into his breech es pocket, an d shuffl ch his rheumatic logs down stairs to go no more back forever. '. ' 'We part upon the square. " We proclaim generalmnesty 'all around. We retire forgiving-our -enemies, and shall haunt those who obstinately re fuse to forgive ug. We are bound to be forgiven. ; Farmers, good bj-e !! Yqu are the dorsal column of the country editor's subscription list. It could not stand erect without your help. May the time soon come when no mortgaire. -like a great morass in the centre of a pleasant meadow, shall obstruct your prosperity. Have you ever given us wood of .scrimp pattern and highly perfomtcdjcorJage JThe ter of most unhraionr-eA nui e hope, after a little, to forgive oven this. .- i ; There is a particular class of patrons whom every departing country editor remembers with special gratitude. It : is the substantial, thoroughly stead fast, patrons the men who are' nev er blown out of favor with him by tho light gusts of ill wind.; They are tho men who cash their bills with thor ough professional honor and prompt ness. We remember all such men in Groton with, downright and uncom promising grat itude. We count their names with thankfulness. They are like the brick walls which hold tho ufikc (jiiwrc i He street:; A .Support the new ma1 nagcmcnlL , A country newspaper neejds friend and teannot afford to have enemies. Don't get ihad if something fails to suit, and stop your patronage. I)on't prattle all oC-er the' village aljout the short-, comings of the editor co-operate with and encourage him. Hefjhim to get news, and see that lie has his share of your money to do business with. Don't loaf around his office and steal his time. Dn't give hini too much good advice. lie knows more about his. business, probably, than you do. Help, but don't hinder. Again, good-bye ! 1 Oushed Truth in a Ilidii Attitude. Monday afternoon a stranger, whose whole appearanco was a dead give away on his empty pockets, en- tered an office in Exchange Piaco, and asked : "Do I look like a missionary about, to sail for India V - , ' "No, sir,'; was the prompt reply. "That's right, I like; people to bo frank with me. Do I look as if I ' could eomert any great number of heathens if 1 should turn a mission ary C : . . "No, sir," I . " , "Good again. Would you advise me to turn missionary ff . "No, sir' 1 "Thanks: I see you aire a .business man. I'm another. I came in here calculating to tell you jthat I was a missionary about to sail for India, and ask you for a smiall donation; You wouldn't have given me a' cent would you C "No, sir." "That's plain, and it pleases me; Now, then, I'll tell you the truth. I've no money, nothing! to do, don't want work, expect to have a close rub this winter, and will be much ob liged" for the loan-of ten cents." ' - "Can't spare it." j MNot even when I tell- you the truth ?" ! . "No, sir." i "Then you don't care whether I lie ' or tell the truth if" , ! - "No, sir. I can't see,"that it affecta ' me any." I "Verv well. It doesrme good to find a frank, honest man, and, on the whftu vm not. rliinnnifikl. ' If vnu -' - ' had lent me a dime it would have gone for whiskey and been wasted. If you had believed me I would have lied to vou. Seems as if you might recom- mend me to some one in! the block on whom a pleasant lie would have ef fect, but I won't press ! the matter. Au revoirT Wall Street News. ; (Jackson Daily Patfit.) - Happy Frien(l j Rev. F. M. WTmburne,PastorM. E. Church, Mexia, Texas, jwrits as fol io ws : Several months since I received a supply of St. Jacobs pil. Retain ing two bottles,. I distributed the rest among friends. It, i3 a most excel lent remendj' for pains and aches of various kinds, especially neuralgia and rheumatic affections. . ' At the an ntial meeting of the stock holders of "The Bank of New Han over," held at their 1 banking house on the 10th inst.. the president sub mitted a statement showing that the net earnings of tho bank for the last year were over: 12 per cient., and for" the last six months a fraction over 7 per cent. Ex. I ! There's more art in lying than has been conceded to either seulpturc or painting.- . '-" - " . ! ' '. ' f I. Am- i v r 1-
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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Feb. 17, 1881, edition 1
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