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TIbLe XjxlDex-'L.y o "tltxe Press xrLixs-b "be Presei?re4.--Haiioooi:. TERMS : $a.oo per Year VOL. II. WADESBORp', N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1882. NO. 37. R. H. COWAN, Editor and Proprietor. Aksn Times Succeeds The Pee Dee Herald, TERMS :CASn IN ADVANCE. One Year.... 2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months. 50 ADVERTISING RATES. One square, first insertion, 1 1 0.0 Each subsequent insertion, 50 Local adTCrfciaementa, per line, 10 f Special rates given on application for longer time. Advertisers are requested to bring in their advertisement en-Monday evening qt each week, to insure insertion in next issue. 1 O t2f THE "TIMES" HAS BY FAR THE 1ARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE PEE DEE SECTION. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. SAM J. PEMBERTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ALBEMARLE, N. C. rgy- Attends the Courts of Anson, Union, Cabarrus, Stanly, Montgomery and Rowan, and the Federal Courts at Charlotte and Greensboro. ZHZ-- ZEt. Allen DENTIST, pjy" Office 8. 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C, Dec. 30, 1SS1. f On and after Jan. 1, 1882, the following schedule will be operated on this Railway: PASSENGER, MAIL AND EXPRESS TRAIN. kt 1 I Leave Wilmington, u Arrive at Charlotte, 0 Leave Charlotte, 'Zfi. j- rj-jve at; Wilmington, 8 20 p m 5 50am 10 10 p m 7 32am Trains Nos. 1 and 2 stop at regular stations only, and points designated in the Company's Time Table. PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAIN. Leave Wilmington at 5.40 A. M 5- i Arrive at Hamlet at Arrive at Charlotte at 7.55 p. H 4.15 a. M Leave Charlotte at No. Ma Arrive at Hamlet at Arrive at Wilmington at 5.55 P. M Trains Nos. 1 and 5 make c6nnection at Charlotte with A. & C. R. R. for Spartan burg, Greenville, Athens, Atlanta and. all points beyond. Train No. 6 makes close connection at Wil mington with W. & W. R. R. for points North. Through Sleeping Cars between Raleigh and Charlotte. V. Q. JOHNSON. Gen'l Sup't. Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line Railroad. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Superintendent's Office, Raleigh, N. C, June 5, 1879. On and after Friday, June 6, 1879, trains on the Raleigh and Augusta Air-line Rail road will run daily (Sundays excepted) as follows: No. 1 Leave Raleigh, 8 00 p. M. Carv, 8 31 p. M. Apex, 8 53 P. M. New Hill. 9 14 P. M. Merry Oaks, 9 36 P. M. Moncure 9 56 p. M. Osgood, 10 17 P. M. Sanford, 10 44 P. M. Cameron, 11 27 p. M. No. 2 Hamlet, Hoffman, Keyser, Blue's, Manly, Cameron, Sanford, Osgood, Moncure, Leave 2 30 a. M 3 14 a. M 3 S7 A, m 3 54 a. M 4 13 A. M 4 50 A. M 5 41 A. 11 6 02 A. M 6 25 A. M Manly, 12 09 a. 12 29 A. 12 48 a. 1 14 a. M. M. Si. M. Merry Oaks, 6 42 a. New Hill, 7 00 a. M M Blue s, Keyser, Apex, 7 23 . Carv, 7 59 Ar. Raleigh, 8 30 M M M Hoffman, Ar. Hamlet, 2 00 a. m. Train number 1 connects at Hamlet with C. C. Railway for Charlotte and all points south. Train number 2 connects at Raleigh with the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad for all points north. JOHN C. WINDER Superintendent. Cheraw & Darlington R. R. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. President's Office, Society Hill, S. C, Feb. 28, 1880 i On and after Monday, the 28th inst., the" train 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 10 30 a. m. " Cash's, 1050 " " Society Hill, 11 15 " " Dove's, 11 45 " " Darlington, 12 15 p. m. " Palmetto, 12 35 " . ' Arrive at Florence, 1 00 " - COMING UP. -Leave Florence at 2 35 P. M. ' Palmetto, 3 00 " " Darlington, 315 " " Dove's, 3 40 " " Society Hill, 4 05 " Cash's 4 25 " Arrive at Cheraw, 4 50 " Close connection made at Florence with trains to and from Charleston and Wilming ton, every day except Sunday. . ; B. D. TOWNSEND. President. Cneraw & Salisbury Railroad. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE; Until further notice, the trains on this road will run as follows; Leave. ' "Arrive. Wadesboro, 7.15 A. M. Cheraw, 8.20 a. m Cheraw, 9.25 A. M. Wadesbco, 5.30 P. M Making close connection both ways at Che raw, with Cheraw & Darlington train, and at Florence with the Northeastern train. , B. D. TOWNSEJND, President. . , - GOOD NIGHT. Good night ! Now the weary rest by right, And the busy fingers bending Over work that seems unending, Toil no more till morning light , Good night 1 Go to rest ! , Close the eyes with slumber prest; In the streets the silence growing, Wakes but to the watch-horn blowing, Night makes only one request Go to rest 1 Slumber sweet ! Blessed dreams each dreamer greet, He whom love has Sept from sleeping In sweet dreams now o'er him creeping May he his beloved meet - Slumber sweet I Good night ! Slumber till the morning light, Slumber till the new to-morrow Comes and brings its own new sorrow, We are in the Father's sight Good night ! A Wonderful Discovery. "Such a wedding! No bridesmaids, no music, no breakfast or reception ! I declare I should not feel as if I had been married!1' exclaimed Marion Willoughby, throwing herself down upon a low fauteuil in her own ele gantly appointed drawing room, drawing off the delicately tinted gloves which served as a finish to the exquisite Parisian toilet. There was only one other occupant of the room, a man tall and handsome, standing with one hand resting on the back of her chair. She did not look up as she spoke, or note that Chester Thorley's face had lost its color. f . "You aife s,peaking of Miss Mar vine's wedding?" he said. "There is one essential to most marriages you have not enumerated in your list of things lacking. "Was love wanting, toor "Oh, no. I believe she loved him. She certainly must do so to an almost absurd extent. They are to go to house-keeping in a small flat in an unfashionable locality up town where he must be away from early morning until quite 9 o'clock. He occupies some salaried position clerk in a bank, I believe and she is a girl who might have married anybody." -non ess moor-degrades- no man, Marion," came the firm, quick answer "Even a clerkship is not always to be found, and I would rather break stones in the streets than live on money acquired dishonestly or doled out of charity, though in such a case I would ask no woman to share my lot." "This looks like breaking stones, does it not?" she laughingly answer ed, letting her own jeweled fingers close over the man's hand where it rested a hand whose shape betokened its aristocracy, and which was soft and whi$e as a woman's. At her light touch his strong frame quivered. He bent and let his lips rest an instant caressingly on her hair; ibr the girl beside him was his affianced wife. "I could break stones, though, dear, and I don't know but that it'd make mertrfcetter man. Suppose I.lost my money, Marion? Suppose it were all swept away from me in an hour, and I had a position offered me a posi tion which would enable me to live very f humbly, very much as your friend is going to live tell me what would you do?" "You are only talking to try me, Chester, and I hate, such questions. In the first place it is entirely out of season ; for even were it so, papa, you know is very rich, and our home could always be with him." "I have said to you. Marion, that I would rather starve than to eat the bread of charity. . Therefore, putting this possibility aside, tell "me what would you do." Her- fingers relaxed their grasp upon his hand. Was there signifi 'can'ce in.the action? He smiled bit terly as he saw it. Except that he still stood behind the chair she must have noticed it. "Xoti are utterly absurd this af ternoon, Chester," she said bitterly. "Have I not just told you that Edith Marine's wedding was more like a funeral than a wedding, and though I presume I shall one day have to at tend to my own funeral, it will not, I assure you, be as a voluntary agent. Have you nothing more agreeable you can say to me!" The man shook off a certain some thing which seemed to envelope him in an almost "visible cloud, and lie 'answered with " the old, courteous grace which suited him so well, and made his power with woman almost aprojrejb. Money always seemed to belong to him by an inherent right. It was so natural for him to be rich. No one. could have imagined Chester Thorley poor. He knew 60 well how to ex pend his, wealth. He gave it so generously, yet without ostentation, that no man envied him. 1 -Tet Tie knew .'half an hour later, when; he left rhis farewell kiss on Marion Willoughby '8 beautiful lips that it was farewell to all his hopes arid happiness.. . : The blow had already fallen. He wag a ruined man, with scarcely a dol lar that be could call his own he1 who had no wish ungratified mpney might procure in all his thirty years of life. It had fallen" through no fault of his own, though there was feeble com fort in .that. There was comfort, how ever, in the knowledge that he owed no man, and that he might start afresh with no burden on his broad shoulders or his conscience. True there was a deep wdund in his heart. He had loved Marion so well that to give her up was to voluntarily renounce GodTs sunlight. But all her life had been ipent amid luxury. It was to her a necessity. Deprived of it she would fade and droop ; and bet ter any lot than to watch her strug gle, and know that he had brought it upon her. I Besides, she had made her choice. To her a wedding meant flowers, music, friends, and the toilet of the bride. The future, the communion of two hearts, the solemn responsibili ties incurred, were but secondary con siderations. "Good bye.my darling?" he said, as they parted, ! but when she added, "Until to-ni0rrow," he answered neither yea nor nay. "To-morrow"the world knew that Chester Thorley's ship had gone upon the rocks. Many of his business as sociates would have held out to him a helping hand, but firmly and kind ly he refused every ffer. He wrote Marion a few lines, re calling to hep mind the conversation of the day before, and released her from her vows to him. "If any good fortune comes to me," he concluded, "you shall hear of it. If I am silent, you may know it is because my life is wrapped in silence and shadow. Bless you, darling, for the light you have cast upon it! It will be like looking back to heaven, I dare not see you again I tested my strength to its lull yesterday. God grant that some one better than I may win you. To love you better is not within his power. Nor j must you think I blame you that you shrank from sharing the new life upon which I enter. Flowers cannot live without sunlight. Even as I spoke I knew your answer. I only wanted to be sure that I made no mistake m interpreting the best course for yoiir happiness." And then, With a few more warm, i passionate, loving words of farewell, Two yearsj passed, and the little world which had known Chester Thorley so well knew him no more. He had entirely disappeared. It were as though the sun had opened and swallowed hiim up. Marion Wiilloughby was Marion Willoughby tilL If she suffered she made no sign; but those who had seen the one! sparkling stone which had been the pledge of her engage ment to Chester Thorley, noticed that she wore it still, and others, yet more narrow watchers, observed that al ways, when khe entertained a crow ded room, she would take a hasty glance about as though expecting to find some one there. She was as yet but twenty-two, a belle, and a beauty still. The third winter of his absence she went west to spend several weeks with an aunt. "I cannot Ispare you," her father had said when the invitation came. But she, gbing close to him, and laying her head moment on his breast, and said : ! "I think, papa, it would be best." They were simple words but he interpreted them aright. The old wound would not cease its bleeding. She wanted to go amid new scenes, so he only kissed her, and bade her remember that the old father awaited her return. I "You have not been through the steel works"! some one said to her one day. "It really is a most interesting sight. Will, yu jin a Paity if we make up one to visit them, Miss Wil loughby?" j "With pleasure, " she answered lightly. j And her jaunt charmed with the success of her beautiful niece, smiled as Clayton's! numerous devices to en snare Marion's society. He was the great parti of the place. He had heard something of some ear ly disappointment in Marion's life. It would be a splendid triumph thus to obliterate it, and she felt quite sure that the fiat lay in the girl's own hands., ! The morning appointed for the ex pedition damned beautiful and bright. They seemed, indeed, like drones, in truding upon some busy hive of workers, a$ they entered the great building and looked about them. De partment after .department they visit ed, watching with interest the deli cate subtle machinery and its wonder ful working. Marion's pheek flushed with inter est, and Cjlay Clayton, noting it thought helhad never seen her look so beautiful. To-day he determined he must speak whenj suddenly he heard a little cry and glanced up, saw her standing quite apart j from the group, her eyes ablaze, her lips quivering. At a littlef distance from her adjust ing some pieces of machinery, was a man in workman's blouse. Her cry also attracted him , and he looked up. I Their eyes met. His face grew deadly pate, but he gave no other sign of recognition. She went straight toward him, oblivious of all with hand outstretched. "Chester!" she said, in a voice scarce louder than a whisper, "At lastl" He bowed low in response, and took no notice of her hand; but the old, dauntless pride was in the uplift ed head and fearless glance. "Did you know that I was here!" she questioned. "No," he replied; I am no longer in your world." .You will come to see me?" M cannefcw? - Here his voice broke a little. "Mr. Clayton," she said, "let me present my friend, Mr. Thorley." Spite of the inmate breeding of the man. some of the instinctive surprise at hearing a steel worker addressed by Miss Willoughby as a friend, made itself apparent in the manner he yet strove to conceal. Then the party passed on. He wondered, however, why Marion lingered a moment in the office to address the superintendent some question as they came out into the air. He had meant, too, to ask her, on the way home, the question which all the day and for many days had been trembling on his lips, but there was a new expression in her eyes and about her mouth which instinctively told him that this was not the time to plead the cause. Had that fellow inside, who bowed so like a gentleman, been other than a workman, he might have suspected him as in some way responsible. It was quite singular enough as it was that Miss Willoughby should have addressed him as a friend. Doubtless some man who had seen better days, and for whom she felt a womanly sympathy. "Can I see Mr. Thorley ?'' The mistress of the humble little cottage in one of Chicago's suburbs looked up, amazed, at the beautiful young lady who asked the. question. "Indeed, I suppose you may. He's gone to his room, where he spends all of his evenings, and not a bit of sup per to-night has he touched. ' "Shall I call him down!" 'No ; let me go to him. " "It's the first room on the right of the stairs, Miss. He's the only lodger But the girl heeded not the words. A strange vision she surely was as she stood an instant outside his door, clad in costly velvet and rich furs ; then she softly turned the handle and entered. He did not hear her. He had thrown himself upon his sofa and buried his head in its cushions. He was so still, so motionless, she thought he must be sleeping. She swiftly crossed the room, and laying her hand gently upon his shoulder she called his name. "My God!" he cried, and would have started to his feet but that she held him back, falling on her knees beside him. "Chester," she pleaded, "you would not come to me. My pride is less than yours my love is greater. I have come to you. Did you think my heart uttered the unworthy words for which you have punished me all these years? I have tried so long to find you so long and so hopelessly !" And she bowed her beautiful head and sobbed outright. "Hush, dear hush! You should not have come here, Marion. It might compromise you." "Compromise me with my future husband? See, Chester!" and she held up the hand on which gleamed the ring, "I have never accepted my freedom." "My own brave girl," he said, his voice softening even while he girded himself up to the strength of which he stood in such need. "But the heaven you open to me cannot be. I am foreman in the works where you saw me to-day, Marion. My knowl edge and love of machinery stood me in stead. I heard of this opening and secured it. ToJday I was adjusting some difficult piece of work I dare not trust to any workman, I am in re ceipt of a liberal salary, which I am laying aside, dear, living as poorly as I can, hoping one day to buy an in terest in. the business One or two improvements I have made are rapid ly attaining me this goal; but it is still far off. I cannot ask you to wait nor to forget the years of labor which have helped me to reach it." - "I have waited already too long, Chester," she whispered. "I am ready now to become your wife." His face grew deadly white. "Do not tempt me," he said hoarse ly. . "Oh, Chester!" she said. "When I have so much money, why are you so cruel and so proud?" "I cannot go back to a life of ease and dependence," he answered even with you dear love, to brighten it. Bless you for corning to me, Marion? Bless you for showing me all that a noble woman can be! The memory of this hour will lighten all future years." "Chester, do you understand me?" she persisted. - "I ask you to return to no life of dependence. I will for get that I have a single dollar in the world exceot what vou erive me. I will share whatever home you offer even' this. For better, for worse, darling, we pledge ourselves as sacred ly as though already we had stood before God's altar. In God's sight I am your wife. I claim my right to share your dark days as well as those on which the sun of prosperity may shine !'' He strove to answer her, but his voice broke. She had conquered , but woman-like, she gave him the glory of her victory as sho sobbed out her happiness upon his heart. A month later there was a quite wedding at which were neither flow ers, nor bridesmaids, nor music ; but Marion Willoughly missed nothing. It was only after the ceremony had been performed that Chester showed her the document which had been his wedding gift from the firm he had served so faithfully, and which ad mitted him as a junior partner from that date. But she smiled sadly as she looked at it through a mist of tears. "You said once dear," she whisper ed, "that flowers to live need sun-, light. My darling, I had not then made the wonderful discovery that love makes sunlight everywhere! With your heart my home, bo its outward adornment what they will, I envy no king his palace, no queen her throne." Ages of Men Before the Flood. Charles S. Bryant, of St. Paul, in a communication in the 'Popular Science Monthly, offers considerations to show that there was no disparity between the ages of the patriarchs and those men of later time. .He says that a very slight error in the translation of the Hebrew numbers has led to all the apparent disparity, and insists on the authority of Genesis vi., 3, that the age of the antediluvian was not to exceed 120 years. The passage reads: "And the Lord said my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." Mr. Bryant ascribes the errors, the ages given in the bible, to the iin proper rendering of concrete numer als by the translators. He says that Genesis v., 3, is properly rendered, "Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and begat a son," etc. ; but if this verse had been translated as the would read thus: "Adam lived thirty hundred years and begat a son!" This "shocked the conscious ness of the Christian translator, and he was driven to the true rule the Hebrew uses in cases of concrete numerals." In the fifth verse the authorized version reads : ' 'And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died." The true reading by the rule, Mr. Bryant says, would be, "And all the days which Adam lived, were, a hundred years, and thirty and nine years, and he died," making the entire age of Adara 139 years instead of 630 years. Mr. Bryant further says that at the date of the writing of Genesis the Hebrew had no means of writing nine hundred, or any number of .hundreds above one, without repetition or circumlocution. He gives the following as the ages of the patriarchs before the Noachian deluge, remarking that they are sub ject to a few uncertainties in the number below one hundred : Ages as given Correct Age. In Bible. 1. Adam, 139 930 2. Seth, 121 912 3. Enos. 114 905 4. Cainan 119 910 5. Mahalabel, 122 895 6. Jared, 117 962 7. Enoch, 114 765 8. Methuselah, 124 959 9. Lamech, 117 737 10. Noah, 159 959 Average, 1201-12 858 No doubt the question of the true ages of the patriarchs will receive earnest attention at the hands of the revisors of the Old Testament. If the translations of the ages have been made by an incorrect rule, the rivis ors may be depended upon to correct them in accordance with the light which the ripest scholarship affords. Mr. Bryant, in his communication, calls attention to the fact that the late Dean Stanly, for years before his death, insisted that the numbers in the Old Testament were, ia many instances, entirely too high, and that he believed that the correction of these apparent errors would relieve the Bible of many objections now ur ged against the chronological record. "Porter," said a passenger from Albany on the New York Central railroad, as" he stepped into his sleep ing berth, "call me at Lyons sure." "All right, sah." Late next morning he called him. ' 'Only twenty minutes from Buffalo, sah." , "Why didn't you call me at Lyons ?" "Lyons ? 'Fore goodness dat's it ! You did say Lions for suah, boss' an' I done thought ober de whole circus, an' I hope ter die if I could ketch onto any animal higher dan Buffalo ! I'll re member de cage next time boss'' American Railroad Journal, Tom Griffith was shot and killed at Weimar, Teatas, on Saturday by City Marshal Alfen while 'attempting io arrest Griffith's brother, Tom inter fering with a drawn revolver. j for the akson times. Commencement at Trinity, v Surrounded by a sea of faces that presents a wealth of beauty and in telligence peculiar to the commence ment occasions of this grand old in stitution, your correspondent at tempts to take notes ; but so fasci nating is the viewy and so enchanting is the scene, and so enrapturing what is to be heard, that I actually neglect to use paper and pencil and come away noteless. The exercises began June 3d, at 8 o'clock p. m, with declamations from the Freshman class; four from each of the Literary Societies! The Baccalaureate sermon was preached by Dr. Craven Sunday, June 4th. The regular hour Monday night was occupied with declama tions by representatives from the Sophomore ekuss. Tuesday evening at 2 1-2 o'clock was the contest for the Reader's medal by members of the Preparatory and Freshman classes. Several of the readers deserve special notice, and exhibit unmistakable evi dences of the true orator, but after several ballotings by tho committee the medal was awarded to Master Green of Trinity. . A largo and enthusiastic audience was entertained Tuesday night by orations from members of the Junior class. Their subjects were well chosen; and handled in a masterly manner, and for eloquence and grace fulness of rendition could hardly be surpassed. I suppose that beautiful Bodie medal must have been a great inspiration to the speakers, for it was the testimony of all that never before was such speaking heard from Jun iors. After about a dozen ballotings by the committee it was decided that the medal should be given to A. Ander son of Wake Co. His subject was "The Roar of the Thunder is Born in the Flash of the Lightning." At an early hour a sense of relief and an expression of confidence were plainly perceivable upon the counte nances of 'all, when it was announced that the famous Dr. Talmage had ar rived the previous night. The arrival of the Salem Cornet Band with its lively and inspiring music lends vigor The doors of the chapel were opened ac 10 o'clock, and by. 11 o'clock the hour the sermon began there was such a crowd assembled to hear Dr. Talmage preach that it really seemed commencement day itself could not bring a larger crowd. After the rendering of an inspiring anthem by the Trinity choir, and the usual opening exercises, Dr. T. stepped forward and announced as his text the 9th verse of the cxix Psalm and the 8th verse of the xix Psalm. With this grandest of all subjects (the Bible), he held the undi vided attention of the vast audience for exactly one hour. More practical things and'good advice would scarce ly be uttered by any one in the same length of time, but an attempted synopsis of the sermon at this late hour could but be injustice to tho speaker and unsatisfactory to your readers and to the writer. In the afternoon the audience re-assembled to hear the celebrated humorist, Dr. Lafferty of Richmond, Va. After facetiously referring to a good many subjects that had been treated on similar occasions, he announced that he would attack the "Days of our Daddies." His renown for wit and humor "was well sustained, and though he handled the good old fath ers of the Republic, whom we have always been accustomed to mention with reverence and respect, rather roughly, yet he made us feel that our times are not so much worse than other times that have gone before, and that there are men in this day who could measure arms with any who have preceded us. Wednesday night was the hour set apart for the Alumni Association. The speaker selected for the occasion, on account of pressing business hav ing failed to put in an appearance, there was a sort of extempore exer cise, consisting of short speech es from Revs. N. M. Journey, W. C. Wilson, C. C. Dodson and Dr. Laf ferty. The speeches were spicy and enjoyable, and the meeting was pro nounced a success. At the regular meeting of the Association, J. T. Le Grand, Esq., of Richmond County, was elected to deliver the next ad dress before the Alumni Association, and we all feel sure that Jim will not disappoint us. Commencement day the day of graduations, the richest in bright an ticipations of all the days of one's life, except perhaps one, which one the married brethren I presume can name dawned upon us bright and clear. Very early, hacks, buggies and vehicles of all descriptions be gan to empty a living tide into the walks and around the grounds. Ev erybody has on his best looks and his best dress and better looking ones you won't find on any day in any State. At 9 o'clock the doors were opened, and soon the chapel, the best auditorium in the South was filled to overflowjrig. The least estimate of the crowd is three thousand, yet ex cellent order was preserved, and good attention given to the long exercises. There were ten graduates, and be sides the vast and intelligent au dience, they had as another source of , inspiration for their eloquence the Wiley Gray medal, which was award ed to Benj. F. Lane of Stantonburg, N. C. I guess we must say the Seniors were a little ahead of the Juniors in oratory, but it was not a great deal. After having been together for over three hours, tho audience sat two hours longer listening to that wonder ful man, Dr. Talmage. That is bet-, ter than any comment I could make on his speech. The party at night was a brilliant success. Thus closed another commencement at Trinity, which will riot detract from her dis tinction as having, the mtt success-; ful commencements in the State, C. De Circus or Hcaben. After the circus had opened to the public yesterday a gray haired color ed brother, who held tho hand of a boy of 14 as both stood gazing into the tent, 6hook his head in a solemn manner and observed ar "Us no uso to cry 'bout it, sonny, kase we am not gwine in dor no how." "But I want ter," whined the boy. "In course you doe3. All chill'eu of your aigo run to evil an' wicked ness, an' dey mus' bo sot down on by dose wid experience. " s "You used to go," urged the boy. "Sartin I did, but what was de re sult ? VI had such a load on my con science dat I couldn't sleep nights. .1 cum powerful nigh bein' a lost man, an' in dem days de price of admishun was only a quarter, too." "Can't we both git in for fifty cents ?" ' . - . . I "I specks wo might, but to-morrer you'd be bilin' ober wid wickedness an' I'd be a blackslipper ' from ' de church. Hush up, now, kase I hain't got but thirty cents an' dar am no show fur crawlin' under de canvas 1" The boy still continued to cry, and the old man pulled him behind tho wagon and continued : "Henry Clay Scott, which had you rather do go into do circus an' den take de awfullest lickin' a boy eber got, or have a glass or dat red lwnn- Befo' you decide let me explain dat I meam a lickin' which will take ebery inch of de hide off, an' I mean one of dem big glasses of lemonade. In ad dishun, I would obsarve dat a circus am gwine on in heaben all de time; an' de price of admishun am simply nominal. Now, sah, what do you say ?" The boy took the lemonade, but he drank it with tears in his eyes. De troit Free Press. "Cleopatra," said Moso Pullback, who runs a bath room on Dearborn street, "Cleopatra, does ye think wo kin afford to git married ?" "Well, Mose, I spects we mought on a pinch. I isn't a big eater. A flea would actually bo a barbecue tome." "Am dat a fac ?" "Sho as ycr's a foot high, Mose." , "Well, ef dat's so I kin furnish de fieaa.rChicago Cheek. How a man can deny his support to tho Democratic Party and affiliate himsolf with the Independent faction, Greenback, Republican or any other Farty after watching the course of the Independents, Greenbackers, &c, after they get their office, is astonish ing in Ihe extreme. From the Demo cratic Party they gradually drift on ward toward Republicanism,' and finally are metamorphosed into a Re publican of the deepest dye.. So you might as well vote for a straighout Republican at once. Laurensville Herald. Mr. Blaine is said to be worth $10,-f 000,000. That is an example to the5 youth of America of what economy and strict attention to business can drt in f.wpnfv ircm t-j nn fVia salary of a Representative In Con 4 " gress.Phil. Record. ; ' Composed of the best known tonics, iron and cinchona, with well known ' aromaties, is Brown's Iron Bitters. , It cures indigestion, and all kindred troubles. 1 "Mother, what have people got noses for?" asked an Austin child of her mother who had seen better days. "To turn up at poor folks, my child," was the cynical response. Texas Sif tings. From the present outlook Mont gomery can not make more than half a crop of cotton. The stand was at one time good, but the cold nights have killed at least half of it. Mont: Star. A new telegraph company, with a capital of $21,000,000, has been or ganized, to be known as the Postal Telegraph Company, and offering to reduce tolls very materially. J , , : . j An old feud in Texas between two families (McNuttandCoggins) results in a fight with Winchester rifles, in which one . was killed and several wounded. A sure curefor impoverished blood, pimples, and sallow complexion, . is Brown's Iron Bitters. It will pro duce a healthy color, smooth skin and is absolutely not injurious Eldorado is beginning to open up some of her rich mines. Montgomery is as rich in minerals as any county in the State. Mont. Star. ' n-W Everybody is busy cutting wheat and oats, and report the crops as good. Stanly Qleaner
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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